skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you wanna say you keep running windows 7 because you dont have the tech skills to turn off updates in win 10?

If that's the case I dont think there are many of you out there.
I run win7 on hardware that cant run win10 and I know people who run win7 simply because they like it more.
Conversely, we’ve bought several Teslas and have covered tens of thousands of miles on Autopilot, usually at 70mph (sometimes faster if the speed limit allows for it [Texas]). No issues.
Ahh, a domain controller is responsible for pruning invalid print queues in ActiveDirectory.
Why do people think there is some magical "consciousness" thingy other than what we observe, a machine in a wet box
Bachelor degrees are the scam in higher education. It should be only masters.
This is a result of a weekend project to build an automatic track labeller for recording MiniDisc. The few remaining retro enthusiasts of the format may find it useful (for compatible devices). The post gives a bit of a background to the project, if you want to go straight for the nitty-gritty check out https://github.com/fijam/md-rec
Is there also Gynagogy?
The title sucks. So was Red Hat Linux - why should I care?
The US established basic social insurance in the 30s, and generally ~all industrialised nations were going in this direction in the era fairly uncontroversially; at the time I don’t think it was particularly contentious.

The idea that social welfare is a partisan issue, with one side considering it to be, essentially, a bad thing, is really a fairly modern invention in the US; Reagan era.
As a software guy I think of it as trying to understand the execution of a complex web app by examining the machine instructions. At that level, how things happen is very apparent but why they do is pretty much lost.
Different Approaches for Time Series Analysis
Expat living in the UK, I don't do anything for taxes here, I still have to file through free file in the US each year. It's a right pain.
Having 1 or 100 (they have 3) links, wont change anything

The gov controls everything and will use that to manilulate information and more

Problem is not amount of links, problem is their dictatorship gov.
Sure, thanks! Ping me at ronan foo jouchet bar fr . Will get in touch if I follow-up on making this happen.
Similar to the idea of the "infinite image". Take a 640x480 square, and permute every possible combination of pixels.

By definition: that space must contain a sizeable, or even complete, portion of all human knowledge that can ever be scrolled or exist in that image space.

A lot of noise too, but the complete cure for cancer (if possible), FTL (if possible), immortality: what answers absolutely cannot be represented as several variations of the pixels of a 640x480 image?
I'd vary that to say: "Everything has a learning curve."

I can have disciplined new hires, but they don't know what they don't know yet about what is at stake.
How does free will play into this? If the world is run by all physical laws, then I had no choice typing this out and submitting it, rather then closing the tab right now.

My "decision" isn't real.

If it is an actual conscious choice, that was not calculatable by the exact state prior, then consciousness is fundamental.
Ok it seemed to me that that the stroma of blue eyes scatters back more light: https://medium.com/@ptvan/structural-eye-color-is-amazing-24...
And true in Europe today. Ever been on a train in Germany in the summertime?
We have community colleges in America that serve the exact same function. My parents love taking the astronomy courses because they come with an observatory. They have also some some criminal justice classes and a lot of art classes like pottery. They are very old. You also don’t get a degree for taking these courses but they are much cheaper than the classes are for degree track students.
As a mid 20s returning college student, its definitely high school 2.0. I've talked to and tried to hit on many girls only to come to actually stop because their priorities are just way out of wack. Guys seem more mellow than in high school at least. But for the most part I encounter the "know it all" arrogance more from men. A lot of them just never failed hard in their lives before so they often think they can beat the system or what have you.
Only 112? Joking, I like the Frenchies.
Many if not most universities in the USA have extension schools that serve this purpose.
Yes, that is the main driver for making my side business.
Well it was (George) LucasArts, after all.
It seems like a problem that's occurred many times, going back to at least 1999: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=windows+spo...

I don't know if there's anything different enough this time to cause them to go that direction.
> Doesn't living like a local mean using local services, spending money in local shops, attending festivals and adding to the culture?

The thing is, a lot of these are leaving. As the full-time residents move out of the city, the businesses that cater to them do too, and what's left is touristy things, making it harder for the few residents who do still live in an area overrun by short term rentals.

I'd also argue that visitors who only stay for a week or a month do not add to the culture of a town. They're there to take advantage of it without adding anything, and it ends up destroying it as all those who actually do create the culture get pushed out.

> Hanging a newcomers are not welcome here sign ignores that areas of New York start off as one group and constantly change as new waves of people come to the city.

That's not what I'm arguing. I'm not arguing that newcomers aren't welcome. I'm arguing that tourists who want to live as locals harm the area by forcing prices up for the residents of the town and forcing them outwards, as well as myriad other issues (e.g. coming home at all hours of the night loudly drunk while people are trying to sleep because they have to go to work tomorrow)
We have to make a distinction here. The book is about the French, the people, and how they are when you live with them in their own country.

Almost all news about China are not about the people of China, but instead treat China as a single entity defined by its government.

I think GP has a point is that we could get a better understanding of China by considering the people, their culture and how they live on a day-to-day basis rather than by focusing on Xi Jinping.

I'd like to see more reports of westerners actually living there, rather than government talk.
Unlikely.

Of the base human motivations - money, ideology, conscience/coercion, ego, revenge, and sex - one of those is enough to get you out of bed (or keep you there depending) but you need at least two to keep you going during the hard times.

If nothing else, you will also need an ego big enough to be able to say "I/my team does X better than anyone else and it's my job to share that with people!" But then you need to keep your ego in check to understanding who can give useful feedback/advice and how to take it.
The typical structure is 3 years for the bachelor's degree and 2 years for the master's degree. In many countries, master's is the primary undergraduate degree, while bachelor's is considered a glorified dropout.

American undergraduate degrees often have plenty of classes unrelated to the major/minor subjects, while European degrees tend to be more focused. In some countries, those breadth requirements are considered a part of secondary education. While an American nominally starts a four-year degree at 18, a European may start a three-year degree at 19.

As for PhDs, they were traditionally considered more like certifications than degrees. You could graduate quickly if you managed to finish your thesis, but it was far more common to continue working on it well into your 30s. This has changed in the past decade or two, as universities started favoring short "American-style" PhDs, with the ideal to graduate before 30. (The British with their short PhDs were always an exception to this.)
He also posts a lot on his Twitter:

https://twitter.com/Merocle
Indeed. When the founding father created the system the US has today, it was entirely intentional that powers be separated and check each other, that the house, senate and President were required to pass legislation, etc. The founding father recognized that the default is a slide towards authoritarianism, that’s just human nature. The system works when no one person can gather enough power to take over.
> It seems like there's something bordering on unhinged in that behavior.

While I personally wouldn't do it and also think it comes across as kind of weird and unsettling I also think that what you are saying is based on your own cultural perspective. Let's take a few steps back and look at it. Is it really that bad if you talk about having a harmful belief in the past and how you let go of that? Should you be fired overt that? I think Google just chose the easy way here; Fire the person involved, least chance of having a controversy.

I don't know where you live but I can tell you in most western European countries there is a very strong hatred against Jews under Arab migrants. This hatred is also passed along to newer generations. A blog post this might actually make the world a bit of a better place instead of a worse one...
This didn’t take long. The word must’ve gotten out finally that you don’t need to pay to file your taxes.
I am not a fan of any approach here and largely agree with you.

Media censorship did very well exist in pre-tech journalism as well and was more blatant. Eg. Iraq war WMD claims etc. Big tech censorship mirrors this but in a very limited manner since we know it is happening at any point in time and such information is available outside of the major platforms, which wasn't the case pre mainstream internet.

Ultimately, big tech regulation of content is similar to how a WSJ or NYT would manage what they publish. They've been forced into this position with all the criticism over the last few years - it isn't something they wanted to invest in. It looks more like censorship because of the stepping back from the previously laissez faire approach to content, whereas NYT's baseline was self regulation (so it wasn't as apparent). Big tech media is privately held like a bar or a restaurant and in my opinion have every right to control who is on the platform and what is not ok to say - if one doesn't like it - they can leave.
In the tv-series Big Bang Theory, there is a moment where Sheldon (a theoretical physicist) and Amy (a neuroscientist) argue, whose discipline is more important and fundamental. Sheldon says that physics studies the fundamental building blocks of the universe. And just like your professor, Amy says something along the lines that neuroscience studies the processes that study the fundamental building blocks of the universe.
Well said. I’ll take this one step further: Anyone who starts a business without putting profitability as one of the top priorities is going to have a hard time.

In fact, it can be disappointing to some engineers to learn how much starting a business requires using off-the-shelf solutions instead of rolling your own implementation and even making compromises with “good enough” code to get things shipped. The entrepreneurs who want to design and code every part of the system by themselves and only ship it when it’s absolutely perfect are the ones who struggle to ever ship a product and get customers.

Social media, HN included, has perhaps skewed public perceptions about things like money, profit, capitalism, and nebulous concepts like “passion”. There’s nothing wrong with starting a business as a business and treating the code as business decisions. In fact, it’s what you want to do if your goal is to get customers and make profit, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
How is it slow?
I had the impression, it's what you make of it.

I learned new interesting things, but I could also have boring stuff I would never use anywhere later.
"We can’t just rely on the market to provide all of the quality discipline that master’s programs need."

It seems like if the federal government stopped lending for master's degrees, and allowed students to file for bankruptcy to get out of private loans, then the market might very well sort everything out.
QlockTwo watch: time in words on your wrist
This was the original idea, that some people with genuine traumatic experiences and were currently suffering from mental illness could choose to opt-out before proceeding on to read/watch something. But the concept got wildly out of hand as activists, especially younger adults, began obsessively applying it to nearly any piece of written word and anything they could frame as traumatic.

For example, if you're about to present a movie to a captive audience that involves depictions of rape, it would be good that someone who has experienced rape, especially recently, knows that it will ahead of time and has the ability to opt-out because it might trigger a traumatic episode. The circumstances where you have a captive audience and it's not clear from the context what will be depicted are actually quite rare, so its usage should be rare.

But young people, trying to signal their virtuous compassion and understanding to like-minded individuals, would put "trigger warnings" at the top of blog posts about things like "racism" or "homophobia", and all that would be discussed would be that they overheard a slur at the store.

At some point, the dominant use of trigger warnings was by people with thin skins, ready to get offended on behalf of "victims" who had suffered, at worst, nothing more than people being rude or mean to them. Pretending like these kinds of negative encounters are anything close to the mind-breaking trauma of getting raped or watching your fellow soldiers explode in front of you is disgusting, and eventually everyone caught on that the activists were trying to equivocate real trauma with "hurt feelings". Worse, they were effectively teaching young people to internalize and exaggerate negative experiences so that they could identify as someone with PTSD. That doing this made them unique and gave them extra attention from others who wanted to actively show compassion to victimized people. For lonely young people who want a cause, it was extremely attractive because it gave them identity, purpose, and community. But in reality, it was largely a perverted roleplay which coddled everyone involved and made them emotionally fragile.

The original concept of trigger warnings is solid, but should be practiced only where necessary and never attached to the phrase "trigger warning", as that nomenclature has been ceded to the activists.
>People are much nicer when their reputation is at stake.

I think a more accurate statement would be "People are much nicer when their money is at stake." And I don't mean "nicer" as in "genuinely better," it's more "I'll paint on a smile and not say anything bad" (just ask a waiter and they'll have plenty of tales where they had to do this for a tip).

Today, there are plenty of online hangouts for people with all sorts of ideas. This is great since people can easily form communities around a TV show, hobby, etc, but it also enables flat earthers and anti-vaxxers, whose views are often rooted in bigotry (see: All Gas No Brakes video on the flat earth convention [0]). Those communities tend to encourage an "us vs them" mentality and to cut out those who seek to "hold them back" (basically modern cults - alienate yourself from your friends and loved ones, we will provide all the community you need).

In the past, joining groups like the Klan was a much more difficult endeavor (they tended to operate much more in the shadows), and the groups tended to be on the smaller side. Today, it's just a matter of joining a Facebook group about "race realism", "the truth about George Floyd", or whatever, and bam, you have access to thousands of like-minded individuals to build your own personal echo chamber. The traditional tactics of people avoiding those they dislike IRL don't work so well as a form of collective shaming when you've got someone who is terminally online and has tons of people to tell them just how right they are and linking various garbage to reinforce the worldview.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H110vCGvTmM
Plumbing, building, electrics all require understanding the current state of the system (eg: house that 20 different cowboys have messed with over the years), and weighing up the different possible solutions - sure there is a measure of simple/straightforward work, but same can be said of software engineering.

We work in a different medium, but at a high level I think the process can look very similar, and there's satisfaction in a job well done
The Grandmama of NYC Nightlife: Disco Sally Doing Some Fancy Stepping in 1978
Regarding your second point, you can totally be bigoted against a demographic you belong to.

Bobby Fischer for example is a very high profile person. Candace Owens is another.
Flexible working inflexibility seems likely to hurt Apple
To reply in the style of the book, China learned lessons from its history just like we learn from ours. They cannot easily forget the century of humiliation that was brought upon them by the West.
No, in the UK the majority of people don't need to 'do taxes' at all.

('Normal' income tax is taken through 'Pay As You Earn' by employer's payroll, you only ever receive net pay; capital gains, dividends, 'innovation', etc. have tax free thresholds that mean you don't have to worry about it until (if) it's big. And then you can just file it online (or paper) directly with HMRC (IRS equivalent), or pay a tax advisor if you want of course, but that's certainly exception not norm.)
Ah, the whole “minimum wage violates the NAP” angle. Unsurprising, unpersuasive.

The idea that some people know better than us and want less money is frankly bizarre. Perhaps that argument carries water for unionization, where workers do often vote against it, but deciding to be paid less because they know better than us? Ridiculous.

Such an angle really ignores the extra leverage that large businesses have in poorer areas of America. If a Walmart in the next town drove all your mom & pop shops under because of a combination of low wages and economies of scale, what exactly are you going to do in order to get a better job?

Part of the job of the government is to step in and reduce the risk of a coercion in these situations, and the minimum wage is part of that.
Post Secondary Institutions have put undergraduate education on the back burner. It's all about graduate degrees now. More money, grants, and cheap student labour.
Global = No

Very easy choice.
My Windows print spooler doesn't work at the best of times without repeated reboots and cycling the WIFI. If a vulnerability leads to correction of this poorly designed system it would be welcome.
...and this is why we need not only the full spectrum of licences from MIT to GPL but also organisations that watch over compliance... and sue if necessary...
It depends what you mean by free will. Non-philosphers almost always mean "libertarian" free will when they say that, and yes, this same argument also basically outlaws libertarian free will as well. There is no physical mechanism by which you can alter your brain physics to "choose" things.

Carroll and others have a compatibilist notion of free will which is a more subtle concept that I'm not sure I'm qualified to actually explain.
> The general public will lose access to cheap general purpose computers, to the extent that they even exist now.

How much did a general purpose computer cost 30 years ago?

How much did it cost 20 years ago?

How much did it cost 10 years ago?

How much does a Raspberry Pi Zero W cost now?
> This isn't necessarily a huge help, because those errors could be triggered or manifest at any point where unsafe code is used transitively.

Right, and that isn’t something Rust or the unsafe keyword set out to solve. Unsafe has absolutely no runtime impact and was never designed to.

Your argument that a disciplined use of C would render this useless is correct, but history has shown us a great many examples of undisciplined use of C, even in projects that start out disciplined. Rust codifies and enforces that discipline, I don’t see anything wrong with that.

You want unsafe to be something it isn’t, but I’m not convinced what you want fits with Rust’s vision. There are many, many safer languages to choose from.
Why? The US literacy rate in the 1940s was 97.1%, and the US military had special programs to teach the illiterate to read. During WW2, 95% of illiterate recruits achieved minimum literacy within two months through the special training units developed for that purpose.

I know it’s easy for some people to think of a trigger puller as a dumb grunt - even more so one who served 80 years ago, but it’s not accurate or fair.

[0] https://nces.ed.gov/naal/lit_history.asp
[1] https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/s/soldiers_lit.htm
Your gilbert gottfried is better than mine - in that it's more obviously gilbert, however, when he's doing interviews and not "in character" the one i have sounds closer to his actual voice.[0][1]

I use(d) "Real time voice cloning" available on github. I have used your site before, i think that's actually the reason i wanted to find software to do it myself originally!

I ended up using mine to do the announcements on all of the ham repeaters in Central Louisiana. I'm not sure how many are still active, but i had a couple of podcasters and two presidents doing the announcements for a while.[2]

Nice work, wrapping it all in a website/service. I'll bookmark it!

[0] https://soundcloud.com/djoutcold/gottfried1-1

[1] https://soundcloud.com/djoutcold/gilbertopiatecookies

[2] https://soundcloud.com/djoutcold/trump-id-01
It is interesting to me that the only thing in the universe that we can observe directly it's also thought to be the least understood.

We experience physical phenomena by proxy only - through the senses and sensors we built, followed by an interpretation by our brain; while we can observe our consciousness by just observing ourselves from "within".

I do not mean to question the paper, just pointing out that I find this fascinating.

In fact I strongly believe that consciousness is - in the end - the result of physical processes.

What I do question is that we understand what we mean by "physics". Physics is a model of the world, a model that we created based on our understanding how things ought to be, namely that all things are separate and that thus we can explain reality (and hence consciousness) by analyzing (i.e. dividing) the model more and more. Who says that that is a correct representation of the world?
That's a load of nonsense.

We don't live in the golden age of piracy when privateers ruled the sees.

We live in the age of Cuba's ports being within the range of cruise missiles from Florida.
> 4. I wonder if Carroll's future work in philosophy will cause him to revisit the many-worlds interpretation of QM, which a fair share of philosophers believe carries too much metaphysical baggage. The idea of many worlds "existing" is a philosophical idea; it's not something you learn from studying physics.

I think he would argue it carries the least metaphysical baggage as the worlds exist in the equations we have, unlike things posited by other interpretations.
What happens in an IPO? – A Beginner's Guide (Part 2/2)
Suppose it's in a stable orbit and we want to preserve it for historical artifact value, for study by the public. Should we leave it where it is? Visitors could go match orbits and observe it in flight. Should we create a static display monument on the surface, with a plaque, like the USS Arizona?

If you say bring the LM back to the Smithsonian, for atmospheric entry you'd need something like a Starship with a widely opening fairing, a rigid mounting system inside, and maybe a manipulator arm of some kind to capture.