skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The problem with this dismissal is that "knowledge" is not just a word

"Knowledge" is just a word. It references many different concepts.

> In the real world it is impossible to find human experiences that are "causally linked" to facts in the world

Either you've misunderstood what causal linkage is, or else you are some odd brand of solipsist, but either way, this is incorrect. Causal linkage just means that that event participated in causing this event. The sun being in the sky is causally linked to me believing it's day time, for example.

> And yet, most of us would believe that there is a difference between looking at a broken clock that says noon, versus a working clock that says noon.

Of course there is. In one case, your belief is causally linked to fact. In the other case, it isn't, but still happens to be correct.
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> A normative solution is better than no solution.

Please explain how. I think it's literally the worst idea to go poking people already on the edge with their hate and misery.
Why would anyone with integrity and self-respect subject themselves to flawed, unnatural and zero investment world that are dating apps? Can you imagine how lazy, distracted and confused are the users of these apps are in real life? Just stick to the real-world, screen the square root of as many people as you could ever meet in your remaining life-expectancy and pick the best one that comes along next. No Paradox of Choice. No “The One.” No waiting for Godot. Just action.
This is why I love F# but if you jump between f# and c# your muscle memory will suffer.
Nor will those drones when individual officers use them for criminal purposes.

The view of most white people (much less minorities) is that most cops are borderline criminals themselves. Just another form of regulatory capture.
Elektuur, now called Elektor, was popular in central Europe in the 70s.

The ham radio people and strictly non-ham radio people like to pretend the other doesn't exist although they do nearly the same hobby, and amateur radio is much larger, more active, and richer (in the sense of more stuff and more expensive capable stuff) ... Funkamateur from Germany and some title in kanji that I can't enter on this keyboard from the Japan Amateur Radio League have been published for most of a century and are pretty active.

There is an uncanny valley effect. German schematic diagrams are full of "R" as a decimal place, rare in the 80s metric prefixes (cut it out with the nanofarads plz) and swapping periods and commas in long numbers. And there was something unusual about European scientific notation that I don't remember.

Also there is more total electronic hobby and electronic kit activity and sales now than at any time in history, despite endless accurate yet misleading claims that since the death of the Heathkit company no individual company has come close to monopolizing 90% of kit sales. No slice of the pie today is nearly as large as heathkits slice of the pie, but the pie overall is vastly larger.
Being simplistic, perhaps an automated test with a known password on account creation or login (e.g. "dolphins") and then a search for the value on all generated logs.
In Walmart and Amazon’s food wars, Instacart may be the collateral damage
Same randomness?
I can't get gist of the term.
I do the same and with youtube as well. I bookmark video timestamps by leaving comments and liking videos to see if I've watched the entire thing.
I do the same with stackoverflow too(upvoting comments if it was helpful). Later i can browse my likes across many platforms to refresh what I was looking up.

Might as well apply data capturing to yourself and reap its benefits
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What you are describing was a problem with inconsistent scrolling behaviour, and it was fixed. On this site scrolling is just completely broken and it's dev's fault.

Edit: problem is overflow-y: auto
Cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:F05U7x...

Original link: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2018-May/122922.htm...
Who invented all the digits of pi? They just are what they are without needing a substrate. It seems real because you are part of it like being in VR.
Why couldn't they have just waited the 20-30 minutes it would have taken for the drones to lose power (instead of panicking)?
Underground mass transit is unsustainable? I don't understand what you mean.
In my totally subjective experience, the reduced power consumption of doing away with Google Spy Services exceed whatever background drain I've suffered with 3+ apps doing their own messaging for notifications. My phone (Moto G5 Plus) has been off the charger for over a day now and is still at 65% battery.

As for reliability, I have notifications for email (using K9 Mail and IMAP idle), XMPP (Conversations), and Signal. Emails (using IMAP idle) always reach me within a second or so. Occasionally, Signal messages will take hours to reach me, but I suspect that's not a problem with the websocket connection to my phone, as others running Signal (on a Google-laden phone) have had the same issue.
* CoMputing (typo in the title)
It's not great for entertainment value either. I mean it's an art that has at its very essence the eschewance of conflict.

I can't speak for the efficacy of Aikido against an actual trained fighter in some other code, but if it worked the way it was meant to you'd pretty much be watching one guy dodging another guys attacks until eventually he pins him in an arm lock. Fight over.
Little difference from the charts they already put up today?
Cool project and good write up. This CRF reminds me a bit of definite clause grammar (DCG) from prolog. Would be interesting to mix the two using some sort of probabilistic predicate logic.
BlackHatWorld, HN, Reddit
Why do posts like this get flagged so often?

This relates directly to a tech company, and is about the intersection of tech & societal trends which many people here are interested in. It seems like perfectly valid HN content.

Do flagged posts get reviewed by moderators, or does HN allow a minority of users to flag whatever they want out of existence?
This is kind-of why I think there should be heavy push towards not supporting any other encoding than UTF-8.
Here is good Aikido in combat story from Terry Dobson who studied directly under the Morihei Ueshiba: "Aikido In Action - Doing combat with the essence of love" By Terry Dobson https://www.context.org/iclib/ic04/dobson/
Agreed, a 5 year old one plus one runs very smooth with the latest oreo 8.1 on LineageOS.
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This is a terrible article.

> If the bomb was detonated above London’s St Paul’s Cathedral, it would wipe out a huge chunk of the capital and burn people as far away as Vauxhall.

First of all, we're not going to use it on London. Second, they're playing fast and loose with the word "test." No detonations have been involved. I couldn't tell from the article, but it seems pretty unlikely that actual warheads had anything at all to do with the reported exercises.
I'll except that statement in the sense that it reduces Aikido down to interpretive dance and not (applicable) combat practices.
Yup. It’s completely shallow and unnatural. The only hope of it working is to shift attractiveness matching to AI, elimimate profile pics seen by humans and start real conversations with people whom you’d likely be attracted to, but don’t get to judge before meeting them. Eliminate the overwhelming messages deluge that people can’t deal with because they wrote / took pics that too many people like. This way, realistic potential couples are persuaded to talk to each other rather than just hounding the few attractive people.
That's a smart thing to do...

I had spent several years in this startup bubble - both physically and information-wise - and still do to some degree. So it happened to me that I talked to people I knew to some degree, that have very little technical technical understanding and then half a year later they tell me how they deep dived into some hard to get technology.

That frustrated me a lot and it took me quite some time to understand that they just went step by step through tutorials or fully finished boilerplates with doing very little on top on own initiative.

I remember this one guy even starting to blog about advanced Machine learning techniques on LinkedIn.

> Avoid blogs, forums, podcasts, social media pages, news sites that only

> focus on the 1% of startups that make it 'big' seemingly overnight.

I'm starting to think that Hacker News is one of them. Of course a lot of the information here is very new and up-to-date, and oftentimes I learn from articles and comments (obviously) things that are relevant for work and people like me working in this industry.

But on the other hand I get the impression that I was much happier fiddling around with technology before I touched this startup bubble and one year after started reading HN at least once a day.
I assumed wrongly. I guess I thought most programmers were as I am.
That actually does work. Also works for Chrome.

On github:
https://github.com/JoaoAparicio/read-ft-wsj/
From TFA: "To one frequent DTC investor I spoke with, though, any young DTC company's moving into retail early in its lifecycle is a red flag that it might be overspending on online marketing. 'Because if it's working online, why all the retail stores? Why not stay online and scale over time? I could see one or two stores as PR plays, but why take on all the overhead, the cost of the build-out?'"

The answer?

Customers have a severe lack of imagination.

I've found this in several different fields, even among smart customers (except those whose expertise is in the area of what you're selling) -- you really have to show and let them see and feel what they're going to get.

Once they've seen it, they'll go online for a better price, but using permanent locations, popup stores, or other IRL interactions could be key for many of these DTC startups.
Something not being used in MMA doesn't necessarily mean it's completely useless, it just means it doesn't fit MMA. The sport isn't static, instead it changes as new ideas and techniques come and go.

If my memory serves me right, Jiu-Jitsu wasn't used in
the professional (western) fighting scene for quite a while. Today it's pretty much a must-have for MMA.

The same goes the other way around. Being an expert in Jiu-Jitsu means squat when your opponent is holding a gun, and standing 10m away from you. In other words: different flavours of martial arts/self-defence have different applications, though I would certainly consider some to be very ineffective in most situations.
Ok. Agreed.
I haven't worked extensively with the API, but I believe that it represents filesystem instances accessible to the JVM, not abstract technical filesystems.

So in the case of a Unix filesystem tree with various mount points, the FileSystem object would throw the exception iff the path you're trying to construct is illegal for the actual filesystem configuration in the system.
There are varying levels of assuredness, but they also line up pretty nicely with the varying levels of experience that people have. If you have more experience verifying something to be true, then that indirectly serves as justification for the beliefs that everyone else has, even if they are not personally so sure.

The truth is a telescope of verifications that trace back through history. It's not a personal thing. It doesn't stop at your skull.

Incidentally, the only time I ever hear people saying truth is relative or doesn't exist is when those people are simply trying to promote their own social standing or take advantage of people.
Can you be a Muslim if you're an atheist?
Could you explain what part of their code of conduct ( https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/docs/CodeOfC... ) is racist or sexist?
Just to help Rocket Man along with his decision making.
Yes, probably. Personally, I always use uMatrix and block all cookies by default (except for some specific websites which I manually whitelist). So I have no idea what happens if you use this extension without blocking cookies.
What makes blockchains secure?
This was a fun read!

Then I got to the bottom and saw a link about people stoning a 'roo because it wouldn't hop. wtf?
UFC is a contrived scenario as well. A "real" environment is rarely so uniform or open. Jiujitsu is the best approach for the Octagon because most fights in this kind of environment end up on the ground, and ground-based grappling is what this art is optimised for.
Dsvx sd
But backup, at least in the past, did require gapps
+1 Thanks for the details.
Why word of mouth, not paid ads, is the future of marketing
Word of mouth is the primary factor behind 20%- 50% of all purchasing decisions Are you going to stick to paid ads?
To defend against what? That some guy at twitter who saw the logs can login and change somebody's status?

Anyway, I guess you're right, I simplified. It is kind of a valid point, although if I was this paranoid then I would never leave the house. I just wanted to say that if the web wouldn't have been built on a giant piece of s*, for example password authentication, none of this would have been necessary.
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G.E.B. did win the 1980 Pulitzer Prize winner for a work of general for non-fiction.
FWIW I have had a positive experience with their super low cost small ARMv8 instances, which help me test PostgreSQL patches-in-development on that architecture. (It'd be even better if they had a FreeBSD image available.)
Google+ for Android 7.5 and older will no longer work by May 20
Reminds me of dropping off a composite/svideo video mixer as a favour loan to someone running an event and their first question being "so how do I plug my Macbook pro into this?"

Is £50 a typo?
I agree, most fights end up on the ground, and that is what jiujitsu is optimized for.
I'm sure there's a technical solution at the browser level -- a way to break cookie matchers. At least when I worked in retargeting, cookie matching was the secret sauce.

Preventing third party sources (images, scripts, "share buttons" etc.) from issuing or checking browser cookies might break a whole pile of useful things, but it'd make the world of retargeted ads dry up quickly.
Why does this article start out with unsupported claims of billionaires behaving badly?

When a writer puts down people who add enormous value to the world while putting those who extract value on a pedestal, I have to wonder about her motives.
Reminds me of Intralox belts[0], which are used extensively in manufacturing and warehousing. Intralox belts are conveyor belts made of tiny wheels pointed 90 degrees (usually) off of the direction the belt is traveling.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqLYhhV7u7Y
No solution means not telling these people at all that their ideas aren't going to get them anywhere and letting them fester in their hatred. I agree that it could be done without the vitriol. Not entirely sure how, but I agree in theory that it's possible.

But objectively speaking, the incel viewpoint is more caustic than the common reaction to it. I'm not saying that people who identify as incels deserve it, but they really oughta know better.

This is essentially modern heresy in action. Social cohesion is far more important than both your obstinacy and your problems, and if you persist, we will burn your ass at the stake. It's ugly, it's sad, we wish we didn't have to do it, but it reflects the reality of society.
I think you're off by an order of magnitude:

https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...

~5 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year
~158 tons per second
So ? There is little value for a human being to be able to do so. Or humanity. We just decided that this particular challenge was worth a huge deal.

We don't give a gold medal for the fastest people to write from memory an algo for reversing a binary tree, or for the person capable of feeding the most children in a day.

It's completely arbitrary.
That's just how prestige works. It's a social phenomenon, not an objective reality. It can snowball.

This book has an interesting but slightly reductive take on how prestige works in the arts: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/artworld-prestige-97...
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Yeah but there are bizillion other tech related websites and blogs. Those are mostly not as shiny as HN but they have links as well, discussions and buzz words which can be googled. That's basically how I did things in my pre-HN times. Actually Google was my entry-point oftentimes. I think I might have missed certain trends but on the other hand I got much deeper into technologies I actually cared about.
From TFA:

> hostage rescue team set up an elevated observation post

> the head of the agency’s operational technology law unit told attendees of the AUVSI Xponential conference here.

We don't know when this incident occurred nor do we know if this was a surveillance op or part of an actual raid. The article is possibly FUD, but this isn't outside of the realm of possibility.

In my neck of the woods, drones have been known to drop contraband in prime locations at our state maximum-security prison[0]. Surveillance, and counter-surveillance is not a huge leap to make from there. Being able to disrupt a top-tier police unit for a few grand is money well spent.

[0] - https://www.postandcourier.com/news/in-south-carolina-the-fi...
> We praise Alan Turing even though he was just a mathematician.

A mathematician that changed the world to a huge degree. No actor or athlete performance drives the greatest innovations of today or wins wars. They are merely entertainers. Useful, but that's it.
> Flagging as no good discussion can come from this

..in your opinion. Why do you feel the need to silence that discussion?

I get that HN is a forum with its own rules and as such there is no automatic "right" to free speech, but is this really what flagging is for?

Flagging should be used for spam and other content which simply doesn't belong on a tech-related forum. Not for just removing stuff that you personally don't want to discuss.

Why don't you just ignore it and upvote the stuff you do want to participate in?

EDIT: this comment now appears as 'folded' when I refresh the page. Does this mean that it too has been flagged? That's pretty funny.
I have a friend with a Chemical Engineering degree. Recently he decided to change careers and go into Med School. He tells me of how it's ridiculous how various concepts in medecine could be replaced by a simpler one from physics. If I remember correctly he gave an example about fluids. (I believe he could revolutionize the field of medecine)

As I wrote in another reply, I guess I was wrong about assuming humility in others.
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Most fights where it's two guys going at it while bunch of other guys stand around yeah ...

In the real world, if you want something really effective without any pretensions to being a sport or an art or anything, do Krav Maga.
>He may be doing terrible things, but he's wearing hip clothes and driving a gorgeous car while he does them.

You think they're terrible. Ascribing to everyone the same moral code and then reasoning why they might ignore it seems like a poor basis for reasoning? To me it's about understanding what metrics really matter to people
I wish the Norwegians would adopt a strict rule against awarding any politicians before they're retired from public service. Obama's prize was pointless and actively damaged the perception of the Peace Prize in the United States.

There are so many worthy recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize that are virtually unknown outside their specific non-profit niches — focus on those instead, and use the prize to highlight their work.
Affordable Medicare Insurance
> You only need two channels to provide complete spatial information through headphones if it's a binaural recording.

I don't really believe this, given the shape of the human ear and my own experience trying to reproduce 3d sound. Humans can judge direction and distance remarkably well up to a few dozen meters.
Why Your Library Sucks: React
Ask HN: Anyone interested in marketing and monetizing a Crypto Tracker Platform?
Our company has developed a full cryptocurrency portfolio tracker (https://virtus.io) with features that are comparable (or better) to the top apps out there (Delta, Blockfolio, etc) We put quite a few resources into making it fast and easy to use. We fully believe we have a winner here, however, our company has another focus (IoT segment) and, most importantly, we lack any experience of digital marketing, especially for B2C products.
Having said all that, we are looking for individuals and/or companies that are interested in taking this to the market and invest on branding, marketing, business model, etc. We handle the tech and you would do the rest.

We are not philanthropists, that is, we would like to get some return out of this, however, considering all the work missing, we are open for any suggestions.

If you are interested please send us an email at info.virtus.io@gmail.com or join our telegram https://telegram.me/virtusio

Cheers
I found a similar problem with my backups (Ugh. :-)

A year ago I went on a trip and some combination of the humidity, the travel, and the 6 year old Thinkpad resulted in my laptop not booting.

I had been experimenting with Borg to backup the system, and so I tried using Borg to restore the latest copy onto the new laptop. Turns out that I have a bunch of files on my laptop that have names with weird characters in them: rips of my CD collection. I couldn't find any combination of settings and environment and locale that would allow borg to recover or skip these files and recover everything else.

Now, I had 2-3 other copies of the data (my pre-borg backups, the original SSD which was still readable, a few other rsync copies), so it wasn't a big deal.

But, as always, test your recoveries!
> Aikido is that fantasy martial arts. The kind that only works when the opponents are in on the ruse.

This is the biggest fallacy people spout when evaluating Akido because they only see it being used in practise situations.

Your partner has to be 'in on the ruse' so they don't get hurt! Aikido is full of extremely damaging techniques and if your partner doesn't go where you're leading them or if they don't flip and fall as you want, they would end up with a broken wrist or neck.

Find your nearest dojo, have a go and see.
If your goal is to beat another guy in a cage, you may be right. But many "self-defence" situations in the real world rely much more on your approach and behavior. De-escalating a situation verbaly is the prefered way of "fighting" your opponent, at least to me.

If you want to fight for real, look at aggressive combat styles, like Krav Maga or Systema, which try to deal as much dammage as possible, in the shortest ammount of time, without considering the concequences to the opponent (= possible death). By the way, these are banned in UFC, beacuse they are too dangerous to the opponent. UFC is still a spectator sport.

Note: I'm an ex aikido practitioner and a current krav maga practitioner.
My point exactly... ;)
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You can't make a blanket statement about all Olympic medals like that. Ironically, some of the most prestigious gold medals are indeed the product of human judgement: figure skating and gymnastics.
1. Because one is desirable and receives validation on dating apps.

2. Because one is a young digital native nerd with a lack of social skills.

Or both. I met 95% of my (sexual) partners online, including my boyfriend.
"I used it to great effect in a bar brawl once."
My opinion is - you were lucky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KUXTC8g_pk
I don't know the guy from the video but I think his assessment is very honest and balanced.
Typically when you init a random generator, it'll let you pass a number in if you want to. That will set the sequence of "random" output from the generator; different seeds will be random with respect to each other. If you re-use the same seed you'll get the same sequence of "random" numbers as before. This is useful to test or re-try sequences involving "random" in a reproducible way.