skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve had a bit of interaction with the Farm. As a kid, my dad and I would sail past it (as close as you can get without being blared at). I’ve heard explosions coming from there, and seen people rappelling from helicopters into the woods.

Later, I was a physics student at a university very close to Camp Perry. We were able to detect microwave transmissions on odd bands, at odd hours, that seemed to be directed from or to the camp. There was a helicopter that flew over campus towards “the Farm” every Saturday at midnight, for some reason.

Perhaps most memorably, I had a very unpleasant interaction in town with someone who, I found out in the Washington Post a while later, was Aldrich Ames.
Loudcloud was at the peak of the dot-com boom, late '90s to early '00s. Working remotely wasn't really an option then.
> At least here in Germany, courts have repeatedly ruled that social media platforms have to tolerate users saying what is legally permissible.

Twitter isn't in Germany and unless there's a nexus that brings Twitter to Germany then Germany's laws are not in play for Twitter. Sorry.
Medicare advantage might work but the regular Medicaid is absolutely horrible.

I know this because I was financially in charge of somebody on Medicaid who had a lot of health needs.

We very much regretted not signing up for Medicare advantage while it was still possible.

And guess what: Medicare advantage is private health insurance companies, while Medicare regular is government.

And no I'm not some hired shill, I tried it I used it, it really and truly is horrible.

The problem is very simple it's the 20% copay and the deductibles. someone with a lot of health needs gets an absolute mountain of extraordinarily complicated bills to have to figure out and pay.

Then trying to figure out what you are and aren't eligible for requires hours of time.

For example hospital stays reset nursing stays and all kinds of complicated rules.

If you have somebody on Medicare see how much mail they get, multi-inch thick booklets come in the mail and they're supposed to read them all and understand them.
Self-Driving Robot Scooters Are Coming, Apparently
Presumably the kids get an education on where to place the works. Not next to a window where it's going to eat full sun in the afternoon for example. I also assume that it's the kind of thing that is mostly only known to the kind of kids that are going to take good care of the works.
• Couldn't match expected type ‘([Integer] -> [Integer]) -> [b]’
with actual type ‘[Integer]’
• Possible cause: ‘map’ is applied to too many arguments
In the second argument of ‘(&)’, namely ‘map (* 2) [1, 2, 3]’
In the second argument of ‘($)’, namely
‘map (+ 2) & map (* 2) [1, 2, 3]’
In the expression: map (+ 2) $ map (+ 2) & map (* 2) [1, 2, 3]
There's an appearance of impropriety. Guile's maintainers have been critical of RMS, and now RMS is meddling in the governance of Guile. It seems like the meddling may be to ensure that RMS has allies on that project...
>What I find most valuable is it programs itself. Am I cold? Turn it up a bit, hot? Turn it down a bit. Suddenly I have stopped having to adjust it at all.

Is that a problem most people have? I bought my house a few years ago and haven't touched my thermostat since I originally set it up years ago
Yeah and it's not unreasonable for people to push back and say "I'm going to call them Legos if I want to." Obviously they aren't going to go and sue a mommy blogger because she refers to Legos wrong (much less me saying it on Hacker News), but still.

At least Velcro has a sense of humor about it. They recognize that no one in the real world is going to follow their rules, but they still have to say that they want you to, so the word doesn't get legally genericized.

They probably actually WANT you to use it generically, it helps their brand, since they are only ones allowed to sell it by the word everyone refers to it by. But they can't say that out loud, or it has negative legal repercussions.
1 / .001% = 100,000
You should show him how how to use 'black' and maybe install pycodestyle. Function names with a starting capital letter shouldn't be done in python. And
Camelcase is frowned upon as well.

And if you want to make his life easier show him how to use xpath with lxml. It's way easier to use than what he did. Just press ctrl-f in the 'elements' developer tools and you can test the path interactively
In retrospect it’s shocking that we are surprised by this.

When life evolved on earth wouldn’t it have first been dominated by shorter, less complex proteins? Why assume all of those have disappeared? Especially when we have some pretty archaic forms of life still around?
Exploring the Space of All Possible Programs
you can vote ‘no’ on bond measures to have some measure of control over this. make legislators make considered choices during the budgeting process rather than giving them more borrowed money to play with. if a new program is as important as claimed, they’ll find a way to fund it with existing funds.

measures that include an alternative funding source (e.g., new revenue, new taxes, grants, etc) can be considered on their own merits (measure M in SoCal, for example).
Yes, I am kind of simply stating what people imply when they say diversity.

For most people a group of 3 people: one Chinese, one Egyptian, and one Columbian is a culturally more diverse (my definition), than a group of Germans, Austrian, French, Belgians and Dutch...
You point out an important distinction. However,

Melanotan has been reported to cause yawning and sleepiness as a side effect, so I think concern that MelanotAn could interfere with the melatonIn system is certainly plausible.
Wouldn’t it need to be clear that we can’t, before it can be called a fallacy?
Interesting, reminds me of seeing Chris Stolte's presentation on Polaris which was all about schlepping SQL and which would eventually become Tableau
> At some point in history, people stopped worrying

Did they ? Because I keep seeing people around me who want to get into FPGA programming because they aren't getting enough juice from their computers. Sure, if you're making $businessapp you don't care but there is a large segment of people who really really really really want things to go faster, with no limits - content creation, games, finance... hell, I'd sell a rib for a compiler that goes a few times faster :-)
Seems a bit sensationalistic -- proteins with only a few dozen residues have been known for decades. What's the new development, exactly?
> I’m sure someone has already thought of this!

...probably the CIA.
Chicago Teachers Union on Strike
They call it Alexa.
This is—no joke—one of the main reasons why tech companies feed their employees on campus.
AFAIK everyone who has paid the ransom gets their data back. It's a pretty slick operation with decent support after the ransom is paid.
Of course you can throw more servers/caching/database locks, but the advantage of using Elixir & Phoenix is that you can do a lot more with less.

Think how much the code would be simpler and easier to reason about without caching.
Or reducing the numbers of servers you need from 150 to 2 and with better performance [1]

[1] https://www.techworld.com/apps-wearables/how-elixir-helped-b...
I guess you weren't exaggerating: https://www.quora.com/Can-a-code-be-written-to-blow-up-a-com...
Cyclists car ride very closely together quite safely, as all kinds of mass rides show.

That is true to some extent with experienced cyclists following much the same route (which is the situation for most mass rides).

It is not true at all with a diverse variety of cyclist skill and experience while everyone is trying to get to different places.

cyclists generally have much better spatial awareness than cars.

Citation very much needed. As someone who has lived in and around a heavily cycling-friendly city for a very long time, I see little evidence to support this. Indeed, I can't remember the last time a motor vehicle randomly pulled out into the road right in front of me or swerved across my normal driving line without warning causing me to take avoiding action, while I'd measure instances of cyclists doing this sort of thing in units of infractions-per-week even infractions-per-day.
what i've found working in tech in financial institutions are just more up front and "ruthless" with the reality that you aren't going to have a cushy 10-year type "career" where your output ebbs and flows between, say, 0-20% (new kid, divorce) or 80-100% (new title, new project). obviously one has to be OK with that coming in, but it was made abundantly clear to me that it's not a lifestyle gig.

getting laid off in a finance job typically comes with severance and an understanding that it's not your fault, necessarily, just that the project didn't meet expectations, or the bank had a bad quarter, or whatever else. it was made clear up front that in exchange, you get to work on very interesting stuff, have long (9hour M-F) but reasonable and well-planned days (no on-call stuff typically), and an understanding that you share in the profits of the institution (typically via bonuses instead of equity a la google at one point), so have incentive to keep working hard.

when compared to startup model that i read about on here a lot (work hella hard then get shafted by equity games), it's honestly refreshing to just get the bottom line up front vs. game playing, loyalty/honor manipulation to work uncompensated, etc.

when compared to what i consider a "normal" office job, where you probably work about 4 solidly productive hours per day over the life of your career, it's just more honest about the value of your labor and that it's sort of ridiculous that we have this charade that knowledge workers are consistently doing 8 hours of deep knowledge work every day they are in front of their computer.
I was unable to find the quote, but someone once said that "We always focus on the negative effects of undefined behavior, but literally anything could happen. It doesn't have to be bad! Let's replace fear with hope."
Isn’t that why whores are awesome? Who is going to frequent whores who won’t do stuff?

Also, what’s so bad about common whores? Whores are people too, I try not to judge people based on their chosen profession.
but inserting objects in your clothing will, also a good performance artist or dancer can do a good job.
Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) Released
Older cities in the northeast US have a lot of transit friendly areas where residents still own a car. You just need to get to your town center to access the public transit system. That can be accomplished by driving if needed. It can also still be less sprawling that way, since the town centers function as transit hubs.

It's not even done particularly well in the NE US, and it still works fairly well compared to the situation in most places.

I don't think improving transit options in cities and maintaining a car-oriented existence in the suburbs are at odds with one another.
re python and scripting, afaik used to be known as "glue languages". not sure how true it is anymore.
> But right now I doubt the fingerprint sensors will go away soon,

The Pixel 4 does not have a fingerprint reader....
My fiance worked for a movie theater in the DC area for a while. Once she found, left on the floor, a packet for an Afghanistan diplomat program put on by the US State department. Big itinerary with lots of names, dates, contact information, not just for the various stops and talks but for the people selected for the program. Nothing classified or obviously sensitive, but I'm sure someone with the interest could run through those contacts and come to a lot of conclusions about the US's foreign policy goals in the region. Or to follow these up-and-coming Afghanistan diplomats around on their trip to the US and maybe grab some blackmail.
Here's a great podcast that goes over what happened. There is a transcript too.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/epis...
I mean, honestly, yeah? I'd rather not my roads focus on being profitable. I'd really prefer the opposite of my police force focusing on being profitable. I'd really start freaking out if my voting system(the actual counting of votes) focused on turning a profit, and probably take to streets if my public schools were trying to profit off my children.

Efficiency, sure, what's inefficient about the USPS? I sent a package over my lunch break today, and my package delivery is 10x better delivered by a USPS mailperson than someone hired by amazon. (A USPS mailperson leaves a package at my door, but I've had packages from amazon thrown into my bushes, or dropped beside the street)
So yes, the bikes would have somewhat more distance between them if they were moving, but that seems fair to me, as the cars would too.

Right. But proportionately, that distance becomes much greater than the size of the vehicles themselves very quickly as speed increases, which makes the comparison based on vehicle size that we see in the photo almost entirely irrelevant in practice.
Shuttleworth sees the Linux desktop living on with Ubuntu 19.10
Early in my programming “career”, when I was about 15/16, I started writing network programs in C. I was fascinated by the idea that one program could send and receive data with another far far away. One particular story was a great lesson for me (I eventually ended up naming my company after it), and also pretty amusing. It’s not about undefined behaviour, but about not properly understanding C strings. If you’re curious, the story is here: https://martinrue.com/zzuy-a-lesson-in-perseverance
The statewide rent cap is significantly above the amount rents have been rising on their own. It also expires after 10 years.

And the cities with the strongest rent control--San Francisco and Los Angeles--are also the cities that have been seeing a boom in ADU construction, even though the dysfunctional rent control policies of those cities apply to a lot of those ADUs. The statewide rent cap isn't likely to be a meaningful impediment to ADU construction. Much more problematic is the cost of constructing the ADU in the first place.
Facing your fears is much easier said than done.

Ben has done it. His experience, and the way he describes them, speaks to me. His first book, the Hard Thing About Hard Things, is therapy for founders. I don't think he's trying to prescribe anything new.

To paraphrase something that stuck with me: "the mechanics of starting a business are easy and can be taught to anyone. the emotions involved are very difficult and it's [Ben's] job at A16Z to help founders deal with them." I really appreciate what Ben is doing.
Hunger Makes Food Tastier
USPS is a really well run service. They need to provide universal service, even to country folk at a loss, handle foreign parcels, etc. Most of their woes are created by a republican congress setting out a path for privatization. (Weather is next)

In terms of the self-reliant rural communities, you’re not factoring the very significant cost that the entire population pays to support your rural lifestyle. As agriculture continues to decline and consolidate, those externalities costs will continue to grow.
A Nun’s 450-Year-Old ‘Last Supper’ Makes Its Museum Debut in Florence
Unblock your app development with Mocklets
The revolution devours its own. Liberal is being taken down by libero-fascists. Funny.

I pause here to mention that you may not agree with this perspective and that is fine. There are many ways that we can continue to work together while this discussion plays out. Part of the purpose of this mail though is to make it clear that there are differences of opinion and
that the GNU project is in flux.

How about, you know, doing GNU things like promoting free software and creating great tools? How about not doing politics and instead behaving professionally? Has everyone forgotten about why GNU is great? Has the OpenSource world devolved into a kindergarten or can we get our shit together and write code again? Seems like all this inclusivity has brought a bunch of immature people into positions of power.
yes, economically, both prop 13 and rent control should go away, but they can only go away together, otherwise it’s unfair one way or the other.
It is very rare that I upvote two comments that seem to be in opposition to each other. In this case, I think it's warranted because you're both likely correct.

In your favour, the strategy was successful and they grew to $5k MRR in four months with estimates suggesting they'll hit $100k in recurring annual revenue by the end of the year. It worked so it's hard to criticize it.

But, what if it hadn't, or what if the founders were in a different situation where they had a bigger team? Last minute "we have to do this now" decisions are often wrong. When they're not, they often result in some really ugly code that will be tough to maintain. Further, they can be hard on morale.

Chances are that the founders had this type of conversation and talked about the risks while they were brainstorming. It almost sounds like they had debated this in the past. Those kinds of debates are very valuable and I think that founders need to talk about how a new feature can go bad.
>It demonstrates that consumer tech companies (with possible exception of Apple) don't really have the expertise

I suspect Samsung can muster a fair bit of expertise if they feel the need. We're not exactly talking about a fly-by-night tech startup here...
Yang is also fairly pro-blockchain. One of the key innovations of blockchains is being able to encode data as a property right and enforce it through software, moving the cost of compliance from the legal system (expensive) to the CPU (cheap).
> In fact there are already articles showing how the unlock feature works while you’re asleep

Hah, this was the first thing I tested with Face ID when I got my iphone 10. If you look at it with your eyes closed then it won't unlock. Open your eyes and it instantly unlocks. It spent about five minutes playing peek-a-boo with it.
Gitlab Makes a U-Turn
I've often heard (and like) the suggestion that this annual payment be due the week before Election Day.
Disney's “Up” house created in real life and flown for National Geographic show
The lowest price on Adobe's page is $52.99 per month for an individual user. The $33.99/month cost is for a single application under the Teams pricing. The Teams version of all applications is $79.99 per month.

Only student discounts go below $20, and that's only for the first year ($29.99 thereafter). You have to register with an .edu email address or send in a copy of your student ID to be eligible for that discount.
This is really great, as Swift’s error messages aren’t great when working with anything moderately complex. SwiftUI in particular seemed to stretch the abilities of the type system to the breaking point, and I’m glad to see that work is being done to improve error messages there instead of failing with mystifying reasons when people make reasonable mistakes.
The problem with the teacher pay to me is obvious, market forces aren't allowed to play themselves out.

Think about it: A teacher should be paid according to their skill, supply, and demand. A great teachers time is highly valuable and there should never be a cap on how much they make or considerations on such an important task to hinder on concepts such as tenure.

If I hire a private teacher for my kids to teach them programming, I know that a great teacher has options to go work anywhere and I need to pay enough to afford a good one. I might get a couple friends kids to join to afford his time. Put together a few different subjects and all of the sudden you have a school.

So the question is why is this simple concept not being followed? The answer is lack of accountability, artificial barriers to entry, limitations on control to pick your instructors, standardized testing requirements, checkbox mentality, teachers unions, etc.

I think Steve Jobs was right in this regard, if we're going to continue to coerce money out of peoples paychecks to fund a dilapidated educational system, we are much better off giving the money we spend on a kids education directly to the parents (with the obligation to spend it only on education), and letting them select the course of education for their own kids themselves.

As for these "unions" its not so much that they care about the kids as they care about themselves. They just use the kids as leverage to get subsidies.
Have you seen rpgcodex.net?
I won't use an image that I can't see the dockerfile for, even just to try it. If the image isn't an official image I usually download the repo and build it.
None I know.
Compiler errors in SwiftUI have been especially unhelpful. Is this something that this effort is intended to improve?
Trails in Slovakia are time-based. It is very useful in high mountains, when one kilometer in distance might take several hours to walk/climb.
heh you were downvoted for that. Apparently someone approves of

* An employer training their employees to kill themselves.

* A line of work where employees may have to kill themselves.

* Dying for the US government (more like actually the interests of the elites) and the "greater good".

How is that different from the indoctrination of suicide bombers?

Before someone retorts with "because they kill innocent civilians", do you think the CIA etc never does that?
Given that people report this works with a protector added AFTER registering the print...I'd love to see how Samsung reckons they can fix this with software. Because that sounds very much like a physical issue
This is also possible with Touch ID on iOS devices—one of my friends enrolled his nose and five toes. You can put multiple fingers or toes in one “finger” slot if you lift and set down different digits instead of the same one, albeit less accurately.
If you've carried an Android at all, you've already had a listening device in your home for years. This device also has a ton more sensors and data it collects off you than a smart speaker could.
Why no streaming company will be able to dethrone Netflix
Pangeanic Consortium Wins NTEU Project for EC Connecting Europe Facility
Deploy OpenFaaS Cloud for Development
> indicate that defensive uses of guns by crime victims are far more common than offensive uses by criminals

That's literally the worst case scenario. Victims escalating the violence.
This is misleading. The USPS has an operating budget of about $70 Billion dollars per year, and loses about $150 million per year as a result of lopsided "terminal dues" under the UPU. So about .2%, and not all of this is due to China. While there is legitimate fear that this loss will continue to increase, relative to their budget it is not "a massive amount of money". This link has more complete numbers: https://www.lawfareblog.com/withdrawal-universal-postal-unio....
fsvo "proof", i'm willing to take it as an axiom that biological systems are fractally weird in ways that are extremely resistant to formalism.
Generally, if you offer your services in a country, you have to abide by the laws of that country.
You appear to have missed where RMS was supposed to have appointed a new co-maintainer without asking anyone in the current team, therefore asserting ownership of a project he was uninvolved with in what appears to a spiteful reason related to his speaking out against RMS. It's in the bottom of the message. It's weird that your response is to threaten to avoid something you've never known about before. Unless you were active in the GNU community already you wouldn't have had reason to use it, so you've not created GNU extensions, were unaware of the language and the threat you're making is that you'll avoid it.

Regardless of whether the statements are accurate, I'll hold judgement until hearing the other side though it does seem odd. I'd be curious what the prospective co-maintainer wants since he quit prior without resolving issues.
I mean, I was a grad student without much money in L.A. for over a year and quite enjoyed my time there. I don't see the "dystopia" at all, but to each their own.