skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"All the explorers looking for the Northwest Passage between the oceans never realized that they could have sailed across America this way—if they'd used tiny little boats that could handle the six-inch shallows of Two Ocean Creek."

Is anyone going to take that as a challenge? And video it?
"based" in that context, like "my friend is pretty based" is slang. Very common in circles that are happy about the election outcome and the current US economy etc. Admittedly it's recent (2016ish) slang in that usage. It's basically like like saying "my friend is well grounded" or more specifically "my friend has self consistent opinions" with a touch of "I agree with my friends opinions". Please don't ask me for a cite, it's too new, and I would rather not link to a hundred thousand reddit posts.
Ask HN: Is there anyone having trouble managing iptable rules?
Not+MY+Site,+YOURS+–+freedomfortheoppressed
Why is it bad to know if an email is already registered?
The beep command can be used to probe for files owned by other users
Most people seem to want movies to give them a theme park ride - which is why many movies now are just an excuse for wild camera vertigo through CGI, gun play, explosions, and cliched “heroic” dialog.

2001 doesn’t do that. More than anything Kubrick was a photographer, and it’s possible to enjoy 2001 just for the visuals - the colour, the composition, the geometry and perspective.

It’s like a moving coffee table book that happens to be making a point about the far future of humanity.
Uploads are metered on loads of Internet plans in Australia.
(I'm not trying to be shitty; I'd really like to know. I spent some time Googling about conventions for the `env` command, and examples of incompatible systems. The only ones I found were two old, proprietary Unices. I got tired of searching and was hoping someone who knows a few examples offhand could help me out.)
Still using it, and I would still choose it over many others for most use cases.

People get Meteor wrong. It's basically a sophisticated build tool that takes away a lot of the burden of setting up a working build setup. If you want, Meteor will also provide a robust account management system and a seamless connection between server and client and a few other niceties, such as reactivity out-of-the-box and most recently, my favorite feature, dynamic imports.

I also love Meteor's own package system which provides so much more than Npm-packages ever can. I'd also like to mention Blaze, which seems now pretty unmaintained, but it's actually very solid and stable and works brilliantly with Meteor, especially with the ViewModel-package (supports both React and Blaze).

Meteor is awesome and it's only getting better.

The only use cases I wouldn't pick Meteor for are the ones where static sites shine, for those I'd opt for Gatsby or Nuxt.
I take the CIA's word, which is part of our own government, over the word of individuals who seek harm to American interests.
> So far, mobile providers, the FCC, and members of Congress have been reticent to address the issue

I don't know about the US, but where I live interfering with radio equipment or any other public infrastructure is extremely illegal.

How are there no processes to deal with this, find the attacker, get them? At least remove the stations, maybe find out who's behind them?

It's astonishing.
Can also recommend Hetzner. You've got different options.

Go for a regular (or even Cloud) server and get a Storage Box on top. 5TB Storage Box would be €26/mo.

You can also get a server with 2x3TB or 2x4TB for around €40-€50, either a new one or a used one from their bidding page. Good thing about Hetzner is that you don't pay extra for bandwidth, so the pricing is very easy and predictable.

online.net has similar offers in a similar price-range.
the problem is that you are actively doing something with the paper towel, while you passively wait for the air dryer.
Panagram.js smallest rich text editor in vanilla JS
Why not use an AI system like PyTorch and make the system learn the rest itself, as long as you “calibrate” enough times.
I do agree with this but getting that curation tonwork sounds - interesting

it's almost something i could use the social graph to do ...
Insurance premium increases were increasing and erasing real wage growth for years before the ACA was passed.
Thanks. Last time I saw this on FF on Linux I right-clicked, saved, viewed it, saw the same thing and wondered what it's about.
Certainly overbearing. Also one failing at parenting and demanding that Apple should do it for him.
If all of these things were implemented I might allow one of these things in the house. As it stands I'm almost to the point where the only tech I would be willing to let in the house is a raspberry pi.
Super rich person that does not want to pay for a friend. Nice! Now I don't feel so bad that Sergey left her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinh_Xuan_Thanh
It would be. Luckily for them they're targeting the US.
It sounds like it wasn't a particularly sophisticated attack, so I'm quite willing to believe it was by a pro-US individual who doesn't particularly care about the subtleties of the geopolitics. That said, this is hardly going to move the needle when there are real events like Trump threatening to reintroduce sanctions.
It's on https://www.bmf-steuerrechner.de/interface/pap.jsp

However, this is the calculation for the monthly (pay as you go) wage tax and other deductions and not the yearly income tax.
The other commenter mentioned classifieds, but newspaper's main business changed with Online. Before they were natural land monopolies with only one (or a few) outlets. Most people in the region received their news this way. In the last 20 years, both cable TV and online news have replaced many people's sources, which turned into declining paper revenues. When the newspaper tried moving online, it's land monopoly was gone and people had far more choice in news. This decimated their advertising department. FB and others added fuel to this fire.

So the trifecta is as follows:

* Declining physical paper subscriptions

* Loss of classified ads

* Diminished revenues from loss of advertising and land monopoly

By these powers combined most newspapers are being decimated.
this is so awesome!
See https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/11493/how-hard-...

Add to this that the legal encryption limit for GSM is India is just 40 bits and you can easily wardrive SMSs
I have home connection with 300 Mb/s and server for a few hundreds of bucks. I can easily host terabytes of things. You could do the same. It's not scalable in terms of bandwidth (I could buy 1 Gb/s for few more bucks, but that's limit) or not the most reliable service (though I had 0 unexpected downtime for the last months), but might do the trick while you don't have much money and if your idea will be profitable, you could move to the cloud.
I'm very glad to see the 'silly' tools there, cut/join/paste/sort/uniq. While I would never build anything 'important' with them, they're an extremely useful tool to have in your toolkit.
Yes, I know what you mean. Many of the answers I flicked through were just ridicule. In general, I thought the book was very poor.
A man took his Mercedes for a service and left the dashcam on
The larger point of this article is about the need to advocate for your own medical care. It really hit me hard, due to my own and family experiences with hospitals and doctors who simply didn't care or recognize the effect of their everyday behaviors on the lives of others.

The example given in the article is Valley Med requiring 5-10 days to serve patient medical records. These 5-10 days can be the the difference between LIFE and DEATH when it comes to medical care. There exists an inefficiency, which can lead to wrongful death, and there is a clear path to remove the inefficiency. Why is nothing done and why does society accept it, despite paying ridiculous amounts for healthcare?

The fact is that doctors are perfectly adept at handling 95% of cases which they see often, but outside of that they seem to lack the drive to 'connect the dots.'

When I go to the doctor, I do my research before I step foot into the office and I tell them what I am thinking. Sometimes I am wrong and cede to the doctor's explanation, other times it results in different tests taken/treatment paths.
Haha, totally. I am honestly impressed how that "article" made it to hackernews.
I never understood why contributions by employees that happen to work at a certain company are treated as such a "gotcha" moment by the media. Facebook has 25000 employees. Presumably some fraction of those will choose to donate to politicians they support, largely liberal ones given the political leanings of Facebook's workforce -- over thousands of employees this adds up to a significant amount of money. Does anyone think that these scattershot individual contributions meaningfully influence any national politician in favor of Facebook?

The PAC donations are of course a different story, but honestly the incentives here just puzzle me. The limits on PAC contributions to candidates ($5000) just seem so piddling to a company like Facebook that I don't understand where the ROI comes from, especially after factoring in the negative PR. I doubt a $5000 campaign donation will meaningfully influence my local school board official, let alone a Representative or Senator. The only explanation that makes any sense is that the broad PAC donations are just an expectation for companies before their lobbyists' calls get returned -- an entrance ticket to the Beltway circles. Obviously this is problematic, but in this case Facebook isn't "buying" politicians -- at best it's paying them to be restored to neutral.
Low-Boom Flight Demonstration – NASA
I was thinking more of phone data plans - they're even more limited (although strangely Australia's got some of the best plans at the moment outside of Europe)
In this scenario, that $2 trillion would prevent about a quarter of the deaths from cancer in one year, except that spending was over a decade, so assuming that we could spend at that same rate perpetually, replacing Iraq War spending with million dollar cancer cures would prevent about 2% of cancer deaths.
Tell me more about hats.
"Such assertiveness came in handy when Wojcicki was visiting her grandmother in a Palm Springs care home several years ago and couldn’t find a doctor in the building."

The nursing homes I'm familiar with have nurses and a doctor who comes in one day a week, and takes calls from staff. If anything significant comes up the resident is taken to the ER.

A care home with a doctor on staff full time (let alone 24 hours) would likely be significantly more expensive.

I suspect Wojcicki's grandmother couldn't afford that. And it's probably overkill.
https://www.bmf-steuerrechner.de/interface/pseudocode.jsp

There's a pdf version as well:

http://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Web/DE/Themen/Steuern/...

The problem is in computing the input values; it's quite hard to figure out without examples, except the most simple cases.
Serious question: How is it possible to view Lawrence of Arabia on a smart watch?
Improved cancer survival rates may be related to shifting diagnostic patterns. "Pre-cancer" might not have deteriorated into full-blown cancer, but since it was caught it was treated, and marked as a success.

> most of the gains have been slow, incremental improvements that add up over decades.

I read something 1 to 2 years ago about how breast surgeons aren't recommending prophylactic mastectomies anymore. The message hasn't spread very far. The official approach to breast health is at odds with what's actually been discovered by physiologists.

I know a lady who had "colon cancer". I think her actual problem was emotional stress about her son... But she had her colon shortened, and is probably counted as a success by the official medical statisticians.
Google Family Link gives you almost all of this.
Can anyone recommend a command line tool for manipulating Excel files, that runs on macOS?

Edit: I’m looking for a command line tool that allows me to open an Excel file, make a few simple changes, and then save again as an Excel file.
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> You are defending the position that we should let someone die because they don't have enough money to pay for medical treatment.

> Are you really sure you want to go there?

Yes, I absolutely am. Grown-ups in the adult world have to make choices. We have limited resources and time, and yes, sometimes that means that we can't give life saving treatments to every person that needs it.
It's interesting. Historically there have always been these sort of back channel, side channel, unofficial ways of doing all sorts of things, some of them basically critical to the operation of a functional society. Yet as society has become more developed we tend to formalize the "official" ways of doing things while pretending that everything else was irrelevant (or, worse, harmful). And then life becomes more restricted with less room for imagination and exploration, with obvious negative consequences for innovation, among many other things. It may not be possible to maintain all of the unofficial side channels and so forth as things advance but it's critical that people think about them and be thoughtful about how to replace them.
Your activity here looks exactly like "friendly media push for cover".
Hetzner has already been mentioned, I just want to add that traffic is effectively free with most German providers. Good German providers are Hosteurope, Manitu, strato, 1und1. server4you, 1blu and others are particularly cheap German providers, but I have no experience with them.
Python is one easy / flexible way to wrangle Excel files
That's pretty Orwellian. It completely muddles the water and make it very hard to separate opinion and fact. Sounds dangerous to me.

Anyway, let me get it straight. you didn't mean that Gen Z is a real thing i.e. its existance is based on facts. Just that you agree with the supposed opinions of this hypothetical construct?

This makes your original reply even more baffling to me as it really has nothing to do with my comment. I guess I should've been more explicit.
There's some interesting discussion on pprune (a forum with a lot of commercial pilot regulars) here:

https://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/606426-helicopter-down-eas...
We forget in the age of constant exposure to video that big screen cinema is not the same thing and that some films use the large screen fully as part of the art.

One of my favorite old movies is "The Stunt Man". One of my most disappointing viewing experiences was re-watching "The Stunt Man" on a friends small screen. Most of the emotional and dramatic tension in the film is driven by the sense/fear that the Peter O'Toole character is omniscient, that no matter what the other characters try he will somehow be ahead of them. This works because the viewer also ends up believing this. But a lot of the work to sell this is done in the viewers peripheral vision and on a small screen it simply doesn't happen which leaves the film sadly deflated.
I was hoping the whole thing would be SVG based, so that you actually could save a copy of the image and view it locally.
I’ll give you a counter example. I’m a barely stats-literate biology graduate. I recognise that’s misuse of stats is dangerous but would like to become more expert. If this program can help me by handling the mechanical bits in a elegant fashion, while leaving me to worry about the appropriate tests and methodologies, I’m all for it.
But you get another pain-point in return - having to replace the whole state at root position, which in turn leads to redux.
The difference is that the dot behavior is non-standard, the plus behavior is standard.
I'm about as open book as it gets. Commenting with my real name. I'm more than happy with my positions, if there's something inconsistent, maybe you should point that out instead of implying I'm a shill.
We spent a fair amount of time going back and forth over whether to use Meteor or not for our in-house development (in late 2017), before we bit the bullet and moved ahead with Meteor.

Finding people is the hard part for us as a business, so finding a balance between technology and available skills was a priority. Since Meteor is a public framework, it has a ready ecosystem for onboarding (tutorials, etc), plus with being standardized it reduces complexity for onboarding. Any JS dev can pick it up in a few weeks. It has enough checks and balances to ensure some level of consistency in implementation, but beyond that, you need to setup your own process anyway. Again being standardized, it helps with BCP as well.

Since Meteor is isomorphic, it gives us a very interesting advantage of tying code ownership to both front and backend code, which results in functional ownership not just code ownership. That emphasizes full-stack development, which is a priority for us. Our mantra is to do more with few people as we can, and Meteor lets us do that very well.

Technologically, Meteor gives us access to a wide variety of capabilities as a technology team. NPM opens up the JS ecosystem, Apollo/MDG gives us the ability to move towards GraphQL if needed, build tools allows us to push code for web and mobile environments out-of-the-box, integrations allow us to handle scaling, and Meteor has gotten better at opening up options to allow for more granular tuning (queries, reactivity, etc.).

It might not be the most performant, but honestly I'd rather throw an extra $50-100/m at hardware on DO/Linode, than justify having to hire more people.

It helps that we're not planning at building apps targeted at millions of users, but when you hit that kind of scale, refactoring is anyway going to happen. This quote from DHH (https://twitter.com/dhh/status/885445986943868929) is the best way to explain this anyway :)

As has been highlighted by others, MDG is still releasing updates to Meteor regularly, so there's not much reason to doubt they're stopping anytime soon. In addition, there's been a resurgence in the community to contribute modules to addressing gaps in the ecosystem, which have made Meteor more relevant again for a lot of us.

This is highly opinionated, but for us and the fact that its about doing business, not just the best technology, Meteor ticks enough boxes to make it our choice moving forward.

If you look at it through that lens, I think it makes it viable (valuable even) in 2018.

IMO, I think Meteor is a victim of promising too much too soon. The real value only got unlocked IMO when they made NPM a first-class citizen. As a team, we aren't really missing out on anything being on Meteor. We think it makes us more effective as developers.
Seems like a bad idea for kids of any age to be taught they don't need passcodes or that they are an annoyance.
Kind of fail, when JavaScript is disabled in browser.
You can be asked for confirmation. Nbd.
If someone suddenly "switched on" a sonar detector that had been dormant in your body for all your life, would you be able to immediately recognise shapes and structures with it, and relate this new sense to your existing ones? My guess is not.
Why no fractions? If you are worried about loss of precision caused by floating-point numbers, you can use exact fractions. For instance, there is "mpq" in GMP (for C), the "fractions" module in Python's stdlib, or you could hand-write a small fractions library yourself.
Gack. Some of the worst crap I’ve seen in a long time.

You would be better off shopping the bargain bin at Walmart.

And this has nothing to do with moving, just furnishing a room or a set of rooms.
3DViewer: Better 3D for JavaFX
Ruby has a great gem too. I used it to migrate a client's membership data from an excel spreadsheet to a SQL data model.

This sheet was formatted like:

MEMBERS
...rows...

ADMINS
...rows...

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
...rows...

You could whip up any command line tool you need with that.
Caffe2 Merges with PyTorch
This kind of software chooses you :-)

Actually, it's quite rewarding once you get into it. Serious business, people depend on you getting it right, but still nobody dies if a bug slips by.

Getting into it requires a year or two, though.
Their position didn't change. AMD architecture simply doesn't prefetch data that requires elevated permissions to execute.
No. As I said, multicast generally doesn't work across networks you don't control (and also needs special clients, can't be used with browsers).
This post made my day, thank you very much!
This looks like a great resource. The tools you'd like to have for a specific problem are often quite un-googlable. So you either need complex hacks to get inferior tools to work or you spend an hour googling the tools for a tiny problem.

Of course, it would be even better if you could easily tell which of the dozen JSON query tools is the best choice for the task at hand, or which you should code if you only want to ever use one of them.

In fact I'd love if someone would like to share their set of tried-and-true tools. Personally I mostly go with the POSIX tools, plus jq or gawk on occasion (but I have to read their docs every single time...).
I found that if you google for "usa flag ascii" then this is the first result [1]. So probably hackers just copied it from that page.

[1] http://chris.com/ascii/index.php?art=objects/flags
<I'm not even convinced that illegal immigration necessarily harms low-skilled domestic workers.

These jobs used to pay a man enough to support a family. Where has the money gone? What happens if an illegal gets hurt? Do they get workmen's compensation? I'm sure they get a small settlement, the cut fixed, and sent home. All the people are complicit. It is all about growth and more profit. You can have a sustainable business and employees that get decent pay with benefits.
What you could do is send your stream from your source machine to a streaming server, and then have the streaming server send that out to the clients.

This is how live-streaming on YouTube or twitch.tv works.
Comfortable ones?
Try visidata.

https://github.com/saulpw/homebrew-vd
The poster already explained that no, you can only write up to 64 characters which is not "infinite"
Why silly? I use those (especially sort and uniq) all the time, both in my scripts and in command line.
If you don’t mind converting the Excel file to CSV, csvkit[0], which is mentioned in the list, has a tool to pipe Excel into CSV for further processing by its sibling tools.

It won’t help if you need to retain anything Excel specific, but I find it very useful to deal with any Excel files that come my way.

[0] https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/1.0.3/
To have an idea of what can be done with sqlite look at this solution to the Hashcode 2018 https://github.com/mingodad/sqlite3-hashcode-2018 using only sqlite3 command line.
What an unfortunate choice of repository name. I definitely do not want to get Homebrew VD.
You obviously don't need to know the CEO just "to get healthcare" - her friend was already being treated. It only seems to be necessary as a means of getting access to expensive private treatments that were otherwise unaffordable.
Email that wouldn't go farther than 500 miles
All the materials (except lecture videos) are available online; just google CS161 Berkeley.
That's just powered by a battery with dissimilar metals, isn't it? Kids do this kind of thing in science class all the time making potato batteries.
This sounds extremely weird when you read it in Europe.
You think the CEO of 23andMe and ex-wife of Sergey Brin can't afford the best nursing home for her grandmother?