skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh my god the poles.

I think if you go to just about any moderately popular walking spot in the uk with steep stony parts, you will see just about every rocky step is covered in the scratch marks from the feet of the poles. One wonders if they are really effective if they can’t get a good grip on the more difficult terrain people presumably get them for help with.
I'm the same. A company I worked for tried to buy me multiple large monitors of my choice, and couldn't understand how I can do front-end comfortably on a 13" MacBook Pro screen.
I guess they want silicon for different uses. Embedded with low power consumption (on a soldier/handheld for example), in a vehicle, in a datacenter, etc.

With each situation, your need for precision can vary, and along with it the requirement for processing power.

A model tuned for 75% accuracy is lighter and faster to run (fewer layers) vs 85% (several times bigger, slower). I've made up the numbers to illustrate a point. This is anecdotal and I'm not an ML expert. But here's some evidence:

1. https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/an-all-neural-on-device-sp...

2. https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/custom-on-device-ml-models...

3. https://krisp.ai/blog/how-we-shrunk-dnn-to-run-inside-chrome...
> you only have to look at how Trump behaves towards Putin to see something is not right

Look at how she dresses, she must be a witch!

That's basically your argument.

Trump loves authoritarians, he has deep authoritarian instincts. But as someone on the left, am not at all happy with all the hysteria and censorship frenzy all this has resulted in, because it will ultimately be used against things I care about too.

Seems too many don't have the foresight to see that.
Instagram ‘censorship’ of black model's photo reignites claims of race bias
And this is why despite trying real hard several times, they couldn't remove Autolisp completely...
SpaceX charges less than ULA for identical services.

If you're arguing that the Pentagon shouldn't launch satellites because it's expensive, that's a reasonable argument, sure. But if you're arguing that the Pentagon should pick the more expensive contractor because they aren't owned by a celebrity you don't like, that's kind of silly.
Attractive people can roll around in mud and refuse to shower for a year and they'd still have plenty of suitors after them. But cosmetic factors can elevate otherwise average looking persons.
It was because of an overdraft fee, if you’re wondering- I checked my account balance at an atm machine, and it came up $1.50. But, unbeknownst to me the machine then charged me 2 dollars for checking. That was the last day of the month, so then I got hit with an extra overdraft fee, so now I was down about 100 dollars. I refused to pay it. They continued charging me overdraft fees every month for a few years then sent the bill to a collections agency, it was over a thousand dollars by then. This was all going on in 2008 while I was watching every J.P. Morgan banker get away scot free for almost tanking the world economy. I ended up paying the whole thousand dollars so I could get an apartment with my girlfriend.

About 10 years later I got sent 25 bucks as part of a class action lawsuit against the bank. Thanks, I guess?
How to think like an epidemiologist: A little Bayesian analysis won't hurt you
Probably not the problem in your case, but in my case taking a single Magnesium/Zinc pill about an hour before bed became the 75% solution.
Driving a stepper directly from FPGA? Why?
You are using YAML already. How much do you care about best practices.

Only partially kidding here.
sounds great but doesn't work for me on 10.12.6
I suspect farmed meat will be able to reduce price significantly to demand.

Vat grown meat is essentially a plant that needs a specialised greenhouse. It's not particularly different economically to growing a tropical fruit in a non-tropical country. Farmed meat won't be able to come close to competing.
I really encourage everyone to read the Theranos book (Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup). The legal system is de facto used to bully everyone around the startup, and people cower in fear when a white-shoe law firm comes knocking.
Loads of games in the 90s used null modem cable for multiplayer I played I played a bunch of stuff that way on both PC and Amiga. Populous 2 was a big fave but definitely played more than one flight sim that way
They can deflect bullets depending on the angle at which they come. They'll definitely stop some shrapnel and rocks falling after explosions.

And remember that injured soldiers are as much if not more of a problem than dead soldiers because now you need someone to take care of them.
Memories... I miss Terry a lot.
Isn't this the idea of getting better results using the adversarial network approach? So this would be inherently ill-suited to stopping deepfake news, yeah?
Same thing happened last month with Amazon. AWS decided to roll out a new product called CodeGuru, that was a well established site on Windows development (codeguru.com). That's the end of the road for them.

https://thehftguy.com/2020/08/03/amazon-blatantly-taking-ove...
I think it is easier because the length of unbroken long lines isn't as long as in cursive Western writing. So they aren't push-hop-push-hop their way through long unbroken lines like we are. Lefties often prefer printing for exactly that reason. It's slower, but at least they can read it after.
The Solar System from Within and Without
Most sci-fi is terrible, so it's not surprising that a terrible novel could win a sci-fi award.

TBP is the worst novel I've ever read. Even his big ideas are terrible and absurd.
Based on what I see on news websites, this isn't really shocking. It is sadly a reflection of how Muslims are reported on in the English speaking world. GPT3 was trained on this kind of data.
What's so interesting about this 2 months old article today?
I guess that it is a matter of counterfactual history whether the Armenian genocide, or something like it, would have occurred if it were not for the disruption of the war.

And the seeds for the recent and ongoing trouble in the Middle East were sown in the division of the former Ottoman Empire immediately after the war, as described in David Fromkin's book, "A Peace to end all Peace." (best history-book title ever!)

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/a-peace-to-end-all-peace-creat...
Having 2 (or more) completely unrelated skills provide a shitload of advantage to yourself. The intersection of those skills helps a lot. I run 2 businesses, software and a property renovation business. Local independent trademen are for the most part great at the actually doing the job, plumbing, electrics, tiling, fitting, joinery, etc. What they suck at is running the business, finances, marketing, customer service, reliability and anything to do with computers.

I can use my tech skills to MASSIVELY enhance the trades side of the business. While i can do enough of the trades myself to cover my employees sick days, emergencies, etc, i dont do it day to day. I run the business and make sure i'm using my primary tech skills to grow us. Its working well so far.
Ever eaten lamb?

edit: Or chicken for that matter, google what happens to the male chicks.
“What color is the Sun?” An example of science education pathology (2012)
In these sorts of legal clinics the students work under a supervising attorney who is ultimately responsible for the representation.
BLM management does seem to have improved in other areas, thinking of their interactions with the third largest city in Nevada each year for the week before labor day.
it's great at making them better, yes
Which is damning in that they treated us like children who couldn't handle the truth and were also so unimaginative that they did not consider alternative face coverings.
Have you tried diphenhydramine? It helps me a lot work occasional insomnia and I never feel groggy the next day.

I also started taking 1mg melatonin an hour before I want to sleep. That works wonders for me.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th...

... and, umm, mindfulness, I guess.
"Paul Graham
@paulg
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15h
... she typed into her iPhone, and then posted on Twitter.

(Lesson: You don't need billionaires per se, but you do need startups, and startups cause billionaires.)"

Twitter and all but "startups cause billionaires"? Really?
> Drink enough water that your pee is clear.

A lot of doctors and health professionals will say that this is bad advice and that it encourages people to obsessively flush electrolytes and minerals out of their bodies.
Add to that list 3:2 displays. Surface devices have been using this ratio since Surface 3. [1] Now it's the only device that appeals to me because the ratio feels just right.

I wish there were more options for ratios in the stand-alone display market. Rumor has it, Microsoft will be creating a line of Surface displays. [2]

In my opinion 16:9 is unappealing for productive work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Surface#Model_compar...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/29/18117584/microsoft-surfa...
YAGNI. This is not so much as a force multiplier but as greasing the wheels, and I see it all the time

Shipping and revenue should be your goal. Sure, aim for a polished product, but don't waste time with things that don't further your goal (unless it's a security/correctness/legal issue, sure)

- You don't need to rewrite your frontend in the latest .js library just because. Ship first, think about rewriting later

- You don't need to apply those 5% micro-optimizations if your site is working fine (at least not before shipping)

- You don't need your resources in a global redundant CDN right off the bat. Use existing CDNs (for .js for example)

- The thing that will break is not how you initially thought it would go. Avoid premature optimization unless it's really obvious (example: front page optimizations).

You might not even need code at first. MVP your thing.
There was a huge difference between the German and British trenches. The idea on the British side was that comfortable (read "liveable") trenches would suck the fight out of the men. Even the officers' dugouts were rather crude. The Germans, conversely, realised early on that aerial reconnaissance combined with poor mobility, unbelievable amounts of artillery and machine guns meant that the trenches were going to be a thing for a good long time, and you might as well settle in and be as safe as you can until the next spell of horror.
Two large recent discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24094062

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23912455
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Are you willing to share any info on how you got stuck with this project, and what this "codebase" was? Can you call it a codebase is it doesn't have source code?
Adding a fiber link to my home network
Sorry, could you provide an example of those different styles?
It's more inspired by TypeScript I'd say and there are also features inspired by Rust.

I'd call it readable haskell not hinc.

Most popular languages created sort of universal visual language of what things mean when they look certain way and weird languages with very cool mechanics like Haskell, have much trouble with conveying this mechanic to the new user when they don't subscribe to this visual language (for historical or whatever reasons).
Truffle: One VM to Rule Them All (2016) [pdf]
Huawei says its smartphone production has “no chips and no supply” left
Show HN: A tool for editing, optimizing and converting SVG files to JSX or PNG
==Seems too many don't have the foresight to see that.==

Or they see things different than you, no need to insult.

Perhaps they see the QAnon movement, which led a man to carry a rifle into an open pizza restaurant, as more of a danger than censorship?

Maybe they are more worried about elected officials believing a politically-motivated conspiracy theory with zero evidence?
> There is also FlightGear that is still being developed and is published under GPL.

FlightGear is nice & powerful, but actually is too heavy and require modern PC.

BTW, There is Vertigo page on FlightGear Wiki.[0]

JFTR, There is also open-source ACM 6.0[1] (enchanched fork of ACM 5.0[2]) — classic old-school 3D flight simulator.

[0] http://wiki.flightgear.org/images/cache/2/2b/Vertigo_%2528fl...

[1] http://www.icosaedro.it/acm/download.html

[2] https://wiki.flightgear.org/ACM_%28flight_sim%29
You probably don't need hardware security features. OS-based software U2F would probably be a step up (prevents sim-jacking, but physical access to the phone is possibly more vulnerable)
"Most workflows can benefit from multiple monitors. it's a silly thing to be bottlenecked by screen area on a fancy computer when used 1080p monitors are nearly free in 2020."

No. My productivity is much better with just one monitor.
I think you can do that here already https://www.terraform.io/docs/commands/graph.html
Hey guys! I wanted to develop a simple tool that would help web designers and developers quickly edit SVG files in code and convert them to whatever they want. Let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions on how to improve it!
The C++ standard is written in such a way that a vtable as the first member of a polymorphic class instance is the obvious way to satisfy the standard's demands. I don't think there is any mainstream C++ implementation that doesn't use vtables, although some older C++ compilers used a slightly different layout.

The fact that inside a single CU an optimizing compiler can determine the targets of polymorphic dispatch statically is unrelated, because most usage scenarios (more than one CU, external modules) preclude such optimizations anyway.

vtables aren't undefined, they are implementation defined and part of the C++ ABI. As soon as you expose something through the C++ ABI the compiler has to use the ABI's definitions.
Qua: Alexia Massalin interview (1996)
Seems like an AI arms race just begun
"But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so." --Anton Ego, Ratatouille
Startups would not have existed if not for free and open source software. You know, Stallman and the like, which people like Graham pretend don’t exist or don’t matter. But than again, a person that retweets trump is not someone I’m particularly interested in hearing what they have to say in general.
Good addendum! I didn’t think anything of being tired all the time. Even though it’s silly, the jokes about adult life being tiring and all the “but first, coffee” things really made me feel like being tired was just a normal byproduct of being grown up. Nope! I was just anemic to the point the doctor was recommending blood transfusions to me, so I could get back to normal. Oh my gosh! I don’t basically army crawl from the door to the couch when I get home because I am so tired anymore.
This is intellectual weakness. God cannot possibly exist and science fearing people know this. When we redefine what the word "believe" means, we can believe anything that brings comfort. I'm sorry to all smart people who will soberly listen to science, god is not real. No one can logically argue that supernatural is compatible with science. You cannot believe both without redefining what believe means.
If the people trying to stop deepfakes can do it so can the people trying to produce them anyway. The best we can do is some way of digitally signing videos and software displays it as authentic or not but then they just make fake youtube style sites that say its authentic. The problem will go on and on.... Fake news will always spread for one reason or the next.
Do you have any specific configs/use cases for Hammerspoon that have jumped out as super useful?

For me, the two biggest improvements were:

1. App switching (hold F then use all keys under the right hand, each key bound to launch and/or focus a particular app)

2. Window management (hold W then use right hand as arrow keys to snap windows)

Paired with a keyboard that lets you remap held keys to modifier combinations (I use Ergodox) has been great.
QAnon theories are false, but in my opinion, so are the beliefs of Islam.

And if the standard required for censorship is that "someone with related beliefs killed someone in Germany", or "there's like a whole subreddit for people who are frustrated with family members who believe this", then we've got to ban Islam, Christianity, Rap music, eyeliner, sports, and probably everything else you can think of.

Nobody banned 9/11 truthers from major internet communications protocols. Nobody banned birthers.

The shift in the US, in less than a year, towards banning speech that annoys the elites, is something I would've thought impossible a mere few years ago.

I was taught in high school that here in America we fought free speech with more free speech.
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Same, but I wouldn't say I'm happy with it. Everything's interdependant and that makes it such a pain to configure and maintain:

- Prettier has to be integrated with ESLint to avoid conflicting formatting and for good devX
- TS config interferes with ESLint config ("this file is not part of any project" or conflicting unused var warnings)
- Webpack has to be integrated with TS to compile down to JS
- ESLint, TS and Webpack all need configuring to know about absolute imports

If you throw babel into the mix, complexity just explodes. Thankfully it's feasible to have a stable config that "just works", but it can be quite the time sink. I wouldn't be against something that takes this pain away
I think that this is a great approach to test out the files. Mistakes in those files can cause a production outage. I like doing those tests once a PR is open and before it is merged into master and executed on the production cluster. (Disclaimer i am a co-founder of datree.io)
I find it hard to believe that any experiments would back up that fact. Do people put their fingers in their eyes/nose/mouth when adjusting their masks ?

Surely having everyone wear a mask is more efficient than banning masks because a small fraction of mask wearers would catch covid when readjusting their masks.
It's almost as if the author is projecting his own imposter syndrome on the Congress.
> Perhaps they see the QAnon movement, which led a man to carry a rifle into an open pizza restaurant, as more of a danger than censorship?

I agree regarding QAnon, where there are direct, credible threats of violence, of course that should be taken down.

I was responding to Russiagate, not QAnon.

Russiagate has resulted in downranking anti-war voices that don't necessarily align with cable TV takes on foreign policy. Basically the equivalent of saying going into Iraq is a mistake or support for BDS.
> It’s possible the photos were propaganda, so they only took pictures of the “good” trenches, but every picture you see of allied trenches looked like ditches.

It's not really propaganda, German trenches were on average much better than allied ones. The reason was that the allied side considered itself on the offensive, and saw no reason to makes the trenches more livable since they expected to leave them as soon as possible to advance in newly reconquered territory.
I would guess a normal project that involves this would be making a hack for a video game
I feel like it’s time to bring in Heinlein’s Fair Witness concept: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fair%20Witne...

If you think about it, when we had relatively few journalists and their reputation was on the line with every story they wrote they in a way were fair witnesses. Since we have moved to a hybrid model of professional journalists and a huge caste of YouTubers, podcasters, bloggers, and twitters, it has become impossible to hold everyone to a high journalistic standard. At the same time Fox News has brought on an era of politicized news so the bias is now inherent. Maybe if we had a few hundred fair witnesses that offered a professional service we could have a way to verify facts. Then again, it’s one thing to have a fair witness present facts, it’s another to have that witness’s likeness be deep faked and broadcast all over the web saying something they didn’t actually say.

Another solution may be regulatory: anyone broadcasting a deep fake with a huge disclaimer that it is a fake gets a 20% of their net worth fine. Draconian but I can see it working.
Really old? A10 Tank Killer, Gunship: 2000. Countless hours playing them :)
I think the constant attempt at signing me up for tooth extraction is an attempt at over-treatment. Especially since they always act as if it was I who requested it. Eg: Before I leave, I go to the front desk to schedule my next appointment. They say, every time, "When would you like to schedule your extraction?" which is clearly a dark pattern.

So I'm inclined to believe those stories. I just accept that dentists make more money from wisdom extractions, even if there's no reason to have the procedure. It only annoyed me the first few times until I realized they'll always be asking me this.

Incidentally, I think it's a lot like circumcision. A lot of natal doctors just assume they're going to be doing that without asking the parents. It's mostly done because it's a surgical (read: more money) procedure to add to the medical bill. It's pretty much illegal to cut without specific permission where I live now, but that was a common complaint before then.
This. I've been tying my shoes this way for 15 or 20 years and they essentially never come untied unintended while still being able to be pulled open with just a single tug. The security of a double knot with the convenience of the standard knot.
This seems like test driven development, but applied on a much larger scale.
Alright, gave it a shot. First impressions:

* "Make me laugh" always brings me to the same YouTube video.

* Had pretty much no issues with the default prompts. It was able to find some challenging Spotify playlists, open random websites (including non-standard English domains ones when I spelled them out).

* "Read this page" uses an awful TTS engine, which is a shame considering that I might actually use this feature on a somewhat regular basis. I'm assuming it uses whatever it detects on the OS level, and so far I haven't bothered with finding a better one (on Ubuntu, if you know of one, please suggest).

* "Set a timer for X min" works just fine, which is probably the only thing I use Google's assistant on my phone (or whatever it's name might be now).

* I like the idea of routines in the app settings, which is supposed to tie multiple queries together. I could see myself using it for something like a morning routine (tell me what time it is, give me weather info, read me news, etc.)
I think both are true.

With training we reinforce our method and knowledge - whether good or bad. But even choosing a bad method you still get better but maybe hit diminishing returns faster. A good method lets you get better in a more sustainable way and avoid hurting yourself.

E.g. when an art teacher tells you to draw from your shoulder instead of fingers, wrist and elbow as almost everyone is used to. In the beginning you probably get worse and frustrated, but down the line it makes a ton of a difference having to ability to do so even if not needed for everything.