skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> USSR did not have toilet papers or pencils?

No. Just that it could not produce them reliably with efficiency. Consider this from Friedman's book "Free to Choose":

First, the wood comes from a tree, "a cedar of straight grain that grows in Northern California and Oregon." To cut down the tree and cart the logs to the railroad siding requires "saws and trucks and rope and . . . countless other gear." Many persons and numberless skills are involved in their fabrication: in "the mining of ore, the making of steel and its refinement into saws, axes, motors; the growing of hemp and bringing it through all the stages to heavy and strong rope; the logging camps with their beds and mess halls, ... untold thousands of persons had a hand in every cup of coffee the loggers drink!" And so Mr. Read goes on to the bringing of the logs to the mill, the millwork involved in converting the logs to slats, and the transportation of the slats from California to Wilkes-Barre, where the particular pencil that tells the story was manufactured. And so far we have only the outside wood of the pencil. The "lead" center is not really lead at all. It starts as graphite mined in Ceylon. After many complicated processes it ends up as the lead in the center of the pencil. The bit of metal - the ferrule - near the top of the pencil is brass. "Think of all the persons," he says, "who mine zinc and copper and those who have the skills to make sheet brass from these products of nature." What we call the eraser is known in the trade as "the plug." It is thought to be rubber. But Mr. Read tells us the rubber is only for binding purposes. The erasing is actually done by "Factice," a rubberlike product made by reacting rape seed oil from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) with sulfur chloride. After all of this, says the pencil, "Does anyone wish to challenge my earlier assertion that no single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me?" None of the thousands of persons involved in producing the pencil performed his task because he wanted a pencil. Some among them never saw a pencil and would not know what it is for. Each saw his work as a way to get the goods and services he wanted - goods and services we produced in order to get the pencil we wanted. Every time we go to the store and buy a pencil, we are ex changing a little bit of our services for the infinitesimal amount of services that each of the thousands contributed toward producing the pencil. It is even more astounding that the pencil was ever produced. No one sitting in a central office gave orders to these thousands of people. No military police enforced the orders that were not given. These people live in many lands, speak different languages, practice different religions, may even hate one another - yet none of these differences prevented them from cooperating to produce a pencil.
The Neato sensor does anlittle better, about 2cm at 5m
The interesting question, whose answer will likely have to be forced through some leak or investigative reporting, is whether FB and the execs knew about the potential connection to Russia in 2016. If it was brought to the attention of Zuckerberg and Sandberg, in light of their adamant denials back in 2016 and 2017, I don't see how the company or executives walk out of this unscathed.
> Their entire corporate culture is built around users being the product, and small cash payments won't change that.

You make that sound like a fact...can you please provide sources!

I am asking this because it doesn't align with my personal assessment of people who I know that work at Facebook or Google...like not at all!
I think you meant to say, if it had been a rifle. AR-15's don't posses special properties... anything shooting a .223 or 5.56 round will have similar properties.

The damage truly depends on the type of ammunition used (as well as caliber). FMJ (Full Metal Jacket) ammunition, what seems to be described in the article you referenced, is a non-expanding type of ammunition, typically causing less destruction than expanding types such as HP (Hallow Point), which flatten and expand on impact.

Muzzle velocities from a rifle are significantly higher than handguns, which does translate into more kinetic energy. The additional energies in a rifle cartridge will cause more shock damage to organs, as described in the article, however.

HP ammunition (not commonly used in rifles) is designed to be devastatingly lethal - specifically designed to leave very large wounds in the target, which have little hope of closing/repairing the wound.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00A0RHSJO/

$35 and installs in 10 mins with included tools on most toilets. I have installed them on every toilet I regularly use and somewhat internally question anyone who uses Amazon and toilets and doesn’t have one.

It also now bothers me when I stay in a 5 star hotel in the US and there is no bidet; I have seriously considered installing one of these (and leaving it) in each hotel I stay at for more than 48h.
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Sounds like what fb was doing in determining what news stories to feature. We saw how that turned out (they ended up largely abandoning the editorial team.)
multiple return statements should be avoided. It makes the code harder to read. One entry, one exit.
Just tried it on mobile, and must say it works well. Moving stuff including scrolling feels fluent and natural. Nice work, will consider this if I need dnd in react in the future.
People who mock you for having a cleaner butthole than them are strange people indeed.
It suggests "any of the scripting languages," of which Ruby is one. Are you saying it should specifically recommend Ruby over all the other scripting languages? Because, I mean, I like Ruby a lot, but I can't see any reason why you'd distinguish it that way.
You are correct, Messenger "Secret Conversations" uses E2E with the Signal protocol[0]

[0]: https://www.wired.com/2016/10/facebook-completely-encrypted-...
>> Instagram celebs are either hot girls, or guys with lots of money to pay for promoted content.

Guys are hot, too. Not all of them need to pay for ads, and not all the women got there without it.
"Facebook, in fact, claims lofty goals, saying it seeks to "bring us closer together" and "build a global community."

Those are indeed noble purposes that social media can serve. But if they were Facebook's true goals, we would not be here.

The ideal competitor and successor to Facebook would be a platform that actually puts such goals first.

To do so, however, it cannot be just another data-hoarder, like Google Plus.

If we have learned anything over the last decade, it is that advertising and data-collection models are incompatible with a trustworthy social media network.

...

When a company fails, as Facebook has, it is natural for the government to demand that it fix itself or face regulation.
...

If today's privacy scandals lead us merely to install Facebook as a regulated monopolist, insulated from competition, we will have failed completely.

The world does not need an established church of social media."

Source:

Tim Wu, law professor at Columbia University

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/opinion/facebook-fix-repl...
After leaving Amazon you really go on to understand how good the internal tools are at Amazon and how they probably have the best tools in the industry.
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>Do gun owners truly believe that they can band together and stop the entirety of the United States military anymore?

Well, yeah.

There are no illusions that a group of people with dubious levels of training could square off against the government and come out on top. However, you can certainly raise the cost of occupation _significantly_.

Despite the US rolling into the middle east with all of its technological might, planes, helicopters, and modern armor, its still bands of people with guns and bombs who, years after "mission accomplished", drag the conflict onward.
We should all be in the business of peace and prosperity, not war and destruction. If we aim to build a better world that is. What will it take, my fellow geniuses, to build a peaceful world?
This is lovely. An interesting thing to think about here is the layout of the sequential time-series data. This visualisation breaks the sequence out into columns, which means that squares that are close to each other in the sequence don't cluster visually.

I've played with using space-filling curves for this to visualise binaries:

https://binvis.io/

You can play around on there with the scan layout (similar to the Netflix layout) and compare it to the Hilbert curve. You can click and drag to select regions in both (similar to the video for this visualisation).

There are tradeoffs - the Hilbert layout is not intuitive, and you have to play around to select regions accurately. On the other hand, the clustering lets you visually pick hotspots in much greater detail, e.g.:

https://binvis.io/#/view/examples/tcpview.exe.bin?colors=ent...

I've found it useful to be able to toggle between both scanning and clustered layouts, and plan to explore some more interaction paradigms when I get time to turn back to the project.
Wrt rotation theres also a cultural component of it. Systems grow in complexity and importance. Forcing periodic rotation, With corresponding automagic client support, ensures thats its even possible when you need it. Compare STS tokens to IAM credentials.
The article mentions that there are major merchant vessels sinking every two/three days! That seems huge. How many deaths per year does that amount to? We're lucky to be in tech I guess.
Wow, thanks! This is why I like to err in public sometimes, you never know how interesting things will come your way.
Another example of charitable sanitisation: referring to personal data being 'monetized' rather than 'sold'. Information is sold when advertisers can target sets of users based on their personal data.
Atom was Google's answer to RSS back when they cared about an open web. As far as I can tell, everything that handles RSS also handles Atom, and they're exposed in the header in the same way.

Firefox users can right click on the browser chrome, go to Customize, and add a subscribe button that lights up when a page has a feed. It's not as snug a fit as what used to go in the address bar, but it still works.
Outside of me (NYC) there's homelessness and pollution. I guess that's not so bad? Also, it's not that I think things are bad, it's that I think the increasing concentration of wealth is resulting in increased potential for some event. What event? I don't know, but I doubt it'll be good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lant

I have heard that the piss-collection industry still exists, but collecting the urine from portable toilets and extracting human urokinase from it, rather than using it for cleaners, glazes, and flavorings.

And, after searching for confirmation, here it is: http://www.toilets.com/Pharm/pharm_production.htm
'Most' People on Facebook May Have Had Their Accounts Scraped
Toilet Paper is one of my favorite "How it's Made" episodes. Feel free to check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z74OfpUbeac.

My favorite part is at 4:43 with the Circular Saw!
Thank you for taking the time to find and share the points. I'd like to rebuke :

>Globalism == lack of agency, end of voting and elections

If federalism didn't lead to this, why would globalism? What even is globalism? I am skeptical of this because "globalism" seems to be used as a catch-all alt-right bogeyman lately.

>universal education == total indoctrination, ideological consistency

Universal access to education doesn't have to mean homogeneous curriculum. It doesn't have to mean lack of education choices. It doesn't even have to mean requirement to receive education.

Another thing I find curious - the very people I find rejecting education "collectivism" are often people who wouldn't blink before forcing their own "indoctrination" upon others. We fight this fight in Texas far too often - should schools teach facts (evolution), or give "fair credence" to falsehoods (intelligent design) because of religion? Woops, out goes falsehoods as soon as the satanists get involved and also flex their constitutional rights, never mind, we'll take evolution!

>universal healthcare == the end of individual choice

I don't see why this has to be true, it isn't in any of the current implementations of universal healthcare.

>end of individual responsibility

Are you presently responsible for your water being clean? Are you presently responsible for the quality of your roadways? Are you presently responsible for the guarantee that your medication contains advertised active ingredients that do as it says on the label?

>Extensive taxing regimes

Shift military funding, close ultra-rich tax loopholes.

>destruction of the individual

Fail to see how this is true. Unsupported by argument.

>gun control == people control

False equivalence.

>then, total domination by the state and a monopoly on the use of force

Currently working just fine in countries with gun control laws, which, by the way, completely nullifies the false "has never worked out well" absolute you ended with. Furthermore, the USA has right now a monopoly on the use of force. The US and its laws have sovereign control over whether you are allowed to use force or not. You have almost no say in the matter. Furthermore, this isn't 1776. The gap in armament between civilians and a martial state is so large as to be hilarious. Were the need to arise, US combined armed forces could drone strike, Tomahawk, artillery, AC130, or just door to door ground and pound any organized militia to dust. Or, you know, nuke it.

Are you, private US citizen, allowed to build a nuke?

I see this kind of response a lot to "the globalist threat."

What's the end game, for people that believe these things? Endless culture war? A galaxy-spanning human civilization that still has their "I'm an American and you're Chinese" safe little lines? Is there a fear that the "wrong" culture will persist into the future?
Well, do you want an eye-safe laser? And want to operate outdoors?

The Neato is about 5m indoors, 2m outdoors with a sun shade. That reflects a lot of effort fighting the "sun blindness" problem that having a powerful IR source shining in through your picture window causes for the vacuum cleaner.

Practically, you want to modulate the laser so that you can filter for an AC signal.
The first 4K Chromebook might be in the works
Wait... you’re saying this isn’t a problem because only one side is manipulating public outrage and not both sides? And that “bad tactics” are OK if they don’t deliver a killing blow?

Dude, be honest. You are only OK with targeting advertisers because it lines up with your beliefs instead of allowing all speech and just making better arguments against those who you disagree.

Oh, surely this could never turn around on you!
For me paralax-based sensors (in the sense of draw a line with swept laser and look at it with some kind of imager) are the first thing I imagine when hearing "LIDAR". For a long time most industrial lidar sensors used that principle (the 25k+ ones ten years ago).
There was nothing to indicate she should be denied such. Self-defense is a valid and widely-exercised human right. Just because Policy X has problems doesn't mean Policy Y doesn't (and may unleash the Pandora's Box which Policy X was imperfectly controlling).

Even were guns nationally banned, that she decided to proceed with mass murder - showing enough signs of danger far enough in advance that she was reported to & interviewed by police - there were a multitude of ways of carrying out the attack, including by buying contraband weapons. Other products are completely illegal in this country, with enormous suppression activity, yet are widely available; no reason to believe a ban would somehow render guns unobtainable via a few hundred dollars discretely exchanged in the wrong side of town.

What's pity is the victims were[0] specifically denied a right to armed self-defense, under threat of harm. She was the rare one who snapped, and in doing so violated a plethora of "reasonable restrictions" to cause grave harm; nobody seems to notice the enormous numbers likewise armed yet never harm anyone - a few happening to stop such attacks early.

[0] - summarizing, details beyond a mere comment.
EXACTLY!

And thanks for the note about Apple News. I must admit that having left Apple over their walled-garden iOS direction (turning to embrace of GNU etc.), they have stuck to a higher-road in a lot of regards compared to the other big companies. They're still nowhere near as awful as Google, Facebook, Microsoft… if only Apple weren't sabotaging copyleft and hadn't pioneered the in-app advertising, sales, and tracking that are actually so much of what's wrong…
> Unless the cable had absolutely no temperature expansion...

One might be able to get a composite with very close to zero thermal expansion coefficient by linking stages made of materials with positive and negative [1] coefficients.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_thermal_expansion
Woah! This is a really sweet library. Seriously, the best one I've seen.
I can't think of a single right that exists inherently. Where does such a right originate?

For every right that most people hold evident, you'll find people who disagree. This is why rights are codified in laws and agreements.
So Facebook Messenger has the option of end-to-end encryption of chats when you use "Secret Conversations", which are encrypted using the Signal Protocol [0], [1]

Is there any indication that FB doesn't scan the contents of these messages before encrypting them with your own key and sending them across the wire?

[0]: https://www.facebook.com/help/messenger-app/1084673321594605...
[1]: https://www.wired.com/2016/10/facebook-completely-encrypted-...
- Kubernetes in Action

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Yeah, but as I mentioned, it is not realistic to use them for installable software, yet. At least not for my needs; we're building software that needs to be easily installable on the leading server distros; we can't ask a million or two people to upgrade their Perl before installing our software.

So, I'm excited about it, too, but I can't use them until CentOS/RHEL 7 reaches end of life (and that's assuming CentOS/RHEL 8 gets a 5.20+ version of Perl, which isn't an entirely safe assumption). It's easy to blame CentOS/RHEL for this, because they ship an old-as-heck Perl version, but it's also reasonable to question why it took 20+ years for Perl to get function signatures in the core language.
That’s generally not how collective bargaining works. After petition, the next step would be a strike, not mass resignations. Then if there is no resolution between management and labor, there will be terminations and regulations.

Perhaps before going to premature conclusions, it might be worthwhile to wait and see how management reacts.
This is is not the same kind of technology as better materials science for gun barrels, or hypergolic fuels for ICBM maneuvering thrusters. This is about a software that constitutes a decision making process. Who dies is not up to you or a commander, but by a automatic software process. Debugging the code means innocent people are probably going to die to do it.
::shrug:: Can't say I disagree. People have surprisingly strong feelings about getting their butts splashed with water.
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Not just for entertainment, but a great many for legitimate self-defense. Why should those rationally feeling need to prepare protection be denied by laws which ultimately do not stop the unstable deliberately acting to harm?
Many people don’t actually know this, but police has “no duty to protect”, meaning that they can perfectly legally not Intervene even if they know with 100% certainty people are being hurt or murdered. Look up “no duty to protect”.
On how to grow an idea
Can Lidar provide the topography of a sidewalk?
looks similar to the web developer in 2017 graphic, are the the same person?

you are also missing a big important part of being a full stack developer in 2018 and that is adwords and seo. Not being familiar with these topics will put you at a massive disadvantage in comparison to your peers and for your business.
Even if you restrict it to the US and USSR (and later Russia) there have been direct armed conflict, including both being on opposing sides in war (notably, but not exclusively, both Korea and Vietnam during the Soviet period, but also extending into the current war in Syria), though there have been political cover done to limit risk of escalation (e.g., Soviet Air Force flying NK-badged fighters and, initially, prohibiting use of Russian over the radio in Korea; Russian forces on the ground fighting, sometimes directly against US forces, being the “Wagner PMC”—a GRU-backed notionally-private group.) op
The exact number requires to do operations that are non-trivial at scale: you have to check who accepted to share information with that version of the app (there were several) and take into account the accounts that have been deleted in the last four years; whether Facebook can access that particular information at all is unclear to me (I would believe not). Then you have to recreate a list of all their friends at the time (which is, again, not trivial with some friendships being deleted) and take care of duplicates -- doable, but not trivial at that scale. Whether people are American is also non-trivial: I’m not sure there was clear geographic entities to make that easy in 2013. People move and Facebook only has your location, not your passport. You then have people without a recognisable name, who forgot or who are too young to be in the voting registry. Do you count all the IDs, those who were still active in November 2016, those who match local registries?

People who specialise in data (like people who code professionally) are precisely those who would have all those questions on the top of their mind and know that old, graph-based, editable datasets that need to be matched with another dataset are bad.

Edit: I was a data scientist for Facebook and I can personally attest that most of those are genuinely hard, especially those that I intentionally overlooked.
To be fair, I don't know of a single successful software product that doesn't advertise in some fashion.