skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where am I making an ad hominem? It's my — all too often — repeated experience that there are people who meaningfully talk with "SJWs" and there are people who talk about them.

I'm not asserting any specific person here is a member of either set — except myself, based solely and specifically on my own, direct experience. I'm also absolutely not asserting you're "regurgitating" anything.

Just, on the basis of the conversations I've had, and the independent reading I've done, there is no way some of the positions being fervently argued in this broader discussion are based on anything except internalizing some (usually agenda-serving) misapprehension of what "SJWs", or feminists, or whatever, are, want, and intend.

As for the term, itself, it's been seen as mostly pejorative for as long as I've been aware of it. How about, instead of a bucket you (the general "you") can dismiss people and their beliefs into, ("Oh, look. Another 'SJW'..."), we try something along the lines of, "Hmm. Someone who thinks differently from me. I wonder how..."

It's, in my "I've been online for more than 20 years now" opinion, a term that is vastly more often used to shut down discourse than it is to open it up.
Many rock stars in theoretical computer science, including theoretical cryptography, are linked to Blum either directly (advised by him) or indirectly (advised by his students).

He left Berkeley to CMU to stay close to his son, Avrim Blum then at CMU, and grand kids. Avrim moved to Toyota Technological Inst, Chicago for greener pastures last year.

It is kind of expected of Prof Blum couple to leave CMU to Chicago to stay close with his son. Wish they had given more substance to their claims of 'sexist management'.
> Suprised me to learn that the top floors were the cheapest because the buildings were made of wood with no organized fire service and burned down all the time, so being upstairs was a death sentence.

The top floors in most prewar walkups in NYC are the cheapest today, even though all have sturdy fire escapes. People don't want to walk up 5 flights of stairs every day, and they also get swelteringly hot on the top floors during the summer, whereas lower floors stay cooler.
Hola Agustín, primero que nada felicitaciones por el tremendo proyecto que están sacando adelante, muy interesante y en deuda hace tiempo para el mercado chileno. Tengo un par de consultas:

- ¿Porqué Fondos Mutuos y no Fondos de Inversión? ¿Fue para dar mayor liquidez a los clientes? (Entiendo que los Fondos de Inversión tienen un beneficio tributario que no existe en FFMM).

- Al parecer sólo invierten en ETF de USA, específicamente del S&P 500 para el fondo riesgoso ¿Planean cambiar ésto en un futuro?

- Si cobran 1,19% de remuneración fija ¿Cómo es que en sus folletos informativos sale un monto menor de tasa anual de costos? Me imagino que los costos bancarios por transferencia + de administración de ETF + transaccionales deberían influir en dar un TAC mayor.

-¿Existe un proceso automatizado de inversión desde el punto de vista cliente? (Por ejemplo un cobro automático bancario todos los meses a la misma fecha)

Nuevamente felicitaciones por el proyecto!
Making sense of topic models
The trade off is drive-ability and throttle feel. The vehicle will feel sluggish, but it won't "roll coal" if you ease into the throttle. This can be proven by gasp actually driving a diesel powered vehicle and a) stomping on the gas pedal and b) easing into the gas pedal.

The more common solution it diesel particulate filters in-line of the exhaust pipe that cause the soot to completely burn off. This is a trade-off because the DPF requires maintenance. Some systems even go so far as to implement aggressive exhaust gas recycling, pumping already burned exhaust back into the intake to be burned again.

And for references...
1. Why do diesels produce black smoke.....
https://commercial.lubrizoladditives360.com/black-smoke-caus...

2. What is diesel exhaust.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_exhaust

3. Diesel misconceptions.....
https://phys.org/news/2011-06-myths-diesel.html
"Generally accepted" by whom? In my circles, the definitions rosser and I have offered are the generally accepted ones.
Well that was an adventure.
seems slow. Having to flush on every swap, I mean. I wonder if there wont be a move away from offering these kinds of offers: if offering 0.2 of a core means putting in 0.3 effort, that's a 20-30% drop in how many you can run per core.
Go to startup oriented meetups in your city.
Diesel's days depend purely on politics.

I was shocked to see public opinion change overnight on this issue because some German auto manufacturer cheated on their tests. This should motivate people to fight corruption, not fuels.

Properly maintained EURO4+ vehicles are just fine. Yes, they product some more particulates and NOx, but if you look up the specifics in absolute values, the difference is essentially trivial.

Replacing diesel with gasoline in commercial vehicles will increase transportation prices at least 30-40%, my guess would be much higher. It simply won't happen. Commercial electric vehicles are a dream (or a financial nightmare, depending on your perspective) at this point.

Are diesel's days limited in light personal transport vehicles? Maybe, depending on politics. Are trucks, buses etc going electric anytime soon? Not really.

For public transport, most people and most city councils will choose to improve their services (like more routes, more buses per line etc) and not to shrink just to use the latest bus-sized gadget.
> and L1 is flushed before transition from one VM to another.

Is this true?
The beauty of (Indian) democracy is that every 5 years the year before election an innovative world saving scheme that is expensive would be implemented or started.
"home ownership"

Does this take mortgages into consideration?
I think it depends on your definition of stability.

Megacorp: The company won't disappear overnight, but you might get tossed around different positions and have projects you've spent a year on shut down out of nowhere.

Startup: The company itself may shut down, but in the meantime everything is more focused and transparent.
I was talking to a colleague today and I made that example I remembered from my physics course done on the Halliday-Resnick textbook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentals_of_Physics
Why would this be the most likely scenario? What would motivate someone to end their career in this way?
Perhaps you could elaborate on the use of "oxymoron" here? Just checking, as you apparently do not know your "it's" from your "its".

But seriously, why the bashing? Have you actually looked at the code and determined it is not easily readable? If not, why do you opine that it is unreadable? Prejudice is easily propagated. Please don't.
Could an esp8266 be used for this purpose? the last 2 boards that I ordered are defective and can't test it...
Somehow affixing large speakers to your tiny moped to make vrooming sounds, seems like a rather niche outcome.

Chopping off the exhaust pipe for "moah powah!" fits much better into human behavior.
In some climates I guess. Most of Europe doesn't even have AC, it's rarely needed.
How was Louis CK in the position of authority? As a celebrity, his attractiveness level was way off charts, otherwise an obese, middle-aged balding guy would be completely invisible, so he tried to capitalize on that. But those women freely flocked to him, trying to capitalize on associating with him. If anything, both sides were "damaged goods".
TSLA market cap is like 3 years of Toyota's net income. Toyota also has enough liquid assets that it could take Tesla private with cash using Musk's plan. It would be no sweat decision if they would value the business $420 per share.

:)
There are a lot of things that you simply can't learn by yourself, though. The practicalities of doing things on a team, at scale, are just out of scope for personal side projects.
how about "electro scooter"?
Swift is #6 on that list, TypeScript is #4.

This was meant to highlight that Swift developers don't seem unhappy with the language

Swift is evolving slowly, but JavaScript is making very quick progress through TC39 during the same time span that Swift was alive.

I'm not sure this is a bad thing

Swift has ambiguous and biased leadership but JavaScript has a well defined and established committee with members from major competitors who have common interest in the language succeeding.

I think this is a bit biased. Have you read Swift's Community Guidelines? https://swift.org/community/#communication

I don't really have a dog in this fight and would love some input from a Swift developer.

I still claim that introducing JavaScript is not the solution.
Researchers say new 'flow battery' could charge electric cars in seconds
North Xinjiang is much more Han than south Xinjiang, which is much more Uighur. The cities are obviously more Ham, especially around Urumqi, but even the countryside is more diverse in north Xinjiang with kazaks and Tajiks.

I’m surprised the PLA isn’t being harsher near kashgar, they have more problems there than in Urumqi.
Top floors in 5 story walkups are definitely cheaper in NYC this minute.

Apart from the stairs being a pain, your water pressure is also weak.
https://www.workatastartup.com/

HN who's hiring threads (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17663077)

TripleByte.com
Angellist.com
Hired.com

Between all of those, if you're good, then you'll be swimming in startup opportunities.
I couldn't see it in the list of extensions there. I saw a ticket filed that said that there are various arguments against including it, one of them being that it's not the responsibility of the user to install some extension in order to get unblocked, it's the responsibility of the provider to not block users.
The Great Filter: Why You Shouldn’t ICO on Ethereum
how do i find those?
Also your water pressure sucks.
I've been out of the theoretical physics game a little while, what are the leading "untestable" quantum-gravity theories out there today?
CAME HERE TO SAY THIS
My vested interest comes as a result of enjoying vehicles. I am as much a gearhead as I am a hacker, and seeing something so efficient, so powerful, and so useful that LITERALLY built the industrialized world by powering 18 wheeled trucks and trains and container ships get crapped on by people who don't even know what the difference between their Corolla and a diesel engine actually are.

I owned a 1990 CTD Dodge W350 truck and that thing would do a brakestand from a 3rd gear clutch drop AT IDLE... with 300k miles on the clock. Find me a V8 gasser that can do that and pull a trailer through the Kangamangus at 20+mpg.
If you're going to keep reposting flagged comments we'll ban the account.
It depends. Are you dealing with a "rational" actor? Are you dealing in the objective or the subjective?

If you are dealing with someone nominally rational on a subject of some objectivity, the question is really how do you interpret the science and how it that enforced or detracted from by your lived experience. That doesn't invalidate the science, but it helps with perspective.

If you are dealing with an irrational actor but an objective issue, you can throw the science in their face but that is generally not a good way to approach it. Humans respond defensively as a reflex. If someone knew the "one truth" to the world, I would reflexively and cynically respond that they probably don't, and counter-argue. I might investigate the alternatives though. I think the goal here is just convince them to do more seeking. And if they are unwilling to do that and to change to the objective side of things, they aren't worth the time (period).

If you are dealing in the subjective, the same things tend to apply but be more careful. You are dealing in the realm of lived experience, espoused values and old wisdom. Old wisdom tends to be better than new wisdom, unless the nature of the problem is new, and lived experience tends to always be more compelling to you than to others around you.

Mostly, you are wasting time trying to change minds. Try to point people in the direction where they can learn for themselves, no one wants to be taught, they want to be shown, and sometimes they are more open if you validate their perspective first (not sarcastically, truly validate it, and then proceed to attack the central argument).
awesome, I'll check these sites out. thanks for the input
There are still servers involved. Serverless sounds like its peer to peer. What it really is is VM less.
Yet I still see a great deal of very irresponsible driving of those scooters. I expect there to be a lot of local pushback as regulators catch up.
As a journalist who presumably is covering feminism, are you familiar with the ongoing back-and-forth between second wave feminism, third wave feminism, and intersectional feminism? Do you know what a TERF is?

I see a lot of healthy debate and constructive criticism within feminism.
What a cohencidence.
Back when buildings had windows that opened, paperweights more more than decorative.
https://laurencetennant.com/bonds/adhominem.html
While the Azure D series and G series are 14/28/56/112/140, the F series is available with base 2 increments.
#GrabYourWallet mobilizing thousands against Twitter policy
Yes. The thirty-year fixed-rate mortgage was kind of the cornerstone of the whole system and arose because of government intervention to assure stability
They have principles and wanted to make a statement. But like I said in a different reply - my default interpretation of this given the circumstances would be not considering this as more significant than someone earlier in their career simply speaking out. Would they have resigned if they were only 35? maybe - and that would (to me) be stronger evidence of how bad the things were that they were protesting. And maybe not (this would be my guess, but I could certainly be wrong).
German lawyers use fax, because the receipt shows the recipient has legally received the message. This is not the case with email. Therefor they created a different kind of electronic mail system (De-Mail [0]) they want people to subscribe to, so people can receive legally binding documents in an account they never look into.

I don't have any numbers about monthly active users and other relevant KPIs, but I bet they are really low.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Mail
I've never met a startup that wasn't desperate to hire :) That being said, many startups ignore inbound applications, because the signal to noise ratio is so bad.

If you want to work at a startup, I'd recommend a few of the following:

1/ Apply for A-List, Hired.com or Triplebyte

2/ Look at Who's Hiring posts on HN

3/ Update your LinkedIn and AngelList to seem hire-able (but not TOO hire-able!) Use a real pic of yourself, have a personal website with a resume, and fill out info about jobs you've had. (Related: put your name/info in your HN profile!)

4/ Have friends at startups? Talk to them! Everyone at a startup knows someone who is hiring.
> but every year I hear about folks being shot, run down, and arrested for a crass joke.

Care to clarify what do you mean by this?
I think that the popular theory might still be that they warred themselves away, but my understanding (probably absorbed from Natural Geographic or something) was that, while they did have a period of overpopulation that seems to have resulted in a fair bit of famine and the consequent social upheaval, there's no evidence for any outright war.

e.g., from the Source of All Truth:

A study headed by Douglas Owsley published in 1994 asserted that there is little archaeological evidence of pre-European societal collapse. Bone pathology and osteometric data from islanders of that period clearly suggest few fatalities can be attributed directly to violence.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island#Discussion)
What fundamentals. I think crypto-people like using that word, but dont really get what it means. There are no fundamentals on bitcoin, there is demand for its future use. If the demand drops the system goes to 0, it doesnt have a strong utility as it is today, and its best utility is money laundrying, which can and will likely dry up eventually.
To progress from insect brain maps to this within a few months is nothing short of amazing. I realize that these projects were started some time ago, but now I wonder how long until we have a full map of the human brain?
Having been to Basel world before, even $2k and $6k is considered cheap for a watch.

I wonder if the exposed mechanics are real or just for show (with a simply quartz mechanism really doing the work)? I remember some phone manufacturing getting criticized because the phone guts they were claiming to show in their design was actually just a fancy sticker.
incognito doesn't allow cookies to be stored after exiting incognito, so in fact it does allow you to read as many articles as you wish simply by closing and re-opening the incognito tab. As another poster noted, FF incognito doesn't track cookies across tabs.
Three modifiers are enough: Command, option, control. Easy on macOS, possible on Linux:

(setq mac-control-modifier 'super)
(setq mac-option-modifier 'meta)
(setq mac-command-modifier 'control)

I never have to resort to using two modifiers at the same time (e.g. Command + Option), as said 3 individual modifiers are plenty.

I also never use C-c or C-u prefixes, or other emacs-isms. Everything is a single combination, which is fundamentally simpler and more ergonomic.

For rarely-used commands, I just `M-x the-command`. Better than assigning complicated or easy-to-forget shortcuts.
I think the argument about existing at the extremes probably applies here. If I am going to work for an unreliable, unknown, unstable company, I'd rather own a big chunk and have serious skin in the game and control of my destiny. If not, give me the most well funded, monopolized, cushy job possible where I can accept that my agency is a small price to pay for very high standard of living. Applies to apartments too (live in a giant building downtown, for the benefits, or in the middle of nowhere, but not in the suburbs where you are lose-lose).
Engineering the Space Shuttle
I have a few comments on this subject.

1) We are in tech. So what we do signals to others. How much we care signals to the public how much they care. If we don't, then why should they? And if they don't, how does legislation pass to prevent extreme invasion? It is in our (and companies') nature to push boundaries. If we don't get upset and do something then they push back.

2) There is more that I care about than Company X has Y data on me. Do I trust that company to be secure? Maybe now, but later? And that's where the government issue comes in. It isn't always about what the government is now, but can become. It should always be set up to be that IF there somehow became a dictator or oligarch, that they couldn't gain trivial access to tools that would exert extreme control.

Or can a foreign adversary exert control by using these tools (cough Russia cough)?

Yes, that kind of thing is unlikely in America, but it is much more likely to happen in other countries and what we do in the First World affects them. I personally am not worried about Trump trying to become dictator, but do we really want to set the ground for someone 50-100 years down the line that might try? Or do we want to make such an action as difficult as possible? And if they do gain that power we want to limit it as much as possible. (What happens when your system fails? Design FOR failure)

3) The argument of "we'll always be fighting" is a sadly true, but one that you can't let yourself be disheartened by. Because that would be like someone saying "well hackers are always going to try to get into my bank account, so I might as well let them." Currently we are the underdogs, and that is why it is so much harder now. But the only way to change that is to gain a critical mass.

So I ask, even if you don't think there is anything you can do and you can not take the steps to add more than minimal protection, then TALK about it. To me, the worst thing that can happen is that the public becomes (stays) complacent. While they are complacent and do not understand the consequences, then there can be no change and it will be a fruitless fight. But I think right now we have the best opportunity we've had in a long time to convince average people to care. (Facebook, Equifax, GDPR, Russian Hacks (which show how VERY real the adversarial abuse of data from non-malicious actors can be), etc).
Has this approach been tried with Native American tribes?
Tribes now have Casinoes and solar farms for revenue.
But tribal members lack local banking.
Tribes are the fastest growing population in Canada.
How canwealth management help this population?
Is red dot an actual award-award or an pay-and-get-one-award?
From Player to Pawn
Instagram is investigating user reports of hacked accounts
> That is the base that Richard Stallman created for the open source movement.

I understand what you mean, but RMS is very against "open source": https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
Password reset
I cannot reset my password please
I'm surprised we're only talking about mopeds & scooters- have we skipped right past electric bicycles?
Renting is giving up money for conditional access to an item. Owning is giving up liquidity for unconditional access to an item.

In renting, when you are done with the item, you terminate, yielding access and recouping none of the money. In ownership, when you are done with the item, you sell, yielding access and recouping some money.

High-end hobbyist equipment such as camera lenses and woodworking tools are great things to own; they offer great enjoyment, tend to retain value, and you can typically find a buyer if and when you want to sell.

Things that are difficult to sell and poor at retaining their value are good things to rent.

I've heard compelling arguments for both Renting and Owning of Houses and Cars and it really comes down to circumstances, but it's always good to own something you can use and sell if the need arises.
>People don't want to walk up 5 flights of stairs every day, and they also get swelteringly hot on the top floors during the summer, whereas lower floors stay cooler.

Being on the top floor of a building without A/C can definitely be an issue with respect to heat.

However, while having to lug a bunch of groceries (or whatever) up multiple flights of stairs can be an pain, is "walking up 5 flights of stairs a day" really a big issue? [Obviously for some people with infirmities it will be.] I work--well, when I commute--in a 4 story office building and most people, including myself, take the stairs when we move between floors for meeting, cafeteria, etc. We at least used to have signs encouraging taking the steps.
> Also your water pressure sucks.

That isn't my experience with the top floors of NYC prewar walkups today (and trust me, I've had a lot of that!), but I could see that being an issue in other places or in previous times.

I don't think that'd have been a driving factor in ancient Rome, though, given how different their uses of their plumbing technology were from ours. They had public toilets and baths (at ground level), so water pressure for washing and bathing wouldn't be a concern for top-floor apartments the way it would be for us today.
It's a joke, because perl is famously unreadable. That's all.