skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a fair question, because we weigh our decisions with risk. I deem that eating a burrito from chipotle with a low risk, but there is a chance, however small, that I can die. But it's still such a small chance that I consider the risk worth the reward of the tasty Chipotle burrito.

My wife and I, for example, won't leave our cats with a company, or even someone the vet knows. We would rather buy an automated cat food dispenser and have a live video feed to make sure it works. We've done that for 2 very short trips away. We're not parents but for us, things like Day care, school (at all - we would have homeschooled), babysitters would have all been out. The risk would be too high for us.

However all that said Wag didn't do the right thing here.
> Setup a Raspberry Pi git server

For the love of $DEITY, please at least use an external USB disk. In RAID1, if possible. (Perhaps some multi-RPI git mirroring scheme could work as well? Anyone ever done something like that?)

Do not EVER trust your valuable data on SD-cards on a Raspberry Pi!
The arpa-e SENSOR [1] program is working on several technologies for people counting for sake of doing Demand Controlled Ventilation (DCV)[2]. People counting is part of the ASHRAE 62.1 calculation [3] for demand controlled ventilation. Also, simple N>0 occupancy counting is useful for home HVAC system setbacks.

I sat in an ASHRAE technical session presentation the other day about the program. All of the technology goals intend for the people count results to be anonymous, and for the technology to be "open source."

Cost goals are <$0.06/ft^2 for residential and <0.08$/ft^2 for commercial systems.

[1] https://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=programs/sensor

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_controlled_ventilation

[3] https://ashrae.iwrapper.com/ViewOnline/Standard_62.1-2016
I've Rasp Pi + alpha card + 50K mah powerbank as my router, which creates 3 APs, one with Tor other with work VPN and last with my home connection.

All use cloudflare dns+ pi hole to block ads.

I use another PI as a media server and for remote torrent downloading.
It's almost like people with an agenda have come here to comment. The GP blames the driver and another blames the dog. Without knowing any details. This is very fishy.
Memory palace (method of loci)
"Might" react. If it reacts in the total opposite way then what? Constrain lead to 20cm, full muzzle, sedate the dog incase it's brute power is too much in a unexpected moment of madness.
I would think that this is more a cultural thing. Evite seems US-focused or at the very least English-only. While I use FB in English, I know most of my friends use it in German.
Which is why the post you replied to is suggesting "a few thousand" competent people in these slots for 282 ships.

The question isn't why one person is asleep, it's why there's nobody filling the role.
I feel real good about my Fossil Sport :)

Impressive to see Google's aggressive push into the hardware market. Here's to hoping that a Pixel watch is good enough to set a bench mark like what the Nexus/Pixel phones have done.
Novichok nerve agents may be added to Chemical Weapons Convention
> vehemently against social media monitoring by government agencies and warrantless wiretaps

Does reading publicly published information constitute wiretapping?

> we’ve seen plenty of anecdotes where concerning public postings were pointed out to authorities and nothing was done

This is what I'm getting at-- responding to obviously-troubling social media posts seems entirely reasonable after the fact. Perhaps it is? But at the same time it carries an implication of law enforcement pre-emptively acting based on the content of public speech, which has its own worrying implications, as evidenced by the examples in the article.

Earnest question: What's the legal boundary in other circumstances? Can/should law enforcement take action if a person uses a megaphone in the town square to announce they're going to use their AR-15 to kill all the $x people? If they published an op-ed in the local newspaper to the same effect? (If yes, how is facebook/twitter different from a town square / op-ed column?)
>In the Netherlands you may get a house visit from the police if you tweet critical of the town mayor or tweet about protests (of course, they label it "threats" and "inciting civil unrest")

Do you have citations for this? I never heard of that (I have relatives in the Netherlands). I assume this would land rather quickly at the ECHR.
IDEA really is a polyglot environment.

In my side project, there are the following technologies - all of which I use, completely seamlessly, in a single multi-module Gradle project:

Infrastructure

* Groovy - Gradle - core plugin - with specific, comprehensive support for both editing and running Gradle scripts

* HCL - Terraform - 3rd party plugin - specific support for editing and launching
shell script - Bash - 3rd party plugin - specific support for editing and launching

* dockerfile - Docker - 1st party plugin - specific support for editing and launching and managing local docker containers for development

Code

* SQL - postgres - core plugin - including comprehensive support of PG features, editing SQL, running SQL and viewing DB structures

* Java - Spring - core plugin - obviously, comprehensive support for editing, debugging, launching

* Typescript - react front end - core plugin - specific support for editing Typescript and running Node.JS for local development, including step-debugging Typescript in the browser from within the IDE, comprehensive support for JSX/TSX too

* Typescript - AWS Lambda - 1st party plugin - only basic language level support, no real support for the lambda concept built-in to IDEA yet, but I've no doubt it's coming

* HTML - raw - 1st party plugin - I dunno much about this TBH, I just exported a blob of HTML from Weebly and when I need to fiddle with it, IDEA's got my back

Testing

* Scala - Gatling - 1st party plugin - specific support for editing and running/debugging Scala

* Groovy - Spock/Junit - core plugin - with specific support for editing and running Spock constructs

Ironically, I initially forgot to put Java on this list >.<
If the cost of the tool is within the budget of the tradesman or professional, it's more common to buy it out of personal preference for a type or brand of tool.

If no part of your toolset is within your budget, then you're in the working class, since you cannot ever own your own means of production.
Ask HN: How to profit from my last $1500 AWS credits?
hello I got $5k AWS credits through stripe Atlas 2 years ago. my last $1,500 expires at the end of this month. how can I best spend this in the next 2 weeks to turn it into passive income? I'm looking for some sort of micro startup ideas or side project that I can do.
It is no harmful effect in families without problems. Meaning, parents in those studies observe kids and intervene when there is problem. Which makes kid ok, but also makes parent more resentful toward games and screen time.

If parent had to spend a lot of time arguing with kid and removing device etc after seeing kid behaving in worst ways, the parent will talk about bad effects of gaming without there being actual long term impact on kid. Because it took additional effort to counteract it.

Also, studies are about whether kids become more aggressive in long term. Parental annoyance of often about kids becoming harder to deal with, less capable to communicate or more jerk right now.
You're right, but maybe that's the point? You're excluding people who are just desperate for money but keeping the people who want to build (or already own) a pet care business.
Death on Demand: Has Euthenasia Gone Too Far?
What does that have to do with what I said though? Illegal immigration is a separate issue from what I understand. This is about dealing with the humanitarian crisis associated with a porous border.

Regardless how what percentage of people come via visa overstay or not, and regardless of what officials say when asked about solving an illegal immigration issue, the bottom line is that the area is so incredibly dangerous because gangs and criminals prey on anyone who attempts the trip and has the misfortune of encountering them. Over the years, it's quite likely that thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of victims of violence have been created purely because they make this dangerous trip. Why not put an end to this violence once and for all? They would not make this trip anymore if there was no simple way to cross the border.
But the system already exists. Any company that thinks people care about global warming can start a global-warming related activities and people would support them. Any company that wants to reduce homelessness can start doing something about that, and if people think they are doing it right, they have ways to support this company, both by direct donations and by buying more of their products or services. Why any other system is necessary?
Sure, but they missed their window to launch a new product category, and will be trying to compete with Android and its giant app library on day one.
Great reasons, thanks!
Just an explanation on why there isn't much games on an AS/400
I build an electric guitar from 1200 colored pencils
That's a weird way of spelling "Use a reasonable leash length for your distance from traffic."
Thank you, hn and mbellotti. I was getting ready to learn tla+ but IDE seemed like impenetrable wall to me.
Why is CSIRO, a well-regarded Australian Government research organization, doing this? For some rich collector?

Making duplicates of broken or worn out parts is a standard industrial operation. Here's a laser scanning service that measures out parts.[1] Here's a mechanical coordinate measuring machine measuring out an engine block.[2]

Here's a Kuka industrial robot machining a sand mold for a one-off job.[3] That's somewhat unusual, because you only get one part per sand mold.

If you're making more than one, you first make a pattern, usually from wood, that's then packed with sand. Then you remove the pattern and pour in hot metal. The pattern has to be adjusted in size a bit to compensate for shrinkage as the metal cools. Standard foundry practice, centuries old. After casting, you do some finish machining on the surfaces that matter, and leave the rest as cast.

There's commercial software for all this. Autodesk Moldflow, for example. This is not an R&D project. It's the sort of thing someone would do in a good manufacturing technology 2-year degree program. I've seen people do this kind of thing at TechShop, although in a smaller scale than an engine block.

[1] http://www.dirdim.com/serv_replication.htm
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oiDK864Agk
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjMNKYAYdFE
Like Microsoft buying Nokia?
The law is not super relevant to whether or not dog owners trust your dog walking service. Wag should probably be trying to go well above what they're legally obligated to do in this situation.
My experience in the navy was the opposite: Ships were typically crewed with about 1.5X the number of sailors that were actually needed.

I always suspected this was partly because lots of sailors means a big navy base, and a big navy base means a booming local economy in that congressional district.
I agree! The latency improvement is the interesting one, but honestly LTE latency is already pretty good.

I wish there were more efforts behind IOT support, by way of lower-frequency bandwidth and low-energy radios, maybe even restricted to a simple messaging protocol. That would open up so many new applications!
You failed to mention free refills on Soda.
Govt to Give Final Approval for FAME II Scheme by March
Judge unseals trove of internal Facebook documents from 2012 legal action
Yes. Also this

> Sara and I will welcoming a new puppy from the same breeder in February—Rory

Just go and get one from a shelter instead of encouraging animal breeding which is an unethical practice [0]

[0] https://www.peta.org/issues/animal-companion-issues/pet-trad...
Its impossible to insure "employees" when said "employees" are not licensed to operate a motor vehicle.
Motorola Razr flip phone is reportedly getting reinvented with a foldable screen
This article is from 2016. We are in 2019, I'm curious what happened to the author, did he eventually found a job? switched career?
I don't see many MacOS-specific developer tools in general. Command line tools are portable, at least between Unices, and often even beyond that. Going back to the MPW...

Nowadays even IDEs aren't platform-specific anymore, more often than not.
They dropped the dog off at someone else's place, it wasn't a house sitting.
I think for this to be feasible, a project would need to maintain firm to strict discipline about testing and versioning. Let me expand on that.

When an issue comes in, once verified, a test that reproduces the unwanted/unexpected behavior is attached to the issue. This lets both the reporter and dev prove the issue exists, and lets the dev trigger the behavior on-demand to aid in his troubleshooting efforts. Then, once the issue is fixed, the test proves it. Afterward, that test should go into the regression test suite that gets run before each release to make sure it doesn't come back.

When the fix is released, it ideally would be released only in a bugfix release, bumping only the patch version number a al SemVer, and not wrapped up in a feature release. It should be a lot easier to get a patch release prioritized through testing, staging, UAT, and finally into production when the version number tells you that the bugfix was the only thing that has changed, and the test suite can prove that.

Coming back from fantasy land to reality there's other things that would have to happen to make this feasible, but it's well past bed o'clock for me. I'll try to remember to post an additional reply later this morning.
Japan essentially turned itself into a Western level society in 40 years. Meteoric post-war recovery, climaxing in a shift from manufacturing and agriculture to softer work like software and finance. Property costs started to spike. Debts become silly. And when everybody starts to default after a small economic contraction, banks start going out of business. Economy crumbles. Sound familiar?

China has the numbers and control in a way Japan never did.

Their growth has been slower and in that time, the West, China's market, has all but ceased manufacturing.

China owns (almost quite literally) poorer countries in Africa. They sponsor mining infrastructure, they buy mines and they have a local workforce that will turn up for bread.

If China ever develops a substantial middle class (as the West and Japan did) they can shift their manufacturing to another country they have control. They still own all the natural resources, they just need people (or tech) to build it all.

They don't just own Africa, they underwrite huge national debts. They've started selling these to other cash-rich countries.

China is controlled. They want more agriculture, they say so. They want to avoid explosive growth, they implement a one child policy.

I'll sure something could trip them up, but they have exit routes for most major historical economic issues. And totalitarian control as gravy.
So... like... what happened, exactly?

It sounds astonishing, but I can't make heads or tails of it. Rosemberg and his team managed to add new letters ("letters") to DNA encoding, and that allows them to make new proteins... how? Did they make new kinds of acid bases for these proteins – the kinds that don't exist in nature? Is that not an even more astonishing achievement?

I'm way out of my depth here, but I'm also intensely curious about anything related to genetic engineering. Could someone explain this to me?
"It's Your Ship"[1] is more directly applicable. That's by a captain who turned around a troubled US Navy surface warship.

I'm amazed that serving naval officers flunked a quiz on the Rules of the Road, and even more amazed that the XO of the ship refused to take such a quiz. That's so basic. It's the driver's handbook for ships. See rules 11-19, which are about How Not To Run Into Other Ships. These are simple right of way rules. There's a one-page summary in "Power Boating for Dummies."[3] That anyone on the bridge of a US Navy vessel would not know these is terrifying. That the Navy brass tried to cover that up is worse.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Its-Your-Ship-Management-Techniques-e...

[2] https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pdf/navRules/navrules.pdf

[3] https://www.dummies.com/sports/following-right-of-way-boatin...
This is one of many projects that Lab22 is working on to further develop 3d scanning and manufacturing processes. Amongst other things, there's:

- 3D printed medical implants: https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/MF/Areas/Metals/Lab22/Titan...

- 3D printed jet turbines: https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/MF/Areas/Metals/Lab22/3D-pr...

- Oventus's new sleep apnea device: https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/MF/Areas/Metals/Lab22/Mouth...

And lots of other stuff. I'm working on a branding project for one of Lab22's projects, and thought I'd share this because it was semi-interesting.
Family has a dog.
Family's dog needed a walk.
There is a dog walking service called Wag.
Family hires unidentified walker through Wag.
Dog dies.
Wag doesn't care and doesn't want to be held accountable.
Family announces incident on Facebook.

First world problems.
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@Dang, I'm noticing a lot of old HN accounts created a long time with very low karma making these very trollish comments, I'm guessing these are credentials stolen from the latest data breach.
I agree with this, it's an obvious train wreck. Dog walkers have to be known and trusted. Our neighbors suspected something was wrong with their dog walker because their dog was suddenly really antsy when they got home and always acted up. They put in a hidden nanny cam and turned out the dog walker was coming over, hanging out on their couch texting and watching TV and never actually took the dog out. Poor thing.

Then in SF another dog walker got busted for driving around picking up all her dogs, but leaving them inside her dog walking van while she went shopping at the mall instead of walking the dogs.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Incident-with-Dog-Walk...

It's so hard to trust anyone to actually take care of your dog, why automatically dilute to a gig economy with no oversight where just get any rando with a record who can buy a fake Wag account on reddit for their burner phone.

This is why we bring our dog to a doggy daycare where we can watch him play on webcams all day. But even that's not 100% safe, the workers could be not watching, or whatever.

It's just like eldercare. If you want to be sure it's done properly you basically have to do it yourself.
It’s amateur hour if being on the company LAN means anything more than being on Starbucks WiFi.
> Have you considered the dog was at fault?

Mate... It's a dog, we are the care-takers. Even if a dog is messed up in the head and bites people, it's probably been influenced by its' environment - people.

If we want to have cool pets, we have got to take responsibility.
> so one of the things not really covered here is how to deal with SD card failure.

I recommend a program like win32diskimager (https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/) so you can make images of your SD cards in their working state and if they get corrupted quickly get them back to working order.

> However having any important data living on a pi's SD card is a nono

That is why I wrote a script using the Fabric Python module to log in to my rpi3 and download important files. Ideally the script would run automatically every day but I haven't quite gotten there yet.
I imagine $30k to be cheap for a bomb dog. Service dogs with the bare minimum of tasks (2 + a general training) for people with disabilities go for $15k+ trained.
Is there any data about the better economics of 5G and 4/4.5G?

And further more - with people generally not needing more data, and not willing to pay more, why would wireless carriers bother ?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1368

18 U.S. Code § 1368 - Harming animals used in law enforcement

(a) Whoever willfully and maliciously harms any police animal, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be fined under this title and imprisoned not more than 1 year. If the offense permanently disables or disfigures the animal, or causes serious bodily injury to or the death of the animal, the maximum term of imprisonment shall be 10 years.
Thought experiment: If you see problems with many customers, why don't you fund yourself or someone else to do the work? It would obviously save you time and energy dealing with each of the companies, and you could use that as a way to officially associate your company with the project. This is a similar calculation that happens with every one of your customers and every other company.

If you want a model that works, build your own open source projects or paid components around Apache Big Data. It's in your company name anyway .. open core, and it's a model employed by many companies like Sidekiq
Tech companies are valued based on future potential and as future becomes present, that potential is replaced by a reality that is often much less grand.

Netflix is a great example. It went from having a large library because the producers were its friends, to entering production itself, and alienating its former partners. Now, they have to offset investment into production with higher subscription fees which in turn reduces future potential. Netflix in 2015 is significantly more disruptive than that of 2019, which is just another HBO, and increasingly will be valued like HBO (Time Warner).

"Tech" here is actually just infrastructure; it's table stakes and not interesting at all.
> and I'd feel my life diminished if I didn't have them

That's a bit drastic. You would probably see a few of them more, and a few of them less. People managed relationships just fine before facebook.

Also events will still get to you though the contacts you do keep, did you know so&so got married, etc. People love sharing information (or gossip).

I get the fear, I faced it myself but in my case deleting FB, improved my life.

I do use whatsapp though.
Is this some joke about breaking the back button?
This animation by McKinsey shows a number of different paths for urbanization. There are many neuanced models, but they commonly divide into "supercities", "hub and spoke" and "distributed growth". https://www.mckinsey.com/tools/Wrappers/Redesign/Interactive... Quote from a related 2009 report called "Preparing for China's Urban Billion": "China's current urbanization path will show a pronounced expansion in the number of midsized cities across the country. Although China today has two megacities [Shanghai and Beijing] and a number of prominent hub-and-spoke systems [...] many midsized cities are growing in parallel and will become more and more relevant in the national landscape."

Now, I haven't done any close reading on this for the past few years, but back in 2014 or so the consensus among China-watchers was that the government both in policy and in action had clearly staked a path somewhere between the "hub and spoke" and "distributed growth" models. The high speed rail network is an important part of this, creating economic hot spots along the path between existing supercities. In fact, in the intervening time they have disincentivized further growth of Shanghai and Beijing, and is creating a new administrative city south of Beijing and west of Tianjin rather than expanding each of those two supercities.

I have no idea what empty megacities you're referring to...
@anonfunction thank you for the library, I'm using it for keeping stats on the real-estate market in Romania.
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World's oldest periodic table chart found in St Andrews
If someone bought the company for a pittance just for the branding then it is something to worry about. Compare to a seller account on ebay; they're definitely nowhere near an employee but it would still be bad to disconnect reputation from the actual actor that got the reputation.