skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ease and reproducibility of the measurement is more important than its absolute accuracy. Whisky-ball magnetic compasses are cheap and easy to build, and have been throughout aviation's history, and don't require access to an accurate geomagnetic survey to use.

Its interesting that you mention pressure adjustments, because:

* Above 18,000 feet in the US, you don't make pressure adjustments - because its more important to know that your neighbors in the airspace are measuring their altitude the same way you are than it is to know exactly how far off the ground you are. In other parts of the world the threshold is lower, sometimes much lower.

* Airspeed is also measured with a pressure instrument, whose accuracy is affected by the density of the air, which in turn is affected by temperature and altitude. But the speed limits in the regulations, and the speeds ATC might tell you to fly, are all based on the uncorrected output of the pressure instrument - "indicated air speed", as its called. You only try to adjust for altitude and pressure when using the airspeed for navigation.
Actually, that number should be 97%. And it isn’t number of scientists, it’s the number of papers in a corpus of about 12000 that supports the premise that humans are causing global warming.

For this IPCC report it might be more interesting to know that it is the work of about 90 authors summarizing the findings of about 6000 papers.
I take some issue with the use of the verb spy in this context. Merriam-Webster defines the verb form of Spy as "to watch secretly usually for hostile purposes." Spying has a negative connotation.

Is it really spying if employees are leaking data they are not supposed to? To me, leak implies unsanctioned or illicit.
So I literally just reorganized our slack channels because it had gotten out of hand and didn't have a pattern that was easy to recognize, just random channel names etc. You had to have some institutional knowledge to know where to look for what.

What I wound up doing was creating more a naming scheme and limiting access to Slack channels which didn't need broad audiences. This removes a ton of unnecessary chatter and means messages won't get missed as easily.

e.g. I created ask_execs, ask_engineering, ask_marketing etc, team_engineering, team_sales, team_"region" (we have a few sub regions). Then we have are more generic channels, like announcements where company wide announcements are made, and press for press coverage, random for just that etc. I also setup bot_xyz channels for bots we have running for specific tasks.

I think that pretty much covers it. In the end we archived like 50% of our channels and it is a lot cleaner now. My opinion is this should be something that should be done every so often to keep some control over it and to make sure channels are used for the right purposes and not hijacked routinely by off topic discussions.
...in the basement of a pizzeria?

A story like that would make sense to you?
Looking at github to see if the maintainer is on holiday seems great to me. Perhaps my pull request isn’t complete junk, and the only reason it hasn’t been merged is that there’s nobody around to merge it?
Alternatively, dug around and found their official newsroom posting: https://www.t-mobile.com/news/un-carrier-offers-support-for-...
Same can be said of altimeter adjustments which would literally cause you to fly into the ground, but that isn't stopping us from allowing manual adjustments.
...and yet the country from which this aphorism comes paradoxically values creativity! Nice example!
Thank you, this has perplexed me for a long time.
“It’s been a year since you touched this code. Do you still use it?”
Its too late for me to edit this comment but FWIW I intended to write about "niche corners", not "nice corners" - hopefully it seems a little less elitist with that context :)
More Trouble for the Hubble Telescope as a Primary Camera Malfunctions
create a landing page first with a "fork me" link to github repo, brief description,docs/papers and examples of usage
I have lived in San Francisco for 15 years with no car, both at the bottom of the nation's income brackets and near the top.

Some people just don't want to mix with "normal" people and a lot of San Franciscans wish they would fucking leave.
Google Board Sued for Hushing Misconduct Claims About Rubin
Dates with Siri
I have had a "Mac thumb" for a good while now, the thumb position of constant Cmd+C-ing is horrible. Not ergonomic at all.

I love the fact that it's the same everywhere though and don't have to Ctrl+Shift+C to copy in the terminal.
You open an issue, then look and say "hey, this will take a while, the developers are on a holiday, better work on this other thing instead".

I pretty much wouldn't use it, but that use case is not worthless.
It's the opposite on 8-bit stuff, because there's nothing else running, and CPUs on such systems typically never stop working anyway - so if your game has nothing to do, it still has to do something.

So it's normal to just enter a little loop in your code, often one that waits for a flag that's set by an interrupt routine that runs in response to vertical blank or a timer or something. So your loop is literally just waiting for time to pass. Load flag, is flag zero, repeat loop if zero, that sort of thing, over and over again.

But with the gameboy's halt functionality, you can add a halt in there, I guess: halt, load flag, is flag zero, repeat loop if zero. Then the CPU can go dormant until the next interrupt, rather than spending its time running that loop. (It might wake up needlessly, if some other interrupt occurs, but it'll still be no more expensive than the loop.)
Age spots can be somewhat corrected with a skin bleacher. A dermatologist can help with that
Patents and copyrights are two very different things, though. I don't know if APIs are patentable, but that's a very different question. Has anybody ever successfully patented an API?
In Morocco they're called Grands Taxis, and they are quite useful for getting around from village to village. In the morning people come to the public square and once enough passengers who want to travel along the same route have assembled you all pack into an old diesel Mercedes sedan and split the fare. I remember the driver buying all of his passengers lunch on one of my trips!
Preach!

Also as irritating as vacation mail can be, at least now I know that you aren’t talking to me because you aren’t here, rather than you’re just giving me the silent treatment because I made a disparaging comment about Tori Amos’s latest album.
Maybe it’s just that the difference is more pronounced now because the balance is shifting towards a world where everyone has it good instead of bad.

If 90% of the people are at the same socioeconomic level as you, even if living in poverty, you don’t feel particularly left out.

If that balance shifts to the 20% we have now, then suddenly it starts to be a bit disturbing.
IIRC, the uproar was less about the principle, and more about how it is defined:

> If you make the functionality of the Program or a modified version available to third parties as a service, you must make the Service Source Code available via network download to everyone at no charge [...] Making the functionality of the Program or modified version available to third parties as a service includes, without limitation, enabling third parties to interact with the functionality of the Program or modified version remotely through a computer network, offering a service the value of which entirely or primarily derives from the value of the Program or modified version

If I make a generic website that uses Mongo as a database, does that constitute making Mongo available as a service? It's clearly interacting with the functionality through a computer network, and could be said to derive its value primarily from the value of Mongo. That's clearly not the intention[1], but I would not be confident making that claim solely based on the licence text (and the FAQ is not incorporated as part of the licence).

There's also some debate about whether it meets Section 9 of the Open Source Definition ("License Must Not Restrict Other Software").

[1] https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license...
Sorry, I don't mean "public" in the sense of "universally accessible".

I'm using the sociological sense where "private" means "to one's self" and "social" or "public" mean "part of a common experience or utterance with at least one other person" because I think that's the important distinction in this thread.
I see some minor grammatical issues with the doc. "dependencies" is spelled wrong, and the final sentence of the "Docker Immutable Workstation" section seems incomplete. Also this line: "a Mac if we are lucky".. expect to be chirped at by non-cultists like myself :)

I do something similar but with a VM instead of a Docker container and it works well. The one thing I like about using a VM is it runs full Ubuntu with an init system, so it's easier to run daemons like Samba. My VM shares its home directory so I can mount it on the host and share files across the barrier (I've always found VM "shared folder" implementations flaky). Files are less an issue with Docker, but you might want to run other daemons within the context of your dev environment. The Docker "one executable per container" idiom really falls apart here, and requires you to hack around it.

To keep things fresh, I just have a couple bash scripts that I run (one for some system packages, one for dev tools, one for dotfiles) on a new Ubuntu VM every few months. I'm sure it would be trivial to automate this with vagrant to even further streamline it but it's been good enough for me.
I used the Muni app to buy fares; it demanded a US zip code, and crashed repeatedly.
Public transit sucks. In a lot of cases if I am with a friend I can get an Uber pool or express for the same price as public transportation. I might have to pay a small premium of 50 cents at times but the convenience is far better, and no transfers. Hell I can even use commuter benefits.
Visual notes on the new Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility) service
There are ways of expressing feeling in the Old English kennings that do not exist in the formal English of today.

An accusation that might be levied against any language vs another. Funnily enough I found Ms Livingstone's final para a rather good example of the sheer power of modern english to concisely link several concepts when wielded with precision.

That said, I rather like the sound of the freedom that is implied in her description of these kennings constructs. At the moment things like "banhaus" sound more like a slang term to me. Did OE (at some stage) have a separate word word for "body" or was bone-house it?
What I'm doing is essentially the same as `withUnsafeMutableBufferPointer`. However I didn't find a way to get concise abstractions using that approach.
A big part of the problem with doing it manually is the (perhaps irrational) fear that people will notice you're wearing makeup... What I find appealing about this device is that it can probably apply it in a very consistent way, day after day, that could be subtle enough to be completely undetectable.
Have you considered how, say, a recruiter might view your CV differently from someone just getting started?
I thought it was printing disembodied skin.
The Jetsons had this idea more than 50 years ago. :)
I love this idea, and because docker feels so much lighter than vagrant, and doesn't require virtualbox to be installed and updated (like vagrant did on windows when I used it). However on mac and windows, using docker means you're running in a VM.

I wonder if there's any plan on implementing the APIs that would allow docker server to run in WSL, thus abrogating the need for a VM? Edit: theres no evidence of any motion, but here's a uservoice for namespace, cgroups,etc support in WSL: https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-con...

Edit2: Actually it looks like docker support is being worked on: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/2291#issuecomment-43...
it's me. i'm the greater fool. (that's always the correct answer, btw. somehow it always turns out to be me.)
I personally have found nihilism useful because if nothing matters then I can do whatever I want as long as I can bear the consequences. It’s very freeing in that way.

When it comes to being afraid of the consequences, stoicism and negative visualisation helps a lot. What’s the worst that can happen? Oh I’ve been in that spot before, that’s not so bad.
Fed Chairman Powell says he is 'very worried' about growing amount of U.S. debt
I "get it," but I'm not sure this helps.
Not bad, but still plenty of "what the F are you doing" moments in there I think, and quite a few false stutters etc that would be quite annoying to other drivers.
Some of the PCB layer diagrams look pretty cool: https://www.imx6rex.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/OpenRex-L...

Anyone know why they are designed this way? Very wiggly traces.
Magnetic declination changes quite a lot as you travel the kind of distances that aircraft travel. Pilots would have to periodically adjust their declination while flying.

Declination is also not linear or varying only by latitude/longitude, but it also varies by area due to magma flows and iron deposits. Take a look at this map of global declinations for reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_Magnetic_Declinatio...
Also:

- maintainers are all on holidays, that PR is not getting touched this week
- the person who accepted that issue has not been active for a week, perhaps I can pick it up
- the person who accepted that issue is active today, maybe there will be a PR to review later! Check with them to see howmit’s going and maybe schedule some time tomorrow to review the PR

Heaps of use cases.
Compiz is certainly from the 2000s. I think I only managed to make it work on any computer of mine at the end of the decade, but people were all saying nice things about it since 2002-2003.

By 1997 I was able to get X running with xclock and xterm. Any other X application would freeze my computer due to sheer lack of CPU.
Hehe. We considered a nautical theme at one point but thought it was a bit overdone :-) (I’m a maintainer on rook)
Again, why does it matter that "at least it requires skill", if it's not for entertainment? And why is "overpowering" a problem? An overly powerful weapon just means that there's more chance of a one-shot kill on the animal, that minimizes suffering (especially from when wounded animals escape, and then slowly die).

If you mean the ability to take more game with a gun than with a bow, that is controlled by hunting licensing and game tags. Without tags and quotas, bow hunters would decimate animal populations just as well, through sheer numbers.
Yep. I've been running dual boot OSX/mint for some time and god the hardware has never been happy about it. Especially with regard to the GPU and multi-monitor support but I suspect also with regard to battery usage and other power issues. It always ran just cool enough that I did not do anything about how hot it was. The display issues cropped up so that I could at least anticipate when it would occur and try to minimize that. GPU computing... well these old macbook pros with Nvidia chips were dogs anyway. Would a windows laptop fair any better with Linux? Honestly asking because I really want a solid Linux laptop for HPC/computational engineering development but not sure what to do.
With a choice between C++ or Blueprints I doubt I'll ever be using Unreal. I might take a look at Godot one day.
See, I didn't mention Stranger Things because it's a bit of a special case. Joyce went crazy, so her eldest son had to step in.

(Of course, she actually wasn't crazy because her fantastical visions were real, this is a TV show, etc.)

Admittedly, we don't know what the son's role was like before Will went missing...
I tried Fedora Silverblue [0] with the release of Fedora 29.

It uses OSTree to manage state, and only allows mutability inside of the home directory and /var.

Overall I was very impressed. Another year or two of rounding out the typical use cases and it will make a fine immutable workstation.

[0] https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/
Impressive, but still plenty of "what the F are you doing" moments in there I think, and quite a few false stops/stutters etc that would be quite annoying to other drivers if not actually dangerous.

Eg there seems to be a habit of driving right up behind parked vehicles, stopping, moving out (and then hesitating in the other lane), etc, rather than just moving over to the other (clear) lane and proceeding.
How Dead Space's Scariest Scene Almost Killed the Game [video]
Cool to see.

I do something similar. My main account is @tmm (https://github.com/tmm) and my deprecated projects are in an org @tmm-archive (https://github.com/tmm). Also put my data science university work in an org @tmm-ms (https://github.com/tmm-ms).
Clipper cards work on SamTrans buses too.
It’s worth noting that NixOS and Qubes aim to solve very different problems. NixOS (and Nix itself) tries to improve package/dependency management, allowing for things like rolling back upgrades and flexibly using multiple versions of the same package. Qubes targets sandboxing of individual services/apps, with the goal of preventing lateral movement within an endpoint between applications.

NixOS doesn’t sandbox apps by default (obviously, the user could run all their apps using containers/VMs/etc, but the same is possible on other distorts).
Yes, because of NAT and needing to setup port forwarding, which most people won’t do.
I think it's a fairly common pattern by now, startup gets bought out, and then shut down a few years later. There is probably strategic reasons for doing things like this.. Even if it does screw over the customers of the startup.
That's your way of dealing with it, I also have that ability.

But not everyone does, nor can everyone learn it, people are unique and often incompatible with what works with other people in a way that cannot be changed.

You can't reasonably expect everyone to use the method that has worked for you, because your method is unique to you and in many cases is completely impossible to use for others, especially those with hard wired responses to trauma.
Good work! I've written something similar - an SSH server and X desktop (served up via a VNC server) in Docker. It's a reasonable base for building this sort of thing. You can build an image on top of it and throw in whatever GUI applications you need. It's a little light on documentation, but should make up for it by being fairly barebones.

https://github.com/dpedu/docker-desktop
Huh, I googled before and got the idea you had to get it by post or something. Looks like that’s outdated information.
I love seeing all the work and optimizations that get done on Postgres.

Very interesting.
The term "Old French" is probably as daft as "Old English" 8)

I recall my sister in law studied Occitan. Oh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_French - another rabbit hole to bookmark for spelunking.
Ultimately, if there's a disagreement over this, it would be the courts, since it's in the employment contract.
Or perhaps crypto has too many naive amateur opportunists, who can't compete - in either effectiveness or toxicity - with the established financial industries.
floppy disks what are those Kappa
TLDR: Use organisations as folders for repositories
Thanks.

yes the idea of long running daemons on the workstation seems at at odds with docker - something to get my head round I guess

As for more grammar ... aspell should be next addition to the Dockerfile
I started as a QA and made the jump to development simply because it's more difficult to get paid well and be taken seriously in QA. People perceive the job to be less important and require less skill (which isn't necessarily true), in my experience.
Same thing exists in Barbados. Vans that circle the country and pick you up if you’re on the side of the road. Flat cash cost. Super convenient.
It's possible on the West Coast, and actually probably easier to do in bigger cities. However you need to be particular about where you live and work, which usually involves paying more money. It also becomes much harder if you have a significant other and kids.
"Interestingly, I think the problems described in the article are entirely from the whole-hearted embrace of individualism that America has fallen into. There is not communal or collective effort at all;"

Totally agree. The every man for himself is a very harsh system to live in.
Typically those wiggles are for length matching on parallel busses. Since the signals are clocked at a high speed, ensuring all the bits arrive at the same time is crucial.
Great tool. Very simple and straightforward. Well done!
Or maybe the social security net was always atrocious, now it’s just a little bit less so.

(Not saying that’s necessarily the case, just that it could be)
Thank you. Nice to hear - I will keep hacking away at it
Problem is: The toy already won the robotics award and it was only withdraw later.

The conclusion that can be taken from your explanation is that CES have a bunch of robots experts in the judging team of a robotics contest and they could’t tell what is or isn’t a robot before awarding it a prize.

That’s even worse in my opinion. If I was them, I would rather stick with the accusation of sexism.
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Now I use Windows and MacOS, but immediately after leaving i3 I switched back to gnome.

I haven’t used a computer than ran gnome slowly in a long time, so that has something to do with it.
This is purely my own speculation informed by some Clayton Christiansen, but it's possible that someone at Ford sees Ford as a transportation company, not a car company. So the job to be done is moving people and things around. Ford also sponsors the Ford GoBikes that you see all over San Francisco. This could be seen as competing with the Ford the car company. Or it's just part of the portfolio of products from Ford the transportation company.

That kind of thinking could help them mitigate disruptive pressure, especially in markets like SF where driving is pretty awful, but so is transit.
Hey there! Author of the post here -- we sold leads for $1 but our cost was $.30 and completely outsourced so I didn't have to do it.
Might be interesting to pair this with something like Fedora Silverblue (read-only /usr managed using rpm-ostree) and fedora-toolbox.

http://silverblue.fedoraproject.org
https://github.com/debarshiray/fedora-toolbox/blob/master/fe...
What are the merits of memristors over solid state NAND and Intel optane technology?
How Radiohead Use Time Signatures
Very few of them are both legal and tangible.
So the only difference really is whether you have a HALT at the end of your main loop or not, I guess. (Well, and that you sometimes had to poll, because there isn't an interrupt for everything you're waiting for.)
This isn't necessarily different for game development, but it's different for Game Boy scale hardware, where there is no scheduler/kernel/OS/anything. You manually have to halt the hardware if you don't want the CPU to spin, and busy-loops were common on home computers & mains-powered consoles of the same era.
Functional programming is just another tool in your tool box. Worth learning the same way OO is worth learning.
Unity has a great asset store with a lot of reusable content (art, models, scripts, shaders, sounds) within their walled garden
That’s a position that’s sort of hard to argue against.