skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not my experience at all. And even if true, it wouldn't matter. Someone found a problem.

They can

a) ignore it

b) file a bug/shout on irc

c) do a pull request.

I much prefer c over b, and both over a. Every little bit helps, and it's improving the current state. I've hardly seen people doing extensive (as in hard to review) commits that looked like busywork to get an 'I commited' badge of honor (is that a thing?) in any repo.

And I also do that all the time, if I find some thing that's quicker to fix via PR than even find the external bug tracker or the irc channel? Everybody wins.
Yes, this is what makes me sceptical about the trend in electric mountain bikes. You can fix 90% of bike problems on a remote trail, with a small set of tools and a few spare parts. Electric bikes bring something that isn't going to be as easy to fix.
In my opinion, reading this will be more helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience#Indicators_of_th...

If you are on those courses, you are likely to be logical enough. Learning to sense misinformation and how to counter and work though it would then add more value to you.

Note: The 4th part, How to Avoid Fallcies, may already be covering the above, though possibly not since the link above only gives "indicators" of "possible" presence of pseudoscience. Avoiding fallacies is different from avoiding pseudoscience.

All of this can also make your life more challenging since you are not and would not be a typical person, but living with many of them. So make sure to master people skills too unless you are already there.
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> I don't think this is a power grab by the EU.

Sorry, I meant in general and not this specific instance.

> That's probably what some old people with a sore lack of understanding of how the internet works, came up with, and then relentlessly lobbied the EU Parliament to push it through.

I hold the believe that people in the EU commission are smart. That's why whenever stuff like this happens I assume they did it because of greed, not because they're so dumb and inefficient to not have consulted a few experts before drafting a law.

I'm not entirely sure, though.
Does it make sense that they get the same number of senate seats as California?
Just to clarify: a total of two (!) employees, one of which already lives in Queens (where Long Island City is located). This looks like one of those "slow news day"-type stories.
Right. So they massively underpay for the costs they incur.
What's cool about UI integration is that the interface is uniform - it's text and clickS and keystrokes.

If you are integrating using something like Sikuli, which works by actually looking at the screen pixels (rather than DOM elements, which are an implementation detail), you can use 'smart' techniques like OCR and synonym lists to make a change resistant client.
They don't mention that wood is quite a bit heavier than other materials. Their road bike frames weight 2.5kg, where modern (and much cheaper) carbon fiber frames come in below 1kg.
It makes a big difference if you ride on asphalt or similarly flat surfaces, which many bike commuters do.
An undocumented Chrome for Android feature which is potentially a privacy hole
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It will be nice to add list of pre-trained models.
The german localisation is so so bad. If you speak german and you need a laugh please install it.

The document view is called "Ms. Pacman" Hahah :D
Vimgolf can be played in any editor, of course. I enjoy doing it in Emacs.
> But for most of us, [the brain as an ordinary configuration of matter] is an easy premise to accept.

The Geocentric (Ptolemaic) model of cosmos was also a very easy premise to accept, until our sensory apparatus and measuring systems exceeded a certain level and the model failed. Note that it was also perfectly conformant with Occam's Razor (i.e. minimal assumptions) given the sensory and measurement systems available at the time of its conception and wide acceptance.

Also one does not need to be "very religious" to entertain the notion that consciousness (Self-sense) may be a fundamental feature (like EM or gravity) of reality. It is simply one of the 2 options on the table: reactive black-box of matter (the 'processing structure as basis for mind' thesis) or what I'll call 'deep-structure of material universe as a basis for mind' that does not delineate the 'mind' as bounded by 'brain'.

We, like the ancients, may not yet possess the sensory and measuring apparatus (think telescopes, accurate clocks, and mathematical tools) to note that the fact (apparent to our primitive cognitive tools) that "the sun, the moon, and the stars move and earth stands still" is not the entire story of the cosmos.
>This fingerprinting attack involves using JavaScript to measure processor cache access latency over time as websites are loaded

Can someone explain to me how exactly can JavaScript measure processor cache access latency? Also, isn't the performance of inactive tab supposed to be throttled?
I agree with all that except it should be clearer that Google doesn't gain anything (except PR?) from actually running Google News. There are no ads on it.

Google probably does gain from people logging in (though you can use Google News without logging in, it probably does cause people to log in, even if just a little more).

If the newspaper has ads from Google, then Google does take a cut (that's the business logic), and arguably Google News is similar to the newspaper buying ads on Google Search, except they don't have to pay.

People do pay for Google Search ads to drive traffic to their site, and for newspapers that probably gives them ad revenue and signups.

Newspapers get a similar service from Google News for free.

"Should Google (or anyone else) pay newspapers in order to run a news aggregation service" really boils down to "how much $ is a login worth to Google"?

It becomes a formula:

Google News value to google = google_news_users_per_month * fraction_not_logged_in * fraction_who log_in_because_of_google_news * value_of_a_login_to_google

Let's guess some numbers:

1M * 0.7 * 0.2 * $0.01 = $1400 per month

If Google has to pay developers, server infrastructure, AND newspapers more than $1400 then Google loses money on this and SHOULD turn down the product. I say this as a shareholder of GOOG: If it doesn't make financial sense then stop wasting my money.

(but yes, there's also brand value)

PS:
Yes, there's one more value to Google, and that's the general: "More Internet use is a benefit to Google because any increase of Internet use will have a fraction on it go to sites that have Google ads on them". But saying that's bad is as if Google were to give free Internet, and people would demand that Google pay to give free Internet to people, because users would browse to sites where many of them would have Google ads on them.
> not superior by any stretch of the imagination.

I think it's safe to assume each rider has a different utility function, in some cases drastically different. "Extraordinarily impractical" bikes may very well have other upsides for a particular rider that outweigh the disadvantages for them.
I think your post is getting a negative reaction because it sounds like you're talking about "seeing into the future" in a way that sounds supernatural or paranormal, which has been tested numerous times and found to not exist.

Did you mean to refer to "seeing into the future" in terms of extrapolation, the way a futurist might extrapolate current technology trends to make predictions or Lincoln may have extrapolated from political unrest and division to an assassination attempt? It doesn't seem beyond the realm of possibility that when we dream, the extrapolating and predicting that happens in our subconscious mind all the time might bubble to the surface.
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Original source:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/18/google-ne...
>Nature is pretty good at optimization.

Only if there is a benefit to doing so. If it was simply a case of "nature can optimize really well" then we would expect to find many species at or near the limit of intelligence, not just one. Other species did not have the evolutionary pressure to cause as high of intelligence to be selected for. It is very reasonable to think that we also did not have the evolutionary pressure necessary to cause us to have even higher intelligence than we do.
The vibration dampening is a red herring. As a point of comparison, the differences in dampening between various frames/materials is on the order of ~1psi of tire pressure normally. In other words, if you found yourself with the harshest of frames, you could drop air pressure by 1 or 2psi and be at the same level as the "smoothest" frame.
Keep in mind that this will change the feeling of the bike quite drastically.
When you hit a bump with an airtyre, the entire wheel responds to absorb the shock,
but with foam tyres that doesn't happen (only the part of the tyre right above where you hit will contract)
I spend a lot of time in central and eastern europe and I have not once heard this comparison, certainly not from anyone who actually lived through the USSR. I'm a staunch EU skeptic, but this comparison is just ridiculous.
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I hate the "cookie law" for this very reason. It just resulted in more popups which became at best white noise, at worst a genuine annoyance for users. Cookie-consent popups are a part of most ad-blockers, which should make you think.

Instead, the end result should be less abuse and hoarding of data. In other words, ad services should be held accountable for what they collect, not just inform users that they collect your data. Cookies are actually the one thing you can control, it's in your browser, it's not the problem, you can block or delete the data. What should be regulated are what companies store server-side and how they connect that data and that should be done between the government and the companies, not between the company and its users who might not have the expertise and, in many cases, are stuck with some quasi-monopoly like Google or Facebook.
Onscreen keyboard for writing math.

§ - toggle visibility
1,2,3,4,
q,w,e,r,
a,s,d,f,
z,x,c,v - Select block recursively

So for example:
1,z => π
q,4 => \int_{a}^{b}
e,1 => newline

Currently it's basically a latex editor even though there will be mathml which will feature inline editing and some other niceties.

Based on MathJax.

Would like to use this opportunity to complain about the chrome gang, dropping MathML support which would make everything so much easier.

Not mobile friendly so, if your on the phone check out the youtube video:

https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/richard-ja...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1v4L1rxsaQ
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>I find aluminum is worse than steel.

Try to do a blind test on yourself sometime, with the same tires and tire pressures.

I don't notice "vibration" at any distance unless its nasty chip seal at which point nothing will save you short of a mountain bike.
I'm not sure where you're getting your information. I'm currently in the bishopric of a ward in South Salt Lake, and I think it's rare for a week to go by without writing checks for rent, prescriptions, or utilities. I signed two checks just yesterday.
For plain old linking, I think you're right. But for AMP and the search algo boost that comes with it, this complaint is kind of justified isn't it?
We were all a burden on our family since day one weren't we? It takes a few takes decades to repay that burden, if ever.

> "Seeing the homeless gather with their buddies to smoke crack, and loiter all day on some street corner, while living and buying drugs at the taxpayers' expense, while people I know work back-breaking jobs at low wages, strikes me as a total injustice, brought about by people who manipulatively employ the victim narrative to perpetuate the current paradigm."

I think you're painting all homeless people with the same brush which is grossly unfair. The person that you're replying to said she was a military wife, I doubt she is one of these people you're describing that have crack smoking friends or loitering in the street. I assume you live in SF and have generalized all homelessness to what you see in certain parts of SF? The movie Pursuit of Happyness was based on a real-life homeless person based in SF. Sounds like you should watch that ;)
"I don't know any words fitting for it"

I believe the relevant word is actually "treason" at least according to "The Vietnam War: An Intimate History".
Thanks. But as I suggested above, the same is happening in other countries, including mine, without these restrictions. And just as here, the report speaks of various tax and cash incentives etc, basically profit guarantees, needed to get private companies to build affordable housing. So to suggest that zoning restrictions are the core issue doesn't seem to hold water, even though I won't deny that it may increase the problem in the US.

Not sure how you can use such assured language when the very next line in your last cherry-pick about the GDP is this:

> This estimate is tentative, and would imply that some cities would see counterfactual employment increases of a significant magnitude resulting from reduced housing restrictions
tires that can't go flat are also extremely terrible.
It’s honest answers like this that make HN great.
Maybe start working on a game you would like to play as side project; if your personal situation allows for that kind of freedom.
You were downvoted but you're obviously correct. This idea that the EU is responsible for preventing wars on the continent just doesn't stand up to any reasonable examination.
Amazingly my browser is capable of showing me my reading progress and without sending cookies to anyone.
I’ve been using this for several years (bought a lifetime subscription when it was on sale). I use it nearly daily, and it’s very helpful. I have known for a long time that I focus better with some sort of instrumental music playing in headphones - lyrics kill my focus. I listen to a lot of jazz and film scores that I have in Apple Music playlists, so I can just start one and it’s good for 3-4 hours. Brain.FM gives me something additional to add to the mix, and I do think that it provides somewhat better focus than just regular music.
That is a lot of effort and nice analysis, but concluding the story based on the WiFi data usage is a weak support because
1. Flights get often delayed most, during the long weekend days
2. Because it is a holiday season, people like me assume the security clearance line gets busier than the regular days and reach the airport 90 minutes earlier (45 minutes earlier on a non-holiday trip)
3. November it is, places might have covered with snow or fog (SFO might be an exemption)

I think it would have been a great support to your analysis if the peak is measured on passenger count or unique devices connected to the wifi.
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Depends on the airline and the route. On long haul flights on Emirates, who's known for the inflight system, everybody is using it.
I knew they were selling something the moment there was no play button. Don't feel bad Some people don't even realized they've been duped.

Check out the lofi streams on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHW1oY26kxQ
And, of course, there's no way to delete your account.
it really shows that you didnt even think about it once :D

look at how gps works (its really simple)
then look at some passive systems and some active ones

you will see why noone made an elegant solution yet
tubeless tires can go flat as easily as tires with tubes to close approximation. (there is some reduced chance of pinch flats but some increased chance of burping)

tubeless tires are commonly used along with sealant, which helps, but you can put sealant in a tire with tubes as well.
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Skaisti :)
They haven't developed yet seems possible. Someone will be first, however unlikely it seems to them.

As scary as the great filter and dyeing out is, life is pretty durable. Even if we kill ourselves, some organism will probably slither out from under a rock after the ash settles and start afresh.

There seems to be a selection force that works against aggressive forms of life becoming too powerful. If your both belligerent and powerful, you have a chance of shooting yourself (your species) in the foot. So it appears that any sufficiently advanced civilization would be pretty benevolent and that this might be a necessary condition to advancing.
It's also safe to point out that the vast majority of people for the vast majority of topics don't know and don't care.
Don't tell me the people who go around cycling on tiny bikes with their heels on the pedal and their knees reaching their throat have found some kind of alternative definition of practicality...
>Acts that you do can be powerful and dangerous therefore your acts should be within the law.

Absolutely not. A lot of the law is written by the bourgeois elite who don't want the staus quo they benefit enormously from to be shaken up. Change is done outside of the law and the majority populace if decided necessary has every right to break those laws in the circumstance that those bourgeois elite will not help them out or give them the change they want.

Like asking for a permit for a protest after your government & police force has been oppressing you for decades or centuries. You don't ask for a permit to protest anything serious.
I am often asked by friends and colleagues, “Why don’t astronomers see UFOs?” The fact is that they do. In 1977, Peter Sturrock, a professor of space science and astrophysics at Stanford University, mailed 2,611 questionnaires about UFO sightings to members of the American Astronomical Society. He received 1,356 responses from which 62 astronomers – 4.6 percent – reported witnessing or recording inexplicable aerial phenomena. This rate is similar to the approximately 5 percent of UFO sightings that are never explained.

As expected, Sturrock found that astronomers who witnessed UFOs were more likely to be night sky observers. Over 80 percent of Sturrock’s respondents were willing to study the UFO phenomenon if there was a way to do so. More than half of them felt that the topic deserves to be studied versus 20 percent who felt that it should not. The survey also revealed that younger scientists were more likely to support the study of UFOs.

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/why-we-should-take-ufo-sigh...
> Both bodies will likely oppose, and the proposal will be significantly amended.

They want to pass a few laws that are very bad. They create a horrible proposal and they amend it so that it becomes just very bad, and they've achieved what they wanted, with other politicians feeling good about themselves because they didn't give in into the opposition's horrible requests.

I use the same tactic with my stepdaughter: she wants ice cream for dinner, I want pasta. I propose broccoli, we agree on pasta (like I wanted).

Criminal.
I've done longer journeys that that on a steel frame touring bike with 1.5" tires and I didn't notice any problems with vibration. I think most people complaining about vibration are probably using excessively narrow tires.
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>Namely, a stiffer, more rigid frame is more efficient

Engineers have tried to measure efficiency differences between different types of typical road frames and been unable. This isn't really an important effect in terms of how fast you go, even if it feels better. Most of the energy in frame flex seems to be returned.
This comment comes across as though you simply don't care
That support bit was snarky, I must admit. But the original comment still says they'd "cheer for fascists" because this proposal is so bad. Because that means they hate the EU, and just want to see it hurt.

You instead are talking about how not restricting speech would also allow fascists freedom of speech, which is something else. That makes sense on the top level or attached to other comments, but in this "timeline", the boat has sailed, and "cheering for fascists" in preference to this proposal is what is on the table.
> Stuff needs time to happen and you being faster than stuff won't be any help after a while.

Yeah, another problem for superintelligence to tackle, while it waits for stuff to happen.
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>Ride comfort is a function of tyre size

And tire construction. Though price likely does not correlate well with how supple the tire construction is.
Another issue with relying on charity is that there is often strings attached to the money donated. We really want to allow students, scientists, engineers, etc. to have agency, not be under some wealthy person's patronage.
It reminds me of the Boltzmann brain hypothesis. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain.
It's indeed really exotic and I'm not sure how long this intelligence could exist.
>. I don't mind if it makes the bike somewhat harder to ride.

You think that because you don't realize how much harder it is. Like it takes significantly more power, turns much worse, and is much less comfortable.

Solid rubber tires exist though you are welcome to try!
Sadly, even though this particular person made the moral choice, for each 1 person of his fibre there are 10 just willing to take up the dirty work. Notwithstanding the noble actions of some people, the system is still broken if it richly rewards this kind of destructive behaviour; and make no mistake, as long as it does reward those things then those things will be done.
if you have a radical group on the left that would remove these people from power then these would automatically be labeled fascists. fascists are automatically terrorists if their ambition is to overthrow the status-quo.

So if I had instead originally written "I would cheer for terrorists", would have made it more sense? I wrote fascist because it seemed to capture our times better. I could have also written "criminals". It would not made any difference.

A good example of where this may impact us is the Catalan government wanting to split from Spain. Will blogs from these people be deemed of terrorist nature then? So even it is not yet implemented, putting this forward as a proposal is pretty outrageous.
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Part of the market will be bike enthusiasts with disposable income who are attracted to the novelty of a wooden frame. The frames are beautiful. Time will tell whether that market is big enough to support a business.

On a related note, I see Renovo Hardwood Bicycles shut down earlier this year.
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>> sabotaging his own wares

The movie implies that he did so:

"Stern, if this factory ever produces a shell that can actually be fired... I'll be very unhappy."

https://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Schindler's-List.html
OHHH. Haha I had to read your comment before I understood the title. I knew they were talking about the fork syscall while reading the article, but I still assumed the title referred to "forking the compiler on GitHub, so that they could make it better and send a pull request."

It didn't click that the title was also talking about the fork() syscall. I think it's a pun though: "To try it yourself, check out the dmdforker branch in my dmd GitHub fork."
There's a point at which pretending to be a jerk becomes indistinguishable from actually being a jerk.
I've been visiting my in-laws (who live just outside of Kirkwall in St Ola) almost twice a year for 20 years now, and I still haven't become used to how lovely Orkney is. Even got married in Kirkwall. There's a high possibility we'll retire back there when the time comes.
Does that mean if you drop something on the frame you'll get a little dent? Since it's wood? It's not a structural problem is it? Just like a cricket bat gets dents each time you hit a ball but it still works fine.