skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These sorts of articles can send me down the rabbit hole so quickly.

As time rolls on, I realize that improvements to "measuring things" tends to radically change whatever industry lives around the target being measured and improvements in measuring anything "fundamental" like time/distance can be revolutionary in places and result in technologies that the consumer has no idea have any relation to even the measurement (ala GPS/time).

But even at higher levels, improve the ability to read/interpret information about a process and that process can be automated, or a previously automated process can be made more reliable[1] or possible[2]. If we couldn't measure time as precisely[3] as we do, today, GPS would be impossible. Improvements to the speed at which we can measure something -- precisely or not[4] when coupled with other accurate measurements with different timings all relying on the speed at which the (magic-foo) in RAM can be accurately measured -- improve the accuracy and usefulness of the measurement.

[0] Pretty obvious to this crowd...

[1] My FDM 3D printer can correctly create some pretty fantastic output, but if half-way through there's a failure, it will continue to print as though everything is A-OK, creating abstract spaghetti-art. It's "measuring" several things throughout the process (various position sensors), but being able to measure any part of the adhesion process better could allow the printer to adapt speed/temperature/conditions to produce a perfect print/react to a problem.

[2] "Situational Awareness" applications, ones where multiple measurements of multiple kinds are correlated to produce an actionable intelligence about a situation -- something simple as "the bone to be drilled has not moved, the bit is in the correct position and the expected characteristics at the drill site match everything else", being taken constantly throughout a robotic surgery process, altering the execution plan as measurements guide to a more "correct" outcome in real-time (reacting to unexpected circumstances while improvements to diagnostics measure many of them out of existence).

[3] All things being relative, anyway, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision

[4] I'm probably a little out of date on this and at least a bit inaccurate but my understanding is that phones can achieve a geographical "fix" very quickly partly because they utilize inaccurate measurements about your location. I know that an ancient (predating the existence of Wi-Fi ancient) GPS device I owned had a strange behavior where it would find me on a map in less than a minute if I was at home, but would take ever longer the further away from home I was if I accidentally forgot to shut the app down correctly. I found out that pointing the "Home Address" setting at a nearby address corrected the problem.
That happens all the time here too, which is an interesting note.
He's somewhat of a crank, but the math in this course is approachable and correct, and the ideas interesting. It was also created... awhile ago.
Babble (2018)
If it's not safe enough to fly a helicopter, it would also mean it's not safe enough to be close enough to fly a $1k drone, legally.
Perhaps it is time to actually start paying for news, like Bloomberg and the finance industry.
I asked the other person. If it’s cheaper or same price to keep someone mostly isolated with decent accommodations including proper bed, clothing, fresh air, computer/tablet, radio, computer, [limited] tv and internet usage.

Would you be fine with that?

They still have to be alone. Justice is still being served. No sane person would want that life.
Mmmmmm the problem I have found with feminist literature is that it often talks about the advantages of men and the disadvantages of women (which is all fair enough) but it doesn't really talk about the advantages of women and the disadvantages of men.

I don't self identify as a feminist. I never have. I generally agree with this criticism.
> A total of 15 men (mean age, 32) participated in the research

A sample size of 15. Seriously?
Nothing has inherent value, all value is subjective. This bad economic theory has been dismantled for over two centuries now.

Replace inherent value with non-monetary value if that's what you mean.
They're not particularly rare in England (although rarely eaten). You see them a lot in stately homes. And although I don't live in one of those, I have one in my back garden.
Yeah nearly every person I encounter does not want to be eaten. Yet they love to eat. An odd disconnect there for me.
Nightcrawler is also about this. Both excellent movies and observations of what drives content that gets attention.

Both were about TV, with the internet, this is even more of a competition since it is worldwide so they push to the extremes because the extremes sell.

Everyone is now competing with the world.
By my read, the essay's audience is men who don't know as much about running a business as they think they do. Why wouldn't the successful conversation about switching CEOs in the first case work in the second? Idealistically, shouldn't it? Women aren't actually from Venus.

Furthermore, isn't this an issue of long-standing that for some reason is still a big enough problem to raise complaints? How many decades have there been women in upper-management, let alone the C-suite? Why aren't VCs, people who are rumored to be good at analyzing businesses across their field of expertise, already aware of this weakness? Is rooting out inefficiencies only for the businesses in which they invest?

This is to say, why is this essay still necessary? I'd say it's because many men are trying to keep the old world going. Status quo.

I suggest that a VC who can't have the conversation about swapping for CEO in both "directions," who is aggrieved about the present state of business demographics enough to clam up in fear of raising controversy, is not a competent investor.

This is a Continuing Education topic for those who need it, just like RNs have to take a certain number of class-hours each year to stay up on current techniques and technologies. This essay is about and aimed at guys who don't think that their attitudes toward women need changing.
So does Clojure's test.check. Even though Clojure ain't typed you can define "specs" of your data and then have generators generating random data (it's not the only use of specs: they can also be used as a way to verify inputs to functions). The generators data can be used to, say, quickly create fake database with lots of data or fed into test.check which then does fuzzy testing and then tries hard to reduce failing test cases to minimal cases.
thank you! I just found out i can opt out of this and did. However, selling anonymized data is better then selling non-anonymized data. Nevertheless, these carriers and the people who think this is in any way shape or form even remotely ok deserve to be stood in front of a wall...
Ask HN: Do you agree with Covid passports?
> My heart is starting to literally ache after I get 3 normal gulps of coffee and wait for 15 minutes.

Are you sure it isn't heartburn? It happens to a lot of people who drink coffee (and hasn't anything to do with the heart).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartburn
Makepad: UI framework for Rust that compiles to WASM/native
Instead of negative energy this warp drive idea requires 10^30 more energy than the matter contained in Jupiter, so we aren't quite there ;-).

The additional issue is whether something going faster than the speed of light violates causality, like a warp drive. I've never understood how to reconcile causality with the fact of so called 'spooky interaction at a distance'. If it's faster than the speed of light, and you can communicate even the info of a bit, isn't that going to violate causality? Recent experiment showed that it was communicating faster than the speed of light at the least. https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/150207-chinese-physicist...
It's a bit different from expert systems or knowledge bases IMHO. To my limited knowledge in the medical imaging field feature engineering is still very much a trusted tool (experts tuning systems based on their domain knowledge).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_engineering
A light show for every crit: How good are the $39 Pixels “smart” dice?
They are a pain but they come in handy for us.

The main thing I learned is if you mess up any part of your submodule during creation - do not try to fix it. Just delete it from the parent repo and start over.

Also do not bother deleting it using git commands. Delete it in the .gitmodules file, then search your .git folder for every reference of the repo you want to delete (including folders named after it) and delete everything.

Either that or start with a clean parent repo clone.
You're storing and recovering capital, i. e. value across time.
The sweet sweet thing about the comments section is watching all the down voting.

Everyone needs their daily dose of irony.

Maybe, if nothing else, it lends strength to the Ted Kaczynski notion that people need to have lives filled with difficult but not impossible tasks that are necessary (ie. not hobbies). Dunno if mailing letter bombs gets you to that place, but he is worth reading.
No, I haven't run into any such issue, though I have only used it with small to medium sized repositories. The repo simply grows linearly with the size of the secondary repository. With a submodule, you would have to clone it just the same. In fact, you might enjoy some benefits from cross-compression by using subtrees that would not be available to submodules, and it's faster to reuse the same clone connection you were already getting the source from.
The solution to this is simple:

Practice your communication skills. If you can’t think of a way to phrase advice that might be offensive, you are failing in intermediate communication skills.

If you think it might be offensive, ask a close female in your life, your sister, your mother, grandma, etc.

It’s in everyone’s best interest to treat others with love and respect.

For extra safety, if you really think there is a risk, actually record the audio encounter for back up.

If you actually go through these steps for building towards good communication, it’s highly unlikely you would ever have to use the recording in defense.
At least it is better than subtrees, which cannot tell you what they are even if you ask.
Also, ClearCase isn't atomic beyond file level even... you use labels to make "versions".
Pretty sure every American's SSN has been public since 2017 anyways. Thanks Equifax!
You are right that depending on where you are, it could be either. The English language Wikipedia article for 'loquat'[1] suggests that Southern Italy uses 'nespolo' for 'loquat', while Northern uses it for 'medlar'. But if it's tasty and light orange colored when you eat it ripe directly from the tree, it's definitely a loquat. While if it's at all appealing after it's been stored for a few months and turned brown and mushy, it's a medlar.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loquat
Thanks; this is an insightful perspective and I appreciate the thoughtful reply.

My question then is this: would the FSF be more or less effective in their political goals with someone else at the helm?

My worry is that RMS’s prickliness and generally poor social skills harm the free software movement more than they help it. Every story about RMS from people who actually interact with him seems to be really cringe inducing. And that’s not what I want from a leader. And I don’t see how abandoning respectability outside the software/political arena helps them campaign for their goals.

What they need to do is to set out a clear vision for the future, make useful code and inspire young engineers to carry the flame. Reading comments here shows me that some people find RMS inspiring, which is good. And maybe the FSF doesn’t have anyone better suited for the job. But in any case, the FSF as it stands now isn’t an organisation I’ll ever want to be involved with.
George floyd is real but I get his point
This is why version pinning got popular.
As a hotel manager: Absolutely. It's absolutely necessary to ensure the safety of everyone else.

Edit, to add:

The alternative is a hotel full of anti-mask / "COVID isn't real" idiots, and ... well, nope.

Not even going to entertain those folks, and will gladly eat the commission and relocation costs.
ZH singled out an individual and made statements that could subject him to harassment. That's not merely a case of having the wrong suspicions about globally significant events.
There are a couple of these trees in my local park in London. I collect windfall fruit in the autumn. Nobody else seems to notice all the free fruit! I put them in a box in a closet for a month or so and then make jelly. It goes a really deep red colour and has a nice, unique flavour.
That's a pretty funny story ;-)

My tests on children who still have the patience to undergo such tests indicates that the most common human response to this question is in fact:

Q: How many eyes does my foot have?

A: Zero.
IMSI-catchers are in wide use by local law enforcement in much of North America[1], no warrant needed and law enforcement can do whatever it is they like with them with no oversight, too, except use them to present evidence in court without a warrant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker
The disconnect is not odd for me. Developers know you will essentially pay for a sub-optimal experience. Proprietary software vendors almost always treat their users as dirt. The piece of software would almost always be better if it were open source. And developers know this.
Ruby off the Rails: Code library yanked over license blunder, sparks chaos
To be fair, although we are a bit better here in west, we are still far from perfect. Letting the POTUS call it China virus, is despicable.
That I can agree with.
Banning lying means allowing the government to determine the truth. Many, if not all, dictatorships ban the truth under the guise of banning the truth.
> almost any verb can be combined with any preposition to form a phrasal verb with a meaning that needs to be memorized (put up, put down, put out (!), etc.)

I knew someone who came to the US from Latvia. His observation was that in English, first you cut the tree down, then you cut the tree up.
to me it's more like "the value of this thing i do is for others to be happy"
I can't deny that this is plausible (in general I mean, not just your specific experience). So what makes our professions so different?
I had a large tree in the garden of my previous house. I used to make significant quantities of medlar jelly every year and give the jars away to family and friends. The house was 400 years old, but the tree was significantly younger.
There is another side effect to this that I would add as a casual investor. My bar for getting involved in a US startup is much higher than it used to be, because it's hard to make uncomfortable changes that might be construed in the wrong way. I find myself investing more freely in other countries where there is more upside and less risk of a career-destroying media storm. China for example has all kinds of unique risks associated with its government, but these are more predictable. I think this may be the biggest long-term side effect to all of this stuff - the US loses its position as the place to do disruptive business.
We don't. Unfortunately this is one of my problems for been solo developer. I also don't have anyone to discuss the features and the architect decisions i need to take.

I do have some developer friends to talk to when i need to get it out and once in a while i team up with one of them to create something. That way I learn new things and get some feedback but nothing close to what i had back then when i was working in a company.
Great, I'd appreciate that setting very much. And also thanks for the
midi files. I missed visiting the gitlab link, do you mean there should
be a direct link to the midi-directory? I can't find that.
In her Medium post, the editor, Hemal Jhaveri, opened by saying, "I am no longer employed at USA TODAY, a company that was my work home for almost eight years."

In Friday's post, Jhaveri, who identifies as Indian American, alleged that she faced "constant micro-aggressions and outright racist remarks" while working at USA Today.

Not only are you a poor journalist you're also a horrible person for bad mouthing the hand that kept you fed, which apparently wasn't a problem during those eight years.

It's very hard to take this person seriously.
This post is really hard to read. It mentions git submodules and then sharply veers into a bunch of seemingly barely-related paragraphs. If each section had one sentence at the top saying something about git submodules it would be a lot more coherent.
You can easily search US Patents here: http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html

> Really, nobody else can make e-ink? It doesn't seem like this idea is in any way original.

I must be stupid, because the implementation of e-ink certainly seems novel, original, and useful to me! I would never have thought of it, nor did I see it before I saw the first e-ink display:

Here's a description:

Small capsules filled with a clear fluid containing tiny particles, each about as wide as a human hair.

Each electronic paper display is made up of millions of such capsules in a thin film, with the particles inside the capsules of different colors and different electric charges. Electrodes are placed above and below the capsule film. When a positive or negative electric field is applied to an individual electrode, the color particles with the corresponding charge will move either to the top or bottom of a capsule, making the surface of the e-paper display appear a certain color
Level? Sorry I don't know midi at all. I sent you the file (it also plays very slow). In this
case I don't even need the missing notes. That would just be more
complicated :)
As mentioned by others, the daily wallpapers supplied by bing are very nice. They aren’t 4k, but the 1080p images still look good on my 4k monitors.

There are a number of scripts out there which download the ‘picture of the day’ and store it locally. You can then set your computer to scroll through these images every so often. Here’s the one I use: https://github.com/thejandroman/bing-wallpaper
For some reason so many people are hung up on “lab accident” implying that it was a bioweapon made by China. And honestly the biggest reason why this theory is rejected is because Trump called it the China Virus, and lots of people have this “Trump said a thing, so I must be in direct opposition to it” reflex, creating a mental block on the possibility of China because responsible at some level.
Nah. That's just and example of neoliberal economists trying to bury things they can't quantify while pretending to be a hard science.
I feel the same way. A lot of the emphasis is placed on the words and not enough on the context, intent behind those words (by everyone, not specific to male or female or any other group here). People have learned to keep quiet. And when they do speak, they use highly polished, politically correct language (silly example - first time my manager said he is taking a "bio break", I was confused. Took me a second to understand he is going to the bathroom).

This happens in the media a lot too (left and right). A single sentence (or even part of a sentence) can be plucked out of an interview, shown out of context and boom - the person seems like a monster. Someone might have best intentions, but not be very polished in expressing them. So why risk talking at all, unless we are 100% sure it cannot be misconstrued in any way? It is just easier to keep quiet. Which results in loss of lively, valuable discussions.

Some comedian (forgot who it was) mentioned that they don't like performing in colleges anymore as the audience is too sensitive. That is the situation we are in.
"Proof that energy has been expended has no intrinsic value at all."
See Diamonds.
The lawyer who took on Chevron – and now marks his 600th day under house arrest
> If I'm sexist then I could choose to make such a remark only if it happens to be a female colleague. If male then sleep(). Sexism achieved.

Well, sure, but then you are displaying a clear and verifyable pattern, and my original point of candor that can't be twisted into sexism remains no? You had to add a separate sexist pattern ("treats men and women differently").

Your point of high level of distrust is appreciated and one of the reasons why I'd never move there (no offense intended, most individual americans I know and read about are lovely people, but this culture of hidden BS is too much for me). But then, this is an issue in general no? Why are people only concerned about women/feminists twisting words against them? Why not christians, or veterans as well? Or men for that point, last I checked the protected group list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group does not specify women, and there are conservative mobs on social media just as much as "woke" ones. So I'm just a bit confused
> Why was the wisdom of the Culture’s Minds not sufficient to foresee this mess? No explanation is given. Indeed, the Minds of Special Circumstances are surprised fairly often in these novels — in The Player of Games they seem to realize from the start that they don’t have the political situation on Azad figured out. There are only two inferences I can make here: either Banks is being careless or he is suggesting that even an intelligence capable of handling the everyday affairs of an Orbital containing thirty billion people is still not smart enough to figure out what sentient beings will do in response to conflict. One hopes the latter is the right inference; but if it is, it suggests that the power of the Minds is largely the power of control: they can predict and deal successfully with the behavior of those who speak their language and use their drugs, but have limited ability to manipulate others.

If I remember right, in Player of Games, the Culture simply didn't have enough information to go on. It seems very weird to assume that even an infinitely powerful computer could accurately predict the behavior of a society it doesn't have much visibility into.

I think the article also misunderstands the Minds and where their influence comes from. Most of the biological population of the Culture lives on ships or artificial structures, which are themselves almost like living things. A ship is essentially the body of the Mind that controls it, and the people are generally allowed to ride along. The people aren't particularly controlled by the Minds, but the Mind decides where the ship goes. The Minds are powerful in that they control immensely powerful machinery and have access to enormous amounts of information and are able to process it. But at they same time, they're also dependent on biological people when it comes to interaction with non-Culture societies, who tend to be more easily accepted than the machines themselves or their avatars.

Minds often disagree with each other on the basis of different degrees of risk tolerance and relative priorities. They're definitely not infallible.
What state? I'm assuming not California.
i wish git would implement a built in subsplit feature
Senior developers with 20 years of experience do not "believe" in debuggers, IDEs or writing tests. Same things are reinvented every 3 months with a new name written in a custom font. We are in many ways still in the bronze age of software development.
Let’s stay on topic. The truth is that many people were reluctant to even consider the lab theory because it might look anti-Chinese at a time when Trump was blatantly attacking them and blaming them for the virus with no evidence. The point is that politics led to censorship that made it difficult to consider all possibilities.