skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In these women’s world dating is like Top Trumps but they bring along an unofficial card set for themselves where their attributes are far higher than reality and the cards the other player (the man) gets are all scored lower than the official set.

The woman in the photo probably thinks of herself as an 8.5, is probably a 7 with makeup and a 6 without. Every man has to be an 8.5 even if she says 7 and above is fine but she’d call him a 6 just so he knows how lucky he is to be dating her as she’s an 8.5

It’s the dating world equivalent of CDO selling lol.

Once upon a time a guy got away who was probably right for her but she thought she was deserving of better. Probably after buying some expensive shoes because as we all know $1500 shoes make a woman who is a 7 turn into an 8 in men’s eyes.

Articles like this are a good reminder to do something nice for our partners who aren’t money obsessed self important fantasists. The idea of going back to the dating market and having to bend over backwards for that type of woman is mind sharpener alright.
Interesting. I've never had an issue with getting a next day tech to our office from Dell.
They didn't rewrite ZFS for Linux support, they did the syscall stuff in such a way that it's reasonably compatible license-wise. I don't know the specifics, I just know it's a forked codebase that improves compatibility with Linux.

FreeBSD moved to this new codebase because it is getting a lot of attention and better support.
I hope they release an HD version of the normal video feed at some point. There might be a mountain of potentially usable data that isn't being released at present.

Apparently during the Nimitz incident there was a brief period where there were hundreds of these UFOs that descended from the sky (upper bound that the radar picks up is 80,000 feet, and these were at picked up at that altitude) and were basically tracking the Nimitz Strike Group. Such a wild story.
Cheap caps vs high end caps. You get what you pay for.
There is no such thing as a "complete cure for cancer". While advances in cancer treatment are always welcome, breathless claims like this demean the hard-working folks who aren't chasing PR.
Intolerance is pretty easy to identify. I would guess that what you’re referring to is the degree of intolerant behavior that people choose to respond to or not.

That is, certain types of intolerant behavior have been “accepted” by society when it is directed at certain marginalized groups or concepts. What’s changed is that the behavior is now deemed as wrong, but it was always intolerant.
Well you can even fall back to saying that all sensations are abstractions. After all when you feel wet there is no part of your brain that “gets wet”. But the constant mirroring of the external world by your mental abstractions is not something over which you have full control and you couldn’t stop it if you wanted to. Language has nothing to do with it. After all you don’t personally assemble the images you see from your rods and cones, nor did you ever get to choose what cinnamon smells like.
U.S. income inequality surges to highest level in 50 years
This assumes the skill variance among pilots is pretty low. Average not in skill (I don’t think there’s a way to rate or rank pilots) but in specialised Boeing plane specific training. The problem with Boeing’s assumption was that pilots would have specialised training on that model, and the regulators seem to be trying to remediate that.
With the scheme given, it's no challenge to prove that you wrote it down.

Write down every possible winner of the 2020 Presidential election in an envelope. Include people who are still massively long-shot candidates and not even running right now, like Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama. Provide whatever proof you like that you wrote these down today. Throw away everything that doesn't fit in another year and a few months. Boom, you're psychic. Especially if one of those long shots pans out!

This scheme generates the proof that you wrote it down early, unlike the "claim prophecy after the fact".
from shortly after our first civil war until relatively recently, we could say to ourselves and say that our hodgepodge of cultures were not mutually exclusive. coexistence with these other cultures was a benign fact of life, something that added a bit of color to the american panorama. while contacts between these cultures were not always comfortable for everyone, at a minimum the presupposition of good will and the realized expectations for a favorable standard of living smoothed over any faultlines without much effort.

over time, however, the centrifugal forces holding america's cultures began to weaken. economic growth stagnated, and economic gains became concentrated. at the same time, social issues that may have enjoyed "agree to disagree" status became matters of moral imperative as a result of political stratagems seeking to generate firmer voting blocs. eventually, our cultures had little to distract themselves from the fact that coexistence meant the perpetuation of major injustices by their own standards.

and so, we arrive at the present. our divisions are not reconcilable, nor is coexistence an option moving forward because coexistence requires subjugation of each culture's primary socioeconomic and moral directives. i would prefer a peaceful separation of the two major blocs in the US because that would allow each of the blocs to realize their desires without being held back by the other half. even if there is a major set of reforms which can precipitate revitalization of the american spirit, reconciliation will probably be impossible.
Really depends on the content. If I'm being presented with a mathematical theorem, for instance, I'd like to read the exact statement at my leisure while the speaker reads it and then talks about it. Structuring derivations can also be tricky (omit too many technical details and risk losing the interesting part of the work). Charts are fine, but for an audience of scientists the methodology behind the result is often more interesting than the result.
>the community here will bend over backwards defending him
>organizations that don't want him to say controversial stuff

Quite a paradoxical situation: the organizations in question are no longer fitting - neither the community, nor the leaders.

Stallman co-created and led a community. There were various organizations established to help the community and to benefit from it. Somehow the organizations became detached from both the community and one of the most prominent leaders, to the point of taking a stand against both.

Here's to hoping one day the free software community's voice can reach Free Software Foundation better than the Twitter outrage mob.
> It's not even my fault if RMS never molested anybody (he really didn't), never raped anybody (he really didn't), never hurt anybody (he really didn't) and never committed a crime (he really didn't).

Not having committed a crime is your bar for "a good man"? Working for you must be pretty chill. Yeah, people can be unfit for their job even without having committed crimes (caught and found guilty, to be more precise). Especially in leadership roles.
The thing that higher animals and humans can do is imagine alternative futures, predict consequences, and choose to act accordingly. This would probably meet some definition of consciousness.

Classification, abstraction, language and logic are probably not common features except in very limited ways. So animals likely live in a world of continuous special cases.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberBunker

"In 2002, a fire broke out in the bunker from which they operated. After the fire was put out, it was discovered that besides internet hosting services, an MDMA laboratory was in operation"

Wow
Animals communicate using not only sound but color and pattern and such. That may not be full language, but it is a reasonable approximation. The same goes for animal consciousness. It may not be full consciousness with awareness of history and planning for the future, but it is close enough to function more or less the same way.

The only examples given of consciousness functioning without were people with major damage to their neurology. If anything that is evidence that the link between consciousness and language is strong enough to only be broken by severe incapacitating injury.
> The conversation is allowed to evolve

Sure, whine on
With the current state of iOS 13 and now this, I'm guessing apple can kiss their 88% adoption rate[0] goodbye.

[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2019/08/08/ios-12-adoption-88-perc...
It's Google's Advanced Protection Program.

https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/

First only available to Google accounts, and then recently released to GSuite customers. They will encourage you to use their keys, but a YubiKey or other FIDO2 key works just as well. Once enabled, you can remove all other forms of recovery from your account (so no SMS, backup codes, TOTP codes, etc).
The problem is that the evidence of individual women is fallible, and can be brushed off. The comments he made in the mailing list are in the public record and are therefore undeniable evidence, which serves to reinforce previous claims of abuse.

It may be a straw, but it's a very heavy straw, placed at just the right location
Disagreed.

I've had BlackMagic 1U SSD rack with a few drives connected to my 2013 iMac 27'' via Thunderbolt since like... 2013, and not a single time did they disconnect. It just works.

The rack is under the table so it doesn't "beat the purpose of an elegant desktop machine" either.
It's unusual to sit down and read a subroutine for pleasure, but it's common to read it when you're debugging a problem, trying to figure out how to extend the subroutine, refactoring something it calls, or doing something similar somewhere else.
As an aside, the 2019 SO survey shows Clojure programmers are the best paid [1].

Not to sound snarky, but that could be interpreted as old clojure projects can't find Clojure programmers.
Friday: Further Thought – A Community of Servants
> if you do not focus on new tooling, you will just do the same thing over and over which is unsatisfying.

I have no idea how you go from "knowing what you're doing" to "unsatisfying"
Schools are built by good teachers technology and other innovations comes next.

Also most schools make mistake like OLPC, giving emphasis on technological advances not on content and teaching. Many schools focus on technology still trying to fit old content and methodology instead of looking at good old methodology with a new way of delivery and create some new one’s along the way.

Also in general teaching is not seen as lucrative career, so many deserving people who understand the content and technology and how to apply it effectively don’t take teaching as career.

Technology can be a great enabler if deployed and used correctly. But it’s not a magic wand which will automatically transform the learning just by waving it.

Also technology is a dual edged sword given modern social media and online content, so instead of learning it might make students waste more time on unnecessary things.

Learning requires focus and concentration and I think sometimes traditional teaching methods might be more effective, so probably need a hybrid approach to deploying technology for learning and education.
> make all ad spending public

I like this idea tbqh
People chose to buy drugs from the man you're referencing. He isn't out making sales calls. Dealers are people too and they're mostly just trying to survive.
Surely any charitable reading of my comment would have to assume that I'm responding on the same frequency as Stallman? After all, RMS himself just says

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

He doesn't spell it out for you that he's speaking about the semantics of "assault". In quoting / responding to Stallman, there's no reason I should have to either. I could (uncharitably) assume RMS meant the legal definition of assault too!

I don't think most of the people who have a problem with what Stallman said misunderstood him. I also don't think you're entitled to just use words however you want; semantics isn't the same thing as defining words for yourself.

Even if you really try to force that position, at best you end up with the view that Stallman thinks someone might be misled into thinking Minsky did something worse than he actually did, where what he actually did was have sex with an underage sex trafficking victim, and what you were misled into thinking he did was physically force an underage sex trafficking victim to have sex with him. He thinks the claims against Minsky are "inflated".

But ... if the former is what Minsky did, that's a really fucked up thing to do. It's assault, as the majority of people seem to understand it. Trying to diminish the nature of the assault by saying that she appeared to consent comes across at best, even under the kindest interpretation, as a really weird point to make. It's incorrect to say that you can't assault someone if they appear to consent. That's what people are upset about.

As I've said elsewhere in the thread, I'm not particularly interested in defending the wrongness of RMS's statement. (I made that point in my OP, actually.) What I'm trying to defend (and rather bemused by the responses to) is the claim that he actually said these things.
In fact when your DNA is taken for the military database it is explicitly stated that it will not be used for criminal cases. If anyone managed to search the database, that would certainly get thrown out by a court.
I work here: https://pitch.com/about#hiring

We are looking for ClojureScript/Clojure developers. And we support remote working.
I'm pretty sure they mean "active duty pilots" va "dedicated test pilots", and I also assume they mean in addition to the test pilot tests they already do.
It has also seals of Swedish and Luxembourgois police on there, so I'd wager that's the note they put up themselves, not law enforcement.
> Most conservatives don't care what you are. You be you and let us be us. We really want to be left alone to do our own thing.

How does one get progress if everyone's leaving everyone alone? How do you end up with gay marriage if you're all just minding your own business? You don't. Everybody just staying out of each-others way only serves to maintain the status quo.
Yeah, echoing what thom said, the idea is the author found it surprisingly, because of how rare it is. Only later did she discover the cause.
> Boeing assumed that pilots could be relied upon to recover from a MCAS induced runaway trim. Practice has shown that they can't. Whether Boeing or the pilots is at fault is, from a safety perspective, irrelevant.

From a practical perspective, however, Boeing making universal assumptions about pilot capabilities in life-or-death situations, utilizing new equipment that they were not trained on, is anything but irrelevant.
KDE applications on Windows = contributors on Windows welcome
I appreciate the attempt to be diplomatic, and I agree that using average pilots is sensible. But, with respect, I could not disagree more with the rest of that.

> Blame is a loaded word.

Boeing’s response to the accidents was to blame the pilots, there is precedent for this word in this situation.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/business/american-airlines-bo...

> Boeing assumed that pilots could be relied upon

No, Boeing intentionally hid information from pilots. This is well known.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-withheld-information-on-...

> Whether Boeing or the pilots is at fault is, from a safety perspective, irrelevant

No. If you want to fix the problem, you must know what the problem is. The cause may be irrelevant to the people who are dead, but it is absolutely relevant to solving the problem in the future especially from a safety perspective.
Thanks! I found that the development of numeral systems is in many ways similar to the development of programming languages, and the "story" is incomplete without including those in the db. It's a more recent development that I didn't expect.
You probably don't remember Chicago in the 90s if you think things are getting worse.
Are you doing anything to help copyleft licensed code repos find infringers? We all know it's common practice for unscrupulous developers and companies to take copyleft code, copy it, and then try to relicensed under permissive licenses on a regular basis. Like Google did with Oracle's GPLed Java source code.

It seems irresponsible for Github to continue distributing infringing code when it clearly has the tools to prevent that happening. Youtube has fingerprinting for infringing music and video. Github should be doing the same with source code.
Of all the things I've heard over the years no one has ever said jquery created more bugs than react that's why I switched. Or that it was faster to develop.

Slower, bundling sizes, hard to maintain, doesn't manage state, complexity is messy but never few bugs or slower to work with or different to understand.
In a dozen of hours I wrote Sitio[1]. Sitio generates static pages with React templates and if wanted they also become alive React components at the client. It has a simple imperative API, no GraphQL, no Webpack, any kind of datasource can be easily plugged (in fact I did plug many).

It turns out Gatsby also exposes an imperative API that runs behind its fancy declarative API, and it's very similar to mine.

However, I wrote mine in 12 hours. Gatsby has a big team and millions of dollars and it's been in the works for many many years.

And still some weeks ago I tried to use Gatsby to generate a site with data from Trello and Instagram and couldn't, hit some bugs, but mainly hit an opaque and very complex API.

Why?

[1]: https://github.com/fiatjaf/sitio
> This was partially compounded by older DNA technology that destroyed the sample while processing it.

Can you point to current DNA tech which doesn't destroy the sample while processing it?
One letter language names are particularly overloaded. Definitely an area I can improve. Thank you!
If the skill variance is pretty low then you might as well use test pilots. Their skill will hardly be better then the worst of the worst.

I don't think there is actual data on skill variance among professional airline pilots so I rather they just force testing on groups which are statistically more significant to get into crashes.
Doesn't generate static pages.
Has there been a documented occurrence of a US pilot encountering an MCAS failure in the US and correctly dealing with it?
> Most Clojure programmers I know (myself included) would not choose to go back to Java.

Thats true. I write clojure for living too.

But choice of programming languages in enterprises is not made by programmers.
The problem is that I'm not sure there can be "mutually assured destruction" when one group has much more power to dictate the narrative. The media can't completely control the story, but they certainly have lots of influence. Just over the last couple years there have been:

* NYT editor apologizes for racist tweets about Jews and Indians [0]

* NYT editor demoted for past racist tweets [1]

* NYT editor apologizes for racist tweets about white people [2]

* NYT stands by editor who made racist tweets about white people [3]

However, the only punishment received by any of these people was a demotion in the case of [1]. Meanwhile, the paper has the power to put out articles that shape the narrative, deflect attention away from the tweets in question, and reframe the story as an attack on journalism by nefarious actors [4]. Meanwhile, if a non-member of the media, particularly in the case of an average person like Carson King, has their past tweets dug up and reported on, they don't have anything close to the same voice to defend themselves, and are more liable to be treated as a pariah by the public or fired by their workplace.

[0] https://thehill.com/homenews/media/458466-new-york-times-edi...

[1] https://nypost.com/2019/08/13/ny-times-demotes-top-dc-editor...

[2] https://www.rt.com/usa/469408-nyt-editor-racist-tweets/
[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45052534

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/25/us/politics/trump-allies-...
Seems like any one data point would be worthless. If I like "Sleepless in Seattle" (which I didn't) it might be because of Romcom (no) or because of Ryan (no) or because of Hanks (yes). I wonder if there's a cluster of 10 movies, which if you knew the answer about all 10, it would predict how you would feel about a specific #11.
Thank you for the bug report. Will update.

Numeral systems are a relatively recent addition and I haven't yet built a special template/models for them. Might be more like 7 billion users and all jobs :)
turns out it is not all that well designed...
This is a fun paper. I wish they had done some work to acknowledge and/or dismiss other potential reasons for the appearance of the UAVs, like instrumental, environmental, etc.

The section that implies that they can just assume they are flying physical objects because the observers are professionals is pretty weak.
Michelle Phan Was YouTube’s Biggest Beauty Star. Then She Vanished
Or perhaps assumed that the pilots even knew that the MCAS existed and how to override it.

Part of the debate is that Boeing told the FAA and everybody else that 'no special training' for the Max series was needed; just watch a couple-hour video or somesuch.
My First Product (2016)
> In the 'free-market' capitalist democracy most of the western world lives in, you can have some (varying degree of) influence on what the government does but not a whole lot on what private companies do.

You also have vastly more freedom over whether to deal with any specific company or not than you do with the government, and they either genuinely don’t care about you so they’ll leave you alone, or they want your money so they’ll try to please you. If the government worked as well as Google, a company with legendarily bad customer service that would probably be an improvement for most over now.

Given the choice between exit and voice the former is vastly better at getting good results.
Case sensitive search is all I want.
> Short people, ugly people... these things definitely have a real effect on people's careers and lives

The author says that herself:

> Research has shown that tall people are richer and more successful
We often hire people with jobs. At most, it's three work days needed. If that's a problem, we can do the proctored skills test on a Saturday and we can cut the on-site down to 1 day. That's then one business day needed.

Most devs with existing jobs have good jobs with decent vacation/PTO policies. So they have days to invest if they want to.

Don't be so quick to assume the worst. :)
You want simple? Try HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
> the Tesla only has a touchscreen for interfacing with the vast majority of the vehicle's functions

False. There are voice controls, buttons on the steering wheel, the steering wheel itself, pedals, pedestals (for turn signals like other cars), etc. Even autopilot's functionality doesn't require the screen (or touching it).

> music browsing, imperfect automated climate control settings, navigation, insane/ludicrous mode, apps, etc.

None of these things are required to drive the car, and music browsing is controlled by knobs on the steering wheel.

Respectfully there's no way to respond meaningfully when these statements are made in bad faith. You can't walk back your initial claim to "many non-critical non-driving features require using the touchscreen."
Thanks! Do you have any links to something on ABL? I can't find anything.
>they are arrogantly defining the reference frame of a traveler aboard the ship as "proper time".

Arrogantly? That's the correct definition of proper time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_time
how exactly would you do that? how would you know when the fuzzy search has failed?