skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Poland and I am ok with US bullying others around because it increases stability even if we all have to pay for it.
The problem with that pipeline is that Russia will get a way to cut off Ukraine and Poland without cutting Western Europe (their biggest customers). This increases chances of them invading rest of the Ukraine or maybe even Poland in the future.

Without big bully to prevent countries doing deals that decrease stability in other countries we have no recourse. Sadly it's too late for that particular project to be stopped. Previous administration missed it or didn't intervene on purpose. It doesn't make any sense to put sanctions on Russia because of their land grab in Ukraine while allowing them to build a pipeline that destabilizes the region even further.
A someone who lives outside the Apple bubble...how Apple users listen to music now? Spotify? What if you have a local library?
this is cursed
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You'll never know because you are doing the equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and going "la-la-la" when anyone tells you you're wrong.

You are willfully ignoring evidence. You may dismiss Snopes outright, but Snopes is not the sole source of the evidence, but rather a summary. And Snopes links to their sources. Here's one, which is the primary source for one of the paragraphs I quoted:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/09/01/did-claim...

In it you'll read a Boston Globe article from 2018:

> But this year, as she campaigns for reelection to the Senate and considers a 2020 presidential bid, she has taken a major step: releasing the contents of her university personnel files to the Globe after six years of rebuffing requests for them.
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That seems a bit less detectable than the trash can method. Why the technological regression?
There's no question of whether you have the right to assume guilt.

It's only that, logically, if you rush to judgment on anything, you don't in fact care about the issue that much. You can't convince someone rational that you both do and don't concern yourself with it.
This is such hipster arrogance it makes me angry.
Open source it. Just open source it all. This would restore so much faith and allow passionate researchers to improve safety.
Yeah maybe a widely used app like Jenkins makes sense to use, but I'd definitely prefer a platform everyone knew. Docker does help too.
limit caffeine, find the best time to go to bed and keep to it, for the stress; have a notebook by your bed and write down all the things you need to do the next day- now they're not in your head.
here for more sleep tips-https://www.sleepfoundation.org/articles/sleep-hygiene

from a former sleep researcher
Interesting! Is this open source? Can it be self hosted?
It feels like the Clojure community is kind of withering. Or maybe it's just perpetually stuck in the Lisp niche.
I'll bite: what problem is that?
I wrote this article. As I worked on it I discovered many good resources on Thread Local Storage (TLS), I linked to those in the Further Reading section.

Even with some really good documents it was still hard for me to see the big picture, that's why I drew the diagrams. I hope this article and the diagrams help with others in the future.
Reliability of trains in the UK really varies by route. When I was studying and when I first started working I extensively used mainline routes and had no issues.

The last train I could take on a Friday night was 10pm, but given it was a 3 hour journey that didn't seem unreasonable. Each year there was usually one incident that caused delays, but other than they worked well. If I took a fast train the journey time was around the same as driving - quicker in fact given on the journey I would stop for a break - and ticket prices were about the same as driving (for 1 person).

On the other hand I was working in London in 2018, and at weekends often flying from LTN. In the end I added an hour buffer (to a 45 minute journey) because the reliability of Thameslink was so bad.
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You say you monitor the whole web. How is that possible?
What a cool idea! Minor suggestion -- start/stop feature is pretty buggy. Pressing stop seems to do nothing, pressing start seems to start a new instance, but not stop the old instance, causing both instances to play on top of each other.
Why would there be a widespread anything about an issue in countries on a far away continent? It's administration job to care about geopolitics and long term consequences of decisions like building a pipeline. People not involved in politics won't because it doesn't influence their everyday lives directly. It's not possible for them to make a rational judgement about it anyway as they have very little information about the issue.
"May never happen" is such a cautious statement that to argue against it means "will certainly happen", and that's a pretty extreme position to take -- so extreme I would call it techno-utopianism. I'm still waiting for my flying car, but you are already promising me a thinking car, when there are so many obstacles, each of which could sink it:

- researching it may not be feasible

* because it becomes a waste of engineering resources to continue the research

* because almost self-driving cars may be good enough

- even if researching it is, it may not be economical because

* political resistance or liability laws prevent mass rollout

* the cost of building and maintaining required infrastructure is too high

* not enough car purchasers may want it
Salaries do go down with profits, a long enough run of low profits and salaries go to zero.
I am certain that someone would have noticed this happening before. Maybe it is a symptom of climate change. Instead of ice being dammed up earlier in the river, it moves further down and freezes in the currents.
The signal doesn't have to be strong, only detectable.

The nails aren't structural, only a signal.

Multiple nails mean the signal is highly redundant, depending on density.

Regular maintenance could detect weakening signal (rusting nails) and result in new nails being inserted.

Iron oxide remains (weakly) magnetic.

Treatments (galvanised nails, coated, etc.) could slow corrosion.
The biggest fault of the entire Japanese system is the stoppage at night. 24 hour service is not the solution and is one of the reasons the services there work very well. But I don't understand why they don't have a replacement system. In Philadelphia the (smaller) system is completely replaced by buses. In other countries the trains run 24 hours but only Friday nights and weekends nights which could increase the use case of 90% of riders to 95% of riders.
Whether China's yuan should be freely convertible to other currencies is something the PRC has struggled with for years. A freely convertible yuan would increase China's influence on the world financial system, but it would also increase the influence of the world financial system on China. And it would require much easing, if not elimination, of China's exchange controls.

A decade ago, a freely convertible yuan was seen as likely. But China has backed off from that. Xi Jinping's "China 2025" is about autarky - reducing China's dependency on the rest of the world.

So, the yuan as a world currency isn't really happening yet.

Euros, though...
I've always wondered whether probabilistic micropayments would fly under sharia-compliant finance.
> That's penny-wise, pound-foolish.

but if you can pick up the penny(-wise) now, and let somebody else pick up the pound(-foolish), you make bank and leave before the going gets tough.
I'm in similar situation: also a new ECE PhD graduate, working in my field of study, and also working on an exciting side project after hours, in a different field. I'm 41, started PhD program at 35, long after I forgot almost everything I learned as an undergrad.

I'm not sure I fully understand your worries though. What do you want your future in tech to be? What do you want to accomplish? The key is the drive to build something. Are you motivated enough to succeed? Is your hobby project exciting enough to keep you up at night (or would you rather be watching Netflix)?

Regarding the sharpness - no, I don't feel any less sharp than when I was 20. I don't think the 20 yo version of me would be faster to solve hard research problems I'm struggling with currently, both at work or the side project. Sharpness is not a function of age, it's a function of your current state - physical (exercise, sleep, eat well), emotional (find the drive!), and mental (solve puzzles, read books, talk to smart people, try new things).
The "conquest" of Crimea was a response to an implied threat to a natural gas trade with Europe in the followup of a western-sponsored coup.

(to be even more specic, Crimean events were mostly about regaining the control of the Black Sea Fleet naval base, while Donbass events were about reacting to a hostile coup, but the two things are closely related)

It was also an object lesson to all the minor powers in the region: you cannot take US money to have a small victorious colour revolution anymore. Not in Russia's backyard.

edit: oh wow downvotes, I am so surprised /s
In the end the availability comes down to fleet size. car2go worked best here when they blanketed Seattle with Smart Cars, the fleet peaked around 750 and they were easy to find. After they switched to Mercedes exclusively the fleet was smaller and it became harder (though not impossible) to find them close by. My guess is that 2,500 cars would be enough to make them feel ubiquitous. A small fleet of autonomous cars won't mean it's likely one will be available to pick you up, and nobody has figured out how to deploy & maintain them at scale yet (I think Waymo in Phoenix is only running around a hundred vehicles).
This is very cool, but what is the use case?
Just seems like a way to lose a lawsuit. All you need is some handicapped client the system can't understand, or a demonstration that it's biased against an accent, and that's all it'll take.
Ah, that's the one. I've lived more or less under an SFO flight path for ages and used to commute down 101 right next to SFO which gets overflown constantly. Sydney was a whole different world though. Just walking sitting on a bench in Enmore Park it felt like you really could reach out and touch one of them.

Oddly enough about the only flight delay out of SFO I've experienced was SFO-SYD, a flight that gets delayed explicitly as a matter of course to avoid the curfew.
The EU is more likely to break apart than it is to become the world reserve currency.
Why Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold–Physicists Solve the Mpemba Effect
Not OP, but yes, along the right of way.

Since railroad tracks rarely get up and go walkabout, you can instrument them (conduction, video, lidar/radar) to the limits of your preferences and/or budget. Information can be relayed to both central control and individual trainsets.
A truly good product sells itself.

That's completely absurd. How can a product "sell itself" if nobody knows it exists, or knows how great it is? How do they find out those things? Well, in part, by advertising.

I heartily agree that some advertising is manipulative and anti-social... but I can't buy this "all advertising is just manipulation" stuff.
Humans haven't proven the ability to live sustainably on one planet. Sustainably utilizing resources beyond the planet is far from certain.
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Navy names aircraft carrier for Dorie Miller, black sailor and Pearl Harbor hero
The "massive gains" is avoiding ecological collapse. We need to radically rethink our system of agriculture and relationship to the soil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture#Guilds
Cheers Ryan.
Looked wikipedia.
"An unusual natural phenomenon, ice disks occur in slowly moving water in cold climates and can vary in size, with circles more than 15 metres (49 ft) in diameter..."

There has been few more of them around the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_circle
Over the past few decades there has been a period of re-urbanization and migration from rural to urban areas due to changes in the job market. For instance, Washington DC had 802,000 residents in 1950. Later the population dropped to 572,000 residents in 2000. The population has now increased to 705,000. However, over the last 70 years, living standards have changed and some dwellings have either been demolished or made illegal (e.g. in 1950 it’s likely many people lived in Single Room Occupancy boarding houses more like a college dorm, or crowded into what we’d now consider slums, or so on) As a result there’s a mismatch in supply and demand, and Econ 101 is occurring: price of housing goes up until the supply and demand curves match.

Solving inequality isn’t needed to solve this problem, any more than inequality was solved in 1950 when more people were living in poverty than today. We need to make more housing available and fix the supply/demand imbalance.

When there aren’t enough units available, it’s impossible to solve the problem and allow everyone to live where they want. Even if everyone had the same salary or rents were arbitrarily fixed at a low rate, then the system of distribution would just change to something else, e.g. a ticket lottery.
Please make an offline version with a one-off fee. I would send you lots of lentils for this.
Just so that you know.. your page gets a 'very risky' alert from mcafee webadviser.. (work computer.. don't look at me like that)
https://imagebin.ca/v/59K7tGipVJiD (screenshot)
Interesting. Wasn’t mentioned in the article but I’ll take your word for it. I mistook your original statement to mean they had a second camera in that position. My sibling is a more enthusiastic sports fan (though baseball was the one sport I actually played) than me, so I’ve been getting most of my info from them. This is the first writeup on the matter I’ve gone through.
If you ever visit Pearl Harbor as I have you learn the story of Dorie Miller. When his ship was attacked he was sent to rescue the captain and then climbed up the tower and without any training opened up on the Japanese Zero's with a 50 caliber machine gun.

There weren't a lot of heroes that day. My opinion is if he was white he'd have been on bond drives for the rest of the war. Instead he went back down to the kitchen on another ship that ended up getting sunk two years later.

It took sixty years for a TV movie to be made about him and another twenty before he received the honor he was due. A pretty long time for the Navy to finally get it right.
This should explain it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value
Link goes to a Yale Public Affairs & Communications summary of the article just published in Science, titled "On impact and volcanism across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary" at https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6475/266 .

Here's Science's even shorter summary (short enough to quote for HN), though with fewer details than Yale's:

> Around the time of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction that wiped out dinosaurs, there was both a bolide impact and a large amount of volcanism. Hull et al. ran several temperature simulations based on different volcanic outgassing scenarios and compared them with temperature records across the extinction event. The best model fits to the data required most outgassing to occur before the impact. When combined with other lines of evidence, these models support an impact-driven extinction. However, volcanic gases may have played a role in shaping the rise of different species after the extinction event.
This. I’m willing to pay a few hundred dollars more to fly the A380 on long haul flights when it’s an option.

Domestic flights I don’t really care.
France won't fire nukes over Russia annexing a Baltic country. US might actually do something about it as they showed many times they are willing to go to war to defend their interest.
From the recent pictures, there’s a faint outline of what looks like a “wire” taped to the right shoulder of Jose Altuve, that you can see through his jersey. Whether it’s an actual buzzer, an unfortunate crease or something else, is what’s under speculation.

I think they went with the trash can banging because it was somewhat low tech, and maybe less likely or believable for people to pick up on.
Yeah I think it's obvious that graphical trees are prettier than they are effective user interfaces.

Broot is a good example of just how much effort goes into making nested structures easily navigable. Trees may be good for presentation but ultimately lists with indentation for nesting are for more navigable.

This translates to GUI concepts as well. Both Windows and MacOS show a few flat lists relative to the current directory rather than showing all nestings at once like a tree does.
Co-planting and cover-cropping get you healthier soil both short and long term, higher yields and more diversity. Properly planted fields need very little added fertilizer or vivicides in order for life to thrive, and they make much better use of the water and soil resources available to them.

The downside is you can't automate harvest, but the money is there to be made (massive gains in the form of greater yields and more crops to sell). More importantly you are acting symbiotically with the land instead of parasitically. If the US was still made up of legacy family farms, it would be a no-brainer to do this because there is a long term interest in the health of the land. Now that most agricultural land is centralized in the hands of a few corporations, they will act for short-term gain unless the government mandates that they do otherwise.
I don't use my phone as a listening device at all. I'm split between Foobar 2K and Plex on other devices, Spotify at work.

For the car it's basically local NPR but I don't drive much.
I want to wretch when I hear the prideful vocal fry of technology workers preaching with authority while talking out their asses
No bias in tech, say techies
I haven't had a chance to mess around with it much, but the coz-profiler [1] uses basically the same idea, but the other way around (i.e., slow down everything else to get a "virtual speedup") which helps quantify what the effect of optimizing some code would be.

I learnt about this tool from Emery Berger's talk [2] on this (at strangeloop), which I highly recommend. Lots of really nice insight, even outside of this tool.

[1] https://github.com/plasma-umass/coz
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-TLSBdHe1A
Externally Located Conscious Awareness
This would severely backfire if the data broker thought someone else's email account was associated with your identity. Say:

Danny W[ilkins]

- Job Title

- Salary

- Job application records

- Social media post history

- Email 1: dannyw@gmail.com (correct)

- Email 2: dannywilkins@EmployerLLC.com (correct)

- Email 3: dannywinters@hotmail.com (not correct)

I'd assume they'd send the email containing your salary and post history to the two valid emails as well as the one invalid email.

That seems like a potential nightmare for you, for example records of job searches being sent to your employer email.
Which of the following statements are true:

- Crimea became part of Russia before Texas became part of US

- Crimea became part of Russia before (around the time) US independence

- Kievan Rus' is older than Aztec Empire
The customer could blame the service provider - especially when the provider stresses how unbiased they aim to be. But then negligence by the customer is an issue too. I agree with you — bias in ML systems exists and applying it to more facets of life is tricky and snake-oil can be tasty, but this does also surface issues that require standards and assessments of bias.
Aha, TFA, right :p

Yeah, the faster-than-light topic is actually a very, very tricky one, even for seasoned astro-peeps it seems.

I didn't mention PBS Spacetime[1] but it's probably the best place to start for best-in-class high level mojo in astrophysics. Tons of back-catalog. Really great quality production. Less 'newsy', more 'substance' than the other two I mentioned (these are my trio on the topic).

Case in point: they do a fantastic job at explaining, notably time shenanigans. They basically made it click for me, notably for FTL (Faster-Than-Light) space expansion, cosmic inflation, etc. Fantastic-everything about them, can't recommend enough.

One thing, though: my best way of framing the FTL limit is in terms of a speed limit (c) to transfer "information". This is why entanglement is a valid principle, it does not violate c because entanglement cannot be used to transfer information faster than light[2].

So "structure" can change arbitrarily fast, from the perception of its objects, its contents; but "information", the contents, the objects, they are bound by c and all the rules actually defined by said structure.

I really don't know if that's the correct view, but it seems to work to explain (actually rule out) most light-speed paradoxes, so...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g

[2]: I think this vid does a good job at explaining why: https://youtu.be/2_4l5_G3dnM
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Fighting against your own government isn’t like fighting against a foreign power. You have the advantage of asymmetric warfare, and also the advantage that the military will not follow orders to just “steamroll right in through” citizens. Egypt has F-16s, but that didn’t stop the government from getting overthrown when the military decided to stay neutral. Libya had advanced Soviet weaponry, but Gaddafi was overthrown and killed by rebel forces.

Unless you’re willing to level your own country (which for practical reasons even
tyrannical dictators are not), fighting armed citizens is nothing like fighting a foreign war. (Also, the track record for advanced nations losing wars in places like Afghanistan with vastly inferior weapons is significant). The Syrian civil war also started with a civil uprising, with armed civilian guerrillas fighting government security forces. Again, there were defections when soldiers refused to fire on citizens, and that led to establishment of the Free Syrian Army, comprised of defectors from Assad’s regime.

Here is how it played out when Bangladesh declared independence from Pakistan. The Pakistani military was armed with modern US made aircraft and weapons, launched Operation Searchlight, which killed at least 300,000 Bangladeshis. Civilians took control of arms depots and started shooting back. That precipitated Bangali units of Pakistan’s military to mutiny and start fighting for independence. Military assistance from India helped win the war, but that started many months later. Without being able to take control of those arms depots to begin with, Bangladesh never would have been able to start the war that led to independence. (The American Revolution, by the way, played out more or less the same way. Guerrilla attacks at first, seizing weapons and supplies, creating a more formal militia, and then getting assistance of a foreign power.)

It’s not some crazy NRA fantasy. We have numerous examples of despotic regimes with modern weapons and aircraft being overthrown in civilian uprisings. I come from a country that exists because of such events. The Second Amendment is there to preserve that option. Had Bangladeshis been armed like NRA wingnuts in 1970, hundreds of thousands of innocent people might have been alive today, hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi women may not have gotten raped by the Pakistani military, etc.
It's not an either or proposition. We should be using restorative agriculture (and similar practices) in regions where food can be grown outdoors to maximize yields and sink as much carbon and water as possible into the ground. Vertical farming becomes especially useful in areas where growing fresh food is hard, but energy access is abundant. Use GMOs in both cases, though they will be different variants.