skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't know about other EU countries but here everyone older than 15 years is required to have a passport or id card by law. The fee is ~1/4 of what it costs in US. You don't need to make a photo before as it can be taken during application. If you don't want to wait in queue it is possible to make an appointment by phone.
I am preparing a Readme file with more explanations. Yes I think I think I'll extract everything on the server, and implement some form of lazy loading thanks to some emscripten mechanism
Since I got fiber gbit up and down I try to relocate as much as possible of my homelab to real data centers (Hetzner) since I can't stand the noise. (I have 10ms ping to my server)

Then I use wireguard to connect it to my home network and make it act like a server in the home network. (All the traffic even gets directed through home)

I still have the main storage server locally though because otherwise I'd not be able to even watch movies if my internet went down.

My dream would be an all SSD storage server being near silet.
>EA famously rolled back their microtransaction models last year after a few bad releases.

Because their business model was set as illegal in several EU countries.
One study, one time.

Also, studies find driving a car to be dangerous. Same with leaving your house.
Those services take the SSN as proof of identity and not just identity?

Wouldn’t most people’s SSN’s be leaked already so using SSN rather than proper ID isn’t much better than nothing?
VCs don't care about profits anymore. Their bet is on getting hockey stick growth using tricks good enough not to spook the uneducated retail investor (that often involves selling dollars for cents) and then dumping the hot potato into the public market.

It isn't long-term sustainable and it will result in a major correction one day, but that's the game currently.
If RISC-V can create a low cost-of-entry development pipeline with freely available building blocks, then people will still flock to it over ARM even if the price goes way down. Its the same reason that Linux is far and away the most popular OS for hosting web apps: its just stupid easy to get one running quickly and for free. No paying for tools, no stupid licensing agreements, no arbitrary restrictions, and the freedom to change the code as needed.

Unfortunately I also think this may explode the number of "IOT" devices that will be just as badly designed as before (similar to what happened to web apps and phone apps in the last 10 years).
Turning back time with emerging rejuvenation strategies – Nature Cell Biology
Because they are a human being.
There's a logical contradiction at the heart of this. If spending money destroys social value and receiving it represents the creation of social value, then every act has to be neutral. When you buy the yacht from the Congo at the end and light it on fire, you can't have destroyed value overall, because, well, the yacht builders got money so clearly they created as much value as you destroyed. (Represented in some weird hedonic sense as the pleasure you got from the burning yacht, perhaps.)

Slightly more technical translation of the above: this essay is a great illustration of the vacuity of the revealed preference theory of value, important in economics but widely shredded in every other discipline just because it entails silly consequences like whenever someone pays you to do something that indicates that you did something genuinely valuable for them, an idea that reduces the notion of "valuable" to nothing but observed behavior.
Or the AfD is so technically inebt that it only has one party member that even has email...
That's what is known as 'feed corn' and is grown specifically as livestock feed. The specific strains of corn are optimized for producing maximum plant material, which is mostly stalk and leaves. A field of feed corn plants will usually be very tall, 8-15 feet. In contrast a field of sweet corn (grown for human consumption and possibly for processing into other foods), will be much shorter, since it's optimized to produce the most, largest and highest sugar content corn kernels, and any energy the plant spends to grow a tall stalk is wasted.

Feed corn is harvested with big combines that just cut down the whole plant at ground level and chop everything up. The results are piled up and left to ferment. Once fermented, you have silage.

I'd be surprised to learn anyone was harvesting sweet corn and saving the waste material to make silage. The equipment isn't designed to keep that stuff it just gets dumped back onto the field. And those strains of corn don't produce very much plant material since they're optimized for small plants and big cobs. Additionally you'd have to load all the waste material into trucks, which would significantly raise the cost of harvesting. And dumping that stuff back onto the field is a good thing, it helps keep the dirt down for the winter and decomposes into usable nutrients and fibrous material which helps reduce compacting, etc. It'd be expensive and labor intensive to try to capture the waste material from feed corn. It's easier and more economical to just plant feed corn or buy silage.

You're right about straw, though. The harvesters are specifically designed to leave the straw in row pile behind them. Then you run a baler over that and it leaves a row of straw bales in the field. Then you run a stacker over that (or a flatbed trailer and buck 'em by hand) and you have a haystack.
The piece is interesting, but author's conclusions left very strange aftertaste. So there was a king with psychiatric problems, and his doctor who, abusing influence over his patient, usurped powers, and made a kid with the queen. And when aforementioned doctor decreed freedom of press, people of Denmark immediately started to express their dissatisfaction with the weird political situation. And the author calls it depressing, not constructive, and them proto-internet-trolls. Seriously?
It wasn't through the Internet. We had a dedicated phone line for it (quite an expense for a 5th grader). Others dialed in directly, and when one user was connected, anyone else trying to connect got a busy signal. If the user wasn't remote, they paid long-distance charges by the minute to the telco. Larger BBSs had banks of phone lines to enable multiple users to connect simultaneously. Just the concept of multiplexing a single physical connection between multiple applications (or even users) via SLIP or PPP and TCP/IP was a pretty revolutionary change that came with the move from terminal-based communication to binary communication.

EDIT: I guess I should have said 'from circuit-switched networking to packet-switched networking', but ... you get the idea. The change largely occurred simultaneously.
Good tutorial: https://www.cs.ucr.edu/~eamonn/Matrix_Profile_Tutorial_Part1...
I think it depends on how much your country advanced in freedom, basic rights etc

Democracy and democratic process itself is required but not enough.
The SQLite distinction is because it's public domain which the OSI doesn't consider open source mostly because "public domain" can have a somewhat funny legal status. https://opensource.org/node/878

So, yes, you can have an open source license that isn't OSI approved. However, leaving aside a few edge cases like public domain, there's pretty wide acceptance of OSI licenses as the population of significant open source licenses.

[ADDED:In practice, the FSF's list of free software licenses and the OSI approved license list line up pretty closely--with the exception of PD+source. If someone wants to argue that the FSF's list is the one we should go by, I'm not really going to argue.]

I do think it is potentially appropriate to have thoughtful discussion over whether the current open source definition is too narrow but I also think it is useful to have a generally agreed-on definition.
Finland’s grand AI experiment
Tesla JSON API (Unofficial)
AI can re-identify de-identified health data, study finds
Well you probably need to have some basic ideas of computers. Then the rest is just lots of googling and trying out etc.

You can also just use VMs for this.
> Why are there busybodies and style pedants working in your organization?

Because to an extent they serve a useful purpose. In a truly large development organization - thousands of developers working on many millions of lines of code - fragmentation across languages, libraries, tools, and versions of everything does start to become a real problem with real costs. You do need someone to weed the garden, to work toward counteracting that natural proliferation. That improves reuse, economies of scale, smoothness of interactions between teams, ease of people moving between teams, etc. It's a good thing. Unfortunately...

(1) That role tends to attract the very worst kind of "I always know better than you" pedants and scolds. Hi, JM and YF!

(2) Once that team reaches critical mass, they forget that the dog (everyone else) is supposed to wag the tail (them) instead of the other way around.

At this point, Team Busybody starts to take over and treat all code as their own. Their role naturally gives them an outsize say in things like repository structures, and they use that to make decisions that benefit them even if they're at others' and the company's expense. Like monorepos. It's convenient for them, and so it happens, but that doesn't mean it's really a good idea.

Sure, it's a culture issue. So are the factors that lead to the failure of communism. But they're culture issues that are tied to human nature and that inevitably appear at scale. I know it's hard for people who have never worked at that scale to appreciate that inevitability, but that doesn't make it less real or less worth counteracting. One of the ways we do that is by putting structural barriers in the corporate politicians' way, to maintain developers' autonomy against constant encroachment. The only horseshit here is the belief that someone who rode a horse once knows how to command a cavalry regiment.
In cases where the 'victims' are corporations, punishing 'victims' is totally acceptable. Don't let rhetorical conflation between between humans and corporations fool you.
How’d they get the water temperature to 220°F? Doubtful the kettle was pressurized. Were they below sea level?
Synamedia Vows to Fight Password Sharing with Artificial Intelligence
So if you secured 4 of these rebar perpendicular to the direction of the plane and tied a strong rope from plane to rebar, the result would be the plane couldn’t move and the rebar wouldn’t break or bend?
I think you did not read the link you posted in your comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18825281, because that is what I was quoting.
Lobbying isn't inherently bad, you know. Congress needs experts for information.
Why should every website start with a coming soon page?
Angela Merkel and hundreds of German politicians hacked
I was recently recommended a couple books called "Extreme Ownership" and "The Dichotomy of Leadership". They tackle the idea of how to be a leader and what that means in the day to day.

They break down the communication with your team into a principle you want to strive for. Then you're shown an example of how that happens in the real world.

Once you've seen the patterns, you notice them everywhere, and you begin to unravel the issues, one hurdle at a time. It's like seeing a great design pattern, seeing where it fits and how to apply it, except now you're doing it with communication instead of code.

I think this might help you "find a mechanic you can trust" and get to the heart of what it takes to lead your team.
The value proposition of a $12k conference is not in the seminar content.

It's in getting into a room of sales prospects and potential investors who have already demonstrated that they can afford to spend $12k on a conference. It's like deliberately going to a bar with a steep cover charge so you only have to mingle with the "right people".
Solar energy is the very-long-term future of energy in the "Dyson sphere" sense, but it's hard to efficiently extract solar power on the surface of the Earth. It's significantly easier than it was, but even the theoretical incoming solar energy within a country the size of, say, Britain wouldn't be sufficient to maintain their current standard of living. Fusion could deliver a world-changing, post-scarcity level of energy compared to our current energy usage requirements.

You could get similar results from solar by collecting it in space and transporting the energy to Earth somehow (either by direct beaming or by shipping down some sort of refined chemical fuel). But that's just the beginning of the process of building a Dyson Sphere.
(re-posting, this story is likely to deserve our attention)
God I wish I could upvote this more than once. I almost fell out my chair laughing.
> Web products get internationalization for free, which is important for a small, cash-strapped team.

I like the article but this statement is not true. Internationalization is quite a big topic and there is no way to automatically make a site internationalized for "free".
Economics is supposed to be value-neutral, but do economists question the extent to which it isn't value-neutral in its assumptions and views of the world? Similarly, science is often declared to be value-neutral, but it accepts certain philosophical ideas without really investigating them. In your example, in many hypothetical societies (not too different from our own) the very fact of hiring the Kongolese would be alien. In fact, the idea of hiring, as in, getting someone to do something for you, and to ask that they align their conatus to yours (in the modern sense) changes in the period of a lifetime.

In short, I think that the assumptions and historical background of economics (descending from political economy) have produced a way of viewing the world which is not value-neutral at all. The existence of heterodox economics (which should not be dismissed as "value" spins on "regular economics") would seem to show that the bare set of assumptions that orthodox economics makes are neither givens nor small in number. Marx, Sraffa, the neo-Ricardians and the Post-Keynesians questioned them. So I think that if science can be admitted to be ideological, we're in for a big treat when it comes to economics.
I made my server near silent (it's basically just a desktop computer) but now the biggest noise comes from the disks. I can't stand the noise. Not sure how to make disks quiet though.
I highly recommend 'The Managers Path' as well. It really helped me wrap my head around the changes I needed to make for my transition to Engineering Manager, and also the types of things I need to work on for the next move to a Manager of Managers.

Reading every path also helped me build empathy in what difficulties my boss (VP) and boss's boss (CTO) are going through. Easy ready, highly recommended.
The issue is that children should not have access to gamble with real world currency.
it just uniquely identifies you

Try working face-to-face in communities of recent, poor immigrants where five, six, even ten people using the same (likely purchased) SSN is not unusual. I've seen entire families using the same SSN.
This is interesting, and I didn't know it! Does it include everything (doctor's notes, etc.), or just whatever your doctor/organization wants to include in your "official" medical record?

I'd like to do this myself, but I want to understand what I'm actually entitled to so I can be prepared if they push back.
Same experience. Try requesting through a Psychologist or case worker I have had success with that.
My kids' pediatrician was part of a small office, which merged with a larger office that is affiliated with a large hospital and hence uses EPIC.
She used to take hand notes on paper and was quiet efficient when she was with the smaller office. After the move I have seen her struggle with EPIC, and then recently hire a medical transcription service and be followed by a person taking notes so that she can focus on the medical stuff. And, of course I have no idea if the quality of her notes has suffered.
They get published per reviewer as a git repository on e.g. github, which is fine since you're not really supposed to be putting any value whatsoever on joe-random's reviews.
I would substitute the word 'monopoly' with something like 'unavoidable' or 'compulsory' or 'inescapable'. They're not the only options or even the majority option, but for many of the people impacted by this breach it makes no difference. Many of them were forced into it.

I've never been asked which credit bureau I preferred to have my information given to or taken from. And while I have some say over which business hotel chain I stay at, ultimately it's up to my client or my employer to set the policy. If the rates at the Hilton are out of compliance with the company's willingness to spend, I'm staying at the Marriott.

Monopoly is the wrong word, but the sentiment of hopelessness is the same.
Even with external issue trackers, leave GitHub Issues enabled
I'm torn between being stunned at the parent who wrote this and at the WaPo editor, who after reading it, still published it.
I don't want to discourage you, but every indication is that Tesla is far behind the leaders in FSD. I don't know that its correct to claim to be "funding" anything that is pushing those boundaries.
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You can spin it any way you want, but to me, expropriating the intellectual property of the non-profit (obtained under the pretense of being a non-profit) and exploiting it for private gain is the issue here. Even though that part is apparently legal. (Unless challenged in court somehow. We'll see.)
Undefined != implementation defined. The more stuff that gets moved to implementation defined the better.
FaunaDB (my employer) scales from zero to worldwide, with no pre-provisioning or capacity planning required. In addition to serverless database pricing and no cold start, you get full ACID transactions as well as relational features. None of the overloading of shard keys etc as featured in the DynamoDB video.
I think they were referring to RAM or storage space rather than human fatigue or mental effort, although I'm not a native English speaker so I may be misinterpreting.

Indeed, there are many low-end smartphones that run out of storage space after one or two years even without installing anything, just with the automatic updates of the preinstalled apps (Facebook is a major offender here, why does their app grow more and more?). Being forced to install an app to use a service when you are in this situation is highly frustrating.
It's the atomic compare-and-store operation you're looking for.

violing <> dollar
dollar <> potato
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Juul has helped a few friends quit smoking, but some still use the juul. Nicotine salts in their juice make it feel stronger than cigarettes, so its easier to switch than standard nicotine-base juices.
We need to move away from Hipchat at work and really wanted to use xmpp, but was super let down by the iOS clients, it can't be used in production.

Android - thanks to Cobversations and Xabber, is really ok, PC is ok (Gajim), but we couldn't migrate due to the 3 iOS users in the team. Duplicate msg and all sorts of weird behaviour and errors made it a no go.

We ended up with the shitty MS Teams in the end; comes free with our office365, has working notifications across platforms and can do messaging and file transfers without issues.

I dream of a future where xmpp is an option.

People who have to gain from that: please fix the iOS side of things.
Aren't espresso machines pressurized?
It should be mentioned that both of the schools owned by Career Education Corporation receive over 90% of their funding from the US Govt.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20InterContinental%20U...

AIU was founded in 1970 'as the American Fashion College of Switzerland'. CEC has been under investigation since the mid-2000s, and decided to close most of its schools in 2015.

Not that for-profit vocational-training schools with credibility problems are a new thing. They are 'accredited' by ten nationally recognized accrediting agencies overseen by the Dept. of Ed. It should be dismaying that schools which primarily 'serve' federally-funded DoD and GI Bill students are not held to objective claims about their efficacy.
I'm so tired of comments like "startup is disrupting the [xyz] industry."
No they don't disrupting anything. They didn't invent anything. They are just planning to grow and sell mushrooms.
Growing mushrooms is well know process.
Probably the annual Dead Sea game.
Well it's odd because a sentence later it is being emphasized that the water must be 190 not 189 or 191. Maybe the kettle was set to 220 as some strange setting not relating to the actual temperature of the water? Or maybe being NBA players they have a moon kettle.
I'd suggest hiring an expert, assuming the startup is funded
I disagree with the 99% estimate, I too take the same approach, and recommend the same to those who will listen. I would venture that number to be at least 80%
2018 end-of-the-year tech predictions
Making Data Scientists Productive in Azure
> The way Elon Musk tells it, they put it into production once it was safer per mile than human drivers.

I'd caution you against believing anything that he says. It's easy to extract from the data an unfair comparison that shows the group with Tesla AP being safer, but comparing it against cars in totally different driving context or against the safety of motorcycles is just completely deceptive. The stats indicate that Tesla w/AP enabled on freeways is less safe than Tesla w/o AP enabled on freeways.
At Kaiser, you just have to walk into any member services office and request. It doesn't happen right then, but I believe in a few days you get a thumb drive with all of your records on them.

However, the law allows the doctors to redact certain portions in your copy that they feel could be harmful to you.
Swarm Robots Search for Multiple Targets Based on an Improved Grouping Strategy
I've got a T710 pulling about 200W continuous and it contributes (.28 * .2 * 24 * 30) = $40/mo to our electricity bill in California.

A Hetzner dedi is more cost effective for some workloads.
Note that this was in a Canadian court, and will not apply to American drivers.