skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clive and friends did some sampling of surströmming recently, as on https://youtu.be/4vjT_fFUFLs starting at 4:15 if you want the experience of 3 folks not previously exposed to it but appropriately prepped.

The rest of the channel tends more towards the disassembly of electronic devices and analysis of their construction.
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You do know that the UK is part of the Five Eyes alliance, right ?

The idea that close allies of the US is hacking them is just ridiculous and it would've been escalated to the highest levels when (not if) the US intelligence agencies found out about it.
That's a reasonable business model. But their self driving doesn't really work reliably yet.[1] Their "deployment" in San Jose is three cars, max speed 25MPH, with a "safety driver" on board. Now they've hired people from the "fake it 'til you make it" self driving projects. Not a good sign.

This is similar to what Local Motors and Navya, which make minibus-sized driverless vehicles, are doing - the area and routes are very well known, but there may be some intrusions into the driving lane. Nobody has this working well enough for an airport parking lot shuttle yet.

It's too bad Waymo didn't continue with the Google mini-car. They could probably make this work. It's not as hard at 25MPH, because stopping solves most problems and sensor range is more than sufficient.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/technology/driverless-car...
This thing is magnificent, a little rainbow-farting space ship, so obviously representative of the next step in the history of autos. - WSJ

Would make a good poster blurb
I live in the Bay Area...I've had items be very delayed. Used to never have an issue, but recently (last 12 months or so) it seems like every other order has a delay of some sort (1 day or much longer).

My favorite last experience was:

- Amazon saying a package was delivered, it was not since I was at the delivery location...

- Amazon sent me an e-mail the next day saying they were deeply sorry for losing my shipment (unprompted since I didn't report it lost yet) and they needed to contact me regarding refund or re-fufillment...

- Finally a "neighbor" a few streets over came by with my package the next day. So all in all a 4 day delivery experience instead of a 2 day one.

Anyway, I don't know what they changed up about their supply chain, but something is much less reliable than it used to be. My hunch is their move towards more usage of their own "contract driver" model rather than something like FedEx or UPS. But that's just speculation.
It's strange they haven't tried Bing Maps (differnt than Azure maps), it has a much rich web control and support for Javascript which per the article was one of the selection criteria.
This thread is precisely about that company
I went through a course in python about a decade ago and I enjoyed it! Then along the way, I picked it up here and there. Then used it at work for a few months to sort through a lot of data.

Recently I started trying to learn swift through the Stanford course. And the curly brackets confused the heck out of me. They still do! They just seem to pop up out of nowhere. All to say , I completely agree with your second paragraph. Python is very concise.
There are so many mistakes made with surströmming, I hardly know where to start.

Although it comes in a can, it should be stored cold. If you open it and it looks something like mushed up tuna, as I have seen in some Youtube challenge videos, something has gone terribly wrong. Don't eat it!

Unless you have a can of filets, you should gut and clean out your strömming. Keep the roe if you get a lady fish, the rest of the innards you don't want. I have never seen a properly gutted strömming on Youtube. And of course you get the bones out. Unlike pickled herring, where the acidity softens the bones, the spine of a surströmming is not pleasant to eat.

Eating it indoors is fine. You don't need a bucket of water to open it in. A napkin to protect against spray due to the pressure is fine. Pros just tilt the can slightly and open it without even a napkin. The smell is admittedly potent but it's not a chemical weapon. All the crazy stories about how the smell is impossible to get rid of are told by people who don't eat it themselves, in my experience.

The taste is obviously quite strong. A little bit goes a long way together with plenty of bread and potatoes. It is also very salty, so you will probably want to drink something.

And most importantly, expectations matter. Presentation matter. The reactions of people around you matter. If you have brought a can of the most disgusting food in the world, a bucket to barf in and your mates are giggling and ready to record your reaction, you will most likely not enjoy surströmming.

However, if you come to a set table, where the strömming is presented as actual food, you can feel how the other guests are enjoying themselves and you are also there to do the same, you are much more likely to actually do so.

I have been present several times when people have had surströmming for the first time. Some people liked it, some people didn't. Most make a comment about the smell. But they have all tasted it without hesitation. Not a single one gagged the slightest. None of them were in it for the thrill or the challenge. They were just guest there to enjoy a dinner with friends.
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> Am I missing something here?

You missed:

"Staff stress levels decreased by 7% across the board as a result of the trial, while stimulation, commitment and a sense of empowerment at work all improved significantly, with overall life satisfaction increasing by 5%."

or

"Employees designed a number of innovations and initiatives to work in a more productive and efficient manner, from automating manual processes to reducing or eliminating non-work-related internet usage,"

tl;dr: (Sometimes, maybe, for some time) decrease of work time is compensated by increase in productivity,
Is this the first actual use of nuclear propulsion? I'd prefer it to be space exploration, but such technologies always end up in military toys first.
Or it takes 10 years for one of your breaths to be spread around the atmosphere, and everyone is very likely to be breathing at least one molecule of that breath in every breath they take.

From article "Breathing Everyone's Air" - scroll down to that heading in http://www.scifun.ed.ac.uk/card/facts.html
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Totally. You also have business offering an API to OSM data that they mirror and host themselves.

The limitation is for the openstreetmap.org website, that is not dimensioned to be heavily used.
There's no server here. This is just an executable written in node, which writes to a SQLite3 (flat-file) database.
There are ways, piezoelectric devices can generate power off temperature differential. And mechanically you could put a stirling engine on although the torque and rotational force likely would not be ideal.
I always welcome and only consider facts and scientific evidence.
MapQuest seems like it might be 6x more expensive than the others listed in the post, if "transactions" are the same concept: https://developer.mapquest.com/plans ($100 for 30,000 transactions)

(transactions aren't defined anywhere I can easily find tho, so it's possible this isn't correct. but I don't really mind prematurely concluding that they're significantly more expensive if they don't clearly describe their pricing system.)
This talks mostly about road map tiles. Has anyone found any good options for satellite image tiles? Mapbox resells DigitalGlobe imagery but would cost over $1k/month for my site so I’m looking for an alternative with more attractive pricing options
As someone on a phase 2 trial an interesting note is that I know I'm on the trial drug (it's not a double blind trial), I also know that the drug worked in animal and vitro trials.

Furthermore I know, from the trial literature, that a very similar drug works (the trial drug is an anti-PD-1 immunotherapy) well with the particular genetic markers on my tumours.

The trial is to assess the efficacy of this treatment, not run a comparison to other treatments, but having burnt through 2 rounds of chemo in short order to no effect it is more a comparison against that.

Whether the placebo effect is relevant is an interesting question because under the trial the treatment is, by necessity, more personalised.

Previous studies have shown that, essentially, human contact/interest adds to the placebo effect.
It's a good TL;DR of the article but I'm not sure it's intentional :)
This article has a lot to offer a JS + React beginner so it feels lame to reply to some
tiny part of it, but this bit is a constant error propogated in the ecosystem:

> Even though it is possible to mutate the inner properties of objects and arrays when using const, the variable declaration shows the intent of keeping the variable immutable though.

let and const only control mutability of the reference. They say nothing of the value mutability. const then can only be a signal that you are not reassigning to the identifier.

const is still useful as a default of course since reassignment is generally the exception.

Maybe this is what they meant but the language used made it seem otherwise.
Both kinds exist, but I think the hard version is more common in the north, meaning the combination soft+surströmming would be less common (If it’s not criminal, it should be :)
It's not hard to produce your own tiles from OpenStreetMap data and serve them from your own server using something as Leaflet. If you only need to show maps, and if OSM data is good enough in your part of the world (a big if), this is the way to go.

What is very hard is coming up for a replacement of either geocoding/reverse geocoding, or routing; many solutions exist but most don't really work or are quite difficult to setup (IMHO).

Best of luck!
Fortnite isn't doing so bad - it made $300MM in April alone.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/24/17390004/fortnite-battle-...
Some small, some big. Yes, they were software companies.

Indeed, where workforce is hard to acquire, companies' best interest is to make it comfortable for that workforce to work. Where the workforce is abundant, there's no such incentive. This can be inside the same company, e.g. I bet Amazon has different conditions for its senior-position software developers and junior-position warehouse workers.
The trick with that is that stores carry two setups, generally: stripper base setup and omg everything setup. It's kind of like buying a new car that way. And, of course, the grand majority of it cannot be upgraded after the fact.

You can custom order, of course, but if your goal is to take it home today it's difficult to, say, get an upgraded graphics card or more (soldered) memory or larger (soldered or buried) onboard storage without also getting the CPU upgrade with it.
> heat up some water and add salt. Put the rice / beans in the water. Remove from water. Eat.

Sure, but how long? How much salt? How much water? How big of a pot? Do I put them both in together? Separate? What kinds of spices? How much of each?

Ultimately, I can just toss 'em in and wing it or go Google it real quick but most folks just don't even get past the part of realizing "Oh hey, I don't have to do the same thing I've done for years." Most folks don't question their day-to-day rudimentary tasks, especially when they don't have to.

Having "broken" from the rut, it's rather amazing how complacent we can get.
Is there a way to understand this tradeoff in a principled way?
This doesn't make any sense to me. How is Google supposed to be in a position to price the business risk of individual customers into a standard SLA that they offer to all their customers? That would require Google to charge different amounts of money per customer (commensurate with the business risk placed on Google's services for that customer), running actuarial numbers to ensure that Google would have the means to pay out when the SLA is violated. Doing so would place undue burden on customers, who would need to prove business risk before buying the service, and many customers are unaware of the real business risk of downtime (having not run the numbers) anyway.

With that said... Maybe it's a good product idea, to sell varying levels of SLA violation insurance alongside the service covered by the SLA. The default, free level of insurance covers the cost of the service itself, as it does today, but perhaps a customer could buy premium insurance from Google that the SLA will not be violated, increasing the payouts to offset business risk. After all, who better to put a price on the risk than Google themselves? So probably, Google can offer a better price on offsetting the risk, than a third party insurer which doesn't have access to Google's internal data.
We do live in a world where you can be sued for negligence in software or anything else.
This is actually my real question: can these companies afford it? If a company has X months of runway and their Maps costs just went up by a factor of 11 then Google may have just gone from "less than payroll" to "more expensive than our devs".

Is this Google trying to move into a new space?
One cannot merely put the ingredients of tomato sauce into a pot, heat it in some arbitrary way, and expect the result to be recognizable as tomato sauce.

That's literally the description of a famous tomato sauce[1]. You can add a cup or two of water and a pound of pasta to the same pot at some indeterminate time towards the end of the process.

Feel free to argue that arbitrarily heating it may involve burning it. Whatever. Pasta with tomato sauce is ridiculously easy.

[1] https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015178-marcella-hazans-...
Looks like this is a thing in Java culture; good grief.
I work for a startup that has mapping/routing as one of its core needs - about a year or two ago we decided that our reliance on Google's mapping APIs was too great and decided to work on having a switchable backup provider in case something like this should ever happen.

With auto complete especially, we would have had a 10-20x increase in pricing (and this is with an 'enterprise' plan pricing). As the article says, we were basically given 2 months notice for an enormous price hike that would likely render the business untenable. Luckily we were able to put our backup plan into action, but changes like this really erode the confidence to use Google (at least for mapping) in the future unfortunately.
Presumably, that number would change.

Or, if the government in charge is hostile to immigration, it might not.
Something like a PaaS Price zombie https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11360262?
I really feel there is too much emphasis on who won (in this context).

As car as I can tell, initially the efforts were just to increase division - manipulative ads were placed on BOTH sides of the spectrum, apparently just trying to get people to hate each other and (most importantly) distrust the system. Then when Trump went from 'unlikely' to 'competitive' (be that on his own or not) there was a reevaluation and the efforts went pro trump.

The key concept here is NOT "Trump wouldn't have won" (we can't know) and not even "Russia backed Trump because they saw him as destabilizing/weak/owned or even 'just' polarizing". The key concept is "Russia wanted to interfere with the process and reduce trust in the concept of democracy". Even if they did a terrible job of it with no measurable effect or shot themselves in the foot by electing a powerful and determined outsider that will strengthen both America and Democracy, that has no relevance to what they tried to do.

And yes, countries influence (and attempts to influence) other countries' elections all the time. It is kept in check by the need to be circumspect. If we fail to respond, or even invite it, that balance is lost.

I'm willing to accept Trump won fair and square however much I dislike that result, but I still want to prevent a repeat of other countries putting out false Black/Blue Lives Matter narratives with the intention of destabilizing us.
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Is there strong evidence that this will happen anytime soon? I've heard many arguments that claim this wouldn't happen anytime soon, particularly because of the level of difficulty and the required determination.
If you work 8 hours a day, plus have to commute into a major city, your evenings are sort of already shot anyways. Working the extra two hours doesn't feel like much extra work and really doesn't feel like it interferes with evenings any worse. Plus usually one way on your commute is not during rush hour, so you save extra time that way too.

And yeah, the 10 hour days really give you a chance to spend longer periods of time being productive. You can get your meetings done and have bigger blocks of productive time during the day.
They made an app but got told the only thing they could have was more or less a webview iirc
> The one you replied to was the kind of person my post was meant for.

Two questions:

1. What kind of person am I?

2. How do you know this?
Hi Oliver,

Thanks for taking questions. Few questions:

1) What online resources do you recommend for someone that wants to go from beginner to skilled in the field of self-driving cars? Is there a sequence of courses that you could recommend?

2) What important concepts should this self-learner hone in on as they learn?

3) How can someone that does 1) (and has projects) break into the self-driving cars career?
« there has been no broad-based public debate over the morality of using AI to kill »

That doesn't support the article's point. In fact, that's a great reason not to help build military AI right now.
Oh, I see. I use spaces and vim (I do, but who cares). Let's start a flamewar. /s

Every time I think about tabs/spaces, I think about that episode in Silicon Valley [1]. Hilariously accurate, I have the exact same feeling when somebody uses the mouse to copy something or navigate. The cringe makes me feel alive (I guess this is the ultimate reason for those flamewars. And neurotic tendencies, of course).

[1]: https://youtu.be/SsoOG6ZeyUI
Thanks for taking the time to respond, that was my bad.

I wasn't ready for releasing it, and was breaking some stuff last night. Thanks for pointing it out :)
While I agree he was being more than a little dismissive, I think this is an important thing to understand: "Poor" doesn't mean the same thing to everyone.

When you grow up in the suburbs and your friends get brand new clothes every month when they get taken shopping, and you're lucky to get 2 new sets of clothes at the start of the school year, you feel poor. And the kid who grew up in a homeless shelter thinks you both sound rich.

Poor does different things to different people because poor is always relative. I was "poor" in NJ working in restaurants in my 20's and I never cooked at home because I worked 12-14 hour days. I still paid my rent, put gas in my car, and had money to buy drugs after it all. If I told someone who couldn't feed their kids what I was doing, they'd have looked at me like I was the biggest wastrel in the world. But when all I could see was the rich people rolling into the dining room day after day, I couldn't help but feel like I was at the very bottom of everything.

What you went through sounds terrible. And saying that it's just because you're lazy or stupid or "weren't being poor right" doesn't fix anything but just acts as a way to explain someone else's feelings/opinions. I wish you luck fellow human, because none of this is easy.
I believe the load balancer outage only affected global load balancers not regional load balancers. Is that still accurate?
I guess that's exploiting the temperature differential for power systems but it's not exploiting the temperature differential for power generation.

Solar panels are just more reliable than any heat engine and actually using the temperature differential in a heat engine (stirling or whatever) would decrease the heat shields ability to reject heat. And it'd add mass in the form of radiators with space already at a premium.

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But more in general, I'm super excited about Solar Probe+ (Parker Probe) as well as the completion of the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST)). They're both going to be exposing never before sampled, very exciting, territory.

The Solar Probe with actually in-situ measurements of the magnetic field of the corona (as opposed to inferences based on optical Hanle scattering or radio emission). It is going to put a lot of constraints on previously weakly constrained flare and CME models. Maybe in the 9 radius passes it might even detect (or more likely not!) the stupifyingly unphysical entire electron contents of the corona dumping down during flares most models call for.

And the ATST/DKIST with it's diffraction limited imagining and fast optical spectroscopy of the sun at 100s of km scales projected on the photosphere. There's so much going on in the photosphere and chromosphere that right now is just blurry blobs. When resolved I think there's going to be a lot to see.
> I'll push back on this. Spending time in China helped me look at myself and break down what was universally human and what was learned culture.

It seems like you've agreed with me, not pushed back.
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In what strongly typed language does the division of two integers result in a float?
"> "It only started redirecting after we inquired about (buying the domain name)," said Weinberg. "It causes confusion.""

The sequence of events literally described here is:

1. DDG inquires to On2 about buying duck.com (Google was almost certainly in talks about the acquisition at this point, FWIW)

2. Google acquires On2

Then he says Google redirected it after "only after" they tried to buy it.
Yes, they did, because you tried to buy it before google acquired the company.
However he deliberately tries to imply it's somehow related, without any data.
The taste really is special. It's the most savory, salty, fishy food I have ever had. It's something like anchovies with parmesan and tuna cranked up to eleven.

Pickled herring is not really the same kind of taste at all.
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Beginners don't know about references. What you say is exactly what the author meant.
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In that case, I want to see disclaimer for people who are for rezoning. I have a feeling a lot of people making comments are not even living in SF. Following your logic, their comment don't count.

I don't care about my investment in housing; I don't even live in SF. I just don't think rezoning will help. NYC has way denser than SF and its housing is also more expensive than SF.

Speaking of building more. I think getting rid of rent control will greatly help the situation. I don't see people wanting rezoning clamoring for getting rid of rent control.
It's also nicely self-contained, especially if you use a distribution like Anaconda. You don't have to spend hours fighting with the configuration and tooling. It's also very easy to debug and step through code using Spyder, which is similar to MATLAB. It makes it easy for someone who is smart and generally competent with computers to be productive in a short amount of time without first amassing huge amounts of arcane knowledge-- knowledge that isn't actually helpful to making working code!
People working 10 hours a day or more should have this option as they are already putting in 40 hours in 4 days. Really puts the absurdity of unpaid overtime into perspective. This idea of working only four days is only as absurd as the idea of working unpaid overtime. We're fine with one so we should be fine with the other.
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