skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deep in the earth matter tends to clump together by density, just as oil separates from water due to density. There is still some dynamism though so temporary mixing does occur.

Gold at earth's surface tends to be found in deposits where water with gold particles in it was flowing through a crack for an extended period of time.

Over time some of the gold is deposited on the sides of the crack, essentially concentrating it through evaporation and deposition.

These cracks then become what miners call 'veins'. Other metals and minerals have similar stories.

TLDR: water from deep in the earth carries gold particles upward. Cracks form consistent flows which concentrate deposits over time.
Wait. That’s an argument not in evidence either. Why is lobbying bad? The same arguments apply for model legislation. Legislators can’t be experts in everything they legislate so it behooves the people with vested interests & expertise to lobby their positions.
Graph embeddings are one of my favorite underused things in ML.

I've used them to do things like characterise users based on follow/follower patterns, but there are many more applications.

In the past I've had great success with Facebook Research's StarSpace
Not being able to ssh into a container sounds like a missing feature of that particular container solution? I would expect that I can ssh into a docker container hosted in a kubernetes cluster. Hmm, pretty sure I must've done this dozens of times.
Cancer also grows
I'm not Warren, but I would assume that the threshold scales so as not to stifle competition by creating very high barriers to entry. 5000 people isn't a lot per se, especially with the internet. Imposing very heavy handed regulation on budding small companies in the exact same we one would impose it on Wells Fargo, Google, or Amazon, just serves to entrench established businesses and push industries further towards oligopolies.

Idk, just my $0.02
wow thousands- if he was just to do like 12 a year he would have stayed under and have some income.. i guess even if he gets half.. its a few thousand a year
> Who came up with that line? They definitely don't control my attention.

If you use them, your attention is on it. If your attention is on it, they can show ads to you, and make a profit. "Controlling" may not have been the right word for your case, and many others on this site, but it stands for the majority of users.
And the main point still stands.
roads aren't free, they're paid for and (barely) maintained through our tax money
I don't think there is any reason to believe that legislators are the individuals with the most talent at drafting law. It's probably some academic or lawyer somewhere. But, I do believe that the process that gets legislators into that position is designed to provide oversight over them, and allow for a metric that can prevent the worst people being chosen. Just because someone better at writing laws exists, does not mean that we have a better metric of choosing them than the democratic vote. And for them to then shirk not just their duty to write the laws, but also their duty to provide meaningful oversight over the bills that do get proposed and passed, implies to me that there are real problems.

I have no problem with interested organizations writing draft bills and publicizing those. What I do have a problem with is politicians taking those whole-cloth and implementing them in law without consulting other stakeholders, especially when money or influence changes hands.
Ask HN: Is bank account to bank account transfer possible?
Is it possible to transfer amount from a person's bank account to another account (owned by different person) if the person has provided consent for the transfer and also his/her account details? What are the options to provide direct transfer, if possible? What are the alternatives without charges?
Do you have a reference for that statement?

Because the story that I heard is that he purposefully commanded max pitch knowing that alpha protection would prevent the airplane from stalling, as his landing speed would be lowest at max AoA.
To be fair, this is only a valid shift for folks moving. If you are creating something, you have both "how do I configure" and "how do I keep it moving?"

That is, the shift to managed services does largely remove a large portion, and just changes another.
Definitely. I wasn't trying to be relevant so much as I got nostalgic at the mention :)
"Growing apart" is not something that _happens_ to an intimate relationship such as a marriage, it is the natural consequence of the priorities of the two individuals involved. To stay intimate with another requires an enormous amount of investment of both parties.

So yes, growing apart does take place, but it is the effect not the cause.
Are they expected to agree when there's no airflow? What direction should they be pointing in?
No offense, but have you heard of credit/debit/check cards? I rarely use my phone for payments unless I forget my wallet.

All I'm suggesting is that the "federal reserve note" is not as universal anymore. It's only practically useful if I have it.
> Plus, people paying cash slow down the bus as they fumble for their wallets and count out their coins and such.

Around here, on board the busses, they have completely automated machines that can read all the notes and dispense change automatically, they even seem pretty robust at it (crumpled bills, etc work fine) - they essentially as good a job as it's possible to do with cash.

And it still takes agonizingly longer than tapping a transit card and everyone else on the bus hates you.
Volkswagen was founded May 28, 1937, and they were the fuhrer's favorite. That's still 66 years head start. I bet if I gave you a 66 year head start in virtually anything you could probably do a better job than I will when I start.

You've not disproved the underlying meaning of my statement really. I don't see why people are downvoting it as the content is sensible.
Seattleite here. This is false. You can pay for all of the services you named with cash.
They followed Boeing instructions (provided in the report, Appendix 2, and also here: https://theaircurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/B737-MA... ).

Note IAS DISAGREE alert:

"In the event of an uncommanded horizontal stabilizer trim movement, combined with any of the following
potential effects or indications resulting from an erroneous Angle of Attack (AOA) input, the flight crew
must comply with the Runaway Stabilizer procedure in the Operating Procedures chapter of this manual:

- Continuous or intermittent stick shaker on the affected side only.

- Minimum speed bar (red and black) on the affected side only.

- Increasing nose down control forces.

- IAS DISAGREE alert.

- ALT DISAGREE alert.

- AOA DISAGREE alert (if the option is installed)"

About which was written here:

https://leehamnews.com/2019/04/03/et302-used-the-cut-out-swi...

"the high speeds observed" ... "were logical. It’s a consequence of following the Emergency checklist for “IAS disagree” (IAS is Indicated Airspeed, i.e. the dynamic air pressure experienced by the aircraft) after takeoff."

In short, seeing that Boeing indeed wrote about the IAS alert being activated when the sensor fails, and MCAS gets activated, I can only conclude that Boeing indeed knew that the pilots would make the plane uncontrollable if they followed Boeing's instructions. It seems they just gambled on the chance that the second crash won't happen so soon after the first.

Either that, or we'd have to believe that what a single pilot manage to do for his Youtube video a company which is to deliver the planes in worth of hundreds of billions (!) of USD wasn't able to do.
It isn't, but if you're wanting to board a bus you'll need to find an open newsagents or rail station nearby to sell you one. In which case the universal smartcard or app suddenly seems a lot more convenient
>Separately I'd have to ask why if your production facility is dependent on these machines that they would be Internet-connected in the first place.

Anecdotally, I did some for-cash IT work at a trophy engraving store about a decade ago. Small shop, maybe 7 employees, they had about 6 different cnc machines of varying sizes but only one of each type.

One of the machines was a vinyl cutter that was about 4mx4m, being run by a windows 98 computer. Not windows 98 SE, the original. The manufacturer of the table had gone broke some time between the two and never released an updated driver, and it seemed it was not possible to bring the driver forwards to 98 SE, let alone xp or 7.

A new machine would have cost them something like $50,000, basically 1-1.5 employees, so they just stuck with windows 98. That machine had internet connectivity too because it was just plugged into the company network (of like 7 computers) so that it could get the job files from a shared drive, and since the company network provided internet, it had internet.

I guess the point is these companies don't get paid to keep stuff up to date or to be secure, they get paid to make trophies or whatever. They look on cyber attacks in largely the same way they look on someone driving a truck through their front wall. It might happen, their margin isn't good enough for them to spend money on preventative measures for such a specific problem, and they don't know anyone it's happened to anyway.
Isn't "letting private industry solve the problem" exactly what we've already got?
Ah Eternal Return, it brings comfort to know that we may simply be living our exact same life over and over again for all eternity. Really motivates me to live to the fullest, to have the most enjoyable eternity.
You're right, they're literally vanes on the side of the aircraft, they don't do anything without airflow. Takeoff roll is when you could possibly first notice it.
I took him seriously after he was the only thing on the TV news for 400 days straight. I still didn't vote for him. Until we fix our broken news media, we'll get nothing but Trump and Trump imitators as President.
George P. Burdell
As a person owned by a cat I'm not surprised by this. I'll call his name and he won't respond, but if I say "Do you want a snack"? He'll run to his bowl.
Wouldn't it? What major metropolitan areas are you talking about specifically?

$250K is FANG compensation for an engineer with a few years of experience. According to NerdWallet cost of living calculator, equivalents are:

Manhattan: $314K
Los Angeles: $191K
Boston: $196K
Chicago: $157K
Miami: $152K
Denver: $149K
Philadelphia: $146K
Minneapolis: $139K
Atlanta: $134K
Des Moines: $117K

So $250K in San Francisco should afford similar lifestyle as in other major cities paying $135K-$160K.

But a senior-level position in FANG should be closer to $350K and above. I think that becomes much harder to match as a commodity developer outside the Bay Area (it'd be $205K in Philly, for instance). And even if you did match it, and you're able to sock away X% of your income a year in both cities, the FANG salary leaves you with many more dollars in your bank account in a few years. You could always leave the Bay Area at some point, and spend those dollars in a low CoL area.

I'm not saying it's worth it. The Bay Area has a lot of downsides. San Francisco has become a crime-ridden cess pool in recent years. Commutes are horrendous if you don't live near work. And many tech companies in the Bay Area pay much less than FANG compensation (and I know from experience), which really makes it hard to stomach. But from a purely financial standpoint, it seems like the FANG developers are doing pretty well.
Update. I spoke to a Lawyer today. He thinks the guys is just talking and would not go after me since
1) It would cost him more than it is worth.
2) He does not have much to stand on given the fact that he hired me after having seen/used my work.
3)we had no contract was signed for the work done.

He said if he does not pay me my salary by one pay period after the last one. Then come see him he will take legal action against him since I will now have a case. Otherwise me spending any of my money on him(the lawyer) is a waste even though he will gladly take it.

In the coming days 24 hours(my last day). I would see how this plays out.
Wires don't cost the banks that much. I believe the actual cost is under one dollar, which is what I've seen some brokerages charge for outgoing wires. The reason banks charge so much for outgoing and incoming wires is because customers pay it.
Not ever carrying cash is just as much a defense measure as it is a practical measure, though also almost everything supports some form of electronic payments, be it in the form of plastic or phone.
Especially with that infamous iTunes ToS
I intend to move user contributed fact verifications to some sort of distributed ledger model to ensure transparency. Still in alpha though, so lots of work ahead.
Ah, perfect - I had forgotten that banks had up to 60 days! Just nuts.
Apparently somewhere around 30% if this is to be believed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/04/20/the-o...

"A grain of truth" doesn't mean it's provably true. But it's hard to argue that flying a plane load of passengers on autopilot from the same 4 airports for hours on end remotely gives you the same skill level as flying low level, in high performance and often in formation with other aircraft would.
Use your bank's ATM then.
That's great! Now that Tim Apple is finished building product, they can earn revenue by crunching my personal data!
Don't believe me? Order your own copy from Apple, you'll be surprised what they keep forever.
Maybe they were hoping to have a loss, so that they could take that on their tax returns to cover a surplus from somewhere else?

And when you started to look like you were actually going to deliver something that would generate positive returns, they had to kill it?

So, kind of like a real-life "Brewster's Millions"?
Yes. That's how syndication works.
You pay for content, then tell your end-users where you got it from.
> Let's assume that if you guessed a technical solution, the cost of 'guessing' is 0, and the cost of picking the wrong solution is 'low'. Should I waste time doing anything other than guessing? If the cost of 'do what google does' is 0, or near 0, and better average chance of working, why not pick it?

That makes more sense if you s/cost/risk/. The answer to why you shouldn't just do whatever Google is doing is because trying to copycat the leader is the one thing that will guarantee your _failure_ in the market place.

Same with AWS. AWS Lambda was built to solve existing problems. Everybody will use it to solve the same problems it's designed for, but only a tiny number of people will actually succeed in the marketplace because it just becomes a numbers game. If you want to win you have to play a different game--look for problems where AWS Lambda is a poor fit.

If you're doing the same thing as everybody else you're by definition just reinventing the wheel. Why bother?
Personally I think that asking how teams do agile differently and how team members change agile practices can be a good gut check to see what agile is like at a company. If some teams do scrum and some do kanban or some teams have daily standups and others don't, then agile is probably more developer driven. But if the answer is something small, like the time of the daily scrum then agile's probably management driven.
Yeah, like I said, I think the lobbying debate is more complicated than it seems at first blush, but I'll stipulate here that there are patterns of toxic lobbying that are worth worrying about. I just don't think model legislation is an indicator of those patterns.
Cooperating doesn't mean centralised. Payment systems using common standard can be compatible and the payments distributed behind the scenes. You can still have a number of federated systems taking to each other without a central organisation.
And the fact that model legislation gets passed more and more frequently shows that there is a problem.
I'm having flashbacks to when, at a startup in 2000, our CIO insisted we needed an EMC Storage Solution. "We're going to be _huge_!" (Over my written objections, mind you.) I spent precious time and huge amounts of money to build out the colo cages to fit his folly and then the company promptly went belly up. Good times.
define huge?
> It's worth asking whether there's any benefit to this kind of thing past a certain point. Are people their wasting time and causing long term damage to their bodies just to impress their friends?

I think it's a bit presumptuous to categorize extreme exercise as "just to impress their friends". Was Alex Honnold free soloing El Cap just to impress his friends? I doubt it. The same can be said for almost all extreme challenges. Why climb Everest? Why run a marathon? Why go to the moon?

To crib JFK: Because it's hard. Because you can. Because it's there and it's maaaybe, just maybe, possible.

Regarding my last sentence, perhaps I could have phrased it better like this: I would rather destroy my body through hard work by trying to achieve difficult things like an IM triathlon than destroy my body out of apathy and sloth and gluttony. Either way, if all goes to plan, my body is gonna go to shit at a certain point anyway and I can't do anything about it. And then I die. So why not try to have some fun?
Does anaerobic activity (lifting) improve the condition of the heart?
No. What I'm saying is, to the extent that happens, "model legislation" doesn't enable it; in fact, if anything, it (marginally) increases transparency by making at least some of those influence attempts traceable (this happens by design, since the point of ALEC-style model legislation is to write it once and then present it in multiple state houses).

If the question is, "do you like ALEC", the answer in my case is "obviously no" (I wasted a bunch of money in the last election cycle if my goal was to support ALEC). But I don't see what's problematic about this particular mechanism ALEC uses, and I think it would probably be better if more interest groups --- nonprofit, public, corporate, what have you) adopted it.

Sort of like the conversations people have about the Federalist Society (the back-bench for potential conservative federal judicial candidates) --- seeing the Federalist Society as a shadowy malign influence just seems silly to me. It seems obvious that the proper response to the Federalists is to stand up a countervailing progressive judicial network --- and, of course, that exists (it's the ACS); it's just much worse at marketing itself.

Meanwhile, it's not as if anyone is unclear on who these organizations are! No Democratic Senator endorses a Federalist Society pick because it came from the Federalists! No Democratic state representative swoons over an ALEC bill! If your local state senator doesn't know who ALEC is, they're incompetent and need to be booted out of office.
Same here, but I can tell you from experience with group interviews that while we're definitely not alone, we're probably in the minority.
Yeah, much better to just pack up the site and forget the whole thing, right.
Managed services still have plenty of unexplained goings-on, and 3AM pages.
Congrats, this must be quite a sum.
Yeah, in theory you are correct.

In practice, I suspect only a few industries (looking at voice calls & automated/high-frequency trading) will probably flock to it.
No, I just read it. SaferCPlusPlus does support all the permission "modes" listed, except the "opaque" one, and transitioning between them (though being stuck with C++'s move semantics). The permissions modes that aren't intrinsic to C++ are enforced at run-time. Objects to be mutably (non-atomically) shared need to be put in an "access control" wrapper, which is kind of like a generalized version of Rust's RefCell<> wrapper.

As I noted in my original comment, in the "mutex"/"RwLock" case, SaferCPlusPlus allows you to simultaneously hold read-locks and write-locks in the same thread. Which seems natural, since SaferCPlusPlus (and Cone) allows const and non-const pointer/references to coexist in the same thread. But in this case it actually provides increased functionality. It is the functional equivalent of replacing your mutex (and Rust's RwLock) with an "upgradable mutex", which facilitates better resource utilization in some cases, right? It also provides new opportunities to create deadlocks, so the mutex has to detect those.

Btw, I am certainly a pot talking to a kettle here, but your "mutex1" urgently needs a better name, right?
What we need is CounterAlec.org - Something like a go fund me but for legislation thats not borderline fascist/hyper-capitalistic/capitaliban in nature.
The headline and article itself do indeed (incorrectly) call it a DDOS attack. The attack itself was very much non-distributed, and involved a single malicious actor `curl`ing an expensive API endpoint in a loop.
This is a really great analogy. I've never thought about this before and I think it explains some of my data hoarding tendencies and maybe this will help me let go of some things a little more. Thanks for sharing this!
Not at the same level, hardly anywhere. Replication, auto-scaling, failover and point-in-time backups are typically not managed for you. AWS and GCP have decent solutions now, but they're not nearly as hands-off in terms of management.
Definitely not helpful. Housing will only get more expensive, the only solution is to build more.

Berlin still has comparative low rents for a city its size. On the other hand real estate speculation remains a huge problem, even if new land is claimed.
> We therefore paid an unemployed person

> Such brutal honesty would be welcome in other papers.

To say nothing of the commitment to employment fairness!
Anti-Trust Abuse in Chinese Tech
5nm is 150 atoms wide. "Several tens of atoms" is a definition of nanoscale, from what I remember.
If in the US, this is possible and depending on the bank there is no fee. You will need: 'Account ownership' is it yours or someone else, 'Account type' personal/business & checking/savings, 'Account use' paying / transfers, 'Account number', and 'Routing number'.
Ongoing DNS hijacking campaign targeting consumer routers
Ethiopian Airlines Pilots Followed Boeing’s Safety Procedures Before Crash
Can you share more about that project? Sounds cool.
The reason I asked the question is because sometimes there is a tendency to think of "China" as a monolithic entity and say "China" is spying on companies or putting bugs in the cellular equipment and so on. I've even caught myself doing that. But it's a lazy way of thinking because China is full of individuals pursuing their own goals.

It is for the same reason that I asked whether the person copied the files to his own system or his employer's. No doubt this person has their own interest in computers and technology, and it's entirely reasonable to think that they would want the MIT CSAIL files for themselves, outside of any orders from their employer to copy the information.
It's more likely that parent has had to do that a lot of times, or perhaps has managed people who have. That would be a sign of organizational dysfunction, and fixing that is a good goal to have.
The company https://www.zellepay.com/ does just this, but I have never used it personally.
I would hope. In full agreement with you.
Maybe I missed it, but I think it would be great to also explain what happens on the other end of this process. What does someone do when they receive a patch?