skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In steep terrain, elevation is a great way to find your location. Suppose I know that I'm on a certain lateral feature - a ridge, canyon, or watercourse. By knowing my precise elevation, I can determine my exact location. This helps me navigate as well as quickly guesstimate my current pace / progress. If I know I will spend all day ascending gradually on a valley glacier from 4000 m to 5000 m, in 1 second I can check my altimeter and know how far I've come when a handheld GPS will spend 30 seconds trying to get a fix.

If someone is trying to state the location of, for instance, a good bivy site on a rock climbing route, "1890 m on the SE ridge" is equally as precise as the GPS coordinates, but much more descriptive.
Yes. Unlike alcohol, there is very little money in those drugs. Most of them aren't even addictive!
Want to add a few things.

>"whole milk" is only 3.25% milkfat

It is only in Canada and US whole milk is 3.25%. In UK, and I believe EU as well it is 3.5%.

>whole milk is a miniscule increase in the total amount of milkfat consumed.

This causes my brain to explode for a bit. A 2% to 3.25% is 62.5% increase in total amount of milk fat. Which is not really minuscule increase. At the same time I totally understand what you meant.
You know, my mom has some of his books and tapes, but I've never read/listened to them. What's his deal?

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Far from a "platitude" this is a simple, easy, actionable, and reliable way to feel happy. It's not absolutely guaranteed, of course, but consider: Sharing food is recognized, since pre-human times and even cross-species, as kindness. It's the pre-linguistic definition of kindness, and deeply biologically significant. Calories, man. It's physics.

Kindness engenders good feelings.

The word com-pan-ion literally means to share food together.
That's a bit like asking the butcher which butcher has the best meat.
> False: https://ionity.eu/en/about.html

Thanks. I didn't realize that.
“The margins” also unfortunately include the perpetually outraged Alan Jones, and every policy pie his pudgy fingers poke.

+1 on your diagnosis of the cultural problem.
Hi, I've thought about adding the Entity Component System, but for the number of entities I have so far and the few inheritances it would be overkill. But if I have more items/powerups/features I'll think about it. Moreover, using simple classes makes it much more simple for beginner to start with. Thanks
Typical procrastination :) I could totally see myself do the same thing just for the fun of it and to see if it works. Wasting a ton of time when cleaning would be quicker and something that needed to be done regardless.

But on the other hand, one probably wouldn't find the time to try out wifi triangulation if there wasn't some need for it. So that is something!
Probably. It is still down.

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Web server is down

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It's context that makes no sense. How about this one?:

"In my neighborhood last year there were also no vehicle fatalities."

Is that in any way helpful?
What source would you recommend? I've tried some name-brand kava tea and it didn't seem to do much.
Problems being that the disease is still going and not under control.

Also whole herds are being culled, producers would have to buy not just breed and some are switching to other livestock.
Not at all. This is the "adhere to the agreed upon decorum of negotiation or get treated like the child you seem so keen to act like" argument.
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The issue in this case was specifically that the employees did not pursue internal avenues and instead went public with it. Nothing stops you from writing an email to the CEO and express your concerns. At your own risk, of course.
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> Yes, it's obvious that you can fit more transistors on a "chip" if you make the chip be much, much larger than what we ordinarily think of as a chip.

Without defending the article, it is however the case that simply scaling a chip size has nontrivial problems. For example, Will the piece of silicon warp or shatter if one side happens to get hotter than the other?
That’s what happens when you hire strictly off of algorithms questions with zero behavioral questions. How they thought that wouldn’t destroy the company culture is beyond me.
Oh please this is pure propaganda. Even the great Terrance McKenna had to stop doing shrooms later in life because a bad trip fucked him up so badly. The potential for misuse and serious psychological dissociation is huge for anyone who is depressed and abusee psilocybin. Micro dosing and/orhaving a few wondrous trips is great if you come at it with a good headspace. Use it as a crutch after a break up or while surrounded by toxic people and you are most likely in for a very bad time that many may not be equipped to deal wih.
At some level it is. If you think that any amount of risk is too great, then everyone should just stay in their home. But that's obviously impractical.
That sounds awful. A city is more than homes for people who work and life is more than jobs and work.

We don’t exist to be wage slaves. Shouldn’t there be a balance?
You're getting down voted for making a whole lot of assumptions that aren't valid.

Pure waste? Give me a break.. I guess it's foreign to you that if the public asks the government something in Canada, they better serve us the citizens, because we're who the government serves, not the other way around.

And when something like this happens, Canadian's aren't brainwashed and go straight for the gun as an option. They actually use common sense to adjust to situations unlike those in our southern border.

I find it hilarious that you would rather have work undone and marked unimportant than actually try and serve the public.

Consider living abroad, it'll cleanse your American brainwashing.
The treatment of Dravet syndrome with CBD seems to have genuine damned near miraculous results.

And yes, the pain relief is very real.
That's a funny comparison considering doctors must pay outrageous amounts of money for malpractice insurance, but engineers are never held personally responsible for a bug (legally, at least.)
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Is there data on what tech companies programmers (either generally or new grads) most want to work for? It feels like it used to be Google by a lot, but even outside the HN bubble, I get the sense Google has taken some reputation hit.
Making it thinner again... It's not like the current XPS 13 had good thermals. I guess this will another be downgrade.
Personally, I'm a skeptic that 1. CBD+THC offers any additional medical† benefits over CBD used alone; 2. that it makes any medical sense to prescribe a (non-dose-controllable) plant over a pill, or at the very least an extract with tested dosage. I'm not skeptical of the medical benefits of (some of) the compounds in marijuana; I'm just a skeptic of prescribing marijuana itself as a way of delivering those compounds. It's like prescribing willow bark for a headache when aspirin exists.

† For what it's being prescribed for, I mean—pain, nausea, anxiety, etc. THC, in its function as a psychedelic, may function as a treatment for certain psychiatric disorders (i.e. for much the same purpose LSD/MDMA/etc. are being investigated for.) But nobody's prescribing medical marijuana for this use-case right now; they're prescribing it for things where the presence of THC seems pretty irrelevant to the goal.
Right, that's part of working in a large organization. Sometimes the rest of the organization doesn't want to do what you'd prefer, and you need to either disagree and commit or disagree and leave. The idea that you have to get your way, that any strategy becomes appropriate and justified if you haven't yet achieved the changes you want, is incredibly toxic.
gotta get those numbers up boys!
And, if you'd rather read, he's also got a book series to go along with it. Volume 5 (on philosophy in ancient India) is set to be published later this year.
They aren’t too thick. They just don’t care.
True. As soon as we start receiving spams on an email address, we would know immediately which website has sold our email address.
Nowadays Java based micro-services can compile to native thanks to Graal native-image and frameworks like: https://quarkus.io/.
Bah, thanks! Has been fixed :)
Yes, we did indeed consider Stream, but figured we could save some money by deploying and running our own system. We are very hopeful to quickly get a couple million users in a short time from our launch and that would have ran up our costs with stream quickly.
Poorly managed plant diseases are just as prevalent and often even harder to control and eradicate.

Animal agriculture won't stop.

This disease process eliminates bad management and corrupt inefficient government.
Its older than that. There was the p-code machine used for Pascal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-code_machine
Uhh would definitely never recommend taking LSD or shrooms to go clubbing.
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Interestingly, if Amazon did have a union, it would be obvious that being openly critical of the company wouldn't be grounds for firing (else no union leader could ever retain their job). The only reason we're debating the employees' right to criticize is because we don't have unions.
Well in Japan and Korea, ( Possibly in Taiwan and China as well ) there is a trend to use and consume higher fat content milk as it is marketed as higher quality and more expensive. With Milk from 3.6% going up to 3.9%.

> to gravitate towards reduced-fat milk because it leads to more milk consumption/revenue.

I dont believe that is the case in consumption volume increase, but the Fat they reduced could be used in other products which increase their revenue.
Be warned the... the SF crazies are flagging anything critical of this article.
A lot is said or referenced in this conversation about why people chose Pulsar over Kafka. I'm not an expert in this area but are there use cases where Kafka is still better?
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After Snowden's revelations, I also wondered if the government would change it's practices.
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I think it's fine if Facebook refrains from sending (attempted) breach notifications if the breaching entity involved is considered to be in good standing with the global community and if there's a valid court order sent to Facebook. Then the relevant law enforcement agencies can just tell Facebook "hey, please don't warn [X future-mass murder suspect] about anything", and they can comply with a clean conscience.

I think people should have a right to privacy, and I think law enforcement agencies should have a right to monitor potential near-future massacre-committers on a limited and singly-targeted basis. Dragnet surveillance is very different from surveiling a single individual for a specific and dire reason.

Now, if they never sent Facebook a signed court order related to this matter, then it's entirely the agency's fault.

So, in my opinion, the issue here is the choice of contractor (and the agency apparently not sending Facebook a court order??); NSO has so many ethical issues (specifically that they're a hired gun that'll fire no matter the wielder or their intent) that Facebook has a moral obligation to send these warnings. Pick someone who actually aligns with your goals, agencies. A firm you could actually theoretically work for yourself and still sleep peacefully at night. And if you can't get one, then do it yourself.
Just gotta rethink the architecture so that it scales: this sounds like at least 3 separate APIs w/ at least 3 separate DBs should be stood up. This is of course because if the post-title service goes down then the customers can still access post-authors and post-data from their respective services.

/sarcasm
Maybe. It's one "academic year." If he was on the F-1 learning English before that, does that count towards the one academic year of study?
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To be clear, there are tons and tons of cannabinoids that have been identified (see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_cannabinoids and here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocannabinoid_system and here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_designer_drugs#Synthet...). What's particularly interesting about these is that they're phytocannabinoids, meaning that they're present in (at least some) cannabis and can help explain why folks don't respond to pure THC in the same way they respond to cannabis. The article mentions this a few times, but sadly it doesn't delve too deeply into what the parts of the cannabis effect profile might belong to THCP.

These aren't the first non-THC, non-CBD phytocannabinoids identified, here are the others currently known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoid#Cannabis-derived_c...
What would have happened if they didn't trust their search engine algorithms and manually placed certain websites at the top for certain keywords?
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Still big news that anyone is even doing phase 1 trials, since you wouldn't tend to bother if you didn't intend to follow up with further phases. I.e. "X is safe in a phase 1 trial" is never a useful terminal fact that you set out to prove and then, having proven it, do nothing more.
The case you present for there being a problem, that needs to be addressed, with airplanes disappearing, would be a good deal stronger if you could present other recent examples (Amelia Earhart, for example, is hardly relevant) of airliners disappearing and not being found. Currently, for example, the wreckage of the Chilean C130 that was lost en route to Antarctica has not been recovered, but there was little doubt about where it crashed, as was confirmed by the discovery of floating debris. The same can be said for AF447 - in both cases, the problem is not knowing where they crashed, but that they are at the bottom of the ocean.

What is puzzling here is why this issue entered this discussion in the first place. Apparently I was mistaken in thinking that you, yourself, are of this opinion (an honest mistake, given the way you have presented it), but if not you, then who? Is there any credible body claiming that this is a problem that needs to be solved, and is pushing for a specific solution to be mandated, but is being opposed by the airline industry on the basis of cost? If all three of the above conditions are being seen in a current dispute, then that would make a much better case for your position than anything you have written so far; on the other hand, if this is merely a hypothetical dispute, then it has no relevance even to the issue of the airlines' power to prevent the adoption of safety measures, let alone the original issue in this thread, which is whether the cost alone rules out the global roll-out of safety measures.

I do not dispute that the airlines have often opposed safety measures on the grounds of cost; Ernest Gann complained bitterly about it in 'Fate is the Hunter'. All I did was to point out that cost is not necessarily the deciding issue, using TCAS as an example. The fact that ICAO mandated it does not somehow invalidate it as an example; that is just how these things work.

> If a regulatory body feels the risk is common enough, it’ll mandate it.

That is the one point that I was making in my original post.

> Please don’t expect someone to not push back when you present your case with false assumptions.

Indeed.
Reading these stories, I see two possible issues. One is pure age, the potential slowing of cognitive processes, to outright dementia in some of them. The other is lack of deep familiarity with technology, which is a symptom of growing up before it was prevalent. When we age, will we be as susceptible? We're tech savvy, but at least at 70+ will we be vulnerable?
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The situations in which media organizations support or demonize employee's speech is bordering upon the absurd.
As well as:

https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Crisis_Inducer
And yet Apple went with 16:9 on Desktop. I really wished they had 16:10 instead.
Getting more power into a datacenter is a different problem than getting more (already available) power into a rack. I suppose I could have added "if your existing power distribution system can handle the extra power capacity". That includes service entrance, transfer switching, standby and backup power sources, and distribution to the rack level.

The point I'm trying to make is that, all things being equal, it's _much_ easier to handle un-equal power load between individual racks than it is to deal with the cooling side of the equation. Adding more power to a single rack usually just means a few more whips from your distribution. Getting that one extra-hot rack in the aisle to be effectively cooled requires a lot more infrastructure than running some cables.
I'm pretty sure a lot, if not most, door cameras are filming public space.
Where, in the article referenced in another comment, does that employee imply they speak for the company?

The policy prevents employees from speaking, period, if they are identified at all as Amazon employees.

In my view, saying "I wish I were permitted to bring my values to my job doing UI design at Amazon" is not in any way speaking for the company.
Don't use dd -- use ddrescue (reads all "working" sectors before retrying broken ones).
Why is critical discussion being flagged?
There are other anti-nausea drugs lol.

Maybe it's useful if nothing else works but come on.
Do you use Google Maps to go from place to place, or just for the aerial views? I didn't know Google Maps could do that.

Edit: I just checked and see that it can do some places, mostly day hikes, but didn't have my other hikes or their campgrounds.
After googling, it appears that kava causes liver damage, thanks but no thanks
I think nowadays it's iCloud Photos that are disaster

- When your family shared photos getting compressed - fucking mint

- When you can't edit photo on your device, because of indescript error - fucking mint

- When you can't get iCloud link for large videos because it won't "upload" it even it's already on iCloud - fucking mint

- When you can't share iCloud storage with family members that lives abroad - fucking mint

- When "export unmodified originals" does nothing - fucking mint
> Are you taking the position that the teacher not discuss ethics related to genetic engineering at all?

I guess that I have not been clear enough - so maybe this will help. I have no objection to morals or ethics being discussed in school. I have a problem with the state trying to instil a specific set of morals into children.

> That is already a moral position

That the state should not dictate what morals children should hold is indeed a moral position. I never once suggested otherwise.

> The state will suggest a small set of resources, and try as much as you can, those resources will only discuss only a few moral positions on genetic engineering.

There is a big difference between studying specific works on ethics and trying to instil a specific set of morals into children. I think it is very valuable to have exposure to many different points of view on morality. I think it would be good to expose children to the concepts of moral absolutism, moral objectivism, morality of different peoples and different times.

> Ultimately, students will be taught these and they will adopt one of them.

If someone gets taught different points of view on morality - it is up to them to adopt or not adopt it.

> The generic mistake you are making in your argument is forgetting that the null policy is also a policy.

I'm perfectly aware that a policy of not dictate morals to children in schools would be a policy - not sure why you thought otherwise. I'm not arguing for the absence of government policy or the absence of morals.
Quite possibly. Although the trade war may distort the US markets enough to allow McDonalds to offer it again. It's hard to predict with Trump is going to do with the tariffs and how China responds.
Are plant diseases less communicable to humans (and animals in general) ?
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It is still dangerous, as x-rays are carcinogenic, and also the chance of false positives can adversely affect patient health.
Any efforts to unionize Amazon employees in progress? If not, why not (considering labor organization is a federally protected activity)?
What does your company do? Generation 2 delivery start-up isn't helpful to someone not in the space.

From the video you linked:

"Making services and goods available to our users on-demand all around the world"

"With Glovo you can have pretty much anything anywhere"

"Behind the scenes there are hard problems that are being solved"

...
Repeat with no details. I thought I was being trolled and this is a parody of buzzword companies.
I’ve had extracts that didn’t do much. Pills of the powder have helped. The biggest experience I had was with the full on blending of the powder in a blender following a YouTube recipe video-wakacon from amazon.