skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even this rule isn't always true. In Virginia a city can be independent, which means the city and county are the same government.

It New England, where counties don't really have much power and the towns have the power that counties generally have in other States.

Or Connecticut, where counties only exist because there are federal forms you cannot complete without listing a county.

I am sure there are other exceptions too, but these are the places I have lived, and thus know.
You have a whole universe to explore! I think Stormlight was the best, but they are all great.
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I am both aware of that and completely unbothered by it. I was responding to a specific claim about how easy the app was to use.
There is a daily mail video of a drone at the North Terminal Bus station. DM is hardly a good source, and I was sceptical at first but I'm 95% sure its the right location. The question is now, is the footage fake and is it from last week.
Yeah, Iowa is flat and the people probably know how to drive in inclement weather. Just saying people here shouldn’t be going that fast :)
Honestly it sounds like you are happy in your current role. Don't just change jobs because you feel you have to (i.e. to "get out of your comfort zone").

Also based on what you've written, it sounds like the Azure architect will be much better suited to you than the pen tester role. Not necessarily because of what skills you have but because it seems you like being involved in projects where you can create/manage something. As a pen tester you will likely work for between a few days up to a week for each client, you will do the job, write the report and be done.

But don't think that because you are comfortable this is necessarily a bad thing. "Get out of your comfort zone" is good advice for somebody who lacks ambition and refuses to change their ways but you do not sound like that kind of a person.
I’m not too familiar with UK libel law. Is it not a defense that they were reporting on statements they were given? Is there a reasonableness question?
> I guess I'm probably missing your point.

Yes you are, but that's fine. I totally see why the difference between 'can' and 'actually does' is lost. The reason for that is simple: device driver writing on a monolithic kernel is something of a black art, even with all the tools we have at our disposal today. On a microkernel you'd just be writing any other user process, with access to a couple of ports and and maybe a special hook to handle hw interrupts, but other than that you would not be able to tell the difference. Debugging would be almost as easy as debugging any other user process. You could use a whole slew of high level languages to do your device driver writing. If the interpreters on the system would take care of the lower levels of interacting with the kernel to deal with IO and/or interrupts then you could do your device driver writing in interpreted languages.

But, you'll have to wait a little longer to be able to do that. Or try to locate a copy of QnX...
Security tokens in the US: regulations and exemptions under the SEC laws
My seven year old absolutely loves GCompris. I would recommend GCompris by far compared to what we have on the phone apps nowdays for kids.

I personally appreciate the old school non commercial spirit of the makers of the GCompris. It's one of the many goodies of sticking with Linux as my primary desktop OS.
Does a sound ever stop?
Tesla Model 3 Quality Problems
The information density is much lower. It's harder to scan a page for its content because everything is more embellished. It's less focused on text, which IMHO used to be one of Reddit's best features. (Design feature.) And it feels very generic, like a basic Bootstrap template.
Anyone got access to the original? Or an older print reproduction? I’ve seen enough poor quality old document scans in the nasa archives to chalk it up to mistakes, but without knowing what was on the page it’s hard to be sure.
That's true. But almost by definition there will not be that many rare books and valuable ones typically also are not available in large numbers. So the scope for applying this tech is huge. I looked at a very large scale digitization operation in some detail a while ago, some of the tech they had there was super interesting.

I love the creativity around solutions like these.
It's pretty decided that Solar will never be able to produce even close to sufficient energy to serve as a baseline energy source.
I was trying to go download the latest Ruby or even read the latest release notes, but the site seems to be down. It's still ruby-lang.org, right?
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> and a democrat btw

I like how Americans put politicians in one of two camps and make it an us vs. them thing instead of having coalitions of parties to come to a good conclusion for everyone.
Ruby is awesome for prototyping. It's just incredibly fast to work with, because the language makes an effort to provide as much help as possible and adding as little obstacles as necessary. E.g. you can even add/change functions to/of Object, even during runtime, if you think it helps. Rails adds `blank?` like that, which is a helper for `nil? || empty?`.
> I couldn't finish any of his books because every sentence reads like "I'm smarter than anyone else, and I need to remind you as much as I can"

You'll probably like the digest summary of "Skin in the Game" by Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/25/skin-in-the-ga...
Really like the idea of using lazy ranges instead of magic negative indices! I.e `xs[6..]` instead of `xs[6..-1]`.
> it can be used to create malicious pull requests that are visually indistinguishable from correct ones

If your only check on the correctness of submitted code is visual inspection, you've got a much bigger problem than Unicode confusability.
No. I know who Kahneman is and realized after a moment's thought that my initial response was wrong; probably based on an impulse to reject any authority. I tossed off the comment just before going to bed, immediately reconsidered and tried to delete it but could not. I left it as is figuring the responses would be interesting. That intuition, at least, was correct.
So how was the link between non-existing drones and a very specific couple made?
Incredibly sad. I am hopeful that the trend towards technological interconnectedness (survellience & IoT, as examples) means that critical gaps in records will become a thing of the past.
Hundreds of companies and professional software projects are dependent on Linux. I’m not sure I could call it a “hobby project”, no matter what its origins were.
Darktable 2.6 released (photography raw processor)
Look at the University of Luxembourg, the best salaries in Europe, good conditions and it's a good point to travel around Europe for conferences. They do a lot of biology and CS. The LCSB is focused on parkinson and other stuff. They have good resources to send you to conferences or courses.
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For a real head twister: the various 'exit' and 'anti-eu' groups have tried to unite EU wide... That one still has me wondering if they realize what they are doing.
Who was "they" can you find the on-the-record comment that suggested this?
Err, the tone is way too personal. This kind of editorial rants reminds me of articles on medium.
> The new nuclear power plants uses physics so there will be no meldown.

Oh it uses physics? Not code and algorithms? (For those out of the loop, it refers to this meme: https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/5ylndv/so_... )

Sorry to nitpick, I totally agree with what you're saying. But I am curious what this "physics" thing is that would magically prevent meltdowns.
Weird. I googled "ruby 2.6 download" and links from the results worked, but simply trying to browse to "ruby-lang.org" times out.
All those who didn't live the sixties and their boundless can-do optimism: Envy those of us who did.

For a rather large chunk of American the 60's weren't boundlessly optimistic. Quite the opposite really starting with the Cuban Missile Crisis and ending in Vietnam.
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> “Almost nobody is a young creationist anymore... Almost nobody who isn’t Muslim believes in killing non believers anymore...”

Wow, not sure where you live but come check out rural Texas. I’ve lost friends to Christian extremism here. These guys are stockpiling weapons and organizing. Also, I’m sure you caught the last presidential election? Even if they don’t directly believe those things, they support someone who does. It’s a serious situation when people use belief to disprove science and empirical data man.
> That may be an economic equilibrium point.

It also reminds me of Marchetti's constant: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2014/06/why-commute-t...
They don't have to. They just need to open-source their drivers and mainline them, don't they? People will gladly maintain what Qualcomm et al. aren't willing to, they just need to abandon the binary blob bullshit.
Yes, once it's kinetic energy drops below that of the average air molecule, it'll become imperceptible to instruments; lost in the noise, or rather, becoming part of the noise.
Because it's not important any more than knowing whether you or anyone else is member give that to the extent you can call him a lobbyist he is a lobbyist for his own mission.

He isn't working on the behalf of some industry he is working for a case.

He cowrote a paper with Brand from the long now foundation about nuclear.

Being a lobbyist isn't just one thing even though it always get's used like that and it doesn't mean you are working for some industry.
> It's unreasonable to expect OEMs to keep updating the code every time the driver API is broken, especially when you have dozens of mobiles.

Nobody expects that. Once drivers are in the mainline, the OEMs don't have to do any work to keep them from getting broken when Linux devs decide to do the kind of refactoring and systemic improvements that are impossible on Windows. All Android OEMs have to do is git pull, make, and send the new OS image off to the same QA processes any other update needs before deployment.
Tracking pressure-stall information (in 4.20)
This article brought to you by the Oath network, a faceless media conglomerate that slaps a hostile privacy policy in your face when you dare click on such links and asks you to agree to their dubious handling of personal information and preferences.

The social aspect of the Internet used to be about people communicating with people. Today it's about large corporations deciding how you interact, who gets to know about it and what consequences it'll have for your life in the following decades. Disgusting.
I am always happy to unwrap my Christmas present from the Ruby team! Some questions about this release:

- Are there any benchmarks for the new JIT?

- Why was `(Date.today..(Date.today + 1)) === DateTime.now #=> true` false in Ruby 2.5? It seems correct that right now is between today and tomorrow. Is it because one is a Date and the other a DateTime?
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Ask HN: Catholic.fm – Feedback Needed
So here's the full story:

I'm part of an interfaith team that helped to develop Catholic.fm... and will look to do the same at Jewish.fm and TheBible.fm and Blessed.fm and other faith-based .fm URLs... all audio platforms that we have some ideas for, but are still trying to figure out how they can be the most useful for people of one faith and also across faiths.

Of course we can only start to figure out what the first of these -- Catholic.fm -- should be if people engage with the site.

I'd be indebted if you could share Catholic.fm on your social media pages... maybe https://twitter.com/catholicfm1 and https://soundcloud.com/catholicdotfm too. The website has readings of the Catholic liturgy for Christmas, including chanted Psalms. "http://Catholic.fm invites you to participate in the creation of a platform that helps to spread the good word, and supports your deep connection to the Catholic faith" is what we're trying to convey... and at very least it could be that you know people -- or you know people who know people -- who want to experience the holiday but cannot actually make it to church for some reason. I think it's worth sharing and trying to spread. :)

And I met with a Priest from The Vatican about Catholic.fm earlier in the year, and am supposed to talk to someone whom The Pope recently appointed as the Head of Communications for the Holy See next month. We'll see what happens!
Interesting to see the difference in style of old Linus vs new reformed Linus.

Seems like the new style comes across as just heavily disappointed and with a breach of trust, which I guess compared to the plain anger of old is easier to convey without swearing and vivid imagery.

I think I personally would still prefer to receive one of the old style messages, but that's probably just because I better handle people angry with me than disappointed.
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Interestingly, living in San Jose is the first time I've regularly walked to the grocery store. Why not when I lived elsewhere, equally close or closer to perfectly good Kroger, Harris Teeter, Food Lion, Publix or Winn-Dixie? Hills. Walking 4 blocks carrying groceries up and down hills in heat & humidity (or snow & ice) isn't remotely the same as on flatland in a mild climate.
Don;t much like this:

> If you create a greeting card we'll send an email to the recipient containing a link to a page with your greeting. In order to to do so we'll store all of the above information in our database.

For how long? For what other purposes may it be used?
Thoughts alone aren't relevant, feelings have a valid place too.
The way a $2500 optional paint job comes out of the factory would not be acceptable for any "legacy" car manufacturer. Painting is a solved problem, even for a price point much lower than that of the Model 3.
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I've been using the default open source drivers on my ThinkPad at work with Nvidia gpu and never had a problem with multiple screens etc.

It really is propriety drivers that's the problem
1999 Scifi Movie on reality-is-simulation theme that lost to “The Matrix”
I don't quite understand how this change makes the (somewhat remote) misunderstanding you describe any more likely than it previously was for people using ASCII only.

I also just tried and was duly warned upon reassignment, a setting I don't remember changing.
Yes. As the waves propagate their amplitude generally decreases. Imagine dropping a rock in a pond, and picture how the wave worked around it drops as it expands. There's both diffusion of the force over a wider area and there's some inertia in the materials that the wave has to overcome.
Have a look at:

https://ramdajs.com/
You can still be anonymous on Facebook if you use their onion service[1]. Although I think you can't register for an account under Tor, which is counter intuitive (I mean why would you offer a Tor hidden service if you can't register under it?). In that case I would register using a 3G/GSM IP which many people share (instead of a unique IP where few people share it); and then, once registered, proceed to browse Facebook with their hidden service.

Just be careful, because if you are using Facebook with Tor, you run the risk of outing your real identity from things like your social graph, search queries, likes, and other metadata.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebookcorewwwi.onion
One would be wrong. Common food born pathogens are abundant in farm soil, generally from human or animal waste. Lettuce is much more likely to have picked up harmful pathogens at the farm than it is from customers touching it.

Other customers touching your produce should rank very, very low on your list of concerns.
Domain Registrar Can Be Held Liable for Pirate Site, German Court Rules
Haven't played personally, but https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/ seems to stil be kicking.
Outline to the rescue: https://outline.com/2XKLG2
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Reddit's a bit different than forums as far as I can tell. There was a forum I used to frequent, even years later I can recognize someone's avatar, crack inside jokes with them.

Reddit's a little too open to have that kind of connection.
No it’s not.

I’m sorry to tell you, „left leaning“ is not something you define, but rather something that gets being „left“ by comparison of what is considered the opposite of left.

In that sense, Spiegel was always left-leaning. Most certainly so, when campaigning against a 1980s conservative.
Virtually infinite resources & energy. I don't even understand what's debate is about.
https://xkcd.com/641/
Only time will tell whether that change is for better or for worse.

(Unless your chosen metric-of-value relies on feelings instead of actual concrete results.)
Do the employees sing carols?

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1004151-christmas_story
Note that the Raspberry Pi can boot over PXE without an SD card these days, which should make for a much more reliable setup.
That outbreak wasn't caused by people handling the fruit at the store. Packaging wouldn't have stopped it.
Is there a HN thread discussing these reports? I'd love to hear folks' opinions about them... Interesting facts to me in the latest report [1]:

- Page 44: "Our economy has grown at a steady rate despite changes in economic policy". I expected to see a lot more fluctuation on this data.

- Page 30: "There have been more suicide gun deaths than homicide gun deaths every year since 1981". This is crazy to me given how much we hear about gun homicide being a problem in this country.

- Page 29: Crime rate has declined but "The number of incarcerated persons has increased by 330% since 1980".

[1] https://static.usafacts.org/public/resources/USAFactsReport2...
You haven't tried training them ?
"If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan." - Terence McKenna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APAuhoWawH0
USA Facts: 2018 Annual Report [pdf]
last time it turned out to be a shopping bag

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/21/drone-believed-t...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/04/drone...
> some interesting, organic, and human ways to bring our social lives online.

Let me introduce you to The Private Group Chat where 90% of online social activity happens between people under 30. It’s rrally quite fascinating.

It’s everything Google+ wanted to be, but totally organic, apread over dozens of chat apps and services, and without the big brother oversight.
Wow. Tesla's paint job sucks!
I am a big fan of Ruby. The syntax and stdlib let you write code that is very close to a natural English sentence. For example, Ruby has both `if` and `unless`, so you can express a condition as `unless condition` instead of `if !condition`. And the frankly great Enumerable module provides a great collections API, miles ahead of Java in particular. If you're sick of writing for-loops I recommend giving Ruby a try!
There's a lot to say about before and after. The ~old guard of boards and simple messengers (icq, aim) were really low on issues. There was a subconscious push a bit before facebook to "leverage" web 2.0 dynamic and ubiquitous nature. And then the web became a new substrate for society (payment, shopping, identity). Not helped by the capitalistic side of things which means new / large => money => even weirder ideas.

Now we realize that real life social structures were 1) seasoned 2) nicer and social networks are reinventing all the problems, but amplified by speed and scale. And also weird companies interests and paradigms, that weren't meshing well with us.

I'm getting fuzzy ..
The Police literally said 'industrial specification' on their own Twitter feed.

https://twitter.com/sussex_police/status/1075723025713127424
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That's not a problem with nuclear that's a problem with people.

Cost overruns come from extreme security legislation and the fact that we haven't built enough so those are simply not proper arguments.

Add on top of that that solar will never, as in never ever be able to deliver cheap (at scale), clean, plentiful and consistent energy which is the minimum requirement for any type of energy any sane person would support.

Promoting something that is currently not providing more than 1% of the worlds energy being heavily favored politically and with plenty of subsidies and which will never support maybe more than 10% of the worlds energy needs which is being very generous sounds like something the world will look back at in a hundred years and think "What the hell were they thinking".
There is that saying: “Those who don’t remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” We learn a lot by studying how things from the past affected us as people.

I’d argue that BBT has the exact same problem. Only this time they don’t need characters to laugh at nerds anymore, audience does it already.
How is that calculation done?

The storage capacity is needed at very specific times and is not generally available. I imagine most people will try to charge their cars at night.
When I was younger, I was with you since Alexandria also had a better gas station and coffee shop. I've had to adjust as I got older.
Well, lead-acid batteries are one of the most recycled products in the world, the entire lead of a lead-acid battery can be recycled, the lead we loose into the environment from them is largely due to the batteries breaking or being improperly disposed.
Negative indices aren't magic. They follow the obvious wraparound (modular) pattern: Negative `i` indexes the element in array `a` located at `i % len(a)`. If they worked any other way it'd be madness.
A few things this article misses:

- In healthy people, excess iron is not absorbed in your small intestine and is passed along with other digestive waste.

- There are actually three HFE genes.

- Hemochromatosis is an autosomal recessive disorder. You need two defective copies of the HFE genes in order to be affected. This can be one defective copy of two genes, or two defective copies of the same gene. Some unlucky people have two defective copies of each gene.

- The HFE genes are almost exclusively found in people with British and Irish heritage. You should really only be concerned about HFE-related Hemochromatosis if your genetic background has a strong connection to the isles. There are other genes found elsewhere that can cause Hemochromatosis though.

- Ferritin is the body's way of packaging the reactive iron atoms into a less-reactive molecule for storage (in your liver, brain, kidneys, gonads, heart, pancreas, and joints) and transport.

- The article fails to mention the actual, known symptoms of hemochromatosis: chronic fatigue, liver problems, low sex drive, arthritis.

- The treatment for hemochromatosis is diet management, regular ferritin checks, and the occasional phlebotomy.

The wikipedia article can go into more depth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemochromatosis

As always: I am not a doctor. If you have medical concerns, see a doctor. If you're particularly concerned about if you have hemochromatosis, talk to your doctor about your concerns and if a CBC with differential and ferritin test is right for you. If you're concerned about passing on a defective gene to your child, talk to your doctor about a referral to a genetic counselor. Mail-in genetic tests are not meant to diagnose or treat any disease.

See. a. DOCTOR.
So they've formed a.... union?
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Electronic devices undergo decay like anything else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_of_electronic_componen... It's unavoidable.
More generation tends to be vastly cheaper than storage in the absence of a carbon tax. If carbon emissions and other externalities were fully priced in then that would favor storage.