skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can we stop with the whole "You've got to let an American company completely screw things up, because if you don't then a Chinese company might! And if a Chinese company does we won't be able to stop them even though when the American company screws things up we don't stop them anyway!" Routine. It's old and unconvincing and I don't think the people making this argument even really believe it. It was played out when Zuck said it to congress, let alone now.
Because a certain type of person seems to think that it's insightful even when it isn't, hence my OP.
It'd be in front of an object 100 light years away for an absurdly tiny amount of time. The percentage of the sky occluded by these satellites is absolutely minuscule. This is not a rational notion.

These are not geosynchronous satellites, but instead are 200-500 miles above the Earth, moving many, many thousands of mph. No, it isn't blocking anything 100 light years away unless your shutter speed is in the single-digit nanoseconds.
Exactly. There would be almost no results if we needed r^2=0.9999 or some such standard.
That's the intention, yes. But in at least one case, the fail safe came very closing to failing, and not in a good way.
It’s very likely that the torpedoes did not work for the whole war really. It sometimes is scary to think about all the complaints sub commanders put in, only to be dismissed by the Department of the Navy as excuses for bad leadership or tactics. I get that you have to take this line sometimes but still...

That being said it should be noted US Naval strategy has never particularly relied on subs or been that great at it.

This has always fallen to the Eurasian powers such as Germany, Russia, and China/Japan.

Nothing has been downed by a torpedo in actual combat for the last 75 years, so realize that there are so many unknowns today in submarine warfare that you don’t see in say land warfare. That being said it looks like Underwater Unmanned Autonamous Drones is where sub warfare is heading. Supposedly China is way ahead of the pack here much like they are in the drone space (supposedly again) as well. The 2016 capture of a US Navy UUAV really was not good for the USA and marked a shift in the balance of power.
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Can you elaborate a bit on what you mean by the portrayal of Aragorn "falling a bit flat"?

Perhaps he was a bit too gruff or something, especially in the Fellowship of the Ring? I could possibly see that because in the book he was definitely clear-cut 'rough and ready good-guy'.
>>You need to work the way your ERP works.

All I can say is that trying to force this is, by a large margin, the primary reason why major software projects fail. Software is meant to aid, not dictate, how people work.

You don't have to take my word for it. Just look at the industry. Companies like Salesforce have become enormously successful because their products are configurable and customizable to a crazy extent, and you can make them fit into virtually any business process.
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Parent’s full names? That seems weird
I've had enough trouble with yoga in the past that I only use a few postures on a regular basis. I think people with persistent/severe issues really need one on one coaching from an experienced teacher. Yoga classes are often crafted more around people's fitness demands than rehabilitation. And people often don't have enough experience with pain to judge the good from the bad during solo practice. I've had better luck with taijiquan, but it's a very different approach. It often makes the pain worse, by way of correcting years of misalignment and poor habits. It builds strength and flexibility very gradually, focusing more on the tendons, ligaments, and fascia, than the large muscle groups.
Why? Highest bidder generates the most revenue, and the entire point of running a business is to make money...
The adaptation is always going to suffer in comparison to a book like that. It's not like you can just rotate the story through 360-degrees of the audio-video dimension and have it pop out at you.

Lots of more modern fiction, written by people who think of stories first in the cinematic sense even as they are writing them, you can almost derive the film from the book. Say, Jurassic Park, for example. The departures from the novel were incidental, and the film could've been made even more faithful to the text but for the desires of the producers.
Wow, that is incredible. I had no idea they were that complex, or even that big.
another angle:

while Clojure is a Lisp with its own distinct flavor it gives you …

* a large community of practitioners and professionals (great for asking questions, finding collaborators, …)

* easy access to libraries in the js/jvm/.net ecosystems

* a style that relies more on data and transformations of data (illuminating simplicity)

in any case: it is worth digging deeper, one thing that kept me away was not knowing where to start (analysis paralysis). in hindsight picking any Lisp would have been great (instead of postponing).

Find a thread and start pulling :)

Rich Hickey’s talks were a great entry point for me
https://github.com/tallesl/Rich-Hickey-fanclub

e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0
(the “Simplicity Matters” keynote at Rails Conf 2012)

edit: Land of Lisp is a great book as well
Tests like DiSC and Meyers-Briggs are hard to disprove because they make contradictory, non-falsifiable claims. This is part of what makes them appealing: there's something identifiable for everyone in most of the profiles, and stuff that doesn't fit is easy to dismiss. It's the same strategy that enables horoscopes and psychics. Don't feel bad for believing it--it's designed to be believable, rather than correct. If you want a more in-depth breakdown of this and the other problems that make the test false but also hard to falsify, this [1] is a pretty good analysis.

[1] https://medium.com/@ronsoak/a-warning-against-using-disc-mye...
Hmmm?

I've rarely hiked in harvested and replanted forests; these are boring. I did most of my hiking in central/northern BC and Alberta, Canada. These are some of the largest tracts of old-growth timber in the world.

The many old-growth forests I've hiked (sample: >1,000km, mostly dominated by conifers), with last burn times ranging from decades to centuries, have rarely boasted deep soil levels. This hypothesis is supported by existing research: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225314103_Soil_Carb...

Old-growth coniferous forests are great -- but they're not a big "carbon store".

If you want land-use based carbon storage, I'd recommend investigating where the continent-wide, massive, deep, healthy carbon-rich store of topsoil and humous came from -- grazed grasslands and scrub brush.
Yeah but unless you've read the books, his character is a bit esoteric for the movies.
To be fair, a some of the supposedly peer reviewed management science we learned in engineering wasn't too far away from this.

Edit: And while I cannot say if it is right or wrong - it isn't like you can put this stuff into a particle accellerator and smash it and verify predictions - useful things can be extracted from it. One of the biggest ones might be that it gives everyone a common terminology to discuss such topics.

I've said before that organizational psychology and management seemed like a huge waste of time when the young me looked at the subjects I was supposed to learn in engineering and yet sometimes feel like the most useful ones now that I look back on it.

I mean: everything useful I nnow about programming from school I learned in the C and microprocessors course. Almost everything else I know aboit programming I learned either before or after my engineering degree.
"$88bn was spent on medical treatments for back and neck pain in America, not far short of the $115bn spent on cancer"
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I implore you not to do this, as a healthy 32 year old, until you have attempted to corset, or lock in place, your disc with your own muscle.

You could do this with a lengthy, complicated series of midsection/trunk exercises, or you could hit every associated muscle in the correct balance and proportion by walking.

Your body was built to walk - you are a walking machine.

I had a blown L4/L5 going into basic training and was immediately walking 5-8 miles per day. It was very painful and debilitating for the first week ... and then it was gone. I believe the muscle action pulls the spine back into proper alignment and gives the disc nowhere else to go but where it belongs.[1]

If you look, you will find this to be a very common anecdote.

[1] IANAD and obviously cannot speak to severe trauma, fractures, etc.
By definition, tests have to be more complex than the underlying code. The test have to setup the conditions, execute the action and validate it. Don't confuse complexity with shitty unreliable tests (timing-based tests)
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Running was actually the cause of my herniated disc. Well probably weakened over the years by slouching forward at the computer and not building a strong core. But after recovering from one huge bout of back pain I started running again and a few days later I had sciatica and foot drop. I still have nerve damage.

Doing the McKenzie back exercises every morning for the past five years is the reason I’m able to still function I think.

I can’t say if the pain from sciatica caused by a disc herniation is the worst pain I will ever feel, but it would be hard to imagine worse.
Did they also say that it was used for advertising? I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to think they would, but it doesn’t sound like a smoking gun.
I don't think he was at all surprised at how bad the films were, but that doesn't mean he shouldn't complain about them.

I think it's easy for many people who are used to a diet of truly terrible adaptations to mistake one which is merely bad for something excellent.

(I think pretty much everything about those films was very good, except for the script, which was poor on both a large and small scale.)
Ask HN: Considering Offer with Late-Stage Pre-IPO Company with private RSU's
The role seems like a great fit, but I'm evaluating the comp.

Is this a risk? How big of a risk? Should I look at public companies instead?

They are offering RSUs but are private. From my understanding, I will have to pay taxes on this but won't get to sell them until if/when they IPO. Is this typical, is this really risky? Could it get diluted? They are a major player in business for 15+ years.

Looking for any advice.
Phone games, maybe. Civ VI is pretty playable on an iPad though. Just! One! More! Turn! now available in your bed :)
It took me a couple reads, but do you mean "shell" (as in a shell company that does nothing but exist to protect or obscure the operations of another company) instead of "shill" (a person who markets for someone while hiding that they are associated with them)?
How do you get a prescription for it if you don't have diabetes?
At issue is whether the translated author's qualifications are any better. A professorship in psychology doesn't seem to take much understanding.

Does he really think depression is as delusory as redness?
We have gained so much along the way (I.e. fast computing), but we’ve lost a lot as well - computers are nowhere near as friendly/stylish.
This is what the Library of Congress has been doing for at least a decade...except that it also stores the originals where possible. It is the largest library in the world in terms of physical documents (over 167 million physical documents) and one of the largest in terms of digital copies.

And not just of American works, but works from all around the globe.
Some games like Churchill Solitaire require you to pay $5 for the game, but then it doesn't unlock all of the campaign, you have to pay $1 for every 25 after that, then you have to pay to UNDO A MOVE or even get a hint. Then daily games are another $5 a month. So much BS even if you want to buy the game.
That would Be categorized as type 3 emissions, which they intend to cover.
Legolas' shield stunt was over the top.
Ehhh. There's a lot of people that seem to think that Midway would have been a disaster for the US if they lost, but there's not much reason behind this. The only thing the US was really risking that had a significant strategic impact were the carriers - if the island of Midway fell it would have been essentially unsupportable by Japanese forces (being far past Japan's supply lines, when Japan was already facing logistical issues, and within B-17 range of bases in Hawaii) and even the carriers weren't absolutely critical must-not-lose assets for the US like they were for Japan. (The US commissioned 8 carriers in the year following Midway - four Essex class fleet carriers and four Independence class light carriers) Incidentally, this is part of why Midway was such a huge strategic blunder for the Japanese forces - it risked 2/3rds of their carriers for minimal gain.

If Midway fell, it would have extended the war another few months. But I'm not sure that that really qualifies as a disaster.
A lot of surgeons only know how to cut so that’s what they will recommend. There is also a lot of money to be made. Better to try physical therapy, therapeutic yoga or similar first and see how that goes.
My work would insist on calling the incident response or monitoring room a "war room". And I would quote this every time it was mentioned. It gets old, but I literally can not stop myself from repeating the quote when i hear the phrase "war room".
It's been almost a couple decades, and I've not watched Return of the King, but I felt Faramir's changes were especially egregious. I've heard Return of the King didn't even have the Scouring of the Shire.

There were too many radical departures from what JRR Tolkien was trying to do for me to still enjoy it.
Would printing out screenshots of the video constitute copies of portions?

If so, there's a simple solution, albeit one that involves hiring a decent-sized staff of file clerks: whenever a model uploads a video, have a printer start spewing screenshots and have an file clerk grab a selection of photos that both identify the video and clearly show the model's face and put them in that model's file in the cabinet.
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On my phone, will link when I get home, but I found this with a quick search:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28422125

I think there was a meta review, but will have to ask my SO, it was her research that lead us to it.
What kills me the most about the movies, especially the Hobbit ones, is the CGI. I watched 2 of the 3 Hobbit films this past fall and the CGI is so jarring and dated. Worse, it's heavily used and just ruins the experience for me.

For example, when they're going down the river and being pursued from the shore... come on, nearly everything in that scene is CGI and screams "we were hoping to make a theme park ride, here's the trailer!", honestly I could have lived without that scene entirely.

I did not watch any of them when they first came out though, perhaps they were better at the time but watching them now they almost feel The 10th Kingdom quality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash

> Information newly declassified in 2013 showed that one of the bombs came very close to detonating.

> In 2013, Revelle recalled the moment the second bomb's switch was found: "Until my death I will never forget hearing my sergeant say, 'Lieutenant, we found the arm/safe switch.' And I said, 'Great.' He said, 'Not great. It's on arm.'"

If I'm reading the article right, the other bomb also had the other three arming steps happen and was stopped only by the arm/safe switch, so between the two bombs, each of the four safety steps failed.
John Scalzi shared a reasonably thoughtful perspective on this on his blog a few days ago: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2020/01/10/why-yes-in-fact-old-m...

"... although I will note ... that a two-hour movie will not cram the entire complexity of the novel I wrote into its 120-minute running time."

"And that’s fine, and as it turns out, necessary. Movies are not books. Movies are adaptations of books, for another medium entirely. When filmmakers try to make their movies simply a “faithful” version of the book that runs at 24 frames a second, the results (speaking as a former full-time professional film critic) tend to be dreadful more often than not. I don’t want a movie of Old Man’s War that’s a retread of what I’ve already done in the book. What I want is an adaptation and interpretation of what I’ve written that’s interesting and exciting, and is faithful to the idea and feel of the universe I created."

It's been a long time since I saw the LOTR films (and never bothered to see The Hobbit, so I can't comment on those), but, as I recall, that's more or less what Peter Jackson did.
Digit and film single long exposures are functionally identical

Wow, OK. We're done here.
The relative (apparent) motion differences and the fact that the locations of the satellites are known should take care of that, no? It’s unlikely that the motions are going to track each other exactly in most cases.

In fact if, as you believe, these satellites would actually occlude things beyond them, they sound very useful for calibration and education.
Astronomy will need to catch up or pay for a resource they’ve been getting for free (unobstructed sky). Or start lifting more advanced platforms to orbits (whether that’s Earth or Lagrange points).
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Alternately, we have a much less credible scenario in Broken Arrow.
It will kill astronomy pretty good.

The key point is usable observation time. Our current handful of satellite telescopes provide 24h of time a day. Each terrestrial telescope provides maybe 8h. However, there are a magnitude more telescopes on Hawaii alone than in space. You would need to get a hundred satellite telescopes to begin to replace earthbased observation time.

And that doesn't even begin to talk about the possible instruments, mirror sizes, astronomical costs of buulding and running satellites, etc.
The films are not bad for visuals and casting/acting, but changed the story and characters and motivations far too much for fans of the books. And left out the actual ending!
While primarily an editor for his father's work, he was a scholar in his own right. He released his own translation of a Norse epic, "The Saga Of King Heidrek The Wise":

http://vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/The%20Saga%20Of%20King%20...
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I wonder if Netflix or other streaming services would have produced something vastly different. Tolkien wrote so much it really could do with more exploration.

Also if you're selling it in a movie format, you have to be able to bring in the general masses. That means cutting down a lot of the intricacies.
Yes this happens all the time and how is modern espionage, for the time being, extensively communicates.

Typically this happens on websites that look like junk/ad websites to you and me. Also sometimes they will look like the ads you see on parked domains.

There will be hidden words, or perhaps you will need to know how to adjust the CSS in chrome developer tools. Often times it is a small URI fragment you need to append to the URL, or a specific place to click every time.

Again I want to emphasize how common this is, and the “dark web” is not used nearly as much in terms of overall volume by such groups.

Owlhousing.com was until recently and still probably is one such site. It looked like some junk casino ad website, but scroll down for a very lengthy period and you would find...sophisticated electronic Microscopes for sale out of Hong Kong. Now it is some car website.

The best way to find these websites is to use Spyse.com. Using the “prefix” search operator enter something like “000000000” or “aaaaaaaaa”. Hundreds if not thousands of sites show up. No real person would take out these domains. Start with them.
> But it's a strong claim to make against a peer-reviewed journal publication.

Remember that peer-review only means that two or three persons had read the manuscript and found no obvious error and think it's inteligible and interesting. It doesn't mean that the reviewers had reproducer and checked all the details.

It is more trustworthy that a webpage in all-caps with white text over a black background, but it depends a lot of the journal. There are serious journals, and there are crappy journal that publish any rubbish if you pay them.

This is not may area, so I'm not sure. I looked at the other articles published in the journal and they look fine, but this is not my area. (Crackpot articles tend to aggregate, so looking at the other articles is sometimes useful.)

It's is very strange that an article about 5834 persons has only one author. Again, this is not may area, but I'd expect 5 or 6 authors. (The other articles in the journal have multiple authors.) It's not a smoking gun, but it's very strange.

In the article, the more interesting part is table 4 https://new.hindawi.com/journals/omcl/2019/1574021/tab4/ It looks fine. I didn't redo all the calculations, but it looks fine. (It may be a professional defect I have, but for me most articles are "Bla bla, bla bla, important table, bla bla.".) The table looks nice.

Also, they are measuring telomere length, not a self reported coefficient. I never trust self reported data. (Some of the covariant they use are difficult to measure like "percentage of total energy derived from saturated fat". How did they measure that? Anyway, I don't expect that to be a problem.)

It's important to wait until the study has been reproduced. (Exact reproductions are difficult to finance and publish, but you can make a twist. For example comparing the four combinations of normal vs cocoa milk and 1% vs 2% milk.)

@GP: Note that the (research) article does not claim that you live 4.5 years longer. They claim that the telomeres are reduced approximately 145 bases, that is somehow equivalent to 4.5 years of aging. Probably having 145 less bases in the telomeres increase some illness, but I doubt it affect too much the accident death rate.
I remember that! It's such a great feature!

Unfortunately it doesn't work correctly for the PDFs I get from my accountant.

It's one of those features that are really obvious, but probably surprisingly hard to implement.
Exactly. Don’t go to a gym yoga class. Avoid anything yoga that has “power” or “core” in its name. There are specialized therapeutic yoga teachers. Iyengar teachers are usually quite good.
Your joints and spine absorb the shock from running on pavement or concrete.
It is one of my favorite movies, so I'm curious about others' take on it. In what sense do you find it true/accurate?
My roommate at the time and I had just started at our first jobs fresh out of school.

The first thing he bought after he got paid was an extremely nice office chair, soon followed by a nice desk.

I didn't quite catch on until 5 years later, but I can attest to being blessed with near 0 back pain so far. (Fingers crossed.)
Is their carbon accounting public? Is anybody auditing it? Not really familiar with how this works. Quick googling didn't turn up anything. Could anyone point me in the right direction?
Here's a quick version: The Silmarillion in 1000 words.
http://lotrspoofs.net/parodies-and-more/the-silmarillion-in-...

One of the gems of the early net.