skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not about skeptical remarks being poorly informed. It's about taking a thought that could occur to anyone thinking about the issue at hand without having all the information, presenting it, and having an informed reply. It's part of the dialog, and shouldn't be demonized!
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7 octets is the minimum set by the SIG, not a mandatory length to support for all devices. For devices that transfer sensitive information (phones, keyboards, etc.), a larger key length can be enforced. This would be enforced by the application written by the product designer, not the BT chipset vendor nor the BT SIG.
Have anyone seriously studied the impact of switching to all-electric cars on a global scale ?

I read that there are over a billion passenger cars right now, let's say we manage to shift them all to electric by 2050 (not saying this is realistic), sure it'll move the air pollution out of the city, but what about long term pollution, manufacturing, recycling, &c. ? Would it really solve the problem or simply move it out of our sight for a few decades ?
My Ron Swanson Funko is judging you for your lack of Funko Pop appreciation. https://i.imgur.com/aTIeVKi.jpg
Evidenced by what? Violence continues to be at or near the lowest point since the mind 20th century. Not just in the US but globally. Economic growth is persisting despite governments uncooperative with the global economy in key countries (like the US). And the internet itself is doing a way better job of policing content today than it was in the 2000s. So why is the internet all of a sudden a problem today, despite key indicators showing that society isn't worse off?
Caption on photo of Trump on the phone: "President Trump talks with on the phone in the Oval Office."

"talks with on the phone"? This is a type of typo we haven't seen much in the past. It's clearly a problem were the spell-checker did not put a wiggly red line under anything, so MSNBC just pasted it in. Semantically, it's an error. "talks with" who? Spellcheck is great, don't get me wrong, but grammar checkers just aren't up to even "lazy human copy editor" standards.
I think you missed his point.

If 0.5% of requests take 100x the average time you want that to be as obvious as possible. With quintiles those extreme outliers are easy to miss. With confidence interval error bars the outliers become more obvious.

Further, running the test 1 Billion times would not reduce those error bars because that unusual event would occur ~5 million times.
Anybody from the industry know how much better is the closed source modelling software like lightwave, 3DS, Maya, Softimage compared to Blender. I know they are all different but is blender a peer a step above or a step below?
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You can buy e-bikes with regenerative braking. They don't advertise it much but as far as I know, all Stromer's [0] e-bikes have it.

[0]: https://www.stromerbike.com/en_INT.html
Idle thought: Is a bicycle an unpowered exoskeleton? What if you clip in to it?
I guess you could go back a bit earlier? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine#Charles_Babb...
People don't have TV, how did presidents ever give addresses to the people before? There most certainly is an option to not use twitter, I know lots of people in that demographic. What line did twitter cross?
Look at the ratio of calls they get vs. suicides? Seems pretty easy to measure to me.
MBSR is well studied and proven, but it’s worth noting that meditation has only recently become an area of medical research. If we insisted on the rule that we only try what is proven through research, meditation would have “gone extinct” thousands of years ago and nobody would benefit from it today
I do know that type of person and yes it is not fun. Or they recite all the specs of a new Android vs iPhone and how you are such an "idiot" for being an Apple sheep. When really you don't care that much and the price difference isn't significant. Not to mention side by side your iPhone is noticeably faster in a real world test of launching the same app, browsing etc.

Convincing those people that specs are mere indicators and do not matter in the face of objective UX...impossible.

Really comes down to what you are optimizing for.
Unfortunately, until there's more infrastructure supporting electric cars, it's much easier to refill your car with gas if it runs low while you're out than recharge it.
Made plenty of such time, have several projects that aren't quite finished, lost confidence, etc. Working on another one as we speak :)
Just wondering: Is it the swears? Is it the tone of voice of the hypothetical opponent? Where's the problem in your mind?

If "reasonable points" aren't furthering discussion, what are we even doing here?
Twitter do not seem like a firm motivated primarily by profit. There are lots of things they could have done in the last decade that would have had nothing to do with censorship but which would have resulted in far higher revenues.
Skype for Business, which is not Skype at all, is being shelved in favor of Teams.
You’re probably using super basic react then. Start adding some more to the plate, and you’ll get there.
My own experience with VR was that it is held back by an extremely clunkly interface. Nobody wants to wear those huge headsets for long periods of time, and you can't even move around in the virtual world because of all the claptrap that is connected to it.

I had much better luck getting people to try things like Daydream, which have extremely limited processing power but could do cartoony graphics just fine.

I think the industry really missed an opportunity to start with lightweight AR. Let the users walk around by showing them where they are and overlay things on top. There are plenty of useful applications; many require precision sensing that phones don't have, but there are others that can be done with just an accelerometer and a camera.
Only keyboards that use BR/EDR are affected. BLE keyboards are unaffected.
Fun point of trivia about XBill: you might not guess from XBill's (ahem) slick, beautiful user interface, but one of the two people who wrote XBill is Matias Duarte.

Yes, that Matias Duarte, the guy in charge of UI for Android and who came up with Material Design.
I wonder if Google will start banning accounts if you sent an email with offensive words..
Falsetto in rock has a strong relationship to the low mid content of electric guitars.

This means a vocalist needs to get in the upper register to have sonic space.

Some of the best rock vocalists of all time, for example axl rose and Chris Cornell, are actually low baritones singing almost exclusively in an idiosyncratic blended falsetto.

Related: pre distorted electric guitars, baritones were considered the most attractive in pop music... Elvis was a tenor who sang in the baritone register, I believe.
The more we let it go the harder it'll be to reverse / the more lifestyle changes we'll have to go through.
Generally when you see that, the N-pack is sold by a marketplace seller (and there's a good chance it was packaged that way by the mp seller to get a better chance of a sale by offering something unique).
He called someone "stupid", "cunt", "whore" and "fuck yourself".

The tweet is hateful.
I do too thank him for actually manageable and nice-to-use service management and how much less it actually gets in my way than other inits, audio systems, logging and logrotating systems do. I instantly dismiss anyone's opinion who finds stuff like `rc-service $(name) status` or tracking down where the f* some garbage decides to log (turns out it's stdout >:|) even remotely acceptable.
What does that tell you?

A suicide hotline might be called only by people who have no intent to die. If we measure how many people die it's not going to be many, but that doesn't mean the hotline works.
Get rid of your users to learn why they use(d) your product
I've never seen anyone use it in the 15-25 age range for U.S. . I downloaded it once to talk to a friend from The Netherlands, but then we switched to Viber
And companies like Tesla not only don't accomplish anything to reduce car dependency, they (or at least their principals) are actively working to maintain or possibly even extend car dependency (cf. the Boring Company with its mission to direct even more transportation funding to individual transportation).
> Oh, and Lennart Poettering is also a jerk. Not an "I'm brash" kind of jerk (like Linus can be), but an "I'm an insecure person; don't critique my code" kind of way. Also, he thinks he's smarter than every one.

I think it's largely due to how the community has treated him. It's frankly disgusting.
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If you google gates belt drive snapped you‘ll find plenty of anecdata of belts lasting only a couple thousand kilometers (and others who ride them for tens of thousands of kilometers with no issues).

Here‘s a (German) Video from a guy with a severely damaged (but still rideable) belt after 4500 km:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n16gN7RDWEY

In the comments you‘ll find people whose belts snapped at 1050 km, at 1000 km and one at less than 2000 km.

I don‘t know how likely this is, it might be quite rare. But since it‘s non-repairable it‘d make me uneasy on longer bike rides.
the book series is interesting. one of the main characters (Ozma, the queen of oz) spends her childhood as a boy and then is transformed back to a girl.
Lem's "His Master's Voice" is a great example of this. The novel is all about humans trying to decipher an alien transmission. There was a 2018 film adaptation, but I haven't been able to find it yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Master%27s_Voice_(novel)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4795062
I think GSM has some kind of mapping for emergency numbers internationally, so it should work if people dial either 112 or 911 on a GSM phone. (Of course, this wouldn't work on a land line.)
If you can get your hands on a translation by Michael Kandel, you should read that. He translated directly from Polish, sometimes even spoke directly with Lem regarding his translation, and I'm told he did a pretty good job with Lem's books.
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Of course. Just look at how leniently reddit deals with left wing hate subs like late stage capitalism. They advocate murder and genocide all day long and reddit doesn't do shit. On the other hand the_donald is one of the most tightly moderated subs, they don't allow any sort of "hate" speech. But still they keep putting restrictions on it and threatening bs actions. Same deal with Twitter.
That would require all my modules to be connected to wifi at all times.
It sounds like you're interpreting the "counterintuitive" in the title in an odd way. It's just counterintuitive to human observers.
But you would need a company to give you data with nothing visible on return. Do you think a company would do that?
> Nobody wants to wear those huge headsets for long periods of time, and you can't even move around in the virtual world because of all the claptrap that is connected to it.

This is part of why I find Facebook's Quest so compelling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_interpretations_of_T... is an interesting read
1. hn is not strictly for tech or tech-related topics (which I'd argue this falls under if that were a rule). The rules page mentions "tech" zero times.

2. did the rules change after the Damore memo to explicitly forbid this? The drama surrounding him certainly stuck on the front page for a while.

edit: thank you for un-flagging the submission.
>This is facile

It is basic 7th grade civics, Section 4 of the Constitution:

>The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government

Founding Father John Adams:

>"No determinations are carried, it is true, in a simple representative democracy, but by consent of the majority or their representatives."

The word "democracy" appearing in the Constitution: 0

Extra fun fact, the US is not the first Constitutional Republic, it is the 2nd behind San Marino.

> there is no contradiction

If you used democratic republic there is not, where the people vote and elect the representative leaders, then there is no contradiction. But democracy comes from Ancient Greece where all citizens with a right to vote directly decided the issues with votes, issues were not decided by elected representative. Its a significantly different form of government not just a typical HN pedantic point.

>the right of free association

The right to associate has nothing to do with accessing corporate property to disseminate your speech.
Powerbocking. I worked with a guy in 2010 who had them. He could run as fast as his daughter could bike. Said falling over was pretty dangerous at speed.
Beef cattle only spend the last few weeks of their lives on feedlots. Otherwise, they are grazing. You should visit a working ranch/farm sometime.
I actually address that in the post. In short, automated testing is of course useful and should be utilized whenever possible. However, a manual bug bash still allows you to:

1. catch any unknown edge cases that may not be covered by your test suite
2. allow all stakeholders in the project to see the (near) final product
Don’t forget off-by-one errors!
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There's nothing in the rule of law that says platforms need to be places with arguments and rebuttals overseen by an arbiter. There's nothing against the law about having a platform filled with petulant children. For the most part, the only things against the law are illegal content (CSE, etc.) and credible and specific threats. Plus maybe some niche cases like providing aid to terrorist groups, distributing confidential documents, and the like.

Yes, tech companies should accept the rule of law. But people need to accept that the rule of law does not preclude running a site full of angry, bigoted idiots with no productive commentary.
I agree. Although I wasn't advocating building a new city; rather just moving to a city that already has the infrastructure in place.

I struggle with this as moving is most definitely giving up on my current "community" and lobbying would most definitely push me out of my comfort zone. But perhaps that's a good thing :)
Hopefully this would only be an issue during an attack. Not sure why your headphones would be legitimately negotiating encryption but then only supporting <7 bytes of entropy.
In round numbers, the drivetrain causes about 4 watts of loss.

Tire rolling resistance costs about 40 watts (on regular roads with road bike tires; less in a velodrome and more with knobby, thick mountain bike tires).

The bike itself costs 8
~60 watts or so in air resistance, less for aero, deep-dish tri bikes and more for round-tube wide-tire gravel bikes. But more importantly, air resistance increases with the square of velocity, no matter your starting drag coefficient.

The remaining 150 watts or so are caused by rider air resistance.

And of course, all 250 watts are produced by the rider and dependent on their fitness level.

Clearly, the best way to go faster is to put more energy in. Next, improve your posture to produce less drag. However, it's easier to spend money than to sweat and suffer, so people instead turn to aero bikes, tires, and the drivetrain.
SysV init, which was the traditional type used on Linux systems (with some exceptions like Slackware), was itself derided by critics as overcomplicated. And since it was part of the commercial distribution of UNIX released by AT&T, it was viewed by many as corporate contamination. Not "organic" at all. The BSD world never accepted it.
I'm just pointing out that your statement, as it stands, is false, and letting you know why that is so.
There's a small urban park 5 minutes away from my apartment, I live in Oregon so the greenery is very lush and evergreen. It's the perfect spot for a quick 10 minute headspace session.

The mind is an incredible thing, it's difficult to know if tech has reduced my mind's ability to remain still -- but it's quite something to sit and realize that my mind goes it's own way and I struggle to keep up, like a dog walking it's master.
I'm countering the analogy, not the case of Corellium. You're right: the analogy used here misses the point; it's not the same as what Corellium was doing.

The analogy is harmful because it implies that it's unreasonable to expect that like Microsoft and Apple would allow their software to be used for free for research purposes; it doesn't mention resale of the software. I don't see that as an unreasonable expectation; Microsoft does it without issue.

Edit: Just to be clear, Microsoft is not offering these VMs as a service. You are required to download the image and run it yourself. It’s basically just a license to use Windows for free as long as it’s for a specific kind of research.
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Depending on the BT tech your hopping either 79 or 29 channels, not that many. Find the increment and hop timing and you can hop along with them.
If the insurance company withholds the evidence from the police and prosecutors they never “know” it exists and wouldn’t need to provide it.

What irks me is that they can destroy people’s lives with impunity: if they lose they just have to pay out the insured amount, they don’t need to compensate someone for making them homeless or for destroying their business.

All officers and prosecutors should be criminally liable as they are accepting bribes for prosecuting these victims.

The insurers should be liable for subverting the course of justice, and any deliberately withholding evidence that demonstrates the claim of fraud is false should make the insurance companies liable for all costs, and all “witnesses” should be separately liable for false testimony.
Do you remember sending a horrifically foul tweet like in the linked story? If yes, that's probably it.
Do you ride on it, or does it ride on you? Is an exoskeleton a vehicle?
The court's argument does not hinge on the "widely publicized" nature but on her "legitimate expectation of protection of and respect for their private life". If you still want to argue semantics, I would like to quote the ECHR again (P.G. and J.H. v. The United Kingdom)

> There are a number of elements relevant to a consideration of whether a person’s private life is concerned by measures effected outside a person’s home or private premises. Since there are occasions when people knowingly or intentionally involve themselves in activities which are or may be recorded or reported in a public manner, a person’s reasonable expectations as to privacy may be a significant, although not necessarily conclusive, factor.

Here you have it on the record: Someone arguing that you can have a reasonable expectation of privacy in a public place. In conclusion, there are places in this world where this is a legally protected concept. Case closed.
A number of us from the lab have been helping to put this course together. It's lead by Martha White and Adam White - two awesome RL profs at the U of A (Martha now leads RLAI) - and is based very heavily on Rich's textbook. The goal is to provide a really strong foundation for those looking to dive deeper into reinforcement learning. It starts with bandits and works all the way up through function approximation, control, policy gradients, and deep RL.

If you have any questions feel free to ask and I'll do my best to answer.
Google apparently* has good, accessible privacy controls, however by using them to increase your privacy, you effectively break many of their apps. They are designed to work with your personal information.

* I have no way of knowing if they actually delete any personal data when I ask them. I suspect that they just don't show it to me anymore.
I understand I think when you have a monopoly over a communication medium common carrier laws should apply even without legislation.

The problematic case here is that all other common carrier are funded through service chargers where social media is funded through advertising and other revenue streams.

That said it’s not like social media companies aren’t at fault here too they hide behind the notion that they are a common carrier or a publisher when it suits them as in when they don’t want to be directly liable for the content on their platform.

On the other hand they moderate content to appease advertisers even when there is no direct pressure to do so like in this case.

My personal opinion is that Twitter should not ban anyone, if the Twits are sufficiently offensive (not in a personal manner but rather a legal one) then law enforcement should handle it like it would handle any other type of abusive or offensive communication.

If I send you a death threat via the post the postal service won’t ban me the police might come tho if you report me.
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Counterpoint: you used Twitter to publish aggressively misogynist language, and by leaving it up, you continued to distribute hateful material. If Twitter is going to police hate speech, this the right kind of content, and "it was a while ago" is not really a defense when you're still distributing that content.

People often play the "it's not misogynist speech" game, but the first thing you did was to dismiss her based on her gender. Your fault here is more than "two party hate," and you still haven't owned up to your misogynist behavior in my opinion.
I'm still a beginner at Idris, but here's my attempt at a "naive" wc:

module Main

wordCount : String -> IO ()
wordCount file = let lineCount = length $ lines file
wordCount = length $ words file
charCount = length $ unpack file in
putStrLn $ "Lines: " ++ show lineCount
++ " words: " ++ show wordCount
++ " chars: " ++ show charCount

main : IO ()
main = do (_ :: filename :: []) <- getArgs | _ => putStrLn "Usage: ./wc filename"
(Right file) <- readFile filename | (Left err) => printLn err
wordCount file

It counts lines, words, and characters. It reports errors such as an incorrect number of arguments as well as any error where the file cannot be read. Here are the stats it reports on its own source code:

$ ./wc wc.idr
Lines: 14 words: 86 chars: 581

Hope that helps.
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Well... for 95-99%[1] of all software being written, "ship it now" beats "prove that bugs don't exist". Better formal methods could really help that 1-5%, but they're not going to impact the 95% very much.

[1] All statistics made up on the spot. I think it's in the right ballpark, though.
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Well, the need to take a snapshot--or rather, the activation issue--is described at one point in the license as a "bug". It's a little confusing, but from talking to the maintainer of the VMs on GitHub, it sounds as though they just don't want to dedicate time to "fixing" the activation system. The workaround is to take snapshots. There are actually instructions on the repo for extending the trial without reverting to a snapshot, if I recall correctly, but it's been a while since I've looked into it.