skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Men explain things to each other and there is a whole etiquette around doing it. Doesn't matter if the listener has a better, more original version of the story they will still listen. How else would oral histories get rehearsed and memorised.
It's often useful to split up a solution between defining the requirements in one doc, and the design in a separate one. If you bleed design ideas into the requirements, you can get tunnel vision
Ephedrine is still available over the counter, in the US, at least.
I think your guess is pretty likely. It would be very hard for the US to get into a direct shooting war with China, especially over an island that is 100km off the coast of mainland China. Strategically it just seems like an impossible task to keep Taiwan out of China's hands if that's what China decided to do.

More likely the US (and West) would attempt to punish China economically for its behavior, though I have a hard time believing that would work either. Even if an agreement is later reached and sanctions lifted, I doubt Taiwanese independence would be a part of that.

Unless there is a huge shift in sentiment toward Taiwan in China's leadership, I am really afraid that it's inevitable that Taiwan ends up being taken by force at some point in the not-too-distant future.
Yes, although I believe technically proof of stake isn't as secure as proof of work (although it's secure enough) because you're essentially picking randomly from a weighted sample based on how much the sample owe of the underlying token.
That is categorically untrue. Evolutionary, humans are a social species. My comment is it doesn't happen in a vacuum, which is obvious to the extent that it is impossible to live in a vacuum.

A man that somehow survived being raised by wolves would be tremendously irrevocably mentally stunted. We have evolved to learn language from the people around us as children.
You don't regain energy this way. You're buying new energy.

That's not how batteries work.
People shrugged off all the anti-Asian rhetoric pushed in American politics for the past five years especially the last year. Now we have major increase in anti-Asian hate crimes and attacks including one mass shooting. I guess the Asian-American community should continue to shrug it off, as you say.
Why would woman step out of the kitchen amirite?
These networks are almost certainly compromised to high hell, except the actors don't broadcast their action.
There is a whole spectrum, and a silent majority in the middle that doesn't want to engage with either aggressive extreme.

And in both cases, the extreme isn't particularly rare. Discussing which side has a worse distribution isn't easy to do accurately or particularly helpful
Ya, the Library of Congress collection is great, it’s practically the only place I’ve been able to find images of art that is at least 3840 pixels wide that doesn’t need to be upscaled for 4K monitors. Does anyone know any other sources of high resolution images of classic art? All of the photos on museum sites like the Louvre and the Rijksmuseum are really low quality.
Don’t even need to particularly eat less. Calories in/calories out. As long as you’re in a caloric deficit, you will lose weight. Now what your body is actually burning to lose that weight is a different story.
> Why would you talk to women at all professionally, unless there are reliable witnesses or video recordings?

That's beyond the pale. I've banned this account for reasons explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26613795 above, and everywhere else you'll find moderation comments on this site.

Creating accounts to break HN's rules with will eventually get your main account banned as well, so please don't.
One of the most interesting things about software dev (I'm in my 50's) is that you never run out of puzzles or problems to solve. Everything gets boring eventually, but the field is still full of interesting things to work on, things that can be improved, and things that can make money! That's what keeps me going. Also, believing that I can contribute positively to our field and make software better than it was before I got there.
If you dump something radioactive into a volcano, now you have a radioactive volcano, which is not better
There's no difference to an observer. If you tell me you saw a white car in a parking lot and video footage shows a blue car, there's no way to know if you were lying or mistaken/misremembering.
We've done this now with JSON APIs... even most libraries now just a JSON API and then give you a language binding.
It does sound very worthwhile! But in order for it to be useful people need to be able to trust you, and in order to build and keep credibility, you need to be able to stick to reporting "honestly and without bias" even in the face of countless temptations to be a bit dishonest or one-sided in your reporting, burning some credibility for short-term gain.

Of the people who want to change the world, how many can be convinced of the usefulness of such principled behavior, and actually stick to it? How many organizations? Empirically it doesn't look like very many.
Per my bigger post, a lot of people are conflating "music theory" or "formal training", with "sheet notation". You will be limited performer if you don't develop an understanding of music theory at some level yes. But I've successfully challenged my music Instructor to teach me music theory without sheet music for the last year... They really aren't as inseparable as sometimes people assume :)
U.S. Clean Energy Standards
After seeing the one with the new york times, I thought about having a colour eink display that would display related album or artist art as I played music from my chromecast audio plugged in my hifi. Just finding a high quality source of images is hard but Apple iTunes has a decent selection.

Other opportunities could be displaying the days RSS feeds or HN posts.
Yeah. Naspolya. We have them in Hungary, too, although they have become less and less common over the years.
This coming from CBC, HA!!!
It's dangerous, it paints a very different picture of the situation. For example, we saw how many fascists were dormant until it became OK to be a fascist.
So, I came to post this because I'd really like some informed opinion on whether the conclusion drawn is at all likely. Beyond posting xkcd cartoons about extrapolation, is there any reason to believe this is overly pessimistic?
That is correct. It is the same reason why fax machines are considered secure transmission for medical data. National infrastructure is harder to compromise at scale compared to internet channels.
> A number of people I talk to (curiously they tend to be production engineers) think we live in a meritocracy where racism and sexism have virtually been erased.

Do they? I don't think I know anybody like this. Most of the people I know think we live in a flawed and complex world. That's why so many of them are less forthcoming with casual acquaintances, in "mixed company" as they say, as this article describes.

Not to doubt too agressively, but are you sure those people you know believe what you think they believe?
Why do you not assume that the person in this story is not then?

In what way can someone disagree with you about the offensiveness of something you say, without you labelling them as "intent on outrage"?
And its motto, mostly applied by its neighbours/friends/enemies/whatever - "Don't Fuck With The Culture".
Go outside?
A quick reminder to read the article before commenting. HN usually has a better track record of this, but this is a particular issue people are sensitive about so don't draw your conclusions from the title alone.
I guess in a world without regulations or laws? The entire economy is predicated on patent and copyright law, as western civilization has deemed it beneficial to protect innovation and reward the innovator.
> If you could remove the inflammatory tone from your posts and just state the facts there might be an interesting discussion to have.

One comes with the other, not my fault if you can't deal with it ;-)
Oh, no problem. Have a great day.
Cell phones have tens of thousands of patents. Yet the innovations keep coming.
,,If you could create crypto based on ML training it would be so cool.''

That would actually be a bad thing: the real value in proof of work is that it doesn't have any extra value to the miner, which stops miners from gaining a huge edge over other possible future miners. What's behind all the controversy is that proof of work has to be totally useless work, that's what makes it valuable for the blockchain :)
Dunno how much I trust this guy. He's notorious for claiming that the Halting Problem is actually solvable, and in other places suggests that Godel was wrong, and even that Cantor's proof that the reals are uncountable is wrong. http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hehner/halting.html Finding the flaws in all those arguments is a good challenge if you have a free afternoon!
> You could make a similar argument about ethnics groups instead of race.

Colloquially they are pretty much interchangeable as rarely anybody uses "race" in the proper modern anthropological context. Which is problematic in its own right as it keeps rather outdated concepts alive even when the scientific community, for the most part, considers them untenable.

> You don't have to list and compare each and every ethnic group separately to say that the European culture(s) are overall much different from, let's say, African culture(s).

You don't need to but if you don't it often ends up with generalizations where there are not "European culture(s)" or "African culture(s)" but only the singular versions of them and the only differences are made out between these two.

But in actuality neither Europe nor Africa are culturally homogeneous. Some cultural groups in Europe and Africa can have more in common than comparing European with European/African with African groups due to the wide diversity among cultural groups even inside the same geographical region.

A reality that's too often lost in the discourse when cultures are compared like they are monolithic blocks, particularly when these blocks are defined by color of skin.
>I'm not sure the Chinese have been as helpful as they could be ...

Talk about an understatement.
> Looking back at my comment and scratching my head. In what way could it even be wrong?

Your original comments gives the impression that reading scores is "bad" somehow. The analogy of "These things are about a different as learning to program and learning to type in a program from a magazine" gives off the wrong impression. I play piano and I get what you mean, music is much more than playing a score. But the score is just a medium to learn a song. It's not "typing a program from a magazine", it's more towards "reading an algorithm description and writing the code".

> I’m not cut off from any genre I’m interested in playing,

The "I'm interested in playing" part is important. I don't think trying to play some classical piano pieces by ear is going to be easy, for example.

Is it necessary? No, of course it isn't necessary to be able to read sheet music. But it's pretty useful, not that hard, and will make a lot of things easier. You could make analogies diminishing every way to learn music (e.g., learning by ear is just like looking at a program your buddy wrote and writing the same, you're just imitating; or learning chord notation is just like writing in scratch, you're limited to the blocks someone created before) but they're not useful at all. While it worked for you, most people will actually benefit from having multiple ways to learn music.
"Internalised misogyny", perhaps?

I mean, why not, right? If gays can allegedly have "internalised homophobia", then why can't women have "internalised misogyny".

And so it goes. When we jettison reason, everyone gets to say what they want, and no-one gets to say that one conclusion is more soundly-based that another.
I should have looked that up before saying it on HN. Touche, but you get my point... no? It's not a battery because it's being turned back into energy. You just don't need to make as much aluminium later.

Actually, never mind. shees... Nerds. Go on. I deserve at least 6 downvotes for that. We have standards to maintain.
On the other hand, all 3 of those can be used with "piece of". Slice describes something that was done to it, and sheet describes its form. (As opposed to scrap or some such term.)
Recently watched a Simpsons episode from the mid-90s with the quote “Anger is what makes America great,” so other people had the same notion quite a while back.
It also doesn't seem to be accomplishing much - after tearing down the statues and protesting for months, both sides seem even less willing to consider the other side's point of view.
> the intentional passing on of administration claims not only without criticism

This is ineptitude.

> excluding and attacking critical voices as borderline seditious

This is also ineptitude.
I’m talking about the diffusion of technology undermining established information sources.

The outcomes of lawsuits are not really relevant to the average person.
Generous as in assuming the most graceful interpretation. Not intending to bucket people.
Please don't take HN threads into generic ideological flamewar, and especially not with partisan lemon twists.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26613795
I've been playing long enough I can usually pick up a melody by ear, but sometimes it is transposed. Even without a key signature the videos help knowing what key it's in. Timing and expression are in the actual audio, so for me it's not needed in the display. I'm trying to play it how I hear it, not how I see it.
You could turn that bitcoin directly into energy by making a payment to someone which expended some physical energy to produce a good or service.

If you have money you can get the energy (i.e. access to the battery) of someone or some thing.

Assuming you don't have access to the battery/money you probably would have to do some work (i.e. contribute to the battery) so that you can access the big battery/monetary system and hence exchange your energy with the energy from someone else (i.e. You make shoes and I make shirts, at some point in time you need a shirt and me a pair of shoes, so we exchange our energy)

Point is: battery needs to be always at the most efficient capacity.
I would say that weaponization of outrage for the purposes of accomplishing goals is what's ruining lives. I've seen it happen. Seems like it's the new innovation.

We didn't used to have mechanisms for so efficiently manipulating populations in distributed ways, before. Social media's got a lot to answer for. I had to quit it, myself. I'm sure it's still a huge pile of bad-faith and manipulativeness, but I can't justify trying to keep track of how bad it's become.
I'm sorry, but how does this have anything to do with "addiction to outrage"? Unless you're implying the Asian-Americans upset are unjustifiably "addicted to outrage" or "less-adjusted", which I'm going to assume isn't your intention.
update (seems resolved): https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1376265404050366466?s=2...
It doesn't have "a single point of failure", it has infinite points of failure: Put a big ship on ground at any (infinitesimally adjacent, so infinite in number) point along the length of the canal, and it's blocked.
I like the argument that Taleb makes in _Fooled by randomness_, which is essentially that most news has negative informative value because most of it is just noise. Only with time does the signal appear.
This can be especially bad if one corner hides a catastrophe. Any automatic method is likely to have an exponential struggle to sample appropriately. At a certain point, you just need to apply your own understanding of the problem you are trying to solve, and resort to an ad hoc method to do the “right” thing.
Honestly I think that in the long view of history, “engagement optimization” etc. will end up being seen in approximately the same light as nicotine and/or gambling. Based on how the narrative is shifting right now I could see it being something like big tobacco, but since the harm is less material I think long-term it may be more like gambling, in that these practices are allowed but have to be labeled with counseling and addiction support hotlines etc. and aren’t allowed for minors under 18.
shrug I don't think I can quickly convince someone of the utility of having both absolute and relative measures of things, there is a difference, they both have their uses, and restricting yourself to one usage and calling all others absurd isn't particularly helpful
This is why I will never own a Quattro vehicle.

Every service involving the engine begins with something like:

Step 1: remove headlights and front bumper
Step 2: remove myriad heat exchangers
Step 3: remove engine

So of course you're looking at an Audi Quattro platform getting its engine pulled in a parking space. I wouldn't be surprised one bit if this was all happening just to replace an inaccessible $100 part.
The problem is that it would be almost impossible to write such a book. The minds are so vast, so powerful, that a human can't possibly conceive what it would be like to be one. They are like gods compared to us and who can write from the point of view of a god?
The structural sexism in this story is arguably the investor choosing to spare himself the minor risk to reputation, the assumption that the CEO isn't likely enough to listen to the advice fairly for it to be worth giving.

(it's not at all a given that the situation would blow up in his face…)
Isn't it a standard practice for any interaction between male teacher and female student? Never in private, always more than 1 witness not related/close to either of participants, etc.
That's a fair point. In a two party system, you drive turnout where you know you can benefit, pass enough broadly popular legislation to have a plausible bid for reelection, then ignore your constituents and do what your party and donors want.
Mac too. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unsplash-wallpapers/id12848638...
For the tidy, glance, and augment views, there is pybroom https://pybroom.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
>> And the consequences of being accused of sexism by an online mob have now become so extreme that many investors don’t want to risk it anymore.

I'm glad someone said it and I'm glad that that someone is a woman so that there's a chance this message won't immediately get drowned in sexism/male privilege accusations.
Irrespective of how justifiable the anger is, the root issue that compulsive anger is both poisonous to mental health and that it gets in the way of critical thinking in ways that make it easy to be manipulated are both true.

Things don't need to be morally equivalent to have the same mental, emotional, and physiological effects. It is also possible to be mad about stuff and take productive action on them without regularly having to stoke the outrage fires. In fact that's critical to being able to think strategically about it.
Agreed. I talk to the women I work with the same way I talk to the men.
If I didn't, then I'm probably not talking to the men appropriately either. I think that is the right thing to do morally and that says a lot about a person's integrity, which means they trust you when you say something. So, there's no reason to think something is anything other than what you say it is.

Another important ingredient in that is saying, "I don't know" a lot. Then when you tell them something, they know you're not bullshitting them. So again, there is no reason for someone to think something is anything other than what you say it is.
The distinction is that there are things, specifically criticism, that can be interpreted as sexism independently of whether it is based on the sex of the criticised.

In the listed example, it's sexist to not suggest that the man becomes CEO instead of the current woman CEO
My cats and my dogs are family members. There's no discussion about that.

But they are not family members with the full rights and duties of a human family member. But that doesn't change that I try to treat them with the same respect as any other family member.

If you look at how the minds treat the members of the Culture with less capacity than them, it is very similar to how the Culture as a whole regards other civilisations.
There’s obviously something deeper going on.

Can you say what you think it is?
Addiction to outrage is also extremely profitable. Perhaps we’ll see those manufacturing addictive outrage face similar consequences as those manufacturing addictive painkillers.
Judging by performance per watt I doubt there's any 16 year old CPU that's justifiable to use for anything except a space heater
In our middle european country there was the initiative to end the discrimination to not employ people based on various markers race, skin color, gender, sex, age, education history (maybe switiching industries in your fourties) ...

If the potential employer rejected your job application with a reason you could fight him in court for discrimination and get compensation even if the employer.

Great intention, but it backfired ... after some companies got sued for legitimate and illegitimate reasons NOBODY answers with a reason why your application was not considered. They maybe hint what was wrong or not ideal.
>the aim was not to kill the whole population but to keep the territory.

That's NOT the definition of Genocide.

>It's quite concerning to see so much lack of the least basic subtelity these times

Samesame, is it because it's about the "good guy" france, or are you really so arrogant about it?
But look who I was responding to: people think a single shot of espresso had more caffeine than a cup of coffee and that is not true.

Starbucks drinks typically have 2 shots (such as a grande mocha) which gonna be around the same amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee
I believe this phenomenon is more like overshoot in an underdamped system than being the end result. Rapid changes always lead to overshoot.

I also think the amount of overshoot is proportional to the amount of sexism that was present in a society thirty years ago. I believe Northern Europe has been trending slowly towards gender equality since the 90s, and thus the amount of overshoot here is much less from the recent rapid changes like #meetoo.

Also our kids roam around the neighbourhood freely. We're thinking of giving our 9-year-old a cellphone soon, for now she just has an analog watch and we agree on what time she has to be home by.

If you look at statistics, the rate of women murdered per capita, and the rate of women who experience sexualized violence per capita, are around 5x higher in the US than in Northern Europe. The murder rate here for children (excluding by their own parents) is below 1 per million children per year.

We're definitely not perfect, we have a long way to go still, but we are starting from a more equal place if you look at the status pre-2017.
I know a couple of female founders (including my wife). The biggest problem is that female might run into a creep and that makes very very stressful experience.
For me... it is easy. First creeps do not want to meet me (I’m fat, older guy, short,..), and if I do meet somebody who is giving me creeps - my experience is not stressful at all.

Btw, I still have not met a female VC: after 22 years in SV.
Might also be worth nothing that there may be all kinds of new tech from fabrication methods that will only work in zero-g too. Factories in space means that everything in space becomes cheaper. The logistics would probably be hell to start, but I have to think that machines could be much simpler if they didn't have to worry about weight and heat as much. I am probably being naive here about how hard it would be, but I can't help but be excited for the future.