skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incriminating in what way? They sounded pretty reasonable to me.
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I was wondering how long it would take for someone to bring up the search modifiers. Here's the best/most complete list of them I've found, with examples of how to use them.

https://bynd.com/news-ideas/google-advanced-search-comprehen...
Yes, you should absolutely wear a helmet when riding a bicycle at low speeds.

Your skull is vulnerable to impacts at speeds that are relatively low compared to full-speed cycling.

On a few occasions I've witnessed a cyclist panic and wobble after being passed far too closely by a car traveling far too fast for such a manoeuvre. This has caused such cyclists to wobble, inadvertently clip the curb and mount the pavement, fall off sideways and subsequently strike their head on a nearby wall whilst falling.

The resulting injury can be very harmful.

Another example of slow-speed head injury: off-road biking down a very steep incline with a loose surface. I've seen people fall and tumble at almost stationary speeds.
most people are probably only truly paranoid about much less than 1GB of their data.

I hate to pick nits... But my email alone is about 8 GB for the past 25 years.

That doesn't include documents, photos, etc...

I think we underestimate what Joe Average cares about.
Just tried the precompiled binary from:

https://github.com/google/guetzli/releases

and I'm getting "Invalid input JPEG file" from a lot of images unfortunately.
Yes, and there is strong evidence of his Wikipedia profile being whitewashed. At some point there is a pattern of behavior that clearly is resulting in accusations. This is well past that point.
It's a really sad story.

But for me, the upside to this story is knowing that it is still fully possible to disappear in these places, which makes me all the more convinced these lands are worth protecting. For many, the subconscious draw of truly wild places is often that how they stand in sure counterpoint to the modality our society has adopted (i.e., so many people go the wilderness to "get away" or keep their mind off things.) Not every square inch of this world needs to be made friendly to humans, though, but I don't think everyone wants to fully accept that even if they normally pay lip service to conservation principles and the important of our national parks and wildlife refuges. So excuse me if I come across as callous, but if people don't bring their phones or come in the least prepared for their "walk in the woods," I'm not sure I quite see a problem that society needs to bend over backwards to solve.
But even if he was't rich I'm pretty sure he would have done the same.
Life is far too simple to flippantly dismiss all those points.

In some ways, life was simpler. The pace of life was slower. A good illustration of this is comparing the suicide rates of today. The pressure is much higher today and so are the suicide rates.

I also see a lot more bullying and viciousness, especially in the media today. By comparison, newspapers of 50 years ago were much more relaxed and easy going (I studied a years worth of papers recently). There was also more social cohesion, albeit in smaller communities. That feeling of caring makes a huge difference to people's mental well being.

I'm inclined to believe that life was generally easier for many boomers (at least from about 1960 onward) than it is today for younger people.

When I run a search and find that almost all media outlets still insist that only males do domestic violence, or, boys are (in the last few decades) falling way behind in education because they're suddenly lazy and stupid, I recognise just how collectively nasty we've become. These appalling attitudes must wear the younger generation down.

As an older guy, I'm inclined to agree the younger generation have a lot of issues that older people didn't need to worry about. Access to technology not withstanding.

However, I totally accept my view is mostly anecdotal (except for suicide rates, domestic violence prejudice and snarky education comments directed at boys by many media outlets).
I tried an online backup service, Amazon Cloud storage, and saw upload speeds of about 0.7 Mbps (speedtests say my connection has 5-20 depending on the day). That would take over four months of continuous uploading to back up a single terabyte.
Well-written, props. Some architecture questions you might want to think about:

- Why only one elasticsearch shard (+replica) per index? You run some major risks of write-time hotspotting here, especially if you ever have to completely rebuild your indices from scratch (pro tip: plan for it now). If you have any basic metric of a discord server's size prior to index creation, you can pre-optimize the number of shards in its index to ensure that writes are distributed across the cluster.

- What happens when one server's index grows too large to fit on one (elasticsearch) shard? Practical shard size limit in ES is ~50GB due to concerns related to reallocation and recovery. You could also theoretically hit the 32GB memory limit.

Also, as another poster mentioned, consider dedicated master nodes. You're going to lose data nodes from time to time, don't let it cost you consistency by bringing down a master with it.
Showcase ODBC is what we used to talk to Big Iron databases. People could not learn the IBM Mainframe or AS/400 systems. So we made a VB GUI frontend using Showcase ODBC to contect to the database. It was a lot easier that way.
Pretty interesting and this is the first time I came across the term JAMStack (a concept I always had trouble in explaining to other developers).

Rendering content blocks in server and then further enhancing them on client-side using a JSON API can be how most sites will be built in future (especially, with ServiceWorkers we would be able to create more fine-grained offline experience too).

I'm also currently working on a project on similar lines, check out the initial blog post for more details - http://www.laktek.com/2016/11/29/introducing-pragma/

Edit: also loved the idea of a kanban board for edit-review-publish process. Might steal that idea ;)
i.e., they're looking for something that will concentrate wealth in their hands even more. This just exemplifies my point.
That's a reasonable example, but doesn't answer the question: what differentiates it?

I'd say it's something like "involving people without their consent" - e.g. farting on them.

Which includes forcing people to listen to tales of your sexual exploits.
Which more likely has absolutely nothing to do with him being rich. His quackery behavior was very high on the scale before he was rich post Apple IPO.
Sorry, Kellyanne Conway. Microwaves Can't Spy on You
I know this isn't really the point of the story, but if you add a pinch of baking soda to onions you can turn them into something that's pretty similar to caramelised in a few minutes. Add a little sugar to help them along.
On the other hand the one lisp guy produced cool working programs you are not able to understand, while the ruby and python guys solved trivial problems with 100 fragile dependencies, need 10x more time and people to support it.
The first is the better strategy.
I am the developer of this thing. Since I am not a full time dev I am quite proud of this. Any ideas for improvements and monetization beyond ads more than welcome!
Ubuntu Snaps Expand to Orange Pi SBCs and a QorIQ SoC
With good reason. The post and its discussion are basically scandal and identity politics.
Breath of the Wild is the best game I've ever played. I'd recommend getting a switch just for Zelda alone.
This did work for me: https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/...
And yet many haven't returned their Windows laptops after W10 started.
Highly frustrating that sites like Wikihow which are scant on useful info rank so high.
>millionaires are largely

Pedantic, but. Families with $1m net worth are largely late-middle-aged (newly retired) salary workers with paid-off mortgages on their median-priced houses in suburban flyover country, plus ~40 years of 401k contributions and capital gains.

They drive Toyotas and fly economy for their 1-2 yearly vacations because that's what left when the 15% 401k contribution, mortgage on 3bd house, children's educations, and groceries are paid for.

Think teachers, bureaucrats, journalists (pre-internet), scientists, engineers, doctors, and lawyers, in roughly ascending order. What you'd call the upper middle class.

There are about 8 million millionaire households in the US as of 2016 [0].

Private jets are more a feature of the Fortune 500 CEO Davos-going class. $1 million in income maybe, very different from $1m net worth. It's not generally useful to conflate these wildly different wealth levels under the same terminology.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millionaire
Don't you mean multiplied by 2?
Sleep tight, puppers
That happens to be the justification that my country uses to make bicycle helmets mandatory (though there's significant debate about whether it's actually helped reduce injury rates, and it fairly clearly depresses overall rates of cycling versus other modes of transport).

I think the cost of wearing an aircraft seatbelt while you happen to be seated is rather lower than the cost of having to wear a bicycle helmet, though.
Ironic that you should use the term 'slop', since that's exactly how they avoid flying the same route across the Atlantic tracks for example (Strategic Lateral Offset Procedure).
Yes. I think that all small aircraft pilots will read/hear about this story. They might even practice the event in simulators.

And all of them will avoid passing under a large aircraft at 180 degrees.

Source: my father is an airline pilot and they always take the time to learn from severe incidents.
I don't care who he is, or what his daily email routine is. It doesn't matter. At any level, if someone you're superior to in your organisation comes to you and reports abuse from another person in the org, you either follow up immediately, or you shouldn't be superior to them. Any kind of follow up should produce report of that. If the person taking to you doesn't want you to report it further, then it's your business to have a record of that and never lose it. I know it from normal decency and numerous company trainings and I've never even been a manager.

His research topic, or even whether the report is true don't matter. It's in his interest to follow up on his own and keep records. If not because it's right, at least to protect the university and himself from what's happening right now.
Both of them describe Bernstein as a manager, not a friend.

I think Bernstein may simply have meant that the written complaint had to be specific, but that took a close reading and some charity. His direction to leave out "any reference to the previous conversation" first struck me as wanting to pretend there hadn't been one.
Advertisement platforms extend beyond single platforms. Google Ads are on every website in the Internet, and Facebook ads are on other sites too. So even if you don't have a Facebook account and never visit Facebook itself, you will see their ads and they will start following you around and start collecting data on you.
If you're using Google to find scientific sources I would recommend trying Google Scholar.

Not a perfect solution by any means, but it should get rid of news articles.
Before Russia attacked Ukraine, there was no NATO treat that side. Before the war, vast majority (60-70%) of Ukrainians were against NATO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%E2%80%93NATO_relations...

NATO is already directly at Russian borders: Norway, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The distance between Moscow and closest point in Latvia is about 600 km = 375 miles. Between Moscow and closest point in Ukraine 460 km. Not a big difference.

Finally, the Crimea is not the proper warm-water port for Russia, because Turkey controls the straights at the exit of the black sea, and Turkey is a NATO member state.

The main reason why Russia attacked Ukraine is internal. The two countries are very close historically and culturally, and the number of immigrants is millions both directions. Ukrainians were able to forcefully remove their corrupt leader from power. This was extremely scary for Putin, as he knew he’s likely the next. He started the war to teach Ukraine a lesson, and to alienate Russians against Ukrainians so Russians will see Ukrainians as their enemy, not the role model.
Under normal flight conditions, the aircraft's engine supplies hydraulic power to the flight controls (flaps, ailerons, elevator), like power steering in your car. Very necessary for big/fast aircraft, as the plane is heavy and the force of the air resisting the movement of those control surfaces is very high.

If the engines fail, you still need to be able to control the plane, so there is something called a ram air turbine[1] which can be deployed out of the side of the aircraft. It is basically just a little propeller which spins in the breeze, which powers a pump, which supplies the hydraulic pressure to control the plane. So if the power goes out, you can still deploy that thing and have "power" assistance in controlling the plane.

The article says the ram air turbine did not deploy, possibly because the g-forces were holding it in, or perhaps because the g-forces or aerodynamic stresses were flexing the body of the plane so much that the turbine was held in place by the bending. So the pilots did not have "power steering" on the plane, and had to pull on the controls with "raw muscle force".

There is probably some mechanical advantage, probably both from the leverage afforded by the mechanics of actuation, and from the aerodynamics of the wing, that allow a single human to move the whole plane around. But it would still be very, very hard to control the plane without power assist, especially under such extreme conditions.

(Any pilots/aerospace engineers feel free to chime in/correct mistakes here).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_air_turbine
Silk Road evolved as 'grass-routes' movement
> Amazon Cloud Storage

sounded good, and got depressed from the Australia Tax. US$59, but AU$100.

AU$100 - $10 = $90 (ish) as taxes are built into our prices, not added later

90 Australian play dollars = 69 American real dollars

US$69 - $59 US price = Australia Tax of ~US$10, approx 16%.
It's good, but not perfect. The weapon fragility is driving me mad, and I'm 10+ hours into the game. It shouldn't take this long for the game to get good.
I think the bicycle helmet comparison is valid here - one big point is, that the typical bicycle helmets are not protecting your head well, you would need a motorcycle helmet for good protection.

I don't think one needs to be confined to the seat for the whole flight duration, but when sitting down, there is no good reason not to wear a belt either.
Mass Hack of Cell Phones Ensnares Washington, D.C., Area
What'd be the argument against just buying a WiiU and BotW for that instead?
I have tried to run Syntaxnet as library but I found it very difficult (lot of dependencies).
Again, maybe I've just been hanging out in the wrong places.

> On the other hand, expertise in specific domains, like database optimization, security, architecture, agile methodology, etc where the work is more advisory and results are more report than hands on code - that is still going intensely strong, even for individual consultants.

If it's that strong, where are all the job board postings? Where are all the linkedin profiles of these consultants and freelancers?

Maybe a couple exist. I've yet to be convinced there's any market that someone could sink their teeth into for freelancing in tech. I'm not trying to push my perception. I'm hoping to see some sign; evidence.

I think employers are pushing back on outside, individual opinions and gigs and putting up more barriers, more tests while resumes flood in. Recruiters and HR's perception is they can be slow to hire and fast to fire anyway. That in itself, the fact you can just press a button on StackOverflow or LinkedIn and be one of hundreds of applicants is a reason why snapping up a freelance gig is hard.

Employers are drowning in applicants. It's known they can afford to skip over a potentially good candidate due to the numbers. Even Cracking the Code Interview mentions it. Freelancing is a fast hire, relative to the battery of tests a full time, salaried position has.

One more time, I'm not trying to be right or push a perception. I'm a good coder. I have a hearty, hearty portfolio. I get calls back sometimes hours after I sent resumes in. Still, no one wants to snap me up fast even if its obvious I can produce results. I get a number and told to wait in line. Again and again. Even startups that aren't de-risked that have <2 years of runway are just looking for django developers are arrogantly flipping through candidates like they're large corporations that'd have job security. Based on what I've seen, they are resolutely filling solely fulltime positions.

But lets say I did score a gig or had a network developed, I'd still perceive it as an exception to the norm. I'd be happy to see proof of a tech area that has a distinguished pattern of snapping up people at an hourly rate that's realistic for a person with no established network, but adequate ability, to pursue.
Canada passed new laws making it even harder to fly drones for fun
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It used to vary in the UK, but I believe they've settled on a Transition Altitude of 18,000ft now.
Brython is impressive. It renders quite well a lot of Python features. Even things like yield from, sets, generator.send(), dict.fromkeys, multiple inheritance and 0b1100101.

But there are several problems with brython:

- it can't render some obscure Python features. It's very hard to do a complete Python implementation. E.g: metaclass will fail.

- debugging is terrible.

- 120ko gziped to pay upfront, just to write code. No virtual dom or routing.

Interesting concept none of the less. In electron it can be interesting.
Here: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_63_0/doc/html/interprocess/o...
Sorry for that. See the following for a likely reason and workaround:

https://github.com/google/guetzli/issues/40#issuecomment-287...
This is a bit of a orthogonal argument as this only deals with exchanges directly and never touches the Bitcoin protocol directly. Agreed that the choice of language is an odd one as there's no "high performance"/HFT involved here.
Thanks! I didn't consider the fact that objects are opaque.
It doesn't run as well on the wii u.
Maybe this is relevant:

https://youtu.be/1vYJq4GeXPM

Dave has recently busted another device claiming 0 standby power consumption.
There is a pretty good statistical argument for wearing a helmet anytime one is near roads, sidewalks, moving walkways, bike lanes, or anywhere else objects are moving more than 0.5m/s, whether you are moving or not. You can even die relatively simply from falling from an otherwise motionless standing position and hitting your head on the paved ground. The brain is remarkably fragile.

I kind of want the helmet-in-public fashion trend to kick in.
Yeah I recently rented it with my wife because,she never saw it.

The Three Stooges and Disorder in the Court also has courtroom procedure in it and a law firm I worked for had shown it as info on how courts work with evidence, testimony etc.
The combination of OpenEMR being open source, open community, volunteer driven, physician driven and getting significant use in the real world makes it a perfect vehicle to glean really useful insights into EMR use and I highly recommend looking into it in your research endeavors. For example, in subjects such as EMR system development and the effects of regulation.

A really nice and innovative example on EMR system development is the development of the Eye module released in OpenEMR's most recent version 5.0. A practicing ophthalmologist, Dr. Ray Magauran, decided to develop a ophthalmology module in OpenEMR with the goal of actually improving efficiency over paper (as a physician, I would confidently say I have never used an EMR that is faster than paper). What this physician/developer did was simply amazing and the details of this eye module(including the makings of it) can be found here: http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Eye_Exam

What I think is innovative here is that this was designed, built, tested, and used by a practicing physician on the front lines.

Then on the flip side can also learn about the dichotomy of fulfilling regulations versus developing an innovative and efficient EMR system, which OpenEMR provides a ring side seat too since the road to complete meaningful use certification was done the open source way(ie. in full public view).
I'd disagree. I like having a bit more direction in the main quest and being able to skip over all the side quests, mainly due to time constraints (which are very little compared to someone with kids, long commutes, etc), the linearity of older Zelda titles was never an issue for me. With BotW you seem to have to do many house of side quests just to be able to take on the main one.

I've sunk about 30+ hours in now and I don't think I would have come this far had it not been a Zelda game, a series I've been playing for 25 years.

It's certainly not a bad game, but it's not one for people that can't make serious time commitments.
What's the process to propose a charitable organization for inclusion in one of your funds? Who would be the right person at CEA to talk to about that, and what information would you need?
If both engines went out, then that means hydraulic power was lost, and that all of the aerodynamic forces on the control surfaces were transmitted directly to the stick. This is exactly the same as trying to steer a car with the engine turned off - you can do it, but it takes much more effort than when the power steering is working.
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One time, instead of a cover letter, I built a feature I thought should exist for a product the company I was applying for made. It made a big impression on one of the engineers who eventually voted up or down on my getting hired and I got the job. This was my first full-time tech job.
Quantum Dots and Sunlight Could Be the Key to Clean Hydrogen Energy
Sometimes your best protection is a policy that all electronic communications are automatically deleted after a retention period. Many companies have such policies, and they have them on advice of their legal council, specifically to avoid discovery issues in the event of a suit. You can argue this doesn't apply here from a moral perspective and I would agree with you, but IT and legal policies often do not follow an ethical code.

Crypto research exacerbates this because the likelihood of such suits is higher than with other kinds of research, sometimes rising to the level of nation states getting grumpy at you with all that could entail. Finally, while I can't make any excuse for the behavior, he would be far from the first graduate advisor to have less than stellar management training or skills.
Is the liquidity there to take advantage of it?
If the guy has to 'hire freelancers' to implement the actual product, then 99 out of a 100 cases of this, he is not actually doing it alone. He is just discounting the contributions of core members of his team that are being poorly compensated.

If it were the case that this was normally a group of freelancers making a killing, charging high consulting rates, it would be different. But almost in all cases they are using 'freelance developers' because they cannot afford to pay market rates in the US and can't afford benefits. Even in those other countries, there is a global economy. Those developers might be doing OK, but they are not getting wealthy.

If you try to do it as if the developers are separate and not a core part of the team, that can't work either. Either you acknowledge how critical they are to your business or you just take advantage of them and hope they don't find something better and your business doesn't fall apart.
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