skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the picture of why bike lanes lose is because those same cyclists frequently turn to cars/public transport during inclement weather, rendering those bike lines useless and the system inflexible to repurpose the space for the additional automotive load.
The Dunning-Kruger career path: persuade the people hiring to think that you are more competent than you are.
> In case Mr 7 months' old account are wondering why you are downvoted, may I remind you this is HN, and not reddit.

Why would I care? These votes are worthless.

I keep noticing that people here are looking down on Reddit, as if HN was even comparable to Reddit. Lots of subreddits are high quality, lots of subreddits are junk. HN would be somewhere in the middle.
> If you manage your VPN node on your own, you have full control what algorithms and configuration you are using and you pick the right node in an "secure" environment, all are risks factored into the big picture.

No, it's the exact same situation. Or do you happen to know exactly how whatever hosting provider manages the server you're using? They can be trusted exactly as much as VPN providers. There is no real security once you're using systems that you don't own, but there are benefits to using a VPN that can't be realized if your name is on the box.
possible "neuropsychiatric disorders linked to aberrant dopaminergic function."

I took this to mean: possible problems regulating/utilizing dopamine which could mean a whole lot of things. increasinly predisposed to things like depression, difficulty breaking addictions that supply the user with dopamine, etc.
Uninteresting comment. You see critical, speculative comments that offer no technical insight on Hacker News all the time. I also doubt the article was read. Demonstrating actual effort and understanding would be more interesting.
I used to agree with this but now that I've seen where this path leads, I think he should be given a fair trial and judged. Our government and the security of 350M US citizens cannot be held at the whim of a single hacker, no matter how right he believed himself to be. Our Congress has 535 members for precisely this reason, the president answers to Congress and is not a king, and even the Chief Justice does not rule absolutely. Snowden was brave, but he was also wrong. He should be judged fairly by a jury of his peers and that trial should be held in a transparent, fair and open trial for all to see. How many years now has he had to prepare his defense? It's plenty. Let's get the trial going.
Modal logic captures the concepts of "necessity" and "possibility" nicely[1].

You could express it as "~□(shiny + new -> good app store)" which translates into "it is not necessary that shiny and new implies a good app store".

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_logic
Netflix open-sources Polynote, an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook
> I'm willing to bet that a lot of the same people who think that not wearing a bike helmet (and especially allowing a child not to wear one) should be a criminal offense would think the idea of having to wear a helmet driving is just silly.

Although I don't think biking without a helmet should be a criminal offense for adults, I think the comparison with cars isn't quite right. We do require people to use safety equipment like seatbelts and airbags when riding in a car. A helmet probably won't do much for you in a car crash but can if you wreck your bicycle just like a seatbelt would be silly on a bike.
So, correct me if I am wrong, but to summarize: Smoking marijuana while pregnant is bad for the baby?
The author also said they take an image of their "good state" and revert to that, not that the OS is in that state by default.
From the end of the preface:

“For reasons of space and coherence, our emphasis is also largely restricted to understanding and identifying the effects of applied causes. The problem of identifying the causes of observed effects raises many further subtle issues, both philosophical and mathematical, and would take us too far afield.”
>If you live a kilometer downwind from place where an A-10 smashed some iraqi tanks with DU ammunition, you have clear source of exposure.

Sure, depending on how well the extremely dense (1.7x the density of lead, remember?) dust remains airborne. Also, the dust concentration is likely to be so low that far away that it's extremely low exposure.

Don't lose sight of the fact that the article provides zero factual evidence that DU caused those deformities. It's strictly guilt through association.
There were several stages of MVP. First usable version took a month and half to build and public launch with 2 IDEs supported was 2 and half months after starting to build.

May 3 2013 - Started development Flask website & Vim plugin (https://wakatime.com/blog/1-why-i-built-wakatime)

June 25 2013 - Finished Vim plugin and Website (https://github.com/wakatime/vim-wakatime/commit/4346a055e301...)

July 1 2013 - Started Sublime plugin (https://github.com/wakatime/sublime-wakatime/commit/b7fe36f8...)

July 15 2013 - Finished Sublime plugin and public launch (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6046227)

Unfortunately I don't have WakaTime data until after finishing the Vim plugin, but everything after that I can see how long the actual coding took by dogfooding.
What do you consider web design? What do you offer?
Every other government, including the Chinese, are spying on US civilians as well. And in this case, it seems like the Chinese civilians were the kinds of civilians any other country would be spying on as well. I haven't seen a convincing argument for Snowden or others as to why he took documents unrelated to domestic spying. If he had only whistleblew the domestic stuff, I bet a lot more politicians would be open to pardoning him.
how reliable are these projections? Replace VW with TSLA and the Tesla naysayers / TSLAQ will claim the company is doomed...
The article is specifically talking about how the phrase "special register groups" has been picked up and included in the definition of a CPU in computer architecture text books over the past 60 years. Its clearly not trying to make any sort of statement about how we teach computers to elementary school children.
This might be a bad practice, but I don't feel very bad if you subvert the type system like this and it bites you. If `io.ReaderTo` is important, it should be a bonafide first-class method, not something that's determined and dispatched to via reflection.
That instantly makes me feel dns encryption is something worth exploring in depth...
What kind of insight did you want? Simply Google "portfolio optimization" and you will find many more interesting techniques.

This is a basic LP problem that you'll come across in a textbook.
> give a company rights to use a 3d render of you in it

There's reason why actors earn money and it's not due to perfect face or body.
Proving all the axioms of probability theory using game theory instead of measure theory.

A couple of years back I wrote up a short proof of the law of large numbers using game theory. http://www.marksaroufim.com/2015/02/14/probability-without-m...

All the ideas are inspired by this book by Shafer and Vovk https://www.amazon.com/Game-Theoretic-Foundations-Probabilit...
I think that there is grey-area between data that is sufficiently static to represent in a map (buildings, lane lines) and data that is dynamic and must be handled by on-board perception systems (pedestrians, road debris). A good way to think of this is that the map is encoding priors about the environment for use by the perception system. It may be possible in the future to do all of this on-board (like humans do!) but the computational constraints would be quite high.
The slurs in question were repeatedly and brazenly used by Maza in his past attacks on Crowder, and thus were part of the impression in Crowder's response. Context matters. Otherwise, if simply uttering or referencing homophobic slurs makes one a homophobe, regardless of context, then wouldn't Carlos Maza be a homophobe too?
To make that a more accurate comparison than single compounds, one could say hemlock, datura and galerina mushrooms. But you'd also need to specify, more healthy compared to what? Almost all medicines have a poisonous dosage level. Cannabinoids are some of the least toxic therapeutically active groups of substances in existence.
VS mixed mode debugging doesn't need language support. You can already call back and forth between Rust and C# and the debugger will handle it fine.
Since I don't really use Windows that often I cannot really judge how bad this is. Does it also link you to Facebook or Twitter to recommend it if you give it a 5 star rating? Internal surveys are something different from trying to trick people into recommending a product on Twitter.
Makes sense, thanks for taking a crack at fixing this problem!
Didn't the ACLU recently have a memo leak that suggested they wouldn't defend the free speech rights of people carrying guns?
Your reply seems rooted in the fairly widespread assumption that having your own online business that makes solid "mrr" is some kind of supreme achievement and you should relish in it solely.

Some people have higher-dimensional desires and interests in life.
Possibly. There is growing body of evidence it might be.
It makes me want to implement it immediately.
node-postgres has over 36000 dependents and one maintainer
Just a reminder, ID.3 will not be coming to the US.

2022 seems to be the bellwether year of EVs as many manufacturers are predicted to have models by then and more than one in general.
I think this is exactly it. Apple has the keys to the kingdom. If they would loosen that up just a bit, for testing purposes, I bet they’d unlock a huge potential for the ecosystem delivering tools that even they could internally benefit from.
Sometimes you need this though. For instance, if you do a type alias on a UUID, it will fail to marshal to SQL. But if you do a singleton embedded struct, it will work fine. I'm not gonna waste my time writing Scan and Value every time I newtype
The API can post to Pages and Groups (with Facebook's approval and review of your use case), but not to personal profiles.

(It used to be possible, but they removed that API after Cambridge Analytica.)
Are there any cases where you would make use of this?
All roads lead to Rome
These “security” alerts are so stupid!

Why do I need to give an app a explicit permission to access common folders in my home directory? I already gave the app permission to do that when I asked the operating system to open it. This annoys me so much! You know why? Because I have a firewall installed (LittleSnitch.app) which shows alerts a few times during the day about network connections from apps that are currently running in the system. I like these alerts, they are informative, they serve a clear purpose.

However, the alerts introduced by Apple, they are mostly useless.

Why Apple?! Why do you want to waste my time with this useless crap?!

The first time I opened Terminal.app after upgrading to macOS Catalina I got several alerts to give permission to the app to access folders that I wanted to “cd” into. The alerts would be useful if they only showed up when something is trying to access core folders, but why do I need a freaking alert when I try to execute “cd ~/Desktop/” or “cd ~/Downloads/” ??? And don’t even try to use the “find” command to search for a file in your user’s library folder, a command like this will trigger dozens of alerts: “find ~/Library/ -name "com.example.app.plist"”

These alerts trigger so often and people will start to mindlessly click “Allow”, eventually they will grant system-wide access to malware that should have been prevented by the operating system in a more graceful way. I can see many of my friends and family members who are not tech savvy ignoring these alerts and mindlessly clicking “Allow” every single time.
Tesla’s Musk Is Overpromising Again on Self-Driving Cars
It’s unclear to me but this sounds like:

1. EU members signed contracts with Microsoft
2. EU changed the law
3. Contracts are not following the law.

Seems like a great way to have your cake and eat it too. Don’t like the contracts? Change the law (because you have the power to do so). Seems like something a dictator would do.
I didn't know about vacuous truth. Interesting concept, thanks!
He is in the style of Larry King, who famously doesn't do research so he can put himself in the shoes of the audience and ask questions that would be on their mind. It's a valid technique and works well with a laymen audience. What you are describing is a totally different type of show that goes more in depth on fewer subjects.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.675...

https://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/scientists/...

"Ensemble interpretations of quantum theory contend that the wave function describes an ensemble of identically prepared systems. They are thus in contrast to “orthodox” or “Copenhagen” interpretations, in which the wave function provides as complete a description as is possible of an individual system."

Bell experiments seems to almost everyone to rule it out, while myself unfortunately, as i really want to wholeheartedly jump on magical bandwagon of superposition and quantum computing, see gigantic holes in those experiments which allow all those other, compatible among themselves interpretations - local realism, pilot wave and ensemble - in and actually pretty much rule Copenhagen out.
I have to agree - the problem isn't "gun rights are being defended too enthusiastically", the problem is "all rights are insufficiently defended, but gun rights defenders are slightly less insufficient than other civil liberties groups".

But then so many people turn around and say that they're fine with rights they don't like being infringed...
That's outside the car makers' control.

The public charging stations in my town (in Germany) are powered (hooked up to our common electricity network, but in terms of energy bought for them) using hydro power from a nearby river.

Any car owner could use their own generator using coal or oil to power their private charging point though. Generally speaking the only remedy to that is to make CO2 intensive power cost prohibitive. Our government decided just today to attach a CO2 tax to sales of energy sources with CO2 residues, so let's see how that develops.
Did you declare all the DVDs and purses in your "15 years ago" case? Other than that, it is not clear what you are saying is naively too honest and what goes wrong by being honest.
I don't know how much Dieselgate has affected VW's bottom line but what I do know is that as a consequence of the scandal:

- new cars now come with 6 years warranty which is more than anything anywhere in that price range

- their second hand car program is great, includes 2 years of manufacturer warranty. Last time I wanted to buy a compact I very seriously considered getting a 2015 VW Golf diesel, it includes all future required updates to reduce harmful emissions and it has all the nice advantages of a diesel (high torque, low RPM, nicer IMO engine noise). I ended up deciding against it because the newest VW diesel is 2015 and they started supporting Apple Car/Android Auto in 2016 models.

All in all like I said I don't know if Dieselgate hit their bottom line but around here it seems the streets have a lot more VW cars (a lot of e-Golfs too) since the scandal. No wonder since their cars are now such a great deal.
Smoking anything during pregnancy is bad for the baby.
Again, that is not what we're talking about.

Media coverage tells you nothing about the authenticity of a whistleblower. You have not demonstrated any useful criterion for identifying 'fake' whistleblowers other than "I do not agree with his/her goals."
Go ahead and down vote because it's easier than reading the numbers and doing something.

Thanks, that did make it a lot easier. whew, glad I didn't have to read all of that.
The only feasible way to have cars and trucks in a zero-net-emission economy is to make them electric. Unless you want to scrap all cars and trucks, the electric versions must eventually be developed and mass-produced.
I did this interview with brianc[1] of node-postgres a few weeks ago. This situation of a widely used project putting a lot of pressure on a small group or sometimes just one person is quite common in open source software.

Brian is a very generous guy, so please consider supporting him if you get value out of his work on his patreon[2].

[1] - https://github.com/brianc

[2] - https://www.patreon.com/node_postgres
That 100-mile border thing really bothers me, since it includes basically every major city in the US. Does anyone know if there's been any legal challenges to this ruling in court?

And now an annoying aside. I really wish the ACLU was sincere in fighting this but they won't get any more of my money. I used to support the ACLU because these were the types of P1 issues they would battle. It seems in the last years it's faded to more social justice platform. Fine for them if that's what they believe are the most pressing issues of our time, but not my P1 constitutional concerns.

What's the point of anything if the government can railroad your 1st and 4th amendment rights? Are there good alternatives to the ACLU of yore?
> I would say, it’s probably because they added something to that toolbar.

Nope, the article states otherwise.
Huh? Sandboxing absolutely impedes illegitimate use cases. I love that I can run apps knowing that they can't scan the contents of my documents directory, or my photos app. Without sandboxing, apps can rampage through my user contents unrestricted.
Do you know offhand how many males leave the tech industry in their 30s?
Quick explanation.

Flipping a bit in classical computing is an irreversible operation, and so has to release heat. We also have to be in one state at a time.

In quantum computing, we are only allowed reversible operations, but can be in a superposition of states. There is no heat released, no upper limit on how fast the operations can go, and no upper limit on parallelism. But the flip side is that you cannot peek at the operation, and error correction is not exactly easy.

The "only reversible operations" bit is a huge restriction. For example it means that "if" statements are not allowed.
You're curious whether or not it's realistic for an 82-year-old automotive company with 122 worldwide production plants who produced 11.1M cars last year compared to Tesla's 254k can have just 8 facilities producing electric cars in ~2 years from now?

That seems like a fairly reasonable goal to me.
1,900 manufacturing jobs lost in KC metro this year
Fortunately nobody that learns about computers gets it from a dictionary.

I think "special register groups" has zero impact on literacy and understanding

fascinating investigation though

People born in the 1950s till now have plenty of other excuses to be technophobic so this definition has no effect
Once you have the CLI working, you can then add the GUI. They don't have to be globbed together.
Hyperbole doesn’t help. We need to push back against this interpretation of the powers of the CBP, and it doesn’t make that case well to just say “constitution free zone.”

It’s a specific exception they are claiming, and I think most people feel that exception is being claimed too broadly.

It’s not a “constitution free zone.” Most of the constitution obviously and clearly still applies.
What you refer to as "fake whistleblower" still has their job because they followed the legal procedure for reporting abuse and therefore enjoy whistleblower protection.

The others sited didn't follow the legal procedure which would have allowed them to also enjoy whistleblower protection.
A big issue is that the longer you wait, there longer your body has permanent effects from puberty. Someone who is ultimately right in their convictions about themselves then has to wait longer through something irreversible.

I think the purported advantage of puberty blockers is that they help “waiting a few years so you’re sure” while taking the path that’s the lesser of evils.
Journalist or not, he still has a responsibility to his audience.

It's a shared responsibility, between him and the guests and the people that listen and take it at face value that should know better.

He can very well balance better the entertainment aspect with the accuracy of the information, especially on topics that have an actual impact on people's lives like health-related topics.
> I disagree. There is no need for a "balancing act" between cars and public transport. More public transport and less cars is always an improvement.

Sound familiar?
There's more to it than that - 90% of medications are untested for their effects during pregnancy because doing studies on pregnant women is seen as unethical/too-risky. This is a huge problem since pregnant women have no idea what is safe to take. Some of it is _probaby_ safe, but we have no idea.
I remain completely unconvinced that the "new" Microsoft is any better than the old. From looking at its actions, it appears to me that the difference is primarily the tone of Microsoft's rhetoric. But, hey, I could be wrong.

I did find this interesting:

> But the biggest power transfer was created in the cloud group, currently the vanguard of Microsoft’s profit-and-shareholder-value brigade.

[...]

> What happened? They made Microsoft’s future. Satya is a better CEO for having placed bets on them.

Well, perhaps that's true, depending on how you measure things. But it was only last year that Microsoft reps stopped by my workplace to sell us on using Azure. They were nothing but pushy, arrogant and insulting, and left such a terrible taste in everybody's mouth (including the executive suite) that Microsoft is now on our "do not use" list for cloud services, probably permanently.

It was traditional Microsoft.
> Dell has historically been a completely Intel shop

Because Intel paid Dell and others to not use AMD[0][1]. Dell officially ended their Intel exclusivity 13 years ago when they agreed to sell servers with Opterons[2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices%2C_Inc.....

[1] https://business-ethics.com/2010/07/23/0901-dell-inc-agrees-...

[2] https://www.cnet.com/news/dell-opts-for-amds-opteron/
THC should not be used during pregnancy.

The longer version: there is evidence of a pathway for THC to be harmful during pregnancy. Much more study is needed. In the meantime, since THC is not needed during pregnancy, the risks clearly outweigh the benefits and pregnant persons should avoid THC.
No, it just means you need to create a social network to install spyware.
Interesting - for context, can you share where these policies are in place? I don't believe the 6y new / 2y used is in place where I'm at.
At least to me it's not inconceivable that somewhere along the line of people writing definitions basing themselves on other definitions they see, that someone saw that people defined CPUs as including main storage and although it may or may not have seemed weird to them, they might have included it in their own definition, thereby mixing both meanings of CPU.
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You really shouldn't sort things into "good" and "bad" bins. The world is more complicated than that.
When your sales revenue is $260 billion, something costing $30 billion is a significant chunk.