skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yet the cool part about the United States is: it’s OK!

Dude, no, no it’s not ok. It’s not ok to have a culture where insults are encounter and ok. Insults can quickly lead to threats. Are often lies and manipulation. Are often racial or sexist or homophobic. And we as a society shouldn’t just stand by and allow it. What is gained by allowing insults? Honest question. Why should we be ok with them?

Now i do have to say what consistories and insult is not the easiest to define. But calling a politician a “whore” is clearly an baseless insult and a lie that brings nothing to any discussion.
I'm guessing some on the hacker news crowd already know this but the author neal Stephenson also wrote Crytonomicon which was the prerequisite reading book for the PayPal mafia back in the days. I've personally only read his book reamde but the accuracy in detail in the novels really reflect quite deep understanding of the tech world including the shadier parts
People went out to picnic on the hills to watch one of the first battles of the Civil War in Virginia.
Do you think the education level is adequate enough to protect against people constantly propagating lies?
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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten,
every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building
has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is
continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.
Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is
always right.”

― George Orwell, 1984
On the other hand, it seems like someone was interested enough in the OPs Twitter that they went all the way to 9 years ago to report it.
This might be the case in the US since most cars are 'gas' (petrol) powered. However, in much of Europe diesel powered cars are extremely common. Also, at least in London, the average speed for a car is <20mph.
The numbers are somewhat contested. See potholer54's well-sourced video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwMPFDqyfrA He cites ghg savings of about 20-30% for a common mix of electricity production sources.

Of course, Jussi Pasanen is still completely right. The only solution is to stop driving cars.
Yeah OK, it's declining, but they aren't out of it yet. https://www.norskpetroleum.no/en/production-and-exports/expo...
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And that makes it ok? What about threats? Are they also ok?
If we look at some differences between Twitter (or insert your favorite social media platform here) and email:

* Email providers have zero responsibility for filtering information

* Email users form their own networks dynamically through actual relationships rather than some artificial structure of "followers"/"friends"

* Email users never get banned from sending email (although maybe in some cases an individual service may ban extreme abusers)

* Email's operation is totally independent of irrational mobs/corporate interests/whatever

In short, I think the core problem with this situation is in your first line: social media has become a "main communication provider" and it's fundamentally unfit for purpose. Email and other protocol-based communication independent of platforms (IRC is another good example) is still the best solution for a primary communication provider.
> any scenario where you'd want to validate...

Because it's a precondition for something else down the line (a dependency)
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My two favorites were xev, for finding out which key/event codes I needed to put in config files, and xnest, for trying out new window managers or containing window-happy applications in a single top-level window before workspaces became a common thing.
After the 2016 election I almost feel the same about letting the public vote.
In my view it's not losing face, but loss of identity and dignity given nationalistic education. If one wants to conflat the meaning of face to identity and dignity then it can apply to any country or individual.
If someone calls you a racial slur, is it ok to wait nine years and then punch him in the face?
Eh...? Devops just means IT guy who doesn’t know how to code.
This has nothing to do with it.
If you want someone to decide what's true because you believe the people aren't capable of doing so for themselves, you've already given up on democracy.
Don't know why you're being downvoted. We currently have only 1 nuclear plant under construction. Any new construction wouldn't be complete and operational until at least 2033. IPCC clearly stated we need to make significant progress if not reverse emissions by 2030. The idea that nuclear is somehow going to save the day is insane. Sure, if we had plants that were nearly complete (in the US) and we prioritized operational approval and somehow got the population on board.. but that simply can't happen.
So much stuff. The difficult thing is to figure out which one to use. With programming you are (somewhat) aware of the limitations and difficulty.
Here you have to pick one tool, invest time to figure out how it works, how hard it is to use, what are the limitations etc.

I wish there was a review site for such software :(
It’s not a business model problem it’s a “too many busybodies” problem.

YouTube ought to be able to manage their platform any way they want.

It doesn’t make sense that someone can sue another person or entity because of the way they manage their own, private property.

And such lawsuits are especially hypocritical when they’re initiated by supposedly tolerant people like this particular (I am not generalizing) LGBTQ organization.

None of this has anything to do with YouTube or LGBTQ, it’s a simple matter of property rights.
Pretty much. He doesn't seem to grasp the reality that solving the problem is political and like gun laws in the US there are those that will oppose every change no matter how small every step of the way for money regardless of the human or planetary cost.
Thanks for you feedback! I'll have a look at that.
Warning, clicking this link from here redirects to an NSFWish image on imgur. This guy has a problem with HN.
I took the term to be a snarky punch at the "1st world", which asian megacities have long since left behind.
Per my parent post:

>Most western democracies long since scrapped proper education because it's easier to win the support of the population with propaganda^H public relations than it is to make a reasoned argument.

In my mind, the correct response to the rise of FAKE NEWS (aka: yellow journalism, sensationalism, propaganda, public relations, advertisement) is to focus on teaching critical thinking skills, not to have a censor that says 'You can say this thing but not that thing'.

Will bad people have harmful, self serving opinions? Yes, they will. That's part and parcel of living in a free society.
I think stuff likes this is the real price of not hiring really good people.

I think stuff like this is why decent developers don't become "really good" when working in these environments. If you have a culture of letting people figure things out, and forgiving mistakes, then you'll end up with better engineers. On the other hand if you have a culture of protecting "territory", and blame then you'll get 6 months for 9 people to check a box.
Regardless of which side of the 'Efficacy of Lidar' argument one is, it's impressive how much impact Elon Musk's statement has on the industry.
> Devops just means IT guy who doesn’t know how to code.

It literally doesn't. Go out and enjoy your weekend, Sir.
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At the same time, PRC government doesn't want to turn HK instead exactly another Chinese city... (the closest one would be Shanghai, I guess.)

There are interesting historical issues, economical issues, geopolitics (especially Taiwan) and international politics at play.

But yes, in a certain sense the PRC want to turn HK into "the rest of China" alike, in the sense that you can have economic freedom and many other things, however politically one must submit to the supreme rule of the party.
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Guess 1: this page was originally going to be "Cool X11 Tools from the 1990's."

Guess 2: perhaps the X11 version of vim is obscure. I usually visualize vim users working in a terminal, with those interested in a GUI text editor using something else.
I have a friend with MS who struggling and will soon end up in a wheelchair, priority order from the article:

1. Military
2. "weekend warriors"
3. Help people with medical issues such as multiple sclerosis or Parkinson's disease to move more easily
That’s interesting question. Following this principle, should we ban historical books that suggest to e.g. kill self-claimed witches, treat nonbelievers as second-class people and so on?
Really I think those in power not only often deserve it but need the abuse actually.

So often they get higher up and think they should be held to a lower standard. There was oil in the ocean from policies she supported - harsh language is warranted.

Look at people like the former judge and current professional piece of shit Mark Civarella who after selling kids to private prisons for kickbacks, for things that weren't even crimes complained that he was described in too harsh of language.

To be frank if it keeps fragile egoed narcissists out of power we should make barrages of harsh language a job requirement as preventative medicine.
That statement, to me, is nothing but looking at history with rose tinted glasses. History is filled with horrible horrible things that society happily allowed to happen. Eventually people protested or revolted but that took decades of horrible abuse. That's not even getting into the horrible things people allowed if they happened to someone else.

Then again I guess it's easier to blame modern culture rather than inherent human nature. Blaming the latter doesn't sell well.
I don't think that tweet was ever acceptable - calling someone a "cunt", "whore", "idiot" and telling her to "go fuck yourself" all in 140 characters is really going out of your way to be unpleasant.
>And the way to make the GHG-friendly stuff cheap is to tax the shit out of the GHG-positive things.

Making everything more expensive is a political dead-end, and would exacerbate income inequality.
It’s wealth and maybe being from a race and sex that generally isn’t raked over the coals for simply being black or a women?

White male politicians don’t get much flak for being white or male.

Black women politician would get so much for both her race and gender.

As a women I’d never want to be in the public eye for this reason.
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I wasn't comparing much of anything for ambulance response times because, as I said, I couldn't find concrete data on it. I'm not sure what rural area you're referring to but the anecdote from the south of Spain was in a city with over half a million people.

Anyway, as for air quality, a population adjusted measure of exposure: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/PM25-air-pollution
Heh, this sounds like my high school experience.

Many teachers left the default password on their accounts. Was messing in the interface that I didn't understand very much and sent a broadcast message to the entire network. One by one they started beeping and displaying a blank message notification across all the computer labs in the school. Luckily I had some opsec at that age and didn't do it on the workstation I was assigned to. Logged out and quickly went back to my seat in the confusion that quickly spread in our class.

Wasn't till 2 years later that I got in trouble and got kicked off the computers for a month. For having a shareware game on the network. The network admin said something to the effect of "We are pretty certain you have done a lot of things far worse than this, but we can't pin any of them to you, so this is what you get punished for", and well, he was right.
Of course their yearning and indeed protest actions are legitimate. To what extent though would you agree that, using the computer world's RFC vocabulary (MUST, SHOULD, MAY, OPTIONAL, etc), Hong Kong MAY ask for recognition whereas Taiwan SHOULD ask for recognition?

It feels to me that HK is exploiting the fact that most of the world automatically assumes big superpowers, especially little understood foreign ones, are the bad guys, such that HK the underdog MUST fight for recognition. I think such framing of the conflict misrepresents the situation preventing HK getting the actual relevant help that will bring about the most practical solution. By which I mean most of the world unhelpfully sees the black and white of HK good, China bad. When in fact China is a fundamental component in the global economy and everybody's quality of life, such that we all implicitly support it by, for example, buying their cheap-labour subsidised goods. If we're genuinely interested in finding a way forward don't we need to reflect on these nuances? I know that's a big ask, but big problems usually require a big effort.
I've recently started using Headspace, and am a big fan.
Yes, we can. We can do it with one eye too.

but it takes at least 10 years to train.

But most of the time we are not building a 3d map from points. we are building it from object inference.

There are many advantages that we have over machines:

o The eye seens much beter in the dark
o It has a massive dynamic range, allowing us to see both light and dark things
o it moves to where the threat is
o if it's occluded it can move to get a better image
o it has a massive database of objects in context
o each object has a mass, dimension, speed and location it should be seen in

None of those are 3d maps, they are all inference, where one can derrive the threat/advantage based on history.

We can't make machines do that yet.

you are correct that two cameras allows for better 3d pointcloud making in some situations. but a moving single camera is better than a static multiview camera.

however even then the 3d map isn't all that great, and has a massive latency compared to lidar.
Not any more? How come?
But the thing is a whore is a compliment - at least they only screw the client for money. Politicians with lobbyists are more like rapists for hire really.
[redacted] sued Toptal for 100M, case number 11-2019-CA-002689-0001-XX in Collier County.

My other post was shadowbanned, here's the pdf:
https://uploadfiles.io/791hz3tg
Why is that? Taxis have always existed, and rationally are cheaper than owning a car for some. Yet most people own private cars, and when yours in the future comes with a free private driver, the possibilities for having a decent office or entertainment center in there when freed from the driving task will only make them more attractive to own.

Taxis mostly seem to displace other forms of public transport.

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/01/uber-lyft-rid...
The author seems to have two statistical misconceptions (which don't, however, detract from his main points).

He says, "it’s absolutely vital to report something about the distribution as a whole. In general, confidence intervals are a good technique for doing this".

But confidence intervals are a way of exhibiting uncertainty in a the estimate of a parameter (such as the mean), not a way of describing a distribution. Hopefully, what he actually meant is that giving the 5% and 95% (for example) quantiles of the distribution would be useful. The 90% confidence interval for the mean would be much smaller than the range from 5% to 95% quantiles, and would collapse to a point in the limit as you did more repetitions - not at all the desired behaviour.

Also, I disagree that it's always useful to report something about the whole distribution rather than just the mean. If the benchmark is for a small part of the program, the time will be combined with many other parts (perhaps repetitions of this part), with variation in a single part averaged out.

In this regard, he makes another mistake in footnote [4]: "I’ve sometimes heard it said that the central limit theorem saves us when benchmarking. In my experience, this hope is based on an over simplification of the theorem, which is that if you run a program enough times any randomness (including noise) will converge towards a normal distribution. That is only true if the various random variables are close to being independent and identically distributed."

This again seems to confuse the distribution data with the distribution of an estimate for the mean. Only the latter is subject to the central limit theorem. The distribution of the run times will not approach a normal distribution regardless of how many times you run the program (unless it's normal to start with, of course), even if the run times are independent and identically distributed. This should be obvious to anyone who hasn't heard of the central limit theorem. It should also be obvious to those who have heard it and understood it.
The big, ostensibly neutral, communications monopolies need their censorship practices heavily regulated.

People with private blogs needs to be absolutely free to control commenting however they would like.

I believe that we can respect both of these positions easily, 99% of the time, with our court systems deciding on some of the grey in the middle.
Many places in Europe run way older infrastructure yet feel more developed than top tier cities in the US, so I don't think that's the reason.
Agreed, it's a complex topic. Just pointing out that EVs alone won't solve air pollution from transport.

https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/assets/documents/reports/cat09/1...
Biofuel is carbon-neutral because the carbon comes from the atmosphere. It's fine to burn it because its emissions have already been bought and paid for in its creaion. The problem with carbon is digging it up, in an open cycle.

Renewable is a more strict term than carbon-neutral, it's true, but all "renewables" are by definition closed-loop and hence carbon-neutral.
I saw the many citations of Taiwan, Korea and many other small country (even Japan) as the example that democracy can work as is for China. IMO the scale and population is drastically different. Couple things make it complicated:

1) over 800M rural population with most of them under-educated. High school is not common and the villagers will celebrate if one of the kids made it to college. If you want them to understand democracy good luck educating millions of people across vast areas(thanks to Chinese government you might be able to take trains)

2)Middle and upper class Chineses have more different point of view, but they rarely choose to move since it’s against their own interests

3) The other countries listed
are historically US strategic allies with even US troops deployed. Ironically what US did will only pushback Chinese people from wanting western style democracy

I believe democracy in China will happen one day (I believe it’ll be top-down) but the majority of the population doesn’t have any motivation right now
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Autodesk also develop 3DS Max and Maya, both major players in the 3D animation world.
>There are unfortunately still many, many people, who—even if they accept that human caused climate change is real—do not appreciate how urgent the crisis is.

I am one of these people. How urgent is it? Between the denials and exaggerations, I really can't tell.
Yes I understand, peak summer is very sweaty. For me it's still nicer that freezing off and having to wear 4 different layers to survive.
Thanks, I’m already having vodka sh...enjoying it.
Good to know. As a non-native English speaker, I was very surprised to see that word on HN. Thanks for my first Australian English class!
Though the extra weight of the regenerative system has to be taken into account.
"real reduction in emissions" ...real problem is : Is your electricity 'clean' ?

In France for sure : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France

in China I don't think so : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China
...however local pollution is zero so that's huge benefit for large cities of course.
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Autodesk, the company, releases not only Autocad, but also 3Ds Max and Maya, two 3d packages which are arguably the most popular in industries like gamedev and 3d production.
To get started. Absolutely. Headspace has been instrumental in dealing with a very hard time in my life. For a secular, scientific look at mindfulness meditation read the book “Why Buddhism is true.”
Also, the article doesn't explore whether electric cars could be manufactured in a more friendly way.
As I said, enjoy them while you can. The parts of the world where they can be grown has been steadily shrinking. I think just last week I saw a story where the deadly fungus had been found in South America.
As posted elsewhere in these comments:

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten,
every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building
has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is
continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.
Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is
always right.”

― George Orwell, 1984

I'm not justifying what Twitter did in this case, but I significantly disagree with the idea of removing old posts.
Hm, then it's indeed a misunderstanding on my side. I definitely need to take a look into vue, but I thought people were choosing it over React because they didn't like JSX but would prefer straight HTML (though again, I don't know vue and how it would be possible for vue to render components based on just HTML syntax).
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When reading comments or articles that acknowledge the problem, but have a rosy outlook on technical or market solutions to the problem, I rarely get the impression that they've spent time grappling with how many deliberative entities in a complex adaptive system are going to interact and recalculate as many social, political, economic, and climatic dynamics play off of each other.
Sorry for being a hardass, but the original author sounds like me 11 years ago. I thought life happened to me, and I had no control over it. I've since changed my way of thinking, and just this week my bootstrapped company reached 10 million in ARR.
Probably Test-Driven Development with Python.

http://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/pages/book.html
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Yup. There's plenty of boutique dairy farms within easy driving distance of rich colleges in the northeast (some of whom already have existing relationships with said colleges). I'm sure anyone who seriously wants to replicate the study would be able to find a farmer that will work with then to get an n value of a few hundred. It's not like you have to go somewhere remote to study cow farts.
The idea of trusting a giant corporate entity with my email with whom I don't even have a commercial relationship has always been anathema to me, and that reaction just seems smarter the older I get.
> Also, judging from the archive.org records it's a 4 year old business. It's not an overnight success.

This is key, obviously. A lot of people will read something like this and assume it’s some kind of overnight success. For that, I give kudos to this guy for what is a business built most likely around long nights and days and determination.
Maciej, this is amazing. thank you for posting it.
Unfortunately, the code examples in the Rust book still feels like toy projects / toy code.

What I like about the Go book is that it feels production-ready, even though it is simple. This is because it is following industry best practices. There's no "code in isolation", if that makes sense.
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How can you earn 30k gross there ? Is not under the minimum wage ?
I'm not sure I agree with that. Async/await is a major new feature and is just landing now.