skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So when you talk about what pisses you off when your life isn't even in danger? That's psychotic to me. It's so completely control freak irrational that you get angry over people who don't follow rules intended for automobiles? It's just nonsense.

I have a few responses to this and your broader point. First of all, and to be more blunt and less charitable, I don’t choose to put my life at the massively increased risk of injury and death of riding a bike vs. a car. Saying that we should be most concerned with those who are in the most danger ignores their conscious choice in making a dangerous choice in the first place. Now on its own this would be a ludicrously callous point, but it leads to my next one...

Cyclists on busy roads put not only their own lives at risk, but the lives and wellbeing of others as well. As a pedestrian cyclists and scooterpricks blasting past are the danger, and as a driver having to veer into oncoming traffic to avoid them is dangerous. The tendency of cyclists I’ve encountered to blow red lights and stop signs presents the danger of a car accident as one vehicle swerves or slams on brakes to avoid them.

Finally I don’t want to hurt or kill someone and if I did I’d be devastated. The fact that plowing into a cyclists while in a car is likely to leave me relatively unscathed physically doesn’t imply a lack of harm. Careless and selfish behavior predicated on a kind of nonexistent moral high-ground is the core of why it is so popular to utterly despise cyclists. We’ve all had to deal with the attitude of superiority and belief that cyclists are somehow saving us from ourselves. Of course people have a bad reaction to moralizing, proselytizing people who think the rules of the road don’t apply to them.

Choosing to ride a 10lb metal frame with just a helmet in motor vehicle traffic is manifestly unsafe, it was unsafe when you decided to do it and unsafe now. Shrugging and telling everyone else to take the responsibility for your safety onboard because you wouldn’t is obnoxious. It is especially difficult to accept when one has the perspective that despite the hype from a minority, cycling is not going to save us from ourselves.
FPL unveils plans for largest solar-powered battery in the world
We are exploring moving a bunch of engineering to Mexico. The difficulty and expense in recruiting engineering talent in the bay is insane. So far we've found really great engineers through a company called Wizeline in Mexico and are strongly considering expanding our footprint there.
> This is why I always cringe at articles that say "Nobody can afford to live there." The reality is that lots of people can "afford" to pay these prices, more than there are homes, hence the high prices.

A classic example of engaging with semantics over sentiment. "Nobody" is clearly just a hyperbolic proxy for "only a relatively small number of people".
Never heard of this role. It’s a general name for people that work in tech? An Intel-specific term?
> I can't stand the insane contradictory leftist rhetoric. On the one had, you claim tech companies are too powerful and evil and shouldn't be trusted. On the other hand, you want to give tech companies power to censor.

This is actually a right-wing authoritarian stance: you're advocating that the government (or do you mean some other entity?) force private businesses to publish speech that they disagree with.

You're conflating private entities freedom to publish or not publish what they wish with censorship, which only comes from a legal authority.
Yes, but you are purchasing the magazine, movie, or service. If you are paying Facebook specifically to remove ads from an otherwise free product, it's much harder to justify injecting ads anyways.

And if for whatever reason they do, you can just stop paying them.
Exactly. Plus I imaging that once they get it down, these things will move even faster and with more precision.
Apple Picking Robot Gets to Work in New Zealand
Also, if you corrupt one filesystem you don't necessary trash all of your work. Especially if you corrupt the root filesytem all you need is to reinstall the OS and all of your data is still intact without having to mess with your backups.

For the most part however people have decided that slicing up your disk into multiple partitions isn't worth the hassle anymore, and almost all distros just dump everything on a giant /.
They only support it because they feel like they will never be wealthy and won't have to pay the tax increases. This is also most people that I know that support radical changes to the current system which involve government-run programs funded by sharp tax increases on the wealthy/middle class.

I feel like there is something wrong with our system when people get to vote on things that will not only never effect them negatively (IE: tax increases), but will get all of the benefits (free health care/money).
No, diamagnetics will be receiving rotational momentum from the spinning magnet, microscopic, but still non-zero.
> I've always wondered why "shellfish vegan" isn't a thing

Likely because of the issue you've pointed out regarding identity. The issue is diet-as-identity. Perhaps it would make sense to have a 95% vegan or vegetarian diet supplemented by the occasional animal product, but you can't claim an identity out of that. Veganism is viewed as some arbitrarily binary lifestyle where either you are or you aren't and there's no middle ground.
Ah, on Windows, I would prefer a terminal emulator that can connect directly to a serial port. I don't think mintty and mlterm can do this.
Too cool. Hey, could these bearings be used in something like a water wheel or windmill? I realize the technology isn’t there yet, but if it could then really you’d could have lowered maintenance costs, slightly increased efficiency, and probably a lot less noise.
I keep hearing this dismay at the cop not getting consequences. If we assume comparative negligence and the cop that actually pulled the trigger is say 90% responsible. Then are you arguing that that the cop should get 20 years for responding to a shooter threat and killing someone that he thought was reaching for a firearm and the kid that perpetrated the prank gets 2 years? Or are you saying 100% cop that pulled the trigger and nothing for the kid that pulled the prank?
Yeah I suspect any project for "reasonable and cheap" quickly can turn into feature / jobs creep.

I expect a request for a dog could turn into robotic dog that can take out satellites in space....
Run a unix machine out of disk space.

Caveat - run a Unix machine you don't care about (i.e. a disposable VM) out of disk space.

It's much easier to recover a machine if the storage is segmented. Yeah, a single partition is more convenient, but multiple partitions are more resilient.
If comprehensive static proofs are in the picture, there's little benefit to running trusted code in user mode. It's just adding a protection boundary to something that could already be proven as safe via static analysis. IO-MMU however could still be useful since it somewhat obviates the need to trust the device itself, and devices are much harder to characterize properly.
> Loading code into the runtime is fast because its mostly a call to `dlopen

Does that mean that you measure only loading and not the compilation and verification in your “50 ms” time?
So this isn't the same as SV, but I grew up in Waterloo, Ontario. Which is kind of like Canada's SV. The prices have gone just mental over the past few years.

We're looking at buying a house, and thanks to working remotely, I can live anywhere. The result is that by buying a house just 45 minutes down the highway from Waterloo, I get literally 50% more house for the same price.

Location location location is just mental.
How to Get Started with Elixir
You might find this article helpful: https://uxdesign.cc/ever-wonder-why-the-most-popular-apps-ar...
* Let me configure the recommender.

* Let me turn it off entirely.

* Let me adjust the relative weight that the current video gets vs my past views (i.e. do I want to see related videos to this one, or ones that YouTube generally thinks I'll click on)

* Let me adjust the weighting of thumbs up vs. watch time.

* Let me configure the homepage

* Let me make the entire recommender panel be just subscriptions or items from a particular list

* Let me replace the recommender entirely with something of my own devising, called back through a webhook

These things would make YouTube much more useful for me. I'm not going to YouTube just to kill time, and I pay them $13/mo. They're not getting any ad revenue from me, so why am I stuck with their recommender that only cares what it thinks will cause me to spend the most time on YouTube. I am not interested in spending the most time on YouTube. I'm interested in getting the most out of it in the minimum time.
It's not rational at that point anymore, it's almost religious.
I believe in right and wrong. I guess I just don’t think sending people porn is wrong.

I would however fire someone from sending porn to other people st work.

I think it’s very important to disambiguate what is wrong, what is illegal, and what is in the interests of shareholders.
That reminds me of the housing boom from 2003-2008. House values doubled or tripled in many areas. Then the financial crisis put a hurt on the housing industry. I can't help but feel that necessities like housing, food, transportation, etc shouldn't be speculation tools. Frankly, I think the housing, food, transportation, etc should decline in value, but that's another discussion altogether.

The "northeast" isn't much more affordable. I guess it depends on where in the northeast as the northeast is a big region, but housing values near NYC, Boston and even philadelphia has increased dramatically in the past 10 years.
I buy it. While the helicopter technology isn't currently developed by enough to do a flashy demonstration on Earth, the telemetry is developed enough to guarantee it will work on Mars with only that minimal test.
That seems pretty reasonable to me honestly given the whole mindset behind Android. Why would the average user even care about exploring the filesystem? And if you're a poweruser who really wants to have low level access then you can just root your device and run whatever you want on it.

Regardless of whether you think it's good or bad design, at least it's consistent IMO.
The share of Americans not having sex has reached a record high
For those too impatient to read the details, check out the "Hear for yourself" examples toward the bottom of the page. They're reproducing decent sounding speech at 1.6 kbps.

1.6 kbps is nuts! I like to re-encode audio books or podcasts in Opus at 32 kbps and I consider that stingy. The fact that speech is even comprehensible at 1.6 kbps is impressive. As the article explains, their technique is analogous to speech-to-text, then text-to-speech.

The original recordings are a little stiff, and the encoded speech is a little more stiff. It isn't perfect, but it's decent. It'll be interesting to hear this technique applied to normal conversation. If regular speech holds up as well as their samples, it should be perfectly adequate for conversational speech. At 1.6 kbps, which is absurd.

Also, I wonder how well this technique could be applied to music. My guess is that it won't do justice to great musicians ... but it might be good enough simple pop tunes.
I do suspect that a lot of the alleged rabbit hole comes from people deliberately picking out recommended videos that are more extreme than the currently viewed one. But I'm interested in putting this theory to the test.

I'm actually thinking of making a script or an extension that automates, say 10, 25, or 50 random clicks in the top 10 recommendations and seeing where it ends up. Maybe this system exists already.
I have anecdotal first-hand experience with a dog who smelled cancer - or at least something very wrong with their health - in a loved one, and there seems to be other anecdotes, too [1].

My family member already knew she had ovarian cancer, but when we went to visit a friend's house with a dog she had never met, the dog acted in ways that the owners were amazed to see. The dog usually was a ball of energy, running all over the place, but when my family member with cancer sat down, the dog was extremely gentle and wouldn't leave her side. The owners said this was not at all typical behavior of their dog.

[1] https://www.health.com/ovarian-cancer/dog-detects-owners-can...
I was having 10-30 a day for a while near the end there. Fortunately, my auras aren't very disruptive. No memory loss, no physical, emotional, or behavioral manifestations. I simply lose the ability to speak or understand language. It's a different story if they spread or generalize though.

After I started medication, I continued to have seizures for a year, including one grand mal. Unfortunately, I was in the unlucky 30% group that doesn't respond to medication. I tried 2 drugs total, even at high doses.

All of the sudden, I stopped having them for 2 years. I got my confidence back. I could do anything - drink, drive (not at the same time lol), not sleep, handle stress. Nothing really phased me, I figured I was "cured". I took a minimal amount of medicine with no issues. Epilepsy can spontaneously go into remission for a lot of people.

Then one day, I had an aura, and just like that, it started up again. Daily auras and one grand mal. A higher dose of medicine did nothing. A year later, they suddenly went away again with no changes to lifestyle or medication.

I'm so confused why this is happening. No one can tell me. Normal brain scans (no tumors or other abnormalities thank god), abnormal but somewhat inconclusive EEG in regards to where they may be coming from. One pointed to left temporal lobe, another was somewhat inconclusive. No, they're not psychogenic.

Anyway, there are some really smart people doing epilepsy research, particularly with regards to cryptogenic focal epilepsy. I'm looking forward to the advances they'll make. Now, you can do minimally-invasive brain surgery via laser ablation which is pretty neat. I haven't gotten the full work-up for surgery, but I'm probably not a candidate since they don't like to operate on any part of the brain that has to do with language. I want to wait until some more research comes out. The autoimmune avenue looks possibly promising. They're doing a lot of genetics research as well. TBD.
Yeah... It makes more sense for /var and even /usr/local. / and /usr are both managed by the OS installation. /opt makes a little more sense because it's often used by large, third party packages any one of which could be larger than the whole of / and /usr together.

If / or /var run out of space (even now) then lots of daemons get into quite a bit of trouble. Anything from hanging to consuming a lot of CPU in the disk allocator.

It's often not possible to ssh into a machine where / or /var has filled up.

There was also the problem of file system robustness. Whilst things were a lot better than the non-UNIX platforms of the day, things weren't quite as good as they are today. These filesystems often were not journalled. That meant that if you had a power failure you could lose the entire volume. (I've personally had at least one / partition be destroyed by fsck after a power failure. I was so, so glad I didn't lose /home. /opt and /usr/local as well!)

Depending on whether you were the user or the administrator dictates which partition you prefer to survive, but at least it adds some robustness. It's nice to have things separated based on how you will restore them. / and /usr will come from the vendor. /opt will probably be a whole load of different media from all over the place.
If Ordinary American City is Stockton or Fresno, sure, but if they are Austin, Dallas, Boston, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta, DC. I beg to disagree, now start-up scene perhaps has limited destinations. Tech sector is thriving in every major metro in US.
Since they're the ones with the money, they're the ones who have to end up paying. If you give someone else the money, they'll pay people, and you can celebrate them instead. Or, we could not have an economic system based on the bizarre idea that certain people always get money whenever someone else does work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YIPtJlCbIA

Here's the hollow mask illusion, one of the most fascinating parts of the article for me.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm prepared to open up a huge short position when Lyft gets to about 90. No way this thing will keep going up.
Every new fighter the US has added since 1970 has followed the same pattern so it's not surprising. At least the F-35 hasn't killed a bunch of pilots like the F-14 did before they worked the kinks out.
>Speculation can hide some of that dynamic during periods of rapid price increases but a lot of speculators go broke and give up. We saw a lot of that during the mortgage meltdown.

In Vancouver, ownership costs exceed the median household pre-tax income. This is literally impossible to sustain over the long term if we agree those prices are generated by housing demand from 'people'. It makes a heck of a lot more sense when we consider that this is an investment bucket that is attracting surplus foreign capital in a world where there is fierce competition for returns. Speculation isn't 'hiding some of the dynamic'. It is the dominant force in pricing.

The typical 'healthy' value in most markets is 30% to 40%. Many specific 'hot' locations are hitting north of 66%. In Canada overall, the median is around 55%.

Will the bubble pop? Eventually. But the damage is already being inflicted. There's an entire generation where home ownership rates have fallen off a cliff.
When I see this headline, I think, "All well and good. SWAT-ing is essentially attempted murder.

However, I find this part of the article biased:

It should not go unnoted here that Finch was unarmed and on his own doorstep when police killed him — with an assault rifle — reportedly because “he was reaching for his waistband.” Apparently the officer also “believed he saw a gun come up in Mr Finch’s hands.” Well, which was it, up or down? Was he reaching for the gun or raising it? Is it common for Wichita police to shoot someone within seconds of them answering the door, without assessing the situation — for instance, where the children are? As is sadly often the case in such shootings, the police are entirely without credibility here, and the officer involved seems to have faced no consequences.

1 - It's factually incorrect that Finch was shot by an "assault rifle." An AR-15 isn't an assault rifle. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Wichita_swatting )

2 - Given what we know about the reliability of witnesses, especially in stressful situations, there isn't sufficient context in the article to come to such a conclusion.

3 - From the Wikipedia entry: Mrs. Finch reports that her 28-year old son "screamed and then they shot him". Moments after Finch stepped onto his front porch, police ordered him to put his hands up. According to officer testimony, he began to do so and then stopped.

The officer may well have been reacting to the scream or to the way Finch was moving.

That said, I have issues with police video simulation training, from what I've seen of it. I saw a video of a simulator session where the "right answer" was always to shoot. There were a sequence of scenarios, often looking innocuous, but then escalating very quickly to shooting. Again, there was no variation of whether the officer should shoot. It was only a matter of when.

I've been watching the YouTube channel "Free Field Training" which is produced by an Illinois police officer. His take on using a gun in police work, is that a police officer might need to draw a weapon hundreds of times a year, but should expect to fire it approximately zero times, with an error bar of somewhere between 0 and 1. (Granted, the situation is different with SWAT.)
That's not how covert operations works. More likely is just a series of subtle moves to get "trusted" assets into the right places, followed by coordination outside of corporate channels to implement the backdoor. You'd have trusted agents actually implementing and using the backdoor, and less trusted assets (ideally, to allay suspicion, people not of your nationality that you've leveraged via MICE or some other mechanism) to look the other way and generally act like useful idiots.
>Everyone paying even little attention to anything other than US propaganda knew it, among other times, when the US “evidence” was debunked by UN inspectors in the same hearing it was presented. Which the major broadcast media all transmitted live, so if they were watching their own coverage they knew it, too.

I think that's a convenient story that sounds great in hindsight, but I don't see evidence that that's what actually happened at the time. Yes, the Chief Inspector tried to dispute some of Powell's claims, but this was not necessarily considered a "debunking".

There was a great deal of confusion, uncertainty, and disagreement, including among the UN inspectors themselves. It wasn't black and white. You can't point to any sort of convincing proof, pre-invasion, that Iraq did not have WMDs.

Of course, one shouldn't have to prove a negative, and one should have very damning proof if they're going to start a war, but the point is that a lot of smart people did think there was a legitimate risk. They were just wrong, and in some cases were misled.

The media should have been much more balanced and cautious with their reporting, for sure, but the suggestion that all the media outlets just intentionally lied to everyone about WMDs is very unrealistic. There certainly may have been lying going on inside the intelligence community and perhaps the executive branch, but that's not the same.

I do think a big takeaway from the Iraq War and some of the Trump stuff is that the mainstream and historically respected media (NYT etc.) are much less trustworthy than we all initially thought. But they're less trustworthy because they're fallible humans who often succumb to biases and overconfidence in their analyses - not because they're deceitful evildoers.

>We (those of us who had been paying any attention, at any rate) also knew that much of the senior national security leadership of the US administration that was pretending to be concerned about that had, in fact, actively, vehemently, and overtly supported those actions at the time

I'm with you there.
"just" 45 minutes? God forbid you need to find another job in the city - thats a 1.5 hour a day commute.

There is a reason why location location location has been a truism in real estate since forever.
This is a marketing video but shows the idea that deals with what you propose - https://youtu.be/e1NrFZddihQ?t=122
I think the whole video is interesting but I've set it to the piece dealing with hostile aircraft.
Recently I've been tinkering with Elixir a lot. That's why I decided to share some small tips for learning Elixir. Hopefully someone will find it useful :)
Google was smart and sort of protected itself from Android forks years ago, when they started putting more and more functionality in Google Play Services. Most apps need that to run now, and it isn't open source.
See also this alt-history piece by Scott Alexander:

http://web.archive.org/web/20160217174724/https://squid314.l...

Put like this, it really makes you wonder if drone warfare is the worse alternative.
I can only speak for myself but I don't eat shellfish for the same reasons I don't eat other meat - I think the idea of eating it is really gross.
If you wish to read this article in novel form, Incandescence by Greg Egan.
From what I can tell, the GNU time command has a -f "%F" flag that will provide it.

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/time.1.html