skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm familiar with delayed sleep phase syndrome, is that what you are referring to? You state that it's a symptom of abnormal circadian rhythm, which as far as I know is greatly affected by light exposure. If students are awake later, using their phones/computers, won't that negatively affect their socially acceptable circadian rhythm? I agree that staying up late shouldn't be considered being lazy or disobedient, but I'm having trouble understanding your point. Maybe you could elaborate on your point regarding the circadian rhythm?
They certainly struck me as strategies to coerce compliance, as might be used by annoying sales people, con artists, cult evangelists, political/charity representatives, pick-up artists, etc..

Worse, when there's any power differential (e.g your boss saying any of this stuff to you) then it sounds very unpleasant and dishonest.
While this is a real mobile robot, this does not really address my concerns:
1) It is not navigating in a open environment, rather a constrained workspace just like other manipulation demos.
2) They're not using any visual information for task planning and reasoning, rather doing low level control for locomotion.

Of course, I cannot emphasize enough that this is a good research paper! We're just really really far away mobile robots trained end-to-end with RL for doing any kind of tasks in open environments. And that's fine. It means more cool research to do for me.
Broadcast a good wifi hotspot name of course.
Are you saying political candidacy is now a (potentially even stricter) version of a protected class? It seems very tough-to-swallow to me that someone can make themselves be entitled to the services of any vendor in the nation by mere virtue of running for office. Wouldn't that make it a get-out-of-jail-free card for being a complete jerk to people? Usually, if you do that, people can refuse to associate or do business with you personally, whereas here it seems you're saying they can't, even if the reason is entirely unrelated to their candidacy.
The difference is that a country which is committing human rights abuses is pressuring said private company (among _many_ others) to abridge free speech. The other case is a private company not wanting to host right-wing neo-nazi content of which the general public isn’t really accepting. I don’t see the hypocrisy here at all.. tbh I don’t even quite understand how you can conflate the two situations other than the fact the two words “free” and “speech” are involved.
I was using their higher target rate for emphasis.
They're supposed to exercise their free speech by donating to a super-PAC and not "coordinating" (wink) with them.
Thanks mattef.

1. Zipline looks interesting! I've added it to my target companies.

2. I'm a vegetarian and I feel happy to see innovations like Impossible Burgers. But if I understand correctly, biochemists can contribute most to solving these challenges.

3. Do you have more resources for the third bullet? I'm apprehensive of this since some of the existential risks might be speculative and unreal.
Since we are on HN you should make it some what technical in nature. Blinking lights on your costume but if someone was to look at the lights it would be blinking in Morse Code "Free Hong Kong!". Or discrete QR codes you put on your costumes and try and put them if front of as many cameras as possible. The QR code of course leading to your website of choosing. I am sure there are lots of neat ideas smarter people then me can come up with. Good luck.
That's exactly it. China is trying, and succeeding, to chill our speech.
Could you elaborate? I think you mean that there are benefits to waking up later due to the effect light has on circadian rhythm, but I don't want to assume.
That's going to change quite drastically quite soon. The talk around the industry and in society generally is that house prices in Aus at least are going to dip.
^^ This!

Fuck China. We can do nothing about evil Winnie the Poo.
We CAN do something about domestic companies kowtowing to evil Winnie the Poo. Voting with our wallet.
#BoycottBlizzard
I’m more responding to the sentiment of “avoiding lock in”, at a certain scale, you’re always “locked into” to your architectural choices where it doesn’t make sense to spend the time or effort to try to avoid it.
Adding "would you be willing" does serve a purpose, it makes it easier for the other person to say "yes" since they don't yet have to commit. This is very important in any negotiation.

For example, the other person could respond with "Yes, I would if you clean the kitchen after making food".
I wish I'd never had anything to do with meetup. We had lots of people join our Makerspace meetup page, but very few ever actually showed up in person. Then, they basically blackmail you by threatening to send an "organizer has stepped down" message to everyone if you don't want to keep paying.
The processing part was implied.

My point was just: with audio, you might want to think about really recording, storing and processing everything. But if a phone can do high quality transcriptions and just send them off to government data centers, it becomes sort of a no brainer.
In modern times I bet you are right but historically information-sharing wasn't common across the IC

(based on my understanding of post-9/11 reality)
Direct democracy and representative democracy are both forms of democracy.
True, it's another lesson in change management and perceptions. Looks like people have finally figured out .NET Core is the clear future and it's about time to move on from the legacy framework.
I managed to delete my account without submitting ID, and so did some other people on Twitter, so I'm not sure if they really mitigated this. It's possible that the reports about the technical difficulties were overblown.
"What if they used different minerals because before they mined them out, different minerals were present?"

I'd point out I didn't say that all the minerals were gone, but that the good veins were gone, surrounded by the stuff they left behind. I say that because that's how we do it now, and we do it for economic reasons that any civilization will be subject to. This is a particular pattern that I'm not aware of anyone ever observing.

I am also not aware of anyone even proposing anomalies in element distribution of things like rare earths. Rare earths aren't as rare as their name suggests as I'm sure you know, but as you go up the periodic table, you do naturally get less of them in the crust for several reasons (less created in the supernovas that created the heavy elements, and more of it sinking in the earth during the early phase). It's possible that our understanding of elemental distribution is a "just so" story created by what turns out to be artificial manipulation of the contents in the past, but given that our understanding of the processes that led to the current distribution includes a lot of astronomical observations, it'd be one heck of a "just so" story at this point. I am not aware of even a hint of an observation that requires an intelligent civilization on Earth in the past.

I'd say if you really want to have some fun, hypothesize a dinosaur civilization that attained some sort of singularity, and on the way out chose to leave behind machines that restored Earth to its "natural" state over the course of a few centuries or something, thus wiping out all traces of their presence to make way for the next civilization. It's not impossible to imagine a human singularity ending that way. Come up with some semi-compelling reason why all or at least most civilizations would tend to do that and you've got a fun premise for a sci-fi story universe. Perhaps we're not merely the second, but the dozenth. Heck, maybe we're not even the first primate.

(Another bonus "thing we clearly don't see": At the current rate of human advancement, in another couple hundred to couple thousand years, even putting aside really high-end nanotech, our primary contribution to the history of planet Earth may not be the sudden extinction of a lot of life forms, but the sudden proliferation of a lot of life forms, along with visible cross-transfer of genetic characteristics that couldn't possibly have naturally occurred. Even if the intelligent civilization completely keeled over dead, or Transcended, or whatever, the mark on the planet's genetic history would be visible quite possibly right up to the point the Sun sterilizes the Earth. We aren't there yet, but we are darned close. As much fun as a lot of people seem to derive from wringing their hands and posturing about how terrible humanity is, on a geological time scale, we may not be living in an Athropocene Extinction, but instead in the gestational phase of the Anthropocene Explosion.)
The “victim” in this example is actually the perpetrator: they consumed someone else’s food without permission.
Buy discs, rip to plex
Yes.

Pretty much any domestic bank transfer initiated electronically via mobile/online banking will be cleared through Faster Payments up to a limit of about £25,000 ($32,000) for most banks (the theoretical limit is an order of magnitude higher), making it the de facto way of transferring money in the UK. When I was a student, bank transfers by Faster Payments were more common than cash payments for settling small debts between friends.

In addition, BACS/CHAPS transfers (the other two main electronic clearing systems in the UK) typically incur fees, and would normally only be used if the value exceeds the limit for Faster Payments. In addition, Faster Payments normally clears "instantly" (i.e. in seconds); it's literally the most convenient way I know of to transfer money domestically in the UK, and is accordingly ubiquitous: cash requires you to have exact change and have cash to hand, which is increasingly rare in Europe; BTC addresses are too long compared to a UK account number/sort code.

Having recently moved to the US for a year, I've noticed that the financial institutions tend to be years/decades behind Europe in terms of electronic payment processing and clearing.
“Be a jack of all trades! Read paper books or kindle!”

This is ridiculous even by our standards
Huh, my fiancée and I developed a system years ago that approximates this approach by replacing statements with what we call “food codes”.

For example: “Applesauce” is equivalent to “I can’t hear you”, or “speak up” or “stop mumbling”.

“Applesauce Factory” means “I can’t hear you because you are too far away or something noisy is making it hard to hear you” - very convenient verbal shorthand for when it’s too noisy to say all of that at once.

“Soufflé” - “I need to introvert for a while” (similar to how a soufflé needs delicacy and time to settle)

“Crockpot” - “I need to focus on work and I cannot be interrupted for anything less than an emergency” (similar to how a crockpot won’t work if you keep opening the lid over and over)

We settled on using foods because they are inherently neutral (we don’t pick foods we dislike to code for obvious reasons), and sometimes correspond to their meaning (like crockpot).

Another way to look at it is that we define functions with food codes that handle the messy, “violent” (to use TFA’s language) communication so that we understand what we are trying to convey, but at execution time we only call the function itself, not the code inside, so the language that could otherwise inadvertently hurt feelings is unspoken, even though it is still clearly expressed, but in a manner that doesn’t invoke negative reactions.

The biggest advantage of this system is that we can say things directly without accidentally hurting feelings or dancing around the topic to avoid accidentally hurting feelings. Feel free to utilize this in your own relationships. I’d never heard of anything like this before starting it and it has worked wonders for us.
just what we need... more censure in the US... /s

Now if they fail to block something illegal or something else of that nature, can they be held liable?
So the legislative process worked, cool.
> Somehow we make do in these cases and don't act like the sky is falling.

I think "there's enough edge cases and undefined behavior in the language that I take it as a fairly bold claim unless it's also been thoroughly reviewed for any places some undefined behavior may be induced" was me acting like the sky is falling. I think that's a very sane push back against a claim that I think either wasn't well founded or wasn't well explained.

Ultimately it's up to you to decide whether to accept I'm expressing what my words actually say or whether I'm expressing what you presented me as in your straw man argument you originally replied with. At this point, there's not much else I can or am willing to waste any more time saying that I haven't already.
They're banning violations of their ToS. As long as that is performed equitably, Twitter is in the right to police their private platform using pre-disclosed rules.
This is a very awkward situation for blizzard, one they have ultimately created

How do you figure they created it?
I agree it serves a purpose; I believe it serves a purpose by adding a layer of indirection in there, making the conversation flow easier.

I think it's passive aggressive, yes, but I also understand why it is done. It's not done to make it a "direct ask" though, as this process specifically makes the requests less direct as part of the strategy.

The less-direct wording is both able to be seen as passive aggressive (as evidenced by other comments here) as well as a helpful hint to more smoothly continue a conversation.
Sure, but the kinds of requests NVC codifies are ones where "you hurt my feelings via action X".
Well, for example:

import std.stdio;

struct Math(string Op) {
static auto eval(T, U)(T l, U r) {
static if (Op == "+")
return l + r;
else static if (Op == "-")
return l - r;
else static if (Op == "*")
return l * r;
else static if (Op == "/")
return l / r;
}
}

static immutable auto result = Math!("+").eval(1, 2) + Math!("*").eval(3.0, 3.0);

void main() {
writeln(result);
}

You'll never be able to do anything like that in Rust until const generics are not only complete on their own, but also fully compatible with "const fn".
At least now I’m aware of the existence of FreeCAD.
On which day and timezone?
> I sometimes wonder if this mess would have dragged on quite so long if there'd been better features in Python 3.

There are still quite a few people running VB6 programs.

Nothing helps this; there will always be laggards.

If it weren't for deadlines, progress would never get made.
The Communist Party is selling out the future of the Chinese people for its own security. The world will not continue to subsidize China now that they have removed their mask. The monoculture they are building lacks the social tools necessary to compete on the global stage without external assistance and the west knows it.

There has been a lot of handwringing over China becoming the new global super power but what we seem to have instead is a repeat of North Korea but on much greater scale.
First they came for the skeletons, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a skeleton.
I had similar experiences. I and many other students would sleep in our winter coats on the morning bus ride, and it was hard to focus until about 10AM.

I strongly suspect that school hours are based around parents work hours, even if that is not what they say.
I understand the point you're making but you risk giving IQ credibility by comparing it to height. Height is a real, physical uni-dimensional measure that has a Gaussian distribution. IQ is a made-up measure that pretends to fit a multi-dimensional, non-physical 'thing' (intelligence) that we have a lot of trouble actually defining, onto a uni-dimensional scale with a modeled Gaussian distribution. It's a fraud. Or at least, in this grossly extended use it became a fraud. Testing people for falling below a certain threshold on a test was an ok diagnostic for mental deficiency. But even there it should have just been one tool among many, not a final arbiter of "general intelligence".
“Product Market Appetite”
Reactions like this tell me people despise corporate indoctrination.
I’m feeling annoyed, because it’s important to me that ideas get credited to the person who developed them. :)

But seriously, the “Four Horsemen” concept comes from marital therapist John Gottman. Highly recommend his book “The 7 Principles for Making Marriage Work”
This would require a large body of educators both equipped and empowered to educate, coupled with parents invested in the success of their children.

My experience in at least the California educational system -- where both of my parents were teachers, with Mom also serving on the school board for some time -- gives me little hope that this will ever be the case.
It's mass-production sewing, just with non-uniform stock. The customized pattern cutting provides the customized fit. Instead of boxes full of identically-cut pieces to be assembled, there's a packet with someone's customized pieces. Which is why the US getting out of mass-production apparel manufacturing was a problem.

Perhaps this was a niche in which US apparel manufacturing might have remained viable, with customization and shipping proximity supporting the extra US costs. It seems regrettable that the possibility wasn't better explored.
I've been tempted to switch off Android to one of the alternatives listed, but it's a big investment to try one out on my primary device. Downtime for install and troubleshooting could mean a missed call, which is also worrying. I probably just need to buy a used phone to try it out.

On desktop I'll blow away my OS on a whim, I'm much more confident that I'd get back to a working state quickly.
I tend to prefer strategies for finding common ground among potentially competing values, needs and wants of multiple stakeholders.

The goal of consensus is similar - to find common ground and a workable solution that everyone is OK with.
No, "designed to do" and "functions it can provide" are never the same.

You shouldn't limit smart people because some OEM is stupid and didn't think up an innovative use case when deciding and designing on the intended use of a product.
If they had just not done anything when blitzchung made his statement in support of Hong Kong, it likely would have gotten essentially zero media play.
thank you for the recommendation! from the title i would have avoided it
CloudFlare banned a site that was far, far outside the American political mainstream. Blizzard banned a player for saying something that is completely within the American political mainstream, to the point that supporting Hong Kong is a rare bipartisan stance.

When you go against the mainstream American stance to curry favor with an authoritarian regime that is also a current political enemy, well, that's kind of kicking the hornet's nest.
Nonviolent Communication is 30-40 years old at this point.
There are four primary effects of this cancelation:

1) It's given Nintendo a platform on which to distance themselves from Blizzard. The announcement from Nintendo explicitly notes that it's Blizzard who canceled the event.

2) It's reminded everyone that the Switch port of Overwatch is a thing, meaning that everyone from investors to people on both side of the HK issue will be watching its performance.

3) It's a lost opportunity for marketing for Blizzard. It's now pure cost, with the voice actors still needing to get paid for their time.

4) Attendance was limited, so this cancellation will create ill-will for Blizzard among those players who had obtained slots to attend.
Much like the plumbing in your house doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things.
I don't know why I read it that way, but you're right. "Avoiding wildlife." I had a picture of an unavoidable turn in my head.

Which maybe goes to show they're being a bit over-ambiguous. Or maybe I just read it wrong.

>a hue of skin that was stimulating to those border agents, no mention of anything like that

If they weren't white, they almost certainly would have mentioned it, with the story being so sympathetic to their victimhood. The media doesn't pass on the chance to play up racism for stories like these.
The NFL never took Colin's entire NFL earnings away from him on top of firing anyone commenting on the initial sitting. I'm pretty sure if they did this, there would be much more uproar than letting him do it and quietly not signing him onto any more teams.
It lets the other person know that you think so little of them that you're willing to communicate with them in an artificial manner meant to manipulate them into complying. It's the antithesis of humane; it's an impersonal and heartless mode of communication masking itself as empathetic.

That's the way I feel when people use it on me.
Use !mill to filter DDG searches through millionshort.com.

You can also go directly there. [1]

Change the 1000000 to however many results you want to remove from the top of the results list.

1: https://millionshort.com/search?keywords=weather+22222&remov...
Both situations feature people being banned by companies due to their speech because the companies fear backlash from more powerful entities (China or the media/general public respectively).

They seem pretty comparable to me.
"Even if you try to give an example of someone coming up on your left at a 50+mph difference"

70 mph in a school zone? Not an issue if you just look both ways before crossing the street!

Seriously (not that you sound very serious) every morning, I make a left turn out of my development onto a nominally 30 mph road where people go 40-45, and it's impossible to see very far to the left before pulling out. Given normal speeds, it is possible to make the turn before the oncoming car if they are just out of sight.

So if anyone is ever going 80 there at the wrong moment, it will be impossible to avoid them and probably lethal to one or both of us.
Yay!

I hammer at OpenVMS for 40+ hours/week and this is exciting!

We hit 99.99% uptime with new software features being installed being the reason for the downtime we've had (except for one instance a bunch of years ago, but at that time I would have been in middle school. I do worry about a slowly increasing reaction time to user actions though.

Running on X86 we wouldn't have to worry about the future.
lol, this is amazing.
They banned a player and stripped their prize-money for speaking out in favor of HK.

They did this in order to try and maintain access to Chinese markets, probably assuming that the US market wouldn't care.
Baltimore Blew Off Ransomware Demand Only to Find Data Had Never Been Backed Up
As a tourist in China should I fear consequences for publicly liking South Park?
> The point of the first is to acknowledge how little an effect that is, relative to other events in geologic time.

And speaking only about that geologic time is deceptive, without mentioning context: for the biggest part of the whole geologic time, not even multi-cellular life existed. Half of the whole geologic time, nothing was able to depend on oxygen as the modern life does -- there wasn't much of it in the atmosphere.

The time human civilizations existed is microscopic in comparison to these spans, but that much shorter time is what defines us.

And in that time, the climate was indeed quite stable. Until the last hundred or two years.

And humans did make immense impact on the life forms, and will continue to make.
When you actually read the book, you find it has a very awkward way of speaking which can induce eyerolls.
I think the skepticism is the "quick fix" "trendy" packages that get peddled to businesses or show up in pop culture--like Power Poses or The Secret. Nonviolent Communication isn't the greatest name, either.