skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where does the data come from? How do you determine the gender bias of a word?
It says they're approved to sell it as an 1800 pound LSA. The normal weight limit for an LSA is 1320lbs. This seems rather exceptional.
Depends on what you are looking for. For me, systems fidelity and ability to custom design scenarios is most important, so for that I recommend Prepar3D (Lockheed Martin bought FSX and kept developing it).

Even multi-million dollar level D simulators don't quite do a good job at recreating the flight control feels, so I've given up on that altogether. But some features of the flight model --- things like P-factor, adverse yaw -- are better modeled in X-plane, and visually (at least out of the box), it beats the competition.

But the most immersive experience has got to be Prepar3D coupled with payware aircraft from PMDG. I know real Boeing airline pilots who actually have used it for training, and vouch for how well the systems are modeled.
They're not that ancient, a typical leaf certificate affected by this issue will have been issued in July 2015 or later (maximum certificate lifetime of 39 months, now it's 825 days)
This may be backwards, but it's how regular people see it, from what I've observed. They dream of patenting something and then licensing/selling it to companies. It's easier than making use of the invention by themselves.

As for guaranteeing the invention will be public knowledge, these days it's just bait-and-switch.
Realistically, I don't think intelligent people with no connections can buy into startups or pre-ICOs (the ICO itself is now a scam) anyway. These investments are all arranged privately.
So why are the "some people" more often female than male?

I keep seeing all these explanations that are just begging the question.
Tech, so far, has not demonstrated any interest in actually investing in things outside the tech sphere. There's private philanthropy going on (Gates Foundation), but very little in the way of interest in domestic civics. No one has done anything comparable to the Vanderbilts and Carnegies launching universities.

There are fundamental differences, anyways. Tech can be scaled up without much interference or perceived negative impact to neighbors, and tech's main roadblock has been tech itself. Transit's main roadblock is politics, not technology; people are loath to raise more taxes, people don't like "those characters" having easier access on the train, they'd never ride a train so why should they pay taxes for one, etc.

TX Central has been trying to launch a high speed rail project for years now, and they've mostly received a never-ending stream of lawsuits for their troubles.
Nope iPhone keyboard plus not proof reading...
Chit chat with co-workers about non-work/technology related topics. Football/sports, house, family, kids, politics etc etc.
again, the only place ICO would be safe is those under the rule of Russia or China, otherwise all other countries face extradition to the US.

US has proven again and again they will touch anyone anywhere (except china and russia), and its a losing battle to go up against an organization that has unlimited resources with capabilities that grow constantly.
Biological Simulations (NetLogo, 2008) [pdf]
Even without the SEC, you would not have been able to invest in Spotify. They had zero interest in taking your money when they could raise money much more easily from professional investors capable of writing 8 figure checks.

It's very important to understand this and the adverse selection problem that would emerge if laws were changed. There's a reason that only scammers did ICOs.
They are not. I’m using Beta and received a certificate warning so I contacted the webmaster. They claimed it must be my computer though I was descriptive of the issue and cause, they then said they would look into it as they hadn’t heard about it. I forwarded them the article and I guess we’ll see.
"Also, even supposing downloading from your website is the only alternative you give me, to do that securely, you'll have to use HTTPS, you'll have to sign your binaries with a public key I trust, you'll have to provide signed hashes so I can verify the download, etc.--in other words, all the stuff you'd have to do if you maintained a third-party PPA."

This is how most professional Windows desktop software is distributed today. Also, you don't need a signed hash if the binaries are code-signed - you can verify that they haven't been tampered with by simply right-clicking on the binary and looking at the cert/SHA-1/SHA-2 signatures.
I'll concede that describing it as a "law enforcement" problem is a bit of a broad stroke (what is the purpose of these laws? who made them? are they just and fair? etc.)

My point was that trying to blame trains for importing criminals is a weak, unsubstantiated argument lacking true causation. OP later posted that "if you look at a crime map, you'll see a hot spot around the train stations". This is an objective fact, but the conclusion is only one of many possibilities (criminals are more likely to attack people in transit because they carry more valuables, people are more irritable after travel and likely to engage in crime, train stations have higher concentrations of people than other sectors and therefor see a higher number of criminals, there's more enforcement, etc). I was mostly attempting to address that point.

Crime is, ultimately and simplistically, a law enforcement problem. Preventing criminals from turning to crime is a social services/educational problem. What things constitute crimes is a societal/cultural issue. Poverty is a whole OTHER ball of wax, although many behaviors of the most impoverished are criminalized.

FWIW, Japan has plenty of problems when it comes to policing and crime due to their culture of expected police success rates.
Absolutely.

It’s not limited to marketing either, management theory is full of this too.

Almost all of Frederick Winslow Taylor’s work and reputation was built on unverified case studies and anecdotes. (A great book on this is ‘The management myth’.)
Business? Not all websites are for business or run by business people. Yet they provide info on the web.

Also Let's Encrypt (I am familiar and we use that btw) is great for certain types of situations but not all situations and doesn't work with all control panels in certain cases. For example using the plesk control panel you can't map a domain to a directory or sub page on a site. You can of course add it as an alias to the main page but not say /thisdirectory/index.html at least not as of last week.

Also installing a cert is non-trivial for most users and takes time and work. My issue is not with the people that care to do that or feel it's necessary. It's with this idea that 'everyone should do it period' being decided by the browser vendors. And in particular the way an error message is displayed and shocks a typical user not every gently at all. That is the issue that stops people cold in their track. And scares them.
> There's a considerable number of moving parts there all of which inter-relate in intractably complicated ways.

I guess by that view, all (stable) corruption is inherently complex. Which I guess isn't wrong, but I'd prefer to call a spade a spade: the problem is rampant corruption that is essentially impossible to address.
Richer only for the sake of being rich? After certain threshold, more money doesn't change your lifestyle much, does it?
Yes, you can get better, faster cars, but that is just greed in particular, ignorance in general.
Hint, you don't NEED that.
I guess you're right. Maybe I just have FF1 on the brain. Either that or 3 remakes wasn't enough.
I think anyone that has ever seen an ACH file and how it is transferred and processed should be amazed capitalism even exists.
32-Legged Spherical Robot Moves Like an Amoeba
Apple plans to give away original content for free to device owners
Early edge network was indeed prototyped in AWS: a simple setup with ELB in tcp mode, nginx and proxy_protocol.

Once we've got all data from that experiment: performance, cost, and flexibility included, we've decided to start building our own PoPs.
I like the idea a lot, although the kind of people who don't like shell scripts for init would likely flip completely out at packages using guile lisp rather than some obscure DSL, and then parenthesis-ophobes are going to react very poorly to the libgit2 extended example ending in four closing parenthesis. A little diversity in thought might be a good thing of course.

An init system written entirely in Guile LISP is interesting to think about. I'm old enough to (barely) remember the 80s lisp machines and since all modern CS/IT progress is re-implementing stuff from four decades ago, we're about due for something like linux ported from C to clojure or another lisp with a new init and the guix packaging system written in guile-scheme-lisp. The idea of an OS written to run on a JVM instead of virtualization like vmware is intriguing. I can come up with enough bright ideas in five minutes to keep me busy for fifty years, so this daydreaming is all very unlikely to happen.
A subtle point you may have missed, amazon knew about and accounted for the gender bias, the scrapped it because of all of the biases that they couldn't identify and were leery of. Most of your suggestions seem to be solving for the known biases, which I believe they did.

Also knowing some people who worked on this, they were VERY cognizant of re-encoding biases from the start of the project, it was one of the main reasons they thought the project might fail.
At some level this situation was inevitable, as more and more companies offload their fab capability to TSMC, that gives more and more money for TSMC to invest in boosting their capability, and of course while their margins are a lot less than Intel's with enough money that advantage goes away as well.

Intel's instruction set architecture dominance will keep it going for a long time but ultimately it would probably make sense for Intel to spin off its fabs into the US equivalent of TSMC and capture more margin revenue from their designs versus their process.
Totally possible, lots of people do it. http://www.codenewbies.org/ seem like supportive community; fhttps://www.freecodecamp.org/ seems like a good idea.
No, mgiannopoulos[0], there is no limit on nesting replies that I'm aware of. I'm nesting another one now!

There is rate-limiting, though, which is probably what you hit. Wait a bit, and you can reply. Or click the "XX minutes ago", and I've found you can reply there.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18186528
Sononym is a (music) sample browser powered by machine learning
I like this analogy a lot.

An important addition is that they not only buy flowers and chocolate to make up for it, but that they let all your friends know about this. In such a way that when you tell your friends "well, he's really nice now, but last month, when he missed the deadline, it wasn't that good to be home" and they simply don't believe you.
I was referring to the high altitude winds that are highly affected by the coriolis force.
>This scam has been going on in the UK for a few years.

Now that Brexit is near it doesn't matter anyway, but at least in Italy and Spain (but I presume the rest of EU) a more complex ID for accounts with checksum/validation, called IBAN, is used for both international and national transfers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bank_Account_Num...

that should avoid that kind of typo error.
What is "risk production"? I can't help but reading it as something like, "we even risk producing some chips at some point!", which I presume isn't quite it.
You have almost zero context about the resources available to the original poster. "I have my doubts" is discouraging, and for no reason.
Unfortunately it's not such an easy decision when businesses value degrees more from universities with state of the art facilities.
If you have the means to do proper due diligence, then you can find a way to get your investment dollars into the hands of someone who can invest for you, even if you can't meet the requirements to be an accredited investor. While we have many laws that propagate classism in the US, I have a hard time thinking this particular law doesn't overwhelmingly protect those who might otherwise jump on a "stock tip" their buddy told them about.
I think these are fairly minor improvements, most of what makes the airpods great is already there. I’d rule out anything that makes them more complicated (that is their best feature imo) just putting in them and work is amazing, and it’s even better that they pause whatever’s playing when you take them out.
Not quite "immediate" but I've noticed I feel far more awake when I go for a run or swim in the morning before work. Days I skip the morning workout I find myself drinking way too much coffee trying to clear the head fog.
It really depends on the clients, here is an excerpt from the article:

> Here we also need to mention the myriad embedded devices using Dropbox API that range from video cameras to smart fridges which have a tendency of resolving DNS addresses only during power-on.
or go to prison if you lose.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18184697
> No they're not; people in the U.S. buy a heck of a lot of bottled water, despite the fact that potable water is available basically anywhere for free.

That may be the case today, but companies selling bottled water have huge marketing budgets and exploit people's lack of trust in public institutions.

> And try this: shoplift a bottle of water from a 7-11 and when the cops come, tell them that water is free anyway, and the 7-11 has a big multiple markup, so it's not really a crime. See how that goes.

I wouldn't shoplift a bottle just as I wouldn't shoplift a music CD. I wouldn't even go to the shop in the first place, as I can get both drinking water and the songs I want from near-free sources, and with better quality.
I’d say more like 2 out of 5
I'd struggle to not derisively laugh at anyone who said that in front of me. "They aren't wrong..?"

To really believe that, you'd have to discount or be ignorant the massive military spending advantage.

Maybe you believe that our government is in such shambles that they wouldn't _respond_ to an attack. If any error would be made, it would be an overwhelmingly.. excessively disproportionate response to any aggression.

MAD is still in play... If anyone wanted to immenitize the eschaton, now's the time to invade.
Forbes seems to think they overpaid, then ruined it. The market cap was also ~3x higher a few years ago, so it sounds like post spinoff didn't go well either.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markcohen/2016/09/27/landsend-a...
There definitely are differences. A lot of them.

In what way do you see this as taboo on the left? Among U.S. progressives, the complexity of sex differences seems to be very important; whereas my experience with U.S. conservatives is the opposite.

For example, given the following two statements:

"If you have a penis, you are male. If you do not, you are female."

"If someone has a female brain but male genitalia, that person should be free to align their gender appropriately."

Is your experience really that conservatives are more likely to agree with the second statement? If so, I'd be curious to know where, from a sociological perspective.
It seems really strange to me to say that you can push autistic children to act non-autistic just by requiring them to figure out social stuff. I don't really know much at all about autism treatment but I had thought that it was much more involved than that. Do you have a link? I would have guessed that just pushing kids wouldn't work and that parents would be more bothered to autism-spectrum behaviors in boys than girls.
> Okay, so TWO generations. Big deal. It still dismisses the "born that way" nonsense argument.

It really doesn't. Unless you seriously think punch card programming is the same as modern programming, or that the fact that only women were secretaries that did programming somehow provides data on the relative strengths and inclinations of women and men for programming work at that time.

Look, it's clear that you have no idea of the breadth and depth of data available on this subject, and a trite "sexism/oppression" narrative explains hardly any of it. For instance, the fact that as a nation becomes more egalitarian, the gender disparities in STEM increase, ie. Nordic countries have worse gender disparities than here, despite having less sexism, and oppressive countries like Iran actually have gender parity in STEM fields.

If you want to actually learn about this subject, I suggest reading:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.0018...

The fact is, there's good evidence that women are naturally less interested in STEM-like fields due to a well known psychological attitude on things vs. people. That attitude explains facts like why medicine and law have achieved approximate gender parity overall, but surgery is still dominated by men, pediatrics and family law is dominated by women.
Chinese espionage in US Universities
I'll have to see if I can adapt this to my somewhat idiosyncratic syntax:

SELECT field, other_field
FROM table
WHERE some_thing IN (
SELECT id
FROM other_table
)
AND other_field IS NOT NULL

(mostly it's right-aligning keywords, but there are a few other weird tweaks)
Robert's Rules of Order
A better analogy would be if the UN carved out a new state for 1 million of New England refugees.

A new state carved from the old Anglo-Saxon homelands in present day Germany.

(You have arabs and jews, two semitic peoples, once closely related but in recent times highly antagonistic. In a similar way you'd have the English, largely a germanic people, but with a strong hailing from the same Germanic ur-tribes.)
I think it's on purpose, same color but at least two different declarations.
Looks like you've outnerded me. Well done.
https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/risk-production

>> "Risk Production means that a particular silicon wafer fabrication process has established baseline in terms of process recipes, device models, and design kits, and has passed standard wafer level reliability tests."

It sounds like a batch produced to certify the process for insurance and contract purposes.
The point is not to protect individuals, but to protect society from the blowout of every possible stupid investor getting wrecked all at the same time, by limiting the pool of stupid investors. With enough advertising, working and middle class people can be convinced to mortgage their house, their property, their cars, etc. to shovel debt into a stock market that would never go down because the advertisers told them so. That's how the Great Depression started, and this has repeated itself in every market that didn't restrict some investments to accredited investors.

Is it blunt? Sure. But it's better than repeating 1929.
Hey, vouch this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18188123

Past discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13781815

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7726115
Once a site/forum hits enough critical mass it's guaranteed to become corporate.

Social media exists to 1) push ads, or 2) shape consensus.

The end state of both is $$$.
Yossi Appleboum on How Bloomberg Is Positioning His Research Against Supermicro
I don't think anyone is arguing against the idea that there exist biological differences between the sexes. What people question is the conclusions people draw from those differences, such as that men or women must as a consequence be superior or inferior at a given task when the differences are so small that they would easily be overcome by many other more salient ones like training, upbringing, or simply the fact that one person does not represent the average and is not necessarily subject to differences described by it.

Just below in this thread someone was thinking this perceptual speed difference might explain men being dominant in e-sports. The amount of confounding variables there is astronomical and the suggestion is that we should set them aside in order to accept that men are biologically just better at games. That's the kind of thought process people disagree with.

(I don't mean to throw this other person under the bus, it was likely just an idle thought, but idle thoughts can turn into convictions if not challenged.)
What's eyebrow-raising is that it's been used as para/virtualization platform for Linux. (Ordinarily, SELinux MLS/MCS is pretty good though.)

If something like Minix 3 "NetBSD" in Rust ran on seL4, that would inspire more confidence.
> Not everyone is a paid shill but some people have a lot invested in the Microsoft ecosystem and I can only assume that's the reason for some of the comments here. I do 100% believe the Microsoft PR team has posted in here at least once though :)

I've worked on both sides of these fences (AWS/Azure, Windows/Linux), and think that you are correct. The Microsoft partner programme is basically all about Azure these days, so if you are a Microsoft professional then Azure has been made part of your job, and nobody wants to think that they are doing something second-rate.
Speaking of parity, while the Guix project may have some catching up to do in general, I think their documentation has been superior to Nix for a while.
Meh. I get a bit annoyed by the teens who don't bother with the slightest costume, just show up with a bag. However, we still give them candy.
Now you are not just making an argument, but a convincing one. As much as I enjoy jabbing at our fearless leader of the free world, cheap shots are boring.
This is simply silly. The reason why there's a bias toward hiring women in some roles at some corporations is because they are trying to course correct for the massive amount of systemic bias pushing the other way. For some reason many people (mostly men) seem to easily spot the one type of bias while never being able to see the other.
Sorry if I came off as arrogant. I want more people to know about the uselessness of stents.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/upshot/heart-stents-are-u...
"It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen." --Aristotle
Thank you for mentioning this. It is an astonishing story that I did not know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Heydrich#Assassinatio...
Chinese Intelligence Officer Charged with Economic Espionage
Using electricity as a proof of investment is still a waste of electricity.

Proof of work is to establish that money is being spent. A less wasteful system wouldn't convert money into electricity to feed into computations to prove that.

Proving that you lit heaps of cash on fire would be less wasteful.

Just because a process is wasteful doesn't mean it isn't valuable. Air freight is wasteful but is also valuable.
They wouldn't allow it 2 years ago. Yeah, you can run Linux in a VM but not as your main desktop connecting to their corporate network.
I'm not from the UK. I just took a glimpse at an article. From what I read some lobby got some funding for homeopathy which will not be granted anymore as there is no conclusive information that homeopathy really works.

This seem like business lobbyists at their best. Someone got some money from some agreement, now he is not getting it anymore (and probably the money is going to some other lobbyists that played their cards better)

It does not look like a case where we have a well known practitioner pushing practices just because.
A vulture investor buys up assets and financial instruments below cost from distressed entities.
Mark Hofmann is my (ex-)uncle (by marriage, not by blood). Needless to say, the whole affair isn't something we really bring up at family gatherings. From a historical/detached standpoint the events are all certainly interesting and scandalous and fascinating, I'm sure. My main reaction to it all is just sadness at the pain he put his wife and kids through because of it, and how they've been able to show strength by moving forward in their own lives. It's times like this I feel extremely blessed that our own extended family is close-knit enough that we can support each other.