skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what to make of this description of Franklin.

He apparently lied about his religious upbringing, claiming a Presbyterian youth, when in fact, he'd been raised Congregationalist. Sounds like this was a bigger thing in the 1700s than it would be today, but still...

Today, Franklin would probably be a Redditor, with a side of Anonymous hacktivism.
Been a long time since I've seen double scrollbars on anything not in active dev... that must play hell with a mobile web view.
Like Taxi apps or food delivery apps, they need multiple types of users on the platform in new locations at the same time to provide reasonable user experience.
Was it not the DARPA challenge in the USA that honed the skills of urmson, CMU, Stanford, and other engineers? What role did Japan have to play in FSD vehicles?
Japan has a majority- privatized highway network, funding it requires tolls way higher than would be politically feasible in any western country. Gas and tolls make taking the bullet train cheaper for some distances if you're alone (the equation changes if you load up your family).

I live here and have to pay the tolls but I still prefer it from a "user pays" justice POV.

It doesn't have to be privatized though - Singapore is introducing a GPS-distance-based congestion charge on their roads ("ERP 2" if you want to Google it)
I work in logistics and our company runs regular tours of our service centers that anybody in engineering can go on and get any questions they want answered. It's pretty great. it takes the tasks off the screen so to speak and puts them in real context.
Southern Virginia here. Stinkbugs are EVERYWHERE right now (and have been for the past few years around the end of the summer and into fall).

As I read the headline for this post I saw one slowly meandering up my wall. I also began to think about the possibility of this being done intentionally...

You see, the brown marmorated stinkbugs we have are native to asia. They have no natural predators except for a tiny small wasp that parasticies their eggs (also native to asia).

When I was researching them, I thought "What if China intentionally introduced them to the USA as some sort of ecological attack?" That would be some next-level warfare. Or just a really mean prank.

And then this impending laternfly invasion re-piqued my interest in this theory. It turns out that a similar type of parasitic wasp is the natural predator for laternflys too...

Could this really be a coincidence? Could it be a response to the new tariffs? What if they offer to sell us some bio-engineered wasps (a la Monsanto ) to help control our infestations? But the wasps die after a generation, so we have to constantly buy then...

Of course it could still all be coincidence, but it's fun to think about.
Unless the drones have onboard AI, all you'd need is to jam the signal.

It can't be that hard to shut down drone frequencies seeing as how they have gear to shut down cell phones (to prevent them being used to set off IEDs).
What do you mean by 'conspiracy?" Oil bourses trade in dollars
Landing speed for a loaded 737 can be up to 203 mph [0]. Among general aviation, a Gulfstream 450 landing speed can be up to 186 mph at full weight and high altitude. The drone itself can have some speed opposite to the airplane. 230 mph is only a little conservative.

[0] http://www.b737.org.uk/vspeeds.htm Note that numbers are in knots.

[1] http://www.code7700.com/g450_vref.htm
Right, and then immediately have some editor come along and delete them for not being notable enough. No thanks.
The NSA doesn't send people to "reeducation camps" because of their political or religious beliefs.[1]

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/world/asia/china-uighur-m...
> interviews are --again-- exactly like, if even worse... hours going through round after round

I would decline extensive interviews for contracts less than a year.

Be up front with them that the process does not make sense. It will be obvious in a few hours whether you can do the job, and therefore little risk to them.

(I realize some places will stick to their process, be damned. It is a quality signal, however.)
RabbitMQ is what we use at work or sns for messages to lambdas.
Particle Workbench powered by VS Code
> If you try to print big (let's say A3+) you'll rapidly find the limits of the m43 system

I’ve printed a good number of images shot on m43 at about that size, and that’s not been my experience. The specifics definitely matter, but I’ve found Olympus’s M.Zuiko 75/1.8 to be competitive with a 70-200/2.8 in terms of sharpness, distortion, etc, for instance (dxomark seem to broadly agree: https://www.dxomark.com/Lenses/Olympus/Olympus-MZUIKO-DIGITA... vs https://www.dxomark.com/Lenses/Nikon/AF-S-VR-Zoom-Nikkor-70-...). You do have a larger minimum DoF, but 150/3.6 equivalent is not that far off.

I would like a bit more resolution, but that’s also true of my Nikon D4S (also 16MP).

Clearly FF and m43 have different strengths, and you’ll get the best results by playing to the strengths of each. I concede that all else being equal, larger sensors do afford you more flexibility (lower light performance, for instance). On the other hand, traveling with my Nikon FF kit is a huge PITA (mostly due to the lenses; the body is a constant cost I can mostly deal with).

I’d love to hear more about the limitations you’ve hit with larger prints on m43.
IBM researchers working on making Bitcoin's POW more efficient
No hobbies that require learning. My free time is consumed by exercise and just spending time with my wife.

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy development and learning more about software development/architecture, but I focus that on what’s marketable.
> The larger problem with the 2.4 GHz ISM band is ... only one station being able to transmit at a time per channel

Is there any Wifi tech for which that isn't true, sans beam-shaping and other tech that effectively puts stations on different physical networks? How do 5 GHz technologies handle multiple simultaneous broadcasts on the same channel? How will 802.11ax do it? Signal processing?

My impression, based on only a little research, is that it's impossible with any tech. Even cell providers need CDMA, TDMA, etc. Maybe that understanding is out of date?
Depends upon the software - you can pry Excel from my cold dead hands.

G Suite has definitely come a long way, but the Office suite of apps are absolutely the gold standard.
Why do you say not to use bull? I've been quite happy with bull in our production environments so far.
I think it was "Adam Ruins Everything" that pointed out that that flu basically killed everyone it could i.e. except for those that were resistant, it killed until it ran out of people to infect. Scary.
The internet isn't interested in directing you to the top 10% of anything, in the event you're in the market. That's too many people, nearly all of the time.

It is, however, very interested in directing you to literally the top ten (whatever thing) to save you the trouble of messing around with inferior, market-failing solutions.

So you do have to be literally the top ten in the world (or on the internet). Because if you aren't, someone else is prepared to be (if only for a brief shining moment?)
But surely a 737 wing is completely different to the one tested here?

I'd be very interested to see a 737 wing being tested like this.
The US dollar and many other international currencies are named after the Joachimsthaler, which were printed by the counts Schlik of Sankt Joachimsthal/Jáchymov, and became so important to have several currencies named after them. But there was no empire.
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I wonder what's better in the long term for the farmers.

Making sure people have food to eat is something society in the US can easily do, I really wonder if the heroic volunteerism surrounding food banks is a good way to do it.
How do you square the assertion that nothing has meaningfully changed in recent times with the availability of information, education, travel/cultural exchange, disposable income now versus all of history? And in what way do you see the putative 'American Empire' as more brutal than the Soviet Union (for example)?
Redux ducks pattern
How does this analysis explain all the wars and international influence initiated by countries that are NOT the USA? (for examples: Russia->{Georgia, Ukraine, Turkey}, China->{North Korea, African countries}, Saudi Arabia -> Yeme, Sudan civil war, Germany->Greece)
Ask HN: What would you like to learn in a programming school in your town?
I've been thinking on a way to help my local community, of beginners or really anyone that wants to learn how to be a programmer, to grow.

Opening a small school with 10-15 people and start teaching what I know from my 8+ years of professional experience is one way I can think of helping.

I would like the students to graduate in 6 months or maybe a year knowing:

* The basics of a linux system
* The basics of a database system
* Version control
* Developing a backend project
* Developing a frontend project
* Testing

What do you guys would like to learn in a school like this or would have liked to learned in your time ?
but they won't look at cloud storage (honest - the law even says so) so why don't you just leave those plans on the server until you're through customs - of course than you have to go to all the trouble of, ya know, clicking a hyperlink...
As a software developer, the thing I love about the cubesat concept is the presumably reduced iteration time. The idea of waiting for years only to find out something went wrong once the satellite is in orbit seems absurd (sorry, GOES-17).

That said, isn't the whole concept of cubesats tied to the idea that they're not in a geostationary orbit? There's something to be said for the simplicity of "point at this spot in your section of sky and receive data".

I suppose now is a good time for me to look into how to get data from a cubesat fleet.
My previous company uses a set of Excel files to create construction tenders. They included a lot of formulas and vba to calculate quantities, costs, labor hours, etc.
I had to set up dedicated backup jobs for those templates.
The people I know are averaging $100k/acre a year doing intensive farming and CSA, which doesn't seem bad to me. Examples would be Jean Martin Fortier style farming techniques.
Interesting. This particular lodge is in a more rural/farming area of Southern California (Santa Paula). One interesting item they had on display was a paid off mortgage note from like 1940.

The overall concept of brotherhood, networking and civic engagement at the local level is appealing to me. The Elks always seemed like an interesting organization too in that sense (they sponsored my scout troop growing up). So I'm not sure how much the esoteric side of things would appeal to me, but that's probably just because I have no idea what that entails.
I have to roll my eyes

Just this statement

> and yes brutal Empire the world has ever seen

shows how little knowledge you have of history. How anyone can say the US is the most brutal empire the world has ever seen when not even 100 years ago the Belgian Congo existed is beyond me.

These "tyranny of the US dollar" articles always bring out the worst conspiracy theorists.

The US dollar is the most popular currency simply because the US is an extremely stable country. Few countries exist that have had the same government for more than 200 years. No countries exist that have similar clout to the US and have had a stable government for 200 years.

When you trade something for US dollars you know exactly what you are getting. An asset that will depreciate at a fairly consistent 2% every year. Few currencies can claim that.
I'm not scared. Bring it on.

Edit (2:18): Got the alert right on schedule. Freaky.
or you could go and, GASP! leave your phone at home...
The 230mph is combined speed and they don't mention approach as the time of impact. Single engine prop planes can do between 140mph to 200+mph for some of the fast ones. Some of the business jets have higher landing speeds also. You would be surprised how low a lot of these planes fly over rural areas, they are well within range of some of these camera drones doing crop pictures.
Really? Because I see these things all the time. Of course, there's usually market forces keeping things that way.

In case you need examples:

I can't find a good surface subdivision modeler for Android tablets.

The desktop clients for Upwork are a bloated mess.

The Field Nation mobile client crashes twice a day for me, and both the mobile client and desktop website present a massive amount of information in a cluttered, completely disorganized fashion.

The inventory/shipping tracking systems for ecommerce are either clunky, or priced out of reach for Mom and Pop eBay sellers. I can't think of any CMSs that are particularly helpful for that vertical, either.

You could make a bunch of people happy by fixing any of those (okay, I may be the only person chafing for a good surface subdivision tool for Android). Unfortunately, you're going to have a hard time making real money from any of those niches.
It's interesting to me how your language implies everyone has a niche out there that's best for them, and they just need to find it. A lot of people have a similar mentality about relationships, that you have to find the right one. I think it can be harmful to use this lens, as it's easy to excuse a failure as a "bad fit", a losing gamble in the lottery, something unavoidable and absolute, rather than the result of personal actions and circumstances together. Attributing outcomes to your own actions is the way to self improvement and greater success, because it puts the focus on things you control.
I built this site as a former insurance broker turned tech enthusiast! Buying an insurance package (health, dental etc) for a small business has always been a painful pen and paper process. This simplifies everything down to 6 questions and lets you customize share with your team and on-board all online. For those who work in or run a start up, would love to hear our feedback, would you use this? Does it give you enough information? Does it look credible? Thanks!
I don't think that's a fair comparison. A lot of track vehicles used today are dedicated, and not necessarily expensive.

Fundamentally there are difficult compromises to make a vehicle behave well on the street and track, after all - you can often be cheaper overall to have a daily driver and a track car/bike, and make fewer compromises. Also spend less of your time changing tires :)
If you're looking into getting started with Deep Learning in the cloud/GPUs, I strongly recommend using Google's Deep Learning VMs (either the PyTorch one as described in the article or the TensorFlow variant). It saves a lot of time setting up the CUDA dependency hell, and handles Jupyter administration/security correctly out of the box.

The only bad thing about them is that they don't support preemptible instances out of the box, but I filed a request for that functionality.
So when I was a kid my family made use of food banks. Now that I'm doing better in life I give a cut of each paycheck to my local food bank (The Alameda County Food Bank). I don't feel too bad about ordering from Imperfect Produce, it's convenient way to get produce delivered to your door, and I still wind up buying some things from the farmers market and co-op. On that note, it is good to know what consequences new business models have on the surrounding community.
> Kong itself has been used in highly regulated industries,

Was it used in any application that actually was covered by any regulation enforcing authentication and authorization to the point that kong could directly determine if an implementation does or does not comply with the regulation?

Or was it simply used in highly regulated industries like car stickers are used in the highly regulated auto industry?
The triplebyte application is remote (or was when I did it in ~2015), but the jobs they match you with are not. As the author confirms elsewhere in this thread, they need a critical mass of employers and candidates before the process is effective for both parties.

Re the SEO play idea and jumping straight to the assumption of deception, I've found it useful in life to switch my mental model away from "I don't understand, what's wrong with you?" towards "I don't understand, what's wrong with me?"
I've been using a Blackberry Z10. I relay my Gmail to a remote Unix pay-for account, and only receive from there; I only send mail from a VM on my VPN'd home computer.

This phone does phone calls, SMS, and I use the built-in browser on private mode. There's NOTHING Google on this phone, and I sign into nothing.

I do feel like I'm not part of the game any more, but I'm not part of the game any more!
Yep, Propublica had an amazing piece on this specific thing:

https://www.propublica.org/article/conservation-easements-th...
There is Windows Subsystem for Linux, which actually works quite well.
Keras vs. PyTorch: Alien vs. Predator recognition with transfer learning
The only useful policy is the one that is followed
Did you work specifically for a construction GC as a project manager or something?
The Double-Edged Sword of Deep Learning
They really are underselling these events. I suspect that this is because of dissatisfaction from other OEMs.
"Sure 62 tons is heavy, but it worked in Kerbal Space Program"
-Lockheed engineer, probably
The specific part I was calling BS on is

>there's not enough people to actually do ...

IMO there are plenty to do the work. There are not enough people who are sufficiently incentivized to do the work at the wages that farming pays. This is in comparison to other choices people have be it easier work or higher paying.
I don't think that you can do autonomous driving without a pile of cash. The problem is too complex.
I think they're probably more for hiring managers than candidates. Each job that they fill probably nets them 20-30k in revenue. So one hiring manager filling out a team might be worth $100k in revenue for them. That sort of revenue can pay for a lot of ads. I've seen literally thousands of them over the last year or so on reddit alone.
The people you spend the most time with affect how you think and what you do.
>Will a Tesla (or any car) really prevent you from running your car into something if you try to?

I guess it depends on what you mean by "try to".

I drive a VW; if I'm inching out of a parking spot, it will automatically stop the car if it detects traffic. I suppose I could tromp on the gas at that moment and blast out into oncoming cars, but I'm not sure why I'd want to...

Same with catching up with slow moving traffic at highway speeds. It will detect the vehicle (or object) in front and apply the necessary braking pressure. The slower the object in front is moving, the faster it will apply harder pressure (and flash a warning to apply the brakes manually).

Essentially, if you don't react, the car will. You can then override it.
What a practical solution. Deeper googling shows that this is possible for many countries (DE, AU, US, UK, FR at least), often called a concurrent or second passport. I wish I had known about this when various countries had been taking their sweet time about getting me a visa.

https://pointstobemade.boardingarea.com/2018/02/22/getting-a...
https://www.passports.gov.au/using-your-passport/concurrent-...
https://photos.state.gov/libraries/france/45994/pdf/second.p...
https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F21517
https://www.rapidevisa.fr/actualites/174-comment-obtenir-off...

Learn something new on HN every day :-)
Denmark doesn't really have "remote areas" by the standards of large countries.

Here's a map of the high voltage power grid. I don't think anywhere is more than 50km from a transmission line.

https://en.energinet.dk/-/media/9160AAB5C484432399767220B78D...

The increase will be gradual, and no doubt the power grid company is already planning for it.
>This drives the efficiency wonks absolutely bonkers.

what do you mean by that?
Germany didn't start from zero. Many large companies operating in there have roots precisely in the nazi era. Combine this with the Marshall plan and the insane amount of money pumped by capitalists into destroying East Germany and later on integrating East Germany and you'll see the reasons why Germany benefited from world growth more than other European countries.
HR is there to protect the company, not you.
Part of the plot. See The Super Rich of Silicon Valley Have a
Doomsday Escape Plan in Bloomberg online from a month ago. After all, they have their underground NZ bunkers and everyone else should just go away. /s (just kidding)
The local news is reporting the plan is to stop sales of diesel cars.

Not gasoline...

Regardless, if we force the market, electric cars will catch up. But bans probably won't do the trick, I bet it'll take incentives in terms of higher taxes on gasoline and lower on electric cars.
Hey, The Valley isn't that different. I wouldn't describe it as "moved on" either.

There's are definitely more, better options than ever though.
For the benefit of others, it appears that "WRA" refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Revenue_Act_of_1917

This was surprisingly hard to determine, as it appears this is one of very few such references on the internet.
> it makes me sad to see how it's becoming increasingly difficult for people to move here. I believe this is the biggest threat to Silicon Valley's dominance as the center of the technology industry

Absolutely. Highest income tax in the nation, couple with some of the highest cost of living in the world.

SV is in big trouble once more non-SV companies start paying comp that is competitive with SV.

This is already happening and I know several great engineers who preferred offers for the same or slightly lower comp outside of SV.

The trend will be strongest among senior and veteran engineers, since buying a decent house and raising a family is virtually non-affordable in SV.

Especially since SV was never great about paying extra for senior and experienced engineers. They're going to have a serious problem when the only people willing to relocate to SV are fresh grads willing to live with roommates.

California has benefited immensely from SV growing in its backyard, but now that this fortunate growth needs some tending, California is just shrugging its shoulders, and in some cases making it worse (e.g. NIMBY laws in SF preventing new construction).
Sadly, after more than 20 years building software, _NEVER_ trust a business person. My faith in humanity had to have me bitten by this the hard way more than once.
Does the 'solo tap' require additional software on an Android device? For example, would this work with LineageOS or does it require some google blob crap?
Either I'm your customer or you're my customer. All transactions with another business should be buy/sell.
I suspect for most WiFi users, the overwhelming need is more reliable and fast establishment of connection. I waste vastly more time trying to deal with flaky connections, reconnection after wake from sleep, and network priority issues than I do waiting in the rare cases the WiFi is limiting thd data transfer rate (rather than the wired connection).

The timescales involved in making Wifi connections should be ms or less, not human-noticeable (order 10 sec).
By efficiency I mean food per $. I met someone who runs a small organic dairy farm and each small container of yogurt was 12$ and it's not like he was making tons of money (and that was after years getting organic certified).

Edit: it was super cool to meet his cows but the market for 12$ yogurt is so small that it would he hard to break into that market. He only got there because his family has run a very natural dairy farm for decades (or at least that's what he told me).