skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You said that people don't want to invest and get nothing in return. But you do get two things: 1. freedom, since you are developing free software, freedom for you and for others. 2. Maybe recognition. I figured that you didn't value those things, perhaps I am wrong. Of course there is nothing wrong with making a profit, the problem I have is doing so by artificially restricting what people can do with their computers.
His wikipedia entry ends with:

> He ended up serving no prison time, in exchange for working for the FBI for free for a year.
If you want to compare with the manual process for crossing obstacles, here’s a little buggy with a gasoline motor, with the lineman hoisting it past an insulator with the help of a pulley, starting around 6:20:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtbtlgAGRaA

Also related, videos of people walking on the cables after being dropped off by a helicopter onto the live lines:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tzga6qAaBA

A youtube search for 'helicopter lineman' turns up a lot of other material in this vein.
I'm barely beginning to delve into this world and have pretty much no knowledge of Hinduism. But most of the time what we call yoga in the west is just a physical practice akin to a sport, mostly with the goal of getting and being healthy, whereas when you read about the philosophy of yoga, you realize that there are a lot of different yoga schools/practices that promote different things, some without even any physical component to them. The original purpose of yoga, as I understand it, was to put ourselves in the right path to liberation and the end of suffering. The meaning/etymology of the word yoga is union or to unite.
I like to think how everything must be so right in the world were this people live that what makes them the most active and angry is their pieces of cheap consumer electronics not working perfectly.

And yeah your Airpods are cheap, $250 for a wireless noise cancelling pair of headphones that fit in a pocket is wonderfully cheap and Apple can only sustain that pricing because this fashionable products are almost a loss leader.
If you want to make realistic estimates of the bounds of how well you can do automation tasks without cameras, sure. But not really relevant for figuring out how useful "point a camera at it" can be.
It's off topic and overly pedantic. In the same spirit, Nixon wasn't at the hotel.
Ghislaine Maxwell had ex-British military as security at New Hampshire estate
Still, like Bitcoin, the vast majority of all Monero emitted in the first century, is emitted in the first few years.
Grin has the simplest possible emission, at 1 Grin per second forever. They're all disinflationary, i.e. the yearly inflation rate goes down to 0.
Lots of words lose their original impact and become widespread. Decimate was originally used to refer to killing 10% of a company's soldiers as collective punishment or something like that, but today we use it for much less serious events (and usually ignore the actual percentage magnitude).
I don't see the statement that there is "limited evidence" for something as providing information. Is there "unlimited evidence" for anything?
I had connectivity issues on mine. One or the other would stubbornly not go into NC mode, or you’d see iOS say “Noise Cancelling” but it would actually be transparency mode, and had not fully shifted. Haven’t had too many issues since I had the entire set replaced, but it was multiple calls and a fair amount of headache when juggling returning each of the AirPods shipments and returns. Two of the boxes, the case and left AirPod Pro arrived one day, the right AirPod Pro was stuck at FedEx and would ship the next day. Why couldn’t they be replaced in one box the way I bought them, I wondered... Overall, the AirPods Pro are impressive but hardly foolproof... yet?
Wow, so thats what it is? My Siri hasnt been working well and I just assumed the two were unrelated. Roughly every other sentence I dictate to Siri has the word 'Play' at the start of it as well, which must be related. I can wait 5 seconds after triggering siri to begin speaking and it is still prefixed with 'play'. No idea why but all these together sound like a support call is in order.
> The first generation of the AirPods was generally regarded as a perfect product

If you don't care about sound quality, isolation, noise cancelation, mic quality, or using it with a non-apple device of any kind, sure. In other words, if you primarily care about form and only peripherally about function.

Edit: for reference, rtings gave them a 6.4
https://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/apple/airpods-1-tr...
It's only relatively lower if you look at relative rank, and of course if all of Scandinavia is at the top of the list, we appear low. But on actual score, the difference is not as large as it seems.

And aside from that, are we willing to go the route of Scandinavia to achieve what they have? I doubt even a simple majority of us want that.
SIMD => Single Instruction Multiple Data

works great if you have, literally, one instruction you want to apply to multiple data.

not relevant if "parallelism" means "thread 1 is doing foo, thread 2 is doing bar, and thread 3 is doing baz".
I think laziness and impatience have always been listed in a sort of tongue in cheek way. Patience is probably the single most important attribute a programmer can have, many '10x' engineers are just the people who have an unshakeable ability to step through boring code for 4 hours until the problem reveals itself.

Laziness pays off for me when I argue for simpler requirements and paring down of features on things. It results in a better end product but most of my motivation was that I just didn't want to build all the stuff!
You do in the US.
I totally agree that it's a bit annoying, but considering the number of minor quibbles that have now been suffixed with -gate [1], the battle is probably lost and it's best to just accept it and move on.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_%22-gate%22_scandals...
Intel + Altera 2015

And, not in your scope, but AMD acquires ATI, 2006, still has some echos. Also, Atheros/Qualcomm 2011.
Like Unbreakablecoin lmao
That list really irritates me.

> - to change a diaper

Ok? What if one never intends to have kids.

> -plan an invasion

For goodness' sake, why is that important outside of the military?

> -butcher a hog

Irrelevant to most people.

> -conn a ship

So? Are we in the navy or maritime service? A gent in Montana has no need of this,

> -design a building

Design, engineer, or build?

> -write a sonnet

Popular for schoolchildren. Says little. Interpretation of sonnets says more.

> -balance accounts

I'll give heinlein that.

> -build a wall

So?

> -set a bone

Useful enough, sure.

> -comfort the dying

Yeah, that's good.

> -take orders

Still not in the military

> -give orders

Still not in the military

> -cooperate

Sure!

-act alone

Sure!

-solve equations

What kind of equation? Arithmetic, algebra, calculus, analysis?

> -analyze a new problem

What kind of analysis? This is extremely specialized.

> -pitch manure

If manure matters in your life, otherwise: so what

> -program a computer

Useful to me, but not relevant to most people

> -cook a tasty meal

Sure.

> -fight efficiently

Still not in the military.

> -die gallantly

Baloney. The Great War should have cured him of this dream.

"Heinlein really likes the military" is my take away. Most of his vaunted list is deeply irrelevant to outright obnoxious to me. It's like reading a "bet you couldn't solve these problems 1850s kids had to solve" thing. Anchored in the past and a different priority system.

Should you be able to provide first aid, cook well, and work with others? Yes. Do reading, riting, and rithmatic? Yeah, sure. That's kind of what the point of the school system is for.

Honestly. No one will know everything, and no one should strive to be ignorant, misanthropic, and uncultured. I could size up my life and write a similar list, but it'd only be a reflection of my priorities in life.
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> I guess the question is why did California rush to re-open fully?

Because states have a higher cost of borrowing than the feds and usually also have constitutional balanced operating budget mandates, they tend to rely on federal aid to deal with major extended emergencies. With the feds not providing substantial state aid in this crisis, there’s significant financial pressure for economic reopening.
More on the environmental effects of airpods: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/neaz3d/airpods-are-a-trag...

That they're unreliable is just the icing on this sandwich.
As far as I recall, $20 wouldn't even get you a single GoT episode in Australia. As a consequence, Australia had one of the highest piracy rates on GoT / HBO shows.
Xubuntu.

Why? We use Ubuntu on servers and I don't have to mess around with and tweak things as much. I can just get to work.
Iirc SCP supports resuming transfers. Granted torrent architecture is very robust, but I’ve never had a problem with the way scp resumes work.
> "Demands like this came from minorities. It's a small, easy thing..."

While some minority individuals may have demanded this, it seems more to me that the driving force is largely white people. And that it's small and easy serves only to highlight its triviality. Thanks but no thanks.
I find it’s a good acid test.

If that’s not acceptable, I probably don’t want to work there.
This is really interesting and gives me a new respect for Signal for thinking about it.

After considering the options it seems Apple made a reasonable default assumption but in the case of sites that reveal information about me it is a bit frustrating. An option would be nice but, :Apple:.
I doubt this will change though while governments are on their spending spree. AT this point you might even lose money putting money into government bonds.
If it runs every 1 km wouldn't that require the fiber to be fused every 1 km?

Don't know who is going to go up to middle voltage lines to do a fiber cable splice.
Can you name one example of someone being forced to think like someone else using these tactics?
"What remains uncontested is the product of his meditations, the Samkhya Sutras, which laid the foundation for the earliest “complete” system of philosophy derived from The Vedas. The system’s central axioms would be developed over the course of a millennium..."

Is wrong for several reasons. As a Samkhyavadin of the arithmetic kind, let me count some of them:

1. What's 'uncontested' would be strongly contested by both their classical interlocutors such as the Mimansakas and by modern scholars - for example, for linguistic reasons mentioned in one of the other comments.

2. Not sure what 'complete' philososophy means, but we might assume that some account of reason and logic is part of a complete philosophical system, in which case the Samkhyavadins like many of their counterparts, took the lead from the Naiyayikas, who were closely related but distinct. Same for grammar, where everyone took their lead from Panini and the grammarians.

3. I think calling it 'Vedic Philosophy' doesn't do justice either to the Vedas or to Philosophy. For example, the accurate, elaborate and intricate performance of ritual action is central to the Vedic experience. We can't reduce that to philosophical beliefs about dualism or monism without serious harm to the original practices. It's a sign of modernity that beliefs (such as dualism) are given precedence over ritual performance.

3. Words like 'derive' and 'axioms' suggest an overly mathematical relationship which would be impossible to justify. Even the Upanisads aren't derived from the Vedas in any axiomatic sense. The Prakriti-Purusa dualism finds a precedent in the Rig Veda which says "Two birds associated together, and mutual friends, take refuge in the same tree; one of them eats the sweet fig; the other abstaining from food, merely looks on" - try deriving the Soul from that imagery.

In fact, the most well known Samkhya (influenced) text isn't the Karika but the Mahabharata, including the Gita, with Arjuna playing the role of Prakriti and Krishna that of Purusa. Which is why - to use a deductive argument - Arjuna fights even when he doesn't want to and Krishna doesn't even when wants to.

I know I am being pedantic, but I find that these kinds of reductive Whig histories of Indian knowledge traditions perpetuate the problems they are trying to remove. Far more interesting, say, from the perspective of modern philosophy of mind, is the somewhat technical question: why did most Indian traditions consider mind, aka Manas, to be a physical entity? What does it say about their account of knowledge since Manas is an Indriya, i.e., an instrument of knowledge. What does it mean for knowledge to be physical and yet normative, i.e., how can something physical be true or false?"

To reduce these subtleties to 'Hindu Philosophy' or even to six schools of Astika philosophy is deeply problematic.
Young vs. “Experienced” Biotech Founders
I just had my right airpod returned and replaced under warranty, it's only a matter of time before the left goes.

It took me two hours to get a person on the phone, and we went through no less than 3 reset cycles. :|

Then the advisor told me I have to return it in person to an apple store (which is closed) or to an apple authorized repair store, and mentioned there will be a $29 fee, but fortunately for me, she was reading the prices wrong. Warranty returns/repairs should be free of cost. I asked for a supervisor, and was connected to someone who actually knew what was going on. He said they could mail the replacement and return packaging so I wouldn't have to come in. Second advisor was so helpful and knowledgeable. I'm just babying my left airpod before it goes.
Bloodshed Avoided at Queens Birthday Party in Tirana
I think Bob Martin said something like;

"Legacy code is code without tests"

Meaning if a codebase has no tests, it's api and behaviours are extremely hard to determine and change without breaking things.
> Python just runs on a lot of platforms, has a lot of mature drop-in libraries

More than that. Easy interop with dlls/shared libs via ctypes
The first generation was never advertised as having a noise cancellation feature so I'm not sure why that that should be a negative point. They also work well with non-apple devices as they can just be paired via Bluetooth like any other wireless headphones.
There was definitley a lot of corruption in the USA before Trump. I do think it's also the case that under Trump things got more shameless, and so the administration "dares" to go further.

This is worrisome, especially if you don't think corruption is endemic of the Trump administration. New "boundaries" have been tested and set. Future administrations have a playbook that can allow them to get away with more.
Mine rattle too! Man, I hate that. I assumed it was just my bad luck, and since peaceful protestors looted my local Apple Store I wasn't able to bring them in.
Ex-Uber employees are being surprised by big tax bills
Just close the tab/window and move on.

I refuse to allow cookies. If websites need to be read, they can forgo the 'cookies' crap. It's not as if my life depends on some random website.
They charge your Creditcard until you send back your broken Airpod. In the end it doesn't cost you anything.
Umm, the Mughal, the Guptas? Also the pratiharas, rashtrakutas and palas collectively ruled over india too. The Delhi sultanate was pretty huge too, and so was the maratha empire.

But being a single governance group isn't the point. Being culturally similar is what defines India. And it obviously is.
The Xiao, et al study you refer to is a historical literature review of transmission of prior non-Covid-19 viruses.

It is unclear if the historical studies involved social distancing or close proximity (critical to current understanding of Covid-19 mask efficacy) and it is concerning that the paper reports "most studies were underpowered because of sample size and some studies also reported suboptimal adherence in the face mask group."

More importantly, Covid-19 appears to have different transmission characteristics than other influenza style viruses, making literature reviews such as the one you cite less predictive of Covid-19 behaviors than would often have been the case with other viruses.

The paper is interesting but it's definitely not supported by their data to say the paper shows masks worn by infected individuals are ineffective at reducing the spread of Covid-19 in a social distance context.

[edit: updated with additional detail from the cited paper]
I like to think of the first virtue as Proactive Laziness. I'll work hard right now (on something that's fun, automating tasks!) to avoid doing a lot more hard work later that's boring (doing the same tedious task manually over and over).
I never realised Kapital was written in smalltalk. Interesting
To reify something you have to name it, apparently.

I see nothing wrong about it. Apple spends billions on R&D yet still manages to push crap designs to the market (as evidenced by Louis Rossmann).

If naming something *-gate will make a dent in the public's "premium" image of Apple, I'm all for it. They sell the same crap as others, just overpriced, maybe with software that's better in some aspects.

Apple almost never owns up to their mistakes when it comes to defective product design.
Great, you just reminded me of my favourite trash TV series which is stuck at 80% :(
Bro, people don't have any opinions of their own they just pick them up along the way. Think about it.
FWIW, that's not against the rules, you can have custom 'contracts' like that; iirc it's even so allowed that there's a stipulation for when it may happen (the beginning of the instigator's turn, I think) in the rules.

I think (I think) the answer is that it's not really about morality or ethics, but about finding an equilibrium between desired taxation and profit optimisation. The latter finds ways to reduce tax burden, and if that results in an unacceptably low burden the former (should) responds with rule changes.

But that points to it being more political than ethical, that's perhaps quite a free-market capitalist take on it.
Up until the other day, I had only needed to replace my AirPods twice so far. But then the microphone died on the right one and now I will need to replace them yet again.

I love my AirPods but this is so incredibly frustrating.

Pro tip: Use the Voice Memo app to determine which microphone is failing, and then go into the Bluetooth settings. You can make the microphone default to the side that isn't broken.
Cables. It's fair if they are not a problem for you, but they are for me and getting rid of them is a gamechanger. I move around a lot all day, most days. They were constantly getting caught in things throughout my day and pulling at my ear in a very unpleasant way, or got caught snagged on something like ladder I'm climbing and would go flying out of my ears. Hatred.

Airpods (not pro) are fantastic for what they are. They last for hours, charge in minutes, pair reliably with my iphone 11 and sound very ok. Not great, but not bad. Ok. Perfect for podcasts, audiobooks, lectures, and calls I have to take throughout the day.

The famous photography advice "the best camera in the world is the one you have on you when you need to take a picture" definitely applies. It lets me listen to spoken word and a little music very comfortability throughout the day, and I have big cans at home for everything else.
Laws aren't programs and judges and juries aren't required to interpret them like a robot. Odds are that a reasonable jury would find you had hired a hitman and just convict you and move on.

Please see people who are convicted on limited or circumstantial evidence because everyone is pretty sure they did it. Example Hans Reiser.
That sounds great for testing and performance. I expect that macOS and ipadOS will merge after sometime.
One of the most important things I learned with databases was to run each of my queries using EXPLAIN (EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN in sqlite) and seeing which indexes are being used, if any.

One of the reasons I don't like ORMs is that I'm not able to see the underlining query and truly optimize a service. That may be fine for a new service where performance isn't crucial, but once it needs to scale, you need to put on your engineering hat, get your hands dirty, and optimize queries.

You'll find you need to re-write queries so that there isn't complex nesting in the WHERE statement and flatten your logic so that the SQL optimizer can use your indexes. You may need to put SELECT statements within SELECT statements, where the innermost SELECT uses indexes and the outer queries are using the result of the inner query, which is smaller than the whole table.
You make in interesting point. Much of algorithmic information theory seems to be focused on the worst case, when the average behavior may be more relevant -- and significantly more pleasant.

It brings to mind Zipf's law and optimal coding. There's a 'no-free-lunch' theorem waiting to be discovered, I suspect -- or maybe it already exists and I just haven't heard of it. Something along the lines that optimal encoding maximizes the channel capacity, but makes the worst case error exponentially disastrous.
> since peaceful protestors looted my local Apple Store

There is a difference between peaceful protestors and people who engaged in looting. Don't conflate the two for the sake of a snarky comment.
No, but they "reserve" the amount on your credit card and only release it again once they received the shipment from you.
I know that an am not disputing it. My claim is that most, if not all, implementations do not satisfy that requirement.

Also, that requirement isn’t sufficient to prevent such attacks, by a long stretch.

An implementation that has only one sequence of random numbers r1, r2, r3, r4…, but drops a single item of the sequence for each subsequent realm (the second instance returns r2, r3, r4…, the third one r3, r4…, etc.) satisfies the requirement, and the individual sequences are as perfectly random as the original one), but still is vulnerable to attacks.

And it can be worse: an implementation that generates a unique r0 for each realm (could even be an easily predictable value) and returns r0, r1, r2, r3, r4…, with r1 and subsequent identical for all instances also satisfies the requirement.
It's actually a pretty good time to rethink everything. The modern school was designed when most adults were illiterate, books were expensive, and we needed to train the population to work in our factories or join the military. Schools did a good job at that.

Is this a historical reality that schools are built for factory style education? Citation is needed.
I was doing some genetic programming research. Inheritance was beautiful, because I could have an Instruction base class, and all the possible specific instructions were derived from that. The execution engine and reproduction stuff could just deal with Instructions, without knowing any specifics about any of them. Each specific instruction knew how to execute itself and how to copy itself. It made things so simple.

When there's a good reason to use it, use it. If there's not, don't. Nobody's forcing you to use it.
Try using the official Apple Support App and chatting w them. They should send you a replacement airpod pro the same way you got a cable. They will just place a hold on your card for the amount of the replacement part until you return the defective one. They ship with a pre-filled return label - at least in the US
The U.S. spends upwards of half a trillion dollars per year on K-12 education (an average of $215,000 per 30 students). That doesn't include college or what parents spend out of pocket on private schools, homeschooling, tutoring, etc. I think there's plenty of money to be made by someone with a great idea and high quality execution.