skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot I like about SF. Most of all is it's walkability. We don't own a car and I only have to get in a car 2-3 times/month. Once you get used to this type of lifestyle, it's pretty tough to imagine going back to a life that relies on a car/public transit. We walk/bike everywhere we go. If we need a car, Getaround makes that super easy.

We spend 95% of our time within 2 miles of our apartment yet never feel like we are at a loss for interesting things to do/see, though we are pretty easily satisfied (e.g. sitting in parks watching boats sail is an A+ activity).

The above is mainly due to:
1) Weather
2) Density of the city
3) Size of the city's footprint (~49 sq/mi)
4) Diversity (lends itself to the "interesting" part)
5) City's prioritization to public spaces (parks, stairs, are plentiful)
6) Topography also adds to some interest to our primary mode of transit
The other side of it is what my personal and business's accountants do. I don't need to know the intricate details of their work to look at the final bill and realize that maybe I should be paying more for the benefits I enjoy in this country, especially considering my native tax rate - which gets me a hell of a lot less in Russia than the nearly equivalent effective rate does in the US.
Will they make away to disable stories?
It a really large company (>100.000 employees worldwide). Support simply says no (or does not respond). I use a lot of WSL and VMs and our cluster machines.
> I'd think that people that want to kill themselves very much would try again until they succeed

No, this is a myth. Clearly there are differences in suicidality. Some people self harm frequently and severely for years before dying. Other people experience "rapid onset despair" and make an attempt.

Recovery is possible for both groups. Most people who attempt suicide do not make another attempt.

There's probably some data in the English NCISH reports here: https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/

(Also, I'm not trying to police your language. Use whatever words you like. But if you're talking to suicide researchers you may want to avoid "sucessful" or "failed" suicide, and use "died by suicide" or "killed themselves" (both for the UK) or "completed suicide" for the US.)
Exactly the lecturer was making the point about how those lessons had been learned - and it was in thermo dynamics class so we where doing a lot of work on steam tables and the like
Allegedly, the FBI just thwarted a planned bombing in LA by an Army veteran. [1]

Obviously all the operation details of how they found this guy are not disclosed, but there does appear to be undercover agents involved.

There have been cases in the past where the FBI undercover agent has been a little too instrumental in developing the plan for the alleged attack, but it doesn’t appear that is the case in this instance.

I would not be surprised if some sort of mass surveillance was instrumental in identifying / risk scoring this guy’s posting and flagging him for closer investigation.

Not at all a supporter of these programs in general, but I wanted to try to answer your question.

[1] - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/calif...
What is meant by proven? What is meant by "the humans"? And how can any human say that is so?
I encourage people to read this article as it more or less gives each side their "best shot" by fully quoting the airport's position, in their own words. I'm sure the side blocking the ads would prefer that the headline redd "rejects" or "chooses not to run" (rather than blocks), but in the body of the article they have a chance to state their piece in full. I'll quote this part (in the article this is followed by a direct quoted rebuttal literally starting with the words "This is wrong"):

>“In reviewing Open Media’s request to place advertising at the airport, we determined that it did not serve all of our stakeholders as we felt it pitted two groups against each other and it also has potential to add undue stress to the travel experience,” wrote spokesperson Brock Penner.

>“Additionally, YVR aims to be non-political and Open Media’s borderprivacy.ca website promotes an online petition with a political call-to-action directed towards government officials.”

(It should go without saying that I am not endorsing this statement.)
> YVR aims to be non-political

…telling people about their rights is non-political.
Did anyone expect it to do anything but rise? They have power and they want more. Pick up that can citizen.
> I have more fun doing the hobby itself than I would writing about it.

This is a real problem.

I tend to always have at least one hobby project going on that I know would be of interest to a wide group of people (such as the smartphone I'm currently building).

However, I don't like to document the projects as I go along, because it makes the project more difficult and time-consuming to accomplish, and I start to feel pressure to make sure that I'm providing regular updates -- which turns the hobby into a sort of job.

Instead, I prefer to document dump all my notes and sketches, and put the code and schematics up, after I've completed the project entirely. This means that I don't have a great deal of "work in progress" photos and the like, and that my post is not useful for people who want to see the process of development itself, but it's a compromise that works for me.
I consider it more like the defense of American football. A good defense is good. They could not allow the opposing offense to score any points all game. What should the defense claim? "We prevented 21 points from being scored!" No. They have no idea how many points they prevented.

NSA is a thankless organization. You don't know all the things they've done well, and they get blamed whenever anything bad happens.
What do you mean? Original quartz watches are still working, are they not? Do we have a good idea of how long they'll last?

Not having any moving parts would generally mean a quartz movement will be more durable.
So what happens to my rates if I sit in the back left seat and the uber driver is an absolute maniac on the road.
This is a nice post. I like the story line here. :) Classic mixing Timeless series and Legend of Zelda
This is not about security, it's HR. These policies are for mitigating potential risky behavior, not to stop otherwise malicious actors. It's about managing normal workers during a time period that will have decreased or even negative productivity and can cause team cohesion issues.

For example: a salesperson wont work on new deals and may even sabotage existing deals that they know they can pick up at a new company. Sometimes it's as innocuous as copying their contacts or browsing through new deal flow which they don't need to know about if they're going to a competitor. A manager might stop getting reports from their team or put off other tasks. Sure it may all go well but there are still hundreds of reasons to avoid all this potential risk.

HR departments aren't stupid or useless. They exist to manage the most complicated part of any business: the people. If you haven't ever worked in these sectors or departments, I'd recommend against assuming they have no value.
I would add that truth can be used to harm as well, because even entirely rational arguments with the best intentions can lead to grave atrocities (e.g. utilitarianism).
As a French living in France, here is my take on it.

Your two anecdotes do seem rude, however I would personally have asked the same thing, but in a different way, like "We could continue in English if you want" with probably a slight incentive in my tone to actually switch to English (sorry if I also appear a bit rude). Or Maybe I will just reply to your every question in English.

A native English speaker is blessed, English has become the de facto lingua franca of the World which means learning a foreign language generally is a luxury. For everybody else, it's more of a necessity, and you tend to be exposed to English in your everyday life, at least to some degree (films, tv shows, technical documentation, meetings if you work within an international team), so chances are the person you are talking to is actually more fluent in English that you are in French (and it's also valid for any other language).

It also means it's somewhat harder to actually learn a foreign language as a native English. As a personal experience, one of my colleagues is American, but wants to settle in France, so he is trying to learn French, and sometimes, we actually start speaking in French, but after one or two minutes, we switch to English. I just see my colleague struggling and I know the conversation would be easier in English. I feel a little guilty about it.

Lastly, but a bit out of topic, there might be some small cultural differences. Just to illustrate, In an American restaurant, the waiter will ask you if everything is ok at least once or twice during the course of the meal, in a French restaurant, he will take your order and leave you alone until you finish eating your dish (and then ask you if you want a desert, a coffee or the bill).
The Death of Prices
This is quite nice. It has a sort of Nomos vibe.
Spinning black hole sprays light-speed plasma clouds into space
The best thing that could ever happen to the cigarette business would be increasing the legal smoking age to 21. That puts them in the 'illicit cool things adults do' category. Dropping the age lower to 16 would put it in the realm of childish things.
Please show me where to shop then. I've looked everywhere. I can't find pockets big enough to hold my normal sized iPhone. I have a weird body shape, normal pants literally DO NOT FIT.
Have a read of the FAQ and overview docs, or watch the talk:
https://github.com/soul-lang/SOUL

The browser-based stuff is just a demo to let people explore the language and learn about what we're trying to do. The actual goal is to create the fastest, lowest-latency infrastructure for audio on all platforms.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19789052 and marked it off-topic.
Discussed yesterday as well, albeit using a BBC article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19777513
I tracked down one of these robocallers once. I'd been getting multiple calls a day from the same number. The number was tied to a business name, which had an old domain name registry in some online index. From there, I was able to find the original domain name purchaser name and phone number. I also found his Facebook page, with poor privacy settings - and a few other details about the guy. So I gave him a call. He was very surprised to get a call - but listened, and accepted that a phone call wasn't where I'd stop if his calls continued. They stopped that day.
Manufacturing is commoditized. The bandwidth exists in the generics factories of India. They're able to retool fast and get out high quality stuff pretty fast.

Discovery is a problem, but GlaxoSmithKline is only $200 billion dollars. The government can easily afford drug discovery grants.

Therapy that involves human beings is tough and I don't think I have an answer. But drugs are different. If I can buy cheap generics from India, I should be able to. If I want, I should be allowed to resell. If the government wants to say "FDA-certified" on some, so be it. For the rest, let the people decide.
When I searched for your name, it came up second in Google, first in DuckDuckGo and first in Bing. Not sure how the interviewer managed to miss it, both the site and your GitHub profile are in the top two results for your name.
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It isn't a strawman at all. The sold paranoia see something say something is very real.

Below I have linked real posters and not satire - unless their graphic designers are covertly revolting in protest.

https://p10.secure.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/ssl/spook...
Well that's depressing. Shows like this shouldn't be targeted towards young adults who have enough internal turmoil of their own.
Currently it's better, but only a little. They do NOT offer you an option to cancel auto-renew... ONLY to cancel.

BUT after you cancel (as I did), they now popup a 'do you want to keep access until the expiration?' which you must affirmatively select.

I infer - perhaps because I'm leery of CR now - that hiding the cancel-auto-renew option right up front is a way to manipulate people into thinking 'gee i better wait until it's closer to expiry to cancel' in the (probably safe) assumption many will forget.
Yes, obviously someone financially or politically benefiting from totalitarianism would disagree, as they want it to continue to the detriment of everyone else. Which is why it's important to not give them any possible ammunition like "hey it did actually stop this one rando, so it's really for your own good".
Or take a burner device that you can sync down your data on the other side of the border.
Why don't you use SCL if the official repos are outdated?
> “In reviewing Open Media’s request to place advertising at the airport, we determined that it did not serve all of our stakeholders as we felt it pitted two groups against each other and it also has potential to add undue stress to the travel experience,” wrote spokesperson Brock Penner.

I now have undue stress because of you Brock Penner and your stakeholders.

Who are these two groups? Your customers and an oppressive regime?
I certainly hope someone going to jail or for that matter being successfully sued depends upon more than a study which at best shows that suicide rates among one age range of one gender happened to increase around the same time a movie was released but by its own admission demonstrates no casual causation between the two.
How to feel less lonely while traveling by yourself
Gopls is great, but it's still alpha quality, in my opinion.

I've tried using it with VSCode this week, and it frequently stopped working in different ways, requiring a restart.

The peskiest problem is that it just refuses to automatically add some imports. No errors in the log, just messages about "undefined: someimportedname".

Really looking forward to Gopls stabilizing, because it's bound to be better than what came before.
My T470P from 2017 has 32GB of RAM (Came with 1x16 and I put the other 16 in myself) and it's great.

Can in a pinch do everything on the laptop I can do on my dev desktops.
I recently had experiences with a regular social group that demonstrated this. It's a group that drinks regularly except for two people who don't. One always feels like he fits in fine, while the other's presence always stuck out as not fitting in. I had to put my finger on why to tell him, after a few events where I found myself not desiring his presence and deliberately hadn't invited him.

I'd peg what's missing as vulnerability. Alcohol lowers one's social filters and inhibitions, of course. All the rest of a drinking group is participating in that shared experience, of letting inner thoughts and feelings be more exposed. The risk of saying or doing something one might later regret is part of the thrill. "Having fun" is the euphemism for allowing others to see that state in you.

Some people can naturally achieve that vulnerable "punch-drunk" state without alcohol. Some don't. A person who doesn't inhibits that whole vibe for everyone. You're not a peer, you're a monitor. Doesn't matter if you say you don't care -- the reality is that you will resist getting drawn in to whatever excesses are happening, and everyone will perceive that resistance and themselves adjust for it. Your presence of not mutually participating in the vulnerability drags down the vibe for everyone. It's not exactly the alcohol, it's the state of mind, but of course there is a correlation.

Of course this depends a lot on the nature of the social group. A college fraternity will just plow ahead and ignore that resistance. A country club probably has everyone acting restrained enough so as not to clash with one more reluctant personality. But there are those in-between groups, with social barriers high enough to exist but low enough to be pierced by alcohol, and the presence of a nondrinker acts against that piercing that the participants seek.
I've found sometimes the robots get really upset at your terrible performance and will ask you a lot more frequently, but eventually tire of asking new questions and are like "Sure, whatever." You'll get prompted a lot more often with the usual captchas though.
I'm sure there will be a government grant for it that fleeces tax payers to fund the research. Then they'll realize that pasta is so fragile when uncooked that everyone's straws are breaking and it's a useless product...but someone will make millions from it.
> Work clothes discouraged.
Yet another example of the failure of the narrow view that free speech only concerns government. A view that is disturbingly popular (see https://xkcd.com/1357/) despite an ever larger portion of public speech being conducted through corporate platforms.
I have no objection to surveillance if people are open about it and the information is accessible if reasonably needed. I honestly would rather live in a world that had cameras everywhere, including the rooms of my apartment and making victims actually have an opportunity to receive justice instead of the reality we live in today. Of course what I'm writing will be attacked because such a system is hard to design but it's not impossible and if it was made it could make it so the abused no longer be abused. Anyway I'm now in Canada because United States is only where the financially privileged get justice & healthcare.
If you read a bit further down, there was a political aspect to the advertisement:

> “Additionally, YVR aims to be non-political and Open Media’s borderprivacy.ca website promotes an online petition with a political call-to-action directed towards government officials.”
The traditional methods of becoming a monarch have become quite limited in the modern world.
Of course. Regarding all things sex, we still are very conservative and ass-backwards (especially when compared to violence in media). And up until the Prohibition, the US was very much a drunkard's country. Yet Prohibition left a very bad taste in the nation's mouth, so much so that some of its sentiments were still dealing with today e.g. absolute refusal to familiarize/socialize children (responsibly) with it at a young age. Due to this familial attitude where many parents expressly prohibit it, imbibing alcohol becomes the ultimate "fuck you mom/dad!" behavior.
Many groups try to keep a finger on the pulse everywhere: journalists, filmmakers, politicians, manufacturers (e.g. automakers), retailers, social scientists...

Many of these groups are concentrated in a handful of locales, e.g. Hollywood, D.C., Madison Avenue.
In my opinion, there is one really good reason for US drinking age to be higher: it is much more common for American teenagers to drive personal vehicles, so if you lower the drinking age, you would (at least, I believe) cause a drastic increase in DUIs and related accidents and deaths.
ZDNet has to monetize their low-effort content somehow.
The overview at https://github.com/soul-lang/SOUL/blob/master/docs/SOUL_Over... should help explain the motivation. I’m sure Jules can elaborate further :)
SaaS growth hacks that we will never implement (and the 3 that we did)
When to screen for autism? New study suggests as young as 14 months
That'd certainly be an interesting idea, and it'd probably find quite a few intriguing sites and pages.

That said, it also wouldn't be perfect, since quite a few small and personal sites do have ads for whatever reason. Usually because the author thinks hey, even a 0.5% chance someone clicks on an ad will pay better than no ads/a donation link.
It's not just tech --there are huge companies across many industries which are culpable for societal harm but not held accountable.
When you have company so large as to have an unassailable position, there is no incentive to put ethics ahead of profit. (Outside of following the law, which can also be changed with some political campaign investments.)
Some teacher that worked for the french ministry in the 80s told us that. It makes sense but I never found data on it. I'm not 100% sure it was done because he was a bit of a big mouth but at the same time he was in the field for decades so..
UCP/ACU is the definition of a horrible compromise.

The only environment where it possesses some applicability is complex urban terrain.

We face exactly the same problem in NZ with our MCU pattern.

Jack of all trade, master of none.

Seeing US ACP/ACU and NZ MCU in forestry/jungle, especially in low light, is like seeing a person wearing a white sheet over their head. Ineffective.

Multicam is the most flexible cam pattern I’ve seen as a one size fits all.

US Marine Corps’ and Canadian Army’s two types(each) of digital cam for desert and temperate climates are pretty effective.

Blue navy camouflage I’ve seen worn by US and Australian Navy personnel make no sense.

You don’t want to be camouflaged if you’re ships crew, you want to be seen/found. Should be hi-viz.
Metaflow looks like a superhero solution for ML/DL. Hope they open source it one day
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When at airports, I want to see kinda harmless ads: beautiful homes, greenery, that sort of thing. I'm fine with this. Traveling is stressful enough as it is.

If this were a frequent event it'd be fine, but it's a rare event, so I'd rather be chill. Like having a big ad saying "Your plane could crash" before the gate. No thanks. Not worth it.
There's that.

I don't point potential employers to my personal website (which I also don't associate with my real name). It's just none of their business. When I want to share work that I've done, I put it into a standalone presentation that I provide on a memory stick.
Pair that with increasing the driving age to 18 or 21 and you'd have a massive reduction in college drinking deaths and teen driving deaths.
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Requiring private parties to convey speech they disagree with is, itself, a violation of their freedom of speech.

EDIT: Otherwise, please explain to me how compelled speech is "less bad" than its restraint.
Good idea, bad approach. "Your phone isn't safe at the border" might be a hard fact but it's nonetheless an intentionally divisive expression of that sentiment. It's ambiguous, fearmongering.... facts can be clickbait, and this is one such case.

If the ads said "You can be legally compelled to X, even if Y. Learn more about your airport rights at www.url.com" then it would be much less objectionable IMO.

I don't get why campaigns keep making this mistake. Take the freaking high road. Imagine the mind of your opposition, and accomodate the low-hanging complaints they're going to have. Craft a message that's maximally agreeable to the people who disagree, while maintaining accuracy.

Weasels on both sides here, IMO.
Nah,should be trivial to determine your location from cell network and infer which side the driver is on if they know what kind of vehicle you have insured. ;)

Obviously, it's inference though, it's not 100% accurate, and it doesn't have to be.
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> While many people assumed that television networks held on to everything they aired, that wasn’t the case. Studios were constantly erasing and recycling broadcast tapes in order to save money and free up storage space.

I've heard about this happening during the early days of TV. For example, there was a lost episode of Dr. Who that finally turned up and part of the story was that most studios just re-recorded over the old stuff.

I didn't realize the practice continued into the 80s.

Are there any estimates for how much TV footage was never preserved by the networks?
Don't forget most people here are proles and care more about paying off debt than what is good or bad.
> I do not therefore have an official photo-based identity document on me when travelling routinely in the UK.

Neither do I - there's no requirement to carry your driving licence whilst driving.