skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The answer is you focus on dealing with what's in front of you, so turn on wipers and demist. If all the drivers do that, then no one needs to worry about what's happening behind them. After you take care of being able to see and control the car, then you worry about rear fogs and hazards.

And if it's really, really bad, pull over. Don't be like those idiots who decide to stop in the middle of a highway with 75mph traffic around them, under an overpass to protect themselves from a hailstorm.
I don't know if it has to do with the CS background of people, but i find it baffling too (physics background). A TON of decisions are given very little thought or justification even though it should not be hard to measure stuff. It borders or being similar to management.
A lawmaker wants to end ‘social media addiction’ by stopping mindless scrolling
Yeah, that's what it's like when you start. It's not so much about "trying to not think" as it's about "sitting there, vaguely listening to your inner voice chatter away".

Having something else to focus on can help - chant a mantra (just "om" works okay if you don't wanna look for anything more Perfect For You), count your breathing and reset the count every time your inner voice interjects something or when you get to ten, stare at something (I like just staring at the grass sometimes and watching how my visual centers start acting when they get really bored with looking at it).

A big key is to stop being angry at yourself for failing to stop that internal monologue. It's a hard thing to do! Instead of beating yourself up, just shrug, forgive yourself for doing it (maybe even say "I forgive myself for failing to quiet my inner voice" out loud, this activates different parts of your brain), and go back to whatever you're doing to focus on next-to-nothing.

If you can block out the time, I found that my meditation skills got a lot better when I stopped trying to do it for a few minutes at a time and started setting a timer for thirty minutes. Some days I can stop thinking easily. Other times I keep on fighting it for like twenty minutes. But doing it for a long stretch like that gives you more chances for your twitchy brain to get bored and STFU.
Hope I run into you in the pub! Cheers!
not all pubs are loud; the best ones are not
I'm absolutely in no way qualified to interpret results, but it seems like in Western Australia we've had a similar policy since the 1990s, where the WA Housing Authority put policy in place to ensure that no suburb had more than 1 in 9 houses dedicated to public/government housing.

https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/the-su...

That said, there's been some notable kerfuffles when "rich" suburbs didn't want their allocation.
> Half the skills you list are relatively common

Which skills?

> it's not FAANG level, but it's also not 105k.

105k is minimum wage for an engineer. That's why it says minimum in the post.
One part of the "web's contract" is that googlebot and other scrapers should get what the users get. And vice versa - if you're telling googlebot that there's a particular text available to the public; I'd expect to get the same content that you just gave googlebot and not something else, thank you very much.
Yeah i think some of the simulated ‘optimized’ control output resulted in a more realistic result than the intended animation.
Known many, and that I respect as well. True alcoholism is an absolute monster, and the truth is that some people simply cannot stop once they start. Don't assume I think everyone should drink just for the sake of it--many people have excellent reasons for not doing so. Totally understandable. Many people who do not drink are beyond reproach.

And then some others are, well, Cathy/Kate from Steinbeck's 'East of Eden'.

Might change my original position to 'I don't trust anyone who doesn't drink without a good explanation such as a medical condition that precludes the enjoyment of the drink, religious convictions, or a history of or proclivity towards alcoholism. Sounds rather like an American prescription drug ad though.
Comparision of IPFS and EdgeFS for Edge Computing Use Cases
Dear All,

EdgeFS was recently open-sourced under Apache License: https://github.com/Nexenta/edgefs

With that in mind, I just posted this blog where I wanted to compare in my opinion two solutions, IPFS and EdgeFS, that might fit the security profile for Edge/Fog Computing use cases:

https://t.co/jpac0mPTWo

Thank you for your kind attention!
Actually the stockholders are last in line -- "profit" is what is left over after all the other expenses are paid. Employees are entitled to their wages as long as they are employed; stockholders are not actually entitled to anything and may never see any return on their investment. Before stockholders can be paid, a company must pay its employees, its suppliers, its taxes, its bondholders, etc. That is the risk a stockholder accepts.

It is wrong to think of a stockholder as having given a "loan," because that is not what stock represents. Stock represents an ownership stake in a business, and ownership is perpetual (a perpetual loan makes no sense -- it is not a "loan" if it can never be repaid).

Stock ownership is transferable for a publicly traded company, which is why someone who did not buy their stake directly from the company can be entitled to all the benefits of someone who did. This is a good thing because it reduces the risk of investing -- if you invest in a company, and later on find yourself short on cash, you can sell your shares (though it may be for less than you paid, but that's just how it goes when you own something). If the buyer of your shares were not entitled to the same benefits as you, why would they buy the shares in the first place?

That is also why a company ultimately serves the interest of its shareholders -- they are the owners. That is how a capitalist system works, so if you think this is problematic then you really have a problem with capitalism. What sort of system would you like to see? Communist systems have not been nearly as successful historically (which is why there are so few remaining) and socialism has only worked well as means of supporting capitalism (e.g. providing people with food, healthcare, education, transportation, and whatnot so that they can participate in a capitalist system in a meaningful way).
Wouldn't that just be an extension to perceptually lossy compression?
>Knowledge is a set of facts.

This view, very common in the 20th C and beyond, is exposed and (I think) demolished in Oakeshott's essay Rationalism in Politics[0]. The rationalism he's talking about (which he says almost all political parties in the West nowadays espouse) is precisely believing that knowledge is a set of facts. That all knowledge can be written down in bullet points, and taught.

Yet most knowledge cannot be. If I know how to ride a bike, to play a musical instrument, to do any complex activity well, most of what I know cannot be put and wasn't learned in such a form. It's "know-how", practical knowledge, distinct from the kind that can be put into words, "know-that".

Let Oakeshott speak for himself a little:

"The second sort of knowledge I will call practical, because it exists only in use, is not reflective and (unlike technique) cannot be formulated in rules. This
does not mean, however, that it is an esoteric sort of knowledge. It means only that the method by which it may be shared and becomes common knowledge is not the method of formulated doctrine. And if we consider it from this point of view, it would not, I think, be misleading to speak of it as traditional knowledge. In every activity this sort of knowledge is also involved; the mastery of any skill, the
pursuit of any concrete activity is impossible without it.
These two sorts of knowledge, then, distinguishable but insep­arable, are the twin components of the knowledge involved in every concrete human activity. In a practical art, such as cookery, nobody supposes that the knowledge that belongs to the good cook is con­fined to what is or may be written down in the cookery book; tech­nique and what I have called practical knowledge combine to make skill in cookery wherever it exists. And the same is true of the fine arts, of painting, of music, of poetry; a high degree of technical knowledge, even where it is both subtle and ready, is one thing; the ability to create a work of art, the ability to compose something with real musical qualities, the ability to write a great sonnet, is another,
and requires, in addition to technique, this other sort of knowledge.

Again, these two sorts of knowledge are involved in any genuinely scientific activity. The natural scientist will certainly make use of the rules of observation and verification that belong to his tech­nique, but these rules remain only one of the components of his knowledge; advance in scientific discovery was never achieved
merely by following the rules..."

[0] 1962. It's very readable, everyone should read it. It was embarrassing how much I learned from it. I even learned a lot about teaching music from it.
A language really should have some kind of quotation syntax, so rather than having to write out AST constructions by hand as in your example, you could instead do something like this:

var st = @(arg1 | if (arg1) { a = 5 })
st(true)
console.log(a) // 5

So that way you don't have to manually construct the AST objects like in your example, the language parser does it for you. The @(...) expression in the above code would be compiled to the same object construction expressions as in your example. That is getting much closer to LISP, while still working for non-LISP syntax languages.

(My suggestion of @(args...|body...) as quote syntax is totally arbitrary and besides the point, pick something else if you don't like it.)

Where it gets even more powerful, is where you have some kind of escape syntax inside the body of @(), that is evaluated immediately, and returns either a constant value, an identifier, or another AST object. (A constant value or an identifier would be wrapped in the appropriate AST node type.) That's basically LISP backquote/quasiquote.
Not the person you're replying to, but I've also lost the ability to enjoy cannabis. I can trace it back to a nervous breakdown and major depressive episode I had in 2014. Since then, smoking weed has almost always had a dysphoric effect on me. It isn't routine paranoia but a visceral discomfort that no amount of self-awareness and mindfulness can shake. This might sound dumb, but it really feels like literal "bad vibes"... like the character of reality shifts toward malevolence.

My current theory is that (contrary to what you might think) weed reduces dissociation, making reality more "real", so to speak. Dissociation can be an important defense mechanism; by interfering with this mechanism, cannabis can lead to discomfort and dysphoria. If weed makes you feel bad, it may be the case that there's something wrong in your life that you're trying to ignore.

(From a neurochemical standpoint, I wonder if it has something to do with dopamine dysfunction. I'm not certain, but it seems like co-administration of stimulants can reduce this dysphoric effect. But I don't want to have to snort Adderall every time I smoke weed.)

It's also possible that I'm wrong, and that certain people just lose the ability to enjoy weed at some point in their life. That would be unfortunate.
Can this fight ever be won?

If you've been browsing the internet for more than 5 minutes you already have cookies from some of the major ad networks. Therefore if you do not have cookies from the major ad networks, you're either a brand-new device or an incognito browser. All that is left to do is get in bed with the ad network to ask them if they have good cookies for this session. As it so happens most of the companies trying to bust the incognito mode are already in that crowded bed.

The next loops in this spiral are: 1) an incognito mode that seeds good-looking ad cookies 2) ML models trying to distinguish synthetic/cloned/5-seconds-old cookies from genuine ones 3) matching ML models trying to out-fox the models from step 2, and so on.

The last fit of madness will be a hidden session in Chrome browsing the web on your behalf, building up a bogus profile for the ad networks, and the ad networks trying to figure out if the clicks in your fake session are sufficiently human-like.

And whoever wins in this war, the ad networks will end up collecting even more data than they do now.
I've heard of multiple people who were making $200k+ at medium-to-small size companies having their H1B transfers or extensions denied in the past year and half. As far as I'm aware, in all cases, USCIS said that their job didn't qualify as a "specialty occupation" (i.e. one that requires a bachelor's degree), and denied. This, despite a bunch of them having graduated from highly-ranked U.S. universities with majors in Computer Science, and working as SWEs. The companies often submit reams of documentation showing that the position needs a degree, but to no avail. It's become nearly impossible to convince USCIS that a job requires a degree, these days.

Salary is quite irrelevant. It seems like a large cohort of USCIS officers are trying to eliminate everyone on the H1B, and this is being encouraged by the Trump administration. The sad thing is that denials are completely arbitrary and random, and depends on who looks at the case. I know one person who got approved (for a job as a SWE), soon after graduating from college (transitioning from OPT), despite a low (~100k) salary. So some people get lucky, and slip through the cracks, so to speak.

But in general, USCIS isn't judging cases by their merit, they're not treating jobs with high salaries favorably; the general attitude of this administration seems to be that: if you're from another country, we don't want you here, no matter how well-qualified or well-paid you are.
I think you just talked me into making some sort of huge steampunk button controller for slack... Have a label with the contact name, an incandescent lamp for new message status then a button to chose that to go to the conversation... Hmmm now all I need to find is some time
> Amazon has been great for authors and for readers.

Good for authors/readers of genre fiction, where only the words matter but the presentation doesn’t matter much. Especially good for readers who prefer reading on screen to reading paper books.

I’m not so convinced it’s good for authors/readers of other types of books. For example, the quality of printing and binding of most technical books is in freefall. (Obviously the change is not solely attributable to Amazon. The takeover of many major publishers by finance people who have no pride in their product has a lot to do with the quality decline.)
I don't think Netflix and (maybe) chill explains this wholly. Here's my guess: {Boston, NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, $CITY} isn't as cheap as it used to be. Bigger, more corporate bars can afford the rents required to stay near where the people are. Consequently, smaller, neighborhood pubs close and force people to commune near bigger bars (and sometimes pubs) to get their fix of community through delicious alcoholic drinks.
I can understand what you are saying, but the thing I always wonder about is why should the universe be deterministic? We're used to determinism because we experience that at a macro level. However, why should we prefer that condition at a QM level? To a certain extent, I'm actually more comfortable with the idea that it isn't deterministic and that all determinism essentially derives from chaos theory: things happen randomly, but the system constrains its output.

I guess I don't really have a reason for my preference other than thinking, if a universe pops into existence, what would I expect it to act like? Deterministic, or indeterministic? It just seems simpler to assume indeterministic because I can't think of a reason why it should be deterministic.

Edit: I know that chaos theory is built on determinism :-) I'm thinking of things like strange attractors. My ignorance leaves me with no better word for what I'm talking about, unfortunately.
It would take far too long to get enough nuke capacity online to do any good, and would steal capital from more cost-effective measures. Nuke power was never justifiable on a cost basis, and is much less so now than ever before.
> Has nobody researched this before spending a few hundred million dollars?

Of _course_ they did.

But nobody listens to the UX/HCI researchers and academics, when the touchscreen vendor's sales team are inviting them to fully catered lunches on a tropical golf course...

Business as usual.
I'm former Russian resident.

First, there are still some cases when permission for protest event is not required. It's a picketing performed by single person, for example. In this case police will pack protester in a matter of few minutes and deliver him to a police station for fake reason like "personality identification". So, legitimacy is not the thing.

Government doesn't appreciate protests, so it creates artificial barriers by means of law manipulation, and it'll always be winning in this field. All this paperwork required to approve meeting is like implicit reject, or a lever which allows to mitigate real impact of social event. Namely, it can be approved to conduct meeting on the edge of the city in time when it will be not relevant anymore.

Protests are social counterweight, which allows people to push back. The very idea that counterweight be dependent from other's side permission is just ridiculous.
True! But batteries are very much the most expensive of those options.
Businesses do not exist merely to serve their host countries. They serve the needs of many people, including shareholders, customers, employees and the communities (not just countries) they are based in.
Rami Harpaz, Other Pilots, Translated the Hobbit into Hebrew While POWs in Egypt
I don't think that pens and social media are comparable in this way. Pens are a tool for writing while social media is a platform for having your writing be heard.

In addition, choice of pen has no effect on the ability to communicate your message while choice of social media does. Switching from Twitter to Mastodon isn't a solution because Twitter is the place where the public discussion is taking place.

Finally, writing instruments such as pens are something that anyone can easily make on their own. On the other hand, due to the required technical expertise, infrastructure, and network effects it is difficult to enter the social media market.
More interesting would be a semantic compressor, one that didn't necessarily return the exact words in the corpus but that would turn a small amount of compressed data into a document with very similar meaning.

E.g., "Because trees tend to have a low albedo, removing forests would tend to increase albedo and thereby cool the planet" is a sentence from the file that would need to be compressed. It should be acceptable for the decompressed text to read, "Eliminating large groups of trees would improve surface reflectivity and provide support for a planetary cooling trend," or to employ any number of similar phrasings.

Any form of AGI arrived at through Hutter's exercise would be more akin to the intelligence shown by an eidetic person when they recite the telephone book, and computers are already good at that.
I wonder if major league sports are aware about this effect? Is that why some of their star players have injuries so often? I don’t follow sports at all, but star players becoming injured is a news item that sort leaks into more general news to the point of being cliché.
That's okay, because I use about 50% fewer eggs when I buy free range. They're more than twice as expensive. So while the per-egg carbon cost is 20% higher my total carbon usage for eggs will have dropped significantly as a result of switching.
Couldn't have happened to nicer supporters of government meddling into people's lives!
Right, the exhaust is electrically neutral, but only the positive ions are accelerated and generate thrust. So if the ions return eventually to their original potential (as 'Steuard described), there cannot be any net change in momentum. I don't think the electrons injected into the exhaust make any difference in this - as far as I know, that is only necessary to avoid the craft accumulating negative charge.

Perhaps my question could be simplified if we assume the propellants are already ionised - how can a craft generate thrust electrostatically with two grids if a dipole can't generate thrust?
True, but I'm just talking about the sizes of the binaries generated by the default settings of common compilers (gcc, in the case of oathtool), for comparing orders of magnitude. I'm sure there's plenty of fat you could trim by simply tuning the compilation a bit.

(Oathtool also supports SHA2, since it may be used by other implementations, per the RFC. )
Right, because the minus operator will look for the __sub__ attribute.
Diversity in the green card pool is not the same as diversity of who lives in the country or works at a company.
At a summer "Shakespeare in the Park" type of event up here in Puritan Massachusetts, it seems totally appropriate to bring some wine along if you like and judging from the throngs of people around me, many people agree. It's not "freely" in the sense of "you can't get hassled for it", but it is "freely" in the sense of "you likely won't get hassled for it" which is probably what GP meant.
It's an add-on you can choose for cars, if you want to. A lot of service vehicles in Australia have 2 batteries for this reason. 1 for the vehicle, the second for chargers (USB, DC, etc), routers, fridges, cameras, etc.
Because there is no evidence either way.
Yeah, "Organization" includes Basecampe, Airtable, 1Password, Github and Google Drive. At that point, what isn't organization?

EDIT: That said, I see what they're getting at with putting Preface into project management. "Preface is a freelance management platform, built for remote teams."
It looks good. I'm going to print it.

But does every page have a different retro theme, or is there a unifying pattern to it all that I am not genius enough to detect?
Look at all the projection in this thread. I made a simple and true statement.

Hacker News indeed
(The green spaces are for drinking too. Possibly with guitars and snacks.)
Rotation costs exactly the same to implement as shifting, and shares the same hardware, so has about zero marginal cost.

"Academic."
That tweet tags $TSLAQ, which is a group of Tesla short sellers working toward the company’s failure.
So the 22 year old is fine with dating the guy, and even needs him to survive..and we should not allow that to happen? Interesting sense of morality.
Attempting to reduce political favoritism by social media is presumably the stated aim; however, I don't think it is clear that it is the actual aim. Assuming that any politician, and particularly Trump, is altruistic seems like a bad idea to me.
Solastalgia
+1

Touchscreens are vulnerable for fat fingering.

Every time i carry my touchscreenable laptop - it gets crazy because of accidental touches, moves, brushes and if i forget to lock the screen completely - this bordering with disaster, such as deleted files, moved folders, spradically launched apps, etc..
> the housing navigators worked with landlords to expedite inspections and generally try to cut through red tape that might make landlords not want to deal with Section 8

So, the key to getting people to move, is to get the landlords to allow it. Surprising tool they call it?
How did you come to this conclusion?
Dell monitors either have (often even backlit to show state) physical input source buttons or the arrow buttons can be remapped in OSD menu to serve as input source shortcuts (both for particular input and for the input source menu).