skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my not so humble opinion, it's illiberal and destructive in its current form.

For example, a white Appalachian coal miner and a black Ivy League professor have a power disparity based on income, education, and social class.

But the "prejudice + power" crowd will have you believe that the coal miner's membership in the elusive all-powerful "white people" monolith gives him more social cache´ (hence power) than the professor. That's because the professor's membership in the elusive "black people" monolith puts him near the top of the marginalized intersectional hierarchy.

Any rational person who isn't obsessed with the phenotypical categorization of individuals (aka a bigot) will reject this notion - recognizing the professor's freedom/power relative to the coal miner.

People are individuals (not groups) with complicated lives and experiences.

To reduce ALL "black people" to marginalized victims is the soft bigotry of low expectations. But worse, to elevate all "white people" above all "black people" is a vile and tacit view that all "white people" are the necessary saviors of all "black people". This kind of twisted illiberal thinking permanently infantilizes all "black people".
We have been told not to forgive others for common human mistakes. Why should Professor Butler be given an exemption, especially when a lot of her scholarship has been aimed at addressing the unfortunate responses to the very same situation?
simplepdf did a great job, good example of doing something simple that’s actually not that simple
Fascinating.

In London we've had a few BYD busses in London since late 2016 now: https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2016/septem...

This appears to be the bus they use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_K9

I'd love to know how they are holding up (I have to assume that the limited deployment is effectively a trial by Transport for London to see how well they work) if anyone knows of any updates on those?

Based on the statistics for London buses (about 490 million KM driven a year by 9616 buses = about 51,000KM a year, or about 32,000 miles a year source: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/buses-... for distance and https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/number-buses-type-bus-lon... for number of buses) it would seem that the average daily distance for a bus would likely be somewhere in the 80-120 miles a day range depending on how many days a year a bus is driven (that range is for 365 days to 250 days a year). At 80-125 miles a day, that seems like it is screaming out for electrification right now. It would seem that it is totally within the reach of current technology. The BYD K9 has an advertised range of 155 miles.

The sooner diesel buses (and trucks) leave urban areas like London the better. The rancid stench and taste of diesel fumes that hit you is disgusting, not to mention that some diesel vehicles are outrageously loud too. Diesel is literally killing us.
good catch! upvoted
Wish I understood calculus as well as you obviously do. I guess the one thing I'd add is that it was a far broader art than just for maths. The classroom today would be pretty surprised to hear how its continuous with metaphysics too.

Regarding Leibniz/Newton, not exactly the case that it divided on national lines, because the lines didn't exist in the same way as today. He worked as archivist for the Elector of Hanover George Ludwig, who would be brought over to the UK to become King George I towards the end of Leibniz's life. To Leibniz's consternation, George I would leave him behind in Hanover, where he would die. Lots of theories about why this was the case, but one reason is that Newton and his supporters via the Royal Academy ensured he wouldn't be brought over. Their spat (with Clarke as Newton's mouthpiece) was in the general context of that, hence its rancorous tone.

Norbert Wiener at least considered the two centuries of suppression of Leibniz and his calculus and its superior notation in Britain to have held back the British and American sciences.
> Diane Davis ... were particularly disturbed that ... Mr. Reitman was using Title IX a [good old girls network] tool, to take down a [good old girl].

fixed that for you.
I’d say a lot of enterprise software fits into this category.... just that they are very evolved now so pack a lot more functionality in than what they started with.

Ie CRMs and ERPs were really just basic CRUD applications when they started.

Not to belittle them, as there are years (Millenia perhaps?) of programming time that has gone into them since they started so they are far more extensive than when they started.
This is a good point. Using Rb with subshell and pipeline would be the best of both worlds?
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Just a virus of the mind
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Actually it is hard to tell. Every application is simple from start, but then expand.

You could say Instagram is simple - create a user, upload a picture which people can see if they choose to add you as a friend. Simple at first, but then the application evolves to filters and sophticated algorithms for finding best content
First paper only covers CO2.

Second paper only considers fine-size (<20 nm) particulates (and not larger sizes like 100nm+) of direct injection cars, and is a bit misleading by comparing six cars to a single carefully-selected diesel car with particulate filter. Further, in reality here in a London, people are cutting open their Diesel particulate filters to avoid cost of replacing clogged filters and still passing MOT exhaust tests, which apparently don’t/can’t check for filter tampering.

Third paper is way back in 2002 and considers only cars, not heavy trucks and buses, which are way worse in urban settings.
Why does it seem like EKS is not being properly supported or developed?
Meteorites May Have Created Some of Earth's Oldest Rocks
All of those scenarios are definitely a thing in sunny clear Oakland, CA. And San Francisco, where a lot of the testing has been run, is notorious for both its hostile and unpredictable driver/biker/pedestrian behavior, and for its fog. Rain and snow, which change the observed road surface, seem to be the harder problems.
I think the current fad of everything being offered 'as a service' has changed many people's minds. Can't find a link, but I've seen people on this website claim that electron apps that are just a web page (and thus don't work offline) are better for Linux on the desktop than actual native applications. Sure, they do mean that cross-platform is essentially free, but you have to rely on someone else's computer for them to work. Which is one of the big reasons I'm so desperate to move away from fusion360 for personal projects. I'm fine with closed source provided the model isn't that restrictive, I certainly have no problems with sublime text.

Edit:I needed to be clearer, I know fusion isn't electron, but I've had no luck at all using it offline. Very rarely will it work. And unless things changed in the last 6 months, the Github desktop app can't commit locally without an internet connection.
Not really. Many schizophrenics are perfectly harmless. And there are many abusive people who are not schizophrenic at all. If risk of harm to others were the only thing that justified mandatory treatment, we could reasonably treat anybody with a conviction for a great number of crimes.
Lots of companies who design ASICs will prototype them on FPGA for catching bugs and start early firmware development.
On that note, hooktube says they got shut out of the YT API and can only do regular embedded videos now. Kinda no point.
I agree that cash is some times better than putting in the time, but there are a few other options.

A lot of the environmental nonprofitsare staffed by people who don't have a lot of technical experience. I've built websites, helped organize CRMs (tracking volunteer membership), helped setup email templates, etc. I know free computer help was deeply appreciated, and I got a lot better with my communication skills in the process.
I agree that we are talking about two different things.
Not all needs are driven by security.
Well, if angels are physical in the slightest, modern philosophers have computed an upper bound of how many of them could dance on the head of a pin, before they collapse into a black hole
The nation was based on the notion that property ownership gives individuals a stake in the system.

The conclusion that you have a "stake in the system" if you are a property owner is 180 degrees backward and that is apparent in his own logic.

If you don't physically own something you are using, like in his examples of music, or books, then you are relying on "the system" to ensure it will be there and are heavily bought in. Such a reliance is not necessary if you own it outright.

Consider that, if you want to ensure without question that you won't lose access to something, then you buy it outright. How this contradiction isn't clear is baffling.

Owning something removes you from the group/system that could support it. For example, shared real estate vs owned real estate. If I own a piece of land that I live on, I can do whatever I want on it and there is nobody to tell me I can't and I don't have to consider anyone else. If I instead share ownership of the land I live on, then I have to take consideration for the others on the property.

I think if there is a complaint here, it should be that there is a power imbalance between leasees and owners in today's world. As a user of spotify, uber etc... you're beholden to the owners of the content and platform to allow your paid access to it, which they can revoke at any time for any reason, with little recourse from the user.

That is actually what America was built on and is simply an extension of hundreds of years of rent seeking. We should be moving to more intentional distributed ownership (I'm not invoking blockchain here) of capital and property. Not, simply becoming renters to the capital class.
I think everyone can agree that CPU progress has been largely made from sand, yes.
It could be mutually exclusive, if you think the expected punishment for being found guilty is unfair and disproportionate to the "crime".
Apple wants to build a custom health chip for processing biometric data
Nothing more American than Apple(pie) and tax evasion.
Just looking around and this seems like it's a US-UK english difference: https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2015/08/nood...

And the reason I figured this would be weird is that long pasta is easy to eat with a fork. Probably not worth dwelling on this though as it's offtopic so people are downvoting :D
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FUD. Provide some proof when you make a claim like that. If you've ever worked outside of dev you know how a paper trail or physical recording is critical for everything that happens in a businesses. You think a bank would let a customer and rep make account changes over the phone and not have a recording of that? What happens when there is a disagreement about what was said?
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Eh, that's kind of a stretch...also, there are usually multiple ways to approach a long commute (I don't have a long commute, but I have had one in the past).
Assumption of Risk
Maybe people should choose better terminology to identify themselves then.

Personally I'm a believer in equal rights regardless of gender, colour, beliefs or passion for collecting garden gnomes.

The term "feminism" implies that it pertains specifically to female rights. Perhaps "social egalitarian" is a more apt description for someone wanting equal rights for all, to clarify any difference.

Now, excuse me while I go and barricade myself into this hut in the woods before the pitchforks arrive.
While it may make Rand socially suspect, she was perfectly okay with this behavior and made it clear in her writings. The issue at hand in this case is more than just socially unacceptable behavior, but also the hypocrisy.
+1 has to be the most ‘hackernews’ book I have read / still reading (started yesterday)
True. But I'm not finding a site for that.
I think this is key. Property ownership comes with both opportunity costs and liability. When people have choices, sometimes they prefer to avoid those downsides to ownership for economically rational reasons.

I think a lot of older generation Americans grew up obsessed with ownership, particular of cars and houses, as crucial symbols of status and success. In my conversations with them I often hear them portray these as indicators rather than just symbols. So it’s not just that owning a home impresses your parents, it’s that you’re not an adult until you own your own home.

At the end of the day I think it’s hard for each generation to understand how much the world has changed and how much the culture of next generation has changed as a result. And they’re uncomfortable with this change, maybe understandably.

Therefore it’s understandable, though IMO misguided, for them to point at changing preferences and behaviors and mistake these as causes of the negative societal shifts they see, rather than understand them as being effects of the societal changes that have happened already.

Easiest case in point, the first generation of car-using adults suddenly experienced a massive glut of “useful” land and housing, and then a subsequent era of high inflation, thus it was very easy for them to buy a home and those who did prosepered at the expense of the banks as their mortgages hedged a bunch of value against inflation.

The second generation (the boomers) didn’t get quite as good of a deal, but it was still pretty easy for them to own a comfortable home with a reasonable commute, and they experienced long runs of appreciation, so their belief that this was the “best way to live” was validated.

But for the kids of the boomers (millennial), urban sprawl had already consumed most of the best near-city land, while the rural economy has been stagnant. Thus the trade-off to follow the old recipe is a brutal commute or else house prices that are out of reach for most of us. Many also came of age in the recession.

Therefore it should not be surprising that the Millenials did not find it viable to be obsessed with ownership, and that they would have backlashed against it in some ways including this preference for finding ways to enjoy things without incurring capital costs, as the so-called “sharing economy” has emerged to offer.

It may be that the Millenial generation is much less wealthy in the end. But that seems to me mostly the fault of the Builders and the Boomers and the result of the choices they made, and that the “renter” mindset is more a result of their lower wealth and harder economic prospects rather than the cause.
Could someone translate that from American to European for us non-US residents, please?
Boston gets pretty humid in the summer. Drinking ice water towards the end of the ride works really well.
When I tested them out with identical sessions, I was able to get higher track/VST counts without dropouts in Bitwig.
I've had similar experiences. I had an elderly 90+ year old woman grab my crotch in a bar, multiple times when I was in my mid-20s. Around that time of my life, I had multiple other women (mostly 45+ years old) aggressively grab my ass or touch me unsolicited in bars. One (who was married, mind you) tried to pull me into her vehicle as I was leaving a bar.

I never reciprocated or led them on. The most I can say is that I was affable and would indulge anyone who wanted to talk. I will admit that I never really felt threatened though, so I think that still makes the situation different than women experience.
True for me. Using spacemacs which uses vi style keybindings, so most shortcuts are key sequences instead of chords.
I think its faster for me to press two or three characters on the keyboard my fingers are already on before I move them into place on another keyboard.

Adding a second keyboard and using the Russian layout is a cool method to use a 2nd keyboard that doesn't just duplicate the keys of the first, and likely has more fun applications than just adding more shortcuts to your text editor.
The soundtrack is also excellent, I have it in my instrumental playlist for when I'm working. The only problem is that sometimes it's too good and I want to pay more attention to it than the work.

https://nervoustestpilot.co.uk/album/frozen-synapse-original...
I bet they do some complicated anti-fraud stuff though...
Ask HN: What makes consoles so much better than PCs for games at their price?
A PS4 currently 300 dollars on Amazon. It would be difficult to build a PC for 300 dollars that could play video games at the same quality / performance. So where does the gap come from, or what is so specialized about consoles that allow them to do video games so well? Is it just sheer economies of scale from standardized hardware?
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( https://nicen.pw/ ), but I'm not sure how I could ever make it a business. :D
It's not appropriate to include in terms of proportion of GDP because they'd be spending that money on healthcare anyway.
I suspect he's doing this because Apple is a very visible symbol of the US in Turkey. He's taking away a thing to get people worked up so he can point to us and say "Look what they made me do to you! It's on them, not me!"

Sanctioning Trump businesses doesn't really earn him political capital at home with the rank and file, because they probably wouldn't even recognize it. They can't afford anything to do with Trump real estate.

But iPhones? They're everywhere-ish.
This is not the position.

To insist that the "prejudice + power" argument is premised on bright-line "race == power" is to mischaracterize it to the point of being unrecognizable.

It's about relative power. If I'm black, and your boss, and have a prejudice against your race, I can be racist. If I'm black, have no meaningful kind of power over you, and have a prejudice against your race, I'm just prejudiced.

That's the position. This "ALL" lunacy is a multiple fallacies in one, and it remains a bitter disappointment to see a crowd of people who otherwise pride themselves aloud on being so smart, buy into it so unexaminedly.
The history of Easter Island civilization is more or less what is likely going to happen at planet level this time
That green delivery truck (middle, left side) is really close to the edge of the collapsed section. What a nightmare for a driver of being so close to dying and seeing the entire thing happen (I assume).
A company will also pay for and pass on the cost of non-paying customers in terms of repossession or loss of rented units.
Hello, I'm a feminist. Not unhappy that people who are committing sexual crimes are being brought to justice.

Your wide brush is counterproductive to the "logical and open" discussion here. The whole point of the article that you read in its entirety and internalized before commenting upon it was that this is difficult for some people to accept: a champion of women's rights was perpetrating the crimes she seemed to be fighting against. Reconciling these truths is difficult for some people, and some people who worked closely with this woman will come to defense of her character as they knew her.

Hypocrites abound. In fact everyone holds some conflicting views/acts in ways that work against their self interest. It's human nature. But not everyone who you disagree with is a hypocrite. Hell,some of them aren't even objectively wrong! But if you only exist in an in-group vs. out-group mindset you're going to miss some great points.

TL;dr- Title IX is great, and it seems like this woman is both a renowned academic AND a sexual abuser.
It seems like an interesting problem. It has clearly defined requirements for success, lots of data with (one assumes) some hidden structure, and the structure is not yet known.
I guess I don't get the need for a CDN for a blog. I can run a blog off a raspberry pi. It's text, a bit of markup, a couple images.
No, that's not necessarily how it works.

Often (most?) of the time, heuristic solutions are also found by Complexity Theorists, and they usually can prove that their solution is efficient for problems with certain characteristics, e.g. random data, not random data in a particular way, etc. These are then applied by the industry when they come across problems with these characteristics.
Agreed. I wish that more effort would be made towards reducing inference time, since that is the limiting factor in many real-world applications.
Yes, you are unlikely to get asked any of these _specific_ questions-- however, the point of study isn't to memorize any answers. Rather, it's to familiarize yourself with the patterns of CS solutions so that you're able to replicate it in a brand new problem.

Also, JS isn't just for front-end development. Aside from Node.js, which is increasingly a larger player server-side, it's also used in a bunch of desktop apps.
Most of the really simple businesses are going to be B2B in very niche markets, so you're not likely to hear about them.

e.g., somewhere there may be a website that converts RS274 commands to an obsolete CNC command protocol so they can use their decades old machinery with modern CAM software. It has real value to a small number of users and it's the kind of thing you can write in an afternoon, but outside a small community, you're not likely to know about it.

Yeah, I know that's a bad example, but it's the first thing that came to mind :-)
RISC-V is far more promising than OpenPOWER ever was.
> Parrallel re construction should be out lawed.

Parallel construction is, by definition, illegal (it's covering up illegal behavior in order to introduce evidence in court illegally). The trouble is that it's difficult to identify and prove.
The academic meaning and common use is only different in "academic" circles filled with modern feminists, that insist on it being different, for no scientific reason what-so-ever. For instance, Prof Jordan Peterson from U of Toronto, is a well known disputer of such alternate narratives mascaraing as academics

If ISIS started publishing papers distorting the meaning of terrorism, peer-reviewed it among sympathizers, it wouldn't supersede the proper, scientific definition of the word
Part of guns being legal is not living with people deciding to search you for completely legal property.
Pinboard's business model is pretty simple. Monthly charge for usage of their service. And the service itself is pretty simple, bookmark storage with tags.
Until I got a Samsung fridge I would have said the same thing. Now my fridge shelves are not strong enough to do the job.
Haha, gloriously hacky.
Pingdom.com?

At least it was pretty simple when it started. I think "ping my server from several locations and alert me when stuff doesn't work" is simple and they charge $10+/mo for that.
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I have the Unix ones in my dwindling collection of books. Sadly, every time I move they come closer and closer to not making the cut.
I got to see Stallman talk at a large state school a few years back. Almost everyone, including myself, thought the guy meant well but had really lost his mind. It wasn't just the Emacs song, but how he spent so much of his time and energy understanding and maintaining all of his freedoms. Thinking back, it's like we forgot our rights aren't guaranteed and didn't need to be protected or even considered at those levels. We were very naive and short-sighted.
I thought Bill Ackman was more of an activist investor than a value investor (not that they're mutually exclusive labels). I don't know about the other two.