skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a user but have a question for people with more experience. I recently had a few very bad experiences at the movie theatre where (a) the entire outside area smelled of what I think was weed, and (b) the person next to us in a very full theatre reeked of it. We had to leave because it was a really bad odour. Is Toronto going a bit overboard in the short term while people are experimenting or is this just the way it is going to be? I.e. we stop going to movies, etc. I'm not being judgemental .. want to try to be open about it. What does one do in this situation?

I see drunk people from time to time too but I can avoid them fairly easily. MJ seems harder to avoid. I also had a run in at a beach recently where I was there to watch the sunset. The MJ user also seemed to be there for that reason .. I just moved away. Harder to do in a packed theatre.
It's based on a JOMAC[1] boom crane, which are intended to be used on trucks.

I can see why someone might want to have them tested before approving them.

[1] http://www.jomacltd.com/mobile_cranes/telescoping_boom/
What's your point? We complain about corruption in all those other things as well, and no one suggests it's "professional elitism" to do so.
Most likely there are already processes in place to get down to the truth on matters like these. Slow-moving processes - but processes, nonetheless. You know - formal appeals, FOIA requests, lawsuits, expert testimony - that sort of thing.

But this all makes for poor ad copy, of course. "Bold, Crafty Innovator Thwarted, 'Cause Unions!" -- that's what gets people to click on your article. And share it in venues such as this one.
I think it's trivially obvious that some people do not deserve to be treated with dignity (e.g. child molesters, mass murderers, etc.). The fact that you treat them with dignity in spite of that is obviously virtuous, but they don't deserve it. As opposed to people that do: Gandhi, Jesus, MLK, and so on.
I don't think curing illnesses is the same as extending life, but if it is I might agree with you.
>Like who counted the dimples and how many are there in reality?

Assuming the dimples and placement of them is uniform across the ball, and across all manufactured balls,

Then it shouls be pretty simple to get the size of a ball, the size of a dimple, and the spacing between two dimples, and then extrapolate the actual coverage
They were asking after therapeutic nanoparticles 6 years ago, so by now there's probably some foreign head of state with a full Fantastic Voyage crew sailing around his nervous system, waiting for the signal.
“Carnegie Mellon University: Empowering My Rapist and Revictimizing Me” (2017)
I think so too, INTPenis. With respect to your "young person taking revenge", I would think that a young(er) person would loot the belongings, and that an old(er) person would have the social/intellectual wherewithal not to come back to town carrying the chief's cousin's copper axe. I realize I'm speculating wildly here, though I completely agree that Ötzi not having been looted is the biggest detail.
"Ho hum, we've been driven out of business by legal maneuvering, but it's all in good sport."

You don't often see such a laissez-faire attitude towards one's livelihood amongst small businesses.
I'd agree with this. But maybe some kind of restriction on asserting patent claims when organisations repetitively make claims that don't stand up. Something to penalise this behaviour.
Speaking of random ideas: dump the globals into functions (one function per global) - that's right a dumb single-variable function. You can't monitor or pop an assert on a variable, but you can put slap asserts inside a stub function, etc. Plus you know a function ain't local. Globals are such poison that the minor inefficiency created by converting a few globals to functions is usually meaningless.

I begin to think that we need a richer vocabulary to address "complexity." To analyse it into various forms, (some of which are likely to be beneficial.) Separating code into lumps means more lumps; but fewer dependencies, more known absence of dependency... We keep using one word "complexity" to point to various things. Distinguishing between Complex(opposite of 'simple') and 'complicated' (opposite of 'easy') is a start I suppose, but I can't help thinking there are more careful distinctions that could be made.
That is not an example of the ad hominem fallacy
Weird. Makes me want to start a crusade.
Similar to the email spam proposals, charge a modest fee for each motion filed.

Set it at a point that isn't a barrier for anyone filing a "normal" amount of motions, but where it increases to real money if your main business is filing large amounts of know-it-will-fail paperwork.
Some strident Singularitarians have joined the comment thread.
WRT prices of contact lenses, I use an ultrasonic contact lens cleaner with plain saline (Ringer's will also work if that is cheaper in your area), then storing the contact lenses in my lens solution to disinfect. Far better comfort profile, for far longer, than I ever obtained following the manufacturer instructions of 20 seconds rubbing on each side, and 5 seconds rinsing on each side. The saline is half as much as the normal lens solution, I use it liberally to rinse the ultrasonic cleaner, I get more use out of my contacts, and I use far less normal lens solution. So far I haven't encountered any drawbacks, YMMV.
The type and lifetime annotations can get pretty confusing.
>The fact there is a high barrier of entry might be one of the only appeals golf has at all?

This is ridiculous. Golf is a sport that you can play from when you first start walking, until nearly the day you die. That's the appeal.

It requires extreme concentration in a way that I've never experienced in any other sport I've ever played.

I would highly, highly recommend that people learn to play golf. I wish it didn't have the stigma that it does with some people.
A Dream of Clean Energy at a Very High Price
Only appeal?? I play golf regularly and I play because I love it. My friends play cause they love it. What a feeling to stand on a tee box looking out over a wide fairway, driver in hand.
And … this is why we get strategic lawsuits.

I'm not assuming any such thing. I'm an attorney and understand the tradeoffs and I think society would be better off if these sorts of cases didn't waste everyone's time.
The counterargument being that having a high concentration of cases in a given area means that the law is well developed and there will be few surprises when bringing a suit.

It's the reason that a lot of businesses are incorporated in either Deleware or Nevada.
PSR-2: http://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-2/

Of course, these have little to do with core PHP, but PSR-1, PSR-0/4, and large portions of PSR-2 have been widely adopted within the PHP development community. The most-debated portion of PSR-2 is, of course, the use of 4 spaces for indentation (no tabs).

PSR-12 aims to bring the guidelines up to date with the latest features in PHP 7, but I've mostly lost track of things in PHP-land since moving to a new job and burying myself in XSL (and occasionally C#).
Probably because some people don't know what TempleOS is.
There was never a 860 pro, we had 850 pro (2.5" SATA) and then 950 and 960 pro which are m.2 only afaik (and nvme)
True, we should never take anything uncritically but the book is so well written and does make a few points.

We say our ancestors were technologically weak, so how are there edificies like machu pichu, pyramids of Egypt etc
Although what happens when liver damage and cancer occur? Are you driving up healthcare costs and premiums for all?
Assuming you mean interstellar space travel (interplanetary spaceflight is quite achievable with current human lifespans and technology), we don't need to live longer to do it.

Due to the principle of special relativity, if you could build a spaceship that accelerates at a constant 1g, the people on the ship could get anywhere in the entire galaxy without aging more than 24 years [1]. So a person could easily travel from one end of the galaxy and back in a normal human lifespan. Of course to a "stationary" observer (e.g. on Earth) watching the spaceship, it would appear to take a couple hundred thousand years for the trip to take place. But this doesn't matter a bit to people aboard the ship (well, aside from the fact that everyone they left behind on Earth would be dead just a few months into their trip).

So the hard part isn't getting people to live long enough. It's building a ship that can accelerate at a constant 1g for years on end. :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_using_constant_ac...
Yeah, sure, it's pretty simple. But why won't anybody tell me what those numbers are? I'm not going out to Costco to buy a set of balls they no longer sell to find out. It seems so obvious that the easiest way to convince me X != Y is to tell me X and Y. Is that weird?
Because many people will have no idea what TempleOS is from the link, or the demo video on the GH page.
Give 5 interns 5 balls each, and a black sharpie. Have them count the dimples on each ball by putting a dot in the ones they have counted. If there were more than 500 per ball I would be shocked - the group could be done in under an hour.

Not sure how many you'd have to do to get a legally-valid "representative sample", but I imagine as a supportive factor to other methods of determination, it's not the worst option. It also has the advantage of being dead-simple to explain.
I hope they are careful with the lead. When I was in grad school, there were still memories of a similarly large supply of low-radiation lead salvaged from a similar ship wreck that ended up being stolen for recycling as scrap (I remember hearing this lesson when I was at Princeton, which I believe is where the the theft happened)

Just because physicists consider the lead invaluable and irreplaceable doesn't mean recycling thieves will feel the same level of reverence towards it.
The thing is guys, I started complaining in the eighties. It was published knowledge back then, just not widely published. Being looked at as a loon back then didn't bother me. Being looked at as a loon POST-Snowden - and not infrequently - has really shaken me. People are choosing an alternate reality with alternate facts 'cause rose-colored glasses are just so much more comfortable.
If you went completely passive (let your top employee just be CEO) today, how long will it take to lose all your customers and wind down to $0 revenue?

I would just map out how long you think that would take, and forecast all future cash flows by that hypothetical method, and then make your sale price $1 above that amount (discounted).

Very simply if this year you net $240k, next year $200k, then $150k, then $50k, then $0 without you lifting a finger, why would you sell for less than the NPV of that $400k?
>I would highly, highly recommend that people learn to play golf. I wish it didn't have the stigma that it does with some people.

Golf is like animé - it's the fans that make it insufferable.
> This is ridiculous. Golf is a sport that you can play from when you first start walking, until nearly the day you die.

You’ve never considered that Golf has an actual price to it, while most poorer kids just play soccer with a single leather ball on the street, costing less than a dollar for dozens of kids?
I don't have a source, and too tired to look it up. But I thought I saw someone back away who found some tucked away support in APFS for case insensitive file support on macOS.

Maybe misremembering. But someone had hacked it to run as a boot drive, and in doing so, found the setting.
I always thought of it as irony that US declaration of Independence says all men are born equal (Except slaves and women).

Coming to a serious note: yes, the book opened my eyes, all this concept of nationality, money, everything is imaginary. Just a few days ago, I was writing something on HN and it was downvoted for some reason, I thought to myself, "so what if my imaginary internet points reduced by one".

The other day, I read this. Woha, money, countries, everything is imaginary!! The ability to gossip and form bonds on imaginary things saved up from other human species.
I went to high school with Brian Wansink. He is brilliant, funny, and affable. I could hear his voice speaking his responses to the objections raised, and snickered a little bit.

I'm sure that Wansink cares about his research and its quality. He's that sort of person. I don't know what happened with these papers, but it seems likely that answering bloggers publicly would not serve the greater good.

It seems to me that all the hand-wringing about these four papers misses the bigger picture: What can we do to improve the practice of science across the board? Why is there almost no field of study which isn't tainted by the politics of left vs. right?

My suggestion is that it began when people began to believe the idea that all political and social questions are best served with some sort of applied scientific analysis. I counter that, in fact, scientists are some of the worst people to ask for solutions to political and social problems, since most of them have almost no understanding of the relevant fields of study, which mainly include history and philosophy, and perhaps psychology. Even fields like theology, linguistics, and literature and the arts have more to say to most political problems than, say, physics or chemistry or meteorology, because they speak to human behavior rather than the behavior of inanimate substances.

Please understand that I say all this not to provoke an argument, necessarily. But as someone whose formal studies were mostly in political history, in general, listening to HN talk about politics is a lot like what I must imagine it is for most on HN to listen to people on TV news shows talk about tech in general and software in particular: they sort of get it, but not really, and certainly are not as expert as they imagine themselves to be.
Dig-once policy for roadways makes sense because the roadway is a public good, and digging multiple times would cause problems for the public, and would cost more for the public, so the _public_ is well within its rights to require this policy.

Requiring a water line in a building is not the same thing. It's a private building, and the people who own it are well within their rights to decide to risk later disruption and cost if they need water lines. Legislating away that right is insanity and just make-work that costs the building owner money up-front for something they've decided they don't need.
Wansink applied to the phd program I'm in for graduate school, and didn't get it, and then he applied for a professor position at my school and didn't get it. One of the faculty members told me she thought it was "a missed opportunity."

One thing I have trouble figuring out: is this indicative of a long-term trend? Or did his success create an expectation he couldn't keep up with and so felt a need to rush (or cheat)?

Incidentally, there is another professor at my school who has built a career out of exposing similar problems in research (especially p-hacking). It takes a brave person to inhabit that niche. It is a service to the research community, but I'll bet he sits alone at conferences.
But if they are reading HN, surely they know how to use Google and Wikipedia and could acquire this information in seconds?
If San Francisco is anything to go by, in the short term people will go wild and smoke it everywhere because the science says it is "less harmful than cigarettes". I'm hoping that post-legalization someone will do a study that shows "marijuana still makes your lungs black and gives you lung cancer", and we can update all the anti-smoking campaigns marketed at teenagers to cover both marijuana and cigarettes.
Just because "we" find reasons to do this doesn't make it right, or a good idea.
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defecation and he told me that she gave him a high school I.d The car was impounded and she got a ticket. Well he told me I had to pay 60$ dollars to him. When I asked where I was sending the money. He said-/ We can discuss that matter once you have the money sir I'm not about to give you any personal information if I do have you to do a wire transfer you will be sending this money to someone in my family's are not directly to me I'm going to my lawyers office in the morning to have the contract written up you and I can discuss this matter at that time. I believe that the dad and the cop are not saying who they really are. The dads defecation and he told me that she gave him a high school I.d The car was impounded and she got a ticket. Well he told me I had to pay 60$ dollars to him. When I asked where I was sending the money. He said-/ We can discuss that matter once you have the money sir I'm not about to give you any personal information if I do have you to do a wire transfer you will be sending this money to someone in my family's are not directly to me I'm going to my lawyers office in the morning to have the contract written up you and I can discuss this matter at that time. I believe that the dad and the cop are not saying who they really are. The dads
I think you're saying a few different things. But I do agree with your very first statement about bandwidth vs intelligence. As a matter of fact, intelligence itself is not nearly the limiting factor of human societies. If one cannot control the influence of what has accumulated in one's consciousness from the past they cannot see anything as it really is. People hear what they want to hear. Even given the constant firehose of truth that we are being sent through everything that exists around us, people remain blind through the simple fact that they don't want to know.
I don't know, and it's likely they don't do it at all.

Why would the number of taxis need to be controlled? I don't know much about the taxi industry and perhaps there is some good reason for it that I am simply not aware of?
Anyone given access to a missile system will also be trained in it's usage, so the bar for usability of a missile system is much lower (e.g., it can assume knowledge of military terminology)
Assuming that the 1 GB/min figure is because you're saving broadband (back of the envelope math assuming you have two Utah arrays with 32 bits/sample at 30 kHz), you can get enormous space savings with compression. Field potentials are highly correlated across channels, as you no doubt know. Depending on your amplifier you may be able to pack everything into 16 bits/sample too.
>"Unfortunately if a given field involves many people with ignorance of statistics, these problems may not be called out during the peer review process."

As I said, poor understanding of statistics has been a beneficial trait in many areas of research for decades now. Universities and labs are rewarded with funding because they are able to (honestly, but incorrectly) pump out more "results" than if the researchers were properly trained.

So the issue goes well beyond the problems "not being called out". The problems are institutionalized. Editors and reviewers will try to force you to commit the errors in order to publish (and hence have a career). That is what they have been trained to consider science.
>I once saw a book with a title similar to "Statistics for Dummies" in a professors office. //

Could easily have been a handy reference text for lending or showing to erring students/faculty.
The mobs are not affiliated with New York unions anymore. Yes--for a time it was a big embarrassment.

There are some arcane rules. The nepotism in getting into these unions has been greatly reduced.

(This guys crane looks like it needs more development time. On any big job site, you get to know your Crance Operator. They are lifting huge loads right over you heads. They take their jobs seriously. If this guys crane is better; it will eventually see job sites. Maybe--if it's safe. Yes--unions are slow to move, but for good reason on many cases. People get killed. I don't know all the ins-outs of this guy's crane. I would rather have a trained Crane Operator operating loads over my head. That just might change, but regulatory agencies/unions are not going to run to one guy's contraption.)

Back to union membership. The test is very important. The union test is not usually a hard test, but you need to get every question right. Usually, the other 1/2 of getting into the union is the oral exam. On those boards are union delegates, contractors(many whom would run to non-union labor if feasible.), and in many unions, members of the community. They are trying to make getting into a union fair.

There are many unions in NYC. There are many unions in SF.
Both are union towns. I have not crossed picket lines because maids/painters were on strike. I have drove to San Francisco and drove right home. Those old unions do pay their members a very fair wage.

Such a wage that brings a blue collar worker into the middle class.

There's police unions all the way to Window Washer unions.

The average owner/contractor/city would love to get rid of unions. They hate paying those wages.

They would happily hire minimum wage workers.

I have worked a few blue collar jobs that didn't gave unions. It's basically comes down to minimum wage, or a bit above, and at the end of the week; you wonder why you even show up.

It all seems crazy until you're in a union.

There's a reason most developers are very rich. They like to pay the least amount they can legally get away with.

Tech is still relatively new. Wait until the barriers to enter become easier than they are today. Watch what happens to those generous pay packages.
WhatsApp encryption
Note for the author if they're reading - Tampermonkey has a Safari release as well, and the script works as expected in Safari.
>"Then there are publications about anything and everything. There is no topic."

It's a blog. In this case the topic is the author. That was really common in when that one was started and I enjoy that kind of blog over one designed around a very narrow interest any day. As Andrew pointed out, though, Facebook and others have captured a lot of people's attention and pushed personal blogs into the periphery.
Yup. There's nothing to stop some to have a lot of local iterations for speed, and then later when you are satisfied, have the test run on real AWS.

Would save some money too.
And unfortunately they are back in power now in the US. Prime example IMHO. Both Trump and Clinton were like giving the AARP the reigns. Now it's like the old boy's club is having one last run at managing our country. After the 40-something Obama from 2008 it really feels like a step backwards. Wise? How far has these people's thinking evolved from their 30's or 40's? How "wise" was our country back then?

It's morbid to say it but I have no reservations in admitting that I(and I'll throw out there most others I know) am looking forward to these people "moving on".

And by "moving on" I mean dying and getting out of the way.
Watts also said you are the Big Bang. Think of an ink bottle thrown at the wall and BOOM ink goes in every direction on the wall, and the tiny little bits of ink at the ends are us. We are the Big Bang, and before it went boom it was 1 solid object. That's the "real you" that can never die. And the illusion you have for 100 years is that you are this separate create called a human with the name John Smith etc etc. but it's all intentional amnesia by the real you. Because, try this, it's absolutely impossible to surprise yourself. You can't sneak up on yourself and go boo and actually be surprised. You need someone else. So, just for fun, the real you broke into different selves. And once you realize this (satori) you laugh and laugh and relax and enjoy the ride to "death" which really isn't death. Therefore drinking lots of alcohol and bringing on this death quicker isn't disallowed. Or 2nd wives or any other sin you want to name.
lol, seriously :)
> marijuana still makes your lungs black and gives you lung cancer

What? While smoking anything isn't great for your lungs, there's no evidence that marijuana causes lung cancer.