skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I admit working is a poor term. Perhaps framing it as "working for me" or "least scary for me" is more honest.

I'm more afraid of direct democracy than anything. I basically think I'll be dead within a few months of that emerging. Authoritarianism is my next greatest fear.
I disagree with the author (and also with the FSF).

To me main purpose of "free" software isn't to bring prosperity (to developers, but also anyone else for that matter), but freedom to its users. Which means no undue obligations.

What's the point of using "free" software if I have to read the freaking license, count how many days it's been since some coworker installed some "free" software or spend money (legal, web site, internal reviews) in order to comply?

Not only do I dislike these fake free software licenses, I also prefer to not contribute to any harassmentware (stuff licensed under GPLv3 and such) because it sometimes restricts users' freedom in ways more restrictive than closed source software, and it is always more restrictive than permissive libra software.
I have a pair of cheap (£30), Chinese Bose knock-offs. In terms of performance they're pretty much indistinguishable from a pair of genuine Bose I tried, but to my tastes not quite as good as a pair of recent Sonys. I strongly suspect that they're almost identical internally to Bose.

Mine are unbranded, but search for "JH-ANC804" and you'll find them.
I was in that boat for a while, but it's been rocky recently at a few airports that I fly in and out of as the number of Pre users have gone up and airports have toyed with the idea of Pre only lines (which sometimes are far from where you actually want to be). I think it's coming back to normal, but there have been several times over the last year where I've considered using the regular line for the same of time.
I have many questions,

1. Are any of these TBM considered state of art? I dont see any tech inside those TBM that could not be done 10 years ago other than the cost of the machine. We are entering new Space Race era and yet some fundamental stuff still looks very, should I say "traditional".

2. Why cant we build even bigger TBM? Like Double the current diameter. Or Bigger TBM that are Rectangular rather than Circle.

3. The biggest problem with TBM is that they are slow. Even if we had made them 10 times faster I would still consider them very slow. Surely there could be technology that improve on it?

4. Are there any reason why we dont use TBM for small pipes, ( like for electricity or fibre optics, )
I've done this all throughout my life. From exploring abandoned buildings & sites to going into "restricted against lowlifes" areas, it's amazing the cool stuff you can see!

I've camped in ghost towns in Oregon. I've visited uncleared temples in Cambodia, covered in underbrush deep in the jungle. I've been in abandoned factories & hospitals, crashed a few gala affairs, visited beautiful beaches... you name it!

And now, living in the former DDR (East Germany), there are so many abandoned places that you can visit a new one every weekend :)
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No, they are not true holograms in the interference pattern sense. I am not fond of the misappropriation of the word, but Looking Glass is hardly the first.

I had hoped plenogram would catch on (to make the connection to the plenoptic function that describes the travel of light in a scene).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_lens
The government doesn't own the rail, it does own the roads.
I would hope that we can do better than that. Both Nix and Dhall are designed for readability in the limited niche of configuration management, and their authors considered that design choice to be important enough on its own to merit a new language. Dhall is explicitly not Turing-complete.
" 3 trillion passenger miles "

But many of those miles were necessitated by the astoundingly large footprint cities and towns have when they're built to accommodate highways.
Makes no sense. You can’t evacuate a full city on cars. It would get clogged all the way. You would want to use the entire bus system. Don’t know why you say it’s not viable, you can scale up passenger/meters much more with buses.
This is nothing more than an extension of technology enabling both good actors and bad actors. I refuse to penalize/water-down technology solutions available to good actors because there are a handful of bad actors that make some of us clutch our pearls.
You're getting downvoted but you're not wrong. That's what I would have done.
Biometric authentication is tied to the Secure Enclave as well. There’s no technical reason that Apple couldn’t provide APIs to access it like they have for other sensitive operations.
> reconfigured

From what? Riding horses cross country?
Aren't those two things essentially identical, at least as far as the resulting wavefront goes?
Airbnb signs Olympics deal up to 2028
yes. did he publish lies?
While old version of FMA website[0] (where Royalty-Free music could be downloaded without registration) still active, seems like soon it would be fully unavailable.

[0] https://www.freemusicarchive.org/static
> This doesn't have to be so. Some users have genuine reasons to require...

Indeed. Organisations cause them all sorts of problems by not allowing exceptions to the rules.
Obviously, the added value in the manufacturing process.
If I’m understanding this right, Intel looks at your web browsing to optimize their drivers? Why would you ever willfully share this information with Intel?
Yeah, life is risk. Whatever you do, something terrible might happen. You could have a random brain aneurysm just sitting on the couch. At some point you have to take a risk and do something or what's even the point of being alive?
As others have said, follow your passion - whether that’s games, Web apps/sites, productivity software, or something else. Choose very small projects.

If you want a specific direction… work through this short, free ebook. It will be useful no matter what you do: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Non-Programmer%27s_Tutorial_fo...
If the project managers were able to understand code it would go a long way to helping shed light on 'real progress'
Very true, though "another form of transport" includes bikes, which you can bring on the train.

Then again, it's basically legal to use your car to kill cyclists in the states, especially in socal, which is why I gave it up.
No, the implication is that humans are perfectly comfortable with way more than 1m/s^2, particularly if it is linear and you are comfortably seated.
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No, I’m saying the WSJ is trash.

I couldn’t care less about Google’s choices. They’re a private company not a public utility.

In any case, the algorithms Google uses have always been biased. That’s the whole point of returning anything resembling “relevant” search results.
I get that data collection has become a contentious issue and I'm a vocal opponent of this trend, but this seems rather harmless, no?

It's an offer to purely voluntarily provide telemetry on non-personal data, no strings attached.
Transportion is no more a multplier than any other economic resource. Every single economic resource generates positive externalities, and benefits to the direct consumer that can incentivize payments for consumption of the economic resource.

The only reason we provide transportation through public funding is that it enables us to overcome the problems that arise from private capture of natural monopolies.
People are working, but the laws of physics and geometry limit what they can come up with.
Wow, you are right! I'm reading the reviews of the Airpod Pro vs QC 35 for noise cancelling and the pros look like they are able to match the tried and tested Bose and Sony headphones. I think I will wait for gen 2 before I splurge. 5 hours of battery life isn't even enough to get through the work day.
Sssh, you can't argument with some logic here, you need to think about your kids first and foremost! And if you don't shelve out top dollars for anything/everything for them, then you are of course a bad parent and despicable human being.

It might read as a sarcasm, but I've seen way too many mums (dads much less) that have mindset somewhere along those lines. Something about over-compensating otherwise non-ideal parenting approach to be polite.
> The article quotes a Unicef report that I can't find a good source for,

And what does this Unicef report say?

> and the Phillipines being problematic in this respect is something that is not exactly a secret

Terms like "problematic" are excellent for persuasion, as they exclude any quantitative component as they invoke fear.

> I'm sure if you dig around a bit you'll find lots of corroboration for that datum.

Like the fear mongering article you linked?

Look, I'm not advocating for the abuse of children, but when I'm being encouraged to worry about something, I prefer the warnings to have some basis in fact.
It's also the name of a game studio with a number of neat titles, some rock band, and perhaps most importantly, sequel to Alice in wonderland: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

All of which were probably referring to the same concept: viewing the other side of reality
https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/banking/wire-transfers-what-...
There really isn't any low cost option for wire transfers in the US. ACH is the free transfer option, and it takes 1-3 days. Wire transfers are the "pay a lot for immediate confirmation" option just for the very few transfers it's worth it on. The average person is unlikely to ever make or receive a wire transfer. There are consumer-level alternatives for personal transfers like Venmo: https://venmo.com/about/product/
Clonal expansion of hematopoietic precursors is something that we see generally as people age [1]. Rather than positing a beneficial role for clonal expansion of cytotoxic T cells, my null hypothesis would be that this clonal expansion is simply another marker of aging.

1 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonal_hematopoiesis
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That only works in suburban sprawl. You cannot walk anywhere because you need your own personal car to cover the distance. If you like that model fine, but many people like the benefits of living close to where they are going.
The new thing is big portable, backpack format speakers, which give off quite some sound: https://www.soundboks.com/

People just set up in the park or on a street and start blasting club volume music. It's getting harder to not be the grumpy old guy.
The QC-35 ii product is a regression. I use both all day. Changing pairs when the battery dies. Bluetooth range is about half as good as original QC-35. When I go in/out of range there is a ~5 second audio delay until power cycle the headphones. I have to frequently re-pair bluetooth. It tries to intelligently switch between my phone and laptop but this doesn’t work at all.

I hope the next gen is better.
Most states have too many roads and not enough money to even pay for the ones they have. Another second over negative effect of roads is that people will build wherever there are decent roads to get there. In order to preserve natural areas, the best way to do so is to just make sure there are no good ways to get there.
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> Erlang is Smalltalk done right

I disagree ...

In the Erlang model the messages are no longer just function calls with single dispatch. Imagine for example that method calls on String values would be asynchronous actor messages. That would be absolutely awful.

OOP isn't just about the actor model. OOP is also about encapsulation and polymorphism. In a static language, we're talking about row or subtyping polymorphism, i.e. methods of "ad hoc polymorphism".

And polymorphism and encapsulation transcend the actor model. I actually really hate the actor model, because asynchrony makes everything harder and actors are too low level, whereas OOP in general is passable as a paradigm in the right context.
I have an Anker Soundcore over-ears set that works pretty well, maybe not as good as other sets that cost three times as much, but for the money I'm very happy (they also sound good). They were some 90 euros.
Why does Intel need this information at all?
It’s okay to lose confidence in your previous research
They could remove the "website categories" bit and it wouldn't sound as sketchy to be honest. At least it's voluntary.
This one lacks windows because it was built to withstand a nuclear war.

“But it’s downtown” you say. “No way it would withstand a direct hit.”

Rumor I heard is that they thought for sure they would have SDI protecting Manhattan, and this is only supposed to survive a hit on Queens or Newark or something.

Crazy!
he s dangerous to the world and needs to be locked up because reasons until trump is out of office. That's what people are supposed to think.
Isn't that just planned obsolescence? Isn't the EU very much opposed to that kind of business strategy? Shouldn't there be some law in the EU prohibiting that?

I mean, I wouldn't force the manufacturers to keep supporting the hardware after a decade, but shouldn't there be a law compelling them to open source the drivers and firmware upon end-of-life? If a product reaches end-of-life, surely the manufacturer already has a demonstrably better, upgraded version of the product to attract new sales?
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For those yearning for another Fallout, I heartily recommend Atom RPG [0]. It's not perfect (for example the combat was pretty unbalanced when I played it), but at its best it's the Fallout 3 that never was. Haven't played it lately, but it even got an isometric mode in a free update which have been plentiful!

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/552620/ATOM_RPG_Postapoca...
Analysis [..] casts doubt on the credibility of China’s organ transplant reform
This has been my frustration in Ontario trying to use VIA for family trips. Once you have two adults and a couple kids, the train is significantly more expensive than just driving, and only faster than the absolute worst case traffic conditions.

It's even worse for long-haul. I have family along the Canadian route (Toronto -> Vancouver), and taking the overnight sleeper train out there is about 4x the cost of flying.
Agree completely.

I used to frequent cannabis cafés in London (yes, they exist). Most were run by North African gangs who sold Moroccan hash. THC percentage isn't a thing in the black market, but it was easy enough to smoke throughout the night and still be functional. My experience with those cafés is nothing like the one in this article: it was actually enjoyable.

Most people who drink socially don't drink everclear. They drink beer, wine, or spirits with mixers. Cannabis seems to be the reverse of that nowadays.
afaik it is a request for opt-in collecting metrics, while still trying to respect your privacy (as much as possible in this use-case).

I won't do that, but if someone agrees I don't see any ethical issue with it.

Is there anything I'm missing?
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Yes, c is pronounced as ‘j’ in ‘jacket’.
Not sure everyone blaring his own music is a good thing. Doubly true in the era where lots of music has cusses and otherwise age-inappropriate content; I can't imagine people with little kids appreciate it. Besides, it's just rude for one to force his personal tastes on another. Headphones are cheap; no one likes the guy blaring tacky rap music and forcing everyone else to hear it.
Customers don't comply 100% with a safety recall. This reduced manufacturer liability by reducing the lingering.
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Well, they state it in the link:

> Intel uses information about your computer's performance to make product improvements that may benefit you in the future.

I'm sure you'll feel better knowing this. /s
To be fair, there are a lot of NSA sites. This one just looks impressive.
It depends on maintainers though. We now kick devices out of coreboot where we suspect that the code wouldn't even boot anymore and there's nobody able to prove otherwise.

We'd certainly welcome them moving to coreboot. They might even gain a new feature or two, but there's work involved on their part (and the story usually ends at that point).
Sorry about the typo (in my comment below)! I couldn't edit it past the edit horizon. I meant,

> Genuinely curious: who's your customer base?

Anyway, thank you so much for being interested in this product, especially for helping make the space for me to speak about the type of customer, the risks they face, and their reasons for adopting BrowserGap. I really appreciate your time on this!
Honest q: what frequencies do you think these cavities will operate at? Given that current cavities must be made with semiconductor grade single crystals already, why will the loss go down so much?
Elon's tunnels don't solve anything. His cars are so large that the amount of people a tunnel can move is small. We can add more tunnels, but it isn't cheap, and geometry means we can't add enough - there is only so much space below us and you need to keep tunnels apart.
My Surface Book 2 with a GTX 1060 can’t drive two 4K monitors at 60Hz using the Surface Dock 2 unless you purchase DisplayLink adapters. That laptop retails for $3,200 in that configuration before taxes and the Surface Dock itself. Fortunately, it’s a corporate device so I can’t complain. Had it have been a personal purchase it would have found its way back to the store.
But old stuff tends to be adorably small compared to new stuff. I doubt the sum total of intel’s legacy firmware update collection exceeds the capacity of a ten year old piece of spinning rust.
Surely Intel’s engineers can browse the web themselves to find out what kinds of websites and JavaScript exists and use that knowledge to optimize their microcode or whatever.

Or buy a report from one of the hundreds of companies doing this kind of user tracking.

There’s no great reason why they would need to begin collecting data on each of their users.
But they want to look under the lamppost - it's brighter there.
I'll throw https://github.com/AIBluefisher/EGSfM into the discussion as an example for an AFAIK state-of-the-art structure from motion tool. It takes images/video, and reconstructs the relative positioning of the individual images/frames to each other, as well as the camera parameters required for multi-view stereo techniques like https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.10929 to generate meshes.
You know what else protects criminals? Walls. Seriously, wouldn't it all be much easier if the police could just look into your home from the outside without those pesky walls around it?

This constant war on encryption is getting so absurd lately. The kind of people who are pushing this should just be fired if not thrown into prison. It's just a blatant attack against human rights and the public should finally start viewing it as such.
I have never owned those, but generally I think sennheiser makes the best quality headphones on the market
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TBF, I'm fairly certain that only certain types of breads are affected by the speltdown issue
You basically have to listen to any lecture he gives to understand that he has at least a drastically overinflated ego.
Compare that to lectures by people like Witten or any other world-class theoretical physicist / mathematician. The vast majority of them are extremely humble. Seth Loyd and people like Mark Tegmark are the kind of guys that thrive in the current academic environment, flashy ideas with some substance pushed into prestigious journals is a winning strategy.
There is no encryption that is 100% immune. All encryption can have its key guessed, if the key is expressible in bits. This ensures that classical encryption schemes, even post-quantum ones, have a guessability or hardness in terms of the number of bits that must be correctly guessed at once in order to forge credentials.

This reasoning leads to export-grade cryptography, a bane of our praactice that nonetheless was an acceptable compromise for many years. It seems that that era of compromise is coming to an end, though.
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Rejecting a job in Berlin after signing the contract?
I have accepted an offer in Berlin and they sent me the contract to start the visa sponsorship process.

Meanwhile, I'm negotiating with another company with better offer right now, but every step takes a couple of days and Berlin company wants me to sign the contract immediately.

The contract has a clause "This Employment Agreement may not be terminated prior to commencement of employment"

Does anyone know the consequences if I sign and bail a week later ?

The visa appointment in the embassy is 2 months from now anyway but they already assigned a case worker for me and I assume that costs money they may ask for.
Given the needle in a haystack effect? Common sense has proven itself wrong repeatedly
It was "common sense" that merchants had to be frauds because the value of goods was universal and they had transport labor.

Besides just because they can doesn't mean they will. Authoritarians are also infamous for both corruption and finding rooting out dissidents a higher priority than what most would call actual crime. All other things /aren't/ equal.
Why do you assume cross country is the only way to drive? Most driving occurs to and from cities for commute and within cities. You can have cars for "cross country" driving and also eliminate the vastly inefficient "driving" in cities by improving our virtually non existent public transportation(compared to other first world countries) options.

> reconfigured from streetcars and buses and trolleys and trains in cities
Noise and stimulation pollution is a thing. I play brown noise most of the time in my noise cancelling headphones. Love it.
I perfectly support house taxing being super-linear in the size of the house, if this is what you mean, in such a way that a decent house is as affordable as possible for everybody, and those who want very large houses recognize that they have an above-than-average share of a common resource, and therefore contribute to the common needs more than others.

That said, I believe that road space has different rules than housing space, so it is hard to compare them directly.

I am Italian and live in Belgium, in case this gives more strength to my argument. I also have a car and pay European prices for it. Of course, I try to use it as little as possible, which is good.
Reading german words, still don't understand anything...
It's a straw man to pretend that the risk-reward trade-off for every choice is the same. A father with young kids and a stay-at-home wife probably ought not to go skydiving; though driving is a risk, he probably ought to go to work. Men make choices based on potential risks and rewards; the rewards of trespassing are at best intangible, and robben1234 was making the point that the risks can be high.
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Biofuels or fuels made by excess wind/solar seems the way forward. Carbon neutrality should be the immediate goal.

All electric will require lower speeds and probably a hybrid airship airwing design
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I have both the Bose QC-35 ii and the Airpod pros. The Bose have better noise reduction. Plus, if you really want total quiet, you can wear earplugs underneath the Bose.

The Airpod Pros are good but the physical noise isolation isn't that great. The rubber tips in Etymotics are far superior. Even my Jabras had better physical noise isolation than the Airpod Pros.

My friend has the Sony WH1000XM3, so I got to play around with those. They have slightly better noise cancelation than the Bose. However, the Bose are more comfortable to me because they rest around your ear instead of on your ear like the Sony's.
Why on earth would the "category of web sites" be of possible use other than selling the data?

Telemetry is now an attack vector for privacy in general because no one can be trusted with the data.