skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He says everything he consumes in the US is of lower quality than in Europe. If high quality goods are available in the US then he is simply choosing to consume low quality goods.

Again, you may be right about what people broadly value, but he makes it personal as if he has no choice but to consume low quality garbage while in the US. I think he was being a bit hyperbolic. Perhaps he could have said it is more work for him to consume quality food/TV in the US because of what is easily available, popular, marketed etc..
You're talking about the Creator of "The Wire", one of the most anointed TV series of all time.
I don't think many Europeans dream of unnecessarily large pick up trucks, McMansions, and spending surplus income on an cache of AR-15s.
I also wanted to point this out, but I guess Reddit does pose a risk that they make some system-wide decision and in the process all those subreddits either vanish or die a slow death.

As of March 2019 Reddit seems still quirky and interesting though...
https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts How about this link? Seeing as the 4 Noto packages get pretty frequent updates in the Arch repositories, I think it’s being updated frequently. When compiled and stored on a transparent compression disk, it also doesn’t take a lot of space. Unable to check right now, but I would imagine like 200M total on NTFS or btrfs.
From the press release (at: http://ir.tesla.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tesla...):

"We count a produced but undelivered vehicle to be in transit if the related customer has placed an order or paid the full purchase price for such vehicle."

It sounds like it is count as sold, but not delivered. Production was 77100 which leaves about 3500 cars as both unsold and undelivered.

That is only about half a week of production, but at the same time it implies softness in overall demand compared to the past.
> were sweeping the range while someone was still firing at their target?

That costs extra.
Yeah. The healthcare part made me lol.

I put in the "work," live in an awesome location, and I have to fight insurance damn near every time the Dr puts me through any procedures. That's not counting the awful healthcare I actually get. I guess I just need to drive 3-4 hours to get it instead of 1? Then I can't put in the "work" because I'm spending days traveling to get all this stuff done.

I guess the answer is to move. Well then that means i get to start over fighting insurance to get them to cover everything, again. I'm not doing that a third time.
An Overview on Blockchain Services from AWS
I'm more talking about the difficulty associated with going from side project to fledgling company.

In the US you just slap up a Delaware Corp, use basically standard documents for it's structure and ownership and you're off to the races.

Is it that easy in Europe?
> Giving everyone $10K/year would just inflate prices until $10K was the zero baseline for income.

That doesn't make sense. A downward redistribution (which UBI is) is going to inflate prices of goods with disproportionate low-end demand and deflate those with disproportionate high-end demand somewhat, but in any plausible scenario it will still (before considering any effects of reactive production shifts) increase the buying power on the low end and decrease it on the high end, even after the effects of price level changes.
Part of the problem in modeling is to also model the tens of thousands of humans interacting with the new schedule. Changing the train schedule also changes their schedules.

Hence, each time a schedule changes there is an uptick of accidents, disruptions, missed trains, overcrowding, etc until all adjust to this new timetable.
My '90s video gaming group had our own little forum for years and years and years. In the mid-2000s, most of the members of the group jumped over to Facebook, our forum died, and our group collapsed.

Using other social media is definitely not like using those old forums.
Imagine 500m wide parachute. Would probably weight few tonnes, be very complex to deploy (say only above 1-2km altitude), very hard to inspect regularly etc.

The other problem is, a lot of death/damage is done after plane hits the ground and starts to burn. You wouldn't be able to prevent that, since emergency parachute falls are hard ones. So you might still end up killing everybody on plane.
Agreed, beyond conditioning a generation of addictive consumers the narrative has never been more muddied and easily manipulated. Facts no longer matter and that's terrifying.

The world needs to figure out how to “put into place very strict requirements with appropriate consequences that make it unthinkable to violate them.”

“Everyone agrees we shouldn’t be doing this yet,”

These quotes are from a Bloomberg article* about the Chinese scientist who edited the twins DNA as embryos, found interesting that society is able to recognize the incredible dangers and implications of DNA modifications yet have a huge blind spot for tech, perhaps because it's so useful in our day to day lives. User-engagement, optimizing for addiction and driving individuals into echo chambers and the welcoming arms of extremists looking to recruit, worth it for free email I guess?

* https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-13/top-genet...
Books are often harder to pirate, especially less popular ones. It's rare to find a movie or TV show that's not available, it's common to find ebooks that aren't.
Self-driving cars could provide £62bn boost to UK economy by 2030
I’ve found Markus Kuhn’s FAQ to be quite helpful [1], which links to things like test inputs [2].

[1] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html

[2] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt
IMO, no. There is a released fact (via photographs) that the jackscrew on the stab trim was run to the extreme. That's strong evidence to suggest that the non-normal checklist for stab trim runaway was not correctly followed.

The aviation minister's comment today does not carry weight in excess of the photographic, factual evidence, IMO. There are too many "loopholes" that she could be exploiting without leaving her statement technically incorrect.

The good thing, such as it is, is that the facts are almost surely going to emerge here. The CVR transcript, FDR dump, and analysis of whether there's a mechanism for the electric trim to run even with the stab trim cutout switches in cutout and whether that can exceed the crew's ability to stop and reverse the trim setting manually will be telling. I do admit that the minister has greater access to that information than you or I do at this time. It is possible, but not decided, that she's had time to review all that information, knows with certainty the crew is blameless, and has chosen to not make a specific enough statement to support that for any number of valid reasons.
CNCF Remains Focused as Cloud Native Interest Soars
The article is about a driver that allows to map any physical page.
Surely this disenfranchises those most willing to compromise, who are probably going to end up being those who support small parties?

Let's say you a Right and Left party, and breakout Far Left which is actually very popular but has previously lacked electoral support due to its 'outsider' status.

People's favourites might look like this:

Right: 30%
Left: 30%
Far left: 40%

However, 75% of Far Left favourites actually vote for Left too, because they prefer them to right. This ends up with the following result:

Right: 30%
Left: 60%
Far left: 40%

So we are left with 'establishment' mediocrity instead of the most popular result.

Is this OK because a majority of people don't actually want 'far left'? Maybe. Intuitively though, I think taking preferences away will freak people out, particularly in situations where there might be different levels - what if there was a Far Right party that Far Left voters really don't want in - would some end up voting for Right to avoid that happening? They might win despite having 70% unpopularity!

I'd prefer difficult counting processes over a blunting of people's democratic will.
Plus, regs in your locale should cover this, but always good to DYOR.
I’ll agree it didn’t matter in the most recent presidential cycle, though I would argue the real damage is done further down the ballot in the house and senate. People just don’t do as much homework on those candidates and are more responsive to messaging.
No, there is no evidence of a backlog, outside of certain trims. The model 3 SR still has a backlog, by virtue of not having been made yet.
I think it is fair to say most engineers do not violate laws of nature.
I don't know about Tivo, but are all of the rest of these not available in Europe...?
There’s some evidence that suggests adipose tissue can be an inflammatory mediator - which potential could lead to arthritic changes in joints. This is used to explain why we get arthritis not only in weight bearing joints such as the knees and hips, but also in the digits of the hands, which don’t bear as much weight.
Presumably as a regular runner, you are not overweight (less adipose tissue than a more sedentary person)
> and over the years, many have completely annihilated any emotional connection with their audience and instead run their pages as an established brand.

This, so much this.
Exactly. Moreover, we could never be sufficiently confident in an argument of a position until it's been thoroughly excoriated by people who vehemently disagree with each step or even the basic premises. That's how you get watertight proofs, and that's what we would need for AI ethics.
"Intelligent discourse" -- no need to be so generous with your choice of words.
I helped build a website for a cryptocurrency. We were DDoSed with the attacked contacting us via telegram to demand around $10,000 for him to stop. We told him to stop acting like a fucking child and implemented Cloudflare.
Can I abandon a Gmail address that’s getting too much porn?
The image of someone watching a documentary on Buster Keaton whilst having a fight!
I have a large collection of technical books on my ipad. I can choose to read any one of them at any time in any place. I just need my ipad. This is both fun and educational. You appear to have completely missed the point of ebooks.
I get your point. He acted badly and I think social media has dulled his appetite for that, however, his peccadilloes are not the main point. It’s the greater idiocy that current social media fosters which is a multiple orders of magnitude a bigger problem than these provincial disputes ever were.

Let’s take people who are against childhood vaccinations. Their unfounded beliefs would remain contained and would not proliferate beyond their circles vs everyone gets exposed and people who’d never think of this anti scientific position become convinced this position kinda somehow makes sense.
I’m just working from previous articles which said that a large percentage of their orders were at the lower price point, which has only opened up recently.
Fat cells work different 'shifts' throughout the day
I'm still pondering "fuckbonnet".

See michaelbuckbee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19571258
Because the toxins affect people other than the target. Some areas the US military has used for munitions testing have been declared Superfund sites. There are places in northern Europe so contaminated with arsenic and mercury from WWI munitions that they're predicted to be unsuitable for agricultural use for thousands of years.
Would be interesting to see a pgsql vs mariadb Rpi benchmark.
If the US did not spend what we do on defense, the EU would have to.
> Also, knee pain is almost always due to a biomechanical or strength issue.

If you have a recurring running issue it’s one of those. I got shin splints every month. Then I stopped running for six months and started weightlifting. No one who squats is going to get shin splints.
"Fuck you", then, since that's what you're saying to all of us.
I don't know what you mean by "'establishment' mediocrity".

Nothing in your example means that the "Left" has to be "establishment" or "mediocrity".
Like I said, quality of food varies. No matter where you are that is true, not every restaurant is the same.

I’m not sure what you mean about the quality of dairy? US milk, eggs, and cheese are no different than any of the milk, eggs, and cheese of the same variety anywhere else in the world I’ve been.
Anecdotes follow:

As a lifelong soccer player, my knees are in terrible shape. I have multiple meniscus tears in each, and I've also had catastrophic injuries in both ankles. Despite that, I keep playing. The most useful teammates I have are those players who are also running fanatics. They put a lot of effort into gear, technique, and ritual that helps prevent and repair knee and foot damage. I've not encountered this much devotion to bodily integrity in any other sort of athlete.
How do those who move often (or at least a few times in their lives) manage to re-establish a network in the areas they move to? I think a lot of the reason people are reluctant to move for better opportunities on paper is the fear of the sudden lack of network.
This is very common in the UK which runs a mix (even if passenger trains do dominate.)

Our reluctance to spend the money to separate the passenger and freight traffic - even on the busiest lines - is part of the reason reliability of the network is often under question.
There are always exceptions that prove the rule — Texas is in a weird place in that the shifting demographics (higher birthdate among non-whites) will eventually flip the state blue in the late 2020s, so I think the DNC was optimistic they could steal a senate seat on a wave of popular support.

One could also argue the DNC was investing in raising the national profile of one of its rising stars in advance of the 2020 campaign even knowing his chances were slim.
I mean you totally can, in eastern Europe. But you're missing the point of the article, which is that Europeans supposedly enjoy a more 'rich' life in other ways than material goods. Although I do not fully agree, most of Europe is not that different.
To add to this, here's a few example complex text layout languages in no particular order: Thai, Khmer, Arabic, Hindi, Hebrew, Burmese, Tibetan, Punjabi, Sanskrit, and many many others.

Many millions (billions?) of people won't be able to use your terminal in their language.
Swimmers get shoulder problems.
> The objections that you give (1-4) are the ones that are fixable by hoisting the Jolly Roger.

I think that that's solving the wrong problem. Just pirating ebooks that are offered under crappy Amazon and B&N style licensing agreements may get you a book that's more palatable to you, but it doesn't do anything to improve the ebook market itself.

There are many, many publishers selling DRM-free ebooks out there, and manufacturers of e-readers that don't try to lock you in. If people who don't like DRM aren't willing to help them make money at what they're trying to do, they're going to go away, and DRM is going to become an even more pervasive problem because of it.

It's true that their offerings can be more expensive. They're smaller outfits and can't afford to be vicious with economies of scale the way Amazon can. This is one of those spots where "freedom ain't free" is a statement you can take quite literally.
>we cannot blame a person for their upbringing.

>We can, however, blame a person for deciding to believe insane conspiracy theories at a mature age.

What is the difference?

Mature age doesn't mean society put a person in position of taking "reasonable decision", let alone engaging in ethical moves. It's not like human have a known general evolution of increased virtuousness over time.

If blaming is believed an ethical efficient way to help others fixing behaviors that are judged even more harmful, then surely it should be used.

Thus said, one should first look for psychological studies out there and see if they conclude that blaming is considered and efficient way to obtain a net positive outcome on this regard rather than generating more social trauma and drama.
Is it just me, or does the article kind of suck? It starts with discussing who he is, and then his opinion, and the spends the next half of the article talking about what kind of person he is and how this is 'ironic' coming from _him_ of all people.

Just seems weird that they give his opinion, and then we get someone else's opinion on HIM. That doesn't seem very unbiased. Maybe I am overthinking it.
Defence against the dark arts is a professorial position at Hogwarts School in the Harry Potter universe - why the pun was used is what I'm confused about, since without a matching context it loses capacity as a pun.
People in the US have hobbies as well. They might be different, but there are plenty of them.
The black and white Noto emoji have not been updated in years sadly, but you can still pretend it before Noto Color Emoji. Alternatively prefer Symbola, which should be more up to date.
Sorry to go on a tangent, but that's John Lurie on the left in the second photo by Andy Warhol. I'm surprised to see he brushed shoulders with Basquiat and the rest.
Reddit is very far from a forum. It's centrally administered by people outside your community who have a profit motive, it serves ads, has a terrible free speech record, and a slight amount of popularity means people will wander into your community and, generally, fill it with low content garbage. Reddit is a horrible place to host a community, and, in my eyes, is the actual cause of the death of forums more so than Facebook.
Preliminary Crash Report Says Ethiopian Airlines Crew Complied with Procedures
Reddit also has its issues though. Recently they have increased policing of the subs and removed many in guise of breaching rules. Not to mention their terrible UX for the "new reddit" which has prompted me to change all my bookmarks to "old.reddit.com/r/<sub>".
Tesla's market is extremely niche. Luxury car to an uneducated car buyer.

Car enthusiasts won't get a Tesla because Tesla's ARE inferior to the competition at that price point.

You don't buy a Tesla because you want your car to work for 2 years without breaking, you buy a Tesla to show friends.

I know luxury Ford products sold 20k/yr, and those were some seriously high end SUVs. Same price point.

I cannot see how Teala is sustainable.

Edit, the reliability problems aren't unique to Tesla, any new car has them. I don't understand why people straight lie about it not having reliability issues.
Tied to real identity - given the current state of the net one could make a case that the S Korean system of requiring gov ID # for all online signups would be an improvement, of course that opens the door to serious abuse but at this point would it be the lesser of two evils?
Fair point. I usually moved the screen off the side and used an apc40 to control it so I looked at the screen very little, other than to check which songs were mapped to which buttons. Certainly no more time away from the crowd than djs digging through record bags.

FWIW, it's just as easy to spend all your time looking at your turntables when you're mixing, especially when you aren't very good at beatmatching. When I was first getting started, it often took me like 2-3 minutes to get the beatmatching right, and spent almost all of that time looking at the turntables and not the crowd. Of course when I sucked at beatmatching, "the crowd" i was playing for was 5 or 10 people, half of which came with me.
What percentage of ammunition fired do you think kills people directly? And how many people do you think are exposed to that ammunition but not targeted by it?
You can do multiple dispatching in Python, by hand or with decorators, but it can get kind of awkward, not as elegant as CLOS's and Dylan's approach with generic functions.

https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=101605

Five-minute Multimethods in Python,
by Guido van van Rossum.

I used to believe that multimethods were so advanced I would never need them. Well, maybe I still believe that, but here's a quick and dirty implementation of multimethods so you can see for yourself. Some assembly required; advanced functionality left as an exercise for the reader.

https://python-3-patterns-idioms-test.readthedocs.io/en/late...

https://pythonhosted.org/multidispatch/

https://adambard.com/blog/implementing-multimethods-in-pytho...

https://opendylan.org/documentation/intro-dylan/multiple-dis...

https://opendylan.org/documentation/intro-dylan/objects.html...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_dispatch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_function
> I am an ex-techno DJ and have had quite a number of bookings in the UK as well as produced a few tracks of my own too.

Why does this matter? If you want dick swinging, I'll probably beat you anyday. I'm a DMC finalist and toured with a few big rap groups and on my own for more than half of my life. All this is irrelevant. We're talking about skills vs faking the funk here.

> Beat mixing is only a very small part of DJing and is not a creative part of the process. It's a technical skill - nothing more.

It is a part of djing and it is a creative part of the process. Maybe you didn't get creative with it and that's perfectly fine. However, others have gotten creative with it(Z-trip, dj shadow, cut chemist, jrocc, mr choc, daft punk, and many more).

> Telling people they must learn how to beat mix on turntables before learning Ableton is like saying someone must learn how to paint with oil paints before they're allowed to use Photoshop. What actually matters is what enables performers to create the best live performance.

So if you're going for face value then yes, I can go up on stage with my laptop, play an mp3, dance to the music in front of thousands, and entertain people all day. This is entertainment but this isn't djing. I'm talking about raw skill. Sounds like you prefer someone to lip sync than actual sing on stage. Same thing.

> I've never gotten the same emotional connection with CDJs nor Ableton. However the audience wouldn't experience that.

They will if you're good at your craft.
Has anyone ever calculated the total environmental impact of a Tesla?

It seems that Power Stations + Millions of Tons of mining for rare earth minerals must make this a mega-polluter?
Thanks for the comment and kind words of encouragement, appreciate that, founder/startup world can sometimes be hard and mentally taxing.

Your comment has made my day...
>> It turns out that the Komodo sex determination system means the offspring are always male.

> Do you mean when it is _not_ parthenogenenis? How does this work?

I mean all Komodo offspring produced by parthenogenenis are male even though offspring from usual sexual reproduction in Komodos can be either gender. The reason is that the Komodo sex determination system is logically opposite to that of mammals. Specifically, whereas in mammals, a pair of homologous sex chromosomes XX, produces a female, in Komodos this produces a male, ZZ. (Parthenogenenis means there is also the possibility of Komodo WW embryo but these are not viable.)

Happy to hear someone else thinks this is interesting.
Alexa researchers train speech recognizer on 1M hours of unlabeled speech
It's not so much an article as a personal anecdote. The main difference that articles generally lack something of the author itself.
Try reading this later post where he refers back to it, including the use of the terms 'geek' and 'fallacy' in the title.

http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/fifteen.html
"...and in any agency market, considered ideal."

By the agency. Which is why it's a conflict of interest and unethical.
Just for clarification - did you really mean "virility", or was it supposed to be "virality"? :)