skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the bar is "better than someone talking on cell phone while crossing a railroad crossing without looking," I'll stick to manual driving.

Self driving needs to be better than me, not better than average.
Proofpoint to Be Acquired by Thoma Bravo for $12.3B
Let me add to that several more anecdata: my parents could never get TouchID to work; it required them to re-register on a weekly basis. I don't know if it's because of their advanced age or physiology, but in winter, my fingers were also not reliable due to dryness.

FaceID has been quite good other than the masks issue. I just wish Apple would allow a grace period for rechecking auth.
Try it in court. Who cares about the hypotheticals or the line? Well I mean, I don't. That's the beauty of it, you don't really need to have strong opinions on anything, just the ability to make an argument that is convenient for you and persuasive to a judge.

The extent of consensus, for me, is understanding what reality can match the arbiters that matter. So I don't really have a fixed world view on much of anything. (sidenote: I'd probably be a decent lawyer, but software earns so much more without any licenses needed.)
Batteries are to get you thru the night, forget winter.

2.3k euro for 5kwh [0] which sounds more than Tesla Powerwall. You probably want more, but you do your math. Probably you'll want to return more to network in summer and use that in winter. Store peak winter excess

0: https://shop.saulesgraza.lt/parduotuve/saules-elektrines/sau...
I think it's more like "Second system effect."
Satya Nadella: We are at peak centralization
Saying nothing was an option.
As a person who briefly pursued a degree in a traditional engineering discipline before finding my way back to the arts (music) and then eventually into a software career, I think the difference - at least for me - is that with the arts I've never gotten the impression that the fundamentals stop being interesting if they're still applied well.

To phrase it another way: practicing scales can be boring. But playing a walking bassline is a whole lot more similar to scales than it is anything else, and one of the most fun things to do with an instrument is to jam with other people using the fundamentals you all share.

I never felt the same way with math, because I never felt like math allowed me to put anything unique and of my own into the mix. Learning the same proof from a book that a million other kids taking geometry learned was much less interesting to me than transcribing a solo some musician played so that I could try to riff on the style they put into the world.

Sure, yeah, there's rules in music theory too. You're expected to learn them, and get graded on them in tests if you study music academically. But I don't know of any famous mathematician who ever said something like the various Duke Ellington quotes around "if it sounds good, it IS good". In the art world, similar riffs on an existing idea are everything. In math, they're just... wrong. Or at least thats the understanding I had as a student which led me to only care about the parts of math that seemed to be directly applicable to me, or really intuitive.
FWIW, if you use GitHub Actions for CI/CD they make it super easy to start up a fresh postgres instance: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/guides/creating-postgresq...

We do this on every build: start a fresh postgres instance, run all of our DB migrations to get us to the latest DB schema, and then run our test suite.
Fooling fusion fuel: How to discipline unruly plasma
Enabled Umwelt in Accessibility (Big Sur).

Clicked allow updates.

Crashes every time I open. Displays check for updates screen, then immediately crashes.
> But that’s exactly what pharma is,

Disagree and gave you one of good reasons in previous posts

> So a manufacturing organisation run by committees of international bureaucrats

Not manufacturing, but a science organization focused on improving medical treatments and drugs. And not a bureaucrats, but scientists. Bureaucrats didn't discover general theory of relativity, Einstain did it. You don't need money revenue driven competition for scientific discoveries, math and physics is a good well working example.

And all of all, even if such an organisation will spent effectively only half of the budget it will be still more effective than 20 companies trying to achieve same outcome separately.
Yeh. Thinking they'd make a pretty rad segment in an ambient track
What do you specifically find deceptive about Trilogy? Just curious, as I see them around me a lot.
Anyone else find it ridiculously coy that the Washington Post censors the word "fuck" in the quote that is the crux of the case. I'm sure the readers are all adults who can handle them accurately reporting the quote. Kids aren't reading the Washington Post Courts & Law section.
Yeah, I remember when the company I worked for continually made forward looking projections that were ridiculous whilst in the process of negotiating a sale. Including the pressure not to report anything that would need to be raised as part of the acquisition.
Thanks swyx, we're glad you enjoyed the site!

It's a standalone site because we wanted people to be able to easily share it with their teammates right before important video calls.

A few people have given us really helpful feedback about more information to include (e.g. setups for different types of remote workers). But we haven't decided how we'd like to build on it further yet. If we did, what would you like to see from the site? / what would be most helpful to you?
Why is the technical crowd less in need of an upgrade? My proverbial “grandmother” only accesses her gmail and one news page. Arguably she’s at less risk than someone testing new software.
Yep.

I've worked with people who come in late, leave early, and make huge, disruptive, positive impact as well as slow, positive change.

I've also worked with people who work 15 hour days who don't work well with others and are constantly picking up after themselves as their silo'd work breaks daily (yet from management's point of view, everything is running smoothly not realizing they have a giant bus factor on their hands).

So ya, nothing to do with hours worked and, if you're working for a decent company, there should be reason not to be upfront about this.
Let the People Piss
Interesting. How do Apple's investments outside near LA and other parts of US help Sacramento real estate?
Now look at AstraZeneca craze. Vaccines save lives, thrombosis cases are extremely rare. Yet the guy on street is talking to someone on the phone: “Do not take AZ! I repeat: do not take AZ!!!”. Technology has to make just one mistake to lose layman’s confidence.
But why does iOS still turn my alarm to max volume every now and then
"Vinyl is able to get a slightly better S/N ratio in perfect conditions."

No. Compact Discs have an SNR of 96dB. Vinyl typically has an SNR of 60-70dB. The physics of these mediums aside, CDs are a newer technology... Why would we have gone for inferior distribution mediums?

"Most likely, CDs just don't get mastered right. The music is compressed and so even though the format is better, the music is worse"

Compression like that has more to do with radio play + the genre of music. Thankfully, the loudness wars are mostly over, but generally speaking the actual distributed master would've been the same.

"This isn't the fault of the format, but the result remains, digital music is objectively worse."

Please provide such objective citations. Mixing and mastering engineers do their best to make music that sounds good on a variety of audio systems. When I worked in a studio, we would mix on $8k genelec monitors, some cheaper monitors, and also test the mix in our cars and on our phones. Part of the art and difficulties in that was producing a mix that sounded good on great to average systems, and passable/decent on like mono phone speakers. Music and music hardware has never been more accessible than today, so I find it hard to believe that everyone a few decades ago had such amazing systems compared to today.

"Vinyl is sold to people who care about sound"

Citation needed. There are people who just want vinyl because it looks cool (especially the colored limited releases), and they go play it on a $50 Victrola all-in-one. There are CD enthusiasts who have systems worth > $200k.

"CDs are perfect - vinyl often introduces imperfections that people like to hear."

This is totally subjective. A CD is a bit-for-bit perfect representation of what the author wanted to distribute. The actual things like "warmth" that people talk about depend much more on the pre-amplifier, amplifier, and speakers.

There is nothing wrong with liking LPs (I collect them myself), but they are in no way, shape, or form better than the bit-for-bit perfect distribution of CDs (that also don't degrade every time you play one).
After 50 years, The New York Times is retiring the term “op-ed”
I've searched, but I haven't found any comment from Musk about level five being ready by 2021.

edit - The closest is about the basic functionality for it being ready by the end of the year (see above).
This is a terrible idea and let me tell you why.

First, it puts the balance in the house in the hands of the campaign managers for president (or whichever "vote totals" you would prefer to go by) second, it entrenches the 2 party system as a de jure institution. Third, while districts are drawn very much arbitrarily (and in many cases against the interests of the people in them a la gerrymandering) people do have more in common with neighbors than simple party members from the other side of the country. A republican and a democrat in the 6th district have more in common than two republicans, one from Maine and one from Louisiana. Your proposal eliminates representation of community interests and elevates party interest above all else. It also severely damages the check the house can have on the president since whichever party wins the presidency also wins the house.

A better solution is this solution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Apportionment_Am... thankfully it has already been passed by congress and is awaiting state ratification. It would ensure that each representative represents the same number of people but it would still preserve community interest representation and probably strengthen it and make party interest an afterthought in the house.
I'm trying to figure out a litmus test on how the content of what is said could make this justified or not.

Like if a football player got on snapchat and said that they hope they lose the game this coming Friday and that they intended to take actions that undermined the team, would they be justified in being kicked off the team? I think so.

Is there a similar line for cheerleading and did this cross it? I don't think so, but it's hard to say for sure. I don't know if it's possible to make a ruling that simultaneously defends the cheerleader's speech without also preventing the football coach from acting in this hypothetical situation.
You caught me red handed. I have made explicit arguments elsewhere on HN before. It usually involves writing a lot of exposition, starting with identifying and deconstruction of the default paradigm that some people call “Value Extraction”. It can get very in involved.

This time, I was adding a subtle sarcasm, which I knew a small minority of HN readers will pick up. They are already familiar with food forests, restoration agriculture, and some may even be familiar with regenerative paradigms.

But let me see if I can condense this into something explicit:

Rather than eliminating everything but the monocrop, there are alternative forms of agriculture that takes advantage of the synergies that come from companion planting, “guilds”. Specific combination of plants planted together can be put together to reduce ecological invasions, or create an ecosystem that can produce harvestable food items for most of the year. Some combinations can mutually resist pests and diseases. Others can be combined to take advantage of vertical spaces (canopy layers), or to effectively modify the local hardiness and heat zones, or modify wind conditions.

Designing such a thing can get very complex. Some designs, however, become so resilient, they continue producing human-harvestable food despite being abandoned for over 150 years.

The Pacific Northwest is not the only region where indigenous people have used these practices. There is quite a bit of anthropological evidence that this is a wide spread practice ... what is novel with that article is that ecologists are acknowledging that this had happened in the Pacific NW.
Not the OP, but this just refers to the gradual erosion of many institutions in American society. Universities, media, political structures, etc. have all lost the trust of the populace over the last ~30 years, if not longer.

Whether this is from an actual lowering of standards or just an inevitable consequence of new media is a different question. I’d suggest reading works by a critic named John Simon for the former opinion.
I can't tell the difference between the inability of this process to capture the audio and the distortion one normally hears introduced by MP3 compression.
I'd enjoy a voice control which isn't tied to a device, but more like an Alexa+Siri+Google Now "in a stick with a button to initiate listening and a hardware switch to physically turn the mic off".

One that understands "Google, set a timer for 5 minutes" as well as "Siri, remind me to call X tomorrow" and "Alexa, start Y on the TV in the living room"
As you can probably guess, I didn't watch it myself, but multiple news feeds have informed me of a quirky acceptance speech where an actor thanked this parents for having sex... I guess that doesn't do it for you?
The idea is that your individual monad has to say how to compose those functions (and package up values). The type signature of bind and return are is

(>>=) :: m a -> ( a -> m b) -> m b
return :: a -> m a

In your case f gives you an IO b, which is the first argument to bind (your m a). Then g's output needs packing up, so you use return to take [c] to m [c], giving `return . g :: b -> m [c]`, which will be the second argument to bind (your a -> m b).

That gives you `composed_function x = (f x) >>= (return . g)`, which a "do" block makes potentially clearer :`do {y <- f x; return (g y)}`
They say that Pennsylvania is Philadelphia on one side, Pittsburgh on the other, and Kentucky in between.
> A society cannot remain cohesive if there are no shared truths.

On this we agree. This truth needs to be on a scale of one, some, or all truths that are shared. Let's disqualify all, and simplfy to finding an example of one.

The other thing about the truth is that it probably shouldn't be falsifiable, as it's a bit of an all-in bet on whatever that is. It shouldn't be a complicated mystery because then you are back to the relative problem of who has discovered more and how do you know. The perfect example truth is the one that is not knowable either way, but something that can be believed.

We should probably recognize that destabilizing that example shared truth is an attack on social cohesion as well. Can't think of an example at the moment, but I certainly agree it would be the One Important Thing you would need to believe, or you're basically left with a kind of hellscape.
You are missing the definition of a pentagon; try to avoid just making up definitions for words you don't know.
Mapping loneliness during the coronavirus pandemic
I thought it was "could these images have..."
Your inane judginess is offputting, especially when coupled with how Lambda School is providing attractive alternative options the expensive colleges you're whining about.
Sometimes it feels like everyone in the past five years have forgotten about the Bush years. The political polarization in pop culture was just as pronounced then, with Fox News attacking Hollywood as antiwar traitors, Hollywood films skewering Evangelicals as fanatics, etc. The culture wars then were just as bitter and seemingly unbridgeable it they are now, we just didn't see it unfolding in realtime yet. Usually you'd have to wait for a pingback from your Blogspot articles first.
There's no info here, which isn't surprising given that it's a twitter thread. Is the issue that the GPS was coarse in a remote location, so what3words give them the wrong 3 words? The fidelity of that app is just limited by the underlying signal right?
Great way I had it explained to me was that if we imagine weather follows some kind of normal distribution called climate, then a shift of of the distribution makes those extreme weather events far more likely much quicker than it affects the mean weather.
Wow! Now more than ever, CSS makes me want to throw myself into a wood chipper.
I'm not sure that "killer robots with lasers that can be field-trained to identify specific targets" would be quite the blessing that everyone seems to think.
Some humans can hear much higher than 20khz. Very little of our recording and playback equipment does well above that point, however, so efforts to reproduce that part of the spectrum most often fail miserably.

CD's are certainly good enough for now.
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I don’t know why you’re being so pedantic:

- the conduct Lambda School engaged in became unlawful on Jan 1

- Lambda School continued engaging in that contact well-past Jan 1

- The state called them out and a settlement (favorable to CA) was quickly reached

It is far more likely that a settlement was reached because the conduct was clearly unlawful but not deeply damaging - so worth enforcing but not worth an ugly legal brawl.

I sincerely don’t know why you’re pretending Lambda was “actually trying to follow this new law” and insinuating there’s something suspicious about anything here - it is not an onerous regulation and Lambda had plenty of warning. Clearly they weren’t trying to follow the law! (probably more out of bad management than nefariousness)

Regardless: companies do not get an implicit grace period between when a law comes into force and when the company is actually required to obey it. In certain cases the law can be unconstitutionally coercive or unfair but obviously not here.
Everyone has their biases, but most are able to look over them in the face of facts. And the good thing about facts is that they're objective and indisputable.

Moon landing ? Fact. Trump being US president? Fact. France winning the 2018 World Cup? Fact.

So no, fact checkers do exist and are very important.
A related tip, your unit test fixtures can begin and then rollback a transaction between each test, to retain a pristine database between test runs.

The test fixture should run migrations against a test database (used only for test fixtures).
Yeah, was going to comment something similar. For local testing I have some docker-compose files set up that create an ephemeral db that I can test against by migrating up to the current schema revision and then running tests. Saves time in pushing to the cloud and needing to wait for GitHub/Lab to build, pull and provision containers.
Unpopular opinion: people should just not speed. Even speeding just a little bit at high speeds drastically increases your car's emissions and is also dangerous (~40% increase in chance of death in a head on collision at 60 mph vs 55 mph). I don't think giving people a tool that helps them break what is in my mind a good/just/important law is the right move on Apple's part
No, it isn't; a regular pentagon has all equal side lengths (as described) and all equal interior angles (not as described).
>• I have never met a person I admired who did not read more books than I did.

I think Schopenhauer has good words of advice on this topic (and the irony of reading this advice in a book is not lost on me; emphasis mine):

>Hence, in regard to reading, it is a very important thing to be able to refrain. Skill in doing so consists in not taking into one's hands any book merely because at the time it happens to be extensively read; such as political or religious pamphlets, novels, poetry, and the like, which make a noise, and may even attain to several editions in the first and last year of their existence. Consider, rather, that the man who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience; be careful to limit your time for reading, and devote it exclusively to the works of those great minds of all times and countries, who o'ertop the rest of humanity, those whom the voice of fame points to as such. These alone really educate and instruct. You can never read bad literature too little, nor good literature too much. Bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. Because people always read what is new instead of the best of all ages, writers remain in the narrow circle of the ideas which happen to prevail in their time; and so the period sinks deeper and deeper into its own mire.
Go whine and be negative somewhere else. You fucking people, seriously.
Beavers are a very special type of keystone species, which is what the GP is getting at. Sea stars and wolves, for example, are keystone species in many habitats because they control herbivore populations but that impact pales in comparison to habitat building animals like reef-building corals or beavers.
>Your adulation of those musicians is a direct consequence of your embedding in a cultural context that you seem blissfully unaware of.

As someone whose musical taste spans from classical composers to jazz pioneers, from early Chicago house to ceremonial flute music from Indonesia, I can only smirk at your comment.

Mozart's sister's talent may have been suppressed, or she might have been content with her life, we will never know. By judging the actions of 18th century Germans, it is in fact you who seem to be unaware of the modern cultural context that you're embedded into. Modern American morals are neither universal, nor ultimate. Thinking that they are in fact is the colonialist attitude. You should rethink that!

>Attitudes like yours hold back the development of a more equitable society. You should rethink them.

Sweetie, don't try to shove a narrative where there's none, this isn't Twitter. Noone argued against your "equitable" society or whatever. I've just pointed out a fallacy in the distasteful opening of the original article, namely, that early electronic musicians (some of whom happened to be women), weren't sidelined in favor of Mozart, Beethoven or Elvis. Rather, people simply preferred those kinds of music over their experimental bleep bloops.

And don't try to derail the conversation with deconstructionist "arguments", such that people's preference for 19th century classical composers, or rock music over early experimental electronics stems from some internalized colonialist heteronormative bias, because that's bollocks. Sure, art is subjective, and if someone was raised by a pack of wolves then they would likely prefer the sound of howling over Beethoven's 9th symphony, yet I seriously doubt that early electronic musicians (yes, some of whom happened to be women) would have reached wider audiences even if women weren't historically disadvantaged. This is simply not a question of gender.
That's soft cancellation.

Hard cancellation is when you get others to gang up on them and go to HR to try to get them fired. Afterwards, you publicise whatever got them fired offline in the hopes that they become 'radioactive' to employers and so that they and their family fall on hard times.

I'm a little confused as to why people don't understand what "cancel" means in this context. Isn't it quite a popular topic nowadays? Is it possible that they're claiming ignorance, because they want to argue against the meaningfulness of the term?