skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arthur C Clarke's short story "The Last Command" is a fun, relevant read (it's like 3 pages long, but DON'T google it because you'll have the ending spoiled and there are no free copies online).

Try a library?
I guess we would know because animals don't tend to have much more bone than they need. You should be able to estimate the mass of an animal based on the size and structure of it's leg bones (and whether you think it lives it's whole life in water). Then you assume it has enough muscle to move that mass, which gives you an estimate of the density (and locations) of some of the remainder. Split the rest between organs, fat and more muscle in proportions that seem reasonable based on existing animals.

Then discover you're still surprisingly wrong, probably. But it should rule out the pudgy T-Rex at least.
The truth is that Steve is a fairly old engineer who's been working his entire life for big companies working off his soul for nothing but a plain salary. He's not achieved anything for himself or progressed to any top level position in either companies and probably just got bored of doing the same stuff for too long now. Google has been innovating in many areas and perhaps Steve wasn't part of it for too long so he craved some change and in order to justify the move from Google to an Uber clone you gotta tell yourself how boring his current employer is to convince yourself to such a change.

Grab is a startup in a foreign country far away from silicon valley, everything seems exciting, different and ground breaking when in reality it's not. They are just cloning Uber in their own region, perhaps even with the hope to be bought up by someone like Uber one day.

I have been to South East Asia many times, actually I've been to all countries in South East Asia and many islands and I'm going to Asia for another 5 months this year and apart from the normal cultural differences which you have there's not much difference to Uber (or a clone) there than anywhere else. I think he should chill out for a bit and first experience it for at least a year before claiming any groundbreaking wisdom he thinks he got from visiting this part of the world for the first time in his life probably.
They were in stadiums with assigned seating. Which is also a reason why I don't go to those kinds of shows very often. They feel so sanitized.
I can tell you are a computer wizard with the perfectly aligned windows and task manager open. How long did it take you to prepare for that photo?
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Yes, you can see this in astronomy and planetary science as well. As a basic example, the wikipedia pages on dark matter and dark energy cite various sources of converging evidence. In planetary science, one example is the multiple lines of evidence that there were once significant water flows on Mars.
They're cool because they use 'randos'
+1.

Weirdly, I don't remember The Doomsday Clock being advanced like this during the last decade, when North Korea was furiously and successfully building its store of warheads. That was evidently a time of perfect pacificity.
They've bundled advertising software into a critical piece of software that should do only what its user wants it to do. They've already gotten it very wrong.
It's one thing to say that I like to be reachable by children, babysitter, aged mother, etc. if there's an issue. And OK, I get it. Norms and expectations have shifted with respect to how contactable people should be under many circumstances.

But some of the comments here that make it sound like going out with no way for anyone to reach you was an invitation to mortal peril akin to jumping off a cliff in a wingsuit make me want to either laugh or cry.
In regards to governmental programs like Unemployement Insurance "The programs more than paid for themselves. The reduction in UI benefits paid plus the increase in tax receipts from faster reemployment were more than enough to pay for the cost of providing the search assistance." "The statisitcal targeting of these search-assistance programs was crucial to their cost savings. The costs of government support programs can balloon if they are opened to too large a class of individuals"
There have been provisions as far back as 1989 in the US federal government that mandate the use of control groups and randomized trials. Over the past nearly 30 years these tests have lead to better service to more people than would be available without the algorithms. [1] SuperCrunchers by Ian Ayers https://books.google.com/books?id=dJXZ-EzX6gEC&pg=PA67&lpg=P...
I'm not ever wanting to work at Google, but that process resonates loudly with my experience of leaving academia.

From the inside you're dealing with a lot of people who have internalized the job as part of their identity and it's very difficult to just up and leave without formulating a narrative about why it's okay.
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CIA says Kim Jong Un is still a rational actor.
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Publicly. I highly doubt either of the two leaders you are thinking about really believe nuclear war is an actual option. Mutual assured destruction is still a thing.

Regarding the saber rattling from current POTUS, stating our nuclear arsenal is the most powerful in the world is a non-statement. It changes nothing other than public perception of his political position. It doesn't reduce or increase the power he wields nor does it reduce or increase the power held by NK.
Because no one buys drinks after the show starts. Small venues survive on drink sales. They want you there for a couple of hours beforehand.
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Well it was also written specifically for the statue of liberty, and was 'tacked on' to it, not even 20 years after it was dedicated for a reason. Because that's literally what the statue represents.

It's kind of sad to see a nation built by, from and for poor immigrants completely forget their origins.
silent groups aren't listened to by definition
From a PR standpoint, absolutely yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_arrest_contr...
Criminals, bad drivers, and bad passengers probably all use casual carpooling opportunities, yet those continue to operate in many urban areas. With even minimal attention to the problem, any app-based solution will have better opportunity to identify and filter out those problems, so while it's a potential issue, I think it's unlikely to be particularly problematic.
Marathon swimmers swim 20+ hours depending on the swim.
That's what I'd hoped for at Google, and my manager would have been fine with me being remote. However, my VP did not allow remote work. We even lost out on having a fairly famous guy work for our team, because he was unable to transfer a deal he had with his current team where he could work 3 days at home (in Pleasanton, so the commute to Mountain View was terrible).
But they will be able to ban sales of phones that do not comply. For God's sake, they banned tiny circular magnets. Certainly they can ban particular models of phones.

You're trying to use logic and reason as they apply to the government. The dirty secret is: they don't. Ever.
And he is not a diplomat, nor does he have any recognized diplomatic immunity, so the point is moot.
Regardless, I think working at a mega-tech-corp like any in the valley are immensely important. It shows you immediately that software is built by bureaucracy. Many large projects are in fact built that way; you have to collaborate with many teams.
The next thing you should look at is who they send your personal data to and what data they send. There was rumors a year ago that they sent personal data to known advertiser IPs.
There is a saying in English, It takes two to tango. Perhaps the change reflects the arrival of the dance partner.

Also of concern is the new Russian coastal city killer drone submarines and their new generation of hypersonic reentry ICBMs. It is clear evidence that they do not wish to accept a world where the largest military power has anti missile technology capable of diminishing the effectiveness of the Russian offensive nuclear capability.
I actually tested this theory recently; when I went to Machu Picchu, I took several pictures with my wife in them, and absolutely zero pics of the scenery or the monument. When I got home, I inserted some random high-res professional pics from recognizable vantage points into an album and called it a day. I don't feel shortchanged.

Although I'm somewhat glad for the tourist "gotta take my own shitty photo" attitude, because I saw a really nifty research project once that took thousands of tourist photos (of the Trevi Fountain IIRC) and combined them to generate a high-res 3d image without any people in it. That was pretty cool.

If I could change anything about my Machu Picchu experience, though, it would have been to find some way to shut up that blathering loudmouth moron in front of me who barely paused for breath for the entire duration of the morning hike to the nearby summit. Jesus christ lady, I couldn't hear a single nature sound, and I did NOT need to know about what a slut your cousin is.
Same here re closing eyes to properly listen!
Would this be useful to analyze the posters' sentiments and reasons while knowing what products / divisions they worked on / for and their position at G?
Is there any evidence that any USDT/USD trading pairs (of which there are very few) actually allow you to sell USDT and withdraw USD?

You can, presumably do a USDT->BTC->USD set of transactions, but as long as USDT is artifically kept at ~1:1, this is a money losing scenario due to exchange and transaction fees (at least compared to if you could directly go from USDT->USD).
Anything web-based is a dead end at this point. There is many, many reasons why any web-based solution will degenerate into centralized system. People behind Urbit got it right. I don't know if Urbit is going to succeed, but the they have pointed out the issue brilliantly.
"But suppose we could construct a truly limited mechanism that would give them the ability to recover only a small amount of encrypted data. "

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Oh wait you're serious.
A callback is just a function call. Nothing more, nothing less. Unless you're talking about a callback that will be at a later time,, that would be async
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Africa is undergoing a mass migration leading to local wars. The Middle East is subject to the same pressure. There’s plenty of evidence that this is directly leading to European immigration and the rise of nationalist movements. None of this is exaggerated — it is current reality.
Every country would see significant death totals from a very
large scale nuclear exchange. 50-100 nukes would as you say be far less significant, but do 100x that and you get more worldwide impact.
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Lmao. They should call it Zeno's clock and move it halfway towards 12 every month.
I think Robinhood's purpose is exactly to promote "emotional, irrational day trading." Isn't that part of what impacts the market anyway? There are tons of bad traders in any given platform, and you're right that Robinhood increases that likelihood but you can't exactly blame an app for poor trading motivations. That's a due diligence.
I thought it was the use of pozzolana--glassy aluminosilicate volcanic ash--along with lime. The Roman marine concrete may also have an advantage from being mixed with seawater. It gets stronger in saltwater. Portland cement concrete with iron rebar gets weaker in seawater, because the rebar swells and makes the concrete spall off.

Although it is true that sand from different geologic deposits can show vastly different results when used in the same building product. Superior binder plus superior aggregate could make superior concrete.
Sex harassment cases are hard to prove it's often a case of he said she said and hr (and the employee side) have to be very careful to be scrupulously fair and not jump to conclusions.

So its often easier to settle - this is true for those harassed being brave enough to go public and possibly be cross examined by a £2k a day barrister is a nontrivial thing to do.
I do! The world did not erupt into nuke Armageddon in the 1960s because at the end of the day cooler heads prevailed and wound up doing nothing. Inaction saved the day.

In contrast, inaction is now precisely what will doom us.
> When I start at step 1 with the skate board, it looks like the first part of the cartoon...

They key part is that that skateboard has much simpler and easy to build wheels and chassis than a car. A car chassis with care wheels is harder to build that a skateboard, and unlike a skateboard, can't actually be used for anything. If we are talking real world costs, a fully functional car wheel costs more than a whole skateboard.

The point is: Don't to build individual systems one by one and wait to have a working product until every system has been fully completed. Instead, build barebones versions of the necessary systems so that you can get a working product ASAP, then improve the systems incrementally.

This goes beyond just building a MVP. Instead you just build a MWP which is a "minimum working product" and iterate on it until you have built something viable. The skateboard may not actually be a MVP, you may not reach MVP until you have a bicycle or a motorcycle.
Nice that time travel debugging is incorporated!
Bingo.

This sort of investing works well in bull market, and after an almost 9 run-up, I'm guessing we have a lot of younger traders who have not seen a bear market.

This is not going to end well for a lot of folks...
The Mayans applaud the efforts of these scientists.
IANAL but I don't think it's necessarily illegal by default under the ADA. The first thing the employee has to do is establish that their condition falls under a protected class and then they can request an accommodation. If the employer can demonstrate that there's no way to reasonably accommodate the employee then I believe they're off the hook - that is a much higher burden for a large company to satisfy than say for a small 10 person start-up.
Hi! I have a reasonably solid understanding of cryptography; part of what I do professionally is break cryptosystems. I do not think that the condition where billion dollar companies ship products that deny the people the right to "every man's evidence" is a stable equilibrium. Something will have to give. Since I'm not an anarcho-capitalist, it seems unlikely to me that what's going to give is the state.

That doesn't mean I think the FBI is on the right side of every (or even most) crypto debates. But I understand where they're coming from and foresee debates in the future where they'll be on the right side.
Seems interesting... just a way to make writing rest routes easier?
Any coins that are unclaimed will be reallocated to the Stellar foundation. An optimistic view may hold that they might attempt to give them away to more people. A pessimistic view may propose that they're now able to sell them without looking like they're trying to make money.

So maybe they already reclaimed your coins?
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> What says we will not continue to accept more and more, as long as it is only a small step from status quo?

The Overton Window [1] says this is exactly what will happen.

There's a great video [2] about how this applies to Trump (which is where I first heard about it) and gives a good example of what "shifting the Overton Window" looks like.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v-hzc6blGI
The definition of what you're allowed to do with `unsafe`, however nebulous its specifics may be at the moment, is that such a situation is a bug in one or both of those libraries, not their composition.

To put it another way, if you can't observe unsafety with X or Y alone, but you can with both together, then at least one of them has given you a new capability that you did not have before. Either that new capability is not truly safe, and thus the bug is providing that capability, or it exposes the other library relying on something not truly safe, and thus the bug is relying on that property.

The important point here is that, by definition, at least one of X or Y will have to change when such a situation is discovered, in order to preserve the property that composing safe interfaces is safe.
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Rubbish! You could make the same argument for parallelising, abstraction, logging, and just about every other feature. But then you’d never build anything because there are infinite possible features you could include.

Build only what you need today, and prepare for what your employer says you will need tomorrow. Anything else is like saying everybody should buy a jeep in case they move to the countryside.

Async brings its own costs. Unless your employer benefits, you are costing them money by giving them features they don’t need.
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> Then one insanely morning person joins and wants to leave at 3:30 every day. Suddenly all of his scheduling preferences were presumed valid

Why wouldn't their preferences be presumed valid? It's as hard for the morning person to deal with night-person preferences as it's hard for a night person to deal with morning-person preferences.

(Disclaimer: I'm a morning person and I'm not American.)
The big assumption you are making is that we have already found all the 'algebra and calculus' models - i.e. the good mental tools - in computing.

You could do division in roman numerals and perhaps people even then justified it with 'math is just hard, learn and deal with it' but things can get easier when you have better models, better representations and better mental tools. A big advantage of the computers is that they themselves are dynamic and interactive and so they can actually amplify the mental tools.
Twitter is using machine learning to crop photos to the most interesting part
As many developers visit HN I will use this opportunity to advertise the Stellar Build challenge[1]. I participated in the past and it's great. Especially to build some fun side projects, learn about distributed ledgers and earn a bit of money.

[1]: https://www.stellar.org/lumens/build/
There may be reasonable people on both sides.

There are however not people who are correct on both sides.
> I was surprised by one or two details, including the fact that some of these quintessential American airliners were actually manufactured in China, as long as 25 years ago.

It's rumored in aviation circles that COMAC secretly reused the MD-80 jigs and tooling to develop the ARJ21 [0], which bears a strong resemblance to the DC-9/MD-80 series jets.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_ARJ21
One softball answer to that is that any civilization that doesn't get off of its home planet is likely to go extinct, so there's less chance of it actively modifying the environment in ways we can detect. It's also less likely to need to develop long range, high powered communications that we can detect.

At the moment I think the idea that we're only looking for life that fits some definition of success is specious, we're looking for any life we can find! It happens that a big, spread out civilization that looks like us is more likely to emit something we can see, be it atmospheric, electromagnetic, etc, just by nature of being in more places in space and having a larger footprint.

There are astrobiologists who spend a lot of time thinking about what life may look like, but when it comes to where to put limited resources, we start with what we know to look for (us), and go from there.

You might be interested in the book 'weird life' by David Toomey, which tries to theorize about what some more exotic living things might look like in the galaxy, and expounds on some of these definitional questions.
> At what point do you feel the USA will have enough immigrants?

What does "enough immigrants" even mean?
The problem is that there is no reward for speaking up, while there is punishment for speaking up.
Specifically (can't edit above post -- too slow):

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36911900#comment457

>the SQLite packaged with Android is being upgraded to version
3.6.22 in Android 2.2. I think that the SQLite database corruption bug linked in
comment 451 has been fixed in Android 2.2. So _if_ that's what's causing the text
message database corruption and deletion, then this bug will probably be fixed in
Android 2.2

http://sqlite.1065341.n5.nabble.com/Android-database-corrupt...

>Statically link your application against SQLite 3.6.23 instead of
using the SQLite 3.5.9 that is found on Android. The bug you are
hitting was fixed in SQLite 3.6.2

Contrast https://web.archive.org/web/20110219041419/https://www.sqlit... (Feb 2011) vs. https://web.archive.org/web/20110729152833/https://www.sqlit... (July 2011), which could be a glitch in the Internet Archive (a partial copy of the oldest record?) but adds "Though SQLite is resistant to database corruption, it is not immune" and introduced an extensive history of known issues.

Sqlite is amazing and its development history is further testament to its current reliability, especially when used correctly!
I've been using Pocket's recommended articles a lot lately. They have solid article picks.
Really? I actually think it's incredibly unimpressive. A ridiculous physical pouch that requires security to manage? All to avoid something that is arguably not as bad as many other disruptive activities at an event?

If phone-free events are something there is demand for, Yondr feels like the terribly inelegant solution that precedes the elegant one... But, as generations grow up in a world where mobile phones are omnipresent, I have my doubts about how badly anyone will want this...
Advertising software is the killer of good. Mozilla's situation is more like I'm having a perfect hair day, got the perfect outfit and in the best shape of my life, everything is literally perfect; I better just shit in my pants so things aren't too perfect.
What i like to do is to write every component as a stateless component. This way you can write a wrapper component that handles local state, lifecycle methods etc and just pass the needed functions and variables to the dumb component or you can switch to redux. The component doesn't care it just needs to have the state altering functions as parameters and the updated state. The problem i see is when new developers start writing a huge class that is coupled with the state handling and calling this all over the place.
> "Usually right" by who's standard

By the standard of the person you are showing the news to.

C.f.: collaborative filtering. Or how Netflix recommends movies.
Totally agree that seeing and sharing code is essential. The issue of transferring control is very useful, but separate from the chat itself. Independently of how the code is collaboratively changed, the chat should be persistent and pinned to the code itself on the spot where it matters. Then anybody in the team gets to see the conversations at will and knows both what changed and why.
When I was at Google, some of us actually noticed that employees for which it was their first job sometimes complained more than the others ("zeroth world problems": they switched to smaller plates and trays) and had no idea how much worse it was elsewhere. You'll probably find a mix of everything.
Good point.

I think it’s intersting that you go to medium for even small claims is a phone call.

I find the level of support we can get over chat to be pretty good nowadays, my bank, insurance, company HR also deals with all non lofe threatening issues by mail and messaging only.

We’re finaly getting away from a phone centric world, and I feel the service is actualy better while cheaper and more efficient.