skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm quite sympathetic to your argument, although having been a teenager (age 19) that got caught with beer and had a cop let me off (he could clearly see that we were trying to be responsible, and were not causing trouble) I think there is value in not being a total hard ass while still not blanket condoning stuff. That said, in this case I absolutely agree that alcohol should not be restricted to anybody 18 and over. If we have a point where you are "an adult" then you should be a free person at that point.

So it really comes down to philosophically purity vs. pragmatism. I'm naturally drawn toward the former, but as I've gotten older I see more value in the latter, even tho intellectual it bothers me.
Yes, but if you look at the chart, most of the loss occurred in the decade of the 70s, before any talk of trickle down economics. From the end of the 82 recession until the mid nineties the erosion continues, but at a much slower pace, closer to being static until the trend starts a long slow ascent, close to 25 years to recover what was mostly lost in 10.
Are there plans to actually measure "simple, obvious, and easy to reason about" with people?

As I mentioned in the discussion two days ago, PL researchers throw around these terms but never actually measure them. You can learn a lot from a small user study.
I like my 2018 MBP. I even like the keyboard. The touch bar is kinda "meh," but I think it's more a software issue than hardware: Apple's interface guidelines make no sense to me. Why can't developers use it to give me a little extra display real estate if that's what they AND I (the user!) want? Why must it be treated purely as an input device?
There is something that goes off the rails, when you dont have at least one kid.

Look at people who do not have one in there elder years. Look at them driving around dogs in buggys, dressing them up like replacement toddlers, look at those faces, tell me that they are truely happy.

In the coldwar days, there where a lot of people who argued in a similar line- club of rome, end of days, and so they went and got a vasectomy.
Which you can not easily reverse.

Result: Lots of sad faces, late stage in life. Sometimes logic doesent cut it, and this is one of those moments - dont break the chain of life, daughter/son - is one of this moments.

I dont encourage you to have many kids- one or two should do. But yes, having a navel, that links all the way to the first mamal, and see that history continue, something of one beeing immortal, learning to walk and talk - that is awesome.
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Very much there with you. I run MacOS on my MBP for work. I built a workstation at home and run Ubuntu on it.
I decided to upgrade to latest Ubuntu drooling over the GNOME perf improvements and I have a system that wont connect to any network and the settings app won't open and would like to send a crash dump to Canonical :-(

I can afford such problems on my personal desktop, google the issues and spend a part of day fixing some poor QA release bugs, but not on a machine that I use and rely on for $ paying work.
>It's also not obvious that it would provide much protection from a typhoon, or even a large storm.

So long as the structure on top holds up a floating post with a bunch of weight in the bottom should basically laugh at any storm. It can't roll. It just moves up and down with the waves. It's like a winter mooring buoy. The stability is exactly why this method of construction is chosen.
For a few reasons:

1. There is an industry drive to make phones thinner, and one way to do that is to minimize the casing that a battery requires.

2. Waterproofing is a desirable feature, which is much harder to do when you have an accessible battery, especially in conjunction with 1.

3. Very few customers ever replace their battery.

4. Phones held together with adhesive and made from glass/metal feel and look better than plastic that snaps together. When marketing a premium product it has to look and feel premium.
Definitely. In my mind the very first questions you should ask when evaluating search are "Do i need faceted search?" "Do I need boolean logic? proximity? stemming?". Because the answers to those questions will cut the field way down.

That's why some of these benchmarks (redis and the go search engine posted last week) seem a little apples/oranges to me.
I agree with you in theory, but in practice I wouldn't be so sure. There are plenty of people that suffer and have their lives ruined because they are the first victims of a bad law. The legislative process moves very slowly, sometimes it takes decades (look at Cannabis laws for example).
Yeah good points, I guess it is fairly discreet + also its novel so most people may not cog what hes doing very quickly.
Is there not a pretty intense burning smell from the fried components though?
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So, its extremely situational. Use when you want to trash some running pc's in an occupied public area and not have people notice immediately maybe.
However the lightning charge cable is not necessarily the right thickness, flexibility, or length to be appropriate for use as a wired mouse.
you could say that about any paradox. it other words, it isn't a helpful position because it doesn't give any insight. why even have the word paradox?

plus, our intuition is just as much a part of reality as your "reality".
at least one is an american national. I'd support the united states sanctioning the ever living hell out of the Thai government if they executed an american national for building a buoy.
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2600?
this is interesting (emphasis mine):

> Bosque is designed to encourage limited uses of recursion [and using map/filter etc instead]. This is done by introducing the rec keyword which is used at both declaration sites to indicate a function/method is recursive and again at the call site so as to affirm that the caller is aware of the recursive nature of the call

i don't think i've seen a way marking functions that might not terminate at the call site. (though termination doesn't seem to be a specific focus here)
If they had a US documented ship, the US navy or coast guard potentially.
Have an army and munitions? I don't think Seasteaders are opposed to defense.
The article suggests any ML is happening in the paired smartphone, though it doesn't give details. I doubt there's enough room or cooling in the hearing aid itself, let alone battery.
There are plenty of reasons it has failed at entering general usage, but deflation isn't even a probable contender.
A huge perk of doing it at the function definition level is that IDEs can give you a more reasonable function signature.

Seeing "foo(args)" as an autocomplete necessitates looking at the docs to find out what "args" gets used for.
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I big difference between a climbing harness and a construction harness is the tie in point. Climbing it is fine to have that point in front of the user. For construction, having the rope constantly in front of you would be a real inconvenience. By tying in on the back, the harness will hold the user in a different orientation just due to the way weight is distributed.
> He became a multi-millionaire in middle school?

Quite doable now for the enterprising middle-schoolers making ASMR and unwrapping videos.
Succinctly put.

Sadly, there's a whole new crop of students being sold this hype. Eventually the money is going to dry up for this line of work IMO, and their going to find themselves behind the curve.
- cure for common cold

- cure for cancer
And if you are not dealing with this all the time, it makes the code completely unreadable.
I have ruined several keyboards (3 Apple, 1 HP) by accidentally spilling water/coffee on them.
What I don't understand is how do these devices get completely destroyed by small amounts of liquid.

I've disassembled these keyboards, cleaned and dried them out to no avail. Is something getting shorted out permanently ? Is some sensor getting ruined ? what exactly is happening and is there nothing that can be done to revive them.
> who is going to stop them?

GP addresses this - China et al.

Well not exactly stop, but take advantage of Taiwan violating the treaty for their own benefit. I think it's a pretty plausible consequence of doing this.
I don't think people would be complaining nearly as much if they simply added the touchbar above the existing keys rather than replacing them. Or left the esc and power keys while putting the touchbar in between them. Lots of things they could have done.
You mean legally? If they're not registered under a country's flag, they are protected by no-one AFAIK. Human rights treaties apply I'm sure, but essentially without the protection of a flag they're outlaws, as I understand it.
Genuine question: f another star had a "solar flare", would the correct term actually be "stellar flare", or would solar be acceptable in that usage?
No, this absolutely checks with my experience - I chase 5 and 10ms improvements all the time because we've measured and know it increases conversion.

But it makes sense, too: if the metric here is average latency, that doesn't mean that some users didn't see a much more dramatic increase. Every tiny bit of frustration removed from the experience adds up.
'notable refutation on either side, or any raw counts of how many "some" are...' - Why does it matter to dig into why one side is right or wrong? Earth atmosphere is complex beyond imagination of any person/society and you should expect science (or anyone else)to be wrong most of this time at what they have to say about this topic.

Don't be hell-bent on trying to comprehend mechanics of Earth atmosphere and finding 'scientific' solution to climate change. If you are aware of what has worked well until now for earth's climate then why not just follow it?
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I had to look up 'vogelfrei'

"
Vogelfrei in German usage denotes the status of a person on whom a legal penalty of outlawry has been imposed. However, the original meaning of the term referred to independence, being "free as a bird"; the current negative meaning developed only in the 16th century.
"

The way the meaning has changed is kinda poignant.
Everyday we stray further from god's light.
Raising an unconscious climber is potentially not viable.

1. You probably don't have time. As the article says, you have less than 14 minutes. If the climber isn't within view, you may not even realise they are unconscious for a few minutes, perhaps thinking they just can't hear you.

2. If you don't have efficient pulleys, friction will be a major issue. Hauling a person up a long pitch on a Z drag is going to be a challenge. More mechanical advantage would just add more friction and time.

3. Raising the climb could cause them injury, or make their injuries worse, and could potentially kill them. Their body or the gear attached to it is likely to jam against something or snag on the way up unless it is a completely clear path.

Another option in that scenario is going down to the injured climber after escaping the belay. If you have enough rope out of the system, you can abseil down. Otherwise, you will need to descend the taut rope down to the hanging climber.

From there, I suppose you would need to manipulate their body to get blood flowing.

...and that is only the first step of the rescue! I hope I never have to face such a scenario.
That can't work because of the lag of the phone to hearing aid communication
Try getting a prusik system set up when your tie in point is in the middle of your back as most construction harnesses are set up. It makes it much harder to self rescue.

Side note, one of my favorite ways to get up a rope when hanging in free space is to walk the rope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAzXYVdskFE
> The point, that you appear to have missed, is that the argument

Excuse me, but your approach to this conversation has been rather uncharitable. The assumption, that you omitted from earlier replies, is

>> Your trove of personal data has monetary value...

> is exactly the same as

>> Your trove of actual money has monetary value...

Which is factually incorrect, which is why I was unable to read your mind in this particular regard. Rather than present your concerns with an omission in my answer in a clear and constructive manner, you challenged me to defend a position that I have zero interest in taking. The latter half of your response here is clearer, so thank you for taking the time to explain your concerns.

> The person who isn't concerned about privacy is, and you still haven't done anything to convince them, because banks.

That's the conclusion you've jumped to. Next time, this could be rephrased without the implication that I'm an idiot for not jumping to the same conclusion. A more generous approach to this conversation could look like, "Can you explain how data stored by an online company differs from money held by a bank? I don't think your argument is adequately differentiates the two."

As you note, "information is not like money." What I presented was a process by which the monetary value of information can induce people to steal it. As you note, money is fungible, and data is extremely personal -- so these assets are not exactly the same.

With regards to banks. A bank robber does not have the power to empty your account -- only the bank's cash on hand. This isn't the wild west, banks are insured, and cash on hand is an insignificant fraction of a bank's holdings. If an employee embezzles, there is a remote chance that your personal account will be targeted. However, banks are regulated and these actions will be traceable and correctable -- you might be broke for a few months, but you'll almost certainly get your money back. As we have both mentioned, banks are not without risk -- but there is significant infrastructure in place to mitigate that risk. For instance: if you have $1m in cash, you might want to proceed with extra diligence when entrusting it to a bank -- FDIC only insures deposits up to $250k.

As you note, there's no take-backs when your data is stolen or scummed. There's a possibility that your livelihood will be ruined, and that loss can actually exceed $1m. Your identity is not insured in the same manner as bank deposits.

Companies which peddle personal data have almost zero regulation -- the actions of employees and hackers may be traceable in some cases, so they might face punishment. But that punishment will not remediate the damages you'll face -- and if they are caught, you can try to sue them, but you likely won't receive even a fraction of the damages.
The floating weighted tube is designed such that it's not influenced by wave action. To oversimplify, the proportion of overall volume/buoyancy that a wave covers and uncovers is insignificant and so even in somewhat rough seas, the platform probably feels like solid land, not bouncing up and down or rocking side to side.
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>Well as a doctor if I’m still ultimately responsible then nothing has fundamentally changed

If your stethoscope fails and you mistakenly pronounce the patient dead because of that, who is responsible? Do you blame the stethoscope salesman for claiming it's an accurate medical instrument that you never need to second-guess? Do you stop using stethoscopes altogether because they're "just another tool"?

If your x-ray machine fails and you say the patient's leg isn't broken because of that, who is responsible? It's "just another tool", do you stop using x-ray machines?

If your physician's assistant measures the patient's blood pressure wrong and you never double check their work, do you fire all of your PAs? And go back to seeing every patient for every procedure yourself?

Everything you have is "just another tool" and as with any tool, it's up to the human doctor to interpret the output. The idea is tools make you faster and more accurate, but everyone knows tools fail so you need to be able to double check their work. If the tool is consistently inaccurate, sure, throw it away. But if your argument is "if the tool can't completely replace me it's worthless" I think you're selling yourself a little short there.

Of course you're ultimately responsible. Your stethoscope didn't go to college for 8 years, it's just there to make your job easier.
Probably still come out ahead with the additional time spent slower processing entails compared to Genius Bar visits and repair times. Ferrari vs Camry sort of thing.
I fail to see how the creation of 50K indices on elasticsearch is a meaningful benchmark, that's just not how it's supposed to be used.
Also as others said, testing a distributed system on a single node makes little sense... as it is a benchmark which is not reproducible as we don't know how the data was queried and indexed
For those of you who didn't read to the end:

> Nobody finds Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad in a Little Free Library—much less Wi-Fi, college counseling, or jobs services. A well-funded library system has little to fear.

"Little Free Libraries" have nothing to do with public libraries, and seem like a harmless way for people to spend their disposable income. They may be virtue signaling, charity, lawn decorations, recycling bins, or whatever, but I don't see any reason to complain about them.
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The commenter is implying that we have an antiquated system of voting where poor, uneducated states have disproportionate power.

Also if you vote for Trump, you are not by definition like him, but you certainly condone a racist/idiot/sexual assaulter as president.

Your arguments for the electoral college are irrational. The electoral college does nothing to address poor voter turnout, in fact it encourages it. The fact that the constitution included the electoral college does not make it superior to majority election. You are trying to state the tautology: "If it is in the constitution it is good for America for eternity."
Regular Ruby 2.5.1. I do have a throttled CPU due to no battery in the MacBook, but I still have Python and other stuff to compare, and Brew (or Ruby) definitely does something wrong on my machine. It's hugely CPU-bound without a particular reason for being so.
I mean, you could just cover the camera right? There's always a low tech solution for these things.
Yes there are. Even without invoking any philosophical issues, quantum mechanics admits it's not self-contained. It takes measurement - the act of an outsider interacting with a system, which collapses the wavefunction, as a postulate. Measurement is not described by quantum mechanics.
(and it’s still a pretty bad argument)
I am very tired of the phrase "easy/hard to reason about." It sounds so hand-wavy every time.
There was a difference of usable site time of about 500-600ms
But at that point to really be effective you're probably going to need to recreate the governmental structures you're trying to escape from.
I first learned programming in BASIC on an 8K PET. The 8K was shared by the source code, data, the executing program and display memory.

Spaces were for suckers. Each line had a few bytes overhead so you put as many statements on each line as you could. You stuck to 1 character for your common variables (only 2 characters were significant anyway). You used the abbreviated name for commands. (This was around 81, 82.)

Something like this:

> 10 FORT=1TO10:?"IHN!":NEXTT:FORT=1TO1000:NEXTT:GOTO10"

This is from memory, so probably not actually correct code but this is meant to print "IHN!" 10 times, wait about a second and then repeat. T is used as a FOR loop variable twice.
> Neither is a "long term" threat -- if we stopped emissions entirely the climate would be expected to return to a pre-civilization equilibrium on the scale of decades.

That only can be true if the resultant warming over those decades isn't significant enough to kick off other feedback loops or cause ecosystem collapse. For instance, the caps melting and lowering the planetary albedo, ocean acidification, etc. If these things happen too quickly, you're going to see a serious and nasty extinction event happen. Sure, not all life forms will die - archaea are pretty hearty after all, but it isn't going to be pretty for most complex lifeforms adapted to the climate of the current era.
One of my homework assignments in a quantum mechanics class was to calculate the uncertainty of a cheetah that was running at 65 mph (and given its weight).

You can in theory but the numbers get so small that they're clearly unmeasurable.
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The main problem I have with low code solutions is that it doesn’t work with traditional development workflows.

- can I export/import a plain text representation of my implementation and version control it?

- can I create separate environments dev/qa/UAT/staging/prod and automate pushing changes to the environment via the command line?

- Is there an “escape hatch”? When I get to the limits of what the platform can do, are there extension points?
Also gets cheaper on 2nd and 3rd year.
Imagine I was offering you a way to own piece of a “giant art”. This particular art takes 100 terra-joules of electricity to build. It’s the biggest one in the world. There are enough people in the world that would pay a non zero sum for it.

That’s the crux of store of value. The bitcoin data structure has inherent non zero value just based on the audacious amount of electricity to build it.
I think nearby nations might have some objections about people attempting to build private armies. (read: aren't going to allow it to happen)
Well, at least you've read the damn thing. There's no accounting for taste, and unless you're Haney, there is no reason to be personally insulting.
Is the RediSearch's aggregation comparable with ES's? Speed has lower priority when there are missing features.

PS: Crashes are never good though...
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Your definition of reality here is unrelated to the OP's point. Quantum mechanics will work the way it does regardless of what your intuition on how it should work thinks.

Also the emergence of an apparently paradox is a great heuristic that raises the question of whether our intuition and understanding is wrong or correct.
I really hope that Apple has a health device future in mind for the Airpods.
I was hoping this was a programming language written in Basque
About the sound thing - I recently discovered that this is because the Macbook has several microphones which allows for ambient noise reduction. Something I wish was easier to set up for personal use - I use a webcam to stream tabletop roleplaying games, and ambient noise is a big problem.
I'm pretty sure it's CYA more than anything. The DEA is very aggressive and raids like it's going out of style
They could bypass that via Microwave, no? Altho, yes, they could just topple their antenna on land too.
Ugh

you brought facts to a talking-points fight
What? The butterfly keyboard is great. I went from about 96 WPM on traditional mechanical keyboards to over 110 on the butterfly. It feels great and the short travel time combined with clickiness really works nicely.