skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious about the specifics. From my experience, picking a normal lock works very much the same as using a key; you're just relying on the fact that the inside of the lock is the same "shape" as the key to put the tumblers in the correct location.
In abstract, it's impossible to design a test to take that into account because if your subjects have great pitch memory they can recall a reference pitch heard a long time ago and then use relative pitch to fill in the rest. This is indistinguishable from absolute pitch in almost every way except maybe speed.

In practise, spacing the tests out more than a day and asking subjects not to listen for other things between tests might help, without being foolproof.
They've claimed authority to extradite anyone (including non-Chinese citizens) under this new law.
Musical frequencies are not "pure".

They are made up of a series of overtones. By far the loudest of these overtones is the 2nd harmonic... which is double the base frequency aka one octave.

This is not some artificial construct but a fundamental part of how things vibrate.
Elon isn't promising this for consumer cars in 2020. He's talking about internal development vehicles. The author seems to have missed this distinction, and then based large parts of the article on this misunderstanding.

For me that's really the strongest plausible interpretation. There are other, weaker interpretations such as the author is twisting the facts to suit an agenda. I'm not even going there. I think the author has just bought into a common meme about Elon "promising" things when he's really talking about in-house development cars.

Also:

>But for the time being, deep learning algorithms don’t have such capabilities

I don't know how he is so confident about the absence of capabilities, when he's not an insider. And the phrase "for the time being" is a tip-off that even the author acknowledges that deep learning is still a developing field.

Tesla does have some interesting approaches. The article also doesn't mention the hydranet, something Tesla has talked about publicly, which sounds to be a fusion of multiple deep learning networks. In any case, I would look elsewhere for insights about Tesla, unless the author can evolve his view to be more open minded.

The article does have some good points about the challenges. I'm a skeptic as well. But also very optimistic and curious to see where the tech and the massive data will take us.

The mentioned problem of having a dearth of China data, well, that is being chipped away at now.

It's certainly a more massive problem than the US driving environment… China is insane. We visited a "this used to be secret, now it's not" huge super-wide emergency backup military runway that was also used as a road and 1) for pedestrian traffic 2) for ox carts 3) for freeway-speed traffic 4) for normal speed local traffic 5) for bicycles and 6) for threshing wheat… they lay the wheat out and let passing vehicles do the work of threshing it, with people tending the process and walking out into the middle of the road/runway to fetch the partially processed wheat. Just think all the edge cases in that one environment alone. And that was just coastal China. It's a big country. The data is going to be interesting.
Looking at history, we rather need a hippocratic oath for Microsoft CEO's.
As an anecdote, I hear people call out the CPC in public places in China.
"I was only following orders."

Edit to add: If you are being asked to perform illegal or unethical acts as part of your employment, then perhaps termination is an ideal course of action? Unless of course your personal enrichment outweighs legalities or ethics in your worldview?
Our Southern California beach city has seen 60% increase in home sales over last year and the median price is on more higher priced homes than is typical. These are almost all single family homes with space. If you have to work from home, it is nice to have an extra bedroom or dedicated office.
Your first sentence contradicts your second. You also pocket-quoted the original post removing key context:

> Doctors no longer take the Hippocratic Oath (because it is incompatible with a lot of difficult situations doctors are placed in).

The original Hippocratic Oath is no longer used (as both the original post, and you yourself readily admit). Why it is no longer used it highly relevant to this discussion because someone is calling for a Hippocratic Oath-like thing in a different area.

The fact doctors have moved to a less idealized Hippocratic Oath should be a historical lesson, not something we should seek to emulate.
> The quasi-judicial role that financial services play in resolving disputes, often with little regulatory oversight and absolutely no requirement to be neutral or objective, is long overdue for retirement.

I would bet that the Fed views this as a feature, not a bug. Regardless of your (and mine or their) beliefs on that matter, I would hope you see why they might choose a measure of progress in payment clearance and disassociate the two goals. I imagine the Fed fully knows it plays the role of a rather strong glue within the broader global financial system, and could just as easily throw on another layer of binding to require irrevocable payments by sheer fiat if they chose, regardless of the technical implementations of bank payment clearance.
Not a huge fan of Google.
The TypeScript plugin for Babel already works this way: it strips out the type annotations to make the code understandable to plain JS interpreters, nothing more. Most people do their type checking through their editor or some other tooling. The coupling of building and checking in a single step, in the case of a dynamic language, is really just a matter of convenience for the implementers (as well as historical tradition). Unlike C, in TypeScript type information is not actually needed to output runnable code.
Yeah sure, except if I refuse to do something my boss will fire me and find someone who will.

And hey, now that remote work is the new hotness, we’re more replaceable than ever!

Before we can be expected to take an oath of any kind, software engineers need to have agency.
Are you expecting engineers to quit FB and IG and Twitter en masse? Because I'm not. People like money more than each other.
From Wikpedia [0]: Lai was born in Guangdong, China in December 1948. At the age of 12, he entered Hong Kong as a stowaway on a boat. Upon his arrival, Lai began work as a child-laborer in a garment factory for a wage of $8 per month. ... Net worth US$1.2 billion (2008)

What an incredible character. Arresting a man like that has to be one of the most straightforward own-goals that a nation can manage.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Lai
> LGBTQIAA2S+

Not sure if you're mocking the LGBT group or what? Is that a real thing now? Googling it gives me only a (seemingly) mocking Urban Dictionary entry.
Because the self appointed police of the world (that the world insisted wasn't), is too busy shooting itself in its own foot repeatedly right now.
IIRC you can choose the country of the exit node for your Tor route. And I doubt it that anyone chooses Russia except when looking at what the web is like from here.
>We have invaded others countries for less

It's almost as if "democracy" wasn't the real reason for those invasions.
I am the same, I learned it using a piano.

The question is: If you can remember what C1 or whatever sounds like and then deduce from that, is it not just a way of more learning to be able to remember the other ones too?

Is there really a fundamental, functional difference between absolute pitch and "normal" hearing?
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24105311
Reads like an argument for unionization more than a simple "oath."
"Now, before you email me about how you implemented THE TEMPLATE OF DOOM in assembly using only five molecules of RAM..." Love the humor.
> If you look today at who is studying an AP course for computer science in an American high school, what you will see is a group of people that are more male, white, urban, and more affluent than the country as a whole. That is what we need to address

As a male, white, urban, and affluent, perhaps he could demand to get replaced by a POC like some corporate board members have done, instead of endlessly yapping and proudly showing off his self-hating racism.
Good thing I never leave my house anymore!
I have negative karma here. this is a positive thing; I just love pissing off these suckers
Most of my money net goes towards cycling gear. I buy new clothes maybe once a year or once every two years.

I have a custom made suit that I bought from a bespoke tailor in Chengdu for about 1200 usd including custom shoes.

I still want to find a nice trench coat for winter, and I saw one at Dior that I really liked. Didn’t want to pay the 5000 usd price tag though.
The importance of having a Second Career
Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative
That part is REALLY weird.
They work on iOS devices.
> > Paul's intention in creating the scale was to challenge the idea that religion is universal and innate to the human condition, and to show that societies that don't believe in God are not doomed, as some religious conservatives would have people believe.

> Always an excellent idea to start off a study with an attempt to prove a preconceived point.

That's highly disingenuous.

The intention as stated was to disprove a preconceived point -- viz 'societies that don't believe in God are doomed'.
Meanwhile in NBA: let's all kneel to RMB!
Also, here's a 1hr 20min podcast on it, which goes into a lot more detail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56N5wwu7BzE
Would you accept any job under penalty of imprisonment for violating grey ethical rules?
Exactly. I can’t believe all the blame-shifting I’m reading in this thread! It’s as if software engineers are suddenly these powerless victims, lacking agency over their work, only capable of saying “yes, boss, whatever you say, boss!”

If a civil engineer’s manager told them to design an unsafe building or bridge, they’re not going to just say, “Sure thing manager! One death trap coming right up!” It is their ethical duty to build it safely.
Not normally. This situation however is not normal.
Censorship in China Allows Govt Criticism but Silences Collective Expression [pdf] (dash.harvard.edu)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20729614
Money is free, but it is not a lunch. You can't eat it. It doesn't actually do anything at all by itself, which is why you CAN create it out of thin air!

What matters is real productive capacity. Factories that build stuff, fields that grow crops, people learning skills. If next year, we have shuttered factories and fallow fields and a less skilled workforce - then the future has paid the price!

Perhaps the government saves the future by borrowing today. The Fed issues bonds, Jeff Bezos buys them, and in 50 years Jeff Bezos's kids own bonds, that yours and my children pay for through taxes. But that is a wealth transfer between people in the future, not a transfer from the future to today.
To me all of these are the same: clothing to show off. I think the make equivalent would be a suit. Or alternatively, an incredibly toned body, but I don't think they sell that.
I think it might have been worth abandoning unix for a different paradigm. BeOS is one way that could have gone.. Even better I wish that plan9 had been taken as the basis of an OS with the backing of a big firm like Apple and serious commitment to developing it. (alas!)
Except that the start and goal are so far away you can legitimately claim you can't see the actual harm in writing something.

You write a tool for let's say recognizing faces. Will it be used for login onto computer? Tracking dissidents? IDing corpses? Who knows.

What if you start as something 100% ethical. But your company pivots to unethical application?
This seems like a decent idea if the thing that's in your fridge is ice cream, but not if it's ingredients for cooking meals. Whoever does the cooking is going to spend a ton of time running up and down while stuff overcooks, and then they'll be even more tired and get more complaints from the rest of the family. So you should be absolutely sure that you have an equitable family dynamic and that everyone agrees that you do, before you try this.
It is not weird in that countries enforce what they see as antiterrorism laws outside their borders (US is a prime example). The problem here is that China is targeting essentially anyone with a strong critical voice.
Wouldn't offshoring lower liability? If you can blame the developer why not offsource that or better outsource and remove any responsibility from the company.
And invoked that authority: China has pressed charges against an American citizen who lives in America for conduct that took place in the United States.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/01/china/hong-kong-activists-arr...

R.I.P Westphalian sovereignty
An example of the levels they went to: Renaming the series from "Card Captor Sakura" to "Cardcaptors" wasn't just superficial, they reordered and cut up episodes to try and switch it from main-character-and-rival into duo-main-characters.

I did like the new opening they came up with, though it totally didn't fit the overall series aesthetic.
In my experience, native image is noticeably slower than regular openjdk, at least for Scala. The start up speed is nice, though.
And I wasn't implying engineers should be entirely blameless. Everyone has a limited understanding of legal systems too complex for one person to fully grasp. And workers far below the level of decision makers should be judged according to evidence of their knowledge and responsibility. Likewise those who give orders should bear more responsibly.

All these "companies take on a life of their own" arguments sound a lot like executives priming the pump of potential jurors with excuses. If decision makers cannot bear responsibility because of a company size or organizational structure then we can make some sizes and structures illegal before they stumble/march into devastating incompetence.
> That's because there are no long and short vowels or consonants in English--the distinction doesn't matter.

English has the distinction for vowels and it does matter. “can’t” and “cunt” have the same vowel sound in some accents, but “can’t” needs a long vowel sound while “cunt” needs a short vowel sound. Native English speakers speak those those two words quite distinctly.

Lose/loose is another pair (confusingly “lose“ has a long vowel sound and “loose” has a short vowel sound.)

Moon needs a long vowel sound to sound right. I am sure you can think of other examples.
I don't disagree with any of this at all; in fact I'd piggy back and go further: the Chinese Communist Party is increasingly a totalitarian regime. Whereas Vladimir Putin and the Russian oligarchs are mostly interested in preserving their power and wealth, and threatening/assaulting/murdering the people who get in the way, the Chinese Communist Party regime seems to have much broader goals. From the Falun Gong persecution to the Uighur concentration camps to the ultra-nationalist propaganda now taught in PRC schools to even the land grabs (and land "creation") the PLA Navy has engaged in, the ambitions of the Chinese Communist Party seem truly limitless in the way Nazi Germany's and the Soviet Union's did.

(This reads as a criticism and almost a "well, aktshually" kind of a post, but I truly don't intend it as such. If anything, it's a stronger warning to Chinese ex-pats: be very careful what you say because the regime's tentacles are numerous and reach far. Not that Chinese citizens don't already know that, though.)
The scenario we are planning is power down for several days.

Not the collapse of civilization.
Cyberia: A Pandemic’s Technology
And in America, anti-democracy tycoon Donald Trump was elected president. The times are changing.
The patient is the company.

So the oath would be to do no harm to the company.
There have been experiments made on people brought up on music where the octave is considered less important and these people do not perceive it as "the same."

It seems the same to us because we're building on hundreds of years of music that tells us it is. If you're comfortable with the tonic moving, the octave is no more "the same" than any other note.

Most of what we take for granted in music is learned through exposure.
> So management bears no blame for requiring illegal work be done, on pain of termination?

No, I wouldn't say that. In many cases, management and engineering share the blame jointly and severally since they both have an opportunity to stop it.

> Said another way, engineers now need to be technical and legal experts in the business domain?

Engineers should know enough about their business domains to understand the ethical impacts of their work. Ethics and law are orthogonal, so thankfully this is generally much easier than being a legal expert.

> (Remember employees in the US depend on the company for health insurance. Saying 'no' could cost a lot more than just ones position.)

Thankfully, the healthcare safety net in much of the US is far better than it gets credit for, and the pay and availability of opportunities for software engineers in the US has generally been quite good. I'm sympathetic to this argument in general, which is one reason I don't think there should be an oath for, like, Amazon warehouse workers, but I'm far less sympathetic for anyone making 5+ times the median US income.

> Most software engineers are not like doctors. We have little autonomy over what is created. Our responsibility is primarily the how. And with devops sometimes the actual deployment and maintenance itself.

Your responsibility as framed to you by the business is the how, but upstream of the how is the question of whether or not to do it at all. If you contribute to a piece of software, you've tacitly answered yes to that question.
I understand what they're getting at, I think, but "pro-democracy tycoon" has to be one of the funniest oxymorons I've seen in serious print (at least on its face).
As an anecdote, i have a Tajik friend from Xinjiang who's seen friends kidnapped by Chinese authorities and never heard from again for daring to criticise the govt.
Seems to me that in order to take away any truly valuable lessons from some historical event, you have to understand the context in which it occurred.

Generally speaking, humans are very bad at actually understanding how they themselves would actually feel, react, or behave in a similar situation. It's kind of like people who talk all the time about entrepreneurship or starting their own company but then never actually quit their jobs because the reality of handing in your resignation and going off on your own is quite different than the intellectualization of it.
I can’t imagine software engineers staying in a company long enough to acquire it.

For this to work, software engineer compensation would need to change radically.
But it would mean (pretty much by the intention of 5G) many more such devices in proximity of every inhabitant of your downtown area, right (Edit: actually, now that I read it, this seems to be the main point of the "appeal")? Also more of closer-range towers pretty much everywhere, no?

> the protocol

Physical protocol, so it doesn't really debunk much. Different wavelengths, different modes of sending/receiving. I seriously have no idea if there is or isn't any reason to be concerned about that, and it wouldn't surprise me very much if it eventually turns out that this isn't all just crazy people mumbling. After all, there's no conclusive data and there's much more initiative to support 5G than to fight it, so if there is somebody talking sensibly about some real dangers, I expect that I wouldn't hear about them for way too long, since they would be lost in the noise.

So, really, I wouldn't be so fast to dismiss any "dangers of the 5G" activists, even if they aren't saying anything very conclusive right now. I seriously don't know if there can be anything to be worried about, but I am pretty sure that anybody who could possibly conduct any studies on that, will allow only studies with "good" results. I kinda have some trust issues, when it comes to dealing with large corporations.
There's probably a whole host of Japanese names that come from misspellings. Two come to mind immediately:

Mitsubishi Starion: officially "Star of Arion", but few people claim that it's just a misspelling of "Stallion", images of which were featured in some marketing materials. There's also the Mitsubishi Colt and Mitsubishi Eclipse which were given equine names.

GLAY: Japanese rock band which supposedly intentionally misspelled their name although their former classmates claim that they just didn't know how to spell "gray".
fwiw a quick googling of this guy shows that he’s had his weather segments cancelled before on other networks, and by his own admission it’s because he veers off topic from weather and into controversy (E.g. climate change denial)
Tech companies are actively against there being a “profession”. They want engineers to be plentiful, cheap, and replaceable.
Perhaps all top level comments could have a subject or title. It would be as if they were, themselves, submissions.

This is one of the things Slashdot did rather well with its categorization and ratings, though if that system were used then I’m sure everything would just be rated +5 Insightful with little signal over the noise.
I don't see what is arendtian about this...
You're focusing on the wrong part of the picture. Yes, you need that data to be stored somewhere. But the complaint is not that a merge commit or equivalent data structure exists somewhere. It's that if you get the equivalent of 'asdflklf' shown in the log, especially when it's displayed in a compact and supposedly information-dense form, something has gone wrong.

If we take it as true that merge commits have no useful information by definition, shouldn't they have a blank commit message? Or a message of "merged branch X"? And why are we spending lines displaying them in the denser log formats?
Show HN: Why DNS leak tests might fool you
Prime Numbers for the Win (2009)
We also need a Hippocratic Oath for CEOs and investors and shareholders. We need a Hippocratic Oath for Corporations, for they have personhoods too!
The Mountain View Computer History Museum is near by and I love making a visit. The era that interests me the most is from the 60's where they started to scale up from the tube era. It's just amazing considering the time and effort compared to today.
The Last Days of the People Who Traveled on Foot
I can't speak to the censoring of Cardcaptor Sakura... I watched the unedited subtitled DVDs. The edited dubbed version that some people are referring to had the slightly different title "Cardcaptors".

But another example of censorship is how the relationship between Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus was changed from being lesbians to being cousins. If you search for "sailor moon cousins", you can read about how that turned out for them. (eg: "they certainly didn’t act like any cousins I knew" -- Sara Roncero-Menendez)
I believe because dead code elimination isn't currently possible with JVM, "package to binary" would mean including the whole (or most of) JVM with your program.
From the practicality standpoint it seems that we should all be wearing togas (or robes, at most). They're basically unisex (with opportunities for expression for those who value it), flexible on size (or at least very forgiving if your exact size is unavailable), and can be made pretty cheap (assuming mass production).

Everything more complicated than that is fashion.
Why is it an oxymoron?