skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately the phone's screen was shattered during the accident (made inoperable); I am unsure how I was the one contacted, though I doubt I was their ICE. I assume it was a simple "My first name starts with an A and we shared an uncommon last name". To that degree I don't really care, I'm happy we were contacted immediately.

With the scenario experienced, as I said, I don't really care about robocalls. There's that old saying about "If it won't matter in 5 years, don't spend more than 5 minutes getting angry about it". With that in mind, I just sort of filter out the annoyance. Yes, robocalls are annoying, but again, I prefer it over rhacker's alternative of finding out about important things later.

There were posts on here months ago about how Facebook had a pretty aggressive notification process for users that started leaving the service. I'd stopped posting on there shortly after the accident because my posts became more about my family's status - if felt cheap/dirty/not-right to then post about a meme or something silly. The notifications annoyed me, so I disabled social network notifications and generally "stopped caring" about these types of minor annoyances overall.

My point is that I agree that robocalls are annoying and, sure, I hope someone gets fed up enough to attempt to fix them, but in the grand scheme of my life and happiness, eh. If it happens, it happens, if it doesn't, it doesn't.
>In CL you see the effect of any change immediatly at the next iteration of the loop.

This. I just did this today on CL, because I needed it. I was running a long process and can't afford to stop it.

And note that i'm using a CL compiler that compiles down to machine language, not an interpreter.
Self-Driving Cars Need Virtual Rails
The main problem with Juno is Atom . I really hope julia come up with better VSCode support. Atom editor is essentially broken. They should choose VSCode as their main editor.
> A Water Department crew working May 3 on the 900 block of Spruce Street

> sections of 10-foot pine logs

That was disappointing.
What I find more annoying than ads, is all the self-righteous complaining about ads.

Don't those mega billboards annoy you? Don't the auto playing audio/video ads annoy you?
You get on the subway, there are ads (and you've paid for the ticket, it is not even you are traveling free). You drive on the street, there are huge billboards everywhere. You switch on the TV, there are ads. You open a bank account, the bank sells your address and the very next week you get junk in the mail. How many of these are voluntary?

How is it self-righteous to expect a quiet, clutter free life/atmosphere? Almost all ads are ugly, annoying and they are full of lies.

There are actually times ads have helped me find a product I enjoy

How often is this true? Maybe one ad in a thousand is useful, it isn't worth watching the other 999 junk
What do you mean by "here"
:) You're wrong because I've seen strings between quotes being ignored as well :)
My favourite configuration style is used by Django it's just a Python file. And the result is I can do things like have base.py devel.py staging.py prod.py

All with any form of inheritance or programmatically derived settings I see fit.

ROS2 is going the same way too.
I don't disagree with that diagnosis but think that's more a question of how money within the VC sector is allocated, not how much money is being allocated to VC in the first place. Like you, I see a lot of money going to people wearing cargo shorts and brightly colored sneakers and then getting plowed back into the startup casino. I'm just saying, that money used to go to country club investment bankers; it didn't --- at least until recently --- get diverted from the broader economy.
As always in the Canadian Real Estate discussion, the RBC reports have the best data and analysis.

http://www.rbc.com/newsroom/reports/rbc-housing-affordabilit...

The Toronto and Vancouver markets are in territory that is shocking and in Vancouver's case, literally numerically impossible to sustain without constant infusions of external capital.
> Neither is a permissive attitude that leaves the homeless, primarily the mentally ill and hard core drug addicts in the SF case, to literally rot on the streets.

No, I'd invest in helping them with the wealth in SF rather than criminalizing people for trying to survive. 60% of the city agreed by voting for Prop C.
Trees That Melt: Use of AVL Tree in Blockchains
I think it's very easy to be dismissive of counseling.

Of course it isn't an exact science, maybe not even a science at all.

I like to think of it this way.

Think of your mind like an iterative non-linear system with thousands upon thousands of inputs.

It operates completely by cause and effect, but because it's non-linear, that doesn't mean it's easy to figure out how it got stuck in a loop.

>In the mathematical field of dynamical systems, an attractor is a set of numerical values toward which a system tends to evolve, for a wide variety of starting conditions of the system. System values that get close enough to the attractor values remain close even if slightly disturbed.[1]

Sometimes when our mind gets stuck, the efforts on our part to get out aren't enough to get us unstuck.

Psychologists or psychiatrists are people who are familiar with some of these mental paths and how it can lead people to become stuck.

They are also familiar with some of the paths that lead to an exit from those undesirable states.

They are attempting to deal with such a complex system, that I don't think it's fair to hold them to the same standard as the so called 'hard sciences.'

For another perspective on the problem of 'getting stuck', from a Buddhist point of view (which is also based on cause and effect) see [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractor

[2] https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/KarmaOfQuestions/Section00...
A tub carved out of a log or a big basket has a better shot at getting you to a nearby island than anything we have offering the remotest possibility of getting to even the nearest star. There's no technological parallel between these things, much as we wish there was.
Ha, yeah, all of the awful shit is better this way as well.
Deceptive title. The science around this issue was settled definitively in 1976 and multiple lines of evidence have only strengthened the story since then. It's no longer even remotely mysterious: People built boats and sailed eastward from Asia and navigated without instruments. Thor Heyerdahl was wrong and Captain Cook was right.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-v...
Yup. My "top level routes" only have 3 paths, and everything goes from there. Thinking about routes just like components is really fantastic for react, and I don't miss having a giant central router even a little bit.
Grandson of John Deere inventor calls out company for right-to-repair policies
> CERN is really ablaze with the news (seriously, there was a fire

Will you be here all week?
Strap two canoes together, pop up a sail, you have a catamaran. Ever been on one in open ocean? Smoother sailing than a keel boat and no seasick. Follow stars and birds and currents. Not magic.
> Any overtones that are missing in the recording are overtones that didn't make it through the human ear in the first place.

Even if human beings cannot hear higher frequencies directly, they can hear the beats produced when higher frequencies sound at the same time as lower, directly audible ones. This has sometimes been exploited for musical purposes and I do wonder if this plays some role in some listeners’ feeling that low-bitrate encoding or speaker playback lacks oomph.
Having a military is kind of like having house insurance. you wish you didn't have to spend the money on it, you hope you never have to actually use it, but it would be very irresponsible not to have it.
The current DNA evidence points to the aboriginal people of Taiwan as being the likely source of the original polynesians, likely they spread across the northern Pacific, as far as the Americas, then back again to New Zealand arriving around 900AD (the last major inhabitable place on earth to be discovered by humans)
Yeah... this is a series that had the first interracial kiss, a black woman professional during a time when black women could only be nannies and servants, and a Russian serving openly amongst Americans during the Cold War.

I've seen a lot of complaints about "liberal" and "feminist" agendas being pushed in Discovery. It baffles me. Do such people not know what the Federation is about? They're literally social justice warriors in space.
Show HN: If Siri asked YOU questions, in a true conversation.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mindscribe/id1456168020?mt=8

Hi everyone, this project developed out of my senior thesis at Stanford. I developed a novel platform for conversational software where you answer questions instead of asking them. Naturally this leads to a very different paradigm from "personal assistants" like Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, and Cortana.

It's pretty fun to talk to Max. All walks of life have had conversations with Max, from 13 to 63 years old.

I'd love to know what you think of the service! PM me if this is up your alley! Twitter: @rydamckinney
The writer for this story is exceptional. This is non-fiction commentary at its best.
if Teams is the same account, it SHOULD be able to inter-operate with Skype business users, but everyone where I work has migrated to teams now. I happen to like a lot of the integrations, but was never much of a power user with slack, I used it before it had a/v chat and used the google hangouts integration back then.

One thing I REALLY wish Teams had was a dial-in option for Teams Meetings.
> Every open marketplace is always going to list counterfeit goods as a business risk, because it is.

On the contrary, Amazon did not list counterfeit goods as a business risk in its 10-K filings prior to 2019.[1] It has been an open marketplace since before 2019.

That does seem to imply they only started taking it seriously as a business risk somewhat recently, which could be interpreted as hedging against reputation damage.

Otherwise I'm in agreement that there's outsized discussion of the problem on reddit and HN.

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1. https://ir.aboutamazon.com/sec-filings?field_nir_sec_form_gr...
Scott Sumner, who is a leading monetary economist and very much credentialed, has a takedown on his blog:
https://www.themoneyillusion.com
Ah yes nothing experimental or demonstrative should exist or be attempted because other things exist too
Suppose that you are considering a particular one of the possible permutations of planck volumes in the universe, of which there are about (10^185)!.

According to Stirling's approximation, (10^185)! is more than 10^10^187, which makes a billion decimal places look very small indeed.
Sadly, I've been seeing similar behavior from DDG lately. In some cases it's been even worse than Google. I really wish there was a search engine optimized for technical work.
as a counter point according to this podcast there is a perverse incentive to under report so there may be a good reason not to believe.

https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/128-the-crime-machine-...
How's the wifi? I've been considering doing this one day. I can work from anywhere - so if I had a good wifi signal for a bit everyday I could easily sit on a train and code.
Do you think that if someone calls themselves a sandwich engineer people will begin to believe that designing cars is like makings subs? Do you really think the public can't tell the difference?
People who just finished playing are not calmer after they play, especially in online games. They quite often end angrier less patient and more frustrated right after session. One would expect people calmer after outlet for aggression.
Can you source your claim that MMT doesn't make normative judgements on inflation? That's not my understanding, it's not what this article says, and it's not what Kelton said in her debate with Jason Furman on Ezra Klein's show. As I understand it --- once again --- MMT says inflation is bad, but that there are better ways to control it than monetarism and fiscal austerity.

The distinction between my understanding and yours is highly material, because in my understanding, an attempt to actually deploy MMT policies at the Fed in the service of (say) single-payer that resulted in rising inflation would be a problem and evidence of failure, and in your understanding it wouldn't. In my understanding, the MMT economists would say "here are a set of policy levers we should use to ensure inflation doesn't increase", and in yours MMT economists would say, essentially, "single payer is worth extra inflation".

The idea that inflation and deficits simply don't matter as much as conventional economists think it does is, as I understand it, a caricature of MMT that actually annoys MMT economists.
well, not a lot of livestock - they did have dogs
I take the Caltrain almost daily to mountain view, and I feel the exact opposite. Usually I look around and everyone has their bose headphones on while working on their macbook pro. It feels like were all drones, working 24/7 waiting to die. Where as game days/school trips are the highlight of my commute, it feels more human IMO.

I grew up in the eastbay, and at least while I was growing up, the bart train was a friendly environment of people interacting with one another. Obviously it came with some not so pleasant things (i.e. homelessness and unwanted touching) but more human none-the-less.
really a great, evocative demo-- i couldn't help but giggle a bit when it all loaded up, and i knew it was coming! =D
As someone who carries a firearm every day and is not law enforcement, it's situationally dependent.

If my family is with me, my first objective is to get them to safety. If that's not possible I'm certainly not leaving them to "hunt" the shooter.

If someone is actively engaged in shooting innocents and I'm alone, I'm going toward them under cover or concealment. I'm going to try my best to be as accurate as possible, and accuracy is proportional to the time taken to take the shot. The best resolution here would be firing before I'm seen and preventing the shooter from being able to continue their assault. That said, most mass murderers don't intend to survive to be captured, and someone returning fire is often enough for them to cut their massacre short through suicide to avoid that - so if I don't have a means to get closer, taking a shot that is unlikely to be effective is better than waiting and doing nothing. Even if they attempt to return fire at me, that means that innocents being targeted by them have more of a chance to reach cover.

Finally, and by far the most likely, I wouldn't be close enough to the shooter to immediately stop the situation. In that case I would keep my firearm holstered and try to help others flee to safety.

For what it's worth, I don't see any of this as being at all likely. On any given day I'm extremely unlikely to need a firearm; over the course of a year, a decade, or a lifetime, that chance goes up to merely "unlikely". By far the most likely circumstance I will ever use a firearm is self-defense is demonstrating the ability and motivation to defend myself, probably by merely preparing to fire by reaching for the gun.

I'm 36, and this has held true in the handful of situations I've encountered thus far; I've had one instance where I made the decision to draw and fire, and in the second or so before I had drawn and began to pull the trigger my assailant had stopped their assault and began to flee.
So whats the argument against a dictatorship? The people voted for the leader once, therefore they should legitimately have lifetime rule.

Or, re-calling a general election after 1.5 years. Didn’t ‘the people’ already decide?

How about if they were promised one thing, and voted for it, and it turned out to be impossible and based on lies and fraud?
Or Japan. Privatize Amtrak completely.
> Absolute nonsense.

I think the point was poorly put. I suspect most musical experiences throughout history were either not paid for or paid for voluntarily, not as a condition of access. I also suspect that there is a strong tradition throughout history of professional musicians but that the majority of musicians then (and now) are not professional but amateur (in the positive sense of that word).

> Plato complained in his writings about popular musicians holding unruly concerts.

Did he talk about how they were paid? otherwise I fail to see the relevance.

> The invention of recorded music was a disaster for professional musicians, because it rendered most of them unemployed.

That is an interesting claim, I am prepared to believe it, but I would like to see evidence supporting it. I would suspect that the money to be made by playing music created by other people was reduced. I would also suspect that this stimulated the creation of new songs and musical styles since new copyrightable work became a much more important means of earning income from music.

> People of the past had far more limited access to music, but they weren't stupid or undiscerning - they wanted to hear the best possible music and were willing to pay for it. Busking is probably as old as currency and remains a perfectly reasonable way of making a living.

The modern innovation on busking is platforms like patreon. I pay a monthly amount to a musician I have spent innumerable hours listening to while working. I suspect that payments for access to live performances and voluntary support of musicians you like is the future of musical income. Musical copyright stimulates the creation of some types of music and suppresses other types. It also primarily benefits larger, older, entrenched entities at the expense of suppressing newer, smaller and more innovative entities.
If more of these companies had real products, I'd expect them to at least be selling development kits. There are lots of industrial applications at the $1000 price point.
> Doubly so, given that I have similar cases[1] in recent memory[2] where the medical staff and even the even parents were forbade and forcibly prevented from feeding the kids.

This is untrue, and the cases are not even remotely comparable to OP's story. Alfie Evans and Charlie Gard had both suffered heavy brain damage and were incapable of feeding or even continuously breathing on their own, with no realistic perspective of improvement.
He is in less of a position to know whether you would be a good VC than you are. It's not about him - it's about what you want. People generally do well at things they enjoy or feel is valuable. You are a bright person. I would be more concerned as to whether he knows how to be a good VC:)
Yes, the "waste burner" design. So the entire fuel story revolves around having access to spent fuel which they can reprocess to extract the Pu.

Yes, they also have the thermal design which I'm quite sure requires much lower enrichment, but AFAICT is more a concept than something they're actively developing. It makes sense of course to focus on one design at a time, unless they have infinite money.

One of the other fast spectrum MSR startups, Elysium, also proposes using spent fuel + maybe leftover military Pu for startup. The interesting thing about Elysium is that their design at least breeds, so they only need enriched fuel for starting up. They're saying that they can run up to 40 years before needing to reprocess the fuel, just by adding U238 online to the salt.
> I don’t think it’s fair to call ST: Discovery a part of the franchise at this point.

It is, because CBS says it is, and your opinion on the matter is not relevant[0].

It's canon. It's part of the franchise. It takes place in the same timeline as TOS. Accept it.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib83xJTbFEQ
Wild, IIRC, the NT version had an option to "unlock" files and show you who's accessing a given file... I also happened to like aspects better than later Explorer versions, here's hoping for some interesting enhancements and a better File Manager.
They're probably running web queries through the same or similar NLP engine as the Google Home and Android voice query to stress test it with additional input. That roughly coincides with the time frame that results have gotten worse.
I was replying to the comment implying that you can buy rifle without background check. To be fair no amount of government restrictions and bans will stop the mass shooter who really wants to become one. There are a lot of illegal guns getting to Canada from US.
Re: Russell's teapot - this is just the classic Red Hering. If you argue for a bearded man in the sky you can put it as absurdum this way, but it has nothing to do with the intelligent design hypothesis, also called simulation hypothesis. Are we special because of the anthropological principle or is there some deeper underlying cause? Even finding intelligent alien life wouldn't fully answer the question - you can also apply it to the physical constants of our universe that are remarkably well chosen.

That's not to say that assuming natural processes as a principle doesn't have legs - so far Dr. Penrose's hypothesis of arbitrary scaled time convinces me most, which avoids any requirement of intelligent design, but so far there is not sufficient evidence to prove it, or any other origin theory, and as long as that is the case I think it is too quick to dispell intelligent design.
No, it's not like that. The decision to go through "Conversion Therapy" under pressure is like a manifestation of harm already done to a person, it's not necessarily harmful in itself. As I said in another comment, it's possibly even a way out of anxiety to go back to pretending.
Yes, LOL, my family of 13 is always off the charts.

Another problem is that lots of people don't live in cities. Covering only the big cities is an easy way out, but completely useless for many people. Since the non-city areas are numerous but don't have well-known names, you really need a map.
I'm a bit confused here, perhaps because I don't really understand Rails (possibly also the HTML spec).

I was under the impression the 'Accept:' header is a list of media types, so why would that be making filesystem calls? Or does Rails implicitly organize assets in a filesystem structure (something like ~/assets/audio or ~/assets/text)?
I admittedly have not looked at the data in detail and maybe it's the cynic in me, but how much of that decrease in crime can be attributed to manipulating the data?

For instance, in San Francisco, car breakins have been reclassified as a misdemeanor. And obviously this is anecdotal, but residents are so blasé towards the complete fucking shitshow that is SFPD (I actually rewrote that into something much gentler) that they don't even bother calling the police or reporting crimes.

If it's gotten so bad that people don't even report crimes, and police make it difficult to report crimes (there are many stories about this - yes it's anecdotal), how can we expect the statistics to mean anything?

The only thing I know for certain is I've been assaulted by homeless people more than once, including one who pushed me into traffic. After the first few times calling the police and having nobody show up for 30+ minutes I just stopped bothering.

I've also seen someone rob a store while a cop was stationed at the entrance of the store for the sole purpose of stopping theft - the cop literally shrugged and said "what am I gonna do, chase after him?"

Obviously I'm biased based on my experiences and I'm referring to the microcosm that is SF, but I absolutely unequivocally do not trust anything that comes from the SFPD. And I see no reason to trust other police departments either.

For something a little less anecdotal, here's an interesting podcast that basically says once cops started tracking crime they just stopped reporting it. Goodhart's Law in action.

https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/127-the-crime-machine-...