skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Talk is cheap and rarely includes a full accounting of real-world constraints.

You can tell what a person's _real_ priorities are by what they do. Likewise, you can tell what a society's real priorities are by what they do.
> Is 47 really "near the end of your career"?

As a non-lead, non-management code slinger? It's usually well past it.
Just skimmed through the README, and I stored it in my list of well-documented projects. Well done!
The TL;DR is simply "decline to be interviewed without a lawyer".
Better use https: https://imgur.com/a/C5Ijc
I'll bet against you. In fact, you inadvertently bring up the very undoing of your hypothetical bet when you say...

>presuming, of course, that we first figure out every micro-nutrient such a drip would be required to provide.

It's important to understand that these micro-nutrients and other chemical signalling-agents vary through time, and in response to such things as social environment, bodily movement of the mother, sensory input (sight, hearing, olfaction, the haptic senses, etc), occasional punctual stress, pleasure etc.

You're ignoring a huge source of complexity which is the systematic variation of these signals in response to the external environment.

Temporal dynamics of signaling pathways matter.

That's simply not the kind of thing we're even remotely close to being able to simulate in a synthetic system. Hell it's not even something we're remotely close to understanding.
There's also a official city ranking - https://gramener.com/swachhbharat/
It makes Ajit Pai's friends in Comcast and Time Warner more money.
That's the best bet from a practical perspective. VPNs and Tor will just raise more flags if that's the concern.
Reusing an ancient industrial Robot for Art
Recently finished reviving an ancient SCARA robot, adding a modern control software, giving it a paintbrush and with the help of comrades python-ing it into painting with a paintbrush.

Its a bit heavy on the robot mechanical and electrical side, but there's a github repo of image processing to synthesize the brush paths and I thought you folks might be interested.
What's really amazing is that nearly all of them had 20+ years of .net experience!
Looking back at Mandrake 9.0 with KDE 3.0.3 brings back some warm memories for me http://toastytech.com/guis/mkde.html
The robot documentation is here: http://transistor-man.com/bluebot_revival.html

A quick video demo: https://vimeo.com/213723506

This is also an entry into the robotart competition, there's a login to vote for art that interests you.

https://robotart.org/

Our team didn't have access to a brand new robot, so we revived a scrapped one
Whole Wheat flour, Rolled oats, and many Fruits and Vegetables have more than enough protein.

If you ate, 2000 cals of whole wheat flour or Rolled oats (which can be used to make many other things like pancakes, waffles, cookies, crepes, tacos), you would get roughly 80g of protein, which is 60% more than your daily protein (52g) requirement!
Let's hope we don't declare the War on Human Waste.(tm)

Billions will be spent on tracking down "who left the toilet seat up" and non-flushers will be considered terrorists.
Its thought that he sold tea but just like many lies he says and those that surround him, this may be a lie too.
Myspace, facebook, youtube, and angry birds numbers are disingenuous.

If television hit 100 million viewers, but only had one channel... And I create a second television channel, I'd hit 50 million viewers overnight.

Yet, I did not create anything quantifiably different.

People uploaded and shared videos before Youtube was a thing, and used social networks (forums) before Facebook or Myspace were a thing. People played mobile games before Angry Birds. The problem was that the other solutions weren't as good.
Just put a few buzz words in a resume and post it to a job board or linkedin.com and your sure to get your share of emails. I get so many on-site contract ops all over the country, it's ridiculous. Not sure why I would move to 6-12 mo contract.
I just feel hopeless. I don't think there's anything we can do at this point
Problem is that the agent doesn't have to identify himself as such. He or she might be dressed casually with no signs of being an FBI agent, he doesn't have to tell you he's an agent, and he may lie as well. He doesn't even have to be an agent. Your employer can submit your lie to an agent. Creepy!
As someone who works as a software consultant for many IoT and connected device companies, how can I increase my understanding of IoT security? How can I ensure the devices I work with are secure?
It's far beyond "toddlers in rural China commonly poop in the street".

In downtown Shanghai I got to watch a mother walk out of her business holding her child, have the child crap on the sidewalk (while being held in the mothers' arms), and then brought back inside. This was not a baby. The kid looked about 3-4 years old.

This goes on in subway stations as well. The parent has the kid sit on the edge of a garbage can and crap into it.

If you go you'll see the children commonly wear these lower garments with the whole groin area open. It's so the child can squat and pee or poo anywhere without needing adult attention. The child is taken to public parts in the city and around downtown like this.

Chinese public conscientiousness is far below anything you can imagine until you experience it.
If the ownership is diffuse, the inheritance tax won't apply until the farm is worth some multiple of $5 million.
Without getting into the scope of the 1001 statute (I think they're probably mostly right about it), I just want to chime in with a nit about the example they chose:

If you take a job at a health provider that you later learn is corrupt, and later knowingly transport false vouchers as part of your job while otherwise avoiding direct participation with the more overtly criminal parts of the enterprise, you are a criminal. What you're doing is wrong. Put into that situation unexpectedly, you must either quit, or immediately report your employer (and, presumably, then quit). You can't knowingly accept a paycheck from a criminal enterprise if doing so requires you to help carry out criminal actions. The law says that's criminal, but even if you don't care about that, so does the social contract.

Are you less culpable than the owners? Sure, of course you are. But this article chose I think a really terrible example, one that creates a false sense of what it means for someone to be incidentally and unjustly swept up in a crime they themselves tried to avoid.

We in this industry all need to be taking more responsibility for our individual actions and the net impact they have on society.
I think "fortunate" is a more appropriate description. Of course part of his journey was luck and those other people have not been as fortunate. "Privelege" is generally something that is granted to you by another entity.
Woot! This will CREATE JOBS!

Pai is disgusting.
"You can have an equivalent in solar, wind + storage in less than three years."

A nuclear power plant can crank out 5 gigawatts.

There aren't any solar or wind plants of that capacity that were constructed in any amount of time, much less three years.
Me too. If I write something that might gain lots of interest in my blog[1], I also post it on dev.to[2] and promote it there. That place has comments and a healthy community.

[1] http://pablojuan.com (https underway)

[2] https://dev.to
Small, non-technical pet peeve: they repeatedly spell GitHub as Github.
how will they not poop in the open if they dont know pooping in the open leads to diseases?
They get things like the Binge On program T-Mobile did. Which was really not beneificial to consumers either, but consumers can perceive it as such - ie, T-Mobile knew they had revenues in excess of the cost of subsidizing favored video and music streaming services, so they made them not count for the data cap they put on their customers. They spin the story to be their great charity in giving away all this data, when the reality was the cost of operating their network was sufficiently low enough they could be providing unlimited bandwidth (or just substantially higher caps) while still profiting, but would rather have the best of both worlds where large media consumers use their platform for the cherry picked unlimited while still exploiting their customer base on every other network attached service they use.

Naturally, ISPs (if they care enough to do so) can spin their money grabs as giving away popular services for free (often after said services paid them off) while simultaneously limiting data or bandwidth for everything else.

Anything but the dumb pipe ethernet grid is a money grab. Hell, fixed data speeds we have now are money grabs. The reality is that there is a variable amount of bandwidth in a given network, and if ISPs were not exploitative they would guarantee a minimum speed but allow users to saturate the network as much as they can, because that is how the reality of the network operates. As it is, you get somewhere between 0 and your cap speed and are artificially throttled at the cap through anti-consumer behavior they can get away with because there is no competition in infrastructure.
I actually misread your first sentence, I thought you were blaming this fully on his wife. Who says his wife wasn't supportive as yours? There's really no argument to be made against someone who believes their spouse can feel and fix all their problems for them.
Sure, if you're investing in $CMCSA then this would be pretty good news for you. Otherwise...
Is there really evidence from before 20kya that is taken seriously by anyone these days?

According to Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_of_the_Americas "Available scientific evidence indicates that humanity emerged from Africa over 100,000 years ago, yet did not arrive in the Americas until less than 20,000 years ago."
Selling something like this, even at a firesale price, is likely to take a very long time. So long that you're likely to get a knock from Uncle Sam before you get all this cash you're talking about.

Inheriting something like this is not a bed full of roses. It can become quite a nightmare, and it can indeed ruin people who are not prepared to take on that kind of tax liability all at once without any up-front funds to pay it off.
Sure - you'll get video streaming from content providers who are able to pay large sums of money without hitting against the artificial caps currently in place.

Of course, that also means it'll kill any competitors not willing or able to pay the same extortion, so in the end you'll have less choice, but at least you'll have saved money. Except you won't really save money because once the current administration allows further consolidation in the wireless sector, prices will rise with authority.
Except the pre-Clovis sites aren't limited to the Pacific shore. Buttermilk Creek (15kya) is in Texas, for example.
Maybe don't go to the u.s because it is doing a genocide. It's interesting, too, that whenever I not that the us is doing a genocide people here downvote me because they clearly don't want to acknowledge it, but by the rules of genocide, the u.s is clearly doing genocide against its internally colonized black nation, another thing that people don't want to admit exists either. A sick empire that will not be remembered well by historians and will likely end soon, let us hope, for the sake of the progression of the sciences and arts, as well as the dignity of humanity.
Mainstream Science on Intelligence
I'd love it if you could point me to a source quantifying how much electrical energy from the grid refineries use. Refineries expend a lot of energy turning crude into motor fuel but AFAICT most of that is made by consuming some of the input crude itself (for hydrogen and process heat). None of the citations I've found so far for high refinery energy use quantify the electrical demand they pull from the grid. So while I'm sure that reduced oil refinery use will lower primary energy use I'm not sure how much electrical demand it will free up.
I guess it depends on if you value freedom of movement or not.

But thanks for dropping by as an example.
There's no such thing as an unaffected third party in a tragedy of the commons situation, which this is.
Robinhood Financial is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), which protects securities customers of its members up to $500,000 (including $250,000 for claims for cash).
Yev from Backblaze here -> we've always tried to be pretty transparent with the way our system worked. For the vast majority of people in a crisis - they want speed and ease, which are the things we designed the backup service around. For folks that want a more technical option, we have 2 & 3 from Brian's list. You can encrypt stuff yourself, use Rclone or Hashbackup (or even the CLIs if you truly don't want to use other people's services) to upload and download the data blobs.
Build the Largest Repository of Health Data at BloomAPI (YC W17) in Seattle
EternalRomance: eternal pwnage
He's just spewing bullshit to get past the decision becoming final.

Engaging on a level of logic with someone who is seeking an outcome and just says whatever they think will support their view. This is about the exercise of power.

And as has happened since Reagan, when the clownshow in office is finally shown the door, the D's get to clean up the mess, work towards fixing economy yet again, and the cycle of life is complete.

Sigh.
>That's not right at all.

You say this, yet what you described doesn't contradict my description at all. It is true that banks will do things governments ask them to do. It is also true that bank transfers are not perfectly private. All the drawbacks of bitcoin are also true. If you're going to defend it as, "far superior to existing currency movement mechanisms," then you should say why you think it is. I think it isn't - for the reasons stated.
I don't see it prudent to submit to an interview even when the agents assure you that the interview is only administrative or that they are not investigating you. The agent can lie without penalty. Unless this is something official, in writing, from the AUSA's office that was verified by one's lawyer, it's likely to be a trick. It's a standard tool in any law enforcement officer's arsenal. I always see scenes on TV where in an emergency people talk to the FBI telling them where the perp went or some other details and I think: if this were real life, I would expect the FBI to be turned away every time, even when lives are at risk and people will die because the FBI cannot get the information they need. It's too bad that this is the kind of society we chose to create, one where trying to help law enforcement is simply too risky to oneself.
Here's the wikipedia article on this statement by experts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_Science_on_Intellig...

Quote:

> Mainstream Science on Intelligence was a public statement issued by a group of academic researchers in fields associated with intelligence testing that claimed to present those findings widely accepted in the expert community. It was originally published in the Wall Street Journal on December 13, 1994 as a response to what the authors viewed as the inaccurate and misleading reports made by the media regarding academic consensus on the results of intelligence research in the wake of the appearance of The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray earlier the same year.
> The point is how do you know the vigilante's fix won't have adverse side effects?

While you have raised some valid issues, this is not one of them. Having an unsecured device on the internet has some very definite adverse side-effects.
https://wynn.nccreports.com/

Pretty common.
> Furthermore, a private employer can require you to cooperate with a law enforcement or regulatory investigation as a condition of continued employment.

.. How on earth is that possible?
Can we get a link for those who want to donate individually?
Thing is that the day Torvalds push a kernel that break some big name production environment is the day either the update gets ignored (effectively forking the kernel), or the big name goes looking for alternative platforms.

You see this back and forth happening over at Windows as well where continued backwards compatibility is weighed against future security.

Just look at the more restricted capabilities of anything WUP vs Win32 (never mind Win16).
Yes, it is quite fascinating that people are building up $6-7 million operations without having any cash in reserve at all.
I just looked it up, as a Canadian living in Alberta I make the average yearly salary.
"Coal was dead long before Trump was elected."

Coal still accounts for 28% of total world energy production (behind only oil, at 31%) and about 41% of the world's electricity production (way ahead of natural gas, at about 27%).

It's not going anywhere, dude.
"I think the institutions, principles, norms, and traditions that make the United States of America genuinely exceptional are at serious risk. It has been hard to think about anything else."

"These oppressive zealots in the White House"

"fighting a despotic regime"

Of course he can have an opinion, and it seems like everyone's got one. It's less clear why the reader should care. And statements like this:

"My career would not have progressed without the leadership and contributions of immigrants of virtually every race, ethnicity, and faith. Period."

I mean, there are a lot of races, ethnicities, and faiths in the world, and not all of them care to immigrate. The hyperbole just smacks of virtue signaling, which some people enjoy and others don't. Depends on how you react to the signal, I suppose.
I think it is like coming to a jam session and blowing your trumpet with a whimsical tune.

There is no competition.

P.S - I've reread this: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html just to make sure I wasn't in the wrong.
I think that wind is a great fit for EV charging already. Wind power output tends to be higher in the middle of the night, when other kinds of electrical demand are lower and EVs are mostly parked and plugged in. Using EVs to absorb daytime solar peak output would require more work, like getting lots of charger ports in parking garages and parking lots.
You also won't have to arm-wrestle a feral badger to check your email! This is yuge, because badgers don't have arms.

Don't you see what a difference this will make?
Nahh, to this point they are even too lazy to lie to cover it up. It is just simply I-can-fuck-up-so-what situation right now. Ridiculous
>What could you do if you were in Uber's position to prevent something like this

I would have resigned a loooong time before this.
That's a case for bending the truth.

Find out how to explain it in their existing culture. Curses, uncleanness, etc. There's probably SOMETHING responsible for misfortune, death, and disease.

Claim that there is a method which helps battle this, it involves purifying the water with a strong fire for this duration of an hour-glass. Once it is cooled it is, for a short time, safe to use.
Yes, I have a teenager at home that would probably enjoy sending pictures of outfits to friends to check out. There has even been talk of a outfit calendar so that the same one doesn't get worn in the same couple of days|weeks|months.

I would have absolutely zero use for such a thing, but HN is a pretty small community and there are a lot of people in the world.
> I also mathematically can't get behind the concept of reproducing a known state taking longer than the time it's taken to get to it.

What you have to remember is that when the COBOL code was written, it replaced hundreds, maybe thousands of people doing manual data entry and manipulation, maybe even pen-on-paper. That gives you a fantastic ROI. After that's been done, replacing one computer system with a newer one is completely different, a spectacular case of diminishing returns.
Limited in what ways?

I haven't used it directly myself, but Capture One uses the Nikon SDK, and it's able to fully control my camera with live view. In fact, they even have an iPad app for controlling the camera, with live view on the iPad.
Also PSUs have an efficiency, i.e. only 80% of consumed energy goes into the components (it's available), the rest goes as toaster/heater I guess. There are different standards it seems gold, platinum etc.
It's a lerp of a lerp of a lerp. The algorithm shown is de Castlejau's.

You get the higher order terms by repeatedly substituting the interpolated control points.

Iteration 1 generates 3 interpolated points pi' from 4 control points pi:

E.g. p0' = t * p0 + (1-t) * p1 <- LERP (Linear Interpolation)

p1' = t * p1 + (1-t) * p2

p2' = t * p2 + (1-t) * p3

Iteration 2 generates 2 interpolated points pi'' from 3 interpolated points pi':

p0'' = t * p0' + (1-t) * p1'

p1'' = t * p1' + (1-t) * p2'

Iteration 3 generates 1 interpolated point p0''' (which is the point on the Bezier for that value of t) from 2 interpolated points pi'':

p0''' = t * p0'' + (1-t) * p1''

Expanding out this final equation by substituting in p0'', then p0', etc.:

p0''' = t * p0'' + ...

= t * (t * p0' + (1-t) * p1') + ...

= t^2 * p0' + t * p1' - t^2 * p1' + ...

= t^2 * (t * p1 + (1-t) * p2) + t * p1' + ...

So all those polynomial powers of t are generated by repeatedly multiplying by t and 1-t.

This just suddenly clicked for me a couple of months a ago as I was doing a deep dive on SVG.

TAKEAWAY: Bezier curves are just recursively-applied linear-interpolation. There's nothing magical about them. You or I could have thought them up -- it's the obvious thing to do.

NOTE: The primes here don't mean differentiation. It's just a way of numbering the recursion.

EDIT> spacing, prime comments
Why would you think a US government commission is being run in the interest of consumers or the internet in general? How much money do consumers and internet users donate to the government's election campaigns compared to the cable companies?
I just setup monthly donations to the EFF (I'm ashamed I didn't do so a long time ago), and you should too. Also don't forget to check if your employer will match your donations.

https://supporters.eff.org/donate/
Unfortunately I cannot access this because it can read my private gist. I understand why it needs the access though :(
My only exposure to Ffffound was when I met someone at a party in Silicon Valley about ten years ago who was working on a clone of Ffffound ("but different"). I'd never heard of Ffffound, and he kept saying it with all of the "f"s sounded out like he was stuttering. It was hilarious on a couple of counts. For one, he was working on a clone of something that was so small at the time that I'd never heard of it, and I was living in the valley and kinda staying on top of startup news; something with no known business model, no big investment, etc. no evidence that it would go anywhere. And, for the other, it just sounded silly to sound out the name every time he said it.

I looked up the site, probably the next day, and couldn't really figure out what it was for, so never visited again. I'm obviously not the target market, but that's one of the funnier memories I have of Silicon Valley and its culture.

Also, I'm a little surprised it's lasted this long. I didn't expect it to, given my impression of it at the time. Good for them.
Because "people who don't want to cooperate with law enforcement" isn't a protected class.

Under US law, the default answer to the question of whether your employment can be terminated for <insert cause here> is "yes".
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Europe imports around 30% of its oil and gas from Russia. The pipelines between the east and west were originally setup during Soviet times.

Given how stable that has been it seems unlikely that a small African country, who will be getting a big chunk of cash from Europe, would do anything stupid.