skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of an idea I had a few years ago when the northeast states and provinces like Quebec and Ontario were in the grip of an intense cold snap as a result of a "polar vortex". I live near Lake Ontario and the surface of the entire lake froze over to a thickness that would support a transport truck.

You probably see where I'm going with this: throw a big party/rave in the middle of the frozen lake. The goal would be to keep it on the Canadian side (where I live) but far enough out into the lake that local police have no jurisdiction - IANAL but my primitive thinking was to see if you could situate it where it would require federal intervention, which seems to me unlikely to materialize in time to stop a party.

In any case, we would be in the middle of a very large lake, and I'm not sure that there are any laws preventing throwing a party there in the first place.

Naturally, to be a welcoming environment, a party like this would greatly benefit from a huge bonfire, raising concerns about risks that are less likely when you party on dry land, but I thought it was a fun idea...
>You could say the same of seatbelts, yet their use is enforced by law because automobile fatalaties were a major public health problem.

Was it because of that, or merely because the government just likes to overreach and regulate?
This is incredibly sad.

I've used CA in France and it was a very miserable experience, even by French banking standards (which on themselves are surprisingly low).

I'm using them in Egypt and it's a shitty experience too. Better than French CA, better than most government-owned banks in Egypt, but still shitty.
The conservatives (meaning disliking change) on these city councils also tend to dislike public transit; they want to live like they imagined it in the 1970s with everybody driving their personal car on uncrossed freeways long distances between their homes, work, and commercial districts.

Even their desire to stick it to the techies will not overcome their love of car-first, or sometimes car-only, policies.
I find it fun to look around whatever room/bus/park that I'm in and try to count the instances of Sqlite.
It's really interesting to see Mazda take a lead in engine design. Once one would have expected this more from Honda.

However, it's not all good. Apparently direct injection gasoline engines emit more particulates than conventional gasoline engines. This may be a manageable problem and new regulations are supposedly in effect from 2017 in the US (unless they got caught in Trumps emissions control rollback), but that does not clean up the several years of cars with direct injection before now.
When people say "I'm all for freedom of speech, but..." it means they aren't actually for freedom of speech at all. In your case it seems you are willing to curtail a broadcaster's speech because of your arbitrary rule that some of that person's followers may have threatened violence or sent death threats. Alex Jones has indulged in conspiracy theories, but as far as I know he has not called for violence or anyone's death. If we apply your rule, then how do we deal with the many death threats against President Trump by ordinary people and even celebrities. Are we to ban their preferred newspapers, TV and YouTube channels too? After all, where could they have got such an idea? If your standard was applied consistently then then there would be no media.
There might be slightly positive causal correlations between health and creativity (probably not too strong though because there are lots of mentally deranged successful artists), and, more plausibly, between tolerance and creativity, but that's not enough profundity. It does not give you that "kick" of information gain you get from the profound sentences. It abuses a poetic/proverbial form to only state weak to non-existent causal associations and henceforth it is bullshit.
The problem is not the start with a state license, but expanding to a federal license.
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Not surprising that people who pick up on bullshit would be less likely to donate to a "non proffit" where many execs make over 1m a year

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/executive-salaries-chariti...
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Not really. You probably have in mind a "community of interest". But the analog world forces you into many communities of proximity without shared interests as well.

There are communities where you pick the people who are associated with, and communities where you don't get to do that (or do it as much).

The internet gives you huge control over picking communities that think/have interests exactly like yours (and that's exactly what the parent was mentioning to like about the internet communities).

In real life communities that are not e.g. a chess club, but more like neighborhood, school, etc, you are forced to live with, and deal with, all kinds of people, not just the one you chose to. At best, you can move to a different location, but you still don't have the control to pinpoint and seggregate interests the internet gives you.
Alex Jones will be fine. He's been around since the 90s, when shortwave radio -- that bastion of white supremacists, conspiracy theorists, fundamentalists, and other assorted kooks -- was his primary means of contact with his audience.

If anything this will make Alex, and his followers, even crazier, as his censorship by major Web outlets only PROVES that the DEMONS behind the New World Order are plotting to silence the righteous!
We recently were forced to buy an expensive small house in “good” school area and several people I know have done same. I really don’t think I can agree with author here. Charter school or not, it is difficult for a poor family to put their kids in good schools simply because they are priced out. Segregation occurs because minorities doesn’t have a choice which schools they can send their kids in current system. Government already assigns you a school when you buy a house in many states. The “good” public schools don’t have many minority students today precisely because of this reason.

Public school system in US is essentially a government monopoly and comes with all evils that a typical monopoly would demonstrate. Many schools can’t fire bad teachers, many mismanage their finances, many have incompetent administrators and NONE of them have to make their customers happy or be efficient in order to survive. Customers are handed over to them on silver plater regardless of their performance or improvements. It’s not a surprise that US school system spends top dollars and get placed almost at the bottom in the developed world. But it is a surprise that Americans have accepted this government monopoly, decided to pay through nose mortgages for good school areas and think of this as good deal for their taxes.

Schools must compete for customers if we want them to see improve. We pay taxes and government averages out dollars per student. That’s all good but I should be able to take those dollars and go anywhere I wish to educate my kids. Government should not have a say over exactly which school my kids may or may not attend. It is a common sense and only way to eliminate segregation. Schools that no one wants to go can die out or be bought by different management. When schools get over subscribed, new entrepreneurs can move in to area and start new schools. They can observe areas for improvements in existing schools and implement them in their new schools to attract new customers. A continuous cycle of improvements ensues and that’s how things gets better over time instead of getting stagnated under government monopoly.
It's entirely possible that they weren't testing "bullshit-sensitivity," but some underlying language skills, IQ, or even something like creativity (required to give the sentences have meaning). I don't think that they test has sufficient evidence that it measures what they claim it measures.

Second, donation experience did not have a statistically significant relationship with "bullshit sensitivity," which is kind of a bad smell. As for prior plausibility, the authors admit "previous theory and research does not give us strong reasons for predicting a direct relation between reactions to bullshit and prosocial behavior." The study also lacked a control group.
> Lisp has an abstract beauty in that it is a homoiconic language thought up as an intellectual exercise from a small number of basic rules and simple syntax.

That's the idealistic view. Also LISP was developed over some years, based on earlier languages for list processing (IPL, ...) and similar.

The paper 'RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS OF SYMBOLIC EXPRESSIONS AND THEIR COMPUTATION BY MACHINE' was a presentation to a specific (more scientific) audience, while there were earlier and at the same time already 'real' language manuals published, which were concerned with less 'abstract' topics.

See for example:

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/MIT/LISP_P...
This is nice.

But what I don't understand is why e.g. Google Scholar doesn't provide a service like this.
Have you ever had any trauma to your head?
Many other types of leadership can work just as well depending on the team.

The biggest downside to servant leaders is, IME, they split their focus and are often not held accountable.

For example if you prioritize growth as a servant leader are you held responsible if your team has a higher than average turnover? Are you rewarded if you have a lower than average turnover?

Is that more important than project success to the business?

Is this clearly defined anywhere for your project?
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It's not that they're "cheating". It's just that many problems (like this one) are only difficult under some constraint. Lift that constraint, and it's easy (and therefore uninteresting).

I'm absolutely certain that Feynmann himself discovered the same thing as I did many decades ago, and that he discarded this "solution" because it was outside of the constraints that made the problem interesting.
This is cool. Thanks for listing Beginning Creators :)
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Surface profoundness is similar in those statements, so I don't think that dividing them by "makes sense" axis is too wrong.
That is very unlikely. When you start or own businesses in China you largely give up the right to criticize the Chinese government. Not only because you have to deal with the Chinese government, but because you won't have any credibility left at home. You can't on the one hand argue that the Chinese government is oppressive and on the other that it is practical to change peoples minds.
The rest of the world is big enough for me.
I have many hobbies!

My primary hobby is working on life simulations and other personal projects. Other hobbies include:

* Taking care of my cats

* Growing plants

* Vermicomposting (this is a newfound hobby)

* Learning new things

* Reading (this is usually an "in-between" hobby - I do it when I have some time on public transport or before bed.

* Walking in nature when I can find time to do it, or just taking a walk through a nice part of the city.

My interest in each of these comes and goes so they tend to rotate. The constants are learning new things (which I do by working on fun life simulation projects) and my cats. I now have worms to take care of too, so vermicomposting has been high up there on the hobby priority list.
I visited about 2 weeks ago from the UK and after 2 days in the centre staying around the SoMa area, I believe SF is the most overrated place I've ever visited.

1. The homeless/junkies felt like 1/3 of all people visible. They can be seen face down in the middle of pavements and can be aggressive. Human excrement is definitely a thing there and I've not seen it before in any other city.

2. People buying $7 latte's stepping over homeless people and calling themselves "progressive" and "liberal" don't understand the meanings of those words. "Self Important" and "pretentious" are more accurate.

3. The traffic is insane. The public transport sucks.

4. The food was the best I've had in the US in that it was fresh and seemingly unprocessed. It is expensive though.

5. Tech companies annoyingly rent public spaces and decent bars when there are conferences. I'm looking at you Google.

6. Drinkable beer is expensive.

7. The Computer History Museum is good.

8. The Pier area is meh with chain restaurants.
I figure the mid-term goal should be to end up only refining oil for jet fuel and petrochemicals. So either the products have to be converted (as others have explained) or burned in a power plant. We will need more energy for all those electric vehicles after all, so more oil burning power plant may be needed in the transition.

Long term goal is of course to not extract oil at all, but some products will be hard to replace without radical new technologies.
I'm curious as to why they don't use something like NTFS-3G. I know it's a FUSE FS, but it's still pretty fast.
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It's really hard to be creative if all your attention is pulled by your body failing, impending death, and the inadequacies of everyone and everything around you.

It's a lot easier to be a content consumer while in poor physical/mental health than to be a content creator.
Maybe. I think there’s all sorts of leaders and all sorts of ways and configurations projects can have.

IMO the most inspired software is the implementation of the vision of one person who had an artists/visionaries clear idea of what they want to create, who listens to input and brings in new ideas from others, but has absolute control over the decisions.

Servant leaders of software projects I’m guessing has the potential to lead to somewhat ordinary software.
> It doesn't make sense that as a baker I can be forced to bake gay wedding cakes,

In the UK you're not forced to bake gay wedding cakes. You have the choice to bake cakes and not bake any wedding cakes at all. What you can't do if you're a business is refuse to provide cakes to people because they have (or you perceive them to have) a protected characteristic.
Is it like curl in that regard?
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I participated in various research experiments at the local university (to earn a bit of money on the side while in high school). The ones that paid the most where usually pain experiments, so I've been through quite a few of those.

One thing I found interesting is how incredibly subjective and relative painful experiences are. Increasing and varied types of pain would typically be inflicted over the course of an experiment, while I had to perform various tasks and grade the pain on a scale from 0-10.

Very often I'd grade the initial pain around 6-7, and increase that to the maximum of 9-10 during the experiment. The pain I experienced by the end would however be much more severe, and if I could've corrected the initial grading it'd have been closer to 2-3.

I guess you could say that I was unable to imagine the level of pain I'd later experience, and how relative pain is perceived in this type of experiment.

Just a tangential anecdote, but I didn't call BS on that statement :)
One accidentally breaks an egg. One doesn't "accidentally" kill innocent people because they "accidentally" launched a missile to an area where civilians are.
You never lived in a dictatorship, do you? If people comes to your home and you say something against the "system", they will come and take you, the people who were listening to you and probably your family too. And you are probably not coming back.

I really wondering, how would you educate somebody who is shouting and threatening other people. Also, can you imagine how you would feel, if your child was killed in a school shooting and then somebody is telling everybody, that you are lying?

If you want to educate this idiot, go ahead, and before you try to do it, stop him from hurting people, who are already having the worst time of their life...
Surface profoundness is a contradiction in terms.
> can pick and choose what they like.

No, these big businesses cannot say "no tweets about gay weddings".
The only sentence that confused me is this one:

> 3. The future elucidates irrational facts for the seeking person.

I'm not a native English speaker, so I might be wrong, but I'm reading this as "the future will more likely reveal the truth to those who are open-minded" which seems to be too profound to be bullshit. Of course, "irrational fact" is an awkward way to refer to false beliefs, but awkwardness≠bullshit.
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Water and sewage both sustaining that height don't hurt either.
Pain is always all in your head. I'm saying that experienced pain is never imagined: it is a real, physical event in the brain, experienced through the mind, a presumably measurable mental phenomenon with physiological, neurochemical aspects. It is the effect of some cause, and that cause could be imagined and it could cause real pain, but if you experience pain, that pain is by definition not imaginary, though the cause may be.

We can imagine other people's pain, however, or hypothetical pain, and that is not the same as experiencing pain itself.
“Don't hold it like that!”
as If the US was any good
I don't see how that's relevant. That's a situation where you were comparing various real pains to each other in terms of their intensity. You weren't comparing them to imaginary pains.
I'm not denying that certain public systems work good or even great - there is Germany just next to my country with their excellent system (it's getting worse according to my German friends though, but I'm not sure about that, I don't have enough first-hand experience). I'm arguing that there is less motivation in a public system so it could easily lead to bad situations, but of course sometimes it doesn't.
Agreed. I think this is an important distinction that seems to get lost in some of the conversation. There is a fundamental distinction to be had between the government forbidding you from speech versus a private individual or corporation from excluding you from their platform.
I am not complaining about it, but I think it's relevant to the point: oppression of certain opinions. Otherwise I wouldn't have mentioned it.
It is not necessary in most cases — your counts drop but most men can father children into their 70s.

Don’t wait... the career impacts you fear are mostly myth. The one regret I have in life is waiting for the “right” moment to have kids and thus waiting too long.
Sounds like you're in the wrong job dude. Stop chasing money and go after what makes you happy, find a comfortable job that works for you.

Eat well and stop moaning.
Is this playable yet? The website and this article don't actually have a 'play now' or 'buy it here' link, and it's not clear whether it exists or is still in development.
Vinegar has an incredibly strong taste you should be able to detect in anything, so it's not a super strong example in this case. It can be less strong than vinegar and still be overpowering.
> The best leaders in software and technical domains are also those who can write (either code or ideas) better than anyone else.

Technical and programming skills have very little overlap with successful team management skills. It's the very essence of the Peter Principle.
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> But he's insinuating that people like Alex Jones should be protected by freedom of speech as if their fucked up ideads are some sort of alternative view that's just not for everyone.

That is the case. In my opinion he's a hilarious nutcase, but just because you find his views offensive does not mean his speech is now illegitimate. The whole point of freedom of speech is to allow the airing of controversial opinions, even if that means you end up with professional trolls calling tragedies a hoax. Any time you make a "freedom of speech doesn't apply to opinion X" argument, you are actively arguing against freedom of speech.

> This is a form of gaslighting that tries to establish credibility for extremists that they don't have.

What does this even mean? Having a different opinion is not gaslighting and to suggest that it is, is to trivialise a form of psychological abuse.
... but the text in the boxes still has a weird baseline. Sorry to spoil the fun, but if you just invested a few hours to learn how to work with Inkscape, you would become much more efficient sooner.

At some point during my PhD I accepted that LaTeX is not the right tool for graphical work. Stubbornly I was still texing my slides with Beamer, but half their content was figures prepared in Inkscape.
I agree they should.

However if someone does not follow the rules then the fines need to be vastly greater for cars.

You don't need to be Einstein to understand: E = m/2*v^2

A good start would be to place all the burden of liability on the driver with the heavier vehicle (maybe have a 20% difference in which it is split 50:50).

The free market could then sort out insurance premiums.
Imagining yourself feeling happy can lead to you really feeling happy, but imagined happiness is not the same as experienced happiness. You imagine being happy, and _then_ might put you in the right state of mind for actually experiencing happiness. Let's remember that also the mind is either a physical phenomenon or else it is a spiritual, supernatural one. I go for physical.
> The idea of “servant” leaders has been on the rise in the agile community of late. Robert K. Greenleaf coined the term in a 1970 essay, but the idea is timeless.

At least in German, that term is arguably much older, going back to the Prussian king Frederick II, who wrote "the sovereign is only the first servant" ("The sovereign, far from being the absolute Master of the people which are under his domination, is only the first servant").
Something to consider as well, is there is fairly wide spread consensus that China's GDP is significantly artificially inflated.
I think that DeMarco is wrong about that already in the corporate world. The budgets and schedules that I work with are organised around knowing what is going to arrive when, crudely 10x -> 5x means that 5x is not available for the next round of projects, which means that 5 projects get canned. Any project running 2x will result in a big change of "staff responsibility" basically because no one trusts anyone involved any more.
OK, deep soundingness.
Are out-of-country DNS queries necessarily bad? If I were in upstate New York, for example, I would much prefer to use a resolver in Toronto than one in San Francisco. Measuring actual distance or network latency would be a much better way to detect suboptimal geolocation than simply checking whether the server is in the same country as the user.
Everything that went up, or down, from the flat had to take the stairs. Or an equivalent route.

People. Furnishings. Possessions. Food. Water. Waste.

If something didn't move independently, you moved it personally.

Privies tended to be outside, at ground level. Pisspots were standard items.

Gardyloo!

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I think many crisises are predicted by many right as we speak. I think many are even correct. However, these might be professors or "random" people not working for or as a shotcalling instance.

From all the people in positions of power, how many are professors with 20+ years (technical) experience. With so many (smart) people, I think worst case scenarios in any field are already documented, but who will listen. Likewise, if it's < 1% chance to fail, should that be enough reason to say no?

This would set the world back quite a bit, if we only give a "go" on 100% succes chance.
The test you describe is basically also a (recipe for an) integration test.