skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's a 'ruck'? The US term for a pack carried on your back?

They keep suggesting ideas like a single battery pack and a power distribution system integrated into your vest. But I think that'll end up very much like '14 competing standards... now 15 competing standards.' You already have systems needing AA, AAA, and CR123A. You can never balance how many you need as well so you're wasting and running out of AAA when you have tons of AA still left.

I also feel terrible when I get back from just a couple of days on the ground and have to recycle (no idea how they recycle them, let's be pessimistic and calling it really throwing away) a KG or more of batteries.
This article explains that aspect of it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail
The negative connotations never occurred to me, and I've been a volunteer for both animal rescue organizations and domestic violence shelters.
This. I don't understand why articles like this are so quick to dismiss the chance that it was an alien probe or ship. I feel like it's just to get clicks and make the hypothesis they present seem more plausible.

I totally agree that there is a good chance that it wasn't alien, and we want to identify what it could be if it wasn't, but why dismiss it? Most scientist already believe we are not alone, even though it is unlikely we are close to any other intelligent life. The chance that it was alien should be explored as well, and I know their are scientist who believe it is alien.
I don’t follow. If my “ancient aliens” theory says that Stonehenge should occur on 50% of planets, would you automatically favor it over any theory that sets steeper odds?
With that very young intern in his employ. Traditionally known as sexual harassment. Of course that was just one of the many cases of impropriety with women and allegations of assault.
Charging massive consulting fees
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Step 1

Write a program to play the game Snake

Step 2

Deploy using whatever technology you like

Step 3

Battle other snakes and compete in arenas!

"

Sounds cool, that title make it sound like yet another worms.io clone, but this is programmatic gaming - I feel the title should include that, or "make a snake bot to battle in a classic 'snake' arena".
I've been saying this for a while.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=adamnemecek%20analog%20quantum...

The main problem with old school analog computers is that they were based on electricity which ended up causing rift (imprecision that gets worse over time).

A photonic, analog, quantum computer (also called continuous variable quantum computer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous-variable_quantum_in... is possible and would run circles around discrete quantum computers (those with qubits).
That's just a list of scandals under the timeline of then-present administrations. It is not actions taken by the administration that they are categorized under.

You claim it's a fun read, but I think you can only claim that if you decided to actually read it. And the evidence points to the fact that you very obviously didn't.
> This is important because most players of both genders use neutral-looking names. The study doesn't account for this.

Is this true broadly? I'd be curious to know if there's any data on that besides for anecdotal evidence.

also, a "neutral-looking" name can be really subjective, I would guess that there's a lot of player names that use adjectives that might be inadvertently related to a particular gender based on the cultural context.

I'd be curious to know what the names are in this case.
LOL..."We didn't scrape your data, we scraped someone else who scraped your data!" Good luck with that one.
I'd love there to be some sort of "adapter" extension for smartcards so they can be used with webauth. Would let us reuse our already existing smartcard infrastructure.
> We still don't know what Oumuamua is made off of.

The fact that it is tumbling and not coming on like a dart along it's long axis means it pretty much doesn't matter what it's made of, aside from it's total mass, it's not going to do some kind of radical penetration or anything else that unusual of it were to hit the Earth.

(Even if it was a stabilized penetrator dart of some kind, AFAIK, that doesn't really change much about surface impact unless you make radically implausible assumptions of composition, but I think it might effect the probability of it making a ground impact rather than an airburst.)
Yes but it won't make a sonic boom.
It is boring, but I'm also a fan. A little streak of colour somewhere and some more interesting content should keep engagement levels up?
I don't see any comments completely placing the credit for Gates' success in his family's wealth.

Many are just saying it played a factor (as Gates himself readily acknowledges). More importantly, his origins aren't a particularly useful example for a person who doesn't already have similar-enough privileges to what Gates had.

If you are already in a place that Gates was when he started MS (financially secure, young, well-connected), then he is a fantastic of example of someone who seized the opportunities life presented him to great effect.
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Exactly, I can't imagine that the OpenAI team would be this naive. Their strategy will do precious little to stop nefarious actors who mean business. It will just narrow the circle of well meaning people who could've participated in research.

Besides, it's only a question of time before someone publishes the full model.

The whole gatekeeping thing just feels like empty posturing.
Is it a meme in the programming world? I've only encountered it in Hollywood and TV. It's like how every on-screen computer beeps and boops on every interaction: it's a dramatic device. No one does that IRL because it would drive you bananas in like ten seconds.

Cf. Glyph's "The Television Writer's Guide to Cryptography" https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2009/01/television-writer-gu...
what does that mean? is that a form of explanation for why we are more creative or able to solve problems in our sleep (or after sleep)?
Why should a gendered name invite more attention in any way? People are often given gendered names at birth, after all.
The whole situation of us encountering Oumuamua and being unable to gather much information about it reminds me of one of the Lem's short stories about Pilot Pirx in which he encounters an unique alien object and is also struggling with recording data about it.

Here's a quote that works on imagination:

There are times when the human eye can behave like a camera lens, when a momentarily but brilliantly cast image can be not merely recalled but meticulously reconstructed as vividly as if viewed in the present. Minutes later, I could still visualize the surface of that colossus in the flare’s afterglow, its kilometers-long sides not smooth but pocked, almost lunar in texture; the way the light had spilled over its corrugated rills, bumps, and craterlike cavities—scars of its interminable wandering, dark and dead as it had entered the nebulae, from which it had emerged centuries later, dust-eaten and ravaged by the myriad bombardments of cosmic erosion. I can’t explain my certainty, but I was sure that it sheltered no living soul, that it was a billion-year-old carcass, no more alive than the civilization that gave birth to it.

This story (Pirx's Tale) is available on Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=n16z06cm1P0C&lpg=PT11&dq=%...
Optimistically I believe humanity is generally good such that if you get a massive number of users the good overwhelms the bad. Contrast this with Overwatch who (IMO) has a shrinking userbase of increasingly hardcore/invested players, and the worst tends to shine through.

I wonder if this suggests that hardcore/invested gamers tend to be less kind than casual gamers or if this is anecdata.
Single File, Editable Python Scripts with Dependencies
What worked for me is to settle on a generic filler item. Personally I use toothpaste. Costs a decent amount, can be stored for a long time, doesn't need much space and I'll need it eventually. This way I don't go looking around randomly but just always fill the gap with that item.
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The crux of the story is this sentence:

"They’ve taken a tool that could give people more ownership over their own work and distorted it into a mechanism for managers to exert control over their team."

This is true for every company, no matter the tool. This could equally apply to a Methodology, meetings, deliverables, timelines, or any other top-down approach designed around coercion.

I'm reminded on Tom DeMarco's thoughts about Control and what kind of projects need such controls [1]:

To understand control’s real role, you need to distinguish between two drastically different kinds of projects:

- Project A will eventually cost about a million dollars and produce value of around $1.1 million.

- Project B will eventually cost about a million dollars and produce value of more than $50 million.

What’s immediately apparent is that control is really important for Project A but almost not at all important for Project B. This leads us to the odd conclusion that strict control is something that matters a lot on relatively useless projects and much less on useful projects. It suggests that the more you focus on control, the more likely you’re working on a project that’s striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.

Can I really be saying that it’s OK to run projects without control or with relatively little control? Almost. I’m suggesting that first we need to select projects where precise control won’t matter so much. Then we need to reduce our expectations for exactly how much we’re going to be able to control them, no matter how assiduously we apply ourselves to control.

[1]: https://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/homep...
Hm, I think the difference is marginal because of the large radius of the Earth, at least for planes.
> They are both self-made success stories. Schwarzenegger even moreso than Gates.

That second part is precisely my point. They're both self-made success stories, but they are in no way equal. They're both self-made success stories in the sense that a dolphin and a cat are both mammals.

> If you come from nothing, i'd say getting into any of those professions more than qualifies for "making it".

I would like you to closely examine what you said and the way you said it. I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you just didn't pay a lot of attention to what I wrote, rather than ignoring it and cherry-picking parts to focus on.

The inequality in United States is very, very pronounced and it's getting worse with time. The "self-made success" trope, which involves treating different self-made success stories as equal, is a way of defending and perpetuating that inequality.

People who are getting more and more oppressed by that inequality are rallying against the use of that trope.

Yes, I agree with your definition: an individual that exceeds the median success level of their peer class group can be, under certain circumstances, be defined as a "self-made success".

My point is that it's just a definition. What people are arguing about -- in general, not just this article -- is not really the definition. Rather, they are arguing about the concept in its socioeconomic context.

Which brings me back to what you said about "making it": if you come from nothing, then just having a well-compensated profession is qualifies as "making it". Is that self-made success? Because that's the topic of our discussion here, remember?

Sure, you could just repeat your definition and say that both "well-compensated professional who came from nothing" and "Bill Gates becoming a billionaire" are examples that fit the definition and that you're just stating facts and that there are no value judgments involved. In which case, you're just nit-picking the article and not making a useful point at all.

Or maybe you just took issue with the literal words I used to describe the American Dream and are nit-picking those, outside the context of the rest of the sentence, or indeed the rest of my comment?

The truth is that the discussions about the "self-made success as a trope" are not really about the clear cut definitions. It's turtles all the way down, in the sense that almost everyone relies on other people in some ways, so arguing about the precise definition of "self-made success" is a bit pointless. The discourse is really about the role of the trope in the growing inequality in this society and, to that purpose, arguing about some of the most common abuses of the trope -- like this article does -- is much more useful.
> Might the perceived quality decrease be based on a misclassification of the user entering the search

Exactly! Search engine performance can be assessed by measuring precision and recall [0]. Full text search engines have really high precision. Additionally, when the user has been socialized with full text searches, they've built a model of how the search engine works ("it will find documents which contain my search phrase"), so false negatives are perceived to be less severe, as they can be readily explained by the model. "Ah, this document about helicopers contains 'Apache', no wonder it's in the results. I'll add 'webserver' to narrow it down" (And experienced users will already start off with all necessary key terms).

While full text search engines have high precision, they also have bad recall. This can be improved, but there is a tradeoff when tuning the algorithm: to increase recall, the search context is broadened. That necessarily decreases precision as well, because there is no way the search engine is always correct when adding context. Also, when at first all documents on the frontpage at least contained the search term, now there is not even a good explanation why some documents were retrieved. And the more precise the query itself (something we learned by using full text searches) the higher the probability of misclassification, and the worse the effects of broadening. The relevant results are somewhere in the list, but now every second result on the frontpage is from the wrong bucket. And with no explanation, those false positives weight heavy for us users from the old days.

[0] Precision is the probability that a random document in the result set is relevant. Recall is the probability that a random relevant document is in the result set.
> 20% more each day
I think it's 25% more.

To get to 40hrs/week, one would need to work 10hrs/day instead of 8hrs/day.
As a prime example, take the Punisher emblem (and the mentality behind it). These days you see it on trucks and land rovers all over the place (at least here in Texas).

The character, for those who don't know, was created as an antihero who circumvents the judicial system and commits extreme violence against those he judges to be criminals. He was designed to be a commentary. From the guy that created him: “I was an anti-war person. I argued against it and certainly wrote against it...In my mind he’s not a good guy.”

From Chris Kyle, the "American Sniper": “He righted wrongs. He killed bad guys. He made wrongdoers fear him...We spray-painted it on our Hummers and body armor, and our helmets and all our guns. We spray-painted it on every building or wall we could, We wanted people to know, We’re here and we want to fk with you.”

http://time.com/3819227/punisher-iraq-isis/
I can see people adding this plugin thinking it's a good idea at the time of download.

Once the functionality kicks in and they're actually blocked when attempting to access Netflix, 'instant uninstall, proceed with Netflix binge..'.

or ... git commit -m "garbage commit. Give me Netflix!"
To be fair to the paper, toxicity is almost guaranteed when losing while playing with a feminine name. It's pretty rare otherwise.
I suspect that a 787 traveling at 801 MPH airspeed might suffer some damage to the control surfaces. 787s aren't designed to break the sound barrier.

And I would argue that not damaging the plane matters more than how long it takes to get there.
> the next two years

By which, you surely mean, the next six.

> suffering damage to our nation that's truly irreparable

I think the past dozen presidential administrations have made it clear that good governance only happens by gentleman's agreement (Who is left out of such agreements is an exercise for the reader.) The executive has no shortage of knobs, dials, and levers that it can pull on, to inflict 'irreperable' damage, that the political system is not at all designed (Or has the will) to deal with.
Can confirm, we were always told to keep our mouths slightly open when setting off charged explosives or grenades. We were told that the overpressure could rupture our eardrums if we didn’t.
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Possibly it didn't? Since we saw it after solar perigee, perhaps it is in it's spread out state and it was more compact while approaching the sun.
Why would anyone own any Internet-connected vehicle in their current states? New vulnerabilities are found every other week. Why are there 0 safety standards around this? You'd think regulatory bodies would take something like connecting metal death boxes to the Internet more seriously, but it doesn't help when they're staffed either with useless idiot boomers who struggle with opening Excel files or uncaring lobbyists who were working in the private sector the year before.
The Earth has almost a 4000 mile radius; 30,000 feet is less than 6 miles. The difference between movement over ground and movement with respect to the top of a 30,000 foot pole stuck in the ground is pretty negligible.
People are talking them out of it because the way they word it sounds like there's no reward. They don't need or want more money -- they don't have trouble working harder when needed -- they have no generalized motivation issue or mood issue that would affect their quality of life. So... they're not working harder because they don't want to?

I mean it would be like asking "how can I deep clean my house every day" and then explaining that you never have visitors, you find your house fine as it is, you have had no health or sleep issues, and you really only go a week between cleanings. It's a caliber of problem where I guess there's drugs for that, but it's also not really a problem in the first place.
From my understanding it was consensual, which is not harassment. Not quite the same as "grabbing her by the p*y".
Is that a Java application? Correct me if I'm wrong.
You usually have picture in picture solution in mind when recording. One view of the speaker and a second view of the slides.

Maybe the slides was meant to be shared along with the video, or they were shared, b ut only with YC attendants.
> People also like to blame DPS first, then demand a Reinhardt (if they don't have one) and then finally blame support.

As someone who mains support, I don't think this is true. I've had plenty of games where I do a shitton of healing, get the healing card at the end, and still had people blaming me for "0 heals" all game.

A scoreboard would help with that, but it'd be a trade-off with having 5 angry people shitting on you if you ever have a bad game. I'm not sure that's better.

EDIT: Plus there's all the times when your stats are bad but you're not the right one to blame, like when the whole team can't move up through a choke because the tanks are too chicken to go first, but it gets reflected in poor DPS eliminations.

Ultimately it's a team game, and failures of teamwork aren't reflected well in a stats scoreboard. I think you'd incentivize poor team play by people trying to pad their own numbers at the team's expense.

And no matter what information is available, some people are just looking for someone to blame when they lose. I'm not sure how to fix that. If matchmaking is working right you're going to lose about half the time, there's no point in getting worked up about it but people still do.
This isn't true, because if you receive harassment for having a "feminine" name, but no harassment for a "masculine" name, then when you go create a new account for a new game, you might be discouraged from using the feminine name.

You really need to consider how to account for experimental variables that affect each other.
We have such a blacklist in our actual implementation but it didn't find its way into this reservation page. We won't actually be letting people use those names.
Martial arts use the same mechanism.

Just because you use social media for business doesn't mean it can't affect you.

Again, read a book on dog training. It's all laid out very simply.
This is neat. I'd love the API to be public to try out the GET requests in the browser without logging in.

I don't have a use for something like this now and most other developers probably don't either, but if you gave us the chance to play around with it with zero friction, I'm sure ideas would come up that led to products that benefited you.

It takes a long time for niche products like this to gain traction and eliminating friction is the lowest cost way to expedite that.
I meant the term "natural" only as a short hand for anything that isn't alien technology. I do agree that even civilization and technology can be viewed as natural.
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Interesting point. Thanks for sharing.
Part of being a mature "senior" developer is to stop budging on estimates. Give an estimate to the best of your knowledge. Don't budge. If there is not enough time, cut back on scope, not necessary tasks like research. Cite Steve McConnell if you need back up.
30k ft is nothing compared to the radius of the Earth which is 21M ft. The measurement instrument has larger error sources, so the answer is it doesn't actually matter.
I don't understand why the choice of opensourcing seems to be so binary for some.
It feels as if it's either:

A-Leave everything open and hope that the global interoperability and cathartic flow of information creates a magic utopia for humanity.

B-Everyone incorporates into the soviet-union/chinese-firewall for protection.

There are manageable, more analogue alternatives too, like reducing the risk and probability of a disaster by trusting a human's judgement to limit access to potentially malicious code; which is exactly what they're doing in this case.
In your "trying", you list the Bush emails but not the Clinton emails? You aren't trying very hard...
My concern with this sort of search is it could evolve to be used in a pretextual manner on small crimes.

"We have a reported flasher in this area, lets dump the cell phone record locations to find them. Oh looks, there are people with warrants that live in the area."
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Adventures in making software.
Just say NO to socialism! Name one country where it has worked. You cant, because it has failed every time!
A rucksack is a backpack. The term has become more common in civilian use but was primarily from military use. According to Wikipedia it's from German, not sure how it entered the US/UK military lingo.
Main goal is to get children under twelve to go outside, jump in puddles, ride their bikes. My daughter did 10 rounds of this once, 10 hours of youtube with 5 multiplication problems each hour and eventually decided youtube wasn't worth it. It helps children to disconnect for a couple minutes and re-evaluate their summer day life choices.
Yes JavaFX indeed!
Of course, people whose workload consists of talking to or otherwise dealing with other people can't have flexible schedules like this. A cashier can't walk off, because there's a line of customers waiting to be served.

However, it can still in my opinion work for a large amount of people. Anyone whose job has parts that can be done alone (programming, compiling reports, writing articles...) can benefit from a more relaxed schedule.