skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m not a licensed pilot, so I’m just arguing from my intuitive understanding of the risks involved.

> But if it was me in that plane and I saw a 10% risk of serious bodily harm / death in trying to land and a 0.1% risk in jumping, it would be tempting to jump.

I think your intuition is wildly off base w.r.t. the risks of general aviation and sky diving.

If you exclude experimental aircraft like fighter jets and kit builds, general aviation isn't much more dangerous than riding a motorcycle. The leading causes of death are misjudging the weather and miscalculating fuel because most of a pilot's training isn't in how to fly a plane but how to troubleshoot it midair or land safely if that is impossible.

An unplanned skydive in a mountainous area in Southern California during Santa Ana season? Now, that's risky. (Edit) For perspective, Nevada sky diving companies won't even jump over Black rock desert because of the wind and that's a desert so big and flat that it's used for amateur rocketry in the 100k+ feet range.
People talking about things is good, but people adopting their atypical traits as their whole persona (even if just online) surely can't be healthy?
FB groups are the root of evil.

Actually scratch that. FB is the root of all evil.
> There's a long history of silencing and rendering invisible the identities of disabled people, to avoid discomfort on the part of the abled, and to divide and prevent the formation of community amongst the disabled.

Where is the history that supports the idea that there was a goal to prevent the formation of community amongst the disabled?
If you look into the sources this is measured by the reading tests you get that present an article and ask questions about it. There is an example in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29731528

The goals they list on e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_illiteracy match exactly what I was told I was being tested on when I was taking the standardized tests in school.

Roughly, there are these breaks in understanding:
1. Understanding the literal words on the page,
2. understanding the implied context of the words, and
3. understanding the motivations of the author.
Progressing in order of difficulty. As well there are ways to gauge how well you can read and how fast you can read, such as are you able to sound out and break down complicated words based on their roots or do you remember whole words.
There is no Web3 yet.

Web 2.0 was a buzzword created to describe a group of technologies that made web pages behave more like desktop applications, AFTER those technologies had come to prominence.

Web 1.0 was a bunch of communication protocols for publishing network accessible documents.

In both cases, the technology preceded the revenue models, and indeed there are a number of disparate revenue models which publishers and developers choose when creating websites, web applications and mobile applications.

Web3, however, is an attempt to turn the blockchain, which is a revenue model, into a platform to supercede Web 1.0. It is not in the same evolutionary path as the "first 2 webs" (if you could call them that), it's just a PR driven money grab.
> I genuinely don't get what civil discourse is supposed to achieve.

I could be wrong but I think the purpose of being civil is so that people will actually want to talk to you.
I had difficulty parsing the "Double Empathy Problem" because it's written with so much meta commentary and qualifiers.

So what is the Double Empathy Problem? I'm still not sure what the article says after reading it twice.

Is it something like this?

The limitation of empathy, for those who understand why it is useful to practice it, and who try to practice it, is that unless you know how the other person thinks, just putting yourself in their shoes won't help. You also have to be able to model how their thoughts will go - not how your thoughts would go if you were in their situation.

So, if you want to treat people with autism empathically, first, investigate and learn how to model how they think. Once you have some model of that, you can practice empathy with them. If you try to practice empathy before you have a model, it won't be empathy - it will be misunderstanding.
web3.js is the name of the Ethereum API since 2017.
Its never too late to learn new things, the key to success is your own determination and patience to achieve your goals !
Dunno, this was the event I remembered hearing about and it was clearly post show. https://abcnews.go.com/International/woman-drives-car-canadi...
Ok, my bad on this saying that recruiters suggest GH, but

What is one popular advice that people wanting to enter the industry do receive?

- put some stuff on *gh*, very often.
There's PhotoKit: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/photokit

It's somewhat different than the Flickr API, so it's hard to compare. The Flickr API is great in that it gives you access to everything a user can do on the site. It's really sad that this approach has mostly died (Instagram doesn't have any API, does it?)

PhotoKit is impressive in its own way, allowing third-party apps to hook into library management and destruction-free editing. It doesn't give you much control of the synchronization with iCloud. Or, from a different perspective, the sync happens transparently in the background and doesn't need handholding.
This guy is probably the most dangerous person at the moment, because of how well documented his wild theories are. He is obviously very smart but has, for some reason, fallen into the trap of thinking a dark and evil plot is at work.

Edit: just read about twitter ban. Not sure why Twitter keeps trying to look like a respectable source of well-argumented official news anyway. This thing is a trash bin of random opinions of all sort.
> would be allowing simultaneous use of multiple versions of a library

Thats called private dependency, and overusing it lead to the node_modules hell (because it was/is the default on npm).

IMO, a way to reduce maintenance on updating dependencies, is having automated code modification that are ran when updating the dependency.
My first take would be the record labels are potential investors.

No matter what in your case I'd be concerned about getting 'screwed' by anybody who understands what it is you are doing and would be able to replicate it. If you could at all get intellectual property protection via patents, trade secrets and copyright, do so!
"You act like people that struggle with reading aren't capable of making a decision between usually only two candidates."

Without going too political, yes, I think that an unacceptably large amount of Americans are undereducated for the task of choosing between two candidates. Recently, many candidates have been appealing to the worst instincts and using things like conspiracy theories to gain an advantage. And bad things have been happening as a result.

It's really a matter of critical thinking, not reading per se, but presumably reading can contribute to an overall better ability to use logic and reason.

Also, it isn't just down to two candidates. In the last presidential election, there were many more candidates, and they were weeded out by both primaries and just polling. Both of which rely on the voters being able to wisely choose.

In my city, there were 12 mayoral candidates, all on the ballot. The ranked choice system made it workable. (not that instant-runoff ranked choice is the best system, but it is better than the plain-old plurality used in most elections) If more people were well-read (and had the mental capabilities that tend to come with that) we'd probably have better voting systems in a lot more places.
And SELinux, still from the NSA.
Yup - they could have easily said “I am a single autistic voice offering my view. You should listen to more autistic people and fewer neurotypical people when trying to understand autism”.
No one would want to sit on a sport parachute pack for funsies. They’re bulky and the cockpit is small. Even the acro chutes are slightly bulky and uncomfortable in a light aircraft cockpit. You wear them when flying acro; no one I know wears them when flying their aerobatic aircraft on a random trip.
Button of the month: the Motorola Razr internet button
Prove no, but it is not very likely IMO.

Sure, it is a network based on trust. But the whole idea of bitcoin's principle of trust is that you trust the majority of an entire community.

By making a deal with a single party for their wallet credentials you have to trust only the seller. One single party. In a shady deal involving a fortune.

And like I said, who would spend obviously phenomenal amounts on something and then never even touch it? When the buyer could simply move that trust from one party to the community simply by transferring the balance to a new wallet.

Of course the ripples in bitcoin's value would be unprecedented. But the buyer would hold so much of it that one way or another they would be extremely rich.

I'm not really talking about the sharing of keys in general by the way. Just about the thought of Satoshi's genesis wallet keys being sold this way.
That's a bizarre suggestion - the BBC is big (and was early) into tech and the web, has a large staff of our peers, and has arguably never published in a non-tech/modern way.

It could conceivably have reported such a story over time on the radio, television, teletext, and the web; and has been operating on all of them since the dawn of them.
You could just as easily say a "real" command line interface wouldn't do the same thing.

Of course, it might make more sense for a library, "real" or not, to default to raising an exception with no output, not just a warning - especially for a security-critical application. But it's not like we've never seen unsafe defaults in a library before, even a crypto one.

Then again, it does make sense from a UX standpoint: I'd rather see "message could not be verified", followed by the decrypted content anyways, rather than not get any output. I know not to trust it, so knowing what it says is useful in terms of threat identification.

This is really not a CLI vs DLL issue - it's a default settings issue. And in this specific case, the unsafe option actually follows the standard more closely - it does not, after all, mandate integrity checking. Mybe it should, but that's a different conversation.
Private pilot here. A lot of people have remarked on the lack of a mayday call. It's not clear whether that plane had a radio. Many aircraft of that type don't.

That said, I see a lot of smoking guns:

1. He doesn't do any of the normal engine-out procedures. In particular, he does not turn the plane. He makes no attempt to try to find a safe landing site, which was pretty clearly available on the dry river bed. The plane he was flying is specifically designed to land in places like that. Even if he wasn't able to land, turning around would have placed him closer to civilization before he bailed out, but he clearly didn't even try.

2. His reaction when the engine quits is very heavy on profanities and lamenting the direness of the situation, and completely devoid of troubleshooting or planning the best course of action. Both of his hands can be seen on the yoke, so he's not trimming for best glide, checking the mags, checking the fuel selector. At best he is a completely incompetent pilot.

3. He is an accomplished skydiver flying a controllable skydiving chute (not an emergency chute). He could have put that chute down wherever he chose, but instead of landing on clear flat terrain (in the riverbed) he chose to land in the brush on the mountainside. That was either the most incredibly stupid decision anyone has ever made in an emergency situation, or part of a deliberate plan. I don't see any other possibilities.

4. The fact that he's able to get a shot of the plane flying below him also looks mighty hinky. He spent a lot of time in free-fall. For the plane to end up underneath him like that would be an incredible coincidence. Indeed, being able to hike to the crash site is mighty suspicious, even leaving aside the highly questionable decision-making required to even attempt it.

[UPDATE]

Also this video [1] where he spends a day at an airport trying to scam a free flight off someone by presenting himself as someone who has never had the opportunity to fly despite the fact that he is himself a pilot. This indicates that it is very much in character for him to try to deceive people for the sake of YT views.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWoEv0t5xGc
He has plenty of places where he bleeps himself, so I don't think this really counts for much. I do this type of thing often myself, saying "whoops", or "Martha Faulker" even when no one is around.
How does this work? Do they just get private keys somehow?
I am a disabled person (U.S. based). I've had trouble holding jobs over the last two years. I can't reliably spend 40 hours a week in front of a desk. Hypothetically, an employer is required to provide a disabled individual with "reasonable accommodations" to complete their work tasks in the U.S., but because the only recourse a disabled individual has is legal in many cases companies are willing to risk it as they have far more legal resources than their employees.

I appreciate very much when a disabled individual speaks openly about their disability. It puts social pressure on everyone to appropriately accommodate the needs of their disabled employees. For me, it means that someday I might be treated with dignity and respect in my work again, like I was before I was disabled.
Yeah I was a bit gutted when I found Stickk after spending a bunch of time building Kommit. It's super similar and I felt a bit silly for not doing the research beforehand.

However, considering Stickk has existed for something like 14 years, it doesn't feel particularly mature. I don’t want to be too disparaging (and I’m obviously biased) but I found their website quite clunky and the apps don’t receive great reviews (1.8 on IOS and 3.0 on Android).

A few aspects that I believe are better in Kommit:

- More control over deadline schedules (you can set it to repeat on multiple specified days of the week).
- More control over punishment rules (you can choose how many consecutive failures are allowed before you're punished).
- You can give yourself skip days (useful if you know you’re likely to need a vacation).
- You can update commitments (there is a mechanism to allow updates while preventing you from dodging punishments).

That being said, they do have some cool features such as donating to an "Anti-Charity" (a controversial charity that you don’t support) upon failure.
I am more and more convinced that all this historical and revanchist arguments are just convenient post hoc justifications for existing autocratic and imperialistic tendencies. The case of HK fits perfectly with the general development in china but it is supposed to be because of the opium wars?

With a country like china which claims thousands of years of history you can always find historical pretext for anything and everything.
Yes same here. I have an M1 mini and M1 MBA sitting here. Best computers I have ever owned.
Yep I think it shows the limitations of evidence in complex subjects like Economics. If somebody doesn’t want something to be true, they will simply demand more evidence, claim that the evidence has flaws, claim that the researchers are not rigorous enough and/or somehow corrupt etc. The tobacco industry wrote the book on how to do that.
> Isn't there some issue where SQLite basically has to be single-threaded in Golang programs, at least if you use the stdlib SQL library?

I guess not exactly, but iirc there were some caveats/performance issues around C threads x Go routines. A bit is touched in this post: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/the-cost-and-complexity-o...

But well, it seems arp242 is GoatCounter's developer. Based on the post content, it is powered by SQLite and this is probably a good write-heavy application example. I wonder if there are any blog posts about the SQLite performance for this service.
many people here have not gone to public school with people who do not learn to read and write at basic levels. Please let me inform you, its not due to "unfair testing" -- lack of adult literacy is very real.
I was playing Quinn a bit a few years ago. Someone brought it up and I found it. It definitely did not run as great as I remembered. Now I don't even think it would run at all...
Yes

Postgres only updated to C99 with PG12

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/source-conventions.html
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/source-conventions.html

Some blame to be had by MSVC, which is called out in PEP7: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0007/#c-dialect
Crypto is an industry. Yeah, it's 99% scams and ponzis. If you wiped away that entire industry, would your argument still hold weight?
From the site:

> I've had to take this project offline!

> I was expecting it to be abused and violated, but was completely naive to what the internet people were capable of.

> Wow. That's all I can say. It was fun while it lasted, and it'll be back... some time.

I guess it became a test that, as expected, part of the human race failed.
LOL so fucking fix it, noobs with nukes...
Oh, Flickr. I have good memories created mainly from early communities.
Deleted all my pictures in 2015. Instagram killed photography. Facebook killed forums. Google killed RSS. I expect "web3" to kill the web as we know it.:)

People stopped caring about classical aesthetics and moved their attention towards dopamine hits, social validation tricks and GAS.
So for me photography is dead.

I still care around my Leica's, but nowadays all I look for is to capture some reference images for drawing or painting.
ELPAC test scores have 4 bands, including 'meet expectations' and 'exceed expectations'.

The % of kids who are expected to (at least) 'meet expectations' is, by definition, 100%. But the actual rate is less than half that.

These tests aren't difficult by design. They're not graded on a curve, forcing the pass rate to be ~50%.

Please take a look at sample tests and judge for yourself: https://www.compton.k12.ca.us/media/5234/elpac_grades-6-8_pr...
Dont feel too bad. The UK state school system is similarly bad.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/mar/03/literacy-w...
I actually emailed this to blancolirio and ask him to cover it. He's a great commentator.
> At least in Canada it would be consider pretty uncouth for a civic worker to make what they would have to make to compete.

Yet it's a single payer healthcare system no? Meaning medical staff ultimately is on government payroll. Pretty sure they make more than $200K.

> he already wants to defund the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, also a crown corp.

He's not wrong. Why does entertainment need public funding? Marvel and Disney made billions last year by simply making content that people want to watch. It's a hugely profitable business.

> Our crown corps also happened to be big fans of using students: https://www.lcbonext.com/

The link you shared is even more bizarre. Almost at the top of the page they brag about the companies where their former interns ended up. Most of them are American companies in SV. What does that tell us about the people working there full time? "Not good enough to come to America and innovate? Join full-time with the rest of the B-Players!"
Most of my employment contracts have typically contained a clause, where my employer gets to claim ownership of anything I’ve built or conceived while on their payroll that can be logically associated with the business.

If I was in this position I’d stop talking to my employer about this until having consulted with an attorney specializing in this field. Definitely do not sign anything between now and then.
Not to take from your argument but my retired in law just bought top speced M1 Max for 5k or so. He is using it for light browsing so total overkill but his argument was that buying highest package Audi was way more expensive compared to base model but nobody questioned him on that and $2k is just not worth worrying about if 1tb is enough for photos or not.

The same with parachute. He probably felt that flying in mountains on 1942 piece of crap is risky so he needed backup and that flight suite was what he had available and can use at the moment. Better than nothing and good enough not to hustle to get something better.
This. I learned a bunch from the why of a lot of the settings. Very nice!
I'm not "constraining knowledge" I'm not saying it isn't theoretically infinite. I'm saying that the amount of knowledge has no barring on whether or not an assertion is true.

Further, the scenario of this entire thread is about current and future scientific consensus, not past consensus. The fact that protoscience said that that you need to balance the 4 humors to cure illness does not affect current scientific consensus which soundly rejects that notion.

The number of assertions we have scientific consensus on is finite. The number of those assertions which are true is a finite number. The infinite nature of knowledge does not change that ratio because, again, we aren't making assertions about everything that is knowable.

The entire point of this conversation is "What is more likely true, what the experts say or something else?". You are making the claim that because scientists don't know what every atom in the sun is doing, they can't correctly say that the sun will rise in the morning. Because, their knowledge of the sun is an infinitesimally small percentage of everything there is to know about the sun.

My point is, scientists aren't making assertions about what every quark in the sun will do. They aren't making assertions about the temperature of every square inch of the sun. The assertions they are making are far more broad and, shocker, likely 90+% true. Which circles back to my main point. If an expert tells you "The surface of the sun is roughly 6000C" That's a correct statement.

If you aren't going to address this in your next comment then don't bother because I'm done with this. You are being purposefully obtuse.
It stopped coming up in search results from any of the major search engines.
I actually did something like that on Windows x86, and it worked fine. Even I was surprised by that fact :)

I used it to copy out a (forgotten) password from a password inputfield in another program, which you cannot read remotely (for security reasons). Worked fine for that one use-case, and I haven't used this trick it anywhere else ever again :)
Is this really different from braces? If you have

for i in range(0, n) {
for i in range(0, n) {
doInner()
}
doOuter()
}

and you accidentally move the first closing brace below the next line, precisely the same will happen.
Your intuition here is wrong. Probably the better way to think of it: in a car crash, would you rather be the person in the car or the pedestrian?

While I have never flown a plane nor parachuted, my understanding is that the maneuverability options of both are going to be roughly equivalent, so that either option will have roughly the same ability to choose the site of collision and (for small aircraft) even roughly the same speed at collision. And that makes the choice down to having a layer of metal that can absorb some of the impact for your versus having to be in the exactly correct position to absorb the impact energy best with your body.
I did, without any issues nor delays.

I also dont know what bank you have but I can operate it any day through my app.

And your ability to use your "money" is still limited to having access to some wallet application, internet connection, your keys and chain fees.

Yup, I pay 0 to wire money, but I have fees for blockchains.
The door went from closed to open before the engine went out. I'm not saying that's proof it was a stunt, but it sure is strange.
It gets named "the ternary operator" in many languages like C because they only have one ternary operator, it's always that one. In some (I think?) languages there are several ternary operators, and so for them it'd be like if we called C's XOR operator ^ "the binary operator".