skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But you're assuming the world is a chaotic function. Don't confuse the ability to add up tiny changes with those changes having a meaningful impact.

You can dip your finger in a river and tell me how a bunch of molecules are displaced and then those molecules displace other molecules and so on in a way that wouldn't otherwise have happened. But for all intents and purposes, the river carries on in its original course as if nothing happened. It doesn't turn into a seething mass, it doesn't reverse course, it doesn't spiral off into infinity.

Sensitivity to initial conditions is relatively rare, and even most chaotic functions only get interesting around certain values.
On the other hand, going to war (or not) could either accelerate or prevent major technological progress. And that depends on politics. So it seems like that's not all that predictable either?
By actually parenting your kid and what they do instead of just plopping them down in front of the app store?
Agreed. Even when the article discusses the disagreements that Apple has with policy-makers related to these laws, they're leaving out exactly why Apple is at ends with these people. Namely, these politicians don't actually understand how the technology works and so their solutions don't actually do anything to stop what they claim they're trying to stop. The trade groups that they claim are fighting them are even fighting them about different things than what their comments claim. Especially considering that Apple was a pretty big proponent of the GDPR, I'd say, if anything, these politicians should go out of their way to have these talks with Apple rather than waiting for Apple to contact them.
Same experience. I try not to think how many keystrokes this would have saved me over my career had this type of deep learning been available.
The Epic Games Store only works on Microsoft Windows.
Who ever has been downvoting this isn't getting the Futurama reference[1]. That was about the "eye"-phone. For the uninitiated, it means that they want the product faster.

Seriously, its a (humorous) vote of confidence in Brendan's work.

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shut-up-and-take-my-money
This might be a function of age and development? I couldn't learn to bicycle at the "proper" age. (7? 9? I don't know exactly when it was but I could tell my parents were frustrated.) I just couldn't do it. Later as a teenager I tried it and it was easy.
This is kinda inherent in everything, our tech generally moves upwards based on iterations of improvements. Even cheap mass production shitty stuff is still an improvement. Or do you mean exactly screws?

Really when you get down to it, like computers, tools are used like 30+% of the time to build other better tools. Jigs, more accurate cutters, measurement devices, etc. With code that's things like test frameworks, rpc mechanisms, version control, code gen, etc. In fact in software engineering you're usually seen as a better engineer if you build things indirectly (frameworks) instead of mass production of the solution.

Check out the home machine shop series to see how you'd build up a tech stack from basically scrap metal and wood and Sand.

The Metal Lathe (Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap Series Book 2) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007USU8HU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_Gh...

The lathe is pretty much the ur-machine, and a lathe is really just screws
What do we think the author means when he uses the word "perfect"? He uses the words "in denial" and "deluded." He's implying that everyone's childhood contains some flaws that make later psychological introspection beneficial.

In that sense, he's obviously right. That's why "nobody's perfect" is such a bland truism, just as "no one's childhood was perfect."

So the real problem comes down to equivocation. The author means one thing when he says "perfect" and the reader understands it as another: "I had a lovely childhood, and it was filled with memories that I cherish, and it lacked any of those traumatic things you see on TV." Neither meaning refers to "perfect" in the sense that someone can get a 1600 on their SAT test.
The main problem with opiates in north america is that they're prescribed with no mechanism in place for withdrawing.
Concern About Global Warming Among Americans Spikes, Report Says
I think the overall theme of this thread is that it used to be, if the cable fit in the hole it will probably work.

USB-C is the first time most people have run into their cable's shape not corresponding to the cable's capability

(folks trying to do 4k video with shitty HDMI cables excepted)
That URL does not inspire confidence :-(
Based on what just happened, this is somewhat alarming:

For the time being, NASA has published a tentative target of mid-November 2019 for Crew Dragon’s first crewed launch to the International Space Station

I'd rather fly 1,000,000 miles in a Boeing 737 MAX than risk one ride in this contraption. It surely needs quite a bit more unmanned testing before it can honestly be considered to be "man rated".

Of course, NASA has a long and sordid history of pushing spaceflight while playing down many potential catastrophic problems. The Shuttle problems prove that.

And there's no need to belabor Musk's shortcomings. As someone on HN recently quipped, in response to Musk's claim of full driving autonomy by 2020: Tesla has an advantage here in that they don't feel the need for their autonomy to be particularly safe.
>If you're not defending or actively supporting a particular bill

Alternatively, maybe they just don't like the bills that have been presented so far. I've read several of these privacy bills and they're very clearly written by people who have zero clue about the technology in question or the massive amounts of data being discussed. I'd be generally supporting the direction of these bills but would not personally back them myself either. In that case, what's the solution?
Threat: Attackers Can Manipulate Your WhatsApp and Telegram Media Files
This can be solved, in the odd-days example, by making either the second most popular or all other search engines operate only on the even days (as well as making the restriction apply to the most popular engine instead of Google in particular).

This has other drawbacks of course.
I have not read the paper in detail, but a paper on "digital ontology" that does not mention computational complexity, the quantum Church-Turing thesis, or the fact that analog computation leads to unphysical "hypercomputation" makes any other claims in the paper extremely questionable. How can one take a philosopher of information seriously if they do not address the most typical arguments in computational complexity (you know, the actual science of processing information).

Edit: page 7 discusses some of the points I complained about, but it does not seem particularly convincing to me (it only brushes them off, without explaining them). Admittedly, the language of philosophy is frequently unconvincing to me, so maybe the problem is in me.
It wasn't for you. He said it was just for me.
United and American Extend 737 Max Flight Cancellations
This is exactly what came to mind when reading this article. Not only that but, if you actually read the bills that these politicians are suggesting, they are so ignorant of what actually happens in the real world with people's privacy and their data that they're basically meaningless.
So, if I always buy "USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10gpbs) rated at 5A", am I ok?
Each universe gets its own version of Spiderman, and we live in the universe with the fictional Spiderman. That's one theory that matches our observations. Since basically every theory matches our observations, including the theory that there isn't a physical multiverse, every argument is equally specious and aesthetic.
Never heard of this, is this an actual thing?
Why do you say purchasing out of bankruptcy riskier? That's counter-intuitive for me.
Well that's the spec but I've personally had a Google Pixel melt its own charging port when plugged in with a cheap USBC cable off amazon.
> The standard absolutely needs to support the ability for computer and peripherals to detect what kind of cable is connected

The USB-C standard has always had that ability. There's a pair of pins on the connector dedicated to that.

On a basic USB-C to USB-C cable, the first pin of this pair is connected to the corresponding pin on the other end, and the second pin is left unconnected; on an USB-C to USB-B or USB-A cable, this first pin is connected through a resistor with a specific value to the VBUS or GND pin (which one depends on the connector type); and on a more advanced USB-C to USB-C cable, or on an adapter to something like DisplayPort, the second pin is also connected, to a chip which informs the computer about the cable's extra functionality (and also negotiates the alternate mode in case of an adapter).

The device on either end of the cable uses that pair of pins to: negotiate which end will initially be the "host" and which one will be the "peripheral"; detect when the cable is inverted; ask the cable about its capabilities; ask the other device to increase the power or change which device is supplying power; negotiate alternate modes like DisplayPort; and a few other functions. The only thing these pins aren't used to, as far as I know, is to distinguish between an USB 2.0 and a basic USB 3.0 cable; instead, the same method as the older USB-A or USB-B plug is used.
Thermite reactions only happen at extremely high temperatures. Your intuition based on room temperature chemistry is incorrect.

Sparklers (i.e. the fireworks) sometimes use titanium to make the sparks, but the primary thing you are igniting is a conventional oxidizer salt (nitrates) and an organic binder. Basically weak rocket fuel with some particles of flammable metal in it to throw off sparks. This is not a thermite reaction. The surface areas of the metals have a huge impact on practical flammability, hence why fine powders are easy to ignite. Iron is also quite flammable as a fine powder but I don't expect my skillet to spontaneously combust on my stove.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clogs_to_clogs_in_three_gener...

The straightforard but unpopular answer is that you should't squander wealth on yourself, and certainly not squander it on your dependents. Put your wealth to good use making the world a better place, by investing in a business and employees, or paying people to do good charitable work.

The other answer to put your wealth into generating as many offspring (and grand-offspring) as possible, and giving them wealth, and trusting them to figure out how to spread your genes far and wide.
Who said anything about running at a loss? I’m just stating that they can pay more by taking less of a profit, “the market” doesn’t stop them.
Since Amazon easily hires and retains people at these wages, there very likely isn't anything wrong with these jobs. At least not compared to similar jobs for the same segment of the work force.

What I think is really going on here is that Amazon has a PR vulnerability that can be exploited. With enough videos and testimony produced contrasting the plight of the poor oppressed workers with their boss, The World's Richest Man, Amazon will need to do something to make this go away.

Or at least that's what this campaign hopes.
Considering that you can actively monitor network traffic and, essentially, prove that Apple does not send your data (at least in any unencrypted form) to their servers, they seem to be talking the talk when it comes to security and privacy. I'm not even sure how Apple could screw you over "if it comes to that" when they don't have access to the data in question. The encryption being used is end-to-end and the only person that has the key is the user. Unless you duplicate passwords or share them with people, your data is unreadable by Apple.
Luckily you’re also 1,000,000 times more likely to fly 1,000,000 miles in a 737 Max than to ever fly in one of these contraptions. So you don’t need to worry about it.
All business behaviour is (potentially) predatory. It's the job of regulators to set the rules, and for businesses to play within those rules as optimally as they can. It's definitely not the job of companies to _not_ give their customers what they want.

If something permissible could increase their user engagement but they opt not to do it for ethical reasons, they just lose share to the less ethical companies.
Right/left-click to select and the spacebar action can both be set on the first run of 2.8, or in the Keymap tab of the preferences.

Remove doubles can be done with Alt-M -> tap 'B'.

The 3D header (and any header in Blender) can be moved to the top or bottom: right-click the header, select "Flip to Top" or "Flip to Bottom".

In the Outliner, you can enable the "toggle selectable" button in the Filters popup. Click on the "Filter" icon, then click on the mouse cursor to enable the button. Now, you can click the cursor next to any object to make it unselectable, and it will remain visible in the outliner.

Collections can do everything Layers could do, and many more things besides.
> "The main Racket distribution now consists of roughly 1.2M lines of Racket (including 270k lines of documentation source), but that code is still supported by roughly 200k lines of C. Large parts of Racket’s implementation remain in C only because the original interpreter was in C, and all of that C code is relatively difficult to maintain."

For context, cloc says that Chez Scheme has ~100k lines of scheme code and 16k of C (plus 15k of C headers.) I didn't know Chez was that much smaller than racket/base; that's pretty cool. 16k instead of 200k is a huge difference.
I've been hearing nothing but good things about Racket for the last few years. I finally downloaded it last month. It really just puts a silly smile on your face. The language-oriented programming is terrific too. I really want to find ways to integrate Racket into my work.
Well, flying paying passengers in scheduled airline traffic and taking astronauts to space have different definitions of "man rated". As they should.
Doesn't matter, like Amazon it doesn't matter that everyone else pays much less than you (market rate) instead you are personally responsible for the lives of anyone you pay for a service. If the amount you are willing to pay doesn't result in a great standard of living then you are at fault.
> It bothers me that people are constantly demonizing Amazon for their labor practices rather than demonizing the market conditions that have led to Amazon warehouses being a place people are willing to work.

The thing is that Amazon largely contributed to create those market conditions, by getting the consumer used to free next day delivery (same delivery in some places). And by squeezing their workers like this, forcing other online retailers to follow if they want to stay competitive.
I don't have any numbers, but I would not expect the median sale price to be anywhere near $50. I'd expect there to be more sales of <$30 games, as a percentage of revenue, than >$30 games. And the cost of distribution goes up relative to the cost of the game as the sale price goes down.
I took zinc for a time. The aforementioned former nurse recommended it for other reasons.

It seemingly helped those other issues. It was not a magic bullet in terms of my immune function.
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>Boeing report published 1970

>SpaceX: "It is worth noting that the reaction between titanium and NTO at high pressure was not expected."

SpaceX did not expect a reaction known to Boeing almost 50 years ago. My guess would be that this is actually known by a lot of people in rocketry, since UDMH/NTO is a standard propellant - the Proton is entirely fueled with it.

I also guess that the titanium component of the valve is not normally exposed to the oxidizer, and only came in contact with it when the valve broke. It would seem that the simple issue of shattered valve fragments flying down the oxidizer line would have been sufficient to destroy the thruster irrespective of a titanium fire...
> Assembling a wheel from parts is beyond most people,

Just how shitty wheel would be admissible here? A wooden octagon?
Patrick Henry didn't accept that, did he?
They’re investing significant resources in regulation because the public and lawmakers have demanded they do. Craigslist can afford to be more neutral only because nobody’s trying to organize cyberbullying campaigns or Rohingya genocides through Craigslist.
Part of the idea of free market liberalism is that people don’t care who you are, where you came from and who you vote for as long as your product or service satisfies the consumer. If you start to decide which toilet paper to buy based on if a company’s owners have a certain political view or which fried chicken to eat based on a company owners religion then we may be sacrificing some industrial liberty.
Not sure how many people know this but you can use a service like privacy.com to get burner credit card numbers. For example, you can create a burner credit card number that only works one time or has a specific spend limit (like $20 per transaction or $20 total in transactions per month). Credit cards/debit cards are inherently insecure because the credit card number can be reused by anyone who has the code.

It is a free service. If the parents in the article used a service like that then all of their spending problems would be solved because junior couldn't charge the card any further. All additional transactions would simply be declined.

The article talks about government regulation, but the government honestly has better things to worry about than what junior is spending on apps. People simply need to use the existing services, like privacy.com, to control their spending.
Why not bamboo or balsa or bone?

The wheel existed before ball bearings - why are they necessary for bicycles? (is it an efficiency thing, for human powered?)

The safety-bicycle chain requires cheap precision mass engineering, but rope, rubber, axial rod (as in a car), or interlocking gears also work. Or direct, as in a penny-farthing. Or, no wheel power transfer, but push along with your feet, as in the Kirkpatrick bicycle.
They only make $5000 per worker per year or so, given that the stock market has consistent returns of about 7% lately it's getting to the point that it would be better to put that money there was opposed to paying workers with it for such small returns.
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Most people aren't addicted to anything. Most people who try alcohol and video games don't get addicted to them
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Software and the Magic Number Seven
Is metal burning with a non-metal-oxide oxidant a thermite reaction?
This is a podcast with a former CEO of Cargill: http://www.econtalk.org/greg-page-on-food-agriculture-and-ca...
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Twitter.com launches its big redesign with simpler navigation and more features
Shit has been spoken.
(Maybe not as precise as screws, I'm not sure, but) I'm freaked out by bicycle chains, so many pieces, each manufactured to precise tolerances. $15.
Do you think the same (i.e. syntactical weakness) about evolution? Otherwise you must admit Turing Machines could be just fit?
Interesting! I went to download Alda, but there's only a Windows executable and an Amiga file...
Musk says it's still on the table as a backup plan "pending NASA approval". Different commenters on /r/SpaceX have greatly varying estimates about how realistic that is.

https://twitter.com/iamkostmos/status/1104510464627625984

I hadn't heard any thing from official channels since then.
Greek artifact, not Roman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
Right, there are a number of tools like that including the (now defunct) Sqwiggle. My goal was to create something simple to fit a few use cases and see what people do with it.
The benefits are largely obscured by in-game currencies, which exist primarily to obfuscate the true cost of inane in-app purchases; maximize the odds of having a useless residual balance (thus encouraging more spending); and reduce barriers to spending.

Games don’t have to prompt for confirmation to spend proprietary fake money. This removes an opportunity to reconsider a purchase, and dramatically increases the chance of accidental spending. And without a dollar value that players can easily reason about, it’s easy to not realize how much you’re spending. “35 crystal whatzits? Um, okay, that doesn’t sound like much.” Never mind the fact that you actually have to buy at least 50 whatzits to have 35, because the next lowest option is to buy 25.

I don’t have any data on this, but I’d be willing to bet that revenues from in-app purchases went through the roof when someone had the bright idea to switch to an in-game currency (and, eventually, multiple currencies).
> Since Amazon easily hires and retains people at these wages, there very likely isn't anything wrong with these jobs. At least not compared to similar jobs for the same segment of the work force.

I agree that there are almost certainly many other examples of inhumane treatment of low-wage workers. We should fix those too. If low-wage workers had unions then you would be able to have those kinds of cross-industry group actions.

But no, the work conditions at Amazon are not acceptable. And to pretend that this a free market transaction -- and not a case of people who are desperate (and probably being forced to work several jobs and depend on government programs due to inhumanely low wages) being exploited.
Could you imagine using the current feature set to do this? Is there anything missing?
This feels spectacularly Pratchett-esque. I would not be surprised to see this as the first sentence of a Discworld novel :P
Yes, but I can't adjust the audio level.
If you take bugs and security issues into account then almost any layer built on top of Turing complete software is Turing complete
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> Let's say 99 times out of 100, a delay of a few seconds doesn't impact whether one person is conceived.

It does not? Isn't the person that comes out dependent on many many minuscule factors? Aren't all sperm cells, from the same person, different in genetic makeup? Aren't many outside factors influencing how exactly the genes will combine?
I'm glad with articles like this and others recently[1], academia is finally taking the possibility of lizardmen seriously.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19707426
> It bothers me that people are constantly demonizing Amazon for their labor practices rather than demonizing the market conditions that have led to Amazon warehouses being a place people are willing to work.

There's no reason we can't do both. Unfortunately, once you start criticising capitalism (which inevitably leads to these types of employee-employer abuses without unions or other legislation) you get called a communist (incorrectly) and the discussion is over.
I'm a little doubtful. It's hard to make a large pretty flat surface out of stone. That looks better than the french paves (which they still lay by hand in some places today), but still not fun without a modern bike.
When you employ hundreds of thousands of people, it’s not hard to find hundreds who are incredibly unhappy. Sure, this only represents 0.1% of their workforce, but news agencies don’t care about that. People just want something to be angry about.

They’ll continue to ignore that $15/hour is within “living wage” for the low CoL areas that Amazon fulfillment warehouses are located in.