skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was expecting something sounding like whispering, or Wookie, or maybe a child.
It sounds a lot like a woman to me. Perhaps in the lower frequencies it sounds like an older male teenager.

To be quite frank, I think the goal is quite dehumanizing and I don't see how this helps, really.

If fighting racist stereotypes and prejudice is not achieved by means of avoiding the issue, why would it be any different with gender? Aren't simple respect for the other and fostering a culture of dignity the true goals?

Our brain's lock-in heuristics will always find a way to reinforce contrasts so that we can navigate the social world. If not gender, something else. What is needed is conscientiousness.
>It's what Boyd warned everyone about during the last generation, you need to avoid mutli role aircraft as they're not good at anything.

Like the F-16 or the F-15E?
Hillaker said he'd have designed the F-16 differently(more akin to the F-16XL) if he had known it was going to be multi-role.
Assuming I have no idea about these things, which is true—I don’t—how much is a decent CO2 sensor that can be connected to a Pi or similar setup?

I recently upgraded to double glazed windows in half the house, including all the bedrooms, and put a heat pump in each of the two used bedrooms. So I want to keep the windows closed for heat retention, but also want to keep them slightly open to reduce CO2 build up.

I sleep in my small bedroom with my two 16kg dogs, so it seems reason the CO2 level may rise to suboptimal during the night if the window is shut.

What I would like to do is make a DIY ventilation system that can move fresh, HEPA filtered, air from outside, in to the room.

Or am I over complicating things? Could I just use a small fan, something sized to replace, say, half the volume of the room every few hours, and just leave it constantly on? Or should I put a larger fan on a timer so it runs for a few minutes every hour?

Does any of this really matter?

Edit to add: any good resources to lose myself down a rabbit hole?
today i first time saw the 737 MAX frontal view. Initially i thought that it was that typical funny plane-themed photoshop. I kid you not, it is the real thing - https://i.stack.imgur.com/GFzcj.jpg

Just look at those nacelles. Deep breath. Look again. Take them in. Besides clearly visually screaming that this Frankenstein thing was quickly&cheaply slapped together and wasn't properly engineered and thus should just have never seen the light of the day, these nacelles obviously add more lift than normal symmetrical ones. So:

1. the engines placed more forward than pre-MAX 737 - that results in additional pitching up moment as the engines are below the centers of pressure, gravity, etc.

2. the engines are 2x higher-by-pass than pre-MAX 737 and thus the center of thrust is shifted even more forward and lower - as a result it adds even more of the pitching up

3. these asymmetrical nacelles generate more lift just due to the shape - and again due to the position of the engines that lift results in the additional pitching up moment.

Basically that thing just can't really fly steady straight, and looking at all this some people at Boeing decided that a bandaid software patch would just fix it. Sounds like it were the same people who did the "curl" fix in today Cisco story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19508472 :)
> It was odd they are only going after white nationalism.

They aren't. They went after ISIS years ago, and they've recently been trying to go after accounts contributing to the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar, as a sibling comment noted and provided a link for.

If Hebrew Israelites start driving cars into crowds or shooting up churches and synagogues, I'd hope Facebook goes after them, too.
I wasn't talking about mob rule. I was talking about an orthodoxy that's ruthlessly enforced by those in power. Cause that's what it was before.

"Freedom of speech" is not an accident. Enlightenment thinkers have been pondering this for 200 years and more and objections have been successfully adressed over and over again. It's as much of the type of consensus you describe as we will ever have. 'But computers' is not sufficient to just do away with it.
Years ago my old work's Senior programmer got an expensive motorized standup desk, in a private room. And I was stuck in an exposed cubicle with extra narrow desk space, with no hope of getting that kind of treatment.

I thankfully work remote now. I dont have separate room but just a corner of our bedroom, with a standup desk. I hope I never have to go back to working in a normal office.
There are actually lot of cryptocurrencies with issuance for eternity: dogecoin, grin comes to mind at least. The inflation parameters are the easiest to change, if for Bitcoin those are a problem, some other cryptocurrency with better parameters can take over. The market will decide, as no one forces anyone to use specific cryptocurrency, there is pretty much free competition.
This reminds me of the famous quote by Socrates:

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”
Excellent point on #3. I have heard so many reasons for this. I have no idea how a foreign CEO sleeps at night with all the backroom embezzlement activity I have heard about. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars in inflated P.O. going into the wrong aka less efficient, less competent hands because it can.
It's easy to opine and judge from on high when it's not your nuts in the vice.
I vote for Jeeves.
>What is worrisome about bitcoin isn't that it's used for fraud at all, it's that fraudulent activity and weird con-like schemes constitute a significant, if not majority of activity.

Sorry but it's not 2015 anymore. I mean yes it does happen but not nearly as much as people think, probably not even much more than with regular currencies. It's true though that people fall for crypto cons more easily since a lot jumped in hoping for miracle money without even understand what they're doing. Thankfully this isn't the case anymore since hopefully enough people have learned about it and will pass that knowledge to others.
One of the pilots comments seemed to indicate that:

"In the two years since [the 388th’s] last Red Flag exercise, the airplane itself has had some pretty significant advancements. A couple of months before the 2017 Red Flag, the Air Force declared that the squadron was what we call “initial operational capable.” So the jet still had some operating limitations—altitude, airspeed, Gs, things like that. The software on the aircraft, though very capable, still had some limitations in terms of some of the systems and some of the weapons it could control. Fast forward two years, and we’re operating with what’s referred to as full warfighting capability software. It’s a more advanced F-35 than it was two years ago."
That's an appeal to authority.

It is, but it's also shorthand for "people who are likely to be good based on the fact they've been through a rigorous hiring process designed to filter out the worst engineers". Sometimes, maybe, you should let the principle of charity win over the rigorous rhetorical logic you can use to dismiss an argument because it broke The Rules you learned on LessWrong.
How easy is it for a consumer to make that choice? Is the information surfaced to consumers?
Yeah it means neo-Nazis who believe in the innate supremacy of the white race. If you’re one of them I want you to be deplatformed immediately and without sentimental hand-wringing about liberal platitudes.

This will be an ongoing project and will require constant tweaking and adjustment, but I’m all for their removal from the public sphere.

There are underlying economic and social issues leading to the reemergence of this worldview that need to be dealt with urgently and with peacemaking intention. Still, in the meantime this kind of thought if unchecked leads to genocide and must be stopped.
I wonder if the approach of making a compiler from an interpreter leads to lots of suboptimal code.

One point I can think of is, in an interpreter you're presumably keeping track of program's vars in your own data structures instead of just throwing pointers around. Though, this might be unavoidable with a dynamic source language.
According to Google Play [1] it has >500M installs and about 20M reviews.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.UCMobile.i...
The obfuscated C coding contest shows that you probably won't catch backdoors with code reviews
This sounds fine to me. I don't care if a clearly artificial voice doesn't sound human. Computers should have their own voice.

I think the stated purpose is stupid, though. Gendered roles are good. They give people a purpose and make them happier. I really pity the little girls who get forced into things like engineering just because their parents wanted to be hip and "genderless".
> Hoping that it will mis-count your wealth in your favor is speculation, which is a bad, dangerous role for currency.

Speculation is rampant also with traditional currencies - I remember seeing reports where 80-90% of trades in traditional forex markets were classified as speculative.

I personally think there is a lot benefits from speculators. Speculators create pricing signals, help price things more effectively and create better liquidity. All market participants benefit from better pricing and liquidity. The more we have speculators on the market, the better priced things we have on the market and that in the long term means stability and predictability.
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What utter garbage. So many centuries of war and suffering, millions and millions of pages written on the events of the 20th century and still there’s people taking themselves out of the equation and saying that actually, the guys loving freedom and who would rather not live under fascist rule are really the bad guys. Please educate yourself and read about all our collective achievements and try to understand where the vehemence of people not wanting to tolerate nazis comes from.
What does "teaching Yearbook" mean?
Which is debunked.
For context, according to 2011 census there were 118 million farmers and 144 million farm labourers in India. 12,000 suicides per year puts the suicide rate at 4.5 per 100,000 people. This is lower than suicide rate of most countries.
>There are no impactful consequences for not using Facebook
Yes there are. I decided not to use facebook years ago. I also don't use any of their other services. Consequences range from being an outsider socially to being outright excluded from university/school/work events, because they're organized solely on Facebook and nobody told you. Everybody just assumes you're on there. When you enter a new peer group of 20+ people you can't just tell them to completely mix up their habits because you happen to not like what they're doing. You might be able to do that when a network is reasonably small. When a third of the world population is on there, that doesn't work anymore. The thesis you're defending is wrong.
Unexpected Effects of the 2018 Root Zone KSK Rollover
Real programmers set up their own bouncer relays
Silicon Valley Decimated Isis Online. Why Not Do the Same to White Nationalism?
Why not have inflation at 10% to have even better "nudge" for people to work?

You are essentially communicating the same thing that the crypto nerds are saying, just from a different angle. The individual pays the 2% "nudge", and crypto people don't prefer paying that, and that's why they use crypto. Whether it is good for society or not is irrelevant in the individuals context.
For now. The passing of time and new generations will result in the loss of the lessons of the past.
As a lawyer it's his job to defend people accused of horrible things. If we aren't going to celebrate the fact that accused people can get a good defense, we might as well just do away with trials all together.
Presumably, though I bet Mel would be an even better figure here: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
What makes this article look like a PR piece, more than the smiles, is the appearance of a firm directive to talk about situational awareness etc. instead of flight performance and the clear defensive intent of some sections (e.g. the airshow demo).

There seem to be a large blind spot in these pilot accounts, some elephant in the room, but not being an expert I'm unable to pinpoint what it is.
NPM is a trainwreck in many respects, and nodejs is terrible in many ways, but that doesn't mean developers can't use them both productively. It requires effort. You can't just push responsibility for what your app is doing under the hood to the ecosystem of library code you pull in.

However, this is true for literally every language we code in.
> The argument is that this trains people to think of women as subservient, or things to be ordered around.

But isn't that like people who assumed that violent games make people more violent (which was proven false in research)? To me this looks more like pushing some agenda trough from some activists in the gender debate.
It sounds female to me, but I like it. It sounds like something out of a ships computer in a sci-fi film.
How would it be possible that 40,000 words translates to 400,000 bits?! Am I missing something here?
Citation needed.

Most people have dozens of PVCs every day.
I live here too. I like the 'new' name, it has grown on me. I think it's endearing and friendly -- like a petname. "Namma Bengaluru" vs stiff-upper-lip British Bangalore.

Putting my personal opinion aside, it's definitely not catching on: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Bengaluru,bangalo...

I still call it Bangalore in any formal setting.
interesting 180 degree turn for them. will they also stop banning people for calling out nazis?
Isn't that peanuts in the Bay Area?
Isn’t this low enough to use ambient radio waves for power?
And none of the pilots are in the position to give fair assessment. You are not allowed to give fair assessment for a fighter even you are retired.
imho from talking to many first time founders there is already a decrease in demand/aspiration to move to the states

part political climate, part living cost in sf/bay, part network becoming more global etc
Not just for software engineers. Age discrimination is real. It exists for young people, but it also exists for the group at hand here: old people.

It is real in general and in the end of last century it has become severe because of our quickly shifting society (the "computer" and "networking" revolutions, among others)
It's tangential but when I read those comments saying that a system could effectively override a pilot, by putting a feedback beyind human strength on a critical control, I always think how enormous kudos is owed to the experienced badass that flew the plane before, during critical situation figured out he knew better and tirned it off.
slippery slope.
at the moment there is no dialogue. commenting on white supremacist content on facebook and calling it out currently will get you banned.
this statement purports that they will be more balanced from now on
I agree and I don't really see the value in making this a battlefield. Pick a male or female voice, whatever you like best.

Having an AI-voice sound artificial could be an advantage in certain situation but I doubt that was the goal here.
Ain't AC-130 Spectre is exactly for that?
You can't force non-citizens, obviously, since non-citizens are not under Australian jurisdiction.

If they could, then this would create a problem of national security for other countries.

But yes, the Five Eyes countries can use Australia for their wiretapping.
I'm curious to hear from anyone who runs air quality monitors at home: how has knowledge of the quality of the air in your house affected your behaviour?

My house is 56 years old. I'm guessing the kitchen upgrade is at least 5 years old. The carpet is probably at least a 5 years old. There isn't much fresh paint in here.

Am I about right to assume I probably don't have much in the way off off-gassing from anything in here, or does carpet / furniture / melamine continually off-gas for it's entire life?

Anyway, I've got some idea that CO2 buildup is a thing, and humidity, and off-gassing, so... I tend to ventilate the house frequently even during winter. Even when it's -5 outside, I'll occasionally open one or more windows / doors and turn the kitchen exhaust fan on in order to draw fresh air in and across the house. I'll also occasionally open multiple doors / windows for 10 minutes or so in an effort to replace the majority of the air in the house.

I tend to eschew yet-another-device that needs maintenance / power / charging / monitoring / fiddling because I tend to do a lot of that at work and would rather just come home and not-have-to-maintain-another-97-machines.

So I'm interested in the on average / sort of good enough / sometimes over-shoot-the-mark behavioural changes that would result if I did have air quality monitors.
Just want to point out a lot of people's money DID disappear over night during the 2008 crisis. Some banks actually went under during that time, along with anyone's money sitting in it. People lost all savings.
I don't have a specific question to suggest, but I find it very helpful to think about and clearly write down three things about any question you intend to ask others for evaluation purposes:

1) SO WHAT - why am I asking this question? What am I trying to learn? How will I use the answer to make my decision?
2) what are some possible answers to this question? is there a "best"/"worst" answer - the answer I (don't) want to hear? This can be objective or subjective, but you have to have a strong opinion.
3) two good follow-up questions, especially if the answer is neither extremely good nor bad.

I find that rubber duck thinking through this cuts out a lot of questions that seem superficially okay but actually give you no useful criteria to make a decision.
The difference is that speculative traders in a normal market are making bets about an actual real underlying value. A share in a company represents some productive asset, a USD can be used to pay tax obligations, even gold has industrial applications.

What is driving the value of a bitcoin?
Boeing's software fix, announced today, is to compare readings from both angle-of-attack sensors and disable MCAS if they disagree significantly. The obvious question is why they didn't do this in the first place?

One possibility is incompetence. But Boeing engineers are smart people, so I'm not convinced by this. The elephant in the room is the requirement to maintain a common type rating with older 737 models.

Suppose they did originally do what the fixed software does now, and disable MCAS if the AoA sensors disagree. The problem Boeing face is that with MCAS disabled when this occurs, the plane no longer flies like an older 737. They'd need to announce to the pilots an AoA disagree, and announce that MCAS was disabled. Now what? A pilot certified and trained on the older 737 would not know how the Max now differs from what they trained on. If they'd done this, they'd have needed to provide additional training, and this must have concerned Boeing management that it might jeopardize the common type rating. Hence it seems likely they didn't add the AoA sensor comparison for this reason, reasoning that it was unlikely to be a problem anyway. We now know that reasoning was flawed.

What does this mean going forwards? Will EASA and other CAAs refuse to certify the modified 737 Max under the same type rating as the older 737? This certainly seems possible. If they did require a separate type rating, this would likely kill 737 sales, regardless of whether the plane is now safe.
All pilots, retired or not, have tight limits to what they can say about new fighter early in the production.

The end result is just PR piece. It's OK to enjoy military porn from glossy magazines, but HN should not be place for it. It has no information.
free speech in US does actually cover incitement to violence. in Europe it doesn't
reminds me of that "hacker steals millions of internet data" joke
Perhaps how much of MATLAB is influenced by Pascal,etc, but it is particularly clumsy and inelegant, as if it stuck in the 80's, not to mention proprietary, I wait for the day when we can move out of it.
Yep, applied for a few places they want PhDs to build models. I'm only getting a master.

I've seen and worked with non stat major PhDs handling model process especially data. I think master in statistic is good enough for modeling and handling data and more so than others for most traditional models.
> In practice, the distinction between banning a subject and banning a conversation about a subject ban, is easy to make

Apparently not for Facebook’s moderators/censors workforce. Just they other day: https://mobile.twitter.com/OzraeliAvi/status/111040092879067... The day before that they banned a local satirical comics and this keeps popping up regularly.
> The individual pays the 2% "nudge",

Only if you a) keep your money in cash under your mattress and b) aren't also benefiting from having your debts reduced by inflation.

It's very simplistic to say that (low, predictable) inflation hurts individuals.
are you blind?
white supremacists kill more people in the west than ISIS
> Supply of apartments and demand for apartments doesn't suddenly change under rent control

Yes it absolutely does. Demand doesn't change, but supply is artificially reduced because people with rent control are less likely to want to (or be able to) move out.
It's ok, you can have all the JS development to yourselves.
Does America has Social Security where the elderly get something?
> The difference is that speculative traders in a normal market are making bets about an actual real underlying value.

No, they are making bets about future market value. Ideas about “underlying” value are just a subset of the potential inputs to such a bet, but they are not what the bet is fundamentally on.
Doesn't really matter what it's for; at the end of the day you don't pay tax on the gain. If I invest in a stock or mutual fund that sadly only grows with inflation, the IRS still gets its cut from my gains. Home sales are (AFAIK) unique in this treatment.
Ask HN: Can I sue my overseas contractor
I have started working with a contractor a while back, but after signing the contract and paying him the downpayment he completly vanished. Im based in Europe and he's in a africa and was wandering if there's any legal actions i can take.
Replace "new method of prospecting" with "new blockchain" and you have the same problem. It's hard to argue that none of the money that went into ICOs and other coins during the run-up would not have gone into Bitcoin if it were the only possible blockchain.
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There are books he wrote like August 1914, which isn't about the Soviet Union. I think though he ended up criticizing USSR, he also criticized the west as well.
I'm quite sure about that because at some point they'll have to admit they can't keep up anymore.

What I dislike about this behaviour is that parts of it (bitbucket, hipchat) are good and they just throw everything away they don't use instead of open sourcing it.
Hey, is this the feature you'd like to have in GitLab https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/39380? It's already being evaluated, actually it's a WIP.
That's true. The very first time I played, I played as Malkavian and it was cool, but I didn't know how different it was until I played other clans and then went back to playing a Malkavian. The contrast between the playthroughs definitely helps make it great, as you say!

Me too. I'm worried, but hopeful.