skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the idea that your people/ancestors/country is uniquely horrible is itself a kind of bizarre and twisted sublimated notion of superiority.

Human history all over the world is rife with genocides, slavery, torture, forced expulsions, institutionalized discrimination and hateful treatment of minorities, and notions of ethnic supremacy. America isn't the slightest bit special in that regard. Every nation on Earth is built on the blood of somebody, and most of them aren't wallowing in guilt over it, nor should they. It's the normal human condition.

I also don't think it's productive. People are not amenable to the idea that they should share guilt for crimes that happened before they were born - the moral sentiment that crimes pass down through blood is mostly extinct, so that line of argument tends to alienate people. Further, it places the past in an anachronistic lens of modern morality - in today's moral universe, every single person of the past was wicked. So what's the point of harping on it? None of us would be here without them, nor would today's moral universe even exist, so people are necessarily going to feel some gratitude for those that came before, so again, you're alienating people who might otherwise be sympathetic.

If you want change, just make the argument for that change and look forward, not back.
How many services you use have your email address, telephone number, real name, or street address?

All of these have value, but are needed for various aspects of business (sending purchases, receipts, contacting you on case of issues with your account, etc).

For that matter the compiled list of actions you take on a site have value. The only way not to provide a service with valuable personal information is not to use it.
No Apple has so far rejected touchscreens based on human interface concerns, ARM is not changing that.
Yes, the title needs to reflect that it's the Trump campaign's app.
Few years ago I used to have great conversations on Twitter but now there are too many ppl and many do it full time like a job or something, conditioned by the reward mechanisms to get those Likes and build social media influence. That changes what kind of conversations are possible.

I see Twitter as mostly a broadcast medium where you go to get the latest info on some event.

Conversations the kind that feel natural and human dont have a weird distracting real time ticker above my head scoring every dumb thing that flits through my mind.
They can't compete with Fortnite or Minecraft, but Castle of Dr. Brain was so good I played it back in the day and didn't think of it as educational ;)
High frame rates are associated with TV shows and sitcoms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_interpolation#Soap_oper...

Also, those 48 frames need to be converted to 60 frames and as a result, some frames will be shown for a disproportionate amount of time and/or created by mixing two adjacent frames. The article is about interlaced modes, but I think it also applies to progressive scan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-two_pull_down
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You just wrote _exactly_ what I and others implored the new VP (for who knows what friends-hiring-friends reason) to make reality in the little company I just escaped. The idea of platform engineering NOT requiring other highly technical experts to stop their productive jobs to track weekly vicissitudes in helm/k8s configurations and blog posts was foreign to them. The company is in a downward spiral, but can't grasp why decimating productivity throughout engineering might be related. cartoons about dumpster fires come to mind (not joking) when I think of engineering there.
> Right, but when it comes to selling software to people who have iPhones — there's a market for that, right? — Apple clearly has a monopoly in that market.

Sure. I also have a monopoly in the market of "selling lemonade on my front lawn". Is that a meaningful distinction?

> Imo it's more like saying, "Foocorp in the US doesn't have a monopoly, since you can always move to Canada and buy from BarCo or one of its competitors there!" Well, Foocorp is still the only seller in the US, so they have a monopoly in that market.

No one would consider moving to another country a realistic alternative. So in that situation, yes, there is a monopoly because the consumer does not have a realistic alternative. If a gas station is the only gas station in the city, then it too would have a monopoly in that city, because driving to the next city every time you needed gas is not realistic.
Can you share the name and does it still exist?
This may be very true for the generations born with tablets, but I'd expect the average layperson to be accustomed to 30 years of installing software or moving things via floppy drives or USB drives, but be wary of getting something from the Internet as it always was the source of malware.
I always thought the jailhouse dog was an homage to the part of the Disney ride where a dog is holding a key in its mouth in front of a bunch of prisoners. I've never played any of the Monkey Island games to know if that's significant in them though.

https://pirates.fandom.com/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean_(ri...
These two have me confused:

"TypeScript compile time when changing files takes several minutes, making continuous compiling an excruciatingly slow process"

and

"The internal code and runtime TypeScript declarations must be manually kept in sync since the TypeScript Compiler isn’t helpful to generate the d.ts files"

If you're compiling Typescript, the .d.ts files are output by the compiler. The only time you need to manually keep them in sync is when you're writing .js and manually writing the .d.ts.
No, they are not giving developers a choice in reality. They’re forcing developers to offer subscriptions on their platforms where they take a 30% cut. That’s not a choice.
I'm hoping advances like YoloV5 [i] will allow a rpi4 to more ably do this without piping the video to another processor.

[i] https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5
This reminded me of Theo de Raadt's reply to 'Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD?':

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=151233345723889&w=2
In the real world, all of the dimensions are discretized. The input dimensions are theta (gantry angle), n (detector channel), and z (table position). The output dimensions are x, y, z. For a fixed z, the plot of projection intensity as a function of theta and n is called a "sinogram" (which is indeed a 2D space) which gets reconstructed to form an image (also 2D). It is true that there are three dimensions of raw data and three dimensions of reconstructed image. However, due to various tricks with reconstruction models, the total number of samples does not have to be the same in the raw data and in the output. As a result you can see recon models employing nonsquare matrices. For more information, you can read about methods like iterative reconstruction, compressed sensing, and differentiated backprojection. This description is adequate for axial tomography, whereas other geometries like cone beam tomography are more complicated (see FDK method).
Re cement: you can turn cement CO2 NEGATIVE if you use Magnesium Hydroxide to make it which in turn can be produced from sea water while you electrolyse hydrogen.
Rushton is perhaps not the person you want to cite if you want to disassociate yourself from scientific racism.

And that paper, which I'm familiar with, doesn't address many of the modern criticisms of such theories that are based on the idea of "g" being socially constructed/influenced in the first place. (nor does it actually do much, if anything, to support the original claim you made: not all of their conclusions are phenotypic in nature, at a minimum, sections 3, 7, 8, 9, and 11 can be explained culturally despite what the paper says).

I'd suggest "Reconciling IQ Gains and Heritability", or "Race, IQ, and the search for statistical signals associated with so-called “X”-factors", which notes as a semi-conclusion that we know of environmental factors that have clear and demonstrable causal effect on IQ. We know of no specific genes that have this effect. So concluding that a bunch of individual genes have small effects is actually less supported than the similar claim that a bunch of individual societal/environmental factors have impact. Both of these are more recent than the paper you cite, and could be seen as academic responses to perceived flaws.
PonyLang: Typesafe, memorysafe, threadsafe, deadlock free, and more
I use it to learn Japanese and it's very useful. Thank you for your contributions.
The USA has obviously no need for it these days and, it’d better if it was covered, put in storage or sent back.
Ok, so many things to comment on here.

Firstly, there are a lot of other countries than America.

Secondly, re grade progression system, the issue is not what broken system you have now, we should strive to improve the education of our children.

There are clearly a million was that software can make assessment better. Software will eventually be able to read an essay and provide feedback on how well the argument was made, as well as the nuts and bolts of how sentences are put together. Software never gets tired after reading 30 other essays. Never grumpy, never phones it in. Teachers are human.

We study intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation in the games industry as well, but to be clear, _almost all_ motivation in education is extrinsic now. Nobody is doing their math homework because its fun. They do it so they won't "fail".

But I agree that just bolting some lame point system on top of exiting work is mostly a waist of time. The work and rewards need to be tightly coupled and the hard part is to blur the line between intrinsic and extrinsic motivations.

Imagine for example the task is to convince an AI to buy you a pony. You have to write a persuasive essay as to why you should have a pony. The AI can respond to your essay with their own arguments. You can then respond to their augments and pushing the discussion forward. You could do it every day in 10th grade. How good would you be at persuasive writing?
Did you even read the text of that link? In case you didn't:

"Apple carries out a number of iPhone repairs in-store these days, but there is one fault that stores are forbidden from touching, and that’s swollen batteries.

There’s just too high a risk that these will be accidentally punctured during disassembly or removal, and a video of a DIY attempt at replacing a swollen battery in an iPhone 5s provides a graphic illustration of this…

Reddit user tryagainin47seconds posted a video of a coworker attempting to dismantle an iPhone, which burst into flames. The most likely explanation is that the man punctured the battery.

The battery itself appears to have been third-party[+].

Battery had been replaced by coworker who originally owned the phone and he thinks it was faulty equipment. Battery was swelling up when I charged it and he was taking it apart to see what was going on."

[+] -> this is a pretty important detail and my indicate a battery that was not matched well to the charge circuitry leading to an accelerated degradation and/or outright destruction of the cells.

Which pretty much confirms just about everything I wrote above modulo some edge cases that this particular instance did not cover.

Batteries that have swollen outside their design parameters are a lot more risky than those that have not, and that clearly was the issue here.

And it does not say anywhere in that article that 'swollen batteries are not to be used', though - again - you'd be pretty dumb to use batteries that have a pillow shape indicating significant gas development has occurred which most likely has all kinds of negative effects on the state of the laminations and the batteries' ability to keep a charge. But a battery that has expanded a bit can be perfectly safe to operate assuming it is still within design parameters.

Anyway, I'm done with your name calling, have a really nice day and enjoy your safe life without any Lithium tech. Because swell they will, whether you like it or not.

Some more interesting links for people interested in battery tech:

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/419408/how-m...

https://batteryuniversity.com/
How does that work with the ARM iPhones being as expensive as the Intel Macs?
I would be willing to bet a very large amount of money that this is the case.
I would think Maxis actually tells you the best way to be a success. Maxis doesn't say their games are educational and players don't feel like they're trying to be. But they were, and Maxis wanted them to be. I've heard Will Wright talk about giving his kids things like microscopes as "toys" that let them play and explore which causes them to sort of learn against their best intentions. If I were to get into the educational software space, I would go the Maxis route of making games for gamers, marketing them as wholesome for all ages, and then having a secret educational agenda. That is, I'd try to straddle the line, and maybe if I were good at it, word of mouth would spread and the school administrators would hear positive feedback from their students and teachers about how engaging the games are. You would essentially have to create your own market since one doesn't exist; you'd create a need administrators don't know they have.

Alternatively, you could go Minecraft and hack in education through mods and stuff to existing games kids are already engaged in.

But I fully admit as much as I admire Maxis, I don't work in that space and unless I win the lottery I won't be quitting my job to get into educational software any time soon.
There's multiple effects going on. Firstly the bluetooth spec itself is quite complex: the 'core specification' document is near 3000 pages of very dense technical details, because it's aiming to allow anything to connect to anything. Secondly, many bluetooth devices are both heavily power and cost optimised: you don't have a lot of silicon and you don't get to use it very often if you want your product to have a reasonable battery life. This is especially true of the raio in a bluetooth device, and adds a whole other level of complexity to your implementation, and is one area where bugs are very easy to introduce. It also requires a fairly complex dance between hardware and software (most of the bluetooth spec is implemented in software, usually C. The hardware mostly consists of a radio capable of transmitting on the right 2.4Ghz signals with the right modulation scheme, but when you add power management to that it gets gnarly).

Thirdly, hardware companies are generally not great at software. A lot of effort goes into physical testing and validation but the base level of quality of the code isn't great. Also the quality of a given bluetooth device often depends on the quality of the custom code for it: there's a generaly trend of running application code on the same CPU as the bluetooth code, and in an embedded context there isn't generally great seperation between the two (nordic's approach is probably the best here). A third-party making a cheap pair of bluetooth headphones is not likely to make a quality result, even if using a library which is relatively bug-free.

Finally, there's a vicous sprial effect: because you need to interact with a wide variety of other implementations, which may all be buggy or quirky in their own ways, you wind up needing to test with a wide array of other devices (expensive and may not always happen) and play whack-a-mole with the remaining issues which appear, which in turn creates more quirks and more opportunity for bugs.
I can sympathize with their issues. TS compiles are slow as fuck, and if I could find anything that was just as nice without the long compiles I’d switch in a heartbeat.

But I don’t think I’d ever want to go back to plain Javascript.
> that's not immediately obvious. power is divided in government, and ultimately rests collectively in the people. you'd expect the power expressed is exactly the accumulation of the tiny amounts each of us delegate to government. it's not perfect, but all the little divisions and mechanisms of check and balance are there specifically to prevent undue amplification.

Two issues:

Power doesn’t rest in the hands of “the people”. It rests in the hands of the Electoral College - which doesn’t represent the people. As evidenced by the different outcome of the popular vote and the electoral vote. It rests in the hands of the Senate which also doesn’t represent “the people” it represents “the states” regardless of the population. The Senate also puts unelected judges on the bench with lifetime appointments and heads of government committees like the FTC, FDA, etc. that write regulations and are also unelected.

The President - that doesn’t represent “the people” because of the electoral college also has undue power over the Justice Department, FBI and CIA - none of whom are elected.

Even if we did have a government that represented “the majority”, that hasn’t worked out well if you aren’t part of the majority.

Coercive power allowed Jim Crow, making homosexual sex (sodomy) a criminal offense and making interracial marriage (miscegenation) a criminal offense.
Why?

It was a likely-fatal medical condition. It was impossible to bring to term and produce a healthy baby.

"Caught" implies that we discovered the pregnancy before it progressed into a more dangerous phase. "It" refers to the pregnancy.

Humans may want to see meaning in certain rapidly-growing clusters of cells, but that doesn't make them less dangerous if they're growing in the wrong part of the body.
I’m not an economist and have a hard time following the most complex arguments relating different means to measure wealth etc but by reading your comment two things came to mind. If you slave all the working population in a country you will could position that the overall wealth did not change, ok I get the point. But what about wages? You’re effectively appropriating a non insignificant amount of money and transferring it elsewhere. Some people are effectively getting wealthier.
Which relates to the second thought, you say slavery was capping the growth of the south. But only if you measure the overall economy? Effectively for big plantation owners it did not necessarily mean less wealth?
More than happy to understand the finer points of your argument since I’m probably missing an obvious concept known to economists that scapes me
I have an HP convertable laptop/tablet with similar specs. It runs Zoom fine which is the main reason that I bought it.

Not being able to update Windows 10 because of the size of the eMMC drive is a benefit. I keep Windows Update disabled anyway, newer Windows 10 versions keep re-enabling for you and download updates over paid network connections.
Brilliant. Thank yo!
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> right now we don't really understand what may happen to the planet if the US or Russia unleash their full nuclear arsenal

Nothing will happen. Planetary nuclear arsenal yield is dwarfed by a single large vulcanic eruption, and those happen regularly. In fact, modern nuclear arsenal is barely enough to destroy military targets and major cities of both parties. Direct casualties will be in millions, but probably in single digits of them.

In other words, it will be a major humanitarian catastrophe, but nothing humanity (or even a major world power like US) can't survive. Probably the biggest change would be due to large areas rendered uninhabitable for decades, but then again, plenty will be left and "uninhabitability" is a matter of life quality standards. People live in Hiroshima and Chernobyl just fine.
If you're ever offered a 1M job, you accept it and figure out the risks later. It's much better to fail after collecting 1M, than grunting for 10 years thru a risk free 100K job.

I remember a similar conversation with a CTO of some cheap company that wanted to offer me 100K and arguing that he knew many risk takers who took on high paying jobs in bigger firms and failed. That was many years ago. Now my comp is approaching 1M, my job is super risky and demanding, but I don't care as in the worst case I quit with enough money to not work anymore. I know many vps and execs in smaller firms and their attitude is the same: they don't give a flying f..k so long as the pay/risk ratio is appropriate.
It looks like someone is thinking about this at Amazon: https://qz.com/963381/amazon-amzn-has-patented-an-automated-...
City budgets in California suffer from the effects of Prop 13. The other thing to consider is a lot of the cities budget is labor, labor costs track cost of living, especially rents. It's not necessarily that tech companies overpaid workers are a win for the city. Even more so when a lot of them commute from elsewhere.
Transcribed the end of Baldwin's speech for those that don't have time to watch (but you should):

If the American pretensions were based on more solid... a more honest assessment of life and of themselves, it would not mean for Negros—when someone says "urban renewal"— that Negros are simply going to be thrown out into the streets which is what it does mean now. This is not an act of God; we are dealing with a society made and ruled by men.

If the American Negro had not been present in America, I am convinced that the history of the American labor movement would be much more edifying than it is.

It is a terrible thing for an entire people to surrender to the notion that 1/9th of its population is beneath them. And until that moment, until the moment comes, when we the Americans, we the American people, are able to accept the fact, that I have to accept for example, that my ancestors are both white and black. That on that continent we are trying to forge a new identity for which we need each other. And that I am not a ward of America. I am not an object of missionary charity. I am one of the people who built the country. Until this moment there is scarcely any hope for the American dream. Because the people who are denied participation in it, by their very presence, will wreck it. And if that happens it's a very grave moment for the West.
What you're describing is a common way of using feature flags—except the percentage part comes from how you manage the servers running the binary with config. I.e. on day one, 5% of servers in cluster get True for the flag value. The double the percentage every day until 100% or otherwise rollback if it's a bad cut.
If You Want High ROI Always Look for Asymmetries
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I don't understand why something like this would need a separate language. Switching languages means starting over in many ways with regards to tools libraries and semantics. A graph of tasks can be made with a cdecl library.
> That the most important skill is just being able to solve real problems, soft skills and breaking problems into parts.

Do you really believe this? I'd be interested to know what you do for a living.

Programming requires the ability to grasp abstract concepts which most people simply do not possess. Talent is a thing. I'm terrible at composing music even though I enjoy playing it. I have no talent. Most people are terrible at programming.

I have to conclude that anyone who thinks this is very young and/or has never actually tried to teach someone how to program.
OpenBSD has a different security culture. "Stronger" hasn't been the right word in over a decade.
Great, thanks for letting me know!