skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is something a bit perverse about taking something that was originally meant to promote Police accountability and using it for this.
let's be real, I've been living in the US for 10 years now and almost 100% of the US cities are based on a rectangular grid plan. Almost all European cities are too old to have one unless they were rebuilt (ie. Baron Haussmann work in Paris). I don't think he's conflating, I had the same exact impression when hearing "I had to run 5 blocks"... it's just an American thing.
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I hope the C++/Qt role is also Remote welcome. Just sent in my application for the same.
This has been the case since at least the 1990s, maybe earlier.

That strategy has always emphasized market-share over profitability.

It seems to work out better for software than physical produced goods.
The original way of doing electronics was tag board, hand-soldered components, and valves. Hobbyist radio was a huge thing in the 30s/40s/50s and consumer electronics and computing have their roots in that.

The problem with the Maker movement is that it was never going to provide the same rewards. The appeal of hobby electronics in the 70s/80s was DIYing expensive consumer items for low cost.

In some cases you could DIY expensive professional items. Everyone knew computers were rare and expensive, but you could build one. In your own home. For a not completely ridiculous price. And all the while you were learning what the elements did, and some of how they worked. Thrilling! For adults as well as teens and kids.

There was an aspirational element, a practical element, and - for some people - some interest in the mysteries behind the designs.

The nearest modern equivalent is probably app development, but that's already so rarefied it's not really a DIY scene.

Aduino/Pi are not consumer-friendly. You can build projects, but not replacement products - especially not products that have a modern ecosystem around them.

Tinkering for its own sake still has some appeal, but it's not driven by the same passionate curiosity that drove earlier fads.
That's sad to hear. I went to my first makerfaire last year, and I got to experience some of the most amazing things ever

- Making my own T-shirt through a heat press

- Watching battlebots fight live in person. I got to see how battlebots were maintenanced and designed. And take a look firsthand on how the Kraken (one of the battlebots) was built from prototype to what it is today (it uses a air compressor which is kind of weird)

- Seeing all sorts of cool cosplay

- really interesting side projects - micro-3d photography and photo stiching of insects, 3D gif makers from 30 cameras in a single room using python, arcattack music from tesla coils, zoetropes, etc

- K-12 local community projects - kids were teaching adults how to solder, make DIY type of stuff, etc.

There's lots more to be said but makerfaire is one of a kind
Whatever... They are now history and lately remembered by hanging over Java to Oracle... Everything else will be buried in history or 42nd page of Google search results
I do not know why the article did not mention it but I think people might feel the case of Henrietta Lacks where there are a lot of thorny questions would be relevant, even though people give their consent to 23andMe now.

Also false positives for DNA matches - overconfidence in results from DNA labs due to popular culture thinking DNA match = 100% guilty combined with numerous controversies over police forensics in recent years, Houston off the top of my head had to throw out every case that their police lab did testing for a range of years due to lab tech incompetence.
Taishan 1 is the same type and opened on time.
Bureaucratic heroes are “ultrareal” heroes for working, real adults (2013)
What the parent poster mentioned is not using a GPL library, but merely looking at its code. The thinking is that once someone reads some piece of code (no matter its license), they're "tainted" forever, and any code they ever write in the future could be treated as "subconscious copying" of that code they had read. If one is afraid of including any code under the GPL (or any other specific license), and one subscribes to that "subconscious copying" theory, it makes sense that one would avoid even getting near code under that license like the plague.
Hydrocarbons have very similar energy/mole and therefore energy/volume, energy/mass ratios.

This relationship breaks down for very short HC (methane, basic alcohols).

Differences in effective energy density result from the combustion cycle used: Otto is better than Diesel for the same compression ratio, but you can’t easily get high compression ratio w/ Otto. Therefore Diesels are, typically, more efficient.

However, if you use methane (high compression) in an Otto cycle with turbo compounding, you’ll probably beat diesel. But then you have NOx emissions
Okay, here are two examples: rsync and restic[1] (an evolution of borgbackup[2]). You already know what rsync is, but the other two are backup tools that offer encryption and content-based deduplication. There is no distinction between a "full" backup and an "incremental" backup.

Now, I already know that you're going to say that "zfs send" already does these things -- but it really doesn't. First of all, ZoL only recently got encryption support so built-in encryption with ZFS only came around recently (and was developed by someone from the GNU/Linux community, by the way). Also, ZFS's dedup is so expensive that it's very strongly recommended that people don't use it unless they really need it. Deduplication with restic and borgbackup is content-based which means that it's far more resilient to shifting bytes in files and it's effectively free because everything is stored as a CAS (to be fair, it's only mostly free because people don't use it as a filesystem).

Again, I really am not bagging on Sun here. I just think it's quite ludicrous that you're saying that any engineer who didn't work at Sun pre-2010 never invented anything. I refuse to believe that you honestly believe that, purely based on how ludicrous of a concept it is.

[1]: https://restic.net/
[2]: https://www.borgbackup.org/
Or worse, the police lab mistakenly identifies you as a DNA match. This happened for years in Houston and people got sent away for a long time before it was fixed
Hasnt anybody ever watched Gattaca ?
It has Emoji, old school smileys and Symbols where you can actually find stuff like the lambda symbol (at least in Windows ver 1903)
I am for one glad my data is in there. Disease and aging should be our number 1 priority. If your governement and insurance systems are shitty and spy and exclude people, you should fix that instead of putting barriers to science opportunity.
> why bother with the technical and cognitive hurdles of using a blockchain

A blockchain can be implemented in a very simple way when operated by a centralized authority. What adds complexity to it is the consensus protocol required for decentralization when you cannot trust all parties in the network.
Whatever WeChat's links with policing in China, I believe that they have an equivalent of Face ID to authenticate users. Keeping in mind that WeChat is used as an electronic wallet and almost bank account in China.

It would have been better journalism to mention this instead of only going for the angle of state policing. It's likely that WeChat already had the person's biometrics details because of the above.

Of course that's less catchy than implying that they requested biometrics details because he had posted about Tiananmen commemorations. (though the end result is likely the same)
Hasn't anyone ever watched Gattaca before shipping their DNA sample to a Silicon Valley company ?
Very sad to read about this. I actually didn't realize that Russia still had any free press.
But if you actually need a scope you can buy one in a case with a rechargeable battery, display, and 20MS/s, 5 MHz bandwidth, from Banggood for USD 40. https://www.banggood.com/DANIU-ADS2050H-Handheld-Oscilloscop...

No idea how good it is though.

I don't mean to disparage the Labrador but I suspect it will be more use to people who integrate it into some other project than to those who need a scope.
Well, if you are trying to express your opinion to me, forcing me to pay to have access to it, I am not going to hear your opinion expressed, and will find others that will express it.
More or less, previous version was abandoned.
https://github.com/philosophofee/SBSPSS/blob/master/source/s...

looks like they copied it from a website talking about linux
Few retailers selling sufficient quantities of high margin goods might do it, but most need to factor in local costs such as labor, property tax, and rent. Especially once the gap in costs diverge significantly between regions.
Guess our bookstore is just behind the times then, because ours has a really big cafe with nice chairs and tables and such. I've read 200+ books there in the past decade.

Edit: I guess I should also mention that ours was a Borders and then after they went out of business it reopened as a Books-A-Million maybe a year later. I think it was something else before it was Borders, but that was before my time.
pretty snarky to suggest facebook is the only way developing countries would utilise the internet. access to knowledge to better their lives, even turn them into astronomers perhaps
I'm confident he'll win again and worry there'll be riots in major cities. The front runner for the Democrats, Biden, doesn't even seem to be really campaigning. I think their strategy is "The less people see Biden the more they like him" so he has carefully been timid enough to stay out of the news. And Biden is definitely a back to former status quo candidate.
Nice fantasy world to live in, where disease an aging are our number one priority and the insurance system is fixable.

Why not fix both of those things first before feeding our personal data into a fundamentally broken system?
> FL020 and below.

I'm assuming you meant FL200. (20000' MSL, not 2000' MSL.)
When someone claims to have made a radical improvement in a mature field, It is reasonable to ask why other engineers have not thought of it before, at least if it is not based on newly-discovered science or a technical breakthrough.

The fact is that none of the features given in the article are novel, so why have they not been combined before? Some of them were, in fact, in the Republic XF-12 [1], and the idea of using a diesel with much more turbo-charging than is usual, as an aero engine, was seen in the Napier Nomad [2] (it was actually a two-stroke turbo compound, with, in one version, a sort of afterburner between the diesel and turbine stages!)

The usual experience of putting together several different incremental changes is that there are unanticipated problems, and the whole is less than the sum of the parts.

While I am skeptical that this airplane will deliver on its promises, I do not want to be entirely negative. It is possible that changing circumstances have produced an opportunity that was neither recognized or exploitable before.

Once gas turbines were developed, progress on piston aero-engines essentially came to a halt, but piston engines continued to be developed for cars, at least following the oil crises of the 70s, so that piston engines are now much more efficient, lighter and, importantly, reliable than they were (even diesels.) These developments have been making their way into aviation, but so far almost exclusively in the niches where piston engines were still being used.

Another development has been the use of composites, which permit the development of effective laminar-flow airfoils (several WWII-era aircraft nominally had such wings, but there is considerable doubt as to their effectiveness, as it is difficult to make metal wings to the stringent tolerances needed.) This capability has been used in sailplanes for decades, but is only slowly extending beyond that niche (more so now that electric airplanes are feasible.)

AFAIK, the Boeing Condor drone is the only piston-engined airplane to reach 65,000 feet, and the closest piloted flights have been some 15,000 feet short, but if this project can get a piston-engined, payload-carrying airplane cruising at that altitude without too many compromises, I think it has a chance of making a difference. The retro-futuristic appearance of this prototype is probably mostly incidental.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_XF-12_Rainbow

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Nomad
How about we fix it before putting people at massive risk of harm, and risk poisoning the well on genetic research forever?
Or do people with "superior general knowledge" recognize it is socially advantageous to present as humble?
It is at least a glowing endorsement of the efficacy of a well-run Facebook properties ad campaign.

Google Adwords has much less ROI in this context.
right, i dont see anyone arguing for that in here though
Incorrect. FreeBSD was in use first, as founder David Young’s own history [1] describes. OpenSolaris and zones came later.

[1]: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/davidpaulyoung.com/2016/06/17...
Would you mind elaborating this thought?
> it uses a air compressor which is kind of weird

If you want lots of mechanical power in short bursts, compressed air is a winner, because compressing air is a very good way to store lots of energy that you can release quickly, and it can be coupled into mechanical action without bulky coils.

Industrial tooling (you've heard air tools in your local auto shop, probably) and heavy robotics love the stuff.

The big downside is noise, which explains why you might not encounter compressed air in your day-to-day life, even though it is every bit as fundamental as, say, high voltage power transmission.
Blendle link if you want to pay 49 cents: https://blendle.com/i/the-wall-street-journal/when-free-is-t...
Different skin colors does not always equate to a diverse, better actualized, or welcoming society. Culture and attitude do, and for the US that includes skin color as a marker for varying lived experiences. Assuming varying skin color is the full explainer of a positive society is cart before horse, as other comments have sufficiently explained.

We should make sure that folks are welcome, but drive by critiques aren't going to get us there.
I partially agree with your angle, however I don't understand the jump from how understanding disease and giving my DNA to a for profit company that may not fully be researching, but showcasing disease, removes "barriers to science". Care to expand?
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First of all, anything can have a downside.

Doesn't seem a big enough concern, how likely I'm going to win lottery?

How about the insurance company? Forced them to lose money?

They won't hire me because my ancestry? Well they are stupid then, it's their lost.
I would strongly disagree. Most people have something revealed about them in a fb post that would likely be more damaging than some ugly half-naked photos floating around.
People have tried to replace YouTube for decades. The platform is too sticky. Even if you solve the immense issue of content streaming at scale, ad monetisation is Google's kingdom, charging for content doesn't work, donations don't work, etc.. it's just not feasible. Their web/mobile apps are also light heads ahead.

Regardless of the shitty things YouTube's done, there's a reason it's still so popular.

We also really need to preserve the back catalogue. There's so much invaluable stuff only on YouTube.
A lot of current "maker culture" is repackaged consumerism: buying costly kits containing pennies worth of electronics based on brand names and fashion. It's not about reducing waste, it's about creating more (unlike the examples you mentioned).
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Developing world's impact on climate change on per capita basis is tens and hundreds times smaller than America's.
It's not them you need to educate.
If it can show real efficiency gains on short travel, it could probably consume the market on flights from major hubs to local, just for being able to cut costs in an area where there's lots of room to do so
PoleMarch: Web GUI for infrastructure management by ansible playbooks or modules
Agree; there are multiple issues in Poetry's Github associated with installing inside Docker. If that's fixed, I'd be much happier with it.
I’d those chickens and ducks could euthanize and eat you they totally would.
You can actually read WSJ content on Blendle, they charge 49 cents for each article. Worth it for most stuff posted here IMO, while other shorter articles are not - just get the one-click refund if you encounter that.

Blendle link for this article: https://blendle.com/i/the-wall-street-journal/when-free-is-t...
I think you are missing teh point

1 Is all about errors in measurement

In the ball example, if it was in some chaotic system, a 1mm measuring error could translate in 1km error for the final point, you could calculate that it will not ever be larger then 1KM if error is under 1 mm but you will nevedr land that ball on the exact spot because you always have errors in the real world.
I had these guys send me a giant oversized WiFi router I never ordered and never used. Then three months after I terminated my plan they sent me a bill for $100 for unreturned equipment. I had to waste about three hours of my time fighting with them that I wouldn’t pay for something I didn’t order or use before ultimately they agreed when I said I was filing a complaint with the regulators.

I wonder how many people they have scammed with this. These kinds of actions are clearly intentional. It’s remarkable to me how quickly things like this have been getting worse over the past decade.
I hope now I will be able to get my books...

I bought a lot of books from fictonwise because it was only store that sold them to Brazilians. BN then bought them and put a rule where you can only download those books, even though you bought them, of you are physically inside USA
Upgrading Java 8 to 12
Did anything go wrong?
That's been illegal since 2010.

And besides, 23andme's research data is anonymized.
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Gattaca is not a documentary
"Doctor treating
@meduzaproject
’s Ivan Golunov says he may have broken ribs, a concussion and a hematoma. All likely sustained while he was in custody. Police won’t allow him to be hospitalized or have an X-ray."

That's just abhorrent.
I'm not disagreeing with you because sometimes it's just project requirements - but as a developer in a non-English-speaking country - the idea of writing code in a non-English language is ridiculous to me.

Programming languages and standard libraries are written in English, programming terminology is invented in English, the international community adopted english as a defacto standard, almost all third party APIs expose English interfaces.

Every time I've seen a project written in my native language it's been ridiculously hard to follow because the terminology is translated in various ways (there's no official or even widely used terms because hardly anyone uses native language in SW development and CS outside of academia) and it's a mish mash between languages since everything not written in the project (along with language keywords) is written in English.

I don't usually take a hardline stances on things but this is one thing where it would be 100% a dealbreaker for working on a project.
our radio stations are vanishing, period, into a siriusXM and ClearChannel morass of repetitive hell. NPR affiliates (KEXP, etc) and college radio stations (WZBC, WRCT) keep the flame alive but they’re all that’s left.

I still dearly miss the stations of my youth, which were crucial venues for hip hop culture (HOT97) and alt rock (KROCK, WFNX, ... ) in a way that youtube and soundcloud and bandcamp just aren’t.
Batch is instant turndown even for thing that I want a lot like this one.

Powershell even limiting to 2.0 which never changes would be way better.
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> No, I'm advocating for plurality of opinion, exposure to new information and constant challenging of my own viewpoints.

Good for you! Now, how about letting people get challenged and exposed to new information at a time and place when they choose to instead of constantly? I like camping and hiking...but I'm glad I get to go home to my comfortable house most of the time.

People are currently starting to gravitate more towards small group chats on WhatsApp and similar and away from places like Twitter and Facebook. I wonder why? Could it be it's because they don't want what you want 24/7?

I think so.

And the system you're advocating for, the current one, is obviously way more susceptible to being gamed. As you can see here all it takes is a small mob and a marketing push to get your unpopular browser on the front page 5 times this week. The system I want isn't susceptible to that in the slightest (but if I want to go look at things that I might not agree with, I'm still able to - that's my whole point: User in control, not some timely mob).
And yet facebook wants to be more like WeChat[0].

[0]https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/8/18256226/facebook-wechat-m...
Thank you. So it seems in assigning the blame between the personnel and the officials responsible for design, both parties were blaming the other party. I read somewhere that Legasov criticized the steps done in the control room and also the design and lack of oversight in designing/building the reactor. So the truth is probably somewhere in between and the blame is shared between the personnel and the officials/system.
One more boycotter here.

More likely a boycott will prove unnecessary; the biggest threats to Facebook are (a) fashion and (b) facebook.

... but not using Facebook makes me feel better.

I think Facebook will slowly decay into irrelevance.

One thing that really surprises me is how few startups are taking on Facebook. Obvious strategy is to work at the edges; there are so many opportunities abound to undermine them. Don’t build a new Facebook, instead just carve off their features incrementally and be the Instagram of events, classifieds, chat, video, news sharing, interest groups... huge scope for innovation. Facebook is the SAP of social networks, it’s time to move on.
You start by talking about political impossibility, but then propose an even more outlandish scheme.

Applying CO2 tax as a consumption tax like VAT seems like a feasible solution.

Your prize fund, less so. But it's not needed. The tax take can just finance government in general. Companies will have plenty of incentive to reward inventors for lessening their tax burden.
How about you are 3% more likely to develop a chronic illness and as a resut no company touches you for anything except manual grunt work where you could be replaced without much trouble?
Oh good grief; this again? You need a new shtick. Indictments, especially indictments that are never intended to lead to trial e.g. Concord Management, are not evidence. That's why they lead to trials, in which evidence is heard. In the holy report, St. Mueller whined that some evidence could have been deleted by evildoers, but he didn't come up with any actual evidence of Trump working with Russians to steal an election.

But please, continue with your valiant defense of the status-quo. You guys are doing a great job! Trump's reelection is almost certain at this point.
composer.lock and composer install are very fast and very correct, so I'm suspecting that it's time you start using them or stop calling the others "seniors".