skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying other countries are perfect, including the US.

But there's a difference. The US is not living up to its ideals of equality and democracy, or even equal treatement under the law (e.g. lying to congress about not "collecting" data about US citizens). The UK is not even aspiriting to living up to those standards.

For example take torture. The best way to paint this is to "do horrible things for the protection of freedom and democracy". It's Realpolitik.

I'm still absolutely against torture, but it's a difference in kind to the UK putting religious clergy into positions of government power.

It's possible to defend torture as an instrumental goal to the ultimate goal of freedom & democracy. But the UK is not aiming for the same ultimate goal.

Similarly it's a difference in kind when Trump or Bolsanaro practice nepotism, compared to when some asshat gets a peerage in the UK.

We can list flaws all day, but the difference between the US and the UK here is that the US really does have an ideal of equality, freedom, and democracy, and the UK does not. The UK has not outgrown the Monarchy. And I'm not just talking about the royal family, but the whole aristocracy.

Another way to explain this: If you tell the story of Plebgate to an American, they won't fully get it. It's an insult, yes, but merely saying it's an insult is missing the point. It's bad because the class society is still there. People owning their homes often still literally pay a land tax to someone with a lord title. A land Lord.

It's a step on the spectrum to Saudi Arabia, where within its borders every grain of sand, and every person, is the personal property of the king.

If you take the US and add a permanent unelected head of state, add 20 dedicated priest posts to the senate, remove the first, second, fourth, and fifth amendment, and on top of that have a society that generally feels like this is a good idea, then you have a completely different country.

And it's not a country that even aspires to be as free or democratic as the US. And since the UK doesn't try, it also isn't.

Under Trump we saw that the US institutions were (mostly) holding. What's being "held" in the UK is not even a goal on the level of the US.

You point out many things. And probably those kinds of things the US has done more than Saudi Arabia has done. But nobody would therefore conclude that Saudi Arabia is more freedom&democracy than the US, would they?
You don’t understand China. They have a saying, “cheat or be cheated”

The entire country is a country of scammers where the rules of the game are to cheat as much as possible. Like the article said, literally think of yourself as a member of a gang where killing people gets you “street cred”. Cheating is an aspect of street cred for Chinese people.. if you cheat and get away with it, it’s something to be proud of. The Chinese will ‘lie’ to authorities about cheating, but among friends it’s high fives all around.

How do I know this? I’m Chinese. Born in the states but with ties to the east. I don’t know if it’s genetic or if it’s cultural but growing up I never purchased a single game or purchased a single movie or piece of music and I was proud of cheating the system. In fact me and many people in Asia think you’re stupid if you pay money for any form of electronic digital media when all of it can be pirated easily.

This is the mentality of basically most of Asia with the exception of Japan and to a lesser extent Korea.

I get your mentality though. The rules of US culture is basically fairness. It pervades the mentality of the country but you have to understand different games have different rules. For example in mafia the name of the game is to deceive everyone. Deception is therefore praised and you are proud if you win the game via deception. Just like how a simple game can flip a switch so can culture. China is playing mafia while the US is playing chess.
We really like trash made of plastic.
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> the conditions under which bull calfs for veal production is abhorrent

To you!

To me (also vegan) any animal in a cage is abhorrent. I want to be free and wild and I also want all others to be free and wild. Maybe some humans deserve to be caged for their behavior. Animals can never be guilty...

> Next time you see that on the menu, take a moment to think about where it's coming from and how it's made.

Exactly. Was someone (NOT something) caged? Was a baby taken away from a mother, right after birth, in order to steal (=take what is not given) the milk that mum produces for baby?

And after this consideration: go for one of the plant options on the menu!
I'm mostly happy with it too, but the lack of a "Select Same Appearance" in Designer drives me insane.
Free speech is the principle that the first amendment attempts to establish, but its not the same thing as free speech itself- any party using their power to restrict the exchange of information does so in opposition to free speech.

Amazon has not violated the first amendment, but they have violated free speech. It is not illegal to do so, but people often agree and disagree with actions on bases other than legality.
You can be Left without empathizing with people who want you dead. That's a pretty straightforward application of Paradox of Tolerance.
China will find a lot of willing buyers for their internet surveillance and population management tech from autocratic countries.

Hopefully the West will make them jump through hoops to sell their stolen IP in free countries though.
Having used both dynamic and statically typed languages rather extensively, I always end up recreating some subset of the type system in the test suite for dynamically typed languages. Often to at least test that the functions correctly handle erroneous input. Taking your example, I would definitely have at least one of those assertException kind of tests, and more of them (but automatically generated) if using a property-based test system where I could say something like: any type but string should result in an exception/error result. Now, this wouldn't be exhaustive (again, sans automation), but I'd have at least one test covering this.

Those tests that you list later are "happy path" tests. We want to know that that works, but we can't rely on only that sort of test especially if the type system doesn't work with us to avoid incorrect inputs to the function.
Yeah, not many goalie assists these days ha ha ha.
> The NHS is the 4th largest employer in the world, 1.3 million employees to provide healthcare to a nation of 67 million.

Yet taxpayer funding for health per head of population in the UK is lower than

France

Germany

Sweden

Switzerland

And get this -- THE USA

In 2009 - so before Obamacare came in, the US government spent $3,700 per person on healthcare. Not per person covered by medicare and military, per citizen.

The UK spent $2,700, and everyone was covered.
Probably built on Electron. Supergrowth of anything!
Basically every pro sport had that philosophy, until they didn't. Eventually, some highly publicized incorrect call (with video evidence, because it was televised) leads to refs using video replay.
Small correction - it's "cycles mod boundaries". In general, a quotient object R/I is read "R mod I" (top mod bottom).

What's a cycle? It's something in the kernel of the boundary map. To be in the kernel means the boundary map takes it to 0. So heuristically, cycles are "things with no (zero) boundary".

For the quotient cycles/boundaries to make sense - for any quotient to make sense - the bottom should be contained in the top. Like in Z/6Z, the integers mod 6, the "6Z" (the integers which are a multiple of 6) is contained in Z (the integers).

In this case, for "cycles/boundaries" to make sense, a boundary should be a cycle - that is, a boundary should have no boundary. This is (again heuristically) what the definition of a boundary map (d^2 = 0) means.

Consider your disk/circle analogy. The circle is a boundary (the boundary of the disk). Does the circle have a "boundary"? No - the boundary of a boundary is 0.

When the quotient cycles/boundaries is nonzero, you have nontrivial homology. Think of nontrivial homology as "having a hole". To see an example of this, take the plane but remove the origin (0, 0). Consider your circle again (say the unit circle x^2 + y^2 = 1). It's still a cycle, because its boundary is 0 (no boundary). But it's not the boundary of "something" (where "something" means roughly "something nice" - it's hard to explain this better without getting technical). So the cycle represented by the circle represents a nontrivial homology class (in the homology of plane minus origin).
Maybe you should sample some of the other content to get a feel of who this guy is before promoting his work based solely on the fact that you agree with an opinion you have.

Because if someone has mostly bad opinions, you have to wonder if he managed to have just one good one or if this is a bad opinion too.
The links it generates does.
I’d call changing the entire plan a “hard pivot.” I mean Slack started out as a video game (and Flickr - same game IIRC). But as the counter point, here’s an article that argues against doing that in favor of simply shutting down (including comments from a YC partner no less)!

https://www.reforge.com/brief/why-hard-pivots-in-startups-ar...

In this case though, the company is brand new. There aren’t a lot of employees involved. The valuations are low and most of the costs are sunk. There isn’t much to lose by trying something different. And they went from a video conferencing platform to managing scheduling for video conferences. It’s at least in the same ballpark.

I guess what I’d say is that it is completely fair to criticize the team for the product they made. It isn’t something I’d spend money on and is in a crowded market with existing players (both free and paid). Not the best plan.

But don’t criticize them for switching tracks. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. But at this stage, I don’t see much downside in them trying.
Well, I could have spent time creating a post linking to refuting data, but do you really think it would make any difference to the thu2111's opinions?
I’m not a huge basketball fan, but there seems to be a lot less ego in the NCAA too. It’s mostly about the game, not LeBron/Wade/well-known celebrity players.
Here's a well-sourced rebuttal to your statement that privatization benefits revenues: https://youtu.be/DlTq8DbRs4k?t=591

TL;DW revenues and passenger numbers are demonstrably lower with privatization than when nationalized. Unlike other industries, the UK's franchise privatization model is not subjected to free market forces, allowing rail companies to win contracts by underbidding only to fail to meet their targets.
I learned about this from a section in James C. Scott's Seeing Like a State. Sadly I don't have a specific page number or citation to provide you with. But the section talked about how families were given names based on profession (Smith, Baker, Carpenter, .etc), description (Short, Young, etc.), or general location (Glenn, Brook, etc.) and all of this was done to simplify taxation and get a better command of resource extraction. This phenomenon is not unique to the West and was done in China as well.
my new Lenovo X1 Extreme has both of those things. I actually didn't notice the F4 microphone toggle before, thanks for the tip!
A good thing to watch is this episode of the Indian social issues show, Satyameva Jayate. (It's hosted by a major Bollywood actor.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPmAltGay3s

The episode shows contemporary discrimination against a woman of a so called "untouchable" caste. She is a PhD-holding lecturer at Delhi University, a major national research university. And even with her accomplishments, she sees discrimination in housing and in education. Of course, people without education or the accomplishments she has had deserve to live without prejudice as well.

I think a major problem is urban Indians or those who have migrated abroad not looking deeply into seeing how prevalent these issues actually are. I often hear that caste discrimination is a thing of the past or is on the way to oblivion from these folks. It's a bit maddening. More than 90% of urban Indians marry within their caste, and the number is at 95% for rural Indians. Now, multiply caste with language, dialect, economic class, education, skin color, and diet - you have a large number of complex identities that are seen as lesser by various groups. These don't necessarily form a total order, of course.
The detail here is that the achievement is acquiring status in a society with which individualism doesn't care about anymore. The OP cares much more for the real achievements, and not much for their title and place in British society (society of old at least)

I think you are right about egalitarianism being part of the outlook, I think egalitarianism is part of individualism though. Everyone is as special as everyone else, so your rank in society isn't as important.
> Farming as a business gets idealized

And I understand that in case of plant growers. In case of livestock exploiters I dont see what's so "cool" about it.
The shock of their financial sector leaving.

You speak in the past tense but this hasn’t actually happened and shows no signs of happening in terms of banks relocating jobs and capital. If anything London is getting stronger.
> The internet snatched civilization destruction from the jaws of progress.

The commercialization of the internet snatched destruction from the jaws of progress.

Once companies realized there was tons of money to be made in engagement-by-any-means-necessary, the genie was out of the bottle.

But there are still delightful isolated corners of the internet filled with brilliant imaginative creative people. Progress is still happening, but the mainstream's doing its level best to counter it.
> The internet connection I now have _enables_ my creativity, however limited. It allows me to learn and use technologies I wouldn't even know existed

100% agree. The internet provides knowledge right at your fingertips. It is amazing and sad at the same time that most people don't take full advantage of this.

> I'd rather off myself than go back to ye olden times

However, I have 99.999% confidence that you or most of us wouldn't do this. Human beings are extremely adaptable.
Privacy policy is definitely required. You could maybe get past the requirement of an imprint by arguing this isn't "geschäftsmäßig" (lacks a proper translation; superset of commercial), but I think that would be a hard sell.
Those guys tend to be big and tall. Tall = a lot of space your body takes up is above the net.

You'd want a very fat, short guy, right? Well even if he manages to be as wide as 80% of that net that leaves a massive 20% of unattended space.
So now this extremely obese, extremely squat goalie needs to move faster than a puck to protect that 20%? Not gonna happen.

And that's just hoping he can survive until the 1st intermission before you have to drag him off the ice as he's, you know, extremely obese.
The Chicago “El” subway system has three stations named “Chicago”. None are in the downtown core. I always wonder about tourists hopping on the Blue line at O’Hare and where they end up.
Swiss Police Raid Apartment of Verkada Hacker, Seize Devices
I've heard it said that the two things the alt-right hates the most:

1. Being called a racist.
2. Black people.
Antikithira is a composite word: Anti (a prefix meaning opposite) + Kithira (a nearby island). So maybe it is the other way round, "antariksha" is named after the island ?
> Why is the business built upon so many apps?

So many different functions. My company is purely cloud and we use Google as much as possible, but we still have tons as we need a help desk, a task board, HR software, credential management, Office for some people, Udemy, etc.
Cloud costs are shifting left
>>"...every minute spent on infrastructure is a minute less spent shipping features."

Completely true.

This does not mean that we should spend zero minutes on infrastructure

This does mean that we should ensure that every minute & dollar spent on infrastructure is well-spent - will actually produce, for the customers, the developers, and/or the company overall, a return of sufficient value.

I used to be all about planning for scale early. But I've actually found it's better to plan to build one or two throw-away versions, built well as we can while being fast and with only minimal scaling features, THEN take the lessons learned (about real features, usage patterns, & loads that will need to be supported) and apply these to building out the more scaleable versions. The initial cheap, cheerful, & disposable versions provide initial traction, a lot of knowledge, and a known & limited technical & financial debt, but the 'killer feature' is zero technical lock-in when you go to design & build the scalable version.

YMMV
And here I am still waiting for Photoshop to come to Linux.
The thing that kind of bothers me most is that he hasn't considered how much of his (and silicon valley's and the oligarches he defends) worldview might be the result of disinformation operations in and of themselves.

IF China is amoral and doesn't see anything wrong with lying, why wouldn't they have an operation running to get the US to deindustrialize themselves and give up their manufacturing base to overseas countries, mainly China?

It's like this guy is shocked, shocked to find out that gambling is going on at Rick's American Cafe.
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> For anyone interested, any more than about five 9s of reliability is basically impossible anyway when it comes to human intervention. As an example, 6 nines of reliability would allow you 3 seconds of unavailability a year so 250 milliseconds of unavailability a month.

Not sure what the qualifier “when it comes to human intervention” means, but if I ignore it then five nines is quite standard in certain sectors. For example phone switch SLA (back when I was in the biz) was measured in minutes per decade (as in “cumulative unavailability under 1/2 minutes per decade”). Large baseline power plants can and must run uninterrupted for decades.

Of course it’s a systems issue not a point solution.
Sadly predictable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26407845
Literally the dark ages...go read up on it.
That sounds like an uncharitable interpretation of what HAF said, but I can't verify because they never link to the source statement and the article she points at is behind a paywall.

Come to think of it this "Attribute quotes to people and then say 'read the (paywalled) article' when someone asks for context" strategy seems like a pretty good way to spread misinformation.

Edit: Okay did some googling and found the source statement. That tweet is definitely a very bad faith misreading of HAF's statement which says:

> In its complaint, California argues that Cisco failed to
address discrimination against one of its engineers by co-workers on the basis of his presumed caste. California goes on to state that caste is “a strict Hindu social and
religious hierarchy” and therefore an integral part of
Hindu teachings and practices. Framing its argument in this way, California is attempting to do what the Constitution clearly says it cannot, HAF
said: defining Hindu religious doctrine for Hindus.

In other words, HAF isn't saying discrimination is a Hindu right. They're saying it's inappropriate for US Courts to define what constitutes "Hindu belief systems." This sounds appropriate since setting precedent in a court that defines anyone who professes belief in Hinduism as being casteist a priori would basically be opening the door to religious discrimination.
Rome was the fiber internet of those days. When west rome collapsed europe went back to dial-up.
Telegram deleting messages appear to work for me. Likely this guy is just buying into Signal FUD that Telegram is somehow worse encryption, despite Signal's encryption being used by Facebook and funded by the US Govt.
I guess I was speaking more generally but as far as livestock there's certainly plenty if idolizing that too, even if some don't.
> Of course you can do it in theory.

It worked practically in practice in history. It works also practically in countries like Saudi Arabia. Once in a while censorship does not manage to stop all opposition, which is why once in a while revolutions and such succeed.

But practically speaking, censorship works. That does not makes it right thing to do or something, which would be different claim.

Just because people manage to say censored things here and there just means it cant stop completely all such claims and materials. But it does minimize who will run into them, how many of them will be available and so on.
So stop calling that a self driving. Its outright lie.
That would close things off for most nodes but there are lots of nodes running on Tor or custom ports. Not to mention other channels like satellites that are used for transaction distribution.

Junk transactions could stop a few nodes but all transactions are verified locally on nodes and won't be broadcast if they turn out to be junk.
As someone who has never owned a Blackberry, can you explain what this means? I'm not sure why you need to check sites for notifications, that seems like the opposite of a notification.
https://send.vis.ee/

https://github.com/timvisee/send

:)
Yes, among Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs. Watch a minute of video here to see examples: https://youtu.be/ZPmAltGay3s?t=1965
You can question YC's process, but its results are indisputable.
Damn you, and I didn't even get as far as Hofstadter. I bottomed out in albumen prints.
I live in an area of Canada where home heat is pretty much provided exclusively by natural gas but electricity comes mainly from nuclear and hydroelectric sources.

Interesting to think about, but by firing up a miner on my graphics card at off hours I'd probably lower my overall fossil fuel consumption and make some money on the side.

Anything I'm missing here?
Disable JS and read freely
I don't resonate with that dichotomy. What I am describing is not thinking about what new calendar events to add -- it is reading. I want to see the full context of the week in addition to immediate upcoming meetings. For example, as a manager, what else is happening on the team and do I need to be sending emails or slack messages during a meeting? Do I really need something important done tomorrow so I ask someone else to take the upcoming meeting instead of me, or vice versa?
Don't forget Terraform. It's been doing this for me in Kubernetes for a few years now.
Not only that, but VAR has consistently produced some shocking and unexplainable decisions. They haven’t quite gotten the implementation correct. Offside calls are improved, dangerous tackle/red card reviews are improved (for the most part, there are still some unexplainable decisions), but handball calls are still shambolic. It’s still a human referee up there in the VAR booth and they don’t have to explain their decision making at all. That’s my opinion, at least- I mostly watch the Premier League.
Internet makes the smart smarter and the dumb dumber. Its an amplifier. Same thing with Twitter, you can find amazing independent content or you can end up with commenting and dunking the outrage story of the day.