skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you think of innovation?

Has there been any innovation in chairs since the first chair was made? Since, all new chairs are just chairs? Think about it.
I suppose I'm frustrated they decided to mix the two issues and muddy the waters rather than create a clear environmental message.
From Wikipedia:

As an analytical concept and normative ideal, modernity is closely linked to the ethos of philosophical and aesthetic modernism; political and intellectual currents that intersect with the Enlightenment; and subsequent developments such as existentialism, modern art, the formal establishment of social science, and contemporaneous antithetical developments such as Marxism. It also encompasses the social relations associated with the rise of capitalism, and shifts in attitudes associated with secularisation and post-industrial life (Berman 2010, 15–36).
Once in med school, how Meritocratic vs Subjective or Political is the road to top student status?
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You're right dude. This shit has virtue signaling written all over it.
Not having been born is neutral from the position of the being not getting born. It is neither good nor bad, because the being does not exist.

If a woman dies, we don't feel sorrow for any children (or their children, or their children's children, etc, etc) that will never be born. I am not a murderer for denying life to the billions and billions of people that will not be born if I've chosen not to have kids. Neither am I a hero for saving billions and billions of people if I choose to have kids (and good God, make sure my kids have kids and their kids have kids, etc, etc).

The question just comes down to: is it OK to keep animals to be farmed and eaten. If the answer is "no", then you gain nothing by bringing new lives into the world to subject them to it. If the answer is "yes", then there isn't a dilemma.
I've seen the same principle at work in a pretty different activity: rock climbing.

There's a well known story of one of the best climbers in the world getting approached by someone while she was tying the rope to her harness right before a climb. After a brief chat she proceeded to climb the route, lean back on the rope, and promptly plummet to the ground.

After being interrupted she had forgotten to finish tying a knot she had done thousands of times before. It's a good reminder to avoid letting yourself get interrupted in the middle of simple but extremely critical tasks, it's just so easy for the brain to skip over part of the process it knows well and consider it done.
> Unfortunately if your site is interactive, you still need to know if dealing with touch versus keyboard.

Detecting a mobile browser vs regular won't handle this well for laptop touchscreen users... especially for anyone using a laptop in a tablet mode. I suspect the larger targets would also help some regular keyboard + mouse users with poor fine motor control.
What was the lighting setup like for the demo videos? Did you do any processing to reduce flicker?

I get a lot of flickering from CFL and incandescent bulbs in my 240 FPS videos, though I’ve had better results with some LEDs. Considering how much light I’ve needed for good videos at 240 FPS, I’d imagine the lighting requirements at 660-1000 are fairly immense.
Most large animals are at least slightly omnivorous. EX: https://www.outdoorlife.com/photos/gallery/hunting/2009/10/m...

So, in practice it’s more a question of feed stock ratios. Salmon for example can be fed a low percentage of soybeans to lower costs. However, as you can’t replace even 50% of the feed stock with plants the overall argument is still valid.
> the archaeological record seems to indicate that it's like one day we simply 'woke up.'

Either that or the kinds of artifacts we look for simply don’t last longer than 70k years on a planet like this.

Or, it’s just rare enough that, when combined with the cost of excavation and the fact that scholarship builds on scholarship, it’s just not the kind of evidence scholars are going to dig far past we’ll established boundaries to find.

Lots of possible explanations for the data.
I don't think so. Lots of people assume the North Koreans have the same sort of aspirations as westerners do. While they are of course massively indoctrinated and propagandized, don't underestimate the possibility of a fortress nation building a social identity around standing up to all the bigger countries that threaten it. Many such societies have existed in history.
Green+Mattress+Savings
The beautiful part here is that the DPRK has (effectively) no cyber infrastructure of its own to retaliate against. It's perfect asymmetric warfare.
According to Professor Gershwin:

Methus'lah lived nine hundred years
Methus'lah lived nine hundred years
But who calls dat livin'
When no gal will give in
To no man what's nine hundred years ?
There's probably some guys in office buildings in Georgia and Maryland who are chucking in their heads as they read your comment.
equally well, in this context, of course means the same as equally poorly.
Did they write their mathematics books in Persian, or Arabic?
If they wrote their books in Arabic, living in Arabic land
They are Arabic scientist

If a Russian, scientist, lived and studied in USA, to which country would you attribute his work or achievements, Russia or USA
> while providing no or little value.

If there was no or little value, people wouldn't be using Yelp. Clearly there is value being provided, such as discovery, search and reviews. Now the quality of those three is debatable and changes from person to person, but to say they are providing no or little value is disingenuous.

This isn't about Grubhub at all. This is about Yelp. Grubhub is just the vendor to Yelp that is allowing Yelp another way to monetize its service.
Most of the software surrounding existing cards (even the best ones like Chase Sapphire Reserve, and Amex Platinum) is pretty bad.

Apple’s software improvements will be worth it for that alone, but that plus the focus on transaction privacy makes it something that stands out.

Once it’s available I’ll cancel my CSR and Amex and use the Apple Card for all transactions.
|Ethics isn't based on what causes suffering / well-being.

Ehh, where we've landed in contemporary, normative-esque based ethics, it kind of is. Where you think ethics gets its imperative force depends largely (as you mentioned) on your community and environment. Western philosophy has however been shaped enough by utilitarianism, consequentialism, deontology, virtue ethics, etc., to the point that they all to a degree recognize suffering and/or the need to reduce it.

Peter Singer's summary of WH Leckly's 'ever expanding circle of responsibility' is a good example of this.

'"...Lecky wrote of human concern as an expanding circle which begins with the individual, then embraces the family and ‘soon the circle... includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity, and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man [sic] with the animal world."' -- https://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/199704--.htm

Singer suggests that "Our century is the first in which it has been possible to speak of global responsibility and a global community." If an ever expanding circle of responsibility includes reducing suffering on a global level-- and sentience being the compelling criteria that it is-- including animal suffering vs. human culinary pleasure/preference will definitely continue to be relevant in any ethical/philosophic discussions moving forward.

It's interesting that one of the logical ends to reducing suffering as much as possible ultimately leads to expanding the circle of responsibility to future generation and those not yet alive to even suffer. This is where environmentalism and regard for those ahead of our decisions comes into play.

Maybe you're right that ethics isn't entirely based on suffering / well-being, but that's largely where it is headed.
yeah I wondered about that too, I suspect it naturally arcs over and comes down heavy end first (a bit like a shuttlecock) with empty tanks the heavy end is the motors.
Not an issue really for liability.

https://openwireless.org/myths-legal.html
>It sounds like you don't read much fiction!

I almost exclusively read fiction. I do not read a lot of (any) period African-American literature given I read for pleasure and not for tales of historically accurate racism and child molestation (The Bluest Eye apparently) in fiction (which appears to be her thing based on the 5 wiki entries I opened for her works).
>I can’t imagine why the relationship between 8chan and its users would matter at all in this conversation.

I was responding to "Hosting controversial content poses significant operational costs, nobody will do it for free"; no one in the story was hosting controversial content for free, except for 8chan, which was doing exactly that (at no cost to the users posting it).

Other than that relationship, I don't see anyone in this tale that would expect free hosting for controversial content.

>If BitMitigate had been paying enough, Voxility would be contractually obligated to keep them up.

Right; my point is that if this was a normal event, Voxility would have simply increased fees to match the increased costs of hosting. BitMitigate would then increase its fees, and so on. Thats just the dynamics of business.

Suddenly dropping service, and publicly promising to block all content (and I suppose reading between the lines, not rehosting even if BitMitigate ponied up), is hardly the natural monetarily-driven reaction to such an event. The SLA would have prevented this from happening suddenly... but I find it hard to not see this as a fairly unique and directed response... perhaps to a nonunique problem (was Voxility called out when Daily Stormer moved? Was it even really called out in this instance, beyond the tweet referenced in the article?)
There are also extensions for Firefox that disable the messenger redirect and let you use the chat interface on the normal mobile site.
Commercially available jank is still jank. And the matter of portability (why else would you be using a laptop in the first place?) still remains. Forget walking around with it around towb in a bag; if I am trying to work on my deck chair outside, where do I put that mother of all dongles? Balance it precariously on the chair's armrest? No thanks!
Inkscape extension for the layout of sheets of cards for board games
It depends on what you mean by better. Is it better from the perspective of the universe? Or according to your individual personal guidelines that define "better"? Or better as how your society thinks it is? Or better as how Socrates would've define it?

Quite impossible to answer generic questions and better/worse without defining boundaries.
I didn't realize that Disney+ would have so much content and honestly that somewhat puts me off. Coupled with Hulu, my kids would never get away from the TV. Yea yea I know, "restrictions". But still, everything on there seems to be for entertainment only, not much educational.
I have a problem with the article calling the settlement “free money”. The money is not free: it’s a holy inadequate compensation from a company that leaked literally all of the information used by companies to verify consumer’s identity.

Having done this they offered a tiny amount of money, and a “free” service that most consumers already have, that costs them nothing (they’re one third of the companies providing the monitoring and I doubt their paying the other companies market rates).

That credit monitoring they offer? That’s literally a service where you pay them to tell you when they’ve started making fraudulent claims about you. You are still required to do all of the work.

No this fine was nothing, the settlement is a scam, none of the executives responsible has had any consequences except maybe that one who made insider trades, eg. Not because of mismanagement of your data.
I'm not saying they are a good thing per se, just a reassuring thing. It means we still need to be in control of our systems, and can't blindly let our systems control us, because indeed they are fallible. It's of course rather philosophical.

There's also a big difference between these sort of vulnerabilities, and the sort of problems that enable for example ransomware, which is a serious issue that has a more difficult solution than simply designing more robust hardware.

Anyway, if you're intrigued maybe check out Ghost in the Shell sometime (not the one with Scarlett Johansson, although it is enjoyable, it's not really the same thing), if it needs to be Hollywood, then maybe the Hackers movie would also work a bit (with Angelina Jolie).
> Like the Kurds they have a bit more get up and go about them.

The idea that "Kurds"[0] are somehow more motivated or more trustworthy is literally just racist State-sponsored propaganda that has been used and abused by all sides, including from other Kurds, for various reasons over the last 150 years.

Rather than picking and choosing arbitrary, loosely aligned militias to control regions, the US needs to take a more holistic view towards the region and stop participating in the Saudi-Iranian proxy war if it wants to resolve the situation.

[0] I'm putting the word in quotation marks because they are a group of 40 million people with differing religions, alliances, identities, political views and geographical locations around the world
Morals are not decided by a democratic majority. Nor do ethical beliefs need to stem from a higher authority. You can have consistent principles independent of either.
Something I don't see mentioned is biomagnification. One reason we eat herbivores instead of carnivores is because the higher up the food chain you go, the more you are exposed to a concentration of heavy metals, pesticides, etc.

It's a good argument for eating less meat overall, one vegetarians seem to never make. In a world full of unprecedented levels of relatively new toxic compounds, eating less meat is a good defensive move, especially so if you have health problems.

I'm really picky about meat quality. In situations where my choice is something with low quality/highly questionable meat or a vegetarian option, I typically go with the vegetarian option.

Though be forewarned: It's a dietary path that gets you equally harassed by vegetarians and the meat-and-potatoes crowd, which can be incredibly aggravating and feel like the harassment is unceasing.
A whopping ~2% of Iranians have Arabic as their native language. That means, if you're going based on language, you're mislabeling 98% of the population.
Critical Deployment of NASA Webb’s Secondary Mirror a Success
clickbait title; it should be "some people farm octopus- why we shouldn't"
Disney’s Surprise Stumble at Star Wars Land Hammers Results
A Look Inside the World of Bespoke Hot Dogs – Vogue
I think the bad actor here is as much Yelp as Grubhub in that they are using Grubhub's relationship and ability to charge a restaurant to monetise their own listings.

That's where this is unethical and possibly fraudulent when you look at there action as basically generating fake advertising clicks.
Does this "waste" accumulate indefinitely if you are constantly lacking sleep, or does it get flushed out in full every night you get a good night's sleep? So say I had a crappy sleep schedule for 3 days, but on the 4th day I slept a lot and feel very rested. Did the last night's cleaning take care of all the accumulated waste?
Syracuse Reckons with Past Sins as It Figures Out Interstate 81's Future
Because having a USB drive hanging off the side of your laptop is a PITA, having to unmount it to disconnect before packing your laptop, etc.

This new form factor changes nothing for cameras since cameras have proprietary storage for the sole reason of squeezing producers for more cash. RED mags just have cheap (not even high-end) M.2 SATA SSDs inside them, and the camera has a DRM check to ensure that it's one sold by them so you can't just swap it out for a higher capacity one.

Why would they ever adopt an open standard when they can charge thousands of dollars for a proprietary one instead?
The Absurdities of 'Franchise Fatigue' & 'Sequelitis'
A 6 cm baseline is enough for humans to make adequate distance estimates.

Besides the correspondence problem, a longer baseline makes it hard to keep the cameras aligned as the vehicle bounces and flexes. You can't mount them separately to the car -- a chassis can easily twist by a degree or two. So you need a stiff mounting bar between them, which you can either put outside the car like a roof mount (ugly, and it gets buffeted by wind) or inside (also ugly).
High-security locks for government and banks hacked by researcher
10-Year Notes at Negative Coupons Hit Covered-Bond Market
I agree with Musk and see lidar where ray tracing was decades ago. It was an expensive impractical "holy grail".

A set of lidar sensors right now costs as much as a car.

Maybe at some point in the future one of these lidar startups will come out with an inexpensive (maybe solid-state) version to augment the current sensors. Or maybe by that time vision will have gotten much better.
Rocket Lab Unveils Plans for Reusability
Even though they don’t charge for the library, they have a lot riding on the perception of the quality of their protocol. If they allow third party implementations and some of them suck, it might tarnish NDI’s image (and indirectly hurt them via the money they make on hardware).

Edit: I’m certainly not arguing that any particular implementation does suck, just saying that I can see why they might want to protect IP they don’t make money from directly.
I've never worked in a hospital, but I have plenty of experience with massive bureaucracies. And that gives me guesses, perhaps fanciful, about things that could go awry with surgical checklists. Anyone with relevant experience, please weigh in if these seem feasible.

1. Every prominent error that occurs prompts administration to decree a new checklist item be added to provent it in the future. But these added items will not be root-cause fixes so will proliferate to the point that there are now several dozen of negative checks to prevent these one-in-a-million mistakes. And so the lists will grow and grow, but no one will ever dare to take an item off. Because then if that mistake ever does reoccur, the admin that authorized its removal is up for a hearing in front of the firing squad.

2. Some administrator somewhere, noticing redundancy within a given checklist will reinvent control structures. You'll have lists with loops and conditionals. And since the people creating these lists don't know what is "considered harmful" they will almost certainly add GOTO's. In fact, I'd be very surprised if GOTO's don't already exist in surgical checklists somewhere.

But then this addition of control structures could increase to the point that a surgeon could, potentially, be put into an infinite loop! So committees will be formed to ensure every path through a checklist actually can be completed. And someone, somewhere in a hospital conference room, when asked to PROVE the lists all terminate, will take a breath, sit back, and rediscover the halting problem.
I understand your perspective, but as the GP said, ethics is exactly whatever the collective Haas decided it is. Unless we're involving God or some kind of external divine guidelines on ethics, it's pretty much something we've collectively agreed to.

Let's at least be honest about our moral/ethical frameworks. They are useful for social cohesiveness, peace and order. But they're still just made up.
You don't have to torture animals to eat them. Assuming advances in technology and energy we could get to the point where a hypothetical farmer could raise animals in luxury. As tech increases the luxury will increase. If animals are indeed sentient, farms would essentially transform into happiness factories generating and funneling new minds into earthly paradise.

If your ethical code is a variation of 'reducing pain and increasing pleasure for all sentient life' this would be orders of magnitude more good then the Peta option of turning them loose to die in the wild or never exist. It would be far more ethical than even artificial meat.

Heck from a strict cost/benefit analysis it may be one of the greatest moral triumphs mankind has ever given the universe.
$3M Prize in Fundamental Physics Awarded to Discoverers of Supergravity
AirBnB reviews are useless, because they are reciprocal. Imagine how useful online restaurant reviews would be if the business was encouraged to review you back, and other restaurants could consult that review before allowing you to book a table.
Moral are decided by the whoever can force other (persuasively or physically) to conform to their morality. Democratic majority often get to decided the morality because there is strength in numbers.
I don’t think you meant to imply that ethics have no intersection with ecology.
The real price of buying cheap clothes
Interesting. For our local events, we get tons of real people in our area from Facebook ads. We optimize for event responses (basically people clicking "interested" on an event). YMMV
If someone harangues you about your dietary choices, they’re probably not worth being around.
The truth value of given logical proposition is dependent on people agreeing in some common axiom.
This and many users are hooked on the social networking effect where other users are liking their reviews. Twitter is much the same - you get a constant stream of endorphins every time you see people liking and retweeting your crap. It's socially toxic but effective.
Interesting. I wonder if you could eliminate some of that with a free tier until your first couple orders or something.
Not VR, the chickens live a real life as fulfilled and self actualized as a chicken could be. At any rate it doesn't even really matter (from the chicken pov) whether its real or not because as I said, from all the available evidence chickens don't have the innate capacity for existential dread. A chicken doesn't and can't care what happens to it's corpse after its dead or the evolutionary arc of its species. The only ones who care are a few humans projecting anthropomorphic traits on to them.
Resold – Peer-to-peer marketplace with ridesharing fufillment. Buy/sell anything
Yelp is bad. Doordash is a close second.
KLM complains about poor quality control at Boeing's Charleston factory
Yelp can't grow anymore. Now is when they make money and pay back their investors.
Yes, 350 people out of ~8 million means only ~0.00005% of New Yorkers have access to it.
He is pointing out a very important reality though. First you prove physical viability. Then engineering viability. Finally, after operating a full commercial unit for a while, you may prove economic viability. It's easy to assume physical viability leads to economic viability but this really is not the case.
no analog at those frequencies, you would want dedicated Multi-phase Clock Buffer chip, something like a couple CY7B9945V
There are no "magnets" at this point, so not sure what he is talking about. Basically they are building up HTS Twisted Stacked-Tape Cables (TSTC) and they plan on building their first full-size prototype coil in 2020.

Current tests include subjecting conductors to a 13T field in a 700mm chamber at the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) in Japan. One of the key properties of HTS is that they maintain superconductivity at high magnetic fields.

Some slides from a recent talk discussing this phase of research: https://indico.cern.ch/event/775529/contributions/3309887/at...