skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We thought the appendix was useless turns out it has many uses.

Can you elaborate?

I recently learned that current appendectomy procedure (at least in Europe) calls for the removal of the appendix even if a surgery should reveal that the organ is in fact completely healthy – because the procedure from that point is considered so unrisky, and the organ considered so useless, that the potential future risk of a medical professional misinterpreting the existence of an operational scar as an indicator of a previously performed appendectomy is deemed more problematic.
Why Porsche and Toyota Are Investing in Flying Cars
Expanding the Attack Surface: React Native Android Applications
Its a bit more hassle to do that, and I think you're likely to be worse off for your efforts. The UK 10Y Government Bond currently has a 0.525% yield[0], and the UK National Lottery prize fund is 47.5%[1], meaning in the exceptionally long term you'd turn your 0.525% return into a 0.249% return. If you factor in that the Lottery prize fund is weighted very heavily towards the larger sums that you'll realistically never win, then the likely return within a normal lifetime is probably around half of that. Compare with the Premium Bond's 1.4% return[2].

[0] http://www.worldgovernmentbonds.com/country/united-kingdom/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lottery_(United_Kingd...

[2] https://www.nsandi.com/interest-rates
the best is the complicated left turn on a busy intersection to save a 1 minute. Litearlly, the other route is a minute longer. It seems like a clash of computers versus reality. The reasons a route is optimal is still not known to a gps system.
If you notice no Apple app has a hamburger menu, nor does their website on mobile. Hamburger menus hide all the details, with no predictability as to what might be there or that you should need to click on it (the icon tells you nothing). There’s plenty written out there about this issue.

It’s not clear to me exactly what one might want out of a mobile version of this site given the information overload. That would be my first consideration versus assuming it should be 1:1 with just a slightly different layout.

But if it is to contain the same information, I’d suggest it would be better to have a dedicated page that organizes all the different possible settings by topic or module, or even by “beginner to advanced” tuning. Such a directory can then easily be understood because to get there it would have a primary hero labeled button/link telling you what you’re about to see (the current page is mostly videos and some pretext for the site but all the actual value is hidden by the hamburger menu). You can always flip back to that, knowing that the browser will retain the scrolling history to go back to your previous place (which a hamburger menu doesn’t necessarily do).

Another style would be to have a chapter type layout where you can advance along some existing narrative (like beginner to advanced), much like FreeBSD documentation does (from memory).

All of this could also benefit from a search at the top that would let you random access what you’re looking for.

As someone else suggested here, another style would be to think about recommended configurations for typical usage patterns.. on VMs with X type workload vs Y, letting you directly lookup what you want in a hierarchically organized layout on a flat single page, or using drop downs/segmented controls to configure from the set of possible options. Then you could just punch in your actual needs and out would pop recommendations that hopefully had some insight and further guidance to back them up.

Just some ideas from the top of my head. The main principal behind all of this is to avoid sticking everything where you don’t know where to put it in a hamburger menu, and instead making your information architecture explicit and predictable.
Montreal would beg to differ.
One of my friends came back from China this morning. They'll be working from home the next 2 weeks to be safe.
No wonder I never heard that they solved it:

>Following a series of investigative reports by The Washington Post in 2008, the MPD followed up and finally obtained a warrant, on March 3, 2009, to arrest Ingmar Guandique, the illegal immigrant from El Salvador identified and dismissed by the MPDC eight years earlier.
This redundancy and skill set is paramount.

In a past life as a Police officer in a very remote and isolated town, we had a fibre cable severed which took out all telecommunications (fixed/internet/wireless - the works).

Besides myself, not a single office knew how to work the HF radio, which was our only lifeline to the outside world thanks to a broken sat phone.

Moral of the story is don't get complacent and forget how to use old tech, when the unexpected wipes out modern methods.
> for unforeseen disasters (the levy breach in New Orleans)

Credible sources, including FEMA, predicted that one years in advance.

Check out the October 2004 issue of National Geographic:

> The storm hit Breton Sound with the fury of a nuclear warhead, pushing a deadly storm surge into Lake Pontchartrain. The water crept to the top of the massive berm that holds back the lake and then spilled over. Nearly 80 percent of New Orleans lies below sea level—more than eight feet below in places—so the water poured in. A liquid brown wall washed over the brick ranch homes of Gentilly, over the clapboard houses of the Ninth Ward, over the white-columned porches of the Garden District, until it raced through the bars and strip joints on Bourbon Street like the pale rider of the Apocalypse. As it reached 25 feet (eight meters) over parts of the city, people climbed onto roofs to escape it.

> Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon contaminated by sewage and industrial waste. Thousands more who survived the flood later perished from dehydration and disease as they waited to be rescued. It took two months to pump the city dry, and by then the Big Easy was buried under a blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were homeless, and 50,000 were dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.

> When did this calamity happen? It hasn't—yet. But the doomsday scenario is not far-fetched. The Federal Emergency Management Agency lists a hurricane strike on New Orleans as one of the most dire threats to the nation, up there with a large earthquake in California or a terrorist attack on New York City. Even the Red Cross no longer opens hurricane shelters in the city, claiming the risk to its workers is too great.
I find it a little frustrating but since I’m still not willing to switch to Windows, Linux, or Android I keep using their products. I buy fewer electronics than I used to since they seem to be usable for much longer so it ends up not being much of an issue, but it feels anti-consumer to me.
Exploit custom codecs to write inline C in Python
There's some extended-state DMT experiments (aka "DMTx") in the works.[1][2][3]

The plan is to use a machine designed to inject anesthetics to inject DMT intravenously. Since use of DMT seems not to build up any tolerance, it could in theory be extended indefinitely, or at least for hours or even days at a time.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tlbtqLOmYs

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc-99pZpTvA

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7gLqmdpwxE
Not only did your response fail to capture the actual definition of synonym, but you also ignored any nuances. It is most certainly _not_ used linguistically for words with _exactly_ identical meanings.

Here's the definition from Merriam Webster: "one of two or more words or expressions of the same language that have the same or nearly the same meaning in some or all senses."

But, even more importantly, words can have nuances! Here's a nuance: "a word or phrase that by association is held to embody something (such as a concept or quality)."

In both cases, the notion of identical meaning is absent. It would also completely vitiate its common usage. Synonym is best thought as simply a similarity in meaning.
He would be in politics advocating against democracy and for the next war.
Wow, I think you are maybe a little too hyperbolic here. Facebook didn't "ruin" America. Even if you think america is somehow ruined, how is it Facebook's fault? Why not blame the ISPs, or the hardware manufacturers at that point?

Facebook provided a way to connect people, that's it. Scapegoating Facebook for everything is ridiculous and only serves to oversimplify extremely complex social dynamics. If anything echochambers were stronger before Facebook, it's just that people weren't as politically involved.

And every single public company tries to maximize profit and revenue, that's their fiduciary duty to the investors. If you are against that, that's fine. But to use it as a criticism against Zuckerberg specifically is... weird?
The “everybody is the same” rhetoric lacks basic credibility. We’ve lived through three years of the media calling the chief executive a nazi, racist white supremacist, foreign agent, the harbinger of the downfall of the country. Can you imagine that happening in Russia or China?
This is why La Javanaise has so many av sounds (though it's not javanais)
Extra interesting is how sillable-reversed versions words with normal and 'slang' meanings retain the slang meaning but lose the original.

For example, gato means cat. It's also an insult (the particulars of which escape me), but toga is just the insult.
This whole argument does not take into account what article and research was about.

It is not about documentation, UI/UX, collaboration, and other skills. Research was only about programming as in "here is specification for task, code it, please". That is what word "programmer" also conveys. Such person should not be concerned about making user experience better, that is role of a designer. Such person should not be concerned about designing code to be extensible, that is role of a software architect.

What you describe is a one man orchestra, which in reality everyone wants because no one wants to pay for architects, designers, managers, separately.

In the end there are folks who can work on multiple things at the same time like ML and some k8s, I do not believe you can describe what they are doing simply as "programming" or them as just "programmers". Yes they are programmers or coders but there is much more to it. Exactly like patio11 was writing in "Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice", because you will be seen just as a code monkey and not as that "one man orchestra".

My main argument is we should stick to the definition.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4497165/kb4497165-i... has the full list of CPUs supported by the update.
Would be great to mismanage some cities West of Lake Michigan. That lake effect snow is no joke!
McDo: Here we're putting you in charge of placing the $1Million prize pieces.

Employee: Okey-dokes.

McDo: [Thinks] Hey that employee is getting really rich, must be completely unrelated. Lets not bother to check up on them.

???

Was someone higher up in on the deal?
I've heard this argument again and again from Chinese government sympathizers...and it's just not true.

The vast majority of people aren't brutalized and shot by the police. If it does happen, it goes through a trial and the court systems.

The vast majority of people talking out against the Chinese government will be jailed or re-educated in China...that's the difference.
Not the submitter, but just for context, this is a post by the admin for the groups.io community for users of Tektronix oscilloscopes and related test equipment, answering a query from a user looking for service documentation on an instrument from the 1990s era, somewhat newer than most of those discussed on the group.

Service manuals from Tektronix, like those from Hewlett-Packard, used to include what amounted to a BSEE lab syllabus in their service manuals. They would include full schematics and operational theory that often went well beyond what was needed by a technician who was tasked with maintaining the gear. Often the documentation was written by the design engineers themselves, who were the Michael Jordans and Kobe Bryants of their field. The educational value of this material was (and is) immense. Not only could you get your scope up and running after spending some time with these manuals, you understood a lot about how it worked and what motivated the underlying design decisions.

Dennis is right in that this wonderful literature went away well before its time, but I think he undersells the other side of the argument, which is that these manuals would inevitably become less useful over time as well. It was true that management became less engineering-driven in the 1980s-1990s period, which was both unfortunate and avoidable, but it's also true that over the same timeframe he's referring to, companies like Tektronix and HP had to migrate to custom ASICs and software-heavy architectures that were inherently less user-serviceable.

These aren't like products from manufacturers like Apple, Tesla, or John Deere whose overt market abuses have spawned the right-to-repair movement -- they're the tools used by the people who design those products. The instrumentation companies had to stay well ahead of the technology curve, just as they do now, and increasing integration often has the unfortunate side effect of making the inner workings of the product less accessible to the user. Personally, I'm not sure things could have evolved much differently than they did, regardless of the ratio of MBAs to EEs in management.

Bummer, too, because those manuals were AWESOME. One thing that is indisputable is that both Tektronix and HP stopped publishing component-level service manuals about 5-10 years before the technology justified it. Because their technology had to stay ahead of the market, a lot of gear that is still very useful in many applications today is now almost impossible to keep running.
This is probably not the place to debate the pros and cons of CI/CD in general, but if a team is already doing it, isn't the list of atomic commits effectively the TODO list you're talking about?

Of course, over-engineered solutions will score you more commits (or more lines of code, or more TODO items, etc) but still be a bad outcome.
When I was a bicycle messenger 13 years we used two way radios, celphones weren't reliable enough. They still use two-way radios out there today.

When it's clear that civilization is going to collapse, I'll figure out how to use grampa's old ham radio equipment.
Don’t forget William “cold cash” Jefferson, who commandeered national guard time take him back in the flood zone to get $90,0000 he had hidden in his freezer.
Make instruments and sell them like furniture makers, carpenters, most kinds of law (how many wills do you need?) etc
Isn't this more about self-sufficiently powering the country?

I mean, Germany would have to buy uranium.
OpenBSD replaced `sudo` with `doas` in 2015. Both are currently maintained by OpenBSD developers but `sudo` isn't part of OpenBSD.

See https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html and OpenBSD src commit dated Fri Jul 3 21:51:53 2015 +0000.
Income inequality is a very flower metric to mesure wealth variations.

Imagine country A, awesome with very little income inequality. Half it’s citizens earn 9k a year and the other half 10k a year.

Now country B, is very bad. 90% make 50k a year and the other 10% make 500k. That’s terrible, isn’t it? I wouldn’t want to live in country B.
This is really no different than spammy SEO in web documents.

One can only imagine the accuracy of virtual Android simulators running fake GPS and Google Maps if there was money to be made on fooling the traffic analysis.
The plugin was added to the asset library a few days ago actually: https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/500
One thing I noticed immediately is that the furigana don't line up with the kanji below, but are run together at the beginning of the line. I think that would make using this as an intermediate learner pretty annoying, because you can't switch between kanji and furigana easily.

I'm also curious about the implementation. Do you manually cut the recording to align it with the text or do you have an automated pipeline?
Profit is the wrong number. Executives and others took home pay during that time too.
I didn't know I was old already at 37, but when I was young, the word societal was not even related to social: literally pertains to society, which without further qualification is the general group of "all of us" — whereas e.g. the "Audio Engineer Society" is the group of that field.

Society is opposed to private, fragmented circles ("some" audio engineers, "some" people), subset communities contained in society. Externally, society as opposed to other societies i.e. countries or cultures.

Then one day some r/Iamverysmart self-proclaimed intellectual heard "societal" and liked the word, emotionally, and began using it — that's how you learn words, right? By using them. Trial and error.

So, so many errors.

But others liked it too. And ever more. Lovely errors. And suddenly because people confused it with "social", it began an "umbrella concept" for "everything involving many people doing stuff together". Sure, that works for society and social matters. It's also as empty a concept as you can make. But in the Twitter age, it's OK to use 1 word to mean 20 things and never detailing any of it,

because fuck.

Agreed.

The truth is so few people care, it's not even worth the time to delete -et-. Those who do care, speak with others who understand, and ignore the rest. Sad state of affairs, but I've grown convinced it's just human nature, and has been virtually forever.
Honestly i'd love a simplest route option, with minimal turns, especially for areas i dont know well. I'm ok if my driving route takes 5 min longer if I dont have to take a left turn on that 4 lane road, or the weird y intersection, or the very quick left turn followed immediately by the right turn that requires getting across 3 lanes of traffic
> Excuse me while I go and learn way more about the innards of sudo than I ever wanted to.

Or just disable pwfeedback, if you went out of your way to turn it on for some reason.
Would be interesting to try, sadly not any library support in the language we use.
What ever happened to d) this is not acceptable, and something should be done about it by individuals directly? Why do we need to abdicate responsibility for our local problems to a larger authority? Mutual Aid Societies and religions used to fill this gap - perhaps we can jointly invent a new modern substitute.
Very good story for promoting mass transit! :)
Only reason why Uber can't be on paper is due to the time factor inherent to the service: you need a taxi quickly and an office can be slower.
I don't consider taxi companies as tech companies.
Tinder also hasn't created any new technology AFAIK, could also work on paper.
The Rotating Lepton Model
What are the ecological ramifications of turning seawater into hydrogen? Are we depleting the total amount of water on the planet? I realize the scale that it’s happening at is probably relatively small, but I’m curious.
TeamAfghanistan latest: Bicycles and marathons and mountains, oh my
What makes you think so? I tested book 3 chapter 1 with Okular and Festival plugin, works fine.
There is a guiding Utopian goal of modern economics: a utopia for the rich.

Unfortunately, a utopia for the rich involves slave labor, inequal enforcement of law, and large class differences and privileges.

A true Utopia is very democratic to the point of communism. Then came Communism, and the rich and powerful said "no thanks" and then usurped the civilization struggle of the cold war to undermine all socialist movements from the New Deal/Great Depression and value the rich and powerful above all.

Anyway, it's funny because the point of UBI to me is pretty obvious in our highly hockey-sticked wealth distribution.

Fundamentally: don't let people starve or go homeless, let them get reasonable health care, and that will trigger enough GDP goods/services exchange that the economic impact shouldn't actually be that negative.

Although globally this is just sheltering Americans from the economic class they are all headed toward, the same economic class that the Chinese factory worker is: disposable worker bee, and constructing an intermediate global class for first world citizens, but it's kind of been like that informally for decades now.

The difference is the free trade economists can't keep saying with a straight face that free trade will be good for American workers as their jobs disappear, they retreat to opioids and suicide, and the rest of the global workforce get a couple cents an hour raise.

Well, at least the rest of the world has universal healthcare.
It's not a Boolean logic problem. It's a near-semiring problem that is equivalent to (Bribery and (MCAS or nothing))
Previously they licensed TomTom's data and tried to fill in gaps with data from OpenStreetMap and others.

Now they have decided to build their own data set from scratch.

>So a new effort was created to begin generating its own base maps, the very lowest building block of any really good mapping system. After that, Apple would begin layering on living location data, high-resolution satellite imagery and brand new intensely high-resolution image data gathered from its ground cars until it had what it felt was a “best in class” mapping product.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/29/apple-is-rebuilding-maps-f...

That TechCrunch article has a good overview of their old and new mapping systems.
The left turn (or in my case in Australia, right turn) problem is huge and my biggest issue with google maps (and I expect the others are the same but I don’t use any others).

I don’t want to take a backstreet only to pop out at the freeway where I need to turn over 6 lanes with no lights....

I feel it’s getting worse, it’s like google maps is trying to get trickier about where it sends you but the outcome for me seems to be getting worse.
Jugos Baggio. Interna familiar en la empresa por la desaparición de US$7 millon
It’s not just the federal system, but the basic nature of disaster response. Even if the EU had jurisdiction over levees in the Netherlands, it would be ridiculous to expect an EU agency to be the front line response to flooding in Amsterdam. It’s the local government that actually knows where the risks and the resources to deal with those are. The federal government can help with money, say ensuring that poor cities have the financial resources to prepare a disaster response. But the actual response has to be local.
They can likely consider only 1 device per IP address. Unless the region is blanketed in strong public WiFi
In high school I was part of a 4-man juggling troupe. Mostly club passing. I always had to be able to see each throw at the top of its arc, but only out of the very corner of my eye. I didn't have to focus my eyes or pay attention, but the club or ball had to pass by some part of my visual field. I couldn't juggle blind, not even three balls. I'd even miss just one ball about a quarter of the time if I closed by eyes and threw it in a 18-inch arc.

So muscle memory also involves your eyes.
product placement?
elite luxury?
It doesn’t include payroll taxes, import duties or VAT / sales taxes.