skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Basically the social media company argument is... we think people are too dumb to figure out what is "real" or not so we are going to censor.

Most platforms, Twitter included, just wanted to be dumb service providers. They don't want to spend money and carry responsibility moderating content.

It was large media outlets and the public outrage they produced over "fake news" and "the far right" that pressured them into taking a more proactive stance.

People like me who were opposing it back then and saying "you don't know what you're asking for" got labeled far right, and essentially bunched with Trump, which was hilarious to me as a left leaning European.

Newspapers now becoming angry Twitter is evenly applying the new rules - the rules newspapers lobbied for - is even more hilarious to me.

And you have to understand that Twitter did not make a mistake in how they responded to this. The article objectively was against their rules.

Whether these rules are good rules is another matter, but clearly the whole thing was dumb from the start.
I'm surprised Nest, Ring, Facebook or someone else hasn't started offering free security cameras & storage to select businesses yet to accomplish better advertising data for Scenario B.
Hmmm,

I am fairly certain that this does exist, I remember almost purchasing a spectroscopy adapter for my iPhone way back around 2014. I didn't buy it and I guess it wasn't too popular.
Feeder: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/
> Obviously living in London is not like living in some police state.

In recent years, the police in London had a policy to harass anyone who was seen using a camera in a large, but completely unpublished, geofenced region of the city. That's not US/China/Saudi-level police state bad--as in, the UK police aren't able to arbitrarily confiscate cash or shoot people with impunity for having the wrong skin color--but it's bad enough that I consider such behavior a feature of a police state.

Any jurisdiction where it's not possible to perform the normal functions of everyday life, including creating works of art through photography, without fear of hostile police interaction is to some degree or other a police state.
Iceland is a remote island of 300k people with very low density. Giving it as an example is disingenuous.
> I think I agree with your family members here. Thinking about the technical details of science is not very important to lay people like me.

It's not just the "technical details". It's the entire scientific outlook and scientific method! We all agree that building the fair and healthy societies that we want is a very hard task. So when we have hard tasks to do, we don't want to turn away from a scientific/engineering mentality, quite the opposite!

For example, we see that we have a lot of unfairness in society that we want to fix. Perhaps studying game theory and mathematical economics would allow you to contribute to human efforts to create incentive structures and legislation that will promote fairness. Presumably studying statistics and decision theory will help understand the challenges we face as a society needing to make decisions in the face of uncertainty and complex costs.

But studying these things is HARD; it requires effort over a long time span to climb the mountain. It does NOT help at all if young people are encouraged to mill around at the base of the mountain wittering about power structures and unfairness in academia.
>while emotionally i'm with you, logically i think that the data entering public commerce (until of course Palantir collected it illegally or in violation of privacy provisions of user contracts - which is pretty hard to establish given the multi-layer of data laundering) is like somebody walking the public street, ie. free game, in the sense that i don't see any explicit protection applicable in such a case.

A fair assessment of the current situation. However, there's nothing stopping the US (or any other government) from restricting both the collection of such data and/or government use of that collected data.

What's apparently missing is the political will. Which points to the larger problem in the US -- sewers of filthy lucre flowing through the political system.

If you get rid of the necessity for all that money with strict public funding of elections, along with resources to allow all citizens to express themselves on an equal footing with everyone else, we're more likely to get a government focused on the needs of constituents rather than the desires of big money contributors.
It's fake news pretending to be real news. All social media platforms should do a better job blocking disinformation like this.

That said, all they need to do is delete the fake news Twitter asked them to, yet they won't. Why?
I always like to think of what the reaction would be if you asked in reverse and use that as a guide e.g. what's the salary history for the company employees currently in the role you're applying for?

Pretty sure you wouldn't get an answer so why should you feel bad for not answering?

I hate these back-and-forths too where both sides know the game being played but have to be coy about it for no good reason. I'd prefer to just say you're not prepared to share that information and if they pushed be upfront that everyone knows in salary negotiation you shouldn't share this and it's irrelevant if you happened to be underpaid before.
I feel like (as someone not too well versed in cosmology) that bigger and better telescopes and interferometry can help to validate stuff like MOND. in particular as it relates to better measurements of galactic structures.
Notably, and obviously, all 3 examples mentioned in this thread are islands (NZ, Aus, and Iceland). That seems like more than coincidence.
Sorry I was not clear. The problem here is that I am annoying other people and I am getting annoyed by other people around me. Imagine saying "Hey Computer, what is my credit card bill for this year", "Hey Computer, Open word",
> Unfortunately the iPhone (and Mac's built-in FaceTime) cameras have no option to manually set the white balance.

I think the new iPhones ship with native ProRAW support, which might mean that the built-in Photos app would be able to access the same amount of imaging data that a specialised RAW editor could in prior versions.
I'm curious about J.
> I encourage you to dig deeper into the background of the Walter Duranty and Judith Miller cases, in both cases the individuals were lying and their colleagues and coworkers knew they were lying or had good reason to suspect it. In the case of Walter Duranty, it took the organization several decades to admit Duranty was full of shit, long after the facts were widely know.

Duranty did his reporting literally 90 years ago, which is several generations in the past. That case is of limited use when reasoning about the organization today.

Miller was criticized by colleagues and was eventually forced out. She seems to me kind of like a software engineer who came up with some grand design that had fundamental problems, but couldn't let the design go. That's mistaken, arguably incompetent, but not sabotage.
The subtyping system is fairly complicated, but in practice users only need to really think about situations where the LHS is a concrete type, since that's primarily what determines runtime semantics (not to say that there aren't situations where specificity really matters, but it's quite rare). That simplifies the mental model considerably and our users tend to find it relatively intuitive. For a formal discussion, the group at Northeastern has been doing great work in phrasing some of the Julia internals in more traditional PL language, including a formal subtyping model. That paper is at http://janvitek.org/pubs/oopsla18a.pdf
> I also lived in Chicago and I felt much worse there (at least in SF I could still take walks).

Depends where you are and what times.

3am on the redline in the northside.. Be ready to move at a moments notice.
From my observations, people have reduced their voice assistants to objects that sometimes tell them the weather or switch their lights on and off, and sometimes do something completely unrelated when activated.
> 'follow the money to find out what the b@stards are thinking'

The slightly less cynical way I think of this is that finance will directly be impacted vs non-finance so news targetted at them is more helpful, or at least not actively harming.

In the financial independence community most articles on mainstream sites are considered jokes or to have insufficient detail to actually improve your finances

A good non-money example: If you get a chronic disease, reading blogs and forums by people who have the disease is going to me more helpful than whatever a staff writer can do in 2 hours of research
Thanks for building this, I completed the "make a lisp" project, but the parsing stage was greatly simplified so it is nice to have a resource to learn more about the parsing/lexing stage.
I think you're generous with 1000 people being the high bar for media reports. My gut says <12 is enough
So which is it, fake news or private information?

> Many people cannot distinguish fake news from legitimate sources of information.

Well it's hard for the New York Times cough Judith Miller cough, so I'm not sure what your point is here.
To add to this, I know for a fact some people who are really serious about Java + HFT, and they would never ever use a GC. I can’t believe how much this article talks about Zing and other GCs, while the de-facto standard way of doing this is to just always reuse all objects and never deallocate them.

I get a very real feeling that the people writing this article have no idea what they’re talking about.
> At another point in the discussion, a man spoke of some benefit X of death, I don't recall exactly what. And I said: "You know, given human nature, if people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing. But if you took someone who wasn't being hit on the head with a baseball bat, and you asked them if they wanted it, they would say no. I think that if you took someone who was immortal, and asked them if they wanted to die for benefit X, they would say no."

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aSQy7yHj6nPD44RNo/how-to-see...
Buying property to rent doesn't seem like a good way to make money every time I've run the numbers. The only way it makes sense is if capital gains ratchets up the property prices significantly.
Because if you say a = "puts" in the other langs it wouldn't work. The other languages are assigning a function to a variable. Tcl is assigning a string to a variable, then evaluating the string as a function based on syntax.
Where's the evidence that the data on the hard drives and laptop were fabricated? There's a lot more physical evidence behind the Hunter Biden Laptop Story (and its censorship) than there was behind, oh I don't know, the impeachment of the President last January.

I must assume you have personal possession of exculpatory physical evidence. Please share your physical evidence that discredits the physical evidence you don't like unearthed by the New York Post

Please downvote me if you have no evidence it was faked or know there's no evidence or want to see the NY Post story discredited because Trump should be replaced at any cost.

Also note: other news publications, like the Washington Post, claiming that the hard drive data is "not verified" without any evidence beyond their own reputation, which itself is long since forfeit, is not evidence.
The language isn’t the problem. The runtime is the problem. It’s a dependency mess, a licensing lottery, and a tuning crapshoot. The overhead of simply making it work, and maintaining that status across heterogeneous environments, is more than non-Java shops want to undertake.

Having spent much of the first half of my career writing C and Perl and then Java, I was very happy to set aside the latter two - for completely differing reasons.
Yes, we use LALR(1) parsing mode to build the actual parser, and it exactly supports Left recursive grammars (which are much more elegant than LL). We also don't focus much on scanner (tokenizer) since this is a topic of Regular expressions and Finite automata which we discuss in detail in the separate class "Building a RegExp machine".
From a lay outsider's perspective, it seems like there is no real "balance of power" that's oft-touted when Americans discuss their politics. It seems like agencies like the DHS and CBP have all the power (backed by the president, who seems to have complete and ultimate power), and all Congress has the power to do (or perhaps, doesn't care to exercise any power it may have) is draft letters and launch investigations that have no real repercussions for those responsible for abuses. It would make me really happy if someone provides links to cases where the opposite was true - where Congress successfully exercised power over DHS, CBP, ETC.
Just since it's sponsored, Airstream is one of the shittiest luxury products I can think of and owning one of the bigger mistakes I've ever made. The quality is the same as any other RV, so you are paying a huge premium for the aluminum shell which looks cool but not nearly as trouble free as the marketing leads one to expect. You can basically own 3-4 trailers from any other manufacturer for the same cost, and would be ahead in every way. You can also rent RVs including other people's airstreams these days so unless you plan on spending a significant amount of time using an RV (like full time or as a guest house) it's smarter to let someone else deal with maintenance and depreciation.
Good point! You convinced me, it's not an impressive statistic (except maybe wrt a "nobody reads comments" argument)
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Foam is a Roam-like that is open source, easily modifiable and assembled on top of VSCode but leaves you with plain jane markdown. I use a vanilla markdown editor on my phone for quick notes, and then fire up VScode when I need tools.

It's less an "app" and more a set of recommended extensions that work well together. At the end of the day you have markdown files in a directory, however you want to manage and sync them (git, dropbox, rsync, whatever).

https://foambubble.github.io/foam

My personal setup also integrates heavily with my Zotero toolkit for tracking and storing papers and other materials.
This is a good comparison to bring up, because most people would not have any problem with the "Clinton had sex with aliens???" tabloids disappearing from the Walmart checkout aisles.
Dreamweaver 8 had support for SFTP, and it stopped working under Windows 7 after an update about two years ago. Works fine under Wine on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
I see you've run into CVS or Walgreens' automated phone system.
Japan and Canada seem to have done relatively well, as have the Nordic countries (perhaps with the exception of Sweden which is TBD). The Baltic nations have done reasonably well too. Looking outside of Europe and the OECD, African democracies like Rawanda have kept the virus in check without draconian measures.

Having good or at least recently tested public health infrastructure and lucking into a good head of state/governing coalition seems to be key.
> That's precisely what many of us don't believe.

With respect, I'll defer to the career sociologists and psychologists on the topic, much as I'd defer to the risk management PhD on the topic of risk management.

I've known too many tech-savvy folk who think humans can be reduced and deconstructed like a computer, declare humanities research bunk because it doesn't fit their mental model, and get profoundly surprised when their mental model doesn't fit actual human behavior. The psychologists and sociologists have a better track record on modeling and predicting human behavior.
I do not mind being surveilled by public cameras as I do nothing illegal.
> And all the extra software magic can already be done on your laptop on RAW files, where you've got enough space on your screen for all the sliders -- and a large enough screen to see the difference it makes in the details.

Not entirely true: DSLRs wouldn't be able to capture depth data like the dual/triple-camera phones can, for "computational photography" magic (or simple masking).
Agreed. A lot of this is all standard now - even when I wrote about it circa 2013 [1]

[1] https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2536492
Parsing with derivatives is not all that slow: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/0...

The paper shows that it can compete with re2 (by google).
What blows my mind is that travelers from across the galaxy can enter eyes here at Earth's surface to be seen as stars in the night sky.
Chili Pepper Consumption and Mortality in Italian Adults
I have had luck in the past just expressing what I need, and want.

Getting peoples attention generally requires meeting needs as a minimum. Wants are nice to have, and if they are reasonably funded, can get a persons full attention.

Let the other party consider it from there.

I have always been perfectly frank and cordial about it. The way I see it, being able to have an honest discussion about these things means the beginning of a great work relationship.

Usually, that all results in a how we get there discussion. Put costs, risks, all of it on the table.
A working WSL 2 Ubuntu development setup
Foam can be setup and run hierarchical. I use this setup for mine with broad groupings at the top (history, medicine, politics, etc) and then subgroups as needed (history -> pandemics, history -> wars, etc). You can use foam-doctor to regenerate paths and titles on a regular basis.
Yes, to some degree -- Syntax tool normally support lexer states, and the same "while" token may mean a keyword or the property/field name of a struct. You can find more details of the lexer states in the docs.
I think it's fine to politely say something like "I'd prefer not to share that information at this point in the process".

everyone understands that the applicant wants to maximize their salary, but HR folks are humans too. if you say something they perceive as rude, they will probably make a choice that's suboptimal for you and the company.
I'd recommend doing almost exactly what OP describes. Start on your local network first. Get a raspberry pi, and figure out how to set up a webserver on it you can access from other computers on your network.
If someone steals your cash (as much cash as you can carry): you don't have it anymore.

If someone steals your phone (you will lose at least the value you paid for the phone) and once they force you to unlock the phone and to hand over the passwords, you will lose:

- as much cash as they can take out before you can access a device that will allow you to freeze the card

you will also be a more attractive target for hacking (especially if you are using Android and your phone is like the vast majority of targets that receives security updates very late or it simply does not receive them)

Seen it happen more than once. Yes, you are smart but so are thiefs
How do you do that? Even when your code has no memory allocations sockets still leak memory.
Tcl is at the core of F5 (bigip)[0] and A10[1] network edge devices, tea leaf traffic monitoring [2], gnu gcc test suite[3], big finance tools[4], and very large computer management [5], for starters. One could go on with examples of industrial and scientific controls, Hollywood gfx, and EDA (electronic design automation) that may have contributed to the design of whatever device you’re reading this with, etc, but it’d be a long list.

It’s battle-hardened, which is important, but it’s also fun, which is important too.

[0] https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/irules-concepts-tcl-the...

[1] https://www.a10networks.com/blog/aflex-tutorial/

[2] http://www-01.ibm.com/software/info/tealeaf/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DejaGnu

[4] https://www.fidessa.com/products/training/training-courses

[5] https://www.mcs.anl.gov/~wozniak/papers/Swift_Tcl_slides_201...
Ha, these are many of the same things one might do to make a chess engine fast on the JVM. This only strengthens my belief that the best computer science education you can get is studying chess programming.
That's a very interesting point. (I stopped listening to Limbaugh ~ 1994.) I collect books on policy making. I'll look for Limbaugh's explainers. But should you have links handy, I'll be your best friend (duration unspecified).
I disagree. Let's move fast and break things. Status quo is not going to improve our welfare in either the literal or policy sense. Economically speaking, immigration is the most profitable policy decision a government can make.
Does that include CNN posting fake news stories about russian collusion and russian blackmailing for 3 years? The fact that the standard is meant to be applied only one side side means there is no standard.
Apple Bootcamp Update references a 2020 16-inch MacBook Pro
You might want to look up which party was more supportive of the 19th amendment and check which party supported ending slavery.

"On May 21, 1919, the amendment passed the House 304 to 89, with 42 votes more than was necessary. On June 4, 1919, it was brought before the Senate and, after Southern Democrats abandoned a filibuster, 36 Republican Senators were joined by 20 Democrats to pass the amendment with 56 yeas, 25 nays, and 14 not voting."
Interesting but your app promotes this list of culture-war entertainers [0] and presents them as the "Intellectual Dark Web", including Ben "just sell your underwater house if the sea levels rise" Shapiro; that's a big red flag

[0] https://quanta.wiki/app?id=5ca14747487e8f0001a3bcff#5ca25b1a...
Well, it's a trade-off. If someone compiled the C++ app for your architecture, sure – if not, you need to figure out how to compile it and depending on the compiler and set of headers you have installed, it's not always easy. When I say, not always easy I'm being generous, there have been cases when the function signature was different between the sets of headers the author had and what I had...

In Java's case if you have all the class files, all you need is the JVM for your architecture. You don't need the program's author to compile it for your architecture.

And finally, JVM tuning does not need to be performed by the user, but can be performed by the user. The most frequent tuning needed to be done by the user was the maximum memory that the JVM could allocate, but that hasn't been needed for a long time (since Java 8, I think). Now the JVM, by default, has the sensible behavior to allocate as much memory as the OS will let it, when asked by the application.
Definitely agree. No company worth the trouble is going to be upset at you wondering what the role is worth to them.

If, for some reason you feel a need to give a number, always make sure it's higher than the one you'd actually accept.

That way, when they inevitably go below it, if you end up accepting they'll feel like they got a win. Also, sometimes you just get lucky and they offer you that crazy number.
You will just unlock it at the thief's request
Advocating for decentralization feels like presenting filter bubbles and echo chambers as a positive feature.
In my experience, acqui-hires benefit the company far more than the employees who get moved to a different company. The first time I was acquihired, my compensation actually decreased because they kept my base salary and rewrote the bonus structure such that it was impossible to hit previous payouts. Meanwhile, my prior company received a large payment for the transfer of our team.

Ironically, the new company was paying new hires much more. I would have been better off quitting and getting re-hired.

It's better if the employees can negotiate their own way into a different company or companies. No sense in letting the previous company try to cash in on the team on their way out.