skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love motorcycles. I was out on some back country roads in July visiting my parents. It was a beautiful day, when an inattentive 93 year old man decided to make a left turn into oncoming traffic. I was on a skinny 2 way double yellow road and his truck had a trailer, he blocked both sides. I broke every bone in my right leg and was lucky to not have it amputated. I was wearing racing gauntlets, helmet, jacket, armored jeans and riding boots so I was relatively uninjured. The hospital staff told me typical motorcycle accident patients aren't even responsive when bought in.

Not sure if I will ride again. I love it but despite my gear, practice, having taken advanced riding courses, it really creeps me out that I got into a situation where I could only minimize my injuries.
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This is too broad and general of a statement to make. Depending on the size of the organization, the work you're trying to do, the pipeline and network of employees you've worked with at other places, bringing in a leader from outside not only could be important for growing the company in a new direction but also provide an outside and objective perspective on a team that isn't performing. I have seen managers promoted from within with negative results and brought in from outside with great success. Don't remove a tool from your toolbelt as a leader unnecessarily.
I've been suspicious about this thing in Canada ever since I first saw it.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=8/51.308/-69.247

Nowadays they're eyeing closely something SW of it, underwater, in the St. Laurence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corossol_crater
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> power-users (as opposed to powerless consumers?)

I like to think of it in terms of frequency/duration of use. There may not be many (relatively) "power users", but there are a lot of 9-5 users. People who have to work with a piece software 8+ hours a day at work, day in, day out. If a piece of software has near-flat learning curve, it's contributing a lot to the misery of those people. Like, 6 hours straight of clicking through a slow web UI kind of misery, where unbloating the UI would cut that literally in half, adding keyboard shortcuts would cut that in half again, and a semi-decent batch mode would let them be done in 15 minutes, go get coffee, and start working on something else.

Where's the "value" such "user-friendly" software provides the users again?

And here also lies the answer to the age-old question - why people use Microsoft Excel for everything? Because it's a tool for "power users", with no ceiling in sight. It's flexible where most dedicated software is stiff, which gives people a way to optimize their work.
When I started riding, I noticed the same thing. The HURT report shows unlicensed/uninsured young people (I was 28 when I got my license) as being so massively overrepresented in motorcycle injuries that it was mind boggling.
heh, I agree with you. But baby steps :P

Plus also, friends and relationships are more and more spread out. Sharing your moments can help keep those alive.

Question for you though curious what you think: Does capturing the moment go against living in the moment because it takes you out of the moment for that brief period you capture it? Or just because it 'shouldn't be captured'? If you could share your moments remotely as seamlessly as they are 'shared' with the people right next to you is that ok?
I really enjoy my Essential. Anyone know where I can find the gold edition?
https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/search.html or https://data.medicare.gov/data/nursing-home-compare
Isn’t there a free speech aspect to canaries? Can the court force someone to publicly tell an explicit lie?
Unikernels as processes
>>Could they somehow charge you for not warning the police about the auto-wipe when they took your phone?

They might charge but "I was arrested, my mind was going nuts...was setup a long time ago, never hit my mind" etc etc. You need to be doing it on purpose and knowingly.
We used blue apron for almost a year, and another competitor for quite awhile as well. Blue Apron recipes seemed almost specifically designed to be hard to replicate and over-complicated. They always used strange ingredients you'd never have in your kitchen, far more pots and pans than necessary, took 2-3x the quoted time for my wife and I to prepare TOGETHER, and the pan-searing time for meats was always half of what was required to get it remotely cooked.

Very few Blue Apron meals were pasta, from what I can remember. If any.

I think the competitor, Gobble, was better by a fair bit, because less prep was required. But obviously that's a tradeoff.
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I wonder if that's a regional thing? I haven't used Blue Apron in 6 months, but often the ingredients would last probably twice as long as most ingredients from the local grocer. It also tended to show up around 10-11am and be fine by the time I got home between 8-9pm in the box.
Currently you read a lot about unit testing. Usually used badly (testing solo methods or classes).

What you want is E2E tests: test that your product conforms to its specifications. Automate the test procedure your testers have.
Does this to private pilots?
> duct tape and twine. At OSI layer 1, sometimes almost literally

How about barbed wire?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15910263
I feel that once growth stalls out or declines, those larger companies become very uninterested, even if the price is cheap.
They've vaporized $600m in cash in the last three quarters. They're running a negative $300m operating loss quarterly. They're barely going to have enough money to safely survive as is for another six quarters (before the pressure gets overwhelming to sell or cut limbs off), much less have enough money to build or buy other properties.

You can't buy much diversification against a $300m operating loss with a few hundred million in cash, that they can currently theoretically spare. They have an extraordinarily mismanaged business and operating cost situation. Calling it wild incompetence wouldn't do it justice.

They have two choices. Slash and burn immediately, all the way down to the core product viability. That should have been done over a year ago when it was obvious the growth was gone and the bleed was going to kill them. Or sell, the sooner the better; now here they are, in a death spiral, having already waited too long to sell.

They have to cut their quarterly cash burn down to sub $50m within four or five quarters to remain viable as an independent company. And by that point, the stock might get cut in half again. This is still a high multiple / bubbly market, if that changes they go from an $8b valuation to a $2b valuation, if they're lucky.
> You know there's 1-man "start ups"...can't afford a 500 bucks business support plan on all of the 20 services they use.

And just like that you turned a $200/month bill into a $10k/month strawman.

> Just remember that other people might be running sustainable businesses.

Why are you pretending that a startup that can't afford $200/month is a "sustainable businesses"?
Okay, did some search:

- When two hydrogen nuclei combine, they produce an enormous amount of energy. That process is known as nuclear fusion.

- Light nuclei have to be heated to extremely high temperature, it is challenging to create a controlled, safe fusion reactor that offers more energy than it consumes. Once we have such we’d have a near-limitless source of clean energy.

- Nuclear fusion does produce radioactive waste. However, in contrast to fission produced wastes, they are short lived and decay to background levels in a very short time.

- Tokamaks try to do just that.
thanks, it's the rabbit ;)
And horses are 20 times more dangerous than motorcycles.
My point wasn’t that they aren’t important, just that the OP didn’t need to feel bad about not learning about them yet. It was meant more to point out that learning the history of how other people solved problems can inform the way we approach new challenges, but that everything was unknown before it was discovered.
Conveying meaning as clearly as possible implies direct, simple prose when you assume the reader shares a language game (per Wittgenstein) with you. Thus a theoretical physicist can communicate a fact about field theories to a colleague very directly, but that communication is hardly clear to a layman.

What do you do if what you are working on is meaning that doesn't fit the usual language game, and part of the work is seeing what varying the language game can do to meaning? Then there is no direct prose. There is a fabrication of an artifact that leads the reader experientially to this new language game in all its nuance.
This is one topic when you can sort of get away with general statements, because it's human interop - we all know how it works :).

I covered drunk driving and suicides in my original comment. This happens, but we know it does, we know how often and why it does, and know how to work around it.

What I was thinking about wrt. learning failure modes is this: when you put a person through 30+ hours driving course, they don't suddenly lose the ability to recognize trees or faces. The same cannot be said about retraining existing neural networks.

I'd love for the actual data to appear for analysis. Right now I'm worried about the very concept of using a black-box bag of statistical tricks DNNs are for safety-critical operations. How is it that we can't handle the problem of self-driving with more direct, stable and auditable methods?
So... The Index Bubble?
I saw someone using it with mac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRycr75U4o0
Fewer international students coming to US for second year in row
Prepared what?

https://i.imgur.com/MWdNJIu.png
I'm pretty much in the same boat as you, so to speak.

I had a lot of fun playing with a few of these problems: https://adventofcode.com/

I'm not sure if they are classic CS though.
No, I understand that most hobby projects are just hobbies and Google/Amazon/etc are under no obligation to provide support for hobbies that are literally a net cost to them.

I'm glad AWS's free tier is working for you, but complaining that Google doesn't want to give you free capacity for your business and then also provide you free support for that business is pretty absurd.
There’s so much money available that product market fit is not that important anymore. That’s at least what Steve Blank says (1). I don’t buy it, because I think it’s just a matter of time until you’ll find out that it doesn’t work and I don’t believe sheer money can create sustainable demand. But, it’s probably a great time to try stupid/crazy things or just give free stuff to consumers.

(1) https://steveblank.com/2018/09/05/is-the-lean-startup-dead/
There are some cars that have circular air filters which fit almost perfectly over a "universal" radiator fan. IIRC some generations of Toyota Corolla and Tercel which spare parts should still be common enough for. Can be a solution if the more HVAC-type stuff gets sold out. You'll need a pretty beefy 12V DC power supply though.
"no individual actor made the decision
to plunge their mighty military power
into the conflagration"

Yeah, that part is really the key to everything.

The big wars were really a form of violent economic panic, writ large, and without descalation channels, partly as a component of monarchy, divine right and authoritarian autocracy, but also horrendously aggrivated by profound leaps of technological power, mostly by way of chemistry and industrial scale production of chemicals.

No one knew it would get that bad, that fast, that way. And during a time when royalty simply would not back down from a fight.

There are hot spots and proxy wars right now. If they go sideways, and spill a hot mess in the wrong lap, could an uncontrolled panic open up and let loose a new kind of conflagration we weren't expecting or have never before considered?

That's probably the hardest riddle. How does one anticipate an unexpected, unplanned atrocity?
Chef is for configuration management, not for surveillance.

Like they said... they can install surveillance stuff on your machine, but that was likely just as possible prior to introducing Chef into the picture.

It's likely that they just want to get (more?) efficient in how they do their operations work.

Since the company owns the equipment, there's not even an implied right to privacy. They own it, ALL of it. Assume everything is monitored, and behave accordingly.

I do Chef development. We've been asked to include monitoring software for some groups in my client's company. Just assume that's always the case, when you're using someone else's equipment.
I know there is mould in my house. We do three things to deal with it:
1. Air Filter (more for pollution but it helps with mould)
2. Dehumidifier which we leave on 24/7 basically for the mould. This is the big one.
3. Wash any mould with vinegar to change the PH after it is wiped off to prevent it from growing back.

The mould is still there but the dry air stops it from growing and sporing which is what makes you stick. If humidity creeps up the mould will grow again. Be aware that mould is virtually everywhere and is only harmful if there is enough of it around sporing or if you touch it.
This is surprising since food is one of the oldest subjects of “IP” in Europe:

> [Sybaris around 700 BC] pioneered the concept of intellectual property to ensure that cooks could exclusively profit from their signature dishes for a whole year. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybaris
> It makes me question how I was hired in the first place.

It is called imposter syndrome. It is very real and very common. As a JavaScript developer I encounter this among my peers all the damn time.

First, consider what it takes to be a professional software developer. The requirement is to pass a one time drug test and successfully answer questions in a 30-90 minute interview. Done.

Consider, conversely, all other white collar professions. They have licensing, certifications, educational requirements, and legal compliance. There is greater oversight and compliance to become a truck driver than a software developer.

The closest uniform indication of competence (if you can call it that) most software developers experience is demonstrating experience with a tool or framework. To me this says you more than new and probably better than negligently incompetent. It doesn't tell me that you are an excellent specimen of solving original problems.

Secondly, I suspect you go to work, achieve your assigned tasks, and then forget about programming until the next day. This is problematic because in most cases there isn't much expected of software developers in the corporate world. Most of us are glorified and over-paid button pushers. Achieving conformance to nearly thoughtless tasks that could be better performed by software is not an indication of professional growth. There are many times I have encountered QAs who seemed far more brilliant at problem solving than the developers they were checking.

This is one reason why more ambitious software developers contribute to open source. Their day jobs are boring with no growth potential, but their software hobby is extremely challenging and solves real problems.
What important happens at that temperature?
Then again, if a browser cookie is the only thing providing access to "evidence" on a particular machine, then it wasn't actually on that machine to begin with.

That's far from a mere technical detail, as it also means the person lacked any meaningful physical control of, or proximity to, the evidence.

I recall there are some cases that centered on whether someone was aware of the existence of a browser cache and knew how to clear it. In that case the "evidence" really is on the local machine because that's what the cache is.
The more I look at codec, video or still, the more I get annoyed by the slow progress and all the patents problems.

Still images in particular, hasn't really seen any major leap since JPEG. 20 years later we are still stuck with JPEG and GIF.
That doesn't make any sense to me. There are many challenges in fully autonomous driving, but detecting objects around the car is one of the easiest to overcome.

We have radar and lidar, tried and tested technologies being used for decades. Unlike the wetware you speak of, this system doesn't get tired or distracted.

Yes motorcycles are smaller than cars, but that won't be a problem for radar/lidar, and with proper sensor placement, there won't be any blind spots.
Two case:

1. Millions lines of messy Java code with annotations and dependency-injection form a multi-shard distributed job with tens of distributed downstream backends, some of which provide fake always-success synchronous RPCs hiding the fact that the underlying operations are actually asynchronous and may fail very often. What makes it worse to work on these code is it was built with a single transactional underlying database but then due to reliability issues of the single database, data are now across at least three different transactional databases. This causes endless race conditions and concurrency issues to fire everywhere. The production release of this distributed job used to be once every week, now multi-months is normal, and quarter rollback is not a surprise to people.

2. Almost million lines of messy C++ code with several .cc/.cpp files containing tens of thousands C++ code, some class implementations are across multiple .cc/.cpp files. I have always been scared when touching some of these giant .cc/.cpp files. People who have been working on the code for years can still easily make ignorant mistakes when adding/modifying a small feature (with so-called fully unit-test overage of course). There are multi-million lines of testing code, which is almost 10x of the code be tested, but most of them are bogus and almost test nothing, hence silly mistakes are everywhere, everyday. Even the original author of the code base needs 5 follow-up fixes in order to make a 10-line behavior change work.

For both code bases and the jobs running these code, people are now talking about breaking them into microservices, by converting function calls in the existing code bases into RPCs. I can foresee a tremendous number of service outages are coming...
the terrorist-proof cockpit doors, which enabled suicidal co-pilot Lubitz to fly Germanwings Flight 9525 straight into the French Alps

I believe FAA of US specifically alerted German government's air travel agency (?) about the need to have another crew member (like flight attendant) to be in the cockpit if one of the two had to leave cockpit to use restroom etc, exactly to avoid this kind of scenario.

But the Germany govt agency apparently thought it was unlikely to happen and ignored the recommendation.

I could be wrong, but pretty sure about reading that bit while reading about the incident...
It is a bad idea for several reasons.

1. You won't be able to configure real VPN, iOS allows only one VPN profile. Get a real VPN for native IKEv2 client you have.

2. It gives CF golden mine of your browsing history. It already has your traffic to many sites in plaintext, emails and passwords included

3. You trust the third-party app without the source code, probaly with access all your traffic
He'd code fullscreen with a 16:9 monitor, so felt "it's not a problem."
I can only say what I know: if you adapt to the rabbit, there's a little chance you'll ever go back.
only if you're covert working for 3 lettered agencies can you lie and get away with it. Though they'd get you out some other way to avoid blowing your cover.
we'll consider it in future designs. Thanks!
I disagree with some of the advise on this thread so far. Scales are boring (I agree that you need them to get proficient, but if you start there, you’ll be bored to tears and give up before you get anywhere fun). Watching YouTube videos and trying to recreate what they’re doing is hard. Learning to read music from a human teacher is frustrating.

The traditional way to learn piano takes discipline, hours of slightly frustrating study and incredibly boring and repetitive practice. Though I tried a few times in my life to learn piano the way everyone said I should, I always found it mind-numbingly boring. Why does it have to be so damn hard?

I’ve only recently found a better way, and I’ve been learning faster, staying interested, and having way more fun than I ever did before.

The better way is: http://pianowizardacademy.com

(I know this sounds like a sales pitch, I’m not at all involved with the company, I’m just a happy customer and a big fan of their method.)

Basically the method hinges around software that turns playing a piano into a game. Similar to guitar hero, but where it leads you through a progression until you’re sight-reading the paper sheet music as you play. It makes it really easy to get started playing real music from day 1, then your excitement about your progress builds faster than the difficulty, so you stay interested.

Basically it inverts the learning. Play first, and learn reading music, notes, fingering, tempo, theory, etc as you go. It makes the whole process way less frustrating and way more fun.

The software looks straight out of 1998, and the DVDs are similarly a little silly - but it all works really well.

The DVDs are geared towards parents who have never played Piano, to teach their young kids how to play, while learning themselves. Watching the videos as an adult without kids, I sometimes feel a little silly playing along with a 4 year old, but since it works, I’m not complaining.

Generally, they explain the bit of music theory after you’ve been playing it for a while (ignorant to the fact that you were doing something deeply important to music), so by the time they explain the concept, it just makes sense - there’s no struggling to wrap your head around some obtuse concept that you don’t have a mental framework for yet.

Anyway - I highly recommend it. It’s not cheap, but so far it’s the best money I’ve spent on learning piano.
You seem to know what you're talking about - do you know what the end goal of the work in this field is? Is it working towards nuclear fusion as an energy source?
putting it on the intake keeps the motor cleaner (which will help with motor life), you can vacuum the filter without disassembly, and the air flow will tend to help the filter stay on, instead of pushing it away.
You've already gotten a lot of good perspectives. I have two tangential observations.

First: a lot of applied software engineering has the overarching goal of allowing developers to quickly build useful, stable, and secure products with relatively little knowledge of complexity principles or the implementation of the underlying system. Your successful career demonstrates the achievement of that goal. This is good. But it has absolutely nothing to do with your ability to build the tools you use, any more than a writer would know how to manufacture a pencil from raw materials. They're completely unrelated skills. But that was the whole point from the start of the profession!

Second: your spelling of "fiancée" is incorrect. The word comes from the French word fiancer, to betrothe. In French, you add the equivalent of the -ed suffix by changing -er to -é. Then for a female subject, you add another e. So "fianc" + "é" + "e" = betrothed woman. Using a è (backward accent) at the end of a French word isn't just wrong; it's more or less impossible (at least I can't think of a word that ends with è). Compare a snippet of JavaScript like if )a == 3) { b = 3: } You're an experienced JS developer, so you can spot the two syntax errors from a mile away. That's what "fianceè" looks like to a reader for whom accents are significant. Just stick with "fiancee" without accents, and you can't go wrong.

Sorry to hit you when you're down.
The gap between what is appropriate for a 5 year old and what is appropriate for an 8 year old is surprisingly large if you don't have kids or otherwise deal with them day in and day out.