skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they're going to ... do what, exactly?

I can tell you exactly what they do as this happened to me ~9 months ago when I had inadvertently left an e-cigarette in a checked suitcase. I was indeed paged (I was airside) to report to a service desk, where the (quite friendly) staff led me through secure areas into the bowels of the airport, where my suitcase was awaiting me on what could be described as an "off-ramp" to the baggage roller system. I was then requested to open my suitcase and retrieve the offending item, did so, and all was well.

> I've checked batteries dozens of times and never give it a second thought

I suspect that if you start travelling through more modern airports with the kind of enhanced screening that got me you'll definitely be giving it a second thought... I also have checked them dozens of times but as screening gets updated it's looking like a thing of the past.
Except that, without C-sections, the natural path tend to be fatal for either mother or child in a non trivial percentage of cases, even in an hospital.
If you like hard sci-fi, the amazing trilogy by Liu Cixin The Three Body Problem uses gravitational wave communication as an important part of the plot.
Is there a mailing list / forum that I can join to come upto speed with the efforts?
You need to think about what types of interactions we normally perceive-they're all dependant on the electromagnetic force. DM does not appear to absorb or emit light, so it stands to reason that it also won't repel electromagnetically (ie touch things.)
"If you can survive there, you can survive anywhere."

Hopefully other employers believe they can provide better work balance.
It's fun to train your sense/brain. Since I started learning music, I try to detect harmonics in mechanics (train, car).

Also I wonder how much of this will come to you naturally if you live in the wild. You rely on so many minute signals ..
Have to say, having worked in a huge organization with multiple clients accessing services, I much prefer the firebase solution. You still have downtime in any polyglot solution and the problem is pretty clear here (it's firebase database, not one of dozens of legacy layers...). When you own the entire stack it is amazing how much of the organizational effort goes into obscuring who is responsible. And the stack is much more opaque.

It really is possible to design a system around firebase with a much smaller team. You give up control but control is a myth anyway. And, Firestore is actually designed to support offline mode, so wonder if they neglected to design for that feature which might help here.

The unfortunate reality is that we are in a moment where Firestore is beta and Firebase Database is not supported as it should be. Google should do a better job of helping people to migrate and explaining the roadmao. I imagine the writer of this article just doesn't have as much company clout to get that level of involvement from Google. This was probably an attempt to get that attention that other higher paying clients can get.
Hurra: yet another way for the NSA to exfiltrate data from my keyboard.
You might have caught me in hypocrisy, my jury is still out.

I mean: I too like whimsy, and adding an about:<something noncommercial> would probably be ok with me. (In fact I think there was an easter egg on some about:-protocol-page st some point.)

It was just the sudden surprise of seing an extension I didn't expect and then what at least felt like a hidden commercial motive on top of that.
It is probably quite tough to get news-ready rights-released photos from academic institutions on a news schedule. I hope you do some more deep diving into the subject matter, as it's easily findable and stunningly beautiful: https://www.google.com/search?q=lab+grown+retinas
At a large, well known software company, I worked with senior engineers, with a decade's more development experience than I, who couldn't use React properly, or even understand Redux. These are not difficult tools.

They had been working on the specific codebase for over a year, fwiw.
Adventures in Python optimisation
The neutrino is part of the standard model. The dark matter may easily be entirely new physics, outside of the standard model. The implications may be enormous.

Moreover, even if the dark matter itself doesn't itself lead directly to to new tech, it is very likely that subsequent discoveries will.
Big Data, the why, how and what – A thought Process and Architecture
On a motorcycle one is much more connected to the environment and I think that is one reason people like them. Its fun to come down into a hollow and feel the temperature change. Smells are also easily detected. Sound, on the other hand, is mostly the motorcycle noise (which can be fun too). Reading this comment made me think it would be really interesting to try out an electric motorcycle.
Just remember that many people shorted Netflix early to their detriment.
Well, Goldilocks, you’re going to have to pick which of your list you’re willing to give up to have the other. Do such jobs exist? You bet they do, I’m working a job that fits your list to the letter. I’m also making considerably less than I could. That’s fine, it was a compromise I was willing to make. But I’m not working on mobile, either.

In a macro sense, though, you’re going to have to come to grips with the fact the work environment has changed. I’ll bet the fact that you don’t want an open office knocks out 60-70% of Seattle-area prospects right off the bat. Quiet colleagues? Tech bros are where it’s at...bro! You’ll have at least one in 50% of the remaining prospects. Managers are not getting any more competent, so whack off another 25%. The quiet, professional workplace with offices is largely gone, so prospects that fit your parameters are less common than in the past.

That all said, my brief flirtinsg with embedded and the reports from others indicate that it is a field with higher instances of what you’re looking for.
> It’s just like binding arbitration clauses. In many industries, like mobile phone service, you can’t “choose” a market participant that doesn’t have such a clause because all of them do.

Isn't that because the industry is regulated and the government is the actual barrier to entry? Not saying it's wrong, but saying that the market isn't working when you listed something caused by regulation is unfair argument IMO.
I'm concerned about a loss of empathy due to drug use. Over years of drug use, neuroplasticity could cause a permanent reduction in the capacity for empathy, and concern for other people & society at large.

It's like CBT but in reverse.
Are there even "closed office" designs? I've never worked in one. I think I might have been in a couple maybe once or twice over the course of last 5 to 6 yrs while visiting someone. Everybody in my office, right up to senior VPs sit in open plan. I didn't even know the guy sitting next to me was one when I joined before someone pointed it out.

I really can't compare.
£950 for something that occurs once per lifetime seems extremely negligible.
>I'm 40 years old without any children and would like to be able to not be stressed and work overtime and solve hard technical problems

You have no kids... You can work overtime and do anything you want when you want with respect to working and focusing on work without kids.

I'll assume those downvoting this comment dont have kids.
Tyndall Air Force Base Suffers “catastrophic Damage” from Hurricane Michael
I understand your point, but the difficulty comprehending the continuous change of species into species over billions a years is really something humans have difficulty when it comes to anything that has such a slow rate of change.

For example, it's very hard to imagine the grand canyon being carved out from water eroding the earth every time it floods little by little. But you can intuitively still get how that works. And I think the basic idea of natural selection is pretty intuitive. Whatever can't survive doesn't reproduce. You can imagine how that simple rule (of course it's more complicated than that) could lead to life to spread out, and adapt to many different niches and take all sorts of forms.
Does client-injection count as modifying Epic's code?. I'm impressed with how well this guy has monetized all of his channels by selling this stuff.
Ask HN: Designer Socks for Entrepreneurs – Feedback Please
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Calling out women separately and grouping them with "freshman" is pretty messed up. No one mentioned gender and women could be part of seniority.
Hypersonic Missiles: at Mach 25 just 6 minutes to hit any target on Earth
if you want to buy and people are selling thats good. If you want to sell and people are buying, thats good. Buying or selling with low transaction fees is good. Being able to do so quickly is good. Obviously if an individual loses money that's bad for the individual, but the health of the market is about liquidity. Being stuck in a position where you cannot buy or cannot sell, especially if there are people out there who would if they could, is the worst situation for the market.

I don't believe monopolies are good, except that having a monopoly might be better than having no market at all. All the rest are just people participating in normal market activity.
Are there any example cities that improved housing affordability significantly?
Sure, but people also take jobs because they really need the money.

I don't know if you have spent any meaningful amount of time without a job/money - but this world REALLY fucking sucks when you have no income.
Putting the lawsuit under "Copyright infringement" is a strange choice, but I have to agree that fighting cheaters in video games is a good fight.

In one hand, the user should have ownership of their computer, and what happens in it. The user should not be prevented from testing and modifying whatever occurs in their memory, in the same way, I can load Adblock, or Reddit Enhancement Suit, to make my experience on a website better.

On the other hand, online gaming has become a sport. Having cheaters in-game is almost like bicycle racers using enchantment drugs for a competition. I would hate to lose a bicycle race for having another athlete using illegal unhealthy drugs, as I would have to lose an online game for other players paying hundreds of dollars for a significant unfair advantage.

For me, there should be a new kind of law that would cover gaming cheating behavior under unfair gameplay. Users are detracting from the experience from the other players, who are playing the game on an even playing ground.

I find GTV 5's strategy particular interesting, that instead of banning cheaters in online servers from playing, they just moved players to a "cheaters pool," in which cheaters can play with other cheaters. It still allows everyone to play the game, but now they are put up against other players who also have an unfair advantage, and have to compete for a better strategy.
Just as some people have great technical aptitude, others (I believe) have great social aptitude. While memorizing acronyms comes naturally to some, memorizing faces comes naturally to others. And the other group must work harder to compensate and keep up.
Inverse square makes sense because you can model it as a finite number of particles with decreasing density as they move away from the source, like shotgun pellets. MND is like if more pellets just sort of appeared out of thin air at a certain distance... It would open up all sorts of different questions, starting with: how do those particles know when and where to spawn more particles? Where does the energy come from (or where does it hide until it decays out in the form of more gravitons?)
Insider trading isn't necessarily bad for _the market_; it brings more information to the market faster, so prices more accurately reflect all factors. Compare for instance a hedge fund using satellite imagery to notice that a refinery has much less oil and trading on this information vs some exec at the oil refinery trading on that information. The former is completely accepted, because of the information it brings to the market, but its effect on the market is the same as that of the latter.

The big problem with insider information is that it generally represents a breach of fiduciary duty; essentially someone is improperly disclosing a corporate secret.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading#Arguments_for_.... Even Nobel prize winning economist Milton Friedman argued that insider trading should be legal.
Probably not, more like a continuation of the last real estate boom where the new money (from zero or negative interest rates) is going into multi-family mega-complexes instead of McMansions this time.

Where I live (downtown Phoenix) every single vacant lot and quite a few "marginal" businesses the developers could get their hands on have been turned into massive luxury condo/apartment complexes. So much so the city is telling my landlord he isn't charging "market rates" and needs to increase the rent, and taxes he pays, due to all the high-rent places that went up in the last couple years -- luckily he doesn't agree so...
Consider something. What is it that makes god did [x] an improbable hypothesis? The fundamental reason is that there is no direct evidence of said god. There is indirect evidence and logical arguments that can favor a god, but that means nothing when you cannot observe a god, you cannot measure a god, and there is no direct evidence for that god.

Dark matter still holds more in common with the divine than the practical, for now. We've developed and carried out a slew of extremely clever experiments to try to affirm its existence, yet each and every experiment has returned a resounding negative. This is one of the biggest problems with the gulf between experimental and theoretical physics that's been rapidly expanding over the past several decades.
I had guessed they replaced btrfs' B-trees with Bε-trees. Anyway, I don't think there is much concern -- this seems like academic/corporate abandonwaware more as a proof of concept than anything else.
The fact that it is a hole is relevant to this discussion. The physics and safety of a large object passing through a relatively small hole are the entire thing in question.
Contract work outside of the startup world (or for a well funded startup that delivers real value) fits the description. Large companies, too.
Any idea what year the patent clock times out?
Reasons Game Development Is the Perfect Side Hobby for Software Developers
It's an Open Markitechure? Only half kidding: Open <blah> sounds more inclusive and cool than CUDA <blah>
Pretty sure he meant "freshman or freshwoman"
I'm not the sharpest functional programmer in the cohort, but isn't `apply` a parallelizable for-loop?

apply(l, print)

is the same as

for el in l:
print(el)

which is a number of print statements, rather than 1 print statement with a number of arguments.
I've always noticed this as a weird development. In an ideal capitalist scenario, people will wind up with the job that suits their preferences to the degree that they have enough career capital to be picky. But in reality, people just kind of fall into whatever job they can get and stay longer than seems rational.

As a soon-to-graduate student, I hope I can hold onto the idea that the path of least resistance has a dangerous allure.
For me its the similarity to another pre-relativistic concept- the invisible ether between the worlds- that rubs me the wrong way.

And its tough to imagine the consequences of something you are absolutely not able to detect, you could be flying towards with 250 km/s. Its kind of scary- imagine you hit something like that and it causes earth quakes or a shake up of the solar system. Just think if that missing gas giant was actually a Blob of DM cycling the solar system.

And, well - the situation seems similar to this over focused on the problem situations you sometimes have in coding. Everyone has committed to a very narrowed down problem solution, that is just not working out, but instead of stepping back, a thousand angles are tried to solve the problem in the narrow scope.

Many here, just want to help.
Which, given the Enlightenment as a project of everyone capable, against a Elite fighting for dogmatic ignorance - is a good thing in my book.

The article is missing in my opinion a confidence rating for every observation- how often this has been tested in experiments or observed in space. Otherwise it was good.
This comes as a surprise to some but sometimes you can't put people in "their place". You just have to accept that some people are assholes. You can try to mitigate their behavior but you have no right to legal recourse.
Shorting a stock is like renting a car for a year - then selling the car, and still paying rent. At the end of the year, you buy an identical car for a lot less, and give it back to the car rental company. Cars are fungible in this example.
And even non-major ones! I hear you can even land at an air force base in the US as a civilian private pilot without any negative consequences, providing you have declared emergency.
Perhaps they meant "fresh men/women"? Instead of slamming, you could ask.
Name is "Aaron Swartz", by the by.
From the article: "When I tell our customers something is wrong outside of our control"

I think this is both the issue with the article, and the issue with Firebase (ironically).

First of all, its an issue with Firebase. All software will break. This is inevitable. Its just a matter of time. Well engineered software/infrastructure gives you, the consumer, tools to mitigate this so your consumers never see it. If we look at amazon, they expose AZs and Regions; well architected applications use these failure domains to accept that an AZ, and possible even a region, will fail. So you can do fallover.

Firebase really doesn't expose these primitives, in an effort to be simple and easy to use. Maybe they're doing something in the backend to use them, but the proof is in the pudding; if their stability is bad, it means they're not doing a good enough job at abstracting away these unavoidable failure domain principals.

Which brings us to the second problem: Its Always Your Fault. Stop trying to pass blame to Firebase. Your customers, seriously, full stop, unequivocally, no exceptions, do not care that Firebase caused you to go down. They care that you went down. You don't get to say "its not our fault!"

Because Its Always Your Fault. Its your fault that you chose Firebase. Its your fault that you chose a service which doesn't expose core failure domain primitives that you can engineer to support. Its your fault for not getting off Firebase when you recognize these core issues with the platform.

Firebase's status page is for you, the engineer, to understand and diagnose issues. Its for you to interpret and surface on your own status page. Its not for you to link to your customers and say "see that red dot? that's why we went down."

And by the way, Yes: Even perfectly architected applications on AWS/Gcloud/Whatever, falling over AZs and Regions, can go down due to things outside of your control. AWS ain't perfect. Remember: All software breaks. But when you word that to your customer, You Always Take The Blame. Period. This is what "its always your fault" means; its not about saying that there are ways to write an application that never breaks. Its about accepting that when (not if) it does break, your customers will blame you, so you need to accept that blame wholly.
If you flip a board game you ruin everyone's experience. Doesn't mean you sue them.
Good article on bragging. I do it some of the time and without any shame. Part of being a business owner is promoting it with honesty. It blurs the line with bragging IMO. I do try to avoid it on HN, but pride, etc. I almost never share IRL, most people will not understand the context or effort or sacrifices required, and, a lot of it is luck too, so bragging obviously is self servicing to some extent. Thanks for pointing it out though, genuinely, it is good to think about. I think this fell under item (6) of the article.
I'm using the Chromebook Pixelbook as my primary development device. I love it ergonomically: great keyboard, love the ability to flip the keyboard behind and use as a touchscreen.

ChromeOS could be really big, and it makes sense as a brand to switch again from Android for the reason.

But, the fact that I lose access to the sound services almost every single time I use the machine is crazy.

The response from Google is not encouraging.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/?noredirect=true#!top...

Basically:

Reboot

Or, just wipe all your data!

If they really expect people to use these as their primary machines or even as just a browsing device, you MUST have sound working 100% of the time.

Mine is setup as a developer machine so it could be that I'm bleeding edge. But I'm loathe to switch back, lose all my data, just to see if that fixes things.
Oh, didn't think of that. I hope that's the case.

Avoiding a gendered word would avoid this confusion.
Why should a a highly-paid engineer spend a few dollars, when they can spend the time-equivalent of dozens of dollars to not pay?
Is it possible that you haven't had the training to understand the weight of the evidence and theory that led to this conclusion? Perhaps some humility is necessary here?
As a soon-to-graduate student, you'll find out why.

You need money when you have rent.
If there's a hackerspace near you, it might work better than a coffeeshop as a place to get out of the house and focus on work. Having other geeks around helps me. (As long as they're not working on loud projects that day!)
A good strategy in this scenario is to take the first job you can when you need money, but keep interviewing. This way you can be more selective since your needs are already being met.
Magic Leap’s inaugural conference shows it has a long way to go
"Easy and intuitive to use (like the STL"

If you find the STL easy or intuitive, you and I are not from the same universe. :)
What'll end up happening is that when they run out of wealthier clientele to buy/rent those, those apartments will sit vacant and they'll have to lower prices, thereby opening them up to the middle class.

Companies will always chase the higher margin luxury market first before hitting the mid range and budget audience.
Insider trading is definitely bad for the market because there would be no outside investing ever if insider trading was the mode that information came about.

Execs have not only access to 'current oil' stores, but basically everything about the company.

It'd be crazy to invest in a company where execs can do as they please, it would be utterly gamified and suppressive to the entire market.
I think that leads to the fundamental question of whether the valuation of a company should be what it is or what people think it is. "What it is" sounds more nuanced, but I think "what people think it is" makes it a lot more approachable for everyday people.
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