skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edit: according to The Verge (obviously citing the same testimony discussed in another comment) is from Giuffre, and a witness corroborates the account. That would have been in 2001, when Giuffre was 2001, so before the conference, validating my questioning

1) how Greg Benford knows positively that Giuffre is the same girl he saw at the event

2) how Greg Benford can exclude any other events: i.e. Giuffre and Minsky possibly having had sex before the 2002 conference.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/9/20798900/marvin-minsky-jef...

This assumes TheVerge correctly interprets the incomplete unsealed records.
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Google Cloud Vision OCR is incredible for Chinese character recognition. I think it's the same backend as Google Translate uses.
> (Unless your manager makes drive-by commits of py2-only code, months after you all agreed that all new code should be py3-compatible, and then leaves town for a multi-week vacation...)

Isn't what code review and CI/CD is for?
Also seek consult from a Sleep Laboratory at ypur local major hospital, if you snore people and people sleeping in the same room report you stop breathing during your sleep (even for a few seconds).

This might be signs of treatable pathological conditions that if not treated can (and most likely will be) detrimental to your health, quality of life and productivity.
But they are charging that other customer $500 for that $100 procedure. If they charged him $110, it's much more likely that he could pay. And it's not like insurance companies are easy to deal with, optimizing payouts means hospitals hire entire coding departments and they still sometimes see long delays untill payment for complicated procedures.

And unlike, say, choosing between buying a $250k Lamborghini vs a $20k Toyota, the patient has to choose the $250k bypass surgery or he'll die. Which is why this can't fairly be judged purely in business terms, customers have little choice in whether or not they purchase healthcare services.
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The new Porsche is interesting for the same reason that an S-Klasse Mercedes is interesting: it showcases cutting-edge tech (such as the 800V battery that allows extra-fast charging) that will eventually trickle down to lower classes of electric cars.

The only place where VW is really trailing Tesla (once the ID3 will be released) are the chargers, let's hope this situation improves in the coming years.
> Do you have a source for that?

You can work it out from first principles. The loud noise is a form of energy - therefore all of the sound reaching your ears is energy which was produced by the engine but did not contribute towards propelling the car.

> If it was true race cars would be a lot quieter

only if there was some way to recover the energy from sound or prevent it from being emitted in the first place

since race cars are loud we have to assume that losses from noise are an unavoidable side-effect of the workings of internal combustion engines

We can see here an article from 2017 celebrating a Formula 1 racing engine reaching >50% efficiency for the first time:
https://www.britishgas.co.uk/business/blog/mercedes-formula-...
"The F1 cars are now closing in on levels of thermal efficiency reached by diesel engines used in large container ships..."

so half the energy from combustion is lost as heat, noise etc
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So is this company's business just selling baseless promises to investors? If yes, how did they bootstrap this?
> However, theory and practice are identical only in theory. If there is a company with negative projected cash flows relying on a negative-expected-value project succeeding unexpectedly that company is probably near worthless.

Well, Uber is an exception to this rule apparently.

The way I read the GP, they're just saying that LLCs are good to be used for gambling.
Which is exactly what I said, that is that this is interesting news for Porsche aficionados not for the general HN audience. As people pointed out to me in different comments, VW Group has also announced the launch of a electric Golf-like model they call the ID3, at 400km and costing 30,000 euros this should be a market changer.
First law of thermodynamics.

A few points:

1)

Internal Combustion engines work by harnessing explosions. Each explosion pushes a piston, which is then harnessed to do useful work rotating the wheels.

The Exhaust note is caused by agressive expansion of gasses rushing into the exhaust. That expansion _could_ have been used to push the piston more (in practise you'd need a secondary expansion unit, which isn't all that practical .)

2)

The exhaust system is there to reduce (and modulate) noise levels (and emissions). It weighs a not insignificant sum, causes back pressure, which affects the efficiency of the overall system. (although now that heavily mitigated, even more so with a turbo.)

Granted, most of the energy is wasted through heat, but thats a different matter.
Don't forget Qml.Net.

https://github.com/qmlnet/qmlnet
Why should you be forced to serve content to people who won't look at your ads?
I wouldn't underestimate the importance of the Taycan.

It's the first EV that has shown it is possible to make an uncompromising track car with an electric drivetrain. Tesla proved you could make a fast car but not a reliably fast one.
I played typing games years ago. Those force you to focus on quickly & accurately hitting the correct key.
Ever seen anything built by a craftsman as opposed to a chippy :-)

At my first job we used to build some hydraulic models in hard wood that where works of art.

Our wood shop was so good they made a museum quality piece of furniture for our retiring boss and it was better than the best Chippendale furniture when new.
And let’s also get a bill to prohibit professional sports teams from setting minimum age limits. Football players are required to wait three years and basketball players one year before going pro in the US domestic leagues, losing out on millions of dollars (far more than the existing proposals will provide).
If they were to do that we'd have armchair commentators on HN complaining that it doesn't mean anything because a $15k Ford Fiesta is still way cheaper. That we have Volkswagen selling a pure EV via a flagship luxury brand is a major milestone.
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Allthesame. If I as a web host want to fuck with people or just someone by randomly dropping connections, this says I can't (well, it says so for LinkedIn but it's results in the same being applied to others).

This is insane. It really should have just said that "it's legal to scrape" but it shouldn't have said "and you can't stop that".
That logic doesn't hold. It is not a given that current engine technology makes it practical to reduce the noise in a way that saves energy. That does not imply the energy is not wasted, just that our technology is still crude.
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I can’t remember all the details, but from what I remember when I looked this up a few years ago, yes, Netflix did throw the whole thing out the window. They said that the winning algorithm would require more processing power to run, or expensive code changes or something, and so they decided their current engine was good enough.

Then Netflix switched strategies away from highly-personalized recommendations to a dumber algorithm that is more likely to recommend more popular movies, which ends up retaining subscribers better. The reasoning was that users were more likely to cancel their subscription if they had one obviously bad recommendation than if they had multiple so-so recommendations. So rather than recommending, for example, 80% great movies and 20% bad ones, Netflix wants to recommend 5% great movies and 95% okay ones.
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Agree. I mean come on, then we could say the same about the ballerina pictured being a woman is driving man out of the ballerina industry. Stop being oversensitive about such minor things.
I want to live in a society where there is no outcry over a chosen photo motive at all whether I want to picture a woman massaging a man or vice versa. Just let me choose the motive for a photo the way I think it fits.
Yahoo and Hotmail were the market leaders offering free email at the time. They set the price to $0 first.
I manage too many accounts – but yeah, I can see how thats helpful for some.
You make it sound like all this stuff started with "war on terror". The US has been at war (and overthrowing governments) ever since WW2. And I'd be seriously surprised if the government did not have "total visibility" into non-cash financial transactions, phone calls, and internet traffic well before 2001.
Same here. It also thinks I'm running PGP 7.1.31 when in fact I'm running 7.1.32.
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Did you miss the part about it being anonymous(pseudonymous)? Also did you consider the fact that it circumvents any government regulations / oppression / sanctions that parties involved in the transaction may have been subjected to?

Bitcoin advocates know very well that centralized systems are faster and more efficient, that’s just the trade off of actually owning your assets. Right now you own nothing but some promise in some database controlled by bunch of potentially corrupt individuals governed by potentially repressive institutions.
"You can also prove that you have a business model that can generate positive cash flows, which it must at some point as a stand alone entity."
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Porsche has sold the 911, Cayene and Macan Turbo variants for years.

It stopped meaning "turbocharger" and now means "more powerful".
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There's many blog articles that encourage "just quit". My experience has been the opposite: without a good savings cushion I wouldn't have made the first two years as freelancer. Jobs don't line up, I didn't understand the tax burden (not the amount, but when it is due), I was under-insured, I didn't increase my rates fast enough. When friends ask me now my advise it to keep the job, try to work on the side until you have 1-2 stable clients or at best try to get your current employer to allow 20h weeks and transition slowly.
You're missing the point of Hanlon's razor. It does allow for malice, but only in cases where incompetence is not an adequate explanation. So there's no contradiction.
> Gitlab isn't big company, 100 devs or so

384 engineers, out of a total of 873 employees. I'd say that's a pretty reasonable size.
Thanks!

After reading the article and not understanding anything, I thought maybe someone at HN made more sense if it than me, so I checked the comments.

Glad to know I'm not the only one for whom this was incomprehensible!
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Not a Rails dev myself, but curious: let's say Rails gives you 80-90% of the simple CRUD screens you might need for a project with minimum effort, but you need a couple of high performance services for, say processing images or accessing a data warehouse. Would it be possible to just write these services using e.g. Go or Elixir, and access these APIs through your Rails app?
I'm all for minimum wage, the problem is that cost-of-living is vastly different across states - make a universal US or state wide minimum wage and it will be too low in some areas and too high in others, and a regional minimum wage, while better, will be politicized as hell, plus it creates an incentive for local businesses to bribe or otherwise manipulate politicians to lower the minimum wage.

I'm not sure if there is a one-size-fits-all solution.
I never understood why CPUs were not running at max clockspeed by default. Was it because some applications were clock dependant?
It’s easy for people who have in-demand skills and live in certain areas. If you aren’t in certain fields, the “gig economy” usually means minimum wage with no job security or benefits with an automated boss constantly pressuring you.
The victims need to be acknowledged by those who enable the perpetrators of the crimes.

I myself have helped multiple refugee families get their lives back together again. You?
> This data is much more powerful than large retail outlets have with their store brands: “I can’t just walk into a store and say, ‘Excuse me, did you look at this brand of cereal this morning and decide not to buy it?’

They definitively can, and are. Granted, it's a fairly new development.
> How would you compare that to simply not offering the job at all?

Someone's gotta stock the shelves, there are no robots for that.
Why don't you make the database use HTTP instead? http://root.rupy.se
What about no longer have co-pays and deductibles? Doesn’t that help everyone by removing treatment disincentives ?
It's very easy to build small things with (small API servers, proxies, tools for example), development of those things is quick, the development feedback cycle is extremely rapid, JS is a bit of a lingua franca (for better or for worse), it is extremely easy to get set up (again, for simple things). In turn this created a huge community, which in turn triggered a virtuous (?) circle, and gave easily-installable libraries for almost anything you can think of. It also should be said that it is good at what it does. The reactor pattern works well in specific use cases and is easy to understand -- which I guess is the main cause of it being used as a general purpose hammer. Yes, it has glaring issues, but the "silly JS programmers with their toy language wanted to write backend servers" meme is a bit annoying.
Genuine question: is that legal? That seems incredibly shady.
Only a small part of the productivity, if so. I suspect larger parts come from offshoring the less productive industries (as we have done in the UK) and actually optimizing for productivity at national/cultural/political level (which I think is optimizing for the wrong thing. Truckloads of salary but only 2 weeks holiday? No thanks!).

A related thought however is whether such lists, for any given culture, tend to grow over time, like special cases in legacy software, until the overhead of working with complexity exceeds the cost of starting a new culture afresh..?
To wave a hand and dismiss the entirety of Europe's wage policy as 'different in many ways' is disingenuous. What Europe represents is a systemic approach to wage inflation at the low end; but this is also true for other countries with strong minimum wage guarantees (like Japan).

Every-time they've been put in place in this systematic way it's led to greater economic mobility, greater employment rates and a lowering of the burden on social welfare systems; whilst having little demonstrable impact on long-term economic growth, and in fact, there's recent evidence to suggest they have net positive impacts on growth[0][1][2][3]

What Seattle represents is a small isolated experiment within larger state, regional and federal contexts that effected its outcome. That's not to dismiss it's value, far from it, but to take as it some kind of definitive evidence is to weigh a grain of sand against a beach of contradictory evidence.

[0]: https://equitablegrowth.org/working-papers/distributional-mi...
[1]: http://www.lse.ac.uk/business-and-consultancy/consulting/ass...
[2]: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
[3]: https://www.nber.org/papers/w25434
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> under spirit of net neutrality you either serve your site to everyone equally(the public facing part) or to no one

Huh? Net neutrality isn't about the server or client... it's about the network operator in between them.
Is it still bibliomania if your criterium isn’t bindings or editions but scientific, historic and mathematical subject matter?
Can you elaborate what you mean?
The author assumes that software (or "code" as the article puts it) is a "problem" that has been - or is close to being - solved, and so can reliably be abstracted into an easy to use and understand UX.

However, software, the algorithms they encode, and the applications with relation to the hardware they run on is constantly evolving. By the time you have a reliable drag and drop interface for a use case, things have moved on.

Thus, these "no code" approaches will always lag considerably behind what is required to remain competitive, resulting in the requirement for the "DSLR" crowd.
>- and potentially defaming an innocent person who isn't around to defend themself-

You mean "who is according to his own plans temporarily not around to defend himself"

Marving Minsky is probably "chillin" in Alcor, waiting for his mega-upload.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky#Death

These people will not be the first biological organisms to be reanimated: that would entail too much risk as a guiny pig.

More probable is that before trying to reanimate any of these Alcor members, the technology of uploading will need to be tested (at least on animals first) to verify the upload conserves the episodic memories of the biological original.

This means time will pass in the interim, and regulations will have time to adapt to such new realities.

An obvious conundrum is the concept of time in law. If you can pause a person's life and then continue it, what about crimes commited before the pause? How does the statute of limitations then apply?

It is entirely foreseeable that legislative bodies will decide it is the subjective experience of time that counts: punishments are of a reformative nature, and a person who did not evolve between his crimes and his apprehension has not reformed.

So yes, in such a future it will be a frequent occurence to accuse the dead, and there should be no shame in that.

So even if a victim of a reanimated person is by then older than a perpetrator of some crime, or if the victim is already dead, it is still in the interest of society to punish and reform the criminal.

People who laugh at the plebs and don't worry about crimes they commit in their quest for immortality (thinking that the ends justify the means, thinking they will have the literally last laugh) may be sourly surprised when they wake up to discover things don't work like that.
What is your data source of the Soviets executing millions of own troops? Just curious.
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I think I'll quote this comment on my "why advertising is a cancer on modern society" list.
Practical Vim seems amazing, pushed it on top of my to-read stack :D
By "Wait But Why" you mean this one ? The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait But Why by Tim Urban
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Essentially, yes. Please familiarise yourself with sub-prime mortgages and 2007 - 2009.

With the right kind of paperwork you can not only rob a bank you can also make yourself a beneficiary of multiple bailouts and benefits. With even better paperwork you then claim the losses as part of lowering your tax obligation.
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It's not crazy. Sex is one of the most fundamental and powerful desires we have. What's actually crazy, in a mostly positive way, is how much control we've managed to achieve over it at individual and social level.
This. I find it quite shocking that in USA there are still offered useless jobs like Baggers. In Europe this job doesn't exist and no one misses it.
That is very odd to me as an American. Lots of these things are regional though.
From a quick glance, it's a custom radio packet using a common 2.4 GHz proprietary radio (clone of nrf 24L01), and it doesn't really need more than that. Adding complex pairing and so on would likely kill this fun passion project way long before finishing.
I am tall, not lanky. I never properly learned to touch type, at least not via Ms. Mavis Beacon or Mario's teachings. I found practice was very useful, but with programming in particular, it's been my experience that consistent speed helps me get into a flow. If I'm not sure what I'm going to type next, my brain focusing on what to tell the computer to logically do next 'crosses the stream' with what last statements I want to write out and causes typos.

As far as general touch typing goes, my dad showed me the keyboard he connected to the Gateway Win 98 box and said "that there is an IBM Model M keyboard, and if you learn how to use it right, it will last your whole life".

I was inspired to learn to type without looking at the keyboard, so over the age 9-12 years, I worked on it. These days, I don't have to look at it much, but still do things like typing 'ahve' instead of 'have'.

Oh, and that IBM keyboard was lost in a move, since replaced by a identical-if-i-didnt-otherwise-know keyboard I 'disposed' for my work with the evilest grin.
Proving some things may become easier (as an example of that there are already more than a few papers with proofs that rest on RH ... and then additional effort to go and find RH-less proofs.

A silly example (from memory) using another rather non-obvious proof.

1. Assume 2^(1/4) = X/Y for integers X/Y (Assume the quartic root of 2 is rational)

2. Raise both sides to the 4th power: 2 = X^4 / Y^4

3. Multiply both sides by Y^4: Y^4 + Y^4 = X^4

4. QED, quartic root of 2 is irrational, by contradiction with Fermat's last theorem.
Firing workers for trying to speak up about safety issues or starting a union is illegal, is it not?
Never seen it in any logs in 20 years.

Do you have a source for that claim?
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My wife's uncle explained to me how excited he and many of his colleagues where when FORTRAN IV came out. Finally a programming language for people who didn't want to learn about computers and programming.

Basically this line of thinking is almost as old as programming itself.
What, you don't flirt with, date, and then conceive babies? What kind of timelord are you?
You can still run 1960's code today for both COBOL and Fortran - I suspect some Fortan 2 oddities might not work I am thinking of the sense commands
Came to say something similar - in the spirit of his/hers exixe tube thing, I made a similar one but with msp430 (since I'm very familiar with it) and cleaner layout of the transistors. Looks good and have baked a couple, but I'm not getting good results on flashing the msp430. For some reason it's flaky as hell, and I don't have the time to investigate more.
40 years or so as a professional programmer and I never learned to touch type. Never found slow typing to be a bottleneck. What to type is the hard part.
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Hmm - I think a key in the ruling here was that LinkedIn maintains no copyright claim on these pages. Users on LinkedIn retain ownership of their profile data. Compare that to a blog and maybe copyright could come into play? Not a lawyer just thinking out loud...
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These are known as ‘Chelsea Tractors’ in London...
This is a weird case, as it turns the question of scraping on its head. Normally you'd think "am I allowed to scrape?", but instead the question becomes "am I allowed to prevent scraping?".

Anyways, I disagree with the court's judgment here. The users have consented that their data be used in accordance with LinkedIn's privacy policy. Even if it is publicly posted does not mean that the user has relinquished control over their personal information for another company to do with as they wish.
It depends on what you mean by legal. It seems like fraud to me. However a prosecutor would have it charge him and win in court to get a conviction.