skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should probably have something like the an optional "free" government run facility for nose bleeds, sprained ankles, and Viagra prescriptions in the US, but I'll keep my privately funded health care for real problems, thanks.

I don't even see the UK on these lists.

CT Scanners:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/266539/distribution-of-e...

MRI Machines:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/282401/density-of-magnet...

Perhaps the UK should be on the list, but somewhere near the bottom:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2672902/Deadly-shor...
Things that get you in trouble in Singapore, in no particular order
See my previous comment...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21005204
Even before 911, The Branch Davidian mass murder in Waco proves that the US Gov't will murder innocent US citizens and then forbid anyone to investigate the details, such as gathering soil samples. Same happened at 911 site,although samples were snuck out and Dutch researchers proved evidence of nano thermite was planted in the trade towers.
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Some of these things might be pretty difficult if it's an elderly woman who's doing it. Which I bet isn't that uncommon.
The numbers have a meaning aside from telling the runways apart: they're the azimuth of the runway divided by 10 degrees. So runway 10 has you taking off at a heading of 100 degrees, or a little south of east. This matters because you hear the runway numbers over the radio and can picture in your head where the other planes are and where you need to be to line up to land.
It feels wierd to see that Google Assistant app on it, knowing it runs a fork of Firefox OS.
It might make everyone feel better if he was fired, but little else. He became CEO one month before the first fuselage was completed and six months before the first flight, having been in charge of the defense unit. Perhaps a better but less satisfying target would be Ray Conner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Conner) who was head of commercial aviation from 2012 to 2016, or perhaps Jim Albaugh, his predecessor. Crucial engineering decisions would have been made during these years.
It is also the first ever .int domain, and indeed the original motivation for creating .int (to replace the short lived .nato)
I was an enterprise architect for about a year and it was dullest most soul-sucking job I ever had. In a sense, it was incredibly cushy. I had zero responsibility. I could easily just drop technical decisions on teams and not have to deal with the repercussions. But it really just drove me nuts. And I hated the other architects because they had set this system up and seemed perfectly content.

My role before and after as a director was always to give my tech leads a really long leash. I try to never force decisions on them, but rather let them work their own way and my job is just to make sure they've considered the project goals correctly and their solution is going to fit.
It works enough. They've managed to push the term "identity theft" into the public consciousness as a description of the problem, when the real problem is that they can't be bothered to actually identify people.
There's a recent category-theoretic framework for them:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04881
Yes, you're right, corrected!
Man, I have a hard time carrying a smartphone after what Snowden revealed to us. I'm surprised anyone would even think about putting one of these in their home.
In a direct democracy the President could be chosen by a handful of highly populated states. There would be no reason for Wyoming to continue participating in the Union without a meaningful stake in representation. The direct vote concept sees this country as homogeneous, and it's too large and diverse for that.
We don’t know how much their servers cost, but we can extrapolate how much storage costs to store 5TB over time since they report both how redundantly they store files, their hard drive failure rate and I believe the cost per hard drive.
Weapons, including small arms, are best viewed as a deterrence.
Evidence 1: Many videos of rabidly anti-gun folks who refuse to put a "This home is proudly gun free" sign in their front yard.
Evidence 2: The US has thought twice (definitely still not enough) before invading other countries after Iraq and Afghanistan. Why? Small and improvised arms have been a real headache.
Evidence 3: Hong Kong. Someone asked below if the situation in Hong Kong would be better if there were lots of guns available. That's not really a relevant question. The situation would be entirely different. The government would have been much more limited in its response.
Evidence 4: Historically one of the first things a want-to-be totalitarian government does is confiscate weapons held by the populace.
> My point is, I don't see how allowing these "exclusive" coverage monopolies does anything but harm the consumer. I imagine a community based provider like the one in the article would be met with a host of legal challenges here.

This is a holdover from the early days of the phone systems, i.e, 1920s.

It is extremely expensive to string cables, and so a whole bunch of companies would install stuff to the most lucrative markets (big cities), go bankrupt, and then there would be all of these cables would be left hanging causing a hazard. So it was decided that only one company would string cables... but that company would have its prices regulated.

Fast forward a few decades, and those incumbent telco/cableco companies still had monopolies (or huge advantages because they had infrastructure built back in the day), but the price regulations were rescinded.

IMHO the solution is either:

* bring back price controls (with infrastructure upgrades and a modest profit margin taken into account)

* force the incumbents to allow ISO Layer 2 access to other companies so there is competition at Layer 3 (IP)

The latter is:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-access_network
That's just not true. Many costs scale with the number of students. Dorms, food, academic buildings, administrative workers, faculty (no you can't teach every class in batches of 500 like Econ 101, even then there is an army of graders), software licenses, land underneath the buildings, utilities and infrastructure, roads and parking, IT infrastructure and people to run it, grounds maintenance, student healthcare, etc. You can't just keep packing an arbitrary number of students into the same classroom.
i would assume the price of the streaming services already take this into account, but i could be wrong of course.
Historical and logistical context aside, 1765 vs modern weaponry and war waging abilities, are you joking? The ability for militias with small arms to fight our own military has been a joke for several decades.
SPARQL is purpose built for the RDF world where you're mixing and matching a zillion different vocabularies, all of which have to be painstakingly declared and name spaced every time.

For most of us working not on the "semantic web", we typically only have 1-2 vocabularies, which is our data model, and SPARQL is super clunky to use.
Streaming sites with good SEO tend to be the riskest in terms of malware though.

Actually adding on to that, the timing of this piracy boom is really unfortunate, as the cryptoboom made it advantagous again to target home computers with malware for cryptominers. It's frustrating having to go setup shit like sandboxie for pirated software again like it's the early 2000s
I've work in environments with and without bonuses. I don't disagree with what 2rsf wrote in his/her comment about bonus can sometimes create a backstabbing environment, however I find this is when it is done poorly and when that is the case they suck really bad.

Bonuses can be done in almost an unlimited number of ways. You have to decide what are you rewarding, or why are you trying to give a bonus.

Some companies start paying bonuses to avoid raising salaries, this -can- be ok if the person is very senior and making a high salary already and so paying a bonus is a way to reward good work when the company is doing well without driving the persons salary so high they become unemployable anywhere else if they would choose to leave. This can be bad when companies pay bonuses to keep salaries artificially low for employees as a whole, it will backfire majorly.

Other companies pay bonuses to all employees based on seniority (time with the company & level of position) and do so as a profit share of sorts. This is very common at profitable businesses. I consulted at a business that was netting $10Million a year with 8 employees, even the admin assistant for that office was getting $20k+ bonuses in a quarter cause the owners treated everyone super well and as a side affect no one ever wanted to leave.

I also worked at a company where management had a bonus bool twice a year based on performance, 20% of all profits for the company were given to anyone at the manager level of above. This caused a lot of resentment from the engineers as they felt slighted since without them the company did have a product. Frankly while I was getting paid bonuses there I agreed with the engineers and the production people. They eventually went to a split bool, 20% to management, 10% to all employees, still felt a bit wrong in some ways but it made most people very happy.

I also worked at a software company where everyone made bonuses every quarter if your project/product was profitable. So there were teams that saw tiny bonuses of like $3-4k, while teams with more money coming in and more profit could see $40k bonuses. While logical, you can probably predict pretty fast what that can do to teams & a company.

So as for how to handle engineer bonuses. My 2 cents. If you pay bonuses make sure the process is clear to everyone and that people understand it is based on whatever factors you have chosen. With that, assuming the factors are fair and clear bonuses are almost never bad in my experience. The only bad ones are where bonuses are paid in order to avoid salary increases when people still have headroom on their salary based on industry norms (although there are a couple of exceptions here when in a startup and money is tighter).
Thanks, I see this behavior too. Interestingly enough, there's nothing on the page itself that can cause this behavior, this is all due to the sample calculator app embedded in an iframe element.

We use the HTML5 History API to ensure that we can go "back" in an app which is run as a standalone app on Android when the system back button is pressed -- and there really isn't another way to go about it. (Not having the system back button go back would lead to a pretty terrible user experience when calculators are run as standalone apps.) However, we'll want to disable this behavior whenever apps are embedded in web pages -- I'll have a look at this later tonight.

Again, thanks for reporting the bug!
I wouldn't recommend quoting the dailymail for anything of any use beyond a laugh. They have a deadly shortage of journalism.
Are you talking about NYC?

That seems like a very narrow view point. We have so much freedom in the US, but many people put blinders on then insist their somehow slaves.

You can buy a house in Tennessee for less than one years rent of a studio apartment in NYC. But you don't want to live there? That makes you a slave to your own desires.
> Agile exists for the particular constraints of software development, where requirements are unknown, change is relatively cheap, and feedback loops are very tight.

The Agile Manifesto was largely a reaction against the blind application of process developed for civil engineering to software development, and the features you point to are real reasons that civil engineering process is a bad fit for most software development.

But the Manifesto doesn't specify process, it proposed priorities and objectives that should be considered for process that (changing only the words “working software” to whatever it is you want to produce) are fairly broadly applicable.

Of course, most “Agile” shops aren't Agile at all, they are improved over what the Manifesto reacted against only in the small way that the process that they blindly impose without applying the considerations of the Manifesto is a Frankenstein’s monster combination of things other people designed for some other team (probably not all the same team) working on some other problems (probably not the same problems) in some other part (probably not all the same part) of the software industry.
The western US is funny- I could name maybe 5-6 'cities' in Montana, but the largest barely has a large enough population to fill a football stadium.
Similar problems occur with the electric grid or water etc, but the thing is as long as there is excess capacity 24/7 you can’t tell the difference. Unlike money you can’t bank unused bandwidth.

The reality of 1Gbps networks is people have trouble saturating the line for very long. Even 5 different 4K streams is not hitting anywhere close to that.

Being able to download a 20GB file quickly is the benefit, even if you don’t download many of those per month.
Teaching the Contradictions of Stone Mountain
Shareholder activism rests on shaky legal ground, which is actively being eroded by the current administration.

Generally speaking, shareholders are not considered legal owners of the companies in which they invest and they have little legal right to influence those companies. Shareholder powers, as enshrined in court decisions, basically come down to the decision to buy/sell the security, and voting for directors.

But even directors have little legal authority to direct the operations of a corporation--that's the job of management. The job of directors is to hire the CEO and provide oversight, which is itself a limited role.

Fundamentally, securitization of the public corporation is not constructed to enable democratic control of corporate operations. Corporations are set up to respond to democratic action (i.e. the collective will of the populace) in two ways: purchase decisions from their customers, and the legal duties placed upon them by governments.

Therefore, IMO public activism is best pointed at boycotts and government policy, to affect the decisions of corporations. EDIT to add: divestment is a form of boycott.

If human society is going to reduce its production of greenhouse gases, clean technologies will have to displace greenhouse-gas-producing technologies in the economy. That takes innovation and investment. I slightly disagree with Gates in that every dollar that is divested from fossil fuel companies has to go somewhere else. Even if it is not specifically redirected at cleaner technologies, money is fungible and it will result in the relative growth of the overall pool of investment that is available for cleaner technologies.
I've been saying this for 3 years now. People were good with it was just a Netflix subscription. Now it's Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, Apple Music, Prime Video, Prime Music, Apple TV+, Apple News+, Disney+, HBO Go, and on and on.
Looks promising.

Balena.io (formerly Resin.io) which we're using now needs competition in this area.
Orangutan Saws Branches for Fun [video]
Not a lawyer. Not legal advice.

It's my understanding language requirements are acceptable - it's a skill required to complete a job and language isn't a protected class, much like age, race, sex, sexual orientation, etc. is in many jurisdictions.
It's also unlikely that many will be offered the 30 hours. It's not like AMZN wants to pay for 20,000 additional hours per week.
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there's a cliff though. I pay for prime and Netflix, and once or twice a month I'll rent a movie from Google Play if it's something I really want to see.

however, in my mind paying any more than that approximate monthly total is unreasonable, and not an option.

And to the article's credit, I think about booting my Plex setup back up pretty frequently now.
Valve is right. I haven't pirated a single game since I started using Steam, and I have spent dollars on games I will never ever have time to play. There is no way I will subscribe to 10 different movie streaming services. I want it all in one client. If they want to charge me 50 dollars for the latest movies, so be it. I just want the convenience of one single source available 24x7 wherever I am. Until then, /r/usenet.

Apple TV, I know this is where you are going. Netflix, I know you tried and failed.
It's the homogenisation I regret as it's so limiting.

PG Wodehouse and F Scott Fitzgerald probably wouldn't have lasted half as well had the writing been sanitised to some mid Atlantic generic English and humour first. Those archaic and now slightly odd idioms mattered in setting the scene and time. Douglas Adams, always highly reluctant to meet deadlines, might never have got beyond the radio series had his editor required an Americanisation pass. The books would have been far weaker for it. Puzo (The Godfather) would be ruined rendered into British.

Which is not to say I object to a Brit character using Americanisms in their English, we all do that, and vice versa. I just like characters and things to stay believable in a book's particular time and context, which increasingly they seem not to. In making them overly (US or world English) generic I find more that somehow feel out of place in their alleged setting.
Cool, you must honestly be one of a few. I could never bear myself to read such a long article even if the topic was of interest.

I can listen to or view content that are hours long but in text format it's kind of overwhelming to me. Mainly because I cannot do anything else than read while I am reading which makes reading such a piece a very time-consuming task. I'd rather do something else than read such an article but it's probably for the best that there are people like you who like it as well.
It would be if you think this message is geared towards only the current set of part-timers who work between 20 and 30 hours a week. In fact, this is a very, very clear message to store leadership to stop scheduling ANY part timers for more than 30 hours a week.
The rebuttal for this argument is so often used that it's been turned into a nice bite-sized repeatable phrase:

"When seconds count, the police are only minutes away"
https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
That's Disney the company. Disney+, the streaming service, is pursuing family-friendly.

All the edgier material goes on Hulu apparently.
Agreed. I think a lot of agile proponents think that in waterfall, the project plan is created on day 1 and as reality drifts from the plan, the project manager shouts louder and louder at developers to try get reality back to matching the plan.

This a false straw man argument. One the project plan is created, it should be updated regularly (daily/weekly depending on the size of the project) as tasks are completed and new information comes to light. The plan is to give a prediction for the likely end date and cost of the project, but must be update as new information is known.
For what then? Disgusting reality.
This is how you kill innovation pretty effectively, especially considering the usual length of workdays in our industry.

Remember: You will not retain talent if you want them to act like code monkeys.
It's a really fascinating story on top of all of the running stuff.
This will just result in you getting lots of debt collection fees and an abysmal credit rating.

If you never again plan on taking part in the economy, it may be a convenient solution, though.
I like how facebook webpage set's cookies local storage and session storage data, tags me in their CMS and show's me message "Private by design"

I feel safe now.
Exchanges Vie with Ultrafast Traders for Mom-and-Pop Stock Orders
Sorry, I thought you were just referring to the .eu tld.
Nobody wants a used electric vehicle in China, unless it’s a Tesla
Part of the issue is that there is a fixed number of house seats, which disproportionately favours smaller states. If we had an unbounded number of house seats and instead fixed the max constitutes-per-representative, the house would have a different makeup.
The conflict is intuitively obvious. A name system maps names _to_ something. If system A and system B have the same mapping, that's just the same system under a different name. If they have different mappings they conflict because the mapping will give me different results from system A versus system B. It's that fundamental.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929/091320191...

Start at the bottom.
They'll be bleating about how this is will be good for shareholder value
No, the definition of human trafficking is usually for the purpose of forced labor, which a coyote does not do.
My team developed Detectron (https://github.com/facebookresearch/Detectron) and Detectron2 (PyTorch version, coming soon). Another team optimized it for mobile. A third team integrated it with Portal.
Google's Android Maintains a Stable Linux Kernel ABI
You can (should?) change your github io settings to use HTTPS

Edit: never-mind I read back up and you definitely are.
Sounds like it could lead to bit if a tech support nightmare though?

"Ah, you have hardware version 2.3.1.3 - yes, it does sometimes emit sparks - we fixed that in the version that came out the month after."
Yup, I can tell you right now the only subscriptions I have are to Netflix and Real Debrid.
One really clear cut one is that a graph database might need to compute the transitive closure which is impossible with plain SQL/relational algebra (technically possible with recursive SQL). One example of this might be you have some relation of parents to children and you want to select the ancestors of some child where an ancestor is either a parent or an ancestor of a parent.
Can we end the crisis of agency?
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Facebook still auto-generating Islamic State, al-Qaida pages
Katsu is just a japonization of the word Cuts. Chicken Katsu = Chicken Cuts
Legal Financing Startup Legalist Raises 100m to Chase Cases It Can Win
That was my question. Any type of shared spreadsheet I always use Google.
Can you explain to me then why Vietnam is a communist country? As I recall, they were able to cause quite a lot of trouble for the US military and its modern weaponry and war waging abilities with pretty much nothing but small arms.
Mind if I ask why it is better than a regular included Podcast app came with the iPhone? Thanks
Longer, healthier lives will spark a new generational conflict
“And I know my $50/mo rate will never rise.”

Let’s hope they tie it to inflation or similar. Otherwise the system will die slowly due to underfunding.
I agree with you, but how do you address the counterargument that financing health care requires pooling funds at some level, and a company is a logical place to do that seeing as how they have an interest in having everyone come to work on time?
The Privacy Shield annual review: Increasing common ground
Cool. Would consider using this, but for business videoconferencing.
Haha, seriously, that's your argument?

Granted it's from 2014, but are you disputing the following facts as reported then?

"The report shows the UK has only 5.9 MRI units per million people, less than half the OECD average of 13.3."

"On CT scanners we are 30th out of 32 countries, in front of only Hungary and Mexico. The numbers concern only NHS scanners."

The source is irrelevant.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

All accidental discharges are negligent. That does not prevent them from also being accidental.
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Protocol found in webcams and DVRs is fueling a new round of big DDoSes
It’s not really 70k. It’s probably 15-20k.