skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ran through the numbers when my kid started in childcare. It turned out there wasn't really a grand bureaucratic conspiracy. Instead, mainly labor is just really expensive.

When your kids are still infants, at childcare centers, the caretaker:child ratio can get as high as 1:2. Those caretakers gross nearly $30k/year plus benefits & other employer costs such as FICA & Medicare.
Two years later they threatened to revoke your grade?
Yes. You are right. But I think there was a loophole where it could be imported if it’s part of a paste or chili oil mixture. Restaurants were able to procure it but not in the form they liked.

I was approached by a restaurant group to grow it for them and I couldn’t. I suggested Japanese Sansho to which I had access..but it was just one tree..and it wasn’t an acceptable substitute. And then I tried with spilanthes/toothache plant which is an annual. And they didn’t like it either. But the herbalists co op said that they will take it all and so it wasn’t a complete loss for me. And I grew it for a few years.

Sichuan pepper is really an unique taste profile. I would very much like to grow it if possible in the future.
First, that implies there's some sort of authority - legal or otherwise - that determines "socially valuable."

Are literally saying we should live a society without either values or institutions that make judgements about values?

Right now, the justice system, the zoning system and the operations of private foundations, and beyond are engaging in leadership that makes value judgements about what is socially valuable. That is how society has worked historically and the US in earlier times made those judgements more explicit.

Point blank denying this is actually calling for even more social change than the article.
But that story isn't about costs of healthcare - the NHS will treat her for free precisely because the costs are socialised. The social care system will also ramp up rapidly given she's a vulnerable new mother who has now been admitted to the local maternity hospital.
Documentation says there is a client/connection limit on the community edition, how is that enforced? Since you have installed it already, I thought you might have checked that already too.
Marriage, Betrayal, and the Letters Behind “The Dolphin”
Morse code is one of the few signal encodings that can be understood by both humans and computers.
C's "inherent inner workings" appear to rely on the fact that every char array has to be null-terminated.

That then implies at minimum a sanitation of user- and data-input of char array, and maybe an absolute maximum overrun char count protection at execution, but once your default is to keep track of every string length and not the opposite of keeping track of specific strings, I'd kinda agree with above that it's not really "C"... more like your own implementation of a(n overrun-safe) string library?

Inherent to the concept of the char array is that a size value would be redundant, for it is the position of the null-terminator that already contains/is this.

The analogy for the string concept of a char array's missing null-terminator is actually a wrong size value.

I ask myself, why are strings safer?
Bonne chance!
Shia and Ahmadiyya are treated badly, but they are not castes (not yet anyway). All British did was freeze what they saw in place.
Is this an online course?
I hate using the terms capitalist and communist since they are both pretty loaded, but I think in the case of Vietnam and China it does have something to do with their recent Communist or Socialist histories. Property rights are usually seen as the bedrock of a capitalist society for better or worse. Vietnam and China's land is technically still owned "by the people" (aka government) and since both countries have opened they have gradually loosened those rights. Singapore is often seen as an anomaly to people who see things on the capitalist/communist spectrum, but you're right they have rights similar to those seen in China and Vietnam and often cited as a model for those countries to provide more property rights without allowing for a 'Western' model.
The Unicorn Project – Gene Kim's Novel
I feel like there's about 1000 hours of high quality AI lectures available for free on the internet and while I do believe in a certain amount of selflessness in education, I am skeptical that any of that is providing more than a glimpse of what you need to know to be productive at it. In other words, there's a thousand hours of material out there, which probably takes 10000 hours to actually get into so you might as well put all that effort into properly studying it at a university, getting the knowledge not covered in the lectures alone and a degree to prove it in the end.

If you're just "curious" about AI, a really good half hour lecture should get you up to speed.
It's quite fun to read various excerpts from it. Tesla died in 1943 during WWII and there is a lot of tension and paranoia about spies. Mixed with rumors that Tesla's had invented death rays, "teleforce walls", and even a "Tesla Set" radio to communicate with aliens [part 03, pp. 65].

There are insinuations that both the Soviets and the Axis powers were trying to get their hands on Tesla's research, which maybe have very well been true or just paranoia, but it certainly got government's attention.
Cruise ships totally outclass cars as a source of pollutants.

An example from across the pond:

"The results show that the luxury cruise brands owned by Carnival Corporation & PLC emitted in 2017 in European seas alone 10 times more disease-causing sulphur dioxide than all of Europe’s 260+ million passenger vehicles."

https://www.transportenvironment.org/publications/one-corpor...
There's only so much power in society, and when inequality goes up, the power of the affluent rises, while the power of the poor and working class wanes.

This isn't an issue that can be fixed by a rising tide lifting all boats.
actual range vs what they're stating since it's less aerodynamic than tesla
There has to be a base station somewhere, unless the drone is fully autonomous and not even indirectly controlled by anyone, which appears to be in violation of other regulations anyway. If the drone is capable of broadcasting directly (“standard remote identification”), then that base station doesn’t have to be within 400ft; it must have the capability to connect to the internet, but the drone can operate even if it’s out of service.

That could add some cost. However, AFAIK (not an expert), the most popular drones are already designed to be connected to a phone – either directly (for short-range amateur models) or with a controller that you attach your phone to. Those devices could presumably use the phone‘s internet connection, so there would be no added cost, although I guess the phone would go from optional to mandatory(?).

I don’t know what you mean by “risk”. Risk of the base station being hacked over the internet? It’s a possibility, but it doesn’t seem like the end of the world, especially since the base station would only need to make outbound connections to specific servers.
* become skilful with C++
Careful with the toe touch, can aggravate certain back issues. Try diagnose with what you suffer and target the weaknesses.

Generally cobra stretch type manoeuvres are a good starting point. Don't neglect some strengthening of the upper/mid back, even if it's just some resistance bands etc.
Wrong. Transistors have evolved in dozens of directions. The old transistors are still used, but decreasingly so. It is likely an op amp does better what your transistor and a bunch of other stuff did, and equally as cheaply. The op amp might have bipolar transistors in, but just as likely not.

C has not evolved because C++ has, and because the computers got a million times faster, so even Python is usually good enough. If you need something that does what C does, but better, C++ is right there waiting. Change your makefile, or rename some files, and suddenly you have a C++ program, that is then easy to improve as much as you like.
Sounds so different to my experience in tech.
(likely acquired the infection from dentists / doctors reusing needles)

In Western countries?!
The Eccentric and Ingenious Father of the Atomic Bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer
Page 184 describes an extortion attempt.
Then wouldn't it work out to rent instead?
Am I reading this right that the standard remote ID broadcast is specified as "something in an unlicensed band, everything else about it you figure it out"? Isn't the point of this to be interoperable with other receiver systems for things like BVLOS operation? Seems like a funny place to throw in a shoulder shrug.
Policy trade-off. Small businesses can only do limited damage from a consumer privacy perspective. Navigating policy for small businesses can be toxic as they don't have teams of high powered lawyers, and considering California's startup industry the last thing policymakers want is to hurt small businesses. This is a compromise.
I think it goes without saying that absolutist views on work are going to be wrong. If you structure your organization around a work/life balance, you have to been more strategic about how time is used than an 80hr/week "burn-and-churn" organization. The upside is you'll have less turn-over, happier employees, and (hopefully) happier customers.

I'll just say there's one hidden advantage to less crazy hours: it's a lot easier to spot mediocrity and weak-points in processes and teams. I'm not talking about people skill-building for the first time, but if someone consistently needs to work twice as long to get the same output of their peers, there really shouldn't be a social incentive structure in place to reward them for what is effectively poor performance papered over with extra hours.
Or https://xkcd.com/378/
- Give everything in trying to get a master degree while working full time (30yo). Consider only at the end of the year if it is good to continue or better to stop.

- Join some pilates/yoga group/course to do together with powerlifting

- Keep improving emotionally

- Be far more assertive

- Have far more fun in life
While I appreciate the intent, that’s turning beautiful concise code into a very much less readable... thing.

How much faster is that?
The original minesweeper had a smiley face up the top, which would turn dead if you lost, and would have a :o face while picking a cell.

Having the face change if there are safe cells available would give the face a purpose.
The past decade contained most of my professional software engineering career, so I basically went from a hobbyist to a senior engineer that can use technology to solve business problems.

We have a toddler without any of our families in town, so my goal for 2020 would be to (at least to some extent) get back into more healthy life style including eating well and more regular exercise. That leaves pretty much no time outside of the 9-5 hours at my day job.
Just an aside - how do you go about liquidating a fairly large amount of bitcoin into cash legally?
"American girls found inferior to Asian girls by random rich old white dude from America". I wonder if that would be enough to trigger a shit-storm.
This is essentially what social democracies do, like in the Nordic countries, and it seems to work great at achieving good results in a variety of societal dimensions.

The counter-arguments from fiscal conservatives generally take one of two tacks: either a plainly disingenuous one where they argue that this is somehow only possible in those specific countries (e.g. due to being small and/or relatively homogeneous), or an ideological one where they argue that even if this is beneficial to the society as a whole, they're against it because taxing the winners more is fundamentally wrong, taxation is theft etc.

Well, the Nordic countries don't do the UBI part, but taxing the winners heavily and funding policies that are effectively redistributionist because they treat everyone more or less equally (like public transportation or universal healthcare), yeah they do that for sure.
It's pretty naive to think you can just hire random people to step in and support complex business systems part-time.

Sure, you can have a global ops team that can deal with basic system issues like "this machine ran out of disk space", but not "we're seeing a spike in 500s in our payment system because something that got deployed earlier today broke a workflow". And saying "well just roll back!" isn't a solution either. Maybe you can't roll back. Maybe that won't fix it because data is now corrupt. Maybe it wasn't even a deploy to that system that broke things, but some feature flag in some distant system. No one except the team itself can diagnose these issues appropriately.
Keep getting asked to count 10 cats at levels 5 and up.
Wealth translates to political influence. If most of the wealth in a society belongs to a few people, those people have outsized influence on the those in power. Conversely, the more distributed wealth is within the society, the more representative the government will be.

In a deep sense wealth distribution is about what form of government you want to have. If you want an oligopoly, then you let the majority if the wealth go to a few people. If you want a government that looks after most of the citizens, then
you want a more equitable distribution of wealth.
Elroy Air’s autonomous hybrid aircraft can pick up cargo containers on its own
Single-Assignment C
The OTC markets
If you want to put some fav-stars in to the site: I wrote a userscript for it (and hid the css for it in the site...)

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/393806-c3-favorites

(doesn't auto-refresh if you multi-tab a lot though and only gets stored in your browser. generally no guarantees given...)
I've found it easier to hug the corners when possible, since it reduces the surface area in which you have to look for overlaps that might generate safe squares. In general, the game is easier when there are fewer places in the border.
Be-careful when learning "FP" that you're not just learning your chosen language's idea of FP

It can often be a large investment to learn these concepts only to find it's only scala or Haskell or w/e does FP "that way" is frustrating

When starting out I recommend checking if the pattern exists in many different FP language types first
Thomas Piketty?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Ce...
In 2020 I would like to reach beta with my blockchain game project release a full feature demo, and establish a studio around the game. If the whole thing works out, I would love to be able to say that my company was established in 2020.

Also: I would like to release something good enough that you guys will upvote me into existence.
One of the letters written in 1957 July 25 mentions that (first PDF page 57):

...a radio type machine known as Tesla Set which was invented by
Mr. TESLA in 1938 for interplanetary communication. Mr. and Mrs.
STORM claim that TESLA's engineers did not complete the Tesla Set
until after TESLA's death in 1943. Mr. and Mrs. STORM claim that
this Set was placed in operation in 1950 and since that time TESLA
engineers have been in close touch with space ships. etc.

Wikipedia says that:

The launch of the first human-made object to orbit Earth, the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1, on 4 October 1957

The dates don't add up. I know the people in the letter were making accusations, but who did they think the engineers were talking to? Aliens?
In your screenshot, look at the green squares. Those are the spaces that are guaranteed to be safe based on the available information. The game wants you to click those before you do anything else.

Once there are no more guaranteed squares anywhere on the board, then you can guess. And if you guess somewhere that could be valid, it will be valid. But only if there are no other guaranteed spaces left.
> what are the tests that can prove or disprove stronger guarantees for cryptographic security of a PRG than diehard?

None. The difference between a good CSPRNG and a broken one might not even be in the construction at all, but in who knows the seed. For example, a keystream generated using Chacha20 or AES-CTR makes for a good CSPRNG... except if the attacker knows the key.
And join on irc to ask questions. I feel you even have a better chance to get your question through than on-site.
I'm making an action MMO with both ballistic bullets and sword fighting:

1) If you look at how Nintendo solved ping-pong with Wiimote Plus (gyroscope addon) after the obvious letdown of the Wiimote standalone (only accelerometer): they gamified it, there is no 1:1 and the game is still fun. VR prooves this case too, as non-superhuman input is hard to sell after you give a man the mouse!

2) Ballistics are expensive on MMO's because you don't want a proper physics engine on the server. Two solutions I imagined: A) you chunk the projectiles temporal movement as vectors and add those to a 2D array that loops over time and has a limited amount of concurrent bullets per frame. B) You make a distributed voting system where other players detect and report hits to offload the server.

For sword fights I think left/right/jump/spin attack should be enough to get the player into the minigame of parrying and attacking interleaved (against many enemies). You just need to work on the abstraction so it's as fast in latency as possible and then make sure it's fun. The most important thing is to not try to simulate reality, reality is boring.

Look at how PoP Sands-of-time did it?
Santa and the ‘Shrooms: The real story behind the “design” of Christmas
Because my laptop's GPU is Intel GMA 4500M HD, it neither supports CUDA nor OpenCL.
There's a Windows-native version of bash included with the Windows version of Git, no?

But yeah, I'd definitely count MinGW (or more modernly, MSYS2) as "native" in this context.
In 2019, I built Alchemist Camp into a decent side-business (see https://questinglog.com/2019-year-in-review/).

In 2020, my goals are:

- Double gross subscription sales

- Keep lifetime retention above 60%

- Launch product #2 by the first of March

- Finally travel to the US for an Elixir conference
Quote:

> With regard to direct broadcast capabilities, the ARC recommended the FAA adopt an industry standard for data transmission, which may need to be created, to ensure unmanned aircraft equipment and public safety receivers are interoperable, as public safety officials may not be able to equip with receivers for all possible direct broadcast technologies.

So the final rule will probably name a specific standard, but it’s TBD for now.
OBS Studio has a plugin that enables virtual webcam output on windows. I’ve used it to create a more reliable webcam output from Blackmagic capture cards, as not all software likes to recognize the included webcam driver.

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-virtualcam.539/
Live coding environment, which allows to mix different programming languages
Securing investment, as a non-profit or a profit-based company, is not "begging for money."
Hypervisors, most likely.

Linux (like the BSDs) being C is an organizational phenomenon. There is no plausible technical reason for it not to be, or include parts in, C++. History is path-dependent; how we got here matters more than what is around today.

There is really no excuse for systemd being C. It is really a drag on its development.
Because browsers make it an all or nothing setting (all, 1st party, none) and there are many more combinations. On top of that, the laws are there to prevent companies from tracking people at will, and the DNT header that was supposed to make that an easy browser setting completely failed.
FWIW, the world makes a lot more sense once you accept that most other people have wildly different motivations and preferences.
Models and Projections of Hyperbolic Geometry
I love the idea behind blockly of bringing back structured editors to teach beginners in a way that side-steps the time waste of syntactically malformed code. And also the mix direct manipulation and indirect manipulation via coding. But the drag and click input system seems horrendously inefficient even for novice needs; it's not just super-slow to select the desired building block but also seems very frustrating to re-arrange anything; e.g. I couldn't work out a way to reliably select and move out a sub-block etc. Scratch also doesn't save to some human editable format.

Is there some more UI depth that I've missed on my first spin that allows more ergonomic usage?
Why I quit Twitter
And same here too (in the UK), at least within the NHS - it seems doctors train, start working, and then don't spend any time learning about new developments within their field. It's very disappointing.

I'm sure it can't be like that for all doctors, but it's been my (unfortunately vast and varied) experience.
Some websites will detect the iframe and send nothing instead of the requested page. I happen to know from personal experience that YouTube is one of the sites that does this.
Thats a very helpful advice. Thanks Dave!
Agreed — CCPA makes the same primary mistake as GDPR, which is that while the spirit of the law (protecting users’ privacy) is reasonable, the ultimate consequence just ends up being bombarding users with popups, a worse UX for basically everyone.

To me, this indicates that the drafters of the law probably didn’t really think it through.
As much as I appreciate with the premise that this shouldn't have happened.. I'd much rather people feel safe coming here talking about it. They talk about a long past incident and they don't suggest they are proud of it.

Having this sort of discussion here increases the visibility of these sort of annoyances in ways that make Google more likely to clamp down on the practice. It makes forum administrators more likely to clamp down on abuse, and frankly anything that helps decrease trust in the SEO industry is a good thing.
In fact it's quite efficient, as the feedback time between when the signal is sent from the consumer to when it is received by the producer is very short compared to political systems.

Revealed preferences also show that what people say they want and what they actually want can be quantified very precisely using money as a proxy. And more generally, the vast majority of consumers show they prefer low prices over all other things, including priced in externalities, bad labor and management practices, unsustainable production etc...

More recently however (~100 years) the advertising and marketing industry has shown that preference hijacking is a real thing, so markets are skewed in this way.
> they do all the things you list

FWIW, if you think people buy Apple devices because of lists of features, you’ll simply never be able to make sense of Apple’s success.
The world is complex. And that's why division between screen time and real world at this age makes sense. You let many more brain areas develop when you can touch stuff, move it around with many more degrees of freedom, you have way more complex visual stuff to analyse at different focal lengths and so on. It's quite well documented.

But of course, do parent your own children. You are the optimisation function. You may value abstract thinking higher than spatial imagination dexterity etc.
5 more days until it is officially deprecated
2020 Goals:

- Start freelancing. I'd like to both write independently and do development work.

- Get back into running (XC in high school, but I'm out of practice). Run at least a 5k (preferably longer, like a half marathon) and run at least 500 miles in the year.

- Visit three more National Parks.

- Start blogging (informally or formally, whichever) about personal finance

- Travel more. I took two international trips in 2019, but they were both to places I'd already been. I'd like to go to the Baltic states in 2020 (plans maybe in process...) and possibly somewhere in South America or Africa?
This is not a good thing indeed, because it's terribly naive. Passing a law that more or less forbid huge companies the very same activity that gets them the bread and butter. What are they expecting to happen? That the companies will surrender their business, just as that?