skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some very limited situations where a pill that can change someone's ideology could have some ethical uses.

Imagine a would-be ideologically-motivated terrorist concocted a plot that would kill hundreds of people but he was arrested before he could harm anyone. In the course of the plot, he committed enough crimes that he will be put in a supermax prison for the rest of his life.

Is it more ethical to keep this person in a solitary confinement--allowed out of his cell only one hour a day--for the next forty years or give him the option of taking a pill that will make him stop wanting to murder people in the name of his ideology and instead put him on parole until it's clear the pill worked?

I'd argue offering the pill is far more humane than life in solitary confinement.

A tool like this obviously should not be used to "reform" people who are socially different (e.g. Alan Turing); the scenario I propose here is only applicable to people whose violent politics make them too dangerous to let out of prison.
The point is that it'll happen for your non-VPN traffic, because you are a VPN server for others.
Polymer sandwich current collector boosts battery density, quells fire
AI is not even required for "world in chains" scenario. All it takes is giving everyone a smartphone for tracking their location, social media account for tracking their thoughts, replacing cash with online banking ("because cash is only used by drug dealers") and banning strong encryption so that we have no privacy. As you may have noticed we're almost there.
I'd not worry too much about that. Their tech is not "website-tech" per se. But yes, wish it was custom done, leaner and not a modified version of a commercial Bootstrap theme -- Goodkit[1].

1. https://themes.getbootstrap.com/product/goodkit/
Again, my point is it is not just the number of people that make software work. It takes vision, the focus of the organization, prioritization.
Prodigies like him kind of scare me. I studied at the same place as where Adam Dunkels (behind e.g. uIP and Contiki, a networked OS requiring 30 KB RAM and 30 KB ROM despite a GUI) did and he was almost a mythological figure with stories of taking multiple classes at once with ease.
> Yep. Have you ever looked at TCP code and noticed a couple of calls to setsockopt() and one of them is TCP_NODELAY? That's why. When that algorithm is enabled on Linux, TCP tries to collapse a bunch of tiny sends into fewer bigger ones to not blow a lot of network bandwidth with the overhead. Unfortunately, in order to actually gather this up, it involves a certain amount of delay and a timeout before flushing smaller quantities of data to the network.

IT'S CALLED BUFFERING.
> I follow an influencer that retweets a libelous news story from CNN, who's the liable publisher?

I don’t know, but I think lawyers should know answer to that question. Pretty sure newspapers were re-publishing other media for quite some time now, centuries.

> with a _massive_ increase in censorship and a _massive_ reduction in the ability for the average person to publish opinions

I don’t think they can do that. People will just leave. I don’t read twitter, but I do use facebook. I don’t subscribe for influencers or other media. I personally know vast majority of people I read there.

> how making Twitter the publisher is any different is how would having the ability to sue Twitter for libel be any different than suing CNN or Fox right now?

Increases costs to run Twitter by orders of magnitudes. I think the only way forward for them is charging users. When users will become paying customers as opposed to product, this change incentives of twitter.

Currently, a public outrage like this or any other might be a PR and political nightmare, but financially it’s a gold mine for social media platforms. In the current model, their profit scales with page views. If the profit will only scale with count of users, I believe they gonna do many things completely differently. For instance, will be no point in tuning their algorithms to promote controversial content, quite the opposite, it would then increase their servers load for no good reason.
Sometimes I miss Pascal.
Those little intermediate piers were probably the slowest part of the on site work. And the most vulnerable part of the bridge, because that's what gets eroded. It's still the biggest cause of bridge failure.
Hey this is a great idea, but I have a few questions/comments:

- The website looks fine to me (it's not egregious like the other commenters say), but it might be worth making the landing page clearer.

- Are the PoPs meant to be purchased by retail investors? $20,000 seems a bit steep for most people to invest in. It's also too small for most institutional investors. Do you guarantee returns for eternity? This sounds like a "too good to be true" proposition. Why not package multiple PoPs into a larger financial instrument so that returns are more even, and then sell them to institutional investors? Lambda school has taken a creative approach to bundling ISAs: https://lambdaschool.com/the-commons/announcing-our-new-isa-...

- What are the parameters for your FSO technology? How well does it work in rain/smog and other environmental conditions? What wavelength are you using?

- last mile is tricky because you still have to invest in infrastructure and marketing to the end user. Does $20k really cover that?

Either way, I love the idea, just skeptical about the economics and the technology. Hoping to hear more about you guys in the future!
Quotation errors in high-impact general science journals: Error rate of 25%
I seem to remember that they even had an option to play back recordings of other users who hummed the same song you were humming. Of course it was a privacy minefield, so that feature was discontinued pretty quickly. But it was hilarious while it lasted, hearing e.g. a Japanese granny croon Madonna.
Part 2: Upsetting Opinions about Static Analyzers
Cold superconduction is pretty familiar.
That's what they make after 15 years experience, the actual average for all teachers is much lower[0] (it is $38.761), one cause is that about 30% of teachers leave the profession less than 5 years later[1]; for example the average pay for a teacher in NY is 45K, one of the most expensive places to live in the US. According to the OECD itself teachers on the US have one of the longest working hours[3] in the world, this unpaid overtime means money lost due being unable to have a second job or due incurring in costs directly related to lack of time (e.g. eating out thanks to having no time to prepare lunch); the cause of this overtime seems to be lack of prep time in the instructional day as teachers are expected to be actively teaching for most of the day, and are provided woefully few hours for planning, correcting, and collaboration [4]

[0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/teacher-pay...

[1] https://www.epi.org/publication/u-s-schools-struggle-to-hire...

[2] https://www.bestplaces.net/cost_of_living/city/new_york/new_...

[3] https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/teaching-hours.htm

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/9m1d7k/why_do_ame...
Well, yes. The point of TCP is that it's an opaque reliable linear-stream abstraction. If you're not treating it like an opaque reliable linear-stream abstraction, you shouldn't be using TCP. If you want to manage your own datagrams, use a datagram transport. (Not necessarily UDP. I'd suggest SCTP, personally. Or maybe QUIC.)
The Elroy Lamp: A transparent LCD lamp (2019)
Cloud gaming’s history of false starts and promising reboots
Try find something negative about CCP leaders on any Chinese website.
This seems much more intuitive. The more you chew, the greater the surface area, the more rapidly carbohydrates are released or hydrolyzed by enzymes.

If you were to swallow a grape whole, you'd probably pass it whole as well and none of the carbohydrates would be released.
Because actually finding blueprints that reliably match what the helicopter is actually using can be a real problem that can take far longer, will __still__ require you to cross-check against the part because of human error :-)
I'd love to pay for Youtube if they eliminated tracking/profiling. Not having ads is not enough of an incentive here.
How can you when the effect is to shut down the conversation?
This reads like slut-shaming.
What is a basic human right? If you have a community of a million humans that constantly cause trouble, stab random people, blow themselves up, drive through crowds of people to make a quasi political-religious statement, doesn't that merit some kind of bad treatment?

You reap what you sow. I am sorry, but the last decade of islamic terrorism, senseless killings of innocent people, of KIDS infront of their families, like the christmas market drivetroughs we have had here in europe, I just have no sympathy for humans that subscribe to islamism. Sorry! The glass is empty. You can't do vile inhuman stuff on a regular basis and then cry human rights - Its hypocrisy on such a level that only religious people can display such ingracious and dishonest behaviour!

I can really understand why some obscure sect of radical islamists get mistreated in China. What I cannot fathom is why globalist NGOs work so hard at bringing unending islamic migration to europe. Look! I can understand why Junckers of EU wants to bring in millions of Africans (and thereby commit genocide on the european population, as per UNs own definition) in order to subvert the african continent into some kind of unholy union where we will have "1.8billion consoomers" as he so graciously puts it. What I cannot understand is the love for islam, that shows absolutely no love for any other group or religion. There isn't a level of the average European society that isnt deeply affected by islamic immigration! Its rediculous. Where is my human rights to be left alone by religious nutjobs and questionable cousin on cousin breeding, clan traditions, honor killings, segregation, religious demonstrations, crime, grooming gang scandals, weapon and grenade attacks and I could go on. This isn't even the tip of the iceberg!

The only tears I have for the cries of human rights, is crying laughter. Why is it always the most inhumane groups of people who calls for human rights? If you want to be treated like a human, start acting like one.

The worst of all of this human rights nonsense, is that in south africa, they are literally chanting "kill the Boer" while almost everyday, another family gets slaughtered and raped, and no one as much as bats an eye, no media mention, probably because it doesn't resonate too well with all that BLM subversion.
there are many more https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puente_de_fábrica
The snobbery and entitlement of this forum’s mob is getting ridiculous.

Crowds of snobbish people complain about electron and how “inefficient” it is, yet barely anyone wants to financially contribute to an alternative.

Poor op must have assumed they will get support for a brilliant alternative only to face a harsh reality: hn snobs wont lift a finger but instead leech on other people’s time and money to build tools for them.

This community is laughable. Electron is here to stay.
What they did this week sealed their fate. Section 230 was supposed to make social networks public squares but that line is obviously being ignore especially by some people because they think censoring things they think are wrong is moral.

Which has to be one of the most arrogant things I have ever witnessed.
Wow, nice find! I'm glad I scrolled through the YouTube comments a bit to see this note on the background of the recording in wartime Berlin:

"Recorded in Berlin, June 17, 1941. This was based on an old Yiddish song 'Yossel, Yossel' (by Nellie Casman) which Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin later retitled 'Joseph, Joseph.' Wonder if the censors realized this."
Anyone who use smartphone accessories may need to buy USB-C cables except a few Lightning models. Proprietary connector is bad for environment.
At least it's only covered by patents, which will expire within 20 years.

With regular copyright, this wouldn't have been within my lifetime.
Devil's advocate: I spend my life and life savings to improve a common grape variety. In the end, it worked, people love it! Why shouldn't I profit from it? No one is forcing anyone to buy my grape. Had I invented a new vacuum cleaner I would have been able to make a killing without any hostility
We run our platform in different cities and they are all on-prem(custom server or managed hypervisor). After hearing horror stories about kubernetes on prem, we are happy that we decided to go with docker swarm.
Or, their home is not a place of work, its a home. I dont want my home to be anywhere near my place of work, or anything like my place of work. There should be a clear segregation of these two places.
North-Korea is not really an historical exception and it has not to be specially unstable without external intervention.

How much different is it its governance from, for instance, the Ramses dynasty? This kind of thing is as old as humanity. Well, not really, let's say that it's as old as the neolithic.
So the kernel is using a static decision that's really bad sometimes? Would it be too expensive to treat this like a branch predictor and keep some state to have the kernel enable/disable the delayed ACK dynamically depending on how it has won/lost the bet recently?
My gut feel (...) is that not controlling for time per unit of mass consumed invalidates the result, as hormonal signals are slow.

IE, 25g per minute chewed 15 times vs 25g per minute chewed 40 times.

This would be highly dependant on the type of food.
Bread (and pizza) chunks break down well in the gut, in comparison to mushrooms that hardly break down at all after chewing.

Insulin is released in response to blood sugar.
Guesswork extrapolation : Chewing more increases surface area increasing the speed of digestion.
I am not sure how chewing interacts with the amount of overall time food spends in the gut.

Still very interesting work.
I would love to see an analysis of stomach acid production in relation to chewing cycles.

Of note, and correct me if I am wrong, but isn't n30 the minimum for statistical significance? (even though n30 is still laughably low, and id prefer n3000)
Every time I print something and see the bits of extra plastic (nozzle cleaning, supports, the odd failure, etc), I feel a little guilty until I remember how much plastic would have been in the packaging alone had I ordered the part online or bought it in the store. Pretty much every time I order something small from Amazon or Ebay (the only really usable online retailers in western Canada), it almost always comes in a bubble-wrap-lined envelope that is essentially impossible to recycle.
The one thing that struck me, was all the problems were with the interviewee, not the interviewer.

I gave up looking for work, when I realized that it was my job to throw the seed into the interviewer’s nest.

”God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest."
-J.G. Holland

I was a hiring manager for 25 years. Hiring people was always a huge commitment. I had to fight like hell for every headcount, and I kept high-end engineers for decades.

I wasn’t just interviewing workers; I was interviewing family.

I could usually determine basic engineering (not just “coding”) skills after a half hour, and without having to write a single line of code. A big reason for that, was because I worked hard to maintain my own engineering chops throughout my management career, and that helped me to relate well with prospects.

Most of the interview was about whether or not the employee would strengthen or weaken the team. Whether they would be conscientious and disciplined in their approach; whether they would be enthusiastic and spend time learning the why of a task, as opposed to just the what.

I was interviewing really senior-level engineers. These were people that would need to write high-performance pipeline code, and most of the prospects had no experience in that particular field. I needed to hire people that would learn new algorithms and techniques. Enthusiasm, flexibility, humility, and open-mindedness were the currency; not rote and bluster.

I also wanted them to know what they were getting into. I wouldn’t ever lie to prospects, and that probably cost me a few, but I wouldn’t want to establish a relationship on sand. I loved what I did, and wanted people that would also love it.

I’m not egotistical, but I am confident in my own engineering (there’s that word again) skill and experience. I don’t demand worship, but I want some simple respect. If you won’t give that to me in an interview, then why should I expect it from you, once you have the free milk? I have had many friends that have left their jobs; uprooted their lives, and headed for greener pastures, only to come back, a few months later, humbled and broken.

If you are interested in me, then you are interested in someone that can make an enormous difference in your company. I’m not God’s gift to programming, but I have a unique mix of skills and experience that could really give your effort a big push.

I’m also a damn decent person, which becomes obvious after a fairly short conversation. I interview well.

But I test badly.
An example from Hamburg: TAVF - Test Track for Automated and Connected Driving

~37-55 traffic lights, ~9km, 108.11p, city driving on 1-7 lanes (mostly 2-4) with on and off street bicycle lanes (Please don't hit me test cars!).

As a resident on the test track I have only once seen it in use. It would be fun to acquire a suitable radio and try listening in to what's being broadcast but that's a project for another day.

https://tavf.hamburg/en/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11p
> Just imagine a world where you only see an advert that you are extremely likely to buy.

That sounds awful.
Next time you complain about electron and pretend to be an open source fan, remeber the hn community is just an entitled
snob crowd. Here is a decent alternative to electron yet not one will lift a finger to either sponsor or contribute to it. Now go back to your desk and pretend to be a contrarian, open source supporter and wanna be puritan.
I’m not disagreeing with that, and I’m also aware that as a private company, whatever they do with their website isn’t an infringement upon first amendment rights. I’m just bristling at the parent comment who seemed to be saying that in our new AI-driven world, free speech is no longer an intrinsically valuable thing.
That was never claimed by Chinese medics, merely that at the time they had not observed it to be transmissible.

This is relevant since SARS wasn’t transmissible, so it’s an aspect that has to be determined scientifically for each virus.
China is totalitarian, but that might not be the reason why its economy is booming.
This is the first article: https://acoup.blog/2020/09/18/collections-iron-how-did-they-...

I wish it was easier to read though.
It's so sad that the divisiveness of this topic makes it impossible to be discussed in an friendly and respectful way.
Anyone remember the website that helped you ID a song by tapping out it out with the space bar? Song Tapper it might have been called, but the site seems to be long dead, sadly.
Your syllogism goes something like this:

Shouting fire is speech.
Shouting fire is illegal
Violence is illegal.
Therefore spec is violence.

I don't even know where to begin picking it apart. It has the -form- of an argument, but...

These are strange times.
How better to identify those members of the Inner Party likely to rebel than by telling them the truth ("The object of power is power").
Which makes perfectly sense. Stronger signal glucose is coming and quicker uptake of glucose as the pieces are smaller and have bigger surface.
Pretty amazing how well the high-tech hides in that! Doesn't look gimmicky at all, at least on the pictures.
There are a lot more than one case in the UK. The fact you can only find one seems that the cover up has worked.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/839509/Britain-towns-citie...
Yeah, but ever tried to spend (actual) cash online? Any way you try, you're going to need 2 banks and a payment processor involved. The buyer bank, the seller bank, and Visa, PayPal, or somebody.

In the end, something like 3-5 percent of what you spend is going to be redirected. These are real costs you pay.
How can HTML have APIs if it’s not a programming language?
Old paper about excess Helium in D loaded Palladium - http://www.fusione.enea.it/pubblications/TR/2002/RT-2002-41-...

I don't understand why experts cannot accept the challenge. There is something happening that is unexpected (modulo some reproducibility issues)? Investigate, jeez
Speaking in terms of pure economics, improvements to self-driving cars today will eventually lead to mass-market adoption and substantially lower costs for everybody.

Take cell phones for example, they were big, expensive, had only one function, and only available for the rich just about 30 years ago. Now they are cheap, powerful, pocket supercomputers available to mostly everyone.

Another example is farming and supply chain. 100 years ago you were pretty limited to the foods available in the local store, but now you can get anything your heart might desire, be that bananas from Mexico for 69 cents, or Sake from Japan for $20. The world has greatly benefitted from advancements in technology that was once only available to the richest.

Most of the mid-class luxuries we enjoy today, from airlines, to hot tubs, to game consoles and books on Kindle, all of that had to be developed and brought to light, first expensive, and then gradually cheaper and cheaper.

Eventually even the buses will drive themselves, and that will only happen if we invest sufficient energy and resources into making the tech available and improving today.
>> “Hmm, I wonder if I could … … … no, never mind, I’ll just do this instead.”

I can either think OR talk, I can't do both at the same time. I can happily think and THEN talk but when I've interviewed with companies that have this interview culture (i.e. Google) they don't let you do this. They start telling you they want to hear what you're thinking. Also, most of the time thinking is disjointed and nonsensical and is way faster than what you can express so it's actually disrupting the problem solving. I really don't understand what's wrong with letting people think for a few minutes.

Additionally I am perfectly fluent in English and talk code everyday in English but it's not my mother tongue so having me chit-chat my thinking away while I think (potentially in another language) hinders me since I focus more on what I am saying than actually solving the problem.

>> "My typical work process in a technical challenge like this is to spend a minute or two thinking quietly about the problem and writing down notes, I’ll share those thoughts with you in a moment to get your input"

That's great, but that hasn't been my experience. Interviewers constantly tell you to talk and it's specially bad during a phone interview. I'd be fine if the interview was really setup as a collaboration between two people, but it's not, you're given a problem and a whiteboard.
Does anyone care to explain the downvotes? This seems like a reasonable argument to be made.