skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: anywhere except Japan, China, Korea, and Africa.

Remote: yes!

Willing to relocate: yes

Tech: Python, Julia, some R (I dislike it), Scheme, HTML/CSS/Js, Ruby, Django/Rails. Mostly data science/analytics and web dev, but open to other fields.

Resume: mostly self-taught programmer. (I dislike being taught in the traditional sense: give me a few good books and I will learn. Lecture me and I am gone to sleepland) ...Also BA Chinese (as if it matters here)

Website: www.learnook.surge.sh

Email: jaemez@outlook.com

Quick learner, good at communication. Age 40.

Previously worked as a uni teacher for over a decade.

My favorite book (in English): the anatomy of melancholy by Robert Burton. Highly recommend it!
So can "you", and speaking English as a first language all my life I still find it jarring. It's a constant irritation that colloqs such as ye, or yous are considered vulgar.
Ploonets are real. Now, we might be able to find them
J.G. Ballard died and went to heaven:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(Ballard_novel)
Designing CPU power supplies that are efficient and are not just a great lot of buck converters in different phases (VRMs) is very hard.

On modern CPU that are all running at at around 1V, you get 1 amp = 1 watt

Switching element must survive that, and you have to be super responsive to transients, and you have to have super low ripple... I do not envy guys who make VRMs for GPUs and 200w server chips
I work in the public sector and we’ve been in bed with Microsoft for decades. Happy to have been too, I personally think we should do more Open Source for transparency reasons, but the truth is that Microsoft is the best major tech partner that we have. They may be the only major tech partner that we have that actually understands non-tech high-regulatory enterprise in fact, though Amazon is getting there with AWS. As an example of what I mean by that is major incident. We like to be able to call people, we’re like that in the public sector, and with Microsoft Seattle will quite literally be on the phone with us until our issue is fixed, with a lot of other tech companies you either talk to a chatbot, fill out some form or make a ticket in their support system. When the bureaucracy makes stuff like NSIS (EU security standard) they are always first to implement it. On the development front we’ve seen nothing but improvements over the years, and the fact that they’ve adopted the non-Microsoft techs we use like Node.JS and Python to be first class citizens is amazing. So is the fact that we can now buy C# code instead of JAVA and still run it on Linux servers. So I have a lot of praise for Microsoft.

I don’t see any sort of change in their culture though. Sure they’ve adopted Open Source, and that’s amazing, but they’ve done it because it was the best way to keep enterprise on Microsoft products, even on the development front because Office365 has no real competition.

.Net Core is a good example, it works everywhere but if you’re not using it with Visual Studio for Windows and the Azure devops stack you’ll just not be on equal footing to those who do. There was an issue with the .Net Core 2.1 watch command where it would require a full systems restart on Macs for more than a month, I mean, that’s just not taking Mac using developers seriously. Visual Studio Code has quickly become everyone’s favourite editor, but you know how you get the most out of it? By setting it up with WSL. Of course none of this is an issue of you buy into the Microsoft environment. I mentioned Node.JS, well a lot of the Azure DevOps works with Node as well, and it’s just a natural thing to do when your C# stack is already living there. Of course the flip side of this is that you can never really leave.

I think Microsoft continues to improve, but they haven’t changed a bit.
AI, Cyberbullying, and Social Media
Ask HN: Summer travel season is here. How can I offset my carbon footprint?
Miracast works, but not Google Cast protocol.
Netflix, Amazon Prime, and YouTube are all fully supported.
There is no Bluetooth wireless on the Roku devices except for the Roku TV Wireless Speakers which have a BT receiver for playing audio from a phone. However, all devices support remote audio through the Roku mobile app.
There is no recording capability, but you can use DVR solutions like Tableau with Roku devices.
Cockroaches becoming resistant to most chemical insecticides
California First State to Offer Health Benefits to Adult Undocumented Immigrants
And before on the (now extinct) mega-fauna.
I disagree with it being so black and white. Higher speed travel saves time and energy. 55mph is generally considered optimal for vehicle fuel consumption. Slowing speeds pretty directly affects climate change and pollution.

I’d like to see a direct comparison of loss of life vs mph including figures on deaths from increased air pollution and other climate considerations.

I think one could also argue time lost in transit as a “loss of life” but that’s understandably too far for some.
There is also Presto: https://prestodb.github.io/

If you ever saw AWS Athena, that's what it is based on.
Creator of Lua: Interview with Roberto Ierusalimschy
> unlike a vfs can be done from userland

You can implement and mount such virtual FS entirely in userspace using FUSE.
Could be the case that people don’t know about them, because after all, they aren’t linked anywhere.
Yep, those definitely are the dark patterns.
Tech channels for keeping up to date: LinusTechTips, Techlinked, Science Studio

Tech channels that go in-depth on various topics:
GamersNexus, Actually Hardcore Overclocking, Computerphile, LiveOverflow

Math:

3Blue1Brown

History:

Shadiversity, The Armchair Historian

Futurism:

Isaac Arthur

Politics:

Aydin Paladin

Videogames:

Bellular News, Digital Foundry

Electronics:

EEVBlog

Guns and other weapons:

hickok45, ForgottenWeapons
Fair enough, I do agree it's a dangerous game, I just don't agree that it's a completely stupid point.
While I'm sympathetic to this point of view, it seems pretty clear to me that Woz self-identifies as male. He has quite a visible profile and has never presented as anything other than masculine (with the exception maybe of the odd flourish on dancing with the stars), so to select such a pronoun in this case I believe is disregarding how he would wish to be identified.
In parts of Europe, any motor vehicle accident where a pedestrian or cyclist dies is likely to result in a charge of manslaughter for the driver, unless the pedestrian or cyclist was obviously at fault.
Technically, REST should be spelled ReST anyway. ;)
They are moved by electric vehicles to some remote place (where they might also be more efficiently handled), but even as an electric car driver, I don’t think of them as eliminated.
That optimization generally starts in tiny biotech companies not the industry behemoths. What they lack is less research prowess than the ability to efficiently market to doctors. Thus the win/win of the big guy’s constantly buying up other companies.

Granted, the equilibrium is generally for small companies to try and sell early when some risk still exists.
False. Usually it’s just as easy if not easier to configure your dev server to listen on 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1, and these days most sites are mobile first, so it’s very natural to develop on your computer and test on a phone in the same LAN. Figuring out accessing your computer via 192.168.0.x is way easier than figuring out how to issue a LE cert (the easy part) and use it on your dev server (the hard part).

Before you mention mobile device simulation in desktop browsers, I’ll point out that mobile browsers often have quirks that are not present in desktop browser simulations. For instance, mobile Safari is subtly different from desktop Safari responsive design mode in many ways, and the only way that I know to actually simulate mobile Safari is with full-blown Simulator.app.
The major Linux distros have processes in place to both filter what goes in and handle security issues when they happen. If you have specific concerns then name them, but downloading a Fedora or Debian install is in no way comparable to installing binaries from random filesharing websites.
>Do you seriously believe that?

100%.

>Do you completely ignore all the things the 'rush-it-for-profit "science"' done right in the past centuries, and the benefits you personally derive from that?

Do you completely strawman my argument? Who said anything about me "completely ignoring"? Who said all science is "rush-it-for-profit"? Who said all science had the same amount of ignorance and potential dangerous impact?

For one, science was not as much a "for profit" endeavor back in the day, scientists were more often than not independently wealthy or unconcerned with industry (which was still underdeveloped anyway until the 20th century). Nowadays they are mostly salaried employees of major industries.

Second, earlier industrial uses of science had much smaller potential for rapid disruptive impact across the globe compared to custom gene editing of various species.

And even with that, there were still unintended consequences, from idiotic companies suggesting radioactive substances for toothpastes, soap, and other household items as beneficial [1], to the obesity epidemic (food science), to climate change.

If billions are displaced/die from climate change, the verdict of the ultimate utility of those generations living large off of the future, and the "greatness" of all those industrial uses, might still not be favorable.

>It's like saying that progress is bullshit because we still don't have hoverboards[0].

No, it's like saying things have a tradeoff, and blindly accepting everything shining because it's "made with science" is neither scientific nor wise. Science != technology, and science and technology != necessity for commercial applications.

We can study things and invent stuff, without necessarily making them into sellable products, or rushing them to make a profit without understanding their impact. Novel idea huh?

[1] https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-08/healthy-glow-...
> It would be not, stop pretending acquiring consent from a statistical model counts as acquiring consent from the actual user.

I don't know what you are referring to here. Care to elaborate?

> Thing you wrote may make it acceptable for you, but certainly ain't sufficient for me.

This isn't about individual taste. Nothing I wrote above was about my personal taste. My point was about differentiating between the OS provided valid architectural mechanisms vs surreptitious dark patterns applied on top of it by an application developer.
Hiring a person is seen as a big commitment. You're asking that person to uproot their life for you (e.g. they might well move home to be in the right place to do your job), they expect a similar commitment from you in return (one could draw an analogy to e.g. marriage). You don't just drop them at the first sign of trouble: you can fire for cause if the employee is actually doing something wrong, but as long as they keep working and you stay in business you're expected to keep paying them. So yes, that might mean keeping them on doing work that they're overqualified for, or where another company in the market might have a better use for their time, or in the worst case continuing to pay them when there's simply no work for them to do. (Though in practice you'd probably negotiate e.g. an early retirement package in that case).

It's a nicer way to live, not having to fear that you might be kicked to the curb at any given month. No doubt it comes at a cost to economic growth, but it's important to remember that the economy exists to improve human lives, not the other way round.
There is a threshold where the speed will likely injure, not kill. It's prudent to keep below or near that speed, so you have at least time to bring your car down that speed when braking, if not managing to come to a halt.
I don't understand what you're getting at. They have a large number of recorded UFO incidents with captured evidence, usually from the aircraft instrumentation itself.

If you're trying to imply they're imagining it due to sleep deprivation, that's a bit crass.

We're talking about stuff like this: https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000005607812/look-at-tha...

Could be a falling piece of debris, could be evil space aliens, they don't know what it is - hence UFO.
> This article veers into conspiracist territory as it goes on, with the idea that Microsoft is engaged in some grand, secret scheme to infiltrate open source and destroy it from the inside.

I don't think that's an unfounded fear, given their history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
>What if you eradicate a really mild inconvenience only to find out that that was actually a bad idea?

By "eradicate" in my argument one could easily substitute "understand the common cold".

My argument was basically about control and understanding -- I mentioned "have not yet eradicated the common cold" as a proxy for "doesn't yet even understand and control something so commonly occurring and heavily studied as that" (including not knowing whether eradicating it is good or not).
Companies are not interested in not endangering their users. They only care about making money. So you have the make endangering their users negative on their bottom-line.

This is a perfectly workable system, that does not require any party to not be selfish. It's a much better system that those that require somebody to be 'good' rather than 'rational'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend_and_extingui...

Damn, 'nathed.
« One reason to do so may be to explicitly normalise the usage so it doesn't imply a value judgement »

That’s some scary sentence here. so gender is now a « judgment ». Like, there’s no reason to assume because steve wozniak has all the physical characteristics of a male, and has always been called « mister », using « he » (which is the grammatically correct way of designing a male human in the english language by default) is the expression of a value judgement... Seeing this kind of mental twist in a scientific forum (which believes there is something called nature, with laws and hard facts) makes me really scared.
MLM Statistics You Need to Know in 2019
When the Earth Had Two Moons (2014)
As a teenager I tried Delphi 6 after programming in Visual Basic (DOS and Windows). I already knew Pascal and wanted to try it out.

My reaction after building the executable: wait, is that just one file? Do you mean I don't have to worry about all the crap with VBRUN432.DLL and all the other files that made my program not look cool?

The executables were already small, and I used ASPack to compress them even further. I coded fun utilities like file patchers, and some interesting network programs.

I couldn't get back to it a few years later because there was this Embarcadero thing that I felt got in the way.
In France, such contracts do not imply that a company cannot fire employees. Contracts can be terminated for economical reason, which however needs to be justified.

If your company is working well, should you be able to downsize and fire employees without a clear motive? To a certain degree, France believes the answer is no.
I think we see the reasoning a bit in the current flood insurance program in the United States, the federal backup insurance plan has become the sole insurance plan for a lot of homes built in areas where there were flood plains in the past or are now in flood plains due to climate change or our past definition of 100 year flood plain (used for pooling into requiring flood insurance) was not a good measure. The home owners do not want to move and will not accept a buyout at a realistic price, and we get homes in flood plains getting rebuilt 10 and even 20 times.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/one-house-22-floods-repeated-cl...
Jaywalking is also a notion that was created by the car industry, with regulation and a PR campaign to shift the blame from cars to pedestrians.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26073797

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking#Origin_of_the_term
Using a gender neutral pronoun isn't disregarding a person's gender identity, any more than referring to them as a "person" is.
Shouldn't the same logic apply to a pedestrian? I mean his goals are getting to some arbitrary location and arriving at that location intact.

Why should only the driver carry the responsibility? Driving slower than average increases the driver's chances of getting in an accident.

Also, lower speeds aren't guaranteed safety. I know of an accident that occurred around 10-20km/h right next to a hospital, which resulted in instant death. Pedestrian was crossing on red, behind a car parked at the traffic light and flew right into a path of a vehicle, trying to pass the car parked at the semaphore, this bounced him just enough to fall and crack his head on the curb. Ironically, according to policemen, was that had the driver driven faster, he might have bounced pedestrian harder, and not kill him on the spot.
> If I am going to spend 1 hour watching basketball, I am going to want to watch Lebron James.

That's an excellent point.

- Is acting ability as unevenly distributed as athletic ability?

- Would Black Mirror be better if every episode had Jodie Foster or Jake Gyllenhaal in it? Or is it possible that using less well known actors would not negatively impact viewership?
TwoSetViolin - classical violinists provide music theory infused hilarity

NardwuarServiette - idiosyncratic and over-researched interviews with musicians of all kinds

matthias wandel - canadian engineer and one of youtube's early wood working wizards

sam johnson - voice teacher analyzes vocal performances

practical engineering - civil engineering videos

Hand Tool Rescue - old tool rebuilds

mr. chickadee - handtool woodcraft and traditional building techniques

RegularCars - sassy and knowledgeable reviews of regular cars
Physicists' finding could revolutionize information transmission
Exfoliation is the removal of dead skin from your Vigorelle skin?s surface. Exfoliation is easy to accomplish with exfoliant creams or by using a slightly abrasive cloth or loofah in the shower. Be gentle but thorough.

It is very important to use a bra that fits your breasts. Take measurements and purchase the corresponding bra size. The breasts do increase in size during menstruation so do not take breast measurements during menstruation.

Medical clinics offer many resources to women regarding their bodies and their personal choices. Whether you are looking for general information services or have an urgent concern you can trust a women's clinic to help you with care and sensitivity while also keeping your information completely confidential.

One of the main services that clinics offer is STD testing. STD stands for Sexually Transmitted Diseases which are potentially life threatening diseases that are passed during sexual encounters. STD testing in Phoenix and everywhere else is extremely important to those who are sexually active. Before engaging in sexual activities with a new partner it's important to get an STD test to make sure that you are not going to pass on anything to your new partner. It's also important to make sure that your new partner has been tested so that he or she does not pass on anything to you.

https://supplementdevotee.com/vigorelle-reviews/
Well, there goes another productive day...
It looks as though you're just looking for an excuse to go on a pre-packaged rant about gender and sex. I find it scary that an innocuous use of singular "they" (which has been in use as long as English as existed) would provoke such a thing.
>>Prescribing a top down solution that gives even more power to the state at the expense of the people is a non starter.

In a certain (much softer) sense, I think this is an example of the type of thinking I was complaining about in the original comment.

I do it myself, most people do it.. especially us "rational" thinkers. But, it is taking a particular and instinctively fitting it into a story that we're used to. Maybe the story is regulatory capture, maybe it's corporatism, overeaching governments and unintended consequences, patriarchy, empire, globalism... Whatever story we're used to refering to.

In any case, I think the next transportation revolution will be related to autonomous vehicles, so this particular conversation is probably moot.. AVs might just dissolve lines between public and private transport. It will, however, probably remain very impacted by both consumer choice and government (generally municipal) choices.
I'm confused. Can you justify your claim? What is wrong with the French economy and how is it related to worker protection? France is, e.g., behind Germany in term of employer protection according to the OECD [1].

[1] https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=EPL_R
I am curious. Has anyone actually tried to redeem a tether?

https://tether.to/fees/

It sure seems like they would like to just have people trade them on an exchange.
Although I understand the middle ages' worldview was entirely christian and thus tracing the evolution on the symbolic perception of animals would involve tracing it through christian authors I'd contest that to fully understand the origin of this symbolism one has to broaden the view a lot further than St. Augustine... 2nd 3rd century christian texts and thought emerge from a very very cosmopolitan world where pagan conceptions of the nature of reality (i.e. neoplatonism, orphism, chaldean theology) are mixing with the newly emergent jewish sect that we'll later call christianity, and even with new jewish apocalyptic and esoteric thought.
How did the platform become worse when this is a new capability which didn’t used to be part of the platform? Similarly, while it’s true that you need to know services exist, that’s never been easier just as the documentation, available guides, and especially the developer tools have never been better for someone learning.

I’m not entirely in love with the needs driving this decision but I think it’s reasonable to make security and privacy decisions which benefit a billion people at the expense of making certain tasks slightly harder for a much smaller group.
Crash testing is important. Making the public aware of what happens in the crash is also important. This is the opportunity to observe many of unknown unknowns, that wouldn't manifest in non-destructive testing.

For cars, crash tests are routine, which is good. For planes, unfortunately, there are less common. Now, we need destructive testing for e.g. nuclear reactors (in the controlled and safe environment, of course). We used to do that, but stopped for political reasons.
Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants
You can access SMB shares in Amaze by tapping the plus sign (+) floating action button at the bottom-right, choosing "Cloud Connection", and then selecting "SMB Connection".

After a bit of digging, it looks like Amaze is limited to 2 tabs, which you switch between by swiping left and right. I guess that's technically "multiple tabs" as their Play Store listing states.

There's also Ghost Commander if you're looking for an open source file manager with more capabilities. It uses a 2-panel layout, supports plugins, and has a long list of features:

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.ghostsq.commander

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ghostsq.co...

If you need a file manager that supports 3+ tabs at once, I don't think there's an open source solution right now.
There’s a less palatable side of this. It’s now very common to see people openly offering to exchange money for sex, at least in the LGBT community.

On Grindr, it’s an everyday occurrence to see people seeking Venmo “donations” with the implication or overt offer of a meeting in exchange.

I doubt if you asked many of the people who do it they would equate it with prostitution in the same way I’m guessing the legal system might. It’s often younger people who are probably exposed to “Venmo culture” elsewhere and decide to apply it here.
Making of the Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants