skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you misunderstand

> “ but in order to control those better educated people, they will need ever better control mechanisms.”

This is like a building whose own load directly undermines its own stability, or a roller coaster whose own construction dynamics tears itself apart little by little with each run.

Trying to institute mass social control while changing a population to be highly educated knowledge workers is like boiling the ocean.

In some small local patch of time, it looks scary (ooooh social credit system, face recognition everywhere, disappeared artists and journalists, cyber warfare.. spooky)

Zoom out on the scale of 50 years and it’s farcically stupid.

Wanting an enduring human population asset and wanting authoritarian control are fundamentally incompatible desires. At best they can be sustained through force on short time scales, then ending up very very bloody for the leadership involved.
Do you have any insight into what contributed to Far Cry 5 non sequiturs such as leaving out Native Americans (6.5% of MT pop) but including many more African Americans than would ever be present (0.45% of MT population) but fewer Asians than African Americans?

Edit: I'm genuinely curious how these things happen, whether intentionally or compromises due to budgets or time constraints.
Again, you are deviating the issue by bringing up the responsibility/liability issue. I'm not arguing that.

If anything, you are essentially making my point. The guy in the story was not liable for the $200 million (beyond his job), hence he didn't personally lose the money, even though he says "I lost $200 million".
I don't see how that conflicts at all with what I said.

Even in the most extreme of situations, such as a pirate ship, there would be less hierarchy than in our society (this is due to analysis of economic hierarchy).

That is exagtly what I said.
Immigration is a must if you don't have a high enough birthrate to sustain economic growth - because we don't know how to manage a declining economy - and why would you accept that when you have the tool of immigration? Not because there is any fundamental need for a racially or culturally diverse population. Those things seem like they would be beneficial in my opinion, but not required.
When I lost my kindle on easyjet I reported it to them unsuccessfuly. Months later I was contacted out of the blue by the airport lost property who had turned it on to deduce the owner's contact details.

I asked if they had received the easyjet report. They almost laughed. Of course they hadn't.
I once had to scroll for 30 minutes to find a critical piece of information because of this. I could find the time stamp of a related message but needed the context. So I just had to scroll. And scroll. And scroll some more.

Mind boggling that continues to make it past UAT.
I’m happy to support IndieAuth (a decentralized identity protocol built on top of OAuth 2.0) on my site and give people the option to use their personal site, if they have one, as a way of identifying themselves and performing authentication.

I described the motivation in more detail at https://github.com/shurcooL/home/issues/34.
Side note: you can use this to convert LaTeX to Unicode for easier reading.

https://www.unicodeit.net/
> The best solution is to keep threatening lawmakers who pass stuff like this with body bags and toe tags

FTFY ;)
Being right is important, but notably, it’s only good if you can explain to others why you are right. So maybe it’s okay to care about being right to the extent that you try to convince people of what they need to know.
We find extremophiles eating rock in mile-deep mines. Not necessarily easy to spot.
For individual notaries file a complaint about incompetence or report them for fraud. Signatures, seals, and watermarks aren't as good as public crypto but that's okay because phone calls, clearinghouses, and the legal system backstops them (especially for reversible transactions).

Rejecting issuers would be more applicable to repeated transactions from a corporate certificate authority.
I was! Thanks for being a part of creating Subversion.
Nitpicking: the "antique" suitcase in the picture is a very recent suitcase made by Saddleback Leather (worth about 1400$!)
Interesting. What sort of mentorship infrastructure? What sort of people are they targeting for mentorship?

I'd love to learn about compilers by working on an actual real world compiler, but I really only know high level details about how different components fit together. I also don't have a formal CS education, although I am currently working as a senior level data engineer. Not sure if that is the sort of person they are looking to mentor.
Is there a line you personally won't let political correctness police cross? If someone wants you to stop using innocuous words for arbitrary reasons, will you ever stand your ground or will you always yield?

master/slave, maybe there's a case to be made there. But "master" in general has other meanings besides "owner". And black/whitelist have been around for centuries and have nothing to do with skin color.

I, for one, am sick of being bullied by politically correct language police forcibly imposing their ideals on society via shaming and mob justice.
> will soon surpass Apple ($65b; which has barely grown its operating income in four years and has weak prospects for income growth)

At what point does a company get to say "hey, we probably don't need to grow income much more"? At $65b Apple would qualify as the 72nd highest GDP in the world if it were a country[1], my understanding is even now they have more income than they can feasibly spend. It just doesn't make sense to me that they're getting penalised for not growing their income at this point.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-by-country/
Oh sure, I used the word with some attempt at seeing things from their perspective. China has been mostly seen as a rational amoral actor in the global stage, but it’s entirely possible over time their perspective is taking on a, you know, authoritarian shape.

‘You don’t just arrest our business leaders’, there’s a lot of face to save there.
> Karm Gilespie, had been sentenced to death for attempting to smuggle 7.5kg of methamphetamine through a Chinese airport in December 2013.

The death penalty threshold is 50 gram for methamphetamine in China, in absence of other 'good behavior' such as collaboration, etc. If any Chinese citizen attempted to smuggle this much drugs into China, it's going to be the same fate, except maybe faster.

Drug dealers in China are executed for much less. To paint that as 'retaliation for ongoing conflict' is laughable.
Aren't the Michaels just retaliation for Meng Wanzhou?
This is certainly not a cold war - it's a trade war, it's competition, it's different cultures... but it is not war frozen in place by the threat of annihilation.
I may be naive, but do people with slow DB tests put the DB in a tmpfs to improve performance?
The “One More Feature” Trap
Universal Paperclips is a wonderful game:

http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips
At the moment, sure, but a heck of a lot can change in 50 years. I don't think anyone knows what will change with geo-politics in that time.
One things is that it makes it easy for anybody to be a content producer. Kids make their own version of short video somebody else did. Just some dance moves, music is provided. You can be creative, but don’t need to think too much what to do or say.

The format also makes the content universal. Since there’s just music, there’s no language barrier for consuming the content. Certainly this helped to get traction on smaller markets.

Also it is addictive. Short videos, visual and aural stimuli which you control by clicking to next or liking. Checking who liked your videos. Very much like slot machines in casino.
How to Be More Productive (2005)
I was there last July and there were huge plexiglass lanes restricting access. Once I made it through bag checks, I could wait in line to buy passes to climb up.

All previous times (2000, 2005, 2011) I could just walk under without any restriction.
China's master(s) chuckle all together at the WH Group's.
Google isn't fundamentally in the entertainment business. They are in the search/ad business, which breaks the fundamental assumption here ("users need to be entertained or they leave"). Moreover, Facebook has shown an ability to capture attention, in spite of an incumbent TikTok; their decision to acquire Instagram when they did was canny and their ability to continue to foster it was skillful.

With respect to the "Apollo Program" metaphor — Google's X projects and other projects (like Waymo) are formidable, and may lead to serious breakthroughs and changes to society. The narrative that FB/Google are inefficient is questionable and is offered without coherent context; it would be helpful to compare them, say, to Genentech, Merck, Lockheed Martin and other large companies with serious R&D budgets, which have survived and are doing okay, despite not being as nimble as, say, the occasional dark horse like SpaceX (with respect to Lockheed Martin).

Yes, Google and Facebook may not loom like the giants they were. But there is a good chance they will continue to thrive. Another example: Microsoft is doing fine, despite not being the giant it was in the 90s.
> Professionals get to opt in and get commensurate rewards.

More like professionals are forced in, but get commensurate rewards. Employment isn't flexible enough for people to really choose extra work for extra rewards. The "typical" (average, median, raced-to-the-bottom, whatever) amount people are willing to work and the typical amount they're willing to work for dictates what jobs are even out there. When you need roughly replaceable workers, you give them all roughly the same deal, so professionals aren't just competing on wages vs skill, but on the whole necessarily-mostly-homogeneous package.

I'm happy to have these extra benefits well above a living wage, but I'd take a fraction of my comp for a fraction of my hours in a heartbeat, but we're in a world where a FAANG wage/hour means basically FAANG hours.
Jada Pinkett and August Alsina in a Relationship
If you want speed of development, look into frameworks that provide a high level of abstraction (RoR, laravel, django, etc). Lots of batteries included and tons of documentation.

If you want to learn new tech, anything that catches your interest.
yeah I remember that but it was never really pushed forward properly
Japan is also completely ethnically homogenous. People don't want to use public transport in many cities in America because the risk of violent and property crime is too high.

I think the solution is a private system of autonomous minibuses, that people can subscribe to and that generates routes automatically.
Airplane logistics are already tremendously complicated without trying to chase down personal effects that are hopping from country to country. It's just not going to be a high priority for them, nor should it be. Take your stuff with you when you get off a plane.
I had some problem like this using protobuf2 enums

The way protobuf handles enums, it recommends having an "UNKNOWN" as value 0, as when deserializing from the wire any unknown enum value gets turned into value 0.

So it's recommended to have something like

enum FailReason {
UNKNOWN_ERROR = 0,
ERROR_1 = 1,
ERROR_2 = 2,
etc
}

But someone long ago made the enum I was dealing with look like this

enum {
SUCCESS = 0,
ERROR_1 = 1,
ERROR_2 = 2,
etc.
}

But this means I can't easily add a new error case, as it'll get interpreted as a success unless I carefully roll out the change to the receiving servers first.

But if I wasn't dealing with a distributed system I would like to have exhaustive checking.
Montreal, eh? Not hiring remote?

(FWIW, I'm southern Ontario. Currently @ Google for last 8.5 years. I have had health care dev experience before, and yes, it was terrible. No React experience, but 20 years general software dev experience at basically every part of the stack. Currently doing embedded though.)
Candy Landy is more deterministic algorithm than a board game. Young children are mostly oblivious to this though.
UK gov's chief adviser pays AI firm lots of money for unknown reasons
http://cdn.images.dailystar.co.uk/dynamic/1/photos/730000/Co...
I regret that I wasn't able to see HK before China got to it. While I hope for the best for Taiwan, it might be one of the places I go next for that reason.
I've visited China nearly every year for the past 6 years and never had any sort of issues. I thought all the security personnel I encountered at the airport, immigration, subway stations etc in China were very professional and respectful. In contrast to one of the last times I was returning from China to the U.S. and witnessed a highly unprofessional U.S. CBP officer who was yelling and berating incoming international visitors because they couldn't understand his English, which was infuriating. All this to say that if you want to visit China recreationally (outside of pandemics), you'll almost certainly be fine and treated well.

*Edit: I'm just offering my personal experience here for others to consider amongst other sources of information.
Wow, that video was so cool, thanks for sharing! Still, echoing the other commenters, I can't see how that has any utility in modern warfare.
Indeed -- and who knows what China will retaliate for next.
The problem of course is that every faction in American politics has lots of guns. Unless you want to be ruled by whomever can prevail thunderdome style in an all out war we need to keep solving things with voting and debate.
Censorship is something done by the government. Daily Stormer could have easily moved to another provider. Just because Nazis are being kicked off of private platforms doesn't mean "censorship" is being done. I'm kind of taken aback at how you think "due process" which is a legal term would be implemented by a private entity.
Sometimes I have hypnagogic hallucinations of people talking, sometimes I can't understand the words, but it's nice because then I know that I'm falling asleep.
Yes, FORTH is an elegant alternative to BASIC on very small systems, not something you should expect high performance from.
Sort of. In many Asian countries, the rule of law is very weak or nonexistent. This means you will eventually come into contact with the police - usually for the purpose of extorting a bribe from you.
Who would be put off?

Show me a person who is offended at the change from master/slave to primary/secondary, and I'll show you someone who is almost certainly a deplorable person in many other ways and are almost certainly a liability.
"People buy expensive things to feel valuable. Lead a life where ordinary things gain value when you use it." Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

Recalling from memory. May have errors. He said giving examples of Rev. Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi etc. We now have museums of them containing mundane things of their daily life.
Proving Algebraic Datatypes Are “Algebraic”
I doubt this claim very much. How was such a calculation made?
NASA Releases Stunning Footage from Apollo 16 Rover Driving on the Moon
TimescaleDB competitor?
Very nice article. It was a very troubling time, with Greece even wanting to basically invade the south of Albania to "protect minorities".
People have been saying that VR was right around the corner since the Virtual Boy in the mid 90s.

The console market itself is tiny in the grand scheme of things. The PS4 has only sold 102 million units since inception. The VR market won’t even be that big. In contrast, Apple alone sells that many phones over two quarters
They can't buy F-22's?
> You just ignored the armored vehicles and police station permanently setup at one end of the square?

Apparently yes, at least I can't find them on my pictures and don't remember them (but that doesn't mean they weren't there, human memories are notoriously unreliable). But I didn't took that many pictures either way, because it was slightly raining and not that interesting, I accidentally went when the forbidden city was closed.

> The facial recognition when you go through the scanners?

I have a hard time telling facial recognition and non facial recognition security cameras apart. They are common in many places of the world, so I stopped noticing them all that much.

>The guards posted at vantage points with rifles?

I mostly remember the honor guards and police at the entry. But I wouldn't be surprised if there were some with rifles somewhere, as those are not that uncommon at high profile places.

> You were either paying no attention at all, or you are intentionally misrepresenting the situation.

I'm sorry you get that impression just because it doesn't fit with your experience. I personally think that both our experiences are likely to be true, but are like snapshots of a given time.
Note that US citizens have long been warned about stuff like this, especially exit bans. From the state department in 2018:

> Exercise increased caution in China due to the arbitrary enforcement of local laws and special restrictions on dual U.S.-Chinese nationals.

> Chinese authorities have the broad ability to prohibit travelers from leaving China (also known as ‘exit bans’); exit bans have been imposed to compel U.S. citizens to resolve business disputes, force settlement of court orders, or facilitate government investigations. Individuals not involved in legal proceedings or suspected of wrongdoing have also be subjected to lengthy exit bans in order to compel their family members or colleagues to cooperate with Chinese courts or investigators.

> U.S. citizens visiting or residing in China have been arbitrarily interrogated or detained for reasons related to “state security.” Security personnel have detained and/or deported U.S. citizens for sending private electronic messages critical of the Chinese government.

travel.state.gov archived from 2018: https://web.archive.org/web/20180112180843/https://travel.st...
Law and Order the euphemism is not the same thing as Law and Order as it's commonly understood, even if the euphimistic usage appears more often in modern politics than the common usage. It's unfortunate that euphemisms dillute meaning (and it's probably unfortunate that they must exist at all), but that doesn't mean the actual meaning no longer exists.
What happens when you have a mix of new and old binaries being incrementally rolled out?
They won’t be able to do these rescues soon because of calls for “de-mascualtion” of toxic masculinity.
> And the distribution you desire should be a reflection of your target buyers.

You seem to be saying your team should only be as diverse as your target buyers, but your target buyers are often only as diverse as your team.

If you try to ham-fist diversity by saying “oh, it’s representative of our customers” be prepared for somebody else to come along and snap up everyone you aren’t serving today.
OpenAI API GPT-3 generating React components based on a _variable name_
Just In Time works great; that and other efficiencies have brought humanity to a world so cosmically wealthy, so infinitely more developed than robust decentralized green (ie. medieval peasant standard of living) economies, that its inhabitant can lounge around eating bon-bons getting obese while endlessly resharing on social media the same photo of one shop out of thousands being out for a day or two of a luxury as a devastating indictment of Just in Time.
I agree that Twitter is the wrong medium for essays. Not that it's a great fix, but Twitter threads can be consolidated with Thread reader, which makes them much easier to read. For example, this article:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1281630456807452677.html
I did this for a while, but it masks subtle issues related to transaction boundaries. If your database usage is very straightforward, it may be adequate. But if you are, to name an example on the other end of the spectrum, in a monolith application that has pulled all the stops on fancy stuff like JPA callbacks, this should not be your approach. Also, don't rely on a local database, but rather on something that is reliably reproducible in your build, which will often make the discussed approach less attractive anyway. And if your database usage is really that straightforward, an in-memory database like H2 could serve one well.
Thanks for the response. I agree psychological research and publications need much more rigor.

I could pick a bone about how I don’t think it is quite as bad astrology , etc. (which literally has zero science behind), but I see your point.

I suppose I found the article interesting and useful, even if we don’t yet have robust science to support all of the arguments it makes.

Here’s to hoping future developments and research can make meaningful progress towards a deeper and robust understanding of what actually makes us tick :)
If you program Forth like it's C, and then use a non-optimizing compiler, you're going to have a bad time (e.g. 10/20x slowdowns).

I've written Forth compilers that generated output that was ~25% slower than optimized assembly, without putting that much work into it. There are companies that will sell you a much better compiler [0], at prices even approachable to hobbyists.

[0] - https://www.mpeforth.com/software/pc-systems/vfx-forth-for-l...
> OTA -> OTE

Yeeep.

> I can't imagine 'over the air' headphones :)

Well bluetooth are kinda OTA as opposed to wired 'phones.
I just use a decent GUI with all the use cases I need: SmartGit does it for me.
Totally recommend
Ship, ship, and ship.
One could also use Shamir's Secret Sharing algorithm to have a number of your peers hold your secret key without them being able to access it. When you've lost the key, you have a subset of the peers reproduce it for you, by sharing their portion of the secret. Cryptography is pretty great.
Trump's tactics with China haven't been great, but he was right to do something about Chinese IP theft, security concerns, and Chinese joint venture model. The US should have pushed forward with the TPP (blame starts with Obama on this) to build regional support, and not pushed hard for trade negotiations with strategic allies. WTF are you doing making Canada mad over trade, especially when there's a trade war with China?
C plusplusplusplus
>As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."

There is a reason behind every single epigram selected for the list.

>As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."

If you meditate for a while on any epigram on the list, you'll start thinking about another meaning.

One of the more interesting examples - if you have a somewhat broad overview of programming languages, and a pinch of cross-cultural awareness: If your computer speaks English it was probably made in Japan.
> You are opening the gates to hell, and don't even realize it.

That might be true! I suspect and hope that I'm not, but only time will tell.

> i appreciate greatly that you say you wouldn't force anyone to change their wording, and only change it for yourself. I believe that's the right thing to do. But i feel you greatly underestimate the long-term consequences of supporting for "inclusive terminology"

Yeah! As soon as someone says "here's a good thing I'm trying to do AND YOU ALL HAVE TO DO THE SAME OR BE SHAMED" they kinda lose my respect.

I can update branches on my personal stuff with zero consequence in 30 seconds. Easy.

Complicated CircleCI/deploy environments where branch names are hardcoded in a dozen different places, and the app is on fire already, and no one has time, and the manager is trying to hire new developers while keeping the senior devs happy?

I'm not gonna throw shade on them at all.

That all said, I would _love_ to talk about this more, if you're feeling inclined at all. I tried to dig up an email address for you, and couldn't find it. If you'd be willing to swap some emails on the topic, i'd be thrilled! Hit me up at joshthompson@hey.com!