skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, in fact the company I work for provides, bar none, the best experience for video conferencing and collaborative online whiteboarding I've ever used. We go to great lengths to reduce latency and make the discussion feel as natural as possible.

Its still, at least to me, markedly less productive, than an in-person meeting.

Like I said, conferences, summits, etc. These are done for a reason. Not to mention that there's some research I've seen that suggests that places like Bell were so successful because they cultivated happenstance interactions between smart people that don't happen in distributed environments.
If I look at number of glasses of water drank and 30 types of cancer and find that one statistically significant correlation between water and increased incidence of one of those cancers have I done good science?

Not to mention if I give someone a glass of water it will do nothing. If I force feed them a 1000x the dose, like many of these studies, they would die. A far worse outcome than what happened to these mice and fish.

But if glyphosate is this poisonous why don't rats get sick when we give it to them?
11,000 kg garbage, four dead bodies removed from Mt Everest in two-months
Hi. DevOps person here. Was doing DevOps for about 15 years before the word was even coined. (I did my first "devops" kind of work professionally in 1995.)

DevOps isn't a tool. It isn't a team, or a person. It isn't even a culture. It's a way, for lack of a better word. Like the way of the Tao. The DevOps that can be named is not the true DevOps. Everyone is doing DevOps, and no one is doing DevOps. That doesn't mean some aren't doing it better than others.

Some years ago, I attended the first DevOps Enterprise conference, and there was a phrase everyone was using... "We're not unicorns, we're horses". The point being, your company doesn't need to be a Netflix or a Google to do DevOps successfully. Elements of transformation can be adopted by anyone. Then again, as I said on Twitter at some point, "Some companies are unicorns, some are just horses, some are just donkeys, some are just stick horses, and some are just sticks". To go on another wild analogy, DevOps transformation is kind of like alcoholism. First, you have to admit you have a problem.

The next thing is, because DevOps is basically a Taoist problem... well, you can't buy the Tao. You can't hire the Tao. So companies that try to "buy the DevOps", thinking a tool will save them, or try to "hire the DevOps", thinking a consultant will save them, are doomed to failure. This isn't to say you shouldn't go out and try to hire experienced DevOps engineers, or that they can't help you, but the reality is much more broad than a single hire. Getting a good engineer is only as good as that engineer's freedom to act.

And tools do not DevOps. They only make the DevOps easier. You can DevOps even with antique tools. Back before some of you were born, I was doing distributed deployments with version control and A/B testing with shell scripts and a SQL database. It worked.

Wow, I can rant a lot about this. But what really matters? Commitment to becoming better. Actions, not words. Automating what can be automated. Recognizing that speed reduces rather than increases risk. Remembering that it's a process, not a goal. Being patient with slow beginnings. Measuring things. Remembering that not everything that is valuable can be easily measured.
It was OK on the autobahn, and mostly OK in cities, but there was a lot of car behind me. Had an odd stance compared to other big cars I've driven (mostly old 60s stuff like an Olds Jetstar or pickup trucks); felt very snakey.
A friend in scientific publishing tells me that China is in on the game.

Not wishing to say anything trade confidential, however, a major Western publishing house is having difficulty competing, the reason being turnaround speed. Try and get something published here and it takes a long time. Having a baby can be quicker.

Meanwhile in China you submit to your journal and you get it peer reviewed the following week and published shortly thereafter.

Try it, at least under the pretext of learning about how the world of scientific publishing works in the West as well as in China. Even if you do not get published there will be benefits in knowing what the score is.

Sorry I have no more details to share with you on the internal difficulties of the publishing business, there has been a lot of merger and acquisition activity going on as the business model is currently going through some pains.

It may seem disloyal going to get published by the underdog, however it isn't a biggie. Where do you think growth for journal subscriptions is coming from these days? China. The publishing community is gladly selling them 'our IP'.
Concluding that English is the national language of the US is totally reasonable. Most government documents are in English. The Constitution is in English. English is the language overwhelmingly taught in schools, used in the workplace, and is the most spoken language in the country by far. Saying that English isn't the official language in the US is really just highlighting the fact that the Federal government hasn't bothered to designate an official language. In fact, 32 states have designated English as an official language. For all practical purposes the official language of the US is English.

This is much different from the India where only ~40% of the population are native Hindi speakers. More than 2/3rds of the US population only speaks English, and under 10% of the population have English proficiently categorized as "less than proficient" (but often this is still enough to get by).
Well, "legitimate". There's no legitimate reason for a company to remove anything from user-provided e-mail address.
That's what I mean. The Quarks were partly a mathematical guess to encapsulate the known patterns in hundreds of composite particles
The same way we prevent small kids from visiting pornhub: through responsible supervision.
a fair bit was by train, and that was a tremendous help. I have consumed a whole lot of audiobooks, haha. I prefer multi-book series, where the longer each book is, the better. Plenty of 40hr+ books. I figure I went through maybe 150 such books. As part of the commute was by train, I could work or do other things there, but for driving, audiobooks all the way.
The VB shops I've seen code from tended to really like `On Error Resume Next`, too...

Sure, I've seen global try/catch blocks swallowing all errors in C#/C++ code too, but definitely not as prevalent in my anecdata.
My point is that that rapid prototyping stage is really important, has long lasting consequences, and so optimizing for it is a reasonable decision.

And that's just one reason to disfavor a remote-only environment.
In the case of being extra extra pedantic, how did the F-15 without arresting gear get on the carrier in the first place? Okay, enough fun.
Simplifying DevOps with WayScript
WW2 was largely a war amongst whites and amongst east asians. It doesn't really map onto White Supremacy neatly.

I'm surprised you didn't point to colonialism instead, which would be a better argument.
I am asking this in earnest: what makes a spin instructor a "best-in-the-world" instructor? I can see how an instructor for e.g. one of those classes where you do workouts with a weighted bar might have better techniques or routines than another, but from my naive perspective, it seems like a spin instructor can just tell you to pedal faster or slower. But I'm not just trying to dig at them! I really am curious. I'm more of a "get outside" type of person, so I don't know a lot about this sort of thing.
Understanding Physics by Isaac Asimov is a great book that discusses Newtonian mechanics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, and atomic physics. It presents it by discussing the history of the discoveries and experiments that advanced our understanding of the physics. The book is from 1966, so there have been numerous advances since, but it does go into a lot of detail of subatomic particles and radioactive decay. It is written to be understood by lay people and doesn't go very deep into the mathematics, which helps make it easier to understand.
In the winter, putting on (and then taking off) the winter clothes plus rinsing the salt off the bike when I get home adds 10 - 15 minutes to the ride.

And while I don't really don't enjoy riding stationary bikes, there is some appeal to getting in a fake ride on a stationary bike in my living room when it's 35 degrees and raining outside. Or 90 degrees and high humidity.
Twice, I had something like a Wahoo Kickr. Twice, after repeated use, the mounting mechanism to fasten my road bike to the trainer started to fail or became very cumbersome to use.

When it did work, the tires on the road bike slipped when putting on high power.

In the end, even if it wasn't a huge inconvenience, the hassle of using the system was sufficient friction to stop me from using it, just like the overhead of going to a gym.

There is a large market for tailor-made solutions that are perfect for just one application. (See also: iPad, bike GPS computers, 10 different categories of mountain bikes, ...)
It is absolutely reactionary, but it's a reaction against enlightenment thinking. This explains many of its key attributes: Use of propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and rejecting egalitarianism.

It's also why it's not easily dispatched by enlightenment thinking... it survived those battles back in the 20th century and ultimately had to be put down with exercises of power (often military, sometimes social, rarely diplomatic).
> Long term it’s looking bad, unless there’s change in that relationship.

Long term nothing gets worse. Yes, China perhaps becomes Japan eventually, but look where that has gone after the paranoia of the 1980s. Completely survivable and for the most part a net positive.
I recommend Tales of the Quantum by Art Hobson.
In french, we say "le jour J" (literally "the D Day") to mean "the day where the thing happens" without knowing the actual date, J is like a variable here. Then you can talk about "le jour J-1", "J-2"...
"The "trade war" is something that came out of Trump's sick mind, influenced by Bannon."

This is incorrect. Peter Navarro is the main driver for addressing China's practices. He wrote the book on it.

"it is also morally unjustified: the US has spent the last 100 years or more preaching open markets."

China's markets are not open? How many foreign companies had to do 51/49 split ventures to access Chinese markets? Do you think they wanted do that? Do you honestly think that is 'open'?
As a quantum physicist: This might be an interesting experiment, but as far as the theory goes, this is exactly what is to be expected from standard quantum mechanics.

Quantum leaps being instantaneous would be a (possibly common) misconception.

The leap in a quantum leap is describing the notion of a discrete jump in measurement outcomes.
The comment did, but I am not in the US, nor is youtube limited to the US, so I don't see why the discussion should concern only the US.

And please don't put words in my mouth - I did not 'frame' immigration as an invasion, or as anything else - my statement was as dry as possible. If you can offer a more neutral phrasing that captures the same meaning, I'd be grateful.
Depending on on-call crisis management is pretty much the opposite of DevOps. DevOps isn't about being on-call; it's about making on-call unnecessary.
Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt on the “Prison” of Founding a Company
I disagree that it's not a clarification.

from the original tou as far back as it went on archive.org:

> You may not post, upload or transmit to the Site, or to the YouTube servers, any communications, text, graphics or other information or Materials that: (1) is unlawful, obscene, fraudulent, indecent or that defames, abuses, harasses, or threatens others, or is hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; (2) contains any software viruses, Trojan horses, worms, bombs, or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment or that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept, or expropriate any system, data, or personal information; (3) advocates or encourages any illegal activity; (4) infringes on the copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, right of publicity or other intellectual property, proprietary, contracted, personal or other right of any third party; (5) violates the privacy of inpiduals, including other users of the Site; or (6) violates any applicable local, state, national or international law. You agree not to use bots, spiders or intelligent agent software (or other methods) for any purpose other than accessing publicly posted portions of the Site and then only for the purposes consistent with the limited license hereunder and these Terms of Use. You agree not to, or attempt to, circumvent any access or use restrictions, data encryption or content protection related to the Site; not to data mine the Site and not to in any way cause harm to or burden the Site. You agree that you will not post on or transmit through the Site any advertising or commercial solicitation of any kind whatsoever, including, without limitation, via e-mail or chat, without YouTube's express prior written approval and, if then, solely in accordance with the terms and conditions imposed by YouTube with respect thereto. You further agree not to use the Site, or any element or portion thereof (including, without limitation, e-mail addresses of users), for any commercial purpose whatsoever.

specifically the first part: (1) is unlawful, obscene, fraudulent, indecent or that defames, abuses, harasses, or threatens others, or is hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;

heading from their blog post:

> Removing more hateful and supremacist content from YouTube

where they go on to clarify what is meant by hateful.
Or the info may have been transfered to third party for "legitimate" reasons, and then "stolen" by an employer of said third party. From the second-hand stories I heard personally, this is a common practice with call centres subcontracted by Polish telcos.

Still, it doesn't matter. Whether the company sold the data or got it taken from them, they are still at fault.
This is a set of projects that aims to reach similar functionality as g-suite. I think maybe the author is just getting ahead of themselves mentioning the tractor. The appeal of this is that it would be attractive for the same reasons google is - convenience and ease of use, but would be free and open source. Most foss projects don't focus on user-experience as much, or at all, or they're aiming for a good developer user experience, not a good mom user experience.
“You must believe something to be true that you yourself know to be false” is a very “point deer say horse” kind of philosophy.
They kinda are over at Twitter: https://twitter.com/gaywonk/status/1136056663927087105

They've demonetized Crowder.

> Update on our continued review–we have suspended this channel’s monetization. We came to this decision because a pattern of egregious actions has harmed the broader community and is against our YouTube Partner Program policies.

Then they've made some additional confusion by talking about how they'll remonetize him when he removes shirts from the shop (they've presented it as the only requirement to reinstate monetization). At the end, they've doubled down on the first thing they've said:

> Again, this channel is demonetized due to continued egregious actions that have harmed the broader community. To be reinstated, he will need to address all of the issues with his channel.
Maybe you can make a living at selling $50,000 jewelry to the very wealthy, but I'm not sure you can make much of a living selling a $3000 bike to the 1%.
Perhaps linguistic territory could be recaptured with seasteading?
Probably has nothing to do with anything, but I find it funny that a website trying not to be Google is using Google's Material Design.

Ignoring that, this stuff all looks fantastic.
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While the question seems a bit arrogant/ignorant, I really dislike the snarky quora-styled response.

I go to stackoverflow for answers, not stories or opinion pieces.
From the top of my head as a very lay person, I can count several languages that are not only completely distinct but also completely alien to me as a Hindi speaker: Marathi, Bengali, Oriya, Assamese, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malyalam. These are major languages and form the basis of a lot of state boundaries.
They wouldn't grind to a halt, but a lot of dishonest businesses would find themselves in a world of trouble. Which is all positive in my books. The market will go as low as people allow it to.
let's say the wages for a paramedic + driver (including overhead of payroll taxes, benefits, malpractice insurance, etc etc) is $75/hour. How do you figure 50c/mile? Gas? What about all the expensive medical equipment in the ambulance, skill training to use it, service it, insurance on the vehicle, maintenance of the engine/tires, compliance with whatever regulations exist on ambulance service providers....?
> I didn’t quite catch from the Quanta article what is new, mathematically

Nothing is new. This experiment is simply confirming a prediction of standard QM. All the talk about "quantum jumps" and how something has supposedly changed about the way we understand them is just pop science reporters misunderstanding the actual science.
Perspectives on Cloud Outcomes [pdf]
Some chatbots have been pretty passable at holding simple conversations for a while. Cleverbot's initial version started in 1986, and seems to have been okay at conversations even then. I remember using it in the early 2000s and being fairly impressed. I don't even think it's using any ML currently, and it's still giving me pretty decent results when I tried using it again just now.

Alexa has more complex requirements (it's funny when Cleverbot gives an occasional nonsensical response, but not so funny when Alexa unexpectedly orders you a $2,000 lawn gnome - okay, still kind of funny), but I definitely agree with you. I don't think this is a challenge that requires anything close to AGI, unless you want to start having truly insightful and philosophical conversations with a computer.
I'm not interested in splitting hairs over whether Holocaust denialists, anti-Semites, and white supremacists are "technically Nazis," or if Nazis just happen to have all the same beliefs.

Their specific beliefs and the things they say and do are awful.

If you don't support their beliefs, maybe think about who convinced you to carry water for them. What community or group, or role models, taught you that amplifying hate was better than not doing so?
The annular wing is an interesting touch. It should reduce induced drag at the low Reynolds numbers these drones typically fly at, by eliminating the wingtip vortices. I was working on a very similar design for a while, and I placed the props at the wingtips to cancel the vortices instead.

Also it would be interesting to see what their power electronics look like. You get a 20x reduction in thrust demands by going from hover to flight mode, but the problem is that the efficiency of brushless motors also tends to be absolutely dreadful when you run them at 5% throttle.
Grab that mouse, took me a while :)
Was it Harry Truman who said, "If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog."?
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... or to accept that the plans were not economically viable as they stand. I'm an economist not a nuclear physicist, but the signal the market is sending is that these plans are not what is needed. Find a way to make the electricity cheaper, or accept the demand isn't there.
It seems to me that that tradition is just an example of the phenomenon the OP is referring to.
I’ve noticed that my Alexa no longer requires me to ask a request of certain skills in a lot of cases so it seems to be getting smarter about choosing skills automatically. This seems like a natural next step.
Here is the whole section

> 1.3 Kids Category

> The Kids Category is a great way for people to easily find apps that are designed for children. If you want to participate in the Kids Category, you should focus on creating a great experience specifically for younger users. These apps must not include links out of the app, purchasing opportunities, or other distractions to kids unless reserved for a designated area behind a parental gate. Keep in mind that once customers expect your app to follow the Kids Category requirements, it will need to continue to meet these guidelines in subsequent updates, even if you decide to deselect the category. Learn more about parental gates.

> Apps in the Kids Category may not include third-party advertising or analytics. You should also pay particular attention to privacy laws around the world relating to the collection of data from children online. Be sure to review the Privacy section of these guidelines for more information.

It appears to only apply to apps in the "Kids Category" so Candy Crush and the like can just say they are "adult"/not-kid-games and continue to be used by kids (while showing them ads and tracking them).
How Emma Boettcher Beat James Holzhauer on ‘Jeopardy’
I have been telling my family that for awhile. It's going to be $3 to $6 a year if you NEVER turn off an LED bulb lamp.

If you forget, it is ok.
Hi,

Productivity is the current foundation, but you can think having an open source Bloom tractor in some years.

I've dared the Google comparison, because I see Google as an innovative tech giant who have an app for all our needs.

We have the same goal. But open source.
which vaccines? meningitis? anthrax? syphilis? tuberculosis? HPV? hepatitis? flu?

We will never have absolute safety in life. I prefer to have freedom to make the choice because the government will always end up abusing any power we give it.
More Universities Shut Down Traditional MBA Programs as Popularity Wanes
Legitimate reason != legitimate company
Angkor Wat archaeological digs yield new clues to its civilization’s decline
Amazon: A drone program taking flight
> what your electric bill is,

I am in Quebec, power is cheap to the point of this being irrelevant. Heating is also required a large part of the year (including until yesterday because the weather has been horrible so far this "summer"...). Plus, well, tax credit for business expenses make that "less than free".

> and how loud your racks are?

Watercooling and passive PSUs makes it silent. I hate noise.

> Can I ask what you're doing with that home lab

Beside all the usual services for a small business (phone, email, storage, backup, routing, etc), it is mostly an oVirt (RedHat Enterprise Virtualization) private cloud running Docker VMs used by the CI to compile C/C++, build embedded device firmware images and run tests. The extra horse power (and least power efficient) nodes are woken up use wake-up-on-lan and boot a template using PXE from the GlusterFS distributed NAS. They are shut down when the load goes down. Only the big 7U case with the double1 140mm watercooling fans is open all the time. It is the "head" of the cloud cluster (but in theory is configured to auto migrate in case of hardware failure to the dual 120mm 4U case, but honestly I never tried the automatic migration).

Not very pretty, but good enough. https://imgur.com/a/hnlInSz (yes, there is some overlap between those 2 pictures because I moved some units between taking them, some units have been traded for others too).
Fix Your Front End: Make React an Implementation Detail