skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would have to say the time my contracting company got a gig to take over a t1 datacenter after a debacle and make it t2. Working on big, infrastructure level routers and switches, learning all the meeting-room-politics side of such a project, and learning the other intracacies of a datacenter that I "controlled" was extremely satisfying professionally and personally. On both the network engineer side and on the sysadmin side it felt the most raw and pure, close to the internet if that makes any sense.

Finally, I have to say some of the most rewarding personal experience has been working for extremely smart people. While working at a genetics lab I had the opportunity to learn from a pioneer in the sequencing field who got fed up with academia and was going capitalist. While working at an electrical motor company I got the oportunity to learn from one of the best devs I've ever known, a scala dude, and to learn from the what seemed to be the heir to the throne of the business and an extremely accomplished electrical engineer and scientist. I've also learned from and worked with some of the best warriors and leaders on the planet during my time in the Marine Corps.

I consider myself lucky.

A long time ago as a child I decided I knew not everyone was perfect, but you could learn to pickup a persons good habits and try to ignore their bad habits. Learning from the wisdom of other people is the most rewarding thing I can think of!
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I would guess that there are lots of places where having one gene be allele A and another allele X would be good or B and Y but having A and Y or B and X would be bad. And I'm not sure if current screening methods would find that except by saying that A is good if X is more prevalent in the population than Y.
File complaints with both the CFPB and FTC. This is a textbook "deceptive practice", and both agencies have jurisdiction over this type of thing. The more noise we make, the more likely they are to act.
The only caveat to this approach, and it's minor, is that the inherited disorder will continue to be inherited. So the children need to be aware that when they have kids they'll want to have the same done (assuming nothing better has come along) so their kids can also sweat.

I wonder if this will become a problem for us moving into an age where we know enough to "fix" ourselves but not completely. Basically just more medical riders, instead of a bum knee, you have a bum gene.
Farming is more often limited by water than cold. Take a look at satellite photos of irrigation (https://www.google.com/search?q=irrigation+circles+google+ea...) and consider that one of the most serious issues in the western parts of the US is water rights between the states. This will (likely) be getting worse as temperatures increase and evaporation increases.

The higher temperatures will also be melting mountain snowpack earlier, so the highly variable rivers that feed much of our irrigation will be getting dry by late June rather than the first week of August with serious impact to crops.
In many other industries, automation or alternate data/program paths are kept "on" but in a simulation system together with actual driving. So there should be a period of 5 to 10 years where all tesla cars have the autopilot system active, but controlling a virtual car in a virtual environment. As far as autopilot is concerned it's doing stuff, but only the driver is in control of the vehicle (it's best to disconnect the autopilot system completely from any physical car control systems)

Collect data and see where the two systems (one human, one automated) differ and where they react the same, and from there extrapolate how well the system works (vs a baseline of human drivers under all conditions)

Do this for 10 years and you'll have a pretty good idea of how to improve autopilot.

I'm surprised such a study hasn't been done inside telsa itself.

The space shuttle if I remember correctly, does something similar to this with the redundant processors - all computers does all calculations simultaneously, and if there are discrepancies then either use consensus (2 out of 3) or sound the emergency alarm.
When the display goes to sleep due to lack of input or whatever, you have to drag upwards with your mouse to unlock the screen. Like some common dirty frickin' smart phone.

Yes!

Dragging a window to the top of the screen maximizes the window. FOR GODS SAKE WHY.

Double yes!
GNOME is what you get when you build a team for political reasons instead of hiring good developers and designers.

To make it good you'd have to exchange the whole team first. It's LXDE for me from here on out.
Thanks for pointing that out. Fixed.
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Please add screenshots or a description to your Readme file.

I’ve never heard of this game - a quick Google didn’t seem to return any screenshots or info, and I certainly don’t want to have to download and compile code just to see what it is.

All of this sounds like a lot of criticism - I’m really glad you tried to OSS this but please at least show us what it is.
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> Divorce rate is 53% in the US

It depends on what you measure and how you measure it. Which exact measurement are you doing?

For example, based on table 5 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/article/marriage-and-divor... at age 45 56.3% (48.6/(1-.137)) of people who got married at all are still in their first marriage. The other 43.7% got divorced.

Some of those people remarried. Of people who married at least twice, 41.4% are in their second marriage. The other 58.6% got divorced. Note that this is much higher than the first-marriage divorce rate.

The upshot is that many measurements of divorce rates (again, depending on what you measure) are highly affected by people who get married and divorced multiple times. People who can't make one marriage work are much more likely to also not make another one work... The divorce rate for first marriages is not over 50% in any data set I've seen for the US. If you have a citation for it being higher than that, I'd love to see it.
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I had this problem last year, and the only thing I managed to do was forcing my peers to all install TeamViewer :)))

Very specific service that potentially can generates you enough side-income :) I love this kind of project!

If anything, maybe create a freemium model... make it free for anything less than 3 mins?
> However, the tone, structure of your arguments (namely, lots of wide assertions with scant evidence), and combative reactions is getting in the way of the points you are trying to make. It makes no matter if a view is the correct (for a certain definition of correct) one if one cannot communicate it effectively.

Emphasis on tone, and I do get that. People don't like my tone, and they don't like being told they are at fault and that they are doing a terrible job at being parents. By "effectively", you mean by sugarcoating the message I'm trying to convey? Look, my point was that prohibition, when there are other alternatives that doesn't involve depriving other people of something, won't make you any less responsible for your child. Look at some of the responses to my comments regarding that, it's fascinating to think that some of these people may really be parents.

> By definition criminals don't follow laws. It's a circular kind of logic.

My problem is that people are too keen on regulating and prohibiting anything in the name of safety and whatnot and do actually believe it's going to be effective. It's not.

Let's say you - a law-abiding citizen - need a "good reason" which is determined by the court to carry a knife, and good reason does not include self-defense, and it excludes any knives that would be actually effective against perpetrators with a knife, for example. Now, by definition a criminal doesn't care about this law, and you have no ways of defending yourself. How is this legislation (prohibition) in favor of the law-abiding citizen? It straight out deprives said citizen from the means of defending themselves. In addition to that, pepper sprays are also illegal. How are you supposed to defend yourself by other than running away (not doable in many scenarios), not going outside and assuming they won't break into your house, or hiring bodyguards when you can't afford it? Just put yourself in a scenario. You are a law-abiding citizen and you live in London. I hope you agree that there are many areas that are not exactly safe. Do you like the fact that you are unable to defend yourself without breaking the law? Prohibition is not exactly on your side, is it? What do you think?

Sources:

https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives
https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/firearms

For some fun:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/21/section/127 or the full response at https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/203615.
If you object to high CEO compensation for large NGOs, support small NGOs. They are typically run on a shoe-string, and the leaders are idealists who are definitely not in it for the money. One of my favorites is the Alliance for Tompotika (http://tompotika.org), run by a true visionary and very effective.
Thanks! Any chance you know of a sample static React frontend example for BigCommerce? It looks like it should be possible to use the API to bypass the BigCommerce templating and just make a conventional static React site with BigCommerce API backinng it. I’ve done this for Shopify sites (painful but mostly possible) and am thinking about porting the sites to BigCommerce because I don’t want to pay Shopify $2K/mo/store just to get SSO. It’s not a huge deal for me if there’s no boilerplate on how to do this, unless you think there’s some core thing that I couldn’t in principle pull off over the API.
Almost all people use at least basic arithmetic daily. They need it to count their change. There was a time, and not too long ago, where people could not do the basic calculations needed to conduct trade, and would require a smart man to tell them how much their chickens are worth.

Before the printing press (and at least a century after), most people could not read. This excluded them from scientific discovery too, since it was the means that people could exchange information over distance.

If you aren't able to do basic programming in a generation or two, you will probably be excluded from science too.

We're not suggesting every child needs to become a CS doc, but computers will be such a fundamental part of nearly every aspect of life, that the ones who can't hack programming will be treated like the children who can't read or count change in today's world - effectively useless. (Even more so since their "manual labour" is no longer necessary)
I will never understand why Ubuntu took a very nice desktop Linux distribution, and fucked it up with all these mobile and tablet centric UI absurdities.
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Just interested in peoples real world use of crypto at the moment - aside from trading?
I don't think I'm the target market either, but it seems to be a good fit as a GoPro competitor. At least in as much as people are often buying GoPros for Point-of-view vacation videos.

(And GoPros also use wifi to download, which is what me made me think of it in reply to you.)
The real question here is would he consider this outcome a failure?

What were the design goals of that MBP? Looking at it with an industrial designer eye I feel "symmetry" and "thinness" were higher up the list of requirements than "a good keyboard".
XFCE is slowly dying, and I think the issues are a symptom of this.

The file manager, for a very long time, had a reproducible issue (>20% of the time) where moving a file would cause a crash; based on the Ubuntu bug tracker, took an year and half to fix, and it was (appropriately) marked as critical.

It's clearly lacks development resources (and I also personally question the development quality).

I still use XUbuntu, but I think the future for low-resource machines will be LUbuntu (lowest power) and MATE (low power). MATE is also well funded, well organized, and very configurable.
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Reminded of Polgár..

"Psychologist László Polgár theorized that any child could become a genius in a chosen field with early training. As an experiment, he trained his daughters in chess from age 4. All three went on to become chess prodigies, and the youngest, Judit, is considered the best female player in history."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r
I have a desktop. The first thing I test after installation of Ubuntu is the remote access using ssh, then the wakeonlan, then the remote access using vnc (already painful with 16.04), then the sharing of hard disk directories. Finally, I test the playback of BD and CD.

I do not need much customization: ensure that the alt key is not blocked and works fine with photoshop. On the desktop, I will probably only remove the dock on the left.
How to power Laptop when power fails regularly
Hey Hackers , I live in a place where power fails regularly for few hours almost daily . Got this work from home privilege . How to keep my laptop powered painlessly and coolly for say about 12 hours. For smaller devices like smartphones and tablets there is USB powerbank , which are really handy and will fit in your shirt pocket. What is the equivalent for a laptop ( 65W,19.5V,3.34A)? The standard solution is a diesel generator or a battery-invertor . Is there any cool solution , since I don't need the generator in other ways . I thought of buying 2 more Laptop battery for my model and keep them under charge always .
To me, sanity is not conforming to old idiosyncrasies. I have had multiple people yell at me in person when I bring up clipboard. This is probably the single most embarrasing thing I have ever seen in Unix or Unix-like systems. We can't even get copy pasting right.

Sane defaults mean a single clipboard. If I copy something, it replaces the contents of the single clipboard. If you want to keep track of all the old things you copied, that's fine but all the ways of pasting should always paste the last thing you copied. If we can't agree on something simple as this, we can't agree on defaults (and should give up on computing).
I’ve been using a sleep tracking app since I got an Apple Watch and the effect of alcohol on my sleep quality has been eye opening.

I knew it was problematic but it is far worse than I ever expected
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I don't actively trade them. I just bought them awhile back and am holding them just in case the price skyrockets, then I'll sell and probably get out of that market.
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The scope of one person's life is almost unimaginable. For every one thing we know about a prominent person's life, there's a thousand more we can never know and only guess about.

As a result, we generally severely underestimate historical peoples, because there's just too much stuff there to get to know it all. We're constantly reifying facts and narrative to fit extremely complex events. We have to do it to our own lives, and the lives of the people around us, yet even the people we know the most intimately have vast swaths of their inner lives that you will never be able to fathom.
Half the cost? Where are you reading that? Yeah on demand rental in AWS is expensive, but both long term and buying V100 yourself is significantly cheaper. Cloud companies have pretty fat margins on on demand rentals.

You can’t buy a TPU, it’s a cloud only thing. They also show it’s not a huge difference in both perf and time to converge (albeit only one architecture)

I would say kudos to V100 and this benchmark that breaks the TPU hype.
First, This is only a problem if you have very diverse needs and most users' needs aren't.

We need to run a browser, a terminal, a file manager, maybe some media apps, and a text editor if you don't do that in the terminal. This is not like a vim config of an industry veteran, it shouldn't require tweaking from the OS. Just get out of the way.

I can tweak the number of workspaces or the colours temperature for day and night. These are matters of personal preferences. But the way to launch apps, connect to wifi, or display a clock should just be ergonomic.

Second, tweaks don't solve this problem.

There's a handful of talented tweakers and power users. They will use Sway or whatever anyway. Everyone else when confronted with lots of knobs ends up with something worse than a competent designer could have provided by default.
Nope, I want a thing that Just Works.

These days I use Kubuntu, but literally the only configuration thing I change is the desktop wallpaper. Everything else works how I want it out of the box.

I wouldn't even know how to diagnose shit anymore, and I grew up on Slackware. I had time to customize stuff when I was a kid, now it's time to work.
>Bastardizing on Latin

It's ugly, and emotionally loaded language which doesn't bring us towards any bright idea. In majority of languages where Latin is the base for their writing systems, there are diacritics, or other graphical changes. I wonder if you want also to tell French, and German guys that they 'bastardized' Latin, or is it only Kazakh who are not allowed to use the script with additions? Besides, Cyrillic had to be heavily modified for Kazakh also, and I guess any script, which realistically exists in modern world.
>It's not taboo though is it.

Very much so. Anyone could be fired for writing what I've written. Diversity is the new state religion.

Trump voters knew what they were voting for, even if it was dressed up as "economic anxiety" (although low-skilled immigrant workers devaluing labor right before automation is the last thing we need).

>which is typically based on outright lies

Absolutely not. Pick any metric for latinos in the US and compare them to whites. Fun fact, when you read "immigrants commit less crime than natives" it's due to existing blacks and latinos. They commit more crimes than whites and asians.

>which has a hard time dealing with change

Does it even register with you that change and immigration can be bad? It's not some force of nature. Again, we literally never voted for our immigration policy to change and it was promised that the ethnic makeup would not be upset in 1965.

>Every generation has struggled accepting new groups of people with both good and bad results.

So why are you advocating against nature and causing avoidable strife? Diversity is a failed experiment that leads to problems. http://freakonomics.com/2011/12/01/the-violent-legacy-of-afr...

I noticed that you didn't answer my question. Europe would be better in every meaningful way if there were only Europeans in it. How many thousands of British girls are you fine with being raped in the UK from grooming gangs? How much is enough? Why should a tiny minority in the world (whites) subsidize their own displacement?
That’s overly broad and simply false. It can be quite damaging to the wellbeing of people with severe circadian rhythm disorders.
They got caught, prosecuted, and went right back to making money from said sites.
The underwater capability could be huge. Given the timing here (mid spring in northern hemisphere), I suspect Snapchat is fully aware of this killer feature. Influencers could have fun with it while enticing the masses to buy a pair.
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If you guys decide to shelve the project in the future, or deem it economically unviable, I’d be interested in facilitating incorporating your code into ffmpeg. But only if it turns into abandonware. Hope it pays off for your team!
the sites you visit that track you via FB

Is this unique to Facebook? I'll grant that FB is really good at it, but who isn't trying to track you, to sell your info, to target ads to you? If you use a smartphone, a web browser, supermarket loyalty program, etc., is there a way around this?
It depends on how you look at it. A phase out of UBI could also be viewed as an additional tax.

In fact, you could consider the current system of benefits only if you are not working a form of UBI, if you just treat the UBI not received by the working as a tax against the benefits they would have received.

All in all, UBI isn't much of a departure to what we already have, except that people are expecting the benefits given would be much moar.
> Because we don't all share an origin, destination

We practically used to, until cars encouraged development to spread out.

> You have to completely rethink density and development patterns to get to a point where most origins and destinations are near stations.

In other words, go back to what the world was like before cars.

> Public transit has a wickedly hard problem to solve

But not impossible. European cities seem to have a less difficult time.
What’s your worker score?
>though admittedly the installation process is much more elaborate than of Ubuntu

The only thing that's more difficult about the Arch install is that you have to be able to follow written instructions...
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User selects to share location with 1 person in the world, and maybe even forgets about it because the feature is such low value [for the user] anyways. Google [and Verizon, and whomever else is in the middle] gets to snoop on user location forever at whatever precision they want, because "it's in the spec". Looks like a dark pattern for tricking everybody to share the location with Google, enabling corporate 24/7 mass surveillance.

Shameful.

Google has many choices: don't implement clear-text geolocation presence, don't implement RCS, speak up in the standards committee, communicate the implication to Google users, etc. Google chose to silently use a dark pattern to enable 24/7 location snooping.

Shameful.
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My goal is to work as a software engineer in the healthcare space and improve the state of patient data (because I think it's currently abysmal). I'm interested in making medical data less fragmented, more accessible and more secure. I believe blockchain could be a viable solution so naturally I am also interested in blockchain.

Obviously I want to work as a programmer, but I'm wondering if my goals, which require specialised knowledge in topics like security, encryption, cryptopgraphy, medical imaging, databases, would be better learned in university than from a job.
I am glad that you feel that way. It makes me feel a lot better.
With kids, I have often wished to be able to capture a short moment, after it occurred. I hate having my phone out and recording my 2 year old daughter, because it changes her behavior (and I think trains her to be a bit narcissistic).

I'd gladly pay more than $150 for that ability, but I just don't think Spectacles are it.

Someone, sometime, will crack that nut, though, and I'll gladly throw them my money. Google seems to be trying to do it with Clips [0].

[0] - https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17055618/google-clips-sma...
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"Some kind of meat", yes. I can't imagine it to be of high quality, so hesitate to call it "proper". AFAIK the main noticable difference is whether the kebab is made of ground meat or not. The latter being more expensive and supposedly of higher quality. But in the end it's mostly going to be factory meat so it makes no difference, IMHO (there are exceptions of course: https://www.meraba.de/).
Yes I am thinking along the same lines too. Thanks for your answer!