skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a recognizable crazy wrap and the license plate “fart gas” and pretty quickly realized I’m not really “anonymous” anymore and it does make me at least try to drive “nicer.”
Horse-Riding Librarians Were the Great Depression's Bookmobiles
> “The Elephant’s Foot,” Is Still Lethal

Oh, I assumed that it'd be safe after a couple decades...
This is, of course, complete hearsay, but Tim Rowledge ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=timrowledge ) told me once that the Recursiv processor was used in a prototype british "smart torpedo." The official story was the CPU locked up during a test and the torpedoes have never been seen since.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The fact that it's possible to make a living at it doesn't mean it is remotely typical to be able to. To do so you need to be some combination of extremely talented and extremely good at all those other things (marketing oneself, etc). Just like my ex, she could of course point to people who were making a good living as opera stars, but there were far more people who got the masters degree in operatic performance, and then did other things to actually buy the groceries.

And you are right that recorded music is hard to make a living at as well. Some people do, but the vast majority fail.

Whether classical or otherwise, recorded or live, everyone in music is competing against mass produced, broadcast or streamed recorded music. You can't just learn to play piano and get hired at a saloon anymore.
> But I Want the Length to Be 1!
> There’s a language for that

Perl 6: https://docs.perl6.org/routine/chars
Remote B2B localization business – Alconost case
How do we separate good science from bad? Imre Lakatos and the scientific method
Cap guns are, or at least were, very common in the US.
An interesting approach on checking if a tree is a sub tree of another
I would also highly recommend the sequel, the Descent of Man. That's where Darwin actually discusses the evolution of humans, a topic he gingerly avoided in TOOS
Trades are not routinely busted during flash crashes.
It had some pretty long term negative effects for Knight Capital.
I had a similar experience with a web host long ago. I requested a restore and they said they couldn't do it. After pressing and requesting a refund on the additional fees we were paying for the backup, they declined to refund because the backups were running fine as evidenced by a cron job executing like clock work. It turns out they never checked the result code or logs of the cron job it hadn't been running successfully at all.
Best Languages for App Localization – Study by Alconost
What? Number Theory was a field of study that saw literally 0 applications up until cryptography became a serious field of study.
If this interests you, I would strongly recommend reading http://www.riemannhypothesis.info/2014/10/tossing-the-prime-... this explains the relation between random walks and the RH in a surprisingly easy to understand fashion.
Euclid's _Elements_.
Pretty much all of the highest paid state employees are medical professors.

https://salaries.texastribune.org/highest-paid/

Even normal engineering professors are make 200-300k + they can still do consulting. Being a professors at a good university helps you market yourself and gets you those high paid side gigs.
check Skyvector for TFRs and NOTAMs, check Airmap for restricted airspace, send a LAANC to the local ATC, check local weather, and finally check the flight area for obstructions. That is literally it.

That sure is a lot of military-sounding acronyms which I haven't the slightest idea what they stand for to end that with, "that's literally it".

If I was to guess, you have experience in piloting airplanes, and flying a drone would be in comparison, a lot simpler, but it doesn't sound simple.
If the federal government wants things to change, they should form an independent red team, running exercises against private companies, and then help companies address issues (the US government leaning on a vendor gets a lot more action than Topeka Electric Coop). With fines to increase the cost of inaction.

The general consensus of reports thus far has been stupid, 101-level mistakes.

And guidelines and recommendations aren't going to help with people who don't read them.

E.g. Staff up NCATS [1], empower them with more binding regulation, and turn them loose to conduct non-requested tests of critical infrastructure

[1] https://www.us-cert.gov/resources/ncats
IMO the opposite is happening. The FAA regulates navigation of the air which includes drones and has fairly simple rules. The problem is when cities and towns try to get in on the action and (illegally) attempt to ban the use of drones because residents don't like them. This creates a number of problems for the FAA because the whole point of having an FAA is to have a central authority that has monopoly control over navigation of the air, rather than a fragmented system where you need permission from multiple overlapping jurisdictions. If you are flying a plane, you do not need permission of whatever city/state/small town you are flying over, it's enough to get the FAA's permission. But now cities are fining people for flying drones in FAA approved airspace and heights, and this creates all the pain for the individual drone user.
its actually emmiting radio active waves
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Well sure, if you’re just getting vinyl as conspicuous consumption, it’s a bad investment. I recommend against that. There are perfectly rational material reasons to prefer vinyl that don’t involve a midlife crisis or greenhouse gases. Anyone who spends $55k on a car clearly has very different values than most people.
ED-209 was from the first Robocop.
What's the metric to be considered "hyper" accurate?
> durable ... Oh, the CD!

In my experience CD’s are anything but durable.
(2013)

Since this article was published, the “New Safe Confinement” has been completed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_New_Safe_Confineme...
Maybe if you had the wood half be encased in a tungsten shell?
"never go negative"
"Externalities aren't correctly priced"

If you can say that, it follows that you have calculated or are aware of the correct price. So, I really want to know - about what is the correct price of the externalities of a gallon of gas that aren't included in, say, the retail price in California? Is it closer to $0.01, $0.10, $1, $10, $100, or $1000?
This was pretty much exactly the reasoning behind the US military launching the nukes on Japan at the time. They did their modeling and predicted very heavy casualties on both sides for taking island by island vs the nukes making Japan rethink the entire war.

I think all wars are tragic and am not sure that I agree dropping the nukes was a good idea (I’m a US Army combat vet or OIF II btw), but this comment seems eerily familiar.
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The entire _Arsene Lupin_ series by Maurice Leblanc, been reading them again and again since I was 12.
I think that's an important difference between a city like Chicago and a city like SF. For better or worse, people in Chicago seem more laid back.
If you are daydreaming about how life started I can recommend ‘A New History of Life’ by Ward & Kirschvink for getting somewhat up to speed with the science.

tldr: we don’t know, and may never know
you can't just tell people to "love the bus", the bus has to actually be loveable. No one is avoiding the bus because 'climate change is cool man, fuck the bus'. People don't ride the bus because it's jam packed shoulder to shoulder, can smell like puke and piss, subsidezed homeless travel while the rest of us need to pay a dumb fare, requires exact change in world ruled by tap-to-pay devices.
And then yeah, traffic and time, but that's not really the core detraction. Oh, yeah, and Uber pool and Lyft rides are nearly as cost effective, when you consider time-to-income it's often more cost effective.

Make the bus an experience that at least doesn't make want people want to vomit and then people may start to take the bus again. As another commenter said, there are countries where busses don't suck, and ergo busses are used.
Or just use Avocado oil which actually has a high smoke point and imparts a mild buttery flavor on what you’re searing. Science also disagrees with your anecdote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20910748

Source: I cook a lot of stuff via Sous Vide and love some of that fancy Mailard Reaction via a proper high smoke point oil and a cast iron skillet.
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety is a great book about how close you can get to launching a war unintentionally.
Do you know where to find the actual meta analysis that article is talking about? They mention the journal, but not the title. I'm not really sure what their criteria were.

To me, it would seem that in order to compare the two, you would basically need to resample the 24/192 recording, with dither, and then resample it back to 24/192; and you would need to choose a high quality resampling filter. Anything other than that I wouldn't really consider a comparison.

Furthermore, given that the measured sensitivity is more likely on the frequency front than on the dynamic range front, did they establish a distinction between 44.1kHz and 48kHz?
The War of The Worlds, H.G. Wells, 1898

Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, 1861

Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper ("On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies"), A. Einstein, 1905
The general argument of 'it's okay to take money from bad people as long as that money isn't blood money and you take it anonymously' is hard for me to sympathize with. At the very least it gives that person leverage over you in two ways: firstly by the threat of ceasing donations if you become dependent on them and secondly by the threat of revealing their involvement in your institution.
It's not hard, but it's tricky.

The reason it's tricky is that there is so many features in various file formats that it's very possible to implement an entire project then come to generating that one bit in that one field that you forgot about, then need to go all the way back up to the parser to attach it to the right place in the AST so you can pass it all the way down.

I'd be looking at compiling ML code but otherwise, compilers are a solved problem.
Another fun fact about Bill Rapaport (mostly of interest to Buffalonians) is that he was the author/maintainer of what used to be the best Buffalo restaurant guide on the web:

https://cse.buffalo.edu/restaurant.guide/
PL is short for... Programming language?
New O'Reilly AI Book: AI for People and Business
You gotta be careful making ghee. If you don't heat it enough, you don't get ghee with maximum smoke point. And it's also rather bland. The sediment should be at least light brown, for a nutty taste. But too dark, and you've burned it.
You could have a stack of (paren-type, integer) pairs. If the paren has a different type than the top pair on the stack (or the stack is empty), push a new pair with the integer set to one. If the integer goes to zero, pop the pair. At the end of the expression, you have to have an empty stack.
Normally, this is where I'd chide the OP for using "Engineer" in the title when they really mean "Software Engineer", but (refreshingly) most of the items on this list seem broadly applicable to different types of engineers, so it's not really warranted.
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
For foaming, and to check the temperature, just flick in a little water.
I appreciate your comment. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the lawyer that really figured out a lot about the smurfing. He talked to us one evening about the legal problems when people had gone to the casino one night because weather conditions were so bad and the casino opened the doors to let people crash on the floor.
Victory - Joseph Conrad

Notes from the Underground - Dostoyevsky

Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky (there is a bunch of other brilliant Dostoyevsky books)
i enjoyed reading this one:A History of Freedom of Thought http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10684/10684-h/10684-h.htm
Spinoza's Ethics

Euclid's Elements

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
I think there’s some confusion in here that everyone buying vinyl is repeating the habits of our parents and grandparents. I think there’s this misconception we’re buying records of whatever the latest hit band is with only 3 good songs and mostly filler.

Vinyl today is very much about the collecting of good music and taking part in the physical ness of that collection. The b-side is just as good as the A-side, even if the sound quality isn’t as perfect as the original studio recording. It doesn’t need to be, and it has its own unique sound.

What I most love about the experience of owning vinyl is that it’s annoying to pick one song. So you almost have to expect to put it on the first track and listen to the entire set. It’s listening in the moment, since you can’t skip and you have to be ready to flip the album over. I love it.

Also the experience of going to second hand stores to chat with fellow music lovers and discover new artists feels very human to me. Even if Spotify can recommend with precision, it mostly acts as background music since I don’t have to pay attention.

Not saying this is everyone’s cup of tea, but as a music nerd, I’m happy with my hobby.
The Prince by Machiavelli, 1532

Chuang-tzu, 4th century BC

The Art of War by Sun Tzu, 5th century BC

Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, 14th century AD
CDs were supposed to eventually be cheaper than tapes, but the industry kept raising prices. Even Blu-ray discs were grossly overpriced before people turned to digital sales.
I have lived without one, and for that time in my life, i was limited to ten miles in every direction, unless i wanted to spend an hour on a bus. I don't think people here get how limiting that life can be anywhere outside of a huge city.

Or how wearying. I walked to work, and it took 45 minutes. I had to do that walk during 90 degree heat, 6 inches of snow the ground, heavy rainstorms etc, unless, like other people I knew without a car, we begged our coworkers for a ride. If we couldn't, we had to call out of work.

We have plenty of people in my small town who walk or moped to work because they are poor. They usually buy cars the first thing they can get, because walking sucks.
https://www.solidsmack.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Energi...

bonus:
https://i.redd.it/og0o0b3cr8a31.png
Knight didn’t suffer from a flash crash. They suffered from a operational risk incident. This is literally something that professionals price into their trades. The long term negative ramifications were nothing. The next day a new firm was running the same trades under the same name.
If I'm doing steak with butter I start with avocado oil for a maximum temp initial sear, turn the heat off, and then add butter garlic and aromatics. With enough butter (always a good thing) the pan is cooled enough by the melting butter that the butter doesn't burn.

Adding butter at the start, regardless of other oils, still imparts acrid flavours.
Buses are most viable when combined with a well developed rail system. Then it's worthwhile as an alternative to dealing with parking at the train stations and because you won't have your car on the other end of that rail journey.
It did. But the issue is the price. It costs equal to an entry level Mercedes or Audi
Agreed (unfortunately). I gave up on SF decades ago, and The Martian is the only SF book I think I've liked this century. I liked it a lot and occasionally search for others like it. In vain, it seems. I think it is an ill omen that popular culture no longer seems as excited about real science and technology, the exploration and discovery, as was the case way back in the "Space Age".
Candide by Voltaire

It was the first book I read for school that made me laugh out loud and realize that some of these old boring books were actually pretty awesome (which is why people are still reading them centuries later)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

North of Boston by Robert Frost

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (+ the other Sherlock Holmes')

Candide by Voltaire (was reminded by other posting - this is great!)
And professionals price the downside into those trades. You don’t engineer trades the same way you do nukes cause it literally doesn’t matter if you get them wrong. As the history of “flash crashes” has shown.
Some of this is down to the driver being the only staff member on the bus. They should be fully focused on driving as a bus hitting anything is bad news. Stopping to kick people off just delays everyone on the bus getting where they need to go.

If there was a conductor on the bus then they could deal with inappropriate behaviour, but no bus company wants to pay two members of staff when they can get away with one.
The Mailard reaction is the scientific description of browning food. It happens with amino acids (in virtually every oil) and sugar combined with heat. Going above roughly 180C / 355F results in a different chemical reaction known as pyrolysis aka burning.
Demo Authoring: Now and Then
Indeed. So many people seem not to realize that there will not be one final best source of music.
Yes, but that's no barrier to compression, which reduces the dynamic range. Compressed material is all at about the same level. The reason people speak of the "loudness wars" is that after compression, even the parts of the music that would have been quieter are now almost as loud as the peaks.

It's actually quite ironic, I think, that compression has become such a fad only now that we have digital media with their much lower noise floor. We have more dynamic range available, but we're using less of it.
If the documentation has any code snippets, they absolutely should have unit tests around them to ensure the documentation stays current with the code
Unpiloted Russian Soyuz Capsule Returns to Earth with Humanoid on Board
In-Emulator Machine Translation of Retro Games
On Being the Right Size:

https://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html

Only 90 years old, but it came to mind and it was close enough that I needed to check the date.
Tests as Your Specs (2015)
Pro Spring 5: An In-Depth Guide to the Spring Framework and Its Tools 5th Edition
As far as I can tell, it looks like progress on getting this into the Python stdlib has stalled: https://bugs.python.org/issue30717

In the absence of support in the stdlib, is https://github.com/alvinlindstam/grapheme the best to use?
We have a commuter bus from Annapolis to DC. Super nice, air conditioned, wifi, etc. No homeless people. Socially enforced library silence atmosphere. It’s pretty sick.
Based on a cursory review this looks really useful!

I'm bookmarking this for future reference, both to use it for side projects and to study.
> It’s not “hundreds of pages” as you originally claimed

The regulation itself is about 60 pages, and references numerous other regulations itself. It most certainly adds up to hundreds of pages of regulation. Not that that changes anything, usage of the word in this way still precludes the possibility of any sort of concise definition.

> and the interpretation does not vary substantially among certification bodies, as you implied.

Then why are inter-jurisdiction equivalence programs so complex? Typically only including a short list of equivalent countries, with all other imports requiring recertification. Oh, except with USDA Organic. That doesn’t have an equivalence program.

> Do you have an alternative to the current system to suggest?

Come up with a label that doesn’t unduly prejudice consumers, and doesn’t strip another word of its meaning. The word organic did used to have a very clear meaning before “organic” farming came about. If you were to ask an average consumer whether they knew their organic food was allowed to be treated with chemical pesticides and synthetic opioid painkillers, I bet they’d be pretty surprised by that.

GDPR is a complex set of regulations. People understand this when they talk about it, even if they don’t understand all of the rules. Thankfully it’s not called Privacy Certified, with a restriction preventing any non-certified business from using the word “privacy” to describe their product.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20910974
I'm not clear on why people are particularly angry at capitalism. It seems like just a label that allows people to focus on the US fossil fuel industry, as the US is the archetype of capitalism, while vaguely associating all the other major fossil fuel producers with the West/US/capitalism.

Is the reason Russia and KSA are producing fossil fuels because they were infected with a specific ideology? I feel like there's a confusion of cause and effect, like if you blamed evolution on Darwinism.
The article perpetuates the fiction that Chinese characters provide more than phonetic information. Mandarin uses a syllabary, so one character represents what would be two or three phonemes, which about matches the numbers in the table at the end.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Art of war
India Secretly Armed Afghanistan’s Northern Alliance
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville. Not an easy read, but one well worth the effort.
The Cobra Effect: Lessons in Unintended Consequences
Misbehaving Signals
Hmm, this seems to be a common idea, but I don't think it's true. As I said above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20914699
I don't see it going away to be honest.

There will always be fluctuating amounts of people coming and going through enjoying records and record players. It's a hobby, and not even a particularly niche one. Plenty of inner city yuppies enjoy it.

They aren't exclusively buying records, they're collecting their most cherished works on LP and specially listening to them. It's not an all or nothing thing, which makes the pain in the ass aspect an important part of the hobby.

You want to listen to a specific song? Cast to your Chromecast with spotify.

You want to do a focused album listen? Chuck on a particularly cherished album? Show off to a friend? Then you switch to the Vinyl and do it.
It's not an either/or. Those signatures are inconsistent and there's a reason they were made that way. It could be done another way. (detecting the type of parameters or having a different name for the callback version)
Indeed, and Curtis Lemay - head of the firebombing campaign on Japan and later head of SAC, the nuclear arm of the US Air Force - was the primary proponent of the theory that War should be so bad and brutal for the purpose of ending it swiftly.

"The New York Times reported at the time, "Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, commander of the B-29's of the entire Marianas area, declared that if the war is shortened by a single day, the attack will have served its purpose." This view was later echoed by Japan's former Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe, who said, "The determination to make peace was the prolonged bombing.""

War is hell, as you saw first hand, and those of us who are charged to execute it want it to end as quickly as possible.
I read a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court when I was around 12. It was fun and fantastical, but perhaps I didn't absorb any deeper meaning because I was too young. I'm curious what makes it top your list?
Lyft I would say probably fares the best out of that bunch on moral issues; driver treatment notwithstanding. That being said all of these companies have made amazing contributions not just to OSM but to the open source community in general - React has probably brought more people into software development than any existing web framework in history.
You should be able to get a decent idea of expected output and fat percentage by looking at the nutrition label and doing a bit of math. US butter is typically 80% fat, European ones may be 82-84% but if sold in the US might also just be using the brand name and US percentages.

A nice primer: https://www.tastecooking.com/all-about-butter/

Regarding the "always unsalted" advice in there, I've seen discussion from high level cooks in the past few years of "just get salted; it keeps better and when we actually tested recipes it made no difference."