skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bed is the ground below the glacier. In this case, it is below the sea level. The glacier is thick, so there are parts where it is not floating, but actually lying on the sea floor. (You can probably imagine what happens if you put a lot of ice in a shallow pool.)

Because the glacier is thick (non-Newtonian fluid btw! this means it will change it's 'liquidity' if you put stress on it.) it will flow outward. At some point it will be thin enough and/or the sea floor deep enough that it can float on the sea water. The place where that happens is important, because floating ice displaces water, so it will not raise the sea level anymore if it melts (which is why we're not too worried about the Arctic ice melting, at least with concern to sea level rise). This place, or rather line since it is a 3D glacier, is the grounding line.

In general, flux is the amount of something flowing through a set point or line. (e.g. If you stand next to a river, the flux is the total amount of water passing you in, say, a minute.) In this case, we watch the flow of ice through the grounding line. The velocity of it should be constant, so the same speed always, because the ice is flowing from the center and is pushing constantly.

This means that if the ice is thicker there, you get more flow because a higher amount of ice can pass at the same time. (Imagine a river with the same water speed but twice the depth - more water passing by.) The ice flowing into the sea breaks of or melts and is thus lost to the glacier. So if the grounding line is in deeper water, there will be more ice mass lost over the same time period.

Normally you'd expect the sea to get deeper the farther you get away from the glacier. In some cases, and quite often in West Antarctica, this is actually not the case. The further you get 'inland', the deeper the sea gets. (Still covered fully in ice that is lying on the sea floor/bed.)

This is an unstable situation. When more ice is lost at the front due to melting etc, and the place where the glacier still lies on the sea floor (grounding line) retreats a little, at this place the glacier will now be thicker than before (same height at the top + lower ground = 'deeper river').

The ice speed stays the same, so now we lose more ice at the grounding line. This makes the ice thinner at the edge (because more ice is lost than before). If it gets thinner it can float more easily, and the grounding line goes back a little. This is a run-away process until we reach an area where the sea does not get deeper anymore.

Does this help?
The conspiracy theory going around is:

The “Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act” included in the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2017 that Obama signed.

It expired Dec 2018.

$160 million / 2 years / 1000 journalists laid off. Comes out to $80K annual salary & benefits. Coincidence?

It's true it expired at the same time as the layoffs, it's true it was $160 million, it's true the stated goal was to combat "fakenews" (who even can say what this is anymore!), but it's probably a leap to say this was funding places like Buzzfeed, HuffPost, and others that have ridden the fakenews line themselves.

edit: LOL you know it's not my conspiracy theory right :D
Does an L3 or L4 at google in the valley make $300k/year? That seems way above normal based on those salary spreadsheets that leaked.
The Data Diagnostic Viewer lets you view telemetry and diagnostic data sent to Microsoft:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/diagnostic-data-viewer/9n8...

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/01/24/micro...
I would assume, that i would have a 'toolbox' like any handyman but for it stuff.

I like the idea very much of switching input/output and using it for that (had often enough once in a year experience with this issue) but i can also just carry a lcd display with me. I would also make sure that my customer sites are in a state of ready.

Like having a display close by or keyboard.
I wouldn't call G Suite a "joke", but I have to second the sentiment. For example, Google Slide still doesn't let you adjust the size of the arrowhead of a connecting line: it's tied to the line width.

And this is one of countless random things I could do with PowerPoint 15 years ago, when I was drawing slides for a freaking CS conference.
At least it needs better error handling. A "not found" and "cannot resolve domain name" should behave differently.
Most things that are satire are also false.
Good resources for distributed systems design: a Twitter thread
but then you don't learn as much in terms of development... its fine if you just want to run a business but at the end of the day if you aren't spending a lot of time in the weeds of things then you aren't going to gain that domain expertise. of course, you can take this too far and then end up doing too much nonsense devops instead of actually developing new software, but still - outsource too much and you don't really learn as much.
Right but if there's a family then the tax line item is drastically lower. Like 28% effective, not 42% effective.
Right! Each self-driving car replaces how many other cars on the road? Look at regions where only cabs are allowed - they don't park much either - and congestion goes down. There are solutions.
Can you please not take HN threads on flamewar tangents? This is a major one. The problem is that the few hottest/angriest topics have most of the mass and eventually suck everything else into their field.
Just as a computer tomography image is just a stack of 2D images, but can be taken a lot faster because the tomography machine and its software (sort-of) take all those images in parallel, this machine is just like a 3D printer that hardens the resin one layer at a time, but a lot faster because it prints all the layers at the same time.

Continuously illuminating the entire volume means you also illuminate parts that should stay liquid, but you prevent over-illuminating those parts by illum8nating from a lot of different directions, just as a CT image can see transparent parts of a volume that are hidden by more opaque parts in some views.

Another advantage I see is that this doesn’t need a start-stop motion that lifts the object being constructed by a layer at a time or that raises the surface of the liquid by the thickness of one layer, something that, AFAIK (I don’t followed developments closely, so I may not know much) the traditional printers need because they only can print at the air/liquid surface. Smooth continuous motion is easier to build and faster.
What’s a Library to Do? On Homelessness and Public Spaces (2017)
>How would you go about validating a product at such an early stage though? For example, what could have told you that no one had an interest in an API like Zestful?

I wrote a blog post last year[0] about what I think I should have done differently to validate it sooner but the tl;dr was that I think I could have pitched it to potential customers before I built anything. I imagine a lot of them could have told me off the bat that they wouldn't be interested. But even if I didn't do that, I spent way too long making a demo site even though the API marketplace I was using had its own (I just didn't like theirs).

>There is actually an extremely similar service that does have a business use case: https://dialogflow.com/ (from your past employer)

I've never tried DialogFlow for recipe ingredients, but I'd be very surprised if it could match Zestful in accuracy. I'm using NLP too, but recipe ingredients are so niche and specialized.

But their business is general-purpose NLP. I couldn't achieve that and I definitely wouldn't be able to compete with Google on that battlefield.

[0]: https://mtlynch.io/shipping-too-late/
200 comments last week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18997302
Weird. That is what I was gonna reply to YOUR comment.
Sure you could live your life with the perception that you're not participating in those features of modern society, but that won't stop those same "features" from acting on you. Or do you think Google will stop prying and respect your "Right to be Forgotten" when you recede into the jungle?
Wow, that sounds horrifying. Didn't know that you have been affected by this personally.

Police officers shouldn't even get close to planting drugs or stealing money. They are there to enforce the law and not to break it. Hopefully body-cams will get some of them discharged/behind bars and the others to stop doing this.
I'm pretty skeptical of your claim there. I'm happy to admit I'm wrong if that's truly the case, but let's see some reputable references that backs that up first. I haven't been able to find anything that substantiates that claim.
So you're insisting that other cultures eat your fermented food as a standalone dish instead of as an ingredient, even after someone (me) pointed out how often that strategy fails?

Oh boy.
Came here to mention that same article. The more important point, to my view, is that the DNA we shed doesn't necessarily stay put.

DNA transference, law enforcement access to large DNA databases, familial matching, and advances in extracting DNA from trace samples make for a scary combination. Lukis Anderson was damned lucky that the person who inadvertently transferred his DNA to a crime scene could be identified.
Location: Austria, but I born in Latvia, actually Russian, and my nickname is "Swede".

Remote: Yes, please.

Willing to relocate: Doubt so, I'm a bit fat. But in some circumstances I can roll.

Technologies: Currently AWS/NodeJS and lot of unused now stuff accumulated for 20+ years of experience. All that in resume.

Résumé/CV: on request.

Email: edd0dfffh@gmail.com

I am backend developer at https://mystride.com , current backend for mystride app made by me.
My "favorite" Google dark pattern is suggesting "Privacy Checkup" when I'm logged out. The checkup of course requires signing in.

This is so cunning — they make it look like they care about my privacy, while in reality they upgrade from no tracking (signed out) to at least default tracking they allow themselves in the ToS.
c'est la guerre, c'est la pomme de terre

('les biftecks' don't have an exclusive on silly rhymes)
"The deal protects 'Geographical Indications' such as Cheddar, Kobe beef and Scotch whiskey"

Ironic
https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/01/f34/2017%20U...
It's the same thing in Canada— we took a sleeper train (The Canadian) out west a few years ago and it felt like we spent half the journey sitting on sidings. It was great not to have to drive, but it was a similar total amount of time in transit, and many times more expensive than driving or flying.

In fact, it's so bad in Canada that we can't even get our commuter rail story together, much less long distance passenger rail. The Waterloo-Toronto tech corridor has just a handful of packed trains each way (on weekdays only) because a short segment of the track is also CN's major link to the US, and talks to get more access to it have been deadlocked for over a decade. The recently-elected Conservative government just canceled a long-planned freight rail bypass as "too expensive", loudly claiming that they'll have all day service rolled out in the next 18 months without it, sigh.
Why SpaceX uses stainless steel to make a sweaty Starship
Actually, most of Microsoft is still a huge sales organization. Any technical role that is part of a subsidiary and isn’t in support is under sales, and they have been relentlessly driving Azure because that’s their top priority.
What's the advantage of consenting? It seems purely disadvantageous for the passenger. It's not like you consent and they suddenly go away. I presume that if you consent, they proceed to search all your stuff.

Even if they don't steal or plant anything, it's a huge invasion of privacy and, if you have any delicate items, a risk that they'll be damaged.
Each and literally every piece of media you consume has its bias. Vice, Buzzfeed, McClatchy, etc. make very clear their biases, which is certainly more than one can expect of submarining, facts-optional pieces from much of the "unbiased" media. "Good quality reporting" is inherently and inescapably biased. It inherently and inescapably relies upon the point of view of the reporter or the investigator and that of the editor who determines whether a story deserves publication and thus attention (for who in the modern era does not understand at least the basics of an attention economy?).

But, of course, it's funny how this complaint truly surfaces when those biases are ones that the complainant does not like. It's interesting how biases that do not challenge the majority intersection of "affluent, white, male" get so much leash in places like HN.
Total comp at current valuations. I think all of those companies have 1 year cliff, then monthly vesting
So François Mitterrand was trying to send us a secret warning when he asked how you govern a country with 246 varieties of cheese?
I would direct you to the numerous things that _are_ standard on automobiles. For example, CAN bus[1] which is used in almost every single car you'll encounter these days and is what allows their modern electronics to communicate with each other.

The auto industry is fully capable of standardizing on something when it's mutually beneficial for them to do so.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus
This is easily solved by charging the users of the shared infrastructure a rate based on their usage, with penalties for breakdowns.

Australia had a similar problem when the rail infrastructure part was split off into ARTC. Some dodgy operators started up with clapped out old locomotives that often broke down. Those operators didn’t last long when they had to pay fines for blocking the track.
Agreed on the 'nationalizing' of the rail, but its a big 'if' for dislodging the rail lobby.
Every slide deck ever that a director or VP has used to justify their budget for all that great Excel work. Every pitch deck to win a deal. Every teacher or professor that gives a presentation with PowerPoint. I hate endless slides, but fact is millions of people build and present them every day.

How exactly is all of that not real work?
There is a lot of proxy data for the amount of sea water missing though. It only goes missing for so long when it is in ice form. The only question is where exactly all that ice was.
Identifying and Correcting Label Bias in Machine Learning
you get hit by AMT. Or at least it used to be the case, before Trump changes - didn't do my taxes this year yet.
30% Federal + 15% state, and when you try to do deductions, you hit AMT.
a successful and spectacular tea toss, is a result of critical point, increased surface area, and relative humidity thus resulting in sublimation - a transition from vapor phase to solid phase.
Surface book 2!
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Japan uses cheese in its curries. There's also Japanese cheesecake.
I wonder if you could make something that detects common CRC and checksum codes such as the checksum on credit card numbers, but that uses math efficiently. (e.g. if I had a column of numbers I'd like to know it if they all match an unknown checksum)
When hyperbole, exaggeration, rounding, jokes are called false and lies, its not a fact checker its a political tool.
I used to think it was an absolutely awesome for a laptop to have an rj45 - something missing from the VAST majority of thin & light ultrabooks. I still think it's useful. This week I used a laptops rj45 to figure out that the connection to a switch was working but not the connection from the switch.

However one thing I realised is that if I'm ever repairing computers I'm going to be carrying a toolkit with me regardless. If there's an issue with some locations network and/or devices I'm going to want a console cable, an ethernet cable, cable crimpers, a drill, screwdriver set, usb drive, velcro ties, spare parts, label maker, a whole bunch of useful things. I have a backpack just full of useful stuff. If I'm always going to have tools with me adapters aren't a huge burden.

Additionally most of my clients exist at geographically disparate locations. If I ever find myself physically connecting my laptop to stuff I ask myself where I fucked up. If you have to physically move yourself to a broken device and plug a laptop in to figure out what's wrong 90% of the time it's reflective of not setting up proper remote management tools. It means you have a more fundamental issue that wastes money on expensive labour and risks downtime. If I can't fix your systems with an instagram machine with zero adapters it's reflective of a deeper issue. Personally I'd rather use an off-the-shelf thin and light that's portable and inexpensive.
Is a CEOs job really to start new stuff? As someone points out below, Balmer also started stuff that cost the company, windows phone, Skype etc. So I disagree that a CEO should be measured by only things he started that were successful. I think a CEOs job is that of a sustainer of growth, which can be done in many ways and doesn't necessarily need new products.
Well it is a homelab, if you want to front me the cost of a 10Gbe switch be my guest ;).

Even then though I can get 125mb/s throughput from iperf, it's more just pointing out that Ceph has some pretty hefty bandwidth overhead. No knock against Ceph, it's a cool piece of tech and has its place if you've got the pipes to support it. The comment was more about how impressive ZFS is.
It's still an issue for the road owner, which will generally be a town. The town pays for that road surface, with the expectation that it will be mostly used by those with some other purpose for being in the town.

It's a bit like the complaints about Waze sending cars down minor little suburban streets. The town hadn't intended to be paying for the transportation infrastructure of a nearby major city.
I believe the assumption is that the car is owned by a ride-sharing company, not you. You are not letting random strangers into your car -- you are one of the random strangers.
> part of the answer is that the code itself is all Open Source

I'm actually fortunate to be in the same situation. Someone suggested keeping an up to date Docker or VM image including their data that the client can download and self-host if need be. Seems worth investigating.
Other furries also liked these dog bowls
Every time something like this is posted a, likely very good, engineer who does not live in the Valley post about how overpaid these engineers are.

Compensation is heavily dependent on market rates. It's far more difficult to hire a strong senior engineer in the valley than it is in most other cities in the US. Even companies in fairly remote areas can hire a remote developer or pay a SF engineer to relocate for less than what most Valley engineers make.

It's not about what you can actually do... It's about what you can do compared to the other available people around you.
The yearly TC numbers take the initial RSU grant (that vests over a 4 year period, usually with a 1-year cliff followed by monthly vesting) and divide it by 4 to get the "initial RSU grant options vesting per year".

Typically you never want anyone (that you want to keep) to be fully vested, so it's expected that you'll get new grants to top up after a couple years if you're doing OK.
That is a general problem with DNA tests, regardless of how samples are collected or potential perpetrators are identified. And it seems like the solution is known and accepted by the courts now, at least in Taiwan: "don't rely on just 17 markers when performing DNA matching tests"
> Also it includes cheese, which will make westerners in Japan very happy.

As a German living in Japan for the past four months I somewhat doubt that's going to change a lot. Maybe some lower prices in speciality stores, but I can't imagine my local supermarkets to stock more different cheese or that demand is rising just because a small piece of Camembert costs still expensive 3€ instead of 4€ (roughly converted from ¥), which I buy for 50 Cents in Germany.

The prices are also so high, because it's an exotic food with no use in the local cousine, meaning low demand.
The policymakers can be safely assumed to be hostile on this anyway (usually because they're bought by the lobbyists). The goal, therefore, is to throw them out and replace them with ones that are not, not to convince them. Convincing is for the voters to do that.
How many times to they appear on this list? I mean... an article about journalistic dishonesty is titled Beyond Buzzfeed! [0]

[0] https://theintercept.com/2019/01/20/beyond-buzzfeed-the-10-w...