skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're gonna cite Wikipedia, you need to add this:

>Thomson announced that officers would no longer be judged on how many tickets they wrote or arrests they made but on relationships they developed in the community and whether citizens felt safe enough to sit on their front steps or allow their children to ride their bikes in the street. Thomson told the New York Times in 2017 that "aggressive ticket writing" was a sign that officers weren't understanding the new department, saying "handing a $250 ticket to someone who is making $13,000 a year can be life altering." On new recruits' first day, they knock on doors in the neighborhood they're assigned to and introduce themselves.
The graphs they present show the largest response with 110db audio, which is about as loud as a car honking right in front of you[1], but even still, to eavesdrop on corner offices from tens of meters away with nothing but a telescope and a video recorder is a huge feat.

[1] https://www.chem.purdue.edu/chemsafety/Training/PPETrain/dbl...
I can only guess what was meant, but I suspect the main argument is that projection code in an event sourced system is much more nimble when it's not tied down to an underlying schema. Documents make focusing on language level types much easier.

That said, we've not built Crux with domain-level event sourcing in mind in particular. There is certainly overlap in the bitemporal model Crux has and what I gather some people are doing with retroactive events.

This blog post on Datomic and event sourcing is interesting and relevant for Crux also (Crux has been heavily inspired by Datomic): https://vvvvalvalval.github.io/posts/2018-11-12-datomic-even...
>Shame on you guys. When you're on your death bed, none of this will matter. Do good things and build great stuff. Atleast I will reflect back that I made the users, you know the ones that provided me with a living wage, happy.

Users are welcome to pay the real price of the product if they don't want it to be spyware.

At any rate, if you're thinking about work on your deathbed you have more things to worry about than how happy users are with the junk you made while living.
Talon uses deep learning for the speech part, but not so much (yet) the code part. However, the continuous command recognition it uses can cause less strain than individual abrupt commands. You can string a dozen command words together more like a sentence instead of repeatedly saying a command then abruptly stopping and waiting to say the next command (which is how many older systems worked).

I'm definitely open to incorporating deep learning directly. I've already signed up for the GPT3 API waiting list and I have some ideas on how to use it, and I generally have some ideas on how I might otherwise approach more natural feeling voice programming down the line.
I don't care that they exist, I care that they

>looks perfectly sharp, as sharp as a black sheet of paper

They don't. Pixels are so small that they they start looking like (or are well into looking like) a sample that is used to from an image. If pixels "looked perfectly sharp, as sharp as a black sheet of paper", this wouldn't be the case.

As far as your eyes, the sharp lines might as well be blurry waves of an appropriate contrast. So in an image sense, the lines don't really exist anymore, all that exists is a blurry brightness function and not infinitely sharp lines.
> Game programmers cannot take full advantage of NVMe SSD performance without making their games unplayably slow on hard drives.

Well, yet. As history shows, many big game shops care very little whether their game is unplayable on current systems and push for a more expensive setup instead. On the other hand, this is partly the reason I can now do ML at home doing things that were far out of my range a few years ago.
When setting up an iPhone in China the “iCloud” is actually operated by a local third-party and has access to all the content.

Most of Apple’s privacy promises and commitments go out the window when it comes to being in China.
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> If you accept one connection from a user in some country, you are doing business in that country.

I disagree with this. I have an open port at 80 and 443 and whoever wants to connect to it can do so. If my server is physically in the US, it only needs to obey US laws. If someone is violating their country's (weird) laws by visiting the server, that's that person's problem.

It's not my job as a developer, website host, or business owner, to for example ink out photos of women because Saudi law requires that. It's not my job to remove references to the Tiananmen incident. Those countries can, if they would like to, censor my website at their borders with a firewall, I don't care. It's not even my job to track down where your IP address is physically located. I couldn't care less about your IP. You could be using a VPN, for all I know.

Iran or China has issues with my website? They'll block it. Problem solved. I don't have to think about it too much. They do the work for me.

EU has beef with my website? Go ahead, you block it too, I don't care. I'll grab some popcorn and sit back and watch how your citizens react. (hee hee)

> And much more uncontroversially, if you are accepting payments from someone in another country, then you are definitely doing business in that country.

I disagree with this, as well, if those payments are coming from individuals and not businesses. If an individual in Germany flies over to the US and buys something from me, they are subject to US laws in that transaction. They are subject to German laws when they take that thing back. But in NO part of the entire process am I subject to German laws.

That doesn't change if "flies with an international flight" changes to "travels virtually via an international TCP connection".
And which country would that be?

Even if the US, peer pressure is often enough to get political dissenters banned from their social media accounts, jobs, etc.

Many people use the cope out that it's different when it's done by the government or by a private company, but I don't see it as being that different.
William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw), an American citizen was hanged by Britain for his "treason". Ezra Pound, poet and fascist sympathizer was interned briefly by the Americans. Wodehouse was probably had good reason to be anxious while his wartime behaviour was looked into by the authorities. I would speculate that he probably had enough connections with his school tie and the old boy network to "get things smoothed out".
The practice of those ideas is imperialism.
> it’s much better if my sense of “this is important, record it” corresponds with what is actually important. The real question here is “Important to what?”

This is my Aha! moment.
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Zoom's strategy is to follow local laws as much as possible. For US-based users, they follow US laws. For China-based users, they follow Chinese laws. International calls probably have to be compliant with both countries' laws.

You may disagree with Chinese law, and maybe if you were Zoom's CEO you'd cease offering Zoom in China, but then you'd just be ceding the Chinese market to some Chinese videoconferencing solution that would do the exact same odious stuff and possibly use the Chinese market as a springboard to challenge Zoom in other countries. So the net effect would be that the world would be no better off, and Zoom would be worse off.

Google was able to lock the NSA out because the NSA didn't have any legal power to intercept traffic between data centers. The Chinese government in contrast has the power to do pretty much whatever it wants with Chinese internet traffic.
Sure, I already made that argument. Renaming it is only a benefit for a small subset of the global population and only because of their own biases, as such it shouldn't happen.

Common sense is also the good sense that should be expected of the common man.
He founded Tesla through force of will. They had a concept but no funding and no drivetrain. Elon got them funded and hooked them up with an engineer he had been funding to build a drivetrain. Their original roadster was going to cost $200,000+ just to build, Elon pushed them out of the way and saved the company.
The Boeing 757 (circa 1980) was the last jetliner drafted by hand. It was also the last that had a wooden mockup.
These skirmishes (Zoom now, TikTok earlier and the ongoing Huawei one) make for interesting shows, for those outside China and the US. China uses nationalism as the excuse for censorship. As long as you don't criticize China you are free to do anything you want. The US uses morality as the excuse for censorship. As long as you don't do anything that violates that particular notion of morality (the American way of life?), you are free to do anything you want. Wonder which will be easier for the 80% of people outside these 2 countries.
What is OoO?
I decided a year or two ago that I have 2 ages, my chronological age and my biological age. I feel and tell people the latter, which is about 5 years younger than my chronological age. It really does make a difference and I feel younger. I refuse to accept the stereotypes of my age group. When a birthday comes round I decide whether to increase my biological age. I see this as no different to people who choose their gender based on how they feel.
He also underestimated our willingness to buy our own surveillance devices and put them in our homes
You’re on shaky ground there.

The US does imprison more of its citizens on a per capita basis than any other comparable nation.

The US isn’t the moral beacon it was billed to be.

I’ll stop there.
> I mean, do they waterboard foreigners at LAX?

Well not just foreigners, but they do subject travelers to a variety of forms of psychological torture there, including sleep deprivation. Like when your plane is out on the tarmac and they keep telling you "it should be just a few more minutes" ...for hours. Then the flight is cancelled.
Sexual attraction is multifaceted, but by far the strongest and most important/longest-living aspect regarding the strength of a relationship is the biological component which is for all intents and purposes instant and present from the very beginning. If that's absent, you're definitely stacking the deck against you in a major way. I am not saying an LTR can't work, but you'll be putting in substantially more energy, time and effort to make it happen.

It's the difference between playing a game in easy vs nightmare mode.

This is all based on empirical observations. I am 55 years old, I've had more than 100 sexual partners in my life and a lot of relationships, some of them lacking the initial biological/animalistic sexual attraction factor I described here. I've been married twice, now divorced and in a long-term relationship with my partner. I have two daughters in their 20s.
> When Zoom is requested to send over names and videos of political dissidents to authoritarian leaders will they comply?

No, the CCP will just get the UN (according to Humans Right Lawyer at the UN) to do it for them:

https://thehumanoid.net/un-whistleblower-emma-reilly-un-huma...

Cool handle, I wished more people would just stop using propriety closed source software, we can at least try and make inroads that way.

Because realistically no fledgling startup going after marketshare is going to realistically turn down CCP money, and will accept what ever they have to gain access to China and this is why its so dangerous why they have infiltrated this space as this is just one example of so many violations due to it. God only knows what all of those facial recognition companies with CCP blessing have done.
Point is: it’s important to keep the grand picture in mind and once in a while step back and think - “Shit...what am I doing?” even though you can’t do much about it due to family, responsibilities and other hard realities of life. When building a company, I don’t want to just build something that deceives people, deploy shady tactics and dark patterns. I want to run an honest business that I can reflect back in life and say “yep, it was a struggle but I did the right things.”
People in the Philippines also still make pistols by hand filing. It's quite incredible.
You're not actually supposed to use statically resolved type parameters. It's deliberately strange and difficult, because mere mortals are not supposed to use it.

`::` is normal for cons in an ML, right? Of the ML family of languages, I'm only aware of Haskell that chooses differently (they use the single colon).
A person can, in principle, hold the opinion that copying IP is not inherently immoral, but that ancillary crimes may be. I mean, if you think it's ok to do something, does that mean anything you do in pursuit of it is ok?
There's been some pretty cool work in this area recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZSFNUT6iY8
It's unfair to lay the blame squarely on private companies when things like this happen. If we have to defend freedom, democratic nations need to step up. The US probably will (for various reasons), but Europe won't. Europe will speak up and act when it comes to smaller nations, but will continue to do $550B in trade with China without complaining.

There has never been a peaceful rise of a dictatorship. Hong Kong and South China Sea today, Taiwan is next. The future is scary.
In search of Feedly replacement / new RSS blog reader?
and after 4 years (if you have the six-seven figure cash), you win what?
It's always worth a try. I need money to keep a roof on my head. I'm not policing anyone or asking for status and power lmao.
It never said health, the comments are just supposition.
I think the above discussion is about whether they have to, not whether they can. Zoom can ban all of their users if they want to, but presumably they only will do so if pressured, because businesses want users and also suspending accounts is bad press. By the way, you're also allowed to be outraged by what a business does even when that business is acting within its rights.
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It's more like praising with faint damn, I think. Orwell was a man of the pretty-far left. The public-school class system must have been anathema to him (at the same time as he was a product of Eton—where, by the way, fellow future anti-utopian novelist Aldous Huxley was his French teacher) and yet he presents Wodehouse not as any kind of villain but just hapless and obsolete. So obsolete that you'd never guess that Wodehouse would outlive Orwell himself by 25 years.

This article might have been as much of a defence as it was politically possible for Orwell to produce in 1945. Even his famous independence from sectarianism must have had its limits. I also think one can put one's finger on why Orwell was so sympathetic to Wodehouse and so willing to judge him softly: they were both profoundly and essentially English. People have often pointed this out about Orwell, saying for example that his deep Englishness was the wellspring of his immunity to ideology. I think that same quality is probably what resonated with Orwell about Wodehouse - he was sympathetic in the literal sense (having similar feelings). There are moments in this article where it's as if he's reading Wodehouse from within.
HN has a real weakness for cool surveillance technology.
I'm super partial to Joplin. It's open source and you can keep a cloud based backup of your notes in OneDrive or other third-party cloud storage.

The notes are all markdown which is exceedingly good for code notes, with the code blocks and highlighting. And quick to pick up.

Combine with Typora for a pretty UI for your editor and you have multi-device synced notes without vendor lock-in for free.

The Android app is usable but could be a little better. Desktop is solid.
You're basically saying that different nations can't develop their own moral and legal conversations fast enough, and thus an international intelligentsia needs to pick up the slack; a bit of noblesse oblige.

Not a very reliable mechanism, and kind of a story of a ticking time bomb.
> But what's to stop a European from hosting content on USA servers, posing as USA company, and violating their regulation--even specifically targeting users local to their area from that remote server?

That’s what customs and border control is ultimately for: to ensure that goods being imported are compliant with local laws. In the case of data, this means national firewalls— something that would fundamentally change how the internet works.
Nope! As a US company though of course they're not allowed to refuse to do business with someone based on gender, religion, or ethnicity though.

However it's still unethical.
Reading through the post makes me thinks that are we eating unnecessarily?

3 meals a day have become the basic necessity for most. Our ancestors used to eat as much as they could because there's no guarantee that they will have enough food until the next hunt. So, the body will go into a state we call "hungry", which reminds us to eat.

However with such plentiful of food available (know it didn't came easily, at least for me, grateful for it, hope that more people is out of hunger), is the feeling of hunger just a placebo effect that we trained ourselves to feel?

I am able to reduce my daily meals to 2 by having a bulletproof coffee in the morning. There's urge to eat between meals but even if I skip them, I'm fine.

Since I have a desk job, I still have plentiful of energy left in the evening for gym time.

One point to argue is nutritions but even if one is eating a lot, there's no guarantee that much of that intake is nutritional.
you too retarded to understand why it is a giant plus

- increase developer iteration, no need to cook assets, you can feed them raw to the console, it'll be fast

- more evergy efficient, you waste less energy and therefore earn money

now go save microsoft, because they'll meet with industrial failure with the new xbox x series one x weird name
I use Mint; have done for ... eight? years after I got fed up with incessantly gardening Arch. (Too high maintenance to be my friend, I decided after 6 years.)

Recently I had to start using windows 10. On Microsoft's own hardware. Oy vey.

I doubt that someone who likes Mac OS will like Mint, but it's definitely a better Windows than Windows. Comfortable rather than stylish, but without jarring jumps to 30 year old UI styles at random times, or six different ways to not quite do what you want. Or the surveillance.

If you don't like Mint, then try MX Linux or Manjaro.
No, I've heard about that in a few different aircraft programs, so it's likely real.
From earlier news:

https://www.axios.com/zoom-closes-chinese-user-account-tiana...

> Zhou and other organizers told Axios in a statement. "As the most commercially popular meeting software worldwide, Zoom is essential as an unbanned outreach to Chinese audiences remembering and commemorating Tiananmen Massacre during the coronavirus pandemic."
> Companies that work to suppress the rights of citizens are complicit in that suppression and its legality is irrelevant.

100% true. American corporations, and businessmen who collaborated with NSDAP in jew gassing "because it was the law," well, just did what they did. It made them genocide collaborators, and criminals regardless if they did it under the law, or not.

As ancient Romans were saying "a crime can be a tiny stone in a bag of flour."

Slavery is a crime, even if it is not unlawful in a last few countries practicing it.

People who go rape children in places, where, well, child rape is not illegal are committing a crime.

Dotcoms who go play ball with criminal states, which make a crime lawful under a law, claiming "we just follow the law!" even if the law itself is criminal, are just as decidedly criminal.

A crime can not be made less criminal under a law for sane person's moral judgement. I would say, a crime that was legislated, makes it an even bigger crime.

A word crime in a sense as a fault, as something objectively morally reprehensible itself underlines that a wrongdoing is discerned through a thorough judgement rejecting anything that is made to hide, "wrap around," or divert focus from the original fault.
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A level 9 technician? Sure. There are level 2 and level 3 technicians in a lot of military IT departments :)
Few-Shot Learning: MAML – Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning
It only means you didn’t do your homework(no offense, everyone falls into this trap too and conclude the issue is that estimation itself is not possible ). You can’t give an estimate based on what the task would take at your previous job.

You need to call out what you don’t know(Now, don’t give me Rumsfeld wisdom.. Most software is not that complicated)
In the old days, this game used to be played with passports and visas[1].

I was surprised to hear a recording of Paul Robeson singing "Old Man River" in Moscow, with the lines

Show a little grit
And you land in jail

Someone must've narced on him for showing a little grit: he didn't land in jail, but his economic livelihood (from touring internationally) was effectively destroyed when his passport was pulled.

"Yes, Minister" introduced me to conjugations of the form:

I am an activist
You are a troll
He is a bot

To be perfectly clear: I am in favor of free exchange of ideas (what day of Eternal September[2] is today?); just trying to point out that repression at the hands of the state can take many forms, some more obvious than others.

[1] why do US visa authorities harvest VK and Youku accounts, anyway?

[2] that was too cynical; we're actually living in one of the easiest times for ordinary people to communicate, with other ordinary people in other cultures, ever. Not only do we have an internet (so timezone is more of a barrier than location), machine translation is no longer "invisible, insane."
I've found that it was in my youth that I most cared what other people thought.

The older I get, the less I care about it.
And the USA did allow violence against democratic organizers last week.

But those same organizers weren't shipped to Guantanamo for indefinite periods of time for "reeducation."

The USA suffers from some of what it accuses the PRC - it is still not the PRC.
Well by virtue of the fact that you reside in Europe, you're subject to European laws. And by using a server in the US, you're subject to some US laws as well.

But if you're in the US, and your servers are in the US, you shouldn't have to obey European laws. European site visitors are no different than physical European tourists in the US; the owners of those US museums and tourist sites don't need to obey European laws just because they have European visitors.
If your engineering group already uses C# then it might not be such a difficult sell - the two languages are highly interoperable, so you may be able to carve out a particular greenfield project and write it in F# instead of C#. Note, though, that we've found it necessary on project `FooBar` to create specific `FooBar.CSharp` wrapper libraries that C# users can consume; this is because idiomatic API design looks pretty different between F# and C#.

(If you're interested in quant finance in London, I work at G-Research which uses F#; I write almost solely in F# there. You can contact me privately if you like at patrick+gresearch@patrickstevens.co.uk.)
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Most Universities and companies really don’t care, it seems. Zoom is one of the many shady Chinese companies (yes I am aware of Zoom’s recent change in status here) who we just do business with no matter HOW harmful it could potentially be. Recently there was concern about how certain anti-cheat software included with Chinese games is an effective root kit as well. And several large American firms have been help China build out their surveillance infrastructure which is used to send people to death camps.
Terra[1] does this using Lua as it's compile time language.

[1]: http://terralang.org/
The choice for companies is to either follow a country’s laws, or not operate in that country. It’s not moral relativism, it’s just business.