skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could also be the community. For example, I don't know what "r9k" means but it's far and away the one with the most users. Considering the number of 4chan related tags I saw maybe it's something unsavory.
> That is a rather authoritarian view of the law & power of governments that you have there.

No, not at all. Since Valve is not a democratic organization its employees aren't free to begin with. Restricting its owners' "freedom" to tell their employees what to do is hardly authoritarian – freedom is about deciding what you do yourself.

> A company would not, for example, be able to opt-out of assisting China with their censorship initiatives, or stop business with them all together if there was no other choice.

The difference is that China is not a democracy.
You are perfectly welcome to get stressed out over completely natural processes that happen repeatably in the course of human history, but I would just like you to be aware of this aspect before thinking it improper. Happy new year.
Since leadership requires lots of human <-> human interactions, involving empathy and other illogical behaviors, are you sure this is the role you should seek?

This is an honest question. Suppose someone with not-so-good skills in arts wants to pursue a career as an artist, s/he would have quite a steep learning curve ahead.

Speaking as someone on the autism spectrum (though I don't like to identify myself this way) having leadership experience, my personal life improved after I was able to detach myself from people management.

There are lots of career paths available which skip people management.
Another Psychedelic Book Giveaway – “Mescaline – A Global History of the (Cont)
Are you sure the point of the piece wasn't "I worked for Steve Jobs"?

> "My job compelled me to read the lede on your story; nothing can get me to read the rest of it."

> In this country, the late Nathan Cohen, theatre critic of the Toronto Star, was considered an absolute ogre by some actors and directors.

> But he helped Canadian theatre grow and thrive.
Is there disagreement also regarding the lighting level? I have dimmable lights and I like how I feel when I gradually dim them to darkness before going to sleep.
i assume it s been happening for quite a while now, at least for some products featured sometimes, but it doesnt seem it's very prevalent
I always remap caps-lock to act like the control key.

I posted an article on how to do this on various systems (some of the information might be outdated):

https://the-flat-trantor-society.blogspot.com/2013/12/where-...
I also started using redshift (linux equiv to flux) several years ago and gradually used it more, even during the day, as I also found it seemed to help mitigate migraines at least to some extent and it just generally reduced my eye fatigue.
How does it compare to Liftbridge, besides being a lot heavier weight?

https://github.com/liftbridge-io/liftbridge

https://liftbridge.io/
I went looking for evidence of time-dependence in placebo, and I only came up with this[0], which doesn't say much.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232423611_Is_the_Pl...
I'm of a similar age, and generally agree with you, but for the sake of countering complete pessimism I also think it's worth adding some context in that it depends on numbers of people and the medium. The village that my mother lives in, population roughly 1000, has a broad cross-section of ages and political views, but everyone genuinely looks out for each other and does the right thing in the vast majority of circumstances. However, I live in a block of flats with around 150 people, and the residents association had to take down the forum on the website because people were making all sorts of wild accusations. (The WhatsApp group with families is pretty self-policing). The Internet is a problematic mix of vast numbers of people and very little personal accountability.
The argument of Boeing for MCAS to be not "safety critical" is, that there is a trim cut out switch in every airplane, which is to be activated in case of a "trim runaway" to cut of all electricity to the trimming system, including MCAS. As this is a memory checklist, every problems should be able to just switch off MCAS in case of a problem...

As mentioned in the talk, the problem is, that reality differs, and the MCAS actions don't appear to the pilot like a normal trim runaway. Actually, the day before the Lion Air crash, the machine already had the same problem, but the pilots (as the story goes due to the advice of a third pilot present) did activate the cut out switch and solved the problem.

That still doesn't explain why Boeing didn't implement at least consistency checking with the other sensor. And of course, we know now, how wrong Boeing was in their assumption.

Unfortunately the next day, the other crew did not do this. And on the Ethiopian Air flight, they did activate the cut out switch, but way to late and didn't regain control of the machine, as it was out of trim too far.
> integrated system failure

I agree with you, that's exactly what it was. All of the components worked as designed. But it's pissing against the wind on HN to say that.
> If you need secure messaging, use something other than email.

Many services I need do not give me an alternative. I only continue to use email because of those services.
> Why does a person spend their energy delivering workplace critique with maximum twang?

Maybe because an editor with a long career in journalism has found a strong correlation between twang and readership? And attention paid in general. We may not like J. Jonah Jameson, but the son of a bitch can sell newspapers and Peter Parker listens when he speaks.
I have an incredible set of privacy focused speakers. The only way my privacy can be invaded using them is if I inadvertently turn up the Styx too loud and everyone finds out my secret 80s love.
> [...] This is the most plausible outcome.

I'd like to know how they got to that conclusion.

Apart from that, the way he committed suicide actually wasn't dramatic:

"The will was a short document stating that they had chosen death over capitulation, and that they were to be cremated [..]" [1] which is how it happened.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_will_and_testament_of_Ado...
EV code signing certificates are expensive - the cheapest I can find is $250/y (and only if you buy 3 years up front).

I really wish Let's Encrypt, or someone would offer free or at-cost EV code signing certificates.
That makes sense but the question at hand is about the past employer unfairly being a dick, not a legitimate issue with the applicant.

I think it's a tossup whether it should be mentioned in interviews because it can easily be misinterpreted/misread even by good employers to mean there's an issue with this applicant.
If the data set is large, then the coefficient is approximately Gaussian, because of the CLT. This is one appropriate setting to use the CLT (unless you think you are in a setting where the CLT doesn't hold, such as infinite variance).
I used to a pile of yubikeys like this (yubikey A, B, C) then I replaced them all with one OnlyKey. Each Yubikey only has 2 slots, each OnlyKey has 24 and it has a secure backup feature.
Show HN: faasd – Lightweight Serverless for Your Raspberry Pi Without Kubernetes
What... the reason for JS frontend frameworks is to be able to dynamically update data visible without a full page refresh/refetch
While this may be true, all signs in the McMartin case point to the blatantly absurd testimony made by children at the time (for example, being taken away from school grounds during the day by a hot air balloon with nobody else noticing) as being coached rather than a result of false memories.
> there needs to be an overview that can show where storage is used. And clicking around on Google Drive it appears there isn't such an overview.

If you click on Buy Storage, it does say where it's used. Not the most obvious, but good enough.
I think he/she advocates for websites to be generated on the server (if they're dynamic) and not passing on that burden to the browser. Specially if the browser language was created to add drop-down menus and cool snow effects, not to generate a complete html website.
Of course, I will update README in more detail later. Now all my time is spent on PoC. MassCode is an application for organizing snippets such like as SnippetsLab, Quiver or Boostnote. What makes it different is that it uses Monaco editor as a code editor, it allows for autocompletion in the main frontend languages - HTML/CSS/JavaScript. And of course Emmet :)
> They got close to 1 trillion dollars

That's....not how that works...
Using a different DNS server not provided by the ISP would most likely solve the problem.

You can do so in either the router or your computer/phone. Two well known and performant public DNS servers are found at 1.1.1.1 (CloudFlare) and 8.8.8.8 (Google).
How It Works and Ancient Aliens do the job for me. If I watch either of those after I've just had dinner I don't stand a chance. I'm knocked out by the end of the episode.
Hence the
>and before regulation.
I've spent much more time than I care to admit researching calendars, the general counting of time from seconds to centuries — actually, ahem, from the Planck time unit to the age of the universe. I find that there would be elegance in having a metric system aligned with "natural" dimensionless units, orders of magnitudes.

Suffice it to say, not only are you 100% right, but there are many easier and better systems we could use; and a software-defined world makes that actually easier than ever to implement in real life.

But people don't like change, and the biggest obstacle historically has been religion — depending which culture/country, pick one or two who oppose any change whatsoever.

Governments just don't see much incentive in doing anything either, because it's a losing proposition — you'd spend a lot of "political capital" and probably earn a lot of resentment in return, except for a few nerds who'd love it.

I've thought long and hard about how to overcome all these historical roadblocks, but I honestly have no idea in this case. Calendars are... loaded topics for way too many people, and useless concerns for most everyone else.

It's like the dozenal society. They're right, about everything, but it just won't happen.
This looks interesting!

A bit of a rant, but I long for a digital version of an FM transmitter. Multi-speaker playback with basically no setup and perfect sync that also fails gracefully can already be done with an FM transmitter. I would love it if there was a solution for the digital era.

I have been forced into the bluetooth era kicking and screaming with my iPhone 11 and I constantly feel like I've taken a step back by being forced to use bluetooth. The constant pairing issues, even with Apple's AirPods (which are the most reliable by far) has been a constant pain point for me. Pairing, unpairing, and multiple device management is a UX nightmare for something as simple as audio payback.
Direct dependencies is irrelevant, I could create a single dependency that wraps all of these and the problem being discussed remains unchanged.
Sure. Its no secret.
https://www.google.com/search?q=china+concentration+camps+sa...
Sounds like privilege.

/s
One of the bigger problems these days is that people don't bother assessing whether their use case is actually complicated enough to actually need any of this stuff, they just want to use it for the sake of using it.

People are allergic to actually profiling anything. I think, some days, that it is intentional, because if they had real data, the stories they tell themselves to justify what they are doing would fall apart.
Actually, in earlier flight manuals for the 737 there was a description for the so called roller-coster-maneuver for exactly the case that the trim was so far off that it couldn't be operated manually any more. The maneuver consisted of pushing the yoke forward to take the pressure off the stabilizer and quickly trim back and then put the nose up again. So it was documented, that in certain conditions the forces could be too high for the pilots.
Should be easy to set up, especially if you have your own authoritative DNS server. Just don't publish an A record for your main domain.
>I would also love a mode which lowers the cognitive load of navigation while biking. Perhaps I could save a minute by taking a short-cut involving 10 different turns, but when in unfamiliar territory (and hence using navigation software in the first place), each turn poses some difficulty. So many times I've missed to take a turn because the audio cues have been so ever slightly off.

I would love having this mode for cars as well. Sometimes to shave off a couple of minutes, maps will route along the hypotenuse of a right triangle via a lot of turns on smaller roads. I would have preferred just going along the main road and making a single turn, even if that took a few minutes longer. This is especially important at night where the road signage may have reduced visibility.
you can always ignore that part and just do the math

No, not really at all. Most of applied math is raw calculations. A student interested in pure math is going to be bored to tears by that. They need challenging problems and proofs to work on.

It’s like putting a gifted programmer in a data entry class and telling them to “just focus on the typing” as though people like programming for the keyboard work.

For example, in linear algebra, I found Gaussian elimination boring as well. I was far more interested in learning how to prove things about vector spaces, subspaces, the fundamental theorem of linear algebra, the spectral theorems, and so on.
Plants need both blue and red light to grow. Also, plants and animals are so fundamentally different biologically that very few things which affect one have any direct reason to have similar effects on the other.
My Chemistry 101 class in college that I just took for elective credits was fun and interesting. It had a lab class too that was harder for me but overall good experience. It made connections to past physics class knowledge which I enjoyed too. A lot of concepts stuck with me from it. Mileage must vary.
Tanri Teyi̇di̇: Kutsal Günleri̇ ANMA, Kutlama Esenli̇ğİ – 25.12.2019 = 05.07.52
Let's say I'm working on a user interface. Thinking of it in terms of lambda calculus instead of user interaction is... let's call it sub-optimal, even though the code can be thought of in terms of lambda calculus.

Now, you can come up with some metrics to mathematically analyze certain aspects of the user interaction. I don't think that's what garganzol was talking about, though.
you're an over sensitive. grow up please.
His Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers is the one of the best books about politics and war I've ever read
Ditch Your New Year's Resolutions and Pick a New Year's Virtue Instead
Yup, there are many such hard to understand gaps from both sides. E.g. one such thing would be, in the "west" (I guess it's the same for Scandinavia) it is so common that parents are being put in old people's homes to spend their last moments of life among strange people, instead of their children taking care of them at home.
the same goes for cash & credit card, and in any case an apocalyptic war resets all prices to 0. Or you could extoil the virtues of gold but good luck carrying your gold in an EU country from Jan 1st, let alone the Moon and Mars
> a proof demonstrating that a particular problem cannot be solved as described in the claim, or that a particular set of problems cannot be solved in general

did you even read the article you linked
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And people pretend that Bluetooth is a replacement for the headphone jack. Not only is it a janky pain in the ass, but it can't be shared with a companion (watching a movie on a plane, for example).

We ARE going backward, partly because spineless apologists defend anti-consumer behavior instead of standing up for themselves and better.
Wow, thanks for pointing me to that.

I came up with the hypothesis that this was happening at 3am last night while writing, and to close the loop that quickly and see that it's a real thing I just wasn't aware of, is astonishing!
To get the ball rolling, here is what 2019 has thought me:

* It's hard to write a semi-autobiography when you are in your early 30s because your story is still going.

* Going viral is not a business model. It happens accidentally and takes you when you are the least prepared.

* It's easy to see the flaws in a Show HN thread. It is really stressful to be on the other side.

* I can't write a parenting guide on how to raise a baby. Every single trick I discovered was obsolete a week later.

* Remember that family is important. If you lose a job, you can find another. You can't replace your family.

* You don't have to hate the things you don't like. When you don't like a movie, don't tell someone who liked it that it is the worst movie. In other words, don't shame people for their taste.
True, but placebo effect is random and uncorrelated with the change. Otherwise big pharma would just replace all drugs with sugar pills.

So for placebo you should also have a lot of people reporting that "greenish screen" helps, and you should have a green option in flux.
I don't see the issue here. Of course a sovereign has the right to organize its economy in whatever way it wants. That includes deciding whether and to what extent intellectual property exists.
There's Airfoil Satellite and also Airfoil Speakers for Linux for the receiver ends.

https://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/satellite/
> Human height isn't actually bimodal even if some histograms display two modes.

"Bimodal" doesn't really have a precise definition or test, if you don't assume normal distrubtions.

That paper argues that only if means are separated by 2σ should the distribution be considered bimodal.

But there are many measures of bimodality. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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In any case, I would be very much surprised if the population couldn't be selected enough (age, race, country, diet, family) to have human height be bimodal by any measure.

[1] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/97WR...

[2] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.4137/CIN.S2846

[3] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11207-008-9170-...

[4] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-1809....

[5] https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758%2FBF03205709

[6] https://esj-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1007...
Show HN: Impls – Determine if a Rust type implements a logical trait expression
Here is a video slide show of some of Mead's art: [1], some of which still looks very cool and futuristic even today, and an interesting interview with him: [2]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edVznYyqpJU

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkAMSnRvMBI
> gravity is actually caused by little fairies pushing us all down toward the ground.

That's not entirely distinguishable from gravitons in quantum gravity. Or, for that matter, photons.
At least some simulators are capable of modelling those forces (I don't have any knowledge of the domain, but I would assume it's standard in "professional" simulators):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoNOVlxJmow
> Even if you use protonmail, google still has most of your email because they have the most of everyone else's.

I have far more incoming emails than outgoing and most of them are automated - probably not using GMail. That includes most of the most sensitive content like invoices and account management.
Building an ESP8266 captive web portal with MicroPython
The papers detailing finding tunnels under the mcmartin preschool are not FBI papers but are taken from a book about the mcmartin trial by Ted Gunderson who is one of the primary proponents of the satanic ritual abuse theory. The investigation was funded by the families and none of the people involved are reputable. You can find another copy of the whole report here:

http://tedgunderson.info/index_htm_files/McMartin%20Scientif...

you will find the exact same pages as included in the finders fbi file. Even if you choose to believe the report, this demonstrates that it didn't actually have anything to do with the finders and in any case was not done for, or by, the fbi or police. it was (presumably) included in the file because it had similar claims to ones made against the finders.

I have read the entire finders fbi file. Repeatedly there are the fbi and police fielding claims that the finders were satanists, or that they were sexually abusing the children, but in every case they document they found no actual evidence of this.

the claim of an fbi cover-up was documented in the fbi file (that would be weird if you think about it) but this claim was made by a single junior member of the manhattan beach police, and is never repeated or corroborated anywhere.

the claim that the finders were tied up in the intelligence community seems to be based on uncorroborated claims as well. nothing in the document or linked resources supports it.

I hope you find this helpful, I had multiple of my friends bring up this fbi release as "proof" that SRA was real all along but after reading every page of the file I just don't think there's anything compelling in there.
I agree. This and events organised solely on Facebook too.
I'll point out a new feature with iOS I recently discovered. It is now possible to share audio to other apple headphones (with their customer BT chip)
https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/share-audio-with-airp...

Very smooth UX and useful when watching a movie on a plane on an iPad.
Think of it for a sec. Your plane tries to kill you by pointing the nose down. With all your force you are barely able to make it only loose the altitude slowly.

Now, would you point your nose down knowing that you may not be able to point it back up again?
Kotlin versus Java – A Developer's Rosetta Stone
Further, those assumptions are only necessary for confidence intervals and hypothesis tests.
Languages that allow you to write as fast as you think are a blessing.

"Write as fast as you think" is a far better way to program than "Write much slower than you can think."

Eric Raymond has written some pretty substantial things, and he's not as clueless (on programming, at least, the rest of his views are...no) as you're implying.

The idea that intuitive languages are the only ones you should do development in is absurd. A single line of K can do what a hundred lines of C can, and you can write the line of K substantially faster than you could write the C to match. K only has something like 50 primitives. It's simple enough that you can keep it all in your head at once, and that allows you to develop much quicker than almost any ALGOL-derivative. Taking your comment at face value, everything written must be boilerplate. Looking at reality paints a different picture.

Good languages manage complexity in a way that allow you to express complex things in simple terms. That the languages you seem to be familiar with only allow you to describe simple things in simple terms isn't something that's inherent to every programming language. I'd recommend giving APL, J, or K a try.
I'm not sure if this has been fixed recently, but almost every contact I've had with gnulib as a _consumer_ has been an incredibly frustrating experience, due to what appears to be a copy-paste distribution model. It's so hard to tell what version of gnulib was copied into a project, and possibly modified thereafter, so the upgrade path to fix a failing build is horrible.

I fully appreciate that such an outcome may not be gnulib's fault, but I have seen that antipattern across enough projects which use gnulib to lead me to believe they are taking guidance from some quickstart or something
I'm on the opposite side of the coin. My brain recognizes any conversation on a left-on TV and "turns on." If I was asleep, I'm about to not be. It is especially bad when I know the episode or movie as I start to pre-quote lines in my head and, shit, now I'm awake.