skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difficult part isn't knowing which symbol is which. The problem with learning the tree, or rote memorization, is that you'll learn it as a translation table. This will slow you down to well below conversational speed. You'll "know" morse, but in practice you won't be able to use it. I think that's what you were implying with "sort of worked"?

(To be clear, I'm not saying that you can't learn morse code at all that way, and definitely not suggesting that you are or aren't fluent in it.)

For a really great modern approach, see https://experiments.withgoogle.com/collection/morse (no hardware needed, just a smartphone).

In general the recommendation is not to learn that dit, dah, dah, dit means letter "P" (and you already know what sound P has), but directly learn that the sound "ditdahdahdit" corresponds to the sound of "P". And thus cut out the middle step.

There are a few more things to actually using morse:

* Clean timing

* Keying (straight keys aren't used anymore. sideswipes / dual lever are somewhat intuitive. iambic keying is not, but it's so much less exhausting.)

* Head copy (the challenge is understanding entire words/phrases, without paper, and/or buffering it in your head because writing down char by char is too slow)

* Dealing with noise (incl other morse conversations)

(This is coming from a ham radio perspective, so maybe a bit different than flying school. I'm really curious now - did you actually expect to use it back then, or was this a case of mostly learning for the test? If yes, in what situation and how? ie, would you actually use a morse key? In the airplane? Or was it more about something like recorded emergency messages or similar?)
See my caveat that excludes facts that can't be disproven. An historical miracle cannot be disproven short of using a time machine.
Completely agree with you. If their services were good enough, I doubt they would even need copyright protection to make money. The fact they can't match the quality of a bunch of underground sites despite being a multi-billion dollar industry is a sign the industry is relying on artificial scarcity to have any chance of competing in the marketplace.
That's an extremely naive attitude. No famine looks that serious until it is already too late.
Maybe I'm missing some insight here, but this doesn't look useful at all.

It seems to just overcomplicate things.
Yeah this means this was a business decision and not technical. They probably looked at user numbers for the different browsers.
The pitch-up moment caused by the engine placement only occurs at high AoA. Basically, as you start to pitch up more and more, eventually the engine nacelles 'catch the wind' forward of the wings and CoM, and try to flip the nose up.

For whatever reason, the basic facts of this whole debacle are consistently wrong in reporting and discussion. Common falsehoods:

* The 737MAX is inherently unstable. No, it is a stable aircraft as required by FAA regulation that all passenger aircraft be as such. Nothing about the airframe or design is even that remarkable, beyond the simple fact that it is different from the older models.

* MCAS is anti-stall. No, MCAS does exactly what it's named for, to modify and augment the 'feel' of the flight stick for the pilot. Because Boeing uses a 'pilot in the loop' design approach, the physical feedback from the flight stick is critical to safe flying, and cannot be faked.

What MCAS does is make is to that you have to apply a proportional amount of force on the flight stick to pitch up a given amount (regulations define how far from linear this relationship can be). With the new engine placement, it would not require as much force as you would expect from earlier planes, which could lead to pilots approaching stall conditions unknowingly without that feedback. There are still anti-stall measures to prevent an actual stall (e.g. stick shakers), but the intuitive 'feel' of flying would be lost.

The initial MCAS design was reasonable, but test pilots felt that it wasn't strong enough, so it was changed. It is at this point, with no critical review being triggered, that the failure took place. The stronger system put pilots in a catastrophic situation in the event of a malfunction, and two independent flight crews failed to overcome the error.
A couple points that hit home to me:

> One thing that I read said even the work of calling the maid to clean the bathtub is too much. It’s burdensome. I felt there is really, in this work, no social-class perspective. There are many more maids than there are people who find it burdensome to pick up the telephone to ask them to clean your tub.

And:

> There seems an alienation or a disenchantment of acts that normally we associate with the expression of connection, love, commitment. Like “Oh, what a burden it is to pick out gifts for the holiday for my children.” Or “Oh, it’s so hard to call a photographer to do family Christmas photos, and then to send it to my parents.” I feel a strong need to point out that this isn’t inherently an alienating act. And something’s gone haywire when it is. It’s okay to feel alienated from the task of making a magical experience for your very own children. I’m not just judging that. I’m saying let’s take it as a symptom that something’s wrong. I think a number of my books speak to that. The Time Bind says, wait a minute, what if home has become work and work has become home?
But to phist_mcgee's point, if Firefox-plus-VPN isn't a very common use-case, they can afford to eat the cost of that one dissatisfied customer.
Not OSS but remotedesktop.google.com works well.
Sourcehut's strategy of optional payments and amateur/typical/professional tier pricing during the alpha period is really interesting. Their financials are transparent so you can see that while many users don't currently pay, or pay a less expensive tier, quite a few are paying.

Great to see an open source project succeeding like this!
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DRM encryption is a browser standard.
Chrome remote desktop works pretty well
Ultimately, it’s a problem wide liberal arts literacy will solve. In the interim, it’s okay to turn bad quantification against itself.
That implies they could not offer the service due to the legal entanglements of offering films owned by multiple parties without copyright protection, so it's equivalent to saying "They just need to not exist."

Understandably, they've chosen an alternative.
Is there a reason why you need UDP specifically?
When was the last time you were in Russia? I've lived here for a few years now, almost intentionally trying to get into trouble, and I've yet to ever have any real problems. The biggest issue I've run into is food poisoning.
>If he wasn't white would he have a job?

What part of his story would have been different if he wasn't white? He was 16 when he killed his brother, and was sentenced to life in prison. He got a parole hearing because of a 2014 California law giving parole hearings to all people sent to prison who were under 18 at the time of the crime. Would the parole hearing be racially biased? The Last Mile's screening process doesn't appear racially biased, it required no infractions in the last 2 years, passing a logic test, and no cybercrimes. Would Checkr's hiring be racially biased? They have a special program for hiring ex-criminals, it seems strange that they would be simultaneously racially biased.
Such an un-Silicon Valley view. Clearly FBI is disrupting the entrenched spy industry by using innovative gig economy tactics to source diverse spy-partners from non-traditional backgrounds.

0.5 * /s
It's far smoother.
The discussions I've had around it have generally involved people defining it as "managing and planning chores even if someone else is doing them," with the canonical example being the stay-at-home wife who manages the household and the husband who "helps" by asking her to micromanage him rather than just taking the initiative.

By the article above, this definitely sounds like mental labour (although still tiring) rather than emotional.
One reason for rough estimates is for making investment decisions. If we have 10 things to do but can’t do them all how do we choose which to do? The what the thing does points to the return piece but we’d need the investment piece too to evaluate which ones are better value.
I think China's development stalled automation efforts for two decades.

Now finally that China starts being too expensive, once investors will realize it is complicated and costly to outsource to Vietnam, India or African countries, I hope this effort will resume.
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Hiring a murderer is probably better than hiring someone convicted of a white collar crime. Murder has the lowest recidivism rate among common felonies.
Good call, coming on to a Rails project that's been upgraded—or worse upgraded twice—is... usually very unpleasant.
Yeah, but typically only locally. Like using a for loop instead of a list comprehension, or handling errors. So more keystrokes, but in most cases not more complexity. In some cases (generic programming), Python really is more expressive, but those ~5% of cases aren’t worth the tooling/perf/maintainability tradeoffs most of the time.
Last time I used a Mac (about a year ago) I could not for the life of me figure out how to add shortcuts for repositioning windows across monitors. It seemed the only way was through a 3rd party paid app.
Supercilious tone of this post aside (it's straight out of /r/iamverysmart), isn't it pretty contemptuous to lump in Facebook's social media and chat offerings with MIT-licensed React?
I once shared some posts similar to this about Chinese counterfeit food. American friends scoffed, saying that it's just another conspiracy theory. Malaysian friends agreed with it completely. I think a lot of people sort of take the FDA for granted.

I did have a startup in the food industry for a while. We had to constantly cut off suppliers for counterfeit goods. One asked us what our budget was and offered a cheaper "AAA alternative" (code work for counterfeit).

A friend left the honey trading business because it became too troublesome to keep track - suppliers would mix a little sugar water into it, which they could tell, but customers couldn't. Things like stevia or milk often had a little water added on. As much as we blacklist companies that add water to 'fresh milk' they're top sellers because of the lower price. Parmesan is also commonly counterfeited and mixed with MSG or something.

I'm not sure American goods are much better, but at least everything is what it says on the label.
> I don't understand who these higher levels of DRM are trying to target.

They target device manufacturers. If you want to sell a computer/tablet/phone/TV that will play Disney+/Netflix/etc, then you must submit to their demands, pay their licensing fees, and hope you don't anger them. They want to be the gatekeepers to who can make a commercially-viable product.
I'd pitch that to the board like the algorithm was just smart enough to detect the partial activity coefficient ranging in [0, 1].
I don't think he ever stood a chance with soldier of fortune types. The kind of guys who go to fight for Russia backed separatists probably eat guys like him for breakfast. From the description of his death it sounds like he might have been murdered by one of them. Maybe he ran out of money or he ticked off the wrong guy.
> This group of hackers uses highly sophisticated malware variants, primarily developed for espionage, so we consider it unlikely that any State is sponsoring its operations,” Glyer says.

> The web application security expert adds that, based on detected activities and attack methods, in addition to the unusual interest that APT41 has shown in attacking the video game industry, its attacks could not be politically motivated; instead, they’re focused on economic gains.

I’d like to know how can one simply assume this given a potential payoff of billions of devices...
The Great Filter hypothesis assumes that a society that has the capability to expand and colonize would do so without exception and make its presence known to more primitive civilizations. That's a pretty big assumption. Just look at how ridiculous most futurism of the early 20th century already seems (both culturally and technologically), and then consider trying to relate to the continuation of human civilization after ten million years. When we try to envision the future, it is still rooted in the familiar. I suspect ten million years from now (if our society continues on that long in some capacity), just about everything will be so fundamentally unrecognizable (including the continuation of humans, if there is still a biological form at all) as to make relating to their intentions or even trying to identify whether they exist from afar with primitive technology futile.

There's more hard evidence of "pseudo-magical objects that don't seem to wish to be seen up close" here on our Earthly radar systems than there is of the actual conditions on planets in neighboring habitable zones to confirm or deny life and start establishing probabilities.
So, to be clear, are they doing spectroscopy on the spectra of these white dwarfs? Do they have to be looking at it at the exact moment the planet gets shredded or do the chemicals they're looking for remain in the star's atmosphere?
Thanks for the great recap on the state of IPFS. I wasn't aware of continued progress on these fronts and it seems much closer to being generally useful than I would have guessed. In particular (2) & (4) getting better but not realizing that adoption was creating it's own issue (1).
Pretty much same in the US. You get better treatment if you book directly, too (a room not by the elevator, for example)

I've gotten shafted with my reservation being lost by a 3rd party booking company enough that I prefer direct booking.
Or you could get a job in a place that isn’t a dystopian hellhole. The country is pretty big, you don’t actually have to work in California. Other places don’t do this.
I like the idea, but it feels a bit heavy handed outside of a very large team.

I think the first step here is to get away from the assumption that importing a module will have "interesting" side effects. This is not only a problem with Python...

I tend to create mini "dependency injection" frameworks that create a pattern for loading module code at some point well after import. This patterns tends to reduce to wrapping whatever code you have in the module in a function/closure instead of just running whenever.

Again, I like the idea of enforcing constraints with code, but I don't think it's a substitute for educating developers to avoid certain patterns and giving them infrastructure that makes the alternative easy.
$100 Million what?

Yen? AUD? BTC? USD? (probably... but the irony is thick here)
Lying is also intentionally misleading, so I'm not sure if your conclusion makes sense. Plus I would assume recurrent lying falls under the "dark pattern" category -- it certainly isn't a good or neutral pattern.
>If a married man is dressed poorly, it's his wife's fault. If a married woman is dressed poorly, who in their right mind would blame her husband?

I've always let my girlfriends pick out clothes for me because they care way more about how I dress than I do.
That doesn't mean that it was the first, just the first that they bothered to look for that... which makes sense, because apple's hardware is generally going to be under more scrutiny than other manufacturers.
> only one example of sapience on a planet with over a million species of animals.

We're not so sure on that score:

https://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0100-s...
It _is_ like Python in practice (I use both languages all the time). That’s largely why you see it used in many of the same places as Python. It has dynamic features by way of interface{}, which is every bit as “generic” as what Python has to offer. :) But yes, the error handling is different—values vs exceptions.
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> but it's literally wealth redistribution, and which libertarian wants that?

To clarify, in your original comment you said that it was a wealth concentration mechanism. Are you now saying that it is in fact a wealth distribution mechanism?
I run 125% and I agree it does look closer to 150% over 125% on Xorg. On wayland, 125 is definitely 125.
Thanks. I'm embarrassed not to have known this.
Wow.

So if a merchant buys in too much stock and can't offload it - they're literally banned from selling it below cost?

I assume they can still sell it on a secondary market (just not direct to customers)? Or do they actually have to eat it entirely and just like, burn the stock or something?
While some streaming services might work with Linux, almost all will not show HD or better quality. Just torrent everything, its so much easier, this DRM clusterfuck just gives you less reason to feel bad about it.
that is quite the url!!
Using "Ex-Cons" as a blanket term is pretty dehumanizing, in my opinion.

People go to jail for different reasons. Would you assume that a person who went to prison for child molestation would have the same antisocial personality traits as someone who was convicted for multiple DUIs?

These are human beings, and they shouldn't be described in the same manner as insects in a David Attenborough documentary.
Ok super dumb question but I thought the tail fin was basically the two feet fused together. I’m not sure why this picture has the extra fins on the body and a tail.
I'm not saying it has to be silence.
I'm saying someone else shouldn't be paying for it.
We have time before/after work, nothing is stopping us from having those conversations.

I was only saying if from my perspective - when I talk about anything other than work, I don't code, I don't talk about possible solutions, I don't explore... I don't work.. while being paid for it.

Short amount is ok, it helps to recharge, remain sane.
In the same boat, and I have heard good things about https://www.dwservice.net/fr/home.html, but I haven't tried it myself yet.
Women are now a small but growing majority of both law and medical students:

https://www.enjuris.com/students/law-school-female-enrollmen...
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/12/19/women-a...

Breaking down the medical fields by gender distribution also follows expected patterns:

https://www.ama-assn.org/residents-students/specialty-profil...

I'm not saying these facts proves anything in particular, but they're good to be aware of.
Especially given that the "Video Game Industry" probably represents a pretty large group of heterogenous, idiosyncratic chat protocols, which I certainly would be interested in if I were the Chinese Govt.
Subpoena is the wrong word. Amazon gives up your video willingly to law enforcement without your consent or even knowledge.

They can do this because it hasn’t yet been determined unlawful.

We are in a dire need of cyber ethics framework that enshrines user privacy.
Good communication can't solve sexism. But it can help a husband and wife support each other and work on the same team.

"Hey honey. I'm really sick of writing these cards. I know you don't care, but if I don't write them your mum gets snippy with me for not sending her a card"

"Well just don't send them and let her be snippy?"

"I hate that, I feel judged by her for doing that. And I feel frustrated because she's your mom and this is somehow my problem. I'd appreciate some support with this."

"I'm sorry you hear that way. I can tell you're really frustrated about this. I don't like writing cards any more than you do. I definitely don't want you to feel pressured into doing anything you don't want to do. But it sounds like my mom is giving you a hard time about it, and thats not fair because she's my mom, and its clear what she's doing is stressing you out. I'm going to talk to her about it. If she bothers you again after I talk to her, can you just ask her to come talk to me if she has a problem?" (etc discussion)

"Thanks. I really appreciate feeling like we're a team"

"Me too"
Surprisingly, there indeed seems to be no hard-wired understanding of periods. Freaking out on your first one is common for unwarned young women. Dealing with this has been off-loaded to culture.

And the various idiocies in traditional cultures about how to deal with menstruating women show that freaking out about this has been pretty common through history.
Exactly. This isn't about her missing the point; it's about hijacking a discussion she started to make his own point. Kind of like "he-peating" her idea, but with the added twist of denigrating instead of ignoring her contribution.
For anyone else who had no idea what this was, opal[0] is a ruby-to-js transpiler, and AFAIK this is just an example of it being used to make a hello world app.

[0] https://github.com/opal/opal
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Cascadia looks really nice, but I worry about fonts that combine two equals signs into one long one. I can imagine getting used to it, but until I did I'd be worried about assignment-vs-equality operator bugs
False positives are not a big deal for this trait.

False negatives are.

A spat of blood may not mean danger, but if it systematically put you on your guards, you are likely to get an advantages over individuals who are oblivious to it.
Microphone-less headphones are a great way to test this phenomenon. If you have them handy, just plug them into the mic port and talk. IIRC only one earpiece in a stereo set connects with a mono microphone jack.
A couple of years ago I visited a whale exhibition at the natural history museum in London. They had skeletons and models showing the evolution of the whale from a land mammal. The shrinking of the legs/pelvis and eventual detachment from the spine was fascinating to see laid out.
As someone who hasn't grown up around the ocean the size and orientation of some of those waves look almost alien.
Hi,

3 things broke. First it was a dead pixel on the screen, second was a reproducible kernel panic (using any video chat application would panic the kernel.). The last and hopefully final issue was the keyboard issue (double keys, and weird issues with the key not pressing sometimes).
I would guess this is for people who know Ruby, and for some reason need a Node.js stack but don't want to bother learning Node.js.