jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Eh, the courts seem to be notoriously biased, so I doubt she's equally stuck.
Looked it up for you - Ronald Roovers. Slides of the specific presentation here: http://www.energie2011.nl/upload/rets%20rorovers-280311-bw.p..., some of his websites

* http://www.sustainablebuilding.info/districtoftomorrow/
* http://www.ribuilt.eu/
* http://www.sustainablebuilding.info/
Yeah, I did explain why that wasn't "how we did it", and tried not to sound like a know it all (I am definitely not this).

I am way less judgemental now and a lot of the comments here are making me rethink what I thought about him saying this. He had a lot of other issues and resigned after a couple of days so I guess we'll never know what he was capable of.
Mortality rate may be unknown. But we know it's killed at least a half million in the US alone, 3 million worldwide. There are also deaths not associated with Covid 19 but caused by it (they didn't get a test before or after death). That's still the highest rate of death we've seen since the last pandemic (spanish flu) caused in a single season by a virus. So yes it is dangerous.
If it's public and it's in the public interest (non commercial), I would expect statute to not require approval (see my sibling comment about US photograph release requirements). One would also hope that policy governance agencies would release the video publicly when necessary (as is happening with Chicago's Civilian Office of Police Accountability with the body cam footage from the shooting of an allegedly armed 13 year old in Chicago recently [1]). Chicago requires such materials be made public within 60 days of an incident, although a minor's involvement delayed release of the video in my example.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/04/05/adam-t...
Now what could go wrong? 4 dots becomes 3 dots...[1]

1). Silicon Valley - Finale S6E7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Y77jSSHGU
So why can't those people just isolate themselves or where PPE everywhere if they are risk averse? Why force others to inject something foreign rushed through authorization into their body?
I used to miss packages but I mainly use schemas now to organize. Not the same I know but as good as it gets. I also add https://github.com/okbob/plpgsql_check so that I can find bugs earlier since plpgsql is not compiled like pl/sql.
For a cloud infrastructure, you have a significant part at idle, for when customers want to instantly spawn a VM.
I feel like the tech issue here isn't Tesla but about the way we don't think of death threats as a law enforcement issue. It doesn't even seem to have occurred to him to report this to the police. And with good reason: the police don't care and wouldn't take any action.

The big social media have gotten a lot of attention for dealing with national-scale threats such as COVID misinformation and violence provoked on behalf of politicians. But ordinary people live in an everyday swamp of threats. We don't take them seriously because we know that practically none of them are going to result in actual violence.

Why is that permitted? In a lot of cases there is plenty of information that could be used to track them. Facebook knows who you are, to a scary degree.

What would happen if Facebook sent everything they had to police when they saw a death threat? I know it would freak the civil libertarians around here completely out. Personally, if the resulting "chilling effect" chills out death threats, I'd be good with that. If it meant that people got off Facebook for fear of being unable to stop themselves from committing crimes, again, so much the better.

Threats are illegal. They don't stop being illegal just because there are literally billions of them per day.
One of the benefits of using Mongo is its horizontal scalability, not necessarily its ability to store documents.
This looks nice enough, but I've been using my general calendar app (Google Calendar) with a yearly repeating event for this, and I'm not quite sure what this gives me over that.
They took urls away and then added this: https://i.imgur.com/RI4xxgs.png

For example, searched "hierarchy" and it'll show "en.wikipedia.org > wiki > hierarchy" above the wikipedia search result.

> This change can't possibly be beneficial to users.

You're right if the url/domain isn't even shown at all. But I can think of a few benefits of showing the domain as it currently does, like to avoid phishing. It also basically parses the url and interprets it for less-technical users which is something that more-technical users are already doing when they read the url.

I don't think it's so bad as a default if there's a config option for displaying the full url for more technical users, or the necessary data available to at least write a browser extension.
I'm in the southeast US. Have been my whole life. Went to public schools in populated wealthy counties, and in a sparse, poorer county.

> I had multiple teachers discuss note taking habits...

I had similar, but it wasn't part of the official curriculum, so didn't get the amount of focus it might have required to get students to take it seriously. Now that I'm an experienced adult, I know that I had a way of learning that worked for me, and having a teacher who A) knew what good note taking looked like and B) could identify my own peculiarities and help me adapt the techniques for me would have helped tremendously.

> encouraged to find an after school club/activity ...

More time at school? Ugh... didn't want that. Offer me a "job" doing something I enjoyed? OK, I'm there - I need the money.

> ... career counselors ...

These people talked like my extended family - "Why would you want to do that? Clearly you're more qualified to swing a hammer..." uh, no thanks. I recall one specific instance where a supposed mentor replied to one of my stated career goals with "do you think you're smart enough for that?"

> ... English course where we covered professional skills ...

I think I got a total of two weeks of that in four years of high school. At least this was part of the official curriculum, but there just wasn't an actual focus on it.

> ... evolution and the cell

Only AP classes for us. Elective AP classes, which personally I did choose. (By 'elective' I mean students had to choose these classes - there were required science credits, and these fulfilled the requirements, but why choose the harder classes when the easier one will suffice? I was interested, most other students were not.)

I guess my point is that although you might have had access in your public school education to these things, they're just not as ubiquitous as the need to be.

IMO, the entire problem with the US education that I experienced is the insistence on a bullet pointed list of things to cover, a minimum grade on how well the students retained that specific knowledge until the test, rather than gauging students' understanding and ability to learn and adapt.
Really? "Event X from 46 years ago was bad and unforgivably handled by the government. Therefore, you should never prepare for giving a speech about a future event similar to X."

Just to be fair, I think an analogous prompt for Americans might be:

"Terrorists have just destroyed the Empire State Building and Willis (fka Sears) Tower in simultaneous attacks. Three days later, you have ordered troops to invade the suspected state sponsors of these attacks. Write a speech defending this military action."
So why do farmers in the EU deserve protection or coal in the US? We do subsidise some things. What makes that choice happen?
So you're saying that a PM has actually been in this situation? Do we need a better reason for Eton to ask for arguments supporting the government's position?

If you look at UK history, it has actually happened on several occasions. Peterloo, Amritsar. Why shouldn't we think about what to say?
There recently also was an entertaining podcast episode with Thorsten Ball on SE Radio, in which he talks about compilers vs. interpreters and about his book as well: https://www.se-radio.net/2019/05/365-thorsten-ball-on-buildi...
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eton_Rifles
All the data I can find points to their long-term prime rate sitting at ~1.1%. Yeah, that's low, but it's also pretty clearly non-zero.
This looks absolutely trivial to work around. The claims require a "geofence" at a user-defined distance from a user-selected location, requires that geofence be sent to a server along with the device location, and requires the server to determine if the location is within the geofence.

So, first way to work around. Do not let the user define the distance of the geofence from the user-defined location. Use a fixed distance, larger than any reasonable distance the user would care about. The server returns all events inside that geofence, and the device filters it down to a user-defined distance.

Second work around. Do not send the device location to the server. Just send the region enclosed by the geofence (which can be used-defined). Let the device decide whether or not the current location is within the geofence.
WTF?

I know it's cute to be all anti-advertising here, but really?

Shows a distinct lack of a clue about what service advertising offers people, why it's crucial, and why it makes a ton of money for all involved.

Advertisers don't waste money. They carefully use money by investing it in advertising which (when done properly) nets them a positive ROI.
It didn't hit me until you in particular said it. This sort of scaffolding reminds me of how I write code.

def foo(a,b,c):
h = bar(a,b) + bar(b,c)
if h > a + b + c:
h = dothatotherthing(h,a,b,c)
return h

where neither bar, nor dothatotherthing are written yet. (clearly, they have better names than that)
In a previous job I was told to stay away from any "hacking" web sites because they watch everything. I didn't read Hacker News at work for 3 months.

Thankfully, I got laid off from that job and now have a much better one where I'm encouraged to read all the hacker stuff I can. :)
It's about how useful those atoms are in a certain arrangement. Everything is composed of basic elements and we all know that. That doesn't mean that everything can be instantly devalued by saying "it's just a bunch of atoms!"

If we take a useful arrangement of element and transform it into a useless arrangement without a good reason, what we've done is a net loss for whoever or whatever found the previous arrangement useful. The atoms can't be destroyed, but their immediate utility can.
Yup, all those TSA agents instilling fear and loathing at the airport are expensive.
https://youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg
From skimming, it has something to do with media buffers, but I don't really know what that is as a lay person with next to zero web development experience/knowledge.
Look through the contract. Guarantee the installer assigns all IP rights to the client if theres anything else softwarewise going on with the feed, and if not, litigation would probably clear it up.
If I ever get to redesign the billing system at work, I'm going to go with fixed day of the month billing. We currently do 30 day billing, and most customers are fine with that, but there are some who need their bill to not come the same week as their rent is due, or not come until after they receive their monthly pension payment, or something like that. Right now we have to have special handling for those people.

For handling the different lengths between the months, I've considered a few approaches.

1. If re-bill is supposed to be the Nth of each month, that simply means N-1 days after the 1st. If that falls into another calendar month, fine. So if someone asks to be billed on the 30th of each month, they will be billed on Jan 30th for January, Mar 2nd for February, Mar 30 for March, and so on. I'd make sure the receipt explicitly says "Re-bill for January", "Re-bill for February", etc., so that bill the see on Mar 2nd hopefully will not confuse them, nor will seeing another bill later that month.

2. If re-bill is supposed to be on the 29th-31st, for February it takes place on the 28th (29th in leap years). For other months, if re-bill is supposed to be on 31st, it takes place on the 30th in April, June, September, and November.

3. If you initially order on day 1-21 of the month, your re-billing is the same day ever month. If you initially order on day 22+, your re-billing is on the same number of days before the end of the month as was your initial order. For example, someone who orders on May 30th would re-bill on the 30th in 31 day months, the 29th in 30 days months, and the 27th in February (28th in leap years). If you ask for a change in fixed billing date, you can do so either as Nth day of the month or Mth day from the end of the month, but N or M must be <= 28.
They know they are being watched. If they have information that would lead to good trades they can hardly use it themself. But certainly they can give it to "friends". That may not directly make them rich but can significantly improve donations if you know what I mean and politician donations are often way more than a salary.

If you make all your friends rich you either will be rich too or you have terrible friends.
Does anyone test its completeness, especially for the older date?

Also, i can't seem to be able to download the actual data (only the matadata), it says "Files marked with [lock icon] are not available for download." at https://archive.org/download/archiveteam_twitter_20210316071....
>The action is not loudly defended, but the philosophy is

I really have no idea what you mean by this. Example?
Another way that does not require any changes is if the arrow is made of multiple particles (which they are). Then some portion of the particles may move from step to step. These particles then interact with others which are stationary, passing their motion to them for the next step.

Thus the total speed of any composite object would be the ratio of how many of the particles are "moving", to how many are "stationary" at that step.
The "parental contribution level" was always frustrating to me. There's no way my parents were going to pay for my education, so that number being high and tuition being zero doesn't really help anything.

Am I misunderstanding how that works, or are they just saying "the parents should pay x and the student z - x" when they really mean "the total cost is z?"
I have used that (only running a few tests that match the diff) in the past to great success as the first level of testing that would occur on the users computer before committing code. It reduced the amount of build failures by 99% and test failures by a similarly high amount. On the server we would run those tests first and we would continuously sort the order of tests so tests that failed in the past would be run first to reduce the build+test time and find failures faster.

There are lots of tweaks that can be done, but these days having automatic build+test before a commit gets into the main branch feels like it is the norm. Even open source github projects can use something like TravisCI to prevent bad changes from getting into a project.
With the Fanjet Falcons I wonder if it was helpful that Dassault had a facility (and still has) at the Little Rock airport.
It is somewhat disappointing to see the term "OS virtualisation" used to describe what is really still just virtualised hardware; albeit with a less traditional OS on top of the HVM hypervisor. It makes more sense to reserve the term to distinguish container-based technologies, where what is virtualised _is_ the operating system -- not the hardware it runs on.
That's great Michael. If that's any help for you:

1. i'm using task/todo list for such things.

2. In David Allen's book "Getting Things Done" there is whole chapter or more which is i think about the problem you metioned (he names this "open loops" - problems you must solve but don't want to have it constantly in your mind but manage them in some way using external memory to not clutter mind and not forget them).

Probably you heard about this book because it's popular but i think it's worth mentioning, it's the case when popularity comes with reason before not after ;)
I remember crafting something similar along the lines of this (incorrect argument names almost assuredly):

curl $url_that_has_cookies -c -

That will save the cookies to stdout, and IIRC you can pipe them to curl. I've done similar stuff with wget along the lines of just saving the cookies and then loading them within a single command.
I was loose and colloquial with my phrasing. You can tell I'm not a lawyer.
So we're all in trouble, I guess.
Nuclear power seems to be considered too powerful to trust in the hands of many nations, making it kind of a non starter globally.

My understanding is that with any type of nuclear plant, in a non trustworthy country, it would still be dependent on importing the fuel from a nuclear state, making it quite unappealing and a security risk for the purchasing state.
You can look at it as decreased insurance rates.

If insurance companies could not investigate your insurance would cost 10 times as much.

The marriage investigation is a mixed bag. If you are running a drug running operation I should get the kids and you need some proof to make that claim.
The Dev, yes. As an independent act of artistic creativity, I don't think anyone has any problem with the dev owning the output of the AI.

To answer your thought experiment: Should an Art Teacher get copyright rights on all their students' work? (what you propose is effectively art college)

Agiain, to my mind the problem comes when someone (let's call him The Baron) employs a hundred Devs to make an AI that provides cheap legal advice, based on public-domain court records. People get cheap legal advice (society wins). The Devs get paid for their professional labour. A million lawyers go out of business. The Baron becomes astonishingly rich.

Should The Baron get all that value? Should the Devs? Should the out-of-work lawyers?
.Net is run inside a virtual machine, akin to the JVM. As long as you can compile down to the bytecode language (CIL), then you can input whatever language you want.

In fact, I believe you should be able to use Mono to develop for this using a fully-OSS stack. (I could be wrong)
Meh, I dunno. This list isn't really that great. It's good if your goal is to learn as many programming languages as you can, but it's sorely lacking fundamentals. (Even considering the theory books, which are pretty all over the place.)

My list would definitely include more books around software architecture, system design, algorithms, data structures, and different domains of software like computer graphics, machine learning, databases, embedded systems, simulation/games, audio/video, and so on.
It is available on the iPhone 3G:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/12/google-latitude-app...
$10-$12/hour for someone competent but lacking in the way of relevant skills/experience.
Record companies work in a similar fashion to the way company store farms and factories work. A typical music recording contract will involve an advance given to the artists which they must pay back via their earnings on a small percentage of the total revenues from their album sales (perhaps 7%). They must use this advance to pay for studio time, music video production, and other expenses. The studio receives a larger percentage of album sale revenues while also "recouping" the amount of the advance by taking the portion of revenue that would normally go to the artists.

Let me know if you see any issues with this arrangement.

Typically, by the time a band has "recouped" its advance and has only began to start earning for the artists and has theoretically broken even according to the bizarre accounting of the studios in actuality it has resulted in a return on investment to the studios of several hundred percent.

Book publishing is similar but generally not quite so evil.
The message is lined with tracking URLs. http://identityvector.com/~phil/2010/12/how-not-to-capitaliz...
Check out the Terrafugia:
http://www.terrafugia.com/aircraft.html
I am skeptical as you are about the possibility of a practical flying car, but I've been watching this one for a couple of years and it seems on the right track.
It'll be an LSA (Light Sport Aircraft) which makes pilot certification and maintenance simpler and cheaper.
It would still have to be landed at an airport, but I think it's pretty neat nevertheless.
The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. It turned out to be a complete dud. I went there to do Communications and Electronic Engineering in 1981 because it was famous (our own MIT) and hard to get into and I was very disappointed. Like two other institutions I have encountered, the good people were vastly outnumbered by the bad ones. I kept having the feeling that we were being taught engineering by a bunch of failed engineers who couldn't hack it in the real world. That turned out to be true when I worked with some of them later on. They were bright enough for rote memory and battling fellow academics but they had no real feeling for what they were doing.

One of my biggest regrets is that I had an opportunity to move to another uni, less famous but still accredited, after my first year (Freshman) and I didn't take it. I eventually dropped out in third year (Junior).
Interesting. Were they otherwise experienced developers who you just needed to train in your particular toolchain, or have you hired inexperienced developers and trained them to be more experienced?
When I was 18 I knew Python, HTML/CSS, and a little bit of Django. I cold-emailed every Python shop in my city (San Diego) asking for an internship, met with a few of them, and ended up with a summer internship. It paid just above minimum wage and was only for the summer, but it was fantastic and I loved it. Some tips:

#1: An internship is probably easier to come by than a full-time position, since it's less of a risk for employers. You're still young enough that internships are appropriate; take advantage of that.

#2: You don't have to advertise the fact that you got a GED. Just list the years you were in high school, or don't list education at all. Even when I was still in school, I never put my GPA on a resume. As an interviewer now, I never even look at the education section.

#3: Write a good cover letter that summarizes some of the cool projects you've built, like LoveOS and Derplang. Be sure to explain _why_ they're cool.
If the beard is big enough then they won't be able to tell if you are under 30 or not.
Has anyone seen analysis that covers Adblock in addition to Adblock Plus? Do the same findings still obtain?
I'd love to see a photo of that!
Poor taste? Sure. "Keeping women out of STEM fields"? Ridiculous. A vicious attack on a guy for his choice of clothing, ruining the greatest day of his life by far? Priceless.
More or less my exact plan. Plus modules (like in ADA) or components, a way to do parallel/concurrent programing (CSP, Actors, Coroutines?).
Buy a property with separate unit(s) in the back and rent them out. You're now living near-free or even making a profit.
Are you talking about on a percentage of their income or as a percentage of the total amount of taxes paid? I believe the top 10% pay essentially 90% of all non sales taxes in US.
All of that 'telemetry' collection isn't free. OS choice definitely matters, some OS vendors will insist on default sevices and 'require' the ability to arbitarily enable more for you as they see fit over time.

You don't own your PC running windows, microsoft does.