skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do the answers to your rhetorical questions matter?

As someone who was a child who was sent away to school by his parents, let me tell you that they matter a great deal. (Particularly from the POV of an adult looking back vs. the experiences of a child.) They are precisely the questions that should be asked to distinguish manipulations of "Think of the children!" hysteria and genuine issues of the human rights of minors.

Is there any answer to your questions that makes indentured servitude of minors acceptable?

Of course not. But I can imagine the level of state power and impingement on private family life needed to prevent that 100%, and that would be quite horrible as well. Government should regulate the conditions under which children are kept and raised by schools. However, the degree to which someone else should decide for parents what to do also needs to take into account the rights of parents and families.
> China's literacy rate is on par with Western literacy rates, for similar educational effort.

Well, that's precisely the claim that is under dispute. For example, DeFrancis [1] aims to dispel what he calls

"The Successfulness Myth: Chinese characters are responsible for a high level of literacy in East Asian countries. (A weaker version of this myth is simply that despite the flaws of Chinese characters, East Asian countries still have a high level of literacy.)"

He makes the opposite claim that (from the Wikipedia summary)

"The Chinese script, with its huge number of characters, its complexity and its irregularities, is harmful to the literacy improvement efforts of the Chinese society, and needs to be replaced by a more efficient writing system if China is to achieve the benefits of modernization."

There is, in other words, serious scholarly dispute about the success of the Chinese script.

> Chinese writing is much more compact and easier to read, relative to alphabetic writing

Agreed on the first part, it's more compact (not surprising if you have ten thousands of choices per character, say 14 bits, instead of 26, or 5 bits). But I don't think it's easier to read (let alone write), and I'd want to see evidence for that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chinese_Language%3A_Fact_a...
Are you sure it's empathy ? 10000 years ago someone killing an animal knew it was taking a life. I've read once that jewish religion did create kosher rituals because of that (maybe other religions too I didn't dig further).

Today it feels more like depression based morality caused by the chaos of the last decades and the glooming collapse than empathy. At least that's how I feel when I see people talking about the subject (but tbh I don't see a lot of that group, mostly some known figure in mainstream medias.. probably not the best speakers).

Again, long ago, you had to survive, it was fair game. My cat doesn't refrain from stabbing a mice at night, a cat is highly skilled and potent compared to a mouse.. yet nature balances things out, mice hide, they live their existence. You know if you make it too comfy, a species will diverge and probably harm itself. Stress is part of life. And as humans, even when violently hunting.. I think we knew (pulling that out of my own theorizing arse) that it was a sad but needed act.

Now we're in an era where technology, knowledge will remove all these requirements from our lives (say we get synthetic food, etc etc) so we're shifting toward a purer existence. Something where you don't impact nature as much. But it's still early days in a way.
Daughters of Harlem Teach Young Women to Record, Produce Their Own Music at CU
Based on the pixel sparkling in the video I've seen if Battlefield, it looks like Nvidia's raytracing is being used for each pixel. I'm not sure if it has to be that way or if it's just underoptomozed at the moment.

I think you could get something 95% as good with far better performance by only tracing vertices and then raster rendering the resultant transform.

Would be a good approach for accurate shadows too where you don't really care about texture fragments.
Do you have any estimate what that higher price will be?
The "The extra $155 was a processing fee" on the $100 fine is very uniquely American. I've lived in a few countries, and I've never seen or experienced that in any of them.

The whole concept of court fees kind of undermines justice. For example in some situation pleading guilty to a traffic citation is cheaper than being found innocent simply because the court fees are still required regardless of guilt (and may exceed the fine itself).

I really don't understand it. The US is full of these little fees and costs tacked onto everything. Even applying to go to college has a fee and getting a free public education might cost hundreds of dollars in fees.
It's no good having good UI and UX if your WordPress site doesn't have a good caching plugin installed...
It's a human interest story meant to garner empathy in a discussion that is typically couched in sterile, aggregate terminology.
Yes, like Cuba, that paradise where people jump into a sea with sharks in the hopes of escaping to the nightmarish US.

https://mises.org/power-market/dont-trust-cuban-health-care-...
How does Nim prevent modifying an object after it has been added to a Table? (Or is it always copied?)
Tesla's response turned off a lot of potential customers who realized that Tesla would go through their trip logs if they made even the slightest critical comment of the company.

Oh, you meant to the NYT? No, because they were just driving the car like a normal person would. They weren't trying to drive the car [like] a Tesla fanatic would, and it was bizarre for Tesla to go after them for trying to drive the car like a normal car...especially when Tesla spends so much marketing $$$ trying to convince people their cars can replace a normal car.
Yes and English speakers forget the spelling of rare words, especially if they were to spend extended periods of time using nothing but text-to-speech.

Those that do use Pinyin to write on their computers also know that the large number of homophones makes it an order of magnitude slower than using radical based input methods to directly type the characters such as Canjie, Wubi, Boshiamy etc.
> This word "luck" is used quite often yet every time I see it applied it there is always someone who "seizes opportunity when it comes and does what it takes to succeed"

So your observation is that because they seized the opportunity and did what it takes to succeed means luck wasn't involved?
The concern is not ocean-level damage through the salt directly but in localized ecological system destruction. The mangrove forest encompases a tiny portion of the ocean overall but removing this forest affects a large portion of sealife. The creation of 'deadzones' through salinity will have knockoff effects elsewhere that cannot necessarily be predicted.
Even gun hunting feels too sadistic to me. I'd use a bow or a rope and that's it. When I'll be too old to jump .. I'll hope I made enough kids to fulfill that role :)
Do the employees deserve it though?
It's not clear that she lived past the day of the kidnapping. TFA indicates there has been no proof of life.
Do you understand the plight of being an exploited child?

I understand what it's like to be sent away to school by one's parents to experience significant hardship. It's not a matter where one should cry out for more state intervention, lightly.
They're working with UBPorts and KDE to get Ubuntu Touch and Plasma Mobile running on the phone. PureOS is where they do their work, but they're made a point of trying to upstream everything. They're doing it right.
I do not understand how having it on the right should help where type inference is used, as in that case you do not write the type at all! There's absolutely no difference in readability.

How about we consider the normal case (where you write out the types):

int num_entries = ..
float div = ..
float result = num_entries // div

vs

num_entries: int = ..
div: float = ..
result: float = num_entries // div

Because they are on the right, they aren't aligned which makes it harder to parse (imo). It gets even worse with more complicated types (lists etc).
> If they don't gimp FP64 it won't leave a whole lot of reason to buy the MI50 for probably 10x the price.

MI50 has ECC RAM support. That's absolutely necessary for high-end scientific compute.
> This is what I mean, Tim Cook does not have this obsession with details like Jobs had.

Jobs didn't want the iPhone to have apps at all. The original vision was for all third party software to run inside Safari. This is the same man who didn't want slots in the Macintosh, and killed the floppy drive as soon as he returned to Apple.

Jobs would have loved the iPad Pro.
Yeah, it would be awesome if you could just put a few Euro coins in a slot next to an outlet and it would let you take a couple of kWh. But dealing with physical cash is a hassle, so I understand why companies would prefer cards. We have a bunch of unattended gas stations around here, and you can't pay with cash there either.
Expensive to install and the beefier the charging supply to more risk of nasty accidents - let alone the effect on the Grid.
> The use of Rebol is only for boostrapping the language. The whole Rebol code part will be dropped after 1.0, and the toolchain rewritten in pure Red.

Cool!
This does not answer the question.
Marble Marcher – A Fractal Physics Game [video]
I have been a Sys Admin for 7 years. It is a problem, vmotion won't work going from AMD to Intel or vice versa (at least not in any official way). In fact it is highly suggested when building ESXi stacks that you get the exact same model CPU for each server.

https://communities.vmware.com/thread/305792
https://www.v-front.de/2013/04/how-to-vmotion-from-intel-to-...
I love that the red block doesn't understand the concept of wrapping. It reminds me of playing with my dog.
NAVI is still GCN likely the same 15-25% uptick over Polaris as we’ve seen with this new Vega, 2020-2021 is when the next gen uArch is going to come.

GCN’s vector machine doesn’t scale as well as NVIDIA’s scalar architecture NVIDIA can add cores without caring about concurrency or ILP, since each core is an individually addressable scalar ALU, this is why “async” compute doesn’t benefit them as much as it does GCN cards that have a 4 wide SIMD array that is nearly as hard to feed as their old VILW arch and a massive external compute scheduler that sits idle when doing graphics.
> Well, no, you can just hide the icon on the screen. That’s all that does

This is no longer true since some version of iOS 11. Deleting apps removes them from your system, and you must redownload them from the App Store to get them back. However, while the application bundle might be removed from your device, the frameworks it relies on don't.
I love this. My wife taught me to put focus on meaningful activity. When meeting new people, instead of adking “what do you do” she asks “what do you like to do” and this method of planning sounds like the perfect analogue.
I'm pretty sure MI60 is north of $5000. Maybe $8000 or so.
Yet another guide to reduce boilerplate in your Redux (NGRX) app
I'm not saying it is okay. Sheesh, how do you even come to that conclusion? I'm saying that in a hundred years (assuming no social collapse/revolution), China won't have these problems anymore, just like the US. Probably much less time than that, as they have a model to draw from already.
Pretty fun. Please make the score a little bigger so I can read it without my glasses :)
That's totally fine and I agree with that but the car's in-built navigation tells you where the stops are when you get to a point that your car won't make it. She had to ignore those prompts in order to get into the situation she's in. Granted, she admits to driving an older model Tesla that she rented but it's really unlikely that the cars operating system hasn't been updated to include that feature.
You can turn off iCloud sync in iOS, and you can even do it for Photos specifically. I do because I don't care to have it backed up to iCloud, which I don't pay for.
Android system apps can be reenabled without redownloading them, IIRC. On iOS you must download the app again to use it.
I stopped after about 60 points, but the fact that new block colors had shown up every dozen points or so made me want to get going for a while to see if there were any more mechanics.

This really is a fantastic little game.
>Likewise we cannot just redefine the set of real numbers to be restricted to the set of computable reals. Analysis rapidly breaks down when you do so and it follows that the real field is no longer closed (by definition, and therefore no longer subject to the field axioms).

I was with you until you wrote that Analysis would break down. We can easily do analysis with dense subsets of the reals and also extensions of the reals, like in Non-Standard Analysis.
1) you're simply wrong, or just don't understand the meaning of the word trading block:

https://inshorts.com/m/en/news/european-union-is-worlds-larg...

2) I don't think you understand how GDPR works at all. GDPR says how data about EU citizens has to be processed in a certain way. If you want to do business with EU, you have to comply. If you don't want to comply, you don't get to trade with EU. No one is claiming jurisdiction over other countries - it's simply a matter of agreements. Just like EU respects certain American laws just because it wants to trade with USA and it was requested. It's a mutual thing.
Proof-of-work coin mining is a scourge on the environment and the PC component market.
$699 matches the MSRP for the RTX 2080: https://pcpartpicker.com/products/video-card/#c=427&sort=pri...
I had to use gitpitch for one presentation only, so correct me if I am wrong, but with gitpitch you cannot see the resulting slides before you push them to the repo, right?

We had more than 200 commits at the end of one day, 150 of them to solve minor layout problems... with a (feeled) round-trip-time of 10-20seconds, that became frustrating quite fast...
The article mentions that the server was moved to the Netherlands, but not the reason. According to the Dutch press, it was because the FBI asked so, because we're not so difficult installing wire taps on the internet [1].

[1]: https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/nederlandse-pol...
Magnets: How do they stop working?
Interestingly, Japan still has some stellar products, but they are falling behind as Americans have in many types of manufacturing. It's a shame to watch countries lose touch with the importance of strong domestic manufacturing; particularly when they have a history of excellence.
I wonder how AMD is planning long term. Zen did put them back on track, but I hope it's not a one shot era and that they will find ways to get strong for a decade or so.
Think of it this way. If you suddenly lost the ability to speak and didn't have fingers or arms and all you could do was swim, bump around, and bite things, you'd probably act a lot like a fish, but you'd still love and feel emotions like a human, we'd just have no way of knowing. We are extremely arrogant (and oddly so, in my opinion) in our assumption that "lesser" species don't have consciousness or that they have a dramatically lesser or reduced phenomenological experience of the world. I think animals think and have many of the same emotions we have, and we're just huge assholes. In the very least it makes sense for that to be the default assumption, rather than to assume by default that animals are unfeeling automatons and to literally disembowel dogs like Descartes did to be like "see, here it isn't experiencing pain -- it's just a meat machine that reacts in a preset way!"
The Photos App is pretty much the end-all, be-all of accessing photos taken by the iPhone's camera. So it makes sense that it's a default app that is uninstallable.
I'm surprised that streaming is not implemented for web client. Streaming seems to be a huge feature for gRPC. Why does it take so long?
This isn't me trying to convince you of anything, just adding some anecdata.

I find Word a miserable working environment. On the other hand, I find Pages a delight to work in. It's one of those "it just works" programs for me, and I find documenting editing so easy and intuitive.

It reminds me of those who swear by WordPerfect and wouldn't dream of using Word unless forced to; it's not the class of application they care about it; it's the specific set of tools, their presentation, and how the app matches their work habits.

(Same reason that I just can't use Google Docs, no matter how many workplaces make its use a soft requirement)
> How do you know she didn't have her own career and the multi billionaires didn't have hired help to take care of their home? Should she be entitled to less than 50% if she worked as a regular employee in the company and they shared their domestic responsibilities equally?

Whether she had a career or not doesn't matter. If they found an amicable way to share responsibilities and during the entire 25 years of their marriage and Amazon's growth they became fabulously wealthy then it should be shared evenly. If Jeff Bezos felt like his wife was somehow undeserving of his wealth then he could have divorced her during the early years of Amazon's success.

> Driving your own kids to activities and washing some dishes is absolutely not key to the success of a huge company, or any company.

How do you know? Every moment you can spend working on your business instead of washing dishes is a moment you're contributing to your business' success. There's a reason for the phrase "Behind every successful [man|woman] there's a strong ____."
At worst these dead zones would be tiny. They could dilute the waste stream by dumping it into the local sewage system, but I don’t think that’s going to change much.

It’s on the order of building a mall parking lot. Sure bad for the local ecosystem, but we have vastly larger issues.
Implicit trust is easy to solve by forbidding it. If someone doesn't want to maintain his project anymore, someone else could make a fork and try to promote it and try to gain trust again, but not take over that project. While this particular problem can be solved, in reality it doesn't matter, because trusting third parties with all the poor security they have is a much bigger security hole.
Really? Because the advice I keep hearing about Teslas is exactly the opposite: don't charge your car all the way; only let it charge somewhere between 66-80ish percent if you want to maximize battery life.

Can't be surprised that she's confused about it.
Easy to say when you don't know any 64-bit beings. Which is to say that it is easy to see the food chain as moral justification when you're at the top of it.
Well, whether or not one agrees that it's the best food, I think the Bay Area does have some of the most incredible variety of food in the US, definitely compared to where I grew up in the Midwest.
I don't understand, am I missing something? You just pick up blue and teal blocks while a red block slowly chases you? Why are people so excited about this? I feel like I'm missing something.
> Unlike nearly every language I’ve ever used, Rust actually encourages variable shadowing.

Haskell does it too, for the same reason/purpose / with the same effect.
Surprisingly well thought out mechanic!! Good job!
From Paris to Metz is roughly 205 miles. Her car had a range of 215 miles and she notes that the onboard estimates have been off "by at least 10 percent every time". But you're telling me that the navigation would still recommend her to attempt that kind of leg, in an area where chargers may be sparse? Seems like bad UI/UX.
Where do you live, if you don’t mind me asking?
Here's what the description on Amazon says:

This is a textbook to help readers understand the steps that lead to deep learning. Linear algebra comes first especially singular values, least squares, and matrix factorizations. Often the goal is a low rank approximation A = CR (column-row) to a large matrix of data to see its most important part. This uses the full array of applied linear algebra, including randomization for very large matrices. Then deep learning creates a large-scale optimization problem for the weights solved by gradient descent or better stochastic gradient descent. Finally, the book develops the architectures of fully connected neural nets and of Convolutional Neural Nets (CNNs) to find patterns in data. Audience: This book is for anyone who wants to learn how data is reduced and interpreted by and understand matrix methods. Based on the second linear algebra course taught by Professor Strang, whose lectures on the training data are widely known, it starts from scratch (the four fundamental subspaces) and is fully accessible without the first text.
Apple distinguishes between deleting apps and hiding them: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204221
I own a lot more than 4 different types of guns and I have a strong desire to avoid shooting any living thing. Your example doesn’t hold up.
Putting the - you made a game in a week and you only just started - aside

The mechanics in this are really well thought out! Great job!
I did not make a mistake. I stand by my opinion as well as the accompanying rationale for making my conclusion.

Here's the anatomy of your initial comment:

1. Statement and rhetorical question echoing the article's main message

2. A conclusion using a summary of the article. The article only has one main conclusion.

Was that comment not an opinion or are you making comments that article summary bots make? Forgive me for making an incorrect assumption.
Argue, based on what?

Certainly the biggest heroes in improving the human condition are not the successful outliers like Chan, but those who believe in equality and put the work toward furthering it. There is no slavery in the US any more, and the thanks for that does not lie with outlier heroes who happened to luck out in the slavery game.
> Based on the pixel sparkling in the video I've seen if Battlefield, it looks like Nvidia's raytracing is being used for each pixel. I'm not sure if it has to be that way or if it's just underoptomozed at the moment.

1-sample per pixel is already incredibly low for raytracing. A raw 1 spp raytraced image looks HORRIBLE.

The reason why it looks anywhere close to usable is because NVidia post-processes all of that noise through their tensor-cores FP16. It is some kind of spacial / temporal-filter effect (averaging pixels across time, and space... where "space" is mapped to geometry framebuffers to keep object boundaries correct).
Hot new trading site leaked oodles of user data, including login tokens
I always liked the look of modula (Turbo Pascal was my first true language, I don’t count BASIC).

Same with Ada I just have no use case for it alas.

At least C# (amongst others) borrowed a fair amount of the concepts.
Couldn't the same thing be said for the horrendous spelling and grammar issues of English?

For what it's worth, my spouse has a Master's degree in Chinese pedagogy. I've not heard such arguments from her. A single book, weighed against observation, isn't proof.
Same, my current Nexus phone is pretty busted up and literally held together with scotch tape, I'm just hoping the Librem 5 releases before I have to buy a new phone.
Did get another SIM or move the one from your phone into the Atom?
You have the same "advantage" with word components in alphabetic languages, such as "picto+gram", "sub+marine", and what have you.
The subtext of Rust in posts like this is that Rust compiles programs that are pin-compatible with C/C++ programs. Without rethinking the architecture of a kernel, for instance, you're meant to be able to write Rust drivers.

I prefer other higher-level languages to Rust; I'd rather just work with garbage collection than wrangle the Rust borrow-checker. But if you need to write software that can't abide GC, Rust is basically the only memory-safe game in town.