skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure it is really as basic and obvious as you imply. The comparison between the "reversibility" of laser speakers/microphones and the reversibility of normal speakers/microphones is a bit off, in my opinion. For starters, laser microphones do not use the photoacoustic effect[1] that the device described relies upon. Whereas the reversibility of normal speakers/microphones is because both devices use the same physical process. That it's possible to build a microphone using lasers and to build a long-range sound generating device using a laser doesn't imply it's obvious (or even possible) to do so for any given audio production or recording technique. E.g., if I can generate audio using a flickering lightbulb, it is not clear that a flickering lightbulb can be used as a microphone.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoacoustic_effect
Deafblind person here. Braille isn't a nice to have for me. It's a must-have. We Deafblind are certainly a rare species , and unfortunately, usually forgotten. I learned Braille "later" in life when my sight nosedived at age 27. Best decision I've ever made.

A few thoughts about the low Braille literacy levels. First of all, most visually impaired children are not completely blind, and this is especially true with progressive eye conditions such as retinitis pigmentosa (which I have as part of Usher syndrome, which presents with hearing and viision losses). Magnification and color technology has enabled people who can't read 12-point fonts to read now. For instance, I'm close to completely blind in one eye, and have somethign like 20/300 in the other ... and I can use built-in features to zoom in/invert colors to read visually. So, "visually impaired" =/= completely blind.

Also, you must use Braille every day to develop neural pathways to process it quickly. It only took me 2 weeks to learn the code. It took me much, much longer to internalize it--to the point when I can jsut put my fingers on it and get it. For people who can still see, especially if they see enough to benefit handsomely form magnification technology, it's hard to feel motivated.

There are a lot of other issues that I won't get into. But what I can say is that blind people can get away without learnign Braille, sure, but they won't be able to excel at certain things.

For instance, Braille is still the only thing that gives blind people a spatial appreciation for language. Language is more than words. It comes in paragraphs, has puncuation, et cetera. If a blind person wnats to truly master their language, they must learn Braille. They can get buy without it, sure, but ... they won't excel at it.

On the pratical side, you need to know braille to label things. This is why I advocate for at least a functional knowledge of Braille. If you have a labeler, you can label wine bottles and cans that feel identical. This is where audio-only approach fails.

There's a lot more I could say on the topic, but I'll stop here. Just putting this out there: I wish people would stop sayign that text-to-speech technology has obviated Braille. There are Deafblind people out ther, too, and Braille will always have a place for those who want to excel at writing and reading.
>If it goes on too long, Robinhood becomes insolvent because they absorb the losses but pass the winnings on to their customers.

Companies rarely absorb losses due to "abuse" by their users. Even when it is entirely the fault of the corp. I'm sure they have small print somewhere that absolves them of all responsibility for trades that do not meet some arbitrary guidelines.

It would likely require a class action lawsuit by the users, and get dragged out for years. They have more to worry about from the SEC on this then paying their users, if history is a predictor for this.
I also don't have friends or many subscriptions on YouTube, but the videos I can find on it are amazing, and that's due to their network effect as well. It drives me to search for stuff on YouTube before other places.
“We need to democratize security” – How Semmle is improving open source security
Good point. Generally, most people should not be trading derivatives.

I was pointing out millenials in particular because it's the population targeted by those startups, whose business models is more or less implicitly: millenials have no clue about money and finance. Which is true, but also unethical.
How to elevate your company using narrative
We don't, this is using a private API.
T-Mobile says it owns exclusive rights to the color magenta
A refund for anyone affected and asks for one. At $100/mo, 60 million dollars translates to 25,000 pay periods. AT&T has 25 million subscribers. I think its fair to say they got away with lying here.
I really dislike this kind of reasoning. Saying this is "highly rational" is saying the only value is money. Everything else can be set aside if it leads to more money. Even if people get hurt or worse using shoddy equipment. There is no place for empathy, at a sociopathic level. I'd think that a few millennia of civilization would give more value to notions of altruism, honesty, not constantly trying to scam your fellow man.
We're looking into improving the disconnect/reconnect flow! Hopefully will have some progress on that soon.
Not a black market, but here you go - https://www.inhousepharmacy.vu/p-1614-rifakem-400.aspx
it's alright. could be better, could be worse, but thanks for asking!

I'm currently physically not well, I have the symptoms of hypopituidarism with all the hormonal imbalance issues and it's taken a mental toll. waiting to get my brains scanned.

I'm burnt out, not because of my work but my physical health makes my work mentally too hard and tiring for me.

So, I'm gonna quit after taking a longer sick leave. I made up my mind a few months ago and I've just tried to finish in up my loose ends at work, but haven't disclosed any of my issues to anyone at work yet. it's a bit shitty thing to do, but I'm awkward and I'd feel bad if I knew I'd have to go back there for a month after handing in my resignation.

So, there's that basically.
ShareDrop author here.

It's really great that people are still using it, after almost 6 years since the release! It was first announced here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7468328. Fun fact: on the same day Facebook announced Oculus acquisition ;)

Also, sorry that the service was down for some of you yesterday - it's using a free Firebase account that has a limit of 100 connections - usually it's enough.
I can't enter "+" on my US QUERTY keyboard. It is shift-equals, but both the shifted and unshifted show up as plain old equals in the emulator.
DO has some decent tech support. I would try to contact them and see if they could accept the card.
Enough to keep your manufacturer from doing something stupid.

Designing the walking stick is simply the start. The problem is that you specified some really expensive materials with exotic manufacturing requirements that your supplier probably doesn't understand unless they are in aerospace.

Of course, aerospace manufacturers are ferociously expensive, and your customer can't really tell the difference if you are 1 or 2% less effective, but they can tell if you are 10% cheaper, so you start downgrading your manufacturing.

And then the problems start. The new manufacturer probably doesn't understand exotic materials as well, or they would be an aerospace supplier charging you more money. So, maybe they don't apply a cross layer, maybe they change the binding agent, maybe they use a cheaper material.

How do you, as the manufacturer, know?

You would have to put people on quality assurance analysis, but those are valuable engineers.

For a product that is $200. Max. For a company that has a revenue of roughly $100 million a year and basically no profit.

So, go find a company that charges $500-$1000 for your sticks and creates an actually good product, or suck it up and buy the Chinese crap.
Cheating is so bad in freemium games, I playing warthunder and getting shot across the map with forests on both sides of a city. Instant replay shows the cheating. Looked on the forums and people talked about the flux of aimbots.

Its amazing its almost 2020, and still aimbots/wallhacks in games.
What features make a private website a public square?

I often wonder: Would people feel differently if platforms were honest and direct about being a private club of some specific kind? If Twitter came out and said they wanted to be a private club for people with progressive views to discuss politics and sundry, would that dampen the criticism of censorship?
Just decriminalize it already. Tax it, inspect for quality and offer tax-free mandated psychiatric and clinical checkups every six to eighteen months (paid for by taxes and imports) and start busting dealers and suppliers for tax evasion; not possession or intent to distribute. 50% to 90% user rate drop, far less overdoses and overall huge tax increases.
"50 hour work week" Is that a typo?
This is exactly what I have been trying to say, intention matters, and yes you're right about being well put together

Unfortunately day after day for a year say, it becomes quite apparent that some people dress without intention, intentionally and that hurts morale
Although a tangent, its impossible to read this and not ask:

Why aren't all the big tech companies generating revenue from customer data...customer owned?
Then what about when the scammers copy that page format? Having it appear outside the viewport (how it is on Chrome) can help prevent that
Do you use the internet? GPS? Where do you think those technologies come from?
The issue here is mostly with the countries in extreme poverty. Countries with average fertility rate of 3 and higher. Women in countries with the highest fertility index often do not control when they get pregnant. Having 6 and more children is rarely effect of conscious family planning. It's effect of lack of education, lack of access to contraception, forced sex in marriage etc. Sometimes having many children is an insurance policy in case some children will die before they reach productive age. We really should be addressing this type of issues underlying uncontrolled population growth. People should be able to choose when they want to have children, how many children they want, they should be educated on how to provide for their children, and certainly people should not be afraid that some part of their offspring will die. It has nothing to do with penalizing having children like they did in China.

I really recommend, "DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population". He shows how family planning looks like in practice in countries like Bangladesh, so that westerners can imagine what are we talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FACK2knC08E

Dealing with global warming is going bad and we should panic about that, but humanity is making great progress on controlling population growth.

There is really no issue with you having 3 children. Western population will be declining anyway as fertility rate in western countries is mostly below 2.

Just please, support political, systematical change in your country emission policy.
At least they're trying!
There is a black market for prescription drugs like everything else. Grey market really since it is a legal drug. I've used the grey market with success but ymmv.
if it isn't schedule i, you can usually get it online from india relatively easily
I've always wondered if I could spend a weekend with some neural nets, do some light editing, and try to corner the market on some of the more obscure Amazon ebook categories (e.g. Sasquatch Erotica)

It seems like this model would be more than adequate. Other than some basic human anatomy mistakes (e.g. breasts are typically above the waist), it generates some surprisingly explicit stuff (which I've mostly elided) even with my misspelling of "caressed".

He slowly carresed her shuddering body back to her body. Her lips were wet and slick. Her breathing slowed and she began to shudder as a hand came down on her breasts. She shivered as it moved between her breasts gently. "Don't worry, I'm here. I'll let her go for you." He stroked down her body slowly as he stroked down her back. "Come here, my beautiful." He took a step down and began to push his body down into her. He gently pulled her closer against himself and held his breath as his hands came down from her waist to her breasts as his mouth came down to her p...
I'd like to see them make their customers whole by forcing them to refund the monthly payment for every month that a customer with an "unlimited" plan was capped or throttled.
There's also LBRY[1] where apparently many YouTubers moved to[2].

For reverse image search, there's TinEye[3], which had it before Google.

[1] https://lbry.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20347870

[3] https://tineye.com/
Socionext Breaks New Ground in Real-Time AV1 Encoding with AWS
In fact, above a certain size there is basically no benefit to society in allowing companies to acquire other companies. Mergers and acquisitions by extremely large organizations should simply not be permitted, unless they can demonstrate a clear benefit to the public good (with a very high burden of proof).

Doing that without first breaking up these giants would be a disaster, though.
People today have very good rational and reasonable reasons to feel like shit. The corporate or 'world' value system is at odds with what we viscerally understand being compatible with any sort of quality future. We are angry and frustrated because we have every fucking reason to be so.

So what now?

* You acknowledge that most stress comes from value system miss-alignment and its implications.
* You start or continue doing whatever you can to get the real issues fixed.
* You need to come to a place where you are able to survive today
* Exercise
* Read Kafka
* Read the meditations of Marcus Aurelius
* Find a friend https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3CBOpT2-NRvoc2ecFMDCsA
Where exactly do you think the money is going to come from? These people are taking $2k and making trades that are losing $500k. They never had $500k. Robinhood is still out of that money, regardless of their guilt or whether they are convicted/sued/etc. There is no money to chase after. That's why this sort of thing is so insane.
While I can see the argument for decriminalisation of most drugs, I can't believe something like fentanyl should ever be. Just like you can't legally buy cyanide without a permit - it's just too dangerous to allow free market distribution.
Tipped off by an NSA breach, researchers discover new APT hacking group
I couldn't see a reason for React to be used in this visualization either. It's been awhile since I've used D3 but I thought it could do this kind of rendering on its own?

<svg
width={width}
height={height}
>
{geoJson.features.map(feature =>
<path
key={`path-${feature.properties.bfsId}`}
stroke='white'
strokeWidth={0.25}
d={path(feature)}
fill='steelblue'
/>
)}
</svg>

I was thinking maybe React was also used with this visualization in production (e.g. adding interactive elements for a published story), and so maybe the author found it easy to use React for the rendering too?
Yes. Get the hell out as soon as you can! I made a change a few weeks ago after going through a milder version of what you're experiencing. I took a pay cut but I am so, so much happier.

I don't dread waking up anymore. I like being alive again. I haven't complained to my wife even once since I left my last job. The guilt of piling my work problems on my wife was getting big, but I needed so badly to confide in someone about it.

Good luck! You can do it!!
Is there any way to verify that that's what they're actually doing?
The simple answer is A+, Network+ then Security+. The more advanced ones are nice, but become more difficult.

I am sorry to hear your degree is not providing what you expected. The problem is the CIS degree is very heavily subscribed.
Well, sometimes you still have to enforce it. The trick is you don't have to be a jerk about it:

https://mashable.com/2012/07/22/jack-daniels-trademark-lette...

The problem is that "backcountry" is a generic term and trying to enforce otherwise is simple an act of corporate assholery.
"A nation is born stoic and dies epicurean" – Will Durant, http://bit.do/stoicepicurean

A more popular corollary is

"Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times."
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And just like the black market for cocaine, what you get in that pill or powder could literally be anything, and there’s no guarantee of consistency between orders.

I believe this is more of the overall point being made in a lot of the comments here - that obviously decriminalization would allow for quality control.
For those who don't know what Ogre is like I didn't "OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) is a scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine written in C++ designed to make it easier and more intuitive for developers to produce applications utilising hardware-accelerated 3D graphics. The class library abstracts all the details of using the underlying system libraries like Direct3D and OpenGL and provides an interface based on world objects and other intuitive classes."
I used to coned (nyc + west Chester) and they have a robust “you messed up and we are taking over plan”. How do they not the same? They used to dangle that over our heads anytime anything happened (our fault or not)
> I had the luxury of starting from an empty buffer

Let's assume that I'm willing to flush the cache. Are there and C++17 learning resources that you might recommend? My day-to-day languages are Python and scripting languages.
Alibaba...

A few years back, I was prescribed a anti cancer, prescription drug that costs $4k per box. (5mg per day, 28day day supply).

I went on Ali, and ordered 5lbs of the drug for $100 usd including shipping.
We can dream...
Expanding now I've got more time:
Obviously, thinking about having a mental health issue is itself likely to make you more anxious. Butat least some (all?) anxiety disorders are theorised to be runaway feedback loops. For example, social anxiety : worrying about some minor stumble occupies part of your brain and makes it harder to pay the attention necessary for good social interactions, and bad (or just indifferent) interactions make one more anxious, closing the loop. In this situation, paying attention to the anxiety is maladaptive.

Hopefully someone more qualified than me will correct this/ let us know how widely applicable it is.
Same reason most businesses that are generating wealth from employees are not employee owned?
Some people will make anything an opportunity to say "orange man bad". Here's some other history:

* (2014) Verizon settles an overbilling case for $64MM, of which only $36MM went to payouts. [0]

* (2015) Verizon settles a robocalling class action for only $4MM. [1]

* (2009) Sprint settles an ETF class action for only $17.5MM [2]

* (2015) Sprint pays only $131MM to settle a lawsuit about their bungled $36 BILLION merger with Nextel [3]

This has far less to do with "this administration" and far more to do with how business is run in America. I'm not saying it's right, not at all, but I do want to point out that buying into this partisan nonsense distracts us (voters) from actually changing the system meaningfully (where "meaningful" is creating an environment where this doesn't happen).

[0] https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/closed-settl...

[1] And more... https://moneyinc.com/10-verizon-lawsuits-you-should-know-abo...

[2] https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/sprint-settling-clas...

[3] https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/sprint-pays-131m-to-...
> if you want to run Office and Lightroom, run typical python data science code, what else is there? A colleague tried the Windows Linux system and it kind of works but not well enough for what we're doing

Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch

The answer to Office/Adobe/gaming is simply don't do it, get someone else to do it, or get a different job. Your time is better spent on stuff like python data science, which Linux supports better than anything else out there.

If you must, run Windows 10 in a VM. If you're doing heavy duty video editing or Photoshop, get a second GPU just for the Windows 10 VM[1].

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM...
> Next time a centrist brings up unity in the face of criticism, let’s be careful to remember that word is nothing more than a distraction. They don’t mean any of it, unless it protects their own self serving, corrupt interests.

The article may have a point that centrists mean "unity on our terms". But when the, ah, "non-centrist" calls the centrists corrupt, well, the centrists might have difficulty finding unity with the non-centrists on the non-centrists' terms...
Gold can't exactly get more or less valuable over time. It is a rock. We have no practical uses for it.

My impulse to point out that it's a very useful metal is tempered by my surprise that only 10% of gold production goes to applications where gold does something other than look golden or just exist as a physical store of value. It seems a little silly. Gold mining is quite destructive; environmentalists should fly around the world, giving speeches on the worthlessness of gold, but where's the glamor in that?
Not a typo, although this is quite specific to LA where people commute for extended periods (we have employees doing 90 minute commute in each direction).

We don't count hours of any employees, but as a guidance, we start day at 10:30am and want people to be gone before 7pm.
Personally, I'd take central banks heading back to the gold standard as a massive signal that things were about to get worse, not better. It'd be like having your oncologist suggest enrollment in a phase-one study - they aren't doing that because the outlook of a patient in a phase-one study is good, but because the alternative is worse, and now they're reduced to trying for a hail mary.
For this code:

const x = [1,2];
const y = x[666];
const z = y + 3;

Is there a way for TypeScript to flag the last line as a type error?

TypeScript will say "y" has type "number" when "x[666]" returns undefined. Why does TypeScript not say the type of "y" is "number | undefined"?