skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rubber tires and soles don't protect from a strike, no, but they do offer at least some protection from the step potential[0] a nearby strike would cause. Of course with everything being wet from the rain and all the protection is most likely rather limited.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_potential_rise
How can someone be a verb? I'm a eating. Doesn't make sense.
> This is pretentious and pretty bad advice.
Does the author believe most people can afford to quit working for a period of time, let alone afford to travel around the world?

It's a metaphor.
Telegram is legally British.
I've had a Model 3 for about a year, and it is absolutely not the case. You are ludicrously misinformed, but don't let that stop you from commenting.
Unlikely because tesla wants to... they are forced to by gov. Kind of like the EU had to force phone manufacturers to switch to USB. Except tesla still seems to be resisting against the somewhat painful switch.
communities only stay in control through active intervention by some strong enough authority. This is the problem with the 'law of the jungle' logic of crypto currency, not having any authority doesn't imply that the system doesn't move towards centralisation, it simply builds out informal hierarchies, and those are usually a lot worse than formal and legitimised ones because they are based on resource concentration and have nothing to reign them in. Well functioning markets are constructed and reconstructed through social interaction and institutions, they don't predate them. That they simply exist in harmony and tend towards some magical happy state is essentially religious thinking.

The Tyranny of Structurelessness (https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm) is a great and pretty timeless piece on why decentralisation does not lead to some sort of greater freedom or community control.
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I agree with you. Also, they could be trying to hide their fake users problem. Source is dubious, but still:

https://www.rt.com/usa/449733-facebook-fake-users-report/
You almost got it correct.

AMD rates it as non-turbo usage, ex: my $200 3600 is 65W TDP, has a package limit of 88W, and is designed to reach 65W without turboing; if I manually set the package limit to 65W, all cores will sit at the base clock of 3.6GHz forever. 88W hard package limit will be enforced under overclocking unless overridden by user.

The comparison is the $250 9600k, same single-threaded performance, 3600 is roughly 30% faster in multi-threaded; 95W TDP, soft package limit of 150W, and will exceed that under some situations under stock, and will absolutely exceed it overclocked.

So, Intel, in this case, costs 25% more, has 30% less performance, has 46% more TDP, and 70% more actual maximum usage... and to add insult to injury, AMD's stock cooler is beefier than Intel's: I believe AMD's stock cooler can sink 88W, I do not believe the Intel one can manage 150W+.
This is a release of a dataset, to help people train machine learning models. That's why the blog post says "We’re also releasing a large dataset to help data scientists build models for this task."

We also provide a way to evaluate how well your machine learning model works. That's why the blog post says "We’re announcing the CodeSearchNet Challenge evaluation environment."

The released data and code (and hence, the announcement) are meant for data scientists and ML researchers who want to work on this problem, and the rest of the world does not need to care. There are no products or applications of this work at this time. If the terms in the blog post don't mean anything to you, then you are not in the target audience for this announcement, and that's OK.
Hmm, well I'd honestly do just about anything I could to avoid macOS. If only I could compile iOS apps without it, I wouldn't have to deal with their backwards and incapable UI.

Hopefully soon I'll be able to use VSCode to remotely work on my Mac though! - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/24

> You'll quickly find that Apple has this market cornered.

No they don't. Not the market for people who just need a corporate Unix box. At my consultancy we have a mix of machines with many people running a System 76 tower or laptop and you'll find plenty of folks here on HN who will name Dell, Lenovo or HP as their supplier.

Perhaps you're thinking of just the market for people who do the absolute highest end video work for the film industry? Other than that, I don't see it.

And Windows has been rock solid for a massive amount of users and developers of various types since Windows 2000.
Or just use keyword arguments in Python. I am debugging someone else's code today and it make it so much easier when you have named keyword arguments - which he doesn't.

:(
Keep your feet together as well to make sure the voltage difference between your feet is as low as possible in case the strike is nearby but not a direct hit.
Good idea - any shit pilots want to volunteer? ;)
This (latest) RMS incident is the confluence of The Structure of Presidential Scandals and Outrage Culture.

The personal, character failings of public figures are tolerated until they run out of goodwill. Then a "scandal" occurs. Nothing new is actually discovered. We always knew about President Clinton's extra marital stuff. It just didn't matter, until it did.

I don't have anything useful to add about Outrage Culture. Along with everyone else, I'm still trying to figure it out. Closest analogy I can think of is candidate Gary Hart put his head in the lion's mouth one too many times.

--

My take on RMS is a little bit, um, unconventional. Having never met him, I imagine he's somewhere between neurotypical and an ultimatist and a square peg in a world of round holes. His pedantry regarding Minsky wasn't wrong, exactly. It was just unwittingly in bad taste. A common recurrence for RMS.

Unfortunately for RMS, this time it mattered. Per the bit about scandals above; public opinion towards RMS crossed some unmarked tipping point, and he doesn't have enough allies to help save his public image.

RMS will be fine.

And I'm actually okay with this kind of court of public opinion. I want our public figures to keep pace with the times, to adapt, to remain effective & relevant. If RMS can't or won't, then it's his time to sit down, and let someone more palatable serve as arrow catcher for a while (the job of the ultimatist).
when did she report him? 40 years later? My memory is already fading for interactions just 5 years back, much more drunken interactions...
I can’t say for certain, but I don’t think that is the case. However, the author did have the benefit of making $4MM off of his company before selling it for $22MM in his late thirties. I didn’t get the sense, though, from a brief perusal of his site that he’s remarkably pretentious or looks down on those less well-traveled.
"Comments are disabled for this video" is the 21st century red flag for "this video is dogshit and controversial but the uploaded still wants the ad money / view count".
So is this a chair?

https://imgur.com/a/6ykAG5m

Anyway yes I am familiar with the difficulty in defining consciousness, but you seemed to be making the point that agreeing the definition should be done before any other discussion, whereas clearly some fruitful discussion is often possible even though the definition is fluid. Indeed the article in the OP is essentially trying to work out one aspect of the definition. I gather he has a book where he puts forward a definition of sorts.
What about just picking 10 random airline pilots from around the world to test it out a few times and get feedback?
Could you narrow that down? I tried, but there's a lot of material to go through.

The stuff I did find was only tangentially related and not indicative of any changes in position, eg

https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September...

https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September...

https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_July_2016...
> ... rather than pro grade drives because cost increase was not worth it.

Or that it was cheaper to get reliability at another layer of the stack (rather than hardware).
you sound hostile and are making me uncomfortable
I don't doubt that this works in theory. I just don't think this effect is relevant in practice (with the same manufacturing process). Especially because with lower resistance you can usually decrease the voltage too.
Yes, we need to round up our dumbest pilots for these tests.
Ah, the reason is simple: C# allows named parameters, but do not enforce them. You can call File.Copy both as

File.Copy(a,b)

and

File.Copy(sourceFileName: a, destFileName: b)

And confusingly, also as

File.Copy(destFileName: b, sourceFileName: a)
I agree it says not to, but I also eat raw cookie dough and Im sure others do too
Don't they mean they must recruit pilots at something close to random, so they should indeed get all skill levels?
I couldn't read the article so I can't verify but that's what I would think, because how do the otherwise find 'average' pilots? By a survey?
Internet trolls are an inevitable outcome of large-scale anonymous communication. We can opine about how the world should be all day long, but at some point adults need to be pragmatic in their care. Just as they shouldn't take children to seedy dive bars because of the inevitable exposure to bad things, so too should they be shielded from communities in which abuse is inevitable.
They don't say what version of Swift they're counting, but I count 96 keywords on the documentation page they link to, which would move it above C++ into 3rd place.
So ... the only people who have taken the time to actually go through my interpretation of RMS agree with me about how I'm interpreting him? Then why am I being relentlessly trolled and downvoted in this thread, when I have repeatedly stated that this is the only point I wish to defend?

As I said in the OP, I wanted to make a fairly simple point about RMS's leadership of GNU. My claim that it was beyond the pale was something that I explicitly said is "not really relevant for this particular thread".

Maybe a reasonable debate could be had on this point, but it wasn't one that I was interested in having when I wrote the OP (and I said as much), and I definitely don't feel like getting into it now after hours of this miserable slog of a thread. It's also worth pointing out that you're the first person (I think) to debate this point: most comments (go through and read them!) are denying that RMS said these things.

Thank you for at least saying you agree with my interpretation.
How is it Russian in any way? The app has been banned in Russia for more than a year now and the creator/CEO Pavel Durov is in exile from Russia.
Unfortunately, I rarely find new clothes that fit me well, let alone used.
I wonder if a bigger factor would be the test pilots knowing in advance what the test was.

Eg. being told, "next we are testing what happens when MACS fails", whereas in a real life situation the pilot has to diagnose what has happened, recall the correct remedial action, then act on it.
Some of his previous comments on child sex issues are republished here:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/famed-mit-computer-scientist-r...

Including gems such as

"I think that everyone age 14 or above ought to take part in sex, though not indiscriminately. (Some people are ready earlier.)”

And

“I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.”

Plus

“There is little evidence to justify the widespread assumption that willing participation in pedophilia hurts children.”

He has all of the sudden backtracked on his decades long-held opinion that sex between adults and children is ok less than two weeks ago:

https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...
Half of pilots are going to be below average - why not test against their ability?
Mu4e has a handy shortcut to open any html mail in a bcowser. I'm wondering whether it shouldn't be possible to use a GTK web view to display HTML mail.
How about we take below-average pilots, have them run the test right after their normal full shift ends without any rest in between, and give them a glass of whisky for encouragement?
> Your product sucks
is not "negative feedback". It useless statement.

If you are paid and want to go fish to see if you can turn that into actual feedback, go ahead. It will take a lot of time and energy to pull something out, that will be useful. Posting your project to hn, various reddits or just twitter will get you a lot of more constructive feedback for less effort.

Besides I don't like rude people, responding to them just validates to them, that rudeness pays.
This is there just to remind us how boring our generation is. We used to actually tried to convince people to send mail by shooting it in rockets, send a man to the moon in a glorified can and fly around the world in zeppelins. Compared to that, a slightly bigger portable television with 3 cameras instead of 1 is just ... boring.
I’m a former owner of a top of the range Model S and I feel strongly that others should be well informed of Tesla’s deficiencies, of which there are many. Tesla fanboy-ism is a very real phenomenon. And although they’re model line is going in the right direction, they have a long way to go before they compete with the driver thoughtfulness of other vehicles in the same price range.
You know how to complicate something very simple.

What is the advantage here? As I would prefer to have the authors original problem than this.
> I put 'free' in quotes because complete freedom for one person is slavery for another, so it is never completely clear to me what people actually want when they talk about free society or free markets.

My understanding is that free markets must be non-coersive and non-violent, where all participants exercise freedom in how they act or not within the marketplace. Otherwise, if we allow any form of coersion (including any price controls) we have at least some slavery, not a free markets.
for things that have clear direction,

'foo' `copyTo` 'bar'
> I imagine it also helps the platform hide and demote content that is ideological unfavourable or competitive to the platform.

I'd say it also helps the platform hide a potential fake users problem. For instance, you can no longer see the low engagement on users' posts who paid for followers.
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> Telegram is primarily Russian

Telegram isn't Russian at all at this point.

"Although Telegram was founded by a Russian, Pavel Durov (more on him later), the messaging app rejects any affiliation with Russia."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/world/europe/telegram-ira...
In a perfect world, it sounds perfect.
Or they can just open up OS X to more hardwares.
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> and also the most (real) OO way.

No. Far from it. First of all, what is File in your example? a class? an object? and what does File().Source() return? an object? what does that object represent?

If you want it to be OO, you have a File object, to which you send a "copy" message. Depending on how strictly OO you want it to be, it then returns the new file object (or a reference to it).
You’re thinking of median, not average, but your question stands.
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The one with the military...
If you line dry, little to no ironing is usually required, even if you want to look like you still own one and remember where it is. :)
> I wonder if a pattern like this would also be useful as a "jitter check" --- which bits change and the statistics of their values over many reads could show how closely aligned the drive mechanism is.

Maybe this type of global synchronisation was built into the FDC? You don't need fuzzy bits to detect this, at the most basic level the PLL keeps the local stream of bitcells in sync in the current sector... the deltas (as a side effect of the sync) could be used to calculate an average and change the global expected timing of the window - as it collects more deltas it would converging on the global difference between the physical characteristics of the drive and the disc timings (i.e ultimately the difference between the drive that wrote it and the drive reading it).

If the FDC failed to read a sector due to PLL synchronisation (would that result in an invalid MFM encoding sequence?), then it could attempt to read other sectors to gather more delta samples and obtain more accurate expected timings before trying again.

Since the fuzzy bit trick still produced valid MFM sequences i suppose this type of functionality would not get the drive stuck in that case.
You could get a T480 with the quad-core CPU, or a P5x with a 4, 6, or 8 core CPU (like the 15" MBP) and 64GB :)
We can't "really" know anything about the "real" world either - yet hardly anyone takes solipsism seriously...
I wonder if in a few decades the use of AIs in computer games might start to become an ethical issue. As in, when the simulation of NPCs starts becoming _really_ good, won't it all begin to be a bit unsettling?
>Facebook is OPTIMIZED for petty flamewars, because that equals engagement and ad views,

Political disengagement is the modal average political affiliation. Incentives that make partisans angrier and shoutier on your platform are likely to backfire with the politically disengaged.

So maybe in the short run this is true, but over a longer time horizon, fostering an environment where "petty flamewars" proliferate is going to alienate a lot of users, to the point where attrition may outweigh any engagement benefits gained.
Their use case is primarily obfuscating movement of money. Crypto isn't exactly useful day to day, and it'll take some time and ingenuity to be able to achieve the convenience of modern payment systems in a decentralized, distributed manner.

Right now, that's the only use case which warrants crypto over fiat currency is if you ever want to send large sums of money and not leave a trail.
Genuine question: where does the svelte complier hide JS warts? I've used Svelte for some production tools and personally in a few projects.

My experience thus far is that if you don't have at least a base-level understanding of JS you really can't use Svelte to its fullest. I can back up that intuition by having observed the svelte support channel on discord, where many of the questions really wind up being questions about javascript rather than Svelte.
The sign was probably there for decades. If it was problematic, I'm sure some of the university staff would have removed it.

So which "latest thing" was the last straw and how?
Now that's an interesting idea.

I'm very political and some of my peeps (on the left) exhaust me. I disregard anyone telling someone else how they should be living; remove the log from your own eye first and so forth. Left, right, up, down -- they're all the same. I call them scolds.

I'll now have to consider your thesis (about scolds being a flavor of conformists).
I agree! I find Windows quite cumbersome and unpleasant to use and would rather pay more for macOS; not because it is a status symbol, but because it is simply a better product for me.
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> You might think they are extreme in their views but rulings restricting speech are very, very rare.

And that has severe consequences as you see.

Popper said it many years ago.
It's always illegal to make death threats.
> My site is very significantly slower for first load, but slightly faster for all subsequent loads.

This can be easily accomplished with Jekyll as well using Service Workers. What Gatsby has done is to take all the good practices and optimisations that can be done to a static site(like image optimisation, asset minification, prefetching) and bundled them all together. A lot of these can be done using any static site generator. For example, Gatsby prefetches links on hover/entering the viewport. This[1] ~1kb JS is sufficient for that.

[1] https://instant.page/.
Did you walk through the tutorial? It's _easy_. And the tutorial is kept almost 100% up to date with svelte version changes.
This is my goto:

First, at scale, if an engineer can think it, statistically speaking there is an engineer who will do it.

So let's pick a theoretical: Imagine you have all these photos of people with their faces - at the club, hugging at the pub etc. Then you can track who has a criminal record, due to what they post, key words, etc. And then you can track who statistically speaking, has a high chance of having a criminal record (but may not have). Then you can track these individuals moving around in various social circles. And then you look at peoples group photos, and raise a flag when there is cross-over between the circles. This is vastly interesting of course, but... who said it was cool to examine me and the people I meet to make that judgement? Even if FaceBook are not doing it now, who said it was cool to amass all this data so they CAN make this judgement, at anytime in the future.

This behaviour in a person is called being "a bit judgey". When facebook do it, it's "a bit judgey"...with parallelized computing and machine learning.

I'm not a criminal. I'm a totally chill guy. It literally wouldn't make me worried for myself if Facebook did this. But, I just find the whole role they can play...annoying.
I hope someone has a camera fixed on the probable collapse area 24/7 (or, at least during the daylight hours).
Anyone got any idea about how they might bridge airgapped computers like they mention in the article?

I’ve heard theories before about out of human hearing range audio signals acting as initiation/connection signals to laptops and that the firmware in a lot of these laptop mic subsystems has this kind of code always running and ready.

It would definitely be interesting to hear of some genuine examples.
It’s probably not unique in that aspect. I just happen to have quite a bit of experience in React. And that “componentization” only made sense to me when I started using React.
Could that one not have rules without rulers, if the protocol and incentives are properly structured?
The arithmetic mean (I.e. the average) is the 50th-percentile (I.e. the median) in a normal distribution. The question absolutely stands - unless pilot ability is not a normal-distribution.
Most of my cruise control driving is on very low traffic volume divided highways. With regular cruise control, if the distance to a car gets smaller, I know there is a speed differential and I can slow down or pass, as appropriate. With the adaptive cruise control, the system as decided for me that slowing down is the correct option, generally before I've gotten close to where I would normally pull out to pass. With the long follow distance and the very gentle deceleration, I generally don't realize the system has slowed me down. This would be good as long as slowing down is the decision I want, but my cruise is generally set at the speed limit and I'm slowed by someone driving slower when the conditions don't warrant.
Handling the burden of hardware fragmentation will reduce their quality and velocity. It's not in their DNA and definitely not in their strategy to make this happen.
I'm not sure the criteria for determining an 'average' pilot but if becoming a test pilot is a big incentive for trying to be the best you can wouldn't this drag the average pilot quality down?
Median and mean are both averages, and there are other types of averages. Average by itself doesn’t imply mean. And of course it’s median - how can you have a mean of something discrete like group of people?