skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that was ignorant of those HN readers. It's not like Lewin couldn't host his own lectures. Like on his YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiEHVhv0SBMpP75JbzJShqw , where you can watch them right now.

When you write "undisclosed accusations", you mean that in addition to the disclosed ones, right? https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/01/23/complainant-u... describes Faïza Harbi's accusations.

> It would take almost a year before Harbi, with the help of MIT’s investigators, said she came to understand that Lewin’s interest in her was not motivated by empathy, and that their first conversations included inappropriate language. Shortly after contacting her, Harbi said, Lewin quickly moved their friendship into uncomfortable territory, and she was pushed to participate in online sexual role-playing and send naked pictures and videos of herself. After about 10 months, Harbi said, she resumed self-mutilating after seven years of not doing so.
I read the page top to bottom. I don't know what it is. Is it an online OneNote?

I don't know what the things you build with it are for.
>Hey, just because layman don't care does not mean that there are not people who actually care and use terminology correctly and discuss it.

What matters is the way the grandparent meant it, since that's what we are discussing here, not the etymology or lexicographical definition of the term. That said...

>You should never be proud about dumbing down concepts in Hacker News. This is not consumer forum.

Thanks for the sanctimonious sermon.

If one actually did their research they would find out that it's not just some "layman doesn't care" thing, but that industry insiders, pundits, and others, have used Moore's law in several different ways over the decades, regardless of the original observation by Moore.

Also note that the law was since forever linked with performance increases. Wikipedia: "Moore did not predict a doubling "every 18 months". Rather, David House, an Intel colleague, had factored in the increasing performance of transistors to conclude that integrated circuits would double in performance every 18 months.

Note also despite the name it's neither a physical "law", nor a scientific or technical term or high concept to be closely guarded from laymen. It's just a casual ad-hoc statistical observation.
Link to the journal article: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(19)308...
Loving everything about this. You really knocked it out the park. It's so much more ergonomic than cd + ls (which feels like a caveman solution by comparison) Congrats on bringing directory navigation into the 21st Century. I have installed it on all my servers and I will use it forever. Long live Broot!
This varies by case - Office365 phishing breakins have been a bad epidemic for a long time now and the anti-phishing measures have not kept up well enough. I think MS still doesn't support any phishing resistant 2FA method there...
Behavior like 2 is an important reason we have so few women writing works fundamental in shaping science fiction into what we know it as today. When we tolerate sexual harassment we demean women and make the community not welcoming to them. The article explores that.
Oh wow, cry me a river. If that's the price we have to pay for enforceable privacy laws I'm all in.
[sorry for the late reply]

what happens if those 16 instructions touch 16 different cache lines? I'm not an hardware expert (and even less on coherency protocols), but I think it would be extremely hard to make sure livelocking is avoided in all cases, short of having some extremely expensive and heavy handed global 'bus' lock fallback.
Someone at a big tech company once told me that they knew the one person (or maybe they were the one person) who used a particular product, and were thus the rationale for that product to put their company logo on the front page.

It really says nothing about the product or its suitability for anything. They just want an excuse to stick recognizable names/logos on their homepage.
I'm conflating at most one github specific issue (singular), not "issues". And I'm doing so because it's at best a subproblem of a subproblem of a subproblem.

If my computer caught fire and exploded due to poor electrical design, you wouldn't say "nothing about your problems had anything to do with your computer and everything to do with the specific company that provided your pencils" when in my growing list of fustrations I offhandedly mentioned breaking a pencil tip after resorting to that, what with the whole computer being unavailable and all. That would be weird.

Even if we did hyper focus on that pencil - pretty much every pencil manufacturer is giving me roughly the same product, and the fundamental problem of "pencils break if you grip them too hard" isn't company specific. It's more of a general problem with pencils.

Github gave me a hard quota error. Maybe Gitlab would just 500 on me, or soft throttle me to heck to the point where CI times out. Maybe Bitbucket's anti-abuse measures would have taken action and I'd have been required to contact customer support to explain and apologize to get unbanned. git lfs's fundamental problem of being difficult to configure to scale via caching or distribute via mirroring isn't company specific. It's more of a general problem with git lfs. Caching and mirroring are strategies nearly as old as the internet for distribution - git lfs should be better about using them.

It would've turned github's hard quota error into a non-event, non-issue, non-problem - just like they are with core git. Alternatively, core git should be better about scaling. Or, as a distant third alternative, I could suggest a business solution to a technical problem - GitHub should be better about letting me pay them to waste their bandwidth. Then I could workaround git's poor scaling for a little bit more, for a bit longer.
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D can be used for almost everything: this is indeed a marketing message that is harder to pass than "Language X is made for problem Y".

For example I do signal processing, and D is surprinsingly pleasant for it since it has builtin complex numbers.

Being well-balanced, generic, readable, productive, and performant seemingly doesn't convince more than "this solves problem Y". Probably why marketers use segmentation.

But at the end of the day, more power is more power and every specialized language tend to become general-purpose.
IMHO, Asimov was a terrible writer of fiction. (I haven't read his non-fiction.) Some interesting ideas, but nothing like the imagination of, say, China Miéville. Terribly thin characters and plots, and very mediocre writing.

He had the good fortune to get into sci-fi near the beginning and crank out a lot of readable material, and get some good ideas out there first. The rest is confirmation bias. Had he appeared 30 years later he would have been writing Star Trek or Star Wars novels.

I've got nothing against classics per se. "Dune" for example is still very good. But some classics were only considered great because they broke new ground, and they do not stand the test of time.
Navigating in a car was a problem even when I started driving in the early 2000s, before GPS.

- If you just had a map book you'd have to study it before a journey to get the likely placenames you'd see. This is surprisingly hard.

- You'd probably forget to check one-way systems.

- You could sort of guess where there'd be traffic, but for any major diversions you had to be very careful to follow the ad-hoc signs. Plus there's a high chance that you would decide you'd lost the way if the gap between signs was too long.

- You really needed to know the major geographic placenames by heart. Even if you're not going to Manchester, you will need to know whether on your trip to Birmingham to follow the road to Manchester. Now picture driving in a foreign country.

- Forget about estimating the time to get there. If it's a place you don't know your route will not be ideal.

- Conveniences like the next petrol station off the road, forget it.
Did not address the most important question.. HAL was following orders..
Great point! The dead may never change. Is it fair to eternally damn them from a modern perspective?

One of the reasons I left religion was principally this eternal damnation practice. It’s extreme. The variety of life and even the universe requires nuance and forgiveness.
Non-HN users have it worst.

My parents (~75yo) have Androids and they essentially ignore all notifications. They allowed notifications on a few clickbaity news websites that spam then with tens of notifications a day. So they just don't know what it is and ignore them all, including potential relevant ones (like Whatsapp messages from family).

I, as a creator of a web app that would benefit a lot from notifications, would appreciate Apple adding push notifications to web. But I understand their choice
what's the easiest way to install it on Mac OS? I don't see mentions of a brew package in the doc.
I will try to give you a very brief summary for your points. If you need anything else, just ask a follow up.

- Profitability: We have plans for paid features which are not yet available at this point (kind of micro transactions per jaypad).

- Digital Sustainability (Guaranteeing that the user can use it in the future): To be honest, none. This product is still in beta and as long as it has no sustainable funding it will not have the other one too.

- Interop with other platforms: None at the moment, but we have plans that users can write their own modules for the clipboard side of the jaypad which will open a whole new universe of interop with other things (kind of like Slack-Bots with GUI).

- Privacy: You have the link you have access. It's that simple. But one of the planed paid features is privacy related (no access without invitation, read/write restrictions, private areas, etc.).
> I don't need a European bureaucrat to get involved. Thanks.

My 70 years old grandma or 12 years old cousin do though. Of course as tech people we know how to bypass most of the tracking happening on the web, that's not the case for the average user.
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>Though arson has been tried and called for before as a tool of terror, the Australian fires seem to result from the actions of unconnected individuals who are either disturbed or reckless.

"Seem to result" I personally would like to see data attempting to look for a common cause or link between those who are causing the fires, and then attempt to mitigate the problem by addressing that issue.

If you cannot identify a common issue/problem it would be hard to solve, so I feel that trying to find something common, even in most cases would be beneficial.

What are the ages of all the youth caught? What is their social/economic status? Do they suffer from any illness or are they healthy? Are they taking medications? Single kid or giant family? Kids from single family homes of Mothers, or fathers, or do they typically have both parents active in their lives? There are tons of various factors to look at and try to see if there is a common factor to address.

Still good to know Australia isn't spontaneously combusting, however the issue of widespread fire is real and terrible.
The first time it sounds interesting, and until you try it in the real world you don't know for sure if it is a good idea or not. (some things that seemed like bad ideas have turned out really good - though that is somewhat rare it happens enough that trying something once is excusable). Trying it a second time though is generally stupid (unless you can come up with a significant twist that changes whatever made it bad the first time)
Everything's been done before. Social media is just finger/.plan files. The art's in executing better (eg the trim feature here).
What do you think Asimov's father would have said about Asimov?

I reject the idea that before the 1990s it was always acceptable to grope women in public. In older, more traditional and more conservative societies it was not acceptable.
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I stand corrected. Thank you for pointing out my misunderstanding of US elections.

So what is the main difference? size of districts (constituencies) by a factor of ~10? Gerrymandering?
They already deal with censorship on a variety of categories where the line between acceptable and unacceptable are blurred. Nudity, hate speech, targeting, harassment, all kinds of illegal / semi-illegal trade and activity happening in various groups throughout the platform etc. No moderation can ever be perfectly objective and no platform cannot be completely open for all kinds of content, unless it's structured like Tor. And we all know what happens at Tor.
No need to. The Option key is configurable in terminal software.
Not religion, but there are ancient texts, that are sacred for several religions, not the Bible, which contain a lot of Wisdom and insight that i think science could benefit upon by exploring and studying it, instead of ignoring it as mere mysticism. Well there are/were some scientists exploring it but they're the minority;
AMD used to name their chips after the speed increase over some 1MHz chip to highlight their IPC advantage over Intel.
Don't mean to be a killjoy, and perhaps this is stating the obvious for the HN crowd but this doesn't mean the broader rate of cancer is down; but that medical treatment has improved. The latter being more lucrative than prevention (at least for the med community).

I'd also like to mention, that these are deaths limited to cancer. Death is attributed to something else this stat will be affected. This is, in theory, you can "survive" cancer but die from something related to that condition and it won't count as a cancer death.

I'd liken it, somewhat, to war. Yes, less soldies are dying. But survival comes at a cost. No arms. No legs. Mental and emotional wounds. Etc.

I'm not knocking the progress with cancer; only providing some necessary context that's often missing.

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The point is, beating up data is easy. Be mindful of what you might be looking at, especially if the outcomes are good for an industy's well-being.

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Flexible and foldable products are so underwhelming. At this point they seem like something being developed just for the sake of demonstrating that it's possible. If the goal is to make attractive products, they're failing spectacularly.
It's the zero/one/infinity rule. Programmers don't even know what it's called, they just absorb it by osmosis. But in the real world there are so many lists that will never have more than 20 items.
Why do we still talk about "safety" when discussing nuclear even though this has been handled over 30 years ago. Or in other words I haven't seen any arguments presented in this paper "debunked".
http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/

In short a few points:

- nuclear power is the safest form of energy production by far

- storing the waste is an easy problem (store on site and reuse later with better technologies), or just make glass cubes of it and dump in the ocean (yes really)!

- the high price of building nuclear power plants is in many ways the result of "nucular paranoia"

- non-military reactors (ie. all "western reactors") can't have the same failure modes as chernobyl had
> It's like the developers who immediately rush to massive scale when all they've been asked to build is effectively a prototype.

I just finished working in the public sector and it's absolutely terrible for this. We had a microservice based event-driven architecture, all on AWS, load balancers everywhere. It was so complicated not a single person knew the entire architecture.

Current number of users: 65

Expected maximum number of users ever: 8000
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Things haven't changed much. For example, look at the response Christine Blasey Ford got when she testified against Brett Kavanaugh.
True, but the method would totally benefit from calibration, because not all water is made the same - some has different densities of particulates in.
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> Books still present Franks as french people’s ancestors, but I wonder how teacher make it match with the reality when they teach their students.

I think the goal of using 'our ancestors the Gauls' was to create a shared history, to promote a national identity, without any regard to the actual ancestry of the actual population.

Also you have to put back the origin of this idea in his context: it's coming from the XIXth century, when moving away from the monarchy. The Gauls served as a common ancestry, without any reference to the previous monarchies, which explain why it was pushed by Napoleon III (who started up excavation looking for the site of Alesia) and the IIIrd Republic.
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Try Worker, it is as close to Directory Opus as possible.

https://www.tecmint.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Worker-Fi...

Its available on FreeBSD so it must be available on Linux and macOS at least ... not sure about Windows.
The first generation iPhone was a bit clunky, a Nokia N95 could do so much more...
If Iran shot down that Ukrainian plane, killing all those women and children, drop a nuke on them.
Well the first part of the message is almost certainly true and likely what is triggering the message.
There are SaaS vendors which are very successful at selling into contractors and subcontractors of all sizes. I know, as I work for one of them.
That's why I wrote this: https://github.com/bootandy/dust
Because it was frustrating to track down what had used disk space.
> I am not and you shouldn't rely on Wikipedia.

I'm relying on publicly available information, if you have better information it would be common courtesy to share it, instead of merely proclaiming Wikipedia is wrong.

> The IRGC do not swear to protect the people of Iran but rather the ayatollahs.

According to that logic, not even Iranian law enforcement is there to protect the people, because that's also structured under the Military Office of the Supreme leader.

> The Quds Force is also unique within the IRGC they do not report through the IRGC chain of command, hence Hossein Salami has no authority over Quds, but rather they report directly to Khamenei.

On what do you base this interpretation? It's completely contrary to the structure of the Iranian armed forces described on Wikipedia [0].

Not to mention that you in your original comment, you called him the Commander of the Quds Force, and now you say he has no authority over them.

If you have a better source then share it, but just declaring "You shouldn't rely on Wikipedia", while offering nothing except your own words, is not exactly constructive to the discussion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_of_the_Islamic_Re...
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Why isn't anyone focused on the fact that, anywhere in the world, there are no consequences for political lies?
Politicians can, and usually do, lie on tv, on the radio, on billboards, on their entire career and nothing happens.
Why is this a platform problem?
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I don’t think so. If you’re just spinning up a Windows VM then yes, your Windows guy can take it from there. But that’s not cloud computing. That’s just a “server”. To really use Azure with secured applications using databases, logging, storage, auto-scaling, ...

I don’t see how being a Windows guy makes Azure easier to grasp. It’s mostly not even Windows you’re interacting with.
I think Google Assistant is awesome. But it seems that its advantage over Siri is rule based.

Word doesn't seem great for digital assistants, but I think what really needs help is documentation. There's often a good deal of bad documentation, and it's something an assistant could learn to navigate.
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All of those topics are not nearly as significant (or controversial) as political censorship.
Ah, yeah. In that regard, I agree, Ruby could use some improvement.
There is a lot of cooperation in biology. People from diverse backgrounds – physics, chemistry, engineering, computer science, mathematics, medicine – work in the same research group. They are scientists who research biology, but they are not biologists as in they don't have a degree in biology.
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There's plenty of nuance and forgiveness in traditional religion.

Speaking of which, Asimov was certainly aware that "thou shalt not covet" and "whoever looks at a woman lustfully..." had been preached for a couple of thousand years, so it's not like he had no idea what he was doing could possibly be wrong.
That is a very inaccurate summary. I think a more accurate summary would be "Asimov's behavior discouraged women from writing science fiction."
Exactly. Not sure why people are downvoting my statement, it seems quite the ample time to come up with a solution.
Quibi - they raised a billion (according to the media) before launching anything,and a video I can rotate doesn't sound like a revolutionary new form of media or art.
Not only that. But even if you are making a very simple static HTML website, you start bumping into problems very quickly. Here are a few things where Gulp/Webpack have helped.

- Auto-browser reloading.

- Minification and compiling all JS/CSS into single files.

- Partials for Header/Footer/Menus.

- CSS/JS files versioning (the browser-caching issue).

Sure you can build a static website without all these niceties. But these are a one time investment (gulp+webpack) that you can re-use for your future websites and work.
Looks like rust/cargo but i haven't tried it yet
While I personally believe that you have to understand historical figures in the context of the time and society they lived in and not judge them by modern societal rules (even if these are improvements), I think we are seeing an increase in judging historical figures. For example, in terms of American Founding Fathers, John Adams is rising in estimation and Thomas Jefferson is falling. Obviously a large part in this is that Adams didn't own slaves.
Or. Flip that over. What happens to the music owners if one of their primary distributors goes under?
No, the GP is mistaken about the reason for the boil water advisories. it's true that Pittsburgh has a very aging water infrastructure, and there are somewhat regular water main breaks, which introduced the possibility of contamination for a period of time after the break. Those are what result in boil water advisories.

The lead issue was a one-time, grevious error - The city outsourced the management of the water plant to a commercial vendor, who changed the mix of lead prevention chemicals in order to save money. Needless to say, that worked out poorly. Vincent's taking control back of the PWSA, and introduced orthophosphate into the water supply to control the lead from old pipes, and it's pretty good again.
My sister went to university in another city. I decided to get a software job immediately with 18 because I have a mental illness that prevents me from performing well in academia. I was still living with my mom. 3 years later she comes back. Turns out she lied and she didn't even take a single exam and my mom had to return thousands of € in child support payments (eligible until 25 if you are a student). Although I felt bad for mooching off my parents I managed to save a substantial amount of money and used it to buy a tiny apartment with the money.
Now the big question is: Why the hell am I the success story in my family? It should be the other way around!
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