skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope - those people now don’t have a larger platform to indoctrinate people with cult arguments and mind hacks.

We’ve also isolated them, so it’s obvious to anyone objective who goes to their corner of the world what their priorities are.

Because once they are isolated, they create their own boards - and on those boards the metastatis of arguments is obvious.

Clear calls for ethnic cleansing, “the minorities did it.” Etc. were rife.

And here’s the kicker - even the mods on that sub forum started banning users.

So when the actual nazis have to ban nazis, is it counted as a win for the model?
>Look at recent encounters with NYPD in the subway over a man not paying the fare (value less than 5$).

For anyone interested in the truth: they were responding to calls of a man with a gun in the train car. This wasn't simply a fare evasion.
What a stupid fluff piece...

Meanwhile, somewhere in the 'Ruhrpott':

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk_Datteln
[2] https://www.uniper.energy/de/datteln-4

a new coal generating plant for 'Bahnstrom' is being built against the law, the moving off of coal, with much corruption, while having a defective boiler, which cost them 210 Mio € so far.

Ha! YEAH! Paint it GREEN!
If this system doesn't alert the outside world that it's been used more than a few intoxicated people are gonna use it to land at uncontrolled airports. Just get close and press the magic button.

Net safety will probably increase because most people will never have that use case though.
> Ask a wage slave what he'd like to accomplish. Chances are the response will be something like "I'd start every day at the gym and work out for two hours until I was as buff as Brad Pitt. Then I'd practice the piano for three hours. I'd become fluent in Mandarin so that I could be prepared to understand the largest transformation of our time. I'd really learn how to handle a polo pony. I'd learn to fly a helicopter. I'd finish the screenplay that I've been writing and direct a production of it in HDTV."
Why hasn't he accomplished all of those things? "Because I'm chained to this desk 50 hours per week at this horrible [insurance|programming|government|administrative|whatever] job.

> So he has no doubt that he would get all these things done if he didn't have to work? "Absolutely none. If I didn't have the job, I would be out there living the dream."

Suppose that the guy cashes in his investments and does retire. What do we find? He is waking up at 9:30 am, surfing the Web, sorting out the cable TV bill, watching DVDs, talking about going to the gym, eating Doritos, and maybe accomplishing one of his stated goals.

> Retirement forces you to stop thinking that it is your job that holds you back. For most people the depressing truth is that they aren't that organized, disciplined, or motivated.

https://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/early-retirement/

This was so true for me, anyway. I've always had beer tastes on a decent income, so I was financially free five years into working. Now I have all the free time in the world and it's killing me. I do have so many interests but no motivation or discipline to do them.
How about starting respecting the laws by the Catalonian government?

The Spanish government allowed right to assembly and free of speech, otherwise there wouldn't be any demonstration...
The numbers are in g/passenger-km, not kg/passenger-km, thank God.
I find this a very interesting topic. Slowing and maybe even reversing global warming is incredibly slow because of how indirect the processes are: we burn carbon -> CO2 in atmosphere goes up -> atmosphere retains more heat -> glaciers melt; even if we stop burning carbon completely (which we won't), it's going to take a long time for carbon levels to return to normal, and during that time, the atmosphere will continue to retain more heat, temperatures will continue to go up, and glaciers will continue to melt even faster.

Actually reducing the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth will have a much faster impact. The downside is that to have any impact at all, you need to do this on an unbelievably massive scale, which is not only expensive, but we have no idea what kind of side effects it may have.

I think it's an interesting area of research, but it shouldn't prevent us from dramatically reducing our CO2 output.
I made a site for this: https://sourcesort.com/contribute

Beyond things like language and topic, you can also filter for things like how long maintainers take to respond to pull requests or how likely your PRs are to be accepted.
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Fair enough, interesting fact just as all roosters are chickens but not all chickens are roosters, not all redwoods are sequoias. I actually mixed them up too.

http://sequoia.visionbib.com/sequoia-redwood.html
> It's more likely that the black / Irish / gay / minority-du-jour person ends up lying at the bottom of the stairs in the police station than a straight white person.

Do you have a source on this?

The idea that an arrested person is more likely to be injured in police custody if they are one of the listed minorities in the 21st century in the UK is very surprising to me.
It shifts the burden away from twitter, thats why it s a smart move. In the grand scheme of things it s not really more meritocratic. A bunch of awareness campaigns will no longer be possible, so we won't know if they had merit
Scala implicits handle this really nicely
I really enjoyed the comparison of dependency injection with dynamic scoping, and the explanation of how the latter can take over the uses cases of the former with less boilerplate.

But one benefit of dependency injection unacknowledged in this article is that dependency injection is the explicitness of dependencies: the need to pass them in forces the caller to be aware of which dependencies exist, and changes in dependencies cannot be ignored (they lead to compilation errors in statically typed languages, at least).

Managing dependencies with dynamic variables, on the other hand, is implicit. It's impossible to know which parts of the dynamic environment are used by a module without inspecting its source code. And changes to the module's dependencies are not noticed by callers, which may lead to cases where tests fail to stub out particular side effects without anyone noticing.

Given this drawback, dependency injection still seems like the better trade-off to me, despite of its higher amount of required boilerplate. Perhaps it is possible to bring some of the explicitness to the dynamic scoping approach, though.
Couldn’t you compile the code yourself and use your own version of the binary? Then you just have to trust XCode isn’t backdoored :-)

Edit: https://developer.apple.com/support/compare-memberships/ “ With just an Apple ID, you can access Xcode [. . .] and you can test your apps on devices”
Alternative title: Scammers scammed pretending to be a famous person on social media

Shorter title: Sky is blue
Thank you for the correction. Kind of shocked though.
We also shouldn't ignore that we are talking about ads. You can post political messages on Twitter, but Twitter won't promote that message in exchange for money. Facebook should follow suit.
But if the truth is unknowable, how does the autocrat know it?

I've only met a few people who are skeptics about the existence of facts--but I find that they're likely to be skeptics about other things too.

I think that if it's a position you arrive at via honest philosophical inquiry, it's not a hazard at all.

The position to be wary of is where you still believe in the truth, but are so beleaguered by the cacophony of voices claiming to know it that you're willing to accept that somebody else has access to it if it means that you get to just peacefully be on their side and don't have to bother sorting through it all anymore.

That is too say: claiming to know the truth is often a proxy for being too intellectually lazy to bother forming a good argument, and I think that nihilism is preferable.
There's been discussions for years on whether or not the level of automation in modern aircraft causes pilot training to lapse due to misuse. Self-driving planes are much easier than self-driving cars because there is empty space on all sides of the plane pretty much at all times. Autopilot is already generally speaking "a thing", with the exception of takeoff and landing.

Bear in mind even in takeoff and landing scenarios, unlike a public roadway, the airplane has pretty exclusive use of the runway as well.

Pilots are very unlikely the primary cost of aircraft trips. Things like jet fuel are probably much more of the cost driver.
Or non-chemical propulsion.
It's even more than that. By qualifying your statements, you let others evaluate them correctly.

So, for instance, if 'tptacek here says a factual statement about security (and there's no large thread contesting it), I'll treat it as gospel. But if he says he's unsure about it, or he read it somewhere, I know to attach less weight to it. I'll code in it my brain as "uncertain, but passed the sniff test of a relevant expert". Etc.

The same principle works in more mundane aspects of life. Whether a person believes something (and how much), or whether they're just reporting something they've read elsewhere, matters a lot for evaluating a factual statement independently.
That's an interesting proposal! To give an argument against: the center of mass of the earth-moon system lies 2k km inside earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycenter#Primary%E2%80%93sec...
About parcoursup, nobody really knows up to my knowledge.

About the tuition for foreigner, very few university applied it, and it has been declared unconstitutional by the "conseil constitutionnel" (it's kind of the french supreme court).
Unfortunately I can't dedicate too much time to reading the article right now, but did anybody understand how they managed to isolate the genetic vs environmental components?
I originally wrote "assault weapons" in my comment then changed that to "assault rifles" because I'm fairly certain what the latter, is but not so much the former. Maybe the OP was responding to that earlier version? If so, apologies for the confusion.
Seems like this would be useful for re-attaching to a shell or process you have either disowned or otherwise lost control of. Would be neat to see some common use cases on the FAQ page.
Maybe just let the guy run off with the clothes in the first place? The idea that we have to defend a corporation’s property rights at the level of a SWAT team having a street battle with a shoplifter is the height of militarized insanity.
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The distinction of "orbiting another body, not a star directly" seems pretty clear to me, but the idea of something being the naming example and then no longer being in the group definitely has happened before.

The word "henge" comes from Stonehenge, grew to encompass similar structures, and then was codified in a way that actually excludes Stonehenge itself:

> The "henge" portion has given its name to a class of monuments known as henges. Archaeologists define henges as earthworks consisting of a circular banked enclosure with an internal ditch. As often happens in archaeological terminology, this is a holdover from antiquarian use. Because its bank is inside its ditch, Stonehenge is not truly a henge site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge
>I feel like we could easily get there before we got self-driving cars, if we wanted to.

The environment has shown quite clearly that we don't want to. We'd probably already have it if we did.

The safety design of aviation relies on having multiple highly competent people in the loop on every flight and exercising their judgement on dozens of things. And that's for the best-case scenario, they also have to be capable of choosing and executing fallback plans when part of the overall system (the plane, air traffic, radio navigation, flying conditions, ground conditions, etc...) degrades or enters an unexpected state.
No where.

Recognize that political speech is too valuable for political actors to leave to its own ends.

They will create tools and ways to influence it, and the internet allows for maximal influence and personalization.

I suggest an entirely more radical approach in future.

Make a prediction on a topic of your interest. Ask others to do so as well. Put it up in a public location. Set a time limit.

After the time limit see who’s prediction came true.

Talk through action and proof. Any idle political conversation represents a poisoned pool or a soon to be poisoned pool.

Right now maximize for threat awareness and not for open conversations, because the bad actors have the bigger guns.
> And you're proposing giving a corruptible institution vast new powers to control public dialogue.

And you're continuing to argue as though the vast already thoroughly corrupted institution already doing that is somehow better.

> Libel and incitement are very narrowly defined, and proving either is incredibly difficult.

No shit. I'm saying exactly that laws to police speech can be done right. It should be a sizable burden of proof needed, it should be difficult specifically so that the Government can't simply say "that's bad, stop saying it." That's my whole damn point.

> I can predict with 99% confidence

Is this prediction based on something besides your own biases?

> I'm just very surprised by how many Americans have decided after Trump's election that the First Amendment has to go. It's very short-sighted.

I said no such thing. Please read my posts if you intend to respond to them.
This is bad, but it isn't that surprising. There are some very old cases that are precedent for it, things like (very relevant today) public authorities destroying buildings to serve as a firebreak.

Classic case: Surocco v. Geary, from the middle of the 19th century. Those of you who are in SF may recognize the name of the defendant. https://www.casebriefs.com/blog/law/evidence/evidence-keyed-...
Engine failure on takeoff is tricky to deal with. See Sullenberger landing on the Hudson for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549
Ah, Russia, of course.
Where did they study ? (real question here, because USA is really good at attracting brilliant people from everywhere).
> If you say "A black person is 2.3x as likely as a white person to be killed by police in America. American police are being racially discriminatory when killing civilians."

> This is a fact and a conclusion, and most news consists of facts and conclusions.

Journalists usually quote somebody else for the conclusion, they don't use themselves as a primary source. And if they're good they get multiple quotes from different people to give a view of the differing opinions.
> And one is for globalization. And the other is for stronger US labor unions, as mentioned in the article.

Weird, I never thought of the Republicans as being pro-Union.
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What's weird about it? In practice it just means writing classes which instead of newing things inside the constructor, allows them to be passed in by the caller.

This is a pretty fundamental aspect of polymorphism and composition.
Of the relatively small catalog of Beatles albums, to me, Abbey Road is a shining star, possibly eclipsed only by Sgt. Pepper. Almost the entire record depicts the group at the very height of their musical prowess and features a couple pieces by Harrison that place him firmly on the same level as Lennon and McCartney. And that cover! A real work of genius.

The 60's were a glorious time for musical expression for which the Beatles were a quintessential factor. Abbey Road was a great bookend to both the era and to The Beatles work as a group.
Yes. The ugly truth is rechargable batteries are very hardcore, and have to be replaced every few years. The amount of very hazardous waste generated if every house was fitted with a battery system would be astronomical. Sure nuclear power produces a fair bit of radioactive waste, but it can be managed and controlled. And that is with current technology. Just imagine the advancements that could be made on future generations of nuclear technology.
Gotta start asteroid mining to make that viable. Not to mention solving the difficulties of keeping humans in space healthy for your construction force (or fully automate it, I suppose).
Also IQ seems structured this way, but even more heritable and almost nothing to do with shared environment.

Incidentally IQ is also strongly correlated with lifetime earnings. In fact if you can know only one thing about a job candidate, it's the measure you should pick.
Isn't that the point of the parent?
Thats basically what feeds Google. There are no apple ads when you search for Apple
> Which would suggest that if you need to be vectored to a runway, the aircraft can negotiate that with ATC automatically (and perhaps ATC can advise which is the most appropriate diversion?)

I strongly suspect it just announces itself.

"N123FOO DECLARING EMERGENCY; PILOT INCAPACITATED, AUTOLAND ENGAGED; CLEAR RUNWAY 21L; 12 MILES OUT" sort of stuff.
However currently the most difficult and time consuming part of the job is proving those interesting theorems.
I like to list some advises from various mentors:

- struggling means you are learning, if things are easy you need to find something new to do

- having self-doubt (imposter syndrome) is common among people, when you gain knowledge, you are confronted with the vastness of it resulting in doubts, only ignorant people feel they know everything, smart and knowledgeable people knows that they have much to learn

- everyone struggles, some are just better at hiding it

- if someone appears to simply "get it", it is more likely that they have put in more time and effort on the topic on the topic, some people are born with the "knack" but rest of us just need to put more effort and time

I still find hope and inspiration from these when times are hard and I struggle/feel stuck etc. :)

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you can watch this in the limit live in Chile as we speak.
The technology already exists, it's a much easier problem than self driving cars. Spacecraft can fly themselves to other planets and return. That is a massively more complex problem.

It's a problem of trust, and regulation, not a technical one.
>Dependency injection is particularly bad because it makes it difficult to find the path to the dependency's source code

Can you expand? Not sure I understand. Is it more difficult because the dependency is separate by an abstraction layer? Imo if DI is done right, the dependencies are always explicitly injected so there shouldn't really be any confusion about what the 'source' is.
I have been trying to read it, but I can't figure out that part. Possibly via adopted twins.

edit: but it seems they do not use adoption data.
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They aren't suing the German Government because they say it's responsible for Global Warming, they're suing because the German Government publicly announced Goals for CO2 reduction till 2020 by 40% which they failed to deliver by a wide margin.

By the way the scientific consensus is that CO2 is the biggest contributor to global Warming, proven time and time again.
I'm curious as to what the use cases are for services like this. When we build a site, we know what sizes our images are going to be needed at and we create those at the point of upload and stick them behind a CDN. What kind of sites would need this kind of on-the-fly processing?
Don Pettit is my favourite astronaut. He's easily the nerdiest guy who ever made it up to the International Space Station.

The reason he's so cool is that he can present scientific topics in an easy-to-understand way that really captures the imagination. He conducts a whole bunch of personal experiments in orbit and then uploads them to Youtube. Using static electricity to spin water droplets around a knitting needle. Using surface tension to improve coffee usability.
Real science, but presented with a wide-eyed innocence that shows how stoked he is to be up there doing all this cool stuff.

A great asset for NASA in my opinion. They should fly him all the time!
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Not surprising in the 1950's. Every other science fiction author was a believer - they wrote endlessly about shields that 'blocked' gravity, fields that interacted with gravity, materials that had variable gravitational force, and on and on. Their speculation helped fuel/was fueled by science investigation of that era.
OP wasn’t talking about just altitude.
I’m doubtful of the efficiency against crowds. The range is short and it is a shaped charge warhead, so not much of shrapnel flying around which is the major cause of death/damage in small explosions outdoors. It would be way less damage than usual hand thrown fragmentation grenade.

If you already are relatively close to a crowd you’re better off using some fully automatic weapons like actual assault rifles. Or grenade launchers.

Also not condoning violence. Just looking at the threat these things pose in hands of criminals/terrorists.
Facebook wanted to allow deceptive political ads, didn't they? Or is it only acceptable if you know who's lying to you?
This TopCoder article [1] on binary search is the most comprehensive one I've read on the topic so far. It covers the discrete and continuous variants and mentions some common pitfalls too.

[1]: https://www.topcoder.com/community/competitive-programming/t...
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You do it by comparing identical twins against fraternal twins and see how the variance differ.

That way you have 3 variables, genes (identical twins have same genes, fraternal twins just have similar), the home and parenting part, and all other parts that aren't related to your parents at all. This study in particular found that just the genes and the other factors were relevant, while the home wasn't.
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Usually police don't even respond to shoplifting on that level. I'm not sure what happened here.
Asteroid mining is maybe viable.
There definitely are still problems with the relationship of the police to black communities, especially in London, but the available stats don't make a clear case for it and the overall number is quite small: https://fullfact.org/law/bame-deaths-police-uk/

That discusses deaths in custody.
I would like to highlight a specific issue of shootings:

> BAME people have made up about one third of those shot by the police since 2004, according to a third set of figures from the Independent Police Complaints Commission. These suggest 8 people from black and minority ethnic communities died in police shootings from 2004/05 to 2015/16, out of a total of 27.

> About 14% of people in England and Wales identify as black or minority ethnic, as suggested by Kiri Kwankhende.

(Americans are invited to consider that figure of 27 deaths from police shootings over a decade...)
If I remember correctly (from other games), control groups means that you can select a group of units and assign a number to them (Ctrl+n?) so you can then issue commands to them as a group.

I think that a human player's game would be significantly slowed down if they had to play without control groups. Accordingly, the ability to control units without having to assign them to control groups must be a very big advantage for the purpose of micromanaging units. It would be like playing a turn-based game when everyone else was playing in real time.