skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aspartame is ironically a substance we are most sure of its safety because of how fixed many were on the idea it was dangerous. Few substances were given such exhaustive testing.

The sources would be shot down for a reason and not some vast conspiracy but because the hill they chose to die on wasn't even real.

I would draw the opposite conclusion - safety analysis by whatever becomes a cause is a very poor way to both allocate resources.
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> Panel gaps, alignment, interior quality, materials.

None of this is important.
According to their FAQ, it's 10s, and the max speed is 180kph.
The same entry mentions that the car is not a sports car, only has the looks.

http://www.mpm-motors.com/faq/
Section "Pourquoi ne pas avoir mis plus de puissance?"
People are going to jump on the imprecise wording here but this is generally correct. People need to be very wary of "let's just throw this out and start over". There are cases where it makes sense, but 95% of the time it amounts to "the old code is complicated and it's a lot more fun to start over than it is to figure out the old stuff some other guy wrote". The old code is complex because it actually works and has taken the punches of production deployment.

Most often, people start down this path bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, and end up realizing after about 4 months that actually all that complication was doing something pretty useful. People need to be careful before they dismiss real working-in-the-wild code.
What are some good beginners resources on pranayama? Wondering if it can help my sleep apnea.
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Well, at least the Turing test is solved.
Not sure whether a new internal combustion engine makes sense at this point in time, but it's certainly not where I'd start if I were trying to launch a marque with a focus on low cost. Same with the space frame construction which is very labour intensive. I wish them well but they're making some odd choices.
Stopped reading half way through, as it felt like the author didn't understand what he was writing about. What hope do I have reading the article, then?
> Because we're not here to be selfless vassals.

Who says? We can be anything we want to (within the laws of physics).

> We have an innate biological drive to reproduce and a core part of the human/animal experience.

True, but the existence of contraception, sterilisation, celibacy, etc. are all examples that such "innate biological drives" are pretty trivial to avoid.

> Its like asking people not to breathe or not to eat.

Breathing not so much, since it's automatic (with a manual override). Eating is comparable, and is also a drive that many people successfully override for rational reasons (AKA "a healthy diet", rather than the "innate biological drive" to eat as much fat and sugar as possible). It's also something that public health efforts are trying to help us cut down on.
>> just for creating an account

No, for creating an account, funding it AND making a significant amount of wagers. The details vary by site, but there are always restrictions in the fine print -- either you only "earn" the bonus a few percent at a time, or you aren't allowed to withdraw until you've made enough bets, or some similar restriction. I'd guess that some or all of the "free" $1000 is inaccessible until you've made a 10x rollover, or $10,000 in wagers.
I felt stupid, but I have fallen victim to this on dpd.com while tracking a package. A helpful chat popup has appeared where I could request assistance from a support agent, but it was not disclosed that the agent is a bot.

Needless to say I have spent a couple of minutes repeatedly asking a question, and even rephrasing it while being frustrated that this person does not seem to grasp my issue.
Yes, that's the obvious strategy. They're best placed to test for bots, and arguably they're responsible. And yes, I know, safe-harbor is a thing. But it doesn't protect from allowing illegal ads, so why should it protect from allowing illegal bots?
Relatively, JVM and Clojure ecosystem is much more mature and performant.

I would any day prefer Clojure and framework Pedestal.

https://github.com/pedestal/pedestal
Apparently you haven’t bought a recent model Tesla.
Being an asshole to the boss, I think.
Pencil does work with iPad and sidecar which is a much better experience for editing vs what would amount to a very small Wacom tablet on the trackpad (vs effectively an iPad sized Cintiq).
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> Imagine how good they'd be

I'm talking about today and the facts, saying "we found a solution" is simply ignoring everything.
This is so unreal. Resembles so closely the novels we read in high school. The Giver and Nineteen Eighty-Four come to mind. Prisoners feeding rehearsed lines to the media about 'enjoying' their incarceration.
Thanks dang. I may very well take you up on this offer.
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I'm somewhat satirical of course. However:

"Here’s a simple test: if someone walks away from another person feeling bad about themselves, they were probably interacting with an asshole."

I'll tell you that eg as manager there is no way that some of your conversations won't end with the other person feeling somewhat bad about themselves. You have to fire people. You have to explain that some behavior was clearly wrong. Sometimes you need to explain that despite best efforts the person is just simply not developing quickly enough professionally. That hurts, however you put it (you can do it carefully, sure). Hey, you will need to explain assholes that they're doing the wrong thing. Are you sure you can do this without making them feel bad about themselves?

Just be very careful with labeling people. It's usually not a great strategy, especially if you use terms like asshole. Try to be emphatic, understanding. Labeling people is one way of being an asshole.
> 1) No, proofreading is not authorship.

It is when the substitution is both context-aware and not what you intended to write.

> 2,3,4) A judge could reasonably find that you were attempting to circumvent the law and declare all of these as “bot”.

Wait, so if someone sends you a question and the suggestions can detect from the context your answer, you're a bot because you chose the suggestion instead of typing out words with the same meaning? Then aren't most people texting going to have to declare themselves bots?

> The judicial system will not specify in writing complete coverage for every loophole. Judges can, regardless, find you guilty.

"Judges will decide something" is no help to you when you're trying to predict what they will decide ahead of time. Finding out after the fact does a fat lot of good after you've already engaged in the behavior in question and an unfavorable ruling puts you in jail.
_any_ function that returns a promise should have the `async` modifier - even if `await` isn't used.

A function may return a promise or throw an exception. An `async` function may only return a promise. async functions cannot throw exceptions.

```
// This code sucks but you might have to write it if `get` isn't an async function.
try {
get().catch(_ => /* handle async errors /)
} catch {
/ handle sync errors */
}
```
> I'd link some articles, but I suspect the sources would be shot down and evidence ignored

Why would you say that? This is a serious accusation made without offering evidence and the only effect it can have is to greatly diminish the probability of having a productive debate.
> 2,3,4) A judge could reasonably find that you were attempting to circumvent the law and declare all of these as “bot”.

Unless you were disabled and using assistive technology.
Well, in that case, neither is the car.
Mechanical means manual. That kind of transmission/gearbox is called mechanical in many languages.
Would you have felt the same way if the sentence was, "the COO was a man who changed his mind often enough..."? In other words, does that sentence imply to you that men change their minds more frequently?

I've seen this kind of sentence construction many times and it does not seem odd to me. “For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me," is a famous example. Is it important to the sentence that Pooh is a bear? We already know he's a bear. In fact, I'll say that it actually presents the opposite implication from what you reached. I think Milne is making a joke here: we already assume that all bears have very little brains and so the statement is humorous. We expect a contrast and yet there is none. "She is a woman who changed her mind frequently" would imply that ordinarily women do not change their minds frequently, but this one did (unless you feel the same sort of joke is being made).

So, the OP's question is, why did the original author choose to state the gender of the COO? In my opinion, they simply did it to make the reader feel closer to the situation. Stephen King discusses this kind of thing at length in a couple of his treatises on writing. He says that you should avoid adjectives because they clutter up the writing and make it more complicated. If you have doors of many different material, you should change your story so that those doors no longer exist because specifying all the different kinds of doors just makes it confusing for your reader. However, it's a thing people who are not well practiced at writing do very frequently (which is why Stephen King discusses it at length ;-) ). I'm with the first responder in thinking that choice of mentioning the gender is not indicative of any subtext at all. It's just clumsy.
Well, I never said that I would, just that I could. Just as a way of saying that anyone competent could.

Also, "breaking the law" is an ambiguous thing. I mean, that's one of my favorite Judas Priest cuts, and he was talking about breaking laws against homosexuality. Not that most head-bangers realized it, at the time.

Also, just about every US media company breaks Saudi laws against sinful use of sexual images. And nobody seems to worry much about it.
There are user defined functions with parameters and locals.
I've heard it used by British friends as an insult that means "idiot" but I've never heard a disabled person called a gimp. Frankly I wasn't aware that was a usage until I looked it up to check. It's certainly not used that way in the US, at least in my region.
> Eyerolling, sighing, or otherwise negative body language... Tersely worded group e-mails that make people feel uncomfortable... Interrupting people who aren’t done talking...

I need a dash of these, but I will hate anybody using it all the time.
Those are fairly easy to spot. One dead giveaway is their excessively chirpy voice.

Or, as you did, just say something that puts them off script.
Sure. But not always so easy.
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Back in may the site's service degraded which has led to a near permanent "we are having intermittent issues" bar at the top of their page. I use it bi-weekly but felt the site really start to fall apart.

This article highlights the behind the scenes but people wouldn't pay for it as highlighted in the article.

Personally, I would.
Did Donald Rumsfeld also convince the European Union, who have their own interests and a similar sized economy, that it was safe? https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/press/news/131210 or the “more than 90 countries worldwide” [1] that the Canadian government refers to on their own website? https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/food-nutriti...

There are certainly cases where I don’t trust USA regulations. This just isn’t one of them.

[1] number includes EU and US, but that still leaves more than sixty others.
I agree. This article reads as if asshole != narcissistic supply
That's an interesting point. I mean, why are they worried about 100K bots when 100K mechanical turk workers could do the same stuff.
I agree with sz4kerto, these rules are too vague. For example, the rule against "starting shit and troublemaking" can end up being mostly used by assholes against non-assholes.
Are you asking about the process for the weaving, or the process for the software? For the weaving, it's straightforward to test that everything was woven correctly, by verifying the values in all the memory locations. As for writing the software, they had detailed specifications, review of changes, design reviews, and lots of testing. Some information is here: https://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch2-6.html
> I doubt that anyone running bots, and who is technically competent, will be identifiable or findable

Google's Duplex is an example of this, and I agree with the law that its use should be disclosed.

The law doesn't have to lead to prosecution of every little criminal. If it polices some of the large players who can't easily hide what they're doing, it'll be a helpful law.
Do you think QA budgets would actually help here? At least the way I know it QA and development is separated, and no matter how many QA people you hire, many developers brush off QA until later.

Considering Rust shows can enforce so many things in the compiler, to me it's clear that a better compiler/language is a better way to address this problem than QA people.

Also the built in testing with cargo test makes TDD so much more attractive.
Disclaimer: I am an independent contractor mostly because I fled what I consider structural defects of the corporate world, so a bit biased.

Isn't it a matter of management though? Assholes can be productive to a company if you have a good manager doing damage control and sinking time into firewalling the asshole.

Given the prevalence of this disease and the abundance of managers, it seems like a good way to increase the hiring pool of a company.

As a manager, you want to contain an asshole just enough so that coworkers do not leave, also enough so that the asshole feels they have to make up for their social behavior with additional skill and hard work (which is not hard, they are often competitive).

I believe (and that's the reason why I don't want to employ people) that the optimal point for a business is when you maintain your employees on the edge of quitting. Assholes create stress and competition, an environment where projects often strive and individuals wither.

All the ethical managers or business starters I have known have been replaced by more assholish versions. This could be anecdotal evidence of course, but I think that assholes are better suited for a corporate world of greed and competition.
Assistive texting is covered in a separate reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20360152

The law clearly targets automated content creation that is not declared as such, not assistive writing technologies, and this will be considered by the judicial system when evaluating your stated intentions and actual actions. If you are unable to predict with confidence the outcome of your intentions and actions as they may be interpreted by the judicial system, please seek legal counsel for further guidance.
You can get an idea of the content from their GitHub https://github.com/materialsintelligence/mat2vec/blob/master...

The author emails are at the end of README.md if you still want to ask for a preprint.
what makes us think the meta studies are themselves valid?

A. This is one guy, basically. I mean, I agree with him, generally, but not everyone does.

B. It's easier to poke holes in someone else's thing than create a good study.

So study A: "I wonder how fat you have to be to not fit through this door. Let's weigh people (instead of measuring them) to see how fat you have to be not fit through the door."

Study B: "It's a great question, but it's badly done. Weighing them won't work. Let's just interview people and write down their self reported height!"

Meta analyst: "Y'all are both wrong and stupid, geez."

Scientists A and B: "Let's take the meta-analyst out back and beat him up!" "Sounds good to me!"
If you've got just one AP then you don't even need a controller. I just used their iOS app to set up my UniFi AP.
Cool, you get to defend your bot in court. But don’t worry you’ll win!
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Alternatively we may get ISIS. It's not all black and white.
> He is considered a fraud by many.

By whom exactly? People who are upset that he's selling books on the practices for less than $10 instead of $300? Apparently some schools' highest teaching is the Macrocosmic Orbit. Of course you'd be annoyed if someone was giving away your highest secrets in a $10 book - you'd struggle to find new students prepared to sit at your feet for several decades while you drip feed it to them (which is what I've heard of).

There may be an issue with making sense of the volume of material he's put out and its repetitive nature, but to imply he's incompetent and a charlatan is just spreading FUD.
> registering minor things just in case something catches on.

On the other hand, should minor things be copyright-able? Like this message I am writing?

If you spent a year writing a book, sure, copyright it. But if you drew a quick doodle on a napkin, scanned it and put it on a t-shirt to impress your friends, is that really worthy?

If you can't be bothered to register a copyright, which just takes a few minutes, it is not worth copyright protection.
This article is overly fixated on overt assholery. Much of the worst asshole behavior I've encountered has been done by people who are outwardly polite and high functioning and have often never had a cross word for anyone.

I would much rather get a tersely worded group email (ooo) than have to do someone else's job for them.

Let's be frank. The #1 asshole thing not mentioned here is (shouting and swearing alert) NOT DOING YOUR FUCKING JOB. This is an immense source of frustration for other people, whether because they have to do the person's job for them, or because the person's failure to do their job creates disasters.

In many of the situations I've seen (or, frankly, participated in) where someone is behaving somewhat like an asshole, the root of the situation is that (a) someone isn't doing their actual job in a remotely competent way, (b) that someone isn't doing anything to fix that situation and (c) management doesn't know or care.
.9 is by far not an early stage investor.
German VCs have a very weird notion about what is early stage.
No, much the way Stephen Hawking's voice was not a "bot", nor would someone playing a song on a digital keyboard be considered a "music bot". In both cases, there is no meaningful automation -- just a digital instrument creating sounds out of a human's intent.
This is sad, but not hacker news. I'm not visiting this site to read about politics
Currently they're fairly easy to spot -- if you work in tech, anyhow. A lot of money will be put into making them harder and harder to spot. I'm glad to see this law come at the beginning of that process, so there isn't an established industry that can put money into fighting it.
Kickstarter type thing maybe?
There is one reference in your vcard when we subscribe the mailing list.

There there is one on your patreon page. :)
It's hard to make a new car company, especially one that targets the low end of the market. The low end of the market has tighter margins, and therefore needs high volume to be profitable. Hard to imagine a startup achieving that.
Nuclear could really clean up the shipping industry and provide numerous other benefits.
For steel maybe, but even then it can be tricky to make some shapes. Doing it at scale with high precision is hard regardless of what you're making.

Bending more exotic metals, glass, and carbon fibre in more than one direction at once while maintaining it's strength is a really hard problem.
I had the same feeling with macros intially, but once you wrote a few of them it's ok, and they provide many more guarantees than pure text preprocessing of C/C++.
I wonder about creating a new homeland from reclaimed permafrost for climate refugees from all over the world. Maldives is already saving up for one since 2009 and looking at India, Sri Lanka and Australia.
"But of course, the CCP is ideologically opposed to self-representation."

Don't think it's to do with ideology, just desire of a small cabal of people to have absolute power and control over a country and everyone who lives in it.

The ideology is a pretext.
Actually, several members of the iCloud team were at SIGMOD 2019 in Amsterdam this week.
I have seen that a couple times, mostly in startups: a highly functioning brilliant jerk was doing a pretty good job leading teams, but they had no patience towards poor performers and that caused morale issues.

Eventually the person got managed out (not fired, just isolated from the teams) and upper management thought the team would just eventually thrive after some short loss of productivity, but that never happened: the poor performers were put in front of the customer who commissioned the project (role that was usually handled by the jerk, who was highly competent at that due to their technical brilliance and assertive personality even with the customer), and after a few round trips the customer smelled the incompetency and literally said “we’re going to quit this project, we feel like there’s no technical direction lately”. Massive loss for the company, in the 7 figures. It almost caused the company to fail due to that being the largest customer at that phase.

In those cases, the jerk did an amazing job at keeping a very productive technical communication with the customer, and keep the high performers on track towards what really needed to be done in those projects.
Personally I have been involved in DD in a startup during the jump from Seed to Series A.
They brought in our offices one guy, who really new his shit.
He didnt have a checklist however, he started by exploring our processes.
How do we create tickets, who are they assigned, coding, prs, deployment. The whole cycle and he saw it in a whole not `do they use one click deployment` because he wanted to actually understand how we work and then judge.

He went pretty deep in code in some cases for example useraccount management and he did find flaws but again no checklist just fixes and improvements.
30M. Well there’s your problem. I can just imagine the premature optimizations and the bloated abstraction that went in the planning phases.
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I don't want to live on an Internet where it's inconceivable that you're hosted on your own damn servers.
In my opinion, the advtanges of Rust over C++ are not so much the borrow checker, but all the other features. In particular the error handling. I understand the reasoning for implementing exceptions in C++, but I really don't like the implicit nature of them. Algebraic Data Types are really easy to use, and with the '?'-operator using them is very clean.

Having proper metaprogramming is also really great. Sure, you can definitely go overboard, but a few things are just only possible with proper metaprogramming like quickly printing the value of a struct or enum for debugging and easy serialization/deseralization (like serde does). It's just a huge boon for doing introspection.

But it's not just the particular features that are important, it's the fact that best practices are integrated into the language. There are standard solutions for most things: error handling, unit tests, build system, package management, formatting style, etc. Sure, if you have a long-running C++ project, you're gonna have answers for all that, but the consistency matters when you want to integrate libraries.

I think if you're going to use Rust, you should try to speak to its strengths rather than retrofitting existing C++ idioms onto it. There are both real advantages and very real costs to doing this, and you certainly shouldn't just switch an existing C++ codebase to rust.