skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dont think we are talking about the same thing.

I am talking about:

“There might well be a market for personal data, just like there is, tragically, a market for live human organs, but that does not mean that we can or should give that market the blessing of legislation. One cannot monetise and subject a fundamental right to a simple commercial transaction, even if it is the individual concerned by the data who is a party to the transaction." (https://edps.europa.eu/sites/edp/files/publication/17-03-14_...)

Anyway, I was talking about social network requiring your phone number, not market requiring to log in with social network id. And you are talking about bussines where there is a bussines transaction. I am talking about site you surf to.
LOL totally got that joke. Made my day, thanks!
I personally have the intuition that tinkerers and engineers on the verge of commercialization are the most interesting. The open open source world of completely passionate volunteerism just seems a bit anemic to me, unable to gather the momentum or energy of others around them.
You mean how Saudi Arabia murdering people with the help of US? I agree.
and BB10 Marketplace
Reading this thread [0] on your Uservoice shows that no progress has been done since August 2018 on notifications management for the end user. I'm sure you allow control when you create a channel but convincing the teammanager who very day pings the entire channel to say their work hours that day is impossible so that feature is more or less useless.
The fact that you can praise coworkers with unicorns is implemented before proper notifications has made me go from believing in the future of Teams to now praising Slack. It is maddening.

[0] https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/su...
http://terrain.party/

Allows you to fetch real world height data for use in Cities:Skylines (and any other game that uses heightmaps, pretty much).
Abstract:

> Security analysts need to classify, search and correlate numerous images. Automatic classification tools improve the efficiency of such tasks. However, no open-source and turnkey library was found able to reach this goal.

GitHub link I had to dig through to chapter 7 to find:

https://github.com/CIRCL/douglas-quaid
Why Your Developers Should Support Customers – Different Perspective
Generally speaking, US school systems consist of separate elementary, middle school/junior high, and (senior) high schools with staggered start and end times for the school day to accommodate buses. For example, back in high school I think the actual school day started around 7am or maybe 7:15am or so. I'd catch the bus at around ~6:30am as I lived towards the end of my bus route; some kids would be up earlier. The buses would drop off their charges with a bit of time to spare and head out again for the next schools (in order: high school, middle school(s), and elementary school(s)). At the end of the day, the buses would line up around the school (again, for my district, maybe 15-20 minutes before the final bell and with two 'flights' of buses, IIRC), load up the kids, and head out on their route in reverse before repeating at the next schools.

It's not really an example of a functioning public transport system; it certainly works, but only in a very limited and specific context and without any flexibility. If a kid misses the bus either in the morning or after school (which can happen often), they're going to be waiting for a ride home from a family member. After-school programs required the same. And if you're in a rural community? The bus rides are longer, and you're waking up even earlier. But for a lot of suburban communities, there's no real alternative. If they have a bus system, it's probably for commuters and goes from specified stops (often from large "Park and Ride" lots) to the nearest city.

In that sense, there often isn't a public bus to put kids on in much of the US. Assuming, of course, that parents would be willing to do so. Back in 2008, a writer wrote about letting her 9-year-old ride the bus and subway to school alone.[0] There was a ton of public outcry, and she was labeled "America's worst mom" and suggested it was equivalent to child abuse. But that's a different issue altogether.

0. http://nysun.com/opinion/why-i-let-my-9-year-old-ride-subway...
I don't believe I meant what you think I meant. I intended to make a comment about our society creating unnecessary anxiety. I hope we look at the cause of the anxiety instead of just treating the symptoms.

I do want people to see mental health professionals if they are suffering. I fear that option isn't available to many people that need the help, so I'd like to see a societal change in the pressures we put on each other and the ways we live our lives.
With their natural predators mostly eradicated, the deer population could do with a good culling in many states. Disclaimer: I've eaten deer in the past. However, now I'm not so sure I'd choose deer as a protein source. I'd rather not expose myself to Chronic Wasting Disease[1]. It is not a pleasant way to die.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/prions/cwd/occurrence.html
Reading this thread [0] on their Uservoice shows that no progress has been done since August 2018 on notifications management for the end user. I'm sure they allow control when you create a channel but convincing the teammanager who very day pings the entire channel to say their work hours that day is impossible so that feature is more or less useless.
The fact that you can praise coworkers with unicorns, being implemented before proper notifications, has made me go from believing in the future of Teams to now praising Slack. It is maddening.

[0] https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/su...
My middle school geography teacher had a more memorable (to me) approach: lat = fat, so if you think of a fat person, their belt is the equator and latitude lines run parallel to it. Long = long hair, so if the Earth is positioned north-up, the hair (longitude lines) runs from top to bottom.
Your experience sounds like from some sci-fi book written by Isaac Asimov. My reality looks way different: there was Vice President from USA checking the German branch couple weeks ago. 3 days of management presentations full of inaccurate information to show how excellent are we managing our projects. The Vice President had absolutely no interest in the real projects in the labs. Nobody does, project checklist and weekly hours reporting are only 2 interesting things. I am still dreaming experiencing management HP Way, but it’s not happening. Current leaders are accountants and not technical leaders anymore.
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History proves this. Only modern democracies don't have the stomach for it.
Sanity does not mean necessarily "holding only true beliefs". I believe the issue here is we do not define sanity in the same way.

Given your example of the soldier jumping on a grenade - clearly they value the life of their friend more than their own. Therefore, it is beneficial to them.
Got it. Skiping it.

Thanks for the tldr.
> I think it's safe to say though that neither Tumblr nor WordPress, even combined, would ever have more posts than atoms on Earth =)

If my math is correct, you're a wee bit off.

9,223,372,036,854,775,807 is 2^63, which is roughly 10^19. The Avogadro constant, which is about 6 * 10^23, is the number of particles (atoms / molecules) in a mole of substance, which for atoms amounts to (atom number of element) grams of mass (so e.g. 12g of C12 is a mole).
Unfortunately, the effect is not what it should be for many readers in the modern West.
Thanks, sleavey for good question. But sometimes very ill people can work somewhere to, for example as a courier
Disclosure: I work at Google, and in absolutely no way do I speak for anyone other than myself.

Your situation is awful. In fact, it's so bad that no one should ever have to be in it, and you're absolutely right that ours is eons better.

That doesn't mean this is the way things must be.

All of those benefits you listed—they are things that any decent society would provide. The fact that Google choosing to be decent is not only so rare, but also contempt-inducing in people who are ground down by other companies is a staggering win for every other company that doesn't want to offer good benefits.

The fact that instead of saying "hey, we expect to be treated as well as Google treats its employees, and we're willing to pass laws to that effect if need be", people are saying "man, look at those coddled Googlers" while aware of their own untenable positions—that's a triumph of the soul sucking machinery of modern employment.

I'm not suggesting action. I'm not even asking you to feel sorry for us—you're right, in most cases, there's nothing to feel sorry for, though depending on your sympathies, a kind thought towards those who receive torrents of abuse would be…well, kind.

I would ask that you imagine yourself in our shoes and wonder: is working at Google the be-all and the end-all of a life fulfilled? Is Google really perfect? That's what the internal fights are about. We should make search accessible to billions in China! No, we should never lend support to oppressive regimes! We should increase our reach by hiring across demographisc to make sure we truly understand our global user base! No, we should not mess with the hiring recipe that has given Google this dominant position!

These fights come from a sense of responsibility. We at Google are uniquely privileged to work at a company that has immense influence on the world. The fights are about what our responsibilities are to this world. To the people that come to us expecting truth, to those that come to us expecting safety, to those that entrust us with the details of their daily lives, and those of their children.

I guess what I'm trying to say is this: the takeaway from this article isn't that you should feel sorry for us. It's that you should be aware that somewhere where you have little influence, fierce battles are being fought that will affect you in ways great and small. Whoever you back, I'd take away that someone is trying to have your back.
Steeling internet. Neat.
All pre ripened fruits are gassed with ethylene to ripen them, not just bananas.

Tip: if you want to ripen your fruit or e.g. avocados faster, put them in a bag with a fruit that is ripe because the ripe fruit gives off a lot of ethylene which will ripen the others.
With that logic, if I have only 1 star, then I make $my_whole_salary per star! I should aim to get 2 stars, that'd be a real life changer.
the same should be done when you own a car
I didn't. Guess I assumed I had used it based on your response.

Sorry for overreacting.
> most protests in the U.S. are decidedly bourgeois.

Exactly. The US population is a model of complacency, so the US Government does not have to project much authoritarian force domestically.

The narrative that there is a culture of dissent in the US is false and gets more false every day.
Mostly the same places they always did. Inertia is strong like that. Most of them miss a simpler time, just like you do, but hey, so it goes.
Flightgear - https://www.flightgear.org/

edit - Can build scenery off of OpenStreetMap data http://wiki.flightgear.org/Osm2city.py
HK also doesn't have TSMC, which if destroyed would put semiconductor progress and prices back 5-10 years.
> "The estimated amount of money laundered globally in one year is 2 - 5% of global GDP, or $800 billion - $2 trillion in current US dollars. Though the margin between those figures is huge, even the lower estimate underlines the seriousness of the problem governments have pledged to address."

https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/money-laundering/globalizatio...
In jail
Thanks, miki123211! You are very welcome!
I've not found many details about how this is actually working — there's some info on his D̴̹̭͂ë̷̗́̃̿̓̾͜ṃ̸͔͚̗̙̪̎̄̋ȏ̸̝̤̱͜n̶͇͇͙̻̩͑͑S̴̳̩̮̥͚̥̚ė̸̟̃͋͂͝e̷̪̲̪̰̣̿̀͠d̵̡̂͗ cable here [1], but apparently the O.MG cable is "a very different piece of hardware that does a whole lot more."

Does anyone have any insight into how this attack works? My guess is that it acts like a hub that exposes both the iPhone lightning connector and a keyboard/mouse. And then the keyboard/mouse is controllable via some near-range wireless like WiFi or bluetooth? I suppose it could even scan for open networks and try to join to allow a more remote exploit. Anyone find more information anywhere?

1. https://github.com/O-MG/DemonSeed
As I’ve gotten more senior in my career, I think one of the most enlightening things has been anticipating debt before it happens (in planning/architecting), acknowledging it when it does and then taking prudent measures to minimize it and log it for future refactoring.

It’s also been funny seeing managers try to rebrand tech debt with other business speak like “tech health”. Debt shouldn’t be a bad thing but one that’s anticipated and respected.
I wish you and the team the best of luck. Tumblrs first downfall was partly because the autonomy it was given to a team that had no idea how to grow the business. Karp had zero idea how to grow the product or the revenues past the initial vision. D'onofrio is an operator, likely not the best fit for leading a vision of what a new Tumblr with a new mandate should be.
After reading the story... it makes you think that's a pretty good problem to have compared to some people's lot in life.
First, the quote, and my comment, are in the context of commercial solar projects, not residential. Think about a company installing solar on the roof of a factory.

Second, I am sure there are many different ways to implement the nudge. Indeed, maybe instead of subsidizing solar we should rather stop subsidizing fossil.

Finally, talking about residential, currently almost every house has a gas pipe connected to it forcibly. And that pipe also requires maintenance. And sometimes gas leaks and your house blows up. And I don't see how forced solar would in theory be different to the current gas situation.
I'm LDS (Mormon) and we have BYU which is well respected, there is a program called BYU-Pathway ( https://byupathway.lds.org ) where for the first year you drive to a local location and take some basic classes, that aren't accredited (so you can't get loans) but do convert to credit at BYU that I've been thinking about doing when the next round starts up here in a month or two, assuming there are enough local applicants to form a class (I've applied, just waiting for enough other people to).

After the year you can apply to BYU Idaho online and they've actually structured the degree in 'certificates' so you earn a 'certificate' from BYU to pad your CV, then another certificate, then another etc and eventually your Bachelor's.

The benefit here is BYU tuition is INSANELY cheap (if you don't fail any classes, 7,800 USD for your Bachelor's but that still stings when I factor in interest and the age handicap when I do have the degree).

The problem here is though, I can't get a loan for the 3 semester and it's something like 400$ a semester, up front each semester, which is a lot of money to me (most of a week's take home).

Also consider I have a GED, haven't been in school for 15-16 years... I've been doing the Khan Academy basic math (started basic division last night) to try and get into the habit of regular study and testing.

Mostly though I'm just doing a lot of "what can I sell and get 400$ for so I don't have to blow my emergency fund". I cancelled my gym membership yesterday which sucks as it's my entire social life, basically the only thing I look forward to and the owner is my friend and we had a bro-hug and both got kinda sad even though we will still see each other, and that savings will cover the 2nd and 3rd semester but doesn't help me with the first.

Last year I had talked myself into looking at WGU since you could do as much as you could handle and didn't pay per credit hour but per unit of time instead... yeah... I had some credits from a failed attempt at an Associates degree when I was 18... I had my transcript sent to them April 9th 2018, they emailed me 4 days ago with the evaluation... glad I didn't take out a bunch of loans for them...
I'm curious if this will enable not only the recovery of those cells but also allow us to extend our hearing range
I'm thrilled to see this comment upvoted, and you've said some of my own thoughts much better than I could articulate. This mode of thinking helps me re-orient my life goals around 5-year or 10-year plans based on cultivating my land.
I also emailed you the download links!
In case anyone is confused by this shill, the protests in HK aren't about HK wanting a closer relationship with the mainland. Quite the opposite in fact. Parent commenter is trying to spread propaganda while claiming "fake news" on the other side.

Source: friends who live in Hong Kong and are eyewitnesses at the protests.
Hey, do you consider to add a "Visitor" button beside the "Register" button on the landing page? It maybe useful for people who want to look around before deciding whether or not to continue to use the service.

Just my 0.2 cents.
On the one hand, I'm a little impatient with the litany of complaint & dismissal of options like getting a degree... there's always something you can do... but on the other hand, making $35k vs $150k really is like being a peasant vs a royal. On $150k a year you can save -- save a lot if you're in a low cost of living area, save a bit less in a high cost of living area. On $35k a year you are fine if you have good health and no dependents, but if you've got to pay for daycare or elder care or support anyone else, you're on an endless treadmill just this far away from missing a bill or being unable to deal with car trouble or a furnace problem or a sudden eviction because your landlord's brother wants to move in.... it really does feel impossible to make it out of the financial trap. It might not be impossible, but it's very very hard.
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> The title in my bio doesn’t mean shit. I’m making an app, who cares, it doesn’t matter what you call it.

Amen. Those more obsessed with what they're doing, than with telling other's what they're doing, are the most sincere.
Where Have All the Denisovans Gone?
When I was in port in Gitmo in 1987 there was a civilian boat in harbor with a large tethered balloon.
They were mapping Cuba for the US Defense Mapping Agency(DMA).

So I would guess that DMA had a 3D terrain map around 1989.
I know it was used for cruise missile flight planning.
No idea what the resolution was.

Even with our very detailed underwater mapping the Navy still has areas that are not well covered.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a24158/...
Are you talking about the US? I though the Equal Rights Amendment was not yet ratified, and that equal rights are thus not actually 'constitutionally enshrined'?
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I spend a lot of time in #python and usually it's quite active and helpful.
where/how do you connect to these rooms? I would love to hang out in the #linux room
I don't know, his punishments seem to vary in quality quite a bit.

On one hand, making a nanny who hit a child research and write a report on the effects of child abuse seems like an extremely good way to deter recidivism, and make an impression on the defendant.

On the other hand, making someone do an embarrassing public stunt seems like it would make them famous for the wrong reasons, severely handicapping their ability to find work in the future, to the point that it's ultimately worse than a short jail sentence. Embarrassing someone doesn't fix anything for them.
Fair enough. You're probably right, although I'm not sure how numbers would apply anyway.

I meant the sentiment: Where life at Google sounds so remote and unachievable to the median-income 31k person, as if walled-off in a luxurious palace on the top of a nearby, annoyingly visible hill; a totally unrelatable life of relative luxury.

Rather than a numerically apt comparison.
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> Google doesn't even pay well enough to treat people poorly. [...] Meanwhile a smaller tech startup will pay better [...] maybe even not work you 80+hours a week

Having worked both at Google and at smaller tech startups, this is pretty much the opposite of reality. I wonder where are you getting these ideas from.
I'm not sure if I'd even consider these things tech debt. I tend to distinguish between:

1. Unfinished/unpolished implementations
2. Implementations that are architectural flawed, such that fixing them requires throwing away the existing code.

Issues in (2) are a lot more problematic than issues in (1).
Still it makes me a little angry, we have 8 milion nice, young pro-democratic protesters in Hong-Kong facing communist tanks and we aren't even going to drop a single rocket on Beijing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement
You speak of Tetris like it's some abstract concept that has always existed and is like some eternal truth. It's not: it's a game that was created by one man, Alexey Pajitnov, who also just happen to be "the current IP holder" you dismiss so easily (he's the co-owner of the Tetris Company).

So no, it's not an "abstract game with endless possibilities". Tetris is Tetris, a concrete game made by a great game designer. It gets cloned and copied constantly, so much so that people forget that it was actually authored by a person. Comments like yours erase Pajitnov's authorship and ownership, which he has rightly earned.

Nobody talks of any other kind of media this way, we shouldn't do it about games either. When speaking of Harry Potter, no one thinks of JK Rowling as just "the current IP holder" (she's the author!), and no one considers fan fiction on the same level as the real thing.

The article states "when the game plays, the tetrominos are selected at random". When it comes to standard Tetris, as defined by the Tetris Company, this is incorrect. I was correcting the error. Obviously you can do it however you want, but that is how Tetris does it.

As for what's more fun, obviously opinions can differ. But as someone who plays a lot (A LOT) of Tetris, I personally vastly prefer the 7-bag system. It really opens up the game strategically, and it allows you to play much faster.
> A keyboard where every note is generated using only combinations of Cs, but with the weightings chosen so that its average pitch is the one that that key usually has.

Sounds like you're describing a vocoder or auto-harmonizer but I can't be sure.

Suppose I play an F-sharp above middle C on your "averager" keyboard. What is heard? Is it only various C pitches? C pitches and a single F-sharp? Something else?

Do the C pitches have harmonics or is it only the fundamental?
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Do ctrl-f for "Nested Operator Expressions" in this piece: https://martinfowler.com/articles/collection-pipeline/

Some other references helped me along the way:

* http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/WhatsFunctionalProgrammingAllAbo...

* http://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters
Arguably, you're not playing (or implementing) modern Tetris then, but some variation.

> Modern versions of Tetris released after 2001 use a bag-style randomizer that guarantees players will never receive more than four S or Z pieces in a row. This is one of the "Indispensable Rules" enforced by the Tetris Guideline that all officially licensed Tetris games must follow.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris#Infinite_gameplay_impos...
Seems interesting but the website won't load for me
Firefox, Brave, Edge all fail.
Godot please
It's easy to call C from .NET, but is it easy to call .NET from C? In a cross-platform manner?
My wife has premature hearing loss of an unknown cause. Doctor kind of shrugged when asked what could be done about it. This was some 15 years ago. I'll push her to make an appointment with a doc again to see if something new has been discovered.