skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It seems extremely unlikely they will be able to prove much of anything"

Proof isn't exactly a requirement in a civil lawsuit as this is demonstrated to be, given the lawsuit title and the demand for a jury trial. In this case, more of a preponderance of the evidence, circumstantial or not, oddball or not, is what is weighed instead of factual elements of any crime (although those are also considered.)

It is up purely to the jury to decide unless they asked for Bench Trial. Proving anything in this case is moot, it depends upon the jury and their thoughts, not what they interpret as law by required element-based prosecution.
An alarm clock that needs WiFi and an app to control ????.

This all reminds me of John Siracusa and his fixation with the perfect toaster oven .. something tells me he would buy one with WIFI and smartphone app if it was available.
I think everyone is going to have a different opinion on this but aside from the keyboard fiasco I think Macbooks are still a good option. I agree you cannot upgrade them, but honestly all I can ever see wanting to upgrade is memory but hell, if I Just go with 16gb from the gate I cannot see the need to upgrade in the lifetime of the machine. Its a couple grand but going to last me a while. Linux laptops are still a little flaky for me. I have experienced a couple in the past year and its still not as streamlined as I want. I just don't care about configuration and fine tuning it. WSL is far from ready but I think maybe the Pro version of WSL will yield better results. I think there was still some configuration steps for me that were a little janky especially since I like to use Jetbrains editors. I think PyCharm now does a better job of supporting WSL but again, not as streamlined as I want. Not sure what kind of "developing" you are doing but Macs still work.
The cryptocurrency space is overrun by trolls on social media as well. Some even target HN, although it's far from how bad it is on Reddit or Twitter.
What can you actually replace on the X395 that you can't on the X1? RAM is now soldered and that used to be the only difference from what I remember. I currently have the T460s and like the size. The T495s would be the equivalent but looking at it they are all about the same size now. I thought the X395 would be smaller.

Either way the X395 and T495 both have a maximum of 1080p screen. I have a 1440p and will never go back. In fact I want the X1 for the 4K screen and the beefier chassis. I'm on my third panel and they all develop white spots from the cover not being protective enough.
This is entirely feasible but what percentage of people can write replacements for problematic tools and what tools can they afford to replace time?
>If you're on the spectrum and can do decently well at the curriculum but struggle socially/with general anxiety/etc, then you're often on your own.

Or worse yet, go undetected.

I was out of college before I realized I had been pushing upstream for my entire school career. My partner had gotten identified and gotten help, it wasn't easy but much easier.

I had always tested very highly on standardized tests but was a horrible student. My mom would tie me to chairs, my teachers would verbally abuse me, all of it. Not to mention the social issues I had.

It's a relief to know now, but it leaves me wondering how differently my life would've turned out had someone thought to test and accommodate. Even now I am just kind of not really sure what to do with the knowledge, beyond not guilt-tripping myself for being more "normal".
> If you extrapolate their upward line forward

Extrapolations are a bad idea for "tipping point" kinds of curves. Electric vehicles are steadily improving, and as they become better in niches (like high performance cars) the curve can change to be nothing like the extrapolation.
The article I linked is about unnecessary increase in complexity with tiny gains. An expert engineer would be able to tell Juicero's machine could be simpler, and cheaper and faster to produce.
It's also possible that the self selected bunch of people who discuss energy on HN happen to like nuclear more than the general public. It doesn't have to be trolls.
What is the value add for a wifi-enabled alarm clock? Truly, what do you get from supposedly being able to program it from your phone? You have to download yet another proprietary app, go through a tedious syncing process to connect with the device, learn another GUI (unusable in this case), and cross your fingers, hoping that it works.

Is clicking a couple physical buttons on an actual device such a strain?

If you're frequently setting multiple alarms, as many people do on their phones for various reasons, does it benefit you to use this rather than just using your phone?
Laptop graphics are one area where you run into issues with drivers still sometimes. I have some MSI laptops where the ACPI tables are fucked hard enough that you can't boot Ubuntu with the nVidia binary blobs installed. Dell is usually better about supporting Linux on their hardware, but even then the binary blobs are a bit of a risk factor.
I would fully defend Russians against this sort of xenophobia as well. They just don't seem to be the enemy du jour. Complaining about Russia is so 2018. America has a short attention span, and has moved on to the next great evil.

> Regardless, the GP does raise a valid point that if you have family living under the heel of a totalitarian dictatorship they can and will be used as leverage.

Okay, so now you can edit our your attacks above, because you see that the post I was responding to did discuss targeting Chinese and Russian people living in the US.

> Your whinging won't change that fact, and it has nothing to do with them being Chinese (or Russian!), and everything to do with their country's government.

Regardless of the rationale, they're still being targeted on the basis of their nationality. The general impression is being created that all Chinese and Russian people in the US are potential national security threats, whose employment should be restricted. I don't see any functional or moral difference between that and xenophobia. It reminds me of the generalized suspicion of Muslims after 9/11. It's not a pretty thing, and it's sad to see it gaining currency.
Trackpads are still bad imo.
So get your friend to be the notary? It seems like an incredibly insecure system to me for the 21st century world when we have much better ways, e.g. signing keys.
I wouldn't say "useless" (it's clearly usable as an agreement between two parties that some amount of value was exchanged).

But it's less useful than a currency where the observed exchange of value between two parties implies that most other parties agree value was exchanged. If you give me 2 BTC today but tomorrow the value of BTC has fallen by 90%, it's almost as if we never exchanged value in the first place. It's certainly not as helpful to me as if you give me $18,500 dollars today and I can spend them tomorrow.

Failure of a currency to act as a store of value damages its utility as a means of exchange, because the amount of value exchanged is imprecise over time.
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> Instead of launching solar panels into space and getting free energy there, they could be placed on Earth to save the launch costs and get free energy here.

I suppose Solar panels in space can be arranged such that that it's always solar noon, and it's never cloudy. So more efficient at collecting than on the ground, in theory.
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In the US, we see this same conflict with Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Association. It's a real conflict that does complicate things, but it's not so much of an issue that we've needed to revise the US Constitution (yet ;))

My short answer is that where public communication (one-to-many) is concerned, the Right to Communicate:

A) describes voluntary communication. It doesn't give you the right to force someone to listen to you, it gives you the right to share information with someone who wants it. (I would be open to modifying the language if that distinction isn't currently clear.)

B) are designed to combat legal challenges (Facebook may ban you for talking about something they don't like on their platform, they shouldn't be able to sue you).

C) are designed to draw attention to infrastructure and monopoly problems (the existence of one company that controls a large majority of web content is in itself a threat to these rights).

These rights are purposely vague because I want them to be stronger than just my own opinion; I want them to be somewhat interpretable and adaptable.

However, in my opinion if I want to publish something and I have to publish it on Mastadon instead of Twitter, I don't consider that to be a violation of my Right to Communicate. If Twitter becomes the only way to publish content, or it controls so much of the Internet that publishing outside of Twitter is infeasible, then in my opinion it's reasonable to start talking about antitrust.

There's leeway there -- ISPs are always going to be gatekeepers just because of how the Internet is structured, so maybe we decide that it's OK to force Net Neutrality on them. In general though, we should break apart monopolies rather than force them to be neutral.

Bear in mind that the Right to Communicate is also about the right to encrypt message contents and to conceal message recipients, and to circumvent platform restrictions that try to remove those rights. The right to publicly publish information is only part of that, and is (imo) an already relatively well established right that I don't lose much sleep over. Other people may disagree with that, but I don't think Twitter/Facebook have as much control over modern communication as is often supposed.
"I Thou" Reminds me also of Roger Scruton's writing on the subject.

Here Scruton backs up Buber's description the "I Thou" relationship as precisely the thing that separates us from the natural order. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/opinion/if-we-are-not-jus...

As far as plants, I think its a mistake to anthropomorphize them like this. They have no ability to enter into an "I Thou" relationship because they have no concept of "I". Modern philosophies that disregard the special place in nature of Man, and deny Man's nature, are a mess and lead to some pretty horrible outcomes, such as the dehumanization of undesirable groups.
Similar set up here... except our CI doesn't handle "down" scripts, so bad db migrations are roll-forward only.

Which.. isn't as bad as I thought it would be (so far).
On the other hand, politicians have been trying to manipulate voters for centuries - it seems like a new danger that foreign governments are now trying to manipulate voters.
If you can count how many scooters are in the system at any time (and how many belong to different providers) then you should be able to enforce your licencing regime.

And if you know roughly where rides are going to / from and when, then that helps you integrate your different types of public transport - for example making sure that when the train arrives there are enough scooters there, or understanding how popular scooter ride paths interact with bike lanes, bus lanes, etc.

Mobile phone cell size is generally a pretty good proxy for population density - modern micro-cell sectors can be pretty small, and 5G will make them even small in urban areas.

(I work on this sort of stuff for a major engineering data science and asset management group in the UK).
This totally misses out a very important point. Colleges are hedge funds with a school attached, and attached with the only goal of making the profits they make on their endowment tax-free.

Not just it's about signaling. It's also a tax avoidance scheme.

This world is so broken, not surprising the richest and smartest people i know never finished college (or finished a crappy one parents just forcibly sent them to) and never officially worked anywhere.

And worst part of it. Startups are also the same thing. Why startups in the "classic" (YC-sense) exist (or provide any advantage over what is derogatorily labeled "revenue business"), is the historically ultra low interest rates, which makes valuations vs EBITDA, which is an inverse of effective interest rate, absurdly high. Exiting at such a valuation is whole lot more attractive than just collecting profits by running a 'normal' business. And these ultra low interest rates are funded by robbing next generation of pensioners by printing money by the trillion: by robbing ourselves, just in the old age. It is also zero sum. Also a Ponzi scheme. Also a scam.

And there is no escape from that. All the world of ours would cease to exist if we one day stopped lying to ourselves. "Real" stuff ended with abolition of the gold standard, and no one wants to go back, because it was too bad, and that or Communism would be only alternatives. We better keep pretending things are alright.
Could also be he bought the clock because he liked the look of it and never guessed the wifi part was required rather than optional.
Not even just 3rd party chipsets: I bought a first generation linux-based developer XPS13 and a proprietary Dell chip that only served to check that the power supply was an original Dell malfunctioned, so my laptop refused to charge and would limit CPU speed. I was left with a useless slow 13" desktop.
Well... try not to take this personally, but... that means that you're not really an expert in Python, which is what (I assume) the interviewer in the linked post was looking for. You're capable in several languages, and may be an expert in one or more of them, but if they're looking for Python expertise, asking you how to find the length of a string is a good way to get a feel for how much time you're going to need to get to where you can really be trusted to produce mission-critical Python software (which may not be a deal breaker, if you're good at a lot of other things).
It was also the home of the first nuclear reactor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1
You mean illegal in most places, barely tolerated for medical purposes in a few other and legal in a very few states/countries VS legal and abused almost universally in the world ? Yeah exactly.
Indeed. What the writer learned was how to be excessively dramatic, perhaps.
We were talking about registers+stack trace, not a core dump.
I applaud Dell for supporting Linux on their hardware. Their main contribution should be open-source drivers for their hardware included in major Linux distributions.

That said, I would not use their pre-installed Linux because of security concerns. I would certainly install one myself, with full-disk encryption.
The drivers are great as I mentioned, probably better than the Windows ones indeed. But the hardware is slow. Non-starter for gaming and for normal graphics they're also slow. Browsers are now becoming GPU accelerated and screen sizes larger. Driving the modern web at 4K is non-trivial.
Also interesting to note that this relatively super-fast app is written in Python.
Did the study think to ask the person doing the transactions who they were or why they were transacting? They would have been happy to say if only they'd been asked...
The South China Sea part really isn't debatable. Absolutely everyone outside China thinks the Line is bullshit.
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>So... Yes, these are both (special cases of) magmas, but the general term used for them is "algebra" or "algebraic structure". Don't you agree?

Algebraic stucture, sure, but _algebra_, absolutely not.

An algebra is a module with a compatible multiplication which has an identity element. If I had a magma and you asked about my "algebra" I would be very confused about where you were seeing all the extra structure.
Google has not solved the spam issue. Search results have become worse and often alternatives such as Bing or duckduckgo give better result. The same can be said about Gmail which very often misses spam or marks non-spam as spam.
Google[1] and Facebook[2] have sponsored the Republican party. Both have accepted ad contracts from Republican candidates.

[1] https://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/google-gop-convention...
[2] https://fortune.com/2016/05/07/facebook-confirms-it-will-spo...
It gets even worse with remote where you don’t know if somebody is at least working or just sitting around.

This is less clear in a office than it seems at first glance - appearing productive and being productive are two very different things.
Too much screen time changes children's brains
I think 7777fps just meant that if you buy up an asset with a balance of supply-demand you bid up the price, but then when you try to sell it, you drive the price back down.

But with BTC being a speculative asset, since there was already an excess of demand (price increase), and the excitement of the rising prices drives more demand, by buying up coins you drive up the price even further faster. It's a classic pump-and-dump or market-cornering model. The bubble will burst eventually, unless fundamentals grow enough to cover the speculation.
>For some, the idea of working remotely is equivalent to laying around, watching Netflix (while working of course), and happy hour at 3pm

Ironically, when I need to draft some long write up (e.g. perf evaluation, speech, etc.), I have the easiest time when I lie in bed watching some pausable movie or show. Nothing like passive entertainment to help me work through writer’s block.
Similarly offtopic, there's a LLVM backend for 68k in development. It is functional, but not mainlined.

> https://github.com/M680x0/M680x0-llvm
This affects us too. We were able to migrate to zeit now in ~30 mins.
Based on my personal experience, being one of the few pro-nuclear voices in the ostensibly anti-nuclear social media [filter bubble], I'm half-inclined to accuse you of being an anti-nuclear shill. But I think you're not, we just live in different filter bubbles.

As for nuclear NIMBYs, sure, individually they don't have the money (I'm a nuclear YIMBY, and I don't have it either). But there's plenty of organizations with money and influence, campaigning against nuclear - e.g. fossil fuel industry, Greenpeace. So I'm going to back the GP - everyone does that.
Not to mention a decent-size screen.
I wonder why most companies can't operate separate teams with these different flows? The "we need it now" crew having their own team who tries to line up dev with the upcoming, etc? I can understand needing functionality "urgently" - in an agile manner, however that will certainly have more costs short-term and potentially long-term if cutting corners.
I'm with you, but I'd rather they have 64 or 128 super, super slow cores. That way they'd make better use of threads, and hopefully uncover and fix more race-conditions and other concurrency bugs during development.
So? The only way things are going to change is by bringing it to light. What does it matter if in the short term the bad guys get some free press?
IBM has been doing this for years.... at this point, research has to be a huge part of their expenses and royalties a huge part of their revenue. They invented things like copper interconnects that are standard now, along with a huge raft of other fundamental computing technologies still in use.

If IBM ever loses its technical edge and research staff, it's going to go under.
I see. I would hope one would give a description of what bubble sort is during the question.

It's definitely easy to implement, it just had me worried because I had never heard of it!
> by some miracle you do, you just use a subgradient

This is the most succinct comment I have encountered on how people think about non-differentiability in deep learning.

This helped me reconcile my experiences with the deep learning paradigm. Thank you.

You see, in the numerical optimization of general mathematical models (e.g. where the model is a general nonlinear -- often nonconvex -- system of equations and constraints), you often do hit non-differentiable points by chance. This is why in mathematical modeling one is taught various techniques to promote model convergence. For instance, a formulation like x/y = k is reformulated as x = k * y to avoid division by zeros in y during iteration (even if the final value of y is nonzero) and to avoid any nonsmoothness (max(), min(), abs() functions for instance are replaced with "smooth" approximations). In a general nonlinear/noconvex model, when you encounter non-differentiability, you are liable to lose your descent direction and often end up losing your way (sometimes ending up with an infeasible solution).

However it seems to me that the deep learning problem is an unconstrained optimization problem with chained basis functions (ReLU), so the chances of this happening is slighter and subgradients provide a recovery method so the algorithm can gracefully continue.

This is often not the experience for general nonlinear models, but I guess deep learning problems have a special form that lets you get away with it. This is very interesting.
Everyone who has actually done the math wrt actually meeting our global energy demands agrees: petrochemical dependence is not going away any time soon.

Electric car demands increases demand on the grid, which will centralize demands for fuel. Electric aircraft are a long way off, except in the private jet world. Battery energy density just isn't there and would massively increase costs. Plus there's the whole issue of explosive failure modes; contrasted with avgas which is relatively safe in liquid form.

Renewable energy technologies are made with petrochemicals, so they have their own built in oil & NG demand.

The most, wealthiest (on average) people live where renewable energy is least effective.

The numbers do show that we can drastically reduce our oil dependence, but ONLY if we're willing to trade quality of life to do so. There's little chance of that happening.
Your healthcare providers, pharmacies included, can sign BAAs with other firms that allow them to share the data. Your consent is not required.
If Bitcoin companies maintained an adequate level of know-your-customer/anti-money-laundering compliance, maybe the mainstream banks would work with them. But as it stands, the banks have no reason to take any risks in dealing with them. If people resort to Tether and get burned, it's not the banks' problem.