skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should be clear; there are actually multiple lines and multiple registers. It's just that no line corresponds to a specific register.

Imagine four lines arranged next to each other, at the head of eight registers arranged similarly to a self-checkout area. There will always be four people at the head of the lines. The first person in the first line gets to go, then the first person in the second line, then the first person in the third line, then the first person in the fourth line, and then it cycles back.

Because in practice it is extremely rare for four out of eight registers to simultaneously open up, the next person is always at the front of their line already, which avoids this particular travel distance problem.
I grew up in India so maybe the situation was different, but during summer vacation i would be practically out of my house from 7am to 9 pm ( apart from breakfast at 9am, lunch and then be at someone's home for a bit in afternoon) completely unsupervised. Lack of gameboys, mobile phones and playstations meant that even when we went to somebody else's place for a family dinner/lunch/get-together, all the kids would go outside and play on their own, again unsupervised.
My response was fairly civil until my last paragraph but I felt that emotional need to attack because I felt attacked. I kept it in there on purpose and I clearly am part of the problem here.

Today we had a white man kill a black man allegedly due to wanting to start a race war (I didn’t double check and media lies like crazy so might be misleading, but let’s assume it’s true). You have Breitbart and other far right rags basically baiting this. Inflaming racial tensions like crazy. Against blacks, Hispanics, and Asians via crime, illegal immigration, and h1b abuse. They take 3 legit problems and tie racial tensions to them to cause division and hatred.

The left which went off the deep end after Trump are doing the same thing demonizing white people, men, and the wealthy from legitimate problems of race, violence, and income inequality. You take these already serious problems and tie race divisions to them and you get the fringes to grow larger and the extremists to increase in number. More and more will do extremist things. I mean you have a poster here that doesn’t care about kids getting death threats and tries to defend it by mentioning unrelated issues and HN is way critical thinking than the average person.

There is no media or journalists, just propaganda and propagandaists.

I think Twitter is a huge problem that has really inflamed this.
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Do you also engage in silly power plays to put your doctor in his/her place and remind them that they are working for you? Maybe you can insist that they use a 10 year old stethoscope or you else you'll take your business elsewhere.
Hearing aid is medical device. That means lots of regulation, entire floor full of departments existing just to make sure things pass regulatory assessments. Remove those and the cost might come down significantly, but will be willing to do that?
> I dropped out of grad school today

Second post is the co-founder of Octopart. Not surprising, since they were funded by YC, but I'm glad things turned out well for Andres.

> ... I'm a shell of the personality I used to be. Basically, I had been languishing in school and had gotten comfortable with mediocrity.

I know this feeling.
How does it link work? Is it linked list?
Does this include Arstechnica?
My understanding is that just "using Realm Object Server" means using Realm Platform Self Hosted, which starts at $2000/year. The hosted Realm Platform starts at $30 month, but I've read you need to upgrade to a similarly expensive $1500-2000 enterprise plan if you want to access the data from non-mobile-Realm clients. That is to say, I'm very open to just using Realm Database on the client for local persistence, because it's free and really nice to use, but don't think Realm for sync is viable.

AWS AppSync looks like it's worth investigating, thanks!

Agreed a custom data layer/cache might be the way to go, I think it gets a bit more complex once you have a bunch of objects being edited and deleted, and I've also spent some time with iOS background networking in the past and I know it can be buggy/frustratingly non-deterministic, which is why I'm reluctant.
This is spot on, I've been using tfso or devops, brand of the month. I hate the New UI, its really clear that the people are focus on making something that doesn't need to be pretty, pretty at the expense of functionality.

For example, when you go to do a release and you of course want to do release notes, previously you could copy and paste the related issues output into any document.

Now its been CSSified to be big, bubbly, and utterly useless to do anything but look at, and there is no print or export feature.
Ok that still lands on the police force, as they're the one's to determine that a SWAT team is required.
No, never heard of this option, definitely going to check it out - thanks!
I think you may have misread? GP said that the XPS is inferior to the Carbon and that Macs were in a different category because of the OS and ecosystem and therefore not directly comparable.
We had a ~90% marginal rate in the 50s and 60s with a roaring economy.

I think 70% marginal at a much higher income stepping level even going back to what historically worked.
My mother has been mostly deaf her whole life. Just the introduction of Bluetooth in the hearing aid (10 years after it was mainstream) was life changing for her (being able to talk on the phone better, watching movies on her iPad, etc.). But god is the hardware freaking expensive.

Fixing this is my dream job.
Well, I was referring to what might happen, not what should happen. Regardless of how you or I feel about the subject, designer babies are pretty much inevitable.
Pretty sure in some neighborhoods (most?) that'll get picked up, cracked open and pillaged. And how many boxes can that thing even carry?
Also remember the case of Oscar Grant, killed by a BART cop who had a taser but used his pistol instead. One of the arguments in court was that he grabbed the wrong weapon in the heat of the moment.
First hand experience isn't needed to condemn the unnecessary murder of a completely innocent and terrified man. The police should not burst into the homes of innocent citizens and shoot them to death. Being scared is not a valid excuse.
> there's no reason you'll ever plug a device into a Mac and have it not work because the port isn't compatible

You can't transfer data between two Macs using USB-C to USB-C cable that comes as a charger...
That's not evidence, that's restating the claim with more words. (And different ones - your claim was about decent C. There are plenty of experienced C programmers who have been writing indecent C for decades.) Do you have any evidence of the claim?
The first section is just the swatter audio, but if you scroll down you'll see the police reporting on the aftermath.
I might be less judgmental if the police were ever willing to admit that they could have done anything differently.

IIRC, the victim in one swatting death was lying on the floor crying as two cops screamed contradictory orders at him, reached down to pull his pants up after crawling forward as instructed, and was shot dead. I might have been able to respect, at a bare minimum, a police response along the lines of "we need to review our procedures for this sort of situation." Instead the police chief gave a press conference about evil swatters and absolutely refused to accept any culpability at all.

As long as the cops keep ducking blame like a child with his hands over his ears, this shit is going to keep happening with every swatting.
That depends strongly on the work and the frequency.

The ACGME rules require only that a medical resident work no more than 24 continuous hours with at least a 14-hour break after a 24-hour shift. Many residency programs had difficulty adjusting their programs to comply with these rules when they went into effect in 2011.

My wife regularly works 24-hour ER shifts; and used to do 8-hour clinic shifts immediately after. There's another doctor in the same ER who usually works one or two 60-hour shifts per month.

Work in a small ER is bursty. You might see one or two patients with minor problems in a 24-hour shift, and get to sleep a full night. Or you might get woken up after 4 hours of sleep. Or you might get to take a series of 2 hour naps. Or you might not sleep.
The Plank scale (Grand Unification scale) comes from the simple dimensional analysis, that combines the gravitational constant with the Plank constant (and the speed of light). It doesn't not really depend on the details of a grand unified theory. It was fist calculated to be 10^19GeV in 1899 by Max Plank, well before any quantum field theory (well before quantum mechanics for that matter). Because it combines the Plank constant with the Gravitational constant, we know that it corresponds to the energy scale at which quantum phenomena unify with the gravitational phenomena. Currently the only theory that describes this unification is String theory, but as the op correctly noticed, it's far from any possible experimental confirmation.

I was at a seminar of Alexander Polyakov, one of the founders of string theory, who compared the string theory to the knowledge of Democritus about atoms. He said that even though the atomic theory of Democritus was essentially correct, it was about 2,000 years ahead of any possible experimental verification. In his opinion this is how long it will take us to verify our Grand unified theory experimentally.
Technically, in the US the police doesn't have to protect you (search "no duty to protect"). And "holding them accountable" much beyond the existing threshold will ensure they won't show up at all except to collect the body.
This has nothing to do with children playing outside together. I grew up in a sparse suburban area in the early 80s and kids played together all of the time. Scheduled after school activities were only a few times a week and usually only for older kids.
The https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh–Dole_Act strikes again!

Thank you.
He's saying that swatting only happens in America. Which is pretty much the case.
Hate to think a politician could be bought for a paltry amount like $5,000. I mean, should not be able to be bought at all, but $5,000... That's nothing.
I will say that there is a lot of pessimism in these threads which may be warranted, but it is good to see the judicial system beginning to take these people to task. Laws and regulations often move slower than we would like, especially when lives are at stake, but I remember years of this type of stuff going unpunished. This is a step in the right direction.
Of course not. It's just in other first world countries a regular police officer shows up first to assess any credible threat before further action is taken for a single anonymous call.
Good point.

I put the weights into a separate file.
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lonely AF.
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I really like the discussion this thread initiated. Are there places (websites/ forums) where such discussions are the most common ones, and they might do in details in the topics mentioned here?!
Is AR inherently vaporware? I've been very underwhelmed by both HoloDeck and MagicLeap. Is this basically a promise that can't be delivered?
It definitely depends on context, and possibly locality/dialect. I have heard (and used) "snatch", "snag", "grab", and "steal" here quite often.
It’s interesting that all the grocery stores with automated checkouts I’ve been to have single lines for multiple automated checkouts, but multiple lines/single servers for human checkouts.
tasty.co's footer says "A BuzzFeed Brand". BuzzFeed Video's Shows list still lists Try Guys.
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No it wasn't. They said it "wasn't accurate" but declined to specify. Most people seem to think this means there are inaccuracies to the story, but the overall thrust of the piece is still true.
They are resource intensive because they prioritize feature completeness over being sleek and lightweight. That's the correct thing to prioritize because, because extra RAM is dirt cheap compared to benefit of higher developer productivity.
As a side note, not a .net pro, but I wish you came from a delphi background where component properties are searchable by focusing on a property input and pressing tab to go into name search mode instead of scrolling around. It feels like the feature was cut from VS and properties were sorted by name instead.
swautistic is the most fitting name of the bunch.
A SWAT team is a heavily armed killsquad. I think conspiracy to murder is pretty apt.
If you're ever in downtown San Francisco, half the TJ store is the line when it's a little crowded!

It's absurd. Works pretty well though!
Comparing these two types of hearing aids is similar to comparing a magnifying glass with normal glasses.

A magnifying glass might do the job good enough, and I know people who decided to not buy glasses but just use a magnifying glass to read.
Has that happened, often?

This feels like the "We have to be allowed to torture terror suspects, because what if there's a bomb set to go off in an hour and the suspect won't reveal its location unless we torture him" argument. This kind of policy needs to be based on history, not hypotheticals.
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I totally agree, I am a developer too but their offering is outrageously expansive.
Depends on how far West, and which parts. A lot of Nevada is publicly-accessible, for example.
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My dad often says: "you'd be surprised how cheaply people will sell themselves for." I have found this to be true over and over again.
Regarding migrations, one clarification.

American society so far has demonstrated a tendency to alternate between mass migrations coming in from abroad, and mass internal migrations.

The last great internal migration was the 1940’s to 1970’s as cars and highways became widespread.

The period of mass migration from abroad coming in happens in the mid 70’s with significant events being Vietnamese refugees in 1975 and Iranian refugees in 1979. The end of the Cold War meant the stopping of US support to many anti-communist dictators which also increased these numbers. I believe though it was a change in the immigration law in 1965 that made this possible, which reversed the quotas put in place in the mid 1920’s and established family unification as a priority.

With that all being said though, it seems that mass migration from abroad has become more controlversial in the US, and perhaps we are entering the next great age of internal migrations.
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> I’m sure this individual was a very bright person pre 2016, but the collective 30 point iq drop seems to have had an unequal effect, harming some more than others as clearly demonstrated here.

Do not do this on HN.
This data is not difficult to find at all. It's listed in the details section for every frame. You can also use it as a filter when browsing. Their stock at this size is really limited, however.

https://www.zennioptical.com/b/record.type-frame/_/N-1101494...
That Pulitzer winner is Anthony Cormier, the author of the “bombshell” story Mueller said was false. Either the Pulitzeris not all it’s cracked up to be or Buzzfeed selects the worst - likely both.
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> intentionally allowed the Blippar to fall into this state of shambles so

To take this as a strategy you'd have to assume none of the other investors nor anyone else would out bid you. It wouldn't make a lot of sense. Throw away an X% stake in something in order to bid on a 100% stake in it in bankrupcy court?

If you had some kind of secret knowledge that none of the other original investors had and that you knew wouldn't be disclosed in the auction I guess it could work.
Why should any individual have any say in where their money goes?

Democracy means majority rules ;)
Google's initial investors included the CIA (InQTel). The internet itself was a defense (DARPA) project. The Bell Labs work on the transistor emerged from war-time efforts to produce extremely pure germanium "crystal" mixer diodes, used in radar units.

I can go on and on about the inventions spawned by defense funding. Silicon valley itself owes its existence to Northrop Grumman and their ilk, who were early tech employers seeding Intel, Xerox, HP, Apple, with crucial tech talent.

Today's tech aversion to defense agencies is one of the most paradoxical philosophies to ever exist. Instead of demanding more accountability from defense agencies, they outright refuse to sell/engage with the very people providing national security, and hence allowing a civilized society with a stable government to exist.
I hired a few ghostwriters from Upwork to write short semi-technical whitepapers and the results were extremely disappointing. Even American writers with impressive resumes and multiple 5-star recommendations, who charged a hefty hourly rate (which I would have been delighted to pay them, over and over, if they'd been any good), produced completely unacceptable garbage, despite being provided with detailed outlines and extensive guidance.

I don't know whether my experience is relevant, but there it is.
... which is presumably at least one reason you’re not a prosecutor
Yep, there’s video. A Google search will turn it up.
I can only assume windows people are used to pain
Nero fiddled while Rome burned. I’m convinced that he did so, because he got real joy out of watching Rome burn.

Trump sure likes to fiddle a lot.
Alternatively, perhaps this is the source of wage stagnation. We doubled the labor pool but did not necessarily double consumption.
Well that's a pretty snarky response but it is also devoid of substance.
sure. Maybe it's impossible to operate so thinly on admin and engineering. But it'd be a really revolutionary way to operate a news organization: put it towards the people who gather news and budget appropriately for it. The listicles and reaggregations they've popularized have been the worst things about modern journalism.
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Nearly all suburban developments I've seen that were built within my lifetime have had plenty of sidewalks and signalled (sometimes even stoplighted!) crosswalks. The exceptions are old rural roads that became suddenly suburban when they got surrounded by housing developments, but the developments themselves always had plenty of sidewalks, and quite a few of the roads in my hometown of Elk Grove have sidewalks even when they didn't before (though sometimes with gaps, admittedly).

I've spent nearly all my life in (Northern) California and Nevada, though, so YMMV elsewhere.
Not for contact lenses (16 CFR 315.5):

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>Yes it is, but you aren't going to solve it without rolling back women's rights.

The economic pressure to work to support your family is not what I would call a right, but a modern requirement (of both men and women). If anything, this is an advancement of an employers right to extract cheap labor while maintaining a moral high ground in the name of equality and phony, corporate backed, dollars-and-cents egalitarianism.

>It was bad when we as a society told women they're not allowed to work.

To be clear I agree, and, upon further inspection, so do you: :-)

>Now women have to work just to be able to afford a house on two incomes which previously cost only one.

Posting anyway because maybe there's something to be said about the choice of words ('rights' to work) here, which should perhaps be considered for rephrasing en masse (as I'm sure you're aware, but was not explicitly said).
It's available in your profile if you browse to it on a computer. The apps and mobile web does not have these setting. The profile settings are global.
This is news itself to me. If they're actually two separate organizations, are they really operating independently? If they rebranded, I'll eventually find out and find it suspicious they changed names.
It might be a SF thing or downtown thing, where there isn’t room for multiple lines.
I'm sorry but this is BS through and through. I grew up in a very small town with, by today's standards, very little with regard to what was available to entertain us. My friends and I always had things to do. Kids want to be outside, play outdoor games and pretend outdoors. It's the parents that mess it up by assuming there's nothing for them and then by also being overprotective and limiting the ability to explore. Growing up during my summers off my Mother and Father worked during the day. Starting around age 10 I was trusted with the responsibility of maintaining myself as well as household tasks. The reality was >90% of my parentless time was free. And I was always doing something. Most of the time it was friends self-organizing and the rare (for me) structured outing with the local town's rec center.

As a parent now I encourage free and outdoor play whenever possible. Winter, summer - doesn't matter. They love being outside and self-organize. Sure they're young enough still to want help with setting up games from time to time, but it's crazy how much imagination and natural inquisitive nature is in them. Parents overcommit kids today. Play is work now. And work sucks as a kid. Don't do that.

But the premise that communities are gone because parents aren't around isn't founded in anything but an assumption and is wildly inaccurate in my daily life.
He of all people has very little moral high ground for statements like this.
>though we're working on this now

beetlejuice,beetlejuice,BEETLEJUICE!
That's why I use Apple mobile devices only -- They don't let apps demand permissions they don't need. Most people I know are the same way.
I appreciate this perspective, I definitely hadn’t considered all of the ways a hostage situation can arise.

A very quick Googling turned up an article that said that 85-90% of hostage situations are resolved nonviolently.

Another article said that police in the US receive something like 100,000,000 non-emergency calls (including pranks calls) in a year, so we’re probably talking at least tens of thousands of prank calls (not just swatting though, obviously).

Based on admittedly sensational news stories, violence seems to happen more often when people get swatted than it should and it doesn’t seem silly to think that overreacting to elaborate prank calls isn’t capable of causing harm that’s greater than the harm caused by underreacting to real calls.
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