skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> iFixit is doing a social good IMO

Agree.

> anyone fighting against it is on the right side

Don't. For example, Louis Rossmann recently kicked up a storm when he claimed that Apple used the customs to seize his "genuine" battery shipments (which was widely reported in the media and gave him significant publicity), except it turned out that he left out the fact that the parts were unauthorized: https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/9pow06/louis_rossman.... Self-serving PR stunts that consist of misinformation and depend on the subsequent media outrage don't help "the right side".
SO already offers a solution to this problem. You can edit the popular / accepted answers or add your own new answer to any open question. This approach has worked well for me.
Agreed.

My main concern is things are not going to be better researched because climate change is the simple answer, why look further? I work at a university, talk to lots of scientists and academics in my free me, these researchers are just as human as anyone else and simple answers are just as appealing and knee-jerk reactions are just as common
Wouldnt a deliver balcony built into a window be more optimal?
I don’t disagree with the overall sentiment, I just haven’t seen evidence that folks with masters/PhDs are actually any better at the above than folks without, outside of exceptional scenarios.
Is it typically free to invoke that insurance? Typically my driving insurance goes up if I make a claim. (Assuming someone stealing from you is not your fault)
Eh, I'm not questioning what Nehru did for the country. That's not even the point of discussion. But it is pretty idiotic to attribute recent technological/military success to Nehru, just as it is idiotic to blame him for today's problems in the country.
This appears to be the source link

It is, but it was submitted earlier (by someone else) and went to [dead] status for some reason. Maybe the domain? Not sure. Anyway, I figured linking to the /. discussion was as good ans anything else, if people are actually interested in this.
In Washington state that trip would have cost about $700 (I used to work in private EMS, now in Fire).

In Washington, the ambulance companies are separate.

In NY state, and particularly in the City, most ambulance companies are owned by the hospitals themselves. It's cost shifting.
Company 3D Scanning Whole Ecosystems for Use in Unreal-Based Virtual Worlds
When I was learning undergraduate mathematical statistics, my professor made it a point to connect the links between linear models and many different tests.

In the back of Statistical Inference by Casella and Berger, there is a great chart making similar connections between the most common statistical distributions.

There is a lot of rhyming in statistics.
I don't get your beef.

Riddley WaIker is set in an unspecified, post-apocalyptic era in the future.
Right. You're normal, and everyone else are just whingers.

Reminds me of Ferro, in Abercrombie's First Law trilogy. She felt no pain. But she was not at all happy. More like always angry.
Apple News Plus doesn’t follow Apple’s own subscription rules
Reminds me of the programmer in his mid-20s who honestly believed that Reddit was entirely dominated by alt-right gamergate incels, because the Big Media told him so. I could not convince him otherwise.
Why the Web needs to be decentralized, 30 years later
I'm really amazed you would trust this food to this degree. Really, every single meal?
Meta comment: how wonderful that this includes a transcript and thus doesn't need the [video] warning in the title. I wish more web sites would do this.
> Mine just happens to be a slightly improved approach, and slightly less full of drawbacks than everybody else's.

Honest opinion: it is not. Plus codes is the one that has least drawbacks and most advantages.
Reading Programmes: The Art of Reading for the OED
> Strange that unions go unmentioned, as they raise the cost of existing service

Strange that salaries go unmentioned, as paying people instead of using slaves raises the cost of existing service.

> Union costs are one of these open secrets no one wants to talk about.

Wastefully paying people instead of using slaves is one of these open secrets no one wants to talk about.

Oh how horrible it is to pay people for work.
How on Earth does someone discover that? What possible series of events or hypotheses would lead someone to perform such an experiment?
If only that were true in the USA for the "top end" schools. In many other countries that is the case.
The issues with all of these things that are pragmatic is that the additive effect of all the little things we have done in the past 100 years over the course of a very small period of time say 10,000 yeas. So 100 fold is significant. Progress and growth is an addiction and we're blinded to any other facts in the face of that. For most of history we have basically 0% or negative growth... then all the sudden you had massive growth say 3-10% each year which was to say the least impossible a few hundred years before. To maintain this sort of monstrous growth you need to create energy and that means pollution... which adds up over time as many of our technologies are based around things that are not natural and don't break down.
Very interesting, but all of their experiments are based on simulations. Would have been alot better if they actually used quantum computers.
> Moderation is a thankless, tedious job, and the people most willing to do it might have other undesirable personality qualities unfortunately.

I'm sorry you feel this way. I donate my time to occasionally moderate on SO to help people learn and become better programmers. In my experience, the vast majority of mods quietly help like this asking nothing in return.
Should have taken Uber/Lyft. A lot of folks are now using them to go to Emergency.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/taking...
Could New York Surpass Silicon Valley?
Google search for gender discrimination silicon valley.

https://www.google.com/search?q=gender+discrimination+silico...

Front page articles from New Yorker, Guardian, NBC Affiliate, Wharton, NY Times, Atlantic, CNN

Now with age discrimination silicon valley

https://www.google.com/search?q=age+discrimination+silicon+v...

You get Entrepreneur, Wired, Axios, The Ladders, Dice, USA Today, Market Watch, FT.

In the mainstream press, gender discrimination is focused on much more than age discrimination.
I did not realize how bad Fukushima was until I went into a youtube marathon yesterday.
Building a reactor at the shoreline of an earthquake zone was bad enough but the safety features of the reactor
were poor reliability engineering. "We learned that the reactor design should not rely on external power sources to prevent it from blowing up" was one of the lessons learnt.

The reactors are leaking and contaminating ground water. The solution is to store all that water in thousands of tanks and run them through an expensive decontamination process. They are considering freezing the ground under the reactor to control the ground water contamination!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBNFvZ6Vr2U Understanding the accident of Fukushima Daiichi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtwNyUZJgw8 Return to Fukushima - PBS
I cant read the article without signing up?
I understand what you are saying, but for good intelligence, information must be able to be traceable and visible.

Transparency is helpful. And non transparency hinders detection and pursuit.

There is a lot more damage prevention and damage control you can do if everything is above board.
A clever person could defeat this entire system in a day.

If you look at the graph, currently we're talking about a fluctuation of about 7 devices.

All you'd have to do is set up a handful of devices (or emulate them and spoof the GPS).. download some sketchy apps, or look for apps that have ties to this company, to bump the location information up. Then turn the devices on or off, so that there's never any change.

If I was the oil company I'd probably set up a shell company to buy the data feed as well so I could get it perfect.
It is localized to other languages, as explained in the article.

One of the complaints in the article is that the different localizations offer uneven quality.
AutoHotKey: https://www.autohotkey.com/
unrelated but the charts are very nice what lib is used to render those?
How to Create a Powerful Content Distribution Strategy
You, sir, said the above beautifully and truthfully. I recently (last year) suffered through the same thing. Ever notice the faults in some of the job postings? 5-7 years experience with a tool that has been out for 3 years? Funny. Or my favorites: DevOps... what a joke. Any good sysadmin, especially *nix, should be able to write shell scripts well, at least using Bash, maybe some Perl and Python. But no. I recently saw a posting for a sysadmin job in Houston where no one would have qualified. They wanted the candidate to have 10+ years of C# systems programming experience! For a sysadmin job. Not many sysadmins with those skills are still sysadmins. In addition, they wanted nginx, Apache, IIS, MySQL, MS SQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and many others. Very few people know all of that in one go.

From the job description, one can surmise they wanted a developer for the price of a sysadmin. No thanks.
> Seems like an API designed for comparisons and nothing else…

There's your answer: that's all the kernel needs to do with strings.
Some big company should try to to buy up enough stock to control the patents.
An Evolution on Social Media
So....., someone else's server?
> How do you feel about mandatory warranty periods?

You know what you're getting when you buy the product. It's critically important to be able to say "no warranty whatsoever"; Open Source wouldn't exist without that, and neither would the (still quite small) open hardware community. Nor, for that matter, would small hardware manufacturers.

(I do feel that you should always be legally allowed to try repairing something. That doesn't mean the manufacturer has to actively help you, or do work for you for free.)
Providing the tools to specifically do terrible things makes you liable.

This comes up rather often but the "disruptor economy" style business that try and replace existing things that are burdened by regulations and other boring things with shiny new things with Vue, rounded corners, blinking lights and a lack of those regulations are, in fact, totally responsible for their failure to adhere to those regulations.

I feel like D&D and friends are ultimately partially to blame here, and their long (and wonderful, I'm not knocking table top RPGs) history of encouraging pedantic rules lawyering. The US legal code isn't like a tabletop RPG where if nothing specifically says your Thri-Kreen can't quadra-wield bastard swords with monkey grip then go ahead - when laws fail to specifically address situations then the courts are present to try and sanely interpret the intent of the original law and apply it to the new situation.

That's sort of like how murder is illegal, instead of it being illegal to hit someone on the head with a garbage can, hit someone on the head with a tire iron, hit someone on the head with a crow bar... "Murder" isn't an action you can take without a lot of abstract assumptions.

So perhaps Facebook is like a hardware store that sells the...

Burgler Bundle - a complete set of a ski-mask, crow bar, knife and lockpick set
(do note "Burgler Bundles" are not intended for burglery, theft, larceny
or other crimes, by purchasing the markers of the "Burgler Bundle"
are hereby absolved of responsibility for any law breaking committed)

Trying to manufacture or sell that in the store would probably get you arrested (unless done in a valid parody form I guess?) similarly Facebook set up tools here to make it absolutely trivial to break some laws "Oh but we didn't realize we were breaking any laws officer" - welp, that's why newspapers and such have legal departments that review ads being placed in them, skipping that step to save money doesn't absolve you from guilt.
> As a side note, Spotify treats classical listeners horribly, ignoring their requests (such as to show more of song titles, or search by label), which I do not understand, because these are the customers that would most likely pay a premium to get better features.

This is actually largely to do with what metadata they take and then how they present it. And it’s really tricky.

The metadata associated with classical music is generally speaking more complex than (say) a rock track. Until relatively recently there was not (IIRC) a clear format laid out in the DDEX standards (which are the metadata standards associated with delivering music and other media) for how you present the numerous different elements of metadata associated with a classical release. So it is a real mess.

I don’t think Spotify necessarily even takes the full metadata spec that you can associate with a classical release.

So for example: you may have a recording of the Allegro - which is the third (also written III) movement from Beethoven’s Symphony number 6 - also know as the Pastoral, also known as Op.68 or Opus 68 (and as the “Pastorale” in German) which is in the key of F major.

I need to be sure that the track I’m listening to is not the 4th (IV) movement which is also Allegro and definitely not the 1st (I) which is Allegro but not too much - Allegro non troppo.

Now - I want the version recorded in Austria by the Weiner Philharmonic conducted by Simon Rattle produced by Stephen Jones and released on Warner Classics. You however may well prefer the Decca version conducted by Erich Kleiber with the London Philharmonic (but not the London Philharmonia!) produced by Victor Olof. Or you may want the Kleiber-conducted version with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. How do you distinguish?

As you can see there are a whole load of different pieces of metadata on which people might search - and when it comes to classical repertoire these things really matter to the listener. The way labels try to address it currently on Spotify is to simply stuff as much as possible into the track title. Spotify now have some of this listed in the “song credits” but that is relatively recent. And the info on many tracks is far from complete.

There are some specialist classical services addressing this - but the problem is I would prefer not to have to subscribe to an additional service just for classical music when most of it is sort of available on my streaming service of choice.

So yeah. It’s a mess :)
It's kind of a relative quantity though, so the numbers might not necessarily be as comparable. The value of a dollar in India might be much higher.

$1 is almost 70 indian rupees, and the distribution of rupees might be slightly more equitable among the population of India.
I don't have any real experience with these tools but for writing (as opposed to some types of code, especially well-defined algorithms), the odds that two pieces of writing are going to be highly similar to each other by chance are pretty tiny.

Sure, the same quotes from another source may be used here and there (and hopefully cited). And there may be some rote definition or other short text lifted from Wikipedia, etc. that maybe doesn't rise to the level of requiring a footnote. But if any sections of text longer than a line or two aren't substantially different, something is going on.
Where you go to school matters quite a lot if what you're there to do is meet the kind of people who go to that kind of school.
Update: "Frog-Killing Fungus Found to Have Origins on Korean Peninsula"

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/science/frogs-fungus-kore...
> I went into a youtube marathon yesterday

Of course, this can be dangerous in and of itself…
Rammstein: Deutschland
Juniper? Extreme? The list is not very long, but doesn't contain just Cisco.
That's just the toxoplasmosis talking [0], the little furry monsters have already made you their servant.

In contrast to cats, these dog "things" can actually be very useful, and extremely loyal [1], working animals.

[0] https://www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-know-how-the-mind-al...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachik%C5%8D
What stops me from buying acess via a sketchy edu?
I do think the cross-exchange rep / privileges is an unsolved problem.

Hopefully they will address it at some point. For the time being I just concentrate my time on SO as opposed to the 5-10 other relevant exchanges like Server Fault or Software Engineering.
The margins on pizza are crazy. You're probably looking at a dollar or less in materials cost for a cheese pizza.
Yeah, unless they continue to work into their seventies and eighties, have kids who can support them, or start stealing or other crime (begging is actually a crime in much of the US). It's close to impossible to live off of social security even if you had a high paying job ($120k+) in most of America. While Medicare covers some health costs, for preventative and prescription costs, one needs additional healthcare insurance. My mom pays almost $300 a month for that. Then there are property taxes or rent depending if you own a home or not, costs which in most places are constantly going up. And I haven't even gotten to food, electricity, heat, garbage, sewer, or Internet bills. None of those are optional. Car insurance, maintenance, taxes, and gas are also not optional in most of America. It's a shite state of affairs, one that's beyond frightening even as a young person, but most people either don't realize it, or work paycheck to paycheck without any 401k option (tax deferred savings account invested in the market) and can't save anything meaningful.
I agree that it's lazy to just say "AGW" for any problem.

But I also think it's lazy to dismiss theories that point to AGW as a cause simply because no model predicted it in advance.

There are an infinite number of possible effects (including amphibian funguses), modeling each specific one and knock-on effects is an exercise in futility. It's much more reasonable to simply be responsible about the attribution of any effects we do observe, and only focus on modeling the most devastating predicted effects of AGW rather than every potential one (including amphibian funguses).
I can't answer this with confidence, I suspect it would go up if you made a claim similar to other insurances. Though car insurance is a weird racket so business interruption insurances may not be able to get away with it.
Makes you wonder what other type of screwed up failed tests people did that never were shared.
I'm not an expert myself, never graduated past my small refractor telescope but I think an important question is to know if you are more interested in the Solar System or the Deep Sky.
Well it's nice for testing to have something repeatable. But still sounds like an urban legend.
i haven't kept an eye on quantum developments. are we at the point where that's feasible for researchers?
Boston Dynamics Reimagined Handle Robot for Logistics[video]
That's the trouble with this stuff. It's really tough to find someone who has both the skillset and experience to offer meaningful criticism, and who also has the political and economic freedom to be allowed to publish it widely, plus the credibility to be believed when they do.
2 point is overstated in media.

" there is “no indication” O’Rourke actually ever broke into computers or even possessed the skills to do so. Instead, O’Rourke’s membership is linked to his participation in online discussion forums ran by the group. Beto himself operated one such forum known as “TacoLand” to discuss mostly punk rock."

https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/beto-orourke-infamous-hacker...
How to Tell If Someone Is Truly Smart or Just Average (2017)
This was shocking to read:

> The data appear to back Shetty up. In part because its huge volumes help surgeons quickly develop proficiency, the chain’s mortality rates are comparable to or lower than those in the developed world, at least for some procedures. About 1.4 percent of Narayana patients die within 30 days following a heart bypass, according to the Commonwealth Fund, which studies public health, compared with 1.9 percent in the U.S. Narayana also outperforms Western systems in results for valve replacements and heart-attack treatment, the group found.

I’d always heard that although the US’s healthcare is the most expensive, it also has the best outcome for specialist care. But the fact that this hospital outperforms the US while charging a fiftieth as much makes me wonder how much better the specialist care could be outside of the US given the same resources.
There's no fixed-width/non-allocating way to return a grapheme (unless one can return a slice into the original data, which cannot happen here), because they may consist of arbitrarily many codepoints (and code units) both in theory and in practice. For instance, many non-Latin scripts compose single graphemes out of multiple code points and many emoji are multiple codepoints (e.g. the families[0], and the skin tone variants).

https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/01/15/breaking-our-l...

One option would to instead return (24-bit) code points, which would amortize comparison and iteration costs slightly, but may accidentally encourage people to forget about multiple-codepoint characters.

[0]: https://r12a.github.io/uniview/?charlist=%F0%9F%91%A9%E2%80%...
That machine was a engineering beauty. very well thought out.
My uncle has chronic kidney disease (CKD). On my recent visit back to my country, my aunt showed me a clip of a news segment aired in a local TV channel. It was a report on a local clinic offering stem cell treatment for CKD patients. The report included interviews from patients who've supposedly been cured through the treatment. Google reviews of the clinic says that they offer 50:50 chance of success in exchange for nearly $5000, which is a lot by South-East Asian standard. I looked into Google scholar and sure enough, found that stem cell treatment for CKD is still at it's infancy and nowhere near to being prescribed for personal treatment.
Some solid research pointing to climate change being the primary factor driving this.[1] See other comments for details.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1685858/
Except his hospital has better outcomes for those procedures, according to TFA.
Seems like the obscurity of the W3W approach is part of the strategy, which is to "own" positioning and extract a tax from it.

If you can extrapolate positioning deltas from the coordinates themselves, then you don't need to hit the API as much.