skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I genuinely don’t think it is flame bait. It is a discussion worth having. Are we really bringing any benefit to society by regulating this when the benefits are so potent, and the cost is demonstrably one we don’t care about in the first place?

And if we do consider this an issue, is this worth regulating given what it will cost us? Should we not wait for the bigger issue to be regulated first before depriving us of this advantage?

That is the point I was trying to get at. A criticism of the hypocrisy of this whole regulation debate. Sorry if it came off as flames.
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That is literally how most gene therapies work. RTFM.
Thats why its met with "varied success" I think, because impressions at the end will be polarized. The wins are from when he successfully breaks the first-impression barrier. If you are able to convert their impression of you then you are at a significant advantage because they are now fully disarmed.
Fair-- I've resigned to viewing Plaid as our necessary evil banking infrastructure provider.

It's my understanding that, at the least, Plaid doesn't sell data to third parties you don't authorize. If I'm wrong about this I'd love to know.
Look up Heartsell[0][1] sometime. Bonneville Communications is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mormon church. They attempted to sell inclusion and heartfelt feelings as a marketing strategy.

They got caught the first time and it was minorly bad PR. They haven't been caught since.

Note this is what the central organization does, of which most of the congregants are naive or deliberately uninformed. When I taught missionaries how to be Mormon missionaries several decades ago, "BRT" was part of the sales principles--build a relationship of trust. Why? To get people to buy what you're selling. This is also taught to congregants not actively serving missions, though not as deeply. Consider the calls of "Every member a missionary" (McKay, 1960s), "Lengthen your stride" (Kimball, 1980s), "Hasten the work" (Bednar, 2010s) where membership is exhorted to use sales practices on their neighbors.

It's not ascribing bad motives or pretending to know what motivated people, it's having grown up in it and now seeing it outside the organization, objectively and after years of therapy and deprogramming.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20150219201604/http://www.bonnev...

[1] http://johnlarsen.org/podcast/Archive/MormonExpression250.mp...
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Or maybe some people just don't do well in an interview setting that is inherently completely unlike a real day at any office?

Some step before on site interviews, to save everyone effort and money overall, might help.

I think unpaid small utility projects are also unfair to prospective employees.

A better approach might be for the company to identify something they'd like done, which might be part of an employee's normal role. This could be work towards a bug in something (open source) they use, a small utility project, or even just a 'toy' project of somekind (E.G. fizz buzz but with some constraints, maybe language or being a module something else can use, etc).

There'd be a fixed size payment for either using up a maximum number of hours or completing the task (with documented work on what was done in both cases).
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Right. If people think BLM is controversial, check out the Black Panthers. BLM just wants a kinder gentler capitalism, the Black Panthers wanted to overthrow the shit and establish the dictatorship of the proletariat.
This was initially released in Spanish: https://youtube.com/watch?v=d2Sil23wp9E
I also enjoyed playing as the Psilons. It's probably nostalgia, but there is still stuff I miss from more modern games like Stellaris, that I think MOO2 did right. It was really only the late game that became tedious.

There were tons of way to get cheap wins in the game. I vaguely recall there being tech (possibly from the Orions), that allowed you to cloak your ship. Enemies could not even target you while cloaked. There was another tech that allowed you to get two turns (for each the enemy had). With a single ship, you could attack, then cloak, and avoid all damage.
I'd push that the real value of Twitter is less the additional data sources and more the available discussion that's possible with smart people doing interesting things that you would not have as much access to.

Only mentioning this because I personally didn't understand the value of Twitter for a long time and didn't understand why people used it, but now I think I do.
> You can absolutely tell google not to store your information

...except for all the times when Google did collect and store your information despite you telling it not to (look online for location tracking on Android).
An economy which went from dreams of 10% growth, to under 5%, that too with a doctored GDP calculation is not progress.

Nor are the various reports on the economy which the government is sitting on or has surpressed over the last few years because it harms their image.

Say what you want about the previous government, but it seems their mistake was to actually follow procedure - the government regularly released their reports on economic performance, and they didn't resort to juicing the numbers like this govt is.

Very few statistics of this govt are surviving scrutiny, while they do thrive on viral headlines. (Toilet creation vs toilet use and actual sanitation outcomes. GST vs actual tax improvements and economic growth.)
On the web: https://twitter.com/settings/muted_keywords

Also available in the app in settings. You need to add each word one at a time.
Does anything illustrate this more clearly than the picture of 1e 'Javascript, the Good Parts' sat next to the O'Reilly Javascript book?
Ha, just thinking aloud! More of my own psychological barrier than a knock on Lisp. I do like it quite a lot, it's just completely alien compared to a life of experience with C-like languages.
Yeah, that’s a big mistake. The author should have at least had a new key cut, preferably one with a difficult-to-pick bitting.

From a security perspective (which is presumably the point when discussing locks), one would use different keys for all doors; or at least for all external doors. I understand the convenience of using a single key, but the author really should have cut a new key instead of using an existing one.
I’ve not used Haskell (so I have no idea of the validity) but the criticism I always hear leveled in discussions is that lazy evaluation makes runtime hard to reason about.
And if there’s a collision, just move to the next one!
Knight or Knuth?
Yes I considered posting my political term block list but didn't want this threat to devolve into a flame war. I cringe wondering what my timeline would be like without those muted words.
It was found to be inferior to some extent, and half the price.
Since electricitymap gives current say 40% coal and 15% gas, to a total of 55%, I assume fossil fuels are not down to 40% all the time. What you are describing is the average.

Feel free to prove me wrong, but when the wind over Germany is still (<4ms) and its night, the amount of energy production using fossil fuels are higher than 70%, and thus at peak, fossil fueled energy production is higher now then before when nuclear stood for 30%.
You've explained it better than I could, although in retrospect I should have included an explanation originally. Esoteric would have been a better word than weird, but I guess my coffee hadn't kicked in yet.
For concerned parents, be involved in your child's education and not depend upon the school to do the job. Overall schools focus too much on standardize testing, so if you fully leave the job to the schools you end up with good test takers who aren't going to do particularly well in many colleges.

When it comes to matters of ethics and morals, you definitely should not leave that to the school and I even suggest some subversion of the often authoritarian message I find schools teaching (personal experience with a pretty below average school district, others may have vastly different experiences).
How is open core not truly open source? Of course they wouldn't accept a pull request that makes their pay product obsolete. But open source does not dictate that you must accept all pull requests.

There is nothing stopping you from forking the project and adding all the enterprise functionality you want.

https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/master/LICENSE
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is an exact replica of the original Master of Orion engine, and requires original game data to be played.
I thought the article would talk about the style of prose found in historical documents, but instead they talked about how the archival process and mediums have changed due to technological advances.

I've always noticed the differences in styles of writing in certain historical records about old events and recent events (on Wikipedia at least).

Here's a random example.

Yuan Shao's Attendant Officer (從事) Ju Shou had reservations about concentrating all of the main army at Yangwu, and suggested leaving a garrison at Yan Ford as a precaution in case the attack on Guandu did not go well. Yuan Shao ignored the suggestion again. Ju Shou, in despair, tried to excuse himself by claiming to be ill, but Yuan Shao became annoyed at him and would not grant him leave.

I find it interesting how some of the articles on older conflicts talk about things like historical figures "in despair" or being annoyed at each other, as if it were a tale of some kind. For recent events the prose is likely influenced by the prose news outlets used as the source write in so there is usually no need to write such things. For some reason it feels unlikely you'd read about George W. Bush being "infuriated" by something unless it was taken from a direct quote from someone in the source and surrounded by quotes also. Maybe it feels like editorializing if accurate information is easily available due to the Internet, or similarly that was just how people wrote in older times so it also influences the historical record.

I don't know why but it's been on my mind for a long time.
yeah that's pretty well known too. proximity to the prophet I suppose.
Absolutely. But these types of glitches are necessary to learn about real world problems.
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Something about this post doesn't ADHD up...
Women on hormonal contraceptives have reduced perseverance on cognitive tasks
Not that it applies in this case, but a person can be both. Depending on the office, politics can be a very part-time occupation.
Because they're not public. If they ever got exposed violating privacy the owner would just declare bankruptcy and move to the Bahamas.
Even with Farrow's access and background he barely got the story out.

> And a large part of Ronan's story was to try how this worked. It wasn't that the people who knew (to varying degree) did not want to out him. They just feared for their livelihood, and sometimes more.

Correct, but my statement was about media trustworthiness. It doesn't really matter if people are keeping quite because they want to or because there's some super powerful individual that's coercing them to keep quiet, the result for the audience is the same. Why believe outlets that are covering up for the most heinous corruption and crimes imaginable? The media has a well earned reputation problem.

Also, I'm not sure why you want to make this a partisan argument. It's not, there's plenty of corruption to go around. I deliberately chose non-political examples of corruption.
Or even better, for these to be actual settings on Twitter, not some hacky secret hidden keyword that you have to get off of a gist on hackernews.
Indeed; I doubt LGBT will ever be "accepted" (that is, esteemed as virtuous) by the LDS Church. As you said, it runs directly contrary to core doctrines.
The project I'm currently working on - Thread (https://get.thread-app.com) has first class support for events and RSVPs.

Let me know what you think!
As I said already, I hate js and node with a passion. Having gone through many operating systems, technologies and languages over the last 21 years, I can say that the two languages I'd ban immediately if I become world emperor would be java and js. As for ruby, I never really worked out what's the deal with it. Personally at this point if I were to start a new project targeting the web I'd opt for either go or python, depending on what needs to be made. Side note, I never really understood why people hate semicolons.
LOL. I block Twitter at the DNS level. I’ve never missed something important.
I'll just point out that auto makers who manufacture in the 100's of millions of units often have mandatory, stop-use, stop-sales recalls on their products 5-10 years after sale.

What you are asserting isn't the reality of mass production as experienced by industrial society so far.
I'm on Proton and will email you :).

Seriously though, a real benefit you get from an e2ee email when no one you communicate with uses it is that all of your receipts, memberships, newsletter, etc. correspondences are not being read/scanned by your email provider.

For Signal I asked my wife to switch and she did (just for her and I) and we've been using it for over a year. My Dad recently hopped on as well. These things go slow, but when someone close switches it feels nice knowing that all my conversations are private.
I'm not certain that Maxwell's demon establishes enough of a connection between energy and information. I think you want more than just a connection, rather some kind of equivalence.
I think for nothing. Are there any desktop programs that allow you to pull bank data without scraping?
These are used to block various categories of “fake tweets” that tend to appear in your Twitter timeline. They are mostly growth features / edge stories such as “account you follow liked this tweet from an account you don’t follow”.
One of the problems to learn a new programming language syntax is a mental block. One looks for all kinds of excuses. It's actually not that Lisp syntax is overly difficult, it's the pain of learning something new.

> Yours is NOT the default position given the lack of such studies.

Your view would be more interesting to me if you'd have spent some time learning to read and write Lisp code. Much of what you claim is just guessing.

> Standards and conventions

There are standards and conventions in Lisp code. You just don't know them.

You are just guessing how difficult it might be to fly an airplane. It might be more difficult than a car, but how difficult it actually is not visible to you. You just guess that there are much fewer aircraft pilots than car drivers, and guess that flying a plane must be extremely difficult...
This is actually on the 2020 roadmap! They're planning on releasing a lightweight editor mode. [1]

1. https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2020/01/intellij-based-ide-f...
I have a term for this phenomenon — the ‘Endo factor’. Credit to the geniuses at Theranos.
To each their own. The things you have listed as advantages of Google are basically the same reasons I do my best to stay away.
Clojure generally uses CAS semantics, although it also has transactions that can update multiple refs atomically. So nothing is ever "silently overwritten" and there's no locking required, it's all optimistic concurrency.

However, to agree with part of your point, an atom being updated with CAS can only ever progress linearly; if you bang 8 threads in a loop trying to update it, you might as well use a lock, because 7/8 of the work is going to be thrown out.

They should only be used for cases where on average one thread or less is working on updating it; anything more, and it needs to be split, the problem rethought, or some mechanism for not throwing out wasted work implemented.

It's not a silver bullet.
> With the firefighters, there's a pretty easy proximal explanation, which again is not their expertise misleading them: panic.

Exactly, plus while his idea was fascinating, its understandable that the others didnt follow suit; he essentially invented the idea:

> Similar types of escape fires had been used by the plains Indians to escape the fast-moving, brief duration grass fires of the plains, and the method had been written about by James Fenimore Cooper (1827) in The Prairie, but in this case Foreman Dodge appears to have invented it on the spot, as the only means available to him to save his crew.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Gulch_fire
Can you give a summary of what it is for and why people use it?

I read the landing page, clicked about, looked at the first page of the API docs and it's still not really obvious to me what it is for or how it's actually used.

What problem is it solving? Standard web backend for common social media platform stuff?
Sounds like a feature. If it is important you shouldn't rely on twitter to find about it anyway.
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Tracking when you load bookmarks, open new tabs, save a password and login, take a screenshot or download media, is not harmless basic telemetry imho.
"In the end, E-HAWK was able to wrest back its hijacked domain in less than 48 hours, but only because its owners are on a first-name basis with many of the companies that manage the Internet's global domain name system. Perhaps more importantly, they happened to know key people at PDR - the registrar to which the thieves moved the stolen domain.

Dijkxhoorn said without that industry access, E-HAWK probably would still be waiting to re-assume control over its domain."

A different read: It was "humans"-based customer support that saved E-HAWK. A "no-humans" customer suppport system might have left E-HAWK powerless, waiting, hoping.

Analogising to the parent's example, if parent had a serious problem, a "no-humans" customer support system might result in helplessness, waiting, hoping for some human at Google to discover and fix parent's problem, unless parent happened to know key people at Google.
That is the nature of the job, because the payoff when things work is so rewarding.

Good luck, Curiosity developers, engineers, and scientists -- we are all rooting for you.
> they just decided to shove in whatever new idea sounded good without much concern about the language's size.

Compared to most languages, C++ is very slow moving, but also very old.

> despite that i 100% guarantee you that people who actually use the language and have large codebases are really glad that C++ is backwards compatible

Of course.
It would be cool to annotate this with some labels explaining what each of the bright dots are etc...
> To be clear, I think self-driving cars beat busses on quality of service.

Yeah if your metric is how much time you spend walking, or privacy I guess, then a car is better than a bus (a car with no driver even more so).

But in NYC many people don't have cars, and while "parking in the city is impossible" is one reason, there are other way more popular ones:

- mass transit is much, much safer

- it's more environmentally friendly

- it's faster (trains, not buses, although with bus lanes and lights that might be changing)

- car maintenance is expensive and tedious

- cars are expensive assets that depreciate incredibly fast

- you can do other things while on mass transit

> There simply isn’t a bus that exists that will take most people from where they are where they want to go.

You might be surprised. There's a bus around the corner from me that takes me directly to my subway station. My total walk time is maybe 2 minutes. It doesn't make any sense to me to figure out self-driving cars to save me 4 minutes of walking a day, in fact that's probably a bad idea and pattern in general.

> I’m describing why so few people are using them, and why self-driving cars have a better chance of success.

Again you might be surprised. In NYC, 2.25 million people ride the bus every weekday. I don't know what rideshare stats are, but I bet they're lower.

In places without expansive and deep mass transit systems, people don't ride buses for exactly the reason you said. But the answer isn't to figure out self-driving cars, the answer is more buses (and other vehicles like light rail), drivers, and routes.

> In fact, I think self-driving is a necessary ingredient for a public transit system that meets everyone’s needs in the US.

Well, it doesn't exist at all right now, so I think that's pushing it when it comes to "needs". Something else that would satisfy that is if we installed light rail and started switching wholesale to remote work, things we know how to do super well right now. It's also even safer than self-driving cars, easier on the environment, cheaper, etc.

Self-driving cars remind me a lot of blockchain: a solution looking for a problem. It's a little more vexing than blockchain though, because commuting really seems like a drive time problem, but the root problem there isn't that a working human has to drive, it's that a working human has to move 30 miles every workday. The smart, efficient solution here is better mass transit and more remote work.
Called off due to high winds above the limit for first flight.

(2 days in a row)
As Twitter grows, they stray further and further from just showing you tweets from people you follow, and start showing all sorts of other crap you didn't ask for in your feed, such as "person X liked this tweet" or "here's a tweet from someone you may like", and so on.

There is no "official" way to disable these annoying entries in your feed, but over time people have found secret "tags" that if you put in your mute list, will achieve what you want.

This here is a list of all those available tags. There's no real description of what "kinds" of tweets each block other than the vague name though.
At that point when they joined the chorus it was undeniable. That had to. In the meantime for over ten years they kept things quiet.
The problem is not that there are barriers, but that the barriers are artificial.
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I heard Clayton Christensen speak at an "honors dinner" my freshman year of university in 2000. I asked him what interesting things he did when he was a university student. He said he would get together with his friends once a week - and each would take 10-15 minutes to present the most interesting thing they had learned that week.

He also organized a university wide book club - including making books available at designated tables in the cafeteria, and hosting the author for a speaking event. "Guns Germs and Steel" was popular at the time, and he used that as an example of the type of book they would read.

Everyone knows about the Disruptive Innovation, but he also wrote "Disrupting Class" on how disruptive innovations would change universities/education - and put some out of business. On this vein he founded the Christensen Institute [1] a non-profit (in Redwood City, CA). I don't know a ton about it, but I've really enjoyed the research/ideas posted on their blog over the years!

Some here have posted about his faith. I've always thought it was bold that he had a four page PDF on his personal website [2] about his faith [3].

[1]: https://www.christenseninstitute.org/
[2]: http://claytonchristensen.com/
[3]: http://claytonchristensen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Why...
> It's really just easiest if you take nothing for granted, and even assume that clock-cycles aren't of a fixed duration but of a given quanta of work.

Thanks to spread-spectrum clocking, this really ought to be the default assumption for most computers. It's a small variance, but it's there.
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