skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that the question of "mostly meritocratic" is nonsense because it depends entirely on the definition of merit. If you call genetics a component of merit then society becomes much more meritocratic. If you call it not then it becomes much less. But it isn't society that is different in either case. You can make any society arbitrarily meritocratic or unmeritocratic by classifying various things as merit or not.

And this gets into the whole question of free will. If you had the "opportunity" to be taught about expected value and opportunity costs and economic theory, do your choices that take into account that knowledge count as merit or opportunity? Did you make the choice, or do your circumstances cause you to?

But those kinds of games aren't revealing anything deep, they're just shuffling paper around. It's a shell game used for political advantage to try to create a conflict between things that shouldn't.

Rewarding is merit is good. If there is a law that says people can't keep enough of what they earn, that is a dumb law, because we will lose good entrepreneurs.

Increasing opportunity is good. If there is a law that says black people can't be entrepreneurs, that is a dumb law, because we will lose good entrepreneurs.

Where politics comes in is that you have people that want to trade one good against the other. So they vilify success to justify reducing its incentives in order to raise money for programs that increase opportunities, even though that is one of the dumbest trade offs available when it is possible to have both. And the rhetoric used convinces people that their circumstances mean that they can't succeed, even though the circumstances only make it more difficult, and then they don't even try.

The straw man is that Gates is a representative example of anything when he is the far extreme outlier. Taxing him at even 99% would generate an inconsequential percentage of government revenue because there are so few people like him, whereas the median family in the "top one percent" is a surgeon who is married to an anesthesiologist. So if you want meaningfully more money, it's really going to come from the large number of doctors and software developers and college professors, not from one Bill Gates.

But the government already raises more than enough money. The problem is that most of it goes to corruption and waste and appeasing the AARP. Use the same money to actually increase opportunities for people and you don't have to take it from doctors and entrepreneurs. (Have a look at what percentage of the federal budget is spent on retirees. Say what you will about the need for those programs at some level, but that percentage is just too high, and it keeps going up. All while the programs are sending big checks to millionaires and inflating healthcare costs. But it's much easier to vilify Bill Gates than anger a large voting block in the major swing state of Florida.)
ISIS burning those journalists alive and the cutting the one guy's head off was pretty graphic. The sheer number of people being felled in this video is painful to see, though.
livius.org has a most excellent commentary on Pharaoh Necho's expedition. It starts here: https://www.livius.org/sources/content/herodotus/herodotus-o...

Livius is what we all think the WWW should look like, but instead we ended up with Facebook.
It's very poor reporting that they don't mention what model plane was involved (Boeing 767-375), especially given all the focus on the 737 Max8.
>What if any of the victims in the video didn’t want the video to be disseminated? Who are you to stand in the way of their wishes and rights?

What standing do they have to prevent distribution of the video?
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Show HN: Never ask someone more than once to do something - iPrompted
Not strange at all. We crave for knowledge because knowledge is extremely useful. Seeing, understanding and learning from anything and everything is how we survive, advance and evolve.

Just because we live in a society nowadays that promotes being weak doesn't mean our base instincts are not there.
Ask yourself this: how do you know what the average Trump supporter's media diet consists of?
Some kind of perceptual hashing and whatever additional magic YouTube uses to detect copyrighted stuff? Once a video is flagged, it can be added to the perceptual database in a fraction of a second and all future uploads checked against it, YouTube seems to have gotten good at it.
Airbnb or Uber are not really tech companies. They are business companies with a WebApp required as part of the execution. They didn't invent anything on the technical level, they brought some business ideas to existing tech (I mean Airbnb is literally a website with a DB)

In the same way that United is not a tech company, but they have a website that accepts reservation.

Tech companies create new Tech as part of their lifecycle: Intel, AMD, Google, etc etc. They create new Tech that didn't exist before, and this is core to their product.

I get that Silicon Valley shifted from Real tech 20 years ago to Futile WebApps that deliver pizzas faster, but it makes me sad that the new definition of tech shifted so much to pure business.
They absolutely cannot extract a full genome. Whatever they do, I didn't understand it the last time I read up on it.
It was 4th generation Haswell (4000-series CPUs) that cut power consumption in HALF! In fact Haswell was so awesome Intel didn't make measurably better CPUs until 7th generation(Kaby Lake)!
I see what you're saying, but standing up for something and winning the argument is not the same thing, and he only said that he lost the argument.

A scenario where one's wife doesn't believe in one's own scientific findings is another matter, which might ellicit thoughts about "standing up for yourself". Maybe that's what you were reacting to.
I hear this argument a lot. Obviously, the perpetrator would prefer that the video spread widely and inspire similar acts of violence. But that is not the only possible outcome of allowing the video to spread and be seen.

Humans are largely visual creatures. If we don’t witness something, we have a tendency to treat it as less ‘real’. Doubly so when it happens half a world away: atrocities and their victims become almost theoretical.

Actually witnessing a video record changes our perception dramatically. The victims cease to be faceless ‘others’, and we receive a somber reminder that a maniac slaughtered husbands, wives, sons, and daughters—real people that could be your friends, family, or neighbors. The sense of tragedy and the casual brutality of it sinks in, and we are forced to acknowledge the evil among us.

In the U.S., where so many of these tech companies reside, we have become so bitterly polarized that many among us demonize nearly half our fellow countrymen on the basis of their political affiliations. At times like this, we could be coming together in our mutual disgust over this atrocity. Seeing it for ourselves is, perhaps, less important than seeing that those we condemn politically react with the same humanity that we do.

In a time when some people seem to honestly believe that “those [other half of the country] want to destroy everything everything I care about” we could use a reminder that, hey, we’re all people, and none of us deserve to die like that. And maybe then we could start working together to build a world that isn’t so conducive to hate.
There is no way that Apple is not aware of the revenue analytics that would indicate these apps as financial outliers and not aware that these apps are scams.

Given the frequency with which we hear of legitimate apps being removed or rejected by Apple, one can't even argue that Apple is just not paying enough attention.

I don't say this often, but someone at Apple should be fired over this. This devalues the App Store in the long run, because it will teach Apple users not to trust their only source for apps; and that will lead them away from Apple products.
Plausible, but that still doesn't explain why Apple allows these apps.
I don't think it needs pointers any more than Arduino does. Can you give an example?
Truer words have never been spoken. ;)
Having had wisdom teeth removed, a couple root canals and several cavaties, and having seen the discomfort and problems my wife and daughter’s impacted teeth have had on them, you could do much worse than just ripping them all out and replacing them with high quality manufactured teeth.

Human teeth are about as reliable as the gal bladder. Obviously it would be preferable to maintain your essence but (post)agrarian diets and lifestyles disagree.
True. But it's functional no different than police bodycam footage. It is a documentation of the events as they unfolded.

It does not have a message. It doesn't function as propaganda.
Boeing is "right" in the sense that, if you follow the normal 737 flight manual, you'll be fine, even with MCAS enable or even MCAS misbehaving due to the sensor readings being bad or whatever.

I think the problem is that the symptoms are different from other 737s, and if you don't KNOW about the MCAS stuff, that's very surprising. So as humans, even though logically the same procedure applies, instinctively you don't think to do it. And given the very short time frames involved, and the margin of error, it's not too surprising that these events have occurred.

Perhaps the need-to-retrain criteria needs to include the following amendment:

If the craft exhibits new symptoms, even if the response to those symptoms are covered correctly be the old operations manual, pilots will need to be retrained to account for the new symptoms.
Well in the US Facebook / Twitter / 4chan / 8chan are all protected by safe harbor[1]. These sites / cannot be legally held liable for content their users post.

Facebook isn’t required by law to pull down the video. They pull down the video because it’s not profitable (shareholders)

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_harbor_(law)
Just define your memory as `Rc<[Cell<u8>]>` (or something wider, depending on architecture) and you're fine, right?
The tip of your tongue should be toward the back of your hard palate - where it rests when you form the “N” sound. From there you should be able to flatten your tongue to broaden your palate / spread your molars.

I’m not sure how long it took to hold my tongue in place, but it took me 3-6 months to see initial external results, given regular mewing + chewing hard gum (falim/mastic). The bone movement occurs in tiny increments of course, but over months the changes are clear. Keeping the mouth closed while breathing is also very important, as it’s the balance of forces between the tongue and cheeks/lips that shapes the arch. For me this wasn’t easy/comfortable prior to expanding my airway via mewing. As for discomfort, I would just keep at it for a few months and see whether your palate is opening up.
iPad kid game to teach kids if else and loops
You can just crack open a ThinkPad battery and put in New 18650 cells!
No, it was to save on future dental costs, and that was seen as desireable not... what you said. It was not atypical for it to be paid for by the parents or either bride or groom as a wedding present. The idea was that pulling all of the teeth and replacing them with dentures was inevitable, and by doing it before tons of money was spent preserving the natural teeth for some time, you’d be setting the couple up for financial success.
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Follow Stephen Pinker's stuff, and remind yourself that the world is getting better and more peaceful but the media is just getting better at streaming what bad stuff is still happening direct to you. eg https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/science/steven-pinker-fut...
The A-10 Close Air Support aircraft manages to survive in exceptionally stressful circumstances. The flight control systems are triply redundant: two independent hydraulic systems, and a set of cables if both hydraulic systems fail.

Having a second angle of attack sensor on the Boeing 737 MAX (which is critical to aircraft safety) be an extra cost option is unconscionable.
Check out https://github.com/zef/vim-cycle to extend Ctrl-A/Ctrl-X to arbitrary groups of words, e.g. to cycle between true and false.
CEO of Drift on Why SaaS Companies Can't Win on Features, and Must Win on Brand
Not on 22 November 1963, one couldn't.

The Zapruder film itself only began to circulate publicly, in a very limited fashion, in 1969, nearly six years later. The first broadcast was in 1970.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapruder_film
Not the GP, but first Google result says "Mewing is simply resting your entire tongue on the roof of your mouth until it becomes an unconscious resting position for your tongue whenever your mouth is closed", and is apparently for "correcting facial asymmetry, ill-defined jawlines, and sagging jowls."

[1] https://jawlineexercises.com/everything-you-need-to-know-abo...
I'm having a little bit of a hard time figuring out the meaning of your comment.
Being able to continue to use the display, keyboard, mouse/trackpad means you can choose higher-end components.

Even if you don't want to keep your widescreen DVI display from 2008, the interoperability means that when you drop it off at a e-waste center, it's more likely to be reused in its current state for a few more years, rather than immediately recycled (reduce, reuse, recycle!)

I do agree there is some degree of changes in interfaces overtime (like IDE to SATA to NVMe M.2), but if you build a system for a similar intended use case the changes within any given 5 year period are small. This means the upgrades you do over a 15 year period will go from a 2.5" platter drive to a 2.5" SATA drive, or from 800x600 to 1024x768 resolution display, but not both at the same time (with a different but significant set of components being shared every upgrade)
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Not necessarily: https://mastodon.social/@dartigen/101754389608830780
> Astoundingly, at the end of the minute, there will be a quick-talking ant that will actually say the "last" digit of pi!

This is incorrect. There is no last ant in an infinite line of ants, just as there’s no last digit of pi.
My hypothesis is that all the sugar from modern diets creates an environment where bacteria can grow and mess with the alignment of your teeth.

See the British and how the introduction of sugar into their tea created so many crooked sets of teeth.
Exerting pressure on your palate with your tongue, which stimulates growth in the jaw and acts on the maxilla, shifting it forward and up over time.
other put another way the owner of the site has the right to not show the face of evil.
If you can find an Acer c720 i3 it's a superb machine no fan and pretty fast, faster than an old ThinkPad and extremely comfortable to carry! It's still the number one selling Chromebook of all time! I have a 4GB RAM 256 gigabyte 2242 SSD and IPS display in mine! 7 hour battery life (new), 6 hours for most of the design life. Totally trivial to repair!
> I think that pre-civilization humans did not eat much sweets past adolescence

Pre-civilisation humans wouldn't have had "sweets" as we know them. They would have occasionally had unrefined sugars through honey or palm sugar, and at certain times of the year had fruits (which most likely wouldn't even have been as sweet as they are now)
STL is just the containers / iterators / algorithms part of the standard library, the part that Alexander Stepanov designed and originally implemented. Most of the less pleasant parts of the standard library like iostreams come from elsewhere.

Templates, static method dispatch and type polymorphism are not really part of OOP, certainly not Java style OOP. Abstract classes for allocators are a very recent addition with polymorphic allocators and are a good example of OOP features being used in modern C++ as more of an implementation detail (a way to get dynamic dispatch / type erasure).
Yes I know they're not the most reliable teeth in the world, that's not what I'm talking about. A parent saying "take out all the teeth, they're gonna fail eventually anyway"? Am I weird for thinking that sounds horrible? I can't even try to make analogies for it because whatever I think of is not as bad as that quote.
How about choosing literally any other minority that's been persecuted, substituting that minority's name for "atheists" and see how your paper sounds. From the abstract, mutated as I just described:

> We test this hypothesis using two very different deviations: Mormonism and Jehovah's Witnesses.

Does that sound anything other than supremely bigoted? No? Would you even bother reading the paper that had an abstract like that on it?

What about all the atheists that are forever "coming to Christ" or whatever the phrase is? How does that tie in with their thesis?
A moral standing grounded in mutual respect we’d hope to receive ourselves? Or if you really want to be legalistic, their next of kin have the standing.
I think you're drastically underestimating what those companies do
I suppose meat, as a protein source, is typically l chewier that fruit or veg.
In addition, let’s not forget the invention of cooked food. Soft cooked food no longer requires a massive jaw with jaw muscle attached to the top of the skull. Furthermore, the higher sugar content of the (post)agrarian diet creates a healthy environment for bacteria.

“Catching Fire: How Cooking Made us Human” has a lot to say on this subject.
It’s not a straw man, that’s exactly what a whole lot of people on here believe is the one true way.

So your idea is that the government will decide and enforce that roughly half the water is not allowed for agriculture?
I’ve never asked a question on SO. I don’t think most people should, because these days most questions will be duplicates, mistakes, or just too obscure for anyone to answer.

I’ve answered questions enough that I have enough rep to edit review queues, and probably 90% of what gets asked on SO these days is unnecessary.
Still have my copy..
Perhaps they contain an inconvenient grain of truth.
I would be concerned if it had been :).
> 99.99999% being off by 3 orders of magnitude.

So you're implying that 99.99% of gun owners aren't criminals then?
I think if I was one of the people murdered, I would want others to see what kind of terror I went through. A video triggers emotions in people that they don't experience when they just hear about another unfortunate statistic. Maybe that would inspire more people to put effort into preventing these situations.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessarakonteres and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalamegos
URL has a load of junk on the end of it.

Suggest change to:
https://twitter.com/trevorsumner/status/1106934369158078470
There's a pretty big difference between watching an event that killed people, and watching people - individuals - die.
I don't see these two pieces of footage as functional different. They are documentation of terrorist attacks. If one is allowed, then yes, all should be.
I live in a more rural part of Japan where you can count the foreigners on your two hands and I find it hard to believe you can even see how many bikes have their ubiquitous ring locks[0] locked among hundreds of bikes

[0] https://i.stack.imgur.com/kPKjx.jpg
You're going off on wild tangents. I didn't ask about whether or not the sites would be held liable for their content, nor did I muse on whether or not facebook is required by law to pull down their videos. I have a very specific question that I want answers for and I don't want any further misdirection.

4chan is an example of a pure free market of ideas. Yet only the most toxic of ideologies seem to survive. Why is this the case?
I remember listening Rogan's podcast on the subject of sleep with Matthew Walker, who is a professor of Neuroscience at Berkley. Hopefully I'm not making stuff up as it's been a while, but he talked about a study where each subject was given a task to learn while their brain activity was being recorded. The study found that the same areas of the brain that flared up during the learning and memorization processes were also very active during sleep, as if the brain was replaying the same activity over and over again.

Edit: adding link to the podcast if anyone's interested - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig
Turbo Boost power limits have to be changed using the Intel Tuning utility or a similar piece of software that sets the correct registers. Operating systems usually leave those lower level details to the BIOS so installing a new operating system won't do anything unless the system default is set correctly and some bloatware driver is updating it at boot. Usually the manufacturer does it in the BIOS so you have to overwrite it every time you boot; or they do it at the factory, in which case just setting the registers once will be enough (I believe they're nonvolatile?)
Finally, Proof That Quantum Computing Can Boost Machine Learning
Currently, the site only supports prompts to people with US-based, mobile phone numbers. Sorry for the inconvenience.
> Software bugs or not - it does seem a major factor was the lack of an extra "AoA sensor" and a "sensor disagreement indicator".

Per the thread, they were sold as optional extras, but not sold in these cases.
The UKs last big road building splurge was in the 90s and hit major resistance from environmentalists etc. So that build out never really finished. Plus geographically the UK is quite concentrated down in the south east. So you don't need vast lengths of motorway to reach the extremities.

I'm less knowledgeable about Spain, but I know they've had a massive building boom in the early 2000s, was it part of that?
Plus you have populations on all 4 sides of the Iberian 'square', so you do have to build long roads to connect them all.
"Mr. Bunny's Big Cup o' Java" offers a humorous take on Java, but it's not mind-blowing in the way that unix-haters handbook is.
A Project Titan Patent reveals how Headlight & Tail Light will have cameras
> The thing is I switch all the time between vim and my terminal (it's complicated by let's say I mainly use one terminal tab for everything I'm currently writing) so using the home row I would have to switch all the time between home row and arrows when using the terminal

Starting with version 8.0, vim has a :terminal command which will open a new split window with a terminal. You can switch between the terminal and other vim windows using ctrl-w j, ctrl-w k, etc. You can enter normal mode in the terminal using the ctrl-w N key combination. In normal mode, you can scroll back and copy text into a vim register of your choice (default is "). Then you can either paste it in another window like you normally would, or you can paste it in your terminal by pressing i to return to terminal insert mode and pressing ctrl-w " " (where the second " is the name of the register that contains the yanked text you want to paste).
At any rate, as far as distribution by private companies goes, that's my view. Before someone jumps on me, I don't think government should outlaw documentation of atrocities, etc.
Orthodontists are incentivized against embracing orthotropics by their current knowledge and business model. They prefer interventions they can charge for (braces, slenderizing) over practices which can be adopted without intervention. This may be why the field emerged from dentists rather than orthodontists.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it”
— Upton Sinclair