skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) People aren't automatons but there's abundant empirical evidence of their suggestibility, which is why we have the concept of incitement to begin with. I'd argue that we have yet to fully understand the dynamics of this in dynamic communications media.

2) Comparing violence instigated against an oppressive government (perceived or actual) with that instigated against generic vulnerable individuals seems sort of specious. Arguing for a marketplace of ideas while opposing GoDaddy's decision to cease carrying on business with a particular purveyor of ideas seems contradictory.

3) I really can't get with your idea of comparing past struggles for human rights (which expand liberty in the aggregate) with exhortations to rape and murder, which severely abridge it. That's not merely absurd, but obnoxious.
Actually, GNU is a 501(c)(3) organisation. They can’t really be politically active and maintain such a status.
>The joke has meaning

Only if you're American and also have the requisite background knowledge to understand it, which many don't.

If you don't know the context, it's meaningless. Which is not a good thing to have in technical documentation.
This seems like good news for speculators (disclosure: I still hold Bitcoin and worked at a Bitcoin exchange).

Having said that, "Wall Street" should be wary of enabling the use of a system that is using more electricity than the country of Switzerland [0] without any productive output. The energy consumption is rapidly rising too. Furthermore, Bitcoin's transaction throughput is dismally low compared to existing payment systems (Visa, PayPal, etc.) and "smart contract" systems like Ethereum seems to still not show any productive output aside from scams and severe bugs in wallets and contracts that lose millions of dollars.

I'm all for "wait and see", but have we ever done that with a technology that is literally using more electricity than a medium sized nation? When are we going to ask crypto-fans to be accountable for the burned energy? We're asking Google and Facebook to treat our data fairly, can we ask proof-of-work miners to treat our planet fairly? At least wait until the blockchain can solve a real world problem before burning through the mines?

[0] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
The '\lambda x' is just another way of saying "f(x)"

So '\lambda x., x-3' --> 'f(x): x-3'

Also, I really enjoyed my discrete math courses! The proofs were.. tedious.. but the amount and breadth of 'stuff' covered was excellent.
Bit History: The Torx
Generally speaking, if it’s safe to do so, you want to capture and keep any animal that you’re concerned may have bitten you and transmitted disease or envenomated you. Be it a tick, a spider, or a snake, although it’s generally much easier to pull off with a tick than a snake. Emphasis on, “if it is safe...” of course.
Oh, I did not know you could link to specific time slices! That's a big help, thanks!
> why do you think it would this time?

This isn't a Democrat or Republican issue. I understand debate is constrained along party lines but the issue I'm arguing is that in the context of a contest of nations the neither party of the United States will allow the United States to lose its technological advantage. I think our sputnik moment will come in 10-15 years when the United States is the worlds #2 GDP.
I'd point out that the altright.com website violated GoDaddy's ToS first, rather than their website being pulled for something one of them said or associated themselves with in another context. This is a peculiar hill to die on.
I have three very inquisitive kids and I love trying to explain complex topics, like reinforcement learning, to them in a way that they can understand. The best thing I get out of it is clarity for my own understanding, or gaps/lack of clarity, so it's a valuable exercise.

People don't give children enough credit for what they can really understand.

I remember distinctly teaching my oldest daughter how to do a basic cipher - like direct substitution and she got it immediately. I also taught my son how to do pin bumping and pin counting/picking on locks with my lockpick set. I even bought him a transparent set of master locks to practice on and he would sit for an hour at the age of 4 picking those locks. The obvious downside now is that he knows how to get into everything!

Very cool to watch what are basic principals being applied at the very basic level.
Yeah, it is based on crt.sh, I'm using the API to get, parse (and fix) the JSON and get the subdomains from the search results.
That's also what happened with the Node.js stuff - it was outsiders trying to engineer a situation where the board's own rules would require them to push Ashley off the board.

The "SJWs" would have no power if we were not the people actually doing the work; if nothing else, in a year or two's time, we'd stop producing anything and users would jump ship. But it's the people who scream about "SJWs" who are generally outsiders who think that their use of a project entitles them to overrule the project's own maintainers.
> It loads 'second-party' JavaScript

Most big sites that use CDNs do that.

> which means that it doesn't work with uMatrix

It only takes a few seconds to permanently whitelist those domains (wal.co and walmartimages.com) in uMatrix.
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Just be aware when crafting those regexes that user-generated URLs (e.g. slug-based content paths, or even just query-string params if one is very careless) can thereby be used to build a denial of service attack against internal infrastructure, third-party integrations/webhooks, and even regular customers.

Reminds me that back in the day we used to be able to train email sanitizing appliances for false positives by sending them EICAR or GTUBE with spoofed headers.
well.
while using some dsp to get the frequencies right makes sense from an analytical point of view,
from a more mood oriented standpoint
which seems more aligned with the nature of music
and its associations with mood
it makes more sense to tune a guitar without any measurements using instruments other than your ears
in other words tuning by ear
while this is an inexact science
and in theory, each tume you tune your guitar it will by definition be alightly out of tune
the true test would be whether you like the sound or not
given this as a goal,
how you tune your guitar, would depend on what you were planning to play.
you would probably tune your chord progressions
The main repo is the 4th result on Google for me: https://github.com/openshift/origin. In 3rd position is the openshift.org website.

I feel like this one is really on you, not Red Hat.
I'd like to see the development of these on a timeline, including the rise of power tools. I suspect that hex, torx, and similar are only feasible due to torque-control being available on modern driving tools; prior to that the screw had to be able to disengage (cam out) to prevent it breaking.
i wonder how this info got out. i thought (learned this from tesla) that companies are not allowed to release info about accidents under NTSB investigation. which this one is.
We tried spinnaker and are now using Weave (https://www.weave.works/). It works pretty well, actually. In particular we like that it stores all state in a git repo which is automatically updated.

We have our own monitoring stack, though, so don't use the additional prometheus integrations
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> Only if [you...] have the requisite background knowledge to understand it, which many don't.

It's literally the C library reference manual. That's true of the whole thing!

The point is that it has meaning, however obscure, and reflects a particular principled intent of the author. And the request to remove it is cosmetic. And you resolve that by holding to the author's intent and not just polishing it to fit your sense of aesthetics.

Your argument would be an excellent reason to reject a submitted joke that didn't reflect a consensus of the active maintainers; not so much to remove one decades after the fact.
The toes over the curb thing is a potential collision threat. It's fine to statistically categorize and prioritize these, as they're everywhere. But as soon as it becomes an imminent threat (i.e. is directly in the vehicle's path), avoiding the collision should immediately become the overriding objective. If the collision is truly unavoidable (this should very rarely be the case with an AV), then it should still be slamming on the breaks and doing everything possible to lessen the force of the impact.
Haha, I didn't get to read that much, but that sounds hilarious! Now I'm sure he's just trolling.
Ask HN: Looking for cofounder for face recognition startup
Hi,

I'm looking for a business development cofounder for a face recognition + AR startup.

I have a technical background and have built a prototype. I'm doing customer development at the moment but feel that it's time to bring someone else on board.

Website is atlasreality.xyz

Thank you in advance!

[EDIT]: Feel free to email me jordan@jordancampbell.org or reach out on twitter @jordanNZ_AR
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It is a difficult course! We are doing graph theory right now.
I was raised in a country with very hateful views against LGBT. While I, personally, developed a tolerance against LGBT, a lot of people around me did not and those people often work as developers. Showing them any sign of LGBT propaganda is a great offence to them. I'm not lawyer, but I suspect that LGBT propaganda might even be against a law.

I guess, the same could be said about abortion jokes. Some people might take them too personal.
> If the market is

This assumes you can effectively time the market. Most people cannot. Conversely, if you dump $18000 in up front ASAP and the market goes down 10%, you've just 'lost' $1800.

If you are in for the long run (as most retirement accounts are), it's probably better to contribute more capital (i.e. take advice of this article) than to try and roll the market timing dice and rely on capital gains windfalls to increase the value of your retirement account.
I’ve mainly had the problem when getting them out. Especially when the application requires thread locking compound and has been out in the field for a few months or years - even when they had been properly torqued with a torque wrench.

We abandoned Phillips and Pozidriv completely and went to Torx for the screws (we were already using hex for bolts). Haven’t really had any issues stripping out screws since.
Proposition 13 limits the revenue that localities can realize due to property value rises, of course.
The "tune slightly flat" technique gets people 90% of the way there, which is usually enough. The remaining 10% is really subtle, like most subjects.

This is like "the earth is a sphere", which is mostly right but if you want to be less wrong you have to dive deep.

So...

The instant after a string is plucked, it begins to lose energy. The loss of energy shows up in amplitude (obvious, because the note gradually gets quieter), but also frequency. This is less noticeable, but for heavy strings with low tension (think down-tuned sludge metal) it can be pronounced.

The reason for this is that a vibrating string is constantly bending back and forth. Tension pulls it toward its lowest-energy position in the center. A familiar demonstration of tension is bending a fretted note to increase its pitch. But the same thing happens to a lesser degree whenever the string vibrates. Displace the string left or right and its tension increases.

Strings you consider "better" might exhibit less of this effect. But that depends on both your playing style (how hard do you strike the strings?) and your idea of what a better string is.

"It depends on technique, tension, and string mass" gets you to 95%.

For conventional electric guitars with magnetic pickups, there's an additional force slowing down the string: the magnets in the pickup. These are weird. For one thing, unlike tension, it's not distributed throughout the length of the string, but focused at 1 or a few (for multiple pickups or humbuckers) points. If you imagine the vibrating string as a weight-on-a-string-pendulum, then the effect of the magnetic pickup is like a small mass attached partway up the string. It interferes with the pure sinusoidal motion and gives it a little wobble.

On most guitars, the effect is not noticeable. But some pickups have very strong magnets, or some guitars put them very close to the strings. Then it can be noticed, and guitarists call the effect "wolf tones" and generally they don't like it.

This gets you to 98%.

My point is there's a lot going on. And while a certain brand of strings and/or tuners may work for you, someone else may have an entirely different experience. I get kind of frustrated with the whole guitar "gear" marketing being heavy on hype and light on data, so sorry if I come across as lecturing. My frustration isn't with you, but the context.
That doesn't solve it at all, you're thinking of a different problem. I got clued in from another comment that only mentioned it offhand, but this is the problem the "Pittsburgh left" tries to solve:

The traffic is a single lane, and you want to turn left. Light turns green, and you wait for the oncoming traffic to clear. All traffic behind you is stopped on a green because they can't get around you.
This isn't censorship...
"bad" does not feature in the sentence you quoted, nor in anything OP said.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16992058

140+ comments
The U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission ruled that cryptocurrency is a commodity (not a currency). As such, all laws regarding commodities apply. So it isn't unregulated.

The grey area will be where in the use cases where it IS used as a currency.

Since it is technically not a currency, is it not subject to currency laws?
Best line, IMHO: "This isn’t difficult (again, idiomatic), but every single person has first ended up stuck outside, and then trapped inside, which is probably a great metaphor for Tesla ownership in general."
My teenage son is a musician and is taking AP Music Theory right now.

I ask him to tell me about what he is learning, and he patiently tries to explain it to me, but I just nod along because I have no idea what he's talking about.
You might enjoy this article from about 6 months ago (as I did). It doesn't get into torx or hex drives, but covers quite a bit of history of Phillips-like drives.

http://www.instructables.com/id/When-a-Phillips-is-not-a-Phi...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15748942
It may be incompatible, but the voting public wants to have their cake and eat it too.
No. (source to follow)

What is the daily interest, at even 0.25% annually, on $16 Trillion USD? https://www.forbes.com/sites/traceygreenstein/2011/09/20/the...

Is my math correct? Over $100 Million USD per day in interest, even at 0.25% per year simple interest?

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0.0025+*+16+trillion+%...
I mean... honestly, understanding functions is not overly difficult. The only reason we don't expect children to understand them is because we don't teach it to them. On the other hand, we teach them bizarrely detailed and extensive algorithms for doing all sorts of computations on the rational numbers, and expect them to be able to do them perfectly.
If the internet has taught us anything, it's that anything that facilitates conversation facilitates all types and styles of conversation. I'd posit that a more sophisticated inter-car communication system would add at least one new road rage incident for every one it prevents.
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
- Albert Einstein

Brent definitely understands it well enough.
The maintainers don't own the project though, GNU (RMS) does. If the maintainers want to control the project they are maintaining it does seem that they need to fork it and continue under a new name.

(Or at least that's what I got from this thread. Certainly it's possible that GNU/RMS/Whoever originally had rights has passed those rights to the maintainers, but it doesn't happen simply by virtue of them maintaining it.)
I've not had direct experience with it but do recall Intel covering their work with DPDK and Core pinning. I think they got something like 96% line rate on 25GbE. - https://networkbuilders.intel.com/network-technologies/conta...
Uh... what? Counterfactual thinking develops well before the age of twelve. Kids that I know are asking 'what if' questions in pre-K and kindergarten. It's a natural thinking mechanism that children engage in all the time.
It's a political joke. About free speech. About abortion.
Are these bots causing problems like consuming excess resources? If not it doesn't seem worth the effort to ban them.

These days I only block bots when they're e.g. filling out forms or posting junk comment that a human has to moderate.
You are focusing on the wrong thing. Energy production is the issue, not energy use. There is an equilibrium to be found in the free market based on the value of BTC that is provided and the economic expenditure to mine it with the cost of electricity used to get there. Oh wait! I found the link in the causal economic chain! We don't put a price on carbon! Put your energy into yelling there and not at yelling at Bitcoin. Maybe Bitcoin will help shed a light on this overtly obvious problem.
Regarding the last para, my experience had been the opposite. Whenever I enter my pincode in Flipkart, it would say we don't deliver to your area (which is a small town). Amazon and eBay didn't have any issues. All the items I tried to buy were no bigger than a home router. I contacted Flipkart 2-3 times about it over the last 3+ years. They just gave a generic response that we are trying to expand or something.
Bitcoin fights over 1MB versus 8MB for 4+ years and glibc fights over a cosmetic joke in the manual page. I often wonder how many man years of labor are wasted with this kind of bike-shedding nonsense.
Just for the sake of completeness: the EGCS fork you are talking about was alive 1997-1999.
IF it's ever created practically and cheaply. Despite your comment, it may never be cost effective.
How the heck is Kha much faster than many HTML5 game engines
>I [...] worked as an engineer at a well-known Bitcoin company).
>Having said that, "Wall Street" should be wary of enabling the use of a system that is using more electricity than the country of Switzerland [0] without any productive output

You worked at a Bitcoin company and don't understand the value of proof of work? Being able to trustlessly settle shared stated across the entire globe is unproductive output? The globe spend billions of dollars each year blowing up mountains to sift for gold that then sit in central bank vaults to collect dust. At least bitcoin mining can absorb some of the curtailed renewable energy and make the payback on renewables faster.
I think understanding the logic of the law itself makes clear the ethical considerations in play when it was drafted. The general principle is, indeed, to allow businesses to make decisions about who they want to serve and how; but in view of the injustice and negative social effects springing from certain types of discrimination (particularly over race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation) the state decided to protect certain classes of people and expression from private businesses' power to decide whether to serve them.
Serena the Great – A visual story of the most dominant player in tennis
I think you're right. Flipkart is very aggressive with pushing their app. At one point they converted their website into just a big link to the play store. I never bought a single item from flipkart after that. I'd rather pay more than do business with a user-hostile company.
We have a prediction market platform, but we also end up consulting most of the time as part of the implementation. As you might imagine, prediction markets can be quite disruptive. They tend to make information radically more transparent and we learned the hard way that in order to not just churn through a bunch of companies, we needed to help companies deal with 1) what key questions to ask, and 2) what are they going to do with the new signals they have? How will they incorporate them in to their decision making processes and how will they acknowledge that the "crowd" has been heard?

The average project size we work with tends to be in the low hundreds of participants, with the biggest one being in the mid-thousands.
The article states that there is no evidence for this being part of the design.
I work for a company that makes scientific equipment. We apply a few basic criteria, which narrow things down a lot.

First, a lot of those fasteners are either really specialized or just rare or obsolete. So they can be ruled out.

We look for something that will be easy for our assemblers, and for our field service technicians. They have given us feedback on what they like and dislike, including what kinds of tools are common in different parts of the world. They hate flat head screws. Hex socket screws are really easy, and it's also easy to make them look nice on an assembly.

To an increasing extent, we want tools that can be used with a torque handle. For instance hex drive is better than Philips in that regard.

I hate to say that it's still a work in progress, but we are heroically trying to get away from fractional drivers, especially for our field technicians who presently have to carry full sets of US and metric tools. We even have mixtures of US and metric in some products!

If something is meant to be serviced by a customer (e.g., a lamp or filter that gets replaced), then we stick with Philips, which we are told is common worldwide. Or we use a captive knurled fastener if it's in a place where there's finger access.

So these are just a few thoughts. Other considerations are whether you're in an industry that has already standardized on a particular tool set, such as metric allen wrenches for bikes.
> There’s a certain amount of science envy that some liberal arts professors have. They want to be able to say that there is one and only one way to understand a historical event or way to compose music.

Music academics who envy scientists or engineers have a misplaced envy. They should properly envy those who fill concert halls and sell records. Just as does many a scientist or engineer who plays some instrument on the side.
I love this question. And while I’m sure it’s a two way street, I would expect traffic patterns to normalize as pedestrians learn to anticipate what a driverless car does. Pedestrians (and culture in general) will wrap itself around the technology.

It’s sort of analogous to how wagon roads were different until fast cars required some standardization. The new technology shapes expectations for what normal means in Tempe and in NY and in Pittsburgh.

The prssent cultural context assumes that a human brain is driving a car. Take the brain away, and the context has already changed.

couldn’t resist.

P.s. standardization has beaten back the whimsical variability of culture in fast food, housing, cars, most clothing, computers, phones, etc. I want more whimsical stuff.
I do think that equivalence is useful for the sake of argument. But it's useful because it forces people to think about why those categories should be treated differently, not because they should be treated the same.
Aside from the startup time, I don’t have any of those problems. I love CarPlay and would not consider buying a car without it