skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t really trust them more than I can throw them, however I’m inclined to believe in this case given the practicality of it. Capturing and parsing all that audio is expensive and would be low signal to noise. Additionally, many of these companies are sitting on data that is significantly more valuable and relevant.

So purely from a selfish business perspective, which is how I assume they make decisions, why would they implement this? And that is to say nothing of the PR risks.

What do you have leading you to believe it’s happening?

Or are you simply saying we should not implicitly trust the anon commenter? If so, I agree fully.
Depends on the type of test. What you guys are talking about are unit tests, and are designed to test individual methods/functions. You write a separate test for each one.

There's other types of testing, integration tests sound like what you are both complaining about. Integration tests test the interaction between components of a system, and are thus far more complex and likely to break as you're developing (which is a huge pain).

However integration tests have their place - just because the function works doesn't mean it's being called from the web client correctly.
Exersizing and stretching your back is so important. * Edit - properly and with what works for you :)
>I think Chromebooks are awesome, but not at grade 1.

Great point. Our life w/Chromebooks didn't start until Grade 5.
An alternative argument for why women leave STEM: Guest post by Karen Morenz
Over 10 years of terrible back pain, tried all kind of things. At some point, I was prescribed painkillers, tried PT, yoga, everything.

Turned out that the “glutes/hip weakness” approach was correct. Changed my life - not a single issue since years of muscle reinforcement in the posterior/hip area with a focus on posture.
Reality isn't black or white.
Clearly the PR impact was taken into account but Microsoft is made of people, and many of those people truly care about this issue.

Bill Gates has been investing his money for a long time now on potential solutions for climate change, Brad Smith seem to genuinely care about this issue as well.
You could say that about all mental illnesses.
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Belgrano?
Firefox gigantic leaks happen to me on Windows too. Depending on the mood, it ends with a crash or with Windows warning me that it will kill some processes if that keeps going on.
There's simply no way, no matter how technically wizardly the movies might be, that they could convey the "spirit" of the trilogy.

And, further, the movies fall far, far short of the images your own imagination can create from these classics.

And they even pollute your imagination with the limitations of the director's choices.
HMS Conqueror sank the Argentine cruiser Belgrano with torpedoes
Most of the Microsoft buildings I’ve worked in have lights automatically turn off at 8pm, with motion sensors to turn on again if needed.
Artificial Personas and Public Discourse
Didn't that bailout earn American taxpayers money in the end?
Are there similar services for Sustainability Reporting and accountability?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability_reporting
And people went to jail for the Traci Lords fiasco in which she was the one who faked all her ID documents.
There’s a book, Command and Control, which tells the story of USA’s nuclear arsenal safety and security over the years. Lots of scary stuff, including how it was discovered that it’s been possible to break into Titan centre and launch stuff with a credit card-shaped object and small team of unarmed man.
The Hobbit movies are far more egregious in their use of bad CGI than the original trilogy. That river scene is one of the worst offenders in modern movie history for me.
Microsoft Raises Stakes in Corporate Climate-Pledge Race
People who care _that_ much are also more prone to emotional reaction lacking thorough evaluation of a situation that impacted them personally. So, I'm actually really not sure. At least the ones who don't want to get in trouble are motivated by the fact that they are beholden to others in some fashion.
I have not seen anything in this letter than #2 Cloud provider in the world is going to be carbon-neutral in 10 years.

Just because I have not seen does not mean its not there. But the meat and potatoes are missing -- especially a company that is building massive data-centers around the world.
Is there a good design book, or program that would teach design principles/philosophy like this?

To me, a lot of these modern interfaces (eg Unity) feel like staring at a dark concrete city. I’d love to see some more of this come back.
It's disheartening to think an app for reading text can't properly wrap or hyphenate it, like your home page. Once I saw that, I quit looking.
In recent news, the only confirmed interstellar comet in our solar system was found by a dude who worked at an observatory (not as an astronomer) and decided to build own telescope for fun in his spare time. It's one of only two known interstellar visitors we've had, and because he found it early enough the pros were able to make very detailed observations.

A decent number of asteroids and comets are still found by backyard astronomers.
Microsoft Learns Money Alone Can’t Fix Seattle’s Housing Mess
Variable star observing is actually a place where amateurs really help, since it's about observation time, and not necessarily some hugely powerful telescope. And the more powerful a telescope is, the more people want to use it to point at all sorts of things, which makes it kind of expensive to use those telescopes for variable star observations which take a lot of time.

"Since professional astronomers do not have the time or the resources to monitor every variable star, astronomy is one of the few sciences where amateurs can make genuine contributions to scientific research." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Association_of_Variab...
For those who don't know, Christopher Tolkien played a key role of editing and compiling his father's drafts and notes into several complete books published after his death, including The Silmarillion, The Children of Hurin, and Unfinished Tales. Basically everything that came after The Lord of the Rings.
All norms reflect a certain kinds of power.

We seem to be in a period where norms are assumed to be malicious or harmful, where the majority has a moral obligation to minimize the advantages of following norms.

At bottom, though, that's just an attack on all norms.
The Hobbit movies were a travesty. But The Lord Of The Rings movies made excellent use of miniature models, full size sets, make-up and costumes, and great locations. They come from a period where CGI was much more limited, and the artists behind it weren't trying to do everything with it. When you use CGI for everything, like in The Hobbit movies, you lose connection with reality and it is jarring no matter how detailed it is.
my thoughts exactly. I recently re-injured my back with a muscle spasm caused by DDD and the PT tried cupping. this led to unimaginable nerve pain. I can't imagine worse pain than that
Should Email Remain “Dumb”?
Yes the tumors part was always what scared me about it and why i would not do it again. Its the first time i hear about hgh being able to stop your own production its not something ive found researching the downsides. Its Well know for steroids though.
Yeah and then we have the problem that most floating point variables shouldn't be IEEE 754. And we're mostly fucked because most languages don't support anything else.
This has been happening for years in my city. Tons of luxury apartments and homes being built, almost always with taxpayer help, that nobody can afford.

The promises from developers that housing will "trickle down" so that normal people can afford it has proved to be complete nonsense.
funny, this page describes journalism 101 (or high-school level, even).

Too bad we fired them all and just federate untrained amateur bloggers or coded a crude AI to generate news today.

Oh, and the reason: nobody found convenient to fight FOSTA at the time https://stopsesta.org/ Those completely killed local newspapers and centralized everything on the big conglomerates that will never publish a political critic of either side.
> The only thing the US was really risking that had a significant strategic impact were the carriers

Yeah, that thing Japan bombed Pearl Harbor over....
There's so many great scenes about this topic in "Yes Prime Minister". I think this one is the most valuable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKbDKsNsjac

I've understood the futility of MAD, but this scene helped me really grok it in such a short, practical way.
6-12 months of Japanese free reign in the Pacific might've led to conditions in which the US would've pursued a negotiated peace, though.
I have back pain problems right now that go away only when I stop exercising and stretching. I found this out when I broke my ankle and couldn't do anything. Back pain gone!
I have never encountered anyone who claimed either of the above. The test results indicate a spectrum on each axis.

Horoscopes are useful to people otherwise inclined to get stuck in a rut. Likewise, the I Ching. You don't need to believe either one for it to be useful. Not believing is an intelligent response, but not everybody is so equipped. Intelligent people get stuck in ruts, too.
Perhaps it's natural to be very critical of the adaptation of something your are very emotionally attached to?.

I for one loved reading the books as a kid and I felt that some scenes (Legolas shield surfing and flying between elephants) were a bit too "cheap" and unnecessary. I enjoyed the films by telling myself that there was a lot of good that offset those bads but perhaps that's easier to do when you are young than when you are on your 70s
you can't really, unless you have a doctor who is willing to. otherwise only illegally.
Depending on the type of measureme t taken, a dark transient is also harmful. However, by far not as bad as a bright transient.
C is not very productive.
Bringing the Drake Equation Up to Date
It's worth noting that Ecclesiastes (or Qohelet or Qoheleth in the original Hebrew) was written well over 2000 years ago, by an anonymous author or set of authors (probably scribes?). Their understanding of statistics, science, math, etc., would have been pretty minimal.

It is indeed quite amazing that the basic message holds up so well over the centuries. Once you start looking, a lot of other disparate sources of wisdom line up with it pretty well. Taoism and Buddhism surely. Kansas' "Dust in the Wind"? Paul Simon's "Slip Sliding Away"? Ecclesiastes, too, whether inspired directly or not.

Also quite amazing that this rather pessimistic/nihilistic/quietist message made it into the Bible.

If you want to read a modern (though imperfect) paraphrase, highly recommend this one by Adam S. Miller as a start:

https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-New-Under-Sun-Ecclesiastes-eb...
Myers-Briggs is a proprietary test marketed by a commercial company. It is meant to extract money from corporate customers.
If I understand it correctly, the build toolchain applies encryption and a runtime signature check to protect the compiled executable against tampering.
Why would an attacker bother with those protections if they can easily replace the executable with another one compiled without 8th?

What’s the threat model the encryption and signature tries to guard against?
Are you asking what the app is? It's called Mimix[0] after Vannevar Bush's proposal in the 40's. The eventual goal is to replace the word processor as we know it.

[0] http://mimix.io
No, they are too bright and will saturate the detector with even very short exposures. Best you can do is just discard the affected area, at worst you have to discard several exposures because the saturation effected the readout electronics.
Surely an NGO spending the money of 50 countries would likely have 50 times as much oversight as an NGO receiving money from just one country? It only takes one auditor in one country to blow the whistle and all the countries could retract their funding. Countries have no incentive to allow the NGO to, for example, funnel all the money to companies from a favoured country.
> It’s very likely that the torpedoes did not work for the whole war really.

The patrol reports of each sub detail pretty well what shots were taken and after the fixes in '42 and early '43, the hit percentages rose dramatically... 1944 and 1945 were very good hunting times for US subs in the Pacific. They sank an amazing number of targets in a very short time.

(Former US submariner and very amateur military historian.)
"Did not work for the whole war" is far too string. There were specific fixes to the torpedoes and also to the detonators; they were in place by September 1943. This is well documented.

Now: Did they work perfectly for the rest of the war? No. Nothing ever does. They worked a lot better, though.
It depends on the period of construction. Houses built in the 60's and 70's of the previous century were quite shoddy, quite a few of them (especially apartment buildings) have been demolished already. But older stuff, especially from the thirties and later built houses are of very good quality.

Another thing to remember is that a brick house is only as good as its foundations.
No problems with his "gruffness" as you term it; that indeed very much captured his Ranger walkings in Fellowship etc.

What was a tough pill to swallow was the self-doubt infused into the character. I know I know, character development, relatability, etc etc. But, c'mon, Aragorn is the damned KING and a leader with unflinching will (a contrast to many around him).

...

Also, where was the damn standard w/ the White Tree, Elendil when Aragorn arrived at the boat?!
The 4th dimension is not orthogonal to the others, so maybe the true cardinality is closer to 12 than 16.
"You're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola Corporation"
Er, are there any alternatives on HN?
The Japanese wouldn’t be able to sustain a US invasion, but they would have conquered Australia and would probably have forced the US out of the Pacific war.

That was the gamble. Success in 1942 meant Japanese domination of the entire Pacific, including areas of the Soviet Union.
So it's you who got that incredibly sick 1733 custom bag! Figures I'd run into you here. /r/ManyBaggers says hello!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien_family

That's a nice hearty family tree.

It always makes me a little sad when there's a historical figure I liked and their family tree just kind of peters out after a bit. May be a bit silly, since I liked them for their intellectual output or creativity or political impact.
The path to fixing ground-based broadband in America doesn't seem obvious given how deeply entrenched the big ISPs are. It's probably actually much, much cheaper to build, launch, and operate a thousands-strong satellite constellation than it would be to dig out Comcast and its ilk, and quicker too. That's an extremely depressing fact (assuming it's correct, being a semi-educated guess), but it is what it is.

But there's another dimension, which is that Starlink is supposed to be funding the only company that's materially doing anything new in the domain of spaceflight technology. For a bunch of nerds who grew up drenched in science fiction and promises of humanity's bright future in space, who've instead seen decades of regression in capabilities, and who live in the same world where my first paragraph is true ... that's very meaningful, far beyond the "fanboy" slur.

Not saying I come down on either side of the Starlink should/should not exist fence, but I think the motives and attitudes of its proponents are often misrepresented and that's no way to have a productive conversation about it.
United predominantly.
If you've ever felt a sense of flexibility and freedom writing JS... Scheme takes it one step further. Guile is a great, well documented Scheme implementation.

I prefer typing and less flexibility on larger projects, but Guile is my go-to for for small/medium programs.

Great to see good work being done on this.
Well then, we should also have Elon pay rent for use of space...
What is the purpose of life, which you say depends on randomness?
I am a runner, I had slight lower back pain before running that went away in the early days of running. I mostly assumed it was losing weight, which I am sure helped, but there is no doubt both my focus on posture and actual posture improved. So it is a bit of a positive feedback cycle.

To your point about no to much running, after I began running for periods over 2 hours, I would get some back pain during the run and stiffness after. However, I began doing pushups and planks, sure enough I strengthened my core and I don't get backpain on even 4+ hour runs (not to mention I developed a 6/8 pack which I never had in my life, a nice surprise in the mid-30's).
> "The news that 80% of new units this year will be luxury further illustrates that the private market fails to provide housing for the lowest-income renters," said Diane Yentel, president of the National Low-Income Housing Coalition. "The argument that the production of luxury rental homes will ultimately benefit these renters through filtering is misguided, given what they can afford to pay. Significant federal investment is needed to both increase the supply of affordable homes for low-income renters and preserve the existing supply.”
Neat. I lived on lake Huron too (just East of Sault ste Marie, on St. Josephs' Island). Brutal winters. Amazing nature.
It can't be verified by "actual scientists" because if they find otherwise, they'll be expelled from their field. You can't have rigorous scientific inquiry under these circumstances, and the results are predetermined.
How would you go about reducing chronic stress? Or are the causes of chronic stress so differentiated that there isn't a prescription you can make?

Also, how did you go about detoxing, in your case?
And why does SpaceX get the privilege to rule the sky and the radio waves simply because they could stream Seinfeld somewhat cheaply?
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser[0] was a fascinating (and chilling) read about many of the incidents people have mentioned in the comments here. It focuses closely on the 374-7 Damascus Incident, but covers many many other “Broken Arrow”[1] incidents that have occurred.

It’s not a short read, but it’s eye-opening from the engineering perspective that nuclear arsenals are wildly complicated beasts with on-going maintenance, like any machine.

EDIT: It’s also available as a documentary on Netflix[2] Not as in-depth, but it covers the Damascus incident pretty well.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143125788

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_nuclear...

[2] https://www.netflix.com/title/80107656
When I was growing up, the standard rates were 10% for good service and 12% for great service.

15% is not a bad tip for a server. 15% is a great tip for someone who does the least amount of work in the restaurant.

EDIT: Followup. CA [1], and especially SF and LA, now mandate that tipped workers get the same pre-tip minimum wage as non-tipped workers. In LA that means $12-$13/hour before tips, so anything more than a 10% tip really demands absolutely amazing service.

[1] https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped#C...
I wonder if they take into account the carbon related to them using their customer's computers to distribute patches and send "telemetry" back to microsoft?
Countries witness surge in civil unrest – trend to continue in 2020
Yes, you want to go low enough that frost heave will not affect your footings. But if you anchor into bedrock then shallow is fine.
I think adjusting to how the ERP package works and not invert it is the most important comment to save money and to make it a success.
Most people italicize quotes here.
Is it just sexism? An alternative argument for why women leave STEM
I second this. I am similar age with similar back issues. I focus on core work and strength training. I also run 3-4 miles a few times per week. I am very careful to use proper posture vs speed. I have been able to avoid surgery. I still have bouts of pain and flare ups on occasion. I typically fix them by increasing stretching and better my posture.
all of these are great points, and i think the narrative introduced in the beginning is like the 80% of what happens to games. but the other 19% is when serious developers get together, and still burn out and fail because the game they are working on, even with a thorough game design doc, are just....boring or have bad controls or maybe theyre competing with an already successful title that does something super similar. there are so many variables.

the number one thing i would definitely highlight is...don't find volunteers located halfway across the world. or anywhere really. volunteers working for free WILL ghost you. game or not. get money, pay people, and then youll be considered seriously by people you'd actually want to work with.
How to Sell Good Ideas
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Agriculture
Well, he is. For the Luddites in these threads, it's enough to cite the JWST as a reason to keep doing things the same old way, over and over, in space and on Earth.

Of course, the reason why people who enjoy lecturing others about why something can't be done differently or shouldn't be done differently seem to gravitate to a site called "Hacker News" is one of those universal mysteries that can't be answered with a computer or a telescope.
With a torpedo introduced to service in 1927, though. She avoided using her homing torpedoes (the Mark 24 Tigerfish) due to fears that they were unreliable.
Use a Changelog as a Growth Tool
Abe has a good PR team pushing this narrative abroad, but it doesn’t map to the material reality of most women. While female labor force participation rates are up, most women are locked into lower-level positions with bad wages and little hope of advancement.

Likewise, women still face a level of misogyny in Japan that is truly unimaginable to most Americans. This has been led in no small part by Abe and the LDP, who insist on the enforcement of absolutely regressive social mores. Most recently, they vehemently opposed women being allowed to keep their own last names upon marriage.
It is definitely 100% gremlin: https://digg.com/2015/myers-briggs-secret-history

Also, https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personali...