skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't personally believe that non-ionizing radiation can cause any damage, but if I put on my "brainstorming" hat, I can think of some things to test to at least rule them out.

Non-ionizing radiation doesn't have the power necessary to remove charged particles like electrons from atoms, but it does have the energy necessary to physically move or manipulate atoms. It's probably not enough to actually remove atoms from molecules (although, I'm curious how much energy would be necessary to do that)...

But, if certain atoms are able to have their motion or position in molecules affected, even in minute amounts, could that affect biological processes such as the energy necessary for cellular machinery to split DNA? Or to work with RNA? Or could it affect protein folding? Just how sensitive is our biological machinery to small adjustments of those reliable constants? And would that cause any problems, or just make our cellular machinery use a tiny bit more or less ATP?

Overall, I think the cellular processes in all the life on earth are likely very robust. the tiny amount of inefficiencies (possibly) brought on due to an increasing background RF level likely has no effect at all, but it wouldn't hurt to check it out.

It would be like asking "how does the introduction of a single drop of water in a car gas tank affect performance". The answer is probably "pretty much not at all", but it gives an opportunity to design some exciting and useful testing methods that could be used for other purposes in other experiments.

Learning how to determine energy used by cellular machinery with that kind of precision could be very useful for a lot of biological science and drug research. Learning how, and what kind, of RF can affect different atomic bonds might yield useful information like how to slightly strengthen or weaken molecules temporarily, which might open up possible chemical reactions that were previously "almost possible".
Could you elaborate on the specific difference?
Could a Habitable Planet Orbit a Black Hole?
> Yes, all of those Disney films with a sad ending like...um...

Old Yeller.
I wouldn't buy that.

I sat in a corner desk right on top of a major central business district intersection. Cars never ran the light, it's too busy and complex. Cyclists did reckless, stupid shit all of the time, running lights, cutting across the diagonal on the wrong side of the road, etc.

From my POV, drivers are more predictably dumb, and dangerous when they perceive low risk, for example, they run red lights in a low traffic neighborhood and are awful about a number of things. Cyclists are less consistent and perceive risk differently. Younger people who perceive themselves as invincible in particular.

End of the day, we should have better dedicated infrastructure for bicycles and other things.
That laptop has an AMD processor.
This. I'm already adding callAsFunction to my team's linter, should be a stupid simple match since you can block declaring the capability in anything.
I definitely think this is a useful perspective, but if you're creating something, it can be nice to turn your hobby into a hustle in order to increase the amount that you can create.

If you're getting into glass blowing, you can only have so many vases (or bongs, whatever) in your house, so selling them is a good way to cover the cost of your materials while letting you continue to engage in your hobby. The key is to remember the purpose of selling them - it's not to make a bunch of money, it's just to enable you to blow more glass. Don't give refunds, discounts, or anything else - just price your stuff so it sells and move on after each sale.
Knowing what's expected of you by whom is important regardless of your role. And also team success over personal success -- you have to be in some petty backstabbing nonsense for those things to not be tightly related.

I have a Lead title at work, but like you I don't have any authority over anyone. So I don't really have any advice for the OP, as it seems what "lead" means varies so much from company to company, and to me as soon as you get in the business of authority you really need to start thinking about management, not tech, to which I can only suggest read Deming.

I think my ideal model for 'tech lead' is something like how (I've heard, could not actually be the case) Bryan Cantrill at Joyent operated. Even when he was VP Eng, and later CTO, he still was involved in code, and generally engineers there both "led and were led" without very hard cut roles on that axis.
Author of babashka here.

The original tagline was "a sprinkle of Clojure for the command line". A user of babashka commented that this tool was exactly right for him to cover up the grey areas of bash (bash constructs he could not remember the syntax for). If you picture bash as a grey woman and Clojure as the headscarf to cover her grey hair, the metaphor might start to make sense.
Angular 9 has been released
In seriousness: Why do you need a third party AV today?
Obviously the value of their subscription service is not compelling enough for their business to sustain itself.
Misunderstood Generations: What Millennials and Gen-Z Think About Work
My personal theory is that much of asia did (or does) not have the disney-style cultural directive that children stories have to end happily. Old european children stories pre-Grimm definitely did not have that either.

A well done sad moment probably has a lot more emotional impact than a saccharine ending. I certainly remember Bambi's mother death scene or Alfred's parents death, while the happy endings are lost to the fog of childhood memories.
Part of the reason I've been learning about embedded systems is so I can take these sorts of things into my own hands. I do not want a car with WI-FI, and I especially don't wait it attached to anything that makes my car move (or stop).
Forget an overarching strategy. You don't have the bandwidth for it as a small startup.

As a start, just find 3-5 core keywords that aren't insanely competitive. Write the best possible content you can on these keywords. Promote them like hell - guest posts, forums, heck even HN. Don't just look for links; get actual people to read your content.

This alone can move the needle for small startups. A trickle of high quality leads can give you the confidence to invest more in content and SEO
wish stanford would put videos online. But I guess then a lot fewer people would spend the $6000 for the class.
That cost is already baked into aviation hardware. It's why fasteners are so expensive, for example, because the cost of certifying, tracking their history, and quantifying their quality is already amortized into each bolt.

Flight software development lifecycle--and regs as you point out--still needs to catch up.
I really like how the current top two comment threads need to be glued together in order to get a coherent understanding of the timeline of this work.
That's maybe closer to the root... you're right.

I guess when I initially wrote I was thinking more from the position "обращайся" which has more interact flavor and made more sense vis a vis attention.
The Price of Anarchy (2011)
A labourer is "a person doing unskilled manual work for wages." Obviously, software development isn't a "labourer" job, 'technically' or otherwise, and isn't labour in the standard meaning of the term, either, although it is of course work.
I meant more that the government has no place legislating the behavior. I take the idea that what two consenting adults do in their own bedroom is their own business and not the government's and apply it even if they are, for example, trading or doing drugs in their bedroom.

Granted, all of this is pretty much meaningless when you have a government overstepping its bounds and doing what it wants. In that case, it seems the blame of the corrupted system would fall on those corrupting it (the corrupt government allowing itself to be bribed in exchange for monopolies).
Reading this was a lot of fun. Great effort!
So much for semver. This should be a breaking change warranting an Xcode 12 major version.
Yup it’s been proven that libraries are good places to get work done not cafeterias.

They really should have collaborative AND personal spaces. Not a forced airport-like office setup.

What were they smoking when they designed those?
> You provided a lot of emotion, zero facts

This could be said about your original post.
Sure - https://nyxtech.us/
>The good thing about Scala is that it's flexible and it allows you to use it for your use case.

It's always tempting to agree to language X being flexible to suit everyone's needs but I would agree with John A. De Goes on that it should be either functional rather than something in the middle. Being flexible is only good on the surface, once it comes to actual daily work like reading other people's code expressiveness quickly becomes a burden.

>Your claim about Scala tooling being outdated or outright abandoned is not true.

I might have been trapped in my own little domain of data science guy and I don't know about other cool active libraries but whenever I dig something useful, it appears to be some PhD project left-overs or "last commit 5 years go" case. It's frustrating and doesn't encourage you to proceed working with the language.

So, if I ask, how does Scala future look like now that we have Java keeping up the pace with Kotlin basically sweeping the JVM newcomers and even Clojure looking good? I go read the Scala 3 goals and struggle to feel the same excitement over intersection types, better implicits, union types, type lambdas, DOT calculus of all things and all this at the cost of "Scala 3 won't be binary compatible with Scala 2" :) I am sorry but doesn't it look like a neck breaking academic crusade into oblivion? I think it does but time will tell of course.
I think any useful language will have features that many people won’t use. Library writers, etc need different functionality, for example.

One thing I wish Swift had was an easy way to add more generic functionality. For example, if I want to add drop(), dropWhile(), take(), takeWhile(),... there’s no nice way to extend Array

[1,2,3].take(2)
[“a”,”b”,”c”].take(2)

Btw, I’m working a Swift Cookbook for anyone who quickly wants to come up to speed on Swift. All open source. Feel free to comment or commit.

https://github.com/melling/SwiftCookBook
I agree. I would say the only reason providers are not cost estimating is because they don't need to in order to get business.

For automotive I'm typically getting a problem diagnosed first, then after diagnosis, I'm agreeing to a price for a fix. This is the norm for that industry.

For a walk in appointment for a rash, I'm agreeing to a fixed visit fee, PLUS signing that I agree to pay any charges my insurance does not agree to pay. The true costs can (and should) be computed by the provider, so the only true unknown in that equation is what Insurance will cover. THEN the provider (wanting to cover their bases) is putting that risk of not getting paid by insurance, back onto the patient.

I like to think we're 1 killer app away from a shift in consumer behavior here to change the expectations
Do you think women will ever be able to compete on a level footing with men in the labor market/workplace if enough men prioritize status, wealth, and their career above being primarily a father? Honest question, not intended to be incendiary. You propose in this thread about culture changing, but what if it doesn't because of the drive for status? To seek status and wealth are core human values. You can’t squeeze the humanity out of people with policy.

Valuing those who value their career above all else isn't gender inequality; that's valuing a work ethic, not a specific gender (women also make the choice to prioritize a career above being a mother at all). You as an individual have a choice not to prioritize your work above all else, but you should not then be penalizing those with public policy who don't in the name of equality.

Equality of opportunity, not of outcome.
What do you mean by 'did not stick'. If you mean that trump supporters didn't turn on him for cheating on his wife with pornstars and paying them to be quiet, then that could be reasonable, but the fact that it happened is not even in dispute.
The personal version / plans were canceled a few years back. That's when I got off the CrashPlan train.
What's this about the space shuttle? I'm intrigued.

I thought that the paris metro was the posterchild of formal verification methods.
That's pretty cool. I didn't know that.

Looking into the equivalent firmware[1] for my Archer C7 v2, I didn't find any OpenWRT bits though. I was honestly a little bit disappointed.

I guess the difference between hardware revisions might be more fundamental than I assumed.

DECIMAL HEXADECIMAL DESCRIPTION
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0 0x0 TP-Link firmware header, firmware version: 1.-15188.3, image version: "",
product ID: 0x0, product version: -956301310, kernel load address: 0x0,
kernel entry point: 0x80002000, kernel offset: 16384512, kernel length:
512, rootfs offset: 855873, rootfs length: 1048576, bootloader offset:
15204352, bootloader length: 0
71520 0x11760 Certificate in DER format (x509 v3), header length: 4, sequence length: 64
98560 0x18100 U-Boot version string, "U-Boot 1.1.4 (Mar 5 2018 - 13:57:29)"
98736 0x181B0 CRC32 polynomial table, big endian
131584 0x20200 TP-Link firmware header, firmware version: 0.0.3, image version: "",
product ID: 0x0, product version: -956301310, kernel load address: 0x0,
kernel entry point: 0x80002000, kernel offset: 16252928, kernel length:
512, rootfs offset: 855873, rootfs length: 1048576, bootloader offset:
15204352, bootloader length: 0
132096 0x20400 LZMA compressed data, properties: 0x5D, dictionary size: 33554432 bytes,
uncompressed size: 2451644 bytes
1180160 0x120200 Squashfs filesystem, little endian, version 4.0, compression:lzma, size:
9878520 bytes, 789 inodes, blocksize: 131072 bytes, created: 2018-03-05
06:16:10

[1] https://static.tp-link.com/2018/201806/20180611/Archer%20C7(...
Finding palindromes in the Linux shell – explained
The NAND business was awful last summer (and last year overall), so I'm not surprised.
Not illegal per se, but you're handing cops PC to enter your car to move the paper and any further evidence of "crime" they can see while doing that is fair game.
I would like to very much believe you as I turned to Apple because I didn't like both Microsoft's and Canonical user spying practices and unfortunately have to use use some non-linux commercial software applications.

However, recent moves by Apple over the past years make me very doubtful. Apple is going about this just as Google did in the beginning - loudly and convincingly promising "privacy" while slowly intruding more and more and collecting more data on its users.
The Toner style from Stamen has several different layers that you can use to accomplish what you're talking about:

- Hybrid does exactly what you're looking for: http://maps.stamen.com/toner-hybrid/#12/37.7706/-122.3782

But they also break that down into labels and lines:

- Labels: http://maps.stamen.com/toner-labels/#12/37.7706/-122.3782

- Lines: http://maps.stamen.com/toner-lines/#12/37.7706/-122.3782

Their Terrain style has a similar separation:

- Lines: http://maps.stamen.com/terrain-lines/#12/37.7706/-122.3782

- Labels: http://maps.stamen.com/terrain-labels/#12/37.7706/-122.3782

- Background: http://maps.stamen.com/terrain-background/#12/37.7706/-122.3...
Not really, it depends on the revenue strategy. Shareholders would likely be more displeased at initiatives that could end up breaking user trust and harming core revenue (e.g. the sale of peripheral hardware). Blindly leveraging everything in a way that doesn't align with vision or strategy generally leads to disappointing returns. Smart leaders know this.
> (a) wouldn't even look for "a great job in the US", and (b) wouldn't move for it if one landed at their feet.

1. Those peers may have spouses/SOs, that, depending on their profession would turn into stay-at-home house-wives/husbands, if the peer moves into the US. This is an immediate show-stopper for a lot of people.

2. Those peers may value Canadian culture more then the person you're responding to. That doesn't mean that the person who moves to the US for better paying work values US culture. They may prefer Canadian culture - just not $200,000/year prefer.
Standing desks are better for your health anyway.
Everyone has had smartphones for 10 years, cell phones for 20 years. There's a massive sample group. If they caused cancer there would be an incredibly obvious global uptick in people getting cancer around their ear and/or hands.
If you are talking about "pathetic inadequacy of the contributions" then the contributions better really be inadequate and pathetic. Only then it is bluntness or "telling it like it is".

And most often, those contributions were normal or even state of art when they have been made - making accusation not so much blunt. Instead, it is appeal to emotions, an attempt to leverage funy sounding expression for own goal.

And it is only fair when people respond to it in kind.
From my reply below:

I hear a conversation relevant to me and jump in, a conversation stops being relevant I jump out
That simple interaction has added tons of value for me over the last few years of open offices.
We have a very simple way to indicate you don't want to be interrupted, headphones or a flag
There's also tons of huddle rooms you can go into if you want to hunker down in quiet
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Everyone is different, some people feel switching from keyboard to mouse is a huge productivity drain and invest a lot in avoiding that transition
Maybe I'm just fortunate but it's never been an issue for me, people are pretty respectful of their coworkers where I've worked
what kind of activities do you do during the fast ? normal work life or retreat / reading ?
In the case of MCAS, that's likely true: the software was behaving exactly per spec; the problem was in the earlier requirements-definition phase.
Quotations, like any other meme, do not exist in a vacuum, and are sometimes taken up by ideologies to justify different agendas. It's fine to like a quote for the value it resonates with oneself, but you can't ignore that it also exists within a larger culture- http://tiny.cc/pinojz
yep, same thing happened here. I'd seen pictures, but.. yeah.

Wife cut her hand Thanksgiving night - had to go to ER - bleeding pretty bad. Initial triage was a few minutes, then in to an ER room to 'wait'. Someone came in after about 10 minutes with a portable POS on wheels, saying we had to pay $450 for the ER visit. No explanation about anything, and... I paid, but... I was in no position to 'shop around', nor even be confrontational. If I make a scene, or refuse to pay, or ask for more details, will they make us wait 6 hours? Or 8? I wanted this addresses ASAP, and paid. And... we still ended up getting bills for around $3400 (total of 9 stitches on her hand). This is with 'full insurance', which, we pay $1k/month for for 2 people.

That anyone defends this system as 'the best' is beyond me.
Benchmarking Debian vs. Alpine as a base Docker image (2018)
EMWCon Spring 2020
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/jun/22/bill-clint...

Are you talking about something else?
Swift on the server? Swimming against the tide? Or expressive language, ideal for writing information systems and backed by Apple with the fantastic LLVM tool chain at your disposal?
I do think Kotlin is a 'better java' while Scala fails to satisfy that niche. However, I wonder if we'll actually see some big Open Source projects/platforms released that are written in Kotlin. For Scala you have Kafka, Spark and Flink which are widely deployed in the enterprise. Will Kotlin have a marquee infrastructure project to tout soon?
Generalizing Idiomatic Python Decorators
Works the same in the reverse case: I'm a native speaker in the office language, but many of my coworkers are not. One of them is impossible for me to tune out, only because of a difficult accent (his grammar etc are actually better than the ones that I can tune out). It feels as if a mental background process for flagging keywords or something like that keeps bailing out with an exception, "sorry consciousness, you take over". I discovered that I can limit the effect with positive framing as a naturally occurring experiment that grants an interesting window into the inner workings of the mind. At least this way, the distraction does not get compounded by annoyance (which also would be quite unfair). I can only imagine how bad it must be when everyone around you causes that kind of escalation to consciousness.
Yeah, a lot of our random chats start because of a stray thought said aloud, not even to anyone. If someone nearby needs a break, they pick up on it.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: There's no new information here. Anyone who has been paying even a tiny bit of attention would already know this. "Hacker" "news" wouldn't know an on-topic story if it hit them in the face.
Three quarters of parents say Facebook is 'not safe for children'in NSPCC poll
Be sure to select 4K from the "settings > quality" menu. When I first watched the video, it was defaulting to 360P.
> A regime which finds all the defects would cost billions on its own, only one such piece of software has been subject to such a regime and that's the Space Shuttle guidance program.

Do you have a source for that claim ? I'm skeptical that even a testing process costing billions of dollars could claim to cover all possible inputs and states for a software system of any complexity.
No it’s not.

The beauty of the cubicle was in its practical functionality. If you’re working effectice and productively you don’t really notice the plainness of your surroundings.

A private space, but you could still see out the window.
And after you add the expenses needed to make up for the social programs you don't have, you might even realize that what you're left with is not that significantly higher.
This is a hugely important comment and given the demographics of HN, I'll bring up prostate cancer as an example. It is important to catch prostate cancer in younger men, as in younger men it tends to be an aggressive cancer and lead to mortality. Paradoxically, in older men, aggressive screening for prostate cancer is bad if you want men to live longer and healthier lives. To oversimplify a bit, old guys with prostate cancer tend to have slow-growing cancers and they will most likely die of something else long before the cancer becomes a problem. Overtreatment of prostate cancer among old guys leads to increased mortality due to the risks of treatment, as well as leading to decreased quality of life due to side effects of surgery. This is why prostate cancer screening guidelines have been revised over the last 3-5 years.
Had to guess: Perhaps Linux users are more comfortable keeping an eye on the CPU meter, and generally knowing what their apps are requiring of the computer. If you can be bothered with that there's no reason to mind the CPU maximums automatically, and maybe CPU capacity is even more important to you than battery life.
Just installed a fresh copy of 1Password for Mac. You’re right that it’s hidden and a dark pattern, but your previous comment on how to get it was wrong. When you launch the app, there’s a big “start my trial” button. You can make a vault, and then when you try to modify it 1Password will ask you to subscribe or purchase a license.

Also there are definitely results when you search for “standalone” in the support section, including the link I had in my comment.