skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google started out as a tech company and then later became a part of the US Deep State (Prism program). I think any good the company was doing will be long overshadowed by this unfortunate relationship. Eric Schmidt bears the greatest responsibility for moving Google in this direction. The revelations of Julian Assange basically demolished the myth of "Don't be evil". Google was revealed as a company that in fact did much evil. Seeing Julian slowly die in prison on false rape charges while Google profited immensely helping destroy whatever was left of our digital rights and privacy certainly didn't help the company's image. I wanted to like Google. I liked Google from the beginning and then the ugly reality chipped away at their reputation until if found myself making awkward excuses for Google and doing all sorts of self deceptions and mental contortions to rationalize what they were doing. Then it became too much. I realized a good company can go bad and that's exactly what they did. Why? Who knows but size and unprecedented success have something to do with it. I don't think you can ignore the Behemoth factor but still, they are responsible for their conduct. I wouldn't want to be either of these men and I can't imagine anybody who loves technology and things that hackers care about like digital freedom and privacy continuing to hold Google if high esteem. Google has become a force for evil. It's an unpleasant truth.
Force? No. Pressured? Yes. Pressured into being a plain vanilla monogamous couple? Oh yes.

Edit: Also, I’ve taken huge hits to my karma in this thread for what I assume people find to be unpopular opinions. I hope some day these people find themselves on the wrong side of history, just like those who worked hard to try to squelch LGBTQ rights.
The blog Random Critical Analysis has made a good argument that Americans spend so much on healthcare simply because Americans spend so much on everything. Healthcare isn't exceptional in this regard. If you replace the usual GDP per capita measure of income by a measure of actual individual consumption, the US lies right on the trend line, just with higher healthcare spending and higher overall consumption than everyone else.

https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2018/11/19/why-everything...
Oh man, I totally missed this, I don’t remember seeing anything on the Stanford report either.

I audited CS245 and my coworkers did as well, among other things I showed up to. Hector was a wonderful person and a great teacher.
There's a special thing called "Epigenetics".
The genes coded in DNA don't change. But how they're used can change.

There's methyl groups that attach to the DNA. These stop parts of the DNA being read.

There's Histones which wind up your DNA and control how much can be read.

These are used control which parts of DNA are used by which cells. Evey cell has the same Genome, but each cell needs a different program to function, so changing the Gene Expression you get a different kind of cell.
I live in LA and I'm mad about this exact same thing! Seattle (where I lived for awhile recently) isn't much better at all.
One never knows what may have value.

The graffiti on the toilet wall may well speak to the start of a trend, term, movement, or other event, for example.

Think longer timelines, broader scope than you personally may feel is relevant.

En mass, those questions have answers we individually are unlikely to fathom.
I will tell you what they did. They collected data, with no hypothesis or any idea what they are looking for, then desperately fit various models until something showed up as statistically significant.

Of course, you could say: how dare you, how would you even know, ... I work in this field, the p-hacking, harking (hypothesizing after the results are known) is both pervasive and endemic. they massaged the factors, the genders, the ethnicity, the socioeconomic status etc until the model did something that was publishable.

It simply not possible to accurately correlate these two measures: self-reported minutes of touching a baby with the methylation levels of the DNA of that baby - if you are serious about accounting for all the possible variations across all factors
I know lets import

* Low IQ

* left wing voters - socialist/commies

* Non white

* High crime
from non Western nations

What could go wrong
‘There’s no point acting all surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display in your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for fifty of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now.’
> Right, but for anyone who has to keep a close eye on their balance (so excluding most HNers)...

Keeping a close eye on your balance is basic financial responsibility and maintaining situational awareness against the ever looming threat of fraud. It doesn't matter if you operate on a bank account with $10 or $100,000...if you're not actively accounting for your transactions, that's a personal flaw. The way how I see it: if you don't have the discipline to properly account for even the smallest expenses, you'll never be able to sustain wealth at any significant level.

Anecdotally, a recurring pet peeve encountered is when I'm not provided with a receipt for purchases by default. This happens more often than not at fast food joints and gas stations, and when kindly asked for one, I almost always receive a reaction of either dubious entitlement or disgusted inconvenience, highly correlated to which car I happened to take that day. Although this class of expense is in the noise with respect to my financial posture, I still track them with unwaivering vigilance and find it so ironic when a minimum wage cashier who probably struggles to make ends meet every week disrespects that little piece of paper which enables personal accountability. Stochastically speaking, many of us--including myself--come from humble beginnings.
Is it the one making a line starting from the bottom left corner, or the thing that makes a very short bright streak at 2:08?
"publicly dismissed the concerns of experts" i.e falsely claiming to have special knowledge
Per the last comment, please check out our new official Redux Toolkit package. It includes utilities to simplify several common Redux use cases, including store setup, defining reducers, immutable update logic, and even creating entire "slices" of state at once without writing any action creators or action types by hand:

https://redux-toolkit.js.org

Not saying it's a replacement for Apollo (since Redux itself doesn't provide anything around data fetching), but we specifically created RTK to eliminate the concerns around "Redux boilerplate".
Multiculturalism + Abortion + Female rights + "Diversity" is White genocide
Building a Remote Company (Lessons Learned from Idea to Exit)
Dr Russel Ackoff System Thinking
That's because you can't expect every country to submit. Russia will not, China will not.

The same way the US would not stop bombing the middle east and Africa or overthrow legitimate governments in Latin America if them, China and Russia decided to sanction America.
Get rid of the loops and watch the loopholes disappear.
There’s a long history of russia executing and jailing it’s heroes.
The one group I ever joined held plenty of useful/unique SysEx dumps containing custom patches for a popular 80's music synthesizer, among related things. I wonder who has already backed it up, and if I should.

edit: Oops, I'm also a member of LTspice. D'oh!

The best way to stop being ashamed of stupid things that you said forever ago is not to cast those things into the Memory Hole, but to stop saying those things, and most importantly, stop being the person who would. Then you know it's in the past, and it doesn't matter who else remembers.

I'll let you know how that goes, someday ;)
It may help that I have an ex who was in stem cell research, but I always thought that marrow transplants would make a Chimera.

Hell, people were trying to cure HIV based on this.

At least for me, this is a TOTAL lack of surprise.

I would have been super surprised if it didn't.
A JavaScript framework for front-end microservices
Read it. It's still garbage collecting, but doing it through reference counting. There was an extra GC for circular reference collecting. That one was disabled as well as object freeing up before termination.
I thought about tackling this while visiting Recurse Center last year. My angle was that this could probably be most practical for a language like Erlang which comes closest to never mutating any runtime datastructure. (You might think of languages like Haskell first, but lazy evaluation cashes out to mutations in the implementation.) I seem to have misplaced my notes, or I'd link to them. Haven't gotten to trying to do this yet.

Someone at RC suggested using succinct data structures and I spent a little while studying them, but they seemed to me like they'd have more niche-y properties than a more obvious approach would.
this plot Netflix would not publish.
I'll forever remember his delightful performance as the snooty Clayton Endicott III, the foil to the main character, Benson, of the '80s sitcom of the same name. The byplay between him and Robert Guilluame as Benson never failed to get a chuckle.

Farewell, Mr. Auberjonois, and thanks for all the laughs.
I submitted the Github page, but the main project page gives a better overview
For me automation was learned behavior in lockstep with my ability to solve problems via programming. It eventually became automatic: to the point that my own patience with manual repetition and documentation of manual processes is minimal. This latter attitude does not do me any good in the enterprise infotech world. Especially in heterogeneous environments or where I don't have front to back visibility. I'd argue that while being able to automate is a great good understanding the business constraints and making good decisions about where you work becomes critical if
you must trade toil for time.
Do people generally think it was Christians? Without looking it up, I would have said "barbarians", which may not rule out Christians but doesn't specify them either.
I feel like this is the kind of content that is slowly ruining the internet. Take a single interesting fact (cribbed from a different blog), put it in the second paragraph, write three other paragraphs of gunk to surround it, press publish, and repeat dozens of times a day for twenty bucks a pop or whatever a freelance writer gets paid for this kind of content.

And there it is, indexed forever, clogging up search results, and stopping you from finding more substantive articles on the same subject.
Virtual Boyfriends Gaining Popularity Among China’s Single Women
That is really cool. I’ll have to check this out this week.

FYI Your HTTPS cert is tied to cloudfront and not configured correctly.
You can always make a new account.
Wikipedia asking for donations isn't any better. It is well documented that Wikipedia is less than forward in their donation requests about how much money they actually need. Wikipedia is not starving for money.
That is simply a failure of leadership. In web technology, for some reason, there is a school of thought that developers fresh out of school should be ready and proficient in 8 weeks despite having no web development experience. The misguided solution is some magical stack or framework is provided as a drop in replacement for any personal attention, training, or guidance.

The first thing I learned out of school was the developer's triangle. The triangle has three sides: fast, quality, and cheap. From the outside no matter where you stand you can only see three sides. If you want cheap its not going to be both fast and excellent quality. If you want fast its not going to be both cheap and great quality. Finally, if you want excellent quality its not going to be both fast and cheap.

It takes years for a developer to move from beginning through proficiency towards mastery. If you hire junior developers assume you are sacrificing both speed and quality for cheap. If you fail to develop your juniors your code will not achieve quality and your people will not become faster. Frameworks, or any layers of unnecessary abstraction, are not a replacement for training and experience. While this is mostly true for all platforms/technologies it is especially true for web technologies where everything is defined against the same set of standards that work the same cross browser and cross OS.

If your leadership were interested in product quality first then developers would be allowed to fail internally so that they could learn. You learn a lot from failure. It is part of growing, innovation, and making better product decisions. You separate the product from that learning through test automation, continuous integration, performance metrics, and automated complexity analysis.
> America is pretty great

Yeah man, good thing we censored all of those photos from our ethnic concentration camps[0]. That was really cool, and totally related to keeping strategic information out of enemy hands. It certainly wasn't an attempt at controlling public sentiment. Go America! If we had such great censorship policies during the Vietnam war, it might have lasted a couple more decades; too bad the traitorous media was giving the public a relatively accurate view of the reality.

[0]: https://anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothea-lange-censored-phot...
> It is unclear that the total impact on performance would be significantly negative compared to the typical GraphQL API.
Some of the problems also apply to GraphQL, people just need to constrain the query complexity in the end.

But yeah, it would bite Datalog more if not designed well enough, and it's harder to tackle Datalog than to GraphQL.

Other thoughts on this topic:

I love GraphQL but I would love Datalog more if the toolchain is as good as GraphQL.

There's a spectrum on API of simplicity and power -- on the left, there is HTTP/REST which could be seen as a primitive/naive way of describing API it's not consumer-driven at all. On the right there's Datalog which is a powerful way of describing API, it can maximize the flexibility of both the server and the client.

Things like 'map' and 'filter' became well-known to average programmers not very long time ago, though the elite programmers already knew them well half a centry ago. Datalog is definitely a very good idea for API, but I'm afraid it wound't be as popular as GraphQL if Facebook chose this route instead.

That being said, the industry always adopts things in a very passive manner, usually because the current solution is too painful to use, or almost couldn't solve the problem on new problem scale. There's a documentary[0] for GraphQL, the creators had enough of REST, they ended up with inventing GraphQL. It originally was to solving their data fetching problems, in the meantime it would solve others too. Meanwhile, it pushed the common understanding of API for average programmer from left to right on the spectrum. If it's close enough to the right, more and more people would discover Datalog and buzz other people to use it.

Just like type system, it's hard to expect the industry have a deep understanding on the topic itself. Type systems similar to Java dominates the industry for a long time, though ML already existed almost half a centry. Recently, languages like TypeScript tookoff because people need to type existing JavaScript. Then people would discover that the type system they used to is far from enough to describe existing code design. It's like a pandora box, new type operator would came out every release, until people realize there's a spectrum of type system (Lambda Cube[1]), and Dependent T
ype would be on the same spot as Datalog on the spectrum.

[0] https://youtu.be/783ccP__No8?t=645
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_cube
MDMA and LSD affects your perception and brain chemical reactions just like food or cigarettes. The pleasure or sluggish of eating food is real or just chemical reactions?
Yes, that is exactly what I wanted to convey by "lack of efforts".

2000 years ago, as a civilization, even if we failed to care enough for the Works stored in the Library, their loss would not have happened if access was not limited, which would have helped in their dissemination and issuing of copies.

Today, as a civilization, if we fail to implement to right process to backup on time what matters to us, we will repeat the same errors as our ancestors.

I guess many historians today would prefer to see those non-existent backups of the Alexandria Library rather than those of Yahoo Groups, but who knows what is more important after all ;)
It would seem that development of natural resources as well as population growth could result in “ecocide”. Whom do they sue?
Could it be that the socialized medical systems of which you speak are Western? Many of the European systems exist within a realm where people ate and continue to eat relatively healthy food due to historical circumstances. Further, they had and continue to have economies based around the idea of walkable cities. These two factors reduce the chances of obesity and the risk of death due to cars. The only way for America to approach either of these is to have everyone one to move into planned mega-cities.
I always shop for the lowest car price.
I never shop for the lowest health care price.
In fact, if it's more expensive I love it.
I'm not paying for it.
because in poor countries, women must choose what pays most.. stem. in rich countries, they can choose what they enjoy.
SpaceX Launches Genetically Enhanced 'Mighty Mice to International Space Station
Honestly reddit needs to fire their entire product, ui/ux, and front end teams. The recent decisions made by all of them have made me avoid reddit like the plague and fill me full or range when I even do attempt to use it.
I think they forgot to say being more touched probably means parents are more close by, more caring. Why would you not touch a baby if you are constantly close by? So probably not BS, just a study say is right, but not for all the right reasons.
> It still adequately captures the state of our modern leadership.

It also still describes the apathy of the population.
It's a matter of degree. Everything is shades of grey. Google has become a very dark shade of grey.
Why optimize for life expectancy? Why not remove the social stigma from suicide? Let people live as they want and drop out whenever.
Not sure about you but I would wager that trolls work 24/7.
Snapchat Cameos edits your face into videos
Verizon isn’t a charity. Why would they offer any assistance?
Well, that's a familiar name. He wrote the intro textbook with Ullman and Widom for Databases that so many courses use.
>My impression of it is that it's an "API" that's masquerading as a dumb relay, essentially giving almost datastore-level access to the frontend client (even though they don't market it that way)

Well that's exactly what GraphQL doesn't do. Each GraphQL endpoint is effectively as powerful as a REST endpoint that takes in a JSON object as a parameter. (in other words the QL in the name is a lie) The primary difference is that you can send a batch of GraphQL queries at once and that you can filter attributes that are sent by the endpoint.

I will admit though, that there are a lot of GraphQL implementations that are just a thin wrapper over a database but REST had these for a long time as well.
In a somewhat similar fashion, I often try to leave a failing test when I take a break. It makes it easy to get back into the code when you come back. You have a well defined problem that is easy to inspect. You also have a feeling of a lack of closure. It's easier to think to yourself, "Well, I'll just get this code working" and once that happens you'll have gotten into the flow. If you leave all your tests passing, when you come back from your break you have to decide what's next and then push yourself over the energy hump to actually do it.
It is interesting.

* The English wiki says "while his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian [..], Tito has traditionally been seen as a benevolent dictator."

* The German wiki calls Tito a dictatorial head of state.

* In the Italian wiki his is clearly a "dittatore".

* The spanish one does not seem to judge.

* Neither does the french one.
So what can Americans do differently?

1. Coalesce power to the top assuming that those people are more intelligent and deserving of control?

No. That's how authoritarianism starts.

2. Remove the power to seize private property?

No. Because that's seen as an effective deterrent against crime. You can't have drug dealers putting their cash into untouchable multi million dollar homes.

3. More checks and balances on local governments to not abuse their power?

Yes. This is how it's always been done, and will continue to be done in the future. There's the state and federal court systems which can provide relief. There's also state and federal legislators. There's also the free press which can illuminate these issues. Lastly there's elections. If you don't like the way someone has run government, you can vote them out.
Question is not “Who is the murderer?” but “Who is the werewolf?” (1974)[video]
> for weeks

Every weekend for more than 1 year, actually.
Fuck the idea of the browser as interpreter for untrusted code.
To be clear, I wasn't comparing the fanfic authors and other Yahoo Groups contributors to vandals scribbling dicks all over Pompeii. Just saying that all other things being equal, future historians will prefer to have too much data to work with than too little.

By definition, we don't have the benefit of hindsight until it's too late.
Depends what you want to do, I created a "estimate_count" function to make it much much faster:

"SELECT planrows FROM estimate_row('SELECT COUNT(*) ON table WHERE XXX')"
Actually, it's not. We were given 13 days for the shutoff of archives, with another 7 when there was an outcry. Most owners of groups are non-technical and have no idea how to get their data; this is why the archive team put up a request page for owners who wanted their groups archived (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Z-lODnyXsE2kiu8uL01L--10nDq...). Their more crowd sourced approach, which has been hard at work for these months, has been actively interfered with by Verizon (see the link of the OP). Verizon should be supporting this attempt to preserve this material.
A tangentially related fact: on the personal website of the Australian science fiction author Greg Egan, it says

> There are no photos of me on the web.

https://www.gregegan.net/

Also: http://www.gregegan.net/images/GregEgan.htm
The necessity of pulling carbon dioxide out of the air
If you honestly feel that way, you should probably take a break from the internet for a while. The real physical world is still out there, and it’s still fantastic.

You don’t need to go cold turkey internet, but it’s probably a good idea to reduce your exposure.
Both of those errors can also be addressed by better code, e.g. you can use lambdas to make sure things get autoclosed if there's no with/using construct. And you can avoid SQL injection by using query string interpolation instead of string concatenation, or parameter bindings.
Whoops, you’re right, my explanation missed that!
If I get a new computer, I can simply copy the files, I think. (These are not only the mailbox file for Heirloom-mailx, but also the configuration files for Exim, and the /etc/aliases file, which would be copied.) (I don't use my email from multiple devices at the same time.)
You can't spend more on everything, not on a percent of GDP basis. This is a stupid idea since every GDP is limited to 100%. If you spend more you have to take debt and spend future GDP
The class action only happened because it was hacked. Sony just threw up it's hands and said "we don't care" until they were forced to.
The best thing I've read about cross-country longevity, and I don't even care about its main point (ie USA healthcare spending). If you have a Patreon account or something similar please post it. I want more of this.