skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other people in realtime aren't...I guess the best way I have to put it is informationally sparse. There's a lot going on beside what's being said in conversation. Synths don't imply things for example; in a context with active implication slowing/pausing the synth is sometimes necessary. The skill doesn't extend beyond the blatant transfer of information. In social contexts and especially when you can't go off any visual cues whatsoever to figure out what the other person is thinking/feeling, there's a lot more going on than simple information transfer.

However most blind people I know who do this start hating audiobooks, start hating talks, and generally by far prefer the text option. audiobooks aren't annoying, but they're below my baud if you will. Net result: boredom/falling asleep to whatever it is and the need to actively make an effort to listen. Some things which require active listener participation--math lectures for example--are different. I guess the best way I can put it is that speed is inversely proportional to the amount of, I guess let's call it active listening, required.

I've given a lot of thought to this stuff, but we don't really have the right words for me to communicate it properly. A neuroscientist or linguist might, but I'm not either of those.
Most decent podcast players also support this.
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> At least "waterfall" never existed

The waterfall paper criticised a process that did exist and still does exist in some companies - it didn’t make it up.
Pure Food and Drug Act did not criminalize cannabis and heroin, it merely said products containing them needed to be labeled as such. They were still available without a prescription.
Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/1129/
There's also other fingerprinting that you need to be aware of, like keeping the browser a default size rather than maximising it and giving away how big your screen is.
Scientists started with written texts from 17 languages, including English, Italian, Japanese, and Vietnamese. They calculated the information density of each language in bits—the same unit that describes how quickly your cellphone, laptop, or computer modem transmits information. They found that Japanese, which has only 643 syllables, had an information density of about 5 bits per syllable, whereas English, with its 6949 syllables, had a density of just over 7 bits per syllable. Vietnamese, with its complex system of six tones (each of which can further differentiate a syllable), topped the charts at 8 bits per syllable.

how can you encode 643 syllables using 5 bits? same for 6949 syllabes/7 bits?
Intellectual property is a fiction, designed by legislators for one purpose: to enable industrial production of copyrightable works.

Don’t let the fact that player piano reel duplicators worried composers and musicians into getting congress involved cause you lose sight of this fact. It isn’t property, we just treat it that way for purposes of business and commerce.

It’s not real; you can’t own a sequence of bytes. This is the point of copyleft, to assert non-ownership within this existing, fictional framework our lawmakers have constructed for the benefit of these industries.

Licensing part of one’s software as free software and licensing another part of one’s software as non-free means that the entity doing the licensing doesn’t understand this concept, or why software freedoms matter.
That's kinda like saying "language ergonomics and api design don't matter, you just need to be careful".

Which is true to some degree, you can build anything in anything if you're careful enough. But programming history is full of repeated, preventable errors, and languages where X error is impossible or much less likely if you're less than perfect.

Go's rather far down "unsafe" in my books, especially in regards to concurrency and error handling. For simple code, it's pleasantly simple. For larger, robust code, it's several times more verbose than other langs I've used, and often requires continually re-implementing common "wheels" (that should not usually be written by hand, as they're finnicky to get right, which is also easy to miss in code review) to get around a lack of generics.
This. Now is a great time to innovate drones. The developments in FPV drone tech are happening fast and it's mind blowing. For example, 50sec into this clip: https://youtu.be/-AL5S3g03qw Stay tuned, drones are just getting started.
Genuinely: why do you hate Bluetooth so much? I literally have a hard time discerning a difference of quality with music/audio these days.
even with tor browser i am unique all-time
or if the IMU breaks, for example, and starts outputting bad data -- will the autocalibration algo know to discard it?
Given the line of sight limitation for drones, gas power does not add much value. Batteries are usually sufficient to map/photograph the area within range of the operator. Given this limitation, it is often more economical to hire a small plane like a Cessna with an avionics package and a 400 mi range.
If a flight from LA to San Francisco is diverted to somewhere weed is not legal... then wouldn't a person carrying weed only be breaking the law in the very rare event the plane is actually diverted?

If the flight goes as planned, the person (and their weed) never left California.

i.e. 99.999% percent of the time, they're not breaking the law.
I’ve missed important messages at critical times due to their mobile app not providing me notification as configured (ios). Syncing across devices is handled nicely though.
> audiobooks aren't annoying, but they're below my baud if you will. Net result: boredom/falling asleep to whatever it is and the need to actively make an effort to listen. Some things which require active listener participation--math lectures for example--are different.

That sounds like a similar description to what it's like for people with IQs significantly higher than the average.
I'm not sure I follow.

I took GP to be arguing that a judge should not be able to preemptively strip someone of their rights before a jury of their peers has determined they're guilty of a crime.

There's an argument that could be made that bail should only be used for dangerous offenders or for flight risks. The father doesn't fall into either of those categories; even the investigative report admits he never made any actual threats.

So even if it's just on an emotional level, there is something kind of disturbing about the idea that someone can be locked up for 10 days over what seems to be pretty obviously protected speech. It's a blurry line, but at some point that turns into preemptive punishment.

None of that seems like obviously circular reasoning to me. I take GP to be arguing that in a just system, if a judge wants to see the father locked up or told to stop posting, the judge should first be required to have a trial with a jury.
Second this.

A timed trial just feels weird. I like that Heroku, Netlify, Contentful, and Firebase have a free tier, so I can use it for small demos and to learn the platform. If I have to pay for every single tutorial or playground project I won‘t want to use the platform or even want to learn it.

It also kind of disincentivizes teachers on online platforms (like Udemy) to teach it. Because you often need to go through a few examples in order to learn something. i.e. if I do a node.js course, the course author isn’t just going to make me build 1 practice app, I’m probably gonna build a few and then host them on Heroku free dyno, the same way if I take a React course, I’m gonna build a few practice apps and host them on Netlify.
If the the lowest hanging fruit is a loosely structured hi-DOF dextrous manipulation task we gonna lose our shirts before we fold 'em.

Laundry is the domestic equivalent of de-mining: the perfect robot task if it weren't for the technical and financial challenges. You have a laundry robot at home already and it does everything except folding for a reason.

Here's a video of the state of the art not too long ago, using a $500K robot. Video is 50X speed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5g33S0Gzo
But H. pylori was also not sufficient to produce the ulcers; most people in the world have it, but far fewer develop ulcers.

As user interpenetrate has articulated in more depth, the error is in the need to identify a single, simple "cause".
Repeating my post above:

Given the line of sight limitation for drones, gas power does not add much value. Batteries are usually sufficient to map/photograph the area within range of the operator. Given this legal limitation, it is often more economical to hire a small plane like a Cessna with an avionics package and a 400 mi range.
Because analyzing them takes time, and they want to inform telescopes as soon as possible so optical/EM data can be captured while the event (possibly) occurs.

A false positive is a lot better than a false negative here.
You can use error codes or, better, a Result<T, E> template in C++, but throwing an exception is the only sane way to signal an error from a C++ constructor that I know of. The alternatives are awkward: you either stick an error code on the struct, which the caller can check after construction, or write an error code to the caller through an out parameter. In either case, the class implementation now must be concerned with handling objects in some partly-initialized, "error" state.
Sorry, to clarify, I meant they make money selling alcohol, so they don't want people using alternatives they they aren't selling (cocaine doesn't count, because it tends to make people drink like a fish and also blow all their cash gambling).

Obviously their main profit centre is gambling.
"Quieter than standing next to a running car" isn't a good criterion for subjecting strangers to noise in a public place they're probably visiting at least in part to get some quiet and seclusion.

I don't mean to be a dick; I've been flying R/C for ~25 years and I know how difficult it can be to find fun places to fly and how frustrating when other people get in the way of that. But I also really appreciate quietness and because I live in a city it's a rare gift for me when I do get out into nature. Please have some consideration for others and don't unilaterally decide what noise level is acceptable for them unless there are already significant sources of noise present or you're really sure nobody else is around.
For a modern make, I recommend checking out https://bazel.build/ (or its offspring Buck and Pants).

It's mentioned in the writeup.
I was looking to get a leaf or Cadillac in a few years when their autopilot is on used vehicles.

Isn't the point that its... Autopilot?
"CircleCI trusts 8 analytics companies with your source code and API tokens, October 9, 2017. When you navigate to your project in CircleCI's UI, Javascript from eight different analytics companies gets loaded and executed in your browser."

So, did they do anything about that?

Even if using iframes and a secure api over postMessage/onmessage: safe, and security can be controlled by the external provider i.e. safer for both parties (ideally the servers pass the security context between each other - we even use an iframe internally for all the same reasons).

https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/circleci-is-hopelessly-insecur...
My dorm was an old motel that the school was leasing. You could park right outside your door, or go up the stairs if you were on the second floor. Since we were a couple of blocks away from the main campus, we had our own dining room. Which had better food than the main dining halls because it was less institutional - the workers there knew us and our preferences. It was one of the best-kept secrets of the university.
> Here's a chart of average relative humidity of cities throughout the US (https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ccd-data/relhum18.dat). From 1950 to 2018.But you'll notice in the Arizona cities, plenty times of the year, the average humidity is between 40%-60%.

I think you're reading that wrong. Doesn't M stand for "Max" and A for "Average"?

If so, the average in southern Arizona cities is 15%-30% and in northern Arizona cities 30%-50% (which matches my experience).
Awesome; this is great work!

One little nit, however: it should be important to note that this is not an open-source VIO system. It's licensed for research purposes only; anything else requires a commercial license from UCLA.
>Not saying that drug prohibition is good.

Maybe, but one could certainly infer it from all of your posts in this topic, including the effort you undertook in another post to defend the success of alcohol prohibition.
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Toys 'R Us used to sell Legos at a roughly 10% markup over MSRP. I always wondered how they got away with this.

And I am glad Toys 'R Us are gone.
Being sustainable is important, but not at the expense of people’s ability to tinker/learn.

At the very least, offer a highly-limited and almost-crippled free tier, like Heroku or Glide does. Maybe you can only register a few users. Maybe the # of function calls are limited to a few a day. Or maybe dormant apps go to sleep.
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Why not adblock the news feed and delete the app?

Then you are able to stay in contact with those far away, and make new friends at random events you may not have heard about otherwise?

I dislike their monopoly on the friend graph just as much as anyone else, but at least in the Sydney university demographic FB Events are ubiquitous.
There is no market rule that prevents a single stock from dropping 99% in a day. LULD only halts trading for a few minutes, then there's an auction that could result in any price.
You absolutely can't challenge someone's personal experience with statistics, but something about this line of argument still troubles me.

I've lost a handful of close friends to car accidents. If survivorship grants standing, then I'm for doing almost anything to reduce the tens of thousands of US road deaths each year.

Survivors have been angry at safety tech before, but we generally ignore them. I've known people who insisted they would rather be thrown from an accident; they wouldn't wear a belt. One friend came to that conclusion because his uncle died trapped in a burning vehicle. I respect the incredibly complex and deep emotional reasons that he came to his conclusion, but he was still wrong, and he shouldn't set seatbelt policy.

ON THE OTHER HAND...

We sometimes throw around this baseline of the natural accident rate of drivers, and that's slightly lying with statistics. Accidents are not evenly distributed across all drivers.

You have a lot of impaired drivers in that pack. You have a bunch of insolvent, uninsurable drivers who cause a disproportionate share of accidents.

If the worst 10% have most of the accidents, then even a car that makes us safer than the mean driver could still make 90% of us less safe. We really want a car that makes us safer than our percentile of drivers.

Maybe driverless cars are already better than the mean. Are they better than the 90th %ile? I don't know that anyone has enough data to say.

The most cautious drivers really will have an at-fault accident rate statistically indistinguishable from zero. We should absolutely be shooting for that.
The temples no longer contain money changers, however.
My company's HR folks have repeatedly set the expectation that most interns will receive a full time offer. When a specific intern is not given a full time offer, it's perceived as a failure of the sponsoring organization.

This is insane! Individuals accepting internships go through a process not unlike a full-time hiring pipeline. Yet no one thinks a full-time hiring pipeline producing excellent employees is a solved problem! Why should interviewing people before they complete a B.S. be any different from interviewing people after they complete a B.S.?

If anything, interns should receive returning offers at lower rates. That is, on-the-job should be a je-ne-sais-quoi check on the common failures of most interviewing procedures. At least half of all interns should get shot down (else interviewing pipelines are a solved problem).
if nobody wants to rent at your pricing, you just "sell" places and apply robo-foreclosures...
I think there's something about interacting with visual depictions of other human beings that makes the other "real" social networks much different than HN - what's essentially a pseudo anon message board that has well defined rules about interactions on the platform (that are easily enforceable but more importantly well known and easy to describe). We generally come in here to talk about tech (or tech adjacent things), and we know what we're getting when we come in here. The people are (usually!) well informed and the discussion classy and highbrow.

That's not an accident, and neither is what Facebook's doing.

Facebook, and Instagram especially (but I repeat myself), absolutely do prey on the visual. It's hard for me to put into words what I'm describing (heh) but I do think visual depictions trigger latent or dormant responses in us that are too easy to manipulate and control.
How to acquire any language NOT learn it
I think Stallman calls it "Digital Restrictions Management" for this reason.
I've flown "right seat" (not pilot) a fair number of times. Air traffic control interacts with the pilot quite often and at fairly unpredictable times. This requires the pilot to be alert and respond promptly to a request or direction from air traffic control. If the pilot doesn't respond promptly, air traffic control repeats the request with more urgency and goes into the "lost communications" procedure if there is no response.

tl;dr: aircraft pilots generally must be attentive. Tesla drivers on "auto pilot" - not so much.
Also a half million dollar bail.

What is going on?
Fund lobbying and political campaigns for candidates who support climate change mitigation efforts. YC will have no impact unless they get governments (with resources orders of magnitude greater than that of YC) set in the right direction.

No startup is going to solve climate change. The scale of the problem is simply too large. You need public policy to internalize the externalities of carbon emissions.
Spoiler: the history isn't very surprising.
It's not useful to try and explain an illness by a singular cause, when multiple factors are extant and important.

Susceptibility to flu is influenced by immune system fortitude; that's uncontroversial. That stress is one factor (among several) that can weaken the immune system in an otherwise healthy person, is surely useful to consider when making life choices.
Sounds like dumb policy to me. Why wouldn’t it stop for a boulder or fallen tree?
While malloc() won't "crash", it can and will, in some circumstances, return NULL. E.g., the following:

printf("%p\n", malloc(0x7fffffffffffffff));

prints

(nil)

on my amd64 machine, as there is no way for the kernel to allocate that much virtual address space. (Even if it wouldn't back it w/ physical RAM.)

The scenario being discussed in this subthread — having a negative number get inadvertently converted into a `size_t` and passed to `malloc()` is exactly the sort of way you end up getting a NULL back. But this is also not guaranteed.
For me I imagine the bottleneck would rather be how quickly I can translate my thoughts into speech. Oftentimes I will start out talking to myself to explain a topic, only to eventually digress into my "mental monologue" because I start to process thoughts faster than I can say them.
Yeah, I think this is really missing the point of Deming. While statistical quality control was a big part of what he taught, he was almost more interested in the philosophy of management than process management. Everything you read about him talks about statistical quality control, but nothing ever mentions his Fourteen points, or Seven deadly sins. I read about him as a kid, but alot of it has stuck with me through multiple careers, and his Fourteen principles could easily be applied to most software and engineering teams and companies.

Things that are really key to his philosophy (and deeply impressed me) were:

* Cease dependence on mass inspections for quality control (Do you rely on manual testing for every release?)

* Break down barriers between departments (i.e. devops)

* Eliminate slogans and quotas, goals, targets etc. (Maybe try the release train process for shipping software instead?)

And my personal favorite:

* Eliminate barriers to pride in workmanship, for hourly workers, management and engineers (is part of your team embarrassed by bad UX or known bugs that they can't fix because they are busy with other work?)

Deming's philosophy basically wrote an entire ad campaign for Ford, "Where quality is job #1."
Me as well.

FastLED was the main reason I was able to complete a holiday window display for a prominent NYC retailer, with a very limited budget, and only 2.5 weeks to do the project. I really pushed the library to the limits, as we had more LEDs and effects than most Arduinos could handle with a smooth frame rate, so we ended up using an Arduino Due clone and driving the LEDs through almost all the serial lines. FastLED handled it all, no problem.

Thank you, Dan, for your gift.
I've seen online ads that mention tardive dyskinesia, which is a drug side effect that is particularly associated with psychiatric drugs such as antipsychotics. Of course, there's no way to tell exactly what algorithm/data this is based on, and whether it's my data or the data of people that I'm connected with. Seems like somewhere there should be a HIPAA violation, but that's pretty hopeless.

I think it's safe to say that anyone who is diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic is being targeted, which makes it all the more difficult to suppress feelings of paranoia and distinguish actual tracking from coincidences. I doubt there are any people who are perfectly sane driven mad by advertising, but it's quite plausible that it has a negative effect on people trying to cope at the margins.
Ethics Defined
> Section 230 was fairly uncontroversial in the 1990s and 2000s. When the Internet was new and not yet ubiquitous, most people thought it made sense to shield Internet platforms from lawsuits over online content.

> But in the last decade, the Internet has become pervasive, and the downsides of unfettered online communication have become more obvious.

What is are the newly "obvious downsides of unfettered online communication" referring to? An event? A study? A documented rise in violent crime? What?

This seems like a euphemism of some sort.
As systems professionals, we are uniquely prone to certain ethical lapses, it's high time we place a greater emphasis on ethics in our day-to-day endeavours -- check this list, do you find any items that could explain common behaviours in the tech industry?