skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get his concern as well, but at the same time... why would ANYONE share something you might regret (like on this case) if the content is made public?
This is a great answer, but for some reason the author left out the most obvious of reasons. Mini-USB put the mechanical strain of the connection on the socket side, while Micro-USB puts that strain on the cable side. Since its much easier to toss a cable vs remove and solder in a new socket connector the average cycle lifetime became much less critical in general.
Interestingly thats exactly how I thought about the cohort on very early reddit too.
If it's true, it will be one of the biggest medical breakthroughs!

Shifts like this happen and lead to huge difference in people's lives. Now mostly forgotten, but it was believed that ulcers are caused by stress and food and not bacteria. I have a family member that didn't survive surgery for mistreated ulcer. Then, for me it was a simple matter of taking antibiotics for few weeks.
Anti-immigration thinktanks like Numbers USA and The Center for Immigration Studies are well-aware the problems of.immigration are not about the immigrants themselves but rather about the corporate powers that import them.
Maybe your colleagues perceive that they are being asked to study a bunch of off-topic material. Is reading RFC 2119 really the most productive use of their time?
> Netflix could ask if it's OK to collect history to improve/personalize recommendations.

If they ask for the data for that purpose, then they should only be allowed to use the data for that purpose.
In my mind the question is why wouldn't they be? It's your transaction data, you have many legitimate uses for it, why not require open access? It's like GDPR but for your bank records. The data's available now, it's just crap. Sometimes banks need a kick in the pants to straighten up.
> If $NetflixOfEducation is too accessible and half of the applicants have it, then it loses its value as a hiring signal.

Only for companies who hire for signals.

For companies that hire for throughput this does not hold.
Human brains are the most efficient at some problems. This is trivial to demonstrate: try multiplying two 10 digit numbers in your head. Now pick up a calculator and do the same in a fraction of time, using a fraction of power, and with perfect accuracy.
The answer to this "mystery" in the US would be the Fourth Amendment. The UK has similar requirements for warrants.
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Eventually we'll want to build breeder reactors to burn up almost all the "spent" fuel and leave behind waste that has a much shorter half life than Uranium.
Yep! Here's one - it's light on specifics but the gist is that Apple was heavily influential on the actual connector design, not anything related to spec/bus etc.

https://9to5mac.com/2015/03/14/apple-invent-usb-type-c/
Don't know how the blacklist works. As someone who blocks javascript by default, if I were asked to enable this to submit a login, I would probably be okay doing so if I could be confident a script was only mining and not fingerprinting me. (Big if)
Interesting, Thanks. Good and Evil is still a broad category, I assume having a named company in license to disallow them from using it would in some way cause more problem due to their name being used i guess?
Point: Some things that are infinitely overcomplexified by arcane and overly verbose CS tomes -- can be understood visually, intuitively, by looking at the right pictures, the right images for understanding.

Think of it as a shift in which brain hemisphere is being used for understanding.

Case in point: Compiler Parse Trees.
"Germanium semiconductors are only good for sounding like Hendrix"

You say that like its a bad thing.
Different bacteria thrive on different nutrients, so changing your nutrient intake will affect their populations. I wouldn't expect a week of fast food to be significant compared to going on a ketogenic diet (starving all carbohydrate eating bacteria). Also, intake of new bacteria affects them, as it changes the competitive landscape.

Taking antibiotics massively reduces the quantity of gut bacteria. It often radically changes the balance as their numbers recover, resulting in a proportional increase in resistant strains.
Standards like grammer?
Uh, why not simply give it to the students?
> As we use more and more natural gas, we can expect more and more methane disasters like the leak from Aliso Canyon in CA which was the largest methane leak in US history. This released over 100,000 tons of methane into the atmosphere and required 11,000 residents to be evacuated.

While tragic, it did prompt California to require utility scale battery storage replace the gas turbines that used that storage facility.

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/aliso-canyon-em...

> CPUC President Michael Picker said the battery projects were deployed with “unprecedented” speed and cooperation among stakeholders.

> “I was stunned at the ability of batteries and the battery industry’s ability to meet our needs,” said Picker, speaking at the launch event yesterday for Tesla’s battery system at SCE’s Mira Loma substation in Ontario, California. “This was something I didn’t expect to see until 2020. Here it is in 2017, and it’s already in the ground.”

For reference, total time before Brown's emergency order and this battery storage facility turning up was just 1 year.
Without knowing why you want the RFC 2119 language adopted within your organization, I can say that although it's very important that everyone use the same words to refer to the same things, I would be careful when applying rigorous definitions to those keywords.

Are you writing standards for networking, where there could be multiple implementers and you want to be clear to everyone what their implementation has to do? What value do the definitions add? Do people ask questions or have disagreements without the rigorous definitions?
I'd recommend reading up on fermented foods and drinks to incorporate into your daily diet.

There's also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_microbiota_transplant
I apologize. I did not read the rules. I have now and will refrain from any personal attacks going forward.
not free like they should be.
Internet was expensive when it came out. Remember when it used to be pay by the hour and tied up your landline? I had internet through the University and had to kick people out of my apartment because they would sit at my computer forever.

Everyone I knew in high school wanted a cellphone but couldn't afford it. Same with desktop computers. Same with space travel. Everyone wanted that that stuff but it was expensive.

Bitcoin isn't hard or expensive to get. But still nobody wants it.
The irony is of course that there is a huge clamor for Apple to be even further restricted from exerting control over apps.
> where the executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy admits to having proprietary software embedded inside her body, because that was the only option for a defibrillator. She advocates open-source software, and yet despite her best efforts, she’s a closed-source cyborg!

Ignorance is a bliss, so I'm sure she would have felt better not being aware of the issues.
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I'm personally partial to the efforts which release genetically-sterilised males.

It also has the upside of being short lived. That is to say if we ever decide we need to stop using the technique, we just stop breeding sterile males. As opposed to invasive species or chemicals lurking in the soil or water long term.

Supposedly they can be bred pretty cheaply, too.
Another article discussed here recently claimed that US median worker real wages have barely increased at all over the last 40 years. But, yes, you are right, there was plenty of progress and growth from the 1920s to the 1970s (when the spectre of communism was haunting the world, and the top marginal tax rate in the USA was between 70% and 90%).
Indeed. It boils down to having no trust in the documentation because of the conflicting messages.
Medium sucks ass. Leave this post up. Let everyone see how much ass they suck. Leave that sinking ship asap. Host your own blog.
How could I do any off-line research into the topic or a specific point in your paper if I've only seen it for the first time in the meeting?
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My latest project is a PC/SC and PKCS#11 driver framework. There are a few places in the C code, particularly the driver entry points before calling into Lua, where you can't bubble up an error context--you're limited to returning an error code to the caller--but for debugging and diagnostics you really want some context. Currently I just fprintf to stderr because it's not worth the hassle to call the logging code written for the Lua part of the drivers, but this new warning infrastructure provides a clear path for doing this--just replace the calls to fprintf with lua_warning (or a wrapper for vararg formatting).

It would be trivial to have done this myself, but it's one of those things you abstain from doing because you don't want the burden of making the choices (e.g. how to manage the global singleton hook), maintaining the code, and perpetually resisting the urge to refactor it.

My guess is that the warn global in the Lua environment was primarily added for symmetry with lua_warning. It's notable that there's no counterpart (AFAICT) to lua_setwarnf provided for Lua code. I think the warning API is principally a feature for C code.

I still think it's a dubious addition and will end up generating friction. It's the kind of thing people love to hate. For example, I bet it won't be long before someone complains you can only pass a single string rather than an object like with lua_error or multiple value like with lua_call/lua_yield. I won't complain about it, though. =)

EDIT: Reading the mailing-list and the code (grep for luaE_warning), it looks like this interface was principally added for the GC so __gc metamethod errors could be reported without throwing exceptions at random places in the code (i.e. where ever the application happened to be when the GC finalized an object).
The spacecraft would also keep the same distance from the Earth during the year in Earth orbit, so there has to be another reason they picked L2.

The real reason for L2 is that the sun, moon, and Earth are all the same direction from the telescope when it is at L2, so the sunshield can block them all simultaneously. Yes, the spacecraft will receive insolation at L2 (yay solar power), but it will always be from the same direction and therefore the instrument can be persistently shielded.

EDIT: from the the horse's mouth:

> To have the sunshield be effective protection (it gives the telescope the equivalent of SPF one million sunscreen) against the light and heat of the Sun/Earth/Moon, these bodies all have to be located in the same direction.

> This is why the telescope will be out at the second Lagrange point.

https://jwst.nasa.gov/orbit.html
Perhaps, perhaps. I'll ponder that question further while sipping my kombucha.
Yeah, it's already in the archive sites anyway

http://archive.is/3C1tK
In fairness, the author is not a native English speaker. And he makes his point with clarity and cohesion. There are some awkward phrases, but by engineering standards his writing is perfectly fine :D
This may not apply as much to written language, but there are benefits at times to pretending to be more ignorant or dumb than you actually are. My father was actually a master at this. He was brilliant in his own ways (not the academic sense, but mechanically and socially brilliant), but had the persona of the "dumb hick" down completely. People would underestimate him, sometimes try to take advantage of him, then he would gently show his competence and they would quickly backtrack and essentially give him whatever he wanted. It's obviously manipulative, but was often a way of catching people in their own trap. Think car dealers trying to cheat him, salesmen, etc. I just can't pull it off as well without seeming fake.

I'm not sure there is validity to either appearing smarter than you are or dumber on a regular basis though, particularly with people you work with. Integrity is a much more important attribute to me in coworkers and employees than either feigned competence or feigned humility. Genuine competence or genuine humility are different matters though of course.
Amazon is also big on "mechanisms over good intentions".

Asking everyone to please do these actions before the meeting is a good intention. Everyone wants to, but you know things happen and well I skimmed it but I didn't really have time and now I'm going to ask questions that page 2 answers clearly because I didn't read it. Everyone's time is wasted.

Forcing everyone to spend 15 minutes right now is a mechanism. It's much more effective.
How will you know who's using your FOSS project?
It feels a bit like it misunderstands what IT infrastructure is all about. Identity and Access Management is noticeably missing AND core to IT infrastructure.
I appreciate your knowledge on this topic and your many knowledgeable, polymathic even, contributions to HN. All of that is fabulous. It's just what this site is for. I'm afraid, though, that you added more toxicity just now than anoncake did. I don't see an assumption there that you don't know things—only a question. At minimum, that would be the charitable interpretation à la the site guidelines: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

I think the phenomenon here is how all-too-easy it is to add to toxicity while trying to defend the environment (and oneself) from toxicity. A lot of us do this. I do it myself, and have constantly to learn not to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
USB-C usability on laptops for peripherals and especially power is bad. The connectors become loose and come out with little resistance. For charging even barrel connectors were better, but prefer the magnetic connectors.
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Not sure if your typo was intentional.
Per capita or per household?
It is difficult to interpret her words in a generous fashion, without seeing her support for abortion of the "unfit":

> Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.

> Birth control is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defective.

How other than abortion could she envision "... preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defective."? Perhaps we could assume she means, by hiring clairvoyants and those who can see the future, and then forcing 100% effective birth control or sterilization on the the unwashed masses not consistent with her "cleaner race" qualifications?

Attempting to white-wash Sanger's stances to be against abortion is disingenuous at best.
No, I'm not saying that.

It is possible, for instance, to collect individual data, tally up certain characteristics in the aggregate, then discard the individual data points and only keep the aggregate statistics.

With certain narrow exceptions, though, no data about me personally should be collected without my explicit permission regardless.
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According to https://www.givingwhatwecan.org, an income of $85,000 in the US would put a household of four in the top 3.5% of the world's population.
If you haven't tried to solve the self-driving car problem in a practical environment, there's a powerful tendency to get caught in edge cases. The vast majority of situations encountered by an autonomous vehicle involve complex but conventional problems, and yield relatively well to rules-based coding.

If someone builds a snowman by the side of the road, my AV may mistake it for a human and start calculating possible paths it might take. But then the same thing can happen for utility poles, mailboxes, or piles of garbage. We find that if the potential human remains stationary, moving around it cautiously is usually a sufficient solution.

On the other hand, if someone builds a snowman in the middle of the street, the initial response of an AV and a human driver will be the same: stop and analyze the situation. No responsible human is going to drive through a snowman, so that's not an option for the AV either. Since the snowman will always remain stationary, however, the AV is likely to treat it like other road-obstructing obstacles (such as double-parked vehicles, another significant but more common problem) and eventually move around it.

Don't get me wrong -- it would be great if we could imbue an AV with "common sense." But I would argue that you can solve at least 99% of the problem without it.
When people are too much hung on hard work, they do stupid innefective things. Like, studying that much that you sleep deprive yourself, long crunch in work, sleeping under table in work as proof of commitment etc. Training so much that you get injury from it.
I think it's good to be able to follow the rules effectively and efficiently, and use that to your advantage, but not make rule following an end unto itself. Just like the opposite, bucking all rules all the time, is also not so great.

"Blending in" can make it possible to achieve other goals and lead a fulfilling life in a pretty stable and maintainable manner. And being able to break free when the need calls for it is also very important. As an extreme example, if you are living in Nazi Germany it is the morally right thing to appear to "blend in" while actually bucking the rules and saving Jews.
Apple isn't always that kind of company, but would lightning have been a mechanically simpler cable than USB-C? (I mean, wouldn't have given up the market and patent dominance in the interests of an industry wide non-discriminatory standard. They did some things as sensible cross patents but I don't think they always do)
You can combine multiple mirrors like they did with the black hole photo.
That might be because one side is good and kind, and the other is evil. Sure, there's two sides of every argument, but we can sit here all day an no matter what you tell me the sky will still be blue.

The comment I responded to was saying, "having kids is a choice," to which I say, "many people are being forced to have kids they dont want." Forcing unwanted births is a specific policy objective pursued by a group of people pushing they're religious views on others.
> Can I use urql with Vue.js

Would like to know this also.
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"It seems many transgender need to be taught..."

This is a condescending and cheap swing at transgender people. First: lots, maybe most trans people in the US don't get reassignment surgery, so your unsolicited education for trans people doesn't apply to at least a plurality of trans Americans.

Second: Biology doesn't determine a trans person's gender. A trans woman who has her penis surgically removed was a women prior to The Surgery. She doesn't need to be told she doesn't need surgery to be a woman. The question of reassignment surgery is a complex personal issue wrapped up in socialization, but is ultimately a cosmetic surgery. I don't see how it's your business to educate people about their physical appearance.
lol I made an account just to add this reply. Are you familiar with EIP 1559? There are solid efforts currently ramping up research to change the fee market from an auction to a flat fee:

https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/eip-1559-fee-market-change-...
You're right: the risks are both high and uncertain.

With that in mind, it's perhaps worth considering the potential benefits of having a uniform framework for evaluating risks that are attendant upon any given possible course of action. Risk evaluation neither starts nor stops with personal ick-factor or the worst scenarios imaginable. Risk evaluations also need to include the probability of success, expected costs, the estimated probability of any negative outcomes or side-effects, and so on. It's a non-trivial endeavor.

Again, you're right. The risks of any possible course of action, particularly poorly understood ones, are very real. They demand meticulous and systematic evaluation.
There are 128m households in the USA, but yeah, it's about 40%.
Oh, I’m not backtracking. I personally don’t have any issues with it, I was just trying to understand where AlegedAlec draws the line.

I’ve personally been what some people might call “careless” with drugs in the past, in that I maybe wasn’t the most mentally stable and I’ve taken drugs when others would have warned me not to (eg while depressed) and I personally feel like they helped me through it. Ketamine especially has made a huge difference, even in very small doses, although in large doses it gave me this overwhelming and lasting sense of connectedness with the world. Since I spent a lot of my life struggling with loneliness (and not for lack of friends or people around me), that really really helped me.

I’m glad to hear that you are doing better too!
I can also recommend June Casagrande, who has lots of great recommendations on how to improve your writing skills.

This is one of her books I would recommend: https://www.amazon.com/Was-Best-Sentences-Worst-Crafting/dp/...
I'm very surprised to see that they chose Arch Linux for their base OS, very curious to see if that ever lead to issues over the last two years.
Hopefully someday we'll start recognizing the pattern. Sites built on large amounts of venture capital are literally too good to be true.

They're able to lose tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars a year providing completely unsustainable services, but they can't keep doing it forever. When they start monetizing, they have to use methods that are far more aggressive than would have been needed originally, because they're starting at the bottom of a giant hole they dug themselves into.

Yes, a store that sells dollar bills for 90 cents would be very popular. The tech industry needs to stop acting like there's anything impressive about that.