skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

The Mexican replied, “only a little while. The American then asked why didn’t he stay out longer and catch more fish? The Mexican said he had enough to support his family’s immediate needs. The American then asked, “but what do you do with the rest of your time?”

The Mexican fisherman said, “I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siestas with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine, and play guitar with my amigos. I have a full and busy life.” The American scoffed, “I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat. With the proceeds from the bigger boat, you could buy several boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing, and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then LA and eventually New York City, where you will run your expanding enterprise.”

The Mexican fisherman asked, “But, how long will this all take?”

To which the American replied, “15 – 20 years.”

“But what then?” Asked the Mexican.

The American laughed and said, “That’s the best part. When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions!”

“Millions – then what?”

The American said, “Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siestas with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos.”
Agreed.

One of the most frustrating things I see about "bias" is how often folks bring it up.... when they just want the voice's in their head to be the headline, body of an article, or whatever.

That's not really about bias... well it is, but maybe not the way they think.
Sorry to bother you, but do you say “sorry” too much? What to say instead
Why do you need them to appreciate what you do?
Eh, I love love love classical music and never read Shakespeare or watch documentaries. Classical music is wonderful and gets mistreated by movies.
From earlier in this thread: ”Our goal is — I feel pretty good about this goal — is that we’ll be able to do a demonstration drive of full autonomy, all the way from L.A. to New York”

I guess it depends whether you interpret that “I feel good about this goal” means “I think we have a good chance of achieving this” or just “having this goal makes me feel good.”

I think we’re at least partly agreeing. Tesla just has a very different approach here than, say, Apple. That’s not inherently bad but I personally don’t like it. I see it as excessive hype.
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Not to be pedantic, but modern ICE cars still have batteries...
I understand and respect that.
https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1106500032503545856

Focus on victims and horror of terrorism.
I agree. The idea, that Germany leans to privacy is as misleading as the idea, that German health care is superior compared internationally.
And not just in the vein of the target language's politics. It's subtle, yet permissive.

For example: if you look at Japanese history[0], many of the atrocities[1] that were committed in the lead up to WW2 are outright omitted, linked to with less frequency that you'd expect, or downplayed. At least, as far as I think they should be included.

I'm not claiming to have a PhD in Japanese history, but I know a small bit about it, and it seems to me (and I can only speak for myself) that there is a distinct lack of 'bad' stuff about Japanese History in the English language Wikipedia.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Japanese_history

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre
> Sure it would! It would serve as a deterrent.

I'd like to see any studies to back up this theory.
Why would AOA indicators be a paid upgrade? Isn't that a pretty fundamental display needed to safely fly the plane? And wouldn't having disparities here between planes create more confusion among pilots?
Even after Brexit?
> I don't find 1 particularly compelling, it would have been noted by now if it was impossible to trim the aircraft using the manual trim wheels.

It has been noted:

737 Flight Crew Training Manual, chapter Non-Normal Operations/Flight Controls, sub heading Manual Stabilizer trim:

"Excessive air loads on the stabilizer may require effort by both pilots to correct mis-trim. In extreme cases it may be necessary to aerodynamically relieve the air loads to allow manual trimming. Accelerate or decelerate towards the in-trim speed while attempting to trim manually."

In this case the excessive air load would be caused by the yoke control pulling the elevator up while the trim controlled stabilizer is doing the opposite.

Like you say, it's hard to know whether this actually happened.
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“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” - Bill Gates.

He didn't have a third rule that says "If there's no process, automating a new will expose your hubris" but it's implicit.
"I smoke when I drink" - you never heard that? Social smoking is absolutely a thing.

Facebook is a cancer and executives will jump ship while they can to claim ignorance.
1500FPS when the image is scaled down from 640x480 to 128x96. 64FPS at full resolution, which is slower than the "reference" model at 81FPS.
> So, now, in therapy, I re-learn exactly the things that these inuit children learn to avoid.

I don't think you're learning to express your anger the way a 2 year old impulsively would.
Even more depressing the same mistake shows up every decade under a new babe, constructivism, inquiry based learning, problem based learning. It gets proposed, propounded in ed schools, tested and proven ineffective and then shows up again under a different name, again.

> Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching

>
Evidence for the superiority of guided instruction is explained in the context of our knowledge of human cognitive architecture, expert–novice differences, and cognitive load. Although un- guided or minimally guided instructional approaches are very popular and intuitively appeal- ing, the point is made that these approaches ignore both the structures that constitute human cognitive architecture and evidence from empirical studies over the past half-century that con- sistently indicate that minimally guided instruction is less effective and less efficient than in- structional approaches that place a strong emphasis on guidance of the student learning pro- cess. The advantage of guidance begins to recede only when learners have sufficiently high prior knowledge to provide “internal” guidance. Recent developments in instructional research and instructional design models that support guidance during instruction are briefly described.

http://www.cogtech.usc.edu/publications/kirschner_Sweller_Cl...
Yeah, each time a new type comes out, or a new plane is manufactured, you do empty test flights. But you don't do that just to train up a pilot.
> As the author points out, if you’re used to writing C or C++, it’s going to take a while before responding to the borrow checker is second nature

I see these comments and it feels so foreign to my experience. The borrow checker was second nature to me because of my C++ experience. These were things I already had to juggle mentally. On rare occasions, it complained about something that I could prove was valid but I understood why it couldn't tell. Usually, when I hit it, it is because I forgot a case and am grateful for it. I know of at least one optimization I've made that I would never have bothered with without the borrow checker. It would have been too much bother for me to reason about everything. Even if I did, it would have been even worse to maintain.
You can also use the (safe!) function std::mem::forget

> forget is not marked as unsafe, because Rust's safety guarantees do not include a guarantee that destructors will always run. For example, a program can create a reference cycle using Rc, or call process::exit to exit without running destructors. Thus, allowing mem::forget from safe code does not fundamentally change Rust's safety guarantees. ... Because forgetting a value is allowed, any unsafe code you write must allow for this possibility. You cannot return a value and expect that the caller will necessarily run the value's destructor.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/mem/fn.forget.html
Surprised Apple didn't point to this gem from their history to justify doing whatever they want:

"If you run to the press and trash us, it never helps."

https://web.archive.org/web/20141226094343/https://developer...

I think action against Apple is long overdue, Android shows multiple app stores doesn't compromise security while Apple's corporate program was compromised to provide malicious ones!

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/12/apple-porn-gambling-apps/

Apple recently rejected Steam's over-the-internet streaming client for iOS because they view it as a competing app store, it's getting a little bit too stupid.

https://liliputing.com/2019/03/valves-steam-link-anywhere-le...
2) The British Empire is the closest analog to the Roman Empire in living memory. For hundred of millions of people in the past 3 centuries, British aristocrats were the upper-class rulers, both hated and admired by many of the ruled (including Americans in the colonial era).
I've always struggled to find good wording to separate physical mailboxes from electronic ones. Maybe "shipped to you twice a month" would be less vague than "in your mailbox twice a month"?
There's some indication that mass shootings are contagious, so there is a possibility that not publicizing them does help prevent it from happening again.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
There are plenty of ways to write a program where, eg. a mutable and immutable reference exist at the same time and there is no memory unsafety. You have to learn to write programs in the way that rustc can prove is safe.
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> British accents became synonymous with villainy

[gestures vaguely at British Empire, Irish famine, etc.]
What’s the past year has shown us is that “we” never were recycling. We were just sending our garbage to China and they’ve had enough of it. The entire concept of postconsumer material is basically a marketing concept to appeal to a higher wage consumers.
>"internet based service", which "accessibility is restricted due to specific, technical precautionary measures", and which "purpose is to allow or encourage specific illegal actions".

That's technically what youtube and liveleak do in Germany.
None of the statements you shared are reasons to smoke, they are things people tell people when people tell them that smoking is harmful.
The usual way I've heard aviation regulations described is that every single regulation is written in blood.

That is, every one of these regulations exist because somebody died as a direct result of that regulation not existing.
This is why I gave up on Haskell. Code is still (currently) written by humans. Sure the code was more terse, but I had to expend more time thinking about every tiny piece of that terse code. I've been programming for 36 years. Just as some people think out loud, I think by shaping and reshaping code. Top-down doesn't work for me, although I know there are other developers for whom it does. I like to build bottom-up by fooling around with little pieces. I have no experience with Rust, but fooling around in Haskell just took all the joy out of programming, for me, while adding frustration.

EDIT> I would rather have better CASE tools / an AI pair-programmer than be straitjacketed into a top-down correct-first then code way of working.
Pursuing Zero Waste has turned out to be a fun hobby for me. I started because I got tired of throwing things out all the time and then losing time to dealing with the trash.
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Rest in peace MagSafe. Wish they would resurrect that one!
As with so many matters that involve money, arguments fly around left and right that claim to be on principle, but really aren't.

When you see ESPN and Comcast argue over showing the World Series, don't buy the argument that one of them is "trying to prevent loyal customers from being able to see their favorite game", or when your local hospital group withdraws from your employer health plan that "the other side is trying to deprive you of consumer choice".

Each side is wanting to make a share of the money, and they're disagreeing over the price (or often the royalties share). No one is entitled to any particular provision of service in any of these cases. Except in regulated industries there's no law governing the "fair" share that someone has to offer, or someone has to accept. And in most cases, each side could choose to compromise what it's asking for with no damage to its model of business (not talking about $, just the principles they claim).

Spotify wants a lower $ charge. Apple owns the platform and controls that access and $ charge. That's it.

This is a private contract dispute and only of interest because you care about listening to music. There's no public right to have a music app be charged a certain amount that's called "fair". Spotify could charge nothing to consumers, and be charged nothing by Apple. It's their choice. It's Apple's choice.

Don't be fooled into "principles" when there's money involved.
> causes of such violence to prevent it from happening again.

It's fairly clear what the cause of a mosque shooting is: Islamophobia. It's also clear that there's not enough will to tackle the global far right that radicalise people like the shooter. Few countries are going to block 8chan at the router. So it's going to happen again.

(Although what is unusual here is that the terrorists survived and have been arrested. No doubt their names will be referenced in the next 4/8chan manifesto.)
I blame this on watching both HN and n-gate. [1] I have a reflex action of sharing my deepest darkest secrets.

[1] - http://n-gate.com/
You can't measure it for any other ad at all yet TV, radio, newspaper, billboards, and other ads are all common because they work.
I bet the most downloaded apps these days are ground up cross platform and identical on every platform, e.g. steam, spotify, and web browsers. Relying on proprietary apple features that you have to clumsily port over to another OS would waste a lot of your time as a dev. You'd probably do your best troubleshooting on a cheap, under powered hackintosh than a model year macbook pro, to be honest.
Really nice ! keep going :)
We cannot always hope that the Constitutional Court comes to the rescue and is the final straw that will invalidate these laws.
First, last year a very conservative constitutional judge has been appointed, which probably will be more common, especially now that a reactionary party has become part of the House of representatives.
Second, the court has made problematic rulings in the past -- even under more liberal judges.
> previously unseen

You missed that part. That requires classification, either by a human or by an algorithm. There is no way around it.
The point is that you'd charge them off-peak, whenever that might be. The ideal scenario would be no more peaks or troughs at all, yielding a perfectly level baseline at all times, moderated by all the grid-attached batteries in vehicles and buildings that are smartly choosing when to draw (or even feed back) power.

And the majority of the nation's electricity usage will never be for automobile transportation, even if 100% of vehicles were electric. There's simply too many other big consumers of electricity.
Agreed. I'll give the benefit of the doubt to Elon Musk who has an unparalleled track record of honesty...
> this was possible already, and most of Facebook's primary features existed before Facebook.

I constantly tell people that my favorite social networking platform is email. I get laughed at a lot.
Not all, no.

HomeKit and ZWave don't require an Internet connection. I use a bunch of ZWave devices connected via Ethernet through a Raspberry Pi with hassio and a ZWave USB adapter - controlled from my phone when it connects to my wifi network.

To protect your wifi network, make sure you have a decent gateway in place. OpenWRT does a great job, but there are many others as well.
Highway noise is mostly tire and wind noise, aside from the occasional loud engine. EVs will certainly reduce city street noise, but I'd bet highways will still be pretty loud.
Yes, all Airbus aircraft have at least three AoA sensors.

Boeing standardised at two, even on the 787. And one of those is located where it is vulnerable to damage from a jetbridge.
Or that there are more artists than demand for art.
You provide anecdotal evidence (like me) as it requires me to set it manually to work and it has been so for about a year.
Both the link and the article deliberately mix “charger” and “cable connector”, misleading, for clic-bait purposes.

iPhone, iPod & iPad chargers have always had a USB Type A connector with no hardwired cable, like, forever, even before there even was an institutionalized initiative to have all phone chargers be USB. You’ve always been able to use Apple chargers to charge other phones, and use other USB chargers to charge iPhones. Actually many phone makers followed suit precisely after Apple shipped their phone chargers like they did.

You don’t like the connector on their cables being proprietary? Fine. Let’s just first acknowledge cable and charger are two different things, then we can debate.

Now tell me again, how do iPhones and their chargers contribute to “more than 51,000 tonnes of electrical waste per year” by having a standard USB connector?
Fair point. I tend to not like those cross-platform apps because of their generally-degraded performance so my previous comment showed a bit of my underlying bias.
I am surprised that the cost is as low as it is!

I am debating whether to go the used EV route and get a 3 year old Nissan Leaf at $13,000 or a new Tesla at $30,000, but with over double the range...
In this case it will probably tend to infinity.
Bingo. The best proven way to control anger is to train your mind to seek understanding of what's going on in those tense situations.

Like anything, you need to practice training yourself at handling anger.

When my kids get angry, I teach them to ask questions. "Why?!!" "Why didn't they let me play with them?" "Why does my sister always get to use my toys?!" "Why does it make me feel this way?!" "What can I do to prevent this in the future?!"

The most understanding you can gain during a confrontation, the better you train your mind to react in that way rather than in our following our instincts. We are, by default, animals, and anger is part of our fight-flight response - but it's something we can reprogram with practice. ...especially if you start with a young malleable mind.
> I'd like to believe that's true, but I've spent quite a lot of time trying to explain pointers and recursion to people and either they get it right away or practically never.

Have you thought about may be you don't understand pointers and just think you do ? May be you should not start teaching and explaining about pointers before you understand it well. If you can't pin-point why your students don't understand and just say they won't understand at all (may be weak math background or something else), then I'm sorry you lack the knowledge to teach or use pointers.
here in Paris the 150cc scooters are much worse. Very high RPM and incredible noise
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This is why Twitter is terrible for having real conversations. This was painful to read because of formatting and structure.
Well, I'm glad the response has been so positive! And I'm always afraid of that too, but getting something done and out there is better than not doing anything. Plus, I think most people are supportive, and if there is any constructive feedback, hopefully it's coming from a place of just wanting to help rather than tear down.

I think most people are just amazed at what you accomplished :) I am!

Please consider writing a book or blog posts or at least something! But if you don't I totally understand, don't feel bad about not doing something requested, or anything else either. It's your life and your project :D

We are here just to support you and say thanks for inspiring us!
It's almost tax time... my angriest time of the year.
I think those are more towards the symphonic end of the metal spectrum. They tend to love science, SciFi, but also fantasy.
It seems that any end-to-end encrypted messenger could fall into this as well.

I've not seen the draft itself but if it is too broad it could be unconstitutional.
Does the term only apply to recursive solutions? Caching is often useful in iterative solutions as well; does that count?

I would pretty much never start an interview response with a recursive solution in an interview because I pretty much never end up with a recursive solution in my work. I have very rarely been asked to do something recursively having already done it iteratively.
Gamergate's "own view" isn't necessarily of any more value than a flat earther's view on the Earth article.

Wikipedia's goal (met or not) is accuracy, not equal time to every opinion.
I want to personally thank you for this. I cancelled my order with Comodo/SSLStore and followed your suggestion. EV certificate is already in the mail :)
I, for one, still look up to them. I don't completely understand where the negative views started, but I suspect it was with Facebook, fake news, and the election or maybe the Amazon HQ2 disaster.

Now, for some reason, they are being demonized for being large and participating in a system that has existed for centuries. They got large because they built things people wanted. What's wrong with that? I just don't get it. It's like a mob with pitchforks is forming to break-up "big tech" and they won't be satisfied until they've slayed the giants whether it's justified or not.
That's the paradox with e-voting/internet voting. You need to verify the voter is who they say they are, but it also has to be completely anonymous. The banks know who you are and what you do with your bank account, you can't have that with voting.
GG is a pretty heavy case of an "if by whiskey" argument from all sides (I don't want to say both, because it feels like there's a lot of sides there), and it's been blown up to horrific proportions in the politics of entertainment scene.

I recall Stallman's remark that even if you're not interested in politics, politics is interested in you, but it looks more and more like there's nothing you can do to meaningfully and safely interact with the zeitgeist, so why the hell would you try to be part of any kind of politics. It feels more like a force of nature than an actual human activity. More like a tornado than a debate of any sort - just close your doors and windows, keep quiet and hope it's not your house that gets destroyed.