skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kinda funny how they treat years old ram like its gold. I feel bad for the employee(s) that get locked in cages all day.

They're spending a ton of labor for things that don't matter (like keeping a cafe open). No wonder they dont have money to keep their shelves stocked with anything other than as seen on tv junk.
My plan asks. It may vary by state and my employer is self-funded so they may have influence over the questionnaire.
Site looks great! Thanks for the example.
There's a big difference between taxing it and marketing campaigns to warn of the dangers, and "policing" it like the parent said.

The government is not forbidding anybody from smoking.
My mates a ‘die hard’ C# fan and has been using it (almost exclusively) for over 15 years. Recently he’s been talking about Blazor a lot, and having worked on a few web apps myself, I can see its general appeal.

Why don’t you like it? I’ve not read any anti-Blazor opinions.
>Companies still selling a large % of ICE vehicles can’t market their EVs effectively.

This is nonsense. Every major manufacturer is marketing an EV. The problem is that nobody, including Tesla, has figured out how to make these cars profitably.
What probably happenned is that planning that trajectory and putting in the equipment would've taken longer and the alien manager responsible for the project had promised his boss he'd deliver it on time. When the alien engineers pointed out the whole point of the mission was to collect data and shipping it as is would be a total waste alien manager responded with some variant of "We'll fix that in the next release." because his bonus was based on shipping that thing now.
This is from 1989 but the short answer is that overall, a smokers contribution through sales/sin tax outweighs their increased healthcare cost that you’re subsidizing. Factor in the increased life expectancy, ballooning healthcare costs, increased sin taxes and the cost of elderly care since then and you should probably buy a carton of cigarettes for a co-worker as a thank-you gift!

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236303517_The_Taxes...
So if I'm a contractor with one a single legal client, does that make me that client's employee?
Thanks for the tip! I'll definitely look into that.
Agreed, slippery slope indeed.
I'm all for removing the broken system we have today, but a single payer system doesn't remove the challenge that the entrepreneur faces - it just changes it. Under single payer, you are now trying to sell to a large government organization, with all the pain and red tape that comes with that.
FoundationDB's client bindings have a locality API which allows you to query the client's metadata cache of which key ranges are on which storage processes. This would allow you to build that feature of routing a query to the data.
Meanwhile, in Brazil...

"Operation Saucer - UFO military encounters in the Brazilian jungle"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThkmRsEBOY0

The Brazilian military has begun declassifying documents.
If only they also included the old UIs...
Fair enough, I didn't know that.
Imagine you have a chronic condition, and every month your insurance writes a substantial check for your care. A new treatment comes along that might fix your condition permanently. Surely they'll leap to pay for it?

Unfortunately, they probably won't want to. People frequently change insurance, so the most likely outcome is they'll have to pay for an expensive treatment, but never see the savings.

This is currently playing out for some new expensive new gene therapies.
Reinforces Apple's decision to launch their own retail business. Circuit City was where I rediscovered Macs after having been away for a decade.
> There are no circumstances where it makes sense to ignore player-submitted video proof of cheating. This should always be acted on quickly to reassure legitimate players and scare cheaters off.

And if the net result of that strategy is that it catches many fewer cheaters? That wouldn't make much sense, and the community, far from being reassured, would be more frustrated because they would encounter many more instances of cheating that occurred because players were able to deduce the loop holes.

You have to balance "catch the most cheaters" vs. "catch cheating immediately". Especially when it may take many instances of suspicious behavior to make a confident decision to ban.
How much of that is just people wanting to make their own mistakes? This is one of those things where people only learn from making the mistake themselves.

Most products are mainly built by people who face that same problem their app solves. This gives them a reason to build it. As worst, it's used internally. At best, it's a side hustle or much more.
Anyone else notice that this is starting to form a letter 'M'? Perhaps, with the correct versioning scheme[0] and appropriate install size fluctuations, they could write out the company name.

[0] Almost definitely not semver.
Creating a 20-years projection based only on data after the crisis of 2008/2009 might not be wise.
The site would just say "for added security, we are requesting your backup code this time."
Good luck to uhaul achieving hiring goals. I imagine that they have to disqualify a significant fraction for drug use, and now they want to add nicotine. Good luck with that. Maybe they really really just want to reduce the incentive to hiring.

There's an entire economic sector that struggles with finding good people because of the drug crisis. You don't encounter this problem in startup land, but talk to restaurants or places looking for general manpower that doesn't require a college degree. Finding talent who will pass drug tests is a struggle. Now adding a nicotine? Good luck.

We couldn't get universal healthcare fast enough. When you couple employment with healthcare, it is only logical that employment will start disqualifying people based on lifestyle choices. Start with nicotine today. Tomorrow add obesity and diabetes. Why both sides of isle seem to double-down, no triple down, on getting benefits from work is crazy to me. The left sees the policy as a way of extracting rents/dues from corporations. The right sees it as enforcing a 'working makes free' philosophy on the poor.
This EV transition will likely wipe a few out, for sure. It's hard to imagine how the pension burdened American co's will survive. But Tesla actually lost market share quarter-over-quarter in the US. It's a rough market for autos right now.
Yeah, I'm not opposed to taking leftovers home if it's something I would eat the next day (like Chinese a lot of the time). But most of my leftovers are usually piles of carbs that I'm unlikely to bother with.

In any case, most of my restaurant eating is while I'm traveling so I'm mostly not able or not interested to do anything with leftovers.
Proof-of-stake is cryptocurrency's fusion power: perpetually "less than a year away"; it's the technology of the future and always will be.
>For my money, closures, pattern matching, and templates (not any implementation in particular) are easy enough to reason about and much better than the corresponding bugs they address

Then write C++ only using closures, pattern matching and templates outside of the C feature set.
I would imagine we're so far down the list it really doesn't matter...
I can confirm it works here. Very low resolution, but watchable.
In fact, one of the things proposed in the article is that the object is a light sail being accelerated by the sun.
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This rings a bell or two. After spending years of creating projects with Webpack and wasting tens of hours on configuration, I just started my new project with parcel, where I just run "parcel index.html" and I'm done. I had fun configuring all the stuff before, but now I just need to get the work done.
I'll chip in with my book, which is written with programmers in mind, implements everything from scratch, works on CPU and GPU, at great speed. Directly links theory to implementation, and you can use it along with Goodfellow's Deep Learning book. Also, discusses all steps, and does not skip gradients by using autograd.

Deep Learning for Programmers: An Interactive Tutorial with CUDA, OpenCL, DNNL, Java, and Clojure.

https://aiprobook.com/deep-learning-for-programmers/
Off topic but I attended a talk by Stroustrup on C++ and one of my favourite parts was when he was asked what his thoughts were on Java or C#.

“I don’t like to talk badly about C++ applications.”

If not strictly true nowadays it was still funny.
In all seriousness it sounds like a shadow projected onto a stratus cloud. It's somewhat non-intuitive to people that shadows do not grow in size with distance in the air. A 747 casts a 747 sized shadow onto clouds since the sun is so far away its light rays are all effectively parallel.

One thing that does happen to shadows is they get blurred at the edges (an aircraft won't completely cover the sun at a distance). An aircraft will tend to cast a vaguely "T" shaped shadow at a distance that's roughly the size of the aircraft. I can see a "t" shaped object in these images.

Here's a video of a test flight of the Vahana aircraft. https://youtu.be/S-5JeapSsbE?t=188

See the mysterious "t" shaped shadow it's casting? It moves erratically and doesn't match intuition of a shadow since shadows from the sun don't work the same way as indoors due to the parallel rays. You get these same shadows projected onto clouds as well.

The real kicker is that in these videos they both show and report that the shadow rotates when the aircraft turns! Like guys what the fuck do you think it is? Haha oh dear.
>A lower climate impact is almost like a luxury item.

Only from the perspective of a citizen of a wealthy country trapped in a mindset of consumerism. Inhabitants of wealthy countries on average consume multiples of what inhabitants of poorer countries do.¹ The easiest way to lower your climate impact is to simply consume less. This doesn't cost anything, and in fact saves you money.

¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
No, they're not stable.

My current ISP in the UK and my previous one in France are changing IPs every few weeks or so in practice, or when the box is rebooted, or when the connection is lost for a while between the box and the ISP.

The game server would prevent many (most?) players by whitelisting IPs, but I bet they couldn't care less about blocking players or they wouldn't require whitelisting in the first place.
I have dropped multiple phones and never broken the glass. I dropped my iPhone XS hard onto the sidewalk, but it hit the side of my case and while the case was quite damaged, the phone is pristine.
Oumuamua visits HN several times a month, though.
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It sounds a lot like God of the gaps [1], only with aliens instead of God.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps
the NCEES is discontinuing Software PE exams
https://ncees.org/ncees-discontinuing-pe-software-engineerin...
Spot on with what I had in mind when making my comment. I suppose this doesn't work nearly as well with matchmaking systems where you don't have a community like you commonly did back in the day
Astrology is about trying to find what your target/subject wants and creating predictions around them. You should keep predictions vague, never "predict" specifics.

It's basically the Mediumship-esque parlor trick, the difference being that you're observing stars and planets instead of communing with the dead, you have to probe and search to see what they really want. Ask leading questions, make educated assumptions, refine over time as you learn about them.
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Saving the replay costs data though. It’s not only the reviewing.
Some studies have shown that lifetime healthcare costs are actually lower for smokers (due to shortened lifespan).

A link to the study can be found in this article summarizing it:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/03/22/alcohol-...
Are you aware of any real alternatives for electronics hardware in the Indy area? With RadioShack dead and Fry's dying, I honestly have no idea where to go.
I live close a fry’s and it’s sad to see how empty the electronic component section (resistors, small dc motors, sensors, etc) becomes every visit.

Last time I visited there were empty areas in several aisles.

I know someday I’ll have to order all parts online unless I find a local option.
Ah, I used to work at that location in the mid 00s. The place was a mad house back then. They probably still show the video of me getting a "customer" into a rear naked choke after he started attacking employees.

Those were the days :)
I take the article to be written in the mindset he had at the time. When he made that quote you mentioned, he thought as he was heads-down building the product that it would be useful to those people.

He then goes on to describe the evidence specifically why doctor's DIDN'T want it. All the author was trying to do with that quote was explain what he was thinking at the time.
Isn't this all speculation by everyone? My reason for such speculation is that if the Oumuamua was actually a probe, the little information which we can observe from it (speed, size, trajectory changes) is plausible in terms of our current technology and understanding of physics. What was seen by the Nimitz is not.
> Most cheaters/bots are really easy to spot since they don't even try to be sneaky about it.

This could very well be a case of selection bias. I think there is a significant portion of cheaters who just want to get a leg up, rather than ragehack and pwn everyone.

When I was 13 trying to play CS, for example, I used a multihack with crappy 'humanizing' aimbot and wall/esp hacks. I could still barely get a kill, but it changed my gameplay experience from "run across them map, instantly die, wait for next round" to something a little more fun. I actually feel like it improved my gameplay because I could learn what to expect from other players, what routes and timings were common, faster than I could through regular play. Of course, now I would just watch demos / pro play to get the same value.
What are you basing this interpretation on?
Would subdomains not achieve this though?
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Used to shop at the Oxnard location all the time - opening day was awesome, and the cheap hotdogs they'd do the following year. Probably the brightest fry's I've seen.

Had to stop going there when some manager got upset I was came back in asking for a price adjustment per the store policy and they told me to never come back after handing me cash.
Discussed 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21923220
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Second thumbs up for Micro Center. I like that they have a combination of consumer-level electronics, mid-level stuff like Raspberry Pis, and low-level stuff like resistors and whatnot.

It's a bit of a pain for me to get to MicroCenter (about an hour one the train), but it has always been useful for me when I'm in a pinch.

When I visit my parents in Orlando, there's a smaller place called "Skycraft" which has a lot of low-level components, but I haven't been able to find an analog to it in NY just yet. Do you know of any?
Granted more suffer from shower injuries but how severe are the shower injuries vs biking?
> Here is the thing. Google has one primary source of revenue. Ad tech.

This is changing though - the most recent quarterly report has YTD ad revenues as 84% of overall revenues, with the corresponding previous year's period at 86%. The non-ad revenues are in the tens of billions of dollars - hardly nothing.

https://abc.xyz/investor/
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If the scientist was wrong, he was wrong for reasons that were more subtle and complicated than the objections the author thought of. A better option would be to have organized a debate between two scientists who were both already experts. There's also a difference between skepticism and unfriendliness: the author came across as unfriendly, while a scientist who could not be so easily knocked back might have been able to keep it to skepticism.
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Is there anybody who would argue against:

- everything is an expression

- destructuring

- support for higher order functions

Those seem to be universally loved features that new programming languages are required to have in order to still be appealing.
Ah, the American politician strategy.

> Sure we defunded it, but look how crappy it is! Nobody uses it! Guess we don't need it.
> I understand the health implications of being a nicotine user but… if you wish to smoke…

Conflating nicotine use and smoking suggests you do NOT understand the health implications. Even though the 2 have historically been close to intertwined they're not the same thing. This mentality is understandable due to years of frightening PSAs but it's inaccurate and precisely why issues like this hiring policy arise.
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>Thanks in advance to the Tesla cult for the downvotes!

In one of the (many) depositions, it was revealed that Tesla has some serious PR firms on retainer to control narrative. You can see on Twitter bot networks of accounts tweeting the exact same message. Tesla understands modern marketing.
The contrast button doesn’t work when the background is set to transparent.
More interesting than these obvious scams are when your phone company sends you legitimate texts that look like scams. I got what I thought was something super scammy from Verizon and did a lot of investigation and eventually found out that it was them.

The TLDR is that apparently they send all their marketing texts from "+90 (007) 000 38 64". You can opt out on their website and now I don't get these anymore. It's nice. But sad that my $120 a month isn't enough money for them, and they have to text me at 3AM to get me to buy a new phone. (And sell my browsing data.)
The original plan would have been hobbled by technical debt. They were going to implement the core algorithm as a smart contract on the old chain. It would have supported a much smaller number of stakers and shards.

In mid-2018 they threw out that plan, choosing instead to implement PoS as an entirely separate chain, integrated with sharding. This entailed a delay of over a year, but it meant a minimum stake of 32 ETH instead of 1500, and an overall much more efficient and scalable system. There are three main phases, the first being the core proof-of-stake "beacon chain," which is currently running a multi-client testnet.

There have been various proposals for migrating legacy Ethereum into all this; here's the latest: https://ethresear.ch/t/alternative-proposal-for-early-eth1-e...
Those people came from the aboriginal population that migrated from Siberia...so maybe
Thanks for the links, nice to see this clearly described. The journalists were much happier to write about a prospective scandal than about the fact that it didn't happen, so even as a not-quite-casual observer, it hasn't been so easy to pick up the details on this.
I’m not completely sure, but I think some things are shared by eTLD+1.
It might not be satisfying, but the answer is a reminder that you bought a car from Tesla and not a perpetual license to use their services. They are providing that service on the condition of you agreeing to their terms. If you don't agree, you can remove or disable the car's cellular connection. The core features of the car will still work, but a lot of noncritical aspects like maps, voice control, streaming music, the phone app, etc will be disabled.
I also remember demoing the 3DO at Incredible Universe. What an incredible store design they had. I believe I also bought my copy of OS/2 there.
You can make Win7 look like Win95 by turning off all eye candy. Still usable today if that's your thing.
So your username?
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Oh no, did my previous comments read as an exhaustive list of issues with C?
Would you say the same thing about cash? Because Dai is the closest thing out there to true digital cash.
Only a little related to this, in recent months I've spoken to ~60 growth stage equity funds and found out that essentially all transformed to be SAAS focused investors.

That means they abandoned 1/3 portfolio strategy they used to have (1/3 loses money, 1/3 returns exactly 1, 1/3 returns fund) but instead are focusing on steady returns by SAAS companies at 2-3x of the investment.

There are a few major implications:

- for the founders; if you don't fit their narrative, for example you have big chunk of revenue coming from services or you have only few enterprise clients, then you are out of luck

- for the funds; the deals are overly competitive driving up the price and diminishing the returns

- for the market; up until the economy is up to the right, things will be fine. Once things start changing, the first things to go will be a lot of these "nice to have" SAAS companies. In turn they will take down growth equity and freeze funding at the later stage (Series B, C, D, ...).

The last point applies to also to the the article. You can build bootstrapped $1M ARR business, but can you defend it? I think that's the biggest question.
Sure, those might be the numbers in your use cases, with your materials, but I'd be very careful about claiming those numbers if the situation is changed even slightly.

1. Change in strength is dependent on the cord material and weave. Stiffer cord will lose more strength when tied, while more supple cord will maintain its strength better. The tradeoff is that supple cord is more susceptible to tangling. Citing one number as a strength loss for different knots is sure to be false. I would guess, for example, that your cotton twine sees less percentage loss in strength in both knots than your jute.

2. The change in strength is also dependent on the sharpness of the folds in the material. A sharper turn is weaker than a rounder one. If you tie a knot around something, that decreases the sharpness of the turns, which is going to increase the strength of the knots. We aren't typically just tying an overhand or figure 8 midline in a knot and pulling on the ends--I can't think of ANY place where that's useful. The closest thing I can think of is a stopper knot, and neither of these knots is ideal for that application. I'd expect to see a higher loss of strength with flat overhand/flat figure 8, than with a ring bend/flemish bend (which correspond to the overhand and figure 8). This is because the weakest points in the flat knots is the turn entering the knot, whereas the retraced bend versions of these knots, the cord enters the knot in a straight line.

3. Breaking is often not the largest source of failure. A flat figure 8 will roll and come untied long before the cord breaks in most materials, while the flat usually binds within 1-3 rolls. The breaking load of a flat overhand is much, much higher than the rolling load of a flat figure 8 in climbing ropes I've tried it with.
Which I find a bit annoying; what I like about Fry's is that they have low-level components in addition to the high-level stuff. With Radio Shack closing, and Fry's probably closing soon, the only non-internet place left that I'll be able to purchase components will be Micro Center.

My point is, Best Buy has never been a one-to-one comparison to me. There are things that Fry's has that Best Buy simply doesn't.
How TF did I miss that. Seriously. Thanks for the note.