skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have elbows on desk you are probably not sitting up straight. Anyway you are wrong, when the elbow is free you can put your weight into typing. Just try it. It’s a bit of a flick of the wrist for weak fingers and slight up and down movement with your bicep, it’s not a lot but it translates to a lot of force. It’s the same principle as using your hips to put a punch in boxing or martial arts.

When your palms or elbows are resting all those movements are limited and your hands quickly tense up.

Here’s an explanation of the RSI issue and flat palms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pryYfH9j5o however their fix is not great and it’s not a sustainable position

EDIT: Here’s a quick sketch: http://svgur.com/s/7e6 The fingers are below the palms not at the same level, but this is only natural if your back is straight. Arm should bend at close to 90°

EDIT2: Or look at this piano posture video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InqmH-o1cX0 especially at 6:06 mark.
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I would have loved to attend a boarding school growing up...but living in a toxic family environment isn't so simple for the family or the kid. My mother enabled my alcoholic father, my sisters and I tried to protect each other, it would have been tragic to pull us all apart. I was out of the house as much as possible with school clubs and extra curricular like the boy scouts. Leaving my extended family, friends, etc and the shame of being a "foster" kid is a huge charge for someone in a toxic environment. Also abusive families are not black and white, there are good moments. After school programs, sports, music etc are a lifesaver for students with problems at home.
So basically not the way government has done it for decades but based on market need, therefore it differs quite a bit from a 'public school' as it is being claimed to be?
Does this justify forgetting, or awareness?
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Sorry, should have addressed that directly. We haven't run a job with memory routing through the tool.

Your point about DRAM is well taken, and we'll hopefully have a job justifying that bring-up soon.
At least on my degree, CS and EE had common Prolog classes.
> Discipline rates can be meaningful, but if one school doesn't expel anybody because all the children are angels, and one school doesn't expel anybody because they haven't noticed the large numbers of murders during recess, the numbers look the same.

I think any town not named Sunnydale would notice the dwindling class sizes in the latter case.
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Contrary to ableist opinion, a utopia is not a world where disability is a problem that’s been solved; rather, it’s an inevitable expression of genetic variance, and disabled humans are not just welcomed but fully included.)

This is something that's worthy a debate. My ableist bias is likely showing here, as I don't think I can just outright agree with this statement.

At the same time, our inability "to fix" (for better or worse) many of the existing conditions means this societal position might actually be a preferred one, in order to make everyone feel welcome and inclusive (included?). This sentence truly captures a personal dilemma for me.
I have been swayed from using the CLI by emacs and magit. There are so many nice things like staging portions of a changeset, and the ability to get a quick visual diff of the changes before they are committed is really really nice. As to why they would work on it, the two main reasons I keep going back to emacs from Atom and VS Code is magit, and the ability to run in a console. to me Atom and VS Code are fast enough for my day to day work
Maybe, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN.
Why is Reddit's official app so bad that people prefer third party apps over it? Maybe it's related to them brute forcing the app on you when you attempt to browse reddit in a mobile browser.
> What is demonstrable in a lab is going to be much harder to prove for a whole planet

So what you're saying is that the proof that we have in labs isn't good enough for you?

> we have had 30-40 years of doomsday warnings from these people and nothing, absolutely nothing has happened.

What do you classify as nothing? We've shown that the ice caps are melting [0], that temperatures are increasing rapidly across the globe [1], sea walls are being built to stop cities from flooding [2] [3].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8auMIfF50Ng&feature=youtu.be
[1] https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/
[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/photography...
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vj8m0Nqr7s
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In my experience it's not usually too hard to find a second-hand bookstore that will take donations. That's what we do during our annual Culling of the Books.
It does not matter.
With every fail, the gap to the goal narrows, until one, walks over the bridge, beyond which - lays the ultimate price.
Being the first to wrap a new device-layer around our lives.

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Thats my alarm-clock every day)

- all social status networks- cause Instagram photos are nice, but having your accomplishment grow out of your footsteps in 3d, is nicer)

To Sum it up: This will euthanize a large part of the real-world economy, replacing them with Mad-Haters a'la steam - with the potential for a nice 15 % margin on all virtual goods.

So Magic Leap fails? So what, just another body in ditch, building the bridge.
I don't get why people are complaining about Google doing it in China. They obviously need to test their innovations somewhere. Do you expect Google to drop new features like this on the North American market without proper QA?
Machine learning at the energy and intensity frontiers of particle physics
The word for world is word...
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Based on how you intended the post to be read, I agree it's not snarky.

Taking the post to be snarky was one fundamental aspect of my misinterpretation.
I'm glad Reddit admitted that in the open right away.

Shit happens and will continue to happen, thanks for your transparency
Probably. GPL "infects" code that's linked to it, so a GPL'd library can only be used in GPL'd programs. A GPL'd text editor doesn't "infect" source code, of course. A GPL'd runtime probably infects the applications that depend on it, but might not if apps can run without linking directly to it.

If you care a lot about GPL infection, this is a problem AGPL addresses; by the logic of the AGPL, even just using your code on a server as part of an ensemble in a SAAS app triggers infection. AGPL can be a reasonable choice, but people will grump about it, because it means it can't be used in commercial SAAS apps.
At Facebook most of our thousands of web devs use Nuclide for remote editing on a repo with hundreds of thousands (or millions) of files and it works as advertised. We don’t use NFS though; all the repo checkouts are on disk on the remote machine.
> You have to add syntax extensions (this is how Common Lisp does it: http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/02_cbb.htm) or pick an arbitrary representation.

If an unadorned numeric token such as 2.7 generates a single-precision float (32 bit IEEE 754), that is a problem. There are good justifications why the default representation should be the 64 bit double.

The 32 bit single precision has too small a range and precision for general use; it is suitable mainly for saving space in large arrays.

We shouldn't have to use an extra suffix to indicate that we don't want that type, but rather the common double.

Even C gets this right.
Right, the innovation is in using storage-compute collocation to allow common data operations to be structured into the way the storage arrays are set up. The paper is really about doing sparse linear algebra in hardware not PDEs (but of course after discretization that is all PDEs are--linear algebra).
I like piratism more...but you're right....
I thought I had heard that Reddit was using a non-salted or non-hashed password in the early days?
Around day 2,000 is when the guilt kicked in for me.
https://sci-hub.mu/http://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018...
I'm reminded of the adage that, for most authors, piracy isn't a challenge, obscurity is.

You mention 1 person out of 170. Okay, I think I have more than 170 neighbors whose windows I pass in order to leave my neighborhood. I can't imagine even one choosing to install a camera. That's the point I'm making: Many/most people will not rationally weigh the costs vs benefits of this system. They will see only "more cameras, less privacy," and that's that.

BTW, there is no legal expectation of privacy, but that's a far cry from the average person's understanding. We live in a world in which people attach notes to Venmo payments spelling out their illicit activities, in large part because they seem to not realize just how public that information is.

The network you describes seems to rely on a regular series of periodic updates to track movement. I can't imagine uptake being high enough in most locales for that to work.
SMS is not about securing an account. It's only use is as a proof of work (money) to make it harder/more expensive to make a bot account.

Using it as a security measure is a mistake.
It's not even really that. Your home environment sets your barometer for what normal life looks like and for how strangers can be expected to behave. If your parents fight and assume ill intent in every mistake then you see that in every interaction. If they're constantly trying to get one over on each other then that's how you see human relationships. They don't have to love you or be particularly invested in you for you to learn some really screwed up lessons from them.
Intensive veggie growers ("intensive" means "scaled-up home garden") can make 6 figures on 1.5-2 acres. Selling higher-margin crops direct to customers puts a lot of money in the farmer's pocket.
I am not sure if I agree with the proposal. I feel that this won't solve the problems it is raising. Once a technology is out there people are going to use and misuse it. Disclosing the potential harmful effects won't prevent that. Predicting harmful effects is also a terribly difficult job and humans are pretty good at figuring out ingenious ways to misuse technologies.

Using this for peer review process adds another layer of subjectivity to an already messy system. What if the peer reviewer doesn't agree with the negative consequences? Also the big companies can use their researchers to block papers with negative consequences they don't like.

On the other hand, I really hope that people keep working on the ethics of using machine learning techniques. Maybe set up ethics bodies with real power like the engineering and medical professions?
> In the pre-monetized web, yes the tech guys made things right without money extracted from the web.

It was extracted from tuition paid by undergraduate students and taxes paid by taxpayers.

And that money all eventually came from dirty capitalism.
"Why do the 1.4 billion people living there put up with it in the first place? Why they have just made Jinping a lifetime president? Why are they fine with their own Chinese tech companies doing this already?"

China is not a democracy, that's why. This should not be a shocking revelation. It is also easy to forget that there was a civil war in China after the Japanese withdrawal, and the American-backed Republic of China lost (they retreated to Taiwan; this is why such a small island is such a big deal to China). That was when the choice was made, and the Chinese people have not had a choice since then.

"It would help to understand the geopolitical causes of this environment"

Have you been living under a rock? China has one of the best-documented systems of censorship and propaganda, operated at the largest scale in human history. The Internet has greatly aided both of those efforts -- the great firewall for censorship, the 50-cent army for propaganda.

This has been explored ad nauseum, and there has been plenty of news about how the Chinese have refined and developed their various methods.
"Charter schools expand choice for low-income families."

Only if charter schools are not permitted to pick and choose who attends.

"Maybe it's bad for the public school, but it's good for the high performing students themselves, who are no longer dragged down by disruptive/disengaged classmates."

This kinda boils down to "fuck you, I've got mine." It's why no one likes libertarians.

"The vast majority of charter schools are non-profit."

Citation needed. And a citation that they're actually non-profit, and not a non-profit in the same way the NFL is a non-profit.

"They just happen to experiment with different approaches and methods, while giving students/parents the final say on where they want to go."

Yeah, but many times those "experiments" have to do with just breaking unions.
I think one of the best newer success stories here is another thing that, like "filters" and "spreadsheets", doesn't even call itself "programming". The Android app Tasker [0] is a "total automation" tool with over a million installs.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch....
The easiest and safest approach is to choose the most restrictive license possible, like AGPL, and not accept contributions without signing an agreement, like Google does [1]. You can always switch to a less restrictive license later or sell under a different license, etc.

People will still be able to use your product freely, try it out, read code, contribute, but you will be protected from large corporations taking advantage of your work without paying you (like Amazon unable to use open source Mongo and Mongo unwilling to sell to Amazon).

[1] https://cla.developers.google.com/about/google-individual
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How is it a lie? Money going to charters is money not going to the neighborhood school.
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Isn't it possible that "income, or stability" experienced a sudden drastic change at some point after birthing the 5th kid? It is conceivable that the parent did not have full control over that change.
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Sorta, but quality of life is subjective. A poor person might be happy and not mind their kids growing up poor. A rich person fearing poverty might have a different opinion.
I wonder if this will be met with the same intensity of internal backlash as their participation in that DoD object detection competition (AKA project Maven). I mean, helping the authoritarian Chinese government censor the web seems worse than helping the US government recognize whether there are people and cars on the ground.
They also just get moldy in "sterile-ish" environments like pots since there's nothing there to break them down. Works ok in the yard though.
I spent about 15-16 years designing, building, and installing accessibility devices from the late 1970s to the mid 1990s and while I get the point of the article I think it almost completely ignores how much progress has been made over the past 40 years.

I've seen mandatory curb cuts and wheelchair ramps, elevators for homes and offices, the huge advancements in electric wheelchairs with joystick controller that progressed from 8 directions and two speeds to variable controllers that provide fine grained progressive speed and directional controls and up to 30 miles of range, vehicles retrofitted with power wheelchair lifts and automatic door openers, hand controls for throttle and brakes, and advanced driving systems that C4-C5 quadriplegics can safely drive by themselves, all of it during just those years.

And, of course, the passing of the "ADA" (Americans with Disabilities Act) was enacted during that timeframe and had, and still has, a huge impact everyday on the real life mobility and inclusion for all those in wheelchairs.

I can certainly understand how someone who's recently been required to use a wheelchair to get around suddenly realizes how many obstacles there are for those in wheelchairs, but I'd have to point out to them how far we've come in the past few decades and how many have good people I've worked with who dedicated years of their lives to increasing both mobility and accessibility to get where we are today.

Those I worked with back then are still my heroes.
Simple: when you "manage" real news as if it were fake news, you are engaging in censorship.
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