skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is that the best case scenario is someone stargazing and pointing out constellations with a laser, then noticing a plane and, without thinking about the consequences, pointing at the plane to show their fellow stargazers "hey, there's a plane".
You've possibly been scammed in some way. Watch out for weird things happening in your name. This is not normal and most likely not legal.
Aren't unemployment rates in the U.S. calculated on folks who report, for example when they apply for unemployment benefits?

If you simply give up after a year or two, it's not counted, unless something has changed recently.

Thus the "participation rate" comment of the other reply.
But isn't red hat calling their version 'pcp-dstat' and not simply 'dstat', so they aren't shipping with the exact same name.
Based on the technical specs $150, even with 12 games seems like price gouging. It's not too far off the Adafruit PyBadge someone else mentioned in another comment only that comes with a color LCD and more buttons for only $35 ($25 if you get the trimmed down version). Sure it doesn't come with a fancy case and it's missing an analog crank (really?), but there's literally hundreds of free games you could get for it that I'm willing to bet are as much fun or more than every single one of those 12 free games that Playdate will include.

Sorry, this looks like a overpriced gimmick. The digital equivalent of a pet rock, or a more modern (and far more expensive) take on a tomagotchi.
+1. Also, we don't have many data points to suggest that this is relatively rare that objects from outer solar systems tend to move in later. May be that is quite common, we don't really know - we don't have enough data.

And even if we assume it is rare, how rare exactly? The numbers are so uncertain that we can say nothing yet.
What makes you think he misunderstood? What happens on fc30 when you 'yum install dstat' as he suggested?

This webpage listing the contents of the fc30 pcp-system-tools package: https://fedora.pkgs.org/30/fedora-updates-x86_64/pcp-system-...

lists a file called '/usr/bin/dstat'. The pcp-system-tools package obsoletes a package called 'dstat'. If you go to https://pkgs.org/download/dstat, and look under "Fedora 30," you get pcp-system-tools.

[Spoiler: 'yum install dstat' installs pcp-system-tools, which has a symlink /usr/bin/dstat -> /usr/libexec/pcp/bin/pcp-dstat.]
Tarrifs proportionate to percentage of pollutants in river outflow should work great.

I've heard they say you tax things you don't want to see? why not tax pollution at the source, the rivers?
Who lied about this ?

It's pretty clear we didn't accepted any PRs since December 2016 until Red Hat decided to replace our code, which started early June 2018. That's 18 months.

If I am upset about anything, it is this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1614277#c7
The word “blind” can mean either permanent or temporary loss of vision. To that end it does not seem to be an exaggerated headline at all.
The US government routinely monitors purchase and search histories to prevent the active ingredients of something destructive like that from falling into nefarious hands, and you're posing a wholly disingenuous argument
Playdate is not in the same market as the 2DS, or really anywhere near it. It's not trying to compete on any of the games-industry metrics, nor could it.

It's like comparing the latest Avengers movie with a niche YouTube show. You can compare the price of a movie ticket with a Patreon subscription, but what are you even comparing?
Former Exxon CEO and former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson famously stated in 2013 during a meeting with Exxonmobil shareholders: "What good is it to save the planet if humanity suffers"[1]. He explained, "As a species that’s why we’re all still here: we have spent our entire existence adapting. So we will adapt to this. It’s an engineering problem, and it has engineering solutions."

The idea that the humans will somehow adapt to this is the stupidest idea I've ever heard. Koch bros are pushing the same idea, on the evolutionary level, that humans will learn to live.

To me humanity is already dead, we are eternally doomed. We just don't know it yet. It's better to realize and accept it[2], as if we're told we have cancer and our days are numbered. This is a very pessimistic approach, but it is an honest one and may help mitigate problems for future generations.

[1] https://thinkprogress.org/exxon-ceo-what-good-is-it-to-save-...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/26/were-doo...
Is that actually what happens to our recycling? I was just wondering today how all this plastic gets repurposed. Does it get shipped overseas then dumped?
You might be racist
> IT giant Infosys recently blamed the denial of H-1B visas by United States (US) for part of its growing employee attrition

lol so funny. their main perk was chance to get h-1b visa and to blame us govt for not giving it to them.
You’re right, this extreme misrepresentation of my argument is not convincing
So it would all be fine if he just sat and stared at the wall I suppose.
San Francisco's IPO Panic Is All Hype
Me too. I really like their spin on the Gameboy.
Stuttgart has or at least used to have a viewing deck too. My favorite place as a kid.
So how do you propose we deal with psychopaths that dump radioactive waste into steel that then goes into your napkin box?

Ask them nicely again?
N=2, but if you tried to replicate you'd never get approval today ;)
It's in addition to a d-pad and two buttons.
What happens if the system flags the wrong person as "America's most wanted" and a trigger-happy cop is nearby? Not saying all applications are useless, but most of them definitely warrant additional thought.
I don’t disagree, but sadly our current government acts in a purely self-interested way- or in the interests of our ruling class anyhow- and any talk of doing what’s right by any administration in living memory has been insincere. But ideally I see what you’re saying.
H4 is notorious for not allowing spouses to leave their abusive H-1B partners (because they are dependent). Working is a way to allow them to have some breathing room when it comes to these relationships.
Modern subways have interlocks preventing motion while the doors are open, and preventing the doors from opening while the train is in motion.
I agree we can and should do what we can to prevent the worst outcomes and labeling direct nonviolent action as terrorism is a bit much / counterproductive
Likely to change soon. Those areas have stopped buying plastic waste from the rest of the world.
Could be corrected for by having couples enter the lottery as a unit, or halving the odds for each person entering as part of a couple.
This is a silly idea because only a small percentage of professions enjoy such high salaries, so the only thing you would do if you implement something like that is end up with a disproportionate number of people with such jobs. Furthermore, companies in certain geographic areas (e.g. Silicon Valley) would rejoice, because they would be able to hire an even greater number of foreign workers before the quotas get filled.

There are much, much better ways to fix the issues with H-1B visas. The first and most important thing that needs to happen is no longer tying the visa to the employer. Once we make it so that people on H-1B can freely move around in the labor market during the course of their visa, they would automatically gain the ability to command higher wages, which would result in employers rely on foreign labor less (since it would be more expensive), and only hiring foreigners who are actually skilled and exceptional.
Perhaps a Greenpeace ship needs to be attacked by Chinese on live TV in order to gain momentum?

We need eco-martyrs too.
If it came with absolutely no downsides, of course it would be awesome if a subway could identify and charge you just by walking in. Or an Uber. Or a grocery store. It’s the perverse abuses of such technology by the government or advertising companies that makes it dystopian.
Which is why it's better to have cellulose/paper straws.
I went to community college before I went to Uni. At least at my uni everyone that transferred in ended up not getting scholarships (we were told we would get them but constantly got a run around or financial aid would schedule meetings with us after the due date). We all ended up paying a little more than those that went all 4 years (who just maintained their scholarships).
Option 3 is what people admire but it is not human behavior. Throughout history people and corporations have chosen to lie to themselves and others rather than accept a cold hard truth.
"we don't want racist idiots making money off of our hard work"?
And we're already into "Think of the children!"
Wow. This is very cool. It has a whole virtual desktop. Neat.
It's not exactly sociopathic to point out the hypocrisy of the US standing on some kind of moral high ground while blowing up whole countries and killing millions of people directly or indirectly.
In the US at least (probably most other places too), aircraft are tracked pretty accurately, so if you know the time it happened and the pilot can give a rough bearing, some triangulation should be possible. Add to that the fact that the area around airports (where such lasering usually occurs) is usually sparsely populated due to people not wanting to live near and airport, and it’s easy to see how it might be possible to narrow it down to a specific address.
This is a very good point.

If you add in the GDP component of the financial and defense industries, you are looking at a massive overhead of markets managed by implicit or explicit government enforcement (or lack of it) for the benefit of a small elite. This is similar to China, but the Chinese have strategic vision for their economy; in the US it is managed by random allocation of lobbyist dollars.
Fortunately for the rest of us, that optimism has worked pretty well for thousands of years now. Besides, if you really believe we're doomed, what difference does it make to you what anyone thinks about anything?
High power "dazzling" lasers for military use:

http://optics.org/news/4/3/46
A second recommendation for BBM here. I especially appreciate their evidence-based approach to training programming and lack of dogmatism about resistance training. They tend to program mainly for barbell movements, but if you want to use machines or bodyweight alternatives, go for it.

That said, I'm pretty sure that any of them would regard the original link with a high degree of scepticism. I'm happy to assert that every single "weakness" identified on that page could be avoided/rehabilitated with any basic whole-body resistance training routine. People have an unfortunate tendency to latch onto information like this and assume a worst-case scenario (e.g. "if I don't immediately do all these exercises daily, I'm going to fall apart").
What a fascinating concept. Makes me feel out of touch with consumers these days, I'd have imagined the appeal of this would be very low but since the Panic team has a great track record and volume manufacturing is not cheap I guess they have assessed their demand.

I'm curious who is buying this instead of e.g. a GPD XD (full android clamshell with dedicated game controls).
You can also use the same basic cicd pipeline to manage infrastructure on different providers instead of a custom pipeline for each provider tailored to their tool.
iPhones, Armed Robbery, and Hacking (2018)
Landmines are a non-trivial factor in South Korea's freedom. For a large portion of their existence the South had an inferior army and economy. Their current might is a more recent phenomena.
This is actually something Hank Paulson comments on in his book "Dealing with China": the Chinese have a huge government, but they actually have something like a half to a third as many government workers per capita. And their comms infrastructure, despite the Huewai bruhaha, is severely lacking in comparison, so those additional people don't stretch as far.
If you want to throw geek jargon around, drop the "game theory" lens and start re-evaluating your "zero sum" assumptions.

A world where we buy endless cheap junk from China and ship cash out of the country to pay for it is far richer one for everyone[1] than one in which we need to make all the junk at our labor rates. Why? Because all that cash is coming right back into the country as investments.

It's like shopping at a store which decides the best use of their income is to lend it right back to you so you can buy more stuff.

[1] Especially the chinese, of course, who have lifted their nation out of abject poverty in barely over half a century. But we win here too relative to the isolationist scenario.
Money is an entry in a bank database, or small pieces of paper. Any value it has beyond kindling is created by and shared by society. If society decides to tax extreme monetary income at an extreme rate, then tough luck. Although do consider the large, lavish, and well staffed mansion you live in when considering how "tough" your luck is.
>some of the investors youre going after have already funded your competitor

Why would you target those investors? Should target investors that don't have clear competition already in their portfolio.
There is no "pass" to it, it's an executive policy change, it doesn't need Congressional approval. Just another example of callous cruelty from the current administration.
Paris actually used to be beautiful, now it is bland and boring without soul. Why did people rave about its beauty in the 1800s and early 1900s? Perhaps you'd be able to answer that question yourself if you looked up all the gorgeous buildings that used to exist in Paris and around the Eiffel Tower that are now nonexistent.
The problem with this kind of stuff is that by due to the ambiguity of natural language, it becomes more complicated to actually do this at scale.

Also, you are essentially creating another programming language that I have to learn and I don't want to learn it.

"Writing code using natural language" should mean that I can write code without having to follow any kind of format.

I should be able to say "find the smallest item in the list" and "give me the smallest element in the list" and that should work the same way. Right now these natural language programming languages are still just that - programming languages.
Can you elaborate? Hasn't that always been a thing?
And it had to be from up above the plane! I mean pilots sit in "shadow zone" (so to speak) in relation to anything on Earth. So the only situation in which such laser could actually harm and burn someone eyes, is the source came from another plane, flying above. Its quite possible - so many times on my flights I see planes below me going the opposite way.
I'll give this idea one plus - it's a got a playful, fun design. I get the idea of going simple and fun with this.

As a device to plunk down $150 on, no way.

- If the crank is so fun, they didn't manage to show it.

- Hopefully they'll show more games, because the promise of 12 black and white games involving two buttons a crank isn't awe-inspiring.

- The 2DS is the same price and is vastly more powerful and capable. Obviously they're going for simplicity and quirkiness but objectively it's just a real hard sell here.

- Nintendo is rumored to be making a cheaper more portable Switch along with a Switch Pro this year, and I bet that cheap one is going to be $200.

I just think the only "why" of this thing is "because we could." That's totally okay, but I'd be shocked if this was any more than a limited run item, and even more shocked if anything beyond those initial games ever make it to the platform.
Even if the administration does actually issue a ruling (which they have been sitting on for years now), it will immediately be challenged in courts and remain there indefinitely. Like everything else it's meant to be a talking point for Trump at his rallies, nothing more.
What's the benefit of that kind of Android console vs getting a clipon controller?
It appears that the ast module is the recommended one now.
It won’t affect them just like when Russia poisons defectors abroad on foreign soil. Lots of noise and complaining but nothing can come of it. They’re too big.
Bans. Sanctions. Diplomatic action. Force their government to crack down on them.

Terrorism is basically narcissistic. It never, ever helps anything, but it feels so good to lash out at bad people, so you convince yourself that you're a hero when all you're really doing is turning people against your cause.
Ctrl+-- makes it tolerable on desktop.
So in what way will facial recognition and "criminal spotted on 5th avenue" either dissuade or encourage totalitarianism/removing checks and balances?. If a Gov't falls into totalitarianism, a facial recognition ban (both internally within AMZN as well as on a national/local level) won't stop them from requiring AMZN to provide them facial recognition behind-the-scenes.
> Are you going to use a third party application for backups?

macOS, Windows 10, and Ubuntu Desktop all come with built-in, incremental backup solutions that work well (at least for me), so I think that need is taken care of.

There are a number of apps on iOS and Android that allow arbitrary folders to be synchronized with a server or NAS. I'm using Resilio Sync, and it seems to work.

> How about sharing?

I've written a design doc for sharing that I'm about to build out. I'll share it with you.

> The application you are building looks interesting!

Thanks!
Our main competitor who might steal the IP has 60 investors already. Its in the cryptocurrency biz. The IP has no way of being patentable for sure.
Pretty interesting, thanks for answering. I wasn't even born, found a nice wiki link where scientists predicted cooling because of aerosol increase but the greenhouse effect was apparently published about in 1972 so they should have known:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_climate_change_scie...
> A world where we buy endless cheap junk from China and ship cash out of the country to pay for it is far richer one for everyone[1] than one in which we need to make all the junk at our labor rates. Why? Because all that cash is coming right back into the country as investments.

This does not automatically follow--and, in fact, I would argue against it.

GE had to "insource" their hot water heater manufacturing to continue to wring out cost savings--and discovered that they had forgotten how to design and build hot water heaters.

That is fairly strong evidence that keeping this stuff in China benefits China to the detriment of other countries.

I am okay for paying a not insignificant amount extra on my goods to keep the knowledge of how to make them in the domestic area.
An often under reported fact about paris is that it lies in one of the ugliest regions of France. The 100 km radius around Paris is so stunningly depressing that Parisians end up going weekend trips to Normandy. "Au royaume des aveugles, le roi est borgne", as they say
I think we're there already. A generic getting-started-with-AI online course will do a reasonable enough job at object detection and identification to be dangerous.
Agreed (and third-ed).

Also, I guarantee they would regard this info with a lot of skepticism. I compete in powerlifting, Austin @ BBM is my coach, and I have been to several of their seminars. Austin's lecture on pain and injury included a strongly worded statement (verbatim): "Weakness does not cause pain" (along with a thorough explantation that there is no evidence to support that it does).
H4 work permits are only issued to spouses when the primary H-1B holder has been on the visa for 6+ years or has already been approved for a green card and is stuck in the backlog. Someone who just received a visa or just came to the country can't apply anyways, so this isn't going to help.
"Almost everyone on HN recognizes that climate change is an existential threat to (most) life on earth."

No. There are no even remotely plausible scenarios in which most life (say, all mammals, to pick something specific) go extinct due to climate change caused by human CO2 emissions. If you think that, you have been lied to - and have not been smart enough to recognize the lies.
> Details of the 35.3-mile system, which emerged recently in a 505-page draft environmental assessment, reveals a design that fails to meet several key national safety standards. The underground system appears to lack sufficient emergency exits, ignore the latest engineering practices and proposes passenger escape ladders that one fire safety professor calls “the definition of insanity.”
I went to Vegas half a year ago and it was quite awkward walking around... I felt like I was on an airport runway all the time, quite uncomforting
> Nor do Japanese cities have many official celebrations of immigrant culture or contributions.

Tokyo certainly has. Almost every weekend right next to Yoyogi park[0] there is one, Cuban fest, Thai fest, Rainbow fest, Cambodia fest.

And they are pretty big, with at least 10's of thousands of people visiting.

0 - https://www.yoyogikoen.info
Don't forget the weather. Winters in New York are brutal.
Some plastic is used to make polyester clothing, but the latter can't be recycled any further. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyF9MxlcItw
> And what happens if we descend into military rule or a dictatorship?

We wear masks.
Sure. This is the part I was referring to:

> Moralising is a habit of those who lack the strength and/or will to get what they desire through other means.

America isn't a very good world citizen in 2019. I honestly wouldn't take issue with a different world power taking the lead if its ruling party weren't even worse. But rest assured, the people in charge of China right now are indeed worse. And my own country's problems don't change the atrocities that they commit.
2009 article: Data from 1900 up to 2004 "The US has the biggest historical share (314,772m metric tonnes of carbon dioxide), while European countries such as Germany (73,625) and the UK (55,163) cast a shadow over developing nations such as India (25,054), Brazil (9,136) and Indonesia (6,167). China is on 89,243."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/datablog/2009/sep/02...

And as per article, US companies are also involved in the muddy waters of denialism propoganda.
I think its positioned more at 'us' vs the consumer. Small run for game/gadget lovers with some disposable income and memories of when everything wasn't formulaic IAP-driven nonsense.
I wouldnt say superior, Logic, Ableton, Reason, Cubase etc. They're all different, they all have their own strengths and weaknesses. Eg. Ableton has pretty crappy midi sequencing capabilities whereas Reason has probably the best. They all fit different use cases.
It's the "burn" bit I object to.
Insurance, healthcare and even education are absolutely part of the 'free market'.

My gosh man, healthcare is going to be 1/3 of the world's economy in 30 years anyhow, as we all get a little older.

Insurance is a financial product which we have a hard time thinking about in tangible terms, but it's generally very value creating.

And so is education, often. FYI US exports about $25B a year in Education to foreign students.
Hmmm, at 40KM from the runway, I wonder what altitude they were at. It was likely someone on the ground, pretty close to the plane, while it was pretty much overhead.

I wonder what the falloff in power is, according to the inverse square law, for a couple of watts of green laser?

Something that can burn paper and pop balloons from across the room probably can't do the same at a thousand meters, right?

I'm thinking they're out to make an example of someone by overplaying the injury...
I don't know how much noise it made in the press, but the US just made some significant investments into nuclear.
So sad. Another ancient unique culture to be blended and homogenized into the global mass of undifferentiated Starbucks society.

At least the megacorporations will get the cheap labor and undifferentiated consumers they want.