skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No that was never the case. You are making a universal assumption about how the e.g. US was founded. This idea of government not getting in the way of citizens is an American idea. It does not apply to every country.

And the US, Canada and Australia are also outliers in this respect. In these cases one had vast amounts of land and resources and relatively few people. Anyone could in principle make it by working the land.

In most other countries civilization has existed for thousands of years and all land is taken. Without government working with people, there really is not opportunity in these cases.

If one takes the European experience, common people have a history of having been exploited by the rich, pushed into tiny plots of land. It was only through democratic control of government that the common man could start to get the government to work for his/her benefit.
"let it be noisy"

So you think it's the user's responsibility to manage ?

They disagree.
The fact that some (supposedly) technical users on HN are annoyed by this noisiness should be enough to tell you that the system's badly designed and that you can't expect most users to configure their feeds the way they'd ideally want it, even if the tool allows for it.
And about the situations, scenarios and environments.
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> A research project might be collecting sensitive personal information.

The data being processed (personal info) has nothing to do with the source code. You can release the code while keeping the data private.
This is awesome! Thank you! I hate regex, too, but I love your inline railroad diagramming tool.
I get the impression that you’re playing pretty fast and loose with the word “innate”, to basically refer to the rights you think are most important.

Shelter is definitely pretty important in, for example, Maslow's hierarchy. Obviously there are less and more fundamental rights, and the degree to which something can effectively be realized as a positive right depends on the capabilities and wealth of a society, but surely it’s worth considering what society should work collectively to provide.

I also don’t think it’s at all reasonable to claim that freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention, the right not to be tortured, and other basic human negative rights are at risk - ethics mist be continually improved and adapted as society changes, and the mere fact that abject suffering exists in the world should not mean we can’t decide that there are higher order human needs within the effective purview of society.
3. The ultimate source of information about human preferences is human behavior.

Great so the robot would see climate activist flying around in private jets pumping out several thousand times the average persons output, and promptly destroy the environment by assuming our actual goal is to destroy the environment with more CO2.
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Think about what you're saying, the country was in tatters in the wake of a civil war precisely when it was not culturally homogenous. Finnish is spoken by the vast majority of the population today. Progress has been made largely due to unification. Finland would not have been able to sustain itself otherwise.
The trajectory of Flash has been one of the great disappointments of the 21st century. Initially it democratized animation and gaming for a whole generation... Then Adobe bought it and moved it higher and higher up the shelf out of reach of young artists through cost and anti-piracy measures. At the same time, its nimble little plug-in became worse and worse, becoming synonymous with security problems and endless patching... And ultimately they failed to port it to mobile and that was its dead end.

For indie game development, unity is a worthy successor Flash... But we never really saw anything win out for animation.

Who is the new Homestar Runner?
Like another Expendables movie? Hopefully not a remake of The Love Boat (if you never saw the show almost every episode had guest stars that were well known celebrities, but usually retired or semi-retired from acting)
Oil is not Oil.

There are as many "blends" of crude as there are oil fields (about 160 blends according to wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crude_oil_products). Some are "thicker" than others and that results in different products you can get from the crude you refine. Also, each crude requires a different setting in your refinery, and it is very costly and lengthy to change that setup.

Refineries in the US are for the most part set to heavy crude.

Guess what kind of crude the US get's from fracking?

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It's not heavy crude.
I would argue that it is impossible to form any conclusions here without knowing what the exact specific situation is, but of course what you described is plausible.
This sounds like a terrible rewrite. If I can think of places they fail, surely real life can come up with more. Essentially, this would lead to either:

a) The tyranny of the majority, or

b) The tyranny of those with strong preferences.

Let's say 51% of a population wants to get rid of the other 49% and wishes they were dead. What would stop the machine making it happen?

Let's say a super-person is born, who just wants stuff more than anyone else alive. Maybe he's had a bad childhood and been through terrible things, so now those things that he wants reach the level of desperation for him. Wouldn't this make the worth of his values more than other people to the machines?

Finally:

> Still, Russell feels optimistic. Although more algorithms and game theory research are needed, he said his gut feeling is that harmful preferences could be successfully down-weighted by programmers

... so we're back to square one. We've created a learning machine that can come up with its own morality. But... we're going to have to down-weight certain behaviours just to be sure. Doesn't that simply recurse to:

a) Down-weighting removes the learning, and

b) We have to trust ourselves to correctly program and define the down-weighting.
International Conventions on Quarantines were basically established at a time when the most common global transmission of viruses was by sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine#International_conve...
Profile leak bug in Signal (app)?
Woke up this morning to a text from an acquaintance. When I hit "reply" I was startled to see the input field had my picture (which I've never put into Signal) and my name showed up as "A Guy". I happen to know that my ex-girlfriend used that picture and that name in her phone for me. We haven't spoken in months.

Obviously this is alarming. I keep "notes" as contact names for lots of people in my phone. e.g. "Jenny" might be "Jenny Nutcase" or the like. Are all my contacts somehow getting this info from my phone too? Yikes.

Can anyone confirm? (Android 9, Signal 4.53.7)

(Yes, I know this isn't the place to report bugs, but I thought this community would be interested.)
Amazon engineer calls for Ring to be shut down over privacy concerns
Quantum Random Numbers as a Service
But to begin with he was somewhat aloof from his father and brothers and he decided to kill that police captain. As I recall.
But they wouldn't extend to 4D.

You can treat complex numbers as 2D rotors (a 2D rotor is cos alpha + xy sin alpha, so xy can be replaced with i) and quaternions as 3D rotors. But if you build Cayley numbers from quaternions they don't have the same geometric meaning as 4D rotors.
This reads very clearly as an advertisement for Telegram.

The intelligent discussion and criticism at the beginning of the article quickly derailed into ‘this is why you should use our product.’

If it was written by a third party, I’d be able to take it at face value.
Well, don't let foreign investors buy up all our land. Government should cede control of the land, and let its citizens stake out plots.
>It does NOT explain why the county attorney continued with prosecution

Things get stupidly petty when politics are involved.

Someone dared challenge his fiefdom and that cannot be allowed to stand uncontested so he played the "be a pain in their ass" card by prosecuting as long as he could.
I mean the web eco-system that allows you to develop web applications quickly.
So I'm one of these seemingly non-verbal thinkers, including when I code.

I think it makes me more capable of _making use of_ complex concepts. I came into programming through mathematics, and I treat them both as aesthetic exercises. When I'm building a system in my head the solution usually appears visually, and ideas overlay themselves over the problem as aesthetic "feels". Yes it's a lot like being a visual designer: I can step back, view the solution, and just 'see' if it looks right.

Why should we structure our solution like this? I can't easily put it into words but it just... would be more natural like this. And then a few days later the reason it was correct becomes liminal and I can explain it properly. It lets me hold more ideas in my head and make use of them all at once. When picking up a new idea I can grasp the underlying concept, see the symmetry with ideas I already understand, and slot it into place.

Of course it has major downsides too. It's an effort for me to put my full ideas into words. Coding, like anything worth doing, is a team sport. If I can't vocalize my ideas then half the time that makes them worthless, especially when the decisions are important and therefore contested. I tend to make mental jumps that lose other people, and lose track of what state other people have.

Also, and this is in line with what you said Aedron, it does make it harder to check the details. I'll make silly mistakes because checking them isn't part of my mental construct. I can chase a half-formed idea for a day before realizing my mental picture was off, and I didn't catch it because I never put the problem into words. Pracical-but-ugly hacks don't occur to me because they aren't aesthetic. I'm worthless at remembering my girlfriend's friends' names.

This year I'm focusing on moving slower, writing more things down, and talking to people more. So far it's been really helpful. But I don't think I'd have got to where I am now, or be able to solve the kinds of problems I do, if I was a mostly verbal thinker.
We don't want to manipulate pixels; the goal is not to produce pretty pictures of known things. The goal is to collect as much data as possible about things which are not well understood (because, in part, of a lack of data), especially those that are time-varying on short human timescales.

The objects in question are often extremely faint, and even if one knows a lot of the details of periodic noise, removing the noise does not recover the faint signal.

> baffling

Stand by, there will be lot of professional science communication on this topic in due course.

> moon, 1%, ...

Suppose right now at the very limb of the sun we detect an extremely interesting light curve that is clearly not extragalactic yet still atypical of supernovae, but know that it is in the process of moving directly behind the sun (from our perspective). How do you propose to remove the sun from the image of the suspected supernova?

Here's a list of solar-system objects that moved directly behind the sun in 2019: https://sungrazer.nrl.navy.mil/index.php?p=transits/transits... This Christmas would have been an interesting time for 2010: The Year We Make Contact's great black spot of Jupiter to appear.

The moon also occults Jupiter fairly regularly. If Jupiter was doing something strange behind the moon, think of the loss for all the Earth-based observatories. Or would it be trivial for them to faithfully reconstruct the unusual behaviour of Jupiter?

Yes, the sun and moon are slow-moving, bright, and high-solid-angle obstructions compared to any spacecraft. However, so is Jupiter and a galactic supernova, and neither of them are usually interestingly variable on the scale of a glitching millisecond pulsar (for example) or the electromagnetic counterparts to a gravitational wave detection.

In short

> algorithms to erase satellite trails

are doing cosmetics, not astronomical or astrophysical research.

And if cosmetically you erase the wrong pixel, you miss out lots of observation time of events like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASASSN-15lh#Discovery and end up regretting missing early data (as in e.g. SN 1997D).

http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/asassn/index.shtml exists to avoid missing out on such things again, and if you have a thick skin, there's https://twitter.com/SuperASASSN

A recent tweet is interesting: 'This is, by the way, a discovery made in "astronomical twilight" - one way Itagaki and other amateur astronomers can discovered such events before professional astronomers is by observing fields (galaxies) quite close to the Sun.' (although that's in large part because bigger observatories deliberately aim away from the sun, because it's very noisy and its luminosity may damage sensitive detectors).
If true, it's mainly because nCov can spread before showing any symptoms. And if true, that testing before 1 week after infection showing negative sign makes it worse.

Now imagine how to prevent a net virus from spreading, where it doesn't show any symptom and scanning it before 1 week shows negative result, while during that time it can easily infect other.

Testing in real people isn't cheap, and currently there is no proven cure either (afaik).

Vaccine is the best solution but it hasn't been found yet.
HN filters out emoji (well, most of them, the blacklist appears to be incomplete)
Motel revivalism: How hipster hoteliers created a new roadside attraction
And The Walking Dead never calls them Zombies.
A CLI version of this would be pretty useful to me.
London Stock Traders Push to Shorten Their Day by 90 Minutes
I would disagree that everyone needs to live in sao paulo or silicon valley.
I think you are overthinking things, making yourself more concerned than need be. Big companies are checking boxes during the RFP process and want to make sure you have thought through problems. No one can tell you everything you need in your DR/BCP (disaster recovery/business continuity plan) without understanding your solution and problem space.

https://www.smartsheet.com/disaster-recovery-templates . -- Has lots of different templates to start from or get ideas from.

DR plans could be as simple as a couple of pages or as complex as a few hundred (though I find those useless personally). Answer the key questions, if you are using the cloud to host you are in luck because it simplifies things drastically. If you are self-hosting on your own co-located servers, then you are in for a bit more work. AWS and other clouds have products to assist you and also have templates to help you answer key questions usually. again you have to use what you need from it and customize it for your company though.

I am not trying to be a dick or anything and I hope it doesn't come across this way, but the DR plan for a small SaaS company with one or two employees will be drastically different then one with 100, 1000 or more employees. So having no clue what you do, what your product does, or what size deal this is it is hard to help point you to a specific template that might be more helpful.

Just a note on the RFP process (if you don't already know).

RFP's can be awesome, or they can suck the life out of your company. If you are answering an RFP for a < 5 figure/month deal it is almost always a losing proposition. Most true enterprises will spend 100-250k without needing an RFP. Government, or government agencies are different of course. But RFP's can take you a few weeks to put together properly so you have to weigh the opportunity against the cost to respond. Not saying don't do it just recognize and evaluate the costs. I responded to some RFPs where they required you to be on-site for the question/answer session or you would be disqualified, so now add in air travel and hotel rooms, plus the RFP costs. Some of our RFP's were really awesome and we spent a week putting an answer together and got a decent deal out of it, others we took a month and spent $15-20k only to be told we didn't qualify (when in reality the company already had their chosen vendor and just had to check the RFP bid box), so just guard your time and money when doing RFPs, and try to get a feel for the situation. And remember, probably a good 50% of the RFP process for enterprises is box checking, and once you get past that stage they'll be more open to working with you.
I think this is more likely to be people like me googling that to see all the Corona Beer memes
A Novel Plan to Fix One of New York’s Worst Highways: Remove Lanes
I’ve yet to see AI. For that matter, where is my floating car and ray gun? Future is turning out to be more of the same.
That looks pretty cool, I’ll try it this weekend!
Except you need to program them, and the recommended BOM for that is almost 900USD (unless OpenOCD works, but you still need JTAG hardware).
AFAIR there never was a period from the renaissance up to present times where rights were universally interpreted the way you describe them - though your view certainly is pretty widespread in the US discourse.

If one wants to conveniently fit all the different views on the topic into two categories, the view advocated by you would be the instituionalist tradition, with e.g. John Rawls as a famous proponent. The reasoning driving Finland here is the consequentialist tradition, represented by e.g. Amartya Sen.

At the risk of oversimplifying things, the consequentialist interpretation is more popular in Europe, while the favorite in the USA is the institutionalist thinking.
Everyone talks about the macro abuse, nobody talks about the memory management abuse:

https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/segv.html

> In comp.arch, 05/97, <5m2mu4$guf$1@murrow.corp.sgi.com>, John Mashey writes:

> For speed, Steve B had used a clever trick of using a memory arena without checking for the end, but placing it so that running off the end would cause a memory fault, which the shell then trapped, allocated more memory, then returned to the instruction that caused the trap and continued. The MC68000 (in order to go fast) had an exception model that broke this (among other things) and caused some grief to a whole generation of people porting UNIX to 68Ks in the early 1980s.
That is fair, but realistically, I think that’s every social consensus… and the implications are much more far reaching than social media platforms :-)
That is a highly artificial concept that only applies to the US given that there was vast amounts of land and relatively few people. But even in the US the assumption was highly flawed as it basically ignored the existence of native people.

Their land was just to be taken by violence. Hence without government created privilege all your are left with is a dog-eat dog world where the strongest through violence will take land for himself.

European settlers would respect each others claim of land mostly, but it basically meant it was in principle no different from an invading force stealing land.

Native Americans of course did not own land in the Lockean way. They held the land in common. The natural arrangement was in many ways closer to a communist/socialist ideal.
Yes that’s what I’m doing as well in this bull situation
I think welly was making a joke.
Terrible SEO by the makers.
This is really cool!

2 points:

1. it fiddled with my back button which is a bit annoying

2. a better email sample is

^[^@]+@[^@]+\.[^@]+$

which removes the 2 ampersands problem.
The source code will indicate where/how the data is input, processed and stored. It might help an attacker compromise the application in any number of ways.

There's non-trivial risk there, enough to make it an ethical concern.

So, in order to use AGPL software, you have to open source your entire source code, which means you have to go through a long and arduous risk assessment which will likely decide you can't.
To confirm, your argument is that refusing to allow someone to advocate for genocide on your blog platform is fundamentally similar to killing a man for refusing to pay protection money?
Do everyone around you a favour and remove yourself from their presence.

Not a single person likes you. You are an ignorant, damaged and bullied coward. Glenn.
Wow you are a racist. You see skin color right out of the gate. Disgusting. Shame on you.
Love can be spoilt by devotion as much as by selfishness
None of what you've described is a problem absent government micromanagement of what can and can't be done on said land (strict zoning, examples include SV). The government has stepped in in many markets and halted that "race to the bottom" that everyone seems to hate and $500/mo 2br apartments vanish with it.
Last loop I had there was 3 explicitly DP problems, and this was in 2017/2018.
Declaration of Independence:

> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Shelter is a necessity to life. Without a permanent address, it is extremely difficult to obtain gainful employment, which is widely understood to be necessary for the pursuit of happiness. I'm not sure when you're referring to, saying "used to mean," but
this humanitarian view of rights is quite solidly entrenched in US law.

Ninth Amendment:

> The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

The founders deliberately left this barn-door open for the sake of progress.
Thank you!

I think I know what's wrong with your back button. I will fix it.

And for the regex. will try it out and see if I can add it.
Putting it in a microservice should get around that, right?
And then we've just kicked the can down to the road a generation or so. Whatever problems you think more privately owned land will solve today, will just be waiting for us tomorrow.
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10 years? SSAB say they'll be selling steel made by this method by 2026.

https://www.ssab.com/company/newsroom/media-archive/2019/11/...
Haha thank you <3
Coda raises $4m seed funding from to grow out mobile game publishing platform
Further arrests made by NCA in bank cyber-heist money laundering probe
The problem I see with every discussion like this is despite this talking about experiences in Finland and applicability to Canada, Americans always assume that the CORERCT way to view government and the role of government is how it was laid down in the American constitution.

I am surprised so few Americans seem to realize they are imposing an entirely American centric view of the role of government and the rights of citizens.

Every country has different traditions and understanding of the role government should play. There is no right answer to this.

One must be able to argue this philosophically, without attempting to settle the matter as some sort of legal battle in court where one can "win" the argument by presenting legal text from the American constitution.
What I don't like about the "generics dilemma" framing is that the problem exists regardless of whether your language has generics or not.

Here's what I mean. Say you have a Vector class that can operate on ints or floats. You could make that a generic, in which case the compiler can either (a) duplicate the code for each type (monomorphize) or (b) do dictionary passing and get slower runtime. But if your language doesn't have generics, you have exactly the same problem: you as the programmer must (a) duplicate the code for ints and floats or (b) use an interface and get slower runtime. Not having generics doesn't solve anything. It just means that you, the programmer, have to do things that the compiler would otherwise do for you.
Interestingly, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22188704 , with similar techniques reinvented 4 decades later, was on Hacker News only yesterday.