skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't misquote me. I did not say "people who have values go to church," I said "People with values and responsibilities tend to make friends in places like churches." It is a statement that extends to any community-creating institution like a civic center, soup kitchen, etc.

Edit: I see now that you were merely replying to someone else that misquoted me. Know at least that my original post was not to say that only church-goers have values.
I'd say that since roughly 30% of the population has protested that's a large percentage of the population. You're citing statistics from 3 years ago. Most of the country supports either staying their own self governing entity or becoming their own separate country.

These protests are literally about extradition to China. I find your completely biased information suspect.

https://www.ibtimes.com/hong-kong-protest-2019-largest-histo...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_independence
Mens rea is an important consideration so it's not just about damage done (though the fear a key could be used in pursuit of a worse crime is also a harm) but the intent/recklessness of an act.
i'm interesting with this, have an copy for it
I recently drove on the other side of the road for the first time. Staying in the same lane on a freeway was the easiest part of it.
I may be a conspiracy theorist, but I think it's a deliberate misinformation campaign.
Your victims can choose not to accept receipt of the coins you send them.

Also, if the coin is not transactable it has no value.
in which part of Prague have you been?
Might as well put in acceleration and rotation while we're at it.
"If a well known agency such as the FBI writes that kind of promise in congressional hearings ... "

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/08/fbi_spying_abuse/

I'm not entirely sure the old generic answers apply these days...
It's almost like there might be other motivations at play here.
Also I don't think anyone believes the infinite amount of JS developers makes it any easier to identify a good React hire.
Said simpler: you can use logic to get someone out of a position they didn’t use logic to get into
our lab uses Dynamixles in the widow x (https://www.trossenrobotics.com/widowxrobotarm) and the servos alone are 70% of the total cost.

is anyone aware of an open-source alternative to these servos? this would be a great contribution to the community, if not available already
For a second I thought "isn't that already in bash!?" And then I realized what it does... Gosh, that's actually really useful (I wish I knew this earlier, now I need to do it in zsh).
From the example just above, the scam coin is neither realized nor does the recipient have complete dominion.
A good rule of thumb is that if you hear ”confirmed” and ”symmetry” together, the conversation isn’t about supersymmetry.
Wow, a city leadership has more balls than most countries combined.

Respect!!!!!!!
It's not surprising. Blitzchung has a name and a face, and he earned a thing, and he had it taken away from him directly, deliberately, and unjustly. That makes him a strong symbol to rally around and more likely to incite a social movement than a faceless corporate policy. At the same time, the atmosphere of distrust fostered by those insidious but not-directly-motivating policies is something of a precondition for those movements to form. I don't think it's as simple as "people care about thing X but not thing Y".
> So in the end it wasn't Gödel, it wasn't Turing, and it wasn't my results that are making mathematics go into an experimental mathematics direction, in a quasi-empirical direction. The reason why mathematicians are changing their working habits is the computer. I think that this is an excellent joke!

- Gregory Chaitin, 2007[1]

1: https://books.google.com/books?id=DS7AOrIw8bkC&pg=PA97&lpg=P...
Why can't it? It once was, why can't it be again? Especially if the people of Tibet want it to be.

[Edit: oska beat me to it, and said it better besides.]
Could be both.

But I wholeheartedly agree with regulatory testing and compliance like any other drug.
Who says kubernetes is dying?
I want to see the terms of service agreement. Does anyone know if you can sue for wrongful injury or death? Or do you waive your rights away to Google?
What you describe feels similar in certain ways to insulin pumps. They’ve definitely helped people live longer and healthier lives but still have cause injuries that otherwise wouldn’t have happened with human administered injections.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4915491
What a punk
Pitch and yaw
The whole account was deleted, with all the author's replies in the thread gone too.
I smoked for 15 years but quit last August when I started vaping. I certainly feel a lot better, my senses of taste and smell are much stronger and I don’t get short of breath running up the stairs anymore. It seems almost too good to be true, I’m waiting for the report saying it’s like liquid asbestos.
It's possible that just filing a patent does this.

1) become an employee somewhere that will pay for all your patent applications.

2) have some sort of reward system so that filed patent applications are counted positively on an employee review, or have a modest financial gain (some employees have from modest to substantial gains for filing patents)

3) have unofficial reward systems (such as peer respect) that also benefit the employee

4) "person with most filed patent applications" or "person with most really cool applications" leads to employee rise to power.
Coherent had Taylor UUCP. The most enthusiastic users were doing Usenet News delivered via UUCP. Coherent ran into big issues due to a nasty bug in the ATA disk driver. The users who got hit the worst were the ones running C news.
Yes, people who are clueless about what halting problem is, shouldn't invoke it. Halting problem is not about impossibility to prove that any specific program fails, it's about impossibility to create a program that would take any program as its input and automatically answer whether that one halts or not.
I think the hype might have diminished a little bit, but I'm curious what would make you think any major containerization technology is dying? Both Docker & k8s certainly continue to show up in enough job postings...

(Also, I will out right object to the claim that this is off topic; it's about technology and someone found it interesting, so it belongs.)
Awesome!! It's been disheartening to see flotjs (which was essentially unmaintained for 5 years) still beat out scores of other charting libraries in terms of raw speed.

Over the last few years we've tried a lot of different techniques, eventually settling on using Vega with our own interaction layer ontop- but I'd like to give this a try. I'd love if this library handled the sizing of all the elements as vega would, but I understand the desire to keep this small... I browsed the entirety of the source code on my phone!

One of our use cases is streaming high frequency data- do you still see uPlot performing better than the alternatives in that scenario?
how it work? and how much if it going to be sale? this is will be good with solar energy in future, when we can creating energy from day to night
It specifically calls out "record on the ledger", though.

I don't know what it would even mean to have a "hard fork" which does not maintain the previous state of the blockchain.

Like, would that be talking about lite-coin, and arguing that it is technically a "hard fork" of Bitcoin?

Or would it be a "hard fork" which sets everyones balance to 0, but still maintains the old blocks from the fork? (For some unknown reasons...)

Both of those seem weird.

The document specifically calls out things that are recorded on the digital ledger though.
> 1. They're cheaper. This sounds crude, until you realize that this makes things like buses and shared rides far more viable. Meaning millions of people have a better commute and collectively save many lifetimes worth of time. It can also mean less air pollution, due to less traffic congestion (this only applies if congestion pricing is done), which will also save lives.

IMO autonomous vehicles are just going to further push public transit into something just for the poor. All the convenience and comfort and privacy of sitting in your own vehicle, but now you don't have to drive yourself! Why would you choose anything else?
Why the PG&E Blackouts Spared California's Big Tech HQs
Weird response. Probably most developers are not shipping code for end users to compile.

Of those, most are probably developing websites and webapps, and the only thing about the end user that matters is which browser, not which OS, let alone version.

But there are also developers writing apps that include older devices in their target. That means avoid the newest Mac tools because you can't compile for old enough targets on it.

Then there are Mac app developers that include older versions of the OS in their target market, and have to use older tools to ensure the target range is covered. This gets harder over time because Apple makes it deliberately hard.

Some of them even write mobile apps that target users of older devices. Shocking, I know, but there are a lot of users of older iOS devices these days, and sometimes you're tasked with making an app for them.

Then there are developers whose work talks to dev hardware attached to the computer, which needs drivers, which stop being supported at some OS version. The end users get a lump of hardware, and all the developer needs is an OS that can talk to the dev kit.

Then there are developers doing maintenance on older MacOS, iOS, or device firmware, and produce updates that are drop-in compatible to exactly the same set of target users as are already running the software. Not every consumer app will bother with this, but some business-critical things demand it.

I think the use case of "end users who will want to compile your code" is almost negligably small in comparison, and Linux is probably a better OS for doing that sort of thing anyway :-)

I've done all the above, on Mac, Windows, and Linux. VMs work great for Linux, and ok for Windows. Mac is a pain for this, because of Apple's policies to try to make it difficult.
"Driverless cars are on the way" is going to be the catchphrase of a dystopian horror movie at some point. I just don't know when.
I wonder if Andrew Wiles had taken a different approach when announcing he had solved Fermat's Last Theorem if he would have been considered a crank. I would imagine that problem would have attracted nonsense solutions prior.
Ludovic Courtès (Guix) Is Accusing Stallman of Thoughtcrime
They've optimized for the wrong things-- short-term profit while making the products crappy. For example almost all of the household appliances I've purchased in the past 7 years have failed because of poor design and inferior plastic parts. My expensive oven doesn't have enough insulation around the electronic control and its failed from heat, etc etc.
As technology and finances have enabled China's expanding authoritarianism, they have broken new ground with:

- Mandatory state written malware for phones and computers,

- "AI" for tracking people in public, at schools and businesses

- Prevalent speed and crosswalk cameras to enforce traffic laws that their own police force fails to write tickets for.
This is exactly why some versions of Windows required you to press ctrl-alt-delete to open the login form. Programs aren't allowed to block Windows from receiving ctrl-alt-delete, so a fake login program would not be able to stay on the screen after the user pressed ctrl-alt-delete. (Of course this only works if the user knows to always hit ctrl-alt-delete when they go to login. If the user sees an already-open (fake) login screen and does not hit ctrl-alt-delete, then they're vulnerable.)
Oxford defines as follows: “abusive or threatening speech or writing that expresses prejudice against a particular group, especially on the basis of race, religion, or sexual orientation.”
And it seems to be a general definition, I think sometimes it’s narrowed to threats or to calls for violence, I suppose?

Let’s not act as if that’s an unimaginable term.
Maybe I am missing something but fundamentally you can "learn" in the ML sense with any sensor and effector.

Examples of cheap sensors: MEMS microphone, camera, voltage sensor, mass sensor, distance sensor, multi-axis position sensors (gyroscope/magnetometers).

Examples of effectors: Any kind of motor, solenoid, LEDs, etc.

If you want to constrain the question to 3D motion, here is a suggestion - hack the controller of any existing RC car platform. Add overhead position sensing within a fixed arena added via external camera. Maybe add a MEMS microphone (USD$3) or position sensor (~USD$10) to verify airtime/orientation. ML problem #1: Add a ramp. Try to get it to jump highest (longest time airborne). ML problem #2: Same with a power efficiency metric. ML problem #3: Same with a time efficiency metric applied to navigation from a random start point and orientation. ML problem #4: Motor noise vs. jump height optimization.
Evolution and Software Development
Let's do a quick bias check: do you believe most Tibetans would secede given the vote?

I don't think they would, but neither do I know the statistic. If anyone can provide it (I couldn't), then if they would indeed vote to secede, I'll change my mind.
Whens the last time the US government unbanned something?
Nobel prizes skew heavily towards experimental physics and theory prizes require experimental verification. That's why Higgs had to wait until 2013 even though absolutely everyone was convinced that a Higgs boson existed for decades before that.

Even Einstein didn't win the Nobel for GR, but for the photoelectric effect. Back in the day when high energy physicists kept discovering new particles and there was a short delay between theory and experiment, there were more Nobels awarded to theorists for this, and I think that golden age of grand unification progress created a false impression that theory work is expected to win Nobel prizes just for being good theory work.

But if you look at the last dozen or so Nobels, they are all for describing observable phenomena or conducting novel experiments: (lasers, discovering exoplanets, detecting gravity waves, theoretical descriptions of phase transitions of matter, LEDs, mass of the Neutrino, etc.) It would take very convincing experimental confirmation before String theory wins a Nobel, but there are lots of other prizes awarded to string theorists, and Witten even won a Fields medal, which is more prestigious than a Nobel to the math community.
> It is unfortunate that it took 2 years to get to the point where they felt safe putting people customers in the car

Except they're not at that point yet, and even when they are they will still have a Waymo employee on board "initially".

I don't think that anybody is accusing anybody of lying, just making the point that predictions of the marketing team aren't really something you would want to set your watch by.
So due to lack of evidence proving a negative, and whole industry should shutdown until such evidence is found?
What's to document? The stdcall / WINAPI calling convention, which is of course OS and architecture dependent, but can be summarized as on the stack, right-to-left, callee pops.

The rest is just that interfaces are doubly indirected to get to a vtable (an array or struct of function pointers), the method is chosen by ordinal in the vtable (first three are always the IUnknown methods), and the interface is passed as the first argument.

How you construct those vtables and how you select one to return in QueryInterface, and how you implement interfaces (i.e. traits) so you can convert them into a vtable is where all the work is. You can do anything you like that works as long as it's called according to the COM conventions.

Delphi works by implementing each method in the vtable with a stub which subtracts the offset of the vtable pointer in the instance data from the passed in interface, and then jumps to the implementation method on the instance after the instance has now been adjusted. Instances look like this:

[class pointer, the native vtable] <- normal instance pointers
[vtable interface 1] <- COM interface pointers
...
[vtable interface n] <- COM interface pointers
instance field 1
...
instance field n

So you can see that in order to convert a COM interface pointer into an instance pointer that the methods expect, the COM interface pointer needs to be adjusted depending on the offset of the vtable in the instance.

In a language with multiple inheritance like C++, the compiler vendor targeting Windows may choose a layout which is suitable for COM's calling convention (there's more than one way to do MI, e.g. fat pointers is another way to go that wouldn't be COM-compatible). If the vendor does that, then they make implementation of COM interfaces much easier. And if they don't, well, life isn't going to be easy. Technically you could do a bunch of stuff with reflection and code generation, but that's harder and harder these days with security restrictions around code writing code. You could write macros which create statically initialized structures of the right shape, and fields of the right type, to emulate the same effect as Delphi's scheme as I sketched above, or some other method which would work with COM's calling convention.
I think that sums it up really well. In those kind of edge cases like the basket ball, if an AI driver didn’t slow down and then killed a kid, we’d all be up in arms about It saying how obvious it was that a kid would run out, and we’d have stopped, and we’d be right.

But at the same time that AI driver will have stopped in time when 10 other kids jumped out without any warning because it has much, much better reflexes.

But it’ll be the first instance that will get all the airtime.
It's the pub from Northern Exposure TV show.
The driverless cars out there can't even stop for children that are clearly visible. https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/does-your-car-have-...

> Using a child-sized dummy, vehicles only avoid running over the child 11% of the time

They're not safe.
I mean in practice the halting problem is not a useful result either so... The halting problem is theoretically solvable on every computer known to mankind becayse every computer thus far is a finite state machine, not a turing machine. The halting problem on finite state machines is solvable (exhaustively check there are no loops -- the structural recursion check I suggested above is simply an optimization of this more general technique).

Now if we are actually discussing in good faith, the halting problem is often used as a reason why a particular program analysis wont work. While a good guideline, it does not mean that there are particular classes of programs for which these analyses would work. If you can show this and show that these programs cover a good amount of useful programs, then you can construct analyses that a purely theoretical and cursory understanding of the halting problem would suggest you cant. Indeed several useful languages do just this
Germany shooting: suspected gunman livestreamed synagogue attack
I forgot about the absence of LAN in Starcraft II, which was utterly mind-blowing (good luck hosting a serious tournament). It's almost as if they built a business department to kill the company from the inside.
There's at least one major difference here, which is that corporate entities don't have sovereign immunity. The CIA and NSA are immune from consequences when they systematically abuse our rights.
"Objectification" can be used for any kind of dehumanization, and not only the sexual kind
If you're proficient with shell I'm not sure what a GUI desktop brings to the table.
Lyft has been dispatching Waymo self-driving vans (with safety drivers) in Chandler AZ for a while now. I've opted out of Waymo for my occasional rides with Lyft, so I can't say how frequently they show up. But I can say there are lots of the vans running in the service area.
> Is there a domestic nationalistic PR strategy this is playing into?

Yes.
That sort of reminds me of this old article on Airlines:

https://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines

"Regardless of whether the U.S. is able to maintain its trade barriers, a sustainable long-term structure would be a pilot-owned airline. If the pilots are the owners there need be no conflict concerning distributing profits. "
I completely agree. But might some fraction of such people be “won over” by methods other than logic? Asking them how they got interested, perhaps, and drawing out what in their past caused them to become so obsessed?

Or even by redefining the goal of the debate?

It may be that I’m giving too much credit and most are truly hopeless. But so often with “people problems” I’ve seen approaches work beautifully and which in retrospect seem obvious. But in the moment I would never have thought up because I was considering things so narrowly.
Why would you use that over keyboard switching?

FFM is used when you have overlapping windows and want to focus a window without raising it.
Sure the federal assault weapons ban that expired on 2004.

Oh, forgot the other big one, restriction on embryonic stem cell research in 2009.
You don't need any Elm experience to program Elm. Web experience (HTML, CSS, APIs etc.) is useful because they are the problems you will bump up against. The learning Elm part would take little time. There are a lot of people who have done a bit of Elm on the side too so have a head start. Any Haskell lover who can't find a Haskell job might consider an Elm job.
"used to be" prior to World War 2. The loaves shrank (and ingredient quality worsened) as part of rationing. After the war better ingredients became available but loaves remained 14oz, which is slightly less than 400g. Conveniently 14oz is not enough under 400g to count as "undersize" in the regulations, so generously filled 14oz tins produced compliant 400g batches when Britain went metric.
I thought so too, but I stumbled upon SC2 with it’s war chests, and I like the idea of paying 25$ and getting the whole set of skins* instead of loot boxes.

* - I suppose there’s a little less content. And old sets are ridiculously expensive for stupid skin packs. But the idea itself is neat.
Did not realize that PFE was Chinese. Thanks for the heads up. Sorry to see you go STO.
> characteristic radiation from black holes and Creation

Wait, did the author just refer to the Big Bang as "Creation" with a capital 'C'? Since when did Judeo-Christian mythology (or whatever mythology you think "Creation with a capital 'C'" means in the author's culture, inferring some creative agent in the "beginnings" of the known universe) become relevant in this article's context?
A long time ago, I spent the summer at my university where I was a mathematics major. I needed a job to pay for groceries, so I took a part time copy editing job at the math journal.

We got at least one "whack job" paper a week. Bear in mind this was when the internet was first getting traction, so I knew some of these guys from usenet…

lol
real wages have gone up on average, but median wages have gone down. If you're in the business of selling household staples the median income of your customers matters more to you.
> Even the halting problem is easily solved in practice.

You don't grok what the halting problem is. What you're describing (I assume) is determining if a specific program is going to terminate. That's not the same problem.

From Wikipedia:

Alan Turing proved in 1936 that a general algorithm to solve the halting problem for all possible program-input pairs cannot exist.
This garbage works for sales losers.
Taipei has been a sister city of Houston since '61.

Taipei has a very large family. :- )
Great title - - totally boring read.
What is the useful life time of the thermoelectric chip versus a battery?