skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was surprised to see that the article ended without revealing whether he made it, but apparently it's an excerpt from a much longer biography.

Wikipedia sort of answers that question but leaves open a ton of other questions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plennie_L._Wingo

Apparently Wingo published a memoir in 1982 under the title Around the world Backwards, and the new biography is called The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression.
If you need those things it may be worth it, but as the poster lays out that benefit doesn't come free. Like everything else it's a trade-off. I would bet that most startups don't actually need those things, or at least can get them sufficiently in ways that aren't as expensive.
doing away with the pilot also allows the air craft to execute extreme maneuvers that would instantly kill a biological pilot inside...
10 Months of Work and Less Than $70. Monetize Your App from the Beginning
"swarm" means large numbers by definition, otherwise you have... well, plain-old coordination. Large numbers of F-35-sized aircraft is flaunting economics in the face a quite a bit (so I'm sure the US military loves the idea).
I'm not entirely sure what it is. But it's actually a common problem with front-loaders. If we're not extremely diligent in hand drying the washer and leaving the door open, our clothes will smell REALLY musty. It's really bad. The internet is full of anecdotes.

I've never had the same problem with top-loaders. My next machine will most definitely be a top-loader.
Value types also give you more control over cache locality. Not having to travel that extra pointer redirection can really add up depending on what you're doing.
Thanks for your feedback, guys! Much appreciated, and something concrete for us to work on.

This is our first release of the site, and it's still an MVP with lots of features and improvements in the pipeline. We have seen how restaurants struggle to get their information out there and be visible, and are working for a very easy to use solution.
When I was going through Triplebyte, I asked a lot of questions.

According to the recruiter I was working with, it could be 4-6 months between "refreshes".

I would say to keep trying to get in touch with them - everyone I interacted with on the Triplebyte team was nothing but helpful.

If you washed out of the process at the initial testing stage, make sure to let them know that you have been working on your skills and you are ready to re-take the test.
The reason that this doesn't scare me too much is that during the last crisis (when the price of USDT dipped significantly) the price on most exchange was unaffected, but Bitfinex and other USDT-based exchanges showed a significant discount on the price of USD (manifested as a premium in BTC prices). So the market is capable of assimilating information about the value of Bitfinex-held USD (and thus USDT) without it having a price impact on Bitcoin (or other cryptocurrencies).
Re: What does that future look like?...it is tailless, stealthy, and packs a laser cannon.

And the pilots are sharks.
Travel Breaches Hit Air Canada and Asia-Pac Hotelier
Expedited access to a shitty line of credit is worth 5% of every transaction you ever make (or whatever they skim these days)? Please.
The Simple English Wikipedia aims to use about 1,500 words, so that might give you a sense of what's possible. That said, if you look at it it's clearly unnatural and contrived; most people you talk to aren't going to be able to restrict themselves to the right set of words (and even then it can be dicey -- you can know all the words in the phrase "put up with something" and yet have no idea what the phrase means). https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
> the lack of military uses

As opposed to all those military uses of dams and wind turbines. Right. And of course, I wonder what the fuss is all about with Iran, then...

The reason nuclear is in decline is the track record of spectacular disasters: Three Mile, Chernobyl, and now Fukushima. Get at least a generation without massive failures, and people might be willing to give nuclear a chance; but there have been 3 in my lifetime alone!

(Plus, in any country not as big and isolated as the US, any plant is a massive weakness from a defense perspective...)
Dodge is making strides towards that, releasing a mild-hybrid version of the ram for 2019

https://jalopnik.com/the-2019-ram-hybrid-could-hit-a-decent-...
That's more of a legal problem where someone amended an existing FOSS publishing principle to insert something draconian.
Any parent who thinks they have a place in determining what pursuits their adolescent child is interested in is in for a wakeup call...
Reading a full unedited transcription of a speech from a president is also pretty direct...

that's existed for 150 years at least

i.e. https://yorkblog.com/yorkspast/read-the-actual-article-next-...
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umlage_U2

In Germany companies get reimbursed100% 6 weeks before and 8 weeks after birth, which is motherhood protection leave during which mothers are not allowed to work with regular pay (part of which comes from health insurance, the rest from the employer)

Parental leave is unpaid but you cannot fire someone for or during taking it.
How Burning Man Has Evolved Over Three Decades
At my university the graduate students (in the engineering college, at least) were frequently research assistants. In that case you would probably be counted as an employee of the university.

That data point could change the student-employee ratio from 1:1 to 2:1
Also like I mentioned previously, there is little political capital to expand the subway

Stop spreading FUD. LA literally just passed Measure M a few years ago to...vastly increase its rail network. Metro is currently in the process of extending 3 lines, building a new line, an airport PeopleMover, and multiple multi-line connecting stations. This doesn't include the nearly 100 miles of additional rail planned for construction over the next 2 decades.

The subway system as it currently stands is simply ignored by a huge percentage of the population and adding a small extension to Dodgers Stadium wouldn't change that.

Completely false. About 20-25% of the Dodgers crowd takes Metro to the game.

Musk is currently claiming that he will not need public funds for this. I don't have any reason not to take him at his word.

Elon has made numerous misrepresentations about nearly all of his businesses, his personal life, and other people...just in the last year. At this point, anything he said should be viewed with suspicion unless he can provide corroborating evidence of its veracity.
> Musk is currently claiming that he will not need public funds for this. I don't have any reason not to take him at his word.

Musk has made numerous claims (e.g. Autopilot, Model 3 production, secured financing for taking Tesla private, that a cave rescuer is a "pedo") that have turned out to be wrong, even though being wrong would be materially and legally damaging to him.

What damages does Musk face if he's wrong about his project not needing public assistance?
any articles about new ideas on this topic ? even if new means using old ways again
The capabilites to deny airspace to something like an F-22 would be pretty high/expensive. AA missiles are expensive to buy, deploy and maintain and they probably haven't gotten cheaper over time. Their true effectiveness in a peer-to-peer contest is unknown or only known to a select few with access. Drones would likely not be cheaper than AAM.

But swarms could change the whole anti-personnel/troop exposure calculation, so it might make mute using super-platforms for air support. Flying IEDs is a lot easier to imagine than an F-22/35 killer (that are in the air, at least).
I have never had a full day interview, if it's more than 4 hours for a serious onsite I won't waste my time. They clearly don't appreciate other people's time and are quite frankly wasting theirs. The decision was probably already made before the second cup of coffee anyways.

I absolutely agree with refusing to interview and meet the teammates. All you have to do is rub someone the wrong way for whatever reason, hell they could be in a bad mood because they got cut off on the freeway. Meeting tons of people before an offer is an excellent way to reject great candidates.
> It seems like this tunnel is better thought of as a tech demo that will be open to the public.

Except it sucks as a demo.

TBC is basically proposing a variation of Personal Rapid Transit. The main theoretical virtue of PRT is that it provides a point-to-point mass transit system; its main theoretical issue is that it is low capacity for the cost of its infrastructure. Demos should showcase strengths; if you're proposing improvements to technology, you should highlight your ability to overcome previous limitations.

This proposal does not highlight its capabilities, and gives ample room to excuse failures. It is planned to be single track: capacity will be utter trash. Point-to-point is pointless when there's only two points.

Of course the worst aspect is that the one-way, bursty nature means you need to have someplace to store the cars at each endpoint. It's not bad at a stadium, which is naturally going to be a massive dead space, but the other terminus is supposed to be a metro station. Either you're going to need to build a massive underground cavern (at which point boring a second tunnel and deadheading cars to empty space would be much cheaper [1]), or you're going to have to dedicate surface space to car storage--at a metro station, where logic dictates you should be having high density for commercial/residential purposes.

[1] The cost of subway lines is heavily dominated by the stations that need to be dug along the route. I haven't sized out dimensions, but it's not unreasonable to assume the necessary car storage is going to be larger than an underground mezzanine.
IPv6 Problem: Sparked a punch-up between top networks
You should be able to pass `--paging always`. The default `auto` will only page if the file contents is bigger than your screen.
The article left out the part about the lightning rods : https://www.businessinsider.com/marines-order-lightning-rods...
If your terminal is big enough, it will just output like cat, otherwise, you get a pager.

You can disable it with `bat --paging never`
Threads in the tapestry of physics
Are there issues with safety and evacuation or why has it not happened yet?
My phone screen technique is more old school but I think works well. I pick their top language or domain (web or mobile or whatever) and ask 10 trivia questions. Medium difficulty questions I'd expect a programmer with any experience to answer. I look for maybe 70% correct and I look for quick answers. You know it or you don't. And I set that expectation up front so they can give me a few "I don't know"s with no penalty.

This is my sanity check and I think it's faster and more accurate than a FizzBuzz and doesn't require screenshare.
The overall concept is "reproducible builds". Without it, you have the Reflections on Trusting Trust problem.
The Red Line, which you are referring to, is one of the most used subway lines in the US. Combined with the Purple Line to Koreatown, the two are #9 of the list of most-used rail systems in the US...and that doesn't include the light rail systems (i.e., above-ground rails) of the Expo, Gold, and Blue lines.
I just went through this with most of the engineers at our company as they're mostly .NET devs. It's an ongoing process but I basically gave a big talk open to questions on how to use git, all the commands, and the benefits of using the CLI. Thankfully they have a willingness to learn and become better developers and so it's been going pretty smoothly outside of a couple hiccups where I had to step in and perform git-surgery and explain to them how things work a bit better.

>One of them keeps committing line endings differently than everyone else, and he literally won't run git config --global core.autocrlf true because... I dunno why. He just doesn't want to, because it's the command line.

It sounds like someone needs to have a conversation with this engineer. I personally wouldn't want a single engineer on my team or company that has a resistance to learning new skills. Learning new things and better ways to do those things is basically the job description. Hopefully they have a good reason other than being obstinate otherwise they might need to find a new company that tolerates mediocrity :/
Storing energy in concrete blocks
Optional services is still in the pipeline, and this release is to see if there is a demand out there - and we'll iterate on that. What the restaurant pages show now will continue to be free.
H-1B Visa Crackdown: DOJ charges CEO with Fraud on nearly 200 applications
The EU emits 50% as much per capita. A 0.5% reduction for the US isn't better than the EU in absolute terms.
Well, yeah: not having the agents of the monopoly on preemptive violence that the state has reserved to itself getting too trigger-happy is something that I think all us plebes can agree upon.

When you are talking about normalizing starting conditions (up-thread), you are talking about ad-hoc/post-hoc redistribution of assets. Presumably assets that have been earned at an earlier time based on providing customers products or services that they wanted to buy at a price they were willing to pay, at a margin above their cost to the producer, allowing the wealth to accumulate. Like Steve Jobs creating a company that sells iPhones generating wealth.

Now - Steve Job's offspring will start at a better position in life than my children will. They didn't earn it - but my children didn't either. I find myself vaguely uncomfortable with the idea that I/we could form a group of 51% or 55% or 65% or even 80% that would vote to expropriate from them their property, so that I/we could distribute those spoils amongst ourselves. Is the current state 'fair'? Almost certainly not! But legitimized piracy by democratic consent? Where would it end?
https://plus.google.com/+BrianSlesinsky/posts/8cxBEMcWk4V
If medical costs go up, that factors in to inflation.
>A robust professional network is almost always more valuable and more resilient than a MS CS. I actually think that this is OP’s biggest opportunity/challenge.

You are actually right about that. I do not have a robust network. It could be a negative, but I also learn that you don't have to allow negative traits to define you, or your worth.

I have learned this from someone else who works as a software professional, who is bipolar and depressed. He also works at a fortune 500 making 6 figures, and takes on leadership responsibilities. He says that he hates himself, but loves his wife, and that despite being antisocial, it doesn't have to dominate him.

He also says his personality and social network does not affect his ability to work, and he works hard for his team. If he can do it despite his shortcomings, so can I. Dwelling on your negative qualities are a distraction, and incorrectly convinces you that your negatives have to commandeer your self-worth.

I will need to follow in this guy's footsteps. Forget about my lack of a network as something that defines me. I have to play to my strengths, and downplay my weaknesses.
It's not airlines that want to do this, it's the customers who want to fly around the world for as cheap as possible. Nobody values the time they spend travelling, they just want it to be as quick and cheap as possible.

It'd cost you $10,000+ to take a 20 hour flight with a gym and bunk beds. Fuck that, I can stay in Aruba at a 5 star resort for a week at that price.
For me it depends a lot on the details of that process. I want to work with really good people, so I'm ok with a process that takes time and/or work as long as a) I think the added process is likely to get better results, and b) it's handled in a way that's respectful of the time and energy of all concerned.

A good example for me is interviews. I'm totally happy to do a full day on site, exhausting as it is. But only if I feel like they have gained new insight in each round. A few months back I did like 8 individual interviews during a 1-day startup visit, and easily half the time was answering the same questions repeatedly. The could have just had people pair up and saved me time while getting better results themselves. It gave me the impression they didn't have their act together.

Take-home work is in the same category. If it's the kind of thing that makes me say, "Oooh, I want to work with people who pass this," then it's great. But if it mainly seems to be testing my ability to put up with nonsense, that's a big negative sign.
For me, 0-1 was difficult, 1-2 was barely noticeable, all the lifestyle changes had already been made, and there were no longer any surprises. When thinking about having a 3rd, everyone I've talked to has said it's an enormous jump.
its happening, its not maybe [probably]...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45077057

from daily mail[meh], but a counterpoint and illustration of the weaponization of information that is happening...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6027507/Venezuelan-P...
Those smaller, turbocharged engines are designed to game the fuel efficiency tests. Real world experience has shown that they often burn more fuel than larger naturally-aspirated engines of equal power. They are also likely to break sooner due to higher complexity and tighter tolerances, which isn't good from a total life carbon emissions standpoint.
Unfortunately, most people lack the patience for such things. I remember in 2016, Hillary would give deeply detailed hour-long policy speeches about all sorts of stuff, and then her critics would claim she didn't have detailed plans. Sigh. (Not a question of whether you agree or disagree with them, but nobody rational writes and delivers an hour-long policy speech that's a straight-up lie about their intentions.)
I've pulled up a random "YouTube star" "building my dream house in california" video and that looks all the world like a single glazed window, in 2018:

https://youtu.be/OWglKkE-0a8?t=2m17s

It also seems to be a wooden construction.. so frankly I don't know what to think. I'm sorry if this seems like very unconventional evidence but then going from building codes to what people are actually building out there is a whole different story, and then you didn't actually provide any data, either.

Though you are spot on with the ridiculously oversized buildings, like a 3 door garage that is so intimately integrated into the structure you're climate controlling it year round.
Spyware Company Exposed ‘281 Gigabytes’ of Children’s Photos Online
The F-35 has been a huge success for China. We funded everything, made every mistake in the book, and now the PLA can pick and choose the parts they like best and fold into their own, perhaps better working, model.
EGPU Multitasking with AMD Radeon Pro Graphics on MacOS
Interesting. Google.com gets a D-
The effects are felt elsewhere, too. Most manufacturers aren't going to design two versions of a model for two regions, the energy efficient one, and the less energy efficient one. They'll just work to make one that fits the more stringent one. California has been one of the biggest drivers of EE nationwide because of that.

It's interesting to see it in practice too; if you move to California and bring a car, part of the registration process is to check the car and make sure it indicates it meets California requirements in design and build (not just smog testing; they do that too, but the actual registration/titling will involve them popping the hood and checking the car has the right markings). And basically every modern car does.
Show HN: Starting an Internet Generated Radio Website
Shape is the major determining factor for radar return, not size. From Ben Rich's Skunk Works-

>I really wanted a photographer around for historical purposes to capture the expression on Kelly’s big, brooding moon-shaped mug when I showed him the electromagnetic chamber results. Hopeless Diamond was exactly as Denys had predicted: a thousand times stealthier than the twelve-year-old drone. The fact that the test results matched Denys’s computer calculations was the first proof that we actually knew what in hell we were doing. Still, Kelly reacted about as graciously as a cop realizing he had collared the wrong suspect. He grudgingly flipped me the quarter and said, “Don’t spend it until you see the damned thing fly.” But then he sent for Denys Overholser and grilled the poor guy past the point of well-done on the whys and hows of stealth technology. He told me later that he was surprised to learn that with flat surfaces the amount of radar energy returning to the sender is independent of the target’s size. A small airplane, a bomber, an aircraft carrier, all with the same shape, will have identical radar cross sections. “By God, I never would have believed that,” he confessed. I had the feeling that maybe he still didn’t.
Beej is the man in Bend, Oregon. He regularly hosts hacker nights!
Only because Californians have outsourced most of their manufacturing and other heavy industry to other states and countries. If we factor in the total energy or carbon emissions cost of stuff we import then California doesn't look nearly as good.
You could transport 2500 people for a few thousand bucks using a few buses and setting aside a game-day express lane for those buses. And the best part is, if the East Hollywood/Silverlake trips are popular, you can scale quickly and easily--and even on the fly--by simply using more buses.

This is in fact what they already do for Dodgers fans taking public transportation to the game from Union Station.
Intermountain will be converted from coal to gas:
http://www.ladwpnews.com/information-regarding-proposal-to-r...
BULLSH*T JOBS
Just build a fence around Fukushima and ignore it. It's hardly worse than all the toxic coal dumps.
At a certain level of income/wealth, the time spent traveling is valued higher than the dollar amount. That’s why premium airlines include first class suites with beds. If those offerings weren’t profitable they wouldn’t exist.
Pretty good because I'm in the habit of scrolling down approximately a windowful (using the Page Down key) then when that scrolls a little too far (because I have low vision and consequently have the text size set unusually large, which many web sites don't handle correctly) using the up arrow key to find my place again.
Rent one every few months, drive it for the weekend. Cheaper on every front, scratches that itch, and minimal effect on the environment.

I do that with my wife for convertibles. She loves them, so any time we're on vacation and need a car I try to get one. It's just a couple hundred more for a week's vacation, at the time we'd get the most enjoyment out of it.
>The talk reviews reasons for UNIX's popularity and shows, using UCB cat as a
primary example, how UNIX has grown fat. cat isn't for printing files with line
numbers, it isn't for compressing multiple blank lines, it's not for looking at
non-printing ASCII characters, it's for concatenating files.

>We are reminded that ls isn't the place for code to break a single column into
multiple ones, and that mailnews shouldn't have its own more processing or joke
encryption code.
Do you have any citations for that? I see people either signing up because they don't realize they have a choice because the button to say "No" is intentionally smaller and obscured, but then they mark the newsletters as spam, or simply throw them out. I also see lots of people adding fake addresses like "screw@you.com" just to get past them. Has anyone verified that they actually do some real amount of good for the business putting them up beyond the simple metric of "we got tons of signups for our newsletter after doing it!"?