skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parts of the medical field are done in a similar manner.

We call them nurses, PAs, and paramedics.

And every single one of them has a training program already more rigorous than most bootcamps.
One of the more interesting approaches toward wet biomass utilization is Hydrothermal Liquifaction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal_liquefaction

Basically you dump the wet biomass in a high pressure medium temperature reactor, and the water content of the biomass becomes supercritical, then acts as a solvent to break down the biomass into an usable crude oil (fairly similar to fossil crude, but with more oxygen content). This crude can be used directly as a fuel, or it can be upgraded (hydrogenated) into graded fuels like gasoline.
The unfortunate truth about calendar versioning is that it pushes devs and clients toward “freshness” instead of quality.

Same issue that we have in Apple’s design department: change for the sake of change.
Every library I've been to has told me the return date when I checked out the book and stamped on the library card or receipt you get when checking out the book. For decades there was no phone call/ notification, you'd get a letter in the mail after you'd already started racking up late fees.

Regardless of how broken their notification system is, keeping track of the return date has always been the borrower's responsibility.
It will trickle down of course. /s
Punjab state of India is pretty much Agriculture based, & have options of Ford, FarmTrac tractors as well as John Deere, Scot, this year models as well as from 1970s; along with local Indian Brands like Sonalika, Preet, Mahindra being equally good or better.
The issue will not be at cold but at high temperature. VCSELs have very poor efficiency at high temperature and it’s possible to operate them where increasing current reduces light output. In a vehicle application the temperatures are very high and humidity can also be very high and condensing.
You think OO patterns disappear in FP land? I can dependency inject my code to hell in FP just as fast as in OOP. I can pass first class functions around and effectively bring over all the problems from OOP land to FP.

It is a fad because FP issues new foot guns to blast your head completely off. FP without types and without understanding isn't a huge improvement over procedural programming or OOP.

You're already hearing about programmers not buying into the whole FP fad largely because of there experience with FP on react and other similar platforms.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1212284566431576069.html
I had the same on a 2002 Toyota avensis, and the price of the lights wasn't like 40 years ago either unfortunately.
”Because as a programmer you get paid to solve new problems, not old ones.”

In a lot of programming jobs you will repeatedly solve the same problem or a variation of it.
If a 46% increase in funding is negligible, then I would think "2. Campaign funding determines election results." would have to be modified.

Is your claim that above a certain dollar threshold money no longer has an impact?
Capitalizing on Terra’s Growth: A Valuation Framework for Luna
It doesn't matter if it is IR, UV, or visible. Only the power and duration matter.

Lidar uses very short pulses and very low power and is very safe even en masse.
I wonder how many desperate people might try this on themselves.
ASML rejects Samsung's involvement in IP theft case with rival, APRIL 17, 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-asml-holding-spying-samsu....
What Is Skyscraper Link Building Technique?
https://www.techkow.com/Skyscraper-Link-Building-Technique
Wasted Potential: The Consequences of New York City's Recycling Failure
It's definitely an ad hominem. You haven't said a thing about the actual ideas presented.
Declare John Deere a monopoly and break them up?
That seems to be what this article is describing.
Do you think normal gas powered cars have have been getting less reliable?

I agree with what many others here have said about how hard it is to service new vehicles. After he died, I kept my grandpa's 1970 Chevy C-10 pickup going for years. It was simple and very easy to fix/work on.

But it needed a lot more attention than modern cars, and I think that while the age played a factor, it was just inherently less reliable.

Key points: that Chevy needed an oil change every 3-4000 miles. New cars need oil changes every 8-10000 miles, give or take. Old cars also needed tune-ups.

What do you think?
Nice project!

I did something similar when I was still at school.
Scripts which emulated Codenames [1], and providing hints for given set of words [2].

I believe that is possible extension to your project - emulate Codenames games:)

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/178900/codenames

[2] https://github.com/johnnyheineken/codenames-AI
The important difference is that we used a more realistic temperature profile, which as you say does affect compression for that column. Schema design (including sort order, compression, and codecs) for the remaining columns is just good ClickHouse practice. Much of the storage and I/O savings is in the date, time, and sensor_id and columns.

It's also useful to note that the materialized view results would be essentially the same no matter how you generate and store data because the materialized view down-samples temperature max/min to daily aggregates. The data are vastly smaller no matter how you generate them.

The article illustrates that if you really had such an IoT app and designed it properly you could run analytics with surprisingly few resources. I think that's a significant point.
I don't think this has anything to do with airline deregulation. The FAA has really done an excellent job of managing the various airlines and it's an example I'd point to of how regulation can work correctly in that context. Mostly that's because airlines are even more interested in preventing their competitors form cutting corners that put airline crashes in the news than they are in cutting corners themselves leading to a good sort of regulatory capture.

But Boeing itself isn't one of the many airlines and is the singular US plane exporter champion. Wheras Delta, Southwest, et al want to see that the FAA isn't giving Jet Blue a pass there's mostly only Boeing to check whether Boeing is given too much of a pass and political pressure from up high is targeted at making Boeing better positioned to compete with Airbus which the FAA doesn't have jurisdiction or input from.

So I think it's really a different situation.
He was talking about advice he would give to his younger self.

Yeah, the Christian faith as it is popularly practiced, has a bad reputation for being pushy about their creed ... but I don't think this guy is doing that.

I'll flip it the other way. People in the West don't feel as defensive about Buddhism, or even mindfulness meditation. Almost everyone who has some initial success with mindfulness meditation methods (like vipassana) will go around trying to tell everyone how awesome life-changing it is. I went through such a period as well, wrote a bunch about it on Quora, before settling down.
> Sure, but why is it a service as opposed to a library?

In what language? Sometimes a service is nothing more than a library where HTTP is the ABI.
Breaking PHP's mt_rand() with 2 values and no bruteforce
This is about the notification that a book is ready for pickup.
These companies are losing customers. That is never good for business. Eventually, someone will take the matter into his own hand and start making 80s-like tractors, so these companies will lose even more customers. They could do the same, but at this point they lost the trust of their customers, so it will be very hard to gain them back.
Note: This story is about heavy duty tractors. Lighter duty tractors are much more competitive marketplace.
Thanks for this comment. This has changed my view somewhat on the Iran situation.

I originally thought it was pretty dumb of Trump to tear up the nuclear deal, escalate tensions, and most recently basically try to start a war (by killing a high level government official).

But if "death to America" is literally being indoctrinated into their whole society, maybe war is inevitable, and better for it to start on our terms, when we have an advantage, instead of (say) wringing our hands and kicking the can down the road until they have nukes, like we did with North Korea. Maybe Trump's stance on this issue might not be so crazy?
> Because the Democrats don’t want to hear that they lost because they chose Hillary to run instead of almost anyone else.

If by “the Democrats” you mean “the center-right neoliberal Democratic establishment”, sure. The rest of the Democratic Party has been saying that was a deciding factor (though not the sole deciding factor; there are a number of things you could take away and flip the result) since the day after the 2016 general election (and predicting it even earlier.)

> I can see the Democrats making the same mistake again with Michelle Obama in 4 years’ time if they don’t win this round, I only hope she’ll be smart enough to stay out of it.

Michelle Obama has neither the general negatives that hurt Clinton nor (and there is no plausible way to change this in 4 years) the institutional establishment experience and position that positioned Clinton to win the primary in 2016 (or even the kind that enabled her to get close in 2008.) So, she's got neither what made Clinton powerful in the primary or what made her weak in the general. Once she's spent two and half decades out of the White House, half of them in the Senate and a few more in the cabinet she might acheive the former, but even then it would take something special to acheive the degree of antipathy Clinton has gotten from everywhere except the Democratic establishment, whether it's outside of the party or the non-establishment left within the party.

Plus, the rules that interacted with establishment support to facilitate Clinton's win in 2016 were abolishes almost immediately due largely to the influence the Sanders factions gained in the DNC despite not winning the nomination, so even a Clinton clone with an electorate with no hindsight to 2016 failures would have a harder time.

> On the other side of the aisle the Republican base was smart enough to send Jeb Bush swinging early on during the primaries, that’s why they now hold the Presidency

The Republican base wasn't smarter, the Republican Party just has different nominating rules. Like those in the Democratic nomination system that was operational in 2016, they generally tended (and this is by design) reinforce establishment candidates, but the two systems have different failure modes. The Republican system is designed to work by magnifying the perceptual impact of early victories, even narrow ones, epsecially if they are common across the early primary/caucus states; which usually, when the rules were set, were a matter of name recognition and establishment support. The Democratic ones in 2016 provided a more direct link to establishment support by way of superdelegates (which media tends to count in delegate counts from primaries though they are separate, which gives the establishment candidate an air of inevitability, momentum, and popular support beyond what is factually present.) The Republicans went into 2016 without a clear consensus establishment candidate, which combined with Trump's celebrity status allows Trump to reap the benefit of early victories.
This is cool. One improvement could be to add a redirection URL as a parameter in the request so that users land back on the app.
Vast majority of Linux admins are incompetent.

>Windows may well be more secure than Linux

This is very obviously the case if you look into the deployed exploit mitigation technologies.
> there are actually a lot of applications where people do not try to construct an interpretable model, because they might believe that for a complex data set, an interpretable model could not possibly be as accurate as a black box. Or perhaps they want to preserve the model as proprietary.

I think they missed an important reason here. It's why I decided to study AI and Machine Learning: The ability to "just throw some data at it and see if it figures it out" is just so exciting, mysterious and intriguing.

I remember actually being a bit disappointed when I learned how (classic, 3 layer, early 2000s) neural networks worked. That it was just something super simple with derivatives, and resulted in something that seemed a lot like a more complex form of statistical regression. Kind of took the magic out of it for me, a little (didn't stop me of course, it was and still is an exciting field of research).

I know it's not a good reason, but surely I'm not the only one who thinks it's extremely cool that one is even able to build a black box that does useful things with what you feed it, but you don't know how it works, and yet you built it.

It's just something mystifying, and I believe there is also a tinge of fear for that disappointment, to figure it out and find out it's not really doing as clever things as you hoped it might.
^ The deal is never actually done until the money is wired and cleared into your account. Everything that happens before that including signed papers and handshakes are just negotiations.
Followed closely by the second most influential action, encouraging other people to vote the same way you do in website comments on articles that don't pertain to elections.

Good luck, Mssr. Quixote.
The article focuses on hosts as well as guests - specifically identifying hosts who would be problematic or are scamming AirBNB
Facebook AI – Text-Based Generation of Interactive Worlds
It's good for the business in the short run, but not in any other sense. Reputation matters quite a bit when it comes to this sort of costly, mission-critical equipment, and any John Deere competitor now has an easy way of grabbing some of that market share.
Maybe if Europe had a powerful military and wasn't dependent on the US for its defense then it could actually tell the US to go pound sand.

But that's expensive and instead you guys get to shovel your money into social programs knowing if push comes to shove we are gonna help out.

The situation in Europe is entirely self-created.
I wish we could get this in San Francisco to alleviate the choke point of the tunnel to the East Bay.
Ask HN: Third-Party Security Audits
I'm a (young) sysadmin who is responsible for a relatively small (~ 30 employees, ~ 30 Desktops, ~5 notebooks, 2 Offices) company. We mostly live in Windows land (Windows 10 machines, most people use Office 365 for their jobs).

I'm quite happy with what we've built so far, but I also know I probably have a personal bias towards my work.

Hence I'd like to hear opinions and recommendations regarding companies that do security audits. What are the most famous companies that perform this sort of work? Is it useful? Is there any standard seal / certificate regarding IT office security? I've searched a bit and asked around, but couldn't find anything beyond "That stuff is expensive!".

Any help is appreciated!
So much of the tech industry has built incredible remote work tools as a part of their products and services to other industries and yet surprisingly still seems so mindless a centralizing force in its own efforts. Not a single member of GAFAM is missing remote work tech in their portfolios, but all of them still want employees to start primarily and almost exclusively in either Mountain View/Palo Alto or Seattle/Redmond depending. It's almost a sadly hypocritical stance compared to what they are trying to sell their remote tools for, a sign perhaps that they don't really trust those same tools and aren't dogfooding them enough.

Software has almost the largest ability of any industry to be built entirely through remote work, yet seems almost the most afraid to do so, at least based on the attitudes from all the largest employers specific to the industry.
Freestanding gold atoms cluster in pyramidal shape of 20 atoms
>I hope in the future there are more companies that try to align incentives with their customers

Sometimes the invisible hand is invisible because it's not there. I don't understand how "fewer regulations" is supposed to address problems like these, or really any market failure state.
If tractors with closed software are such a problem, why doesn't a company build old-school tractors? Heck, you could use a 1980 design, currently selling second-hand for $40-60k, based on expired patents.
... so insisted the Surveillance Valley reality distortion field of the late 2000's, leading to an ever-growing backlash now including this law.

No, pervasive surveillance is not a benefit to me because it facilitates smoother attempts at psychological manipulation. It's generally a good thing when spam stands out as much as possible, making it easier to ignore.
Does civilian GPS have enough resolution to be useful in a tractor guidance system?
I wonder what countermeasures could be deployed against anchors? Some kind of outer trellis to keep the chain away from the structure and then designed to break-away in a predictable way if the anchor snags? Surely this isn't an impossible challenge.
p.s. Loading the view is low-cost compared to loading the source data. On the NUC it's 40-60 minutes, so worst case it's something like 1h / 17.5h = 5.71%. Also, you can still query the source data. That is fast for individual sensors as the examples showed.
Just a small correction (sorry if I sound pedantic), I think you meant RPA instead of RPC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_process_automation

I noticed that since I worked at the RPA team of my current employer. :-)
>Fair enough, but as you literally state yourself, the security system does not even help. I repeat, it does nothing.

Because it's a single system and not part of a network. If it were part of a network then, theoretically, the thief could be tracked back to their car/home and arrested. Hackernews loves to jump to the dystopian when it comes to public surveillance but somehow has a blind spot for the utopian possibilities. A sufficiently broad and technologically advanced public surveillance system would essentially eliminate crime in public. Why steal a package off a porch if you're going to be immediately identified and then automatically tracked via camera until it's convenient for the police to arrest you?
I'd expect as much, but the opposite happened. It started somewhat skewed and larger, but a bunch of people sloughed off to the current state.
> At least with Linux we have thousands of open source developers keeping an eye on things, chances are much higher that an issue would be caught with Linux since Windows is closed source.

That’s all utterly irrelevant when ElementaryOS doesn’t even offer reproducible builds.

Besides, source code access doesn’t make finding bugs much easier. Usually you’ll be auditing binaries anyway.
> Austen seems to be working exceptionally hard to get around the fact that they're operating illegally

You mean trying to fix the fact?

As far as I've seen (Allred comments on HN), Allred/Lambda certainy test the boundaries of law and enforcement, but Allred is consistently respectful with CA's rulings, does what CA agencies demand, and keeps the school/"school" open. Yes, Lambda moves fast and breaks rules and pays penalty costs, but they don't deny the legitimacy of the laws and try to weasel out.
See http://www.1024cores.net/home/lock-free-algorithms/tricks/fi... on ucontext

And for longjmp, Apple source for example https://opensource.apple.com/source/Libc/Libc-262/i386/sys/s....
It does seem like glibc impl doesn't involve syscalls: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.unix.programmer...
I looked over zig when it was first announced and really liked the idea, it was just too fresh for me to work with.

But I've always had a mental note to go back once it got a bit more stable because I really do like the ideas behind it.

It sounds to me like it's definitely getting there and that's awesome.
A lot of routes have only one airline though.
Yeah, as long as the AI consistently applies the same biases humans do, everybody's happy right? /s
Specifically though on tractors we're seeing companies essentially DRMing replacement parts. Farmers etc can easily find and install parts but then the computer controller will not recognize the replacement or won't reset from the error condition.
I'm no expert.

I'd say the Hopi. The Iroquois Confederacy also comes to mind. But they were quite warlike. Definitely not the Comanche.
Story: my father—a non-practicing jew—was staying in a ski lodge with his friend Steve, and orthodox jew. Steve couldn't go skiing on the sabbath, so he had to stay behind in the lodge that day.

Apparently, if someone is technically jewish, you can't tell them to break sabbath rules. So before my father left for the day, Steve kept telling him about all the great stuff playing on TV.

My father did not get the hint.
Ask HN: What benefits of quitting alcohol consumption?
I've decided to do a "dry" January and if I can do it, will try to extent to all of 2020.

I didn't drink often, not more than once a week. But it was usually a binge episode, having at least 10 drinks.

Has anybody stopped? What were the benefits? I am thinking that the reduction of stress on the body might lead to clearer thinking during work, etc.
Yum Brands just spent $375M to finally take on McDonald's hamburgers
Being tall is a huge advantage. Over 6' is tall in the Bay. So is being white. Don't sell yourself short.
" that implementing a new backoffice suite by a consulting company is one third or less technical / IT project; and two thirds or more business process / transformation project"

It's at least 50% sales.
-But this scenario would require the ship to lower anchor in an area where doing so is a big no-no, while under speed and where waters are generally too deep for anchoring, anyway.

I don't think E39 will ever be ferry-free - the project is simply too outrageously expensive, even by our petroboosted economy's standards.

However, it would make sense to improve the road - I drive parts of E39 almost every day, and in places the posted limit is 50km/h (31mph). It goes through populated areas - so there are zebra crossings. On a European backbone road. Sigh.
I think it helped me because a structured curriculum with expectations really helps me to actually get the work done. The other big plus was having access to the teacher and the TAs as a resource who I could actually walk over and talk to. I definitely could have achieved the same level of understanding without attending the bootcamp but it would have taken much longer cause sometimes I'm a lazy asshole.
> The technology itself is not the issue...

In a way, it is. There's no argument today's machines (including even consumer cars) are more technologically complicated than those of 40 years ago. There's more stuff (read features) that can break, and there's more microcontrollers and embedded computers that run software (read bugs) with sometimes intricate behavior.

Those 40-year old tractors are easier to maintain because everything is mechanical, so it's easier to diagnose and easier to fix.
My phone has Google Fi VPN. This VPN doesn't do everything, but websites now think I'm in Mountain View. I am nowhere close. Is a VPN a better solution? I understand that Google might not be the best company to trust here, but they did give it to me for free and it is working fine.
Big AGG works the same way as any other industry: make enough money to grind your competition into the dust. If that means yanking features from a product so that you can sell it at multiple price points or if it means adding self destruct mechanizes that only you can fix then so be it. Obviously, not all entities work this way (bless their hearts) but I think it's fair to say most of the successful ones do.
I'm also not an expert, but to me the critical distinction is that prions are contagious, that is they cause other proteins to misfold. You can have misfolded proteins that don't cause cascading problems.