skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can see this in person at the Bay Area Maker Faire today.
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GE9x has a 133in fan [0] compared to 128in fan for a GE90-110 series. 148in is the Nacelle width.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_GE90#GE9X
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But if a person does this we call them a criminal and punish them.
Wait, so does it just work by adding noise to the sensory input with simple vibration motors? Or does it actively counteract the tremors using an accelerometer?
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Yes, right. Contractors/freelancers, despite having universal health-care coverage like salaried people, don't have paid holidays. Anyway, you can make lots of money as contractor working in Madrid or Barcelona (six figure income, before taxes). E.g. doing the exactly same work you can make 2-3x as contractor.
I have a nagging feeling about this project as well. It is simply too good to be true: first we see a lone engineer fiddling with some wires on a prototyping board, and a few months later poof the girl can write again.

She is defying years and years of experience by a large number of experts in the field, this just does not sound realistic.

Why is this 'breakthrough' presented as the effort of an individual? The only reason I can think of is that MS is trying to show the world what Good People they are, and showing the long and hard work of a large team of engineers is just not sexy.
It's relevant that you think the company doesn't deserve the money it makes. If somehow employees could make that money without all the services and assets of the business, they already would be doing so.

And it's not about maximizing every second. It's about providing the best possible work environment to allow people to be more productive.
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I agree with you, but this isn't just about morons lobbing dumb insults at each other in all caps with bad spelling. I'm not even comfortable describing in a comment some of the horrible things that content moderators have had to deal with. Dig through the documents (particularly the child abuse doc) and you'll get an idea. Almost all of these policies were likely created from real-life examples, because people do things that are disturbing beyond imagination. They certainly didn't pre-plan it when they were hacking together Facebook in a dorm.

I can only imagine how much worse it is for the team over at Youtube. The first thing I would do as CEO over there is hug them, give them a raise, double their vacation time, and make sure they have very good access to mental health services in case they need it. I'm not saying they're treated poorly right now, but again, it would be one of the first things I looked at.
Are we making the web too complicated?
Not by design, but by circumstance yes. I'm sure we'd be open to folks joining from other nations though as long as they could travel to our once-a-year in-person meetup.
It's called empathy.
While I absolutely agree that you should know how your underlying tools work--and the way I teach people git is to start at the representation level and work up, showing all the file formats in play so people can see how it actually works--I disagree that "git is an especially poor choice for wrappers"... almost all of the tools people normally use with git--the ones that come with git and one might argue "are git"--are also just wrappers (called "porcelain") over lower level tools... most people I know who feel they are sufficient in git only actually know how to use these higher-level tools.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/may/21/revealed-facebo...

What does it even mean? What are the red and green marks?

What's even weirder to me is that they don't touch upon more examples. It's just so incredibly arbitrary that it can be used to easily cover up anything with zero consequences.
The video accompanying this paper (recommend watching for a good laugh): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8
Probably the most significant excerpt from the article:

The broader implication here is that some animals may be practicing a kind of science, observing cause and effect, experimenting and learning. The University of Oxford evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar argues in his book “The Trouble With Science” that not only is science not unique to the West or to the developed world, but that it’s not exclusive to humans. “Science is a genuine universal, characteristic of all advanced life-forms,” he writes. It’s how living things figure out the world around them.
In all seriousness, the problem is incredibly simple: there is nowhere near enough residential units to support the population, and this is entirely due to the various municipalities complete unwillingness to allow anywhere near enough new residential units to be built.

Even Plan Bay Area is at least recognizing there is a problem, but their "resolution" to the housing crisis was simply to have a reduced deficit between projected net new job creation and new residential unit construction. In effect, saying that more people should be living sharing rooms, living in their RVs, cars, or just living without any shelter, at all.

I genuinely fear that there is a potential for increases in property crime, violent crime, and even civil unrest. When people are denied access to shelter, they become desperate and more likely to engage in violence.
In the article, Hayan Zhang is described as a researcher. She (claims to have) created a device that improves the quality of life of people who have Parkinson's. The device seems to have been built with easily obtainable components. Similar effects to the one she exploits have been described scientifically [0], although it seems questionable if the result comes from the vibration [1].

Expecting publication of source code from a researcher seems appropriate to me. From another article about the “Emma device” [2]:

> Haiyan has no plans to commercialize the technology, but hopes other researchers will take on the project and run with it. “I think it warrants more trials,” she noted. “It definitely works for Emma. I’m amazed how well it works for her.”

How can others improve on her work when it is not published? To me it looks like this invention is milked for PR as much as possible, while details about implementation are scarce. That device helps only one person right now, while potential is there to help a lot of people.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20037223

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23939405

[2] https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-researcher-creates-wearabl...
Absolutely astounding.
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If you are willing to trade some convenience for privacy from private companies, it is doable. You cannot make such a trade with the government. I agree it is hard (and often infringed upon by friends who can trade your privacy without your consent), but it is possible to a degree and that makes the distinction really important.

By all means though, let's regulate the internet giants to make it even easier. But I don't subscribe to the opinion that the battle is already lost, or that these moderately powerful companies have the same potential effect on our lives as our government.
Absolute number wise, it's probably hard to beat the united states. Life quality wise, probably that changes.

I make well above the ranges you were mentioning in the US, and still feel poor in comparison :)

If your end game is to come back to USA after 2-3 years, it might be ok. But if you want to come back after 20-30 years, you might be losing on quite a lot of income.

That assumes, you know, you want to work as an employee for that time. All bets are off if you want to start your own company.
Hitler jokes are very funny. Considering that most of the Nazi atrocities were heavily amplified by Soviet propaganda, Nazis were not even that evil which makes the jokes even funnier. They were over-ambitious idiots and they lost.
I think the person you are responding to probably does something similar to what I do: make a bunch of changes and then use git add -p and possibly even rewriting history if required to come up with tons of clean and cohesive separable changes. I do not have "false or partial paths" as they end up in stashes or get elided from my local history before being pushed; but the high-level task I had, once finished and pushed to a shared repository, definitely contains tons of small change units that I want to keep.
Make an external worktree.
No need to re-clone the whole repo, nor stashing/commiting your work, switching branch, doing the merge, etc (which you may know how to do, but is a pain if you often need to do so)

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree
But it is in germany - sort of police state in term of Internet. No thanks.
So how is this relevant to things that happen on the Facebook?
People have been banging on about VR for years, I don't see it ever becoming more than a niche thing.
VAT is a tax of different nature. Is a trick from governments to be able to tax children and elders for example. Everybody pays the same VAT for the same product.
Matlab of course.
Ask: Anyone feel like programming is Google Golf?
The process of coding feels like golf.

I google to find out how to do something and I come up with answers some fractional value. Each time I then tweak my google search and look for the answer again.

These iterations feel like swings on a golf course.

Is this healthy and productive?
BBC news quality has an extremely sharp cut-off for anything outside of the M25
Got to admit, Algolia is the only site search I've ever liked.
I would start you off with this: Bitcoin is an autonomous software program. It waits for help, and relies on the help of humans, but it can't be pushed around. It either works or it waits.

What Bitcoin does, specifically, is maintain a ledger. That's all. Very useful, but quite limited. It tracks accounts, and which accounts transfer where. No more, no less.

That simplicity made it somewhat tractable to implement, in a world where no one had ever heard of an autonomous software application before. It was the "Hello World" of autonomous software.

Computer scientists were mostly blindsided by this. At least I was. But Bitcoin's success, even in its earliest forms, suggested that there would be a whole wealth of autonomous software coming. We were excited. A whole new way of thinking about software, where you don't write procedures, you write contracts.

It was easy enough to see that you could store arbitrary information in the Bitcoin ledger... a few kilobytes, maybe a GIF. But performance was awful. So an autonomous data hosting service was certainly on the menu, for whoever could figure out a set of contracts that would scale. But it also seemed like an autonomous application hosting service was also possible. And whoever built it would be holding the keys to another Bitcoin-style explosion of value.

Think of it like this: someone had invented autonomous Visa, the race was on to invent the autonomous Heroku.

MaidSafe was one attempt. Ethereum was another.

I don't have any reading materials for you. This is a brand new area of inquiry. Academia doesn't seem to have taken notice yet, and the AltCoin scene is just a bunch of finance people gathering around cargo cults.

I guess what I would suggest: read up on MaidSafe and Ethereum. The Ethereum blog is fascinating. Start at the beginning. Try to understand what's happening and then ask questions. Don't rely on other peoples' characterizations of these systems, try to understand how and why they work.

Or, if you want to trust someone, trust me: Ethereum is currently the best contender we have. Just learn how to make dapps and start looking for good business opportunities within that ecosystem.
I sometimes consider it, but I would miss keeping in touch with friends from around the world and, truthfully, I'm not good at keeping in touch with people by email. Facebook lets me drop in for a few minutes at a time and see what people are up to.
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Some smaller companies and startup still do this. They need to in order to attract good talent. Toss that in with the fact that they sometimes pay better (for the same reason) and a fairly decent balance can be had.
There's still no "security updates" channel. "quality updates" doesn't really mean security-only.
Yes that's the exact point I was trying to make. Things are fine until they're not, at which point it's surgery and tribal knowledge to fix them.
> I hope that younger people can learn from my example

Thanks for sharing. Would you mind going into a little more detail for the curious? For example, how many (and what type of) energy drinks would you typically drink per day, and what harmful effects did they cause?
We don't know exactly why users flagged this story, but it was eventually vouched for and we've now turned off the flags.
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> End result: I learned how to code, built a product, quit my job and am now at 500 customers.

Fantastic! Congratulations :)

What can you share about the product?
For anyone interested, as someone that currently works 75%:

At my last career change, I applied for a full time position, but asked if the employer would consider hiring me at 75%, with a matching reduction in salary. I work full time days, but am not paid to work Fridays plus a full week each quarter.

Pros: the time off itself has been brilliant; I spend that extra time learning computer vision programming in Go, and took a part time class to become a certified master gardener (massively recommended, best $150 I ever spent(1)); it also leaves time for recreational fishing, hiking and hunting.

Cons: It's a strain on my career, it's not just that I work less, but the fact that I'm gone as much as I am has somewhat limited which tasks I'm able to take on properly; it's also, at least for myself, psychologically problematic since I lead a team and the rest of the team is full time.

All-in-all, I think the career drawback is by far outweighed by both the quality of life and skills I've gained; I'm not sure if it's sustainable as the company grows from a small startup to a more regular company. For now, I'm very much enjoying working part time.

(1) http://mg.missouri.edu/
That's a sensible approach. Of course, then you won't be entirely equal in terms of your ownership in the company once the security converts.
Anything to do with mitigating climate change, clearly we aren't going to do anything significant to stop it.
Then you miss out on the social discovery aspect which is a key part of social networking. You're just avoiding the problem of where to go by cutting off your own legs.
I thought Scala was supposed to be following a route where the amount of "stuff" they include is getting reduced?

The language is idiosyncratic and multiparadigm enough as it is, I'd say.
So 13 years ago they broke a rarely used developer tool?

And they haven't done anything bad since? That sounds like Apple has it nailed.
Pretty much, yeah. "Fei and his colleagues argue that at least 20 percent of the change in population area is driven by changes in precipitation, which are heavily influenced by human-caused climate change". Could be more than 20%, but that's what they have solid evidence for so far.
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Illumos is the repo of record. Everyone of the above OS distributions feeds changes upstream keeping zfs in sync between platforms. No one relying on zfs wants forks or incompatibilities. That's one of zfs main selling points, that you can yank a pool from FreeBSD and shove them into illumos and vice Versa.
> he imagines [the necessary CO2] would come from power stations and other industrial processes, such as cement-making, that produce the gas in large quantities as exhaust.

IANAC, but it seems like that just exchanges one problem for another. I imagine that most, if not all, of the industrial processes that produce CO2 exhaust gases also result in other gases and particles getting into the exhaust stream, meaning that you'd have to refine/filter the exhaust from those processes to get just the CO2.
What really should interest/worry you about this is the ecological changes that will follow.

Different animals and birds have special relationships with certain types of trees. When forests change, animals change. This can have a compounding effect, as animal changes can change forests in turn. A few small changes here and there can be the catalyst for much larger changes over time.
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Catalan is not going to be a problem. Most people in Barcelona has Spanish as mother tongue. Catalan is more popular in the countryside. The Catalan nationalism is everywhere in the public sphere (public administration, public schools, traffic) because of regional government in hands of Catalan nationalists/separatists. Fortunately, private companies have not that imposition, and commom sense rules: most things are in Spanish and English. Of course, some people -including myself- speak in Catalan with other people, but switch immediately to Spanish or English so no one feels excluded.

If you're thinking about investing in Barcelona, and having fears about the separatist movement: don't worry, it is not going to happen. In that regard Barcelona is pretty much like London: separatists are a minority, being the separatist power in the countryside. So before the Catalan region of Spain becoming independent, Barcelona would remain as part of Spain (in the improbable case of all Spanish citizens agreed about allowing a "Clarity Act" like in Canada, so if Spain could be divided, any separatist region could be divided as well -that would be going "nuclear" against separatists that consider the Catalan region of Spain as "indivisible"-). So independence chance is 0, in my opinion. I hope Catalan nationalism will reduce its influence once their leaders pass through the court (corruption cases), and everything gets back to normal, with bilingüism/trilingüism in the schools and public administration, instead of current de-facto Catalan monolingual stuff in the public sphere. If after that you still have doubts, invest in Madrid first, and think about Barcelona once the political scene gets more rational (I love Barcelona, don't get me wrong).
Most cities are built in some sort of social and governmental framework.
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From my perspective, problems with facebook:

1) Anti-privacy, megalomaniacal nature of network.

2) Social cost of having removed the normal ways we moderate each other's behavior. E.g. when someone is a narcissistic bore, you talk to them less and less at the barbecues and eventually events start happening they're not invited to. Facebook takes the people most willing to ignore social boundaries and customs and puts them center stage.

3) Opportunity costs of not having mechanisms to form more naturally-moderated social groups, but with a wider pool of potential people than are in your physical social graph. This has always been the dream of the social internet.

4) "Fake news", specifically the moral hazard of providing an environment that plays to the "worst" tendencies of media consumption. This is obviously dependent on our values, and how patronizing we're willing to be. But the hazard is a real issue especially when your network attracts people under one pretense--hang out with your friends/kids/grandkids--and then has this non-advertised effect of sticking you in a media echo chamber. This unlike when people choose to go out and fight their echo chamber in a way that's fairly important.

5) Like 3) but now for "good" media consumption, or a Healthy Democratic Civil Discourse, or whatever. I'm glib because this is on the razor's edge of smuggling in whatever values we daydream about imposing on the world.

A lot of us can come up with the David-and-Goliath dream of a distributed network, but I think it's interesting that this is probably neutral-at-best for 4), which is the issue du jour. One could easily see things getting worse and articles being published with the thesis that people need to be de-balkanized for the sake of civic discourse.

Also, the REAL contrarian take here is that things are close to optimal. People are succeeding at 3) and by extension 2), just in niche special interest groups that aren't salient to us in the steady state. The "problem" is that many of us lack the conviction or self-direction to quit media behaviors we don't like. Meanwhile 4) and 5) are really about the bankruptcy of modern ideologies, etc. etc.
This is cool, particularly in the simplicity of the approach. Reminds me of how a septic tank works but at a much finer scale with the CO2 augmenting gravity.
How do you mean? Whatever EEE-type strategy they may be pursuing, you can still switch from GMail to another provider and keep corresponding with the same email users without any effort. This is not true for modern social media.
Arbitrary precision sounds potentially expensive. Will using them be faster for 64 bit ops than "manually" managing a pair of doubles?
I know that :) I was saying there's now a new standard who's only useful functionality is to increase finger printing data points.
No, I think your other comment was getting downvoted because it didn't really make any sense and people disagreed with it. No conspiracy there.
That is all true. I really love Berlin and I consider it as much an option as Barcelona, or better. The amount of culture and stimulating things happening is incredible, plus the most liberal city and the most interesting tech scene in Europe (sorry London). The weather has the worst of NYC and the worst of London together though.
I have had similar experiences, more than once, but it wasn't awkward. Most of the time, people just say OK, and go on with their life. A couple times, we talked about it, and they commented that they wouldn't be able to get in touch with me again. We talked about whether being connected on Facebook vs. never talking again really would amount to much of a difference in the long run, and agreed that it really would not.

At the end of the day, a Facebook connection from someone that you otherwise don't communicate with, or run into in the real world isn't important. So those conversations are only awkward if you make them so.
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Tiny grey sans-serif body text means you hate your readers' eyes. So ironic on an article about clear communication. ;-P
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Who does integer math in JS with numbers larger than 9007199254740991?

The examples in paragraph 1 are moot. An ID doesn't have to be represented with integers locally (it's probably because the server stores it as 64 bit ints) and a string is perfectly fine here. Furthermore, "financially technology" working with such large numbers in JS? Are you kidding me?

Edit: downvote without an answer to my question? very helpful.
Seems like a highly elegant solution .. one wonders if this could be used to make better air-breathing rockets ..
They can all write down what they feel/think. There is no discussion, IMO.
I can see where you got your expectations from. You should reach out to the researcher. Maybe they can tell you why it's not OSS. I'd not be surprised if it was some mix of medical devices being a special case, and the IP being owned by Microsoft.
Yes, exactly. That's pretty much the reason I never really got into Google+; most of my friends weren't on there, and didn't care to be, so I was just reading a lot of the same things I could read on Twitter -- public posts by more tech-savvy people.