skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably. Throttle way back and fuel consumption drops dramatically.
No. You could see them before hitting the windshield. Unless modern windshields have a Star Trek deflector shield, that's not it.
I find myself somewhere in between the two viewpoints - I think there are a lot of factors that lead women in the United States to pursue careers outside of STEM, and factors that cause women in STEM to leave their tech careers later in life. I don't think it's a coincidence that many of the women in STEM that I know (including myself) are first or second-generation immigrants.

At the same time, I'm skeptical of attempts to increase the number of women in STEM fields, especially those sponsored by major tech companies or venture capitalists. They seem like thinly-veiled attempts to increase the pool of potential workers and decrease wages - the same way that these tech companies lobby to increase the number of H1B visas. I think the best way to work towards ending discrimination towards women in the industry, and also discrimination towards immigrants (without decreasing wages) is organizing tech workers collectively.
Only an anecdote, but I'm going to say no.

Mainly as I have strongly experienced the same phenomena motorcycling. My head and helmet are not changed aerodynamically. A naked bike contributes little. Yet headlight and visor catch far fewer than 30 years ago. I don't expect to break the journey to clear it like I used to.

The windscreen on the car may very well catch less, but in that case it also seems like there are a lot less to catch.
termpub aims to be a full features epub reader for the terminal. It already supports internal and external links, skips to front matter and will display images with an external viewer. Your reading position will be saved and restored.

I probably wouldn't read a novel with it, but I find it really helpful to read a manual while coding. I would be very interested in bug reports, user interface ideas and features requests. And it would be nice to know where the renderer is sufficient and where it does break down.

Hope you like it!
Show HN: GitVain – GitHub Repo Stats
I built a tool that lets me view how people are contributing to a repo, whether it be through pull requests or comments.

The repo is a deployable web app, but script.js itself is where all the magic happens.

https://github.com/ynnadkrap/gitvain
It doesn't mention distracted and inattentive pedestrians because that is not an important factor. From the article:

>Most pedestrians and bicyclists are killed or injured while they are obeying the law.
It's a shocking story of a major communications screw-up and the resulting corporate cover-up. Probably the most interesting airline disaster in history.

There's a good documentary film about the accident, the cover-up, and the resulting court inquiry, called Erebus: The Aftermath.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erebus:_The_Aftermath
Odd that you mention this, I recently moved to Iowa and have noticed that I hardly have to clean my windshield from the bugs. I realize this is anecdotal, but I do remember a time as a kid where like you I had to clean the windshield often.
There's also the reality that they can simply change the components/layout without ever telling anybody about it.

People just keep buying the same boxes without even being aware that the hardware inside these boxes might be completely different revisions.

Who's to say that future batches of Nest won't have cameras added for "future use"? Who's gonna go through the effort of checking every fresh batch of Nests for revisions like that? And what are the chances of actually catching it when it's only rolled out in small batches?
I'd rather not. The beauty of Calibre is that you run it locally, or on your NAS (with Calibre-Web). If I want my dat in "the cloud" I'll just buy some Kindle device and be done with it.
Yeah, real WHOIS (like from the command line, not one of those sites that proxies it for you). That'll go direct to our registry application, bypassing all registrars entirely.
> SHA-3 (assuming that is the generally accepted next step)

That's just the thing, SHA-3 isn't the generally accepted successor to SHA-2. The "go to" hash function is still SHA-2, or BLAKE2.
Well, parking to at my gate.

If you park at the airport - It's about a 20-30 minute journey from parking lot to the front door of the airport. If parking offsite it can even be longer.

Then going through TSA, even with pre-check, can be from 20-60 minutes. 20 minutes is about the minimum time, just due to how BIG the airport is. You can end up having to walk a mile door to gate. I can run a mile pretty fast, but that is generally frowned upon.

And if you need to somehow deal with an agent for checking bags or anything else? That can easily be another 30 minutes down the crapper.
I think .NET languages are missing
I worked at a personal injury law firm in LA and the number of calls we got daily regarding bicycle collisions was disturbing. I knew I would never ride a bike or a motorcycle in LA. It wasn’t a matter of if you got hit but when.
Don't forget the gaslighting with "software has bugs" and "you just dont like change", while glossing over legit complaints about the outright narrow minded design of the system that is actively harmful in some cases (systemd-timesyncd, I'm looking at you).

Personally, the video made me rather angry because all he does is set up straw men and knock them down using the same terrible pro-systemd arguments that get trotted out every time someone has a legit problem with its design.Some of the distros that use systems like runit and openrc are using those sustems because systemd doesn't fit their technicals needs, and likely won't ever because of designs that are made without community input.

Oh, sure, he mentioned the Debian developer resignations, but outright failed to point out the reason why they resigned: systemd was being railroaded into the system as a political move rather than being judged on its technical merits.
No, it's Yiddish parlance for an act, gimmick or commonly employed routine.
There is a yearly tech survey with a lot of detailed questions about your experience at Amazon and about your manager and team. The results for every single Manager are public. The scores impact a manager's overall rating. I pay a lot of attention to the responses when considering new teams internally.
35% of our food is pollinated by insects: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/national/plan...

We are facing a food crunch in the near future- we will number 9-11 billion before population declines begin to set in at the same time climate change will be desertifying the worlds breadbasket, we are running out of fresh water, we are running out of top soil, and insect declines will threaten the angiosperms we eat. It is not clear how insect populations will respond to the 3-5 degrees of warming expected by the end of this century (based on RCP 8.5 and RCP 6.0 from the latest IPCC report).

Mid-century is shaping up to be one of the most important and tragic periods in human civilization, if it is to survive it. We should keep in mind we are always nine missed meals from anarchy.
You'll remove the USB controller from the USB port on the laptop, then provide an adapter that has a USB controller, and plus it to the regular usb cable.
In my opinion isolating separate transportation modes is only good if it is complete isolation but that's never feasible in a city. Too expensive and space-inefficient to make every intersection collision-free for cars, bikes and pedestrians.

If you separate cars, bikes and pedestrians most of the time but their paths cross at intersections then you have a problem because drivers might not expect a sudden bike lane out of nowhere. It's better to have the bike lane on the street so that cars see it all the time. This makes them drive slower and more carefully because they expect bikes to show up there.

I don't have data to back this up although I vaguely remember reading about it in "Streetfight" by Janette Sadik-Khan. If I recall correctly introduction of unseparated bike lanes in New York City didn't increase bike fatalities despite increasing the number of bikers and it also decreased number of pedestrian fatalities thanks to cars driving slower because of bikes. Of course the article shows that now the pedestrian deaths increased so it might have been a premature conclusion on Sadik-Khans part.
It sure is important when death is on the line. It's no consolation telling St Peter "But I was within the law!"

It's risky out there. Everybody, please keep your heads up!
>cyclists almost never share the road with car drivers

That's not true...there's plenty of shared road. Drivers are more cautious and aware, but it's not all separate pathways.
Slight exception in Quebec though. Quebec has its own immigration rules & policies. Quebec do not follow rest of Canada's Express Entry or provincial nomination. In regards to obtaining a skilled work permit in Quebec, its a longer process with Federal + Provincial involvement. ie: LMIA (Federal) + CAQ (Quebec).

In Quebec there are no BOWP. So if you lost your job, you have to move out of Quebec province and get another LMIA work permit. Getting a permanent residency while working and residing in Quebec is not easy as Quebec's immigration system and policies are archaic and downright broken with more importance given to French language than any other employable skills. Recently 18,000 Quebec applications were downright rejected by Quebec in the name of bringing in a new skill based immigration system.

I would suggest anyone looking to move to Quebec in a skilled work permit or applying for residency while residing in Quebec to refrain from it as it will take at least 4 years (CSQ - 2 years + Federal - 2 years ) instead of 6 months in comparison with the rest of Canada. This applies to foreign students who come to study in Quebec too.

Permanent Residency Processing time:

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...

Quebec skilled worker applicants face uncertain future in light of immigration overhaul:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-immigration-a...

Hiring in the province of Quebec:

https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/servi...
I've worked on FOSS before and got a handful of messages from people like this. They're very very few and far between, but I always found them fascinating because of how much it broke their worldviews.

They're usually people who control enough money that they can 'throw money at a problem' and it'll largely diminish or go away. They usually find a desperate enough vendor, employee, or subcontractor who will deal with their attitudes for enough cash, or quickly fire them if they can't.

They usually have the inverse attitude towards customers giving them money -- that is, they believe it's also part of their job to take abuse from those willing to buy.

So, most of their business transactions involve them giving or taking abuse with the threat of financial withdrawal if the abuse isn't accepted. It's how they define transactions. "Who's the abuser, who's the abusee?" The answer depends, strictly, on which way the money is flowing.

FOSS breaks their worldview because they're not the customer in the same way. They don't have that leverage. They're just an angry person on the street asking you to help them carry their groceries in, and at some point, if they realize it, it's priceless.
Yep, it takes two to keep the drama going.

If you want to fight, argue. If you want to end a fight, empathize.

People tend to think there's right/wrong in a fight when it's almost always emotional and can't be proven or justified with logic.
Totally my thoughts. Plus I thought the email asking him to take down the reviews was fair and respectfully written. And leaving reviews for businesses you’ve not been a customer of is in bad faith.
I drive two hours from West Georgia to Montgomery, AL every other day. Zero...zero bugs on the windshield. Also we live out in the country and in the last 3 years I have seen exactly one firefly. 20 years ago in the suburbs (closer into Atlanta) they were uncountable there were so many. Anecdotal but still a very weird feeling at night. Fire ants on the other hand seem to be doing just fine.
Planners often cite the lack of cyclists as an excuse not to create bicycle infrastructure, and fail the acknowledge the reason is due to the danger, rather than the desire to bike.
Best to get ahead of the curve and self-identify as toxic.
Another anecdote about Florida: I bike almost every day during good weather in Chicago and though I know it isn't the safest activity, I've never had a serious incident. I traveled to Florida last Fall and was struck by a car on my very first bike ride there. I was on a dedicated bike path that was separated from the road by a grass strip and was hit by a car turning into a driveway. It was 11am on a sunny day, but the person didn't see me. (The person was not elderly, so I believe he was probably distracted by his phone.)
> The fact of the matter is people are bad and do what is good in their interests even if it hurts the whole world, be prepared, be ready and have means to take care of yourself.

Nope, people are not bad. People are neutral, equally capable of good or evil. Just don't assume anyone except your mother loves you unconditionally and you should be fine :)
WhatsApp Is at Risk in India. So Are Free Speech and Encryption
The question is a bit philosophical at this point given the boundaries but is it truly their power?

The spread was by "Conspiracy Theorists" types look for self confirmation first to others of the type. It isn't like they could do anything to say get them to support say sensible infastructure upgrades because it wouldn't flatter their egos.

YouTube rewind got critically panned and any overt efforts for youtube tend to be poorly received.
Code contributions are public even if you don't have commit permissions on team packages. You can look at anyone's code reviews.

Caveat being secret projects. However that's not the case here.
> Why the article doesn't mention of distracted and inattentive pedestrians?

I don't know what you mean - it shouldn't matter how distracted and inattentive a pedestrian on the sidewalk is, because the cyclists shouldn't be in the same space as them in the first place.
The prediction algorithm is cool. But call me a tad skeptical. Repeated application of elastic strains results in creep occurring after 1000s of cycles does it not?

AI research into the Materials Genome gets attention. But the problem of discovery still seems secondary to the primary issue. Getting innovations out of laboratories and into manufacturing.
Only SHA-1 and SHA-2 and only on current-gen Intel CPUs or all AMD Ryzen CPUs.
really fast! thx!
That's a personal choice you are welcome to make. I have a Google Home Mini sitting on the shelf behind my head right now, and it really doesn't bother me.

(... in fact, I tend to think about it in just the opposite way: if I'm ever murdered in my home, I want the cops to be able to subpoena Google to get evidence on who the killer was. It's nice to have a system watching my back all the time).
Only few people can act like Linus and get away with it (and for a good reason). HN is the worst place to brag about stuff like this. I'm a person with limited patience and it's toxic for my business for me to deal with clients that's why only my partner deals with it while I stay on the technical part. It's worked wonders. It's no shame in admitting you're not the guy to do it all.
Canada is pretty big, what area/city?
Let me guess, in 12 months they'll be burying factually accurate information about unintended side effects from new vaccines under the guise of thus being promotion of "anti-vaxxer conspiracies."
Why don't we just use them then? Only enthusiasts would use them now, as they did back then.
No concrete plans for sync replication that I know of. The team is aware of the need for it but there's not much info to share at the moment.
> The findings show that avoiding a toxic employee generates returns of nearly two-to-one as compared to those generated when firms hire a rock star"

Why do you need to choose between these two though? Can't an interviewer pay attention to both the technical skills and the attitude of a potential hire? This sounds like a forced dichotomy just to justify a study nobody needs.

> While toxic employees are more productive, meaning getting more things done, the quality of that productivity often is less than desirable

If work is not up to standards then it's not done work and can't be considered productivity, can it? Again, do we really need a study to tell us that bad personality people who rush half done jobs to get that KPI are not what you want as employees?
>I own a company. Thanks to my direct experience, I know very well where value comes from: labor alone.

If that is actually true, you also know that:
1) You had to invest in the company, unlike the employees.
2) You carry far more risk than the employees.
3) Your employees get their money immediately and they are sure to get the money, while you have to wait for profit, and there might not be any.

But you know that, there's no point discussing labor theory of value in 2019, it has been debunked many times. We can discuss the flat earth theory next if this is the standard.
Google Is Announcing .dev, a Top-Level Domain That's Dedicated to Developers
> you will spend roughly 18 years on a waiting list

last I have read it's 10 years in Stockholm, in Åkersberga (less than an hour north of Stockholm) it would be a few years
https://www.armadafast.se/boende/bostadsk%C3%B6/k%C3%B6tider

or you can buy for 2M SEK (200,000 Euro) a nice small house in a suburb and pay the mortgage back over 50 years.
Well, this post covers my maximum daily dose of alarmism. Thanks
systemd became a standard because the guy works at Red Hat so he can make GNOME require it (there is no way to use GNOME without systemd; distros that allow that such as Gentoo do so by patching GNOME, which is costly.)

I agree that a more modern init system is necessary, but the idea of systemd is meh and the implementation is subpar.
Anyone within Amazon can look at code contributions. The manager results he's talking about are also public. I think this gives a sense for the other side of the story here.
"I pretty much assume that unless I make eye contact with a driver and get some kind of acknowledgement, I don’t trust that they see me"

so true. After one or two close calls I'm always on my toes watching for vehicles while walking regardless of crosswalks, lights, one-way streets, having the right of way etc. Even on a sidewalk i keep an eye on traffic.
I'm assuming that it's because there's no way to obtain the PDF without entering your email. The author included a link, but I bet that's not enough.
Eclipse Releases GlassFish 5.1 Certified as Compatible with Java EE 8
Python 3 Dictionary Starter Tutorial
True, but it's not feasible to separate the traffic completely. Every intersection would have to be collision-free for cars, bikes and pedestrians. How much money and space would that require?
Randomly punishing "some rando on the internet" in public can be both a fun, albeit nonconstructive, recreational activity and a way to keep them in line by educating the rest.

If this blog post makes even one jerk change attitude towards open-source software (or about dealing with people in general) coming out as vindictive and hypocritical was an acceptable price to pay.
the book is what you make it. most of the beginning of the book is actual cases of folks taking their health into their own hands, which I find empowering.

certainly dont condone throwing placebo around as a reason to ignore chronically ill people.

just think folks are not presented with this path of recourse by the traditional healthcare system. the placebo is treated as a dirty word and stigmatized. why not attempt harness it? who cares if you cant currently explain the mechanisms at work, the results are what matter.
Here's the thing drivers - if you turn right and don't check over your right shoulder for the bike or pedestrian, then one day you will be that guy that kills somebody. Its just a matter of time.

Always, always glance over your right shoulder when turning right.
Show HN: Eth.events – Query Ethereum with SQL
It was primarily the memory architecture that made the PS3 unique.
... and you won't get any funding unless you are working on something like the Materials Genome.

Trying to get innovations into industry just isn't sexy enough.
Per their definition:

>avoiding a (worker that engages in behavior that is harmful to an organization, including either its property or people) (or converting him to an average worker) enhances performance to a much greater extent than replacing an average worker with a superstar worker

Well yeah, of course it does. A harmful worker causes harm. Duh.
>Which is why the argument makes no sense. Either digital systems add something new and unique to the mix, or they don't.

I'm sorry but this runs counter the observed historical reality.

For reference, consider data transmission interfaces (USB, SCSI, memory busses, display interfaces, etc): "Is parallel better than serial? Is serial better than parallel?". The history clearly indicates that, every few generation of interfaces there's a big switch-over between parallel and serial, and back, and fore again. The approaches simply have different trade-offs, and at different point of evolution of our understanding and available technology it makes sense to pick one over another. Neither of them is inherently "ultimately better".

Likewise digital vs analog computing. It used to be[1] that analog (calculations and computations) ruled the day. In case we forgot already, there were not only analog (mechanical and electrical and electronic) programmable computers and fixed-function, complex calculators, but many an everyday object are analog electronic calculators in time and frequency domains. Cue the humble superheterodyne radio, and the analog color TV. Cybernetics used to be a thing, too.

Then came the digital electronic computation, which allowed us to translate lambda-calculus theory verbatim into discrete bits (sorry!) of control words and data. However digital is a leaky abstraction over switching electronics [2]; all the transistors aren't digital, and - Moore's law notwithstanding - digital view of analog semiconductors is modern equivalent of squaring a circle. Or describing astronomy with ever more epicycles. It works, but at the cost of the ever-growing complexity, and a bit of suspension of disbelief.

We already are having renaissance of continuous-valued computation: the present day crop of early quantum computers. Both the computing elements (quantum gates) and also the control programs and data are in the complex number domain.

On the other end of the spectrum, we're using ever more neural networks, which are analog abstractions over our digital computers. At some point somebody will start asking questions. Maybe even invent (or make feasible) the long-awaited memristor.

I'm sure we'll be shifting back to digital in a few decades though.

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[1] glossing over discrete computation approach of the early pioneers like Charles Babbage

[2] and switching electronics, whether semiconducting or valve-based, is merely a leaky abstraction over high-gain analog amplification, but I digress
Arm Announces Neoverse N1 and E1 Platforms and CPUs
They say Larry Ellison is still burning Solaris and other Sun books over the weekends. At one point his Japanese bamboo house almost caught fire.
My take is that maybe by that point that someone noticed all the product material had been printed or generated and someone else didn't want to redo it, or forgot, and hoped it would blow over.
This isn't true. I don't think I've ever seen anyone try a right on red in Manhattan and while I'm sure it happens occasionally in the boroughs I really don't ever see it. Not sure what you're talking about