skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You realize roads are built & maintained entirely at public expense? But we are so used to taking roads for granted.

Reminds me of the famous (and probably fake) quote: "Where was the government when I was on food stamps?"
It isn’t of practical value, but it makes me happy to discover another distinguished member of the Secret Council of /(\b[plurandy]+\b ?){2}/i.
I just used Flickr this last month after a LONG hiatus for a new reason. Wanted a site to make a shareable link to otherwise private photos for friends and family to see our in-progress trip. I hate Facebook and would be a hypocrite to post the pics to Instagram.

Worked really well to upload photos from phone to a private repo. Captions, and a link in the SHARE TO camera library.

Not everyone wants a travel blog. Current Flickr worked well.
See the universe as a type of cube. (It's a 4d hypercube, but don't worry about the 4th dimension just yet.) The cube is vastly bigger at one end, like a horn.

An explosion occurred at the narrow end of the box/horn. We, the Earth, the Sun, solar system, Milky Way, everything we can see are the particles flying away from the explosion. The path we're tracing are the world lines. Indeed, these can be seen as tunnels, and we are a charged force propagating through them.

We perceive time as a cross section of the cube/horn. But things slow down where they gather. And so the actual cross section would be very lumpy. But not to our limited perception.
Yes, it's important to understand exactly what court people are referring to. So I strongly agree that "correct" English terms should be used (assuming that the translation is correct; I'm sure that courts in Germany don't really have much reason to care about the translation).

But sometimes even using correct English words is not enough. In the USA "Supreme Court" sounds authoritative. And it usually is. Except in New York State.

The names of courts in New York state often confuse outsiders. The "New York Supreme Court" is the equivalent of "trial-level court" in most other states. New York State's highest court is the Court of Appeals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Supreme_Court
I see this going on with Uber now. They’re a ride sharing service that seems to be bored with ride sharing.
Penn Law Startup Kit-Free PDFs of Startup-Related Legal Documents
That is absolutely true. My meaning is that the big banks are the only banks that have survived all the regulation, and the only reason they can survive is because they're increasingly centralizing all of their operations and shitting on average customers who earn them essentially no money.
In my case: my frequent travel by train is around 3 to 3.5 hours one-way, on routes that would be around 1h40m to 2 hours by car. Using a $0.30/mile figure for driving, the train is around the same price, or a bit cheaper, than driving myself, so long as I am using multi-ride tickets.

However, the train is a comfortable environment for me to do other things. I can read, write, and do quite a bit of research work; I can comfortably use my laptop and usually have a decent internet connection.

If I drive myself, I can do very little else but drive during the time; if I have someone else drive, I can do some things, but it can be quite difficult and rather nauseating, no matter how nice the car.

Thus, my choice is usually between a 3.5 hour trip where I can pretty much do much of what I'd be doing were I not traveling during that time, or a 2 hour trip that will actually hinder the better uses of my attention: the shorter duration trip ends up taking much more of my time.
Java is a simple language, the syntax is easy to parse and logic is generally straightforward to reason about - as a programmer you have very little ability break expectations of how the language itself behaves (no operator overloading, etc).

Scala, on the other hand, gives you a huge toolbox down to some really complicated to reason about features like implicit parameters, creation of completely arbitrary operators, etc.

[Insert some funny pun here about Java giving you a simple tool while Scala gives you an incredibly complicated one]. They're both great languages, but they serve very different purposes and audiences - Kotlin happens to fit Java's demographic better than Scala as a result, it doesn't have the magic and complexity to the same degree Scala does (the most confusing new constructs probably revolve around builders/lambda's with receiver types which aren't needed by most developers not writing DSL's).
thanks! I appreciate it! :)
Generate a color PAL composite signal using the built in DACs of the $5 ESP32
Amazon Web Services – CreateDBSnapshot?
HDFS is supported by Solr+Lucene, but rather than my own poor paraphrasing, see what you think of this writeup: https://engineering.linkedin.com/search/did-you-mean-galene
i use flickr as 1TB backup alternative to google photos, bit their app is next to useless so can't really use it actively for organizing photos as on desktop

so any idea what will happen with free 1TB plan and the app? Google photos is the only reason i still keep gapps on my phone, it would be great to be able to rid off it
There's a saw at home depot (and probably Lowe's) and they'll cut your lumber for you. I think it's one cut per piece of lumber for free.

Home depot lumber is super expensive to begin with, so it's kind of baked in to the cost.
Pls seek help and capitalise on the current situation in desktop apps. We need low memory consuming apps seriously
Irked California postal patron helped crack a global plant smuggling scheme
The Home Depot on Northern Blvd in Queens will definitely cut whatever buy in to whatever size you want it. They will take the scraps if you don't want them.

It's a short walk from the R train (Northern Blvd stop) and longer but still easily walkable from the 7 (52nd Street) and longer yet but most reliable LIRR (61st Street). There is also a surprisingly good sausage and pepper stand out front of the Home Depot. Go in get your lumber cut, get a sausage and pepper hero and take a cab back in to the city. It's about 10 minutes from the 59th st bridge via Skillman Ave.
What service is using it at scale these days? I can't really think of a popular user. After a certain point it just becomes a headache.

When I was working with ejabberd clusters servicing mobile clients it worked but I've had a lot less pain just using a custom protocol over websockets. My personal experience also seems to be mirrored throughout the industry as all the big players eventually move away from xmpp.
Petty and oversensitive? Zuckerberg showed no signs of regret or learning. There is no "we" here, by the way, and defense of sociopathy implies leaving disregard towards the abused. Do you really need to be this petty and cowardly? I don't, that's why I'm not.
Whoah, another Hacker News reader from Bingen/White Salmon?
Duckworth 2020
The cure for impostor syndrome is knowing things
Typora (https://typora.io/) can render mermaid and is useful for local markdown editing in general. It's quite cool.
A service that helps you use your strengths to excel at your job is called a manager (good ones anyway).
This is great news. Flicks has become infested with ads after the Yahoo acquisition to such an extent that it made me delete all my photos and close the account.

I used to post in the street photography groups, had a heavily curated one of our own. Now I tend to use it more for looking at bicycle mod photos but the ads in between are so annoying. The only way Flickr could do worse would be being Pinterest.
Agreed - I’ve seen far too many who got into programming because of paycheck or peer pressure or something similar, but we’re not really cut out out for it. They ended up hating it not a long time later. Eventually these are the people who are responsible for all the “coding is a horrible job” perceptions. Worse, they do everything they can to get out of coding - and more likely than not become managers who manage real developers.

[Read the Hacker News guidelines about posting links to videos, PDFs etc]
how confident of them to use YouTube for this announcement rather than flickr's own video hosting service.
Regulation is a commitment that we prefer "none at all" to the status quo. No more, no less. We talk about regulation creating desirable outcomes, but that's an oversimplification - the ADA does not hire or conscript anyone into the business of creating accessible infrastructure. It threatens that if they won't make their infrastructure accessible, they can't have any. The threat of "none at all" is the whole mechanism.
In Trying to Ban Telegram, Russia Breaks the Internet
Content Marketing Is Boon or Bane??
> Those experiences helped me re-evaluate my approach and get out of the "I'm already awesome, why would I need to do more" mindset. Had I not realized that

What helped in getting out of the mindset, what did you do?
Explain what is T2 instances?
No, roomette. Chicago-Portland direct round trip, in mid-May, is $1,900 for the two-person "Superliner Roomette". I checked a bunch of possible journeys, and the cheapest round-trip roomette ticket was $1,000.
Obviously I considered the lowest point on land.
It gets even harder streets with like Lower Wacker Drive that are one deck below street level. There is almost no line of sight to any sats.
[Edit: See comment for correction that explains that Radio-Canada includes TV. I'll leave this here because some of the info is valid]

From the article: It also questioned why Radio-Canada was preserving its master recordings after making digital copies but CBC had opted to rely only on digital copies

This statement shows a lack of understanding of the problem. Old audio recordings can still be played. Old video recordings from the early VTRs[1] are going to be unplayable soon: the people who have the skill to refurbish an old VTR are well into retirement age now. There are only a handful of the original VTRs still operating.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadruplex_videotape
Ageism is still the number 1 discrimination in the IT/software industry by a mile. But since it is not as 'sexy', 'Politically Correct' or appealing to the right 'Consumer Demographic', it gets mostly the silent treatment.
The experiment that broke reality
Chris was the founder of fatbrain which went the ”traditional way”. So I guess he learned a few things there.

What’s interesting about photo related business is that longevity really matters. It’s hard to imagine handing your family memories to a fast-pivot-exit-happy “startup”. There are many YC companies founded in this area but none had survived so far?
I would avoid using the name GCC to refer to the closure compiler, since there's already an extremely well-known compiler named GCC.

Admittedly it doesn't take JS as input, but I was somewhat confused when I read your comment nonetheless.
I can't imagine this not impacting the impartiality of staff when teaching subjects related to labor unions, like Economics.
That paper is for school exams. Here is one of the two papers for IIT-JEE: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B14M4ID1Z9cQdWZSaWhSejd1Qlk...
Giving money directly to poor people (2013)
The average union member nowadays works in a publicly funded institution, in a service or white collar job, not in the private sector or in manufacturing.
'De la suflet, la un suflet' – expozitie caritabila
That’s why AV1 is a terrible name, they should come up with something else while it’s still possible changing it.
I’m all for this move. If amtrak is to succeed, it has to do so on the basis of efficiency and service. If people aren’t willing to pay the prices neccessary to cover the cost of food, and unions are unwilling to reduce the cost of production, then we’re at an impasse and should cancel the service in order to free up operational capital for running more service and improving service in other ways. Trust me, people will find ways to eat! Making food a money sinkhole is contrary to history and experience. It makes sense as a loss leader, not when the system as a whole is a loss.
If you have a grafana stack this is great with their plugin.

https://grafana.com/plugins/jdbranham-diagram-panel

I was able to do architectural diagrams and post them as dashboards. Showing a top-level metric, then make that block red on a thresh hold breach. It gave not only a top-level view, but a performance over view as well.

An example would be the frontend web requests and average latency response, to api request count and latency than the actual database backend. All as separate blocks with individual metrics.
Blocky Kids BMX Cycle Racing Game
Thanks for such an amazing rabbit-hole of a link.
Radio-Canada is the french language arm of the CBC. It is television and radio, not just audio.
Integrate TomCat and Node server?
I believe the situation is that Geordie has the pedigree, that there's a continuous line back to the olden times, but it has evolved to a greater degree, and through forks in coal miner culture (see: Pitmatic[1]) and other professions of the area.

Tangiers seems special because, as the story goes, it was essentially a transplantation of the 17th century accent, a hard fork, which evolved to whatever degrees in isolation. I don't know if I should soft-pedal this as much as it is in Wikipedia, but I've had an ear bent for both of these regions for 10-15 years and this is my sense of both.

Naturally the truth is likely somewhere in between.

(IANA Dialectician, just a part-time sound and language aficionado)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitmatic
Vue.js has such functionality (when used with webpack & vue-router)
Hmm, looks like the data I cited was a bit dated. Amtrak mentions 94% for their 2016 fiscal year [1], which isn't bad.

[1] https://media.amtrak.com/2016/11/amtrak-delivers-strong-fy-2...
What is new in bootstrap 4?
Yes I was confused when I recently started uploading to Instagram that I couldn't find a way to view photos at 100%.

But in a way that's clever; I think reflects their intention to capture spontaneous moments, regardless of technical merit. You can't zoom-in to be wowed by 50MP of detail and thus it puts everyone on the same level, regardless of tools, and focuses them on composition and timing.
I have the exact same issue. Anything you can do to make it possible to reclaim my account after the yahoo login nonsense would be amazing.
There's many other books[1] on queuing theory if you want, I liked the Harchol-Balter book because of the exercises [1]https://web2.uwindsor.ca/math/hlynka/qbook.html
These look like they where adapted from the talk linked bellow, and each slide image has a description probably for accessibility (screen readers).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZmUwXEiPm4
He really liked tilted squares, huh?
This was a very interesting article!

I'd currently consider myself a mid-level engineer, and I have recently been put in a position where I must lead a team of many devs and incorporate all their code. I did understand about half of this article, but it also indicates that there's a lot left for me to learn.

I'm curious what kind of blogs or online courses or books I should search for if I wanted to better develop this skill within myself, and to design and architect these sorts of large applications with multiple contributors?
I can create that kind of PDF right now if you want me to? But I have a feeling that if they had that kind of document on the site that you would just say what does that prove, that it needs to be on Deloitte site. And then I'll ask you to find any audit on Deloitte site and we'll see if you manage to do that.

And yes - I'm a long time reader, never posted. Opened an account because of all the bashing. And I do follow Iconomi regularly and I hold their tokens. I would suppose you can take it that I am better informed because I follow them regularly or a shill. I have a feeling which option you will take.
I'm kinda surprised the Nvidia was totally cool with this presentation. Maybe the engineers think this info should be commonplace but are trapped in NDA hell?
The best use case for blockchain that I've seen so far is Dada.nyc, a platform where you can buy art with Ethereum. What I love about it is that in this marketplace, every time an artwork is resold, the artist gets paid. Opposed to traditional art where you get paid once and never see anything again when your art appreciates wildly after you die
Well, that means system works as intended. Good riddance. Hopefully our kids will get a chance to land a nice job without slaving for a bowl of rice.
The world’s largest cockroach farm is breeding 6B cockroaches a year
Crab Shells Help Researchers Make New Battery Materials
And here I thought the sleep was poor back in steerage!

It's interesting that one of those articles mentions ABQ. One of my times on the Southwest Chief, the guy in the seat next to me was in the "import export business", and upgraded to a sleeper car on the spot. Some jackboots got on at ABQ and started mildly harassing passengers looking for this guy. He was still on the train afterwards and insisted they had only wanted to talk (but was obviously being coy, flirting with the train attendant).

Given that he was scarce enough to need to find en route, but yet somehow not scarce enough to take into custody, I had been wondering if he was some kind of informant and the train was a plausible way to get him alone to talk. But now I'm left wondering if I had just witnessed an early version of this armed robbery scheme.

I hope you at least attempt to sue that blatantly criminal organization as well as your individual assailants. Although reading such accounts I can't help but feel what they really deserve is the gallows.
> It means there's a star out there to absorb it.

No, it doesn't. If it did, then flashlights would behave differently depending on what you were pointing them at.
Is there some documentation on how to run code from a string in C. I guess I can setup a getter for a buffer and then call fxParseScript? Is that all?
Thanks so much, I'll play with both of those options.
I don't really see the problem. The position fix is done in firmware as per normal, and then the server-side just looks at the SNR for each PRN and decides whether or not to adjust that position. The SRNs will probably not match across two different GPS chips, but multipath vs. shadow vs. clear sky should have enough relative difference for the server to tell the cases apart.
Me too. There are people at my current job who presents the work of others and get a lot of credit for it. The boss has no idea what the builders are doing even.
Great, thanks, will check it out.
Or you know, writing an entire library instead of filing four PRs against an existing one, with a user base, documentation, stack overflow entries and resume appeal.

Nothing more dangerous than a smart but bored developer.
RSA security conference app leaked conference attendee details
That looks really interesting. I'll have a play!
My best monitor hack
If you code, get computer glasses. They give a slight magnification on the screen, allowing you to use a smaller font-size on the screen. Without the glasses, I can only do practical work with 3 docs simultaneously on my 34" screen. With the glasses, I can comfortably work on 4 docs on the screen width-wise simultaneously.
Flickr doesn't really do videos though. Yea, you can upload them but playback is limited to just 3 minutes and it doesn't really have tools to work with videos.
> I don't see why you need QM for that.

Maybe you don't. But you need something more than Newtonian mechanics. It's possible that GR is enough. I don't understand it well enough to be able to say one way or the other. But I'm skeptical. In particular, this registers on my bogometer:

> In these cases the thermodynamic arrow of time is the set of transformations that leave the equilibrium state unchanged. We can do that in the classical regime as well as the quantum one, given some additional symmetries...

I'd want to see that argument developed in more detail. I can see how GR might provide an arrow of time for the universe, but not for the sugar dissolving in my coffee.
There are very few parts of the U.S. in which you'd travel more than an hourr or two between hotels. Virtually all towns have at least some services.

Nevada, Wyoming, Montana, possibly the Dakotas, are principle exceptions in the lower 48, though this means an upper bound on this interval, at least along principle rotes. An example is the 75 miles along I-94 between Buffalo and Cheyenne, Wyoming, with no highway exits or onramps at all. There are, however, services, at either end.

Alaska is a domain unto itself.
That's really cool. Considering I just need the same command to run each time, with a different value passed to it, I could see this working the same as this (and the idea of being able to tell my Google Home to do it is pretty awesome!). I'll have a play, thanks.
I hadn't heard it before, here it is:

"There is no such a thing in America as an independent press, unless it is out in country towns. You are all slaves. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to express an honest opinion. If you expressed it, you would know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid $150 for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, I would be like Othello before twenty-four hours: my occupation would be gone. The man who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street hunting for another job. The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to villify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same — his salary. You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an "Independent Press"! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Swinton
Wrong, but thanks for trying :-)
Ah, I found some nice example in fx_agent_start_aux() function. :)
The backwards thing about the second amendment is that the USA is easily the closest western country I’ve been to to a police state. Contrast the militarisation of the police in the USA with a far more “free” country like New Zealand (with significant gun regulation).

Just like the 2nd amendment militia arming would have been useless against the German government (like the BEF which had many tanks and planes and heavy weapons) it’s useless today against heavily armed state and modern military equipment (drones, tanks).
Use TypeScript on JVM: NPM and Maven Dependencies
Ahah! That thread's so sad vs. this thread's so exciting :)
In terms of communities where you can get the most qualified person on a topic to reply, I think Quora would also qualify, and to a limited extent, Twitter.
Keep in mind that bus travel is extremely heavily subsidized in the form of the government handling maintenance of the national highway system
And this project is super interesting: https://1c.wizawu.com/#/whatis Use TypeScript on JVM with both NPM and Maven dependencies
blockdiag [0] has several helpful types of text to diagram processors with several output filetypes like svg and png.
In particular I like nwdiag (network diagrams), rackdiag (server rack layout) and packetdiag the most.

There is also an interactive web form [1] to try it out. You can switch between the types of diagram in the top right dropdown.

[0] http://blockdiag.com/en/

[1] http://interactive.blockdiag.com/nwdiag/
Nice introduction . Waiting for the rest of the series
There is an emscripten compiled graphviz already. Works fine.
Mainly because forced migration is something an enemy does to a people in a war.

I also take issue with the parasitic landlord class.