skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's just not a serious part of the discussion, and it is likely invoked as an attempt to cast certain classes of foreigners as unclean and trigger susceptible people's disgust response.

The CDC literally has policies about who can be admitted to the U.S. as an immigrant or refugee based on their health status[1], including whether or not they are carrying a communicable disease (such as TB).

This unsubstantiated inference about other people's intentions is misguided at best, and disingenuous at worst.

[1]https://www.cdc.gov/immigrantrefugeehealth/exams/medical-exa...
no, I didn't say that you can turn a book into a single page exactly. I said that you can bind the pages of a book together in such a way that it would be one long, continuous page. rather, i said that conceptually, a book can be a single page, and beyond that I also went on to clarify that a book is nothing more than a single page split at arbitrary locations to give the impression of structure.

if there were a single piece of paper long enough to hold the entirety of a book, and it were written out on that page, would that make it any less of a book? it may not be one in the sense that it is no longer bound together, but at the same time, in the former example the pages were bound together by some chemical process into one monolithic page; the only thing missing is a cover to hold it together, though I have seen college textbooks come as just loose leaf paper that one has to bind themselves but that's still a "book" prior to binding.

also: what if a story or some such were to be written on a scroll? just because it doesn't fit the precise literal definition of what a book is, doesn't mean it doesn't contain the same semiotic substance as "book" and as such doesn't mean that it automatically isn't one. but maybe im just being pedantic ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Even if this is true, isn’t that about drivers and not interfaces? Perhaps I am wrong but I was under the impression that the framebuffer userspace device worked on DRM-based drivers still, just it didn’t use fbdev internally.
OP here - ^ that's one very good a answer!

Yes, pretty much like that. I wrote one long reply in this thread on what we're looking for and it is about the same as this post above.

I would qdd to it that experience with working remotely successfully is a great predictor, but it leaves out the candidates that have not worked out remotely so far. In that case, the focus becomes on the other indicators.
Well, I am in favor of legalizing the possession (but not the trade, if it is photographic) of child pornography, but only because I generally think legislation should be reduced. (I suppose, it can also be an experiment to see what is happen. That way, you can see if it is harmful or not, and in what ways.)

Of course, still a photograph should not be taken and used without your permission anyways. (But, the government does so anyways, unfortunately.)

And, I don't like the term "pedophilia". But, if it is true that they are entirely willing, then, it is willing, but how easily can you prove it? I think the problem was that sometimes it is difficult to tell. If so, can you get around that problem?

I am definitely in favor of limiting laptop searches at the border. But that is not because of pornography.

I disagree with "I think that everyone age 14 or above ought to take part in sex". Maybe some people are ready earlier, but some are not ready until much later, and I don't even know if 14 is correct (I have no experience with such things, and do not really intend to, so I cannot judge what age is correct). Furthermore, I think that many people will not want to take part in sex and therefore should not do so. (I also think you should not try to increase the human population too much.)

Also, I definitely think that people should learn to be careful. Better education could help, maybe; just by making it available. (You don't need to force your propaganda on everyone; simply, make the education available.)

I do agree that censorship is even worse than pornography, though, and I do not like pornography myself. I do not defend pornography, including child pornography. I also do not defend rapists. I just think that legislation should be reduced and that they should not prohibit so many things.
Is the denial of nuance really a path to truth? Is it better to "maintain civility" instead of actually naming and dealing with problems openly? Maybe in American colleges, with their airing of the grievances (activism) and feats of strength (sports), Festivus doesn't just come once a year any more. And maybe all of that leads to better-rounded humans instead of just qualified job applicants.
That same documentation shows 320 pixels per line too, in mode 7, depending on tile width.

More than plenty, IMHO.

A simple design will get hacked on, expanded, etc. That is definitely my preference.
This is great! Nice work and keep it up.

No family responsibilities I take it? (As in you don’t have any kids). I think, off everything you listed if you were to do a 80/20 what’s the 20% here - eliminating parasitic relationships and having healthy habits ? Something different? You put out a long list but I think what the community is most interested is in understanding how they can make their (version of) big changes in their unfulfilled lives and what could they learn from your success. To that effect what’s the cornerstone or foundational things on which everything else was built in your case?
I’m wondering if the EU and/or the US would ever release their own government-backed crypto and ban the use of all others.
> If you ask current students, and many administrators and faculty, what the goals of their colleges are, you will have to wait some time before hearing “knowledge.”

And yet, costing more than ever. For what? It's not like people are learning a lot more by paying a lot more.

When I was in college I thought it was more interesting and valuable from the conflict on campus. I'll call it conflict, too. People who were actually having differences with each other, and saying them, many times passionately if not angrily. Now it seems like people are so worried about offending each other they'd rather say nothing at all, which seems to defeat the point of having a diverse campus. If you have a diverse campus but everyone says the same thing, is it really diverse?

I also think the skills of being able to deal with, work with, and learn from people that are different from you (and possibly outright hate you, for reasons that may or may not be "valid") were some of the more valuable skills I learned in college. College was a lot more real world than say, high school. When you get out into the real world, nobody cares about your safe spaces, trigger warnings, and microaggressions. You have to find your own way, and fight for your own causes.
You sick fuckers are getting yourselves deeper into your dark, unavoidable reality. You can't avoid getting caught forever, sickos.
People who "successfully" teach themselves are overrated (good examples being Trump or Zuckerberg). They might be successful in a few dimensions (purely out of self discipline and above avg energy levels) but totally miseducated in many others because people don't know what they don't know. Without the right guides, feedback processes, environment and time(lots of time) most people usually end up taking all kinds of wrong turns.

Education not something intuitive, even if there are many paths. If it was we would just be leaving kids in libraries.
Burning man has extensive planning and infrastructure, which has been built up over years of adapting to slow growth, and which goes on for months before the event opens.

At burning man, people buy tickets months ahead of time, whose supply is limited, so the number of people in attendance is known. Road markings are put up on the playa to manage the huge volume of traffic entering the city (waiting in the gate line in your vehicle can take multiple hours, sometimes the better part of a day– remember, this is with good organization). Space on the playa for each camp is planned and allotted, and someone shows you to your space. Water trucks continuously spray the streets to keep the dust down.

Burners know what they are responsible for. There is basically not a single piece of litter in the city, because there is a strong and highly unified culture of not-littering and being responsible for your own garbage. Similarly, burners are fully self-reliant for water because there is unified understanding that there is little safety net if you screw up and don't bring enough.

This is a big one: At burning man, thousands of porta-potties are put up and routinely cleaned and pumped multiple times a day. The number of needed toilets is known because of ticket sales, and the ticket sales also pay for the toilets and their servicing.

None of this is true of the coming event, however big or small it is. Experience at burning man makes me more worried about how bad this could be without planning, organization, and a unified culture that strongly emphasizes self-reliance and respect.
I watched the Andrew Ng videos in coursera - I honestly didn't care about any course work, I was just trying to watch the vids... did I do something wrong?
The paraphrasing of Martha Nussbaum's thoughts near the end of this article seems to contain its essential message:

"The world-citizen view insists on the need for all citizens to understand differences. … It is connected with a conception of democratic debate as deliberation about the common good. The identity-politics view, by contrast, depicts the citizen body as a marketplace of identity-based interest groups jockeying for power, and views difference as something to be affirmed rather than understood."
A tireless focus on delivery.

The QA manager came out of his office one day with a critical announcement. He was angry that we started taking a more quantitative approach to QA, producing lateral results and accomplishing little to nothing. Remember guys you’re number one task is to have fun. This was quite the eye opener for me. So wait I’m supposed to work at Blizzard and have fun? That just didn’t seem right so I just focused on the graphics.

People would come into QA with an ambition to join another budding internal team like cinematic’s and sound and did their best in QA to showcase their work ethic and ambition.

Team members were often treated to company goodies and publicly acknowledged for hard work.

In short we felt important.
Reverse Proxy Based on Cloudflare Workers
I do think they have added some good stuff to JavaScript, such as typed arrays, big integers, arrow functions, strict mode, generator functions, WeakMap, symbol type, etc.

But some features of JavaScript, I don't like much, such as automatic semicolon insertion. Some features I find unnecessary.

And some stuff I thought they ought to add but didn't, such as a goto command, macros, a popcount function for big integers, a built-in regular expression quotation function (it can be implemented easily enough, but it seem the thing that should be built-in), and a big integer date function (low priority, but maybe in the far future, it ought to be added).
Original email from Stallman

The announcement of the Friday event does an injustice to Marvin
Minsky:

“deceased AI ‘pioneer’ Marvin Minsky (who is accused of assaulting
one of Epstein’s victims [2])”

The injustice is in the word “assaulting”. The term “sexual assault”
is so vague and slippery that it facilitates accusation inflation:
taking claims that someone did X and leading people to think of it as
Y, which is much worse than X.

The accusation quoted is a clear example of inflation. The reference
reports the claim that Minsky had sex with one of Epstein’s harem.
(See https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/9/20798900/marvin-minsky-jef...)
Let’s presume that was true (I see no reason to disbelieve it).

The word “assaulting” presumes that he applied force or violence, in
some unspecified way, but the article itself says no such thing.
Only that they had sex.

We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that
she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was
being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her
to conceal that from most of his associates.

I’ve concluded from various examples of accusation inflation that it
is absolutely wrong to use the term “sexual assault” in an accusation.

Whatever conduct you want to criticize, you should describe it with a
specific term that avoids moral vagueness about the nature of the
criticism.
In the case of LA specifically there are several airports scattered around the area. Also 3 in the Bay. So flying gives you some choice of start-end destinations. I assume not all the combos are common routes.
Oof. The report from the steam turbine operator is dicey. Their time stamps are relative so they don’t have GPS time synced but they are ms precision so must have a decent sequence of events record. But they don’t know why the 200MW steam turbine unit tripped, which causes a knock on trip of 400 MW of gas turbines. Report says steam turbine tripped due to a discrepancy in the speed signals. Will be interesting to see what that is! The turbine speed will be measured either by number or teeth passing by a magnetic pickup or proximity sensor per unit of time but unit of time varies so it is always a whole number of teeth, or measuring the period of the generator voltage waveform is also a nice speed signal, but maybe not if you are trying to ride through a fault in which the voltage has collapsed or is subject up to bad harmonics. Maybe harmonics caused an instantaneous over speed trip in the turbine governor? Protection relays wouldn’t be involved in measuring turbine speee and should be smart enough not to trip on overfrequency in harmonics during a fault.
Why would one assume that specifically? Also, wouldn't one then assume they will lobby against the tax on shorter and cheaper flights as well, if it had a similar effect on their numbers?
Is it just another kind of foreign currency, not controlled by German government. The reason why bitcoin is popular is that people believe governments and central banks cannot be trusted, and they are evil anyway.

I understand why the governments do this, because they fear losing control.
They see your free speech as violence and their own violence as free speech.
Tangent: I have a hunch that the Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube, or something based on it, could be used to separate or just concentrate microplastics from water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_tube

> The vortex tube was used to separate gas mixtures, oxygen and nitrogen, carbon dioxide and helium, carbon dioxide and air in 1967 by Linderstrom-Lang. Vortex tubes also seem to work with liquids to some extent...
rolph's reply to this seems a bit... off the rails.

This part makes me think it's all a big conspiracy theory:

> such a router will have two instances of flashed firmware and you can toggle between the instances by flicking the power switch [3times] rapidly so you produce 3 boot failures. this is true in the case of linksys routers and many others but not all, so read often, implement successfully the first time.

I recently purchased a high-end Linksys router and flashed OpenWRT on it so I know exactly what he's talking about. Like modern smartphones, they have two firmware partitions, A and B. When you are booted into the A partition and download an update, it is applied to the B partition. On the next boot the device uses the B partition and then eventually applies the same update to the A partition. This means that updates can be applied without having to restart the device and wait a long time for the flash, and it also means that the device can revert to the A partition if there was an error updating the B partition. That's why it was added a few years ago to Android.

This is explicitly advertised as in the marketing for newer high-end routers (and other things, like computer motherboards).

In OpenWRT you actually have to manually flash both partitions - update the router, reboot into the other partition, and then update again to apply it to the first partition. Which seems to be what rolph is talking about when he mentions flashing updates twice to be a deterrent to this exploit. What doesn't make sense is that rolph implied that the fix of flashing twice applied to all devices.

- On devices with dual firmwares, the stock firmware flashes updates twice to complete the update process
- On devices with one firmware but a secret evil firmware, the evil firmware will not be affected by updates, so flashing a new firmware twice will not fix the exploit (which is the opposite of what rolph said)

I would assume high-end older routers do contain a backup stock firmware that can be loaded after multiple failed boots, just like Windows will boot to recovery mode if it fails to boot a few times.

rolph hasn't provided any solid evidence to back his conspiracy theory. That doesn't mean it isn't... as you can see in the comments here, there's tons of stuff we don't know about. Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17311005 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5981399

So it might actually be an evil CIA/NSA plot. Or it might not.
As restrictions go, I'm OK with this. I looked into doing some Atari 800(XL/XE) coding and for most any graphics application, you're bottlenecked by what you can keep around in main RAM, plus the limits of what you can program ANTIC/GTIA to do per scanline. Programming the scanline interrupts, you can manage to do quite a lot, and similar tricks with VERA are likely(fingers crossed). A lot of the latter day demoscene work on Atari relies on aftermarket RAM upgrades to unleash more of the raw power of the graphics hardware.

Of course, the X16 already accounts for that with its banked 2Mb RAM. Large RAM effectively means that most software for the platform can be single load, streaming in whatever is needed 8k at a time instead of going to storage media. But even so, a full 640x480 256 color image is so large relative to the RAM size that it's likely to be relegated to splash screens and demo effects.
Pretty much what happened to the US Army that went to Afghanistan.
In a nightmarish scenario, I can easily imagine Apple's success killing off Tile. Which would be a shame as I really love my Tiles.
I am not 100% sure either, but I think /dev/fbN does not exist without a fb driver. DRM uses /dev/dri/renderNNN
This just seems like a really complicated, roundabout way to do something a union would do automatically.
What are you talking about? Hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers were protesting about Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. That was eight years before the hand-over of HK.
Far right demands purity of body and far left demands purity of mind. Everyone who fails do adhere should be purged. If you can't get them imprisoned or killed, at least try to ensure they can't get a job or live a life without harassment.

The current free speech laws protects our minds from the government, but it does nothing to protect us from private entities unlike the laws protecting our bodies from discrimination.
Area 51 staff backstabbing other US citizens.
you’d think hundred of devices could share a same channel though. duty cycle is really small.
Even more expensive full-service carriers are sometimes less expensive and rarely more expensive than (in particular) high-speed train services. To make intercity trains worth it I typically have to buy the ticket well in advance when cheaper fares are available and I assume the flight prices won't decrease significantly due to their unpredictability.
I did not read the article he quotes, and cannot say whether "the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing" is true or false, but I agree that you should try to criticize it correctly; if you do not know that it is assault, then perhaps "(who is accused of having sex with one of Epstein's victims)" might be better. Depending on what a article mentioning Minsky would be mainly about, though, such as parenthetical comment might or might not be relevant, I think. In a biography it would be relevant, but not as a parenthetical comment, I should think.
Even if you want the cosmetic benefit of physical exfoliation, we don't have to use plastic -- you could just as easily use sand or salt and get the same benefits.
AI.

Investors > Intelligence.

Artificial Inflation.

AI.
If they're going to get themselves killed at Area 51 that means they won't have much time to play Untitled Goose Game[0].

I mean seriously, if you're going to do something stupid that day, why not play a video game?

[0]http://goose.game
Charge Change: How electric forces vary in colloids
It’s not just intellectual comfort... colleges have invested in other comforts and luxuries like extremely fancy dorms, dining halls that rival restaurants, etc. After all, each student provides more revenue than ever before, so higher CACs are justifiable. It’s a luxury good for a luxury market, and just like your local Rolls Royce dealership will not provoke you into a debate about racism your local four year private college would similarly prefer not to.
Also Ecuador uses the USD, with a GDP of ~$100bn.

There's a big difference between having a currency pegged to another, and not actually having a currency at all, and using physical foreign currency for everyday transactions.

Pegs can be broken and may be hedged with FX futures.

The second situation is a much stronger existential commitment, which makes it more reliable and predictable. Reinventing a new national currency is a high barrier, which cannot be hedged directly in the FX markets (although sovereign CDS might be close enough).
One of the issues in commissioning facilities as large as Hornsea is that if you want to do field validation of things like dynamic voltage regulator response (instead of just steady state performance), actually creating a sufficiently large disturbance to test it may not realistically be possible without impacting grid reliability. Hence the reliance on modelling. The presence of an underdamped SSO probably could have been identified in modelling, but there's no indication that National Grid requires SSO studies in design phase.

Also I'm not sure I agree that the SSO was there all along. The system configuration appears to be several STATCOMs at the HV interconnection substation plus the VAR capabilities of the individual wind turbines. There may be an interaction between these control systems that leads to SSO under certain conditions only while being effectively damped at other times.

As for the reclose time, it may have to do with circuit breaker duty cycles. We don't know what equipment they're using but if it's dated stuff, it's conceivable that it requires that level of delay before it's rated for another interrupting operation.
I wouldn't know about your first two paragraphs, but I can agree about the third paragraph, that "the amount of gray area in the subject makes it complicated". Yes, a lot of stuff becomes complicated because there is a lot of parts, not all of which are being considered (and many that I have not thought of).
Not exactly, but the coursework is worthwhile. It's well designed so that you get to only focus on the topic at hand, not setup or scaffolding of any sort.

You really get a feel for how to turn an equation into vectorized code, which the video lessons can't give you.

I've completed the first Ng course, the later five-course specialization, and a few other courses (Odersky's Scala course among them). Still, 4% doesn't sound unreasonable: I too have enrolled in more courses than I completed.
It would be helpful to have stock as number of shares. For example, Microsoft is up 40% on the year, Pinterest went public this year, etc.

Also, the graph from the Medium post showing comp vs years at company would be really helpful. In the OP, there's a 2nd year near $300k and 9.5 year employee at $150k.

Have companies every asked to be removed from levels.fyi? I see at least one company missing from there now.