skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the most exciting things about this discovery is that because Barnard's star is so close, the planet should have a maximum angular separation of 0.22 arcseconds. Directly imaging the planet in reflected light from the star [1] will be no problem for next generation telescopes in terms of resolution and sensitivity -- telescopes like the 30 meter class facilities being built now or a hypothetical ~10 meter space telescope called "LUVOIR". Current cutting edge instruments like the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) can already get to about 0.2 arcsec resolution, but it operates in the infrared and can only detect down to about a Jupiter-mass depending on how hot the planet is. The really exciting thing about imaging a planet in reflected light is that you can study the composition of the atmosphere in much greater detail than current methods [2]. This is likely the first system that astronomer's will target when they seek to make direct observations of a rocky planet's atmosphere outside of our Solar System.

[1] Ss opposed to the thermal infrared, which works best for young planets which have substantial residual heat from their formation.
[2] Such as when an exoplanet transits in front of it's host star, the atmosphere will absorb some light. However it appears this technique is only sensitive to the very thin upper parts of the atmosphere, and we don't learn much about the rest.
Is that tenure at the time where people leave, or avg tenure of current employees? (if the later it's expected to be short, given the 40% y/y growth).
Disagree. The freedom for a community to spend funds in ways they want is much more free than the opposite. Also disagree with your bottom line. In many cases (e.g. ones where abatements were given in my community) it lowered the tax rate over time.
Xi Jinping's iron grip better than Adam Smith's invisible hand for innovation?
> Fiji had elections yesterday. Before election day we have a mandatory 48hr blackout period where the media are forbidden from publishing or broadcasting political news, opinions, or ads.

This seems like the kind of law that is fundamentally unenforceable if the Internet exists in the first place. The ability to circumvent arbitrary restrictions on free expression used to be considered a good thing about the Internet.

Yeah, "fake news"--except that has more to do with the cost of publishing news than anything. Back when most people consumed TV news and it was expensive to run a TV network, there was less fake news, at least until TV networks became cheap enough that they could segment the market by bias. During the heyday of newspapers, there was a ton of fake news, except they called it "yellow journalism".
No way? Google will have nearly as many employees as Amazon in NYC and as far as I know they didn't get special subsidizes.
> But political parties have no incentive to cooperate with the ideal conditions. They want to beat the other party.

It doesn't matter. Voters will do what's in THEIR best interest, regardless of what their favorite party wants. E.g. Ralph Nader wanted his supporters to vote for him, but 90% told pollsters they voted for someone else, mostly Gore.

I repeat: voters do what's in their own best interest.

With Approval Voting, that often means voting for your favorite PLUS one or more other candidates who are more electable.

In a large 2014 exit poll including Approval Voting, the result of the Maine gubernatorial race was completely REVERSED.
http://scorevoting.net/Maine2014Exit

Sure, the Democrat didn't want his supporters also voting for the independent. But they DID IT ANYWAY, because they didn't want the Republican.

There is a reason that experts in game theory generally favor Approval Voting and/or Score Voting, such as outlined in the 2008 book "Gaming the Vote" by William Poundstone.
Paying for the drivers to return something that you forgot is fair.
An encrypted file cannot, given P!=NP (and a host of other assumptions, but P!=NP is the foundation), be decrypted.

So require proof that the file is not decryptable by other means before you can compel entering a password ;)
I installed this a few times! :D
The trouble with a library type is the compiler is not aware of it and cannot make semantic use of it.
Fargo, ND just adopted Approval Voting (better and simpler than Ranked Choice Voting/IRV) by a 64% supermajority.

https://ballot-access.org/2018/11/06/fargo-north-dakota-vote...
You know the Pixel 3 comes with a USB-C to Aux adapter, right? You can still use wired headphones.

Admittedly, you still lose the ability to charge your phone while listening with headphones unless you use wireless charging or find a USB-C splitter.
Imagine giving $48,000 to 25,000 small business owners over 10 years instead.
I've had a slightly different experience. My Lyft drivers have definitely been happier and nicer, but most of them say that there is no real difference between the two services from a driver's point of view. I'm not sure how that could be the case.
Jeez that takes me back.
CORE, CLS... Some games were compressed with UHARC or ACE which performed better than other compressors at the time.
mp3unpack or WAVE injector would also run to decompress the mp3s or recombine them back in to large solid files.
All that while having some banging chip tune and a snazzy animation play. CLASS!
The phat pointers only appear when they are specifically declared as phat pointers. Existing syntax does not change behavior.
As a born and long time NYC resident... I am so unhappy about this, I cannot even tell you. Why can't we put $2B in the MTA's pocket? Or schools? Or healthcare? Or affordable housing? Or almost anything other than Bezos's pocket?

I did vote against Cuomo even as I helped flip our one NYC Republican district to Democrat, so I did everything I could as a voter.

We need a law/constitutional amendment preventing this sort of thing. Companies are abusing governments with these tactics and deals. I was also against our government's subsidies of the two NYC stadiums (Yankees and Mets) and arena (Nets).
You were not charged to connect to anyone. That is a Returned Item Fee for drivers to give the item back to you: https://help.uber.com/riders/article/lost-item-return-fee-?n...
Well, not having the driver's phone number is good. Can you imagine passengers calling drivers and harassing them for whatever reason? It will happen.

Should the driver drive for free to return your jacket?

What if the driver is already en route to another passenger and they told the passenger 5 minutes, and your cost will be additional 10 minutes. Do you think another passenger will understand and be forgiving that their ride is 10 minutes late because of your situation?

If you really think about all the reasons and complexity involved in just returning your jacket, it's not as simple. But then, what if you were traveling and forgot your luggage?

I dunno what the right answer is, what do you think?
> Let me know when it replicates. :-|

Why not just put a (tentative) next to the findings and take it for what it is?
>What I'm saying in this thread is, the author seems to be incredibly myopic using his own limited experience as a way to judge others for judging.

This is quite a judgemental statement to make about someone who says he's been homeless for almost 20 years from someone who (I assume) has not been homeless before. Do you have less limited experience to make you less myopic? Also except we're reading different articles I don't know what you're talking about when you say the author is 'judging'. The article says homeless people don't always live on the street, have no education, do drugs or have no jobs, and you say "don't be judgemental, that's myopic". Does that really make any sense to you?
Except you've missed 2x7-2x9...
> It's a strange world we live in when people speak poorly of 38% revenue growth.

Their losses are growing. Growing revenue is important as a route to profitability, but if you are heading the other way despite growing revenue...
It's an unfortunate and inept parallel to draw.
Is human short-sightedness and greed really that astounding?
Hmmm... you have a point, but then, shouldn't it be "decoupled into modules"?
I would rather have a 18 parties and a dysfunctional government than 2 and a dysfunctional government. At least with the 18 party situation, the flip/flopping is not straight forward and predictable.
Have heard this from Lyft drivers too
I can't remember what programming language it was, but I recall one that had managed to eliminate primitive numeric and bitwise logical operations by treating them as arrays of bits (booleans).
I'm sorry but I don't think if you did this in Canada, Great Britain, or Sweden you'd get the same results at all. If you want to control for gun ownership Switzerland has very high rates and police shootings of civilians are nowhere near proportional to what happens in America.
I don't really care enough about microsoft to hate it as a company, there's some good and some bad. Visual Studio is one of the best IDE's around. And Windows itself has some really good ideas underneath (like IOCP). But it's fair to say I'm not a fan of Windows itself.

My bias is purely on the technical merits of the provider. My company had a pretty large discount on Azure so it was under strong consideration.

My point about it "being harmful at worst" is that it's spreading uncertainty without any actual evidence.

I, on the other-hand have evidence from a 12,000+ person company that is using all three cloud providers.
Submission. Dystopia.
> If 38% is bad then I would like to know what Uber would need.

Enough that their losses get smaller, rather than bigger.
So...when does this get implemented here in the US?
I am upset about Apple's appstore actions. I was responding to a claim about Google.
Are these software jobs? I don't know if they'll be attracting more people in such a tight labor market, or just bumping up rates for those who already here.

There's plenty of unfulfilled demand for software engineers in NY, what does Amazon offer to add to supply?
Gains? From more road repair? Higher housing costs (read: more welfare state). Other services? Etc. Etc. Etc. You're making it sound like there's only upside.

Regardless, the gov should not be in the job buying biz. My gawd, they struggle to govern, and that's their job. Pockets are being lined - once again - at the expense of the tax payers.

"Each one of these $150k jobs..." Pardon me, I know this type of reply is frowned upon on HN, but...wanna buy a bridge?
Never having to use Oracle Database is a good result.
I think both can be the case: legacy media is actively attacking online media lately. I've seen a rise is poorly-veiled anti-first amendment articles recently from places such as the New York Times and the New Yorker. So I have no doubt legacy media feels very threatened. But at the same time, Facebook is fucking evil.
Minimum feature-set of a sensible psephocracy:

- no campaigning or special interest ads a week before voting

- only public funding and named individual small donations for public servant campaigns: no PACs, no super-PACs, no huge check fundraisers and no dark-money SIGs.

- nationally-unified, same-day voting, no prior registration required

- nationally-unified, three prior weeks of voting-by-mail

- media blackout on counts until all final results are in

- overturn Citizens' United (by amendment via state legislatures)

- eliminate the primary

- end the Electoral College

- free & open source tech unified, national e-voting system, open for all to audit

- public blockchain for permanent results

- printed receipt with barcode of hash saved in the blockchain

- ranked choice voting (as it provides an instant run-off should the favorite be disqualified, die or resign; also provides N picks for boards, vice positions and directors)
The Unintended Consequences of Product Design
I've been misled in the exact same way when using Lyft at airports. This has caused me to use Uber instead of Lyft at least once, until I figured it out.
JAMstack Development Platform
> How about instead, Cuomo gives me and any other startup founder who's been in Brooklyn or Queens for decades $48,000 for every job we've created, and we tell Amazon to go fuck themselves.

Why don't you use your leverage as a job creator to go to a town and get similar benefits since clearly you will bring the same level of benefits to that town? Or do you recognize your lack of mobility and limited investment in your town may result in a less favorable negotiating position. It's like wondering why a used car dealer gave a better deal to someone w/ a better trade in.
So if the numbers are so small, why does it matter that this tax deal exists then.

I think most of the hate is fueled by emotional anger at the rich due to increasing inequality in the USA, even though this investment in NYC is a positive for it when you look at it rationally.
What you need to know to make your ex come crawling back
Didn’t realize that TRT is a form of “taking steroids”. Makes sense in hindsight.
Seems way more effective for NY to just give these people the money directly.
and frequently they show in realtime who among your reports have already completed the survey . In the most interesting cases (been through such) they also show current averages and other results in realtime :)
I think the lack of information (conversely, the increase in noise) is what is being downvoted. It is possible, although much more difficult, to be both funny and informative.

That being said, it cracks me up when people get downvoted so heavily for jokes!
Definitely interesting... would love to see this as a library that can be used inside Node.
> Homelessness != Substance Use Disorder

An officer of the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service told me that in the greater Boston area, he estimates ~90% of the homeless population has a substance use disorder. I agree that not all homeless are in their condition because of substance use disorders, but I suspect it's a clear majority who are in this condition.

> The reality is that people want to receive treatment--if they don't, it is because they encounter a barrier to treatment.

Everyone, really? That's a bold claim, where is the evidence?
Re. Atom, have you tried running it on Crostini? Or running VS Code?
I tried it today and played against the A.I. several times and couldn’t win but I had a fun time playing it. Rules are easy to understand and the game is very familiar. I just want to say that the bot kicked my a!
Social Capital's Chamath Palihapitiya had an interesting theory of VC overvaluation in his recent letter:

> [VCs] get paid to allocate other people’s (LPs) money, and they are smart
enough to transfer the risk. For example, VCs habitually invest in one another’s companies
during later rounds, bidding up rounds to valuations that allow for generous markups on their
funds' performance. These markups, and the paper returns that they suggest, allow VCs to raise
subsequent, larger funds, and to enjoy the management fees that those funds generate.

And he has more such analysis. It's quite a good read if you are interested in that stuff https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/socialcapital-annual-lett...
Now there’s plenty of room to argue that the stores are asking for too much now, but fundamentally the towns have been breaking the law, which is why the stores are winning the court cases.

“As of 2017, the city had valued that store at $11 million, a number based on what the property had cost the owner to buy back in 2001, plus the added value of renovations over the years, adjusted at the going rate of depreciation.”

However, that’s not the way properties are supposed to be valued by state law - it is supposed to be based on the resale value. And there’s a terrible market for used big box stores.
Crostini also works just fine with 2GB on a Samsung Chromebook 3 (a.k.a.'Celes' which is available for $100 on a Black Friday special[1] - the 4GB version is $30 more). It's does swap to disk if you too many Chrome tabs open, but it runs ssh, vim and VS Code like a champ. I have not attempted to run the Android build-chain.

1. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12L9SM7k-Z6LSsGvdi7do...
What's secret about this?
Re: 3/5.

We already have ways to turn corporate money into community services. They're called taxes. I'd much rather we as as a community take Amazon's money and build our own schools rather than have Amazon build an Amazon Education Facility and thank them for their time.
The most disturbing thing about the state of privacy is the households that purchase a multitude of devices that collect, link, and resell data about you.

As an example, Imagine the household that has multiple gmail accounts, multiple android phones, everyone uses google maps, Chrome on every desktop, google for search, they add a Nest thermostat, a few Dropcams, and for good measure they use 8.8.8.8 and 4.4.4.4 for all of their DNS queries.

You can live in nearly the same world with Amazon and others.

Sigh.
How Do You Get Cybersecurity Students to Think Like Criminals?
How Fast You Walk Says a Lot About Your Health
You're not a unicorn till you are profitable or exit for a billion+ profit.
> Makes you wonder why no one has built an app that interfaces with all of them, and finds you the cheapest rate, while taking a kickback.

They did (well, it at least has multiple Uber and Lyft services, and I don't know that they get a kickback); the app is called “Google Maps”.
It was only fixed in the webapp. As you can see with the PoC demo link, this is still unfixed in the Inbox app for Android.
Have you seen a felony police stop? Civilians caught up in them make a massive number of mistakes for the simple reason they aren't exactly used to someone pointing a gun at them and yelling. LivePD is rather illuminating because unlike COPS not all encounters end in an arrest so you see how innocents react with police encounters.

Its easy to say they should follow directions when you are safe and comfortable at home. Quite another when you don't know why angry police are pointing their guns at you and any false move could mean death.
Hmmm...now the immigrants will have an actual reason to leave their communist sh-tholes. Well...that is until the US implements this commie system here. I am sure the next Democrat President already has these plans ready to go.
> Ameritech/SBC, now AT&T, received, IIRC, circa $750 million in incentives to deploy universal access to high speed Internet throughout Illinois.

Are you talking about the Ameritech/SBC merger?
The only way you could say it costs NJ $48,000 per job is if you assumed that Amazon would have chosen them for HQ2 anyways, which is obviously not the case.

Saying it costs $48,000 per job is no different than when production companies claim piracy costs $1B+ per year (or some other ridiculous figure). That assumes all the people that would have pirated the movie would have paid full price otherwise.
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/sdk/uploading#Building_Ef...
>> Citation?

Donald Trump, Brexit, Facebook, opioids epidemic, cryptocurrencies, increased rents, soul-crushing corporate jobs for all.
TDD is yet another in a long line of "methodologies" that don't work. Tests are not a bad thing of course. The problem comes when you turn testing into an ideology and try to use it as a magic fix for all your problems. Same goes for "agile," etc.

Programming is a craft. Good programmers write good code. Bad programmers write bad code. No methodology will make bad programmers write good code, but bureaucratic bullshit can and will prevent good programmers from working at their best. The only way to improve the output of a bad programmer is to mentor them and let them gain experience.
There's a simple solution here. You tell me what you think your property is worth. And I can force you to move out today for that price. This might still be a loss for the county tax assessors, but it will at least keep these stores honest. Maybe we even include all the inventory and fixtures in that deal to keep the companies even more honest, since a competitor can almost turnkey the operation at that point (though the logistics of resupply can't be understated).
This comment is going on n-gate for sure.

http://n-gate.com/hackernews/
> "The freedom for a community..."

If this was a community decision why is there pushback in LIC? Because, it wasn't a community decision. It was the gov using taxpayer money to subsidize one of the largest most successful companies in the world.

Fact: The Gov created the housing bubble.

Fact: The Gov created the student loan bubble.

Fact: The abatements in __your__ community came out of someone else's pocket. That money had to come from somewhere.
>This extremely serious, and continuing, attack on the public seems to not really matter to any of the parties involved, only that they may get 'in trouble' or lose money...

???

Isn't that the modus operandi of every company. I'm just thinking in my head back through serious crises involving companies, and all of the ones I can recall have senior management concerned about the same thing. (Losing money, and getting in trouble.)

From Exxon Valdez, to Deepwater Horizon (BP), definitely crises like Taylor, Enron, and the recent banking system unpleasantness.

In fact, I remember a more bald faced arrogance out of the banker community. I still remember them sending the legislature of the United States a 3 page letter to sign off on, authorizing the transfer of $1 Trillion to them within the following 24 hours.

Now THAT was childish arrogance. (Or maybe just the reality of their power? I don't really know which?)
That is fantastic to hear. All media, even the Times, should be looked at critically and has biases. If it is true that they are putting a lot more of their site through scrutiny, that bodes well for the future use of social media in general. It is unfortunate that this job will be largely thankless though. Like in plumbing, you'll only notice the bad jobs, not the good work.
invert: to reverse in position, order, or relationship
PAYFORT – Multiple Security Issues and Concerns in a Payment Processor SDK
I do not necessarily have a problem with the government shelling out taxpayer funds to attract employers, but this is highway robbery.
Unlike your coworker, I _always_ have a plan. Often a dozen of them. With various pros and cons for each.

But also unlike your coworker, I probably _figured out how to do it right_ in the time given. It's pretty rare that I don't have time to do it right; it does happen (especially with extreme instances of scope creep and requirements drift), but it's rare.

Which I guess is your point? The time excuse is just an excuse, and a good developer writes good code.
But you can impersonate Windows by providing your own implementation of the Kernel32 API. What's the essential difference between that, and emulating syscall API?
AWS has a bunch of services that are HIPAA-compliant: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-eligible-services-re...
> Now we are facing a new age where many people will find themselves jobless due to automation ... More than a million truck drivers, for instance, will lose their jobs in the next decade or two, maybe less.

Just to be clear, the premise of this article is that a new wave of unemployment will come sometime “in the next decade or two,” the example given is truck drivers, and the debate is what to do with all these future unemployed truck drivers (specifically, whether to just give them welfare directly or whether to help them find jobs by retraining them).
Not necessarily, Taleb had an essay which is also a chapter in his book "Skin in the Game" which I think you can find online, called "most intolerant wins: dicatorship of the Small Minority".

If a group can be loud and forceful, even if their numbers are small, they can create positive change to help orangutans
Word-aligned? No, that's the opposite of packing!

I'd say "packing" is ambiguous and could refer to either bit-aligned or byte-aligned data. But if your fields are less than 8 bits wide, I would assume "packing" means bit-packing.