skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I think the argument is that you're looking at a tiny piece of a larger equipment, which contains the power source and needs to manipulate this smaller device using magnetic fields. So, probably the entire set of equipment would be the robot.

While still very cool, I think the way it's presented here implies that the little rubber part is autonomous in terms of power, muscles / actuation, sensing and local planning capability, which is just not the case.
Hmm you make a good argument...
Absolutely. I'd take on the order of 10-20% of my salary to never have to be in-office. It'd be a steal for the company, too since I'd get so much more done than if they were mandating 9-5 ass-in-seat time in the office.
Love that you are using sem version properly. Too many folks couple marketing reasons into their versioning schemes as opposed to simply, “did I break backwards compatibility?”
Here's a list: https://bolt.com/acceptable-use

We hope to shorten the list as time goes on.
Wonder if the power display computer might be susceptible to Meltdown, Spectre or Rowhammer? Or is it not programmable in the sense that everything is hardwired…
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There's no problem running nmap on WAN
- test infrastructure in every language is really a matter of minutes these days. Being able to run it locally is sufficient for a first step.

- hiring people for unmaintainable projects is literally the default for the majority of companies as everyone starts out small without directions and either fails or becomes something big. Legacy code is basically everywhere, clean code is the minority.
We'll be rolling out more customization features. Big priority. They are sparse for now.
On setting up highly available Kubernetes clusters
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It is a mess in any language that allows it.

The initialization order is implementation dependent in module/package initialization blocks.

The only guarantee is that the modules being imported run first than the one being executed.
Nope, you'll only be black-marked if you actually committed fraud. Any time there is a customer dispute, we're able to act as a middle ground often times. If a merchant is a bad-actor, we'll give them some time to fix their customer service. Or, we'd have to part ways with them.
WhatsApp and Signal Vulnerabilities
It is much more common than decent code that just lets you iterate and implement good stuff. Also the lesson to take away: code like this is everywhere and often it powers the things you really do not want to be run by something like that.

Considering that you will face this probably with your next employer again, deep breath and just enjoy the actual engineering work!
> With this kind of radio you don't need to rely on P2P peers only.

> It becomes impossible to hide information (the best chain in case of cryptocurrency).

That's only because of... the law (something crypto people usually want nothing to do with). The reason amateur transmissions are not encrypted isn't technical, it's that the laws regulating amateur radio service forbid it explicitly.

> Also, crypto shouldn't be necessarily energy based, it can use proof of stake.

I'll believe it when I see it. To the best of my knowledge, there isn't any working, at least minimally tested, and actually deployed implementation of PoS anywhere. Moreover, from what I read around the block, there's a good reason to suspect that you have to waste energy somewhere in the process to ensure trust in, and integrity of, the blockchain. Some people actually think it's a feature...
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From what I know genes don’t exist as distinct parts of the genome, genes are just a way that we humans grouped the DNA.

97% is not junk is is just not coding for pure proteines.
The machinery can jump in to “commented” genes.
We don’t know exactly how non protein coding dna works to the lowest level. Allot of it is probably useless but you probably can’t remove it without destroying stuff.

Compared to a software project the DNA code has the worst code quality you will ever see in a working system.

Almost everything is dependent on everything else.
Is is essentially a software project made by a toddler cutting and pasting assembler code during millions of years.
HTTP/1 responses carry raw bytes, and chunked encoding doesn't affect that (just some packet length prefixing).

If you mean binary data would need to be Base64-encoded with server-sent events, that's true. SSE uses text/event-stream as the content type, which is expected to be text. It would be interesting if someone defined a content type for streaming binary events.
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My company recently went through a merger and did the typical rearranging of deck chairs, including renaming things arbitrarily. My department is commercial products (mobile apps). The new name for this department?

"Agile Build Factory"

They're literally telling us we're factory workers to them. My objections to this name were met with blinks and hand waves.
The current population of Syria is the closest genetic match to Egyptian mummies.
That article is not accurate, if you work for a salary you're in poverty. Before 2005 it was not that bad, we saw a major transformation with the downturn. Here in LA the cost of living has swallowed up all but the very highest paid salaries. High taxes in California combined with high rents and high cost of food, education and healthcare make for a brutal combination for working people of all stripes.
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Yes, Kant does. I'm not an absolute Kantian by any means, but I do prefer Kant to Twain. This isn't to say I dislike Twain, though.

> Surely a teenager telling white lies to pushy peers is preferable.

That's not sure by any means. In fact, the habit of telling "white lies" is almost certainly harmful in the long run. The same is true for caving to pushy peers.
This is where the rampant ageism in the industry has lead us; millennials who expect a prize for doing something totally obvious to anyone with experience, who was never considered for the job because they were “too old”
While I will agree that "working from home" can often be codewords for fucking around and slacking off, one day I actually work at home I usually get more done than in a good week at the office.
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The mono-repo of protos has been our approach, and has worked very well for us so far.

Only difference is we publish the resulting code for all languages into a single artifact repo, which other projects use as a dependency.
Too bad that Apple never made AV Fondation having the same features than QuickTime...
How can we add dynamically video codecs to macOS ?
How can we extend the support of acquisition devices ?
What API can we use to do video editing...
How can we support ProRes on Windows in 64 bits ?
Who said anything about criminalizing it?

Most people are going to use whatever is easiest and/or most popular. The same forces that make it hard to get all your friends onto Signal would also make it hard for violent people to use something new.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_%28book%29

(Not that I think the Signal team would ever go for any kind of weakened security, unless it was an absolutely final last resort.)
Have a look at amateur radio and satellite operations as a whole. You can, with some persistence and brains have a chat with someone a vast distance away via satellite repeater with nothing but a cheap handheld radio.

I’ve only managed to receive so far due to a cruddy antenna but that was with a $30 Baofeng radio from Amazon.

Note: you need a license but it’s pretty easy to get, at least in the UK and you learn a lot while getting it. It also tends to cost you a lot of money in the end because it’s really interesting :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16236798

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16237349
Yes, if the fuckers insist you be there for 8:00 AM EST meetings on a regular basis.
Nope. You've built a comfortable work environment and the discipline required to be an effective remote worker. No reason for the company to expect to capture all the value in this. They're already saving on office real estate. Very likely saving in taxes. You're also assuming all the risk in being in an area with limited local opportunities. Get what you're worth and don't settle.
I have the exact opposite question. Why would you bank anywhere BUT Bank of America/Chase/Wells Fargo?

These banks are national and (along with a few others) issue all credit cards, even the ones you get at your local community bank.

Its not like the Community Banks don't have fees...
I never walked away. I was banned with trumped-up charges.

Their former pastime was that my criticism had no technical merits, they now changed course and claim that my criticism is uncivilized. Well, this is a good strategy to hold the community together. Create a common enemy. Get him fired. Collect the angry mob and give them powers.
How is SSE not a stream? HTTP 1.1 does a fine job of sending streaming content, and SSE is a stream-parsable content type.
No, they can't, at least that's what they're telling us. Some devices, they haven't been able to get into. That is the status quo. Being able to crack properly done, effectively unbreakable encryption is not the status quo, it's a fantasy.

And voting? You are assuming democracy. Also you're forgetting about the tyranny of the majority. If you aren't even going to read what I'm saying, let's just stop here.
Puffin is not a Chinese company.
> you're going to want to call and check to see how things are going

Yes. If you suffer from high levels of anxiety and don't trust your own decisions about who to trust, this is true. Many people, particularly Americans, are this way. It is not true for every parent, however.
Python now supports type annotations, and static checking (using mypy).

Regarding the event loop, I don't think that's true; you can embed libpython and call functions from your own loop: https://docs.python.org/3/extending/embedding.html
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I thought the point of Yunus's book/movement was that microloans were safe because people, on the whole, DID pay back the loans?
I do not have to check my phone every time I go to toilet, but in case performance turns out boring, I like to stay on toilet longer and read on the phone there.

If significant percentage of adults acts certain way, then it is acting like adults by definition. Maybe you are just using "adult" as word of approval and "kid" as insult :).
Not susceptible to the first two because these are almost universally large-process in-order CPUs. But generally "not programmable" in the sense of being hard-wired, or just not having a way of doing remote code execution to perform the update. These systems are _really_ simple.
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People of the vice city ruined by the tactical mind of the bat villain as well as by his fellow gangsters, people of the city really need a miracle by the God.
For instance by inventing one. :) Was this how you got started?
> despite declaring (at the time that Mozilla merged with them) that Pocket would become open source

https://github.com/Pocket
We’re on a solar cycle minima at the moment which slightly ruins ionospheric propagation on HF which is the least “line of sight” set of bands. However it’s on the up again so in a year or so expect 1000km regularly.

I regularly hear East European stations here in London, UK with a random length bit of wire strung off a home made 40m receiver and into a tree though. Noise here is terrible so I have had to use very heavy narrow bandwidth audio and IF filtering.

If you want long distance, be prepared to use very narrow bandwidth i.e. learn CW though (its not that hard although I have trouble copying some of the faster stations).
Didn't Airbnb just have something like 5000 units yanked off their site where the owners couldn't prove they were legit "sharing"? Seems like it's their issue now.
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Emoji in the first title? Emoji in every damn title?

Are children developing webpack?
Using a getting-things-done approach has really improved my ability to learn. Before, I’d often get too overwhelmed with the end goal I had in mind (being great, perhaps). Within GTD, I always define a next tangible action for things I want to learn. It changes the game, as it redirects my focus from horizon view to what I can do right here and now to advance my goals or desires.
Can you do a WHOIS lookup on the IP or hostname or anything? Sounds like some people really need to be warned?
Yeah, this sounds weird - especially from a VC-funded company! One can hardly imagine a better way of having myopic perspective, of being forced to optimize for short-term, than taking regular VC funding. Because, as you've said, "there are people who expect a return on their investment in a finite time".
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I'm not so sure. There was a lot less surface area then to secure vs today's "collect all the data" ethos
I'm curious how hard do you think it would have been to break your phone out of the Yondr prison?

From the videos I've seen online, it seems like you could do so "fairly" easily.
Why is everyone acting so pissy about the fact that someone happened to find a performance improvement trick by reading the docs? Isn't this what's supposed to happen?

None of you read all the performance "tricks" to Postgres before writing your first SQL statement.

Every day, somebody's born who doesn't know how to boos the performance of COPY by dropping indexes.
Comrad buttonpusher implicated himself as guilty before the bureaucrazy and promised to better himself in a camp through self-reinforced labour and reconditioning.
"All hail mother UsSiA!" was his final statement.
Seriously the guy shouldnt have said a thing at first. His bosses bailed on him, he realized to late that he was a blame sock puppet on the frontlines between federal law and local law.
> In any case, a "not-java" language that can talk java is freakin amazing, in my book (Scala doesn't scratch my itch there - it's far too clever - had enough of that with perl back in the day).

Clojure is a bunch simpler than Scala, many Python programmers are quick to pick it up. The dynamic nature and interactive prompt is all there.

If you look at Norvig's Python-Lisp comparison table at http://norvig.com/python-lisp.html - all the red cells (where Lisp lost to Python) are fixed in Clojure.
It's not just those that would be aware of changing default search settings, but those that actually would. So we have a Venn Diagram of users that would be willing to try out something marketed as "a wicked fast mobile browser" and those that would go out of their way to change Google as the default search engine. What's the exact intersection there? I think we're both left to just wildly speculate, but I do think we can agree it wouldn't be even remotely close to 100%.
I think they want to support the scenario of lost device, lost password, but still allow restoring data to a new device.
The "ability to walk to a lot of things you can do" implies your agency. You have lot of options, but you're not automatically attached to anything; you can choose what to get involved in. Whereas in villages, "everyone knows everyone and is involved in everyone’s business"; you're attached to everything whether you like it or not, with all the social consequences coming from attachment.
How do you construct an unbiased coin from a biased one?
Server-side??? Apple requires apps use the Apple WebKit framework only for web content, which runs only on the client-side. The point of Puffin is to run Flash and other desktop crapware websites that don’t work on Mobile Safari (Apple WebKit) properly.

Puffin isn’t a native or local web browser; it’s an optimized, virtual, remote browser viewer. If they sell it as a “Citrix for the web,” they might have a shot.
I was surprised how difficult it was to make a deep copy with javascript, (I did try JSON.parse) but finally decided to rewrite the logic without deep copy. Its a great article, shed some light on an interesting programming question
I just saw your question on proggit, and I lazily cut-and-paste the answer for here =):

For your first question - yes this means few people use more than one language in a month. There is also a power law distribution happening with user activity each month, so most users only have a handful of events each month (which happen to be mostly in a single language). I'm trying to measure how broad support it so this was mostly done on purpose. I was finding counting total events was getting biased by things that I most have been automatic activity (I was seeing single accounts with 10K commits a day for instance).

Percent of MAU in the charts is the total percentage of unique users who were active that month. I haven't tried out with yearly active users =(
Software and intellectual property is an asset.
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One of things I absolutely despise about the JS community is this obsession with build tools. JS is meant to be a runtime language and the amount of transpilers, minifiers, uglifiers, obfusicationifiers, is absolutely endemic to the messy state of change the language is undergoing.

However with this release I'm excited to start deleting a bunch of ridiculous build code to make Webpack work. Really a build tool is a tool, it should never be in the way of developing features. I haven't enjoyed using webpack until now. No sensible defaults, poor documentation, and no standard conventions. This release changes all of those complaints. A boost for productivity is a win in my book.
If you believe that a mayor's time is worthless, it makes sense to waste it in a useless committee. Apparently this mayor feels differently than you about the value of his time.
You can use donations of course, but they won’t qualify as charitable for tax purposes.
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After reading the title this was exactly my first thought.

Polluting the titles with emojis feels unnecessary and childish to me. I them a mental burden that makes it difficult to read the important information.
I can not imagine a new car announcement page filled with emojis and I don't know why it should be different for software.
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Isn't this insane though? When else would anybody be at a lunch talk where somebody goes over a consensus protocol and the idea would be "holy shit we are going to be rich by buying some tokens". If Dan was giving a talk on some new thing using multilinear maps nobody would say "oh fuck I've gotta get in on this and I'm going to be a billionaire". If Alex was giving a talk about some new way of doing superoptimization you wouldn't be interested in buying "STOKEcoin". Even when Dawson was doing the early stuff that turned into Coverity, nobody looked at the foundational algorithms and said that they should invest in the algorithms. You need to build a company that does something with a product.

Dave is a brilliant guy. But the response to a lunch talk shouldn't be to invest in tokens.
> If you're shoplifting from someone who's experiencing a shoplifting epidemic, you're doing more damage than you would by shoplifting from someone who wouldn't even notice.

Except when you're shoplifting, you don't know whether you're the only one who does that to this shop, or the hundredth thief this day. If you had enough knowledge to know the theft load of shops in the area, you'd pretty much by definition be orchestrating higher-level crimes, with better margins.
As a prospect, I'd be dismayed by the fact that the author didn't even bother to include a link to his Careers or even Contact page... or even make a link out of the company name in the opening paragraph. (Or, do they even have a web presence outside of a sparse LinkedIn page?)
Is something like this possible/realistic with IPv6?
> I doesn't even really seem to me you necessarily want to partition on time since your load distribution is going to be terrible.

I think that's not accurate. The tables mentioned in the post are first sharded/distributed on `repo_id`. Later, each shard is also partitioned on time dimension (i.e., `created_at `). Thus, the load should be distributed proportionally with the activity for each `repo_id`.
http://www.goodnewsfinland.com/hetzner-sets-foot-finland/

They should start operations this year
I think refusing to cooperate is generally the smartest play. Investigators aren't asking questions to help you exonerate yourself, they're aiming to get you to incriminate yourself as deeply as possible.

An officer asks you, "Do you know why I pulled you over today?"

- Yes = admission of guilt. You're screwed.

- No = indication of disregard for law, recklessness, and no situational awareness. You're even more screwed.

- Good afternoon officer, I'd rather not answer any questions. Would you like to see my license and registration? = Bingo.
Sounds like their monetisation strategy. But there are issues with network intermediaries' structural moneymaking strategies.
The French startup blablacar.com is the biggest existing player in the market for real ridesharing, at least in Western Europe. And It does take some customer service to run these things. I've used it a fair amount.

The biggest issue is that to protect their revenue cut, they track and censor messages between members of their platform until the ride is booked so they don't pay cash.

Also, they force bookings to a specific time, and so you have to describe your journey on the comments, and so that way some passengers' attitude treat it like a cheap uber, and not a ride share.
The world is a complex place. In your analysis, do you think there is anything that you may have overlooked? Is it possible?
There was a post about timescale DB recently. Can you combine citusdb and timescale somehow to get super fast timeseries data and citus flexibility?
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Not just his comment, but the fact it was at +9 before getting censored. There's definitely a lot of mob mentality when it comes time to find somebody to blame, and that's very dangerous.
> Well... as a general rule, I'd say "don't use sites like Freelancer.com, Upwork, etc. Seek out clients directly."

Totally agreed. Those websites are mostly for cheap developers from third world or developing countries. Somebody living in a first world country like US/UK won't be able to make a decent living there as you are competing with people from countries where 1/10 of your rate is considered very good salary. You need to get a proper clients by meeting companies face to face and offering them consultancy services.