skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As you are noticing, there is a lot of communications overhead for large teams.

Large code bases themselves don’t have to be confusing though. I worked as a contractor at Google and their system was very dev friendly with almost everything is available/viewable in a large repo with good editing and build tools.

I hope those 250 developers are split up on small teams, with small manageable projects.
i've had a middle of the road garmin for a few years now. What watch you want depends what you want out of it. I cycle daily and like to have the information available for how long my commute is, what the weather was like (though the wind speeds are often very off).

It works nicely as a watch too, though unless you pay top whack they aren't very fashionable looking.

I don't care much about apps, but I do care if it can connect to other equipment (like a rowing machine or a turbo) so being ANT+ compatible is important to me.
It depends, obviously. Prior art is easy to prove by pointing at an existing patent. It is also easy to prove by pointing at an article in a mainstream publication in the local language. So "protective publication" or "defensive disclosure" is a reasonable alternative to getting a patent (and perhaps letting it expire at the first opportunity).

Prior art is only difficult to prove if you're relying on something along the lines of folk knowledge among the indigenous peoples of the lands where the Jumblies live.

It's non-obviousness that is notoriously difficult to prove.
Sure? So you are saying if you drink coffee every day and then stop - there will be no side effects?
Used to be you could negate a patent by citing prior art. The date of invention, not the date to file was important. Now that has changed. Date of filing is all that is considered. Previously I can show my signed and dated notebooks to prove I was first to invent in a patent challenge. That's no longer the case.

If I invent something and don't patent it, Bob might come along and patent it instead.

Alternatively I can file it as a trade secret, where there's documentation I invented it, but no public disclosure. So I don't get patent monopoly protection, but I can prove prior art if someone else tries to patent it. This wouldn't work for public research that isn't a secret.

Government research filings mean that someone else who didn't invent it won't be able to patent it, or at least as easily.

Patent examiners rely quite a bit on earlier patents to determine if something is new. They are not experts in all unpatented but invented research taking place in all fields, so filing this patent helps the PTO block similar patents filed later by other parties.

Also, having a patent portfolio of impressive things as the inventor of record, even if some other entity owns the patent, is very useful to your career. It's comparable to having a track record of published papers in prestigious journals. So allowing inventors to document their inventions with patents is likely useful in terms of attracting talent. A government agency, as employer, being owner of the patent, also prevents the inventor from going off and patenting it on his own after no longer working for that agency and thus privatizing the invention.
Exactly, or maybe it's a weird sense of humor, trolling their friends/adversaries?

I mean, if I worked on secret stuff for years, maybe I would develop that kind of humor, and file a patent application for a Flux Capacitor, just to tease my friends about the time machine we are building...
>On duty for 68 hours when I was in the army.

Who the hell came up with that plan? Like have they met an actual human before...ever?
> So the government patents them to preserve broad access to the invention.

I would assume or at like to believe this is true with federal government patents, but it's not true for state governments, government-funded universities, etc. It would be nice to have a law or official policy to point to that states outright that the federal government can't or won't sue anyone for using the technology in those patents (or the opposite).
> I was absolutely stunned at the amount of institutional butt-kissery that was associated with it.

What does this mean
Are they living on subscription model?
If you're doing that, you have introduced a far larger source of turbulence than the mirrors ever could produce.
Odd that he didn't compare them to the human expeditions to Mars.
Wikipedia possibly agrees

"The name “bilberry” appears to have a Scandinavian origin, possibly from as early as 1577, being similar to the Danish word bølle"

Interestingly bilberry seems to be a Northern England thing, southerners call them whortleberries.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilberry
Lead is still present in Avgas.
I assume you're looking at overall CO2 emissions rather than per-capita emissions.

The page you linked shows fossil CO2 emissions per capita:

China: 7.7t CO2/cap/yr

USA: 15.7t CO2/cap/yr

Denver seems like a good place to give a speech.

Of course, country size does matter, but it's unfair to simply compare total emissions when there's such a huge difference in population size.
The syntax being regressive is pretty objective. It's not a value judgement. It has it's pros and cons.
The article specifically mentions the lead-crime hypothesis as a different example of hypothesized linkages between air pollution and crime. It seems exceptionally likely that it isn’t what they’re looking at.

This paper specifically looks at short term air pollution effect (ie, the kinds that will measurably rise and fall in different parts of a city over an 8-year span). Lead takes so long to affect a single person (since it mostly harms brain development in children, but crimes are mostly not committed by children) that it almost certainly being meaningfully measured here.
The fact that the site you linked puts The New York Times in the furthest left category is completely invalidating. It’s actually laughable.

Anarchism, Syndicalism, Communism. Those are far-left ideologies. The New York Times is centrist. It’s editorial section is _explicitly_ pro-capitalism.
NASA engineer's 'helical engine' may violate the laws of physics
Benchmark Report: Machine Learning Edge Devices 2019
They are quite nutritious anyway regardless of a single minimally interesting study.
Indeed. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry did end up writing the The Little Prince [0], a renown novella about a space faring prince.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince
Eating prison for also associated. Correlation does not equal causation.
As far as Search as a product goes, Google is basically unstoppable IMO. They’re just far and away ahead of everyone else in both the engineering and theoretical side. They have the best infra for it and will keep their lead because they also get by far the most data for search which just goes into a positive feedback loop.

The gap between Google Search and any other Search competitor is way way way larger than say.. AWS and any other direct competitor.

In order for Google to be challenged on the Search front, I think it’ll require a fundamental change (in medium) in the way people prefer looking things up on the Internet. Which is obviously an incredibly difficult question.
See Executive Order 10096[1]. An article from 1990[2].

[1] https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/execu...

[2] https://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/matters/matters-9004.h...
Firefox is now complete shit.. Mozilla can go fuck themselves.. bunch of retards

Use Vivaldi instead, they at least attempt to implementant decent and useful actual features... most of which used to be Firefox addons/.

Seriously Mozilla go fuck yourselves.
Some dude in 2012 did 1 million active connections with whatever node.js and v8 versions we had at that time :) http://blog.caustik.com/2012/08/19/node-js-w1m-concurrent-co...

Edit: I wasn't aware but there was some build-up to it:
- 100k connections: http://blog.caustik.com/2012/04/08/scaling-node-js-to-100k-c...
- 250k connections: http://blog.caustik.com/2012/04/10/node-js-w250k-concurrent-...
Is there much value in sending humans into space besides studying how the human body deteriorates in microgravity?
Prescribed Generative Adversarial Networks
Bundling Pocket, resetting default search provider back to Google on updates. Just a couple off the top of my head.

I'm a long-time Firefox user, FWIW.
I find that javascript apps often work in two of the three browsers.

If someone develops entirely in Firefox, there's chance it'll work in Safari or Chrome, but not both.

Same for if someone develops in Safari.
Use systemd timers
I think you mean 0.3 mg, based on your source.
And this is why I take rants against Google and MS with a grain of salt.

Top voted comment couldn't bother to read bug report. I often see inconvenient truths buried in downvotes meanwhile misinformation that apeases a vocal minority gets catapulted to the top.
I bought one to try for only sleep tracking, the FitBit Versa. It tracks sleep very well and shows you when you were awake or in deep sleep. However, my only complaint with it is that some of the data is hidden behind a premium subscription. I already paid for the FitBit and now they're taking my data and trying to sell it back to me? No thanks. For this reason, I'll be returning it after I've made some adjustments to my sleep.
> But now so few intelligent people believe it is morally acceptable to be optimistic. After all, climate, race, capitalism...

We have to consider the moral implications of our social and economic structures as well as our impacts on the only place we have in the universe to live if we are going to have a positive vision of the future.

The greatest challenge here is not being silenced by those who have a vested interest - logical or otherwise - in preserving the status quo with regards to these things.
What if these are "tanks"? The British didn't want to let anyone know they were building armored vehicles, thus the unassuming name that someone in 1915 would not have guessed what it was. If the Navy has created a groundbreaking new device, but they want to hide its true nature, a far-fetched name like "gravitational wave", even though it's not the theoretical gravity wave it sounds like, lets you talk about it without an eavesdropper knowing what it is. That term, and "inertial mass reduction" have never been used in a patent before so the inventor is free to define them however he likes.
She recommends we listen to the science.

Consensus is a probability distribution.

Greta talks about the 'findings' of approximately 4% of the IPCC scientists conclusions, on one extreme of the consensus.

Obviously none of the models are available to examine, so we'll take their word for it, like a child would.
I usually hate these kinds of comments but I have to: Please check out dev.to. It's a minimal, fast, developer focussed blogging platform. It's open source, and quite active.
Dan Carlin I feel does a relatively good job at covering this battle within the broader context of the war in his Hardcore History podcast. Specifically, in his three-part series King of Kings. Don’t ask me which one, as it’s been well over a year since I listened to it, but he does make a reasonable attempt at drawing out some logic for why the rearguard stayed and died. If I recall correctly, one factor is that it helped buy time for the Greek city-states to retreat back and remove sources of supplies, which would stretch the Persian supply chains even further.

He paints this particular battle into the context of many others too, and tries to put some thoughts around the broader environment in which both the Greeks and Persians were making their decisions during these wars. He tells it all with his trademark engaging fascination and I really cannot recommend it highly enough. It’s part of his free releases, so you should readily find them on your podcast source of choice.
Insomnia is a fake idea invented to promote the industrial work cycle.

If you go to sleep when you're so tired, as opposed to when the societal clock says you should, you won't have any trouble sleeping.
Gay World of WarCraft guild forced to change name because of user complaints
There are similar services/startups in NYC i've interacted with.

My experience was it is fruitless endeavor trying to find a therapist that actually practices CBT for less than 200/hr.
You can do this, but should you?

Solutions like this, more abstraction to avoid repetitive code, are usually much worse than the problem.

> Though we notice we only greet for mornings and afternoons so always having to pass “Good morning” or “Good afternoon” becomes a bit annoying.

Maybe? But one can do much much much worse than "a bit annoying"

> It would be great if we could create an instance of our “greet” function with the first argument pinned down.

No.
Theory: he's a reporter, someone showed him the command, one time it didn't work and the other person said to use "sudo" possibly because he was trying to write a file somewhere he needed access to. Now he always uses sudo because it always works...
I did view the source, but I was expecting exactly what GP screencapped rather than a single line. So, yep, it's there.
all the SREs on the thread are wondering why scientists don't automatically mail their complex samples to their friends across the country as a backup.

and the answer is.... individual PIs optimize for the easy case (that power stays on), not the disaster recovery scenario. There is no SRE thinking at the individual PI level.
Official FAQ on CoC Changes and Pronouns
Thermoelectric Generator
Is Big Blueberry actually big? I'd expect it to be Medium-sized Blueberry at best, though I admit that lacks alliteration.
I'm a novice at it, but I have written a few small eBPF programs in assembler.

To elaborate on what aey said in the sister comment, since eBPF allows user applications to generate code that runs in the kernel, the language is kept pretty simple so that it's easier for the kernel to verify that the generated code isn't doing something bad. If you look at the documentation, there are only two registers:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/filter.t...

There are also limitations on the size of eBPF programs the kernel will allow, and looping and such, so that a single user is less likely to DOS the entire system with a bad program (whether purposefully or accidentally). It's not really that similar, but I had the amusing thought that writing eBPF assembly vaguely reminded me a little of writing TIS-100 code.

http://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/
I'm not sure I got it right:

Did it cost you ~$50k to file your patent?
Me too. I can't imagine trying to maintain a project written like this so I'd still consider you a member of the "clever programmer club" in good standing. Ideas like this make sense when the language gives you good support for them like Haskell does:

https://www.haskell.org/tutorial/functions.html

In languages like Go, you'll write much more "composable" software by sticking to what the language gives you instead of trying to force this in.
Yes. They do exist.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSC_Francisco
What do you need this many connections for?
Lessons Learned from Atomic FC's First Season
A Bicycle Named Stella
On the other hand, if the final report released today is much more benign that what is reported here, wouldn't it make the suspicion of conflict of interests a lot worse ?

It is forcing hand, but in the other direction.
"The researchers made no claims on the physiological, mechanistic relationship of how exposure to pollution leads someone to become more aggressive; their results only show a strong correlative relationship between such crimes and levels of air pollution.

The researchers were careful to correct for other possible explanations, including weather, heat waves, precipitation, or more general, county-specific confounding factors."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191003114007.h...
I'd like to assume that all the "easy" facors are already taken into account (population density, property value, education level, income level, weather, etc).

Even if it's just a correlation, it's not really a result worth publishing otherwise.
The clear solution is to be able to drag something to a temporary location.

For example, a Trello card I should be able to drag to the home button on my iPhone, then switch apps, maybe go do something else for a bit, and then continue dragging it into an email, or HN comment.

Drag and drop should be more like universal cut and paste. It should be against intergalactic law to implement it all yourself so you can't drag between apps.
Internet of Things Simulator
> name, age:{int, min:20}, address: {street, city, state}

why "int" means type, and "street" does not?

> active?:bool

it seems that this is legal:

active?: bool, someattr?: bool
T

now which one was set?

This might be very useful replacement for CSV, but not JSON.
There's certainly a loss of value for our already built and paid for space station, if we're not able to use it.
It's a game of incentives.

I might enjoy making systems cleaner and more maintainable but if the incentives for my next promotion are "lead new large scale project to ship something a few times and maybe you can get a promo", why bother?

It's probably one of the worst parts of large-ish organizations
The question is: Conspiracy or incompetence?

I normally favour the latter all things being equal.

However in this case, I sense that the battle with Airbus was ( and the key role of the 737 Max in that ) considered strategic and failure possibly an existential threat for Boeing and hence the US aviation industry.
The real problem is that NASA Human Space flight has been a total shitshow while the Robotics has way better managment.

This is mostly a historic development of NASA and how politics influnces it.

So the problem is not fundamentally with Humans but rather with NASA organisations.
Some of those are interesting just because I never assumed it happened or it was being tracked. And some of them are a surprising scale. 800 deaths from being tangled in bedsheets!
Draft CCPA Regs from Cali AG [pdf]
But the latter moon landings were news items of the week. And the latter shuttle flights weren't even that, unless they were carrying interesting cargo.
Both articles from 2015.
One of the things I am finding is the amount of project freedom and the amount of process and documentation are the inverse of anywhere else I've ever worked.

Most of my jobs have had very straight forward goals of what needs done next, with an endless backlog of already prioritized work. There has very rarely been much documentation around anything though.

This company is more vague high level goals that teams have the ability to figure out any work they want to do that furthers that goal, but there is a very high bar for documentation before, during, and after features are done. Even git commits have a very rigid structure to them!
>Would you have been shouting at young Torvalds that he was wasting his time trying to write a free OS in a world of proprietary hardware?

Yeah. It wouldn't have stopped him, probably just made him want an open platform even more.
Oh, wow, thanks for catching that. Yes, 0.3 g - 1 g is absurd.
Did you try pressing Ctrl-Z? This has worked in Windows Explorer (and by extension the native File Open dialog) for years.
Cool. I have the single-port Atom and love it. Nice to see these are finally appearing on the market.
He was only "in the running" in his own head.

He has an obsession with the NPP because Obama got one, and he can't accept that someone with dark skin is better than him in basically every way.
Ah, that explains it. To be clearer, I should have probably instead asked why you needed those things ;)
Sure, mastering the basic controls should be the first step, before ceding control to augmented systems.

However, I have yet to see a mirror that will see behind the back bumper: this has already prevented a host of dangerous situations for me ("person was there, then went somewhere, where the heck are they, oh: for some reason admiring my back bumper and the pretty light that the reverse lights give out").
Yes this would be a challenge. It may not be able to operate at full speed for the entire duration of the trip, but significant portions it probably could.
I agree with this, and would add: ask the questions now about what does this mean, what do you mean, how does that work here etc... If you wait 6 months and still don't understand because you didn't ask questions, then you will run into problems and people will start pressuring you or isolating you. When you are new, everyone expects those questions and are generally fairly happy to help, and in really large companies it can take a year to become truly competent in the solution. But if you aren't asking questions or aren't understanding, raising your hand about it etc, they will assume you get it and move on. Then you will be judged like you know all the material when you really don't and that is hard to recover from.

Big teams have their own challenges, but in general, you should likely have a small immediate team that is your focus. So while you need to figure things out, don't freak out about things 3 teams over that you don't understand right now. It is really common in large teams that your area of expertise will be focused around what your immediate team works on, and no one expects you to understand all the other team's work. What makes people "invaluable" is that they push to learn the "entire" system (or as much as possible) from each of the teams, which means they become a wealth of knowledge even if they've been there less time than others. This used to be my trick as a freelancer that led to me transitioning to a true consultant when I built my first consultancy. I'd go into large teams, do the job I was hired for but learn the entire system because I wouldn't stop asking questions, exploring etc. Then within 6-9 months many times I knew more than people that had been in the company for years, only because they stayed in their cube and did what tasks they were assigned but didn't ask questions and explore.
I usually create a struct once my parameter list goes past 3. Then, pass that in. Or, if applicable, create a method instead.
Volvo made a concept car with glass A pillars and no B pillars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_SCC
Claiming that all the engineers, scientists and researchers who claim to use a specific technique to solve problems are really just "back justifyting" seems a bit weird. For the record, I use this technique all the time AND, for the past 8 years, have been getting a solid 8 hours sleep most nights. Why would we do that?
they will close your account if you do it too much
They have, they're mostly in French though but the language debate in Quebec is a whole other bag of worms...
Funny, seeing as the US essentially bullied France into selling it's nuclear technology.

(See: Alstom purchase by GE)
I want to believe this, but when I read the comments under the article I have questions. This is one of them that makes me wonder:

"There's also some logical problems with the Augusta part

"That story involves: 1) a highway ramp, 2) a jersey barrier to have been jumped over, 3) a large cluster of trees to hide in with trees large enough to produce a fallen log large enough for a person to hide behind, 4) a grassy area large enough for a helicopter to descend into low enough for the rotor wash to blow around, and 5) be farther than 2,700 feet from Augusta and thus run afoul of the reselling restrictions.

"I can find no such location in Augusta, GA."
By that logic we should eliminate the mouse and just go back to keyboards?