skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The solution is regulation. Here in the EU I see very few of these dirty tricks I see Americans complaining about, because we have strong consumer protection laws.
Open Source Makerspace Management Portal
A simulator is to flying what porn is to sex: a simulation pretty far from reality. I had a lot of simulator time when I first flew a plane, it still took me 8 hours to be able to fly it in real life and that was a very simple 2-seater trainer.
We have Thunderbird on all our machines; three different operating systems, but a majority are Linux Mint. Startup on Linux is 3s to 6s depending on the machine. All machines have mulitple accounts, from two to six, some use IMAP4 and some use POP3.

At various times we've tested other clients, but Thunderbird is the only one that has all the features we want. These include complex filtering, calendaring (external and our own iCal server) and productivity add-ons.

At the end of every year we archive all mail that's more than a year old into a new Thunderbird profile, so there's now a list of historic profiles for some accounts going back twelve years. That does make searches for specific messages a hassle, but these are thankfully rare, and it means the current profile is relatively trivial for backups and history is available to all machines via our local server.
We have an awareness of our thoughts and a second-order cognition we can simply notice and use to train ourselves to behave differently. It's not immediately clear other animal's second order thinking is as well developed and that can effect every part of your experience.

There's arguments to be made that we have parts of our brain that are created at a very early age that may give us a reaction to unique symbols. There's arguments that the spread of epigenetics down family lines naturally grant a focus on particular traits or behaviours.

Your conscious awareness is heavily trained by your day to day life. You see what is important to you, even in your 'holiday' from high functioning consciousness. When you are running a race and climbing a tree the ability to pace yourself at a rate, see particular handholds and climbing techniques in a tree, are your consciousness. Orangutans use different climbing techniques and live different lives around and inside trees to us. It's not a past-time that speaks of an adventurous or wildlife-like experience, but something that could be as natural to them as walking and with the same connotations as walking on concrete for the rest of us.

This whole exercise of grounding consciousness is a move that will inevitably come after our heightening of awareness in the last four years. This article is a very poor way to attempt to make that happen.
German police raid NATO bunker data center used for illegal activities
I've lived in a few places in Berlin over the years, I've never seen anything but nice clear water come out of the tap (whether at my place or friend's flats). Granted, it's hard water (lots of calcium) but other than that it's perfectly fine. Pipes as bad as you're describing definitely exist but I'd say they're the exception, not the rule.
so a categorical variable got mixed up as a numerical one and produced misleading results.

to the credit of the authors, they released their data sets. -- however, i suspect that proper data exploration and visualisation would have prevented all this. visual inspection would have most likely revealed that there is no visible effect, or even an effect in the opposite direction, and once you see this, all alarm bells should go off if your model predicts otherwise. so i suspect that the authors skipped some basic steps and got carried away by results that promised a nice headline.
>there are dozens of super hero type movies that display violence as utterly ordinary, necessary, and proper, where only the bad guys die forever and justice is ultimately served.

Not just superhero movies - action movies, westerns, ancient myths and religions in which the heroes were always violent - maybe violent and cunning, but always violent, and the gods were often as ruthless and petty as nature itself.

Thinking of violence as anything but utterly ordinary, necessary and proper has been the exception rather than the rule in human societies. People still believe in war as a noble adventure that turns undisciplined boys into proper men... people still believe in holy war.

I think these stories reflect a fundamental need in people to fit a narrative onto a blind and arbitrary universe. We want there to be heroes and villains, for good to prosper and the wicked to be punished, for there to be a reason behind it all, even if that reason is aliens or the Illuminati, and a God who prepares a table before us in the presence of our enemies. We don't want to know that the world is capricious and arbitrary, that evil people die in their sleep surrounded by wealth and comfort while good people die in the street like dogs for no reason.
He was difficult to work with (although I never "worked with" him directly, was just in a project which he ran).

I was not bothered about this controversial public statements, but several women who I trust had very bad experiences with him in person. I'm not going to name any of these people because they (very reasonably) don't want to be in the public eye.

These two issues together caused significant issues, and I felt I could no longer support a project he ran.

I'm not sure what you mean by you should "take the fight head-on". It's easy to find many people, for years and years, who have said Stallman was actively harmful to the FSF and GNU, but they were generally ignored.
Reactor fuels or RTG cores are a bit more dangerous than ore.

A properly designed reactor requires the fuel to be in the core to sustain a chain reaction, and neutron activation of other elements in the reactor does not occur until the reaction has started. Thus, a rocket explosion would not cause a criticality event. The worst that would happen would be dispersion of nuclear fuel to a place where someone might handle it without its transport-safety shielding. Which still wouldn't be that bad.
You're demonstrating why friendships are ending over politics.
I agree. Offensive statements and actions should be considered with their age along with the offending parties age.

In fact, I'd argue that reflection upon mistakes is one of the most important drivers of growth and maturity. I personally have been deeply changed by learning that I've wronged someone, and been motivated to change my actions in the future.
If you were trying to make the point with rigorous scientific data analysis, you could hardly do worse.
Freedom ends where it restricts other people’s freedom and freedom doesn’t mean that there are no consequences. If you question that child rape should be punished, you have to live with the consequences.
I suspect some of is due to how amorphous the term white collar is. The BLS has job projections, https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/occupations-largest-job-decli... , and they forecast large declines in admins and clerk-type office jobs that you would expect.

The fastest growing list on the other hand, https://www.bls.gov/ooh/fastest-growing.htm , has some office jobs, but it's dominated by healthcare jobs that some of which are kind of office-like.

There's also some weirdness, with Computer Programmer listed on the decline list, while Software developers, applications is on the fastest growing list.
Disagree.

You can do it with healthcare too.

Team "spent 4 years attempting to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replacing it with nothing" vs Team "Universal Medical Care for Everyone"

Or tax cuts -

Team "Gave trillions away via a big corporate tax cut" vs Team "Proposal to fund higher education via Wealth Tax"

Or environmentalism -

Team "denying there's a problem while the permafrost melts" vs Team "Wants to do something before society literally falls around us"

Or Treason -

Team "Has president in White House that literally asked Ukraine for dirt on his political opponent" vs Team "Holy Fucking Shit!"

It seems super frustrating dealing with articles that say that "politics" is stressing me out when really it's that the right has literally driven the country into the ground. What in god's name are they doing? We have a president that is literally laughing about killing immigrants days before a national shooting in Texas, who commits high crimes via Twitter, and worse! What Republican is speaking out against him? And they own the senate, so we've had 4 years of deadlock.

And that's just the United States! In the UK you have crazy Boris Johnson literally doing everything he possibly can to crash the country out of the European Union because no one was willing to work with Theresa May. God knows why as the effects for the economy (and Ireland for God's sakes - they have a border between Northern Ireland and Ireland that would have to go back up - and it could cause the Troubles again!) would be horrific. Probably because he has money on it somehow. And he attempted to essentially dissolve parliament that then unprecedentedly got thrown out by their Supreme Court and the entire thing is just a shit show.

And then there's Modi, and Bolsonaro is burning down the rain forest. The thing is the entire planet looks like it's having an attack of conscience and we could be looking at a breakdown of the global order. Things have been ok bordering on decent in most parts of the world for the last 50 years, as compared to the last 500 that preceded them. But we paid for the prosperity by consuming more than we should, and, as "stuff" starts to run out perhaps people are just no longer interested in sharing with others or playing nice.

That's a really scary thought.
Animal Planet: Showcasing Acupuncture Quackery at the San Diego Zoo
A cashiers check is known good funds, online transfers aren’t.
With some banks, you don't even need the recipient to set up anything. The bank will just mail the check to whatever address you enter.

It's mind-boggling that this is cheaper and lower hassle for me than the alternatives.
Well Saturn went away around 2008 I think. But IIRC Scion had fixed prices, but then Toyota ended the Scion brand in 2016.
I wonder to what extent this should also apply to e.g., schools or churches, or even parenting.

Conflict between kids? Make them decide together on a mutually acceptable outcome. Set values, don't make decisions. Mediate. I guess the difference is you can't fire your kids.
EuroBSDcon 2019: Game of Trees [pdf]
There's a concerning increase of colon cancer (not a fake increase because of better detection) and researchers have no idea why it is happening. Microplastics need to be ruled out.
SSH? Server-side implementations exist in Python, Go, Java, and other languages. You can have a plain-text, telnet-style listener that informs people that they should use SSH instead.
>Bottled water is a scam, and it also is a resources that's often extracted from poor countries and communities

Are you sure about this? My impression is that the price/weight ratio of bottled water is way to low to make any sense to not bottle them in close proximity, so "extracted from poor countries" doesn't sound plausible.
All US postal codes have an optional - (hyphen) in them as well, and so you should always encode them as strings anyway.
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On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs - STRIKE! Magazine
I'd say that a reasonable person could say, "Where I come from, that's a really offensive term. Could you not keep saying that?"

If they just keep saying it, it's clear that they don't care. That tells you that they aren't a person interested in meeting you halfway. I don't need to discuss chocolate vs vanilla (or anything else) with someone who's willing to deliberately offend me.

But if they forget once or twice, and say it, not because they don't care that it offends you but just because it's become habit, and habits don't change instantly, then cut them some slack. Your words that you say by habit that offend others aren't easy to stop saying, either.

But if you're so busy "taking severe offense" that you can't respond like a reasonable person, then maybe you're the problem. You almost certainly are if you're enjoying taking severe offense. (I know, nobody ever admits to it. But I suspect that some people do, and if they were honest with themselves, they'd know it.)

[Edit: Missed your first paragraph. Refuses is different from forgets to. Again, though, it may not be that simple. If B forgets once, a hypersensitive A might label that "refuses". Or, B could really refuse, but claim "I keep forgetting" when called on it. Those two scenarios look fairly similar - you probably have to read tone of voice, facial expression, and body language to know.]
Things that are more useful to know:

- What's your mechanism for bias self-check?

- If someone gives you specs and you notice that something is off, what do you do?

- If you have to solve a problem you haven't solved before, how do you approach it?

- What's your take on accessibility on the web?

- What's your process like for deciding that you're at the point in your career where you can mentor others?

- What do you prefer to do when you see someone else getting nit-picked?

- You're just about to finish a feature and have a great idea for improving it. What do you do?

For all of these things, people will likely give different answers but those answers will tell me a lot about whether or not they would end up being really useful for the kinds of teams I build.
I believe my position is that of the strong consensus of the long debates that have gone on in detail here and in numerous mainstream and technical publications. I can't summarize all the arguments there and I won't try but the conclusion has been Boeing is to blame (period).

In this day and age, I'm suspicious and annoyed even small effort to improperly spread blame when that spreading serves powerful interests.
Another good strategy for load balancing/sharding that always strikes me as simple but also devilishly cleaver is random pick two: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2012/01/17/two-random.html
Berlin, of course, has a website in English language with all the information regarding tap water:

https://www.bwb.de/en/index.php
Stupid if your client is guilty and you trust the database, not so stupid if your client insists they are innocent and the database governance processes are suspect.
I can thank RoD/smaug for my coding career. I had some fun on the star wars MUDs too where you got the xyz coords of your ship on the prompt to know where you were.
What I don't get is how do the microplastics get to the clouds. Do they evaporate like water?
This compulsion to steer every discussion into simplistic partisan campaign talking-points is not good for people's mental or physical health, as the linked study suggests.

I hope you learn to disengage before accumulating too much damage.
People can find any belief system, no matter how unfounded in reality, personally beneficial, look at Scientology.

Doesn't mean it's based on anything coherent or real.
At least in the iPhone implementation, the finger print is neither user name nor password, it is more like a session key. You have to authenticate with username and password, then you can use your fingerprint (or faceID) to access that session for a multi-day period after which you have to reauthenticate with your password.
I'm a data scientist and this is an incredibly embarrassing 'n00b' error to make. If these researchers were using anything other than deep learning, it's almost certain that each parameter of the model was manually selected. That the author made the mistake is bad, that no one caught the error is a disaster.
Smart people have the ability to rationalize themselves into believing completely untrue things.

> Maybe Im wrong about this being a site for engineers.

You'll get a lot of engineers on engineering topics, but there seems to be a lot of engineering groupies on this site as well.
I’m interviewing 20+ candidates a month, and I have to say: these questions are really good to understand a person. It’s almost impossible to answer questions like 3 and 4 with fluff or BS, because they are asking for actual cases. This case-based interview technique allows you to go deep into the way people act, how they argue, how they try to influence people, how they view themself.

It’s important to understand that these questions are just the starting point of a conversation to understand how a person thinks and acts. It’s impossible to make things up with a good recruiter because there’s no way you know beforehand how deep and where he will go with his follow-up questions
The issue with your examples is that it's almost always an irresponsible customer claiming that the car came to life and "moved on its own" or "accelerated by itself". I'd take an official government report or a legal case where Tesla is found at fault or for privacy violations please.

These customers almost always sue, but thankfully the U.S. justice system favors factual information.

A prime example of this was the recently released NTSB data on the Model S driver that crashed on the back of a Firetruck. The media had a field day and sensationalized the story and the owner tried to blame autopilot.

But the NTSB report noted that not only did he had his hands off the wheel he was also having breakfast!:

“I was having a coffee and a bagel. And all I remember, that truck, and then I just saw the boom in my face and that was it,” the driver told NTSB investigators."

Source: https://www.culvercityobserver.com/story/2019/09/05/news/nts...

NTSB Safety Report:
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/HA...

The report states that probable cause was the Tesla driver’s lack of response and inattention and the driver’s use of the system in ways inconsistent with guidance and warnings from the manufacturer.

So tell me, how can Tesla defend itself from such customers who abuse and misuse these 2 ton machines? I'm curious on what you think is the best approach to solve this "he said/she said" problem by not using factual and irrefutable data.
Agreed. However, another factor may be that, we tend to scrutinize more closely results that don't line up with what we expected. In fact, in this case it was another researcher who had gotten results that pointed in the opposite direction, who convinced the original researcher to release their data (which, to their credit, they did).

Which, is one reason why having higher and higher percentages of academia and science researchers be from the same part of the political spectrum, is worrisome to me. If you have more diversity in ideology, there is more likely to be someone in each field to have the instinct to scrutinize closely a result which, when scrutinized, won't hold up.
Personally, I'm not inhaling anything period. The risk/reward calculation just looks ridiculously unattractive to me. Fucking up your lungs, be it from tobacco, other vaporized products, solvents, paint, whatever, is just not worth it.
On the front page, each article is really small. You can just skip past them.

Clicking on it and leaving a comment is not how you ignore it.
Where did you get 63 million?

The third link from GP has a headline which reads “360,000 Californians have unsafe drinking water. Are you one of them?”

That’s approximately 1% of CA’s population. That’s not even a long tail.
It's not bizarre if it's affecting their relationships.
This does not add any value
> It seems to imply that those two people are magically going to agree to something before the meeting

it's not magic, it entails preparation, but if you are holding meetings and you don't have the principal attendees at the meetings in agreement before the group gathers, you're going to have highly unproductive meetings and you'll encourage civil wars to break out.

Meetings work best when they present a solution to a problem, and get "buy in" from the attendees who each present to the group what they will be doing to advance toward the agreed upon goals.

The executive or manager who is calling the meeting achieves this by visiting each participant in the upcoming meeting in advance and asking, "here's what we are going to talk about at the meeting, what are you going to say on this topic?" and revisiting with "here is what so-and-so is going to say, how does that affect your team, what do you need to do to prepare?" etc.

People find it much easier to agree to group goals one-on-one and very much appreciate being given time in advance to prepare their plans and statements of purpose and not be caught off-guard. Other participants in meetings benefit from hearing the harmony of purpose at the meeting and they in turn step forward to announce how they will help.

Think of it like a football huddle where plans are announced and agreed to; people aren't going into the huddle looking to argue, they're looking for agreement.

And yes, I realize that many of you have not experienced meetings organized this way, and that's why I wrote it up, it was incredibly refreshing when I first got to experience a company run this way.
It's why I use the BBC as my primary news source. They actually have articles explaining complicated topics.

(Politics rant) I really got sick of CNN and Colbert in the first year after Trump was inaugurated. Everything was about Trump, Trump, Trump to the exclusion of other important news. It seemed like every other day some CNN reporter did a hatchet job trying to make Trump look like a moron instead of just reporting facts. Where's the real news? The hatchet jobs didn't change anyone's opinion of Trump, they just played to their audiences' biases. (/Politics rant)
Serial market crasher, see you in 2040 for when I finally end up on the correct side of the market and can turn my stock into cash and my cash in yachts.
Best tasting or least tasting? (Since water is tasteless...)
good researching. thanks for sharing . it's cool that the good ones are the first to establish in the fresh neighborhood. i think this should be common knowledge, and i think you've just helped that become a reality.
I believe the name left out of that message was Daikaijuu Monogatari II
For practical purpose does it matter? It detects non-water particles(pollution) in twice higher ratio than in tap water and plastic bottled water is sold as way purer than tap water with 1000 time higher price. Basically it's scam.
Check out the Vantablack BMW X6 (https://www.bmw.com/en/design/the-bmw-X6-vantablack-car.html)
Thank you, I hadn't seen coupons and sales in this light before. I've been thinking of them in terms of offering the same price to all customers, but this framing that takes convenience and time into account makes the whole system seem much more sensible.
If you want to see something very black, look at the side of a stack of razor blades or x-acto knife blades. The individual blades are shiny, but the geometry of the stack makes it absorb almost all the light hitting it.
Providing value != running a viable business. Also the article pretty strongly suggest dog walking is NOT a breakout market?
Is this any more secure than just making the password longer?
Literally all they do is facilitate meetings so other people can do things for them.

You are a better executive the more you delegate and the less you actually do.

I'm not making this up, literally this is what the article talks about. If you don't do shit, you get paid more for it.