skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are sharrows for? I already have the right to the road without the sharrows.

As far as I can tell, their only purpose is to let cities pretend that they have done something for bikers, while actually doing nothing.

perhaps less than nothing - if a sharrows implies anything, then the absence of a sharrows must imply the opposite, right? And there are a lot more streets without sharrows than with.
I'm sure they did, but that is just one example.
I'm not a US citizen but have lots of US based servers. In-fact it is cheaper to get US based IPs than anywhere else.
I doubt it is Taiwan, the only country I could think of that fits the description is Malaysia.
> Why would an American government database ever need access from outside the US?

The US collaborates with allies and they share resources and intelligence data.
You have to get the valve very close to the cylinder for this to work at all well, so you don't have the air in the hoses acting as an air spring. The proportional valves have to be fast, which is usually expensive. That gets the lag down to the point that the thing becomes stably controllable. [1]

There was an effort at CWRU to build legged robotics this way around 2008. Site seems to be down.[2]

[1] https://www.hydraulicspneumatics.com/technologies/other-tech...

[2] http://biorobots.case.edu/projects/onrprojects/robot3/
Here’s the link https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
There's definitely a crackpot subgenre of selling people on expensive chelation that they don't need. The idea of "cleansing" and "detoxing" supplements (which don't really do anything much but maybe make you poop) has bloomed into selling people chelation (which does do stuff, but only if you are poisoned by heavy metals).

It's not antivaxx, but it's antivaxx-adjacent, and awful stories like this is what people think of when someone promotes chelation against the medical consensus.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/autism/1616

That doesn't prove anything about any particular use of it, but that's why people can get very angry when it comes up.
Box Office Returns of Films Improves as Scene Length Distributions Approach 1/f
Fascinating, I don't have a lot of knowledge around the subject. Thank you for the new perspective.
Any1 aware of any solutions to stream (let's say through pulseaudio) realtime audio? I.e. matching what happens on the screen. Is it even possible?
Yep! You can run the “GistPad: New Secret Gist” command, or right-click the “Your Gists” node in the Gists Explorer and select “New Secret Gist”. Let me know how that works for you!

“Secret” is the term that GitHub uses (as compared to a private repo), which is why I call them that.
The real decisions at FB are made by people you never meet, they are absolutely allowing the like/click fraud to continue, the effort to combat it is only enough so they they can pretend they are against it. The people choosing to allow this profit when metrics get hit, you don't, but yet you choose to work there when you could work at many many other employers, but you want that status, you want that CV line, and damn the whole world, I gotta get mine.
I really like the design and, of course, the mission! Good luck!
It works great on iPad.
>It is 70% people of ethnically chinese decent

That is the problem, the Chinese view is that ethnic Chinese is Chinese. The word Chinese has double meaning and get muddle up a lot. Unfortunately there doesn't seems to be another accepted English word for ethnic Chinese.
>but I'm a bit surprised about India, I would have figured they would be more on the US side.

giving US support of Pakistan? :) While China, despite potentially having points of contention with India, seems to have at least for now decided to not angry up the Indian tiger.
Overjustification Effect
How had I not seen this before?
Your periodic reminder that bad kerning distracted Donald Knuth from TAOCP for a decade or so, setting our industry back countless person-millennia. Do not trifle with kerning. It’s a different kind of Turing tarpit for software engineers.
Yeah, they have the bumps, but if I can't see the keys, I imagine I'd still have to feel around to find the bumps.

I don't actually know though--as I said, I've never tried it. My keyboard backlight is off now, trying it tonight.
I know someone who went to path no. 2. He doesn't have any college degree. He is VP now (started from software engineering). He is super smart though, and been coding since a really young age, and skip college entirely to workforce.
Spent the whole interview whiteboarding algorithms, forgot to ask about shrinking js bundle sizes. Google doesn’t concern itself with such menial concepts, just too busy saving the world by selling ads.
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I want "lifetime crypto". Ie. I can encrypt a message today and throw away the key, and not have anyone able to decrypt it in my lifetime.

No cryptosystem available today gives me confidence I have that.
Those rebuttals assume a causal relation between shutting down nuclear and an increase in renewables. Aka: shutting nuclear does not mean one gets to credit renewables as the replacement.

Instead as the research paper properly accounts for, if nuclear remained in use then Germany would have reduced coal much further. Instead germany is treading water, shutting one carbon free source as it brings online another carbon free source.

The net effect is no actual improvement, only a theoretical reduction in risk. Realized outcomes are the same.

Meanwhile japan which is restarting nuclear along with expanding renewables gets blocked at the climate change summits because they are not making meaningless promises. For as much as Japan is said to be a society of "saving face" they instead often focus on results over pr.

The world would be better off if Germany followed suit.
Their system is so bad, I mean the fake accounts are mostly from only a few countries, we set our campaigns to local only and yet the likes come flooding in immediately from the subcontinent. FB keep hoovering up all this data but I am yet to see them use any of it for the benefit of society. Whenever FB/Goog/Amzn say anything, all that comes to my mind is LIAR.
The GPL indeed only triggers on redistribution. The AGPL's extra clauses over the GPL only trigger on modification of the software (not use) and only require source redistribution to users of the service.
Oh boy, somehow the authour leaves out the detail that more and more of the grid gets it's power from renewable sources.

They also leave out the detail that the amount of pollution released into the environment is lower even when an electric car if powered from a coal plant than what an ICE car generates driving the same distance.

And last but not least, somehow they forget than more and more people who have a BEV also have their own solar panels and charge the car with ZERO pollution.
Usually #1 hits a glass ceiling at the Director or VP level. #2 is also risky as the investors often tend to ditch the early leadership, and those folks leave with some equity.

There’s a good reason for this — there’s a point when your ability to perform some functions is less important than political savvy. It’s hard to be a political player without friends. The people who survive in scenario 1 and 2 have the savvy or are good at maintaining control.

The scenario that you’re missing is the tour at a high end consulting firm, followed by senior level appointment and advancement from there. That world is very much shaped limited social networks and mutual self interest. The jobs don’t get posted on LinkedIn.

The political world is very similar, except paying dues in the political machinery substitutes for education, as power is derived a little differently.
Being super smart definitely helps.
As does a lot of hard work.
As does luck.

I'm fairly confident that all three matter more than connections. At least in the tech industry.
I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on the MOC if you have time and don't mind sharing. I've been researching QT's software design approach, architecture, etc. ("core" code base in general), and stand to benefit from learning the pros and cons of software built this way.
curious, what purpose is vpn for assuming you host it for yourself only?
I decided to build out my “automated” SEO agency, myseosucks.com. It’s been quite the rollercoaster ride but super exciting to see when clients / agencies on-board themselves and can self-manage the SEO process.
Bladerunner aside, I always wanted to live in Syd Mead's future. Sunsets and an orgy of chrome. Well, orgies anyway. ;-)

Before Tron and Bladerunner I had come across his stuff in books and magazines and was blown away. This walking cargo machine from 1969: http://cyberneticzoo.com/walking-machines/1970-walking-cargo...
Well, not everyone. There were protests throughout the length of the war. A lot of people looked at the history of US intervention, of foreign intervention in Afghanistan, and at the motivations of the people calling the shots, and said, from Day 1, "This is not going to work out." Aaron McGruder famously had their number, and reached out daily to Americans whose newspapers hadn't canceled publication of his strip (https://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/2016/12/13).

They were right, most Americans were wrong, and I don't know if we'll ever fully reckon with that fact.

On that note, I hope people are listening to Sarah Kendzior's work these days.
I think most typing problems could be cured with a good wrist rest and good posture.

The wrist rest should keep your wrists straight and keep them off the cold desk and its sharp edges.

Posture should keep your head balanced over your neck, not holding it forward or backwards. The monitor height should support this, and it should be straight in front of you. Your shoulders should be relaxed and your elbows should be around 90 degrees to help your wrists.

By the way, laptops are not ergonomic. There are no OSHA approved laptops.
Question about the Bible — is Jesus a real person or could it be that he is a symbol of and an invitation for, choosing love, to the best of one’s abilities, in every present moment and choice on one’s life?

What is your take on this? What about the Church’ take?
This sounds more like what a lawyer would say
It’s fine, because coal is more renewable than nuclear.

Who is going to store the waste for millions of years?
Does that cause emissions too?

CO2 can be removed from the air. Nuclear will kill you and poison everything for millions of years.
There are a lot of these small suppliers around the world no one really knows about.

A former boss of mine had a side business making blade balancing weights for helicopters. He would take a few weeks every few years to make a big batch then ship them over. I found it surprising at the time that a one-man show made the blade balance weights for 1/4 of all the helicopters in the world as a part-time gig in the middle of nowhere. Just goes to show there are still plenty of niches out there if you can find them.
Automatically re-ssh if a host key changed and run monkeysphere s (ssh pk’s stored in gpg keychain) if not already loaded in the gpg agent (which also supports ssh-agent functions).

lw which does ls -l “$(which -a “$1”)”

ew which does ”$EDITOR” “$(which “$1”)”

newsh which does touch ~/bin/“$1” && chmod +x ~/bin/“$1” && “$EDITOR” ~/bin/“$1”

And habitat (hab) and arch pkgbuild, which use shell scripts as their package DSL... the former I’ve hacked up to screen-scrape package versions (due to the dearth of RDF/metalink usage in release artifact publication) and check gpg keys.
It's a fuse. It's write-once. That's just how the device works. They probably did it like that so that attempts to tamper with the device without the owner's knowledge would always be detectable after the fact.
RTP with RTCP is designed for streaming but not specifically multi listener synchronisation. They are not transport protocols - UDP and TCP are both commonly used for transport.
I keep hearing about this concept of "progressive disclosure", but I can't say I've seen it in Swift. Even the simplest functions I want to write, I tug on a little thread of an idea that I have, and pretty soon I'm pulling out this giant tangle that's got 3/4 of the Swift type system dangling off of it.

What you're saying may be technically true. My issue is with the "if you need it" part. Unfortunately, I don't get to choose what I think I need. The compiler does.

For example, every beginning Swift programmer runs into "Protocol can only be used as a generic constraint because it has Self or associatedType requirements" [1]. You start by thinking, I'm going to write a simple little type!, and then 30 seconds later you're digging through the least-documented parts of the Swift manual trying to figure out if there's a simple fix for this. (There isn't.) It's not like Objective-C where you write an -isEqualTo:(id) method and call it a day.

This happens all over the place. Swift lambdas are weirder than Objective-C blocks. Swift errors are weirder than Objective-C exceptions. Swift strings are weirder than Objective-C strings. Ultimately, there is always a reason for the complexity (often: performance), but the upshot is that for any Swift feature I've wanted to use, I always had to learn a lot of extra details before I was able to use it.

I feel there are a lot of other languages which are both easier to read and write, and do a much better job at progressive disclosure.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWoNjiSPqI8&t=53s
Securing Angular Applications with Auth0 and Deploying to Netlify
The World We Avoided by Protecting the Ozone Layer
My thoughts exactly. Don’t agents try and blend in by keeping a unremarkable profile? Once you’ve arrived your schedule can be anything you want.
There are several key points that get left out in AI radiology conversations such as this one:

1) Mammograms are not interpreted in a vacuum. In fact mammograms are usually the first in a long line of tests before a breast cancer or other diagnosis is ultimately made. In fact, it's probably more accurate to refer to mammography as a screening exam for which patients need a biopsy rather than a diagnostic test for cancer (there are rare exceptions, but overall this point holds).

2) Speaking frankly as a radiologist myself, tests like mammograms aren't even that good in terms of overall diagnosis. Thats why ultrasound, tomosynthesis and MRI are often used as supporting evidence and/or alternative exams.

3) There is controversy over the overall utility of mammograms, particularly in the screening context. Radiologists more than anyone would like the sensitivity and specificity of these studies to be higher.

It strikes me that the people that push these "radiology is ripe for disruption" or "AI outperforms radiologists" hyperbolic arguments are clearly people that have never seen the inside of a clinic. I'm sure they love this rhetoric though when pitching to VCs or sitting around the conference table coming up with 'breakthrough ideas' to turn into power-points for the other administrators.
Except the entire world runs on top of C and will continue to do so for quite some time, it's not all about new or user facing projects.

Linux is pretty popular.
hey i work at netlify. what do you mean we changed the way forms are handled? first i’m hearing of this
It is probably a good thing if it is getting harder to send your spies in foreign country. Should not this be considered a win win scenario for everyone ?
Later in the article it points out that an undercover person would arrive on a passport under a name but then check into a hotel under a different name. In that case it would trigger the alert that the passport name never arrived at a hotel. It also says that the practice had to change so that an undercover person used only a single persona for a country instead of having multiple personas and switching between them.
Decades after their nuke testing there, the US then used Kwajalein as target practice for their ICBMs:

https://youtu.be/PDL_pIPScSI
They can learn that stuff after they've become familiar with the fundamentals. Visitor pattern is just a way to implement pattern matching starting from the primitives Java and the like provide.
Taiwan promotes nationalism of its own nation, although it's nowhere near as hardline as the mainland.
None of which is "becoming a CEO".

I've done exactly what you spell out more than once and have an awesome career. But when it came to the times I was considered for the Big Seat the end-game always ended with someone saying "awesome job building this thing...now we're going to bring in someone way more connected/notable/presentable than you". If you're lucky they don't ask you to resign to make room.
Damn it's paywalled though
His last name in Arabic is غصن, the first letter being غ or ghayn ... This sound has no equivalent in English. On an English keyboard you would approximate the sound with a 3. So his name would be 3osn. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_chat_alphabet)

Ultimately transliterations are probably the legacy of some ancestor who immigrated decades or a century ago from Lebanon to Europe or the Americas.
I wrote a book about blockchain programming: https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/...

I didn't get rich by writing this book, but it's very useful for networking in blockchain community. It's like an expensive name card. It also boasts my reputation.

I developed a blockchain framework called Mamba: https://mamba.black

For those who are familiar with blockchain programming, Mamba is like Truffle but instead of based on Solidity+JavaScript, it is based on Vyper+Python.

For those who are unfamiliar, Mamba is like Ruby on Rails but it's for writing decentralized / programmable money applications.

My plan for 2020 is to write more tutorial articles in Mamba website and develop more features in Mamba framework.

For business: I am helping a company build their programming bootcamp (not related with blockchain).
Site linked to is a known bullshit factory. This and "Cosmic Book News" should be avoided like the plague.
Americans can safely criticise and scrutinise their own government in most cases.
Research Directions for Recommendation Systems
This. The higher the degree of centralization, the higher the reward for stealing the data is compared to its protection.
This really is the key point. The German people chose to shut down clear-air nuclear plants and leave their brown coal plants on. The coal plants kills lots of people per year via air pollution. Thus, this choice likely net killed lots of people. They have 45 GWe of coal capacity still, and they use it when the wind isn't blowing.

Of course, the German people were concerned that a nuclear accident would potentially kill more. This is easy to understand emotionally, but not scientifically. Nuclear power plants have killed up to ~4000 total including latent cancers from Chernobyl. Fossil kills 4-8 million people every single year. When you divide by TWh produced, nuclear comes out crazy safe among our energy options. And it's low-carbon to boot (12 gCO2-eq/kWh).
Facebook and Instagram have guaranteed that spies can be identified before they even decide to become spies. There will be decades of facial recognition data and social media presence as adolescents and adults before the thought of becoming a spy crosses their minds. If you don’t think that governments have already mined this data or have agents in all of the major companies and extracting data that would be extremely naive.
I wish there was a way to repost this to all most every medical breakthrough ml story.
This is why we need strong Right to Repair laws in all 50 states--not just for cars, but for all expensive technology.
As far as ripoff items go, it's not bad
You are being too hard on yourself.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/03/04/self-doubt/

We all suffer from "imposter syndrome" (at least the self-aware honest ones) which exacerbates the above.

>I see people posting brilliant work,

Nope; much of it is buzzword-bingo, polishing of superficialities, changing of times, jumping on the current bandwagon and echo chambers. Quite rare to see any real "brilliance".

Think of it as a normal distribution curve which used to be tall and thin now having become short and broad. More people exposed to more ideas and therefore more output to be found but real value has diminished (and whatever little, lost in all the noise which has increased exponentially).

We need to distinguish between Knowledge for Knowledge-sake vs Job-sake and adapt our expectations about ourselves accordingly.
Or in most cases expired or probably not collected at all.
Lebanon did not have a government for 2 years just a few years ago. The country was maybe better off then than with the corrupt politicians being chased away now...

The NGO support structure that was built throughout the civil war, centered around churches and mosques, continues to provide massive social services to the needy. This is a type of anti fragility in a social fabric that builds up when the govt is incapable of doing it themselves.

The irony of ghosn being considered for president is that he is accused of the same style of corruption that much of the ruling class has faced in recent months...
Same here buddy. I’m 30 and self teaching myself 2nd/3rd year undergrad math courses that I never learned since I wasn’t smart enough to pass the prereqs. I suppose like you I’m also considered competent at my job, but it’s not lost on me that people younger than me mastered this material a decade ago and are publishing cutting edge research. That’s just how it goes.

This past year I’ve had the misfortune of having an immediate family member suffer from a grave illness. It made me realize feeling bad about myself was just narcissism, and I need to continue to be my best but also spend less time feeling sorry for myself.

Best of luck to you in 2020 :)
No idea where they get their data because for my IP address they are totally wrong about the city while the whois data is correct.
Like I said I’m not heavily invested in this argument but separated lanes aren’t a panacea and are probably the best compromise for the average rider. It’s just something me and a lot of people I know would avoid for safety and further push us into traffic while confused cars think we’re the dumb ones.

I’ve never been on a separated bike lane without it being jammed up and cluttered with people who don’t know what they are doing, unless it’s dead out I’m not using them or would avoid the street entirely.

I miss Montreal which built bike highways in neighborhoods adjacent to busy one way streets (another good idea). Riding there was always a joy. SF scared the shit out of me but mostly because the city is disgustingly dirty and the roads are weird.
The New Yorker profile of Rui Pinto earlier this year was super-interesting:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/03/how-football-l...
Ask HN: What crapware does your company install on your work computer?
The security team in my org would like to install digitalguardian (https://digitalguardian.com/) or crowdstrike agent (https://www.crowdstrike.com/) on _all_ computers because reasons.

Initial experiences have not been very positive with many issues being reported including:

* rapid burnout of battery life

* random errors affecting fairly mundane io operations (e.g. git operations taking minutes, failure to compile apps etc.)

What has your experience been with these tools?
Just never take anyone else's money. Or have partners. Possible, but somewhat limiting.