skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't, in itself. But when a PhD with very widespread support disagrees with somebody so lacking in the relevant discipline that they keep making the same elementary mistakes over and over in support of a preconceived notion, it's a really strong sign that they're not really talking on an equal footing.

It's not always easy to rule out outsider with novel ideas, but there are lists of warning signs of crankery and motivated reasoning that a journalist should be able to identify. There will always be a gray area, but that's no excuse for lazy journalists to repeatedly seek out anybody willing to disagree just for the purpose of presenting an equal-and-opposite story.
Sitting on a bus right now in London, trying to get home. The trains are just completely f*ed and I'm melting.
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Lol, you browse YouTube logged in?
Given that most labourers are paid hourly, I suspect that the speed (or lack thereof) with which infrastructure projects are built _is_ the reason why they're so expensive
Well the lawn rule was probably a non-issue because it was cheap/easy/morally justifiable enough to comply with with at the time and appeared it would be for the foreseeable future.
And has already scheduled 5 executions of convicted child killers. About time.
That feature is implementation specific, not a rule of the game. I've never used it, so I didn't bother implementing it.
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> This is pretty much always going to be true in unspecilized labor.

Not when regulation steps in. That is what labor law and regulation is for.

The "gig economy" was a tech industry attempt to sidestep labor law, and the law is finally catching up. And mind you, you don't have to outlaw how gig workers are currently treated as contractors everywhere to break these platforms; just in places large enough that without those markets, the platform is no longer barely sustainable (for example, 25% of Uber's bookings occur in just five cities: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, and São Paulo). It doesn't matter much for platforms if gig workers are still legal in say, Wyoming.

https://www.wired.com/story/california-lawmakers-move-protec... (Wired: California Lawmakers Move to Protect Gig-Economy Workers)
I didn't. But I haven't tweaked my uBlock settings, so maybe mine is more permissive.
It's turbo BS that you're not entitled to cash payout unless you already have a credit monitoring service.
Correct -- the etymology of all "chai"s and "tea"s can be traced to Chinese:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_tea
Very few families use IM. Are you in california by chance? I doubt its even a majority with affluent families there.
> Criticizing these photos is a bit like criticizing a landfill or sewage treatment plant as reflecting on the beauty of an entire area. It's essentially utilitarian infrastructure. It's ugly, sure, but you can't have everything be ivy-covered brick and artisanal bakeries.

Does it really have to be so ugly to be functional? This isn't some out of the way piece of infrastructure, these are areas of high traffic density and it is not unreasonable to ask why aesthetic considerations are so universally ignored in these types of areas in this country.
Perhaps they are counting on a certain number using their free credit monitoring, as that's the other option on the site.
What an attacker gets from Apple devices if they sniff Bluetooth traffic
I'm holding out for full-body prosthesis, but until then you might like to look into the likely next best option for your current body: https://startingstrength.com/article/back-pain-and-back-stre...
If kids 'need' TV shows to watch and parents need a source of children's entertainment they can trust, isn't that were we normally expect an organization like PBS to fill the need?

With an organization like PBS, they have a reputation of manually curating what they show, while something like Youtube Kids just has automated systems and manual reports to supplement it. It's hard to believe Google/Youtube could ever provide automated curation as well as PBS. How many media articles that boil down to "youtube showed this to kids but PBS never would have" are we going to have before people get the idea?
Is this landscape really as unique as the article wants to portray?

I’ve been to the US for short trips, Norwalk - CT, Miami, NYC, nothing special about these places but from what I recall you could easily take a similar picture: Chipotle, Macdonalds, Walmart, Subway, Gas stations all lined up in a short stretch of road.
Checkout the previous entry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20497541
To me it looks like ChaiScript is more lightweight and easier to learn.
https://www.texastribune.org/2019/07/25/federal-death-penalt...

The new protocol replaces the controversial three-drug lethal injection combination with the method that Texas has had since 2012 — using only pentobarbital, a sedative. Texas purchases the drug from compounding pharmacies kept secret from the public, where drugs are mixed without federal regulation. The state has used pentobarbital in 79 executions.

It's difficult to get a hold of pentobarbital, which makes me think these federal executions are going to be delayed.
In that case, even better: (edit: I estimate) half the people at work run Linux or Mac. Linux percentage seems to be rising.

Officialy IT don't support Linux. Unofficially they'll be happy to make sure everything works.

We threw out MS Office many moons ago anyway, and management switched first and with genuine enthusiasm so it was no problem to get the rest of the company on board ;-)

And this is not the first place: Already in 2009 - 2012 I worked for two places like that; well one of them went further and almost completely banned Windows because the IT manager couldn't stand it. The other place just had a policy to let people choose, -and a dev team that would encourage people to pick Macs.

From 2015 I've been free to choose my own OS again.
I'm not sure if a generic phone's DA converter can match the signal quality of a specialized circuit.
I don’t know about the rest of the US, but in SF water pricing is tiered. A small amount costs x per gallon. A larger amount costs 2x per gallon. And even larger amount costs 4x per gallon, etc.

Unfortunately the rich can still abuse this, as it’s not actually proportionate to income. I wish more public fees were, like speeding tickets, car registration costs, etc, so that rich/poor impact was more normalized.

N.B. The multipliers are illustrative and not the actual numbers.
Thank you! Many times I have thought through how I could approach something like this. The actual tech behind the OP-1 isn't complicated, they just came up with an awesome form factor and UX. I'm absolutely gonna try getting involved in this project, appreciate you sharing.
I'm sure they have it all already.
You can use micro sd card for the bootloader and boot from USB 3 ssd on rpi4.

https://jamesachambers.com/raspberry-pi-4-usb-boot-config-gu...
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In my mind, a "maintained" lawn is brown for much of the summer, comparably to how it's covered in snow for most of the winter.
Most importantly: having real physical controls (buttons, knobs, etc) makes a huge difference. Tapping fingers on a hard glass surface just isn't the same.

Also, the joy of a single-purpose device which makes it easier to get deeply into it. Also means no notifications or other distractions.
Facebook has already launched some features that are clearly related to this, such as the Recommendations product. Imagine posting "anyone know why this thing happened to me?" and being able to answer it in real time?

Writing it out, that example actually seems counter productive to Facebook's vested interest increasing sharing, although I guess if the answer resolves as a comment it aligns incentives?
It's been a while since I attempted to seek evidence on this, but:

1. Does anyone know if there are statistics on how executions help victims' families/friends? eg. Does it result in lower depression, anxiety, PTSD, etc. rates?

2. Does anyone know if there are statistics on how executions help crime rates?

Or alternatively:

3. Do we have statistics that highlight any proven benefit to executions as punishment?
> I find this tiny bit of Americana comforting.

Really?

How about you drive in Italy, you still find "service" and food every 10-20 miles, but food completely changes every 40-50 miles.

There are chains, but most are mom-and-pap shops, you can call them "trattoria" or "osteria".

I grew up in Italy. As much as I like the US, on the food side there's really no comparison.

Give it a try.
Were in Europe are bidets common? I've never seen one in Germany.
I hope you are correct, and I hope we are reaching the critical point of old people die and young people coming of voting age that we can elect some politicians that care about the voters and not the donors.

They say politics is like a pendulum and it seems like we are all the way on the right and it should start going back to the left any day now.
With few exceptions, the word for Tea in a country depends on how it was originally transported there.

See: Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea

https://qz.com/1176962/map-how-the-word-tea-spread-over-land...
That's actually why we had to come up with our own topic typology in this report - some of the category tags that YouTube provides were too broad to be useful ("TV Shows") and others were way too specific ("Music of Latin America")
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I couldn't find the original proposal text, but you can read the final partnership agreement text on their website: https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/about/governance/framewo...
dumb question, perhaps someone will take mercy on me:

i've wanted to learn to make electronic music for.. ever. and i've never really done it.

i have a mac. and an iPad. and an iPhone. and an M-Audio MIDI controller.

what's a good recipe -- hardware and software -- to build the base skills & knowledge to make decent ambient/chill tracks? i'm hoping someone can send me in the right direction..

thanks in advance.
Messenger bots are of interest to marketers, but they don't really seem to use them too frequently. Customer support is a much more common use case from my observations.

All that said, even if it were marketers, it seems pretty clear who this is being built for.
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Full report is here, in case it interests anyone: https://www.pewinternet.org/2019/07/25/a-week-in-the-life-of...
It sounds to me like they'll give you free credit monitoring, UNLESS YOU ALREADY HAD CREDIT MONITORING, then they'll give you $125. Most people don't have credit monitoring, I think. Personally, I've found the free credit monitoring that they gave me pretty useless. I get an email regularly telling me my score changed. I have to go log in and find out I went up 2 points because of an algorithm change. Thanks for looking out, Equifax! Then I go to a dealer and they pull my credit and it's dramatically higher than what Equifax has been telling me. The whole system seems silly to me.
Youtube should not be allowed to monetize any videos with children in it until they comply with the same conditions that movies that employ child actors have to. That would remove the incentive to make children perform for Youtube videos.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but if you lived in the south of Spain it means you had cool air currents from the sea always blowing and generating ventilation when you opened the windows.

In central Europe, we have no sea, no coast and no winds to bring cool air in summer.

I'm in Austria, and due to the lack of wind, at night the temperature doesn't drop much and even with all the doors and windows of my apartment wide open the air is literally sitting still and we're boiling.
The theoretical argument is that you should only be compensated for damages and incurred costs. If your information is leaked but no one used it, arguably there are no demonstrable damages. If you didn't purchase credit monitoring, you didn't incur any costs.
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This is scam
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Disagree, people went nuts over the Monotron because up to that point all the established synth companies had been saying 'analog is too expensive, be happy with digital' and boutique manufacturers couldn't compete due to economies of scale and relatively high setup costs.

With the Monotrons, Korg made a risky reputational bet on the idea that Pick-and-place assembly technology and tiny modern components could deliver the low costs and satisfying sound that synth nerds expected, selling the same functionality for $60 something that people were used to paying $300 to get. Any toy manufacturer could have done this of course, but Korg recreated the widely-loved MS-20 filter, making it irresistible to analog fetishists - at a price low enough for consumers to take a risk on it not sounding 'as good as the original'. Except that...it did. So then they repeated the stunt with two other Monotrons.

Then they built a larger one for double the price that had a more fully featured monosynth in it, and around the same time started dropping schematics publicly and encouraging people to modify them. By the time the Volcas hit the market the bleep squad was fully in love with Korg after a 30 year cool spell, and they had shifted the entire bottom end of the synth market. Several years on, Even Roland is making analog again and there is an absolute renaissance in terms of both classic synth clones and wild new innovations.

Teenage Engineering in contrast went the Apple route of very high quality industrial design, super-accessible user interface, and a high price - and they did very well with their OP-1 synth, which offers a unique combination of synthesis, sequencing/recording, and portability. The Pocket Operators are fine little synths that have opened up a bridge to the lower end of the market and allowed them to introduce several other products in the middle that don't cannibalize sales of their flagship OP-1, but I don't think it's accurate to say they're 'influential'; they answer the question of 'could you implement a decent synth plugin in hardware for cheap' (yes) and come from a company that's small enough to remind people of the DIY/kit synth designers while being established enough to design and ship a product that's complete without doing any actual work or waiting for software stability from a lone programmer. They also sell semi-modular analog synths whose enclosure is built out of cardboard, Ikea-style, but don't require anything like soldering or component selection - in short, delivering the DIY feel without the possibility of messing it up.

They're cool little synths, and TE is an influential company at the top end of its range, but you're the only person I've ever heard suggesting the operators' have had any impact on the market other than slightly expanding the range of stocking stuffer options during gifting season.
> " The fact that this isn't a difficult problem to solve is the strongest indication that A) YouTube knows exactly what's going on"

It may also be the case they're totally incapable of doing it right, despite trying their best. I'm not sure that possibility really changes the situation though; either way the outcome is not quality entertainment for kids.
To my understanding the content uploader sets those tags / categories. Maybe then old abandoned YouTube accounts might get more visibility to their videos since the community can proper label videos.
The YouTube + Kids has been an unsolved problem for many years now. It’s not easy putting those two together. Google knows that and have been working on it continuously. Very early on, around 2008, they realized that 2+2 is somewhere between 3.9 and 4.1 and with advances in ML and AI they’ve increased confidence levels significantly. They are now (2019) pretty close to proving that 2+2 comes out 4 (or more precisely 4.001337) regardless of how many hours of video are uploaded every minute. That said, they are also cautious not to raise hopes too high. As with all complex problems, it may take years to solve, if at all.
I think the parent's point is that this has produced many spectacularly bad outcomes.
I'm a big fan of early returns; keeping cyclomatic complexity down can help readability. Idiomatic Go captures this too.
Not sure about that. If it's introducing a whole bunch of people to music production who would otherwise find it too intimidating or expensive to get started, that seems like it's changing it. Perhaps in a different way than some of the other stuff you're citing.
"One country, two systems" is a domestic policy of China. It's not any other country's business.

People seem to be outraged by vague allegations of Russian meddling in other countries' affairs but China should be treated like a colony by the West... That's highly hypocritical (if not racist).
Siberia is not very attractive from weather perspective. It's extremely cold in winter, but still super hot in summer. Climate change won't make it any more attractive: it will be even hotter in summer, but only slightly less freezing in winter.
> ChaiScript has been making stable releases since 2009. No bugfix or feature is made without a corresponding unit test

Codecov: 72%

Reality is often disappointing...

In all seriousness, looks pretty nice.
I disagree, i have lived in or driven across a lot of the US, and I instantly recognized these pics as Breezewood when they started making the rounds lately.
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Thanks to your book I overcame my fear of formal grammars and wrote three essential LL(1) parsers for my latest project.

Where before I haphazardly ignored features like quoted strings or escaped characters, I now have extremely high confidence in my parsers’ completeness and correctness. Also the error reporting rocks and the code is easy to read!

Thank you!!!
Supposedly only ~3% of eligible people make claims in a typical class action case (according to a r/personalfinance poster claiming they work around such cases).
> Really hard to concentrate on work in this heat.

This reminds me of Singapore's founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, who said,

“Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics.

Without air conditioning you can work only in the cool early-morning hours or at dusk. The first thing I did upon becoming prime minister was to install air conditioners in buildings where the civil service worked. This was key to public efficiency.” [1]

1. vox.com/2015/3/23/8278085/singapore-lee-kuan-yew-air-conditioning
What does it use _“block-chain”_ for?
This strategy works well in arid climates where the dew point (and low temperatures) are in the 10s C. In humid climates where it doesn't drop below 25C at night, it simply never gets cold enough.
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Except it absolutely was not written into the contract. The contract had a clause disallowing fraudulent use - but did not state or define what fraudulent use was.
Hm, honestly, Being into analog synthesis is one thing, and making music is another. That has always been a thing I hear, fun toys are not meant for serious music. I believe you can use anything to create music. I own two of these pocket operators and I already create music with them. If you can sample sounds from anywhere, why would these devices just be toys?. I don't see them as that, unless you're an analog synthesis person that is looking to patch like crazy, which is another story.
Migrating away from Microsoft won't be easy. Despite high licensing costs, Windows, AD and Exchange are still great solutions with millions of people familiar with them, good documentation and support.

I agree that only public funding and massive donations would allow the development of true alternative to these products.

The building blocks are already there: desktop Linux, openLDAP, FreeRADIUS, LibreOffice, etc.

What is needed is lots of refinements, improvements and UI/UX polish to have a package that small shops to Fortune 500 companies could deploy.
> Interestingly, farmers view water usage as a trade secret

I wonder why. Do slight changes in irrigation patterns have a significant effect on crops?
A curious thing that people have no problem dumping endless kilowatts (and gas btu's) into their heaters all winter but a few watts of AC when its warm is environmental heresy and a sign of personal weakness. This despite the fact that heat-pump AC's use far less power.

All I can figure is people have been heating themselves for 10's of thousands of years and AC is a distinctly modern phenomenon. From Mother Earth's perspective it would be far better for humanity to live in the tropics with AC than nearer the poles with heaters.
> We thought we were doing the right thing by making Dashers whole when a customer left no tip

I don't understand this sentence (probably for cultural reasons) - what does 'whole' mean? Why do they need to be 'made whole' when they don't earn a tip?
Back in ancient windows, I definitely picked poorly and died on my first click multiple times. However, it is an interesting optimization.
Yes, the article is wrong. A QoS 0 message is never resent by a well-behaved sender, so it could not be duplicated. It might not even leave the sender's network stack if the connection was broken before the send attempt.
Nothing stirs the lust for murderous revenge like crimes against the children.
Whoa, this is awesome! Thanks for linking it.

I started working on my own mini synth with Teensy and the Teensy audio shield, however this seems like a great project to pivot to. Definitely plan on reaching out to the team and seeing if there is any way to help!
It is either-or, not both. If you want the money you have to promise you have credit monitoring from somewhere else. Credit Karma (for example) counts as free credit monitoring and you can easily make an account before making the claim. Many credit cards come with monitoring too.
Dude, even though it was a bit off topic, I have been listening to this playlist for around an hour and I'm pretty stoked on it! Thanks! Funny, I already had quite a few of these songs in a playlist of my own :) Great stuff.
A mobile AC draws hardly any amps. I tested mine that is rated for 700sqft to pull 6 amps at 110v.
Reminds me of Stephen Shore's 1975 photograph of La Brea and Beverly (https://sensitiveskinmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12...). Lots of photographers have done commentary on this American landscape. Some of my favorites include Anthony Hernandez, Robert Adams, Stephen Shore and Henry Wessel. Robert Adams' "Summer Nights Walking" feels like strolling through any of these small American towns late at night.
Agreed, this concept of making a modular, reusable, less technical code editing, and a collaborative coding environment is what a lot of engineers see as the future of development. I've heard some engineers argue that this is going to be a better way for them to collaborate with product owners and managers. I do wonder though what it would take to have companies start adopting a type of workflow using such apps...
A Google Scholar search turned this up:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/421571

> Results from least squares and negative binomial estimations indicate that capital punishment does deter: each execution results in, on average, three fewer murders. In addition, capital punishment deters murders previously believed to be undeterrable: crimes of passion and murders by intimates. Moreover, murders of both African‐American and white victims decrease after executions, which suggests that capital punishment benefits people of all races. However, longer waits on death row before execution lessen the deterrence. Specifically, one less murder is committed for every 2.75‐year reduction in death row waits. Thus, recent legislation to shorten the wait should strengthen capital punishment's deterrent effect.