skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This behavior should be against the law on both sides. This is not donations, but bribes. They can say donation all day, but it's really a bribe or they would not be giving money to people for free. Once again, we the people are NOT being represented by those that are suppose to represent us. Failure in democracy imho.
Electrons around an atom occupy certain probability functions that correspond to the electron's energy level. The most basic and lowest energy of these at a given tier of orbital distance is nested spherical shells (s). Next is 3 different 2-lobed dumbbell shapes (p), oriented mutually perpendicularly (px, py, pz).

The spherical mode (s) and the dumbbell-shaped modes (px, py, pz) can also hybridize when each has a single electron in it. Those hybrid modes can point lobes out in different directions. A stable mode can hold up to 2 electrons, each spinning in opposite directions.

When an electron probability function of one atom overlaps with that of an adjacent atom, their functions can further hybridize into a bonding function. (They can also hybridize into anti-bonding functions, but ignore that for now.)

When the bonding function puts the electron pair mostly along the line connecting the centers of the bound atoms, that's a sigma bond. It's the lowest-energy kind of bond, so it always (aka exceedingly rare exceptions) happens before any other kind of bond.

In a carbon triple bond, the spherical orbital (s) will hybridize with just one of the dumbbell orbitals (p), forming one function (spx+) that mostly occupies one lobe of the former dumbbell, and one that mostly occupies the other (spx-). These two will then form direct sigma bonds with atoms on either side, separated by 180 degrees. That leaves the other two dumbbell modes (py, pz), mutually perpendicular to the two hybrids. Those can align with the parallel dumbbell modes of the adjacent atom and create bonding functions where the electron positions sort of average out to between the two bound atoms, but mostly occupy places that do not overlap with the sigma bond. Those are pi bonds. They happen between two aligned p orbitals. (There is another kind of indirect bond, a delta bond, that happens between two aligned d orbitals, which have more complex shapes. Those would be the fourth bond in a quadruple bond.)

When those carbons are triple-bonded, their p-orbital atoms are leaning toward the adjacent bound atom. It's much harder for the atom on the opposite side to get their attention to maybe participate in a pi bond on that side.

If you look at the bond through a microscope, you're just going to see a big blob of electron probability between the nuclei, with 6 electrons somewhere in it most of the time, where the triple bond is. It's not organized into discrete spaces for each separate bond. It only has separate slots when you look at the mathematical model.

I don't have any specific resources, other than any modern chemistry textbook you can find. Possible search terms "electron orbitals", "bonding orbitals"
By far the best comment in this thread. Thank you.

Any idea if that syncs as a regular profix sync?
Ads. Ads are a constant drumbeat saying whatever you have isn't "enough". That you should be striving for something better, or worse, that what you have now is crap. They drive a lot of the hurriedness in society. They drive companies to get your attention at all costs - they make your social network a cesspool of extreme politics, not because people wouldn't post them normally, but because ad money incentivizes the networks to promote them. They make your local news only care about grabbing your attention. Go somewhere without billboards and notice how much more peaceful it is. One of the properties of the nicest vacation spots especially where you're supposed to relax is that there are no billboards.

True, a lot of the economy wouldn't work without some sort of advertising, but I've felt that they almost always incentivize people to act against their own interests, and companies to stop treating the end users as a customer.
Having to go through a lottery based visa system to work?
I learned to code in the 70's, predating C99 and having to embrace many diverse platforms (we had more than one mainframe maker back then ;).

But nice explanations here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17010041/why-define-true...

TL;DR portability
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That seems like good advice. I currently commute 20 minutes and it's fine. Not too long, but long enough that work is far away. But if it were half again as long I'd probably get stabby.
Why would this be an improvement?

It encourages taking drivers' eyes off the road. Can you offer an argument that its value is such that that's a net improvement?
> Third party AV companies rely on continuing threats to stay in business.

i'm pretty neutral on this topic, but
doesn't this point by extension mean they have a more direct interest in discovering security flaws and publishing them rather than burying them under the rug if they haven't been seen in the wild?
Math Is as Beautiful as Art
Yes, the TN-1 visa.
Despite the false narratives like this, Tesla really is a great car to drive.
https://youtu.be/xpFe8k1vjcg
I highly recommend Jean Moroney's blog. She digs deep into the psychology behind productivity and goal-setting. I found many unique insights in her articles. Thanks to her writing I've come to believe that procrastination often stems from deeper emotional issues or an unacknowledged clash of priorities (for example, when you try to force yourself to do something that you don't, in fact, want to do, the deeper issue is that you haven't resolved the clash between your short-time desires and your long-term goals).

E.g:

https://www.thinkingdirections.com/dont-motivate-yourself-le...

https://www.thinkingdirections.com/three-steps-to-following-...

General list here:

https://www.thinkingdirections.com/category/time-management/
Bone conduction has come a long way. Sound quality for calls/podcasts/audio books is comparable to regular in-ear headphones. Music quality is sufficient for everyday listening - it performs well in highs and mids, however, bass is not as strong.

Have you ever tried bone conduction headphones?

disclaimer: I'm co-founder/CEO of Sentien (the maker of the headset in the article)
sounds like the "rewrites" are scanning errors (counterfeiters are probably digitizing the original works and errors are creeping in) and in the case of the "gibberish" copy, quite clearly a character encoding issue.

nothing in the article points to intentional alteration, like the tone of the article suggests
+1 this. For me, even playing with LEGO bricks with my kid helps me to `reset` from programming.
You sound like you might have some solid points in here. Next time try adding a few citations, and less rants about your perception of young adult women.
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The lack of available hardware to test hasn't stopped PC manufactures from supporting media larger than available for a given interface.

There are occasionally hiccups, like the whole debacle where the MBR partition table (from 1893) was limited to a few terabytes and the industry switched over to GPT, but even today if you put in a >2TB disk into an ancient machine that does not support GPT it can usually at least use the portion of the disk that it can address.

Just read the spec and write your software to support it. It is not like we are asking for support of terabyte SD cards on machines released with the maximum SD card size was 128MB.
This is unintentionally hilarious.
I understand what you want to say, and a better planning definitely wouldn't hurt, but blaming the tress because are flammable is like saying that the problem of school shootings is that people is shootable and wore shirts instead bullet-proof vests.

Spain has Eucalyptus also. Curiously the private plantations burn often less than the public areas adjacent or the nature parks. Talk about weird statistics.

Without a hand that starts the fire, several times, in several places, in the middle of the night, in the most windy and dry day of the year, with devices specially designed for it... without this hand, there is not fire.
Indeed. Firebase seems to be the leader here, who else is competing on "Not having to constantly hand-code REST endpoints just for doing secure CRUD"?
You can make a UI feel responsive even if the underlying system is not performant.

Let's say you have a client app with checkbox that toggles some boolean variable that communicates with a server. If you're on a 3g connection in an ambulance, it might take a few seconds to send that request to the server and get a response back.

An unresponsive UI would sit there and make you wait for the request/response to complete. You click the checkbox, then nothing happens, then suddenly, some time later, the checkbox is checked and the page refreshes, or a state change happens. It's jarring and weird. A responsive UI would update the state of the app based on the user's actions even if the request hasn't completed yet.

Tightly related to this the concept of optimistic UIs - the UI acts optimistically and updates the state of the app under the assumption that server-backed state changes will work. The iPhone's messages app sending messages is the prototypical optimistic UI interaction. You send a message, the blue / green speech bubble shows up on your messages app while the message is in flight. If it succeeds, nothing changes and you're none the wiser. If it fails, you get an option to delete the message or resend.
Excellent article, well grounded in the reality of software development. New developers and managers would benefit from understanding the practical points made here as early as possible.

I do think perhaps there is too much emphasis on reuse and particularly cloud services. Ironically, this is partly for the reasons given elsewhere in the article. If you rely on outsourcing important things, you also naturally outsource the deep understanding of those important things, which can leave you vulnerable to problems you didn't anticipate. Also, any integration is a source of technical debt, so dependencies on external resources can be more fragile than they appear, and if something you rely on changes or even disappears then that is a new kind of potentially very serious problem that you didn't have to deal with before. Obviously I'm not advocating building every last thing in-house in every case, but deciding when to build in-house and when to bring something in can be more difficult than the article here might suggest.
That sounds terrible. I mean, I assume they don't assume liability for bad decisions?

If "the PC" or "the IP address" was not contractually agreed to be an authentication factor (that you thus should protect from unauthorized use), it's a terrible idea to use them for authentication, while also (presumably) putting all liability on the customer.
>2.6 million cameras in Chongqing!? that number is mind-boggling.

You need to get an idea of what the upper classes are thinking, they need data to divide and conqeur, here's former national security advisor of the united states:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

>This article raises more questions than answers.

Then you need to go get a copy America's Deadliest Export: Democracy, the Truth About US Foreign Policy, and Everything Else

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1780324456/
Opera Unite did it (and that's about the fifth time this year I've mentioned Opera Unite in response to a comment bemoaning a lack in currently embedded internet systems/apps).
Progressive Web Apps for Xbox One
> The article mistakenly says "microSDXC slots" when it means "microSD" slot.

No, I think it's correct. From Wikipedia [0]:

SDSC: 1 MiB to 2 GiB

SDHC: 2 GiB to 32 GiB

SDXC: 32 GiB to 2 TiB

SDUC: 2 TiB to 128 TiB

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SD_card
TabDB: An SQL-able database in the browser tabs
The article mentions that they are building extra circuitry to circumvent any bad cores. Not much detail but at least they have addressed this.
Rigetti is a company that builds quantum computers and uses Lisp.

* https://github.com/rigetti

Google Flights is built on Lisp as well.

* https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/87540/google-flig...

I don’t think the parent meant that experienced programmers are heavy users of Lisp, or that they use it as their main language, but rather they often know it and have an interest in it, even if it’s not paying their bills.
Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo Team Up, Introduces Own Version of iPhone's AirDrop
I live 3 miles from downtown Austin, which has numerous internet options (Google Fiber, Spectrum, AT&T, and Grande), but the options in my apartment complex are:

* Spectrum (up to 400mbps)

* AT&T (5mbps dsl)

I technically do have some choice, but given that one of these is close to 100x faster than the other, and the pricing is fairly similar...

I think wireless isps and 5g are our best chance at disrupting this.
Not parking in places not explicitly marked as such.
There are many degrees of this issue. When we lived in Bangladesh, the income gap was so large that the small middle class of professional workers (not capital owners) could easily afford multiple live in household helpers. When we moved to the US you had to be truly rich for that.
Are they trying to get ahead of government regulation with this? It looks like a declaration of self-regulation to me.

If they really intend to switch gears and prioritize other stakeholders, that may require some enforceable agreements among them to prevent competition from causing a race to the bottom, and I wonder if such agreements would be legal.
Maybe we can agree that propaganda used to get someone to buy Pepsi over Coke isn't exactly the same as pushing a political agenda?
BigQuery is pretty stateful and, I would argue, one of the better "serverless" offerings out there.
Roaring 20s Superhets
You shouldn't be too surprised. I live inside the Dallas/Ft Worth area and my options are for wired internet access are:

1) 6mbit AT&T/SBC DSL internet
2) 400mbit cableco internet

Not really much of a choice there.
shh berlin sucks don't go there
I think there's a lot of ambiguity in the phrase "generated from the code". When I hear it, I think if docs generated from doc-comments embedded in the code, which hare clean explanations written by a human. They just have the advantage of being right next to the code, so they're a lot more likely to be updated when the code changes than an entirely external document.

"Documentation" that is nothing more than the interface definitions in HTML for is worse than useless. I can get all of that from just reading the code.
At the moment a desire to find something sustainable here, where most of my relationships are. I think about it all the time, and have ran budgets, and have vacations with the intent of "feeling like I live" there. I know there'll be a lot of downsides that I can't know about, but I try to talk to expats and migrants to get their take on things.
No I mean a physical thing like those little number generators that banks have had for what 20 years now, or the smartphone 2FA apps that we have used for at least 15 years.

I don't enter either a regular password nor one-time password for anything (not for transactions, not for login). I only use an identifying mechanism on a second device (a smartphone or a dedicated device). The secondary device has an 8digit pin though, so if it is stolen then it's not (immediately) compromising the security.
Same for AI, but it's not stopping us so far
> "Giving ultimatums" appears on every single list of "signs of abusive relationships" you could care to find.

“If you don't ____, I will ____.” boundary setting statements with consequences are as likely to show up on lists of how to deal with relationships with communication problems as ultimatums are to show up on lists of signs of abusive relationship.
Well it subsidies exporters and debtors (unless your debt is in foreign currency) while punishing importers and savers
> in my case it was because you'd not find someone with my particular skill at that point in time.

That's how the program is sold and it's incredibly easy to game. Require 10 years of Swift experience and suddenly the candidate pool is dry. Generally most, if not all, IT job postings list an unrealistic and fictitious skill set.

> I was also paid more than the employees at the company I was contracted to work at

The cost of a Full-time Employee is usually something like 140-160% of their salary. So a contractor making 120% more than an FTE is still cheaper for the employer.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46618582
Sometimes one can be in a situation of the Buridan's Ass, there are multiple things interesting and exciting, but one can't fully commit to any of them, and end up doing none of them.
People who ride their bike to work aren't a protected class, yet I've been informed it's not okay to ask a candidate how their commute was.

I really don't want anything to do with the recruiting and hiring process.
Find someone who has to windsurf for a living and you'll find one who procrastinates.
They were nearly all home built from kits to avoid RCA patents.
Finding Roots in the Complex Plane
I live in a large US city and have one cable provider as my only viable high speed option. The dsl provider which I would have preferred hasn't upgraded the last 50 meters of lines going to my house, and said they had no plans to. The top speed they could offer me was 3Mbps.

EDIT: In comparison, the same dsl provider on streets that have had their lines upgraded offers 100Mbps plans for about $30 less per month than the cable provider. So some homes actually do enjoy a little healthy competition, but it hasn't been enough to cause any changes in the cable plan pricing yet :(
When I was writing software for medical devices in the '90s, we had a very clear policies for dealing with cognitive drift that included performance ceilings, testing for drift in beta testing, etc. In our testing, 10 seconds was the absolute maximum time that a surgeon could "idle" and stay on task in surgery.

In addition, we found that including spinners, progress bars, etc. would not necessarily reduce the cognitive drift but would reduce emotional frustration.

The worst thing for frustration was UI elements being slow; buttons that responded slowly, scrolls that lag, pull-downs that didn't pull down. Exactly as this author notes. There was very little tolerance for those kinds of delays.

I presume that, like website response rate tolerance thresholds that have dropped from 5 seconds to less than 2 seconds now, the medical industry is probably using much lower times now.
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Personal productivity deals in the hoary space between defining who you are as a person and figuring out the best way to move reality towards the vision.

If you're not treating subconscious input with as much seriousness as humanly possible, (i.e. you're procrastinating for a good reason, one that probably relates to why you think this thing you're procrastinating doing is the best way to move the needle on that vision) then you will forever be living in a hell of your own making.

Making yourself is an artistic pursuit and should be treated with every bit as much care and nurturing as making a painting.
Let's use it to flip around an orbital telescope and beam everyone. We have a little delay between what we can predict with NASA Sun and Space, and we know where it's going with our accurate models of the cosmos. We just need that uplink between what's down here and what's up there.

Go a little deeper in that mutation model. All you have is a model of human cell division, a layer of acceptable risk tolerance. Open it up and add some more interface and control into what humans can do. At some fundamental reality, it's all just the Sun.

AT NSA: Let's test this on Snowden!
I got the feeling that he likes his dead dog more than the wife he met on... Tinder. If my wife had diabetes, or really any medical condition, I would never reveal that in and article written in the New York Times. Her nagging him and having diabetes appear to be her only qualities from his description in the article.

All I get from this is that Dusty was an awesome celebrity dog who died and this guy's wife whom he met on Tinder sucks and is diabetic. The structure also implies that he put his dog down so that he wouldn't get in between him and his bullying wife.

I would never write anything disparaging or potentially embarrassing about my wife in a public article.
Oh come on. Look at that elpais article:

> tras esa oleada de incendios hay "imprudencias en quemas agrícolas, tanto para la regeneración de pastos como por aprovechamiento forestal". Y descarta un supuesto complot: "la investigación ha podido determinar que las posibles causas que originaron estos incendios no están relacionadas entre sí".

> La Guardia Civil ha recordado que las Administraciones ponen a disposición de los ganaderos equipos especializados para poder realizar estas quemas para pastos en condiciones de seguridad.

This is mostly negligence, not criminal intent as you insinuated. Granted, I would argue criminal negligence, but still negligence.
I believe it is equally important to determine the level of abstraction for the documentation, such that updating it is an infrequent task (essentially, every line of code change should not trigger a document change). It is easier said than done, but that's the best compromise I have arrived it.

At the very least, the document should capture high-level (again this is relative term) design, possibly an architecture diagram of major interacting functional units. The success measure should be the relative ability to build a mental model of the system by looking at this document for any newbie.

That design document would be a start, and most likely not "quickly outdated".

My personal beef with the agile camp is precisely this: when they let go of documentation, they don't do the design doc as well, and all that remains of the system is thousands of incoherent stories and huge amount of code.
>> True, but a compiler will detect unreachable code when you do

Interestingly, neither clang nor g++ give a warning for this case:

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int x = argc;

if (x == 0)
{
x = 10;
}
else if (x == 1)
{
x = 20;
}
else if (x == 0)
{
x = 30;
}

return 0;
}

# g++ bla.cpp -o out -Wall

(no warning)

# clang bla.cpp -o out -Wall

(no warning)

I assume this is because the compiler can never be 100% sure a variable cannot be changed midway through testing each of the conditions because of aliasing, so it won't throw a warning. In this particular example this obviously is not relevant, but I can imagine some pathological example where one of the tests has side effects that change the result of the later tests, and to avoid false positives the compiler simply never warns about unreachable code for these things.

In a sense, this is exactly what I mean by writing code that matches exactly what you want to happen. If I write 'switch (x)', it's pretty clear the test is executed exactly once. If I write a sequence of if-elseif-elseif-else statements, the conditions are evaluated in sequence, which is not what I want.
It should be noted that a central bank with a floating currency is constrained in its control of interest rates the more it controls foreign exchange and vice versa.

Using tariffs to constrain the actions of foreign central banks is really quite interesting. While China has succeeded in offsetting tariffs with inflation for now, they are paying for it by giving up policy flexibility, whereas the US can effectively control the price of the yuan with tariffs.