skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I wouldn't call if a fraud, but they skewed with the election system to bend it towards in their favour. They for example introduced monetary support for small parties in a way that made it really easy to commit fraud, which surprisingly did happen at a large scale. It also resulted in people voting for those fake parties and not on the opposition with real power. They won 2/3 power like this.

"Belorussian-style regime", to name a few:

- control of state media packed with non-stop propaganda

- openly friendly towards dictators / other regimes

- suppressive, openly anti-liberal laws
I perceive this as an example why allowing privacy violation for one group for the "sake of greater good" does not work. Usually the same tools will be used with oppressive regimes.
In the beginning it will start with pretext that "we are using this tools to find terrorists, pedophiles and protect children" but more often it will end up prosecuting journalist, silencing whistleblowers and undermining political opponents creating perpetual state of oppression and corruption.
Or Switzerland or Belgium. I'd argue that, by now, there are more differences (cultural, economic, political...) between parts of the countries, like cities vs countryside, than between countries.
It's messed up now. Thep page, header, and main content all have the same color, which makes "parsing" the page harder for me, as everything is on the same background with no "page layout".
People voting themselves right to the edge of a totalitarian regime does not make that criticism any less legitimate.
Reached out to PH support and got listed on Homepage
Today I have launched GetPress (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/get-press) on ProductHunt.

Despite having more upvotes and activity my product wasn't listed in the popular tab on today's homepage but in the newest tab. I reached out to their support chat and outlined the issue and within minutes they fixed it. Now GetPress is on today's popular homepage.

However, a great deal of time was wasted due to this issue. Appreciate any support on ProductHunt

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/get-press
According to GitHub support, they didn't exclude any repo based on the license: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27769440
The notation is far too complex and ambiguous, with too much reuse of notation to mean different things in different subfields. For example, superscript numbers are used for exponents, and subscripts are for indices, right? Well except for certain cases where vectors are indexed by superscripted numbers instead.

Mathematicians should have been taught to use Scheme syntax instead.
As a euperson i want it. And i know many more that would like the same. The bubble may be bigger than you think.
> EU is completely helpless against rouge states

There is a point where politics depend on good intent. It does not matter if it is the EU, USA or China. If there is a part of the population that is radicalized and hate rhetoric is used that will destabilize any society.

The main defense against this situation is that it does not work to improve citizens lives. It only benefits a small part of society and it will make the rest suffer. Hate calls for win-lose deals and an unproductive zero sum mentality. Hungarian business will suffer, and Hungarian workers will suffer. That is not sustainable long term.

EU can be improved, but if millions of citizens support a far-right government there is little to be done. Orbán is a problem, but that people follows him is another one. It will only make Hungary poorer and the EU poorer and more dangerous.
Good to know, but my memory of Maine is that these places look like trucking exchanges points that few tourists will investigate and I don't see the ethics in having easy retail that isn't also responsible for equally convenient recycling.
To be fair, if I was Elon I'd definitely think that I'm living in a simulation since my life would seem like that of a player character.
Yeah. I also don't think it's probably a good idea for the EU to become a country. Countries have a lot more power, autonomy etc which states lack. I think the current system of EU is pretty good.
Neither.

The thing is, where I live, as a pedestrian, I almost never share the same surface with cars. Only when I need to cross the street, which is, say, three times a mile. For the rest of the time, I am in relative safety of the pavement. (Cars running into pedestrians on pavements, though not impossible, is a fairly rare occurrence and I have never seen one in my almost 43 years of age.)

This is a major difference in the entire risk calculation.
"Hungary has the full support of Poland and the V4"

Oversimplified view. There was common interest of V4 against accepting refugees, but Czech & Slovak rep. generally support EU's side in judicial and media independence issues.

Elsewhere, German automakers have vast investments in the eastern EU and they have been holding Merkel back against Orban, together with conservative faction of CDU.
This is a good article with a bad (for HN) title. Worth reading if you jumped to comments to decide!

A better title (slightly amended from an existing sub-head) would be something like "Are Late-Stage Bugs Really More Expensive?"
The world's second largest standing army that can be called to crush insurgencies also helps.
I feel like titles - both on PH and Youtube - tend to get optimized either automatically or by the uploaders themselves. It has overlaps with marketing and SEO, linkbait and optimizing page / article titles to draw in the most views.

Youtube also - sometimes - translates video titles, which in some cases is convenient (like Japanese videos). But that's the thing, from a Dutch standpoint you can read English titles just fine, but sites like Pornhub, Youtube are international affairs, and assuming everyone knows some English, while fair enough, is not actually a global truth and there's plenty of non-western countries where English is a lot more uncommon. I do believe 'our' generation (in NL) knows good English because we grew up with the early internet, which was a lot bigger if you could read and write English. But the current generation is landing in a much more internationalized internet.
He was an instructor in "Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction" -- sorry, this is not a real thing. He's been teaching things he clearly does not understand, and his mind was blown by this. When I say "a teacher would tell you to come back to the moment" it's not quite as simple as I make it sound, the key thing is who the advice is coming from (read: an actual zen teacher who has received transmission, not a charlatan mindfulness camp fleecing wannabe mindfulness bro's out of several hundred dollars to sit with no experience for 10 days).

I don't really have much sympathy here, it seems, but I don't really understand how one could not expect something like this to happen unless they really avoided speaking to anyone with actual experience (which, yes, means a zen monk, and not someone who spent 3 days in a Hilton doubletree learning how to teach people to 'breathe' and 'unlock their chakras' -- which is all bollocks.)
Billionaires-in-space critics are 'largely right', Bezos concedes
I think a big part of the issue is that backup processes are designed for a small number of machines failing. The the IT department restores data from backup, and manually adjusts the config and software till stuff is working.

That process works well till ransomware comes in and destroys every server and client machine at once, and suddenly you've just given the IT department multiple years worth of work to all do at an emergency pace.
Fidesz did win the last election. Part of this has to do with a number of scandals from the previous Socialist government (before 2010), part of this has to do with the hybrid electoral system (half gerrymandered FPTF, half proportional party-list) and part of this has to do with horrendous organization of all non-Fidesz parties.

Now all the major opposition parties have united into a single electoral slate for the next election. Primary elections are being held for the first time to determine the compositions of the electoral slate. One minor problem is that the coalition would be very incongruous. But hey, still gonna vote for them (personal opinion).

But while it is not a dictatorship, it is, as Orbán himself puts it, an "illiberal democracy". And the government's attitudes and laws create a ton of problems. And that's not even getting into the corruption and so on...
The GPL very much restrict derivative works. It's the whole point of the GPL. "Usage" in the context of the GPL does not have the meaning you are using.
Yes, and Tesla also made sure that all the other road users around those 1000 beta testers opted in to being part of a development project. So all good.
Do you swim in it in eternal bliss? Or do you drown in it?
If the simulation is like containers and VMs, then for sure we'll find a way to escape the sandbox :)
Suggested title: Publicly Available Standards by ISO

ISO is somewhat unique in requiring you to pay money to even know what the standard says before you can ever think about being in compliance.

Most other standards organizations (i.e. NIST, IETF, W3C) do not have this weird financial burden, so merely "Publicly Available Standards" doesn't sell the significance of this.

Making their standards publicly available is a good move by ISO. I hope we see more of this.
Since liberal means nothing lately, anti liberal is the same. I have seen quite authoritarian tendencies about stripping people from basic rights after corona epidemic began from self proclaimed liberals.
Tomorrow's wireless world will be fatter, faster, and creepier
> People are tribal by nature.

Maybe, but what "tribe" are you part of is completely fluid. Your tribe can be extremely inclusive or exclusive.

> Grand unification of humanity is a good ideal, one we should work towards, but it's not something that will be possible within our lifetimes.

And it is quite of inevitable as communication and travel becomes cheaper.

> I don't want a European superstate because I disagree with most people that would live in it. My ideals would no longer be represented by my government. I think that's enough reason not to go for complete European unification.

That is easily an argument against any form of government. No country would exist this way for good or bad. But they exists. As you said, bigger communities are a matter of time. What it would have been an impossible union 100 years ago it makes a lot of sense today.
reason for "no longer a dumb pipe," - is that I believe that was the 'defense' aka reason being used for a while to push back against different groups that were accusing and then trying to public shame cloudflare;
for protecting alt-right(?) I know there were a few PR pieces pushed in the UK or Euro press about some things - maybe hookers or something..
anyway for a while cloudflare was all like, we are just a really big pipe that pushes data and can absorb ddos.. we don't get into content moderation or opposite-net-neautrality..
there were complaints that some groups 'on the right side of history (or whatever)' - were trying to take down the stormer site I think it was and that their co-ordinated takedown attempts were failing as cloudflare was protecting the send/receive, being a pipe, not a judge..
This is what I believe ATT was using as a defense some time ago; they don't stop drug dealers from making calls they just provide the 'pipe'
There was also some groups complaining about cloudflare making it hard to find servers - to find jurisdiction, again uk /euro I think - I have those articles saved on one of my systems.. and may be linked to a HN comment long ago - where I said chipping away at this pipe thine will lead to a bifurcated internet - where we will have internet place X internet place Y - and companies like cloudflare may have to turn into a dozen different companies to keep up with the changing 'this speech is not okay' rules for various places..

funny how fast things can change.

I believe many of cloudflare's early customers especially felt protected and safe because of the stances - and I bet most don't know about the 180..

I also think most average web people would think if you set 'whatever' for your DNS - that the dns routing is basically a dumb pipe - it's not spying on you and sending copies of your data to gun agencies.

Just as I think most people would not expect their cell phone company or internet provider to spy on data and send snippets of your communications to agents. I would not expect my web server co to deep packet inspect all comms looking for bad things. (not without a warrant and being directed to look at a specific line, now a whole data center / cell co, etc.)

I think it was a terrible choice to make for cloudflare, but I know not an easy one either way.

So 'pipe' is a term that has been used in this way for a while now in similar fashion I thought - and it's not meant literally like a copper water line.

Also in some ways cloudflare has been a pipe - a pipe for flowing data that would be choked by ddos attack if were to try to send/receive across the net in most other ways kinda of.
Why the Internet Needs IPFS Before It's Too Late (2015)
I suspect too many people on HN are long or short on TSLA for there to be any reasonable discussion here.
I didn't really understand that article. But I did enjoy watching that jelly bean make its tower. I wish it well.
“bordering” may be necessary to avoid slander/libel, but I don’t feel it’s “bordering”. Obviously I don’t know for sure but as a layperson I find it difficult to see how this isn’t just actual blackmail.

I’m not a lawyer so I’d be interested to learn ways that this isn’t a violation of California penal code PC 519, very specifically PC 523, and more generally PC 518. If anyone could educate me and help me see how it is not blackmail/extortion, I would genuinely appreciate that.

Penal Code 518 defines the California crime of extortion. The law says that a person commits extortion by:

obtaining property or other consideration from another person without that person’s consent, …and doing so by means of force or fear.

Penal Code 519 says that, for purposes of extortion charges, fear is an emotion generated by certain specific threats. These include the threat to:

…accuse a person, or that person’s relative or family member, of a crime,

…report a person’s immigration status or suspected immigration status.

New York’s law is quite similar, https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/135.60 but merely a class A misdemeanor.
Hmm, I didn't intend it that way, you're right.
Make a sound how? When dropping the 3d object onto the ground? Or when making it resonate at its natural frequency, or something else?
For many people, any political change that is not a move towards an even more liberal view of the world is automatically authoritarianism.
Don’t. My train of thought went in the same direction, and I was enlightened by this explanation as well.
I have encountered a similar thing, with a university professor somehow supporting the finding that esoteric stickers are having an effect on patients, because they block EMF: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2018.0019... – this is bullshit (up to the measurement equipment supplied by the German EHS-community).

I think at least the university should reprimand this people, how did you get in contact with the people threatening to sue? As I'm currently a grad student (in an unrelated field) I guess I could have some fun pushing this as academic discourse.
I can’t tell if he thinks 120k-160k for a junior position is good or bad (the answer should be that’s really good).
There's no doubt forced preemption could help, but I'm still unsure about what the right algorithm is; probably not time sharing.

Suppose you have 100K threads, and only 1% of them become CPU-bound for 100ms. That could take down your 32-core server for 3 seconds, which is bad. But suppose we had 10ms time-slices. Then, those busy threads' latency might go from 100ms to as high as a few minutes, which means effectively taking them down. The scale has a qualitative effect here. So, rather than time-sharing, it might be better to optionally install some other preemption policy -- maybe something that indefinitely suspends threads that behave badly too often and puts them in some collection.

The point is that time-slicing will probably not be helpful in sufficiently many cases, and we don't yet know what will. We'd like to gather more data before offering something. In some other languages/runtimes it might be worthwhile to just expose a capability and see what people do with it, but with Java, within five minutes you'll have twenty libraries doing time-sharing, and thousands of people using them blindly whether it's good or bad for them (just because they say they do time-sharing, and that's good, no?), and now there's just noise and bad habits everywhere. This is nanny-state governance, but we've learned our lesson, and you can't be too careful with an ecosystem this big.
Little-known fact, this actually occurred before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
Personally addressing the reader makes them engage more, tempts them into engaging with the author in comments or, if they're thirsty, DMs. It's like youtube videos where a repeated pattern is direct questions to answer in the comments, invitations to share your thoughts, or even games like including "hidden words" in the video. There's not even a reward or anything for finding it, but it's apparently enough for some people to feel involved.
Every thing that is used by the lower class to escape reality get stigmatized, and the more effective it is the more problematic society view it.

The decline in alcohol addictions is often attributed to gaming, particularly among men. I also personally prefer people who are addicted to games over those addicted to alcohol, and long term it is much safer for everyone involved.
> I relayed my experiences that afternoon to the two teachers who were overseeing the retreat of about 40 meditators. They were both kind, compassionate, and welcoming, suggesting various ways that I might alter my meditation practice to alleviate my symptoms
>
> In fact, in Britton’s study, 60% of the participants reporting distressing experiences were meditation teachers, rebutting Davidson’s argument that experienced meditators don’t end up in difficult territory.

It sounds like a scary failure mode due to survivorship bias, where meditation retreats don't have experienced leaders, because those that have had adverse effects of meditation simply stop teaching it. I wonder how many other fields suffer from the same, where it's easy to deny anything could go wrong until it happens to you, and that removes you from the race.

> A few months ago, I began dabbling with teaching mindfulness again, which may seem surprising. [---] I feel that I could do something for my students that wasn’t ever done for me: tell the truth.

This is great, and I hope Dan succeeds in making it sustainable.
Yes, that’s a good point. I suppose the compiler can parse «foo + "bar"» regardless of whether the Add language item is implemented for the types involved. It’ll only fail during type checking, which is a later step. Not so complex after all.

Oh, and good point about the existing feature gate; I debated going and looking to see if one existed yet or not, but I was hungry so I didn’t. Glad you were around to point it out.
People enjoy the reciprocation of donating then receiving an award. It turns the passive activity of watching pornography into an interactive game.
It's a very interesting piece of hardware. Sadly its convoluted design is the result of development constraints to extend the functionality of the Mega Drive. Apart from emulator development, there isn't much use for the hardware today - it's not even well-represented in the demoscene.
This offering isn't, as far as I know, anything new.

AFAIK ISO is funded by their paywall and as an international treaty organisation is probably far harder to reform than industry organisations, so I don't have much hope for this to change.

ISO's attitude to this was recently expressed on Twitter: https://nitter.snopyta.org/MetaCatie/status/1368910356664483...

ISO even takes freely available standards from other organizations and paywalls them, even reneging on previous agreements to make a standard freely available, for example: https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/18/schematron_standard_p...
Sure they did. I also think Lukashenko would have also won most of his elections if they were democratic, losing maybe only the last one marginally. Same with the Chinese communist party. To no surprise - if your people sit on all levels of the government, if you control the media and the public discourse, if you persecute anyone having any chance against you, you win. This doesn't mean other countries need to support this. And voicing an opinion against these tactics isn't "meddling in national affairs" as these governments like to tout.
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I've recently come across a 'for pay' report from a university as well that had holes in it the size of which you could drive a truck through, which was also used to establish claims of efficacy that were off the scale. This is probably quite common, and I really wonder why universities would lend their name to this kind of practice.
> Why not abolish nations within the EU and just become the EU with different provinces?

With the borders opened, it's very similar to what you describe. It just takes lots of time and stability which Orban and friends undermines all the time. That's why we can't have nice things.

Don't underestimate the power of cultural diversity, it's not like the US where everybody speaks English and you can fit in quite easily if you move a state or two.
Alibaba Develops Search Engine Simulation AI That Uses Live Data
Playing devil's advocate for a second: be careful what you're saying: some will interpret your call as an attack on their identity and attempt at hiding historical injustice. Same happens with people who say "I see no color" believing this is a good approach to nondiscrimination.

I think emphasizing differences at the expense of commonalities is a huge mistake, just as much as disregarding those differences. Diversity in unity and unity in diversity, always a difficult balancing act.
> furthermore apply to the entire planet

This attitude is why the world doesn't like the US. You are not the center of the world, many countries fare much better than you do.
Then I must concede that I am mis-remembering the timeline.
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My grandpa would warrant an alpha flag, too. But he still allowed to drive and his driving skills are not improving, at all.

What the alpha flag would change, exactly?
Did you license your code under terms that allowed them to do so?
Shaming companies for using OpenSSL for free without any strings attached seems to go against the idea of free software.
App store compliance will be the real question they haven't answered. Apple does not even allow you to load things like html5 games from your own cdn. You have to use their own system or pre-load everything on your app with some local web server solution.
Is it worse than fast food restaurants, pizza joints, or bars exploiting customers who appear (in retrospect) prone to over-indulge?
There's a difference between building a product using open source and not contributing back, and copying licensed code into your own codebase. One is rude and the other is straight up illegal.
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Thanks! I think these days the idea is to replace hand-crafted heuristics with (deep) reinforcement learning. But adversarial search by minimax and friends is still the core of AI players, far as I can tell.