skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment reminds me of the line from Dead Poets Society:

_We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for._

PS: how good was that movie?! So
Good!
You would think that, until you try to use ServiceNow.
Sometime around 2014-2016, it seems like the progressive left collectively realized that they were losing certain battles in the information war on the Internet, and opted to pursue censorship, deplatforming, and outright violence (e.g., "punch nazis") instead.

That's not to say that they were losing every battle, but the fact that they were losing some battles--that some portions of their narrative were just too easy to falsify in an era where any 4channer could grab some data from the DoJ website and make a memeable infographic--that was enough to cause the turn against free speech:

> https://www.city-journal.org/democratic-candidates-racism-cr...

> Yet key parts of the intersectional narrative are not born out by data. It is now a standard trope, implanted in freshmen summer reading lists through the works of Ta-Nehesi Coates and others, that whites pose a severe, if not mortal, threat to blacks. That may have once been true, but it is no longer so today. Just this month, the Bureau of Justice Statistics released its 2018 survey of criminal victimization. According to the study, there were 593,598 interracial violent victimizations (excluding homicide) between blacks and whites last year, including white-on-black and black-on-white attacks. Blacks committed 537,204 of those interracial felonies, or 90 percent, and whites committed 56,394 of them, or less than 10 percent. That ratio is becoming more skewed, despite the Democratic claim of Trump-inspired white violence. In 2012-13, blacks committed 85 percent of all interracial victimizations between blacks and whites; whites committed 15 percent. From 2015 to 2018, the total number of white victims and the incidence of white victimization have grown as well.

I should also point out that the NYTimes ironically has its own well-documented history of disinformation: famously downplaying both the Holocaust and Stalin's purges as they occurred.
I am 33 and have never even seen a cheque, nor would I have any idea what to do with it. I am in EU though.
A few months ago I found that Rackspace had left open their prod logging system for their global load balancer / firewall system (known as BlueFlood).

Reporting the open Elasticsearch server to then was one of the most bizarre experiences of my life. Ultimately the system was exposed for about 2 weeks.

You can find some screenshots of what their backend looked like, which came in at about 3 TB daily, here: https://blog.12security.com/rackspace-bluefood-breach/
I spent almost 3 months just to configure webpack for my frontend projects, next is 1/2 week just to get authentication done.

So, to me, it's not what's the "best" way to do thing, it's the what you used to do matter.

As soon as i accomplised boring tasks, my next projects go smoothly, and more importantly, i feel more productive for my own work, too.
do you have link to any papers ? my experience is pretty much diametrally opposite (and given that C++ allows guys like https://twitter.com/awesomekling to code a complete OS from scratch with a GUI shell and a web browser mostly alone in two years... those papers ought to reaaally be convincing as I don't know many other languages which allow that)
Notice the careful wording:

>policy executives were concerned about the outsize impact of the changes on the right, including the Daily Wire

This could be reworded: the initial implementation primarily punished right-wing news organizations, especially the Daily Wire, but someone noticed and complained

>Engineers redesigned their intended changes so that left-leaning sites like Mother Jones were affected more than previously planned

Engineers decided that it would be good to censor far-left propaganda outfits like Mother Jones as well, if they were going to censor the Right, since someone complained, instead of only censoring the Right, so they changed their algorithm to be somewhat more critical of e.g. Mother Jones than the original algorithm, leaving the final implementation ... a black box that censors some political voices and not others.

Fast forward three years, to this week. Consider the NY Post Hunter Biden corruption story that hopefully you've heard about by now. Now it's clear Facebook and Twitter have no problem blocking an "individual publisher" founded in 1801 in the final weeks before an election, when anything is permitted to stop the "fascist" Donald Trump from winning another election, if said newspaper publishes information that might make Joe Biden look bad.
> upgrading business development

Any tips on that?
Well, not quite like that, but here's Allure of the Seas passing the Great Belt Bridge in Denmark, with a few feet of clearance (I think 2 or 3, but I'm not certain - sources are unclear.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1Cs0C8LkeU&ab_channel=Mogen...
Can you tell more? How do I contact you?
Next time someone asks how markets work (art, housing, stocks etc) ill point them here. The most mind boggling is that no one is to blame. Our system has gone nuts. We can hope someone will lower these prices out of greed but that is optimistically assuming they even have the books. It seems more like each system has a finite life span that we barely understand until we see it expire.
My guess is it was abused.

Cannot have good things because too many people will not just take advantage of the return policy, but take advantage of it.
How well can the mental health of the depictured teenagers be, when they're doing their picnic out in the open with mask on their faces?

Does not look "mentally well" to me.
The cynic in me thinks that's a convenient pretense to maintain belief in a vast left-wing conspiracy despite evidence to the contrary.
Free speech is a Monte Carlo method - it certainly delivers a probably good solution.
> ...but the peace of mind a low monthly payment brings is really nice.

+1, and if you've ever been evicted from a rental/lease for capricious reasons dreamed up by a landlord who just wants you out so they can raise the rent, the peace of mind of "I can't be kicked out of this house, and nobody can take it away from me for failure to make a mortgage payment" is part of my life experience and feelings. "No HOA" was a hard requirement when I was house shopping.
It’s something of a tossup if counting all immigrants directly helps Republicans or Democrats in term of house seats. That really depends on which states are near the breakpoint and so far we just don’t have that data, presumably the current administration is basing their choices on something we don’t know rather than ideology.

It might impact gerrymandering efforts, which gets even more complicated and again without a clear winner unless you have a preliminary version of the data to work with.

Honestly, I dislike what’s being done due to optics more than politics.
Just because the law forces them to make the money available doesn't prevent them from putting a big warning on the associated transaction.

Clearly, the bank knows how cheques work and how they can bounce 6 months down the line. They should make it clear to the user with a warning explaining "we are required to make this money available to you by law now, but this money can be taken back at anytime if the cheque ends up being fraudulent, and this can happen for up to 6 months down the line".

The bank also knows (doing otherwise would make me doubt their competence to operate a bank) that this is a common scam and should similarly warn their customers about it. They also know (and have the data) to prove that a lot of people fall victim to this scam suggesting that there is a lack of knowledge in the majority of people when it comes to how cheques work and how they can bounce down the line after the money has already "cleared".

Finally, when it comes to the law, the law was most likely drafted at a time where 1) there were no easier ways to transfer money instantly while making sure it's actually legitimate, so it was a necessary trade-off and 2) there were similarly no easy ways to irreversibly transfer money out of the country in an untraceable fashion, so that the majority of occurrences of such scams would also give better chance to law enforcement to actually trace the funds and make the victim whole, so the fact that someone could temporarily end up out of pocket was also not a big deal.

Nowadays that particular law is clearly inadequate and is doing more harm than good, but laws take time to change (and no doubts there are vested interests at play that would want the system to remain as-is) and there's nothing preventing the banks doing their own part to "patch" the bug until a proper fix can be installed (by deprecating the whole cheque system altogether).
In most states the manufacturer must be given reasonable opportunity to fix the problem. For how drastic the roof falling off is, I don't think lemon laws grant consumers the ability to just turn in a defected car.
Yes, this is how I used to price my books. There are two reasons to price higher than the lowest. One is to make a little more profit because your book will sell as soon as the cheapest book sells. The other is to avoid my pricing bot fighting with someone else's pricing bot down to $0.01. I would rather accidentally shoot the price really high than give the book away for a loss. Especially considering a lot of the books were $150+ used textbooks.
Neovim has an experimental language parser which is still in its early days, but might just help:

https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter

Specifically, for Markdown: https://github.com/ikatyang/tree-sitter-markdown
> It unwisely rejected the parsimonious case and chose tremendous complexity.

Swift's keyword syntax isn't complex at all.

> Keywords? Or parens? Both!

I know you like Smalltalk, but keywords and parens are used together in a lot of languages (e.g. Python) so it's a tested idea.

> And the weird case of having two keywords, one with a colon and one without, because we decided to make the keywords the names of the parameters. Sometimes.

You don't have two keywords, you have an optional variable name. It's intuitive at the first time you see it - you're phrasing makes it seem much more complex than it really is.

I think you're trying to imply that Swift isn't an elegant language with it's syntax fitting in a postcard, but that doesn't mean it's 'tremendous complexity'. This whole comment is a bit too harsh to Swift, calling the legitimate differences between Swift and Smalltalk as 'complexity'.
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> “It is now a standard trope, implanted in freshmen summer reading lists through the works of Ta-Nehesi Coates and others, that whites pose a severe, if not mortal, threat to blacks.”

This isn’t remotely what the work of Ta-Nehesi Coates even remotely implies so it’s clear you haven’t read their work.

You then go on to cite interracial violence statistics and imply they are racially motivated either way. Your intent and bias are clear.
The downvotes ironically bolster my point.
'For left-leaning news sites'. Pretty rich considering that Facebook and Twitter in unison suppressed the story about evidence of corruption by Joe Biden[1].

Regardless of whether these platforms favor one side or another, I find it incredible that they have now become akin to public utilities for distribution of information, with Twitter and Facebook being de facto official channels for politicians and big public and private organisations. So we're now fine with private companies being the gatekeepers for information of public interest, with no obligation or intention, assumed or expressed, of being politically neutral.

This is a dangerous path that we are blindly wandering down.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/16/twitter-backtracks-allows-sh...
> If you find yourself on Rackspace hosting I would absolutely migrate to something more mature.

Rackspace has actually been around longer than DigitalOcean. I'm not arguing that they're better or worse though because I haven't used either in years.
Elon only tweets to pump stonks with fomo insinuations or rage so I'll pass on that option. Ttyl heading out to the cottage in my tank, aka 1991 Toyota Camry :D
Firefox 78.3.1esr (64-bit)is working with FB on my old (late `09) Mac Mini.
That’s very valid nuance. But I also think that alternative cloud services can be successful without having to keep their server-side implementation closed and protected.

I absolutely agree that there’s a need for the middle ground.

I’d also say that I think nobody really cares if GH is running vanilla git, or which SMTP and IMAP server Fastmail is using; perhaps the important thing is that there exists at least one maintained fully API compatible open alternative, not necessarily 100% identical to the software run by the hosted, or even primarily developed or maintained by them.

(And, well, the insight that can be derived from metadata is not to be dismissed, so I wouldn’t agree on “almost irrelevant”)
So let's say banks do display 'funds available, but subject to recall if check cannot be collected'.

A year later, the internet will have thousands of threads on various sites with people complaining that their (real, legitimate) paychecks still show the indication weeks after depositing.

People who are so wishful-thinking that they think someone is paying them a 10% commission to deposit a check will still be wishful-thinking, and will continue to accept statements like "this is normal, you'll see it all over the internet" at face value.
This quote from the article describes the dynamic in the US pretty accurately, in my opinion.

> The conspiracy theories, the lies, the distortions, the overwhelming amount of information, the anger encoded in it — these all serve to create chaos and confusion and make people, even nonpartisans, exhausted, skeptical and cynical about politics. The spewing of falsehoods isn’t meant to win any battle of ideas. Its goal is to prevent the actual battle from being fought, by causing us to simply give up.

If that’s what awaits the future “heights of culture,” if that’s how you think people will ultimately get influence in the future, I don’t think there will be much of a culture left to have lofty opinions about freedom or speech.
You’re right, given the behavior we’ve seen from major tech platforms this week it is totally conspiratorial for a journalist to report on discoveries related to nefarious activity.
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A shortcut to storing (and possibly also querying) data is to store (or "query" within) the function of that data? Seems to be in-line with what you wrote, and in essence I've always looked at neural networks as a kind of compression into complex functions of encoded data.
The wikipedia summary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC) is pretty good. The government can't prohibit anyone (people, corporations, unions, etc) from making political speech, so long as it's not directed by the candidate. So I can't donate a billion dollars to a candidate's campaign, but I can run a billion dollars of ads supporting him (or against his opponent), so long as I don't receive direction/instruction from the candidate. Or, in this case, make and advertise a movie. The question you have to ask yourself is whether the alternative would be worse.
The article doesn't seem to propose any ideas that would result in people being thrown in prison for incorrect views.
We're already running our production code on other people's hardware, it's not like running development code is more important than that.
Meta-comment:

How is it possible that the original submission has been on the front page for 8+ hours, and all discussion is focused on this completely unrelated link?

Have people stopped reading original submission links in favor of comments so much that the discussion is no longer related to the original submission at all?
In my company, salers are who can make a deal without complete product. That's it. You can talk about other's product that you want to achieve.

So the point of consultant is, you need to understand what to deliver instead of what to have.
Might want to look at 'guarded' learning. This https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03863?context=cs.SE might inspire you. In one team we managed to train with both simulation and data and 'force' the trained model to infer within the 'security' simulation.

I think there might be some better research on this... Not bothered to look it up much.
or a highly rigged machine, this looks more for fast real time ML inference on the edge
> (1) A COVID-19 infection can have long-term effects even in young people.

What is the rate of this?
It reads as unintentional satire.

Person with a software-hammer tries to hit the nail of basic psychology, motivation, and happiness. Misses.

Shame on me for reading it though.
Great project! A heat treatment oven is useful for so many things.

If you're building one of these, you might want to adjust the hinge so that when you open the oven doors, the hot side of the oven door always faces away from you. It will make it much more comfortable to use.
You can get pretty much any GPU at pre-COVID prices right now, except for the newest generation NVIDIA GPUs that just came out to higher-than-expected demand.
I have a good friend at Google. The motto they go by is that unless 10000 people are impacted by an issue, it's really not worth their time to investigate.

Just create a new account - no one is ever going to care.
>Have you found many books that you wanted priced at $0?

gutenberg.org
True, but--the bank should communicate clearly when the check has cleared, and display an intermediate icon that says "per the law/policy, you are allowed to access these funds now, but payment processing is not complete. if the payment does not clear, you must repay these funds."

Also, if the bank really wanted to help, they could offer the services of its fraud unit in attempting to identify and have the check writer prosecuted.

Honestly, it's time to kill checks. They have no place in today's world and can only cause problems.
(I'm the OP)

We didn't have anything important there, migrated to GCP a while ago.
It's a variant of their development board for their AI accelerator ship for embedded setups (think quality control, licence plate detector, analysing visitors via webcam etc). This variant is probably just to make it more attractive for hobbyists; increasing mindshare and community size. It doesn't need a huge market, and maybe people come up with cool ideas nobody has thought of yet.
Epic.

I love malicious compliance in the face of dictatorial companies.
I am fairly sure this heuristic was implemented on purpose.
> > > It's highly risky to insist on a norm and accuse others of not honoring it

> This sounds precisely what people are doing: Whining that Amazon seemed ungrateful and thinking less of people who do likewise.

Yup, and while there's variation in the hivemind, all in all I don't think a very large fraction of it is snapping back and thinking of the author as inflexible. So p'raps it's not so highly risky.
It amazes me that in 2020, we still struggle to implement a simple system where someone can reliably and permanently transfer money to someone else as the default, expected behaviour of the financial system.

There are far too many scams based on someone thinking they've got money they haven't, whether it's person-to-person because of weirdness about reversible money moves or someone successfully abusing some sort of chargeback or dispute mechanism against a merchant. It's not as if these things aren't well known by the industry. It just chooses not to do anything about them, and to continue to rely on fundamentally insecure and unreliable methods of moving money around when it is perfectly capable of implementing better ones.
It's not about good old days or bad new days, it's about business. In the old days, there're mostly sharing about knowledge, less cares about business.

Today is another factor, less simpler, more revenue.

What i really want is to achieve both: sharing and revenue.
That was something I thought as well, but I doubt Apaches fly that kind of pattern though. They wouldn't let a target get lost behind a wall while making lazy circles. Also, the sound of an Apache gun sounds like the sky is ripping open. Not 100% on anything other than it's not a drone.
It's a more effective strategy. They can only eat one human once. This way they can be parasites of a human for years.

Remember, parasites: killing your host is generally a bad strategy.
>The 14-day cooling off period does not apply to all purchases

>Please note that this list is not exhaustive
> The whole premise of 'a universal language for world peace' is oppressive

Could you explain that? I see it more in terms of creating a voluntary standard than forcing people to comply.
Fair but saying English writing is incoherent makes it sound like their ideas are all over the place and you can't make heads or tails of it
> The magic really is in shifting your mindset from estimates to budgets. Don’t think about how long something takes. Think about how long are you willing to give something. This flips the entire idea. It lets the requirements float. The project definition that is vague is actually more realistic. Highly specific project definitions usually go astray very quickly. Vague enough definitions allow for creativity and selectivity for the people doing the work. And when you allow for those two things, you empower these people with the agency to do the best work they think they can do, not just follow the spec.
That's a funny way of saying fraud. Do you also love companies that send boxes of sawdust or online store customers ?
The other huge bright red, klaxons-blazing warning sign is the overpaying part. There is literally no reason at all to overpay for something when you are writing a check. It’s a psychological trick, like the door-to-door sales trick of giving someone a bottle of soap so that the mark feels like they owe something to the salesperson/scammer (or they are getting one over on the scammer), just a ploy to exploit human emotion.
I would agree and add: working on the right thing and delivering results
Interesting. My mortgages have always ended up with a known retail bank and can be paid through their normal websites. Is your mortgage held by some fly-by-night bank?

The only sites I visit frequently that do the domain forwarding and have ancient designs are local government sites (for paying taxes and fees).
You are right, it was ignorant of me to generalize and phrase it that way. I apologize for this. In hindsight what I was trying to say was: As a current day muslim, what I think based on my core Islamic knowledge & history is that their reason of doing it would be because of said islamic belief which they should have been following specifically since they were converting the churches to mosques.
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