skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okanogan search and rescue teams use helicopter to save student from wolf pack
I don't know if this is the intend of Tom, but I was also stumbling on this issue and the only reasonable explanation I can come up with is that:

One key can't have multiple values with different types.
For example in json:

{ "name" :
{ "first" : "Bob",
"last" : "Smith"
}
}

How would you add a "alternative" key to the "first" value type. The only way i can think of is something like this.

{ "name" :
{ "first" : "Bob",
"first.alternative": "Robert",
"last" : "Smith"
}
}

or as @latk suggested, let "first" be an array, with it's first entry being the non alternatives.

{ "name" :
{ "first" : ["Bob", "Robert"],
"last" : "Smith"
}
}

I think this is by design. To quote @mojombo "simple configuration file that maps unambiguously to a hash table".

But this is only a guess.
False by recursion :)
According to the indictment, Russia kicked off a set of hacking attempts a few hours after Trump made that request. The timing creates an appearance of cooperation that is not ideal.

Republicans have argued that Trump was joking. The fact that Russia appears to have promptly complied with Trump's request complicates the situation.
Do you have kids? I find that young single people get jealous and status conscious when looking at the rich and famous. As someone with a daughter and a paunch it makes me happy to get a glimpse of the beautiful people because I don’t actually want their life.
I am very pro environment vars and consider files an anti pattern. Files are like globals, sibling processes end up sharing state, plus they survive longer than their use case.

Env variables cascade, which is why they have wider uses than program args. You can organize a system as a group of processes and envs are a good way to share state and abstract out the details like prod vs staging without affecting the program implementation.
I don't think it's a ripoff either, if you buy most of your stuff on the site.

I have a weird feeling the average user buys a Prime membership, and is literally spending $60 when shipping an item. (I bought two items off Amazon last year. And no--I will not start to buy stuff just because of the free shipping.)

The Prine movies selection is o.k. (Someone needs to invent a better way to browse for movies. )

My point is I bet most don't really get their money back on Prime Memberships.
Baraja Promises Cheap LIDAR Using Prism Scanning
I've never understood how the classic interpretation of milgram that "people can become monster under authority" were remotely relevant.

"hurting other people" is just a natural tendency inside at least a large proportion if not all humans. That's why we've had so many wars in the history, bullys at school and abuse in generally ANY UNREGULATED ENVIRONEMENT (chrisitan schools in the 50s in france for example, prisons and in some way even the weinstein compagny). That's also why a lot of us love watching MMA, boxing, and why many people love, even secretly because society doesn't acknowledge this feeling, going at war [1].

We can argue all day whether it stems from a domination instinct, a fear of our own weakness or how this instincs have to be channeled into a more constructive force / healthy contribution for society but the point is that this instinct exists... probably in most persons.

At some point i suspect most participants in milgram experiment switched from the "this is horrible" voice in their head to the "my feelings tells me it's not horrible I feel in power it's cool I almost like it plus there's authority so i wont get punished so it's fine". It's not so much of a big deal.

[1] https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a28718/why-men-lo...
Writing is a discipline. I'd expect it (like almost any other discipline) to take around five years to reach journeyman status. I think a lot of people assume that writing is a lot easier and simpler than it actually is. The folk knowledge says that you should expect to write around a million words before you find your voice.
I used to work at Blockbuster and this doesn't strike me as correct.
The purpose of the algorithmic feed (vs. chronological) is to decouple the surfaced content from clear and present attributes of the content like its creation time and author, such that the feed is a neverending, if mostly pleasing smattering of content from the accounts you follow. Platforms like it because they can opaquely tune the feed for a particular end:

- help users who follow few accounts, or follow low-volume accounts, seem like they have more content to look at; this helps retention

- lift viral content higher, to reward users producing popular content, and expose it to other users assuming wisdom of the crowds

- expose a different set of content on successive views; this helps engagement

- put ads in your feed with higher frequency, whose perceived density would be much more jarring given the reference points provided by the unchanged ordering of a chronological feed

In many cases, these changes disadvantage the most the sort of people the platform cares to retain the least.
Visual Studio 2017
During WW2, some british flyers went to the Soviet Union to fly for them. The first day the weather turned cold, the women brought out pots of boiling fat for them to eat. The airmen were disgusted. But after flying at high altitude in the bitter cold, they came to relish the breakfast of fat.
It is not about to what it does with person on picture, it is about what it does with person that is writing them. The way it affects their thinking and feelings toward target, how much they are aware it is affecting them, the way it makes them more and more comfortable with insulting person on pic and what they think or feel about that.

The discomfort is partly because you can make yourself like or hate people you don't know personally and trying to come up with bad/good things to say about them is one approach how to do it. You start process insulting them and you can see yourself starting to feel differently and some might feel good about the process and where it leads.

You know how people close themselves into bubbles that says only bad things about some outside group and then become to genuinely hate that outside group? It is the same, but is small scale, temporary limited and easier to detect.
The OP isn't Apple. They're competing with sub $1k laptops made by reputable manufacturers who spread their branding and marketing costs across a lot more products, probably by trying to offer higher-value internal components which must be acquired without access to the larger manufacturers' low cost supply chain and bulk discounts.
Read the book “Chickenshit”
br3aer1t
Any plans to add remote hardware attestation verification to the EC2 infrastructure?

https://github.com/AndroidHardeningArchive/Auditor/releases (though sadly Copperhead's fdroid repo is dead)
That pretty much describes my situation. Thankfully I enjoy both, and doing the one that pays well allows me to buy better instruments than I could as a working musician. Yup, I'm the guy in the corner with the multi-thousand dollar axe that can't play for shit. But, hey, mandolin makers gotta eat, too. And if it weren't for us "more money than skill" players, a lot more makers would go hungry. </shrug>
Russia had weapons in space decades ago. We are behind
If government wants to boost space research then it should increase NASA's budget instead of creating "space force".

>> There are hundreds of examples of military research boosting tech

Increasing military spending to boost tech or space research is like killing mosquito with the bazooka.
DoD is extremely ineffective organization, there are estimates that it wastes $125 Billion annually from its budget. [1]

If government wants to increase spending on research and tech they need to invest in education first.
School system in US has very low rankings compared to other developed countries.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-defense-waste/pentago...
Shit video card and shit hardware for 3 times the price.
Show HN: Start actually reading what you saved in your bookmarks – Meet Mailist
Found this interesting as I live in this area and was literally at this campground on Saturday to start a run.
Oops, guess I gave it the hug of death.

But yeah, recently started reading this book and I think it's the one book that finally begins to codify my interest in transit infrastructure and urban form.
If you're slathering it all over your body but you have no idea where or how it was made, do you suppose that you might suffer from deferred regret at some point in the future?

(cf. today's talcum powder news item)
Bought something from Amazon, delivery status said was delivered on a Wed. but no such delivery. Got busy and forgot about it, two days later, bam! Delivery from who else, On-Track. On track is deceitful for some reason falsely announcing a delivery that won’t be made for a day or two in the future, I’m guessing to meet delivery SLOs.
Because it's a typo. China spend $101 Billion on all research in 2015. A small portion of that was more quantum physics.

WSJ issued a correction, as noted in a different comment in the thread.
'Kremlin intel agents' hacked, leaked after Trump asked Russia for help
A bar is a fair example, nuclear waste really isn't (we can't even collectively agree to put it under actual fucking mountains in apocalypse-proof vaults).

Anyway if you look in the article it talks about how you still exclude things from residential areas based on level of nuisance. Presumably a compressor station could qualify.
What kind of weapons do they have in space?
If all other e-commerce outlets banded together, they could double spend at Amazon.
One of my theories to explain this phenomenon (actually discussed in a previous thread) is that bitcoin mining might very well be a roundabout way to launder money, or at the very least a mechanism by which you can circumvent capital movement control: use local money to buy mining h/w + power, get clean, freshly minted BTC from that.

If that is actually the case, then the "operating at a loss" part is not really an issue: I suspect all means of money laundering have a sizable built-in cost.

[edit]: both theories are discussed at length in other comments below.
UX Evolutions: How Firefox Has Changed Over the Last 14 Years
Config files set per user/system options whether they are set locally or globally, while env variables set per options per shell.

Global options > user options > env variables > command line parameters
My drive/ambition for my job was driving me nuts. I started getting hives - for the first time in my life - from the stress.

The best thing I did was move from San Francisco to the northwoods near lake superior. You can buy a house out here for <$30k. After that, all you have to pay are utility + food bills, which is like $300 a month (vs $1800/mo rent in CA).

With cost of living being so low, you can a single one-off tech job and not have to worry about working for the next few months.

It is fantastic to be so free.

Just my experience but maybe you can gain something from it?
Curious: how does Rust cope in this regard?
I don't see why that's a meme. My economics professor described inflation as a tax on cash. Being a tax doesn't have anything to do with being forced to hold it.
Fernando Diaz, for one, has mentioned passing up projects. Principal on the MSFT AI Ethics group (FATE)
Since the people that enjoy arguing semantics and splitting hairs love a good "word definitions" argument, let's take a quick look at "personal". Merriam-Webster suggests "of, relating to, or affecting a particular person".

So, let's ask ourselves, is the term "dickhead" personal? Does it relate to a particular person? I don't see it relating to anything else, so I'm going to go with "yes" on that one.

But I could be missing something. What do you think it relates to?
Same story here. One of the major reasons I continue to buy almost everything from Amazon is the fantastic customer service I've always received. I've literally never asked for a refund and not gotten it, granted that's been < 1% of my total orders.
There is also a similar project - Hjson, a user interface for JSON- https://hjson.org/
That's an interesting hypothetical, but it's not, by and large, how Americans understand the Electoral College :)

More seriously, I agree with you. As I said below, I have no ideological opposition to adjusting the levers of the EC (or even replacing it with some other system that more explicitly defines its goals within a modern framework), so long as that system is not based on a simple popular vote (which I do oppose).
Mmmh. On boxing day I ordered some wifi-extenders, which was in stock. It was a good deal. When I received the order confirmation, it wasn't in stock anymore, they said they'd get it to me as soon as possible. Six months went by and occasionally I got updates they're still trying to get the item.

After six months I tried to tell them that I waited enough, and that they should actually deliver the item. They told me they cannot offer me the item, because it's not available. I told them it's actually available on their own store, at double the price. They told me that's different sellers, so even though they're selling it on their website, it's not actually their website or something. They graciously offered that I could cancel so that I could order it from them again at double price.

I tried to explain to them that I we've made a sales contract, and that it seems they want to unilaterally cancel it by simply not doing anything about it. I also tried to explain to them the issues of bait-and-switch sellling, and even cited from the government website (I'm in Canada, consumer protection is slightly stronger in the states). (Note that six months after boxing day, I can't get boxing day specials from competitors anymore)

In the end I spoke to several people who went around in circles over and over. Eventually somebody offered to give me store-credit that would cover the difference when cancelling the order and making it again immediately.

...I don't get why everybody thinks Amazon has great customer service. They don't even seem to believe in following basic consumer protection laws.
Not really when theres a good chance its ending up going through radio technology still anyways (wifi).

And its a matter of complexity - its obvious why OTA would have less problems to solve in order to get the same performance and behavior of something more complex.
is this e.g. due to the verbosity of re-declaring field names every time? or something else?

e.g. CSVs handle 2D tables reasonably efficiently, since you just specify values:

field_a, field_b, field_c
1, 2, 3
3, 4, 5

but I imagine TOML would benefit from something that lets you define nested tables without re-defining the table every time... which probably conflicts with the "obvious" goal. Hmm.
90% sounds ludicrously high, you sure about that? I mean I realize schools are expensive, but damn surely there are other expensive things local governments do?
Is willfully obtuse
There were too many factors contributing to the Nazi events. You cant simply point at it and make definitive conclusion over some bare-bone simple events.

You also cant assume that 1933 Germans would react the same way to the authority then 2018 Dutch.
> Fair point, but if I can't tell that the good is fake, even after using it, I don't care that much.

Heavy metal poisoning may take years to show effects.

Shoddily made laptop chargers may be a fire/shock hazard that kill in 100/1,000,000 instead of 1/1,000,000 cases.

Not every dangerous counterfeit is immediately obvious as such.
As is so often the case in life, it's a case of squeezing a balloon. In order to get more of one thing, you have to have less of another.

In this case, to have more reliability in transmission, you have to have fewer choices.

I can't speak to the UK's digital situation, but in the U.S. there are 50 channels available in a theoretical city. Assuming that digital has fewer co-channel issues than analog (most of my TV experience is analog), that means 25 signals. On those 25 signals, some broadcasters squeeze up to 10 channels, which all look like garbage. For a decent picture, it's closer to four — maybe five.

So that means 100 to 125 theoretical OTA channels.

If people could actually receive 125 OTA channels with good programming on them, or even the same content as is offered on cable/satellite, I believe many would drop pay TV in a heartbeat, and wouldn't be forced to also scrounge for content on Netflix and YouTube and Prime Video.

If anyone has information on the theoretical maximum number of TV channels possible in a single location in the UK, I'd like to hear about it.
That's an outlier, and it's outside of my control, that I don't care much to optimize for it. Ambulance rides in most other countries cost similar amounts, too.
QtCreator - Sublime Text - Terminal - Chrome dev tools
Fingers crossed I make it to the point where I have an editor =)

Definitely noticeable though, sometimes authors get too attached to the smell of their own farts to realize their writing is suffering under the weight of their own hubris.
Oscar Viñals on future of flight: Moon tourism, nuclear fusion
I've experienced the same problem 10 years ago watching the Olympics and I guess nobody solved it yet. Interesting thing is that 30 second delay is totally fine for 99.9% of the contents on TV except the games the whole country is watching.

Anecdotally, YouTube TV had ~15 second delay and Fox Sports Go had ~50 second delay compared to what I see on the cable TV.
They had a aircraft cannon attached to the Salyut 3 in 1974. No longer active of course.

I'm just pointing out that other countries are not afraid of weaponizing space- we are simply behind and at a disadvantage if we don't. Especially since satellites play an important role in military and civilian infrastructure.
But it largely nails the prevailing conversations that took place

Segregation based upon wealth, using race and other gate keeping tactics (any ideas from socialism, communism = bad, spy on your neighbors)

This thread is being too concerned with the emotionally grandiose accomplishments and ignoring the differences in daily existence

Also rather typical of emotionally roided up Americans: we put people on the moon, while over here we beat the shit out of brown people

Take a second to consider the total reality, not just the bits you personally find the most fascinating
As a junior dev who one day wants to be in a senior position, this is super helpful. I failed the system design portion of the triplebyte interview and this would have been invaluable to me. Thank you!
I think we as a society (or rather as a collection of societies, as I should acknowledge non US HN people) should be able to decide, hey, I don't want companies/cities/individuals tracking me wherever I go, knowing about which doctors I visit, where I sleep over, etc.
Those undocumented instructions don't exist on x86_64, and they could be used to do bizarre things on the processors which had them:

> As the two LOADALL instructions were never documented and do not exist on later processors, the opcodes were reused in the AMD64 architecture.[8] The opcode for the 286 LOADALL instruction, 0F05, became the AMD64 instruction SYSCALL; the 386 LOADALL instruction, 0F07, became the SYSRET instruction. These definitions were cemented even on Intel CPUs with the introduction of the Intel 64 implementation of AMD64.[9]

[snip]

> Because LOADALL did not perform any checks on the validity of the data loaded into processor registers, it was possible to load a processor state that could not be normally entered, such as using real mode (PE=0) together with paging (PG=1) on 386-class CPUs.[7]
Nobody mentioned rwasa so I do it (an HTTPs webserver written in asm):

https://2ton.com.au/rwasa/

I proposed to debian (on an IRC channel for that) to make a package for rwasa but I've been told that "nobody does asm in 2017". I wonder if it's still true in 2018.
I was just looking at jansport backpacks for my kids and all of them had "jansport sent this back as not authentic" reviews
When enemy belligerents start shooting down our satellites, what then? When Mars transports are hijacked, then what?

Evil and conflict are as old as humans themselves. To suggest otherwise is to misunderstand human nature.

What stopped Soviet tanks from rolling into West Berlin? It wasn’t a brigade of huggable teddy bears.
Is there a tutorial that isn't predicated on me already knowing haskell? I feel like Dhall is exactly the tool I've been hoping for. It feels like a non-hacky version of make + m4.
I get my diabetes supplies through Amazon– generic glucose test strips and pen needles I use for insulin. The price is a fraction of what they cost at the pharmacy (even with insurance).

I have no problem recommending them to anyone. Quality is acceptable and more importantly it's the only option at a price point I'm willing to pay.

Edit: Thanks to whoever downvoted this.
We might be talking past one another, because I was talking about the OP's main topic, which was remote jobs specifically in rural areas. I understood this to implicitly be talking about locations where it was specifically not possible to drive a reasonable or even semi-long commute distance and find yourself in a high-density urban center.

Taking a remote job when you already live in a city or when you live within a reasonable drive of some other job center would mitigate a lot of the risk I am describing. I am only talking about specifically using a remote job as license to move to a highly isolated, rural area not within commutable distance to a big job center.

The OP and other comments seem to describe this as a wholly positive ideal, and in many ways I can agree. But I felt an important part of the discussion is that if you use a single specific remote job as license to move to e.g. rural Wyoming and live on a ranch with DSL internet, you're setting yourself up for trouble, because it's actually not easy to find a new job in a pinch like that.
Would you feel weird writing add(a, 2)? or (add 2 3)?
...tanatahu. Not sure why the whole name isn't in the title but there's a bit more to it!
haha, that's true. it got to a point where my wife and i would close all the windows and watch the game using headphones on the tv because it was basically impossible not to hear "spoilers".

now one thing i'm impressed is that the internet transmission from SporTV had basically zero lag when compared to the TV one.
You might be interested in some of the FBI's previous work

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/operation-ghost-stories-ins...
I'm all set to jump on the Amazon hate bandwagon, and I'm tryin', I really am. So when I wanted window shadows for our RV, I thought I'd give the non-Amazon shop a shot. They had what I wanted, order page was tidy, item arrives in short order, and the shades are better quality than I expected. Happy customer!

Until two days later and my bank calls, telling me my CC is compromised. Now, I can't say for sure it was the online vendor's fault. But in summary, I would hesitate to order from them again.
Yes, it is unfortunately already the case in most EU countries. In France and Italy, for example, you can't buy a new car cash (cash transactions over 2.5K euros are basically illegal).

This is a very profound loss of individual freedom, almost as important as losing right to free speech would be, yet strictly no one on the political spectrum seems the least concerned about it.