skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am on one of those arrow paths from New York City to the upper south.

Sort of. They fly me in from NYC during the week for four days, then fly me back for the weekends.

I didn't really make a decision to move, I was looking for work in NYC, but was given a good job offer which said I'd be paid a NYC type salary, and have expensed flights, hotels, car rentals and meal etc. per diems. I haven't exactly moved, I rent in NYC and stay at a hotel down there. I don't plan on staying down here permanently - if and when I start looking for another job it will be in NYC.

I think some of what is observed is kind of illusory. Because what is really happening here? On a very broad level - am I from NYC saying I want to become more of an upper south kind of guy? Or is this upper south Fortune 100 company saying it wants to become more of an NYC-type company, and bringing me and others down there to accomplish that? From everything I have seen, more of the latter. Northern Virginia has already pretty much been swallowed into the Boston to DC megalopolis, and it's possible that Richmond, Virginia Beach, Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill and Charlotte are next. Or if companies are desperate enough for IT etc. talent, they might start offices in NYC, SF etc. looking for it. Our company already has a west coast advanced IT office, as well as some offshored stuff to India.

New York means not needing to own a car, because it has a massive public transit system (which has been a little shaky for the past five years though). It means 4AM last call. It means having technical meetups and conferences, and universities like Columbia and NYU with impressive CS professors and students. It means lots of job opportunities with good salaries. You can even avoid the city and live a suburban existence if you want.

All anybody talks about are the slim pickings in the local job market down there. You don't have that problem in San Francisco or New York.
I feel genuine scientific curiosity about what makes people like Mr. Epstein and his friends so interested in sex (with inappropriate subjects in particular) that they would risk reputation, fortunes and life for it. Indeed sex is pleasurable but definitely not worth risking anything or making the partner unhappy. Is there some sort of neurochemical pathology or what's actually so wrong with them anyway?

BTW if one insists on receiving a forbidden pleasure, some controlled substances can offer mind-blowing sensations, by orders of magnitude more pleasurable than sex can offer and the society is hardly going to be so angry of a drug addict as it usually is about sex offenders.
Sorry, my comment was not clear. Updated it to clarify i read the article!
That's what TAs are for.

Sadly, btw. Students aren't paying $30,000 per year for 23-year-old living in poverty to grade their work and do half the teaching and a checked-out professor focused on research with no passion of teaching.

Having graduated from a program with ~60% dropout rate by the second year, I appreciate the quality control side of things, but the number of professors I had to had any sort of passion for teaching was sadly low.
Because heroin is so addictive and powerful that it changes the structure and function of your brain. It will destroy and kill a person in the blink of an eye. People will steal from the parents and kids, prostitute themselves, or just about anything to satisfy their addiction.

You lump in cocaine as though all schedule 1 drugs are equal. You are having two different conversations. One of them is complicated (why are LSD, peyote, and marijuana classified with opioids? why are they enforced and punished so unevenly along race and class lines?)

Opioids are critical medical tools for pain management. The solution is to have doctors decide when it is necessary and to have pharmacists manage its distribution. Why this works is that doctors and pharmacists will be delicensed and possibly go to jail for this, and they generally have a highly asymmetric amount to lose from doing so.

Opioids are unlike any other drug. Look at national death statistics. Read this article. If they weren't so necessary for critical pain management and hospice care they'd be completely illegal.
If there are reasonable answers doesn't that prove it _is_ a legitimate question?
Have you tried databox? You can send up 80 TB in one shot. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databox/data-box-over...
Wikipedia is behind Cloudflare at that moment.
India is not culturally homogeneous (and no, I’m not just talking about the situation with Kashmir here).
Interesting! I see that happen to people in the non-tech non-profit world a lot. Well, thank you for your service, and hope you are starting to enjoy a rest well deserved!
He prices:

https://www.gasworld.com/blm-reaps-windfall-from-fy-2019-hel...
Big box retailers seem to be able to comply with regulations mandating physical safety. Digital security requirements could be enforced by a similar system.
> firewall rules from the S3 era still classify AWS as cloud storage and block it

For all of the major data leaks from S3 buckets, I suspect the existence (and persistence) of these firewall rules across the industry is a principal reason why there haven't been significantly more of these leaks.
Interesting to still see Matlab above Go, Swift and Ruby. Outside of some niche areas (control systems a.o.) it's not that much used in production iirc, and it's slowly being faded out at universities for things like signal processing.
It's currently a subsidiary of Softbank Japan.
I totally get where you are coming from and I agree with you. I also see the point the parent comment was trying to make. If you meet 10 Zimbabweans you likely to find a few who adore Mugabe. The comment was just to inform those not so familiar with Zimbabwean politics and history. He is still a murderer but sadly there are fellow Africans some very close to me who only see the liberation hero. I just think it is important to understand where the other side is coming from. I strongly disagree and think some of the opinions are based on willfully ignoring facts but it is the world we live in.
I just had flashbacks to the one and only Azure project I ever worked on. I don't know if they were in a transition phase but it was exactly as you described and I wasted days setting up some simple services for our team. Give me AWS any day.
Samsung Develops Industry’s First Standards-Based ‘Key Value’ SSD Prototype
Now this is a good idea. Is there a feature where you can use your webcam or phone's cam to scan in your current surroundings, and then potential use a model to strip out the sky and replace it with Stellarium?
You are having a reaction to nicotine salts. Juul started the trend of using nicotine-salts rather than nicotine. It has much less throat burn so you can get a higher dose, but it makes some people wheeze.
I think the fact that many don't real that this was an elaborate blackmail operation often clouds people's ability to understand what happened. The fact that abused his resources just shows he was exactly the only type of person who can run such blackmail operation.
When I studied business in college, I'd say that half of my senior year class were gunning for the same banking and consulting gigs. In either case, it was known and understood that those types of employers were obsessed with your grades.

Unless you happened to have the most amazing and prestigious internship / experience, your GPA would make or break your chances at such firms.

At the same time, we knew from internships at those types of firms that what you do / work on VS what you do at a school, varies a lot. Most knew that you didn't really need to have a 4.0 understanding of your topics to do the jr. work at an investment bank. But you still need stellar grades to land those jobs!

This, in turn, lead to a culture of test-taking and "gaming the system" rather than learning. Students would take the "easiest" and most predictable classes to maximize their grades, and would religiously study for exams rather than fully soak up the course material (because as it happens, a lot of professors liked to keep their exams fairly standardized and similar).

And, of course, if students were desperate, they'd get other people to do their school work. Writing essays, doing homework, even hiring people to do their exams, with fake ID, etc.

When I studied Engineering, however, I didn't see much of this culture. The Engineering jobs didn't have the same stringent requirements for jobs - well, not most at least.

So those are my observations. The more importance you put on grades, the more cheating and focused studying seems to appear.

edit: Also, when a college degree stops being a certification/vetting of knowledge, work ethics, and persistence, and rather becomes a mere formality to for work, people will start treating it differently. I've heard classmates say things like "It's no big deal if you don't know x and y, you'll learn it through work anyway", which seems like a bad sign to me.
Counterpoint: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-08-17-introducing-d...
We really need to move towards vocational ed and apprenticeships: https://seliger.com/2017/06/16/rare-good-political-news-boos....

Large numbers of students in colleges shouldn't be there.
Epstein wasn't donating anonymously. Ito was marking Epstein's donations as anonymous. These are not the same.
Isn’t that exemption for resale?
Higher education: Public good or private commodity? [pdf]
You can see this out in Northeast Metro Atlanta. People flee the perimeter to escape the things they hate about the city. Then they realize they miss what they like about the city, so that gets built, and now they move further out. Repeat.

Now I-85/985, I-20, and every highway between them is littered with tiny Atlantas at every exit for 50+ miles. Every former bedroom community is turning into its own little city. At least some of them are trying to manage it in a way that leaves them better off once the exodus ends and flips back around.

People seem to have decided 50 miles is enough, so the escapist development has turned to the west and north sides.
Really beautifully written - thanks for this. Refreshing to read an "inside" perspective from the war I see every day on the street.
Actually, the dissertation project was my only experience with the field. Although I read some of NKS at the time, it's a distant memory and so I wouldn't be able to say!
https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
> You see PM standing by the ISRO (regardless of the outcome of mission) and I see a PM doing drama for PR exercise. Otherwise he doesn't care a bit about science or education.

Okay. So for you, presence of the PM at an event(with significant probability of failure) which involved tremendous amount of nation's prowess(scientific as well as non-scientific) and that too by the department which directly falls under him is a PR exercise.

Thanks for clarifying. Spared me reading rest of the irrelevant detail which probably has nothing to do with Space.
Sure, but their GDP has gone up and they invest a lot and the Shenzhen tech scene is cool so nobody cares.

Saudi Arabia is another such nation that gets the red carpet treatment in the West for the large amount of investment capital it tosses around while running a brutal dictatorship at home.
>> “Is there anything, you think, that anyone could do for you? A program, a counselor, a friend? Is there anything that we could do? You seem like someone who could fight this. What would work, do you think, for you?”

>> He stares at his hands for what seems like a long time.

>> “No,” he says finally. “I don’t think there’s anything that would help. It’s a hell of an addiction.”

It's a travesty that iboga[0] isn't widely available (or even known).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabernanthe_iboga
Google's docs are the most inconsistent. The newer the service the better the documentation in my experience. The App Engine docs are like a rats nest, but the Firestore docs are really well done.
I'm for space programs, but India is one of the poorest countries on earth, and spending that kind of money on social programs would actually have an impact on it's population.

And then it looks like it failed on top of that, which is honestly not surprising, since space programs are so sensitive to minor quality issues and quality is the hardest thing for a 3rd world country.

If I was living in India and struggling to get by I couldn't help question why this was a priority at all, national ego?
Very nice, thanks for the link. Certainly a more exciting demo!
Americans "Silo" Political Issues - the Effects...
At

https://intpolicydigest.org/2019/09/07/how-will-america-deal-with-russia-s-interest-in-afghanistan/

"How will America Deal with Russia’s Interest in Afghanistan?"

Deep into the article Author James Durso presents an interesting descriptive model of politics and USA special interest groups:

"Americans “silo” every issue, such as Afghanistan or Syria, as interested executive branch functionaries, Capitol Hill staff, journalists, think tanks, ethnic interest groups, campaign fundraisers, and politicians coalesce around it. A politician like Vladimir Putin thinks horizontally and will offer a concession on, say, Syria, in exchange for an American hands-off in Venezuela or Donbas. The losing silo will erupt that America is trading away the legitimate democratic aspirations of the unspellable or unpronounceables in a dirty deal. Someone will use the M-word – Munich – and it will be all downhill from there."

"You are conservative about what you know best, so policy practitioners will fight to protect their silo, especially if it might be traded away “because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing.” Trump is a threat to the silos as in his mind everything is related to everything else all the time and he doesn’t respect the silos – or their future earning potential."

[P.S. This post was flagged. It would be kind might someone to say why it was flagged. The ideas in the URL were novel, explanatory and even allow for various solutions. Thanks.]
Thank you for your perspective, it is interesting, can you recall maybe stories involving guns? In my case I was told stories involving swords and bows and as children we were creating swords and bows, we were also making guns but I think we saw those in american police movies that were very popular at that time.
Agreed. I can see that other Wikipedia languages are crawled - https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages shows dozens of updates this week - but the best leads I have involve poking around the openZIM Github org, https://github.com/openzim . There might be a running "zimfarm" somewhere?
I’m no expert but doing polar landing would involve a plane change maneuver after you arrive in moon orbit (or some clever orbital mechanics to minimize delta-v losses and somehow do it in a single burn (both capture and plane change).

Apart from that, I’d presume theres also complexity of the landing site not being directly visible from earth, necessitating re-transmissions from the orbiter.

Not something that hasn’t been done before by any chance, but still harder than say USSR’s lunokhod missions.

Though this is mostly coming from my Kerbal Space Program experience.
> You misunderstood my point completely. I'm not saying that the government's decision to give him a deal actually means he didn't do anything wrong. I'm saying that it likely appeared that way to many people.

This naiveté is undermined by the fact that the fundraisers themselves had very serious discussions about what to do if the women he insisted accompany him anywhere were being trafficked and wanted a way out. They knew exactly who this guy was, the story makes it perfectly clear.
I think it's probably fair to say he blackmailed powerful people. Especially the lawyers of kirland under lefkowitz
Not sure the list is accurate. R shouldn’t be that high, for example. I recently looked into it and bought a book to learn R, even though it seemed to be falling in popularity.

Also, Swift is still less popular than Objective C, but SwiftUI should soon change that.
I believe the vast majority of people in the west believe that the west, despite some fixable issues, represents the Good, whereas for instance Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia are the worst Evil Nations ever created, while when one stick to the facts it's much harder to tell them apart (but for the fact that one side won and therefore can tell its own story).

This observation alone leads me to believe that there is some very effective propaganda that's been going on for a good while.

Impossible to find out for sure of course, as the only propaganda that is visible is the propaganda that fails.
I believe it could be industrialized quite easily. We are currently experimenting with using crushed glass bottles as a substrate and then transplanting the corals once they have established.

This allows us to kill two birds with one stone by recycling waste products and growing coral.

It is difficult to grow coral outside of the ocean, so the transplantation is very laborious. However this is where volunteer divers can be a huge assistance. The work is safe and easy, just time consuming.
I completely agree with you, but I also think you cannot hand wave away the small differences. Islam is such a perfect example of this. Sunni and Shia Muslims have been literally killing each other for about 1400 years now. Why? One side believes that Mohammed's father-in-law should have been his successor, the other side believes that his son-in-law should have been his successor. Their fundamental views and values are identical. There are some derivative differences in the value they give to various supplementary texts to the Koran, but all in all - they are still pretty much the same. Certainly near identical compared to any outsider. Yet that difference is enough to justify thousands of years of murder.

People don't tolerate differences well, even when they think they do. For instance how would you like a representative population of the US in your neighborhood and work? People tend to think about things like this in terms of colors instead of views and values. That'd mean, among other things, that of every person who voted in your work/neighbor, more than 46% would have voted for Trump.

Ultimately I think politicians are reflections of the people rather than their directors. Did Abraham Lincoln end slavery, or had the public mind changed in such a way that the election of a figurative Lincoln was inevitable, even if by a different name? So too in modern times. It's not like America was just cheery before 2016. Ever since the normalization of the internet we've been becoming extremely divided. And so it's only natural that our politicians would in turn end up being ever more divisive.

Think about the migration debate. It's not about things like trying to determine what a sustainable level of migration is, or its longterm economic and social impacts. Instead one side wants to build a wall and block migration as much as possible while the other side is dog whistling for open borders and literally suggesting free medical care and other benefits for people who enter illegally. Both sides are basically just trolling each other, and I think that's a reflection of what we the people are doing to one another. And of course this is not just intra-America. See, for instance, the huge rise of 白左 / baizuo. People view things through difference lenses, even when we do have nearly everything in common.

Maybe that is even actually the real point. The more you have in common, the less of a difference you need to create a meaningful divide. When you disagree on many things, one more disagreement isn't really changing your relationship much. When you agree on nearly everything, one irreconcilable disagreement is suddenly a big deal.
Jira has the ticket description section which gets updated to the latest goals / spec as things change. The history is for context of "who said do this" / "why did we do x"
Recently retired EMT here. I never found the nasal spray to be very effective for a number of reasons. The patient has to be breathing, absorption rate is highly variable and it is difficult to adjust the dose. In fact, our protocols did not allow the dose to be adjusted with the intranasal route.

IV push is the best, though SQ and IM are pretty good. IM and SQ are slow acting. You have to slowly bring the patient up. The important thing is to titrate dosage to rate and depth of breathing and slowly bring the patient up. If you push a large dose and suddenly rip the patient out of their warm, fuzzy cloud, into a world of hurt, they will often come up swinging.

You can breathe for a patient with artificial respiration for as long as needed, there is no rush to slam the Narcan in quickly. In fact, the protocols I ran under said nothing about bringing an OD patient back to consciousness, only to ensure adequate air exchange.

Also, talk to the patient with soothing, caring tones. Even though they are not responding, they can still hear you, increasingly so as the Narcan takes effect.

I never had a patient swing at me after administering Narcan once learning technique from a master that had administered literally gallons of the stuff over his career.

Some of the more jaded EMTs will purposely slam an OD patient with Narcan to punish them for using. This is just wrong.
I really thought you were trolling with your posts and I am trying to see even a glimpse of your argument and agree but can’t. It is like the age old saying “if you lay with dogs you get fleas” and this is 2019 the entire world is connected and our actions and reputation now expand the globe. So maybe it is okay for your morals to associate with pimps and child rapists but MIT has other donors and associates that it is actually against their morals to associate with such people. MIT new this and tried to hide the fact. There are several types of lies and this feels like a lie by omission because they knew other donars likely would distance their money away from child rapists. Is there some law forcing them to disclose all their donars, no. But they knew that fact would upset others even going as far as telling their professors this is hush hush. So they risked it and got caught. Shame on them.
Engineering is a bit different. I found that most of the classes had professors that switched up the problems significantly every year to where old tests didn't help much. Memorization is useless when there are a nearly infinite amount of different circuit problems that can go on the test. You have to actually understand the material and how to apply it in diverse situations. You also typically find that most required classes outside of the math/physics/engineering (Ex: literature and psychology) are pretty simple to ace. I never heard of anyone who had someone write them a paper.
Double Blind (2006)
Also similar (and a personal favorite): https://awards.visitcenter.org/awards2016/editors_choice/ind...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sweet-photo-series-reveals-wh...

Photographer Melissa Kaseman did a series entitled "Preschool Pocket Treasures," documenting what she found stuffed in her sons pockets.
Whwn did facts become "my ideas"?

If you want to dispute WH's advantages over M&Ps in the context of disaster, please feel free to do so. Just keep in mind I don't own the truths listed.
Yeah, and Lua is also great at dependencies. It doesn't depend anything :)
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