skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
69 years old (more or less on earth or in space) is no different than Male or Female (more or less). The difference is in relative subjective granularity.
That's a violation of the terms of service.
Knuth goes in the "old books" category (meant positively).
Also, my first Rust project!
Wonder if it could be powered solar.
Same for me with Stoicism: I read everything modern book on it and while it was useful nothing comes close to when I actually decided to pick up the classics, starting with Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
Runaway thought: Could all taxes be removed and replaced with the government simply printing money for its initiatives? Income tax is such that the rich are supposed to pay more than the poor but that does not happen in practice. The rich hire smart people to find loopholes and avoid taxes. Sales taxes are such that the government can dissuade people from harmful activities like smoking by levying heavy taxes on it. An alternative could be to print money for initiatives that the government wants to support like nicotine patches for example. The US government has already done something similar before with quantitive easing without much impact to the economy. So there is a possibility that this might work.
> Scientists can prove someone's gender by looking at his/her chromosomes, can't they?

Only in the vast majority of cases. There are XX, XY, YY, XXY, and even more esoteric versions!
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Affirmative action is a big benefit. I'm a white male at the moment, but I could get a real leg up if I were transgender and/or transracial.
This is an entirely unfair representation of what happened.

First, his name was Mark Judge not "Mike" Judge - so get off the high horse about being factually correct when you can't even get one name right.

Zero corroborating eyewitnesses, zero recollection of the location of the "party" from 35 years ago.
Oh okay! I thought you were suggesting the opposite (which is nonsense). Thanks!
He also wrote a great book called Studies in Words about how the meaning of words change over time, apparently in similar ways in different languages. It was based on a series of lectures he gave students reading old texts, that they should not apply modern meaning to an old word: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Studies-Words-Canto-Classics-Lewis/...
Why do we keep panicking over tech?
Did they ban HTML as well?
It's called #himtoo, and it was started by the mother of a false accusation victim a few months ago.
To expand on the thought: some Google results in the USA are removed because they're child pornography, and even viewing or storing images of such outside of very narrow contexts is a crime.
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What's your long term game plan with that? At some age, they'll get a device, are you just hoping for the best when that happens? Or "you pay for it, it's your problem" or what?

We limit device time and I try to be as involved as I can, we ask them what they're doing, we try to play games with them, etc. Every day. We keep repeating the mantra about not talking to strangers online, and to tell us if they talk to you. Honestly, I think it's other stuff that will make the difference, spending time with them every day, talking to them about everything, and encouraging active participation in real world stuff like sports and some volunteer work for the homeless through our church.

I don't disagree with the "no internet" idea exactly but at some point they'll be exposed to it and the way things are, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if a smartphone was required equipment for junior high or highschool within the next 5-10 years. Already our schools send us just about everything online, we have regular emails with the teachers and they use google docs and other platforms for online sharing within the school.
The government collecting taxes and investing them has probably created the majority of humanity's enduring achievements.
If I were Google and a government told me to GTFO I would, leaving a message saying "Leader of Country, call this number when you change your mind", wait 5 mins for everyone to complain to the government, and then answer the phone
I know it’s supposed to be bad for your back or posture or something rather but it feels impossible to stop that habit.
No they can't.

Gender is a social construct. But they can't tell that for physiological sex either. Humans have a whole host of secondary sexual characteristics, most of which are more important than genitals in determining how other people categorize them. But even ignoring all of that, chromosomes don't strictly determine what sex characteristics someone ends up with. AIUI a lot of this has to do with the presence or absence of a testosterone wash in-utero (which itself is supposed to be determined by chromosomes, but this doesn't always work).

There have been documented cases of women with XY chromosomes who not only exhibit all the usual female sexual characteristics, but even have working ovaries and have carried babies to term. In fact, while I don't have it handy, there was a story not that long ago about a woman with XY chromosomes successfully having a baby, and then they discovered that her mother also had XY chromosomes.
Are you thinking of comets? Asteroids are generally closish to the ecliptic. You'd normally want to find easy to reach asteroids rather than randomly choosing asteroids and there are a number you can get to for just 100 m/s beyond Earth escape, though it'll take a while at that speed.

The problem is that nearby asteroids tend to be dry since they're being warmed by the Sun as much as Earth is and lack Earth's gravity well, ozone layer, and magnetic field. You want to go to Jupiter's trojans or so, or maybe just Ceres if you're willing to deal with its gravity well and dig a bit. For Jupiter's orbit you're looking at 3,300 m/s plus escape. Still a lot less than getting to orbit and you can use an ion drive but hardly trivial.
This breaks the rules at the top of the thread.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18590232 and marked it off-topic.
> I think if you've lived a few centuries, you might've picked up the skills, experience and connections required to make it work.

This is how the immortals from Ilaria Corporation handled it in Helix. The show was promising, it's really sad it quickly went from interesting to crazy to utter gross.
A better question is, "How much of this success is because of Gwynne Shotwell?"

And the answer is: Most of it!

Tesla is lacking a leader equivalent to Gwynne, sadly (and I'm long 100 TSLA)
I'm going to guess that this item wasn't posted by the real Samuel Langhorne Clemens. If not, Forger! If so, my apologies, I'm a big fan.
Sometimes network code is easier with deterministic engines. Some engines simply replay the remote/network inputs as if they were local (with various strategies for handling the time sync/time delays), and rely on the property of determinism of their underlying simulations to avoid divergence in player world states.

Knowing only how much Army of Two stressed its cooperative network play nature (including in its title), that's my best lay guess of the strong reason the game wanted deterministic simulations.

The impression I got from dev team discussions/features on The Halo Channel/Master Chief Collection was that Halo was built that way: its network engine wanted rock solid deterministic physics, so all the replay/recap features added to later games were a "free" bonus they were able to build on top from that earlier netcode requirement.
The claim I replied to is: "We've recently seen leaked internal discussions by Google engineers saying they want to ban media publications they don't like."

Individual engineers did not have the means to ban in 2013 when I was an engineer in Search Features. I seriously doubt that's changed.
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Sure there are, and all of those things are determined by biology, not choice. That said, this is a topic that could go off the rails and sideways very quickly...
Thanks for your thoughtful response.
"Can I double check that 99% statistic?"

"Sorry, the source data underlying that statistic is part of the censored 1%. We'll forward your interest to the relevant authorities though."

"Thanks Google!"
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That's... not what I meant.
“Age” and “gender” in this case are just entries in a government database somewhere. There’s no deep philosophy to it. Trans people wanted to be able to change their gender, so they fought hard for it—that’s what you need to do to get policies like this changed. If people want to be able to change their age, they’ll have to fight for that too.
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Gday Platforms that censor speech:-

* Facebook

* Twitter

* Google

* Youtube

* Pateron

* Stripe

* Paypal

* Twitch

* Spotify

* Apple

* pin interest

* LinkedIn

* Mailchimp

* Wordpress

* mastodon

* azure cloud servers (Microsoft)

* Mastercard

* Godaddy

* MEDIUM

* Shopify

* Cloudflare

* pusher

* WIKI

* Reddit

.

Platforms that DONT censor speech

* Tutanota + Protonmail(email alt)

* Minds (FB alt)

* Gabai	(Twitter alt)

* Bitchute	(Youtube alt)

* Wire	(skype alt)

* Librepay	(Donation alt)

* Startengine (Kickstarter alt)

* Voat (Reddit alt)

.

Also look into:-

* searX.me or Duckduckgo (search alt)

* OpenStreetmap - instead of Google maps

* imgtc or tineye - free image upload site

* Linux - Win/MacOSX replacement

* f-droid.org - Google Play Store ALT

* Mumble - Discord ALT

Regards
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Hammock Driven Development by Rich Hickey touches on this subject. Great talk.
Oh, there's another one.

Prioritize Information Exchange: I hope to provide useful information to other people. I don't want to convince them, just to give them what I know. In exchange, I try to find people who will give me what they know. Essentially, enable the Postel principle for yourself, and always invoke Crocker's Rules upon yourself. If other people don't or persist in being wrong then allow them to be so.
Technically, your comment doesn't add much to the conversation either.
Have you tried any of the plant based meats that are available? Seriously, beyond burgers, beyond sausages, tofurkey sausages (my favorite), impossible meats, to name just a few, are all really good. There's no need to wait for lab meat.
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Don’t have children is probably the single biggest thing you can do to reduce your future impact on the Earth
Well-written technology books age quite well. For example, Hackers[0] has aged so well that the author has gone back over the last 30 years and added multiple appendices to cover what's happened since! The first couple chapters are available[1] on Project Gutenberg as well.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Compute...

1: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=7...
It's just a flesh wound!
Can you tell if these faces are real or GAN-generated?
Heres some algorithms that I actually use in my life. I don't know if they fit the bill, but whatever, I'm sharing them.

A) SCHEDULING.

If there's a thing that you want to do but you can't do it now, set a reminder to do it, and include how long you are waiting to do it in your note. If the reminder comes up and you can't seem to fit it into your schedule before the next wait time is up, set a new reminder but double the wait time.

This ensures that you don't forget about the possibility of doing something just because you don't have time, but also ensures that you don't spend excessive amounts of time worrying about finding time to do something if you don't really want to do it, or can't prioritize it.

Moreover it allows you to schedule many events without worrying about your schedule getting too crowded.

B) TRYING NEW THINGS.
(using a menu at a restaurant as an example)

1. set n = 2.
2. Every time you go to the restaurant, pick a random natural number between 1 and n.
3.
- if it comes up 1, pick something you've never tried off of the menu to try. If you don't like it, increase n by 1. otherwise add the item to your list of things to get and set n=2.
- otherwise select an item at random from your list of favorite things. You can optimize selection from this list as well, but I don't.

This is hard to keep track of, naturally, so I only use it when I feel like I'm in a rut, but I trust the algorithm, more or less, and it pushes me out of my comfort zone in a way that I am, paradoxically, very comfortable with.
That is not entirely true, there is a prefs.js in my Profile folder that contains the changes done to my about:config page, if I interpret it correctly.
Do you have a recommendation for best geometry textbook?
Probably; and in a high density arena, it would be the wealthy that can afford low density subslices.

In a low density area, money simply gets you more space over the baseline of ...a lot of space
If you had an automatic key starter you’d never even need to take the keys out of your pocket. My new car has a keyless system and I never take the “key” out of my pocket. I just need to be nearby to click on a button on the door to open it. To lock, I put my hand in my pocket and click the lock button.
They made a post about testing with Jepsen: https://blog.yugabyte.com/jepsen-testing-on-yugabyte-db-data...
While this may well be a factor in their decision, it seems highly unlikely to me that (a) Apple was entirely unaware porn existed on Tumblr for the years the app was in the store before November 2018, and (b) the only way Tumblr could ensure there was no child porn on their servers was to ban everything that smacks of NSFW-ness down to "female-presenting nipples." Tumblr's CEO said they've been considering this move for months, and I don't see any reason to doubt him.

Tumblr has never made money, as far as I know, and Yahoo's new corporate parent Oath seems to be a lot less mellow about that sort of thing. I suspect this is a necessary step before they open the advertising floodgates and see if they can get Tumblr to start paying for itself. Losing a massive amount of their userbase is an acceptable outcome as long as there's still enough users there for more advertising to turn a a profit.
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Thank you for your considered response.

MBH98 was 20 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_stick_graph goes into details about the various analyzes of MBH98 and later, including criticisms and counter-criticisms. The Moberg 2005 analysis I referenced above is one of them, which used wavelet transforms instead of PCA. It found similar conclusions as MBH99, the extension of MBH98.

> A 2010 opinion piece by David Frank, Jan Esper, Eduardo Zorita and Rob Wilson (Frank et al. 2010) noted that by then over two dozen large-scale climate reconstructions had been published, showing a broad consensus that there had been exceptional 20th century warming after earlier climatic phases, notably the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age

It then adds that more reconstructions have been done since then, again following the broad consensus.

they should be read and considered rather than being rejected out of hand.

This goes back to my original objection, which is that the g'g' etc. poster didn't point to something to read, other than "Willis Eschenbach's work over on https://wattsupwiththat.com/ ".

I can certainly reject out of hand the undirected suggestion to read hundreds if not thousands of blog posts without having some solid reason to believe it's worthwhile, especially given that several of the poster's other comments on the topic seemed to be wrong, and internally inconsistent.
I've attempted to fix it for you. You need two newlines to get a line break.
Regardless of the specifics of the project, what's disappointing to me, as a Google user and fairly significant Cloud Platform customer, are the internal dynamics depicted in this earlier article [1]: the head of Google China operations sidelining the internal privacy and security teams, keeping employees and even top management in the dark, and driving hard toward a fait accompli project launch because he knows he's doing something that will cause a huge backlash internally and externally. This seems very un-Googly.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2018/11/29/google-china-censored-se...
Elon described it in an interview once as this:

If you saw $6 million, falling from the sky, would you try to catch it? Each fairing is around $3 million, so they're trying to catch it. That gives them $6 million more per-customer they can discount the price should they need to get really competitive. It is really kind of insane that no one has tried this before.
The protest is due to a high cost of living, of which gas taxes are just a small portion.

They are, however, a portion that is very convenient to shed crocodile tears over. Nobody notices when your employer's profit per employee increased by $5,000 year-over-year, without any increase in your take-home, or blames the government when their landlord raised rent again, but increase the cost of gas by 10 cents/litre, and everyone loses their minds.
Yet they aren't paying noticeably more for fuel than others in Europe. The proportion of pump price paid as tax has fallen under Macron.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/03/are-the-french...
It's also common for towing companies to show up to the scene of an accident before police arrive with hopes of convincing those in the accident their vehicles need to be towed for some reason or another. Canada has even gone as far as implementing new laws to prevent this.
There's no case for bringing asteroids to Earth in any reasonable time frame. But on the other hand bringing stuff up Earth's gravity well and even loose rubble could be useful if brought to Earth orbit.
I would say that there are only downsides in going that way.

If you take on a full rewrite you lose a lot: you can't show that you are incrementally better, you cannot show that it will be a good long term investment, you must rewrite even well maintained core parts that works fine, you don't get to improve the original engine with the good parts and essentially you get nothing in return.

For a much better answer than mine:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
Probably so. Do most people on Tinder abide by the ToS? If he looks 49, who is going to report him for a violation? If someone does report him, how hard is it to make a new account?
It's like if 4chan was bought by someone who wanted to make it more family-friendly and get rid of /b/ or /s/.

That will not go well.
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it was a deliberate reference :)
This is a really cool tool! I’m always emailing myself stuff I want to look at/read later, and I invariably forget about it. This is such a good way to keep track of those things!
They know that (whether they are fine with it is another matter). Google was in China from 2006 to 2010, and pulled out partly due to censorship (among other reasons).
I've done that... but some of the orientation experience should actually be flipped... example, in horizontal/left, the windows start menu should probably still be in the bottom left, with taskbar climbing upward. Notifications flipped to top-left.

In the end, I find that left-side orientation is rarely done well, or well imho. I did really like the Unity UI in Ubuntu, but I think I'm the only one on this. I used to position my launchpad in macos on the left as well, but this is awkward, and easier to just have it auto-hide.
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I'm sorry to hear that. I wish the best for your family.

Is there something unique to tumblr that makes this content thrive there? If tumblr cleans their stuff up (and I know there are legitimate stuff that is impacted by that) won't those communities find refuge elsewhere? There are some incredibly seedy parts of reddit and sites like voat and just tons of places where there is "bad stuff" on the internet.
I usually explain TypeScript to others as helping the next person working with the code, be it me or another developer. I've found that diving in to source code is made easier when it's in TypeScript, and although it may slow down my initial development speed, it improves the ease with which I understand foreign code and get back into my old code (which sometimes may as well be foreign).

> It just so happens that the combination of tools we're using is not too conducive to Typescript code

Maybe the problem is the tools, not the TypeScript. What's the combination of tools that's giving you trouble?
Well... My workflow is desktop-centric, I do not use social networks, WhatsApp etc. So... One reason to "hide" my phone is to avoid/reduce data collection via speaker mic (cameras are already covered with a sandwich of insulating tape+tin foil).

Otherwise all I can receive are calls or mail notification at the same rate of dunst notifications so...

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Yep, it's a bit more symbiotic than that unfortunately, but in general most of the data can be restored from an upstream source.
It has HA. Sharding is a different beast which I think Citus has solved.
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