skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From the same article you cited, it was 9.5% in Poland, 3.4% in the USSR (which had a larger population than Germany), 4% in Romania, 4.9% in Latvia, 7.6% in Lithuania, 5% in Hungary.

Yes, I was mistakenly going from numbers presented for Western Europe.

> The fraction of Jews in Poland, or the other countries I menioned, did nothing to prevent them being seen as "the other" there, if you read some contemporary accounts.

As I covered elsewhere, I was (because of my own misinterpretation) approaching this more from a Nazi Germany standpoint, and trying to highlight differences from that. I think there's a reason why Jews were able to be scapegoated to the degree they were in Germany, and why it wasn't as bad elsewhere, and I think a lot of that is to do with relative population sizes. At ~1%, you can force your will on a people. At 15-25%, that's a civil war if you try, and there's enough people of that population that it's very hard to not have exposure to a degree that deflates some of that "the other" rhetoric. It's like if the same were applied to latino and hispanic people in the United States, which account for just over 16% of the population in the 2010 census. Not illegal aliens, but all people of that race. That's a really hard sell, because almost everyone knows someone personally that falls into that category that helps go against that narrative just by existing and having contact. I'm willing to bet it's easier in some areas of the world with similar percentages because the influx of Muslims is more recent and less established, but I'm not immediately convinced it's enough to get to what we saw in Germany.

If you want to restrict the discussion to a very vague "the other" that's less extreme, then I'm not really in disagreement. I do believe there are attempts to use Muslims as convenient scapegoats. I'm just not sure to what degree it works in a lot of places, given how many Muslims there are there (and to the degree it works, I think the number of Muslims means there will be a very different response from them if some group attempts to ramp it up).
Wasn’t it “low orbit ion cannon”?
No it isn't. See above. Overfittiing to a holdout set is so easy and common you usually need to take steps to avoid it. See my comment directly above. Best.
This is all super relatable.

> Uncontrollable "hyperfocus" on things you really don't have control over.

This is the bane of my existence. I have moments reading about things (most recently, how to repair air conditioning systems in vehicles I don't even own!?) in which I'm aware of how insane it is but I just can't stop. I need to know more.

> Poor time management.
I once went snorkelling for an hour... for almost 4 hours. Everyone thought I was dead.

> Zero sympathy from other people.
Yeah. All those people who thought I was dead subsequently believed I went snorkelling for 4 hours on purpose - not at all because I had no idea it had been that long. In my mind I thought "I better get back, it might be closing on 1.5 hours by now!". The ocean was too beautiful for time to exist though. I really had no idea. I was shamed for being so selfish and self absorbed for ages... I suppose I still am, actually. This happens with countless things. My family refuses to believe ADHD causes you to do things like this; they think I'm looking for excuses when I point to ADHD.

> Having a hard time reading long pieces of text.
This is the one thing I'm alright at. I love getting lost in text, even if it's not that interesting. The problem is that I do it too often.

> Depression and anxiety
Yeah. This is soul crushing.
Yeah this seems to really help some people. There are easier to get medications than the hardcore stimulants to treat ADHD. They might not work as well, but access (and perhaps potential side effects) is better.
"Containerization, while being an attractive technology for performance and portability, should be carefully considered before deployment in a multi-tenant[, shared] environment [in which the physical hardware is shared among many users]." -- I'd say that's more accurate.
The truth is most companies tend to last ~20 years (from mom and pop to larger ones) if they are successful. You're lucky if you make it further. This is one of those that isn't going to last much further.
If <app> is good, then its nice to focus sometimes on the fact that its good, rather than on what it doesn't have. Its similar to judging a Honda for not being a Maserati that gets 200 miles per gallon.
I’m a big fan of Wikipedia. It’s not perfect, and plenty of pages are outright bad, but repeatedly clicking “random page” [1] is a great source of entertainment to me. There’s so much info out there, yet I reliably get something surprising, interesting, or funny within maybe 10 random pages. And because it’s random, I learn things way outside my normal interests.

Try it if you find yourself mindlessly scrolling! It’s pretty easy but you find way more cool things (that typically people don’t broadly know about, if you like that sort of thing).

I donate a few bucks a month and it’s well worth it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:random
It's definitely disproportionate to what a street level dealer typically gets for pushing an extremely small fraction of opiods relative to what these people were doing.
Life insurance, disability insurance, long-term care insurance etc companies can use genetic data to determine costs for policyholders or to deny coverage[1].

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/08/07/6360262...
> if you keep making your payments, there is no way for a bank to force you out of your mortgage or call for additional capital due to a decline in value.

it's the same coin, you're just looking at it from a different angle. The timeframes are certainly different between foreclosure and margin calls, but the concept is the same - the lender sees you as more risky than they originally intended, and chooses to liquidate you. In a foreclosure, you "prevent it" by constantly paying the interest. In a margin call, you are not paying until you hit the drop in valuation, and you have to pay to top it back up.
This sort of thing really makes me wonder whether execs thought about this scenario or not. It seems obvious to me that the novelty could wear off and people stop buying kits. Was it worth the effort and cost to ramp up staffing only to make them redundant?
> Keeping our community from heinous criminals is a good thing isn’t?

Yes, but there certainly is a cost to doing that, and at some point the cost outweighs the benefits. If that weren't true, then the argument could be used to insist that every place, including every room in your home, should be subjected to government surveillance 24 hours a day.
I believe OLED technology is what OP is referring to. The pixels can turn off individually in order to create true blacks.
If you're worried about SEO and manipulation, Wikipedia is decent but Reddit is awful. It's pretty well-established by now that astroturfing and influence campaigns are rampant on Reddit, and in some particularly bad cases like /r/worldnews have taken over subreddits completely.
In this context, it's not a physical color. It refers to an analog video signal with a lower brightness level than the level which was defined as corresponding to pure black.
Arc "just worked" for me, but I was probably using such a cable by default.

As far as it's IP address, I don't have it connected to the internet.
The companies that were founded here (Apple, HP, Google etc.) have drawn talent for many years. Additionally, there are some top notch universities with great CS departments (Stanford, Cal among others). So it's not just geography.
"At least part of it is the same reason you might want to hang out with people already skilled in your disciplines: you get to go do the advanced stuff, instead of getting the other people up to speed."

In that case you can give "requirements" what is needed to work with you in your tempo, right?

What the discussion is about (at least to me) is not about the right of picking your people to go together with (ofc you can do that) but about the specific, concrete "requirements" which the "new platform" implements but HN does not.
It's not an example of sunk cost fallacy, much less a "perfect" one. If you
insist on shoehorning it, then the fallacy argues against you since the future
value of emacs is no longer diminished by the sunk cost of configuring it.
Having seen the document, it was also interesting to me to read the article again. I might be over-analyzing, but he seems to have chosen his words very carefully: he claims he's a "nobody" and was "minding [his] own business" when he was captured. He says he was bountied as someone else. He plays up the torture, deservingly, but he doesn't really proclaim his innocence. At least not to the extent I would be, were it me.

Maybe he's denied his guilt differently in the past, but the article's wording looks suspiciously to me like dancing around a lie.

I'm trying to remain objective, but I'm starting to get that bitterness felt once you realized you've been intentionally fooled.

Still, everyone deserves due process.
Until you have robot armies you don’t need to pay, period.
I found a short snippet: https://www.alanpedia.com/television_production_glossary/sup...

Superblack: A value on the wave form monitor of 0 or less luminance units. 7.5 units is standard TV black. Graphics and logos placed on superblack are much easier to work with.
I remember there was some particular shade of off-black in Windows 95 that was always transparently showing any video that was playing. Don't think it's related though.
Metaprogramming in Common Lisp.
I would say that statistically, over a large sample size, that the chances that either would abuse information is exactly equal.
I probably should have specified in the post that I’m a developer and not an actual designer, so a lot of the stuff you mention here is foreign to me. I touch briefly on spacing etc in the branding/consistency section.

All good points you make, and after reading the comments here I will definitely pick up Don’t Make Me Think
If American expats pay US income tax, why shouldn’t they qualify? Maybe the US should stop taxing people that don’t even live in America like every other civilized country.
Depends on your TV. The IR is a fallback but it can also do volume over CEC:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.howtogeek.com/263008/how-to...
That article is about a “surface treatment” for solid objects, like Vantablack. OP is talking about screens — I believe they are referring to OLED true black.
See as well this video for more recent demos (2019) by John Wiegley (the Emacs maintainer) and John Kitchin (a CMU chemistry professor who uses Org extensively):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31gwvApo8zg
It's also possible (and plausible to me) that negative messages tend to be more effective than positive ones, and that sowing doubt is easier than positively convincing people. In which case it would be very hard to elevate a random candidate into a winning position, but significantly easier to harm the reputation of a rival, or to muddy the waters on issues unfavourable to your candidate.
Anytime a protest/riot spills onto the street in any country, there will be 2 groups of people :

1. Those who value privacy over security

2. Those who value security over privacy

No matter which side any government tilts towards, even if its a reasonably balanced approach, the other side will complain about it.
It's easy to forget how amazing Wikipedia is because people are so used to it. It's also an anomaly in todays internet landscape - no ads, popups or auto-play videos. I think it's literally the best website in existence.

If you suggested 20 years ago that there will soon exist a free online encyclopedia, which has two orders of magnitude more words than Britannica, is updated daily and is mostly unbiased - they would probably think it's impossible.
> Target cross-platform technologies from the start.

Like Vulkan? Doesn't run on macOS.
This is a good list: https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets
If the Wikimedia foundation lost their .org domains, not only would they need to find a new domain, but they wouldn’t be able to redirect requests from the billions of links to Wikipedia on the internet, and all those links would die.

I also don’t think that will happen. If the new .org owners took down a world-beloved high-traffic site like Wikipedia, the public outcry from people of all political persuasions would make government regulation of the domain become quite likely and I’m pretty sure .org’s new owners don’t want that smoke. I also don’t even know the rules, it might be impossible for them to do so for some technical reason.
The problem is not google. It’s trip advisor itself. It’s simply not helpful anymore.

Fake reviews, and they’re pushing paid events etc using dark patterns.. it wasn’t like that some years ago

Love the lonely planet
I suspect Apple's intent is to leverage the massive interest in game development on their other platform, iOS, to spur game development on Mac. This feels fairly evident with the Apple Arcade push and Catalyst allowing for relatively easy porting from iOS.

I doubt that Epic would have bothered targeting Metal in UE4 if it were macOS only. With it, building games for Macintosh for a great deal of developers is fairly trivial. Unity also targets Metal, as far as I am aware.
Also this bloke was a "Kapoor". So he probably had very little political clout/connections and was simply targeted for convenience and used as a sacrificial lamb to placate the masses. The Sackler's are cash multibillionaires ( not stock billionaires ) and they have strong politicals connections in the NY area, etc.

This case reminds me in some way of the Abacus trial. The only financial institution to be tried for the financial crisis was a small local bank founded by a "Sung".

https://www.marketplace.org/2017/05/22/abacus-only-bank-char...

You could watch a documentary about the case.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/abacus/

The Kapoor case, like the Sung case, is really a show trial.
This video explains the concept really well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwl3-jBNEd4

but TLDW; the unrecoverable cost of rent is just the rent money, and a lot of people compare it with a mortgage incorrectly. A mortgage is not 100% unrecoverable, but some portions of it is unrecoverable (the interest). The other unrecoverable cost of owning is the initial downpayment.

The 3% capital cost is the combination of the above interest payment and the lost income opportunity from the downpayment. Whether you buy out right with cash, or get a mortgage, you still end up paying a price either way (via interest, or via lost opportunity to deploy the cash downpayment).
The DoD absolutely has the technical ability to run their own shit.
> Few people at the time had access to SUVs, high-speed watercraft, helicopters, motorcycles, or bicycles, to aid in escape.

This is potentially one of the biggest Pompeii-related understatements of the day, even.
Sure, but whether or not I decide to stick with <app> depends on many factors. One of those is "does it do everything I need/want." If the answer is no, then that factors into my decision.
Would a human evolve in isolation? I think we are interconnected with many systems in unknowably complex ways.
My impression of Intuit's acquisition of Mint was always that it was done precisely so that it wouldn't grow and become a major player in personal finance. That what they were really purchasing was the Mint userbase in an attempt to cross sell them on paid products. And so they have kept Mint around with the absolute bare minimum of effort for the sales funnel through to revenue generating products
> quit and work for a competitor without being sued

"Quit" is the operative work here. The employee in question was building the competitor using Apple resources. He didn't quit and work for a competitor. He worked for a competitor and then quit.
I was surprised to enjoy reading 90% of this article.

There was a little gratuitous Republican-bashing (it is Vox, after all), but outside of one paragraph it was remarkably even-handed. I liked a lot of the ideas presented, too.

I hope we do find a way out of the two-party gridlock.
> engineering is only half art.

Unless it's analog design, then it's 80% black magic. :)
I have found these links discussing Roam:

- https://nesslabs.com/roam-research

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22104366

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22085837

Personalny I just use git repo with markdown files and Bash script miss.sh to quickly send/get new content to central repo
What’s Excel? apt search is not showing anything...
Ah, of course! One of those things that's obvious once I know the answer.
Exactly – put that badge or the similar “Repo Status: Unsupported” badge (https://www.repostatus.org/#unsupported) in your README to succinctly communicate what users should expect from the project.
who enjoys doing boring things?
> no ads, popups or auto-play videos.

Also, there are no 100 JavaScript tracking scripts on Wikipedia, and it's probably one of the fastest sites among the top-100 websites in the world.
Chrome Is the New IE
What are your thoughts on two-way communicators eg; inReach? I've largely replaced my PLB with an inReach (though when in a group I have another person carry the PLB) because in an emergency situation I can communicate with rescuers about the exact nature of the emergency.

Eg; if I need an air evac vs. I broke my leg and can't walk out. Or if I can get medical advice from a rescuer. Similarly I can communicate dangers the rescuers may face.
OP mentioned 3 magic colors in pre-digital TV production. The 3rd, "superblack" is what we're all curious about. OLED hadn't been invented yet.
There is a typo in the title.
C++ bloated largely because they decided to make it bloated - they didn't had to, they just decided to shove in whatever new idea sounded good without much concern about the language's size.

But 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 and they do not have to waste time refactoring code that works.
Google I/O 2020 developer conference will be held on May 12-14
> I have no idea why anyone thinks its a good idea

Facsism yesterday : Persecute minorities

Fascism today : Help persecuted minorities

Sounds good to me.
What's so unreasonable about wanting to disable a feature? Having to buy a completely different product is a big hassle.
The ultimate solution to privacy concerns is home sequencing machines. When we can sequence our own DNA, we can upload it anonymously and get many of the benefits. The one thing that wouldn't work is finding lost relatives by name. Maybe general location, though.
It is a company supplied laptop.

I happen to support a few legacy applications that are tethered to windows server deployments. Not every workplace can just replace working systems with software that tool literally years for many people to write.

Beyond this, I work in a very security conscious environment (election services) and there is security software at several levels that if I'm not running in the office, I wouldn't be able to connect to the network. When you work in an environment that works for various state and county agencies with sensitive data, there are restrictions that come with the job. I've also worked in banking and that has similar or even greater access. I've worked some security tools/software in banking.
Dude, what? The whole reason why DNA is forensically useful at all is that you can use it to pinpoint people.
Does it show how far AI has come? It produces a game that is fundamentally unplayable, and because it's purely based on a model of language doesn't have a very obvious path to improve, since there's no underlying model of the thing it's trying to represent.

Are any of these applications of GPT-2 that attempt to use a pure language representation as a way to sidestep modelling the underlying principles actually successful? I feel like I've not actually seen any real successes.
I don't think we should be looking for a candidate who wins on the strength of Twitter bots, that's pretty much impossible (and that's a good thing.)

Instead, we should consider the fact that all these bots make a lot of information noise and that's a problem to how we view candidates. With enough bots spamming fake articles or posting links that favor the candidate/smear his opponents, they muddy the waters and make it harder to find real information. This alone won't win anybody elections but it brings prominence to smaller candidates, makes it harder to find legitimate dirt on others (bring certain links as evidence and people dismiss them, saying 'Oh, those are part of the bot campaign'), and makes any political discussion on Twitter a horrible idea. (Whether or not I think Twitter is already a horrible place for political discussion is another matter entirely.)
All colours are simply rather imprecise descriptions that relate to bands of wavelength within the electromagnetic spectrum. I don't think that considered on its own, that any band (colour) can be considered ugly compared to another. I think that other senses get involved.

Funnily enough: "drab dark brown" describes the archetypal colour of shit. Now shit has its own exciting spectrum of smells and colours but most people find it unpleasant and the colour is going to obviously get involved.

Now, qwerty45etc may shit magenta coloured poo. Who knows what "web dev" does to you long term 8)
Why Are There Only 28 Days in February?
Worth mentioning that Wikipedia.com already redirects to the .org version.
TL;DR

- Chrome proposes a new feature

- There's no consensus on the API among implementors. Chrome team themselves agree the API needs improvement

- Chrome ships the feature as is

- The standards body proposes a different API

- Chrome team says that nope, the feature that the implemented, that no one agreed on, and that they shipped is the standard and they will not change it
id does, even if they don't provide "official" support. All of their games have worked flawlessly with proton or wine, from my experience.
Interesting, I call that stuff "nannies for people with poor situational awareness". I suppose they have utility as the size of the vehicle you drive increases (would have loved it when I drove a fuel truck in the Army[1]). In a mid-size sedan or smaller, with an attentive driver, they seem like a waste of resources to me. Side effects of living in a bubble of car modders and street racers, who almost never buy anything brand-new anyway.

I wonder how blind spot accidents in the US are affected by driver education? I'd love to see a comparison of data between the US, Germany, and Japan on incident rates of such accidents...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Expanded_Mobility_Tactic...
I don't do much... I've been using Steam a little more since the switch though... I have nerve damage from about a decade ago, and fast-twitch reflexes aren't what they used to be.
Most tech companies are similarly overstaffed. For whatever reason, people think they can do more with more people, as though things scaled linearly like they did in traditional industries, but it's a different paradigm, and it's at best a logistic curve, if not sigmoid.