jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This ridiculous assertion any self-driving == better than humna is just ridiculous too. This is a website selling a self-driving devkit with a big "buy it now" sign that also has a disclaimer saying "Well you're not really buying it, if you kill someone, we've never met".

Sure, self-driving cars that were better than humans would be good, but what we have right now is self-driving cars that are maybe better than humans in normal conditions (controlling for type of car, conditions etc), and completely break down in bad conditions and often fail unsafe in between.

>Do you think you'd see a bunch of FUD about a 2021 manually-driven Chevy mystery car getting in a minor fenderbender and equating it with the safety of the entire car industry? No.

Well of course not, because we all moved to self-driving cars in 2017 as Elon Musk told us we would.

There's a very simple reason we aren't worried if Bob down the road crashes his car, it's because we're not binary identical bob, and people haven't been systematically lying about bob's capabilities for the last decade.
The article speaks to the larger issue of discrimination of women in the valley in general. Just because Pao's case didn't convince a jury doesn't mean everything is peachy.

And even in her case there's a grey area where discrimination can occur without it being illegal. In that case, you can win in court but lose the trial of public opinion.
Copying over my response to another comment, because I think people will see this and get the wrong idea:

What you refer to as the "hospital's oxygen system" is the oxygen output port on a ventilator. See also this note in the text:

"The prototype as a whole has been tested on one of our colleagues directly inside the Chiari Hospital, connected to the ventilator body, and has proven to be correctly working."

(Note that the mask is general-purpose, so they mention in the video that it can also be attached to a CPAP machine or to a plain old oxygen feed for less severe cases; but people who need a ventilator are still going to need a ventilator with this. They're just going to have a mask available.)
I ordered a DC power cord for an Asthma nebulizer and the expected arrival date is 30-days away.

Seeing that, I rummaged through my garage and found a 12v inverter and tested that with the nebulizer on its AC plug. It worked. I've got a solution but only because I have the inverter.

In Utah we had an earthquake on top of the Pandemic. That threatened power and water for a time.

There's a chance they will not prioritize many items correctly.
bill gates saw this coming in 2015 [1] and proposed many solutions so we could better prepare including assembling a medical reserve corps, simulated "germ games", and investments in medical R&D along with increased investment in 3rd world health infrastructure to stop the infections before they spread

also many asian countries were better prepared due to their exposure to mers/sars [2]. so there was a precedent and influential people calling for change

but investing health infrastructure is not the Fed's job, that is congress/government's job - AKA the job of corporations through lobbyists who have no incentive to do any type of preparation, just perpetuate the consumption cycle

the fed is just responding to an economic crisis by trying to bail water out of a sinking boat, but they don't have the power to actually rebuild/fix that boat

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_the_next_outbreak_we_re...

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/e015e096-6532-11ea-a6cd-df28cc3c6...
From one of HN's own stars:

Javascript Cryptography Considered Harmful: https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/b...

There are some out of date bits, but the core of the post is still as true as it was back in 2011.
For anyone who struggles with “internal dialogue,” writing down your thoughts can help. (I find it hard to focus if I’m just thinking, but writing really helps me stay on track.)

Also if you do have someone who you can trust with these things, talking about them in actual dialogue can be really powerful. Also risky though, so you need someone who is really on your side and who has optimism for you.
I’ve never understood how you win the beer distribution game, people only ever talk about the effects on the supply chain it seems. But how do you mitigate?
I think you'd have to be psychopathic and lacking the ability to empathize to not consider this to be a moral dilemma.
There are other ways that users can fulfill their information needs which don't require targeted advertising.

You mention you don't mind ads; would you also prefer to be subject to targeted advertising rather than to have software running on your own device which displays equally-relevant reference material without sharing your personal data?
I just clicked because of the tagline.
Oh come on. "large portions of humanity"...really? There are studies that show, people who torrent also buy. Good products will be bought. Bad products won't. They'll still be available illegally but there will just be less people to fall for crap. Interestingly, those people with crap are those who complain the most.

Your overdramatisation isn't helping anyone. You hurt your position more then you help because with all that piracy going on in "large portions of humanity", the whole market looks pretty good. There was even more piracy going on in several sectors (music for example) and guess what, there is still music being made today! In fact, they never stopped. There is still Microsoft out there! Popular Games, Movies and so on. There are even musicians who share their products on torrents for free and don't end up broken in the end. There are so many examples why your overdramatisation is wrong and all those hurt the discussion. That makes me despair of a certain portion of the startup scene that seems to be stuck in some long past vision of "how it should be".
This is incorrect.

A Lie _group_ is a group which is also a manifold, such that the group operations are smooth. (I don't know what it means for a set to be smooth.)

A Lie _algebra_ is a vector space together with a bilinear operation (the Lie bracket, written [a, b]) which also satisfies the Jacobi identity:

[a, [b, c]] + [c, [a, b]] + [b, [c, a]] = 0.

How are they related? If G is a Lie group, the tangent space at the identity is a Lie algebra. What does the Lie algebra represent? Well, unlike a plain manifold, in a Lie group, given a tangent vector a, there is a path starting from a the identity in the Lie group always in the direction a. Given two tangent vectors a, b, you can flow a little in the direction a, and then a little in the direction b, or vice versa. The Lie bracket can be thought of as a measure of how the flow fails to commute.
and it takes weeks to power them down too, else you get the dreaded quench...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnet#Magnet_q...
yes and no.

While the icons themselves are not SVG, Raphaeljs draws these icons as SVG (VML under IE) in Javascript.
Numbers would be good. How radioactive? Compared to background and something which we know to be dangerous?
That's not what I'm arguing against, I'm stating that hormone therapy should not be paid for by the military.

That said, if he wants to be recognized as a woman, that means he wants to be placed in prison with other women, which is clearly an issue. IMO the military has no choice but to place him in a male facility and call him whatever he wants to be called.
The "Fukushima 50" walked back into the plant after being ordered to evacuate. Not ritual suicide, but close: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_50
Excel actually isn't that bad for managing projects. Does saying that make me old, or a skeptic?

Digging deeper into this... I would like to see some data on where grads go. Having spent time in Japan, my intuition was a disproportionate amount of top grads from top schools want to work at old (40+ years) large companies, relative to a similar number in the US. The ones who do go elsewhere wind up at small family businesses. I would like to see data on this.

The larger issue is there isn't as developed a concept of "VC and Angels toss a bunch of small piles of money at juniors and hope one or two grow into a big pile." I suspect the data behind this is much easier to find.

Perhaps much of the push can come from outsiders? Foreigners well versed in the local customer, with foreign money? The large companies tend to be more reluctant to hire international workers anyway.

It's not easy, but Japan is a glorious country with a fascinating culture. It's worth the effort.
Indeed. If it wasn't seized for purposes of "national security" then why was it seized at all?
there is a nice, wide middle path you know. outsourcing something I cannot do properly/safely/takes me a lot of time and I don't want to go through learning curve - that's OK. outsourcing something that i can do in couple of (tens of) minutes - that's being lazy. no way around it.
Perhaps I am but even Clojure is not "purely functional" in that respect.
It's strange that pilot didn't leave a "voice suicide note" - it was very easy to do for him, but he chosen silence.

The paper quoted in "suicide note" wikipedia article ([1]) says that "the note-leaving rate remained almost constant (23.4–36.2%)"

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1440-1819.2005....
AFAICT both Haxe and AS3 consistently put types on the right, including argument declarations. Other languages consistently put it on the left. Most languages make a choice like that; PHP mixes things up a bit.

But then, it wouldn't be PHP if it was too consistent ;).
Porn and sexual norms have been inextricably linked for decades now. One need only consider the once shocking, now common practice of pubic hair removal to understand this. That cat is out of the bag, so to speak.

And not all porn is like the porn you're describing. Erotic literature and comics are quite popular with the younger generations, which manage to depict outlandish fantasies and fairly normal sex within caring relationships with surprisingly similar frequency. Not to mention, if you consider things like crossdressing and transexual porn, one person's kink can be another's lifeline. To censor all porn, apart from being reprehensible on the grounds of freedom of speech, is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

As for 4 year olds, I actually don't think they need to be worried about. I grew up with the internet, so naturally I stumbled across porn a few times before I hit puberty. I remember being quite surprised at first, but I got over it pretty quickly. I said "gross," clicked back, went back to surfing the web and playing video games, and never really thought about it or sought it out again until the hormones kicked in. Of course that's an anecdote, but I think finding porn as a kid is about as inconsequential as walking in on your parents having sex.

What people should be fucking terrified about is the popularity of camera and GPS-equipped smartphones that your naive kid can use to post geotagged selfies up for the entire world to see, making it trivial for predators to stalk them. But few parents are aware of the danger of this, and a firewall wouldn't help it anyway.
AFAIK, if you have a Rails app that will be accepting files from users, Rails is probably not the best thing to use. Ruby likewise, short of using something evented (and I say this as someone thoroughly enjoying working with both Ruby and Rails.) Seeing as you'll be tying up processes rather quickly that way, no?

That aside for the moment, and based on your S3-related comments nested below, I thought I might pop by to mention that I (using Rails on Heroku) have been handling uploads by using direct pre-authorized posting to S3 and it has been very nice to work with.
Working on an app to fix this. 95% finished. Launching soon.
We're all wondering what he used to visualize his data set.
Thanks for the feedback!
I got some points there that I agree with, I'm working on a lot on the application itself (once signed in).

Thanks again
Presumably that risk could be mitigated with improved processes (vacuum room?). If I read correctly, this was extreme application of an existing technique (chemotherapy).

Admittedly this is pretty intense, but so are treatments for cancer. Let's hope this leads to improved and safer treatments in the future.
I think Silicon Valley has both broad and narrow meanings. The broad meaning mostly applies when mass-market magazines or people from the East Coast are speaking. But from where I sit in SF, the Valley is that area down south where the big boys have their big campuses, and all that.

Of course, when I go home to Mississippi and folks say I'm living in or otherwise associated with Silicon Valley, I don't correct them. Close enough that it's not worth being a smartass.
Start with basic HTML/CSS knowledge, understand the CSS/DOM rendering differences between browsers. Learn jQuery, and JavaScript in general.

Understand the DOM, and how traversing in jQuery/JS works. Understand and learn how to debug JavaScript, and CSS rendering.
Bestbuy and customer service aren't normally found in the same sentence
This is funny. Tim and I woke up this morning thinking about the contract job we've been working on. Then we saw the delicious thing and I wrote this post. Not expecting anything major. But 3 hours later, we're on the HN front page. And our invite queue is jammed with requests.

What the heck. Tim and I just decided to pull out our credit cards, remove the invitation thing and open up the registration.

A big Thank You to the HN community. You've made our day.

We just launched!
Instead of checking the price, I check on the reviews for the product while I am in store, especially if that product is something I am not familiar with. Recently I went to shop for a compact camera with no particular brand in mind, I went to the shop, checked out what's on offer, and read the reviews on the spot via my iPhone. This process helped me to weed out a few cameras, and finally I got a camera (Canon Ixus 130) at a price that I am happy with. Since I already know the pros and cons of this camera, I must say I am quite happy with my purchase as it removes a lot of uncertainty from the purchase (No, AFAIK, most shops in Singapore don't provide refund or exchange for purchases...)
Thanks. I appreciate the kind words.
I would say that it's OK to walk into a store and price compare with other stores, however I personally agree that it's immoral to use the brick and mortar store to discuss the options and decide what you want to buy, then buy it online.

Some stores are for when you know exactly what you want and just want the most convenience and the best price, others are for actually shopping: investigating your options and deciding what works best for you. Helping you shop costs money. It's immoral to steal the stores time discussing what to buy then buy it from Amazon because it's cheaper.
I did some research on this before, I found that intercom.io is a must-have and can handle automated communication with your customers, Stripe is probably the best payment option and the account management will need to be home-rolled and utilize the API's of the aforementioned providers.

I'm sure there is something out there, I just haven't come across it yet!
You seem to have missed my point. Every desirable opinion that people hold today was once an undesirable opinion in years past.

It's only by radical people going against the grain that we have ended up with the relatively free and liberal society we have today.

Support for "heavy social pressure" is support for the status quo. Personally, I'm hoping for some improvement in the state of things during my lifetime.
One anti-stuffocation tip: Invest in a good camera. Get one that can take decent close-ups.

Why? So when you have something you don't want to get rid of for one sentimental reason or another, you can just take a few pictures of it for archival purposes, then toss it. Years later you can still look through the photos for a trip down memory lane.
I for one have switched from Android (I mainly develop for Android) the first time to an iPhone (6 Plus) because Apple finally provides a "phablet" and I'd definitely switch back to Android if they should stop selling this form factor in the future.

But I agree that the accessibility feature is useless, so I've just turned it off.
Please don't forget python for data science. Any chance we can get equivalent python integration and attention to azure and office stuff?
"Anti-marriage" is a completely different, basically unrelated position than "anti-gay marriage," just as, say, "anti-gun ownership" is a completely different position than "only white people should be allowed to own guns." You've presented a coherent, non-bigoted argument for the anti-marriage position; it does nothing to legitimize the anti-gay marriage position.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8931999
When people don't fall sick again and again in his beds by malaria, they can work more days and have more resources to spend in the food market. This should be understood as an economy improvement for the family. Same as to have a roof.

Overfishing and the extinction of both fishes and the professional fishers is a big problem for all the community.
You just add a song from your phone and the YouTube link gets sent to the server.
> Go was trying to be a C++ replacement

Let me amend that: Go was a replacement for C++ in a context where C++ was considered unfit and unsafe. Therein - I believe - lies the source of the misconception: Go was made to fill a gap that people tried to fill with various languages they had at hand due to lack of a fitting language. It just so happens that C++ was the one used by Google in that case.

IOW, Rust aims to be a C++ replacement while Go aims to be something that didn't really exist previously (at least not at this scale or in its entirety).
Exactly, I do not count, 'Hey we've made it five years now, but can hardly break even and have no clear vision of where to go from here' as 'alive'. In fact, by that time, the investors have probably written them off and will be trying to figure out if they can salvage some talent from it before their runway ends. In the end, YC or not, less than 10% of these guys will become real companies. It's just statistics. YC may get you the seven figure round, but if you keep your, 'product', or 'feature' as such for a few years, you're dead.

Edit: Not trying to discredit what these start ups have done so far, it's very hard getting to that point alone.
They're making progress. At 5000 FPS, it's not surprising that they can recover audio. But from 60 FPS, that's striking. That works because some imagers don't take the whole frame at once.
Of the big CG packages, I've used both 3DS Max, Maya, and Blender--Max most of all.

The gold standard for UI for me, though, is still Wings3D (based on Nendo). It has way better UV unwrapping support than anything else I've tried. It is as good as it is specifically because the functionality it aims at is quite limited.

Sketchup gets an honorable mention for UI, but the scripting and geometry it makes is such garbage I can't recommend it.
That's what I assumed. You lose capacity as you increase reliability, as you're going to need to redundantly store that data somewhere in your memcached cluster if you don't want to go back to the persistent layer. Thanks!
This is one thing I don't get. Why do some people like to pretend to be anti-consumption while engaged in an economy based on consumption?

Let's put it this way, if all the people, no matter what their income, just took their income, spent it on the basics and then saved or invested the remainder, we'd all pretty much end up poorer. No titans of industry (who would buy consumer goods in a if consumption was avoided), few service workers, few skilled jobs, fewer blue collar jobs. Mostly we'd have government employees and people in essential services (farmers, physicians, educators, etc).

No work at Starbucks, or Amazon, or Google or Tesla. I mean, who would need to buy anything beside the basics from Amazon, and since commerce would be de-emphasized, no need for advertising (adwords) on google.

I guess we could live pretty retro lives, living like we were all Amish or similar, but is that what would be best?

Certainly disposable consumerism is arguably bad, but what if we all decided quality was paramount and instead of buying ten cheap things, we bought one expensive but durable thing costing the same as the ten cheap things?

Anyway, our economic system, neo-liberal capitalism, (and others as well) depend on consumption, frugal wealthy people would impact the economy negatively.

Look, I dislike Hollywood (it's cheap, base, and unimaginative, rarely is there "Art") for various reasons, but, at the same time, I understand that overpaid actors mean that lots of ancillary jobs in Hollywood exist due to their opulent, unfrugal, spednthrift lifestyles.
What are you doing right now to work out in terms of how often you go, what you do at the gym, and so forth? More importantly, what are your goals? I'd love to help.
I'm surprised you find that a personal attack.

I think that it's important that we find a solution to the CA problem. That's why I'm engaging you as earnestly as I can about CT and DNSChain in another subthread. (And please call me out if you think I'm being less than earnest or unnecessarily dismissive.) If CT is in fact flawed the way that you're saying, then it's important for not only me to understand that, but for everyone to understand that. If DNSChain is in fact a good solution, or even close to a good solution, it deserves the enthusiastic attention of way more than 10 people.

Therefore it's important to me that you not get downvoted. So I'm trying to help you get listened to, by telling you why I find myself wanting to reach for the downvote button—but the things you say are important enough that they deserve being engaged with, even if the manner in which you say it is frustrating.
With signal, there is at least the occosional server code dump. The threema server is closed source.
The #1 feature I currently want is the ability to do an implicit lambda capture of a structured binding, at least by reference. I appreciate there are interesting corner cases of like, bindings to bitfields: I simply don't need those corner cases solved... if it just supported a handful of the most obvious cases I would be so so so happy, and then they can spend the next decade arguing about how to solve it 99% (which I say as we know it won't be 100%... this is C++, where everything is some ridiculous epicycle over a previous failed feature :/).

(edit:) OMG, I found this feature in the list!! (It was in the set of structured bindings changes instead of with the changes to lambda expressions, which I had immediately clanged through.) I need to figure out now what version of clang I need to use it (later edit: I don't think clang has it yet; but maybe soon?)... this is seriously going to change my life.

https://oleksandrkvl.github.io/2021/04/02/cpp-20-overview.ht...
It's called topicalization, and it's more common in some dialects of English than others. It's especially common in urban areas of the US Northeast. I'm from Long Island, and I didn't even notice he'd done it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topicalization
Hmm - actually I was using "sane" and "radical" in the intrinsic sense, independent of their popularity at any time after another.

Hence the view that the current workaholic "normal" as a radical departure from the social contract which preceded it.

And that it's worth asking how, exactly, this came to pass -- and in effect become the "new normal", before most people were aware this shift had happened.
Yes, using Backbone is convenient and great. But instead of using it and not worrying about the details why not read the annotated source and learn something?

http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/docs/backbone.html
I think that's where the Stockholm syndrome kicks in (or when the analogy breaks down)