skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A group of people did a bad thing to a lady. There were many people in the group and they had more power/agency which they leveraged against this lady for reasons I can only speculate on because I wasn't really alive at the time or invited to the meetings. In all likelihood I wouldn't get along very well with these people. They're part of a group I don't consider myself associating with.

I'm still a feminist, and I still don't understand why I can't be a feminist and also believe the story I just told. The fact that "mainstream feminism" ostracized Pizzey has nothing to do with my personal beliefs. I guess I'm not a mainstream feminist?

Is this mainstream?:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/01/19/feminism-inte...

This is pretty close to me.

FWIW, I think very few people exist as absolutes but typically shades of grey. IDK what "good" or "bad" people are anymore, just good or bad actions. Promoting equality is something I find to be a good action. That is what I feel feminism represents (or should represent, or represents to me).
I doubt he gets re-elected, so I would put forth the assertion that being non-civil and acting like a jackass doesn't work long term. People get a good look at it and it isn't appealing when they can see it for what it is.
I was always given an opportunity of choice in the US and I never paid that much. I can't really choose a hospital here, the public ones are all the same and the mandatory insurance makes private care unavailable. I was also never met with such bad behavior towards patients, yeah it wasn't perfect, but it was helpful and I was treated as a person, not a piece of shit that is disturbing and isn't worth a look.

I'm in no way praising the US system though. Just saying that public hospitals have been tried and it's really bad. I think the Swiss system is good.
I’m the author. Actually building the machine is one possible outcome but essentially The Machine is a metaphor for local economies. A fact I’ve felt I should clarify in a subsequent essay.
Probably a reasonable test in a sport that requires a lot of pushing. Same reason the military like press-ups.
could you elaborate a bit on the "10 TB of raw data per second" ?

If it's really raw how much room is there for domain specific lossless compression?

How many seconds long has or will the experiment (CMS) normally run?

How much did or will the CMS component of LHC cost from construction to its full lifespan?

What fraction of that imaginary lump sum went to digital storage budget?
Makes me worry we'll keep going until we start having news headlines when people aren't acting like assholes.

"So and so could have been a butt-head but they weren't!"
They should rather keep the speed and abolish or sufficiently increase the power, as to keep the speed when going uphill.
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> Seriously, I don't know why the "prejudice + power" definitional distinction is so hard for well-meaning people to understand.

It's not hard to understand, it's just a redefinition that was consciously created to justify claims that it was impossible for blacks to be racist, and which serves no good purpose. Yes, power dynamics are relevant to the impacts of racism; no, that doesn't make the effort to redefine racism in terms of them useful. Particularly because power isn't a binary trait, it's a multidimensional continuum, and prejudice is always accompanied by power, of some degree or scope.

And particularly, also, because he history of the redefinition is well-known and makes it divisive and redirects any discussion into a heated fight over semantics rather than substance, even if revisionists attempt to save the redefinition by trying to apply it in a more nuanced way.
"as far right as practicable" means you can take the lane when necessary.
Pseudo-localization
> The plan is to roll it out by the end of the year – ahead of elections expected early in 2019.

Wow that seems to be a highly ambitious timeline. I hope India manages to setup the program enroll people onto it, but I'm also doubtful whether it can be achieved before the elections.
I've not had the opportunity to use this project yet, but https://github.com/nbedos/termtosvg seems to be another nice alternative. It provides the option of using templates that have playback controls or a progress bar. Also supports copying from the "terminal" like asciinema does.
Can you get nice downsized engines for these? I.e., with a turbo, direct injection and such?
You could argue we should all be worried about surplus heat, all the time.

I heard an interesting argument about the efficiency of air conditioning the other day. It pointed out that, while removing heat from a room is of course not 100% efficient, it is merely shifting heat from one place to another (plus some waste).

Whereas heating is ALL "waste". So more waste heat should be generated from, and more energy used in, heating vs air conditioning.

We definitely have a bias to accept that the New Englander is virtuous in heating his or her home in the winter, but the Arizonan is wasteful in cooling their "inhospitable" house in the summer.

Maybe we should rethink this.
Tried that - I get a blank page.
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> You’re making the common (and fatal) mistake of evaluating a government on the terms of a private business entity.

> Governments are of the people so long as the people maintain them as such.

"We the people" decided that government has some set of tasks to perform. Those tasks require resources, so "we the people" decided that we should steal some portion of each others' earnings, in order to provide a means that these tasks be accomplished.

The continued legitimacy of this ... arrangement ... is due to Social Contract Theory.

If, for discussion's sake, we temporarily step into the average-person's shoes and accept the Social Contract Theory at face-value, then it is most simple to conclude that what we are really doing is paying the government a lump sum in exchange for some set of services, and by garrulously quarrelling and advertising to each other we can decide who pays how much, and what is the set of services, and to a limited extent how the services ought be provided; under the limitation that if all the lump sums can't pay for all the services, then the difference will have to be made-up by printing more money and thereby reducing everyone's purchasing power (in short: further theft-from-all).

From that we can conclude that the "best" government would be the one which satisfied the majority of the desires of the majority of the people while appearing to take, in return, as little as possible. Does that not sound like the goal of a business?

> The USA had some ingenious (and flawed) founders who set in place some rights and traditions that reserve at least a small finger hold which resembles democracy, by which the people can mobilize effectively.

Correct.

Problem is, that kind of mobilization will cause enough chaos that it's not worth doing it over just a parking-ticket racket.

No, it will likely require some single, unambiguous, flagrant, overt, unapologetic and high-stakes treason against the letter of our principles and procedures ... before the 2nd Amendment's most fundamental purpose is put-to-action.

And I have no faith that the outcome of such an event, will be nontrivially better than the Articles of Confederation; it probably won't even outshine the Constitution of 1788.

But this whole discussion is going far afield enough that my betting-money says we'll soon hear from Fearless Leader Ang...
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For those who don't know, Tinder was launched by Sean Rad and his team out of IAC's incubator Hatch Labs and IAC owns most of Tinder since launch.

More detailed link here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/barry-dillers-iac-sue...
Do cops require people to go to a testing center when they cite then for a broken taillight

No, because determining whether or not a taillight is broken is objective: is the bulb lit, or not? How good are you at determining what 84db sounds like? "Well, it sounded like 86db to me. The fact that the driver was black is merely coincidence."

Do cops require people to go to a testing center when they cite then for...a DUI?

Umm, yes?

Another thought that occurred to me is that those loud pipes very likely have a "for off-road use only" somewhere on them. No testing necessary.
"magical rocks" I love it. Too bad you can't find the article. I am now googling "magical rocks" to see what I can get...
If it's not overdone, an animated walk-through can give you an impression of how simple something is - here a short animation can be worth a thousand words.

For more complex topics I find animations less helpful.
More emphasis on airflow, more earthworks, more trees, and more passive solar design. That means fewer south facing windows, open features like patios, less bare lawns, building into berms, and various forms of sunshading.

I live in such a climate, and a pergola I built specifically to shade the west-facing sliding glass door has probably made a 10 degree difference in the temperature of that room. Great example of where A/C previously let the architect be lazy.

Whole house fans for cooling at night, insulation & air sealing up the wazoo for staying cool during the day. More focus on radiation-blocking windows.
Are there any models which are not ridiculously tiny for tall people?
> How is someone’s religious choice considered an immutable and “born with” trait?

If the penalty for changing your religion is death, then it is almost immutable. And children usually don't have much choice about the religion, so it is almost as if they were born with it.

Just playing a Devil's advocate.
String theory's one.
That is a very interesting perspective and I think it helps me understand a few issues in a new light.

Thank you for sharing it.
The article says they can go 30mph. The law in most US states says that speed makes it a motorcycle. In your home province of Ontario, it also makes it a motorcycle. [1]

In California, for example, that means helmet is required and the operator must have driver's license that includes motorcycle operation. This is why most ebikes sold in the US are limited to 20mph.

So yeah, I don't get it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_bicycle_laws
I wonder if there's also @Anonymaps on HN...
Across almost all metrics, infrastructure, corruption, ease of business, electricity, even cleanliness India has improved on. This isn't just another election year innovation, this is just another list of innovations that have been added, which also include things like investments in clean energy, and providing rural impoverished citizen with gas to cook (people in rural areas would cook in wood fired stoves that would produce a lot of smoke and be terrible for their health).

You can be a pessimist, but I don't see that, and most investors are very optimistic about the Indian market.
Thanks for recommending our solution to your family! What you say is definitely true. It is really surprising that investment culture and knowledge is so different between countries that in other aspects are not that far appart.
Bicyclists deal with turning traffic running into them from all directions. Go faster than "normal" and everyone underestimates your speed and thinks they can slip in while completely disregarding your safety. A narrower profile and being outside the attention cone make bicycling in traffic much more problematic than on a motorcycle.
>I bet one of his motivations for posting that tweet was to move the stock and hurt the shorts

Sounds like a violation of SEC rule 10b-5 and possibly illegal.
I remember when I first learned about absolute zero, ages ago, and thought “if it’s unreachable, it must be like an asymptote…but that would mean we’re measuring temperature ‘upside-down’…”

Much later, I learned about that very thing (1/T, “thermodynamic beta”) while wikiwalking after hearing about the concept of negative temperature. Then I fell into a rabbit-hole wondering if we also measure speed upside-down in that way, since you can’t accelerate to light-speed. And indeed, when you’re talking about relativistic effects, units of time per distance can be more illustrative sometimes than our intuition of distance per time.
>AFAICT the only reason that people want a mechanical watch is to show how much money they have to waste.

You can get a seiko automatic for < $100 USD, they look cool and have a little window where you can see all the gears turning. There's definitely something there beyond showing off.
This is why it’s more natural to think in terms of thermodynamic beta (inverse temperature).
I wish the US had more ductless air conditioners. Window and wall AC's are old technology, loud, and bulky.
The Energy Information Administration is the go-to place for that sort of data. Here's their big-picture overview of the US:

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.php?page=electrici...

Residential AC: 1380 billion kWh * 0.158 = 218 billion kWh

Commercial AC: 1350 billion kWh * 0.106 = 143 billion kWh

Industrial data is from 2014 and grouped the heating, ventilation, and cooling together, so we can't break that down from this data.

Totaling residential and commercial is 361 billion kWh in 2017 for the US. I'm not sure about total energy use in Africa.
think 'quitting' vs 'retiring'.
no idea about pensions etc. I would be surprised if CMU offers pensions and not a normal 401k.
> What happens when 500 million people start to go to the few private hospitals? It looks like there could be some nice election-year “progress,” but that isn’t going to magically make more private beds appear.

That seems to be the least serious issue with this. Firstly, the coverage is minimal enough (especially considering their estimates of the rate of payout) that I doubt it would have that great an effect on usage. I don't really see why the market would fail to meet new demand in this case, and certainly I don't see why you think that it would be easier or cheaper for the Indian government to fix their public hospitals (especially if you've seen their other programmes, especially public primary schools).
The room searches are an invasion of privacy with zero merit. How likely is it that a shooter is going to leave guns laying out in the open?

Unless they are willing to toss the entire room like a prison cell, these searches are worse than useless as they provide a false sense of security at great cost.
this is at the core of why the fabric of our society is unraveling. We're heading deeper in this direction with no signs of slowing down. Algorithms that optimize for engagement metrics amplify this.

why would anyone entertain let alone engage opposing viewpoints when it's much more comfortable to just retreat to a place with common similar beliefs. Make no mistake Hn is an echo chamber as well.
GALS style has been around for a while, but I'm interested in the application. Is the code up somewhere?
> “Our communications — which Reitman now claims
> constituted sexual harassment — were between two
> adults, a gay man and a queer woman, ..."

I was under the impression that gay and queer meant basically the same thing. This seems to imply that there's a distinction of some sort. Does anyone know which is correct?
Unfortunately, this a terrible name, concept, and even article.

The vast majority of it is directly from a pop-science NOVA episode and not actually well-backed.

There are reasonable bounds you can place on energy density where we expect current physical theories to stop making sense.

But energy density is not the same as temperature. It is true that for things like ideal gases, temperature is roughly "energy per degree-of-freedom", which is an energy density of sorts, but that's not fundamentally what temperature is.

Temperature is nothing more than a specific measure of how energy will flow due to entropic effects. In the right systems, this can be arbitrarily high without a high energy density. (In fact, elsewhere on this very post, people have pointed out "negative temperatures" where the temperatures become "hotter than infinity", they "wrap around" to negative.)
Yea I am probably mistaken, this is likely gifv
That's true but some motorized gadgets are pretty slow. One time, due to a stoplight, I crossed an intersection at the same time as a guy on some sort of skateboard with an engine. My acceleration on my bicycle was much better than his, and I left him far behind. Several blocks later (this was a road with few stoplights), I heard his noisy approach from behind and enjoyed his triumphant smile at having finally overtaken me. Apparently his motor had a bit more power once it got totally revved up... The point is, he was a menace to anyone on the (thankfully deserted) sidewalk, and would have been something of hazard in the street.
https://archive.fo/4hEWX

^-- this archive link seems to work fine.
Mixing various concentrations with 0 mg juice can help you move down even more gradually at the tail end. If the drop causes problems bump it back up for a few weeks and then try again. Even at 6 you are doing far less damage to yourself than that pack of smokes...
yea I think you are probably right.
Thank you for the clarification.

I think "social justice advocate" is a reasonable term, though "social justice anything" is probably always going to risk evoking a reaction, and not a response; for example, I probably did with your use of "crowd", which might in turn have colored my reply.

I hope I'm offering you some food for thought, or at least another insight into a perspective that differs from yours.

There are people out there who hold considered, nuanced perspectives on these (and many other) topics. Our contemporary style of discourse makes it very difficult to be one of them. :(
Meanwhile, TF (or pytorch) never managed to get into debian :(.
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What are the chances that these statues had been built before that and they just found them there?
Heating need not be 'all waste'. An air (or ground) source heat pump heats a room, counterintuitively, by pumping heat from the colder air outside. It uses less energy than the amount it releases into the room.
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The removal of contrib is surprising but probably necessary. It will be interesting to see which projects get integrated vs removed. I'll be watching bayesflow and keras.
Look up traditional persian architecture, at least for dry heat.

Thick walls, emphasis on airflow (windcatcher structures and solar chimneys) and interesting canals engineering (underground canals — qanat — used as heat exchangers to cool down surface air before drawing it back up through dwellings).

Engineering around shade also becomes very important.
Better link: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/08/fbi-warns-of-unlimited-a...
This 30-something year old couldn't be happier owning little. I sold my house and nearly everything I own with the exception of clothes, car and a few other miscellaneous items. That stuff is just weight. I rent furnished rooms now, pay less, and can move around easier. Sure I sacrificed some, but I'm debt free and can always buy again.

This author sounds reactionary. The sky isn't failing, its just a different hue of blue today.
Hey, maybe the users can ride them on the sidewalk, too! I've been having fun dodging the bikes and scooters (from no less than 3 companies!)!!

/s

Seriously, my 2 mile walk to work has gone from a total joy to me looking over my shoulder to make sure I can change lanes without getting run over by a scooter/bike doing serious speed. And by change lanes I mean step around that dog turd.
I don't think this is an issue with the game type, just a limit on what they could afford to do. Messaging this to the player could be accomplished w/ a voice line & animation, but that costs money or disk space (remember, Playstation game).

This same problem would exist in a RTS, since the player still needs to know that the random ammo appearing is from squadmates passing it off. Otherwise, the player would be just as confused, possibly thinking they were picking up ammo off the ground.

Like most things in life, this is a tradeoff between cost to implement VS value.
"The network is the only thing making them useful to consumers."

No, this statement is entirely and purely false. The reason the network has value is because there are people on the network doing the work. If no one was doing the work, the network would be worthless.

Stop falling into the trap of believing that the people actually doing the labor are not contributing, or do not have value.
"The substitution of individual ownership for a communal one in which individuals retain a stake - a real community, or at a larger scale, a democracy - is not inherently bad."

It's not necessarily bad, but it is a major change to share something among thousands of people or millions of people vs. just among family and friends.

Saying that the people sharing are a "community" makes it sound wonderful, but it's actually a large group of people that may have interests very different from yours. Decisions need to be made and it's hard to get consensus among a lot of people, so you are basically talking about a government of some kind, along with all the conflicts that creates.

Private ownership is not particularly convenient, but it has a very interesting relationship with freedom that we should not cast away lightly.
You can’t know whether you are shadowing an outer variable. With dynamic scope:

(defun get-x () x)
(defun foo (let ((x 7)) (get-x)))
(foo) ;; => 7 (not shadowing x)
(let ((x 4)) (foo)) ;; => 7 (is shadowing x)
(setq old-get-x #'get-x)
(defun get-x () (let ((x 10)) (funcall old-get-x)))
(foo) ;; => 10
> new vehicles

> bicycles
This really is the core of the matter. Some founders are capable of largely ignoring the peanut gallery and don’t view external negativity as an existential threat. Musk is not among them.
Learning Chinese and maybe Korean.

Math.

Meditation.

Trying new ice cream flavors.
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Of course, you use a match to light tinder.
I’ve learned much more at a normal company (1) than startups (2).

I think giving people jobs they’re unqualified for is a large part of that.
... 403b.
> The local sporting goods store sells a wide variety of firearms.

As somebody who lived in Downtown SF for 5+ years I don't think there is a single gun store in the city. It is also quite a lengthy and rigorous process to purchase a firearm in California.

> American's are offensively loud

I don't want to be negative, but show the hypocrisy of such a statement. Europeans are offensively egotistical, arrogant, and stand-on podiums of self righteousness.
Similar to what ankushnarula said, I think this interpretation is fine, but what’s the benefit of using it? What, then, do we call the white minimum wage worker who uses a slur to describe a black CEO? Mean?

I don’t think the people arguing for this alternative definition quite agree with you, anyways. I think that most of them prefer it because it means they can say “black people cant be racist agains whites,” for whatever reason.
It may be rhetorically dishonest, but it's also true. People voting down, say, bond issues for schools skew old.

The approach can be summarized as: "government is a vending machine to serve my interests; I put taxes in and a equal or greater pile of stuff comes out and goes directly to me". It's possible a large number of people of any age group believe this but it certainly looks much more stark when someone 65+ believes it (and acts on it, often in a well-organized bloc).
lots of rock stars also linked to Professor Lenore Blum too! [I am sure you know this I just wanted to make note of it for the general public]