skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely agree. The creation of technology that allowed people to scale their work is the key. With a single song/album that was sold in stored as well as being able to be played via FM radio and television, a single person could be known throughout the country (or even worldwide). That was never possible before. Prior to that, you always had to basically perform in person, which is a labor-intensive process and therefore pricier than just paying for the album and having it forever (and could also re-sell it). The number of people who could afford live performances historically is far less.

To add another point on top of yours - something else to consider is that music used to be considered free. Or stated another way - without ownership. Society was the owner historically. I'm not knowledgeable enough to know the reason why this was the cause, but I've heard it talked about by historians in documentaries. I suspect it has to do with what you said - that wealthy people funded their artistic endeavors and society as a whole owned the result. Or that they weren't bankrolled by a rich person but instead collected money from passers-by on the streets as they performed. This also speaks directly to the concept of "traditionals" with no known authors.
Microsoft starts notifying Windows 7 users about end of support
I think your definition would make the word violence less useful. Your definition removes what makes violence a unique and useful word, i.e. that it involves physical force with the intent to hurt someone.

There are better, more accurate, words to use than violence.

Quick note: I'm reading your post in the most charitable light and giving you the benefit of the doubt, a less charitable reading would be that you're ok knowingly coopting a word because along with it comes a whole host of legal and ethical implications that you want to bring to bear on something that you don't like and you know that it isn't violence. I don't think you are doing this but noting it for others that may be.
Ah, Gen11 specifically, I thought you were talking about Intel GPUs in general.

Intel has a pretty good track record with releasing the docs, but I'm not so sure with the timing, and whether the docs will be available before hardware release.
Essentially second rate citizens. TSA precheck is available for all as long as you have security clearance. Whether you are poor or rich does not matter.
When those words are directed at someone who hasn't had the time or experience to develop psychological defenses against them, then yes. Of course verbal abuse is violence when directed at a child.
My wife's iPhone 6 is on its 3rd touch-IC repair cycle. She keeps it in her back pocket and thus bends it slightly, and in 4 months it starts showing flexion damage.

The whole touch-IC debacle is crazy. The fact that they fix it by just replacing the board with another one that will be defective in X months instead of actually soldering it correctly is a disgrace.

And a failed drive in our iMac made the Apple store declare it broken beyond repair and offered us to replace most of the device which would be about as expensive as buying a new one.

I ended up doing it myself. I will never get another iDevice.
Most early stage companies have no assets, so there's too much risk. Banks want real assets as collateral (inventory, buildings, etc.)
Thanks for the heads up.

Yeah I guess we need to trust that some of us will keep our recipe lists alive. :)
> Imagine being forced to go through a "introvert deconversion" program where you have to read essays and do exercises that are designed to "help" you become an extrovert

There are such programs and exercises. They are just not called that.
It's completely arbitrary and inconsistent everywhere (it probably initially stems from how many males of that age can be drafted and yield a net benefit). Societies routinely violate this through their justice systems ("tried as adult" is a concept in many countries) and their taxation systems (taxation without representation is anathema to at least one country except in this case for some reason).

>Your brain and body stop developing at 23 if I'm not mistaken?

And your brain and body begin majorly degenerating past about 60 (insurance data rates them as causing about the same number of accidents per mile as beginning drivers starting at that age), but most countries don't strip your rights at that age.
Still seems like a trolley bus at least could get out of such a bind with a very small battery that lasts like 3-5 minutes. It could then recharge said battery when it reconnects. That way it won't have to haul ten tons of flammable batteries everywhere it goes.
Are you against the government’s laws barring businesses from excluding black customers?

Do you think bussing companies should be able to express their freedom of speech by having segregated seating?

Google’s motto is don’t be evil, yet they have been implicated in many “evil” business dealings (how about the Silicon Valley salary fixing that directly and materially affects a lot of users of this board).

A common refrain from the alt right is that they don’t hate non whites, they just want them to have their own ethno state away from whites (which obviously means forcibly removing undesirables, but of course they don’t say this).

Companies and organizations say a lot of things, you need to look at what they are actually saying, not the PR spin they vomit up for rubes to fall for.

Start thinking beyond propaganda.
> For one thing, 14 year olds don't think they are young.

Having been 14 relatively recently, yes, they do, at least in this sort of context.
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The second is way worse. You don’t need access to the database for it. Most systems make it difficult to log a plaintext password; it should be filtered in your logs. This is day 1 shit.
Yes, the original attempt was a bit brittle. So this attempt addresses things from the other end and having something robust but slow. From here on, the plan is to keep adding features from Gallium that improve performance.
He harks back to the "savannah" age but really he's hankering for a much more recent, 20th century mythical golden age.

The title he should have used was "why musicians and music writers now have a very hard time exploiting a temporary, and vanishing distribution shortage to make even a fraction of the money collected by the record companies."

Plenty of artists of all sorts are still making money; maybe not as much as during the 40-year bubble and of course a small number as it ever was.
astrology became astronomy

alchemy became chemistry

we're still waiting to find out what psychology and economics are gonna turn into

(With apologies to Dr. Taber, who originated the joke.)
This is likely not the case as someone else posted:

https://www.ncjrs.gov/ovc_archives/ncvrw/2017/images/en_artw...

Reporting rates haven't changed a whole lot according to that. So yes, crime on the whole has decreased nationally since the early 90's.
These Cameras Can Spot Shoplifters Even Before They Steal
Almost anytime you have a developer that develops an entire neighborhood, you’re going to have an HOA.
I'm very curious about what kinds of problems these are. Any chance you can give us an idea?
Nobody is going to read that wall of text, but the first and last paragraphs give me the gist if what you're trying to say.

Do you have any better models for providing expensive-to-run services to everybody, and not just the select few who are willing/able to pony up the cash directly?

Every single wall-of-text criticism of ad based monetization on HN contributes nothing new, is full of thinly-stretched analogies (like your "cigarette smoke"), and rarely suggests an alternative, and even more rare a workable one.
Trump signs executive order to promote free speech on college campuses
Patronage seemed like a more formal thing though. They lived with the patron who would provide them a workshop, food and money. Their early days in a workshop seemed more like an employee at a business, not much different than today. The owner would have to go and find work and tap his network to find people who needed his businesses wares. He would hire employees, and they would complete jobs under his supervision. When Leonardo da Vinci was 14 and working at a workshop he was an employee of the workshop owner. It took him a long time to get a patron. He even sent letters to rich people trying to get their patronage by saying what he could do (and just like today, there was a bit of "fake it till you make" in those letters too :)
I have an even more cynical take on things. I purchased a house last summer and played the naive buyer and entered into a dual-agency agreement with the selling agent. Due to the competitive market in the town we were buying in, this was to hopefully give us the tiebreak with competing offers. I have few expectations from a buyers agent beyond opening doors to let us in to view properties and to communicate with the seller's agent.

For selling our prior house, I think our seller's agent actually performed some services. She ran the open house, gave us great advice on pricing in our town (5 square miles, she's been selling for 30 years), and -most importantly- gave a buffer in communication with the buyer. Should any issues arise, there's no direct communication with the buyer AND it also helped us be dispassionate when choosing among our various offers.
What motivation would they have for doing that? Genuinely curious (I don't care either way).
>the main point is that a single man can fully understand this interface and can cope with all the effects of a change on __either side of the interface__

(emphasis mine)

This is a really great and subtle point, and something that takes a lot of rigour to turn into reality.
That's because there is no software engineering program, and other engineering programs don't deal with "security" per se.
Maybe but the parent post is a bit confusing.
Didn't iRobot own ASC at one point?
Not the first time I've stumbled into topology/homology used in military areas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Id3Gu18MME (Great channel btw.)
> When a specification is written specifically for a single vendor, it's not called single-source

...this isn't accurate. Intentionally writing a specification that only one party can meet is in fact called single-sourcing.
Fairdrop – decentralized, anonymous, secure file transfer for the free world
Great job! This is the first time I'm able to find a nice color pattern so easily. The sample images are very helpful.
You can never ensure anything completely in engineering. Perfection is never the goal, but you can do a much better job than FB has here.

You're talking in hypotheticals. Nowhere did I say "nothing ever goes wrong if you know what you're doing". What about the issue at hand? What's your opinion on passwords being logged on every request for years?
That's a fallacy my dude. You can throw shade at your own company and Facebook for the same reason. It doesn't and shouldn't minimize what Facebook has done.
I don't understand why in earth you would expect

That’s unnecessarily aggressive.
It's more like hallucination than anything. You're just forward-projecting your assumptions on what things ought to look like and hallucinating detail that just isn't there.

It can still look nicer than naive upscaling though.
No, it's just that, for the purpose of an internet forum comment, I don't wish to revisit years of regular and maddening problems across fleets of thousands of servers. Over the years they may be subject to different initial build and deployment regimes, to say nothing of different OS versions that may have been released over that time, and various Puppet manifests that may have been changed over that time.

When something is regularly found to be the problem, and has never made my life any easier, it gets yanked. Sometimes I may have had time to analyze further, other times it may have been an emergency. Regardless, it's been at least 1.5 years since I worked in that environment, and my memory has faded. In the real world, we don't have infinite time to analyze infinite failures.

Here's what I remember:

NetworkManager = problems.

No NetworkManager = no problems.

You may care to look down on people who don't always have the time to analyze every single occurrence of every single problem to the nth degree, and subsequently catalogue the exact cause and fix for reference when posting on forums in the future, and that's fine.

My opinion is, it sucks, and I don't want it.

If you like it, and enjoy its benefits, please do. I'm not denigrating you for your choice.
I wish I could do something as sophisticated as this with GSuite.

I did manage to get something similar in spirit but waaay simpler using GSuite filtering+routing and regexes.
What I don't understand is, why aren't secondary dwellings taxed extremely heavily? Optimally, nobody should ever have to rent their residence for a prolonged amount of time, which means you need to disincentivize sitting on a property you don't live in. Making it hard to profit over time from such an investment is the only solution I see.
My trick for seeing these is to shine a flashlight on my face from the side, then focus on my reflection in the screen.
Here’s a nice paper on prethermaliztion - https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04776
> That said, Google could face a backlash from the other side of the ideological divide if it reverses course.

Google faces a backlash regardless.

However, the "deplatforming" trend of the last couple of years is deeply worrying. Today Living Hope Ministries could be deplatformed from the Google app store. Tomorrow it could be deplatformed from PayPal. Someday maybe banks will deplatform them as well.

The problem is intertwined with the tendency for technology to produce monopolies. When the one platform that matters (say, Amazon if you're an author) decides to deplatform you, it's a blow you might not recover from.

There may be a ray of hope here, though. Left to its own devices, deplatforming will tend to produce a monoculture repellant to large numbers people (think about the narrow range of Disney movies). The deplatformed (and their supporters) will seek out new platforms more tolerant of actual diversity, rather than the pretend diversity gaining favor today. Some of them will thrive and eventually challenge today's gatekeepers.
Not good, nor would I feel good about them going through this LGBT 'conversion' app. But I'd feel even worse about helping further normalize corporate censorship.
Controversial opinion from someone with extensive experience with assault weapon violence.

GOOD

The current "shelter in place" model of active shooter drills KILLS CHILDREN. In combat we had another name for "shelter in place"... "die in place".

People must be taught to fight back or flee. They must because it is not instinctive. Most of us were raised in relatively peaceful societies and have a school yard/Hollywood understanding of violence.

For those who haven't seen the Christchurch video, the killer was ALMOST taken out by one lone person who rushed him while his back was turned. Sadly, this brave soul was alone in his efforts and perished. He came literally within inches of getting the drop on the shooter. Had there been a second brave soul with him the shooting could have ended with far less death.

Two unarmed adults in close quarters can absolutely disarm one person. In a fight, two are four times as effective as one.

If someone is attacking you there are two options, run or fight. Hiding in a room with no exits is to wait for death, as evidenced by every eyewitness account we've ever heard on the news, "I heard the shooting in the other room, I knew we were next".

From a tactical point of view a school/church shooting is a de facto "raid". There are principles of conducting and defending against a raid. The active shooter drills I've seen are in total ignorance of these principles.
https://twitter.com/straczynski has stated that due to the politics between Paramount and PTen, there will NEVER be any further work on B5 related works. Someone like Disney would have to purchase the rights to change this.
so simple to use and love how u have an example
This sounds like an
initiative dreamed up by Dwight on The Office.
I think this is mostly unavoidable whenever your field of study bumps up against politics and money. Economics has the same problem but perhaps worse in some ways, as there is less rigor.

I don't know how much of the blame you should assign to the field, in that.
there are several versions of this basic robotic design available for purchase both diyish and fully fledged products (neither one I'm about to list is spray paint based though, but in the case of the diy version, it could be hacked in with a redesign of the 'shuttle')

Sandy Noble's Polargraph (diy and very hackable) : http://www.polargraph.co.uk/

the Scribit (buttoned up product with multiple pen support) : https://scribit.design/

This looks like the exact same system but because of the pendulum effect when you "turn a corner" these guys wen't with just running it up and down in vertical lines and only moving a bit to the side when the line is done.
The only parts that are difficult to make are the pressure bearing parts, and those can be ordered and shipped into the country via a freight forwarding service. Changes in the law only stop the dysfunctional, mentally ill but not terrorists.

I can literally bake a lower receiver out of plastic in my oven or make one on my 3D printer. For something a bit nicer I can buy, and setup a CNC machine which only cost a few thousand dollars.
Urbanization probably had a major impact on the immediate environment around Bangalore. Bangalore has grown like crazy lately so those effects would be coming on strong. Also climate change started going into high gear in the 1990s after we stopped burning high sulfur coal that had a temporary cooling effect. Put those effects together and you'd expect a big change.

Is there a uni or government office that has temperature readings going back that far? Maybe an airport?

It is hard to tell what the real temperature change is with thermometers over long periods of time because measurement methods and locations change. It turns out the timing of when plants bloom is a more sensitive statistical test for climate change than looking directly at delta T. You might be able to get this kind of plant phenology information and use that.
You think they figured it out early? Go listen to some Miles Davis recordings from the late 50s. Analog tape, two mics, and that was it. And it still sounds better than almost everything made since.

Studio-quality analog has had better than CD-quality audio since the late 50s (lower noise, more headroom). With "modern" studio techniques we've adopted multitrack recording, close mic'ing of instruments, and what not. While these may make the recording process easier, they don't make recordings of a higher quality. Give me a pair of high-quality mics in ORTF configuration and natural, unamplified instruments any day.
A common joke among students when I was in my computer-science program:

when asked a how-many or how-much question that involved basic arithmetic, one would reply:

"Yeah, I can't do that. That's applied math".
> Not playing videos of the chaos and violence was another.

What research is this based on? Sounds suspiciously like “computer games cause violence” which AFAIK has been debunked.
Wow! That does not look accidental at all!
We're seeing a return to this model in DJing, where the boundaries between performance and playback have largely disintegrated, and the difference between "making new music which repeats familiar refrains" and "pasting together bits of existing recordings to make a new piece of music" has completely dissolved. There's a complex body of compromises with copyright law which is allowing this to happen, but what's essentially going on is that everyone is silently agreeing not to get too wound up about it and we're going back to a model where music is a shared, linguistic experience, and music makers copy, echo, reframe, and reply to each other in a giant collective conversation. It's a much more interesting, relaxed experience than the hard-edged, scarcity-driven model of specific recordings with specific ownership that prevailed through the end of the 20th century.
It's almost like there are a lot of local LEOs who just get off on wielding power over helpless people.
This is why I've never gone to a psychiatrist; only therapists. Instead of pretending to have scientific rigor, many therapists focus on the more human side of mental health, working out knots and releasing mental tension like a masseuse does for physical tension.

Neuroscience is the only true way to approach the problem scientifically, but it has a really, really long way to go. It's like trying to understand how Chrome works when all you have is a voltage meter for measuring the 1s and 0s in memory. And even that is a fairly recent development.
I think it would have been immensely valuable for anthropological reasons to see the mundane details of the lives of people who lived thousands of years ago. If we just keep only the most important works it doesn't really give a clear picture of how people actually lived at that time. That said, I definitely agree that there will be diminishing returns if you keep everything.
> Citation needed. LGBT+ people who seek conversion therapy can still be hurt by it.

Yeah, but so can people who smoke, drink, or eat ice cream. At what point is it our job to tell people they can't choose to do things that are bad for them?
I sure hope there will always be exciting new improvements just around the corner. The Julia community prides itself in being greedy, so we're often looking forward to those things.

It's worth noting that this entire effort is done in external packages that work on both Julia 1.0 and 1.1. One of the biggest things Julia previously needed was stability, and we now have that.
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Did you do any modifications to the WSL default? It's by far the slowest program on my work computer...

There’s a interesting comment by nickjj further down this post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19444804

> A few months ago I asked the MS devs why their default WSL terminal felt incredibly responsive and they replied with a ton of details.

> You can read the thread here: https://github.com/Microsoft/console/issues/327

it's obvious Windows wasn't designed by people who care about minor details like typing latency.

Given the number of people who have worked on the Windows OS with competing priorities and goals, over the course of more than 30 years, I don’t know that you can extrapolate that conclusion from personal experience (which seems to differ from the common experience) with one application.
Author of MagneticReadHead.jl here.
Hit me up with any questions.

It is a a bit less polished than Debugger.jl right now.
Sure, but people are not necessarily scientists.
Tickling (2018)
> And as a side note, molten salt reactors are a lot simpler than light water reactors, because they have safety advantages inherent to the physics of the fuel and coolant.

I don't know. MSR's are certainly interesting, but they have downsides as well as upsides.

Some of the PWR SMR's like NuScale also sport passive safety features, which should make it simpler and safer. Being a PWR, it's still a high pressure design, of course, which MSR's avoid.

While MSR are very cool, in some ways they're pretty scary too. I mean, you're pumping around tonnes of super-radioactive goop. What if you have a leak? At least with a traditional design you have a couple of extra protective layers, with fuel being contained in solid pellets contained in tubes. And you have to be very careful with the chemistry of the fuel salt; IIRC one of the early MSR's (ARE?) had to be shutdown since they messed up their redox chemistry which lead to fissiles plating out on the heat exchangers. Eek!

There's the famous Rickover quote that anybody can design a paper reactor, but real reactors tend to be complicated, over budget, and over schedule.