skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps advocate for changes in the rules, whether that be directly or indirectly (e.g. by supporting propositions that mandate better supply-chain/whole-product-lifecycle accountability). Perhaps make choices that preference those companies with better lifecycle/supply-chains (and if you can't tell which those are, then perhaps advocate for changes in transparency regarding those things).

Change is slow and hard. Throwing up our hands and carrying on with the status quo is a choice not an inevitability. If we each live our lives according to the world we want to live in, and make our personal choices accordingly, then at the very least we'll be able to tell our kids we tried.
> Why would Congress do this?

To transfer enforcement costs, including for hosting civil actions outside of the situations where state law claims get into federal court, to state law enforcement and courts.
used to work for oracle, can confirm, an acquisition of your firm by oracle is the end of all fun and sane times

time to start looking or counting your shares if you were that high up in your firm :)
The joy and sadness of moving to a company 1000 times bigger
The only study on this subject I'm aware of is the one funded by The Ocean Cleanup Foundation [1], which puts 86% of annually released plastic in Asian rivers, with the main contributor being the Chinese Yantze river, followed by the Ganges. This compared to a mere 0.28% and 0.96% for Europe and North America respectively.

They've also released an interactive map [2], although if you're just interested in the numbers I'd recommend reading the paper.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15611.pdf

[2]: https://www.theoceancleanup.com/sources/
I believe in some videos they show it using the arm to get itself standing upright again.
On iOS you can shake your phone to "undo" on most apps. It's kinda neat, but most people only discover this by coincidence.
> In the future, there was a time

This is "memory", or "trace". Their existence take away from your non-existence, making it incomplete (imperfect), which indeed makes one's future different from one's past.
Guy Sneezes While in a Tesla – Experts Claim Autopilot Might Have Been Engaged
Yeah, I was gonna say. It's sad, but one can't expect a company to keep an entire production line open just for a rapidly dwindling number of enthusiasts. They have better ways to deploy their resources. It would be arguably negligent for them to not do so.

They probably shuttered the production facility years ago and are just running out their inventory. It might actually be quite lucrative, if evil, to buy some for later resale.
Rikka Takanashi – After School -
I don't agree with the advice to use arrays and set -u together. Sometimes you just need to get something done, and being pedantic works against you.

This advice only works in bash 4.4, and many common distros are on bash 4.3, like Ubuntu 16.02 LTS. (bash 4.4 was released September 2016.) Because of this bug, the section "how to begin a bash script" is version-specific and awkward IMO.

If you need to process untrusted filenames, use arrays, but otherwise it's probably more trouble than it's worth. [1]

I want my scripts to work on older versions of bash, and I think 'set -u' is important, so I mostly get by without arrays. It's not ideal, but shell is full of compromises.

A workaround is to use ${a[@]+"${a[@]}"}, which avoids the bug in bash 4.3, but that seems too ugly to recommend.

More details in this comment I wrote on the same article: https://lobste.rs/s/4jegyk/how_do_things_safely_bash#c_kmldw...

[1] Thirteen Incorrect Ways and Two Awkward Ways to Use Arrays http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/11/06.html
> I cant understand why anyone would put up with a lot of this

This has been ask throughout the history. And we have come a long way since we were duped that Kings, Queens and Popes have "Divine Authority".

However, today, we have been duped again. And just like in the past, people didn't readily realize it. It will take effort and probably blood.

Here's one good relatively recent example when people were finally fed up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair
Whoa interesting, thanks! Didn't know that.
Fluid flywheels are used for hydraulic couplings in automobile transmissions.

They're not good for long-term energy storage, since the fluid loses energy to friction and turbulence much faster than a solid-- think about how long a swirling vortex lasts in a cup versus how long spinning top can continue.
In other news, an employee at Tesla has left their desk to use the washroom for the 5th time since this morning.
Clever (YC S12) is hiring engineers to help change education
I can’t fucking wait to get rid of our TV. There is so much better (and worse!) programming on YouTube and Netflix.
Oracle's various cloud offerings are complete and total vaporware. maybe the ones that were acquired are legitimate but will eventually be mismanaged and exploded.

oracle was billing my clients like $5,000 a day for phantom, non-existent "ENTERPRISE EDITION TM HYPER PERFORMANCE DATABAE CLUSTERS" that we never purchased
There are progressives who overdo things or ideas just as there are conservatives who overdo things or ideas. Pointing out extreme progressive ideas doesn't really solve anything, for they are never going to go away any more than extreme conservative ideas will. If you want to paint the other side by cherry picking extremists to show-case, you can.

Some of this can be "settled" by letting each state do things their way: the original federated model. But there are cross-state show-stoppers, such as climate change and pollution. How do you compromise with a group who thinks about 95% of climatologists and EPA workers are bribed to lie?
Atlassian is the king of indecipherable symbols. My JIRA navigation strategies are:

- Hover over each symbol one-by-one until tooltip shows itself (sometimes takes multiple tries); or

- Google "how to find X in JIRA"
There's a lot of wisdom here.

Regarding negotiation for engineers-- a few years back, I had been happily employed at a company for ten years. The CEO of some company calls me up and says I'd be PERFECT for a job opening he has. He says its C2H for 6 months to make sure I'm a good "culture fit". I politely decline, and he was incensed.

I said, "Why in gods name would I leave a position I've been in for 10 years for a contract position?"
A stonemason is an artist--Socrates carved statues; he didn't quarry rocks from hills.

In addition, holding the Prytany at one point indicates that Socrates was far from common ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prytany
It was a 2010 Prius, but I don't have it anymore.

Just checked, and the Camry doesn't do it. My mistake.
Quotes that arise from substitutions aren't considered to be quotes.

Unfortunately, the way GNU Bash handles this sort of requirement is to internally translate these protected quotes into some character that "nobody" would ever use, and then recover them later.

That characters code is none other than ASCII 1 (SOH/Ctrl-A). It's known by the preprocessor symbol CTLESC in the Bash sources.
it could equally have been "you end me", and the meaning very different...
Very belated reply:

I don't consider a magnetic field to be an "action at a distance" explanation at all, so I'm not sure how to answer your first question. In classical E&M, a magnetic field is a local property of space at every point. Moving electric charges affect and are affected by the magnetic field at their location in a specific way, and disturbances or changes in that field propagate outward in accordance with a local wave equation. Nothing is ever "action at a distance", because the field itself carries influences and signals from point to point. (I suppose it could look like "action at a distance" if you pretended that the field was just a made-up theoretical construct that wasn't really there. But that's very much contrary to the accepted perspective on fields at least as I understand it. Things like "fields carrying energy density" and "finite-speed propagation of field changes through empty space" seem to argue strongly for taking fields seriously.)

So I guess I'd say that the "fabric of spacetime" explanation is on roughly the same footing, though my own intuition feels like the spacetime variant is a bit more concrete, somehow. (I suspect a fair number of people would lean the other way, mind you.) Spacetime is very clearly here and real, and Einstein taught us that its structure is definitely dynamical. Adding a magnetic field is, mathematically, basically arbitrarily stapling a gauge bundle onto that spacetime manifold: it's one step more abstract and arbitrary.
You really have no problem with a George Hotz purchasing a bot, soldering guns to it, installing some form of AI that controls the trigger, and then letting it loose into the world? Seems a bit irresponsible.

But to answer you questions about the legality all this - I don't know. Tesla and Uber are putting autopilots in their cars. Is that legal? Apparently, it is. Yet, those autopilots are already killing people. So expect a regulatory backlash, once enough people die.

I hope it won't take a massacre perpetrated by a buggy AI with a gun to get us there.
> The federal government likely cannot make it illegal to place a sports bet

There is a much stronger interstate commerce clause claim for a very broad prohibition here (say, effecting any betting either on any competition involving an interstate or international sports league, or where the bet crosses state or national borders, or using regulated wire or broadcast communication channels) than for many things that have survived challenge the whole way through the Supreme Court, so while I recognize that many people have narrow personal interpretations of the Commerce Clause power, I don't think that is actually a real practical barrier here.
I don't think of it as a question of fortitude as much as opportunity cost. We're looking for operators that would be successful running other types of businesses instead. We want them to choose the ISP business over one that they might be more familiar with. No doubt they could come to understand a transit contract and all the other components, but it's frictions like those that reduce the number of people who decide being an ISP is the right business for them. If you can 1) find customers and 2) provide a great service experience, we want you selling internet! You can spend a lifetime getting good at those two things. We'd rather our operators do that, and we can handle the networking for them.
I thought it was common knowledge to sanitize your wash machine every month with a bleach load to kill germs and whatever

After decades of doing my own laundry, I'd never heard of that practice. Well, at least not until recently when I got an HE front loader machine, now I run a bleach cleaning cycle once a month or so to kill odor causing germs. But not to keep germs off my clothes.
The t&c of the trial do indeed state you cannot share non-public data with a third party. However, I wonder if you could find wighle room if you only share data with those who already know it. That is, are you sharing data by telling someone theor own location? Probably you are still in violation of the t&c, but did you cause harm? I dont know. Ianal.
The vast majority of the surviving primary sources weren't written by Angolans. But because Portuguese Angola was centered around slave trading, the sources produced by the colony certainly involved Angolans: reports of slaver's raids, counter-attacks by African military leaders, surgeons remarking on slaves' diseases, etc.

Vincent Brown The Reaper's Garden is a great guide to diasporic African folkways surrounding death in the early modern period. He argues that enslaved Africans mobilized their social practices surrounding death as a way of asserting a kind of underground political power in plantation societies. At any rate, you won't find many people studying the history of the Atlantic slave trade or colonial Africa who think that people were coping adequately with the situation. The debate is more about whether it was so shatteringly destructive that it led to a total "social death" or whether some elements of culture and personhood were able to survive. I am in the second camp. But like I said, people were deeply psychologically and often physically scarred in this period.
Alright, so HIV is a minor risk, but other blood pathogens are easier to transmit.
How is that not accurate? Renting out a room for someone to live in is legal but in some places it isn't illegal to do so without the proper zoning and/or permits. Therefore you would call someone doing that "illegally renting".
I've had good luck with 7000 series Dell Precision Workstations. They are built like tanks, hold seven drives, have 1000W+ power supplies and are cheap (from reputable sellers on eBay in the US, don't know about Australia). The processors are Xeons and the PCI slots abundant. The 7400 I bought new is ten years old this month. It has spent about eight of those years on. It's been through Windows XP Professional x64, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, and about half a dozen Linux distros (currently Ubuntu 16.04).

Anyway, the 7000 series are beasts but don't run as hot or loud as a rack server. They are big, expandable, support ECC RAM, and include things like parallel and serial ports in addition to USB.
> isn't politics about the separation of powers

No.

Our political system involves some specific separations of powers, but politics is not fundamentally about thst.
It is a good thought, but I would like to add, that even in pure hunters societys, you also had different professions. You need to process and store the meat and fur, make the tools, heal wounds, help with births, praise and sacrifice to the gods and spirits (lets assume they do, most if not all native tribes do so), think about neighbour tribes, inner rivals, mating ... so I am basically just nitpicking that not EVERY intellectual capacity avaiable did go to hunting ..
Power-density and energy-density.

The "secret" to dense flywheel energy storage is in the equation: Energy = 1/2 * I * w^2

Where "w" is rotational speed in radians/sec, and I is rotational-inertia / rotational-mass. So you store the most energy by rotating it as fast as possible. 20,000 RPM stores 4x the energy of 10,000 RPM.

The issue with water, or really... anything outside of steel and other such incredibly strong materials... is that water doesn't hold itself together very well. As such, the RPM limit would be smaller than a steel-flywheel.

Indeed, steel is still not used in advanced flywheels, because some forms of plastic IIRC are superior at the kinds of stresses we're talking about. Thus, these plastic / composite material flywheels, while much lighter, can spin much faster.

Leading to more efficient energy storage.

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In effect, you need every part of the flywheel designed to hold itself together to reach maximum efficiency. Water is the exact opposite. Its a lot of mass but basically no ability to handle stresses. Solid Steel would be better and would spin faster.
Being married to an optometrist and privy to some of the numbers of the business, I'm always a bit annoyed reading these articles. Yes, the margins on frames are high. Are the overall profits of the business high? Not particularly. The staffing costs are essentially subsidised by the products they sell. If you put 'reasonable' markups on the frames, then you have to make the costs of the eye tests a lot higher to pay for the time of your expensive staff and then fewer people are willing to get tested and their problems go unnoticed. Sometimes they are serious enough to be life-threatening or to cause total loss of vision. Your GP is not going to notice a bulging optic disc for example.

So while I appreciate the consumer sentiment of 'This looks like I'm being ripped off', I think the current pricing model is actually in the best interest of public health. Even SpecSavers model of 30min appointments is a bit suspect really.
Does it do voice calls and video chat?
Increased labor productivity through automation (and allowing people to live longer on their own through assistive devices) should ameliorate this.

There's no shortage of young people globally so Japan could always import more if they wanted to.

Again, a pyramid-based model can't go on forever.
I have a commit on GHC (a very modest one). The compiler is written in a mix of somewhat old Haskell style and new which makes sense since it's one of the oldest and largest codebases in the language. There is a constant drive to modernize it and some new techniques come out of GHC architectural changes [0].

I didn't work with the parser, mostly the constraint solver in the type checker. Still, I browsed quite a bit of code. It's one of the most pleasant and well documented codebases I've worked in in any language. In particular, the [note] system is an excellent way to embed long form documentation that touches many components without using fancy doc tools: grep suffices.

If you want to see what a large, old, industrial grade Haskell project looks like I think GHC is a good place to look. And if you ever run into trouble with GHC then I encourage you not to be afraid to hack on it. The code won't bite and the maintainers have no shortage of patience for newcomers.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.04799
Well, clearly, non-existence after death is different from both types of non-existence mentioned above. (Incidentally, there are many more types of non-existence than just these.)
That's neat; parser working hard to make the language look simple.

The success sword of GHC is dual edged; it's made Haskell effectively synonymous with "Language accepted by a recent GHC". The upside is an amazing language with great many advanced features. The downside is an enormous language in a monoculture. It's nearly the antithesis of C (small language that grew little and slowly, but for which there are 100s of implementations).
This is because Chinese recycling companies underbid most of their western (more local) competition, essentially putting them out of business.

Because the Chinese do an inadequate job of disposing of the waste of Western countries, so their costs are less, so this Western waste winds-up in the oceans with stops in China and the folks in charge in the Western nations more or less let this happen.

But your post does a job of framing this chain of events as if China was entirely at fault. A bit reflection should show the reader this isn't the case.
Maybe I'm skimming a little too lightly here, but... diffraction patterns are just a Fourier transform. If you have a look at prime spirals (Ulam spirals and Sacks spirals), it's trivial to see that there is some structure that will turn up in a Fourier transform.
I absolutely have the same problem. I think other people do to, but now I'm not sure if I've observed this or I'm just assuming other people have the same problems as me.
Exactly!

The problem for many of the pure strategy firms is that clients just bring them in for 2 weeks at the end of a project to “rubber stamp” the strategy. Of course, corporate boards got keen to this strategy and realized they didn’t really need MBB at all and should trust their people more — which is the whole reason the article was written.

Everyone in the industry has seen the writing on the wall for at least a decade. There is a reason the big 4 all went around buying up mid-market strategy firms 5-10 years ago; the market losers were on fire sale and the winners were vulnerable. But the wars there are over; everyone is focused on partnering with software companies for the next round of cloud ERP implementations.
I'm surprised I didn't find this higher up the thread: I'm soooooo sick of people hiring based on languages. It's right there in the first response in this article: "make sure you’ve included the same language as the job description if at all possible". This is so ridiculous. Either you're hiring a junior person and you're going to have to invest in ramping them up anyway, or you're hiring a senior person who will quickly figure out whatever language you use.

The exception to this is if you're hiring the lead for a project, who will be setting the idioms and mentoring the rest of the team. But even then, why are you dictating technology to that person rather than letting them choose?

It is worth asking people whether they are interested / willing to learn the tools you're building on, but it doesn't make sense as a filter.
Secret Police Possible at Arkansas Capitol, Perhaps Colleges
Androids physical menu button let you get to all the options regardless of the app you were using. I really miss that.
So... Title change request? 3M is a company, and that's the first thing I thought of reading this title. At the very least, the m should be lower case.
Newest revision is from 2017, so they certainly had time to fix that, if they consider it a problem.
Shellcheck made me a MUCH better Bash developer.

Also, I prefer using [ condition ] for tests instead of the less-portable [[ cond ]] syntax despite the latter being more feature-rich. Didn’t see that one in there.
> Passive RFID can only broadcast a number

Nope, not anymore. Current UHF RFID tags are able to store enough charge from the RF signal from the reader to have a half-duplex conversation with the reader and do small amounts of computation. See https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso-iec:18000:-63:ed-2:v...
Should be fine with clothes. My Siemens has a cleaning reminder that turn on after a month or so unless at least one wash with 60C or higher has been done.
I do voice and video regularly, it's effectively replaced regular phone calls between my friends and I. Jitsi meet is cumbersome for this type of use, we can't send messages or call each other without first coordinating to use it.
That is not the whole point of piping, and the default behavior of GPG should be to buffer, validate the MDC, and release plaintext only after it's been authenticated. Pipes are a standardized Unix interface between processes, not a solemn pledge to deliver bytes as quickly as possible.

If pipes had the connotation you claim they do, it would never be safe to pipe ciphertext, because the whole goal of modern AEAD cryptography is never to release unauthenticated plaintext to callers.

Clients encrypting whole ISO images should expect that decryption will require a non-default flag. Ideally, GPG would do two-pass decryption, first checking the MDC and then decrypting. Either way, the vast, commanding majority of all messages GPG ever processes --- in fact, that the PGP protocol processes --- should be buffered and checked.

If you have a complaint about how unwieldy this process is, your complaint is with the PGP protocol. The researchers, and cryptographers in general, agree with you.
Oxford has Oxford Nanopore, Immunocore, Genomics PLC and a few others. Cambridge has Astra Zeneca HQ, Microsoft Research (with a unit focused on healthcare) and many spin offs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15575389 - that didn't seem like 6 months ago.
That may be a variant.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Archibald_Wheeler

cites some old sources that are (probably) a few years older than the Cambridge version:

http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/Personal/Autobiog1994.pdf

says:

> As Dharma Kumar paraphrased Joan
Robinson, "time is a device to prevent everything happening at once, space is a device to prevent it all
happening in Cambridge".