skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, land mines are horrible, the incalculable environmental damage and subsequent human (and other) suffering of any war can’t be overstated. War however, at least wars of the “necessary” type are the kind of the thing that don’t allow for those considerations. It is a very strong argument, not for trying to change how war is fought (minimally effective), but to accept that war is truly an atrocity to be avoided at nearly all costs. Instead we spent the years after WWII trying to make war on anything vaguely “red” and after Vietnam, just sought to make a constant stream of wars and armed conflicts more palatable to the public.

The problem is the sheer amount of war, constant war, completely unjustified war. Vietnam is a great example (credit to darkpuma for knowing their stuff) of just such a waste, which makes the lengthy fallout all the more unforgivable. WWII by contrast, a subject I didn’t raise incidentally and so had no Godwin moment (I responded to a post explicitly mentioning the Manhattan project), was nothing chosen by anyone other than the Axis. Developing and deploying nuclear weapons existed in the context of a fight for survival, against powers that systematically murdered millions of non-combatants. Japan, putting aside Pearl Harbor, was monstrous in China, Korea, and the Philippines. They dropped plague fleas on Manchuria, slaughtered a small tortured prisoners, and Germany... well, we all know about that.

There was no reason to believe that victory over them was certain, or even likely until the war had rages for years. There was every reason to believe that life under the Nazis would be hell, and fatal for swathes of humanity. The Japanese were not particular better, and China and Korea still bear the scars.

All of which is to say, I objected to mixing up people who designed mines for Vietnam, with people fighting WWII on the front, or in the lab.
> Another Responder pointed out that material design is better. ...I don't see how. ...the basic premise of 2D facsimile for real world 3D objects is still there.

Material design uses shadows to add a third dimension. The shadows cause boundaries and can help indicate parts of the interface that can move independently.

I would definitely not claim this is much better, but it is at least a little bit better.
“The default name prefix is changed to be ‘sqlite’ spelled backwards” (2006)
I'd go so far as to say they might be acting in bad faith by announcing the release of Origins six months after the DCMA notices on GOG sales. So they might claim that the DCMA notices cause injury.

I think Stardock thought they were in a water tight position but they were not.
Doctors (specialists specifically) take a reduction in pay or leave the country for another healthcare market that would maintain their current inflated pay (which doesn’t exist).
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IQ and civilization seems commingled. IQ is a good tool for sociological observations.
That could be the core of a very nice search engine.
Xi Jinping says Taiwan “must and will be” reunited with China
Reminds me of when PCs came with a voltage switch. With one flick of a switch... goodbye PSU. Of course the difference is it only needed to be set once.
> cartoon character is still in commercial use and being further developed

I feel this should be restricted to the originator of the work itself.

A property can wait till the primary author is done with the work (inside reasonable intervals..sorry GRR martin), before starting the timer of it entering public domain.

However, works like Batman and Mickey that get tossed between committees and multiple authors, should not be viewed in the same way.
> The problem is that the author of the test needs to have at least the same level of intelligence (and probably even higher) than what the test is measuring.

What makes you believe that?
Just recently I used a pre-trained language model to generate philosophy which was similar to my favourite philosophers. I think what impressed me was that given my small dataset of 5k quotes, the model ended up generating some really good quotes. Plus I trained it in just a couple of hours, not knowing much about NLP before. Here’s my tutorial https://towardsdatascience.com/generating-new-ideas-for-mach...
erlang has self-healing baked in as one of it's core tenets.
If the previous owner only changed oil once (just before trading the car in), how would CarMax or Carfax know?
The "harmonization" thing is a racket. In short, the corps pass the most restrictive copyright laws they can in whatever country they can pass it. Then they "harmonize" the other countries to that most restrictive policy, usually in the form of trade agreements which becomes domestic law everywhere. Rinse and repeat.
"The problem was, as technology allowed management to further fragment production into ever-simpler tasks, the work itself became so boring and abstract that it “dehumanized” workers, said the report."

I suspect that present-day Amazon blue collar workers and "sharing economy" (Uber/Lyft/Bird/Doordash/etc.) blue-collar workers can relate.
Firefox was born from Netscape, so maybe a similar jump is possible!
That is a nice idea, thank you!
Everyone's good with this as far as software goes too, right? All apps go public domain after 20 years of release?
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They only care that MBS shouldn't watch it or learns about it and get upset. Everything is low cost enough to make happen for that risk!
That's Tog's point. It could have been designed to make it much easier and safer to use. The people who made it just didn't think those kinds of considerations were worth putting time into.

> Calling the company was of no help. The engineer who answered responded that nothing was wrong with the design of the switch that extremely careful operation would not overcome. He’d been using it for months with no problem.

How this analogizes to software is left as an exercise for the reader.
I’ve been doing my test drives with Getaround. They don’t have everything, but for the cars they do have, you can actually spend some time with the thing on your own terms.
Bionformatics in the Bay Area. Afterwards, I switched to Data Science and NLP. Many of my skills were extremely transferable.
I can't speak to the legality of it, but I don't believe that this is immoral in any sense, especially because it sounds that you have to be approved as an affiliate by the company that displays the data you're scraping.
I was a structural engineer for 10 ten years then switched to software. I had graduated in Civil Engineering, then took my professional Structural Engineering exams 5 years later, came top of my year and everything looked peachy.

Then I started suffering from increasing amounts of anxiety stemming from childhood problems and increasing responsibility. It became so I was terrified in my daily life.

So I quit SE and worked part-time at a library whilst I earned a Masters in 'Computing' so I could switch industries. When that was over I moved countries with my wife and started over as a software developer.

I won't say it's been plain sailing (those issues follow me wherever I go!) but I'm glad I made the change - I had to, it was killing me.

Sometimes I wonder if I'd be happier as a construction worker but I'm too old for that now and it has very destructive long-term consequences for the human body.

ps. I spend a lot of time keeping my life very simple such that it would appear boring to most people.
pps. I was rage-entrenched from my first software job (I raged then was politely let-go).
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The TARP program was 800 billion dollars, not in the trillions. Not sure where you are getting the 4.7 trillion figure from.

The problem wasn't really the bad debt. The problem was one of confidence, and putting the money into the banks restored that confidence.

As repugnant as it seemed, and still seems, to give that money to the bankers that created the problems, it was likely the right move at the time. We'll never really know since we can't go back and try the other way, but things were grinding to a halt, and putting money in people's hands was it going to move things quickly enough.
Well, Iraq never developed the traditions or culture or whatever the preconditions for a democracy are. One was imposed on them by a neither competent nor determined foreign occupation force.

The US has had that precondition for centuries, so if we were to lose it, it would be a very different case fro Iraq, who never had it.

I think the factor behind increased polarisation in the US and across the democratic world probably is this thing right here. The internet! People are now increasingly getting their news and information, and thereby their world view from "social media", not the traditional mass media of the last 2-3 centuries.

It's a huge sea change, and we're only seeing the beginning of it. So far it't looking kinda scary, but things will keep changing quickly, and I think we'll sort things out. We better :)
It is worth noting that neither the US nor Russia are signatories to the UN Convention on Cluster Munitions. The US has dropped many millions of cluster submunitions on Iraq and Afghanistan, and supplied millions more to the Saudi-led coalition that dropped them on Yemen. These submunitions frequently fail to detonate on impact, are frequently dropped in close proximity to civilian populations and often have a toy-like appearance.

https://ordata.info/ordnance?id=4976
They would know it had missed a bunch of scheduled maintenance. They know how many miles are on the car, they know how many times it should have had its oil changed over that many miles. If the owner never brought it in for service, you can say maybe they were just a gear-head and were changing the oil themselves in their garage. But there's lots of service tasks you can't do in your garage, so if the car missed lots of scheduled maintenance windows, that puts up a big red flag.
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Don't speak for me, I think it is fair to treat others in the same manner that they treat you. If it only applies to foreign nationals, that puts pressure on them to act appropriately.

For example, we should be subjecting Americans to the TSA bullshit that they dole on others.
"[Warren Buffett] says his measure of success is, “Do the people you care about love you back?” I think that is about as good a metric as you will find."

I love this.
You also need to multiply the price of fixing a car under warranty by probability of the car breaking before that warranty expires. CarMax only makes money on the cars it sells, so as long as there is a decent chance the car will break after warranty expires, it still might make economical sense to do it.
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I was thinking the same thing re: derivative works. Ordinarily a claim could be made if you took a copyrighted work and created derivative material from it (someone sampling your hook in a new song), but what if you start from a public domain work, and add your own changes? It seems your changes only would be copyrighted. But can you copyright obvious colors? If you took B&W, public domain Mickey and had some preschoolers or an AI or something color it in... would this be yours?

What Disney should worry about if they plan to defend their colored Mickey is a team of hacktivists creating derivative colored works from the original pd B&W image and claiming copyright on THAT for another 100 years :)
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Could you kindly show me the page on their web site saying that it is free for non-industrial use, please? I cannot find it by myself, I can only see free trials - but it is not what you meant, right?
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You can rent other people's cars with turo. https://turo.com
Overworking the crew and the absolutely horrendous quality of life on Skylab
The thing to remember is that psychology is a field that has a well-worn history of being driven by heavy misinterpretation of flawed experiments, and psychometrics in particular tends to vary from the awful to the truly execrable in this regard. IQ and the Big-5 personality tests are the best of the field, but we're not talking Standard Model-level of verification--these theories are the nearsighted one-eyed kings of the land of the blind.

The current consensus among psychologists is that intelligence is not driven by one single factor. Rather, there are separate kinds of intelligence (e.g., crystallized and fluid intelligence), and there may be a master throttling general intelligence factor called g. As psychology came around to this viewpoint, IQ tests have been retooled to measure g... except g can't be directly measured. So g is teased out of intelligence tests by statistical means as the primary factor of correlation, and the fact that there does exist a mildly strong correlation is taken as evidence that g exists. (And if you're saying to yourself that correlation is not causation and that this argument is circular, well, there are plenty of psychologists, if a distinct minority, who would agree with you on that point).

Most psychologists, I expect, would prefer to talk about intelligence in terms of the subcategories such as crystallized and fluid intelligence, for which there is stronger evidence and more readily accessible metrics. (Most IQ tests also spit out these scores as well, but it's the IQ part that is the most widely broadcast).
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The same is true of most convictions and crimes.
Hi OP here. I don't think you need to give up Your Experience to join a startup as a Data scientist. But what won't be 100% transferrable would be your Semiconductor specific skills(think spice, process technology etc). If you have been coding your current job that is a skill that is transferrable.Your PhD is a massive foot in the door. Have you considered something like Data incubator or Insight data science fellowship which require a minimum P.hD to transition.
As to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I take the view that the former was justified, and the latter was probably not. There is every reason to believe that Japan was preparing to fight on the home islands the way they had everywhere else; to the hilt, with little quarter given. Hiroshima while horrendous, was not terribly different from the firebombings of cities like Dresden and Tokyo. There’s no question that in the absence of an atomic bomb, conventional weapons would still have been deployed, and I suspect far more widely and with death tolls near or in excess of seven digit figures.

So Hiroshima made sense. Then we really didn’t give them enough time to process the enormity of what had happened and surrender. They might not have, in which case Nagasaki was an option, but there are enough questions as to their full understanding of the events in Hiroshima that Nagasaki was premature, and possibly unnecessary. At the end of the day the world has been subjected to the second global conflict started by Germany’s desire to conquer Europe in a handful of decades. The appetite for a long slog to inevitable victory over a mountain of allied and Japanese corpses wasn’t there, and I don’t blame them,
No idea what they are using but TI makes a bunch of parts that do radar in the MM wave band which is what that frequency is in.

http://www.ti.com/sensors/mmwave/overview.html
A (non-exhaustive) list of hobbyist-accessible engineering CAD programs I can recommend:

- Fusion 360 (Windows/Mac) (free for hobbyists) can do complex many-component robots or simple geometric shapes and has facilities for rendering and simulation. I'll concur with all the other recommendations I see here.

- OpenSCAD (Windows/Mac/Linux) (GPL) is text-based, which is nifty but really limiting. Good for generating triangulated files of complex-but-formulaic objects (e.g., gears/screws), but is ~10x slower to use than Fusion for most anything else. Would definitely not attempt to use to design an assembly of multiple parts.

- SolidWorks (Windows) ($$) is industry-standard. IMO, slightly better (smoother/faster/more robust) for modelling medium-to-large things than Fusion 360.

- OnShape (clound-based) ($$ but IIRC has hard-to-find public/free tier) is notable for working in a web browser (good for Linux users). Seems to have a bunch of plugins, but actual CAD capability is run-of-the-mill. [EDIT: also has a functional CAD-on-phone app. Like, wow.]

- FreeCAD (Windows/Mac/Linux) (GPL) is the open source Fusion/SolidWorks equivalent option. Needs a lot of work (e.g., good part assembly capabilities) and I find it rather clunky. I wouldn't learn CAD here, but I do really want a community-developed Linux desktop CAD program.
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Right. Chinese policy regarding Taiwan hasn’t changed then. Not really news.
Here's a bit:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/fusion-360/learn-expl...

It's nice that even if you are a commercial business, if you have <100k in revenue per year, the license is free as well.
I gave an example above. Imagine you ask second graders to write math tests for college. They might extrapolate from their experience like this "We started working with single-digit numbers, like 2+3 or 4*2. Then we learned to work with two-digit numbers, 23+17 or 17-73. High school math should probably be three-digit numbers, college will be four-digit numbers, and math professor must be able to work with eight-digit numbers."

This is actually a reasonable approach (extrapolating from known data), but do you think this test will separate math ability well among college students?
Also unlike American/UK first-past-the-pole voting most(?) of Europe uses a fairer (IMO) approach with multiple representatives from each district meaning more opinions gets heard instead of just two parties like in US.

The pirate party wouldn't stand a chance in the US IMO.
In both politics and science, attacking your opponents' motivations is fallacious. The merit of a position should be judged independently of the personal failings of whoever puts it forward.
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I used to believe China could easily swallow Taiwan in military conflict, but the actual numbers are surprising considering their relative landmasses. Taiwan is not such an easy target to overthrow, and I doubt they'd lay down without a fight.

I found this article to be particularly enlightening:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/25/taiwan-can-win-a-war-wi...
The assertion of a call to action raises tensions and is certainly news.

I fear for the free people of Taiwan.
Ribbon has to be the absolute worst interface I've ever dealt with. Things seem to be organized completely randomly, things I never use are emphasized, things I always use are de-emphasized, things are hidden behind various panels and determining which involves a tedious search through every single panel, ultimately giving up and having to google where the hell the button I'm looking for is--and seeing thousands of results from people searching the same exact thing.

That's not even getting into the fact that it consumes a ridiculous, and I mean simply ridiculous amount of space.

I feel like every recent step "forward" in UI is just an attempt to make useful features harder to find, make useless buttons bigger while simultaneously making them harder to identify as buttons, and reducing the actual active input space to the bare minimum. MS Office and gmail started a race to minimize input space a couple years back and now it seems to be spreading everywhere. What used to be nice, full screens of input and being able to visually scan everything is now a tiny white box with absolutely useless garbage everywhere, from ribbons full of buttons I'll use maybe once a year to now auto-suggested text that never aligns with what I want to say and could potentially have disastrous results when I inevitably accidentally click it.
I think I was personally surprised by two assumptions that I implicitly held, both of which disappear when you write them down:

1. The syntax of comprehensions led me to think that they introduce some kind of a variable binding, such as `let` in many Lisps, and that binding `lookup[x]` would have been a syntax error. Of course Python didn't introduce anything like that for comprehensions, and it's just a normal assignment operation, with an extra scope inserted in Python 3 to stop `x` leaking into the enclosing scope.

2. Because of the swap idiom `x, y = y, x` I thought tuple assignment happens somehow in parallel, so my code should have caused an undefined variable error, even if it is not a syntax error. But of course it just evaluates the right hand side first and then assigns to the left hand side in left-to-right order, which the language reference https://docs.python.org/3/reference/simple_stmts.html#assign... notes "sometimes result[s] in confusion" (near the end of the section).
> [...] we are also going to be focusing more on improving the quality of life. I think this will be the thrust of many big breakthroughs of the future. For example, software will be able to notice when you’re feeling down, connect you with your friends, give you personalized tips for sleeping and eating better, and help you use your time more efficiently.

Seems like a retrofitted use case that is more of an answer to the question "What could technology do next?" rather than the question "How to improve quality of life?"

If one started with the latter question---which is what is worth answering---a significant component of the answer would be to strengthen relationships and make them more authentic. Since the medium undeniably biases the message, it is important to prevent the disintermediation of relationships by corporations looking to insert themselves (or their technology) into positions from where they can better extract rent.

Technology can of course be useful in numerous ways, but the right solutions would put human emotions and relationships front and center, and sparingly sprinkle technical solutions only when needed -- and in many ways force people to interact more directly, even if it were temporarily (somewhat) inconvenient.
wardell seems like quite a scumbag.
>a subject I didn’t raise incidentally and so had no Godwin moment (I responded to a post explicitly mentioning the Manhattan project)

Overworked the the comment it was a bit off.
Sounds like empty rhetoric to distract the population from economic slowdown, trade war with US and general negative sentiments related to China both internally and externally.
>Using the free and open source software tool called "mitmproxy", an interactive HTTPS proxy,

How can anyone take something called "mitmproxy" as seriously as a non-harmful thing to put trust in? That totally sounds like someone is having a laugh at the whole thing.
It also names "visualization" and "molecular robotics" as (non-AI) representative technology categories. It includes the specific, the absurdly general, and the so-far-imaginary among its categories. The Federal Register publication is not very enlightening and I can't tell if the NYT story is based on anything more than that publication.
The "our government represents ALL of China" that both the PRC and ROC gov'ts proclaimed is/was a mistake. China and Taiwan are in practice and reality now two countries, and the people in each don't benefit from the saber rattling.

It would be the same as North or South Korea being the only "Korea" recognized by other governments or UN.
We will soon notice whether the populist West will support government with the consent of the governed or stand by while Taiwan is thrown under the bus.

The history of Crimea indicates that Taiwan's only hope is to aggresively apply violence as necessary for its independence.