skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, this gave me flashbacks to trying to put 3.5-4GB of RAM into motherboards in 2003. After a bunch of iterations of telling the motherboard manufacturers what we wanted, and having them hack the BIOS to work for exactly one DIMM configuration, then fail on anything else, I eventually gave up expecting most of the BIOS to work at all. I added code to the Linux startup sequence that ignored everything the BIOS said about memory maps, queried what physical DIMMS were there, and rebuilt my maps by hand.

It's been so long that I can't tell an e820 map from an MTRR, but this was still a fun read.
For an example, I have read writings of many experts in mental disorders that completely ignore changes in the DSM V. I do not know if the experts are not aware of the changes or don't agree with them, but the way mental disorders are classified underwent some significant changes and I can quote direct lines from the DSM V that strongly contradict the claims of experts.
How do you turn that option on? (A Google search actually returns your comment as the first result and some more links to JIT PDFs)
There was a taxi strike in Madrid recently and it seems it improved traffic, according to this:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/01/31/inenglish/1548938901_32...
> fairly, openly, democratically, with respect.

Why would the US change its modus operandi ? :P
It seems to have completely disappeared.

Too bad, too, because I make the same criticism myself, of the New Yorker style of "make me wade through 500 words just for an inkling of what this is actually about". But yeah, it's a matter of taste.
"Contributing" versus "having contributions", I suppose.

Lots of advice new-ish engineers implies that just having a Github profile with OSS work will improve prospects, when in reality most people I've seen admit that they don't even check Github profiles for applicants.

As far as the act of contributing turning into discussions, connections, and jobs, that's far more plausible. But I think it's a mistake to imply that merely having that work will provide visibility and opportunities. When people are getting offers passively on the strength of their past OSS work, they're more likely people who wrote popular libraries or led projects than just names on a contributor list.
It's very true as you said:
>it's that our perspectives and expectations from other people and from government are different in some pretty significant ways.

But what I meant is really about whether HN is a good place to discuss this issue, where for most other discussions we expect to find some good comments from domain experts.
give beer to this guy!
The media tends to overstate how much a single story moves a stock. Not limited to Tesla, and I would say 10% is actually one of the larger movements than is typically associated with a single story within a day.
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What makes you believe US completes fairly and openly? Don't you see news on China import embargo and capture of it's executives.
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The elephant in the room is the huge amount of mental health issues encountered by competitive gamers (kind of like programmers). The lifestyle and pressures are not conducive to most people's idea of happiness and there is a huge rate of burnout. It's really sad when these young players start to see their first glimpse of success but drop out one or two months into their first professional engagement...
True, but you can say that about nearly any developed country out there.
I think there is a technical solution to this problem though. A structured graph of supporting facts (including an analog of identity for the sources and corroborators, pointing to the edges) is an excellent datastructure for maintaining a record of reasoning and evidence for a statement of fact.

There is, of course, the social issue of convincing people that this is important, but the underlying issue is in part a technical one. I don't think it's fair to disqualify a solution based on the fact that involves technical work.
A billion people is not "someone".

The issue is that you're making pejorative generalizations about an entire population, which crosses into national slur—or at least dips a toe into that toxic waste. Not ok here.

Please don't "shame the Chinese" or "shame a culture" on Hacker News. Turning HN into a battlefield helps no animals, and there are infinitely many ways to make your points without violating the site guidelines. Please review them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
> There is no need to have the public-facing identifier be the unique identifier

Yeah, there is: it's a major UX improvement, because the URLs at issue are entry-point URLs, which need friendly names for the same reason domains for public-facing services (which are key components of entry-point URLs) do.

It's true that in the general case objects don't necessarily need a URL component that matches their friendly name, but this is not the general case.
Are you sure about that? I bought mine with 16gb a number of years ago and still use it as a NAS + plex server (zfs loves to chew through ram). The wikia page also talks about it: https://n40l.fandom.com/wiki/Memory
They cannot afford to slow down because their market cap will fall and (1) they won't be able to get more money, and (2) they won't attract fans and media.
Is there a better suffix to indicate bash?
That is technically be true, but I've worked at four shops that have implemented Agile methodologies and it hasn't been true for any of them, nor for most of the engineers I personally know but don't work with. I do personally know one person who works on a team that this is true, but he's the only one.

This may be doing Agile wrong, but if something can be so easily done wrong that it's common, I count that as serious flaw in the methodology.
About 50% of the US government's spending is social programs. Unless every penny of that is spent on those who paid the taxes to fund it, then wealth is being redistributed.
Bare Metal. I was thinking on setting up my own server.
Could you be a little more specific about your requirements / constraints? Otherwise, you aren't asking anything here that couldn't be answered with a trivial Google search.
Indeed looks like they did disable MCAS using the stabilizer trim cutout switches, but the aircraft was trimmed nose down when they did so. Aerodynamic loading prevented manual trimming using the trim wheels. They eventually turned electric trim back on, as they didn't really have any other options, but didn't trim back enough, and left it turned on. At this point the right airspeed indicator (which should be more reliable) reads 365 knots. VMO is 340, so they're already in big trouble. 5 seconds later, MCAS kicked back in, and then it was all over. Very sad.
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We didn't use A/B tests to make the iPhone at Apple
If you do this, you have to pay estimated taxes quarterly, so you really only have 4 months to get a return on your investment.
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There wasn't anything said about Wikipedia being a bad idea, but rather that it shouldn't be your sole source for fact-checking. I've learned that people only trust Wikipedia to the point at which it confirms their biases.
I truly believe that post-publication fact checking is a losing battle. If you take a sampling of redaction tweets by media outlets and compare their retweet counts to the retweet counts of the original posting you'll see that that is very much the case.
It's has many parallels to the fallacy of Loki's Wager:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki%27s_Wager
I think there's reasons that either approach is the right one, but Microsoft has the benefit that if they panic on boot, there's a good chance the issue will be fixed, and most likely before the product is released. (In this case, the fix was apparently just to list a smaller maximum ram size though)
> It seems like you're making an implicit distinction between deciding to be a Christian and accepting God

I wasn't intending to, but perhaps I should have been. A Muslim has the same situation as a Christian - somewhat different morals, but the structure of the situation is the same. The distinction I was drawing was between polytheistic gods and a monotheistic, absolute God.

> Yes, the position they just chose. It's like saying after you've made a choice, you can either take it or not

I see the "choosing the Christian position" as parallel to "choosing the atheist position". But my point is that, when you choose the Christian position, that defines morals for you. When you chooses the atheist position, that does not define morals for you.
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At a high level, the market is supposed to provide an incentive to serve customers - "solving a problem" or "help people" as the original post put it.

My point is that real-world incentives are never perfectly aligned with such lofty, nebulous goals. They are about things you can measure such as how much money you can make. Making money is not the same as helping people and no incentive scheme is clever enough to make it so. Customers are often smarter than rules but even then, customers can be fooled. So there will always a way to make money without helping people and when you increase incentives, it also increases incentive to do things that aren't actually the goal.

This means that to some extent we rely on people to follow the spirit of the incentives and not to simply be amoral incentive-maximizers.

(This is closely related to the principal-agent problem, except the principal here is society in general.)
You own nothing. You are nothing.

In the 90s, Mr. Nissan was able to fight and keep nissan.com. That feels like a thousand years ago. Now everything is governed by private "policies" that amount to "we can do anything we want".

I don't like the new world at all.
You also don't see TMobile stealing robots from China or Facebook luring Baidu developers to "interviews" for interrogation.
They make high-endurance SD cards these days. They have the same reliability (or better) as an SSD but in a small package and for relatively cheap. These should be used in virtually all Raspberry Pis that see any non-trivial amount of disk use.

RPi3+ also support booting from USB and Ethernet so you really don't need an SD card in a lot of cases either.
Safari on iOS isn’t working for me.
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They get money by selling cars at a profit.
I live in South Africa. One of my local malls has a busload of Chinese tourists arriving not hourly but possibly daily. Not a special mall.

China is so big that even if a tiny percentage have any interest in you, you'll think it's a heck of a lot. MIT can be a non-household name and still attract hundreds of thousands.
This stuff, right? https://hygenall.com/shooting-sports/

(I'm pretty much a 9mm shooter (124gr CCI/Speer TMJ Lawman 124gr, or Gold Dots -- or SIG Frangible when I'm at SIG Academy or TR; 5.56 ranging from cheap M193 to M855 to non-penetrator 62gr to 75gr or 77gr TAP or OTM/IMI Razorcore. I also run a fair bit of 12ga. Worst thing I do is a RH X95 bullpup, suppressed, in off-hand drills, which is basically all the exhaust in my face/neck area on every shot.)
If I want to invest in Tesla or any other company (another ex: Boeing), I'd ask myself this q: Is this something temporary problem that smart people would easily able to overcome? Or is this something fundamental or structural issue that's gonna be there long-term. I don't see this delivery issue for Tesla dragging on beyond this quarter. Lately, I have seen specifically with Tesla that short-term concerns have been dragging down the stock way too much.
when bluGill writes: "I don't want the world to see pictures of my kids (even though nobody cares it still isn't a good idea), but I do want my parents to see them."
- it makes me wonder if this means that kids gave their approval to this and were even able understand the impact on their life when their parents gave away their biometric data to sell for the highest bidder.
I don't know the French situation, but for Germany: If you are an arbitrary employee with only a salary and maybe a savings account you don't have to do anything.

The employer will file salary taxes, the bank will file taxes on interests.

At the end of the year they send summaries and that can be it.

As soon as you have income from other sources (i.e. self-employed work etc.), want to deduce more than 1000€ etc. you have to get into the paperwork and then it can become quite complex if you want to really take all benefits in.
I take the opposite view, SQL is very high level.

It's a declarative language that in theory abstracts you away from the underlying execution environment, it's up to that engine to work out how to optimally execute the query, you as a programmer should focus on the data you require.
I'm envisioning something cross-platform so I can start by using it on Mac before I switch.

Amarok doesn't have smart playlists. Clementine isn't maintained. Audacious doesn't seem to have column browser or playlist folders. Rhythmbox has a column browser, but not playlist folders. None have AppleScript support.
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I guess I missed out on the unconstitutionality of many carriers not carrying Nokia Windows phones or Sony Android phones or Motorola phones...
I appreciate your desire to prevent HN from sinking into that kind of conflict, prejudice, and shaming—but breaking the site guidelines yourself is no way to go about it.

We ban accounts that break the guidelines regardless of which side they're on, and actually regardless of whether they're right or not. Being right doesn't help; it actually makes it worse, because right flames burn more intensely than wrong ones. So can you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, follow the rules, and not post anything more like the above to this site?
As long as National Security Letters are a thing, that can encompass most companies.
The sample size is very small. Makes me nervous about any conclusions.
>It's this idea because you did something similar well, that your ability should port to "things like it."

Except that Elon Musk has:

Completely disrupted online payments

Completely disrupted space travel

Completely disrupted automobiles.

It wouldn't matter if SpaceX and Tesla disappeared at this moment. The history books would still be written about how Tesla and SpaceX were the things that instigated the change.
Nope. Presumably their former positions on their resumes are why former government employees are on such boards/in such positions. Expecting/wanting certain things on a resume are standard practice.
> If you look at sprinters compared to swimmers, I would say the sprinters are much more built. If you compare marathon runners to swimmers, it is the swimmer that is more built.

This comparison puts all swimmers in the same category, but there are sprint swims and distance swims too. Do you mean that most land sprinters are more built than all swimmers — both sprinters and distance?

(Just seeking clarification is all.)
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This can be done, for example ST in Idris which lets you reason about resources (check out linear types).

However, if you are thinking more in the direction of "you have to reason about where and how exactly your values and functions are stored", you're moving back to C, because the entire point is to disentangle the formal description of computation, from it's actual execution in the real world. If you want to deal with that, you have to do it explicitly and _by reasoning about it_ (with ST, for example). Which is what purity means.

> They are "total" only with respect to a set of axioms which imply an execution model where computers do not explode mid-program

"There is a chance that the computer blows up" is one of those things that have little bearing when reasoning about programs, it's just not in the domain of discourse. It certainly has no formal bearing on the notion of totality, mathematics just doesn't deal with cases such as "what if everyone who counted to 5 suddenly died", it deals with the counting itself. When the chance is actually high, for example radiation in space flipping bits, I'm pretty sure you want to handle that elsewhere.

It's not hard to imagine a fault-tolerance system gaining a lot from dependent types, however, with their ability to prove that your code follows a defined protocol.
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maybe now that would work, but initially tesla wouldn't have succeeded.

They reinvented the electric as a cool, sexy, fast and popular vehicle. Without that I imagine many other manufacturers would never have made the changes they're making now for electrics.
> The extreme/rare event is Tesla got hundreds of thousands of people to put a down payment on a car with zero marketing costs.

According to their SEC filings Tesla spends tens of millions of dollars per quarter on marketing costs. Where does the idea that they spend zero on advertising come from?
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"a high degree of craftsmanship"? I know what this means but still, how exactly do you define that and not be biased by how the candidate presents him/herself.
Google's services are better because they can harvest data from you
Because, depending on your configured concurrency model, it may need to be able to spawn new processes/threads as other users, and this is not possible unless you have at least one process running with some privileges beyond that of the normal users. This usually means root. Even if not root, it needs to be a user/group privileged enough to be able to impersonate the other users, or it can't do its job.

The code running with greater privilege is kept to a minimum but at least some needs to be there, and this exploit potentially gives a route through to manipulate it.

FastCGI and similar can help here - it can push the creation of user specific processes away from Apache, making it harder to cross the barrier.
Hmmm. From the article: "MIT is the latest top educational institution to unplug telecom equipment made by Huawei and other Chinese companies to avoid losing federal funding."

It seems like my government is pulling out all the stops trying to compete internationally against Chinese companies in the 5G market. I understand that other countries also pull out all the stops in trying to help their industries compete internationally.
Who would have an advantage building a 5nm processor. Intel, or some random company that doesn't build processors?

There is institutional knowledge, built up over every new generation. Now 7nm could be different to 10nm, but they've learnt transferable knowledge from that effort, even if its just how not to do it.
I'm on a t-rex workout plan :D
There have been reports of forced labor in the Uighur camps as well:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/16/world/asia/xinjiang-china...
Sorry, I have edited my question. I'm planning to build something from scratch. Setup my own server, have an API gateway(similar to AWS) and use PostGreSQL. Thanks.
Yeah in theory this is a good way to handle that concern, but I still think it will be awkward.

Also, it seems this service is only relevant at all in romantic contexts, and My gues is that most girls are not attracted to men that are to shy to talk to them directly. But maybe I’m old fashioned.
The creator of the NT kernel (Dave CUtler) also created VMS while working at DEC. Because of this, NT have a lot in common with VMS.
Estimated fuel savings from the 126mpge rating.

See: https://teslanomics.co/tesla-model-3-fuel-savings-calculator...
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> it's been a major step in a better direction for everyone involved.

I am not convinced that this is true.
You're right. It's not ok to "shame the Chinese" on Hacker News, or to shame any other population. It sucks that it has become necessary to say that, but group behavior is unfortunately volatile and degenerates quickly. I'm sure that crushcrashcrush wouldn't deliberately shame someone in person just because their background was from China, or anywhere else.

The world at large is headed into more of this, so for HN to succeed, it needs to get a little less like the world at large.
I'm not sure many people even think about how possible this is. What are the drawbacks? Aside from funding, what's stopping this from happening?

I can already automatically import most forms from banks/financials/payroll companies into TurboTax. Why not skip the middle man?
And then I would just shrug my shoulders and buy more index funds. Investing in individual companies, no matter what you think you know, is always unwise compared to index investing.
What's your definition of respect?
They address that a bit, though, and they point out that this is just a cross-sectional study. I think it's more like a starting place for this research (land vs. water exercise) instead of anything meant to have hard conclusions drawn from it.

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if other "news" agencies report on the NYT report with headlines like "Runners Have Much Stronger Hearts Than Swimmers, Study Says".
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Try online here: https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/gnu-unifont

It does look different (likely incorrect), but is definitely better than blank boxes and question marks.
> For an example, I have read writings of many experts in mental disorders that completely ignore changes in the DSM V.

Nitpick, but it's DSM 5; roman numerals were dropped after DSM IV.

> I do not know if the experts are not aware of the changes or don't agree with them

Almost certainly the latter. Lots of DSM V changes were, and are, controversial (even among people who acknowledge the existence of the problems the changes were intended to fix, the aisle solutions chosen are sometimes controversial.)
Ah now I finally got it! Nemtsy, makes sense.
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...in what area is China actually leading? Catching up and leading require two very different skill sets.
> You have a fixed place that I can contact you and reach out. Oh, and it's the same website where I can find my favorite college roommate too...

I thought that too, until I discovered that some of those old friends actually were impersonated and who knows how many identity thefts there are out there.
Stocks always seem overreact to any negative earnings news reports. I wonder how much of it is automated.