skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The more we discuss sexual harassment as a culture, the harder it is for me to navigate the precise definitions of the terms involved. I read these articles and I find myself wondering what the phrase "sexual harassment" means. Wikipedia defines it as so:

"Sexual harassment is bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_harassment

That is an easy enough definition to understand, and I don't think there should be any controversy over it being wrong. However, the term "sexual harassment" is often used to convey any type of sexualized interaction in a professional environment.

Sometimes that's wrong too. I remember that a certain prominent female member of our community complained that she received emails from male members that they masturbated to videos of her talks. Sending such an anonymous email is certainly not coercive, probably not bullying either. But it does seem understandable that she did not appreciate such emails.

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According to wikipedia's definition of s.h., it is not clear to me whether, in the case of tipping, it is directly the customer who is guilty of sexual harassment or if it is tipping itself that is at fault. Is it not the very culture of tipping which implies "[the] inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors"?
I think it's certainly seen as cheap elsewhere, but usually of better quality than comparably cheap furniture.
The steady-state static draw is the current consumption that is always there even if nothing is going on. Everything else that happens is added on top of it, so to speak. When the microcontroller is at sleep it will consume a certain amount to current to eg keep registers and RAM intact (otherwise it would become corrupt).

It is also due to leakage currents from capacitors, and any leakage that might go out through GPIOs. Sensors also have a static draw when not in use. Batteries self-discharge. And so on.

For example, a cc1310 system on chip has a 0.8uA current consumption when in deep sleep, but the real static draw is more than that. Periodically, the chip will run a little charge pump to energize RAM so that it doesn't evaporate (metaphor). There might also be a timer active, and that consumes 100uA. And so on.

When the device wakes up to run at 24 MHz, it uses about 1.9mA, plus any peripherals (SPI 13+93uA, timer 113uA), plus any sensors or other hw peripherals. This might be very very short amount of time, like 10 ms every two hours-kind of short.

So it turns out, that for a device that wakes very rarely, the static draw can be a significantly decrease lifetime. It's small, but it is _always_ there. It is hardware-dependent and is the "black art" within embedded development. It's very easy to reach arduino-levels, pretty easy to start using low-power modes, time/money-consuming and requires expertise to squeeze the last years/months out of the battery.
> This analysis, while novel and interesting to me, is not supported by the bulk of events in the early Old Testament.

Fair enough. But my point was that the analysis was the analysis of the New Testament authors. People are free to provide their own critical analysis, but they're disagreeing with Peter, Paul, and the Jesus of the Gospels even. I think people that hold this viewpoint and care to be rigorous about it would do well to review their arguments.

Regarding your first three examples, in each case the story is about God saving an imperfect group who trusts God:

1. Noah and his family

2. Lot and his family

3. Moses and the Israelites

...to back up to Romans 1, the reward for people who want to run their own show is often... their own show to run. They'll just be doing it on their own. Earth before the flood, Sodom, and recalcitrant Egyptians are all examples of this pattern. But in each of these cases, God decides not to end the story in just desserts but give people another shot to redeem themselves.

I'm refraining from commenting on example 4 mostly because I don't know exactly which even you're referring to (Israel ends up in the Promised Land). But the narrative of the Old Testament is generally Israel deciding to do its own thing over and over, asking for another chance, and getting one.

So one thing people usually have a problem with is the idea that God judges people at all. This usually stems from a belief that loving people don't judge people. This is clearly contradictory to certain tenets of the Bible, including the text of the New Testament. But I think most people, if they stop and think about it, disagree with this sentiment as well. Consider:

- A grown man kicks a toddler. The father of the toddler acts like nothing happened. Dad is a loving guy and wants peace more than judgement. No, a loving father is angry when his family is abused. He expects justice, even.

- A teacher doesn't particularly like a student so he ignores the student. The mother thinks this is messed up but understands the teacher is his own person and makes his own decisions. No, a loving mother gets angry when her kids aren't nurtured and taught properly. She expects corrective action.

In the interest of not writing a novella in an HN comment, I'll wrap it up here, so thanks for reading if you got this far. I appreciate the civil discussion.
I pronounce OSX as O-S-Ecks as well
Flynn effect didn't slow down. It actually reversed.

https://theeconomyofmeaning.com/2015/11/12/new-study-shows-r...

It's like https://xkcd.com/603/, except White Hat is is wrong on most accounts.
He's a CEO - he doesn't build and design, he has people build and design for him. He owns an entire company of builders and designers.

Giving speeches is more appropriate for his actual job.
Oh, come one, you don't need to be a marketing genius to create a product webpage, create social network presence, buy some Google ads or even start a Kickstarter campaign etc. so people can find you themselves. Being "invisible" at this age and time is only possible if you actively try to stay this way or make a product that nobody needs (I ruled out the former as it doesn't make any sense).
In some cases, they actually contribute a novel feature (e.g. Monero adding features that enhance privacy).

In most cases (all but a handful), they add nothing.

It’s a money grab—so much so, that a somewhat self-aware crypto enthusiast created a parody coin, Useless Ethereum Token, whose sole feature was that it had none. It raised $40k in 3 days and was, at its peak, worth $160k, which is a pretty lofty valuation for a joke.
wait and what's the energy usage of that thing? Carbon footprint?
Yep, that is the selling part right there!

It is one thing to take an idea to market when you are selling for companies like IBM, Accenture, Google, etc.

But when you have to sell the same idea on your own, that takes real skill and hard-work!
Yes, outside cellular coverage there is rarely any wifi coverage either...
I said "fuck it" and bought a $30 corded trimmer, 5 years ago. It's still perfectly sharp enough to take of my beard and hair, it just needs a drop of oil once in a while.

Since male-pattern hair loss runs heavy in my family anyway, I decided to just buzzcut myself once a week on the lowest setting. For the limited shaving I do (sometimes my head, but usually just the edges of my beard), safety razors are so much better than cartridges.

They're cheaper, they last longer and it's so much easier to do accurate beard edges.
Two Types of Curiosity
It's the feature I hate the most. It made sense for them because having all your history reside with Google fuels their engines. It makes no sense for the user and gives worse results when trying to find something back.
Well, politicians are responsible for progress only in so far as they're responsible for allocating budget and legal support for research. They do not do the work, but they control large amounts of resources that help make it happen[0].

As for questioning the kind of technological advancement and the reactions to it, I think the defensive comments come from a combination of the following:

1. Questioning spending on space exploration in the topic about space exploration is like questioning the existence of football on a football match. You're talking to an audience who loves it and telling them that it takes resources away from More Important Things. Except that space is at the same time much more underfunded and much more important than football, baseball, basketball, movies, concerts, celebrity gossip and all the other stuff people like[1]. So it kind of feels unfair to single it out here.

2. Basic research is increasingly becoming underfunded. The funny thing about solving the world problems with technology is that, more often than not, what enables those technologies is pie-in-the-sky research with no expected immediate results. This doesn't fly well with the markets, and as countries increasingly treat science in the same way market economy does, the funding for long-term research is in ever greater jeopardy. Attacking space exploration through arguments of other more immediate problems is in a big way attacking basic research.

3. People need to dream about better future. Space exploration is somewhat unique that it captures and nourishes the imagination and hope for a better world.

4. We have enough resources to solve the more important problems like clean water and food for all. And yet they are not solved. Taking the meagre few $B from space research will most likely not help in solving those problems, but it will shut down space research.

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[0] - Note that in that they're not unique - theoretically, a private institution with large amounts of resources can do the same thing too. Still, to date, it's usually governments that are willing to spend money on actual research.

[1] - Also, there's plenty of money in wasted military spending that could be taken first, even without reducing the actual military capabilities of a country.
The source code for this is a really nice read, I just read the whole cmd/micro/micro.go like some prose. But one thing jumped at me:

if err != nil && !strings.HasPrefix(err.Error(), "function does not exist")

I wonder why most modern languages don't provide symbols a la Lisp or keywords a la Ruby, which would allow the above comparison to be a pointer comparison instead of a stribg one.

Edit: add the missing "don't" before "provide symbols".
Lockheed Martin unveils reusable water-powered Mars lander
I haven't downvoted you, but I wouldn't recommend Vim either, and it's my favourite editor. Vim is notorious for trapping users, they don't even know how to exit the program!

Nano really gets the job done for people who have no clue about editor usage. If you only need to edit a few lines in a file once a month, immediate accessibility Nano provides is more valuable than powerful features that take time to memorize and absorb into muscle memory.

Emacs, Vim are for people who use Nano enough to start feeling uncomfortable.
I find the haproxy (alpine) Dockerfile a great example on how to tender to container file-size. It uses the syntax you're referring to, temporary build virtuals (should be multistage today I guess) and static linking: https://github.com/docker-library/haproxy/blob/2d393f2b59824...
Not only that - we have more than enough resources available to tackle this problem. The reasons it is not happening have nothing to do with it being underfunded, and thus axing space research will not help it either.
I use a service called Kimsufi quite some. They offer cheap Dedicated Servers with up to 2TB of storage.

Very reliable and trustable too since they're owned by OVH.
What you are saying is true, but engineers are extremely fungible to almost all organizations. Engineers are far more replaceable than founders.
imagine a alien civilization, that has been cultural productive for thousands of years..
Even the best offs would take longer then a lifetime
Genera was using more than 32 bits in each word so the Alpha was the only available target at the time for a software emulation of the system.

It would have been easier to create a port of the LMI or TI systems to a workstation or 386 PC, they only ever used a 32 bit word. TI would have been the obvious candidate as they were building 68020 systems that used the same case as the Explorer. Add a simple external MMU to the 68020 and a native compiler and it would be reasonably fast.

I guess that LMI didn't have enough staff to look at something like this back then. There is a new Lambda emulator if anyone wants to play with it [1].

Xerox did port their software to workstations and I believe it is still sold by Venue.

[1] https://github.com/dseagrav/ld
Huh, that's surprising. Two of the three supermarkets near me have phased out cashiers almost entirely.
> They don't prepare/rehearse for the talk.

How do you know that?
Take a step back and look at your work conditions. Maybe you should become the consultant in that story.
Live Streaming of Tesla Bjørn's Road Trip
A lie has short legs: if you dive into private blockchain projects you will realize they are mostly proof of concepts.

This is not to say that ideas behind consensus, security, and smart contracts are not useful but you need to start with a concrete problem instead of adapting a fixed solution.

Having said this, it is interesting to explore a pluggable way to make agreements between parties and follow defined workflows for interoperability. The main barrier with implementing this idea is not technical but political since it is difficult to create agreements about this architecture between companies (e.g. banks).
sadly this is all I started thinking, but only because of how much he pushes EVs and Solar. It seems like a complete opposite move but given current technology there isn't a clean method to do what he wants.

I would be really curious how much works has gone into neutral fuels. pretty sure lox and such can be made neutrally with solar powered chillers but what is his other fuel? a hydrogen type would be similar would it not?
Are there any non-academic reasons to do use such servers?
I guess I see these as 2 sides of the same coin; if the knowledge was properly spread via training and easy-to-use documentation, the junior developers would not need to interrupt much during the day.
Well done for sticking up for reason. I first got involved in Bitcoin in early 2011, but left the whole scene in 2015 because of the dwindling number of serious programmers and innovators and the increasing number of fraudsters and "marketers".

Like you say, there are some incredibly innovative uses for the blockchain (another excellent one is claiming and tracking digital works of art like visual arts and music), but using the blockchain as a simple database replacement is ludicrous.
Great Podcast Explaining the Blockchain and its future impact
Great app ! ;)
Net 'not ready' for vital security update (DNS SEC)
No More Adwords App Install Campaign – Google Switches to Universal App Campaign
Or just learn DTrace and hope it will be eventually ported somehow to Linux... /s
That's a good point. This talk sends a pretty clear message to the market - we expect to be flying serious amounts of stuff to Mars in under 10 years, so if you want to start a business in the area, now is a good time.

And the trick is, the more people he can convince of that, the better chances we have the Mars colony will happen.
Any Startup founders in Lisbon?
Hey,

I'll be in Lisbon in a few weeks time and would love to meet with a few startups and founders to see how they are getting along there (looking to moving my startup there in the new year!).

Would anyone be available to spend a few minutes here and there with me?

Many thanks,

Andrew
For Homeless Advocates, a Discouraging Lesson in L.A.: Money Is Not Enough
I did this frequently when I was a contractor/consultant. I also retained insurance to mitigate the risk to myself.
Here is the news
A cure's been found for good old rocket lag
(Here is the news)
Someone left their life behind in a plastic bag

-ELO 1982 "Here is the news"
oh god I wish spammers did this. Imagine: "we notice you don't care about our spam advertising, we'll remove you from our list"

heaven.
I like to play a little game I call "HN matter anti-matter" where I notice contradicting articles posted on HN and imagine them colliding and erasing each other...

In this case:
Yes, We Get Wiser with Age (nautil.us)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15346635
I suggest the characters limit to grow/shrink dynamically based on the percentage of tweets that reach the limit.
Women sex
ICO investments are inherently flawed. I simply do not understand why anyone would throw significant money at a startup without them providing legal equity in their company. Sure, the value of their coin may rise for a while, but if they are successful enough, some of them will get acquired by a large corporation with no interest in their cryptocurrency; and they may even get absorbed into an existing product of the corp. This would leave a coin on the market with the name of a company that doesn't even exist.
He didn't stutter when speaking. He just couldn't read as fast as he was talking so he had to stop every few syllables.

In other words, he was 17 and couldn't read fluently. But he wasn't stupid. He was quite conscientious about his side business and bookkeeping.

ps: I stuttered when I was a child.
I want to ask a better question: anyone in such company hiring?
It's worth remembering too that Bigelow Aerospace put their development on hold some years ago because the launch industry wasn't moving fast enough to actually deploy their habitats.

I expect we'll see them spinning back up on the immediate future. :)
Last year's talk, for starters. I think he mentioned it other times, too.
The rule of thumb I've heard is that neural nets only start to work when you have 10s of thousands of examples.
>modern

>terminal-based

Such a funny oxymoron.
Find love with 35 years
Agreed. The Man in the High Castle keeps the main characters going, unlike Game of Thrones, yet each episode leaves me feeling more uncomfortable than GoT's red wedding - which arguably set the modern high water mark for audience distress. Hard to watch.
From 30 years ago.

Seriously, at that time the instructions came in gibberish with extremely weird illustrations and you were usually wondering why you had surplus screws.

The design of IKEA furniture at that time was, let's just say, a lot more rustic too.
And if it becomes that common, in 150 years time, New York will be under water. I remember reading that the instantaneous power output of one Apollo rocket taking off is roughly the equivalent of the entire average electricity load of the UK. Surely burning a country's worth of rocket fuel every time you want to travel long distance is not sustainable?
This social app is designed to help you be more stylish and fashionable
Last argument I heard in chrome bugtracker it was - doing additional dns lookup slowdown user experience, which is why they abandoned idea adding it

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=22423
Neuralink, Wizard Hats, and the Era of Brain-Machine Interfaces
I don't get it. Why is population ageing affecting Flynn effect? Don't they test each new generation at same time? Or is this longitudinal study of a single generation (which is weird, since we can't measure IQ correctly at later ages).

Alternative hypothesis. Presence of computers/phones reduces need for working memory, so it doesn't get exercised and leads to decline of it.
I see. In that sense, it definitely had its merits, although there is the risk of your users never noticing that configuration options are available to accommodate their specific needs better than the defaults.
5 Steps to Reconnect with Your Partner During Your Awakening
As brutal as it may sound, I'd expect the BFR to have a remotely activated self-destruct system.

OTOH, what if terrorists gain access to that system?...
If I understand it correctly, this is intended to replace the dependencies or subsystems of applications like Ansible rather than Ansible itself.
In Europe, any thing one buys must be guaranteed by the supplier for 2 years. If one could just push that up to, say, 4 years, it'd nice....
One possible loophole: You can give away all your tokens for free... So if you want to get your new coin into circulation, you can donate some to open source projects or charities.
But that's just relative rank between developed nations.

It would be like Ferrari finishing last in a 21st Century car race and concluding that cars are going slower that they used to.
Here is the paper on metaclasses: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/p070...
I've been living my entire adult life after having been diagnosed schizophrenic at 18 (and bipolar at 31).

Choosing to live without medication, this practice of feeling emotions fully and letting them teach me whatever they are meant to, has allowed me to transcend that diagnosis.

I've found that within hard to experience emotions are often anchient patterns or old traumas waiting to be released - everything from my father cheating on my mom, to my step dad abusing us, to being circumscized, to being terrified by Catholic propaganda.

I find that when I surrender to the emotions as sacred teachers (sometime using altered states like Breathwork to get closer / amplify them), that I end up with more clarity, compassion and confidence.
This looks a lot like a joke-question, but whatever.

Well, technically it's possible to write an OS in React, if you're basically just running a browser and do everything inside that.

Since a lot of desktop apps nowadays are just repackaged versions of chrome with a single website in them, you might actually have a better user experience for /some/ use-cases.

But if you actually plan on doing that, please just make an browser-based OS that is a wrapper for this site:

http://www.windows93.net/

Edit:
I'm only answering semi-seriously because sometimes it's the stupid and laughable questions that foster new, maybe even completely unrelated ideas.
Same with go
Ask a Stupid Question Day (Holiday)
If it works in Konqueror that would be good to know. It's still my favourite browser.
In Europe I think it's 2 years, which is quite low.
Joke or not, I'd love a good attempt at a TV adoption of the Culture series by Iain M. Banks, but maybe it's too 'communist ' for the U.S. market :-)
> Keep in mind that the retail price includes a tax to cover the costs of recycling, so it is not really free :-)

They didn’t say they thought it was free. In fact they said

> so the cost is included in the retail price

And you quoted that!
What happens if you do not want to return your old appliance when you buy a new one? Do you still pay the recycling tax?
Fake Plugin Alert Hacker Hides Malicious Code in Fake WordPress Security Plugin
Musk said that the fuel (methane and oxygen) for Mars expeditions has to be produced on Mars, using solar panels, water and capturing carbon dioxide available in the atmosphere, and he also stated that the very same procedure could be used on Earth.
I use Thunderbird with automatically downloads disabled.

Same on GMail app.
It's musical chairs: just don't be the last one standing when the music stops.
And by "some people" you mean social darwinists advocating eugenics?
If I got one bid that was kinda high, and I knew I could do it myself in an hour, I would just do it. Because hiring a vendor would mean I would spend an hour dealing with them, then have to pay them on top of that. That's the "emotional" component the wife wanted to be freed from. So bottom line, she's pissed that he didn't go down the road of emotional drudgery like she would have chosen for herself and just did the job instead.
Each generation is not a 1:1 descendant of the previous generation. Which individuals of the current generation that have children determines the attributes of the next generation. Now for 100 points guess which people (and what attributes they share) have been biggest contributors to the next generation.