skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I understand roughly what you mean when you distinguish row and column vectors. For example, let [x, y] represent a row vector and [x, y]^T represent a column vector.
If you have a function f that maps [x, y]^T -> z, (you might write it z=f(x,y)), then the gradient(f) is a function [x, y]^T -> [x, y]. That is to say, the gradient is a row vector. It's a different kind of vector than the input to f. And it transforms different (c.f. https://math.stackexchange.com/a/3200912/)

So using that kind of thinking, the cross product of two column vectors is a row vector: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaM7OCEm3G0

As you say, Geometric Algebra doesn't talk about row vectors and column vectors. For example, in 3D GA,you can choose a representation in R^8. That's 1 scalar, 1 pseudo-scalar, 3 column-y components, and 3 row-y components.
The mob is still big on construction and related activities, mainly in NYC. They even have a powerful friend in the WH:

https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/news-politi...

http://trumptrophy.com/index-3.html
Obligatory rebuttal from someone who actually knows about drug development: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/01/31/an...
I hope that it does, in the offchance that I need to do anything running on RHEL 10-15 years from now.
> These "super edge cases" are happening monthly.

Yes, in a world with literally billions of people, you have a few millions who believe outlandish things. If that was the extent of the problem with polarization/toxicity on the internet (or public debate in general), I doubt we'd talk about it, and I'd be very happy with the state of the world.

Those people have no large base, no stable membership, no money, no power. Focusing on them is like decrying the fall of science because 6yo Timmy still believes in Santa Clause.
From reading a lot of comments it seems like misinformation. One thing worth keeping in mind is that game developers are highly risk averse. For good reason.
It's not a "these days" thing, "C-x" has been around for as long as there's been an Emacs, which is longer than you've been using "^".
I've found that some graphical systems will pull config from your .ssh/config

You might try it and see if anything you use works with that.
But weren't "nerds" always just "people"? It's the interpretation of the culture that's changed as well.
I don't like how people are saying that theories regarding it being accidentally leaked are conspiratorial in nature.

Intentional leaking? Sure, I think it's fair to consider that a conspiracy theory. But not accidental.
"Recruiters tell me that I'm a "job hopper" and that "it'll be difficult to place you."

Just explain that you have been contracting for the past couple of years and are now interested in something more permanent..or just look for contracting gigs.

You will most likely need to be more creative when looking for these types of jobs (contracting). Major job boards are filled with recruiters..which makes it difficult. Your best bet is to find companies that aren't using a recruiter.

"far out crazy idea for a hardware device involving Lidar that nobody else is doing"

This is probably not realistic. First find a way to actually make some money now.
Then why did the Framers add neither Presidential nor Congressional term limits to the Constitution (never mind the Federal judiciary)?
Detecting intelligent design in things is done all the time. Teacup dachshunds are intelligently designed. So's corn and broccoli.

Throwing your hands up and saying "God must've done it!" when you don't have an immediate explanation and can't be bothered to do some research into one is the bad science part.
Yeah, I guess it's both things.
If that is ever proven and a cover up ensues I’d like to think the people would at last slough off their gov.
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Asimov explicitly added a Zeroth Law of Robotics when he bridged the Robot and Foundation series, although it's still commented that a robot actually killing someone is too much of a cognitive dissonance to bear.

It's worth noting that most of Asimov's robot stories are him basically exploring the problems with the Three Laws; The Naked Sun is basically an entire novel showing how Three Laws robots can be capable of murder.
>If you are moved by it, you don't need to have it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.

And I think it is totally wrong.

If you are moved by something, you better explain to yourself why it is so. You lose a part of perception by not doing that. Rational mind is one of the ways we perceive world around us.

And you can be moved by an art if it has been explained to you. It happened to me many times in the past and is also wonderful experience. As if some gates are opened and I can feel more.
Well, that settles it.

Buy all the oil stocks you can.
Why exactly should they trust Snopes in particular, as opposed to Washington Post, Fox News, RT, the North Korean news agency, etc.
Let's assume that the general impugning of Assange's character over the past years is true. Let us further assume that the statement made by one of the comments below, that the completely unredacted nature of Wikileaks' releases is irresponsible and unnecessarily puts others in danger.

Even with all that, the events described in this article make me deeply uncomfortable. I don't have to like Assange to think that this kind of thing sets a dangerous precedent. When criminal prosecution is a thing for "the little people" and a tool twisted to dispose of those inconvenient to those in power, that is the kind of injustice which fuels riots and revolutions. I really don't want it to have to come to violence to stop corruption; that will just as likely end badly for all involved.
> Control/shortcut keys are bound to the physical key, not to the regional layout characters bound to them.

There's no reason that would have to change. If the OS was aware of both the key's physical location and what character it was supposed to represent it could easily keep the same physical mapping while simultaneously displaying the correct characters for that mapping.
Thanks for saying this. On other math topics on wikipedia, I've read, re-read, and re-read them and still felt like I didn't understand. Maybe it wasn't all my fault.
God bless you for writing such a good post
There could be naturally occurring insertions, but they would generally look similar to an associated coronavirus, or something else local, not 4 discrete changes that are all nearly identical to a (very well studied) virus that should be completely unrelated..
To be fair, anything more than ~$250/mo probably requires some kind budget approval which will quickly scare away many underlings, and means now you're in the realm of enterprise sales. Now you should probably be charging closer to $10k/mo just to deal with that headache. It's another reason why having 3 tiered pricing can really help, with a 4th tier being "contact us for enterprise solutions". It can allow you to sneak past some of these organizational hurdles, by allowing people to select the price that will cause them the least headache. Joel Spolsky talks about this a lot, how there are holes in the market for pricing due to these frictions.
If you think that's crazy, try stealing a car or assaulting someone! Those darned government oppressors, always keeping us down with their taxes and laws and stuff. Who do they think they are anyway, the government?!?
There's already child pornography in the Bitcoin blockchain, right?
Who are you responding to? No one else has mentioned "hipster tech".
Your comment reminds me of the Abdi and the Golden Ticket TAL story.
That's very, very disturbing.

If this is an engineered virus, why as a race do we keep doing these things to ourselves? Do we _really_ think that weapons of mass destruction won't be turned on us? Is our hubris so high that we think no one else can replicate what we built?
Shameful. A damning verdict on the state of due process! If you work in the exposed institutions, please help restore legitimacy by aiding discovery in any way you can.

Thank you Nils Melzer for investigating the persecution of Julian Assange, a messenger being murdered. We owe our freedom to people who dare speak truth in the face of torture.
Well, Snowden said that's the one (https://twitter.com/snowden/status/986277159252750336) and he should know, right?
When you have had a process fail because you have used the wrong usb-c cable, wrong USB-c port or wrong USB-c dongle it is really frustrating. The crazy stuff that goes on in USB-c land is a complete PITA.
2019-nCov is "The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), informally known as the Wuhan coronavirus."

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel_coronavirus_(2019-nCoV)
5.5"-long pocket shark looks like mini sperm whale—only 2 have ever been caught
George Soros should not be in control of anything.
Sample High-Resolution Satellite Images from Cartosat-3 by ISRO
Well right now, if you are not fully locked into the Apple ecosystem, you require two cables. That's quite a waste, no?

No. I am not locked into the Apple ecosystem. Having two cables enables me to charge two devices at the same time, no?
I just think the tribe mentality got informed by the constant news cycle now. A lot of sane people have probably left congress and now you have a lot of hyperpartisans who like fighting for its own sake.
https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html

This might not be a perfect resource. Among other things, he likes to use a lot of words to explain his point. But he offers up his theories on the Why behind polarization, including several contributors. Even if he doesn't get everything right, I think this is a solid place for someone who's serious about understanding it to start, and find plenty of references to dig into.
There is/was also a profound difference between /b/ and most of the rest of 4chan though. Not all of the site is /b/, that's just the most famous. It definitely set some of the culture of the other boards, but not to that same degree.

The video game/tabletop game boards on 4chan were fairly normal for boards at that time, and it's not like everyone who was active on 4chan was there to post or read /b/. You might dip into it for a laugh or dare now and then, but at least when I was younger it was more like the internet equivalent of sneaking into the abandoned house down the street: a "dangerous" thing that felt cool to do.
> ”the median age of the Senate is 20 years more than the median age of the US population“

Has the mean age of politicians increased faster than that of the general population over time, or has it always been this way?

Do politicians become older, on average, as democracies mature and power structures become more entrenched?
But existing for someone else, and existing where I can use it are two different things. I'm sure there are lots of cool tools and things that exist at big companies like Google (or more interestingly say the NSA) but for all my intents and purposes they don't because I can't interact with them.

A reverse corollary to Russell's Teapot? So what if there is a teapot orbiting Jupiter, I can't get it so it allows me no ability to serve tea. Therefore it might as well not exist!
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Well, the conclusion of this paper is that the odds of this virus coming to be naturally are very small. Which is a very scientific way of saying "we think this was man-made".

But, that is what the paper is saying. Extraordinary claims, extraordinary evidence is what I think. I feel the evidence here is quite small, but I'm not a bio-data-scientist.
This is not an answer but on a similar note, has anyone watched the latest Joe Rogan Experience with Daryl Davis. He is a black man who convinced Klan Members to leave the KKK. Amazing podcast. Maybe the only way to stop toxicity/polarity is to show real conversations with real people.
"Its imaging resolution is the highest ever developed by ISRO. Its panchromatic resolution is also the best known commercially for a satellite in orbit. With its imaging capacity, Cartosat-3 replaces WorldView-4, an American satellite with a resolution of 31cm."

Source: https://theprint.in/science/cartosat-3-images-are-so-clear-t...
Maybe.

... or maybe the Attorney General can declare that a service that allows PGP-encrypted communiques is in violation and will lose its 230 protections. The law as constructed is way over-broad.
Or just be a strong competitor in an obviously valuable space. Nothing wrong with that.
It would be conspiratorial in nature because it questions the Chinese government's official narrative that the virus emerged from a seafood market, and implies they're covering up the truth.

Of course, people usually use the term "conspiratorial" to be synonymous with "untrue" or even "patently absurd."
I just want to know when we're going to start playing Six Degrees of Jeffrey Epstein here...
Canadian immigration is rather straightforward and all avenues are well described on the IRCC website.
If you still have questions I'd recommend the ImmigrationCanada and/or IWantOut subreddits. You can get excellent advice there. If you do your homework and work out the possible avenues applicable to your personal situation they are more than happy to help.
I'm only responsible for me. These people won't change, no matter how eloquently I phrase my fact-filled take-down of their arguments. I'll sometimes argue just for the audience, but I can't fix everyone that believes something (I think is) wrong. It's not my place, anyway. People are slowly becoming more "street-wise" on the internet. This is just one of those traps people can only avoid after they've learned their lesson first-hand.
Rust offers a cheap way to filter arsenic-poisoned water
just because you believe in climate change doesn't mean you won't have other issues, like the parent was suggesting... as evidenced by your dying comment. That's not at all what they were saying.
I read "charger" to mean "the thing you use for charging", and not really bothering with the technical detail of exactly how this thing is made.

I think reading the texts as if they spoke only of the transformer/brick itself is to narrow, and not in line with the common understanding of what a "charger" is.

I will offer this suggestion of a precise definition for "charger": the complete technological assemblage required for transferring electrical power, suitable for storage, from a common wall socket onto the portable radio device.

Basically, if you have a wall socket, a mobile radio device, and a third thing, and they cannot be assembled so that the mobile can be charger, the thing is not a "common charger".
> This indicates that these insertions have been preferably acquired by the 2019-nCoV, providing it with additional survival and infectivity advantage. Delving deeper we found that these insertions were similar to HIV-1. Our results highlight an astonishing relation between the gp120 and Gag protein of HIV, with 2019-nCoV spike glycoprotein. These proteins are critical for the viruses to identify and latch on to their host cells and for viral assembly (Beniac et al., 2006). Since surface proteins are responsible for host tropism, changes in these proteins imply a change in host specificity of the virus. According to reports from China, there has been a gain of host specificity in case 2019-nCoV as the virus was originally known to infect animals and not humans but after the mutations, it has gained tropism to humans as well.

> Our analysis of the spike glycoprotein of 2019-nCoV revealed several interesting findings: First, we identified 4 unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike glycoprotein that are not present in any other coronavirus reported till date. To our surprise, all the 4 inserts in the 2019-nCoV mapped to short segments of amino acids in the HIV-1 gp120 and Gag among all annotated virus proteins in the NCBI database. This uncanny similarity of novel inserts in the 2019- nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag is unlikely to be fortuitous. Further, 3D modelling suggests that atleast 3 of the unique inserts which are non-contiguous in the primary protein sequence of the 2019-nCoV spike glycoprotein converge to constitute the key components of the receptor binding site. Of note, all the 4 inserts have pI values of around 10 that may facilitate virus-host interactions. Taken together, our findings suggest unconventional evolution of 2019-nCoV that warrants further investigation. Our work highlights novel evolutionary aspects of the 2019-nCoV and has implications on the pathogenesis and diagnosis of this virus.

So, maybe, maybe not. What's the likelihood of natural occurences resulting in these inserts ? Are these novel evolutionary aspects natural or engineered ?

Can't outright say "It was made in a lab" but can say "Something's new here".
Apple's charger already had a standard USB-A port and has moved to having a standard USB-C port.

It's the cable that they include with the iPhone that has a USB connector on the charger end and a lightning port on the phone end.

That included cable allows you to charge with any manufacturer's USB-C charger in the same way that the previous version of the cable worked with any USB-A charging port.

So, in summary, the cable Apple gives you works with other manufacturers chargers, and the charger Apple gives you works with other phones, using a standard USB-C cable that, I would imagine, came with the phone.

If they want to force Apple's hand specifically, they should be focusing on the port on the phone, not the charger.
Thanks for the Youtube link to that talk, over the past year I've read so many interviews, blog-posts and watched talks about bootstrapping businesses, but this was the most concise, honest and no-nonsense summary I've seen yet. Now I'd be interested in finding someone talk at length about selling to Enterprise customers as a bootstrapped one-man show, Jason Cohen touches on it briefly in the Q&A.
It's the kind of thing that seems like it's solvable with rules, but once you get into the weeds, there are too many rules and exceptions and exceptions to those exceptions.

In addition to prep notes, there's also text that most clients consider garbage. For example, "2 cups sugar, I use Sweetums brand!" the brand preference is garbage.

And then there are tokens like "pound" that could mean different things in different contexts (e.g., "1 pound flour", "1 chicken breast - pound till flattened", "2 cups pound cake mixture").
But when I look at the decisions today's politicians do wrt. IT, I would argue that many 30year old ex-IT students have _far_ more experience wrt. IT topics than our current politicans.

While I don't disagree that many 30-year-old IT people know more about IT than politicians, politicians have to see what is good for the whole of society, not just what affects people in an IT bubble.

We've seen countless times that technologists cannot be trusted alone. They have to be tempered by people from other disciplines.
I feel like they could solve that by making people buy-in to shared IP pools where the low volume pricing is a relatively high one time fee.

For example, if you want a quota of 100 messages per day, you have to pay a one time fee of $.10 per message to get into the pool, so $10. If you want a quota of 50k messages per day you have to pay a one time fee of $.005 per message, so $250.
To my mind, this is a little like people being depressed about The News. The News tends to be negative stuff and it used to be available for an hour or two on the TV. Now, you can access The News 24/7 via TV, internet, radio, etc.

Some folks find that really depressing because they get so much more negativity in their headspace than they used to. A primary approach to not being depressed about The News is to stop letting it take up so much of your time and attention. Actively seek to tune it out and focus on other things.

Similarly, the internet is bigger than it used to be, so some of this is perceptual and/or a numbers game. It's easy to find fightiness and feel like "It's everywhere." It's relatively easy to take good things for granted and underappreciate them.

Some things I find helpful:

1. Actively seek constructive engagement. For me, this involves declining to indulge the knee-jerk reaction to rebut anything and everything that directly disagrees with some comment I made (ie replies to me that tell me "You are wrong!" or similar). This is a bad habit of mine that just makes things worse and no amount of trying to justify to myself why I tend to do this makes it not a bad habit.

2. If I do choose to reply to people who disagree with me or who are being negative, think about what my goal is and what I'm trying to accomplish. Is there particular information I would like to put out as a result of their comment? Can I do it without just going down that path of "No, you!"?

3. Grow a thicker skin. I don't absolutely have to have every single person who replies to me on the internet like me, be nice to me, be my friend, blah blah blah. It's okay for other people to disagree with me and to talk about what they think. I can decline to take it so freaking personally that the entire world doesn't always agree with me.

4. Keep in mind that people are much more likely to reply to you online if they disagree. There isn't a whole lot to say if you agree and HN in particular actively discourages low value replies. So you aren't going to see a lot of vacuous "Me toos" here. That doesn't mean people here hate me.

5. View some of it through the lens of "HN/The Internet is bigger than it used to be. It's a numbers game. Multiple replies disagreeing with me say more about that fact than about me, this opinion, etc."

6. Work on my communication skills. This is an ongoing effort. Some phrases or framings tend to get knee-jerk negative engagement. Learning to say it better helps reduce the nonsense.

At the same time, I try to make my peace with the fact that no amount of effort on my end will ever completely put a stop to other people choosing to do whatever the heck they choose to do. "You can't please all of the people all the time" and that sort of thing.

(This comment is not intended to be comprehensive. It's just an off-the-cuff forum comment, not a PhD thesis.)
Not clear what your issue with the rapporteur is? He makes which claims interchangeably? Assange uncovered torture and is tortured? Those are mutually exclusive?

What do you say to the other claims regarding the misbehavior of the Swedish police and prosecutor? You seem to be saying that despite these irregularities, Assange had nothing to worry about if he were innocent, and just should have submitted to extradition? That's a remarkable assertion.
What are the geopolitical ramifications if this is indeed a bioweapon?
Title should probably read "...book about rebasing..."
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> but I know one thing that isn't the solution: silencing everyone who disagrees with you

this assumes that the people on the internet are arguing in good faith. they aren't in a lot of cases. the problem i have is willful ignorance and the associated culture that promotes the people that spread lies.
> silencing anyone who disagrees with you.

Agreed. Disagreement, tolerance, and diversity are healthy. The opposite is censorship, insecurity, and conformance.
For God's sake, forget the "for Humans" already! It is very agressive communication. EVERY library should be for HUMANS and the goal should be simple, easy-to-use APIs.
Could you clarify what you mean by your ultimatum for me?

Whatsapp and Instagram are already owned by Facebook - that is, as far as I understand, they have already merged.