skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's terrible at all. When I say manipulation, I mean something more sinister. It's hard to define, but it's something like using emotional tricks and playing games with people in order to try to exercise a great deal of control over them. Often the target isn't even aware what's going on, and if they were, they probably wouldn't agree to it.

What you're talking about seems very different from that. Everyone faces situations where it just isn't practical to be completely sincere or genuine. We all have to put up a bit of a front from time to time. I don't think there's anything wrong it, as to some extent it's just the grease that keeps the social machine moving smoothly. In fact, if you didn't do it, you'd be creating unnecessary friction that really serves no purpose. As long as it's done for good reasons, it's fine or even good.

Of course, it's definitely much better if it's give and take, with both sides doing their part to adapt to make things work. If two people work together and one is very talkative and social, and the other is quiet and keeps to themselves more, the quiet person needs to engage in a little conversation, and the talkative person needs to understand that the other person isn't always up for that.
1. About 6 months https://www.google.com/search?q=insight+launch+date&oq=insig...

2. Out of ~50 missions, about 20 have failed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_Mars

3. About 8 successful landings https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_landing
Curiousity was by far the 'coolest' and still astonishes me that we pulled it off. https://youtu.be/h2I8AoB1xgU

4. No.
If you no longer want to maintain a package, and you do not have a trusted source to hand it off to, the right thing to do is let it wither.

If the package remains relevant, someone will eventually fork it. The burden of trust is no longer on your shoulders.
What was the role of the blacksmith in medieval society?
> negative-decadent" youths that also goes into to who behaves the least "appropriate for society", political ideas and suspect affiliations.

From the (Western) guide:

Skinheads: Enjoy fighting

Rude Boys: Are enthusiastic vandals

Punks: Out to shock through their appearance and behavior, have anarchist leanings

Roots Boys: anti-police
Common stock is the common case... Unless you are in a strong negotiating position, common stock is what you'll get.

A company can't easily give you preferred shares. Someone has to define what preferred includes: rights to elect someone on the board, right to oversee spending decisions from the CEO, etc... It costs money to structure preferred shares. You also can't piggy-back on a preferred class that already exists, unless the investors that "own" that class are happy to dilute their privileges with you (highly unlikely).

Common stock always exists, by definition, in a corporation. So it's easy to give it to you.
Ask HN: Do you ever use the numpad on a keyboard?
I am using a tenkeyless keyboard (a keyboard without a numpad) at work and at home. When I decided on the keyboards, I felt that I never use the numpad at all, therefore I decided on a 80% keyboard. A few days ago I bought another keyboard for my son and realized that keyboards without numpad are still the exception. Also, all non-Apple notebooks seem to have a numpad, which has the annoying side effect that the touchpad is not centered on the notebook's body. I was willing to pay extra money to get rid of the numpad when I recently purchased my notebook, but the option was just not available.

In my opinion numpads are just a leftover from computers being mainly used for data input and are just not needed for most uses today. Additionally they occupy valuable space on my desk.

My question now is this: Am I missing something? Am I doing something wrong? Do you ever use the numpad?
To be clear, the term protestant is something different in Germany then in the US. The is also no "the churches" in a broader sense. There is the catholic church and the evangelical church in Germany, who are protestants by name and broadly lutherans. And thats it, only those two.

Both had people involved in the GDR civil rights movement, one of the recent German presidents, Joachim Gauck was an Lutheran/Protestant pastor and an anti communist civil rights activists, who wrote the preamble of the German version of the black book of communism. He compared the UDSSR to the Hitler regime. I would be careful to call that "liberal". It was mostly conservative and has been so after the reunification.

The role of the two churches is an extremely difficult subject throughout the last century and I dont think broad generalizations help anyone here.
Yes, it is sarcastic. I disagree with the sentiment of the parent comment, so I rephrased it without the rhetoric to see how it sounds
Don't need ground truth for crowd-sourced annotation just need agreement between n-different users.

1 randomly present captcha to few known-safe/low risk users
2. Compare answers with answers from higher risk user's Captcha responses.
Ok then give me an example. In the entire world there are places with weak governments and with laissez faire governments. Is there any place where I can buy a house with five different independent water delivery and sewage removal systems attached to it?

If there isn't then you would have to rethink your theories don't you.

The fact of the matter is that there is such a thing as a natural monopoly and just a cursory examination of the facts on the ground and the history of the last 150 years or so will prove it.
Among other things, there's a perception of fusion as this clean, infinite energy source. I haven't followed fusion carefully for a good many years but back when I was studying material science, radiation embrittlement of fusion reactor shielding was an area of active research. It wasn't clear that you didn't end up with just as much radioactive waste from fusion as you did with fission. Don't know what the current thinking on that is but it was one practical challenge in the past.
It'd be interesting to look at the economics of growing leafy greens like this under artificial light (vertical/automated) farming. IIRC, leafy greens are currently the main mainstream (i.e non pot) product which is economically viable to grow indoors.

Japan turned a shuttered semi factory[1] of some sort into an automated leafy greens farm. One would hope in this case there is no indirect contamination, if the actual soil beneath the campus was contaminated.

[1]https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/travel-food/article/209...
Sounds like a good agreement and happy that it works out for you. I seem to remain childless and worry sometimes for the time I am in your mother's age
How about "Presentation?"
Thanks for clarifying. Sarcasm is sometimes very hard to relay over written text in a comment section like this.
The financial aspect is frankly insane. Banks have no problem transferring money today, none. Adding in a wildly unstable asset to “improve” a working system is a classic case of technologists thinking of tech first, real world second.

Backing banks in a different currency than you actually purchase goods in is like declaring that all transfers must be accomplished in Yen. Why should I expose my rent payment to an exchange rate?

One might argue that we’d just use bitcoin as our currency, but that’s just begging the question. Why should consumers want to switch away from their regular currency?

There’s also no compelling reason why identity providing should:

1. Be done by your bank.

2. Use the same technology as your currency.

Long story short: listing a bunch of things you can technically accomplish with bitcoin is emphatically not the same as providing reasons why bitcoin should take over. It’s a bit like hand stand walking; it’s an impressive trick, but just because you can do it doesn’t mean it should become your regular mode of locomotion.
1980's CNC tools did the job just fine. Most improvements since then have been in materials science. Five axis milling machines have been around since the 80's.
Im glad that works. By me a fox will show up at like 2 PM and dart out across the lawn to try and grab something. Thankfully it doesn't come by very often, but at the same time it means catching that mofo is near impossible.
If a person identifies as a male, this is gender. His genitalia regardless of identification indicates sex. Am I correct?
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Because digging pipes to every house is expensive. The first company to do so does so in the expectation of serving every house. The second company would do so only in the expectation of getting business from every other house. Pretty soon - well before there are five companies serving each house - it doesn't make economic sense to dig trenches and install pipes in order to be the fifth company offering service to each house.

And you ignored hristov's challenge. He wanted evidence (though phrased in a way that implied presenting it was impossible), and you responded with argument. Produce the evidence: Where in the world are there no government regulations on water companies, and it resulted in five companies offering service to each house? Where? Show us the data. Without that, you have argument, but the real world contradicts you...
If iOS was changing the data it sent out depending on which root certificates were installed, that would be a huge scandal, as I cannot imagine _any_ non-malicious reason to do that.

That's not proof of anything, but again, at some point I feel you have to assume good faith. Apple does not have a history of doing stuff like this.
>> when mainframe systems did the job just fine.

Didn't people see the value that cheaper/more compute power will give them back than ?
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Is there an actual solution proposed here or is this just full of hot air?

He says adjusting can't work and that explaining bias doesn't do the job, so what is he suggesting? Don't consider a professors performance at all? Add some sort of standardized testing system?
Well, it doesn't have to be WhatsApp.

What if this same concept applied to Viber or Telegram - would you do it?

Simply, would you feel comfortable using cloud-telephony with only mobile data?
>> Impact factor is controlled by a private, for-profit company (Clarivate) that's owned by a private equity firm

In the first year of my PhD the final-year student on "our" project, who I shared a bench with, told me all about impact factors and which journals he was hoping to get his paper published in.
> Ocaml is already very accessible, just on its own terms.

i.e., "ocaml is already very accessible to people who know ocaml"
I thought the same when I read the article. It sounds like it’s just a wrapper around webpack. Why wouldn’t I just use webpack aside from this tool being marginally faster? Is there something I’m missing here? Couldn’t we just take their improvements and implement them in webpack?
The "women are wonderful effect" seems plausible, but I found the original study [1] and was disappointed to see that the generalization "people associate more positive attributes with women compared to men" came from a sample of 322 college students (probably all from Purdue, the authors' institution).

Makes me think of a quote from that fantastic paper, "The Weirdest People in the World" [2]:

> Commonly, there is no demographic information about the participants, aside from their age and gender. In recent years there is a trend to qualify some findings with disclaimers such as “at least within Western culture,” though there remains a robust tendency to generalize to the species. Arnett (2008) notes that psychologists would surely bristle if journals were renamed to more accurately reflect the nature of their samples (e.g., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology of American Undergraduate Psychology Students). They would bristle, presumably, because they believe that their findings generalize much beyond this sample.

[1] PDF link: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED322418.pdf

[2] PDF link: http://hci.ucsd.edu/102b/readings/WeirdestPeople.pdf
Yes, there are tons of guns, but who has them? Legal ownership is rare due to the law. Lawbreakers don't follow the law by definition, so they have guns and you can't change that. There is something to be said for evening things up.
And all the code to satisfy borrow checker in Rust, is it for compiler or programmer?
When you invested in a company you bought in to both its assets and liabilities. Those include good will, implied commitments, and public or government attitudes formed over decades of operation. You bought the whole history.

There is more to be said about the purpose of providing liability shields and corporate rights in exchange for positive contribution to society and the economy; employment is by far the largest benefit society derives from those.
what would you put in the standard library? Specifically remembering that if it’s part of the standard library it has to be present in all JS environments.
Electric utilities. They existed, if I understand correctly, before there were government regulations, and the government regulations formed in response to the electric monopolies.
Imagine if self-driving cars used an analog mechanical computer such as these. "bicycle bearing one niner zero at 1.5 knots, intercept in .0025 seconds...."
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NiMH is a fantastic technology, but there are still advantages to using NiCad. NiMH batteries are notoriously fickle because it is very difficult to detect their charge state based on their voltage. Many chargers will just charge at something like 1.5V / 1A for an hour or two and expect you to drain the batteries between charges.

NiCad batteries handle 'trickle charging' much better than NiMH ones, which usually degrade significantly with overcharging. So NiCads are still used in places like alarm backups, power tools, or off-grid applications where they might be connected to a charging circuit for long periods of time between discharges.

And 18650 cells are great, but I would think carefully about using li-ion or li-po chemistries in areas where they will be exposed to the elements and unsupervised.
The license doesn't say "You can't call the author out when they make a bad decision"
In large business, sure. In small business and education, a $200/mo commitment could easily require approval by the owner or the department chair.
I'm not particularly talking about NASA, but the green papers created to symbolize value don't mean anything. Thousands of man-hours that could have been spent on something else are gone.
100% ack. If I wouldn't have known ligatures, I would be totally confused about the syntax in this code examples. Am I expected to type this character? Where is this thing on my keyboard, etc.
> You're going to have to elaborate because MRV as it exists today is sufficient for your proposal. If you mean "you're returning something that looks like a tuple, but you can't use it like a tuple" then that's all true but I don't see how that's necessary to implement your propsal.

First-class features can be manipulated as regular values of the language.

That Go's MRV are not first-class are an advantage with respect to my proposal: they're already a "magical" built-in which can't be manipulated from within go. As a result, new features built on MRV can't conflict with existing manipulations of MRV.

> I was referring to the Try trait, but as you mention, it's only available on nightly.

And a very recent addition: `try!` does not use it and I've not seen any plan to retrofit it. Try is a way to extend ? to non-Result structures. ? is not built upon Try, Try is being extracted from ?.
Welp. It already has been broken up. Scihub is going strong and so is the push and emphasis on open journals such as Arxiv and others
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The real value add that Stockx provides is verification of authenticity where they employ specialists to do the verification work. Their competitor GOAT also does the same thing but focuses on sneakers.
Is is currently 17%, not 21% (dropping to 15% if conditions are not met) according to what I see in Monobank app.
I'm curious if anyone knows how it really has developed. Has anyone documented the history? Do I understand correctly that right now it's a hierarchy with Linus at the top and levels of "Lieutenants" managing increasingly more detailed levels of subsystems. How was development organized before? Are the developers that are paid mostly on the top or the bottom of the hierarchy? Are the proportions of paid developers very distributed among different companies or does a major portion of them belong to one company?
>Never have I seen evidence of water, power, etc naturally monopolizing and being hostile to consumers.

Come to Florida and checkout FPL post hurricane. They are pretty notorious for restoring power to wealthy neighborhoods first. That’s pretty hostile. Otherwise I think most agree they have a difficult job and seemingly continue to get better in terms of preparedness and restoration in these events.

Going to the state intervention and water pipes as an example, even if the state said anyone can join in and compete whenever they want, it begs the question of how that would be possible without the state being involved. At any given point tom, dick or Harry want to start a water company the publi roads get ripped up yet again to lay pipe. Do Tom, dick and Harry all get to rip up my yard and connect to my home without my consent? If connections aren’t done all at once, do public roads get ripped up for every home that wants water connection from a new supplier?

The NFL May be such an example of a monopoly (according to the courts) that doesn’t rely on state intervention, but good luck building your own stadium or contracting to use theirs any given Sunday. Are the hostile to consumers? I suppose that question is debatable based on your definition, in the case of my local team they price out consumers and have record low attendance and didn’t allow competitors to use their stadiums (USFL) to the detriment of football fans who wanted alternative leagues.
I would like to optimize the entire develop/deploy/monitor process by being able to make a change, iterate quickly in simulation, get the change out safely, and monitor once it's in production.

By being able to create simulations easily, as well as scale them out, training reinforcement learning models is a natural use case, however it extends to other aspects of robotics development as well.
I like using the numpad when I need to enter a lot of numbers into tables. I wish the numpad had a space bar too.
Electronic transactions, and even widespread use of cheques, are very new on the historical timescale. The current level of financial surveillance by the central government, that has been enabled by this technological shift, is unprecendented.

A permissionless and decentralized financial ledger holds the possibility of reversing this trend and restoring the more decentralized distribution of power that traditionally existed.
I make it a point to call my mom on my 15 minute drive home instead of popping on another podcast. After my father passed, it took me a few years to reflect on the loneliness that she could be feeling. She looks forwards to these calls and I know that they provide a good connection for both of us.

I am considering getting her an apple watch in the next year or two for the emergency call features and fall detection.
Step zero is then to get people in power who are willing to do that. How do you propose we go about that step?
And I'm sure Bill bought the patent for the cure just like the geo-engineering patents he purchased to save us all from climate change.
I learned some very valuable lessons at least!
Agreed — the problem is that, from an energy perspective, it "doesn't break even".

Zach Hartwig of MIT has an excellent video [0] of how to evaluate announcements of nuclear fusion advances. The big problem is breaking even. There are other problem, too: plasma containment, etc.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk
In the Netherlands, in Spain and many other places leafy greens are grown in greenhouses. So you only need to supplement with artificial light. Up north where I live in Sweden we also have greenhouses, but there are quite a few pilot projects with vertical farming indoors (not in greenhouses) including a side project of mine with aquaponics in an old barn.
> consumer-hostile monopolies cannot exist for any substantial amount of time without the backing of the State

AT&T creates the first phone network. No one can use their network because it's their property, and the phones installed in people's homes are also owned by AT&T, rented by consumers. How is competition going to appear?

I suppose you could say the state is enforcing property laws, but even in the absence of functional governments people often prevent theft (there was a time before police, after all).
What's interesting, and I don't quite understand, is that even for problems with a decent amount of branching, they can still be surprisingly fast. I wrote a path tracer as an OpenGL shader that had a lot of branching and didn't use any special data structures for ray intersections and it was still much faster than running it on my CPU.

So in my example, the GPU for each pixel has to find out of a ray collides with any object in the scene, and then scatter that light off of that object up to some maximum number of scattering or until it leaves the scene. This results in a variable number of branches per pixel (between about 1 and 16), but still gets good performance.
The company doesn't have to answer every question but it would be a huge red flag if the company could not answer any of them.
There have been more successful landings on Mars:

Viking 1

Viking 2

Mars Pathfinder

Spirit

Opportunity

Phoenix

Curiosity

InSight
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I think they meant "progressive" in the 1900-1910 sense, not in the 2010 sense.
> His genitalia regardless of identification indicates sex.

More specifically, his biology regardless of identification. This is a surprisingly complicated gray area, though; there is a pretty wide space for biological sex to be ambiguous in different ways. For example, it is possible for hormonal differences to cause a person with XX chromosomes to develop male features, a person with XY chromosomes to develop female features, or for a person (especially an infant) to have ambiguous or hybrid features.
[Speaking from my experiences as a PhD student] once an academic is sufficiently senior they can do what they damn well like. My boss came in late, took long lunch breaks, and went home early.

Back to the topic: if he received papers to be reviewed, he gave them to his post-docs.
The goal is precisely to not just bundle, but incorporate important optimizations like the V8 Compile Cache (https://github.com/zeit/ncc/issues/51), which is what inspired the project and name to begin with.
I was just reading an article before the landing that mentioned the number of attempts vs success. I couldn't find it, but found this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_Mars
Make lobbying illegal, and make representatives more accountable to their constituents? Decentralize the government more, and make it more state and local instead of federal?
Look at your sibling comments.
Don’t Do Multipart Requests on AWS Lambda
Neuroimaging links activity in the prefrontal cortex to psychopathic traits
The goal is to provide the experience that many other languages have, where you don’t configure anything. You just run “$tool build”
The alternative is developer time. Nothing about managed services is ever less expensive if you don’t account for developer/Devops/netops time saved.

A small company has even more of reason to want as many managed services as possible. You can avoid hiring netops if you both have a third party managed service provider to manage your network and you have developers/architects who know enough to fill in the gaps.