skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the clarification. I still don't fully buy the argument.

An AI driver doesn't necessarily need to match or exceed a human driver's sensors in order to drive as well or better. The human eye does indeed have very impressive resolution and tracking, but the ability to attend to a certain area of interest also means that you miss things in other areas.

Instead of using the human as the reference point, we can turn the question around and ask instead: given a video feed from a current generation Tesla, would a human be able to drive safely? I would suggest yes, though it would take some adjustment from existing driving habits. If a human could do it with Tesla's current sensors then an AI almost certainly can eventually do better with the same sensors.

I actually think the bigger issue with Tesla's approach (and I say this as a generally happy Tesla owner... though the timing is terrible since it had to be towed to the service center today) is their insistence on minimal maps/local data for driving. I understand why they want to do that for scaling purposes, but there are lots of intersections that are confusing for your average human the first time they come to it. I expect figuring out the traffic pattern in a confusing intersection is the harder AI problem.
There is plenty of brackets so all can play at their respectives levels, separation in different leagues for collective sports, different levels in individual sports, etc. You can have fun in your local amateur <whatever>, but there would not be any point in a game against professionals. And at the top level, olympics or international competitions, there would be no match in mixed genders for most sports.
Reading this it seems closer to peer group than school itself. I guess I’m part of the peer group that has to be avoided at all costs, to the extent of paying $30-$50k a year for private school.
Well, they say it's too much - but really it's just that they believe you aren't a valid member of the group you're claiming to be and they can't directly call you a liar. They're wrong, of course; but they're also lying when they say it's too much effort - that's not why.
I just assumed they never intended to kill him, at least not there or right away, but that their "handling" or torture triggered some health condition, and cutting him and bailing were just plan B.

Which if true, isn't a ringing endorsement for the quality of torture training they received.
I don't think anyone said "it's all good if you're responsible" lol...

You're right though, often times the only solid education is experience.
There is definitely a spectrum between Mediterranean and Middle Eastern.
P4: Open-Source Programming Language for Protocol-Independent Packet Processing
That's only true if you assume China has perfect knowledge of the source of the leak from the very start in both scenarios.

In the zoological scenario, they wouldn't have any idea where it came from and might suspect it could be a lab leek simply based on the origin. It's very likely they would engage in cover-up behaviour anyway, just out of caution.

And then there are other reasons why they might decide to cover things up.

Ironically, a Chinese cover-up is absolutely useless evidence towards a lab leak hypothesis.
I've found much of the same. Though sometimes one of the devices on my network seems to favor the second server for a while, and one time when the two DNS servers were out of sync I couldn't get that conputer to resolve any addresses that weren't synchronized without a reboot.

I think the moral is not that pi-hole is bad or risky as OP implies... it's that DNS is never simple and running your own with proper redundancy can sometimes be tricky.
The point is there are different stakeholders with mutually incompatible interests in China. It’s not monolithic and no one centre of power knows and directs everything all the time. That’s why when the central authorities come across local officials doing stuff that hurts it embarrasses them, they impose such harsh penalties, including death. You don’t have to punish behaviour that doesn’t happen.
Absolutely, no freedom of speech to say otherwise!
Another counter anecdote - I use eero routers and have it set to manual dns. Downtime lasts maybe ten minutes when things go wrong, it’s usually sufficient to restart the pc running pihole. My last downtime was maybe five months ago.
> having strong feelings doesn't win the debate

You’re presuming that there’s a debate here that you’re part of. I don’t see why you think that. No one owes you an explanation for their needs. No one owes you debate.

I wrote a comment describing how I think these differences should be resolved without forcing marginalized people to endlessly participate in “debate” about the legitimacy of their needs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27610009
The IRS can seize assets. McAfee wasn't sitting on $100M in hard cash, most was in property and investments.

According to [0] he was down to about $4M in net worth after 2008, which isn't nothing, especially in a LCOL country, but for context, if he made 200k per year and put 10% away for retirement from when he was 25, he would have had the same amount.

[0] https://www.therichest.com/celebnetworth/celebrity-business/...
it is definitely not a firmware big if it was an intentional decision.

it's not a usability issue, either. yes, it sucks that the keyboard layout changed, sure. and, you're a human, right? a member of the most adaptable species ever known? yes. yes, you are. you can handle retraining some muscle memory.

early in my career, every single computer I used had a different keyboard layout. every. single. one. at most it was a very mild inconvenience.
>In contrast, amputees and blind people don't usually get kicked out by their parents or randomly stabbed.

To counter this, I'll quote someone close to me during college "where I'm from, people like him get drowned in a bucket before they are 2"
Canada's C19 has the potential to criminalize misgendering:

https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/features/canadas-gender-identi...

And note that the pronouns subject to misgendering include the "personal pronouns" such as ze/zir that are now being pushed by trans rights activists:

https://www.mypronouns.org/how
Ask HN: Learning proper software engineering practices as a student / researcher
Hi HN,
During my undergrad, I spent time working with programming tasks mainly related to research and I often felt like a lot of it was super messy due to fast research deadlines and most/all others working on the project not worry about the coding.

Before I start to do my research as a grad. student, I would like to learn how to construct applications with proper structure. I have looked around the internet and either examples are too simple and contrived or are complex open source projects which make it hard to understand why they do things a specfic way. I have never had to time or intership to work and discuss large projects and how they engineer certain things. I feel like I have learnt a lot of concepts in school in a sandbox and I'm ignoring so many concepts I learned about design patterns and software.
While the graphics are/were crude, the sheer number of polys and the dynamics of the world and layers of drawing wasn't possible in the early 2000s. Not in first person at any rate.
Most VMs in Qubes does not come with a full OS. They're based on templates, which isn't too different from the system packages of Flatpak.

Also, Python developers seems to be dealing with this stuff on a daily basis with virtualenv, so this isn't something new.
IMO extradition over unpaid taxes is kind of severe. I agree that we should all pay our taxes, but why not just hold him at the gate whenever he happens to fly in the US? Is this really something that requires extradition?
You have cognitive dissonance in your thoughts then. On one hand you claim the students should be able to protest the speakers that the administration invites and on the other hand you suggest the administration should decide which intellectuals are educationally valuable. But yet, after the administration picked a speaker a minority of students protested and that same administration revoked the invitation under pressure. This suggests the minority of students, not the administration, decided what was of value.

This is a problem akin to letting a spoiled child instructing their parent just what’s for dinner. An abdication of duty.

There’s a difference from wanting discrimination against people and having a forum on very real issues regarding an ideology that claims a special access to a certain Knowledge. In a scientific liberal institution, no one is irrefutable and no one has the final say pending new evidence.

Of course the current motif is to dismiss scientific liberalism as racist and suspicious. You only have to read critical theory literature (race, queer, colonial, etc) , which oddly is not receptive to criticism itself.
Who? Your argument appears, to me, to be dangerously approaching what resembles that of a "true Scotsman" or "straw man" fallacy. You should provide some data and sources to back up your anecdotal observations or you risk appearing disingenuous in your discourse.

Also, why is it that you refer to people who advocate for the validity of the trans experience as "trans activists" but insist on using the term "gender critical" to describe those who advocate for the position that the trans experience is invalid? Would not a more appropriate term be "anti-trans activists"? Is the resemblance to the "pro-choice/pro-life" argument - i.e. using a euphemism to avoid saying what the position is descriptively and clearly - purposeful?
> So the fact that we cannot seem to come up with a perfect criterion for defining "biological woman" does not mean that we can dispense with that category.

Right. But nobody is asking you to dispense of the category of women, what we're doing is we're agreeing with you that the category is fuzzy and we're saying that genitalia and sex assignment at birth do not clearly designate identity.

Nor are we getting rid of the category of cisgender and/or AFAB women. Trans women are not (and have never claimed to be) biologically identical to AFAB women. If trans women were claiming that they were biologically identical to women, then many of them wouldn't be taking estrogen. They are very aware about their biology :)

But acknowledging the fuzziness of women as a category overall means regularly reassessing our social norms about how women are expected to act and what their bodies are expected to look like. This is especially true in instances where we see people who are sharing a lot of experiences with other women.

Many trans women know what it's like to be catcalled. They know what it's like to be discriminated against at their jobs. Their experiences are not identical to everyone else's, in the same way that women's experiences in these areas are not all identical depending on their backgrounds/bodies/environments. But there is enough overlap that it is useful to group them together under the banner of womanhood. Because there isn't a perfect criterion for "woman", and part of feminism is critically examining biases about what hoops people need to jump through to be considered an "acceptable" woman -- regardless of whether those hoops are set up by men, or by other women.

> To me, because it allows us to provide a fairly good answer to the question "where do babies come from?"

Well, except for infertile women, who are fully woman and fully valid regardless of their ability to have children.

> and to gender critical feminists because they view the concept as cental to their political/philosophical project.

I disagree that trans women mean that these political/philosophical goals can't be achieved. To me, this is just gatekeeping, I don't see a real motivating need for this kind of exclusion. Trans women do not have an agenda to take away women's rights, many of these people are feminists themselves.

> And while this may seem "absurd" to you, terms like "AFAB" seems "absurd" to me.

The absurdity is not that you have different opinions about the definition of a woman, the absurdity is your implication that acknowledging the womanhood of trans women is tantamount to saying that their experiences are completely identical to cisgender, AFAB women, or that it's destroying some kind of sacred bond. That position is absurd because cisgender, AFAB women do not have identical experiences with each other.

You wrote:

> If it means "there is no distinction between biological women and trans women," that seems wrong to me and to the vast majority of people.

That would be an absurd thing for anyone to claim about any attribute of womanhood, and nobody is doing so.
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I mean, I can write code that has, say, this somewhere at the top:

typedef unsigned int whatever_t;
#define WHATEVER_MAX UINT_MAX

I can write the code such that I can edit whatever_t and WHATEVER_MAX to whatever values I want, and it still works, without changing any of the rest of the code.

This is not very highly abstract, but higher than assembly language.

If you want to teach this sort of hardware independence, asm is probably not the best teaching tool.
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The guys been in prison before and seemed to enjoy it, posted pictures from prison in the dominican republic which is way worse than spanish prison. The guy talked about being content a week ago, "I'm old and content with food and a bed", he felt bad for the young people who were afraid of prison. He was still able to tweet and enjoyed interacting with people.

If you think he killed himself, you don't understand how humans work, plain and simple.
Not OP, but due to the low quality of judicial product lately
Last summer I got a temp gig after a layoff. I was overall pretty lucky. I was working with old on-site tape archives, so I had a justifiable need to be in the air conditioned server rooms. I live in Los Angeles, so I would often just do most of the work there, even the parts I could do from home. Even with that easy free A/C, I had my monthly power bill double during the summer months, from using A/C when I did WFH. I also had bought it that year, not previously even needing one, as I am was of those sysadmins that lived in the office.

It did shift my perspective a bit, I'm not surprised to see this article written
In this analogy, the foundation is “the years of schooling the student has already experienced”.
The point that you're missing is that when there is a demand, a supply tends to rise.

My child is smart enough to look for a doctor that is known to have evaluated cases on a "case by case basis" to provide the surgery that they want. As for how to find said doctor, if anyone in their online social network finds one, that information will be shared. In fact I would happily take an even money bet that my child would have no problem laying their hands on the name of such a doctor within 24 hours.
I’m not seeing where “U.S. violent and property crime rate have plunged since 1990s, regardless of data source” that you cited shows evidence that murder rates are reliable predictors of rates of other types of victim-having crimes?

Additionally, pointing out errors of generalization and particularization is not a straw-man tactic of argument. It is a direct conflict with your argument on the grounds of scientific validity - are you actually measuring what you think you are measuring?

Setting aside that we haven’t yet established that murder rates are reliable predictors of other victim-having crimes, there is a deeper problem, that another commenter was trying to point out to you in terms of Bayesian probability.

To draw the conclusion that I drew, which I continue to defend (for clarities sake: that the LGBTQIA+ community is disproportionately affected by victim-having crime), you would need to look at data that partitions the general public into its various sub-groups and compares the frequency of victim-having crime between all of the individual sub-group, in all combinations.

Such a statistical technique is frequently used in empirical studies of populations, across disciplines.

Statistical analysis of these between-group variations is where you are able to draw out conclusions such as “blacks are disproportionally convicted of certain crimes” or “LGBTQIA+ are disproportionately victims of murder, physical abuse, emotional abuse, and widespread discrimination”.

> Perhaps you’d like to elucidate why you don’t think it is [a valid comparison]

There may very well be some valid conclusions to draw from data about murder rates for the whole population compared to a given sub-group, but that methodological technique suffers from the so-called “law of averages”.

See the Expectation values example in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_averages, for example.

In the scientific community, it is common knowledge that research methodologies based on statistical analyses of between-group variations is a technique that is sensitive to patterns that would not appear in a comparison with the average.
Sounds like you answered the question as to by people are focusing on the tax fraud rather than murder.
It has a big “click here” button - at least this email did.

Yea better is to tell them to go login and provide no links.
Spend any significant time in the wilderness, especially somewhere without perfect year-round weather, and you /really/ start to appreciate the comforts of civilisation.

A car with air conditioning after just three days in the field is just... glorious.
Google is beginning the forced migration from Hangouts to Chat next year (2020)
He didn't strike me as a bully.

He seemed to like his dogs (which I get!), and was out for the little guys of the world. He didn't like authorities whom abused their power.

I found him refreshing compared to most wealthy guys.

I am sad he's gone. I wish it wasen't fear over the IRS though.

(I don't think anyone should do jail time over taxes. You can take their money, but no jail time. Oh yea, I don't care if he was doing drugs (prescribed, or illegial). I don't think anyone should have to go through withdrawls in a cell. That last sentence was not aimed at John. It never felt right hearing that people are expected to withdrawal from any substance while in jail. I see a constant help wanted in my local paper for a Psychiatry position at San Quentin. If I was in charge, every suspect would have a Psychiatrist they can talk to, and medicated if needed, with in a hour of being locked up for any offense. It's got to be one of the most stressful event in a person's life.)
> But you ask someone to use a different pronoun and suddenly it's just too much.

It may indeed be. I likely don't have the time or energy to correctly address people who insist on being called they/them, or xe/xem. I have enough trouble remembering people's names.
Please keep nationalistic swipes out of HN comments. They only make things worse. Your post would be fine without the first bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I always prefer opt-in over opt-out.

I can't think of an exception yet.
A quick-start guide to OpenZFS native encryption
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
Isn't that like pointing out an empty set being still a set?
Meritocracy and Its Defects
Unless you have a fast connection to someone with the key
I think you're confusing something, Lotus Notes was not a word processor. In USA, the most popular word processor before MS Word was WordPerfect.
If anyone is considering buying a "portable" air conditioner - the kind that rolls around on wheels - know that they are pretty awful. If you must buy one, at least buy a "dual hose" version. Single hose versions suck air out of your house, causing fresh, but hot, air to be sucked in through all the vents, gaps, and cracks in your house.

Window units or "split" systems are far more efficient and work much better, at the downside of cost and installation fees.

Technology Connections has a very good video (with perhaps excessive detail, but it is very interesting) about them, here: https://youtu.be/_-mBeYC2KGc
Yes, very much a lack of respect for someone's choice of identity.

Forget nicknames, how would these people feel if somebody just said "Hey I'm going to call you Arnold now, because you fit my mental image of Arnold." Wildly inappropriate thing to do?

If you want to go and impose whatever pronoun you want on someone based on how they look, don't act shocked when you get called out for being a dick to them.
The question wasn't whether the teacher was allowed to talk about things that might upset a subset of students. In some cases, like talking about the Holocaust or slavery in the US that will not be possible to avoid entirely. The question was this:

> If a student asks a teacher not to call them something that offends them, is the teacher required to stop using the slur?

If a teacher calls a student a slur, or otherwise directly addresses the student using a slur/derogatory term, should this teacher stop doing this? Stop moving the goalpost.
Lowering the barrier to entry requires lowering the barrier to exit as well.
>That’s not how rapists operate! They seek positions of power.

This frames rape as some thing people plot out and rationalize over a long time.

Rape is like any other crime. Some people think about it critically and finds ways to commit it for their own amusement. Oftentimes it's just people taking an opportunity. Sometimes it's people finding ways to make opportunities and not thinking about freshman psychology power dynamics. A lot of rape involves hormones and alcohol flowing freely without consideration of the consequences or harm.

There are also people who actively enjoy feeling weak or inferior as part of a sexual fetish.

Trying to rationalize it into one group or mindset doesn't work.
Kind of - it's closer to the mailing list workflow than GitHub. However the automation integration is not in place yet in any form, which this article is mostly about. Maybe in a couple of years.
My comment was in response to you apparently not understanding the distinction being drawn by the OP between software development as a relatively high status profession and the relatively low status auto mechanic career. The OP was alluding to the waning status of being a software dev since the 2000-2010 heyday. Injecting your opinion regarding my take on the status of the auto mechanic profession was entirely unwarranted.
> The 'dumbcoin' jupyter notebook is also a good reference: "Dumbcoin - An educational python implementation of a bitcoin-like blockchain" https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/julienr/ipynb_playground...

https://github.com/yjjnls/awesome-blockchain#implementation-... and https://github.com/openblockchains/awesome-blockchains#pytho... list a few more ~"blockchain from scratch" [in Python] examples.

... FWIU, Ethereum has the better Python story. There was a reference implementation of Ethereum in Python?
https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/programming-language...
Didn’t McAfee bet to eat
His own penis for some reason?
Really do wonder why swamp coolers aren't more popular in desert environments like Los Angeles.
"Dealers are scum" makes no sense. Is the college guy selling weed and mushrooms to his friends "scum"? Maybe the guy that gives out free samples of meth or heroin to get people addicted is bad but that sort of generalising is why drugs are illegal in the first place.
Permanently! And it always will. Shame about the patients, though.