skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That can't represent most real numbers, although I don't know that we have actually established that physical lengths can.
I think you are referring to non profit organizations
"Modes" would be much better named as "protocols" (like "Ethernet" or "IP"). Originally it was rudimentary analog protocols: AM, FM, Morse/CW that were decoded with simple circuits where "mode" might have been more appropriate.
Yes, this is always my argument against this sort of thing. Enforcing one person's right to be forgotten is infringing on someone else's right to remember.

Say, for example, I get beat up by someone. They are convicted and go to jail, but then in 10 years time they get their record expunged. Am I no longer allowed to tell people about what happened? I should be allowed to tell my story. I should be allowed to tell people what that guy did to me. If I want to write about it, I should be allowed to do that.

It is my right to decide how long I want to remember, and who I want to tell. If I don't want to forgive, and I want to tell people "This guy beat me up 10 years ago, I don't think you should have them around", that is my right, too.

The government doesn't get to decide how long I can hold that grudge.
The most important: Theres no documentation saying how it works, its not modularized, whatever bastard got the idea to create such a system... nice, clean, elegant and consistent abstractions and APIs, please!
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So instead of clear code to handle the error you have a dozen logic components watching for some events and modyfing state again triggering events and modifying state. Yeah, i absolutely can see how this approach will NOT increase maintainability because now you have 84 logic functions watching for some graphql events, and they may never be down for a microsecond because they would miss a (critical) state change: graphql subscriptions are not like persistent queues
I think that what you describe as doing is definitely small talk. It's just not the dumbed-down type expected by many people in the US or some anglo saxon societies. Also the message of the article is actually contradicting your observation b/c it insinuates that Finnish people pretty much don't talk in such situations - which you did. And I hope you can unlearn again b/c as a German I really prefer people with your take on conversing! Those people should rather learn from you.
The problem in a very real sense is Google is using its market dominance to enter other markets and unfairly compete/stifle competition.

Whether I/you/we use google or not, we are all losing out.

How does it happen?

Google search is >90% of all internet searches. Is that a monopoly by itself? No, but they use the dominate market position to determine where they will expand. Example, flights/hotels Google knows everything about the economics of that industry from their market position. Then Google expands into flights/hotels. Google flights is now automatically at the top of every organic search to the detriment of competition and market incumbents. Google will also now bid up ads for these terms simultaneously putting themselves at the top of ads, lining their own pockets, and driving up the cost of Google’s own ad customers who were paying $1 yesterday to Google and now paying $10 Google to compete with Google. As a result many competitors across these industries go out of business and leave consumers with only Google.
Cashiers almost always say hi to you in Finland. Then they list the price, then usually ask if you want a receipt, then say thanks. It's pretty rare for them to deviate from the script.
Can't remember either, but your recollection is close to what mine is.

But given that Moff knows who/what Darth Vader is it is not supprising that he takes a subservient stance when talking to him. Kind of the same way i'm very careful around american cops. I would never address a norwegian cop by sir, but i don't even think twice before using sir/mam when talking to a us cop.

But in these cases its fear. It has nothing to do with pleasentries. It's the gun in the holster or the knowledge that he can forcechoke you if he wants to. ( at least thats my interpretation of that encounter in rotj ).

So no. I don't think they would say that in any normal encounter. I know i wouldn't other than in jest.
Seriously. That's a culture-bearing book right there!

("Culture-bearing," BTW, I got from Pirsig's afterword to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, yet another book I will never regret reading. :-) )
Just a point worth mentioning: if the MacBook Pro is actually "marketed to professionals," then the removal of the SD card slot makes a lot of sense. No "professional" is using an SD card; they are using Compact Flash, CFast, XQD, 2.5" SSD, or a proprietary interface.
The demand would still be there, and so would the opportunity. The main difference would be that new players would have to build something serviceable. They wouldn't be able to crank out shit in the amount and pace of today, but that would be a great thing for the planet.
thanks drift.com (and driftt.com) for driving me to learn how to block specific sites in uBlock. Audio 'pops' for a webpage chatroom is a new level of annoyance.
Guys, no one is forcing you to listen to that stuff. Get off the voice bands, get on digital and you'll have a blast.

Here's a fun talk at Defcon from Balint Seeber, a ham who focuses on security, to get you in the right headspace. I attended this and the group of 6 of us that hung out afterwards with Balint was some of the most impressive people I've met at Defcon. One had built a bug sniffer. Another was intercepting satellite comms over Iraq. And Balint had a prototype SDR board he shared with us. So much fun.

https://youtu.be/cHtHBqSZE4k

Yes, there is a community of rag chewers who use the voice bands, especially lower HF, to keep in touch with friends. That's a tiny part of the hobby and community.
super impressive that AI could pick winners in THIS market
I know we're meant to look at the subjects of these postcards and marvel at how horrible they are, but some of them actually look quite interesting.

You've got plenty of your standard dreary Soviet-era monumentalism, of course, but the Flower of Life memorial is humble and affecting, the Armenian Writer's Union guesthouse annex is straight out of The Jetsons, and the Soldier's Field Memorial is one of the most creative war memorials I've ever seen. Compare the latter to the new-ish, thuddingly literal World War II Memorial in Washington, DC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_World_War_II_Memorial), for instance, and it's no contest; as a way to remember both war and what war really is, the Volgograd memorial wins hands down.
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Is there any way I can pick this up using an RTL-SDR dongle?
Couldn't you make this argument about all endangered species?
I’m tinkering with combining liquid cooling with waste heat electricity generation as a way to cut down on datacenter energy use. I think it’s cool because datacenters consume 1-2% of all electricity generated worldwide, and roughly half of that goes to air conditioning. If it’s viable, it might make a measurable dent in CO2 emissions.
How is it terrible compared to other similar in scale countries?
Do you support tracking non-sex crime criminals that have been released given they have a higher rate of reconviction than sex offenders?

"Recidivism rates for sex offenders are lower than for the general criminal population. For example, a Bureau of Justice Statistics study of 108,580 non-sex criminals released from prisons in 11 states in 1983 found that nearly 63 percent were rearrested for a non-sexual felony or serious misdemeanor within three years of their release from incarceration; 47 percent were reconvicted; and 41 percent were ultimately returned to prison or jail."[1]

[1] - https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90200&page=1
Years ago, someone pointed out to me that we tend to hustle through courtesy interactions faster than we really need to, which leads to tropes like "Have a nice flight!" "You too!" Since then, I've made an effort to reduce the number of those interactions, but spend a bit more focus on them. I've been surprised - consciously considering what I mean when I say 'thank you' apparently changes the delivery enough that people react visibly differently to it.

(It's tougher with phone calls, especially when some customer service rep is clearly being recorded and under orders to follow a script; I don't really know what to do there except explicitly say "I know this isn't your fault and you don't have a choice, but I don't want any of what you're offering.")
You're blurring the lines a bit between the true definition of microservices (eg: no shared schema, data structures, etc) and just a sensible deployment architecture. If their runtime state is independent then there is nothing stopping you taking your monolithic code base and deploying it N times, for as many independent end points as you want. That way service A crashing is never going to bring down service B, but they can still share code and data structures.

The real question is, do they have shared runtime state? If they don't, you can do the above, but if they do, moving to microservices won't make that go away, it might even make it harder to deal with.
Condoms, tampons, pads, and menstrual cups are all very well supported by science and/or common sense (presumably someone would notice a non-functional tampon).

The other bit was some of the supplements do contain vitamin D, which does actually have use due to the (relatively) high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in modern society - that’s why milk in America has vitamin D in it. Of course as the article notes, those supplements were advertised for acne, which vitamin D has no effect on :D
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I would appreciate feedback on the overall design, messaging and even the product itself. I am a solopreneur so hearing other points of view would be great.

Here's the link: https://www.cast.watch

Also, what would you do for targeting potential users?
Norwegian living in the UK. I remember my dad when he moved over here just found the whole initial greetings and small talk with his UK colleagues really funny. And even funnier to watch his mostly Swedish colleagues struggle with the same tennis ball banter at the start of every conversation. Instead of just getting to the point straight away.

I was young enough to adapt quickly, but still I struggle with insincere greetings such as in some shops here now have US style greeters at the door. Find it hard to respond to their "Hi/Welcome/How are you" as I know they do not want a conversation, so why interfere with my personal space...
I guess that's the difference between proper Engineering and hacking something quickly and under self-inflicted pressure together. Your nieces app might work on her setup but not on others and may need almost a complete rewrite on an OS/API update. The properly engineered solution on the other hand might "just work" for years. I think key is to realise how much engineering is needed on what occasion. I find it disturbing when a simple app has highly sophisticated error handling unit tests as I would find it disturbing to find 30kLOC code bases with no unit tests, completely random spaghetti architecture and no explicit error handling.
Yes, but a news article saying you were arrested for something still happened, and is still factual.
I don’t think this would necessarily result in more freedom. Remember that when the question of states versus the federal government was definitively answered a century and a half ago, the side in favor of more autonomy for individual states was pushing for that so that they could continue to own people as property.
You're definitely right that there are a lot of really cool people out there. I had a similar experience joining an EAA chapter to discover that a whole bunch of them had worked on Hubble.

That said, the FCC in my experience has been pretty lax about policing the amateur bands. You can go to any online SDR and tune around to find obnoxious, toxic, and illegal behavior within minutes. I've also found that if you're lucky enough to find someone under 50 on the airwaves, there's a >25% chance they're a crazy prepper.
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> At $5M in wealth, it ought to be possible to go basically anywhere in the world and live comfortably without working.

Yes, I like that definition as well. If you look at the wealth report, $5M is also the threshold for getting the highest return on investment and having access to the best possible investment advice.

In other words, it would take pretty serious mismanagement to squander $5M if you aim for a normal lifestyle and not exorbitant luxury.

But I'm not sure where that gets us. So we've defined a level of 'rich'. That's still not good enough to base a policy on. What's our aim? Capping the wealth? Taxing it? What's to be done with the wealth? Does the policy have a chance of being politically viable?

I'm not sure anything can even be done on an individual country level. Once you reach that level of wealth - your capital is mobile, and essentially global. There are no boundaries for wealth management firms with wealthy clients.
Thanks for posting that. It looks like a service traders would appreciate.

I'm looking for something open source though because my interest is intellectual and the "signals" type stuff is associated with pump and dump groups.

There is also so much market manipulation going on from all sides that it's really impossible to take any signals seriously.
So what lower-cost radio do you recommend to get started on non-voice bands? I see the bitX40 people made a new model called the µBITX. What bands and protocols will that open me up to? I also looked at the RTL-SDR but thats receive only and i'd like to do some transmitting and explore my options. Basically just looking for a cheap option that lets me explore the most bands/protocols.
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I still have a 2010 MBP. Maxed out the ram, dropped in a standard 2.5" SSD, and it's doing fine.
Furthermore, the evidence suggests that the U.S. Supreme Court has made an assumption of extremely high recidivism (as high as 80 percent) based on questionable research:

> And where did the government come up with their numbers? As it turns out, the solicitor’s brief in McKune cited a government manual that in turn cited a single article published in 1986 in Psychology Today, a mass-market magazine aimed at a lay audience. It was there that Ellman found this sentence: “Most untreated sex offenders released from prison go on to commit more offenses—indeed, as many as 80 percent do.” The article did not even pretend to be a scientific study. It offered no hard data, and its author was neither a scientist nor a professor, but rather a man with a degree in counseling who ran a program for sex offenders in an Oregon prison.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudenc...
Most endangered species are not clones, they usually have at least some genetic diversity to build on.
Well, on my x220 the difference between OpenBSD and Debian was more than an hour of battery life, to say nothing of tabbing freezes.
We have a whole suite of internal correctness verification tools, in addition to which we are also using Jepsen. We don't have an official report out yet, but you can get a preview of our progress here: https://fauna.com/blog/verifying-transactional-consistency-w...
It's definitely a cultural thing in the US to identify and show people that have purportedly committed crimes prior to their conviction.

This article shows a Canadian perspective on how France and the US looked at the media during the DSK affair a while ago: https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2011/05/20/dominique_st...

You can see how the different perspectives clash.
I think the math suggests that the rest of the country depends on the 'urban paradises' to fund it, at this point. Sure, less populous states grow food, but if they broke off, it seems likely they'd want to sell that excess food for something like market value, no?
I can confirm that the GTX780 works. You will need to install the nvidia web drivers after macOS installation. Tried even using it with tensorflow.

Regarding your first question: I have tried virtualized and bare metal macOS (hackintosh) and I would recommend not virtualizing it if it's gonna be your primary workstation. Currently my main workstation is a hackintosh after trying first using it in a VM.

Virtualizing works, but under a VM there are several minor annoyances here and there that might drive you crazy (most of them are UI related, some app crashes, etc.). It would be perfect for example for a xcode build server. thought. YMMV!
A number of Microsoft employees have confirmed that the main reason Microsoft never did anything to stop Google's growth when it was small was fear of further antitrust punishments:

And most important, as Microsoft lived under government scrutiny, employees abandoned what had been nascent internal discussions about crushing a young, emerging competitor — Google. There had been informal conjectures about reprogramming Microsoft’s web browser, the popular Internet Explorer, so that anytime people typed in “Google,” they would be redirected to MSN Search, according to company insiders. Or, perhaps a warning message might pop up: “Did you know Google uses your data in ways you can’t control?”

Microsoft was so powerful, and Google so new, that the young search engine could have been killed off, some insiders at both companies believe. “But there was a new culture of compliance, and we didn’t want to get in trouble again, so nothing happened,” Burrus said. The myth that Google humbled Microsoft on its own is wrong. The government’s antitrust lawsuit is one reason that Google was eventually able to break Microsoft’s monopoly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/magazine/the-case-against...

As an HN user, I assume you are probably familiar with dozens of projects for products or services that were superior to Google's entrenched ones. Be they alternative mobile OSes, search engines, email or calendar products, etc. But thanks to monopoly power, all of them have failed to gain traction from the incumbents due to their vertical integration with the rest of their product portfolio.

Gmail is not the best email client (it's not even a particularly good email client now that it takes two minutes to load), Android is far from the best mobile OS. But both are dominant because of the inescapable monopoly which owns them and every other product people use online. Google Search isn't winning because of the quality of the code or the results, but because Google has invested billions of dollars every year in ensuring the default search on nearly every electronic device is Google. No matter how superior someone's product is, if they don't have Google's scale or their billions, they can't compete.
First off, anxiety sucks and it's more than likely bringing about these negative thoughts.

Second, you're experiencing what a lot of people experience in their first month (or even months). Especially coming from a freelance role, the team experience will take some getting used to. Changing up your collaboration style will take some time, but ultimately you'll be fine. I was also pretty reclusive when I started at my job.

To answer you question about getting better. Reading Code and asking questions is the #1 thing to do. In order to write good code, you need the context surrounding your problem. If you're working for a FAANG company they will (hopefully) have coherent coding standards which makes reading code easier. Along with reading code, asking questions is perfectly normal for _everyone_. Engaging with other engineers and seeking knowledge is a part of your job description. If you feel you're asking too much, take some notes and document your learnings.

Overall, you're going to be fine!
Why the hostility? Since we're thinking at the level of cartoons, here's a fun one: http://kvardek-du.kerno.org/2010/01/how-common-lisp-programm... Note the third row's distinct family orientation...
Actually, according to the original plan, the House of Representatives should have grown so that each member represents a roughly equal number of constituents (excepting very small population states which still get one). At some point it was capped at 435 (I presume for space reasons) and the disparity of representation has increased since. So it seems that more power has been transferred to rural states than the founders had originally envisioned.
> It is strange that this article sees Finland as an odd man out in terms of customer-service interactions, and it suggests the USA or the UK is the norm

It's not really odd at all that an article that is part of a BBC Travel series treats the UK as the baseline norm.
Cherry-picking a few NJ schools doesn't show much. It would be nice to see an aggregate comparison. This article does that at the state level, and is somewhat conciliatory to your POV. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/13/arne-duncan-school.... That said, another commenter pointed out that aggregating by state is doesn't really capture what we're interested in.
I've made exactly one contact with FT8 using a low power radio and crappy antenna. I played the generated tones from tinny computer speakers to the mic, just messing around. Someone responded! (Probably semi-automatically...)

I thought it was pretty cool that it worked at all, but it doesn't seem like a very exciting mode to pass the time other than maybe to fill the log book and impress all my hypothetical friends.

The resiliency might be useful for emergency communications in some way, but it would have to be a peculiar type of emergency.
I wonder what would happen if a world leader, like the president of France, invoked his EU-given right to be forgotten.

Imagine the chaos, not only on web sites, but across all of society.

Would schoolbooks have to be re-written? What would teachers say when children asked who the xth president of the republic was?
Of course you're still allowed to tell people what happened...

To understand why some people argue for such a right, you need to appreciate that a report of your crime being the #1 Google hit for a search of your name is fundamentally different than some old acquaintances knowing something. You cannot escape the former, you can not make amends with an archive as you can with people, etc.

I know many people are reluctant to see a difference between situations when they exist on a continuum. And yes, there are scenarios every step of the way from "top Google hit" to "one guy knows and could tell if asked". What if you actively went around 20 years later telling the story? What if you kept commenting on every social media post of theirs?

But just because there's a gray area somewhere on this spectrum does not imply that we cannot recognise the extremes as distinct situations that require different rules.
Well... that first job can be hard without the magic degree. (I essentially got mine by the grace of God.) You might do better to get a CIS job, and while in that job, take on more and more CS-like responsibility. Then, when interviewing for your next job, you can say "not only can I do that, I have been doing that".
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There is a big difference between 'reading for pleasure and self-education', and 'reading for a specific purpose'. I agree that one can do too much of the former but I'm not so sure about the latter. There's plenty of academics and writers, of all stripes, who would not be able to do what they do if they did not spend most of their time reading.
yes and I'm sure he does.
If you're into a long biographical documentary, check out http://www.iambigbird.com/ which you'll have to rent or buy (at least in the US).