skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You want to use a court order on a user to not provide information it has, but actively perform actions to obtain new data in order to hand it to law enforcement?

Is this legal?
Weird how the proof that owners are pocketing credit card tips is a story about someone stealing cash from the tip jar.
A article about "alternative" black holes without the word LIGO in it? Yeah, I'm gonna have to stop you right there and ask you to sell that snek oil somewhere else.
You are 100% right. The days I sleep less is when am cranky, unable to focus. Its worse in the morning gets better as the day progresses. I work from home, so on those days I'll take a nap and it's a huge upliftment in the mood.
And I've had those work weeks, where you don't get enough sleep and I've almost had accidents, screwed up shit at work.
I don't think I would support this in an engineering organization. There are so many people focused on solving these problems, that I believe not being able to make an existing solution work well is for lack of trying. I'm a bit out of the loop on React, however if I had to guess Segment would be better off investing in adapting an existing framework, no matter how nice this one might be.
I'm not a fan of somewhat opaque spaces and think pretty clear spaces are better as well.
The restaurant doesn't still make money—the under-tipped employees quit to seek better employment, and at the going wage the employer is offering, there is no further demand for that job to replace the employees who have quit. So fewer employees have to take on the slack of "doing more", and thus each one ends up making roughly as much in tips as before (at equilibrium, if they manage to take up that slack); or they don't manage to take up the slack, demand isn't matched to supply, and the business's total revenue decreases.

The market is efficient... eventually.
Something something "Bumblebees shouldn't be able to fly" something something.

How is it we are shocked to find out we are sometimes wrong and not shocked that sometimes we get it right?

My critique by the way is the headline, not the actual research. The headline is clickbait IMO, and just as I suppose some don't like my comment (not well thought out, emotional, etc.), the headline is the same.

E.g., consider, "Curious unexpected aerodynamic principles of dandelion seeds lead scientists to new areas of discovery"
I never heard of this library before. Most projects seem to use libssh2. https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2
How do you respond to subpoenas?
I'm colorblind, and I think red and green are kind of overrated :). I didn't even know I was colorblind until I took a test at age 11. The extent which it has impacted my life negatively is absolutely negligible. Granted, it's not as though red and green don't exist to me. Some shades are just ambiguously red or green.

I'm not sure, but I think I tend toward absolute pitch. Individual notes out of context often make me recall specific songs. I'm not that accurate with my AP when I try to test it though, which is why I wouldn't claim to have perfect pitch.

However, I did take formal ear training in grad school, I found it really difficult. Perfect 5ths with different base notes don't "sound alike" to me. I had to rely on a lot of tricks to get by. I can transpose melodies in my head, so I could pattern-match a test interval to, say, the Superman melody (P5) or the Taps melody (P4). Or, if I were transcribing a melody or harmony, I could figure it out by function (chordal, stepwise, or chromatic motion). For leaps and intervals beyond an octave, I'm useless.

I'd also say that when I learn a song for voice, I'm mostly memorizing how to produce the right tones in-key, as opposed to moving by interval. I don't know how other people experience singing, but I suspect it might also be due to my bias toward AP.
Actually, it appears that while gas giants form at a distance from their star due to requirements around accretion and temperature, they generally tend to end up closer to their parent star than around Sol, although this again could be selection bias.

The Nice model provides a potential explanation for our setup, which essentially requires Jupiter to have formed far out, moved inwards under drag, bombardment, and transfer of angular momentum to planetesimals, and then moved outwards to resonate with Saturn after it formed.

There’s also the Grand Tack model which sees Jupiter careening from 3.5 to 1.5 to 5.2 AU.

As an added bonus, Grand Tack also explains tiny mercury and smallish Mars.

There’s also the question of age - how old are these systems relative to ours? Are we seeing them earlier, or later in their evolution? We don’t have good enough models to yet know.

We need more data, and we also need to understand Uranus and Neptune, which are currently a bit of a question mark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_model

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_tack_hypothesis
You wouldn't happen to have a good suggestion to replace it?
Simple, minimal line and clean icon pack in vector and font formats
Likely a move since the purchase of mLab to eliminate competition in the services space. Seems a lot like the recent changes with the direction of Redis.

Hopefully this spurs some movement in supporting open database communities better. PostgreSQL and RethinkDB being two that come to the front of my mind.
Ask HN: Should I bother with UI Testing or focus on more API testing?
Hi all, LTL, FTP, looking for some advice on testing strategy. Thanks for reading.

Some context: I have some time carved out within the next few weeks to deal with tech debt and to improve the automated testing around our upcoming SaaS product. It is a React based Frontend consuming a REST API in Go.

I pushed for and managed to introduce some UI testing. I had used Selenium in the past, however opted for Puppeteer instead this time round. Me and another engineer managed to write a number of use case tests, however we found it very clunky to work with and it tended to be quite flaky.

I recently remembered reading an Uncle Bob book where he recommends testing ends at an API level, and to not test UI. Opinions of Uncle Bob aside, should I bother with pushing through and testing our UI better (as we have had some avoidable issues when the backend has undocumented breaking changes since its still a bit in flux), or stick to battering the backend as much as possible and leave the front end to manual user testing?
Got it. Next best thing I could find: a mini PC. E.g. you can get one of these gigabyte ones for about $100, but I think comes w/o an HDD.

1: https://www.gigabyte.com/Mini-PcBarebone/GB-BXBT-2807-rev-10...
It's the same kind of thing we get with politics, where people decide what they believe, and then work backwards to acquire evidence for it.
Yes, the seed is falling, but the vortex slows the fall enough for it to be useful in distributing the seed as far as possible.
You are correct; as far as I understand the term it means the Waymo car kept pace with (stayed next to) the other car (Camry) such that the Camry could not merge. I am also confused why the Camry could not just slow down and merge behind, but we don't have enough information to make any kind of determination.
So what stops someone from tampering with a box of paper ballots and replacing them with their own, anyway?

Honest question, not rethoric. I don't see how paper ballots get any safer than electronic, it just seems to change what's the easiest approach to tampering.

Using both methods to verify one-another sounds decent though.
I have heard it called the most important algorithm of the 20th century. Not sure I buy that, I would say it's the most important algorithm in EE though.
Physical collection is risky, but we can mitigate the risks.

I can't speak to the US system, but here in New Zealand every political party is entitled to appoint scrutineers to each polling place. They cannot speak or interact with anyone but they watch the whole process from checking voter entitlement, through transporting the ballots and then counting.

The idea is each party distrusts the others so won't let them get away with rigging the ballot. Mutual distrust produces a trustworthy outcome.
Weighted randomization.

Objective: You have a list of things with a popularity score and want to get a random item from the list, but you don't want just ANY random item. You want it to be a generally popular item.

How it works: You take a key for the weight, we'll say `popularity` (0-100). And you have maybe 1,000 rows of content, each with said weight.

You sum up all the popularities to variable X. You set a random number between 0 and X; call it R. You iterate through your 1,000 rows (Y), and each iteration you subtract Y's `popularity` from your random number, R, and when R <= 0... you use that row.

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Quick Example: https://jsfiddle.net/rL6a01ku/

Press "RUN" over and over to see the numbers change, but basically still stay the same.
His point was about not needing a "magic" editor. Neither does python, it works with spaces or tabs as long as you are consistent, and tells you where you aren't.
Some people feel that the best societal arrangement is to let the people who benefit from an optional activity figure out how to pay for that activity on their own. I mean, if people can't seem to figure out how to avoid becoming indentured servants simply because they refuse to be economically productive and live frugally during the 4-6 years of college, how is the answer to just give them more of an ability to use resources without thinking about the consequences?

The real problem in the U.S. is that bankruptcy protection does not apply to student loan debt. Change that and the problem goes away.
While it is good to be skeptical, the book really goes in depth and makes a compelling case. I also believe sleep is one of those areas that it is better to err on the side of getting the recommended amount. “If sleep does not serve an absolutely vital function, then it is the biggest mistake the evolutionary process has ever made.” - Dr. Allan Rechtschaffen.
"Dandelion seeds fly using a method that researchers thought couldn’t work in the real world [...] Researchers thought that an unattached vortex would be too unstable to persist in nature."
> I fought this as much as I could.

I think that "fighting" this in the first place is not the correct approach. It would be better to "work on improve" it.

Perhaps I'm being pedantic, but I think it's an important difference, and creates a different (more constructive) mindset.

But yeah ... I've been where you are and I feel your pain :-(
Study supports Standard Model of particle physics, excludes alternative models
I haven't updated my resume since ~2005; when I re-entered the market looking for a new gig in 2010 and ever since, it's been LinkedIn curation and getting opportunities passed to me from my network 100%.
St. Charles Streetcar Line
You really find it comforting that huge amounts of people can not be helped from perishing - that others perishing is "the fix" ? Is it not just guilt that could be comforted for choosing not to be a helper? I think the "hope" is that you will never find yourself in need of help.

"but know that regardless life will continue" - your message was the inverse - it was "know that regardless early death must continue"

This is bad philosophy and not based on good analysis, just simple curve fitting and some degree of jadedness. People and history are capable of surprises.
The challenge, for me, with a service like this is security. To effectively search all of my personal information, this service will need creds to see all of my personal data.

That makes this service a tempting target for attackers.

From an initial read through the ToS and Privacy Policy I don't get the impression that they're going for a zero-knowledge model where data is processed on a client, so that means that their server-side apps will need to access/process my personal data as part of provision of the service.

Now I have no reason to doubt their committment to security, however I also don't have a great deal of information that would allow me to say "yep this looks like somewhere I want to trust with all my personal details"

One recommendation I would make to the team, is provide a bit more information about the steps you're taking to secure data processed on this service and also talk about the third party assurance that you're getting over those controls.

Also (personal peeve perhaps) but that bit on the front page about "industry standard encryption" isn't really useful. TLS won't save me if the web app. has SQL Injection :)
This is really more like using the illiquid assets as collateral, not like spending them. The loan payments still need to be made from income, or by liquidating assets, both of which would be taxed.
MoviePass’ parent company being investigated over fraud concerns
If we were to get solid sleep every day, it would essentially mean commuting from work, eating dinner, taking a shower and going to bed. Every f----ing day. Basically working for the weekend and feeling like there is nothing else in your life. I don't know how to do it.

Liking a job doesn't really cut it. It's a great start, but no matter how much you like something, it will get to you if you have to do it every day 10 hours a day. That and sleep.
While I see others here who have had trouble with deliverability, I'd just like to say that I have never had a failed delivery to GMail/Google Apps, Yahoo, or Microsoft. There are tools online which will receive email from you and help you configure your system properly for full deliverability.

I suspect whatever this Helm thing is, they manage to do things right on that front as well; everything else I don't know.
I always thought dandelion seeds were so open to reduce weight while still catching a decent amount of the wind in its cross section, approximating the flight of a dust particle.

Makes me wonder how much more of the wind a dandelion seed can catch with a vortex compared to if it didn't form one.
FYI, While their base is below minimum wage, if their hourly pay with tip does not meet minimum wage, then the employer has to fill in the gap by law. This is also why a lot of restaurants in Seattle force a 20% gratuity now that minimum wage is $15 an hour to reduce the chance that customers skimp on the tip and thus the employer would have to pay out the remaining $15 an hour.
We've replaced the title with more representative language from the article.
They're different ways to describe the same phenomenon. "[B]oth 'Bernoulli' and 'Newton' are correct." https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/bernnew.html
A.G. Russell, III, acclaimed Arkansas knife builder, passes away at age 85
https://www.facebook.com/agrussellknives/posts/10155582233556962

History of A.G. Russell- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79zFnEqs4xM&feature=youtu.be
I think a part of it is that resumes are more or less dead for a lot of roles; you need a referral from someone (don't even have to know them) in the team to land the job. It seems that having a jobs listing is similar to having to put newsprint ads for two consecutive sundays to get an H1B through.

That said, drop me a line (email in my bio) with your resume, happy to forward I know a few places that might be interested!
Does anybody have a link to a video of the lasers creating small vortices just above the dandelion surface?
Also researchers who need fast approximate physical dynamics. For example the Mujoco simulator or Drake.
This problem messes with me too. Arcane knowledge only applicable to a specific version of a product, in a specific way.
Don't attack the source, debate the content.
Ford employs over 50x as many people as Airbnb at roughly the same valuation.
That strongly matches my personal experience.

I think it's probably more likely that absolute and relative pitch are different capabilities, with most people innately biased one way or the other. But I don't think they're mutually exclusive. And I'm pretty certain some people have low capability in both.

I find the obsession with perfect pitch to be pretty overwrought. Much like I often find some people to be overly obsessed with synesthesia as a mystical source of artistic creativity.
Forgetting to tip is a fairly common tourist memory, though fortunately I've never had any threat. Not knowing when or how much to tip is also a problem.

- I was 12 the first time we visited the US. My dad was at first confused, since the hotel porter was hanging around, then he was embarrassed, as he didn't have any small cash.

- In New Orleans on a business trip, I kept forgetting to tip the barmaid. Other people at the bar were throwing her dollar bills on my behalf.

- Most recently, chip cards were fairly new — although I've had one for 14 years. I don't want to tip by card, it complicates my expenses, but navigating the dark-pattern UI on the payment machines was often confusing. Several waiters assumed I was stuck with the "new" chip card.
I want to see if someone had five jobs over the last five years. Clear sign of a shit developer.
> anti-funding instead of anti-waste

A decade ago there were big fires in San Diego county which overwhelmed the dramatically underfunded county fire department and required other counties and the state to send help. Even still, a huge area burned and many structures were destroyed.

2 months later, the county heavily voted against a ballot measure which would slightly increase taxes to fund county fire suppression. Because “okay my neighbor’s house just burned to the ground, but it won’t ever happen to me so why should I pay to prevent it?”

This is not about “anti-waste”. There are quite simply a large number of people in the USA (encouraged in their beliefs by decades of far-right propaganda) who don’t believe in paying for public services. The same people are the first to start begging and whining for state/federal support the moment anything goes wrong for themselves personally.
I understand the part where an agent/operator won't be able to see my details but when I digit my credit card details into my phone, who's handling them?
Are they going to Stripe directly or is Twilio forwarding the "tones" to Stripe? Kinda confused?!
I know what you mean but you'd be surprised about how your managers think about you, or how you would think about your younger self when you're 50.
I was going through this patch where I had not slept well for a couple weeks and happened to be at the doctor's office for a checkup. My blood pressure came back 135/80, when normally am at 110/70. The doctor asked me if I was stressed, frankly I was not, nor was I sick, and regular with eating clean and working out. I realized that it was sleep deprivation.
I have a personal Slack instance of all the people I've worked with and/or managed--and have earned my trust--over the past 7-8 years. We're close-knit and look out for one another in the Chicago market. We've landed each other new gigs, swarmed to help when someone's in need, etc.

That and we're always bouncing news, advice, and helping one another in said Slack instance. Safety in numbers.
emacs + tramp
That uses React to attach onClick, so obviously yes. I'm saying without React. You said:

> The only difference between if this were a web component vs a React component is that the consumer would not capitalize the name. Instead of `<Button appearance="primary">` they would do `<evergreen-button appearance="primary">`.

If you're not using React, you obviously can't do `onClick={...some function here...}` with Web Components, you have to use the shitty DOM APIs.
I really like the idea of ditching my smartphone for a dumbphone, but giving up Google Maps would be rough. Knowing the fastest way to get from point A to point B (including public transportation!) is genuinely really useful.
> And if so, why didn't the affected car stop or merge behind the Waymo car?

A driver with tunnel vision, probably.
Not the GP, but I think they meant - "go beyond two, and create one for each occasion" (i.e., many more than 2).

I agree wholeheartedly with that approach. You're more likely to be successful if you tailor your story and experience to each opportunity, particularly if you have 20+ years of experience.

Specifically, OP mention about applying to a "Senior engineer" and "VP of engineering". Depending on the size of the company, these are very different roles. A killer profile for one could be terrible fit for the other, and vice-versa.
"Seals Used to Protect Voting Machines Can Be Bribed With a Can of Sardines"
Actually, I would appreciate some advice on this. I truly don't know what services to sell. I can set up machines, design databases, write graph algorithms, train machine learning models, design web services, etc. But I'm not a "leading expert" on any of those things. I'm a generalist and usually have an answer for any problem I run into simply because I've run into it before. How do I market myself as a general problem solver?
Sure, and murder is still a thing even though we have laws against it. All laws are broken by some people, but the matter at hand isn't "does this ever happen?", it's "does this happen so often as to constitute a massive and consistent pattern of wage theft?"
Bought one. Physically removed the camera. Still has a browser and and app store, not to mention a builtin facebook app that can't be removed by the user. And the price point is around $60.

There's no reason for a bare-bones dumbphone to have any of that shit, or for it to cost more than $20.
> All of which only has any effect other than to hurt service workers only if everyone goes along.

It doesn't require everyone, or even close to everyone, but it does require a sufficiently large portion of the customer base to render the tipping regime untenable.

> Which ain't gonna happen.

I don't think that's actually clear, once you recognize that it doesn't take everyone.
Hi newman314, we have a gateway server that we as a company manage the gives you remove access back to your Helm. We do this without requiring you to poke holes in your firewall because the Helm establishes an outbound VPN connection to the gateway.
The physical collection box is generally (always?) out in the open so tampering would be obvious. Even with electronic voting machines it is rare to get enough privacy to hide attempting to tamper with the back of the machine like this article discusses. Voting machines without a user verifiable paper trail are certainly a problem, but they pose a much lower risk to the health of our democracy than other issues like what is currently happening in Georgia.
"Interviews" doesn't actually appear in the text of the article or its title. What does appear in the text is a very clear description of where the information came from.

"We spoke to several former Googlers to find out why they left the company, compiling their responses with those of other former employees who have written about their departures publicly."

I'm am, once again, quite impressed by hn's top comments.
> What is wrong with doctors these days :(

Disclaimer: I'm a doctor.

It may be different where you are from, but patients are usually the ones who want a script for something and not to be told to put away their devices, stay away from coffee and alcohol, etc.

Also, there's a difference between addiction and becoming dependent on taking a substance, which seems to be a common misunderstanding in this thread.
Completely agree that the lack of easy repair is a valid criticism of the Essential phone.
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"That's no moon..."
Atmosphere: customized firmware for the Nintendo Switch