skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What I wrote does not enjoy the benefit of citations, which I don't have handy.

It's something that's uncitable so I don't think anyone holds that against you. It's really a discussion on human nature. I can't cite anything to defend my position either.

> Would Oliver Cromwell have just nuked Ireland?

Though he was a religious zealot who did bad things in ireland, I doubt he'd nuke the entire irish peoples - certainly not the protestants. Also, technically, ireland was part of his domain/kingdom back then. Cromwell would probably have nuked the kings and leaders, but not the people. Just like jefferson davis would have nuked lincoln and the union leaders, but not the american/northern people.

> But, of course, I could be wrong. I don't think humans are inherently better now than 500 years ago.

I agree, but I think societal norms and beliefs guide how we behave and think - not just in civilian life but in military and political life. I think human beings are just as evil and selfish as in the 1800s, but most of us wouldn't support racial slavery. I don't think we are innately better than we were 150 years ago as human beings. Deep down we are the same, but the societal mores has changed. Particularly the scientific white supremacy which allowed for total genocide ( men, women and children ) in much of the 19th and 20th centuries.

I don't think cromwell would have seen a school with 1000 kindegarten irish kids and nuked it. But the US and Britain certainly would have if it were 1000 native kids and nazi germany would nuked 1000 jewish kids.

I suspect in the future, once a real war begins, nobody will think twice about civilian casualties as the precedent has been set and the stakes would be so high. Most importantly, nobody responsible for nuking hiroshima or nagasaki was prosecuted. Nobody responsible for dresden or tokyo was prosecuted. The lesson is that no matter what, you have to be on the winning side. But only time will tell.
That's not true. As far back as the sixties at least, both Harleys, Triumphs and Japanese motorcycles had either one coil for each cylinder or one coil (with two plug wires) for every two cylinders. They weren't mounted on the plugs, but up under the gas tank or under the seat. The plug wires go directly from a coil to a spark plug, so there is no distributor.

The purpose of a distributor on a car was to distribute the output of one coil to several spark plugs. When you have a separate coil output for each plug, there's no need to distribute anything.
I think that it was less about the end-user as it was about the gay people working for Mozilla who felt uncomfortable working with a CEO who took the actions Eich took in his past. One cannot know peoples' private thoughts or biases, so folks often take what ever signal they can get.
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I don't have the same issues with Windows 10 but I only really use it for work and some gaming so I'm hardly an authority on it. Any issues you have might be due to the fact that they got rid of the Windows team awhile back.
There is something seriously wrong with Firefox if the default spellcheck dictionary is so bad that I might need to install a different one, especially for the English language. Hell they should just be able to merge theirs with Chromium's. Regardless, as I said I don't normally use spellcheck and I trust my own judgement over the computer's so it isn't a big deal for me.
oh my bad, I misunderstood what he meant.
I've found a opposite experience. They seemed to like sutter the best, a bunch of others not bad and kaiser was so-so. It might be a case-by-case issue depending on the specialty.
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That's on my roadmap! Do you have ideas on how a testsuite for that might work? I am open to suggestions.
Makes me wonder if Nintendo had gotten the tech what they would have done with it. Nintendo not only has the more casual audience, but they have the creativity and culture internally to develop compelling gaming experiences with unique technology like that.
Because leaders tend to actually influence policy.
I believe you believe what you wrote.

I will say the same for the same people chastising you.

It all comes down to a difference in perspective, values, and outlook. I don't believe the hate you're getting is justified, but for someone that works in marketing: your copy is unconvincing ;)

Perhaps you didn't frame properly for your audience? You seem more on the defensive instead of the offensive, morphing your position so your detractors can see it from a different angle.

Just some thoughts. It must be draining replying to all of that hate.
To make that point with an example, my go to for any new disk image or real drive is disktype¹ which produces:

--- cursed.img
Regular file, size 4 MiB (4194304 bytes)
FAT12 file system (hints score 4 of 5)
Volume size 3.916 MiB (4106240 bytes, 2005 clusters of 2 KiB)
Ext2 file system
UUID 2D74B033-E8A6-4738-98B2-02BCC3F0D98E (DCE, v4)
Last mounted at "/home/kuba/cursedfs/mountpoint"
Volume size 64 KiB (65536 bytes, 64 blocks of 1 KiB)

1. http://disktype.sf.net
Indeed. I keep Brave around just to handle the 5% of sites that are decidedly not FF friendly.

FF -- fix text sizing. As an example, old-style Reddit renders wonderfully on Brave and terribly terribly small on FF mobile. Another tester site is BOFH.
Well, that's creepy. I don't think I'd want to work anywhere that would use these kinds of autistic approaches to human interaction.

Also, we've seen no end of issues with AI revealing biases that rival the most odious human. Meta AI censorware is coming that will take what AIs see and apply human socially-constructed egalitarianism on top, ostensibly, but the real result is hardly likely to be any more fair than what a good person would do themselves.

My fear is that this AI is going to reject people for reasons that actual humans would be compassionate enough to overlook....
I by no means think we should ignore the issue. But I disagree with OP that climate change is obviously a massively more important risk than all of the others.

I also think that a stance approaching religious fervor is entirely inappropriate for this sort of policy discussion.

(As a wild guess, I think some combination of #4 and #6 is our biggest risk for extinction over the next 10,000 years.)
Legality and morality are very often unrelated; in this case, the implication is not that he did something illegal, but that he is an asshole for spending his money for the purpose of making other people’s lives worse to the benefit of nobody.

Personally, I think that’s a perfectly good reason for not giving him more money.

“Cancel culture” is many people (many of whom matter to investors in one way or another) stating that they also feel that that is a bad place to put money.
I have lounge access through my credit card but even if you don't, it's way cheaper to pay the airport lounge day rate than to fly biz class.
arXiv link for more context: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04643

and blog posting with audio examples: https://magenta.tensorflow.org/ddsp
If you optimize for your devs use and not your users there's a problem.
Those consoles already existed, the Wii and Wii U, Nintendo moved away from the whole idea. It's a good idea in theory but it didn't catch on and realistically kids just aren't a big enough market to concentrate on in the context of gaming, the average gamer is in their 30's and has a ton of disposable income, those are who the console manufacturers are targetting. If you do want a console for kids, well the Switch exists...
> politics (e. g. “safe-sync”)

I’m continually impressed by what people are willing to label “politics”. And by how badly people must hate whatever they understand “politics” to be.
> Nintendo's first party games added a few fun details using the motion controls, but other than Wii Sports and a few novelty titles there weren't many games for which motion control played a pivotal role.

Wii Sports and Wii Fit were console movers. They were novelty console movers, sure, but they moved things. Take them and the motion controls away and you've got Gamecube 2, with just the fun first party Nintendo games and much lower console sales.
>at least sometimes significantly different from the deontological status of actually participating in the act, a distinction similar to use/mention distinctions.

True, that's as much as the paper argues, too. My point wasn't that most deontologists would consider it immoral, only that someone has argued (quite convincingly) that it can be.
It seems about median.

> Thirty-seven percent of PETA’s dedicated staff earn between $30,000 and $44,999, including President Ingrid Newkirk, who made $31,285 during the fiscal year ending July 31, 2016. Seven percent of PETA’s dedicated staff only earn between $16,000 and $29,999, and the remaining 56 percent make more than $45,000 per year. Most staff members give a portion of their earnings back to PETA’s lifesaving programs through payroll deductions.

https://www.peta.org/misc/how-much-money-does-ingrid-newkirk...
I have a few of questions for the authors:

- (w.r.t time varying FIRs) How did your results compare to traditional NLMS/adaptive approaches? Were you able to achieve similar results with fewer CPU cycles/lower filter order?

- (also w.r.t FIRs) Have you looked at your approach as more general/nonlinear model of adaptive filtering?

- How do you deal with highly correlated parameters in your models?

- (w.r.t dereverberation) How does your approach compare in fidelity and performance to homomorphic filtering approaches for deconvolution?
I am only OK with one type of advertising.

1) I have a problem or a need that I am looking to fulfill.

2) I ask (E.G. a search engine) about fulfilling that need.

3) The results are no BS, no hidden fees, directly up-front responses that tell me how much something is going to cost, where it is, and maybe why that will solve my needs/desires.

That is the only place at all that 'ads' belong, informative messages that are intended to actually help BOTH the consumer and any service provider.
> Climate science has become far too unquestionable.

Seems to me climate science is constantly being questioned.

It’s questioned publicly by roughly half of the most powerful politicians of the most powerful country in the world, and t try uat country’s current leader. It was and still is questioned publicly by many of the most powerful companies in the world.

Can you be more specific? Are there particular questions or areas of research within the broad domain of climate science that you believe have been surpressed or ignored by the scientific community?
Thanks for the feedback everyone.

I've changed the typeface now, however you may have to hit refresh on your browser because I've used some pretty aggressive cache-control headers.

It's not a hugely massive change in typeface style because I really can't stand sherif when reading large chunks of text however I have also included some tweaks in the spacing which might also help.

Let me know if that has improved things or if I need a more dramatic change in typeface.
I once (like 15 years ago) bought a base model car and the buttons on the radio didn't work right. This was after the era of standard DIN radios, and it wasn't broken, it just didn't do what you told it to. So I took it to the dealer and after initial disbelief, they fixed it.

I realized what happened (they didn't explain in so many words) was that to be as efficient as possible, the difference between the mid level and base level trims was a different plastic faceplate with different labels, and a software switch. So mine apparently had the switch set for a different trim and all that was needed was to change it. But the exact same electronics were installed in all the cars.
I wish people put as much energy into shutting down eco-deniers as they do policing other eco-advocates.
they probably fired the people who pump the articles/posts/comments with fake votes
Perhaps I’m unusual, but other people earning more than me doesn’t dishearten me. My first job after uni was UK national average for all adults, so I felt well off even on “only” £24k in 2007, but ever since then, no matter how much I get paid, other people keep telling me I don’t earn enough.

If anything, the idea of earning twice as much feels weird rather than aspirational.
If you enjoy this you might enjoy Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke.

It's got a lot of the classic "here's how humans are irrational" stuff that's in other similar books of it's genre, but I found it full of very practical tips as well.
Huh? No, that makes no sense at all. The fares are exactly the same in the entire section of the cabin, and only differ by section (i.e., business class costs more than economy, "economy plus" costs more than economy, etc.). Planes don't have different costs by row within the same section.

We do row-by-row because we intuitively think that people closer to the exit should be able to get to the exit faster, even though this isn't really the case.
Pros and Cons of Using ASI in JavaScript
people felt this way about overpopulation in the 70s for what it's worth
Yeah. Three scenarios exist. Either it's aliens, or it's natural, or it's terrestrial tech. Releasing info on which of those would damage national security? Not natural phenomena. Not aliens, unless they're helping us against other nations, and would stop doing so if we exposed them. And not terrestrial tech, unless it's our terrestrial tech.

My money is on it being our terrestrial tech.
we've seen about 1.5 degrees fahrenheit of warming so far.
Very true, but it costs money and neither Google's browser with their nearly infinite resources has them.
FF might just need more time to implement them properly; I only wish they didn't fall into the dumbed down UI fashion like they did when they copied from others the "let's fill the main page with junk and remove a perfectly working configuration panel completely".
Says website is sleeping? did he go over the bandwidth limit?
People add garbage to the orbit before thinking how to remove it. As with anything new actually. Do first and think how to undo later
Or both: Use 'I don't care about cookies' list in uBlock: https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/abp/
Something strange happens with buffering in a subshell
I’ve done something similar. Dropped my hotspot in a cab and didn’t realize until after dinner a couple of hours later. Had the restaurant call the cab company and they tracked down which cab it was, confirmed it was there and had the same cab drop it off for us again at the restaurant. I don’t think this would’ve happened anywhere else.
why no LA, lol
> Just writing a javascript runtime alone isn't just a "handful of engineers."

But it is. You can verify it yourself: https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/commits/master/Source/JavaS...

> You're kidding me, there is no small team in the world that could ship a browser stack end to end.

https://webkit.org/team/, ⌘F "Apple". Balance the people on that list who have left or are assigned to work on something else with those who aren't listed there.
and look at the result, Firefox only 5% usershare, and yet she got even more money

i keep repeat it

mozilla is a shady org
I'm not big into consoles, but yeah, when I first heard that a developer needed to pay Nintendo to be allowed to make a game for their console, I thought that was stupid. The whole thing of consoles being sold at a loss because they make their money back on selling the right to make games for it, is a bad business model in my opinion, and I wouldn't mind seeing it die. Just sell your hardware for a fair price and let developers sell their software for a fair price.

Open platforms, open standards.
She used the sandwich feedback technique for a eulogy - an interesting approach.
https://www.rightattitudes.com/2008/02/20/sandwich-feedback-...
> Just letting everyone randomly line up and enter the plane turns out to be the most efficient practical method, but no airlines do that.

Doesn't Southwest do that?
Ouch.

I guess she's learned you've really gotta CYA in the Valley these days. Eich (inventor of JavaScript, for the record) was ousted over a private political contribution to a cause that a near-majority of Californians supported just a few years earlier. The matter was made an issue by so-called activists trawling the legally-required logs of political contributions and intentionally setting out to destroy Eich, if not Mozilla generally, merely because they disagreed with his political leanings.

If you can get flayed for that, I'd guess there's a substantial chance that you'd also be on the hook for failing to lambast the beliefs of a deceased colleague.

It would be nice to see Baker stand up against that, but one can only assume the thoughts of "Am I going to lose my job if I fail to call out the deceased's quote-unquote bigotry?" crossed her mind. Bonus consideration for Mozilla's top brass: "are we going to trigger another widespread blacklisting of the Firefox UA if we upset the mob?"

It must be terrible to live under those auspices.
My reasoning is that Google's investment is massive and just because they're throwing money and people at a problem doesn't make it necessary for everyone else to do so as well.
I can get my stuff out of the overhead bin in about 1 second.

I have a better idea: people should have to go through qualification testing to see how fast they can grab their backpack out of the bin and start walking down the aisle. Fast people should get special dispensation, and slow people should be required to leave last. The problem is that too many people bumble around and take forever to do a very simple task.
Just curious, I've got 15+ years of experience I can put on there. If I simply listed the ones that I thought were most relevant to the position I was applying for, would you ask why there are gaps?

For example - during the 2008 downturn, I worked a job that was not terrible, but used tools and hard skills that were completely non-transferrable to any job I've had since then. So I no longer put it on my resume even though I was there for 2 years. Would that two year gap over a decade ago be a conversation? Assuming of course, that I even put anything prior to 2010 on an application anymore.

I guess for me - do you dig into every gap you see? Maybe they left under good circumstances and just don't want to list the job because they weren't proud of the work they did there.
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Part of his job was to acquire and retain employees, allocate capital, and engage in public relations.

Spending his personal money on fucking over other people (with no real benefit to the world), many of whom worked for or could work for him, is a bad sign about those parts of his job.

(That may not be an argument for the board to fire him, of course, but it is an answer to “how good is he at his job?”)
archive.is is censored by CloudFlare. Use a different DNS resolver.
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Totally agree that this is confusing. I've stolen and committed your suggestion. Thank you both!
TL/DR but it seems extremely weird to me Kinect is not everywhere. It seems an obvious convenience everybody should and would want to use, like a wheel.
> CS was as close to meritocracy as it could have been.

...as long as you were a white, heterosexual man in the US.
This is one of those things you really have to watch the video or understand the concept to have it spark your brain (or not). Here's a timestamped link to the part of the video I think is interesting[0].

What interests me is how simple, general, and composable it is though there are also some privacy gains (there's no need to know where a packet came from[1]). Let's say I write some application and today I want it to speak TCP, but tomorrow I want it to listen from a kafka queue, and the day after I want it to actually listen on UDP -- the benefit of using something like ouroboros is the layer under the communication could be anything. Take this one step further and you could switch out the configurations from underneath applications as well.

In an orchestrated context like kubernetes, IP networks introduce a lot of complexity -- the CNI (Container Network Interface) and setting up your networks, subnets, VPNs, etc requires that you bone up on what is basically "essential complexity" in the network space[2]. I've paid the cost somewhat (I'm not a dyed-in-the-wool sysadmin) so I can find my way around but every once in a while I lament how complex it all is when you put it together. With ouroboros, and applications that were coded to use ouroboros (or were coded to connect to a resource that is actually ouroboros underneath), I could actually skip setting up the entire network and maybe have all my messages go over something like a kafka queue. Whether this is a good idea or not aside, ouroboros is introducing an abstraction layer at the network layer -- but not just at one level... it's the entire stack.

For 90% of the usecases (especially this early), most of the networks made with ouroboros will be IP underneath, but I am really interested in the world where they won't be, and I think Ouroboros is a pretty elegant abstraction to take us there.

[0]: https://youtu.be/6fH23l45984?t=1333

[1]: https://youtu.be/6fH23l45984?t=1735

[2]: https://youtu.be/6fH23l45984?t=1400
That's why the crew should be enforcing the bag limits. One person is only supposed to have 1 carry-on, and it's supposed to be a relatively small size.
That and I believe the new modal prevents locking up the entire browser.
This works. And I do it. Too many unhinged people out there. Here in the US, I've found things in restaurants a couple of times and pointed it to the staff.

It clears the liability for all involved, since no one can claim that the staff or a fellow patron 'took it'. It was pointed out by a customer and removed with witnesses. I generally mention it to more than one staff.

I try to baseline assume that the person I'm dealing with in public is not fully there (which would include the property owner). It makes it easier to deal with when it is actually the case.
> If push came to shove, forking chromium wouldn't be an idle threat from MS

Can almost guarantee this will happen in 2-5 years.

Given Microsoft's history, I don't see Microsoft and Google playing nice for too long.
Sure, aesthetics is ultimately a subjective thing, but that's not what I'm saying.
Two people somewhat less experienced. I don't believe that was the issue.
I don't get the gripe with leg room, unless you are oddly shaped. I'm 6' and I don't care about leg room or leaning back, because in every flight you can just push your bag under your seat and stretch your legs fully under the seat ahead of you.

I find a 5 hour flight more comfortable than 3 hour sporting event on an aluminum bleacher.
Memorize it in the form of a BIP-39 mnemonic[1]. 12 words are enough to encode 128 bits of entropy and a 4 bit checksum.

[1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawi...
New Smart City in Cancun Will Include over 7M Plants
2ndAddress is about 30-40% more expensive than airbnb monthly, FWIW.