skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In what way? I think it only supports my claims. How much visible outrage was there from people being misgendered? Yet there is a thread full of people complaining about having to adjust their language. It seems to me there is way more people upset about changing language than were upset about being misgendered. Unless there is some meta thread you can point me to which is full of people complaining about being misgendered?
> You seem to be under the strange assumption that it's morally acceptable to use knowledge others generated to claim an advantage for yourself over other people. If your friend did research, and found a great house for him and his family, at a great price, told you about it, and then you went and bought it, most people would consider that highly unethical

This is a bizarre argument. I am not claiming any such thing. What I'm saying is if my friend writes a book, and publishes it to the world, I should be free to copy and benefit of the knowledge in my friend's book. I'm not saying if my friend tells me a secret I should use that secret against him. That's bizarre. I believe in the right to privacy and secrets. I don't however, believe in the right to restrict what people do with knowledge that's been intentionally and willingly made public.

> I think you undervalue knowledge at that point

I think you overvalue the incremental knowledge generated in our time, and greatly undervalue the hard won knowledge of the past thousands of years (which was almost entirely generated without intellectual monopoly laws). The words we are using? Invented and given away freely. Even the letters. Even the concepts of words and letters! These computers? They are running on binary notation (330 years old—the 330 is written in Indian-Arabic numerals from over 1k years ago). The current contributions of all our best scientists, engineers, authors, musicians, etc, are trifles compared to the body of work we are building upon.
Did anyone expect a different outcome?
ming the discussion and driving a lot of the downvotes, but overall I don't really see much that's objectionable about this.
Essentially it boils down to: if you know someone's preferred pronouns, use them. If not, use gender-neutral pronouns. They even specifically point out that there's no requirement to actively seek
Perhaps I'm just cynical but I assumed this was happening. My curiosity is what the Chinese hope to learn from whatever info they are getting from my phone.
File Locking in Linux
Thanks for posting that... Here's the core piece:

> And then Stallman freaks and he gets a copy of my source code, does a whole lot of editing. He doesn't actually-- You know, he edits, like, almost all of the copyright headers, but he doesn't edit all of them and he only kind of thinly edits it and then he re-releases it as GNU Emacs. And then IBM and Digital Equipment pick that up and start distributing it. So these, so the two guys in the garage who had been doing okay suddenly find that IBM and DEC are distributing their thing for free and they're dying. So they decided to sue DEC and IBM and they got a, you know, and that turned into a big, big court case. They won. It was kind of a pyrrhic victory. You know, so IBM and DEC paid them some damages, but that didn't stop GNU Emacs.
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..he hadn't actually changed all of the copyright notices. So it was like, duh. But then it sort of took on its own life and it's become the GNU Emacs that everybody uses.
I totally agree that this quote is almost too economic for its own good and that as a consequence, overexposure has brought it to the threshold of fatal banality.

However, OP didn't misapply it in this case. Rather, it looks like you may be making the very same point with plain language that the quote makes with sarcastic irony.
Faraday Future founder files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Prenups do not work. Often it is ignored by court. Or wife can move (and divorce) to UK where prenups are not enforceable.
Thanks, this is really helpful.
This actually provides a reasonable explanation for why the impeachment inquiries and investigations mostly have ignored some of the more obviously straightforward items.
This situation has nothing to do with "free markets". The problem is the horribly high price of entry enabling the incumbents to have monopoly power over the market. Giving the control of the prices to the government does nothing to solve the problem, it only adds a level of indirection. Pharma companies are still going to rally for the price increases and the prices will continue going up as much as the politicians can get away with it.

The real solution is lowering the barriers of entry, or at least allowing people to import drugs from a select number of countries. Then the markups will start tumbling down to reasonable levels.
I found watching this at 1.5x speed was good as James ums a lot.
It's really an amazing book. I am not overreacting here. Explaining how Types work to non-programmers is really challenging but the author, with an enjoyable story pace and nice examples, he manage to do that with great success.
Do you happen to have a source for this? Also perhaps the average full trip distance/time for a runner? I.e. from where they are when they accept the delivery, how far do they travel to the store and then to their destination?

I suspect that Uber Eats, Door Dash et al. do not want those figures published because it makes the profitability issues glaringly obvious.
Masters in Mechanical Engineering. I want to work in the Programming field
I am 27 years old and did Masters in Mechanical(Thermal, Fluid) Engineering. I have 3+ years of experience as CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) application engineer in Automotive industry.

I am thinking from quite some time to switch from application to programming/development field. I have written small codes in Matlab/C++/Fortran to solve flow problems in Bachelors and Masters. But I don't have any professional experience in coding.

Can anyone suggest me some ideas on what I should try to learn or do in the next 6 months to enter into programming field? I am thinking of something on the lines of computational science. Should I take up some online course alongside my job? Can you suggest some online courses that can be of help? Can you suggest some areas/fields where i can work in programming field?

I am also open to work on a complete non-mechanical/non-science field. Can you guide as to how can i start onto this path?

Your guidance will be very helpful.
I'd honestly probably do better than I would normally since I wouldn't have the energy to overthink it lol.
I think we're on the same page here, there is a reason that sociopaths who use 'money' as their scorecard do better (at least initially) as CEOs. It is also this same principle that explains why startups with multiple founders have a higher correlation with success than solo founders. Having the ability for one person to both pay attention and recognize it is time to shift focus can be rare.
> It seems like anyone who respects how other people identify will have hard time running up against this policy.

Because the policy isn't about respecting gender identity; it's about having a political battle where there are no winners.
> Gosling had given him, by email, permission to distribute his own version. He proposed to me that I use that version.

It's important here to note that Stallman does not claim it was his own brainchild, and did give Gosling credit.

However, from I understand, the email that Stallman claims gave said permissions does not exist (or at least could not be found) and I'm not sure that Stallman's friend confirmed Stallman's claim.
Feedly is still pretty much a feature-for-feature clone of reader.

After the end of Reader was announced, Feedly allowed you to sign in with Google and automatically import everything in Reader.

The transition was basically seamless, and I haven't missed Reader since.
And the prices are deeply out of whack for large numbers of homeless people, broke people, uninsured people, people with unhealthy commutes, etc.

Yes there are plenty of bankers, yuppies and Russian billionaires to account for much of the city's real estate volume, if that's your point.
I also had issues with the mediawiki/wiki editors and their clumsy nature.

For me I'm just after a simple pure text knowledge-base.

Currently I use vuepress https://vuepress.vuejs.org/

The positives with vuepress for me were:

* Plain Markdown (With a little bit of metadata)

* Auto generated search (Just titles by default)

* Auto Generated sidebar menus

The negatives:

* No automatic site contents, I mostly use the search to move around docs

* Search is exact not fuzzy

* The menu settings are in a hidden folder
That seems like a rehash of what I was already saying, I'm not sure what point you are trying to make.
What's your turbine pressure? Steam at 700°F is apparently 3000psi, which is the highest temperature/pressure I can find.

Edit: Best Q/A thread I've seen recently:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/At_what_temperature_water_...

"We need this value to be more specific numerical form to utilize in design of high temperature and high pressure steam boilers and turbines working at 300 bars."
Surprise surprise not everyone is you.

Go ahead and tinker but leave some space for others to do the same their way. It’s not “crap” it’s “not my preference”

“Delicate users”. The bravado of someone getting good at organizing text really well. You’re such a mans man.
Show HN: Product Teams for Startups
Grupa(https://www.grupa.io) is a managed marketplace providing Product teams to startups to help build their ideas.
According to another comment chain, a large part of pharma R&D is financed through government grants. Wouldn't this already take care of the risk?
Not sure what you're referencing re: explicit intentional policy?

Re: Bad policy - certainly there is policy that was crafted to benefit industry at the cost of society, the environment, surely lacking good policy. Like why is VAT in existence in ~160 countries around the world but not in the US? Do you consider that lacking of policy? That's more regulatory capture leading to politicians being elected who protect the interests of those who helped pay to get them voted in.
A guess, from other companies: a manager is given some engineers, they ask themselves "What should we create?", they come up with an idea, make up a random business justification, POC it to upper management, get approval and headcount, and spend a year or two trying to prove it was worthwhile. Best case it works and gets used by other internal teams for 2-5 years, worst case the team gets broken apart and the project abandoned. (Mind you, nobody gets laid off, they just find other reasons to keep paying people who aren't making anything of value) If you have ever heard about it publicly, it was probably someone's pet project and they wanted their ego stroked, or to "get a win" and a promotion.

Many of the projects are just a response to some other internal problem, like "the teams aren't using a shared platform", so they build a platform for the platforms. Persistent problems get ignored because nobody wants to rock the boat. The joys of working in a large corporation...
I think it's a must have for their spouses-to-be. The probability of "startup founders" striking it rich is infinitesimally small, so in a community property state (which California is), the down on luck "founder" could claim half of his/her spouse's property and wring out alimony as well, if they're female. Seems like a much more likely outcome.
No need for apocryphal stories about Simons. See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Veblen_Prize_in_Geometr....
Nothing better to do
The issue is that marriage often produces children. In many cases, one partner will take a more active role with the children while the other takes a more active role in their career. If they stay married it works out. However, if they split, the partner who took a more active role with the children will be shortchanged. The law tries to address this issue.
The Safeway API in question requires a user to be logged-in, authorized, and have explicitly agreed to a TOS (clickwrap). The HiQ v. LinkedIn case was centered around publicly accessible content which did not require the user to be authenticated nor have explicitly agreed to a TOS (browsewrap is not enforceable).

I'd argue the above case does not apply here.
> Really what it boils down to is that these are not sustainable businesses at the prices they currently charge customers

That’s not the most obvious take away imo. I’d say it’s obvious that the strippers were doing a fair bit of tax evasion, but having known a few strippers, a successful stripper would still be making good money even with meeting all their tax obligations. The issue the clubs now face is that they can’t properly cover the risks of paying salaries to employees who’s revenue is entirely tip based. It’s really just a completely predictable outcome of a government trying to protect people from their own decisions with regulation. As a contractor myself I dread the day the government finally gets around to saving me from the working arrangement that I have benefitted so greatly from adopting.
A genuine difference of opinion presents itself as trolling.

Consider an idea you probably have not heard before.

I come from a blue collar background and went to university to study computer science. I came to the conclusion that Moravec's Paradox means wages must decline for people who process information for a living. The western education system has been against tacit knowledge for political and social reasons - this adds a multiplier to MP.

Society has been rolling with the assumption most working class would join the middle class and information-work led to higher wages. If this is not true then the wages for blue collar can rise over white collar. To a middle class person this is not one of the possible options. I can be wrong - but the consequences of this opinion are not acceptable - they will not be factored into the model.

I present this as controversial but this happened once before in the industrial revolution for a smaller group - middle class used to have servants.

If you are the 21st century's example of a Farmer this idea might bother you.
As long as you can account for and adapt to optimize the well-being for each of their descendants, no problem. If, however, you are foisting an unknown number of new sentient beings into this world with no idea of who will take ownership of them or otherwise be accountable for their happiness, this behavior is seriously unethical and potentially negligent in a legal sense.
Because governments regulate the pivotal aspects of society.

Marriage has been a long-standing form of union between people, which is supposed to be the foundation of procreation, which in turn is the foundation of a lasting society.

Whether the regulations are outdated, it's definitely a very valid point of discussion, but the fact that there is regulation is significant.
This isn't classic bothsides-ism, which presents a false equivalency between the sides; this is explicitly claiming the incompetence and criminality are the lesser problem, and claiming that the alternative is a coup (as opposed to a combination of public accountability by the only means available and the enforcement of the fundamental law by the procedure laid out in that law) and that the refusal to adhere to the law by the executive is not (it is; the specific type of coup is called a “self-coup” or “autocoup”, where a leader comes into powerful by lawful means and then take additional power by transcending—often, but not always, as a prelude to abolishing by fiat—the legal constraints on their office.) It only passingly acknowledges problems on the side of the self-coup it defends in order to minimize them. It is, pure and simple, the up-is-down gaslighting that has characterized the Trump camp and it's defenders from day one, not the mere bothsides-ism.
I imagine you’re correct, but could you source ‘re-patent old drugs’?

My understanding was that the drug owner had a 7 year exclusive window before the drug was released to public domain. At which point I would’ve expected the drug to be sold near cost.

If it’s possible to re-patent a drug, then obviously that process would break.

FWIW, 7 years of high prices in exchange for having the drug forever afterward feels like a theoretically good solution to me.

Caveat: I know very little about this. ;)
This author is getting ratioed in the extreme on Twitter, and for good reason. Look, we all know that startups carry an inherent risk, and in a lot of cases, game-changing ideas look terrible at first. It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to take this path, and failure is the default outcome when you do.

With all of that said, there is LIGHTYEARS of difference between failure and fraud. 99% of startups that fail fail because they run out of money or don't find product-market fit; they don't fail because they outright lie, repeatedly, to customers, regulators, investors, and partners.
"Ecto is the database [we know and love from the Elixir ecosystem]."

I've read blog posts where the very first sentence was more wrong than this one, but not a lot.
It’s like making it illegal to not greet your neighbor each morning. The underlying premise is to make things nicer, but it’s also just stupid. A good rule would be “try to be considerate of pronoun preferences”.

The wants of the LGBTQA community are, in the eyes of the majority, probably not this. I like to be polite and respectful. I’ll be honest though, I would guess that less than 0.1% of the English speaking population identifies as “Xir” and that a non trivial portion of those that do are comfortable with the understanding that random strangers are more comfortable using gender neutral language. I would further posit that the portion of those that are not ok with people having points of view favoring even gender neutral language and instead demand the usage of the term Xir have adopted it as a counter cultural stance to combat heteronormativity- which honestly is fine, but it’s also a move made knowingly to make some people uncomfortable which by any metric must be ruder than someone who is just trying to avoid controversy at all by using gender neutral pronouns to begin with. I’m a left leaning adult, and I think it’s pretty bullshit. Especially on the Internet where women have been assumed to be men by default for decades.

If I misgender someone, and they ask me to use any specific pronoun in the future, I probably will. If the responder instead gets angry and implies that I am rude because I made a common assumption, and instead asserts that I’m going to tell them to buzz off.

Rudeness is clearly a subjective concept based around intent. And it’s frankly a waste of people’s time.

Imagine if every post had pronouns at the end, and if every man then demanded a correction for a use of they instead of “he”. That would be a waste of time and disrespectful to the ability of everyone else to be an adult.
It seems like there's an awful lot of useful improvement in the space between "doing nothing" and "redistributing wealth", so I commend the DISD for not letting perfect be the enemy of good.
Replying here due to nesting limits.

I am quite sure about the rule, but I am not in a position to cite it at a moments notice on a random online discussion board.
Which Constitution are you talking about?
Not relevant to the content of this letter, but "this age-old aviation canard" in a note about MCAS has got to be the best word choice I've seen all year.
This article is some nuclear weapons grade spin. She may have been a visionary, but we don't need more like her. Like many others in the community who attempted to do their due diligence before investing (we didn't invest) we concluded that she willfully hid information about using her competitor's testing equipment at Walgreens rather than being forthcoming with her machine's serious deficiencies.
AI is already better (just not evenly distributed). The small GPT-2s are bad at math, but they're not trained for that in the first place; we know Transformers are capable of doing excellent things with math because they do in other papers which tackle more specialized problems like theorem proving. The shallowness of the GPT-2s is definitely part of it (it gets only a few sequential steps of computation to 'think'), as is lousy sampling procedures, and just a general of parameters: 'coherency' in general seems to improve drastically as you scale up to Megatron levels. If you combined all of the SOTA pieces and polished it for a while and plugged it into social media for RL, you'd get something much better than this...
> - Most declarations, including method declarations, take place at the top level. This is unlike most languages which declare methods one level indented along with the object's fields.

You can do the same in C++ or Kotlin, etc., but you don't find people saying that those automatically make lines shorter.

> - Short type definitions (`type T1 T2`) are encouraged and often used for any repeated non-scalar type. This shortens argument specifications and (if a good name was chosen) improves readability.

Also possible in C++ or Kotlin, among others.

> - Anonymous struct fields are shorter both to declare and use. In class-based OO this is often the case for subclasses but not wrappers/facades. Go's approach covers both.

This can save lines of code (at the expense of not being able to easily figure out what classes implement or embed other classes or interfaces), but does nothing to shorten lines of code.

Same applies to error handling. Returning early can be useful in certain situations, but cause readability issues in others. golang linters did a bad job here as you point out.
Does anyone know how to print the blog post. Storing it as a pdf only saves first page, not the entire conent.
This should have been called The Open eBook Project. Books and ebooks are really not the same thing at all.
https://dilbert.com/strip/1994-05-28
My operating system should never destroy my work or force me to waste time manually getting back to the productive place I was.

On Windows you can delay it many times (by scheduling the restart repeatedly a few days apart) but if you're not vigilant about doing that, it will just go ahead and destroy stuff.
This completely misses the point.

The stock-market is a gamification of financing. While financing has been invented to direct money to the most useful project, stock-market transformed this usefulness function into a score: the return on investment.

The problem of the algorithmication of finance is not that we don't know where it's going, but that it's lost its objective of optimizing for utility in favor of optimizing pure profit. This has been a problem since the 80s with the "greed is good mentality". But that's not true, maximizing profit does not maximize societal utility.
That is what I as getting at. They broadcasted it before confirming what it was. Gotta have that breaking story..

Yes, gizmodo is doing the accountability checking, but without them saying anything how long would ABC let everyone think its real?
No, but if you compare two case:

Mac: 90% is easy and works, 10% is really hard
Linux: 90% is hard, 10% is really hard

I don’t think that focusing on the really hard 10% is very fair.
Imagine the the highway safety statistics if everyone drove inflatable cars....
Pharma in the US is not a free market.

Pharma in the US is not a free market.

Pharma in the US is not a free market.

Pharma in the US is not a free market.
Really? Your response to we have a distribution of people with different levels of intelligence, attractiveness, etc. is we got rid of slavery?