skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am going through this very process at the moment. Picked up chess for the first time three months ago and trying to learn it. Studying hours per day. It is kind of an experiment. How good can I get in a couple of months at the age of 37?

So far, it seems, not that good... Chess is a lot tougher to learn than I initially thought.
Can I get one too please? jgaphne at gmx dot com
big company cons -

can't get anything done quickly because there are processes in place to make sure you don't do things maliciously or just mess up.

boring long meetings that are nearly incomprehensible.

you are not allowed to go work on anything that you can do that the company has decided is not in the skill-set they want you to exercise therefore your skills atrophy.

someone else has made the choice how you should solve a problem, and that choice is idiotic in your opinion.

target for attack to shut down your systems

big company pros -

generally great food cheap.

generally pension, bonuses, insurance.

small company cons -

since no processes in place to keep people from doing stupid things sometimes someone does something stupid and everything is ruined.

sometimes moving to fast and breaking too many things so no time to stop and talk about what you are doing.

you will have to go outside your skill-set to get things done which is stressing.

small company pros -

probably your choice how you want to do anything.

sometimes there is the idea that you will build the small company into a big company which can be exciting.
sometimes I read this guy's wikipedia page for inspiration
What I find hilarious is that Zuckerberg has probably been trolling the forums of bitcoin.org and reddit crypto groups for many months.

And like any good crypto "expert", he spent his time sharing opinions and copying other peoples source code versus building anything real.
SPoC: Search-Based Pseudocode to Code
You would have liked Arthur Lydiard as well.
Frozen wolf's head found in Siberia is 40k years old
Am I missing something here? The link you've shared is exactly what the post is about.
Maybe, but it's that type thinking that permits the behavior in the first place. People built the workplace and people decide what is acceptable.

Deciding to leave doesn't mean put in your notice. It means look elsewhere. Leaving a job without another secured is always precarious absent a nest egg.
Visa MasterCard and PayPal are just there to ensure that they don't get left behind if the FB coin succeeds, payments are their bread and butter, so if they can hop on the train they can be partially insulated. Otherwise they don't care.
If Libra is a threat to credit cards, then why are Visa and MasterCard investing at least $10M each in it?
NPM fight union-busting claims
Toronto Raptors NBA Finals Champions
It's all much more mundane and technical than this.

The reason that this suit originated in Texas state court is because their legal argument was based on Takings jurisprudence. It's complicated, but IIRC SCOTUS has effectively required that Takings claims against states originate in state court. They do this by way of the so-called ripeness doctrine. A federal court will invariably reject a Takings claim unless you can show that you pursued and failed to achieve a remedy through state administrative and legal processes, and as a practical matter this means pursuing a claim up to the state's supreme court.

Ripeness is not directly based on statute or the constitution. If we're being cynical, it's based on SCOTUS disliking Takings cases, particularly so-called regulatory takings (which arguably describes this case), because they involve difficult, highly contextual line drawing that don't lend themselves to clear-cut legal doctrines. So they basically punt. If we're being kind, they do this because forcing claimants to exhaust all state-based remedies provides a ton of factual evidence and legal arguments that benefits adjudicating such cases at the federal level.

If the claimant here made a simple copyright infringement claim they would have been able to go directly to federal court, and in fact it's rare not to do this. Actually, I think federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction over copyright infringement claims; the scope of 1976 Copyright Act leaves very little room, if any, for copyrights under state law. Except for pre-1976 productions anything copyright-related is basically controlled by federal copyright and therefore you're required to go to federal court.

Again, they had a novel legal argument, perhaps in an attempt to subvert federal jurisdiction, and more specifically to get around whatever Fair Use defenses the university could have made. That's just conjecture, though. I haven't read the case.

EDIT: You're not required to go to federal court for copyright claims simply because the claim is a federal issue. It's because federal statute explicitly gives federal courts exclusive jurisdiction over federal copyright claims.
Looking at the examples in there -- what exactly in that is simple to you? It's fully 3D, which is hard as fuck.

I learned a lot of skills doing Doom WADs that were less close to real coding than what this lets you do (full Javascript API).
how are you learning though? Who you play against is pretty important. You need to try and play against the strongest players you can find. Dont be afraid of losing to them
The Europeans are putting big money into weather forecasting, "The goal is to be able to provide, by 2025, reliable forecasts up to two weeks in advance."

https://www.zdnet.com/article/europes-big-weather-supercompu...

As far as I know other than this model upgrade, there are no major investment being made in American weather forecasting.
Already many other ham bands are under-serviced by available hardware because the allocations aren't uniform worldwide.

Fortunately the popularity of 2m means the backlash here will be swift and forceful, if 2m can't be preserve for amateur use then no band can.
China’s first autonomous driving unicorn Momenta hunts for data
40 times? I enter passwords probably double that per day.
Hot Smoked is one of my faves even though I can do a mean cured salmon. I highly advise people have PNW hot smoked salmon!
Look up how often HIPAA investigations turn into monetary fines. It’s comically small and essentially only affects big hospitals, universities, and insurance companies.

The agency likes to report “enforcement actions” which include fines but 99% of the time are some kind of promise to do better in the future.

HIPAA violations are one of those things the public thinks are super serious but in reality are all but a total joke.

And don’t get me started on HIPAA compliance consultants lol. Reminds me of Lisa Simpson selling Homer her magic rock that keeps away tigers.
I certainly wouldn't encourage or participate in such a "protest" and I hope that no one I know would either.

It would be extemely detrimental if we lost the 2M band but this is not the right way to "protest" it.

Fortunately, I don't think this constitutes a real threat to the worldwide amateur 2M band. A "reassignment" of 144-146 MHz worldwide, as described here, is simply not going to happen -- not for this purpose, at least.
I had to and I understand fully well what GP means:

Yes, Chrome is a better browser than IE 6 was, but getting everybody on a team, on every team to test cross browser compability is starting to get hard.

We're now seeing otherwise great developers who more or less openly admit they don't test in other browsers.

I call them out on it. It is unprofessional.

We've fought to get where we was a few years ago, where every modern browser was considered equal.

Don't let any web developer get away with Chrome only!
Why? Its delicious!
Sorry for the short reply, but I couldn’t resist the obligatory parenting xkcd: https://xkcd.com/674/
The choice of consensus algorithm (PoW/PoS) has nothing to do with scalability (tx/s)
i dunno i think the survival/mining/crafting aspect of minecraft is a big part of what makes it popular. also i think the "card programming model" and every variation of that sort of thing is such a bad idea. either support real programming or don't, don't make users deal with some junky programming emulation system
and authorities don't know whether you joke or not, so this falls squarely into the category of "play stupid games, win stupid prizes", and again this is the same in the US. Quite a lot of people have been joked about killing Obama, and got a pretty quick visit by the police as a result. This isn't unique to China and there's nothing wrong with it.
> Most routers won't forward those packets.

Good, we agree this is a pointless hypothetical which will never work. That does beg the question why even bring it up, though...
I started chess at about 900 lichess, and plateaued at 1800(10+0 rapid).

What got me from 900-1100 was playing carefully and evaluating my move before I played it(can this piece be taken/is there a mating strategy for my opponent), to prevent blunders

What got me from 1100-1400 was learning two solid openings (Ruy lopez for both sides/ Grunfeld against 1.d4)

1400-1600 was doing hella tactic puzzles, and putting myself in my opponent's position and looking for his tactics

1600-1800 i have no idea, just practice i guess

John Bartholomew's strategy videos and Saint Louis Chess Club opening videos were probably the best resources for me to learn
Windy.com allows you to compare models, which varies based on the region you have zoomed in to.

This is really handy as national models can be much better for short-term and higher resolution predictions.

It has the widest range of models freely available that I'm aware of, including the commercial ECMWF model.
Why does this centralized stablecoin need to be crypto? It's not like they need to raise funding for this.

They could have made their own boring but extremely well positioned WePay / Paypal alternative ages ago, and instead they waited until cryptocurrencies are past peak hype to launch this. Puzzling.

I guess the only thing they have to sell here is the privacy aspect of crypto, but I doubt you'll get effective privacy from Facebook on any Facebook platform, crypto or not.
If it’s going to be anything close to what people call cryptocurrency - it’ll be deployed outside of fb 3 days later by somebody.
I honestly don't remember any more. At the time, we were working with NOAA, and I remember a problem that was solved by talking to an admin at NOAA (our IP needed to be on some official whitelist or something), but that may have been for a restricted data set. We didn't end up using it for long because the client said so.

But I dug around for some information to maybe get you started.

Installation: https://madis.ncep.noaa.gov/doc/INSTALL.unix

API: https://madis.ncep.noaa.gov/madis_api.shtml

Data restrictions: https://madis.ncep.noaa.gov/madis_restrictions.shtml

Another resource that may help: https://press3.mcs.anl.gov/forest/regional-models/global-dat...

When I was working on this stuff, I found that a DFS on various government subdomains (like MADIS) was the best way to find information. It was tedious, but it worked.

It's also helpful to put on your fortran hat. For example, I once attended a Haskell meetup where someone wrote a parser to deal with parsing binary files from NOAA. I also was in a meeting (with some NOAA folks) once where I was asked if I "would prefer an ASCII file, or a binary one". This is not a world that operates on JSON or XML. Expect binary blobs with flags (bits) that change the meaning of other flags in fun and exotic ways. The binary nature of the data can help with data throughput limits, but boy is it a pain to deal with.
How long does it take to charge? Granted 350 miles is a long trip, but some 9f us drive from Seattle to San Francisco and we can't do that in 350 burst waiting overnight for the car to charge.

Personally I think a hybrid that plugs into 120, with a commuting range 50 miles and a back up gas engine will be the sweet spot
I'm just going to add to this: it's been 10 years. Hacker News is still hoping very hard this so called libertarian wet dream cryptocurrency called Bitcoin will soon be out of the picture, replaced by something proper, that is fair and doesn't make you feel angry. And yet, it's still here, angering a whole bunch of people who didn't buy early and think the distribution is unfair & the political ideas behind it are awful and yet, Bitcoin is still #1 and widely used. "Blockchain not Bitcoin" hype is gone (remember how big banks invested millions blockchain projects?). Ethereum scammy ICOs hype is gone. This big-corp-coin thing will soon be gone too.

And all the issues people talk about here - like solving micropayments - are already being successfully solved by Lightning Network. Quietly.
It outputs an not-found image if we click the button Generate with nothing in the text box.

Also, try to find if user pasted the complete github.com url; & strip it before processing it.
I worked for a US law firm in Tokyo for a number of years; my paternity leave was 3 days and I was expected to field emails as and when needed.

It is a race to the bottom, my friends - believe it.
Yeah, sleep is actually a good fundamental goal in itself, not a gameable proxy for something else.
It's amusing to see people "Monday morning quarterbacking" on one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century. "We could have done it ANOTHER way!" ignores the fact that it might not have happened at all.
It used to be in settings. You could typically choose between something like:

- restore pages from last time

- start page (input url)

- default new page chrome
+1 on Texpad. It also integrates extremely well with File Providers. You can clone a repo of your TeX project on Working Copy, and then link the entire checkout folder in Texpad. Then, just edit and compile in Texpad, and switch back to Working Copy to commit and push the changes.
Is it a rack server? I found the power usage too high on those servers compared to more traditional servers.
I can't help but remember when mexico decriminalized possession of small quantities of drugs, it was to stop corruption.
it's the latin word for a scale and is the root of many money-related words in european languages
Overleaf has excellent offline support through its git interface (or Dropbox, if you prefer).
are you confusing it with libre?
Just type news<space>y then until it gets used to it.

(And on a general note: some people here might want to verify they haven't touched the settings;-)
To be more specific, gamers get annoyed when they have to install yet another "game manager" program to play a game. This is especially true when that game manager is well know to lack features and be insecure.

Installing a game standalone doesn't annoy anyone I know (though, to be fair, I'm now older with few friends)
A while back, I found a NOAA search that showed historic chance of rain by month:

https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/images/mtr/sjc_pcpn_prob.gif

Since then, I spent hours trying to find this page again, unsuccessfully. All I have is this URL for San Jose. (Replacing "sjc" with other airport codes doesn't always work, since "mtr" is a region code?)

Anyone know where this precipitation data lives?
The Overleaf website is a bit painful to use on an iPad. Hopefully, this will change with the "desktop-grade" Safari announced for iOS 13. Maybe someone already running the beta could test this?
I personally don't like crashing my RC car or quadcopters, either- it isn't something I like to do. I'm also a new driver, and I've had several near misses. One of the possibilities with tele-op is that someone entirely different can take over if someone else falls asleep, messes up, or does something belligerent. Technology is a double-edged sword.
Just wish it had gamepad support!
Opera Launches World's First Gaming Browser, Opera GX
I'm kind of curious about whether he'd have options to pursue this under the DMCA. Are there legal grounds for the University to ignore takedown notices? I'm seeing things that say the university has immunity against being sued for infringement (not sure quite why, state vs federal jurisdiction), but that's a different thing.
It's a terrible move for consumers. I continued with my Dropbox subscription only because of their reliability and really good mobile apps. It's a big battle to compete with Google or Microsoft in the Enterprise space. Is Box doing well?
When did you work there?
Is there a “fundamental logic of walkability?”
Oh look, free training data for user created models
UK Architects Declare Climate and Biodiversity Emergency
I made this: https://www.wmo.int/cpdb/united-states-of-america - click on “climate normals”
Yes, they do: http://25thandclement.com/~william/Evidence/614.pdf

My Evidence professor was a Virginia judge and after I submitted the above assignment[1] he actually pulled me aside before class and asked if it was original; that is, he asked me to vouch that I hadn't copied it or cheated. He seemed particularly impressed with my historical research, presumably my citations at footnotes 1 and 2. The concept wasn't new to him or even controversial--it's well established, at least as a background principle in legal procedure--but the history is esoteric.

I told him that he really screwed me. Yes, it was my own research.[2] But by implying that I did such a great job he took away my motivation to keep doing that kind of research and putting in the study time. I have ADHD--though only diagnosed years later--and there are an infinite number of things I could immerse myself in. I think I ended up getting a low B or C in that class. :( Imposter syndrome is a powerful motivator and he temporarily cured me of it.

[1] Every student was assigned to write a note for one or two of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and they'd be published online as study aids for everyone else in the class.

[2] I was up for like 16 hours powering through Westlaw and Google Books. Google Books had at the time, but for some reason no longer, an incredibly rich archive of old legal treatises and other material, like 17th and 18th century reporters from England and Ireland.[3] I'm pretty sure I kept a copy of the Wigmore treatise pdf as I later bought the domain name lextex.org with the idea to typeset it using TeX. In fact, I still want to do that and have kept renewing the domain name. I thought I had uploaded it somewhere under public_html/ but I can't find it now....

[3] On one or two occasions I found original reporters that contradicted the case reports used in legal treatises and historic judgments, including our textbooks. In several more I found potentially substantive discrepancies. In the age where judges orally recited their judgments and commercial reporters transcribed and published them, errors were to be expected. It's interesting, though, that sometimes reporters published outright contradictory legal reasoning and judgments. Legal scholars don't seem to even consider this as a possibility. It's kinda irrelevant for judges and lawyers, though, because all that matters is what the most recent authoritative court says, regardless of any inaccuracies in the cited material.
Two hours of nature a week improves health and wellness
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19514353
The pdf is pretty helpful! Outside of total system failure, it will try to find a shoulder, and if it can't do that it will gradually come to a stop inside its lane.
And Monday, I have a 900 mile drive to make (true story). Compare the time it would take me in a gasoline car vs a Tesla.
So all Macs up to OS X weren't usable it seems.
I find Texpad to work great in principle, although I get frustrated by any text editor that is not vim. If you have the ability to sideload (that is, you have a developer account), there is a fork of iVim (https://github.com/holzschu/iVim) that supports running TeXLive locally on the iPad. I wrote up some notes on how to make this work some time ago: https://michaelgoerz.net/notes/editing-latex-on-the-ipad-wit...

When I don't need offline editing, another workflow I've used is to do the editing on my linux server: edit via Blink/tmux/vim on the left, and see the compilation result on the right via Screens/vncserver/evince (with auto-reloading).
Similar to how the hottest chat app is google docs for the new generation [1], This is definitely a step in the write direction to snowball that momentum of 'virtual chat + collaborative playtime'

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/hotte...
Huawei users say phone lock screens have started showing ads
The only games that really appealed to me as a use case for VR are "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes" and using it as a virtual cockpit for mech/dog fighting sims, otherwise it just seems like a thing I have to have on my head for not much gain.

I think it is used for pornography a fair bit though
>These people finding security holes should be lauded as whitehats finding your mistakes, not people to be punished for not following rules.

Yes but often if that whitehat reported it and they closed those "holes" you wouldn't be able to get work done, because you can be sure that they wouldn't go the extra mile to create a system where you can do stuff, they'd just close the "holes".
Right, though I said nothing about cataloging.
So wait, universities can patent things, but then have sovereign immunity from infringing copyright?

I know the other parts of government are prohibited from being able to get copyright or patents, so that means sovereign immunity makes sense in a heavy-handed way, but allowing both ownership and immunity seems... like having your cake and eating it too.

Who's the judge I wonder...
US Customs and Border Patrol announce hackers stole license-plates, ID photos
What’s the bait? Interesting that either the Kea or their predators are omnivorous enough that would happen.
It will be good for a few quarters of it's existence before Google shuts it down, as is tradition.
Korea-Finland joint startup events wrap up with 27-hour hackathon
Very long journeys will involve charging stops, yes. But "I have to make a long journey next week" does not validate "EVs are a dead-end technology".

PS. You can use abetterrouteplanner.com to find out exactly how many charging stops you would have to make on any arbitrary journey.
This is California you are talking about.

They get the best of everything, least they can do is be good at their meaningless pursuits.
It sounds like you have never been to US or China.
The most common diesel-electric locomotive today has 6 drive axles. The big steam locomotives designed at their twilight sported 6-10 drive axles, and the most famous and successful of them (the 4-8-8-4 Big Boy) ran 8 drive axles. Mechanical linkage of drive axles isn't what killed the steam locomotive.
German parliamentarians urge support for Taiwan amid Hong Kong turmoil
This smartness and their very consciousness and ability to suffer is what makes industrialized meat production so ruthless.
Top floor of Taipei 101 opens to the public
>It's really easy to secure / fix / support a system by making it nonfunctional and redefining that as success.

Lol! I'm stealing that.
Government to fund 5G development in Taiwan
This is my broad gut feel too, I can’t really explain or understand the user premium here, but sense it has to do with immediacy and availability of the service ie feels more like a product than accessing a website.
It's not just encrypted file systems that are no longer supported.

Ext4 is the only supported filesystem. No xfs, btrfs, zfs etc.
The first Doom level is wild. It's really just two rooms and a hallway, unless you go into the third room... Or find the secret way outside, or the rocket launcher, or...

Watching pros play deathmatch in the first level is a trip.
Using Standard with VSCode
I just realized that it is a 7 years old article!