skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you do it often enough, eventually you'll realize that invoking Bush the Elder's hissy-fit in Panama doesn't really support your argument. One would have thought CIA could remove their own puppets.

The first Iraq war was in no sense a victory, and we got lied into that one too (cf: "incubator babies"). Our troops never left Arabia, and their presence there caused 9/11. That was a victory for armaments manufacturers, but not for us.

USA flew over Kosovo for a few weeks. Ground troops were UN, OSCE, and NATO. After Serbs withdrew the area was ruled by heroin and organ traffickers. Good job!
I keep hearing that the fed is directly intervening in equities markets but I'm having a hard time finding a source that goes into any detail. Any chance you have a source?
If you're going to use definition of 'language' so narrow that languages effectively don't exist, your article is not going to be useful. Kinda want the falsehoods to actually be false, you know?
Your link [1] seems to suggest that
the campus does not just house administration but also
clinical departments of the School of Medicine. This may be School of Medicine administration, I am not sure.
I'm pretty sure firefox has this feature.

the problem is no website offer custom css.

for an example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48227413/what-is-the-pur...
Except for the Covid-19 podcast on the Google podcast app.
So, if someone cannot have children due to a biological reason, their life is worthless and should be euthanized?

I cannot believe the narrow mindedness and horrible attitude you have about people who choose to have a different outlook on life and their goals to you.

Each to their own. Some people choose to have children. Some choose not to. Some have no choice. I would hate to meet someone like yourself and have you judge me the way you wrote.
It would help if you'd share the exact comments that got removed.
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I might be bitter, but I have little love for corporations and their role in the public debate. And I abhor that they play moral compass. Call me a cynic, but that is really beautiful and bold of them. Don't pay taxes, evade worker laws and be cynical enough to proudly present how diverse you are and at the same time let your workers rot in the warehouses (I am looking at you AWS). "Look at the blind, talk to the deaf, listen to the mute and prey on the weak!" seems to be there motto.

The quicker multinationals like this are broken up, the better. For me personally, this is another reason to try to not use Google or Alphabet, it is not easy, but not impossible (yet).
A democratic government is, in principle, (and more often in theory than in practice) a way for individuals to collectively express their wishes. Including reining in misbehaving corporations. The reason so much discourse is contemplating government regulation is because, in democracy, government regulation is private action of citizens. And arguably, only in this concentrated form it has a chance to oppose the concentrated interests of wealthy private individuals at the steers of corporations.
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I've had nothing but amazing experiences with CouchSurfing.

New Years Party in Budapest;

A haunted house trip in Philadelphia turned into being a pretend boyfriend for a girl in Ürümqi and a week later flying to Maldives with her best friend;

Playing ice hockey with the President of Finland;

Having a fling with a famous Japanese MMA Fighter;

I even started my website www.uncivil.engineer because of it; sad to see.
> Or there's what I saw in Peru where a guy was selling TAXI signs at a traffic light.

This is literally what Uber/Lyft are doing. You don’t even need to leave the house.
> ... but it was still too early to determine such trends, ...

It will take around 2 weeks for increased contacts to start to show symptomatic patients, to report "We've re-opened and there's no spike" seems irresponsible, bordering on dangerous.
You're the one talking about ceilings.

His point is that true social mobility would be literally hitting the random button repeatedly. It's obviously not a workable idea.

Someone has to lose, even if you perform a magical full reset once per year, in any given year half of the people will be below average.

The goal of course is that we make sure that everyone has a decent life even if they're not at the top.

I think you've jumped on his comment and assumed that he doesn't care at all about anyone who's not in the top N% which isn't a charitable reading.
The jig to do it is somewhat expensive it and hard to put together. The especially hard part is getting the lens to not vibrate at higher speeds, which is probably done by using pneumatic or hydraulic drive or very strong magnetic drive.

And if the thing goes off, you could have tens of kilos of broken glass flying in all directions.
Even if you have other posts beside Tesla, the HN guidelines say "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys the curiosity this site exists for." Although constantly criticizing Tesla may not fall under political or ideological battle, it certainly doesn't hold any curiosity.
How does that relate to failure is the best teacher?
Well, sure, there is something it is like to be that computer, but it is only accessible to the computer, which does not pay a lot of attention to what it's like to be itself generally. When you ask me what it's like I can try to imagine becoming the computer, but in the process I would cease to exist, so for me there is only the objective computer seen from the outside.

The only reason "what it's like" seems to make sense with other humans is because we evolved this nifty faculty of empathy. But if I examine more closely what it's like to be you, I also find that at the point I'm you, and thus have subjective access to your consciousness, I'm not me anymore.

So, it seems that when looking more closely exactly the same problem occurs when asking what it's like to be a computer, or a human, therefore the "what it's like" question is not a valid argument to ascribe consciousness to one but not the other.
Thanks for creating Chart.js, I use it in my analytics app[0] to display graphs, I didn't find any better alternative yet.

[0]: https://usertrack.net/
I think their logic is roughly speaking this:

If the Accept-Language header matches "en-*", ignore that. Instead use geoip to try to guess a language.

If the Accept-Language header is something else, use that.

There's probably some cookie/Google-ID-based heuristics going on too.

Please just give us a UI language selector. Don't leave us with something half-baked that works great for 90% of the users and leaves the remaining people perplexed. People do know multiple languages, and want to search for stuff in other languages too, sometimes. (Yes, it does seem like the UI language is influencing the search results, too.)
Talk about YouTube. I'm trying to start a conversation on censorship here, on HN, and IMMEDIATELY get flagged. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23220998

Pissed? Drop a question to hn@ycombinator.com and let the admins know your position on this.
Just the original, Daring Fireball Markdown.
TV has always been propagandist insofar as it portrays the life of upper middle class people. The father in Leave it to Beaver was a college graduate at a time when when only 5% of his cohort graduated college. But to the extent that big houses and lots of cars are the “American Dream” it’s real. Household consumption spending per capita in the US is more than 7 times higher than in Poland, and 90% higher than in France.

If you have not had the chance, go visit the rest of the country outside the coasts (where people suffer under self-inflicted policy choices). Places where college graduates struggle to afford a one bedroom apartment in a city where human feces covers the streets isn’t a good proxy for what life in America is really like. Try Kansas City, Des Moines, Houston, etc. The widespread material prosperity is evident..
I agree with the assertion by the tmux maintainers that screen probably shouldn't do it either.
> Kafka is a message broker. It’s not a database and it’s not close to being a database.

Kafka is somehow a database, even if specialized on logs of events. For a similar discussion, I would refer to Jim Gray "Queues Are Databases" https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0701158.pdf.
Why Media Coverage of Covid-19 Has Been So Bad – Mises Wire
> our recruitment is very different from normal companies.

Please could you share a bit about what your recruitment strategies look like? And do you all work remote?
> How should it handle extreme situations like someone clicking "Copy" on their Plex Web Player embed of a 100GB 4K UHD movie?

You can’t yet. Thats the point. GIFs are not 100GB 4K movies, yet the current state of the art treats the two the same.

We need a standard method to distinguish an (optionally) looping, soundless “GIF” video from a traditional video, and mimic the behavior of an image in the case of a GIF.

Also GIF videos needs to behave like GIF images consistently across all modern browsers and mobile devices.
Especially if you think that just because Swisscom routes my traffic from Lausanne through Zurich that I speak German, damn it.
Day job, at least somewhat related to my open source work. I have been quite lucky that most of my employers have supported my open source work, from time allocated to it during "working hours", to funding conference attendance.
Nobody's mentioned the Conway-Specker-Kocken Free Will Theorem!? It lines up perfectly with the idea of "quantum choice" discussed in the article: Free will is when particles choose to reply to quantum measurements with non-predetermined values.

From this perspective, electrons are a little conscious, while humans are a lot conscious (because we have lots of electrons in our brain), but we don't have to define consciousness beyond the ability to be forced to make choices.
TSMC had denied this through Chinese media.

Might need to wait for sometime to see exactly what its position in all these.

My bet it will eventually comply but leave some vagueness here and there. After all, hurting TSMC is hurting the world.
The terminology gets even more confusing when you realize that both factions of the civil war looked up to the same figure, except one viewed him as a proto-communist revolutionary, the other viewed him as a liberal nationalist revolutionary.
Um .. PinePhone? PostmarketOS? Plasma Mobile? These things exist now.
> Edit: the comment wasn't deleted when it China was changed to Taiwan

Which supports the hypothesis that "Chinese trash" was the problem and probably caught by anti-harassment/anti-insults filters.

It does not imply that they accept insults against Taiwanese, but perhaps just that insults against Chinese were frequent enough to be added to automatic filters.
Curious how your enthusiasm develops when they start injecting ads into their application chats. I haven't seen a single ad all year and will keep it that way.
It's used here on Hackernews too.

It contains troll harassment. By not letting a troll know they've been banned, you remove the incentive they might have to create a new account to continue their harassment.
It costs the employer a lot more than just the salary to have a salaried developer.
> It just makes the jobs below that floor go away.

No, it doesn't _just_ do that. It also makes the jobs that are viable above that floor pay at least that floor.
No idea, haven't touched WhatsApp and don't intend to. :)

That said, the SW will of course lag behind commercial offerings. Just see how long it took for desktop Linux to catch up to the major players. But open source system gives me the freedom to turn it inside-out, get rid of things I don't want (even systemd if I felt really strongly about it), repair what I want - be the owner of by phone and not just a cow to be milked for rent. Nah, I can live without WhatsApp. Or I can get a secondary cheap Android phone for such apps.
Saying consciousness is emergent is definitely weird, but the problem is, so are all the other possible explanations. If you're trying to avoid supernatural explanations then emergence is the best of a baffling bad bunch IMHO.

(Then I would back this up a bit with "once you start investigating it, a lot of aspects of consciousness are quite different to what people would intuitively expect" and that makes it all a bit more feasible. E.g. saccades and the fovea are fascinating and counterintuitive, what else are we getting wrong?)
Me too, makes me want to puke. I hate companies like this.
That article is more about aesthetics than anything.

Also:

> There is a perfect symbol for any language which you can use on the Web: the name of the language in the language itself, such as English (or British English or US English, if needed). Be careful with the grammatically correct use of upper and lower case here! If a reader doesn't know the name of language X in X, he probably does not know X enough for the link to be of use to him.

So now that I'm on this Korean site, with no idea how "Korean" looks in Korean, how am I supposed to find the language picker?
Thanks for your kind words (yes, sorry for the missing disclaimer). Texti is slowly evolving :-) The point is NOT to invent new syntax [1], thus, using the established unix-style/shell-style/python-style/ruby-style for comments. For a litte real world examples that generated HTML, LaTeX and Markdown from Texti see https://github.com/texti/texti.github.io/tree/master/samples

PS: The main missing feature (among others) in Markdown and that rocks Wikitext (and Texti too) is built-in (recursive) templates (with optional parameters) using the {{}} syntax.

[1]: I know % is not new because it's used in LaTeX but LaTeX is esoteric compared to Python, Ruby, Shell Scripts, Unix Configs, etc.
Your billion-person computer certainly would not appear to be conscious in real time - maybe that's why you just can't get your mind around the picture.

Can you imagine a billion people, none of whom who have never even heard of chess, writing out 1s and 0s, and thereby beating a grand master at the game? (in an appropriately slowed-down game, of course.)
If a dev is supported by just 1 company, then you're right, but if they're supported by many, a-la the Patreon model, then that can give them a lot of power.

I have no idea how a small developer could ramp this up, but for a larger project, the approach appears to be to form a foundation, and to give contributing companies a chair that's closer to the table.
That’s impossible. Congress exempted the entire internet from court on something like this. Look at the communications decency act.
It's a thing.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2...
Any discussion about desktop GUI toolkits should be preceeded by this article:
http://blog.johnnovak.net/2016/05/29/cross-platform-gui-trai...
The results may include a lot of people who don't consider themselves to be professional developers at all, such as myself. While I've been programming for almost 40 years, I've never been employed as a programmer per se. I've always used programming as a problem solving tool, though some of my code has gone into production, usually by default because there was no coder available or willing to take it up.

Oddly enough I first tried Python because of the "buzz" that it was getting on HN.
To be fair it’s been over three weeks since Georgia reopened (0)

0) https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/its-been-one-w...
That’s fine. Now they are no longer protected by section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
I could give you some tips if you think "hitting on women" means strong-arming them into an implicit deal that they have to fuck you or else.
Converting Output from Rest Assured to Curl Requests
It really surprised me when I downloaded Godot only to get a 32MB binary. Snappy as hell.

Web apps masquerading as desktop apps are terribly slow and it's a surprise we've got so used to it. My slack client takes a few seconds to launch, then it has a loading screen, and quite often it will refresh itself (blanking out the screen and doing a full-blown re-render) without warning. This is before it starts spinning the fans when trying to scroll up a thread, and all of the other awkward and inconsistent pieces of UI thrown in there. Never mind having to download a 500MB package just to use a glorified IRC client.

I'm really enjoying writing code outside of the browser realm where I can care a lot more about resource usage, using languages and tools that help achieve that.
The History of Blockchain: From the Establishment to Broad Adoption
Jesus christ, this is wrong on so many levels.
Disastrous new Windows 10 update is causing serious issues for some people
> I am not surprised this is happening. The small offices in each state are responsible for 100s of millions of dollars and they awfully unequipped for it.

But trust us when we tell you that voter fraud isn't happening, that mail-in ballots offer no increased risks, and that non-citizens aren't voting.
spaCy doesn't localize errors, but it does do a beautiful job of managing that kind of error codes.

https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/blob/master/spacy/errors....
> Edit: the comment wasn't deleted when it China was changed to Taiwan

Do you want them to add "Taiwan trash" to their insult filter, or do you want to be able to freely post "China trash"? I think the former is more likely to be achievable. (Just generate enough "Taiwan trash" comments until adding it to the blacklist becomes worth the effort.)
Are you following an Excel guide that's written in English but can't use the formulas because your own computer is set to use some other language? Or did you inherit some Excel sheets to maintain that are not written in English?
No problem! Just install Excel Functions Translator [1] and say Auf Wiedersehen to all you localization worries!

/s

[1]: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/excel-functions-tra...
Hence the term "aggressively flirting"
> Flint, MI seems to be a unique issue

As many as 20% of Americans have been exposed to unsafe drinking water at least once in the past decade[0], Flint is in no way an outlier. The cost to upgrade old pipe systems is completely out of reach for poor communities throughout America.

Between the flight of manufacturing overseas hollowing out jobs in cities from the Northeast all the way through the Midwest and Southern US and the introduction of the private equity model, life is indeed worse for millions of Americans. Just look at the political climate we’re currently in, that anger is coming from a very real place. Spend some time in Detroit or the Rust Belt, it’s a profoundly sad experience.

0: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/14/63-million-am...
The vaccine injury fund paid out more than 4 billion dollars for injuries that fully tested vaccines caused.
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This actually preceded the EU as it was during the Falklands situation, and I don't think EU<->EU cooperation is inherently different if interests are misaligned (which has happened many times between EU members), or if a country (e.g. the UK) chooses to leave the EU.

I was hoping to at least illustrate that European countries (particularly EU countries) have for many years gone out of their way to invade the privacy of foreign citizens when it benefits them, just as the US feels free to do so today. I don't support this in either case, and rereading my initial comment I made a quick edit that I think makes this a bit more clear.

My point is more that if we're going to claim that certain countries are the victims of US surveillance, the countries that opt into cooperating and benefit more often than not really shouldn't be at the top of the list. The US and most western European countries (or certainly those which cooperate with the US) do not see each other as their foremost adversaries, which I suspect is why both seem to willingly sign up for this cooperation. I would instead suggest that the victims of this relationship are limited to third-parties that don't have anything to gain but are still vulnerable to these extrajudicial privacy invasions.

EDIT:
> But I think there's a clear delineation between: "Our government does shady things" and "Another nations government does shady things, and incidentally we're entirely dependent on them not to do it to us".

Maybe I'm misinterpreting, but this sounds to me like it is an attempt to justify the hypocrisy you alluded to in the initial comment.
Sure, just be sure to avoid threadlocals and pass them around explicitly!
You’re describing a restaurant chain. Why isn’t Swiss Chalet valued at billions of dollars? They fit your description exactly.
What is the agenda?
What is really sad is that it is neither new or unexpected. People have been warning about exactly this for years. We have seen this happen before. Yet I see a lot of people throwing around Occam's razor and trying to convince themselves that this is not happening in this very thread.
> I really hope that is just some stupid bug and not on purpose
Think again, censorship on YT, Twitter, Reddit and few other social media channels is well known for those that dig a little bit deeper. Usually it's applied to anything that can be interpreted as 'wrongthink' but more recently, it's also being applied to any negative comments regarding China...
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You might argue that very intelligent people actively avoid celebrity status.
I have had IntelliJ open with multiple million+ line projects with thousands of source files and it hovers around 3GB. Its gotta be his settings. Java will use as much ram as you tell it to, it uses the extra ram to collect garbage less often.

Its super common to misconfigure Java to use all of your ram. You could have a terabyte and tell it to use everything and it will
Shadow banning is a fairly effective anti-troll measure.

Not so much customized reality, as much as making it less obvious to the troll that their current account isn't effective.
It's a very effective method of thwarting trolls / unwanted commenters though. Before shadow bans, people would get Very Upset at whoever banned them and they'd reach out to the content moderators to try and get unbanned, or they'd just create a new account.

If implemented right, the undesirables aren't even aware they're banned; the trolls just don't get fed anymore, and ideally they get bored and move away again.

If you don't want someone on your platform for whatever reason, shadowbanning has proven to be much more effective than regular banning.

I mean I could be shadowbanned on here for all I know, I never check replies to my comments, lol.
> his won't kill Huawei at all

The goal isn't to kill Huawei... it's to make sure that Huawei 5G tech is delayed by 1 or 2 years. Banning their already-designed chips from shipping is a good way to delay them by a year or two.

Most of the USA doesn't even have 5G deployed yet, and the US is hoping local manufacturers will get the local market as well as lots of the world market.
And another one with River Song and Stevie Wonder ("A Good Man Goes to War").

ETA: turns out it was the same one both times, the last Thames frost fair ever, in 1814.
Not going to lie the idea that some people I interact with think sex is always going to be on the table wigs me out. There’s a wide variety of libidos and sexualities among humans, many of which don’t operate in the manner being expressed above. (Eg. Demisexuality.)
You should probably read the articles the parent cited on nakedcapitalism.com.
Many companies may need the features and integration of Microsoft's suite with other Microsoft and third party tools for various reasons or just because they like the colors. I personally have no problem with that, and I didn't mean to contradict with this.

My comments are just for my point of view and my experience. I'm in no position to talk for the whole landscape TBH.