skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How so? They didn’t say the safety of drones are more important than the people of East Africa. Drones could very well be used to help combat this crisis. Have you considered not being upset just for the fun of it?
Does it matter? What Graham says is purely a matter of partisan support, there's no principle to be discerned.
> Something about text communications makes people much more aggressive than they would be face to face. People wouldn’t say half the things they say online if they had to say them out loud.

I do think you have a point, but also remember how public hate can be: slavery, segregation, genocide, Inquisition, witch trials, terrorism, violent crime, etc.

Unfortunately, humans have a history of willingly and publicly spreading hate without hiding behind text.

This is a huge topic with many possible solutions, but one option is to choose how we respond to it and how we let it affect us. Just knowing that someone might be more aggressive through text than in person might help to dampen the impact we let text have on us.
Hypocrisy is so common for everyone, and especially politicians, that it's not really noteworthy. It's fun to point out but ultimately doesn't convince anyone.

(The SCOTUS tries harder than most people to at least appear consistent.)
Your argument rationalizes literally every dark pattern in ux that has ever existed. No of course there isn't a gun to anyone's head here. That's not the point that anyone is arguing. The point is that it encourages someone in a position of trust to act against a patient's interest. They at least share blame with the physician. I'd say most of the blame, because if this feature didn't exist, the physician wouldn't act against the patient's self interest. The world isn't black and white, it's why manslaughter exists as a crime and why we don't just have murder.
My last job I didn't receive my machine for well over a month. I was told to use my personal machine until the provided one arrived.
> Next comes the difficultly of removing that person from the position is incredibly difficult if they prove unfit in any way unlike positions in a democracy.

I think current events are demonstrating that we're unable to remove hilariously unfit people in democracies, too.
As an example of a problem that can occur: Client wants to survey the elevations of a parcel of land for building a house. The surveyor goes out and collects data with gps survey equipment, which produces a .csv file of northing,easting,and elevation values relative to some National Geodetic Survey benchmark. The engineer imports this .csv into his cad software, produces a grading plan .csv file. The earthmoving contractor imports the grading plan into his software and grades the site.

Client gets house built, moves in and discovers that the front yard turns into a swamp after every rain.

Somewhere in the chain of importing and exporting .csv files, software A was using survey feet and software B was using international feet.

This can also cause problems like structures built in the wrong spot, fences built on neighbors land, etc.
This made me look for an alternative, and I found Castro, which I love! The UI is miles better!

https://castro.fm/
> The senators who initiated the bill are not dumb. They knew exactly how it would play out.

Blumenthal (who wrote SESTA and also this bill) was waging a war against consensual sex work for years, long before he was elected to the Senate.

The fallout from SESTA was not accidental; it was by design.
Dumping documents doesn't make you a journalist. The only people who claim to be journalists who would support him as one are those who have a reputational and financial interest in being associated whim.
Thank you for asking that and my apologies for not initially providing a context and by that poor omission opening up the very valid and fair possibility that I was being callous and uncaring. Also thank you for taking the time to raise that question instead of blindly judging and running with the worst case presumption, thank you.

I was thinking along the lines of fishing them as a food resources and drones with nets, but before I ran with that was wondering how well a drone would cope with such swarms and not something that the net did not offerup as a clear answer, either.

[EDIT ADD first paragraph ]
It's funny how Musk himself disproves that claim. He runs 3 companies simultaneously, yet clearly he can't dedicate 80hrs/week for each.
I miswrote. Rotation calculations are represented (in quaternions and in geometric algebra calculations) as a 3D subspace of R^4, with the "extra" dimension accounted for by constraining quaternions to the unit hypersphere.

Rotations do involve magnitudes when interpreted as an axis (2 dimensional manifold embedded in R^3) and a magnitide (0 to 2pi)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis%E2%80%93angle_representat...

SO(3) is a coordinate-free abstraction that isn't relevant to the topic of GA vs Quaternions for calculating concrete values in computer graphics
That's how you gracefully shut down an SSH session, with the socket close initiated from the remote end (where the shell is running.)

\n~. is for gracefully exiting a stuck/hung SSH session (e.g. one where the remote isn't responding to input) without force-killing the SSH client itself (which might do bad things to the process group it lives in.)
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It is exceptionally irresponsible to make claims like this.
I can't find a recent article on HN containing debates on/against/about/for socialism with banned accounts in them, so it's hard to see the content/context that would then be called toxic, but I do see in your reply that you mention "tedious" and "idealogical flamebait" which is not mutually exclusive to toxic behaviour. I suppose someone could write flamebait or be tedious without being toxic.
Perhaps a good way to learn architecture is directly jump into it. Try spinning up a complex personal open source project. The first architectural problems you will encounter will occur once the first set of new non-original requirements creep in. You will notice: complexity and competing concerns. You will need to make hard decisions to reduce complexity to allow better scale into the future and balance to resolve competing concerns. Practice is a great teacher.
That's a problem with reddit, whose narrow-focused subreddits encourage groupthink. It's not specific to Trump, I'm sure doing the same in pro-Sanders or pro-Warren subreddits will have the same effect. Or indeed pro-Rihanna or pro-Metallica subreddits.

You'll have better luck with 4chan. People will call you a lot of bad words for sure, but they will also debate your point to death.
The main error is that the article assumes that the observer must be a human. It was a bad idea to use the words "observation" / "observer" because they are misleading. I prefer "measurement".

One easy example is the Stern–Gerlach experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern–Gerlach_experiment

In this case the "observer" is just a brick in one of the paths. There is a very nice chapter in the Feynman's book about the Stern–Gerlach experiment and how it is related to most quantum experiments and measurements.
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China once used to be like that, and the 10 years "golden" (called that way for a hefty processing fee) business visa was pretty much accepted as a "pay to play" option to stay in China.

A few years ago China made a u-turn and started tightening on legit applicants. Property bought by business visa holders is now in legal limbo. It's said that it is now nowhere as certain for small business owners to get an extension, even when their business operate in good standing.

If you get kicked out with you business still in China, it will suck.
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The intended target was sex workers, far more so than pimps.
I am basing this on nothing but my own opinion. This has been going on for a while. Sometime around 2010-2012 many news sites started removing their comment sections. While most people thought many of these comment sections were "cancer", it was a still way to comment on, add context to, or dispute something posted to a news site. The claim was that "trolls" were causing too many problems. This was around the same time the definition of troll changed to mean anyone who disagreed with the OP or the content of a news article.

Once that happened, more and more opinion pieces started to be passed around as "news" articles. As opinions are biased, those biases got more and more apparent over time. With a lack of a way to respond, people turned to Twitter and other services.

Add to that, a continual redefining of what speech is "appropriate" and what speech is "problematic". This was a further attempt to control the discussion/debate by defining what tools could and could not be used when discussing/debating. This is seen by many who do not consider themselves "liberal" or deeply concerned with social justice issues as another attempt to exert power and control the narrative by silencing any opposition.

That's where it's all coming from. Toxic, problematic, etc. Are just synonyms for those who exert power, namely those few who are given a voice...the self-described journalist's, to label stuff they don't like. They use other terms like racist, mysoginy, Nazi, Alt-right, all synonyms for people who hold ideas contrary to their own.

As soon as we have a level playing field online, where all voices can be heard, not just blue checkmark, then maybe we'll make progress. Until then, things will get so worse and when they have the power to do so, these avenues of expression...FB, Twitter, will just be more places where you can express yourself freely as long as you say what you are allowed to say.
...as recently as 2 weeks ago, no less https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-51098209
> Before, around 2010-2012, people who disagreed would usually leave it at that and walk away respectfully.

I don't know what internet you were using, but this does not match my experience. The internet has been a dickfighting playground since at least the 90s. The biggest difference is that comment threads are the majority of how people create content on the internet now and they weren't before.
Invading Afghanistan endangered Afghan civilians, and recruiting Afghan civilians to work for the US while Afghanistan was not and was not going to be wrestled from the control of the Taliban endangered them. Why do you not consider this a moral case for Assange to damage the US (by leaking information), but consider Assange's leaks endangering Afghan civilians (by modulating the risk inherent in the US actions described above!) to be a moral case for the US to damage Assange (by subjecting him to legal harassment out of line with established norms of civilised society)?

The situation to me seems to be only a few steps removed from something along of the lines of $government outright taking some civilian hostages and threatening to execute one of them every time someone reports on any of $government's wrongdoings. In a scenario like that, would you also say that the act of reporting is immoral because it endangers civilians - and hence cheer on $government's long hand punishing the reporter?
Thank you, suspected as much but just didn't know. Was pondering drone fishing fleets harvesting such swarms, back to the mental drawing board then for me.
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Exactly. Extremists who espouse intolerance count on the tolerance of the opposing groups to get themselves accepted and their extremist viewpoints normalized. When they do get deplatformed, marginalized and discredited, they complain about it, which itself serves to recruit people, especially those who are unfamiliar with such tactics and mistakenly think that their side is being unfair.
Regarding chronic disease...

So I have a friend with Hashimoto's. Before finally being diagnosed, she had a long history of being misdiagnosed, blown off, and having her symptoms dismissed as nothing. After being diagnosed, she connected with a number of other Hashimoto's patients and sufferers of chronic illness in general and found out that pretty much everyone she's talked to has the same stories. Constant invalidation, ignoring of symptoms, doctors just plain not listening, until they finally find someone who actually knows their stuff.
Pointing out that a politician is a hypocrite is a waste of time. Finding a financial conflict of interest is a waste of time. These days either catch them in a rape or looking at child porn or don't even bother.

Was first presented to me in a talk at defcon about hacking public records for political dirt.
Because hacker news is not a go compiler.
"Locusts are the swarming phase of certain species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. These insects are usually solitary, but under certain circumstances become more abundant and change their behaviour and habits, becoming gregarious" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locust

So, in normal circumstances, grasshoppers are benign but under certain conditions, they can form swarms.
Okay so we definitely need to flag any machine learning papers from Arxiv because hey preprint.

Further, do you assume that other members cannot read the preprint warning and decide for themselves? This strikes me as some sort of bizarre way to patronize the entire community.
I think at this point in time the "anonymity makes people assholes" argument is pretty dead - look no further than Facebook during the 2016 election for a fantastic example of real names and faces being exactly zero inhibition to every sort of nasty behavior imaginable. Attacks on anonymity as an inherently flawed concept, only useful in specific niches like dissidents and reporters and inimical to quality discourse, should be ignored like the Facebook "one authentic self" gaslighting propoganda they are.

You also imply that anonymity is somehow "not useful" except in cases of extreme threats to life or liberty at the same time you conflate pseudoanonymity and anonymity on Reddit. If anything, Reddit is a great example of how _insufficient_ anonymity can lead to evaporitively-cooled echo-chambers in short order: karma and rep, coupled with persistent identities, are powerful drivers of conformism.

Why, then, you ask, is HN not quite as bad when it is also pseudoanonymous? I'd say it comes down to local culture. HN isn't as monolithic as it could be because at least some users disagree with expressing disagreement via downvote as long as a point is made in good faith. Similarly, some (almost entirely anonymous) chan boards were actually really good in terms of quality discourse, while others were shitholes. The differentiating factor is the attitude of the community and its moderation philosophy, rather than some simple "how anonymous is this site" bucketing.

That's why I'm convinced that a lot of the problems with modern social media are the result of the creation of an environment where developing that type of site/board culture that can foster discourse is impossible: if you take a global platform where moderation is often outsourced and totally divided from any of the communities it theoretically serves and populate it with people who've not been exposed to the sort of behavioral norms common in earlier Internet communities, you end up with no norms at all - just an infinite vista of shitposting.

If anything, I'd disagree with your third point even more strongly than your first: even though community-local moderation can exacerbate echo-chamber effects, it can also foster productive cultures. In other words, community-driven moderation is necessary but not sufficient for establishing worthwhile norms. Even if the ratio is 10 T_D:1 HN, I'll still take that over the global, no-holds-barred shitfight enabled by platforms like Twitter.
It would take 41,708 feet for the error to add up to one inch.
It's not just IT. How many legislators have experience with any particular thing that they write legislation on? Not very many.

I will admit that IT legislation often seems insanely out of touch. But I wonder if that's just because I know IT better than I know, say, the merchant marine.
think renaming a software library is hard? try changing units of measure!!!!!
Not necessarily, if you can serve for 40 years there's more risk in losing your sweet gig if you get found out.
Just wanted to say I've really enjoyed following your progress. It's awesome to see the changes over time and I really hope I can follow in your footsteps someday. I used to check your blog weekly hoping for a blog update to help pass the long afternoons that dragged on forever at work.

By chance was it you that released the Rooster app? Apologies if it wasn't but I remember reading a blog post about an app that would text you in the morning or something and I could have sworn it was your blog. The post had a link to the app that I clicked on but little did I know that the app had been shut down and the URL was scooped up by a less appropriate website. I was greeted with a very NSFW web page while at work haha.
This is pretty common in general. Taliban started in a very similar way - their first public act as an organized movement was trial and execution a local warlord who raped children from a nearby village.
One of the issues with Nim is that ARC is still a form of automatic memory management, of which many domains do not want. This is why Odin has been designed to take advantage of custom allocators so that programmers have a huge control of how memory is allocated at all levels. And coupled with the `context` system, you can also have control over and track third-party code in how it allocates things.

Custom allocators are a pleasure to use, and allow for so much control. Along with the temporary allocator, you can make Odin feel like it's a dynamic language whilst being extremely fast. Custom allocators are an under-utilitized thing in programming in general, and I hope more people release what is possible with them that is not possible with automatic memory management schemes.
The difference is .0002%. your examples would barely add up to an inch over a mile.
Well for one we know plenty of technically competent older workers who get passed over in tech and it isn't a zero sum game - in a functioning system there is room for young and old workers and overall success inproving with more workers can make more room. Elected officials are finite and zero sum so the situation isn't comparable even if principles are.

There are also the throughly mixed messages sent. Ageism is enshrined into law even past the threshold of 18. It is just defined with maximum hypocrisy such that a 20 year old is too incapable of drinking while a senile nonegarian year old with Alzheimers severe enough to have the mental capacity of a child is. Now there are obvious dangers to sunsetting rights but that double standard both normalizes the reverse and both equality and spite make "what is good for the goose is good for the gander" viscerally tempting to those who were disadvantaged.
Not the best of mentalities but it is easy to see how someone who couldn't rent a car until recently would be less than sympathetic.
I am impressed at the number of people reacting with « Euler angles are fine » or « quaternions are fine, we always did this way ». Having worked extensively with them it is obvious that Euler angles are broken beyound repair (singularities, 12 competing variations...) and quaternion are too (they only work in 3D). This article is extremely interesting and absolutely true. If geometric algebra had been discovered earlier we would never have needed a lot of these unnatural constructs.
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I'm not sure why you assume that this law, should it eventually appear, would be enforced with jail time? For that matter, why it would even be targeted at sellers of cables instead of phone makers?
Alarmist, yes. Unscientific BS, not really. He’s got the background to make comments from a position of legitimacy. If we can’t trust this guy, even with some healthy skepticism, who should we trust?

https://scholar.harvard.edu/ericding/home

Edit: by trust, I don’t mean blindly believe, but mean one should consider his comments seriously.
Yes, I commented there about the Bourne Shell and the IOCCC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22192910
Could be automod stuff. I have read a few hypothesis a couple of times about things that can trigger automodding, like many upvotes but few comments, or lots of deeply nested comments very quickly.
So? Monitor electronics (the panel) are the same, but the EDID chip in a monitor still describes not only things about the panel, but about the monitor itself, like its orientation or factory color-calibration, and in fact the make and model of the monitor. Why not have such a chip in other peripherals? They're not expensive. Many keyboards already have flash for firmware updates or remembering F13-F24 binds.
But 3D is the D that matters for 3D games. video games are concrete mathematics, not abstract mathematics.
well to be fair r/thedonald exists because this exact thing happens to trump supporters in r/politics

people love echo chambers it turns out. It's no surprise that all the big platforms are evolving to provide them. I think the market for well reasoned argument is smaller than OP thinks.
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So why not just use Euler axis/angle representations instead?

Composition of two rotations in axis/angle representation basically proceeds via the quaternionic formula, ie in terms of half-angles. So if you need to do that a lot, it makes sense to go fully quaternionic to avoid having to work with both full and half angles.
The original iPod just had a FireWire port.

When they decided to make the iPod PC compatible we ended up with a connector that was passing through FireWire, USB, audio, playback controls, and the kitchen sink.

After a certain point, they started passing through video as well.
I disagree.

The problem is the loudest groups of people are people with the strongest political opinions. Regular people are busy. They have neither the time nor desire to police internet arguments or play the counter argument game. And even if someone does, regular people don't have time or desire to wade through it.

One thing that I noticed when I had a Facebook account was that apart from a few exceptions most what I would consider well-adjusted people rarely participated in political discussions. Sure, people on average might be apolitical but there is no shortage of political content on Facebook -- it just predominantly seems to be driven by people using pseudonyms or with much less stake in their social identity.

Another issue is that both politcal parties in the US seem to believe that they can achieve their goals by shifting the Overton window and they are incentivized to polarize people and hijack online platforms to do this.

This leads to a huge black-hole of representation for any sort of average political view online which cannot be countered with the above logic.