skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you notice that your reply here is so lacking in substance that you could copy and paste it on just about any argument on any topic?

In this thread, I've mentioned Peterson's works. I've described the content of Peterson's work, I've made reference to specific claims he has made (eg his claims of an academic Postmodern Marxist plot, his arguments against C-16) and my assessment of them (conspiracy theory &, transphobia, respectively). People are welcome to object to my assessments but the level of critique of them by you here and ekianjo above amounts to "nuh-uh".
If you had $13k to spend and felt like making a wild bet I'd just dump it all into AMD right now and sleep like a baby for the next few years.
Are they trying to raise money at higher or lower valuation than your options? Taking liquidation preferences into account are you getting a better or worse deal than the investors?
Thank you. This is very pleasant to use.
Imagine for a moment that our telescopes show mostly black except a ring of light from one direction. The light scattering has furthermore been used to indicate that the universe is mostly water, with some complex carbon based molecules in diluted form. Newer religions are thus calling our universe the holy teapot, waiting for the great beings above to open it up. Of course that's nonsense say the atheists who have a perfect theory for how the ring of light and water universe has come to existence, it only relies on the assumption that from nothing there was suddenly something.

This is essentially the teapot equivalent of the big bang theory. Atheists also dispell the idea of the teapot with a hypothetical teaspoon orbiting Saturn - as we can't see it it's ridiculous to just postulate it's there, with handle and cover and stove - we have no way of proving its existence from what we observe only.
> The heart of MMT is that the imbalance between money coming in to a powerful central government and money going out is the primary contributor to growth (or contraction) of the economy as a whole.

Only if our measures of economic strength are fundamentally measuring how much money is in it. If what is important is prudent use of resources then there is scant evidence that that is a good idea. And the reason we have an economy is to work out what 'prudent use of resources' means in practice. Governments have no advantage over private individuals in husbanding resources over the generations (look at how many governments make a pigs ear out of setting up pension, retirement systems and infrastructure spending).

Strategically, MMT theories that I've read seem to say that government is a positive, but if we can't be sure who is paying for it maybe nobody is, so the net impact is probably also positive.

That is clearly crazy, but also looks uncomfortably like an honest take on what a lot of governments do in practice. When the government takes on debt, it isn't obvious who is paying for it - the lender thinks they have an asset, so it isn't them. Identifying which taxpayers will pay the money back is as hard as unwinding who money printing is actually hurting.
Much more than they think, there's a lot of big IT companies in Europe as well, they just generally work more behind the scenes.
you're greatly underestimating the number of opinionated HNers there are if you think the number of comments can only be explained by bots :-P

and also, 6/4/1989 you bootlicker
'No cooking' is a phrase with a lot of ins and outs. 'Heating' is only 'cooking' if the food isn't pre-cooked.
Must be confusing it with the 32kHz option, which I don't believe was that widely used. As far as I recall, most MP3s were 44.1kHz (same as CDs) but 48kHz was an option too.
I cancelled prime this year, I received one too many fake products last year.
I agree, but my first impression was that you were talking about the US! I live in Iran and many sites are simply blocked for all people here because of sanctions. I know there are reasons and such for these sanctions, but as you said people are the same and not all those reasons might be valid. Anyways, blocked sites here include many programming resources including Java, Go and Android, many services like Slack, and even lots of sites hosted on GCP.

Also for most of people here, "unimpeachable, unchallenged leader" resembles Trump who cancelled agreements like JCOPA or Bush who atacked our neighbour countries. I'm not arguing that any of those actions are right or wrong, but many people are badly affected by the US more than they are affected by any dictator.
I found these guys during my last stint of consulting/freelancing before building another startup:

17hats.com

I really liked it and my wife uses still today for high end cakes and stuff she does. I’ve also gotten quite of few of my buddies that do trade jobs on the side (plumbing, electrical, low voltage, etc) to use it and they love it as well.

Probably more than what your asking, but it’s a great AIO platform. I particularly like the built in contract and digital signing abilities.
Boeing 737 Max Update from a Pilot [video]
Zuck doesn't believe in hiring employees over 30 because they're not 'smart' about tech. Great example why that's a mistake.

If he did, someone would have seen that with 10-15 years of corporate experience and would have found that simply unacceptable. They also would have had the gravitas to know how to escalate things to the top and gotten it fixed.
Currently, I don't drive, so I have no empirical answer.

Some people who know me have joked that I would hate learning to drive (here in the US) because of the issue where most drivers break the speed limit most of the time and expect others to do the same. I think I could get used to it or find a way to deal with it, but it's possible it would stress me out for a while at the beginning.

As I sorta-mentioned, I'm not sure my original level of tendency to follow the rules is actually adaptive here. The point was more the existence proof. And between cultures it may vary even more widely than this.
If you have a few $m in the bank, go for it. It's a loss you can write off on your taxes. Otherwise run away. If they are laying off and desperate to raise funding the next round will dilute your % so much to be worthless. I am on my, hum, 6th startup, making millions on one, 3 crashing and waiting / zombie on 2 others. It is all a risk game, easier to play if you already have the buy in stake. If you do not, do not bet the pot on a suite pair in the hole.
Nah. If you believe in crypto, just use the money to buy BTC or something else.

The only other situation where I think it could make sense is if you plan to write it off to offset capital gains elsewhere.
a joke by /pol/ until the mainstream media believed it

If you make out with a goat, whether you’re attracted to goats or doing it to be “edgy” or “ironic”, you’re still a goat-kisser.
So I was wondering, how do you do two-way sync with inheritly one-way tool like rsync? And turns out you cannot do it, not reliably.

The way script works, it runs change monitor on both sides; if there is a change on local side, it will do local->remote sync; if there is a change on remote side, it will do remote->local sync.

This can go wrong in many, many ways. Here is the first example that came to my mind: you started a process on remote machine which creates lots of small files -- maybe extracting an archive, or generating images. So the syncer keeps syncing those files in remote->local direction. Meanwhile, you got bored watching the script and decided to edit some code. POOF! Any edits you make are continuously reverted.

Oh, and there is no error checking anywhere. Did your network had a hickup? Tough, we will march on anyway. Let's it was not in lines 101 or 104 -- if these commands have transient failures, then your newly made changes would just get reverted.

If you care about your data, please do not use this. Use anything else -- syncthing, osync, unison were named in this thread, they are all good.
Why “chickenpox parties” are a terrible idea–in case it’s not obvious
Who has the fastest website in Formula One?
It really depends on your financial situation and what $13K means to you. I would probably hedge my bet in case the company does succeed and you end up kicking yourself. Maybe exercise some part of it, not the full $13K.
Check the comment history for people who post “whatabout” comments when people criticize China. Some accounts do it a lot, on many comments/posts critical of China.
What parts do you disagree with him on? He is pretty rational, the way he constructs his arguments from from fundamentals leaves really not much up to personal preference or debate.
If your website doesn't use anything that's being actively blocked by the firewall (e.g. Google CDN), it is most likely usable in China, although it'd be quite slow.

I browse tons of foreign websites when I grew up in China. It's actually not a big issue if the website doesn't serve video.
I mean the real story should be “how much did a single light to say the flight computer was deliberately fighting you cost?”

It’s an optional extra so I suspect that one led was being charged at an absurd rate, because it was actually necessary.

The flight crew the day before had to hunt through manuals as well, and I haven’t seen any indication anywhere that suggested that the problem persisted for that entire flight - which could easily be the case if you tie a pilot overriding flight control system to a single sensor. Further I’d question a flight control system that pushes the nose down apparently without considering altitude
I'm indifferent to that. You shit on very competent engineers, thousands of whom are trying to do the right thing. You're trying to score cheap points by insulting people with a no nuance view. There's nothing worse than mediocre sysadmin's pontificating about security.

Just remember this conversation whenever whatever you're responsible for gets popped.
LogDNA Is Hiring UI/UX Designers in SF Bay
When body panels don't line up, doors don't close properly without slamming them, and your infotainment system randomly bugs out (all issues I saw when borrowing a Model 3), your vehicle manufacturer cut corners. Meanwhile my distinct impression of interior quality when sitting in one is that it's basically a mass market car with a leather option, not a luxury price point vehicle.

And no, scaling issues are absolutely not unavoidable. These are all solved problems. Tesla just rushed vehicles out the door with crap production line QA because they were running out of money and market patience.
Can you explain how “his arguments against C-16” are “transphobia”?

> I've described the content of Peterson's work

You’ve done no such thing. Not at any level above name-calling, anyway.
Which makes this worse than KT McFarland and Steve Bannon working on the deal to sell nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia through an AOL e-mail address (https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-mcfarland-personal-ema...).

The government can recover the e-mails that Bannon and McFarland sent for records purposes.

Kushner advises that he made records by taking screenshots of the conversations and forwarding them to a government inbox.
Apple's Shortcuts, too.

Claiming that IFTTT and Apple Shortcuts have not complied with Google's privacy policy. That's rich.
Wu Lei – A Cardiotonic for Chinese Football Fans – Pandaily
Please don’t equate mass state surveillance and censorship with blocking Xtube from the office.
I found a more compelling example: "ophthalmic" "bitx"

What surprised me most is that there actually exist pages containing both of those terms! But it's also including results with just one or the other, and at least one page with neither term in it. I'm also getting no "Search instead" or "Did you mean" links.
Do coders get paid every time their code fires? No? Oh then musicians and artists can join the rest of society in not getting paid per usage of an item. Creatives just get greedier and greedier. No other industry gets paid the way that they do, not teaching, not labor, not babysitting, not management, not politics, none. If you want to get paid, perform or provide an object to purchase.
Right? Especially given (per media so grain of salt maybe?) the Mcas system was essentially engaged by a single sensor - implying a single sensor capable of overriding all other systems, even the ones with actual redundancy.

I still don’t understand why altitude wasn’t considered - surely stalling speed close to the ground would result in less damage than pitching towards the ground an accelerating?

And how much can those sensors possibly cost anyway? (Real question - I have no sense if we’re talking a few dollars, a few thousand, few million, or what)
Well, your first would be this article, as I said.

Your second would be the debate between Furman and Kelton on the Ezra Klein podcast, as I said.

I'll dig up a third cite. Like, one of the things in my head is the Kelton vs. Krugman argument, which I read on Krugman's blog, but that's not the best cite, since you're getting Kelton secondhand through Krugman there.

Happy to help. If you'd like to help too, you could cite a source that says MMT'ers feel like inflation doesn't matter.
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Or more accurately, MS did not want to make the effort to carry it over.

GDPR made it more expensive to port the comments, because it insisted that the user have control over their content. It did not prevent it from being done.
You just requested a random feature which contradicts the point you made in the previous sentence. Also why are you bringing money into this? And are you saying you wouldn't pay for this awesome tool as is?
Received a bunch of errors and couldn't get the game to run.

Firefox 65 on Fedora 29.

Polygott
chromium-browser --no-sandbox https://repl.it/blog/gfx

XOpenDisplay((null))
Starting X
xset: unable to open display ":0"
nohup: redirecting stderr to stdout

[ I snipped out some non-error lines ]

XOpenDisplay((null))
[13:59:0322/035214.877492:ERROR:bus.cc(396)] Failed to connect to the bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
xcb_connection_has_error() returned true
[13:13:0322/035214.990820:ERROR:browser_dm_token_storage_linux.cc(101)] Error: /etc/machine-id contains 0 characters(32 were expected).

XOpenDisplay((null))

XOpenDisplay((null))
[67:67:0322/035215.770758:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(364)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
[13:254:0322/035216.684721:ERROR:bus.cc(396)] Failed to connect to the bus: Could not parse server address: Unknown address type (examples of valid types are "tcp" and on UNIX "unix")

Similar failure to run for all of them actually:

Python3 with Pygame
nohup: redirecting stderr to stdout
xset: unable to open display ":0"
^CTraceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 400, in <module>
main_menu(win)
File "main.py", line 387, in main_menu
draw_text_middle(win, 'Press Any Key To Play', 60, (255,255,255))
File "main.py", line 190, in draw_text_middle
label = font.render(text, 1, color)
KeyboardInterrupt
XIO: fatal IO error 0 (Success) onX server ":0"
after 135 requests (135 knownprocessed) with 1 events remaining.
exit status 1
He doesn't consider himself a physicist either.[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/2wq9x2QcZN0?t=2025 At 33:45 of the podcast after he gives the kinetic-potential energy analogy to describe his distrust of Pinker's optimism.
It's not to hard to decide (even while there's no access to the content) how much science there is in this underimpressive conclusion.

"The misalignment between mental-image time and clock time serves to unite the voluminous observations of this phenomenon in the literature...."

So ... it was already obvious to many, then?

"Why do we tend to focus on the unusual (the surprise), not on the ever present?"

Hmmm. I'll venture that it's something to do with survival? But let me check the voluminous literature on that.
Thanks for the shout!
What the Everything Store Revealed About Bezos's Path to Building a Tech Giant
Asking if a consequence is intended is different from asserting that a consequence is intended.
That doesn't sound like a human reading the log. It sounds like automation.

A script counting the number of successful logins, for instance, could read the same data element that unintentionally contained passwords.
New mobile app needs testing
The linked video is about Ivanpah which in addition to the wildlife displacement, kills around 6000 birds each year by incinerating them mid light. At no point was that video purported to be related to wind energy.

If you want to read up on the impact of wind energy, let me google it for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_wind_p...

https://www.wind-watch.org/pix/displayimage.php?pid=26&fulls...

http://batsandwind.org/research/post-construction-fatality-s...

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/wind-energy-takes-toll-...

Each turbine requires the clearing of 5 acres of land around it. Each turbine 'powers 200 homes or so'. There are 128 million homes in the US. That's 640k turbines. That's 3.2m acres of land cleared of vegetation and wildlife just for turbines, nevermind access roads, energy storage, etc. Wind turbines currently supply 8% of US demand and at this scale they kill around 200k birds, 600k bats and ~10 people in maintenance accidents each year. Multiply those numbers by 12.5 to power all of US. Multiply those numbers again by 10 to power china. By 100 to power the world. Starting to get the sense of how absurd this idea is outside of small-scale feel-good wind farms that look past the ecological damage?

France is what the future of sustainable and renewable power looks like. It's mostly nuclear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_France#/...

Wind and solar are simply inadequate to be compared to fossil fuels or nuclear for base load supply.
Deaf Men Helped Shape Nasa's Human Spaceflight Program
Sip is really nice, but in my experience it doesn't pick the exact color.
Crypto prices took a serious beating these last few months. I can imagine most of the company’s assets were in cryptocurrency.
of course my websites work in china. i get hitup dailey by suppliers.
Seconded. Wonderful service.
> I’d like to see anyone else try and come close to what they’ve shipped without a fair share of fuckups along the way.

Um, okay. I mean, there's the Chevy Bolt and the Jaguar I-PACE. They're both pretty good EVs, and they compare against the short-range RWD M3 and the MX 75D, respectively. I don't see any big fuckups with those two cars, at least compared to the Tesla cars.

Speaking personally, I've owned a LEAF, an MX, and an I-PACE. Of the three, the Tesla has been an order of magnitude more problematic than the other two.
So existing manufacturers ship flawless vehicles?
Can I use a separate ip address for requests from china somehow?
Googlebombs have "been a thing" for 20 years...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb

"Google bombs date back as far as 1999, when a search for "more evil than Satan himself" resulted in the Microsoft homepage as the top result.

In September 2000 the first Google bomb with a verifiable creator was created by Hugedisk Men's Magazine, a now-defunct online humor magazine, when it linked the text "dumb motherfucker" to a site selling George W. Bush-related merchandise."
That might be a bit more convincing if it was some gigantic tome of a proposal that was only relevant to trans people in some tangental aspect.

Instead, this 1-page bill is entirely about trans people, and adding them to a long list of groups already protected from discrimination by law. It is 1 page long. It adds 4 words to passages of existing law.

Here [1] is the entire text of it, read it for yourself.

Peterson has no comparative problems with the existing law protecting discrimination for the following groups: race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, disability.

He does, however, specifically believe that extending these same protections already offered to everyone else to trans people amounts to a threat to society.

[1] https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/AnnualStatutes/2017_13/F...
>> China just has a local Intranet and when you are lucky (and increasingly luckier every year) you can access some small websites on the Internet.

> They've got a firewall around their whole country, not unlike any firewall a corporation might put up to prevent their employees from accessing content the company disagrees with (like viewing pornography/4chan from the network).

I kinda think you just made his point for him. The corporate networks that are walled off in that way are often called "intranets."

Also, local Chinese websites are often significantly walled off from the rest of the internet (though through local-phone-number registration requirements, not firewall rules).
This is by far the best explanation with supporting technical details of what is happening. Thanks for posting!
Great work by the Swift team on stabilizing this (especially around UTF-8) for Swift 5. One question: how do Objective-C's tagged NSString pointers fit into this? Are these imported as "opaque" strings? I see that _SmallString seems to store its characters inline; are there any plans to do tagged pointers in Swift as well?
Would enjoy an article that goes into more of these details. They have a pretty good video on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=IPSbNdBmWKE
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Toronto feels ya...

https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2018/10/what-2200...
>What kind of heartless monster trains kids to be as literal as possible all the time?

Kids start out as literal as possible all the time, no training necessary. As far as my kids are concerned Amelia Bedelia's a documentary.
Perhaps the open Internet is the aberration here. Look at my post history - while I’d like it to be otherwise I honestly believe the Internet as we know it will Balkanize/fragment - it’s a matter of time.
This article is trying a little hard to push its agenda.

Collecting watches is a lot like collecting art. A well chosen collection can hold, or even increase in value over time, but most people lose money. Maintenance can be $100 / year or more. Insurance can be a couple percent of the value per year. And trends are anything but "easy" to predict.
Is anyone using Swift outside of Apple specific stuff professionally? When they first announced swift it felt like it might catch on as general purpose gced language. The language itself is quite beautiful in a lot of ways (although being OO was obviously an awful step backwards). But it feels like it's still just the crazy language Apple uses, just like Objective-C was.
Would you buy a 13K lottery ticket? If you have enough money that you would go ahead man, but the chances of striking it big probably aren't much better at this stage.
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I also let my kids say no when they don’t want to be tickled because I think its important at a young age to know they should have some control over their bodies. Because I’m not going to be the only adult they interact with.
I've described the content of and linked to the full text of C-16 elsewhere in this thread. Have you read it before?

> You’ve done no such thing.

I don't mean to say my description is comprehensive, I mean that people objecting to my analysis so far and claiming I am unfamiliar with his work haven't even bothered to mention any specific ideas from his work, and it is hard to take their objections seriously.