skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And you're not understanding that this is probably the wrong problem to solve. It is a solution in search of a problem. We already can provide accurate fire further than we can see. What we need to improve is proper target identification, coordination and tracking of friendlies, improved intelligence, better knowledge of culture/language, and grand strategy against insurgencies, to name a few.

To put this another way: training a sniper is really hard and expensive. However, it's not the marksmanship that's the hard part. It's the camouflage, field-craft, spotting, intelligence gathering, and tactics to integrate into the rest of the unit that are the difficult things to teach.
One thing I enjoyed that blended a hobby with programming-adjacent skills: building a homelab. You can mess around with hosting things on a raspberry pi or go nuts with rackmounted servers, but I’ve had a lot of fun with it. The more in-depth knowledge you can gain around things like networking and DNS and system administration has helped me a lot in understanding and manipulating the environment my code runs in at my job.
Adding to that: most soldier who died in WWII didn't fire a single shot, and never seen the enemy.

A lot more of who survived just spent the whole war walking and doing maneuvers.
It’s important that they don’t know your real name, that way you can sneak out before they send the bill.
Conservatives are split about the changes the article discribes. Traditional conservatives are glad the labor movement was destroyed, and see the Knowledge Economy as good because it is the latest product of the unrestrained free market.

On the other hand, Trump supporters are very angry, but the problem is that Trump's program won't do anything at all to fix the problems that are making them unhappy.
I disagree. The road to riches is easy to find.

- Spend less than you earn. The less, the better.

- Invest in equities, preferably low cost index funds.

- Follow this pattern for at least 25 years.

Many people have followed this formula with great success. Read more at Bogleheads.org
Build performance, image size and deployment speed mostly.
Between the 10% bonus discount on sale prices and prime-only sales at WF, our prime membership pays for itself without the prime credit card, even though we do most of our grocery shopping at other stores.
Yes it is.

It's a very natural thing for someone who has status to think that they should be able to cash in on that power.

Everyone with responsibility is looking at a pile of money every day, all they have to do is reach out and grab some. And after all, they 'work hard' so why shouldn't they? (Is the internal logic they might use).

Most businesses are commodities, it's hard to compete on price or anything else. It makes much more sense to compete on some other basis.

In 2020 most industries continue to run on soft grease. The next time you go to a sporting event, look at the Box Seats and consider that 100% of them are business write-offs, used to 'entertain' i.e. to 'give a gift' to someone in business they are not otherwise allowed to do.

There is no such thing as a Free Lunch

Some might even argue that while it might be unethical to bribe a judge, it's altogether different for commercial kickbacks. Why should an exec who has toiled all of his life leave the profits to the considerably more corrupt owners? ... is the internal logic they might use.

When you think about the nature of power and influence - such activities are the natural course of action, and it takes a pretty strong, moral social organization + strong laws to overcome it.

I guess it's a good thing that most regular people in the West think bribery is bad, and that at least it's not something they should do. That probably took a few hundred years of indoctrination at least.
Quick, Get the Popcorn: Amazon Web Services Says Microsoft's Benchmarks for Azur
As someone who doesn't have Facebook, barely uses Twitter (zero tweets, I just use tweetdeck to follow some people), doesn't share his GitHub account with employers (just don't really care to) - my resume still jumps to the top of the pile based solely on the big names I've worked for in the past.

So - yes.

Sure, you're going to add more qualifiers now, but I'm giving a counterpoint to your original claim.
I've only had to do one return, and they refunded my money instantly without requiring me to return the item.
The Bilingual Brain
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That’s because there’s actually a law against it. I remember some years ago we always had Werbeanrufe on our landline. We don’t have a landline anymore but I’ve not gotten a single spam call for years now (except from my own home internet or mobile provider, which isn’t “spam” per se but still annoying because they sometimes call you five times a day instead of emailing you about some minor things).
In the "abstract art" sense, isn't most music "abstract"? Does a Brahms symphony (or Knopfler solo) attempt to reference natural sounds?

"Abstract music" is actually an existing term [1], and it simply means non-program music, which is far older than Schoenberg.

That recording you link to is Webern, which sounds to me completely different than Schoenberg. How about linking to one of the compositions mentioned in the article, like [2] or [3]?

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

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-pVz2LTakM

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2_bH-cpTVw
It's amazing how much better free Google Photos is over $20 per month iCloud Photos (especially on macOS). The number of bugs and lack of features is appalling.
You can even train a net which will show you where all the targets are. Not even faces, _any_ part of a human. Butt sticks out from a shallow trench? Butt gets shot off. And it won't be limited to visible spectrum either, so it could largely "ignore" camo. And it could be augmented by similar AI-based person detection from a drone. This is not doable on a Raspberry Pi, but something like a recent Snapdragon SoC should be able to do it without breaking a sweat.

It's all coming, the question is who gets it first and how accurate it is.

If you think about it rationally, this is actually not a bad thing. As MAD shows, if there is a potential for armed conflict, it's better from the casualty standpoint if one or both of the sides have overwhelming firepower. Then either the weaker side, or both sides will choose not to engage because the "victory", even if achievable, would come at too high a cost.

The only real problem I see with this is if this tech makes its way to the "bad" folks, like ISIS. When any idiot can somewhat reliably hit targets a mile out, things get problematic.

Another interesting thing about this is that with today's science and technology I could cobble a pretty good version of what I described together in less than a year, hardware and all, for under a million dollars (assuming I already have multispectral dataset, if not, add another million). Which tells me that pretty much every even somewhat developed nation state already has their own version.
So, if you're not on Twitter...
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No, it wont.
>And that's exactly because of the first round of EU standardisation. The gas station now has to stock only USB and Apple.

Um... No. It has nothing to do with that EU standardisation. The USB converged on all Android SmartPhone was because it was cheap, and it transfer Data fairly fast. Which was the De-Facto Standard on PC.
Heh, thanks. Whatever, though. I don't care about downvotes and I'd have jumped in even if it were somebody else's comment—I just really don't like to see collective moderation tools (is that the right term?) used by people who have no clue what they're talking about to shut down discussion.

I'm a little sorry to have used such "uncivil" language ... but also, I'm not.
Lithium – A split-brain resolver for Akka-Cluster
That's a reasonable default behaviour, can you change it though?
Pretty cool, thanks for pointing it out. I have some experience with Dart via Flutter development, so I'll give this a go when I have some time.
Lua is 1-based because it was originally designed for use by the Fortran programmers of Petrobras, a Brazilian oil company.
Focusing on integrity, reasonable expectations, decreasing entitlement. Stop being reliant on excitement and emotional highs to get work done. Don’t check email/slack until after lunch. Be intentional of what you do as much as possible. Give myself over to the process and forget about FOMO.
https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/evpv5m/lithium_a_spl...
>>Spend the money in something better and that will further the relationship, like the honeymoon.

Honeymoon's over. Ever heard that? I was thinking more in the buy a home or invest in stocks
Here's my boilerplate bash header with comments describing each option, which I find practically helpful for starting new scripts

https://gist.github.com/crizCraig/f42bc250754bed764ada5f95d1...

raw: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/crizCraig/f42bc250754bed7...
Google and Dropbox used this company on me.
what would you call it?
Can anyone speak to why deploying your application as a container is more expensive than deploying on an VM instance?
Man, this is gold.

I for long tried to write something along those lines, but I think the author did summarise my thoughts better than I could've done myself.

The class conflict — something that western literati class keep denying acknowledgement, is really the driver of much of social progress. And this holds more even more true in the West than in the East.

The class warfare is there, it exists, and it is what has been responsible for the prime majority of political developments in the West for the last 30 years.
I am new to OSINT and this looks like a really cool way to get started.

Maybe this exists and I missed it but it would nice to have a way not to run scans with a missing API key. Even better would be a way to easily link to instructions to obtain missing API keys, for example each module could have a metadata slot for 'API key generation url'... it would be a lot of work so I understand if it's not in the roadmap.

Thanks for your hard work on this project
What should we be thinking about ?
> "Use Popular Tools", "Old Doesn't Mean Gold" and "Use The Right Tool" are all kind of contradictory.

Yes, but that doesn't make them simultaneously good advice. The tension among these three is one of the trichotomies of technical leadership.
Dear Department of Mathematics,

Our client, Amazon.com Inc., has a trademarked the word Prime for all uses, across the known and yet to be discovered universe. Immediately cease and desist from using the term "prime numbers" to describe those a natural number greater than 1 that cannot be formed by multiplying two smaller natural numbers.

Our client understands this may cause some minor inconvenience to yourself and your colleagues. As a token of goodwill, we are offering all fulltime staff in your department Amazon Prime membership at the discounted student rate for one (1) year. By reading this letter, you implicitly agree to the above terms.
Law enforcement precision shooting is almost always done inside of 100 yards. 150 tops. Timing and liability is a bigger problem.
Thank you! I didn’t realize it was that common. Seems very useful for building robot AI without needing to keep your robot safe In the process.
> Prime Video has a 300ms audio delay on my Android TV and chromecasting to said TV has an even worse delay

We use a fire stick, and it has the same issue for Prime Video. We have to pause the show for a couple seconds and then start it back up to get it back in sync. It's totally annoying.
I get the impression you either don’t have much experience with Typescript or haven’t fully grokked it’s workflow, and have prematurely made up your mind. Your autocomplete comment for instance shows you aren’t aware of the extent to which Typescript vastly improves autocomplete.

Regarding typing at the boundaries, this is precisely where typescript shines. The types exist whether they are documented explicitly in your code (in the form of interfaces, types, protocols, etc), or not. This is where the documentation aspect come in to play - it is far easier to read a type definition than having to chase up API documentation, mentally parse tests, or console logging out api responses, to understand your boundary. Your refactoring argument is a strawman, because you wouldn’t just go and refactor names of things at the boundaries of your code in typescript, or any other language, without understanding the API spec. What typescript gives you is precisely the ability to refactor at the boundary when the spec changes and be much more confident that your changes aren’t going to break a whole bunch of thing, especially when it comes to the “class of bugs” that literally every JavaScript developer has dealt with, whether you are aware of them or not.
It's a burden to you only because you're used to not putting quotes in some cases. But to some of us who always put the quotes, it's not really about that at all, and it's not a subjective issue - missing them is literally wrong. It's like sprinkling random .split(" ") calls in your Python code for no reason, which you'd (hopefully?) never do. And when something is semantically so wrong, the elegance of its syntax compared to a correct solution becomes pretty much irrelevant.
> Same thought here. I have been toying with the idea of building something OSS so that people could run it themselves, for this reason.

I'm in the process of open-sourcing the core part of a SaaS I run that does exactly this. It relies on Twilio but could be easily made to work with any API that exposes the forwarded number, which should be all of them.
https://get-ytt.io (i am one of the authors), one of the tools that inspired yglu, has been designed from ground up with an eye towards security even though its turing complete.

it is based on starlark which is a runtime that does not have facilities to do networking, fs access, etc. building on that, ytt does not allow/provide any kind of non-deterministic operations (access to time, disk, network, random, etc). it expects user to specify explicitly which files to load via -f flag (ie ytt template cannot load random template from fs).

there are several computation attacks that are currently possible (eg infinite loop) but that could be easily addressed thru global timeout for example.

check out interactive playground at https://get-ytt.io
Um... may be because the median Smartphone cycle is now 3 - 4 years in most countries and it would not be bad to have a new Chargers and new cables put to work?

Arguably not Charger, but you do get the possibility of improved charger or higher power charging. But all cables wear out. So not really wrong with providing it by default.
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How would you quantify merit?
Can you explain more in a scenario example?
Gates Notes Is Down?
Better yet, stick it in an index tracker fund for 30 years and when you’re 60 you’ll have a million in the bank.

Which you won’t spend anyway because you’ll have nothing and no one to spend it on. But smugness and pride are truly priceless.
Two recent related threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21840924

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21840101

Also https://medium.com/syncedreview/cmu-senior-develops-worlds-f... via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21864706 (but no comments there).
Or what if your significant other was the one working while you were a stay at home parent taking care of N children only for them to die in an accident at a young age. What then?
YES

Also: if (area code == my area code) AND (number NOT IN whitelist)

Basically: I have a mobile number in an area I left 15 years ago. Any call I get from there that's not one of my friends is de facto spam.
Nice Idea! Seems like a fun way to get your morning dose of your coffee!
Would love to sign up to get notified when this is ready!

Good luck!
There's some of that on itch.io, there's just also plenty of paid stuff there too.
A pistol is a side arm. In no world will even a scaled-down version of this probably ever be worth humping around the extra bulk and weight and introducing complicated maintenance and reliability issues.

Maybe for competition shooters or something, but they'd be banned in competition. It just doesn't make sense.
I've only been in tech for 6 years so I had never heard of him before his passing recently. I ordered his Innovators Dilemma and Innovators Solution after reading about his influence. Im pumped to read them!
That's... not what the DMCA anti-circumvention clause means. At all. The anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA does not deal with the kind of technological measures they're talking about. It only forbids circumvention of technological measures that SPECIFICALLY protect copyrighted material. Not general access controls, not access throttling or user roles or anything general like that. It doesn't even protect against things like circumventing things and convincing Instagrams servers to send copyrighted data. It's meant to protect things like the CSS encoding/encryption on DVDs. It has been used (in RealNetworks v. Streambox, one of the first if not the first lawsuit involving the DMCA right after its passage) to prevent recording streamed content and a single totally undocumented bit ended up being ruled as an adequate 'protection mechanism' when 'circumvention' boiled down to "we didn't know what that bit did because no one would tell us, so we just ignored it". But that was specifically a transfer encoding of the content itself, it didn't have to do with user account control or anything. Courts are very displeased when companies try to use copyright law or the DMCA to facilitate other business goals - like protecting their ability to collect analytics, etc. It's obviously not copyright infringement to get images from Instagram, that's literally what it exists for you to do! Copyright protects copying. And absolutely nothing else.
Can someone translate this into:

Perceived problem, attempted solutions, potential new solution.

I have no idea what the hell the article is going on about - it reads like a rant by a typical politically active idiot.
I wish the Prime Video streaming app was better.

Absolutely unusable on an Apple TV. Cross-platform trash that behaves so poorly compared to native UX.

The official Twitch app is the same. And they shut down API access for a number of high quality 3rd party Apple TV apps for Twitch when they launched the official one.
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'Prime Video' is worth the price for me. We get new release Indian movies for free & great TV series.

Free shipping on Prime items is just a bonus. They have added free overnight, free next day 8AM and even sameday 6pm for my zipcode. Cutoff is noon for same day delivery! I do not see a huge pricemarkup, and sometimes I dont even need to order $35 worth of items. The two toys I ordered was $5 & $8 each, it got delivered 8AM next day,
Flow diagram including configure, autoconf and automake, in the GNU Build System
I have mobile numbers in HK, mainland China and UK. I get zero spam on the UK number, and daily spam calls on the other two, although they hang up as soon as they realise I speak neither Cantonese nor Mandarin, which is a good enough spam filter for me :)
We more or less only pay for prescription medicine (out of hospital) and dentist. And both of those two are highly subsidized by the government. VAT does not go directly into anything particular but is just a general income for the government.

Some background about e-health in Denmark:

https://www.sundhed.dk/borger/service/om-sundheddk/ehealth-i...

https://vimeo.com/109787633 (1 minute overview)

https://healthcare-in-europe.com/en/news/e-health-in-denmark...

https://www.slideshare.net/HealthcareDENMARK/e-health-in-den...

https://www.eiseverywhere.com/file_uploads/27205cdba716d941e...

Portal Functionality:

https://www.aps-ev.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/WS-14_Peter... (2018)

http://data.nczisk.sk/konferencia_2010/bruun-schmidt.pdf (2010)

https://www.longwoods.com/content/19658//the-national-danish... (2005)

https://www.charlietango.dk/work/sundhed-dk/ (The app)

Other articles

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317140742_Building_...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258115827_eHealth_i...
Interesting.

I kind of wish there was like an audio captcha app. If the number isnt in your contacts, voice comes on asking them to type some random 4 digit number. Well it is of course anarms race, almost all my call spam is recordings so i think itd be effective.
> Do you disagree?

Not at all. I understand that drug testing is required due to contractual obligations and things like security clearances. However, I choose not to apply to such jobs because what I do on my own time doesn't need scrutiny from my employer. I've heard from colleagues of companies in the consumer app space sometimes requiring drug tests for their engineering and non-engineering roles, which is more of what I'm addressing. There just isn't need for that beyond an employer or HR department not liking the idea of someone smoking a joint on the weekends.

People who choose to allow their public online presence to be unprofessional are allowed to be scrutinized by those who care about those things. However, if your employer is hiring companies that use bots to friend your private profiles and mine content from them, that's an overstep in my opinion. Wanting a dossier on an applicant's likes, opinions and a sentiment analysis on their posts is kind of absurd in my opinion.
The Brain Cells That Guide Animals
Copy-writing on the pricing page: "We'll charge you for your traffic to FastComments. For example if you have a small blog and you never get more than 250000.00 visitors a month you won't be charged more than $71.43 a month."

Who measures number of visitors down to their 100th part? Remove the ".00" to make it simpler. The price "$71.43" suggests the underlying pricing model is somewhat complicated, as others have identified, too.
So they can innovate, so long as it is within a strict and limited set of boundaries. That is the very definition of stifling innovation
Which is best for simply catching typing errors? Shell check? I never saw the instillation instructions for oil.
>Which tells me that pretty much every even somewhat developed nation state already has their own version.

That, or they don't because target identification and having authorization to fire are not problems that will be so easily solved.

We generally try to avoid friendly fire. The device you described sounds like an indiscriminate killing machine. There's a reason we gave up area-denial weapons like mines. They kill indiscriminately and create huge political problems that mean you can win a battle and lose the war.
And for comparison, Costco has 98.5 million members.
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And got nailed for child pornography. You stay you Palmdale.
Man, another (potential) foundational AI/ML/Robotics library from Facebook. At some point every major open source library in this field is going to be run out of a FAANG company. I wonder what the impact of this will be in the long run.
It is interestingly skipping period after 1832 (where The Making of the English Working Class ends) and now. The social problems were quite large and very real.
Supercomputers are helping us link quantum entanglement to cold coffee
Scientific Detail of 2019-NCoV
And if you design your monolith carefully enough you might be able to horizontally scale too.

Back in the late 00s we horizontally scaled a monolithic project with 5mil daily users and another 8mil daily users. Peak was 10k and 15k requests/sec of dynamic per-user webpages.

The hardest part was the databases. Our solution was standard for the time but pretty ugly nowadays: sharding MySQL by user id along with heavy use of memcached.

Would have killed for some of the modern scalable databases. Sometimes I wonder if some people using microservices are chasing challenges since much of the actually necessary hard parts are already figured out.