skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you count all Suntory whiskey as "American whiskey", I am not there for this bet. But otherwise, yeah, I'm in for "the majority of all American whiskey is distilled in Kentucky".
"Transparency is not needed to probe a system"

Maybe not strictly, but without transparency that probing becomes more difficult. It also suggests that there's something worth hiding, which is all the more reason to not trust it.
I read a retrospective paper by a Norwegian group that worked on electrowinning iron from mixed sulfide ores. Taking iron sulfide waste and converting it to sulfuric acid and iron sheet. I think they were getting 4.25kwh per kg. Nop idea if that is good or not but at $0.15/kwh that's $640/ton.

I thought about that over the last few years because it's aqueous process so should be able to run intermittently.

Edit: Paper

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.843...
I have always identified with the idea that political views are a private personal matter, but as I have met more people with different backgrounds and attributes than me, I have learned that for me personally this idea is a luxury that I enjoy because there is less at stake for me than for some other people.
On the bright side, this set you up perfectly for Emerson's 'Self-Reliance'.
Senzill-Pagination
The syntax highlight for JAVA doesn't work well (everything is the same color).
If you are stable and not in immediate danger, you should absolutely take a Lyft to the hospital instead of an ambulance. Ambulances are very expensive and should be reserved for people who actually need them. What if there's a car accident and someone is bleeding out and the ambulance is delayed because it was busy transporting some guy who wanted an ambulance ride for his stable back injury?
Question for Kyle: Do you see the enterprise exploiting GPL loopholes often?

I work at a FAANG, and there’s pretty much a hard ban on any copyleft code being a dependency outside of stuff installed via distro packages. The lawyers are tough about it; the advice is always to get an enterprise license (or of course, make your own cool BSD+patents library to ‘open source’ as marketing).

I hear similar things from friends at other FAANG companies.

Do you see/hear of this more from startups based around a specific technology, containerizing copyleft code and calling it exempt? Any examples you can share?

P.S. Great blog!
I definitely didn’t like working in NYC. NYC is a net negative for me, unless the wages are in the $300-400k range, it’s a non starter. If I could work in New Orleans, I would jump at the chance. I worked in NYC for years and got over it pretty quickly. Couldn’t afford to live in Manhattan so I commuted from Jersey City. And when it’s freezing cold, that gets old quickly. Then there is a NYC income tax along with higher prices for everything. If your goal is to recruit a bunch of naïve 25 years olds, sure, pick New York — or be prepared to pay some serious money. Talent goes where the opportunities are. If Apple’s HQ were Albuquerque or El Paso, you’d have talent moving to those places. For startups, obviously proximity to Silicon Valley, Austin or NYC is very advantageous because nobody wants to move across the country for a low percentage startup. But for a FAANG company— the talent will follow, perhaps even more merrily. There are a lot of talented engineers that would be great recruits for the FAANGs, but one look at the housing prices and tax rates in those areas sends them running. Wichita, Kansas isn’t particularly “hip,” but given that some important aviation work happens there, those in the aviation business live/move there. Hartford, CT is a shithole, but if you are in insurance, there are tons of opportunities there. Pharma companies are located all over the country, they don’t locate in New York because of talent, they locate where they want and the talent follows. Software and hardware engineers seem to think they are special and that the jobs should come to them; the real world is the other way around. Acting as if the entirety of software talent exists on the coasts is simply arrogant. For startups, of course, it’s different. For trillion dollar companies that can pay fat relocation packages and offer incredible compensation, there is much less incentive to care about Silicon Valley or NYC. A large portion of the talent recruited by Apple and Google, often come from somewhere other than SV. And, if the talent pool is so big in SV, why does nearly every company worth a damn bother offering relocation?
Boulder's constraints are almost entirely political. You could even build up in the mountains if you really wanted to (but that would be awful). There's tons of land in a green belt around it that's quite buildable, and of course most of the city is your basic single-family home western american town with a ban on apartments or building even human-scale 2/3/4 story housing.
Short version: simulated photons in reverse.

Imagine light rays coming out of your eyes. For every ray that hits an object, draw rays to every light source from that hit point.

Light in reverse.

In-between those two steps you can figure out intensity and colour of light, the colour of objects, roughness, transparency, refraction, reflectivity, etc etc. You can even bounce multiple rays to other objects for global illumination and whatever.
I disagree. Clearly people disagree.
I can't personally because 8 inches down is solid rock. To remove all that rock would cost a fortune to get down to 6feet.
Voodoo Magic secert that really works
They've won a Macarthur, an Emmy, and a Peabody for their investigative journalism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Investigative_Repor...
Robot Cowboy Is Herding Cattle in Nebraska
Wouldn't economies of scale push in the opposite direction?
Why You Don't Need to Vote
Where is the private profit in increased voter turnout?
> I'll admit that the one frustration I have with VSCode is that there is no way, at least not that I've found, to export your entire configuration, both settings and plugins, and use that to bootstrap a new VSCode installation. I recently set up a new computer and spent the first few weeks rediscovering all the extensions I'd installed on my old computer.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Shan.cod...

I've used this with success, but in the end I found my settings / plugins are minimal so I don't bother with it now. I have like 4 settings and 5 plugins.
It's worth keeping in mind that Intel tied architecture to process node, and have been stuck on 14nm for many years. Very little changes have been made to Skylake (2015) by Intel even with the latest 9th gen release. They're starting to look long in the tooth on many fronts, AMD's SMT is more efficient, and AMD has a much better boost algorithm as well (Precision Boost 2), among other aspects.

Had their roadmap not tied node to arch, this comparison wouldn't look so damning. Also, many engineers left Intel for Apple because they're talented and tired of releasing Skylake every year. Once Intel fully decouples node and arch, we should see non-mobile CPUs running away from mobile chips like the A12.

This benchmark is essentially Intel's 2015 design on 14nm vs Apple's 2018 design on 7nm.
It's amazing. All of those months of speculation about what secondary city or emerging tech hub will become the next Austin, gone just like that, in favor of Amazon deciding to set up shop in the super-obvious capitals of finance and government.
The voter registry and voting history are public records, by necessity. Because democracy

You're aware that i360 on the right and NGP VAN on the left have already weaponized this data?

Who do you think you're protecting?
Great summary. Ill also note FDE also lets you quickly erase a drive by zeroing out a key. That can either eliminate the need during disposal for HD overwriting and/or destruction. It can also help in situations where an attack is incoming and they want to avoid durress. That's why so-called Inline, Media Encryptors and Enclosures with Zeroize buttons were used in Defense sector a lot. Example I modeled some designs on was ViaSat's that NSA recommended:

https://www.viasat.com/products/encryption-kg-200r

Also has 2FA, a trusted path for PIN's, and emanation shielding. Being Type 1 means they focused hard on the RNG, algorithm implementations, firmware/protocol code, and error-handling code. Typical for high-assurance crypto. Just one of a few internal and external enclosures that do the job right due to security regulation for certain products. We can't buy them of course since they actually work and NSA uses them.

Then, unregulated vendors in private market are doing least they can for actual quality/security, doing most they can on marketing it, and making a killing with no or limited liability for preventable defects. Typical. I still maintain pretty much all of them are insecure and/or negligent until proven otherwise.

The high-assurance community selling to defense shows they couldve built better designs 10-20 years ago if they just followed standards, had a specialist for crypto, and hired some experienced breakers to check it. Peanuts for these big, companies' profits. Useful in protecting the IP that generates those profits, too. They still do this shit... Always will without better incentives and/or regulation...
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One thing that human space exploration/settlement teaches us more than anything is how to do everything without net carbon emissions. Solar power? Nuclear power? Both essential to and pioneered in part by space exploration. Same for fuel cell tech. On the International Space Station, CO2 is sucked from the cabin air, combined with hydrogen (produced as a byproduct of producing oxygen by splitting water, much of which was recycled from the air and waste water and urine) to make methane and more water.

ISS also is getting a plastic recycling machine that will be used to 3D print replacement parts from plastic waste and old parts.

Human spaceflight is like the Sustainability Olympics.
I wonder if I can get my hands on the radio IC - I'd love to do an "overkill breadboard" radio - connected up to a bluetooth transmitter or USB microphone so I could have it dump into a Raspberry Pi for LAN streaming.
The basis of this article comes from "people familiar with the decision-making process", so probably those people said NYC + Crystal City and not Dallas.
Treating a certification of algorithm correctness as a certification of a well engineered product is a poor choice, because many security critical things in the product are not considered in the certification.
> A faster, cheaper path to fusion energy

Yeah, solar panels.
I wonder what the effects will be of learning to read a "new" language, in addition to ones that we already know. Would that result in detectable changes?

Would the type of "new" language matter? Say, Someone who knows English, learning to read French, v/s the same person learning to read Mandarin, which has a very different structure?
To answer the question I do not consider any jspanese whisky brand american whisky. Suntory, hibiki, Nikka, Yamazaki, etc.

american whiskeys like 4 roses, weird wild turkeys & japan only beams count as Americans.

I defer to harryh’ on the bet if you do.
> Why should I hire the person who was away for a solid year on parental leave over the guy who has been working diligently during that time?

I think all the other answers to this have been arguing either yes/no, but it's really the wrong question.

If you have 2 candidates, you should take into account their experience, but you shouldn't otherwise penalize the parental leave taker. So by taking parental year you put yourself one year back in the experience cohort.

There is nothing discriminatory or gender specific about this. If it turns out that women take more parental years than men, we return to your question of incentives and equality of outcomes, to be decided separately.
Indeed. Many people will say dropping a huge Amazon campus in Queens will adversely effect the character of the city, and exacerbate many of its issues.

I don't necessarily disagree with them, and if it was up to me, I'd rather Amazon land in Dallas that probably needs the jobs more.

However, this will be an objectively good thing for NYC as a center of commerce, and help establish it as a tech hub at a time its local job market isn't doing all too well.

Moreover, I doubt Amazon will game the system so excessively that it won't end up paying in taxes and investment and influx of business and salaries much more than it will receive in tax breaks.

It's unlikely they'll game the system so badly because it's not wise to screw the municipal authorities that can make your life miserable.
so in other words you always just use notepad or nano or some editor with almost no features so that you'll never miss missing features ?
Designers in Mumbai
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It used to be quite a nice place to grow up in.
This is awesome. I've been wanting to setup this functionality for a while, but wasn't aware of Apps Script. One thing missing in the above is to remove the 'hidden' label.

var buffer = GmailApp.getUserLabelByName('buffered');

function release() {
buffer.getThreads().map(unbuffer);
}

function unbuffer(thread) {
thread.moveToInbox();
thread.removeLabel(buffer);
}
What Artistri121 said (I also worked for a major competitor of Epic).

Also, this isn't wi-fi based juicer machines or Uber for llama rentals nonsense that SV is so good at disrupting. This is a very complex business that often makes no sense (American medical billing is insane to put it mildly) and usually requires heavy customization for every client, and have pretty heavy switching costs.

It would be an interesting project to disrupt them, but it's nowhere near as easy as it seems, and it is doubtful that you'd get any of the big clients EPIC, Cerner, or GE Healthcare care about.
Many of the 25k being high-paid white collar professionals.
It's privilege to feel discontent and see conflicts. Vast majority of people before us (and some during our lifetime) don't have a chance to feel discontent while they fight for survival nor they're interested about conflicts aside from the conflict that keeps them from surviving.
Just to be clear, I was referring to the estimate of the property at a certain fixed point in time (my purchase date) changing over time. I do expect current market price to change for my home. I was just saying that these sites will estimate a value that differs and shifts, even estimates of periods during which actual market price is an available data point. March 2017 may look like a great investment when you checked in January 2018, but really bad when you check in October 2018.

Anyway, I agree with you that the market is just what people are willing to pay.
> Yes, people: the secret ballot is an important part of democracy, and this has nothing to do with that.

After downloading the VoteWithMe app, I call major bullshit on this. The app shows big "Rs" or "Ds" next to folks based on whether they voted in a Democratic or Replublican primary. I do of course realize this was not private information previously, but when the vast majority of viable candidates are from one of the too major parties, that big R or D would seem to take a huge part of the "secret" out of the secret ballot.
I wish I had half a million bucks to dump into Snapclient - it's so close to being good, but needs some automated way to get the multi-speaker delay down to a good level.

In regards to your project - it depends how many sub-projects you want to spawn. I've got https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1... hooked up to my PC and some old speakers - 3.5mm jack, USB DAC and Bluetooth support. It's variable voltage up to 12V (I think). Funnily, if you supply it with 5~7 volts, you'll get a "low battery" audio cue - despite there being no battery connector anywhere.

The newer version of this has the volume knob in a silly place.
This is not 1M+ per year, this is 100k+ per year. Six figures = 100k+
I think the attribution requirements of BSD-style licenses can be burdensome. If you use 50 permissively licensed open source libraries in your program, you could potentially have to ship 50 different copyright notices and license texts (all with slight differences in terms or wording) in any binary distribution. A lot of boilerplate and busywork. And then remember to take them out again if you don't use that library any more, or update them if the next version changes them a bit, etc.

This is why I see Unlicense, WTFPL, CC0, etc., as appealing.

If I was to develop something that other people ended up using, I'd like to be acknowledged, and I like to think people will do it – just out of common decency, not out of legal obligation. But, I don't really want to burden people with legal obligations to reproduce oodles of copyright notices and license texts.

(Disclaimer: These are just my personal opinions, not those of my employer. I'm really talking about 'what license should I choose as a hobbyist for a personal project?', not what licenses a corporation should choose as a business strategy.)
It doesn't hurt that there's a lot of government work being done in the area, especially in defense, at a time Amazon is becoming a major contractor for the US government.
You have a way to auto-create changelogs in JetBrains?
Have you got a translated version of that screenshot?
Which part didn't work out? After the breakup, the pieces of Bell have re-accreted like some kind of Venusian slime mold.
Proximity to San Francisco.
I don't see why which party primary one voted in should be public data.
It could be viewed as stalking their behavior through public records, which some might be find a bit more questionable.
Yes, the compiler's error messages are extremely good. They often give correct and useful suggestions on how to change code to make it compile. This can be invaluable when dealing with trickier corners of the language such as explicit lifetimes.
Please find article so I see check out their sources...
Just so we're clear -- you're arguing against Facebook taking actions and removing posts that the government used to foment ethnic hatred and to carry out an actual genocide?

The bizarre devotion to 'free speech' on a social media site over people literally being murdered is incredible to me.

Facebook had an opportunity to stop the Myanmar equivalent to the Rwandan RTLM and failed miserably, which cost thousands of people their lives and tens of thousands of people their homes. Why didn't the Tutsis just start their own radio station?!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Télévision_Libre_des_Mil...
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Winning elections has been about motivating one's base and suppressing the opposition's turnout since, well, the beginning. With big data and microtargeting, the belligerents got a lot better. As in down to the individual voter. First with doorbelling, direct mail, and phone banking. Now they've added social media.

If you want to stop this ballot chasing, advocate for compulsory voting.

(IRV, another suggestion, is one way to break the current duopoly. It'd do nothing about ballot chasing or suppression.)
The best hedge against regulatory risk wouldn't be jobs in DC, but jobs that turn a light red state purple, or a purple state blue.

Maybe that's partly why Northern Virginia is a leading candidate, but it seems like there might have been even stronger options.

Having a workforce in a low population swing state could have disproportionate impact on national politics. It could elect Dems, or turn against them if they move to break Amazon up.

(I'm not saying this because I know which party would favor Amazon more, but just because polling suggests tech workers are mostly blue, so I think that's the direction you'd start.)

This is if politics were the only consideration, though I'd wager the main considerations are far more mundane, something actuarial.
How does Exxon attract talent to Houston? How about FedEx attracting talent to Memphis? Weird how only software engineers seem to only be attracted to NYC or Silicon Valley (to hear us talk about it.) A desirable company can attract talent no matter where they are. Startups have to leach from the existing community because they don’t have the clout to attract talent to Amarillo, Texas. But Google or Apple certainly could. A Silicon Valley salary in a cheaper place: half of the Valley would jump on that chance. I live inMountain View and I certainly don’t see a huge value to being here outside of work. It’s basically one continuous traffic jam. Los Angeles is a heck of a lot more fun. I came here because my company is in the area. I certainly wouldn’t have picked this place as a first choice: more restaurants per capita in Houston, better weather in Los Angeles, better mountains in Colorado, lower taxes and cheaper gas almost everywhere else. Visiting San Francisco occasionally is certainly fun, but then again so is Miami, Austin, New Orleans. The only thing uniquely special about SV is the proximity of VC money — something that has no relevance to the Amazons of the world.
I don't get it, what problem is this app solving by excluding men from giving or asking for advice as well?
Heartbleed was added to OpenSSL two years before it was reported. Some of the nasty downgrade bugs (especially around export encryption) we're probably there longer.
The parts of LIC immediately adjacent to Astoria and Queensboro plaza aren't too bad, but the closer you get to the river and further north you get the more of a pain in the ass LIC can be. I used to live adjacent to the sculpture park and that hike to the N was a serious workout in the winter (especially with groceries!). Great view of Manhattan, though.
I'm a young person considering job offers in the Bay Area right now - one of my major considerations is that I want to live in a city. One company is in Oakland, which makes that possible, and the other two are in SV, which makes it very difficult. It's really dissuading me from wanting to do stuff in SV.
I don't understand the argument that offices being close to data centers or warehouses gives a place an advantage. It does not.
Personally I care despite being a huge meat eater. There's no reason for cruelty other than laziness and indifference.

Id generally draw the line at insects. And yet most insects for consumption are treated quite well.

Again personal opinion but creatures like cephalopods, primates, dolphins and whales just shouldn't be touched in general, we should let the other smart animals be, they are the backup plan for the only known life in the universe.
There are plenty of places where registering as an independent means you can vote in all, or sometimes at most one, or sometimes no party primary. Which is a good illustration of why people shouldn't make generalizations about US politics based on their local policies.
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Yup. I'd only add 5) massive propaganda network.

We now have tyranny of the minority. After all the concern trolling about tyranny of the majority. Is this irony?

We'll see in a day or two if minority rule is the new norm.