skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two things:
I’m sure current body armour is resistant to tasers, as the prongs need to hit you in order to work, and if your armour is stopping a knife or a bullet, two measly little pins aren’t gonna make it.

If you want a cheap and trivially accessible alternative to this, a fencing Lame will fit the bill perfectly. It’s a metal conductor in the shape of a vest or jacket. Whilst I haven’t ever been tazed wearing one, I imagine it would handle it just fine.
Hey Jaclyn I launched a website for bootcamp and self-taught coders last week: https://www.nocsdegree.com

It was top here for a few hours last Tuesday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20506945

So maybe we could team up some way :)
Or you know, pick up a phone and call. I think for most people, it is very rare that they write an essay of an email to someone. And if you are an academic or some professional, you should be doing these things anyways. Or is that the point?
What I'm hearing is if they replaced "for server costs" with "for costs", people would be fine.
I don’t fully agree with the bold part. I think a better way is to have a small sentence summary at the top of the email. Like “I’ve started working on the backup issues.”
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Bear in mind some of the buildings still in use are ancient - the oldest part of of the hospital was opened 1860 and is still in use. It's also had rooms re-purposed from things like storage and kitchens to actual wards.

The TV thing is infuriating. Apparently our government decided that the NHS should not front the cost of entertainment (which kinda makes sense) but instead we now have for-profit companies screwing over the vulnerable instead. It seems entirely wrong.

> Although gyms are different, likely because if you are healthy enough to hit the gym you are healthy enough to go home.

This really isn't true. Just because someone has broken their arm doesn't mean they're not capable of 30 minutes cycling on a static bike. Just because I was on IV antibiotics 6 times a day didn't mean I couldn't have burnt off some energy in a safe and healthy way.

The lack of sleep _is_ crazy, but even more so the insistence that you should go to bed and wake up early. "ooh, all you do is sleep all day!" - well yes. because my other alternative is sitting in a chair staring at a wall all day (and anyway, I covered 8 miles on crutches last night).
Microscopic images reveal how herbs get their flavor
The shareware .mpq is linked from a github page which corresponds to this repository: https://github.com/d07riv/diabloweb/

Which appears to reference source code here: https://github.com/d07RiV/devilution

Which appears to be emscripten based on the build scripts: https://github.com/d07RiV/devilution/blob/master/build.bat
I was wondering about something. If I have the sum x+x+x...+x (n times), then that is the same as x * n. If I have the product x * x * x ... * x (n times) then that is the same as x ^ n.

What is it called when this is generalized? E.g. call + op1, call * op2, call ^ op3. What would op0 be? And what would op0.5 be?

How does the unit element for these operations behave?

And the rules for associativity, commutativity, for increasing order of the operation?
Since when the market knows the word fair? You charge as much as you can, in this case Americans are the suckers, but if it makes you feel any better for yourself and natural pride keep calling it as you pay for the whole worlds market.
So 28% of Europeans either (a) have little disposable income although they work hard, or (b) do not buy into consumerism and minimize working time. (a) is a problem we should fix, (b) is a very healthy lifestyle, both for oneself and the planet.

We are giving no indication how large is (a) and (b), but the tone of the article wants us to believe there is problem.

Why not look at more important stuff like: do you have decent living conditions, enough space, fresh air to breathe, good teeth, respectful working condition? Oh right, fixing air quality in Paris is more challenging than sending people away for a week.
Lions went extinct in Europe much earlier than the article suggests, not least because Turkey is not in Europe (except a very tiny bit).

But this still raises an interesting issue: Europe has been completely "tamed" with true wilderness and primal forests essentially all gone, and most large predators driven to extinction.

Today the very limited attempts to re-introduce wolves and bears to Western Europe are met with huge resistance from the farming industry and hunting associations.

Yet we seem to think that other should protect elephants, lions, tigers, etc. which are more dangerous and/or can cause more damage.

While I agree that elephants, lions, etc should be protected, we should really follow our own advice at home and work to protect and re-introduce our own fauna.
It’s not a false equivalence.

The parent is saying, “A and B are both bad. A is worse by an order of magnitude. I (and others) should care about A more.” There’s no suggestion of A and B being falsely equivalent to each other on the same order of magnitude based on a loosely shared common feature or property that is manipulated or misrepresented to incorrectly/dishonestly establish A and B as equivalent. That is what false equivalence means.

The parent is grading two bad things according to their estimated impact, and is perfectly justified in choosing to focus on the one they think is worse. They aren’t suggesting nobody care about item B—just that it not be cared about more than the far worse item A.[0]

[0]: I'm just rephrasing the parent's argument and pointing out the argument is not equating A and B (which is required for a false equivalence); I'm not taking a position on whether or not the argument is correct.
Migrating RabbitMQ cluster to Kubernetes without downtime
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I’ve personally experienced medics trying and failing to cut through fencing kit that’s designed to be stab resistant (ish). It’s not fun at all when you have an injury and they can’t treat it cause of your protective gear.
The College Financial-Aid Guardianship Loophole and the Woman Who Thought It Up
It would potentially be good for audio applications. Analog oscillator and filter emulation is actually quite processor intensive and is never perfect, always has aliasing.
Doesn't work for me, the counter remains at 1 on iOS 12.4
That is horrible for the ocean. Acidification will be killing off whole ecosystems and lead to drastically lower carbon sequestration by our oceans. As well as other horrible problems for us humans, who are still quite dependent on functional living oceans.
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None of the HTML features the author uses lack a plaintext equivalent.
> Not sure in what country you are what I read on the internet most Western countries have issues with plastic bags floating int he air , bottles in rivers,side of the roads and forests where tourists hang out.

That is really not what the US looks like. There is not plastic trash everywhere. There is practically a public trash can on every corner here.

All I am saying is I'm not sure the ideas in this article are a solution.

Maybe this policy would be helpful in the countries that are actually the source of the plastic that is destroying the oceans though.
ABPI - Association of the British pharmaceutical industry. That's not a source, that's propaganda, so we're back to the default: What has been brought up without proof can be dismissed without proof.
One reason pharma R&D is higher in the US is that the general costs to bring a product to the US market are far higher than in other countries (e.g. the requirements of the FDA are costlier, see: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452302X1... )
You mean like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paradoxes#Physics ? Paradoxes like "What would happen if an unstoppable force hit an immovable object?"
I’ve actually fought with getting both my original copy and GoG copy to run in Wine for quite a few hours. Can’t seem to get past the start screen.
I think the scare of the HIV epidemic in the 90s is gone. Just from looking at how we have progressed thus far, just looking at HIV medication alone, gives me hope against news like this. Resistance will happen, but we will always outsmart it.
> 2. Condoms are very effective and can be used in this type of situation.

Availability of PrEP coincides with a drop in condom usage:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/06/rapid-rise-i...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5640310/
It's called a hyperoperation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperoperation, and it's defined only for natural numbers, so op0.5 would still be undefined.
> Are there even good examples of "intended to work within their own ecosystem only"?

AirDrop, AirPlay, iMessage, FaceTime
The generalisation that you're hinting at is known as Knuth's up-arrow notation [0].

There's a number known as Graham's number [1] which is defined in terms of up-arrow notation and was for a while the largest specific positive integer to have been used in a mathematical proof.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%27s_up-arrow_notation

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number
Oh. I thought they were the same thing.

I had one that looked pretty much like this: https://m.indiamart.com/proddetail/tesco-shopping-bag-368709...

Is it canvas or cotton?
But how are their digital advertising revenues doing? Aren't digital ads the main revenue source for most newspaper web sites beyond the "big 3" in digital subscriptions?

Website readership might be a better indication of relative health for these newspapers.

The other factor in success is whether they have been quick enough to shed costs of production and distribution of print.
Perl is the language I once understood when I used it everyday but now look at with utter confusion. It's definitely not a casual language.

As a comparison, I peeked at some Delphi/pascal code I'd written and a book a few weeks back and it was still parseable by my brain years later.
That has already been done, DevilutionX is available for Mac (and Linux): https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX/releases
Check out “Seven Sketches in Compositionality“ by Spivak and Fong. You can find a free copy provided by the authors online. It is an introductory book to applied category theory.
OK, you go to your boss and tell him that because of the marketing team's scripts the app takes twice as long to load. Your boss on other hand says: "Who cares? This is how we make money". You try to explain that lower income people with slower/lower end devices can't access the content. Boss asks how much money are we losing because of this. You have no answer. What do you do?

Almost standard HN answer when it comes to moral programming questions is to stand by your principles and resign immediately, but this usually comes from people who haven't had to deal with paying bills or become homeless. Even then if you don't do it someone else who needs the money will.

What would you KaiserPro do in this situation?
> any Internet user who uploads a copyrighted work could find themselves subject to a largely unappealable $5,000 penalty

Shared a viral amateur video? I understood that this law would allow a troll firm to contact the video creator and offer to sue you and all those that did so.
>Perl 6 is real, released and essentially stable.

So is Duke Nukem Forever.
Porn industry uses an interesting trick:

since all porn talent on all non-underground shoots is supposed to only engage in sex with others (on and off the set) who tested negative and since the new talent has to test negative first time weeks before the talent enters the pool even the look back tests are very effective.
I'm no telescope expert, but wouldn't somewhere high in the mountains near Leh, India also be suitable?

Or near Skardu, Pakistan? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skardu

On the high Tibetan plateau somewhere not very far from this airport?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qamdo_Bamda_Airport
* Practice writing more concise emails. Especially if it's an email you already sent out. Ask yourself if the email had the intended effect, and what changes you could have made to better reach/improve that effect.

* Look at the emails you receive that you feel do a good job of being concise. What do they have in common? What do you do differently from those emails? Start applying those differences when you write emails.

* Look at the emails you receive that you feel don't do a good job of being concise, or are confusing otherwise (perhaps they're too concise). Open the email in an editor and make changes until you eliminate the problem areas. Can you make similar changes in your own emails?

As a more concrete example, I originally had this text in the above paragraph:

> Open the email in an editor and make the changes you would want to see until you see the email you wished you received

I then revised it to:

> Open the email in an editor and make changes until you eliminate the problem areas.

In this and other cases, messages can be improved with better handling of the sentence's subject(s), tense, etc.
I am missing one thing from the article: Your subject should be a clear, concise summary of your mail! People will be looking at the subject of your message MUCH more often than at the actual body.
The article says nothing about food labels. They seem to want the outdoor signs (names of the businesses, Arabic halal spelling) removed.
Also, I'm not American, no idea what Americans would accept.
this is pretty awesome.
I’m confused as to what you are suggesting here? Normally you swim right side of the lane and turn going back on the “left side”, with room to pass on the inside unless the lane is filled with two many people. What does using two lanes add, except ruining your turns?
Nice simulation. I think I managed to reach escape velocity :-)
1. What would a tax deduction have to do with an insurer charging lower premiums to its customer?

2. The lower expected payout is exactly what an insurance company is trying to determine, and they’re very good at doing that assuming they have lots of data.

3. Most vehicle insurance cost are liability related, meaning the damage their insured to others, and namely healthcare costs. A collision with another person or their property will not be fixed without the insurance company getting involved, and a reduction in those is what the insurance company is betting on.
I had the exact same thought. Making credit easier to obtain is taken as 'good' but I only see that as beneficial for something major like a house or car but the idea of going into debt for disposable items seems really weird
I've also found Anki a good remedy to the "I feel bad that I don't remember this from undergrad" problem. I'm still nowhere near as fast at actually doing maths as when I was taking or teaching it. But now when some basic, relevant mathematical fact comes up in life and I've forgotten it, it just means there's one more thing I need to put into Anki, not that my mathematical knowledge is on a steady, irreversible downtrend.
Are you joking? Did you miss the fact that NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell dug his heels in and refused to sell Ausgrid infrastructure, then gets thrown out on a dubious corruption charge over a donated bottle of wine? From memory he denied this at first, then changed his tune and bowed out voluntarily. Only to be replaced with Casino Mike Baird who has a fire sale on public infrastructure. He presides over selling the poles and wires, the Westconnex debacle with the amalgamation of uncooperative inner-west councils, the Newcastle train line scandal, all the rest. Then just up and resigns before the end of his term after doing so many highly controversial deals. If you don't smell a rat in NSW politics you're clearly not paying attention.
Which one? Python 3.5.x or 3.7.x or something else? Version 3 should be version 3. Anything written in 3 ought to work on every Python 3. Not so in the Python world. And that makes it a mess to use (unless you Dockerize every script).

Perl 5 is Perl 5 everywhere.
You’re now the second commenter to incorrectly accuse a parent comment of a false equivalence. Neither commenter to whom either of you replied were claiming rising temperatures and reducing single-use plastics are equivalent—which is a necessary condition for them to be making a false equivalence between the two.

Each commenter is stating the two things are definitively NOT equivalent, that one is far worse than the other, and that everyone can care about both—but should really care about the temperatures issue more because it’s worse by a lot.

It sounds like you and the other false-equivalence-accuser are the ones who are making false equivalency happen here—you’re both saying that because rising temperatures and habitat pollution/destruction are bad for the environment or Earth's climate, they are both equally bad and worth caring about equally, or at least simultaneously—THAT is so textbook false equivalence I'm struggling to understand how you and the other FE-accuser are doing it without realizing.
That should be written in the website (even on about page or similar, just an opinion/idea)
Yeah it's a pet peeve when people move the goalposts to make themselves look smart/correct. I actually am against the conservative position myself but I prefer more clear reasoning. In my case it's because I don't think the "good decisions" are always realistically available when you're in poverty.
You have to find a technical basis for it. Like inspecting new reverse engineering strategies.
The most obnoxious parameter passing in existence? The magic variables everywhere? Perl code is an unreadable heap of spaghetti, I’d much rather be figuring out unallocated memory bugs in C then read Perl.
Just so you can saturate a mid-level iMac Pro with a 25 year old game at 640x480, 256 colors
F22 hasn't seen combat vs a capable airforce so its hard to take the aforementioned "kill ratios" seriously. Basing your reasoning on a video game is also not the best source of information.

The airforce drills for wvr because history has shown that dogfighting is inevitable. That's the basis of Russian airforce program and that's why the flanker airframe is still the most agile and will run literal circles around the raptor.
Are there any uses in the article where one couldn't just say thing, things or thingy? Half my sleep-deprived conversations with my wife are about thingying the thing so we can thingy the other thing.
The targets have time to become resistant when treatment is misused (wrong dosage, interruption, intermittent use, etc)
Slashdot and the Public Sphere (2000)
If you want to experiment with these kinds of embeddings, a stabler version using Lorentz embeddings instead of Poincare was written by us at work for internal use.

https://github.com/theSage21/lorentz-embeddings
a PhD in 1905 means that he got it around the time he published his 4 articles in Annalen der Physik. I understand your point, but by the time he wrote the relativity theory he was, by the standards of this article, an amateur.
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Questions for Avi Loeb on Interstellar Probes
Aside from the necessity of enforcing good security policy here, it's brutal to observe the situation Actalis was stuck in based on the thread's ongoing comments. They clearly got themselves into bad/unsustainable deals with big customers where they made promises that couldn't be fulfilled in these circumstances, so their choices were to (likely) lose those customers + harm their customers' users, or to risk getting kicked out of the root program. And if they don't play their cards right it's possible they BOTH lose their customers and get booted out of the root program eventually anyway. Not a fun situation to be in, especially because in this case it sounds like they got screwed by a bug in third-party software and not specifically due to bad internal processes.
> an unusual lexicon that includes words such as “hoagie” and “jimmies” (a sub sandwich and sprinkles, respectively)

Also water ice, which the rest of the world calls Italian ice.
This is a good argument, except that the tram line itself is a giant white elephant for the taxpayer. I doubt I'll ever catch it, and I live in the inner city.
The allegations of corruption follow from the fact that James Packer decides to build the already controversial casino in Barangaroo, a pokey, poorly trafficked corner of the inner city and then all of a sudden the government pours money into investing in public transport leading straight to the doorstep of the casino. The tram line literally terminates there.
I doubt the tram line will benefit even 1% of NSW citizens, yet we footed the bill. It's even more of a lemon than Westconnex.
we waited for them since the very beginning of the millenium, i played with both and here is the difference: DNF is very desapointed and is not the revolution i expected. Perl6 is a game changer and push the idea of "scripting" way beyond i was imagining it (and i played with a lot of langages)
We've had a short project at some point recreating a station's big departure times flipboard in an ipad app; my colleagues went out there for a couple hours to just look at the thing, record background and noises, write down its behaviour and draw the small nuances and damages in the flippers and their contents. Over a weekend my colleague made a POC of the animation of a single unit, then in the next week the two of us copied that one over in a big grid to display departure times from the API. It was a really cool little project, and IIRC the managers of the organization we made it for would frequently just have it open on their desk or show it off to people.
Considering how electron applications are deployed "exceptional circumstances" covers every single electron app in existence.
"Because the total amount available for these alternative payments is $31 million, each person who takes the money option is going to get a very small amount. Nowhere near the $125 they could have gotten if there hadn’t been such an enormous number of claims filed."

"You can still choose the cash option on the claim form, but you will be disappointed with the amount you receive and you won’t get the free credit monitoring."

This seems like something written by Equifax not the FTC.
Only prints "Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token <" in the console on Chrome under MacOS.

Edit: Same in Firefox
The first sentence in most cases should be what you require the receipient to do. The rest of the email can then be why you want them to do it. This has the beneficial effect that the receipient can immediately tell from the first line how important the email is, how time sensitive it is, and how much time and other resources they have to commit to resolve/reply to the email. Examples:

* Check issue (from the above example)

* Giving you a routine update (no action required from receipient besides reading the email)

* Set a meeting (receipient needs to determine when they are free to discuss the why of the email)

* Give me permission to do X
I have fired non-consumer Tasers a number of times (at targets, not a living things). The thin needles of a Taser are more likely to pentrate armor than a lage knife. And a knife is more likely than a bullet. Bulletproof vests are not necessarily knife proof, they capture bullets by binding them and dissipating energy rather than stopping them dead (that is what ballistic plates/inserts are for)

That said needle proof vets are common and used by law enforcement.
Agreed. I generally delete everything but the bold sentences.
> accepts fly tipping...
I had to Google the term :-) . For the rest of the people reading this: Fly tipping = illegally dump waste.
> my birthday, most of addresses I've had since the mid-90s, every family member I've shared an address with since 1999, information on two vehicles I presently own and one former,

Your existence in the world isn't a secret. Every scrap of that is public information. You have a postal address to get mail, you register your car with your state to pay taxes on it, etc.