skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The obvious solution is to raise the ground clearance even further! But seriously, what else would one expect from taking trucks, customarily driven by people engaged in heavy work and painfully aware of their awkwardness, and marketing them to checked-out suburban consumers? The larger the vehicle, the more you need to inspect around it before moving - like when renting a moving truck, it's good to have a friend that can pop out and spot for you. People that take hopping in their vehicle and zooming off for granted are not going to do this work every time. Although of all the bad results from the ignorant zeitgeist of the early oughts, this is pretty minor.

I had thought this article was going to be about A pillars. With modern ones I feel like there is an insufferable blind spot right in the arc of my turn. I know about increasing fuel economy and crash standards, but it feels like there has got to be another way.
I always seem to end up on etymonline.com at least once per day. Another good site is Omniglot.com.
I use picture in picture all the time! I have 3 monitors, but still not enough spave to take a full one up with a browser. So if I've got a YouTube video playing I'll pop it out and stick it in a corner of one.
I guess there is no "probable cause" in Canada. In USA, cops would have likely used the excuse of probable cause, and the case would move forward.
You should first check hourly instance pricing for GPU instances before making this complaint.

This is a very cheap price.
I somewhat agree, but those can be good signals though, you just have to gather statistical data on them from known good users and combine with other signals. Like what are the chances for an agent to be used by a real person if it doesn't download images, lacks mouse movements and, for example, is coming from a datacenter? Obviously pretty low. The same way access patterns alone don't give you much, but are good against scrapers when combined with other signals.

And putting captchas or logins on anything you have to protect from bots also "protects" from real people, most of them simply leave and don't bother with those thing.
Arch + KDE full time. Not a macOS-a-like experience but it’s really usable. Not using it since getting my 16” MBP but it’s what’s installed on my desktop PC.

The worst thing about desktop Linux right now is the awkward transition from X11 to Wayland and the fact that high DPI support is pretty bad. It’s actually worse in some ways on Wayland despite the support for fractional and per-display scaling because half your applications probably still need to run on XWayland and it doesn’t support scaling at all.
> And really what is the practical difference between having $20m and $2b? Sure you'll have nicer houses and more of them. You may well have a super-yacht at that point. But who cares? I know I don't.

At $20m you can shape your own world, and your family's. But at $2bn you can change society. You can buy a lot of influence both by directly spending the cash to accomplish goals and by bribing politicians to act on your behalf.
>turns out the Office team had a single Alpha in their pipeline, set to compile -O0, and pretty much said "this is there to check the lawsuit checkmark"

what does this mean? compile -O0? lawsuit checkmark?
Highly recommended. Absolutely eye opening talk and set of resources.
‘The system is broken’: Ray Dalio fears a return to the 1930s
You can try https://osmbuildings.org/documentation/viewer/

Or perhaps directly from the city
Bill Mahar was talking about fame recently and he said it was very nice. Because people generally perk up and are friendly most everywhere you go.

But I think it goes the other way when you become super famous.
Privilege people problems! Best Ignore!
I'm not sure the solution to abuse of the legal system is more abuse of the legal system.
That's not unreasonable to say, but virus sequences drift much faster and have a much shorter lifecycle. This means a 1% difference can be huge for us and insignificant for them.
The bod from doing BJJ kind of surprised me too. It's more than enough to have the post-roll high but what looks back in the mirror is nice too. Unfortunately the better one gets, the less of a physical workout it is. Having a little teenage girl higher belt choke you out 20 times in a row is kind of hilarious. Yeah, another benefit - sincere humility combined with a balanced confidence.
I've been using a kmer approach, just a few lines in Python, and it's interesting comparing coronavirus to many different genomes.

The neat thing about kmers is that it is alignment free, so can find similarities between genomes even if genes have been moved around.

Interestingly, it finds HIV is quite close to cov compared to a random sampling of refseq viruses. Maybe there is credence to that Indian paper after all.
I recommend systemd timers instead, that way each service can have its own unit & timer files in its package without having to mess with a single system-wide file like the crontab.
Is there a way to disable PIP support? The blue floating icon is quite distracting for me, I wouldn’t mind PIP but I can’t stand the floating icon.
How do bots fuck up your website? I have been involved in running multiple websites (some of them which had plenty of bots crawling them) and only has had issues once or twice.
Counter-counterpoint: If you are not too picky about the type of good you want to do, money can buy you an astonishing amount of it. See the effective altruism movement, e.g. https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/impact-calculator/ . For a thousand dollars you can provide 781 person-years of save drinking water or purchase 500 bednets to protect against malaria.

Unless you are over-proportionally suited or talented at being famous, you can basically always do more good by earning and donating as much money as you can.

(Note, though, that it requires more reflection and conceptualization to feel as good by giving remotely than by giving to people locally or in your community.)
-O0 means compiling without optimization. Presumably they were contractually required to have a version Office for Alpha, so they did the minimum effort thing to produce one.
It seems NCBI's index is not updated. You should try MN996532, which is also from bats and the sequence was uploaded Jan 29. It shows 96% similarity.
I've been several times disappointed by the lack of references in this dictionary. For example, it claims the meaning of some words shifted around a particular time without linking to data that proves so.
Did you do all your own research or did you go through a specialist?

Hopefully you are getting regular monitoring and testing because big health problems can sneak up on you over time.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-picture-picture-f...
Thing is, nothing matters to you after you are gone. Unless we become ghosts that can observe. Unlikely
Not a lawyer, but I have previously contracted one to evaluate and discuss something closely related, which are the Swedish laws about non-compete clauses in employment or contractor contracts.

In summary. They are allowed to some extent, but if a court would consider a non competition paragraph as being too broad, the paragraph becomes void in its entirety, as if it was never entered into the contract at all.

For non management employees the exclusivity must be quite specific, and unless the law has changed recently without my knowledge, and entire industry, or a broadly specified skill would fail the test in any case I can think of.

Applying the most basic levels of those principles, I would assume that attempting to limit a programmers ability to engage in programming in general would lead to nothing but a complete dismissal of any claims related to the non-compete clause if someone brought it to court.

Effectively, if you try to prevent someone to apply their trades and/or talents to broadly, they could essentially moonlight for your worst competition without much of a risk as long as they don't convey what is clearly trade secrets as they are differently protected.

Suffice to say that companies with decent legal departments tend to write specific non competition clauses especially outside of the realm of management positions, as they get no value at all from too broad non competition clauses.
I use it a lot because I have only one monitor.
See for example https://blog.exppad.com/article/importing-actual-3d-models-f...
SV is so gluttonous that we forget how good we have it relative to almost every other market in the world. We do half-page rants just because we accidentally stepped in dog doo before work.
What matters is that it appears to have been a fountain pen when the recipient receives it. That's probably a combination of ink viscosity, pressure on the paper, things like that.
Yea, I don't get it either. On the other hand, I almost never use a window that isn't maximized.
You make a fair point, but there are nevertheless people in the UK not responsible for their government's actions. For some, leaving isn't a realistic option. Anyway, leaving means not being around to campaign for change.
Picture in Picture is great for lectures or follow-along tutorials and I'm glad people are taking it more seriously (initially was using Youtube on Safari purely because of this feature, but later on Chrome had it... albeit a bit wonky, I started using it on Chrome normally).
Scientists in Israel grow date plants from 2k-year-old seeds
It should be possible to implement a form of PageRank on a ZK system, non?
FYI—sequence alignment algorithms are really just a specialized subset of diffing algorithms that take into account the properties of biological sequences. (For example, certain edits are more or less likely to happen.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_alignment
In show business, stage/screen names are often used to fit the actor's desired image. This definitely fits in with the ethnicity thing--most Americans are not going to see someone as an "everyman" if his last name is too "ethnic". But this was once common even for people who already had Anglo names; Gary Cooper apparently didn't think "Frank James Cooper" projected the right image, and I don't think anybody would accept Marion Morrison as a cowboy/war hero as readily as they accepted John Wayne. In other cases, people come up with stage names just because they're more cool. Who would you rather see in a movie, Vin Diesel or Mark Sinclair?
could we unclickbait the title?

I suggest: "Every highlight tracked on Amazons Kindle"
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*exterior algebra
I use PIP a lot in Chrome while browsing Reddit. If I see a video link, I can play the video while continuing to scroll through Reddit comments.

(YouTube PIP is kind of difficult to discover; you have to right-click, move the mouse off the menu, and right-click again to get the native right-click menu, which is where the PIP button is.)
While I prefer tabs whenever I can, I can see why it doesn't support it. If you have to share code, you're going to use spaces. For some reason everyone including Guido insists on spaces. I would rather not have to waste time thinking about formatting or much less which formatting style to use. New languages like Go and Rust solved this problem.
Come on, "Larry" is a common nickname for Lawrence, people go by their middle names all the time, and nobody thinks "The Cable Guy" is a real surname. You might as well put Cedric the Entertainer on this list.
They are marvels, and today's MOSFETs make for even smaller and lighter supplies. They bring noise with them though, so you will often see switching supplies that take line voltage down to some lower DC voltage, and then a crap ton of filters, connected to a linear supply that gives you the desired voltage in RF circuits.
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My team has a handful of junior data scientists that really don't have a lot of experience of coding "well". Black was super helpful in 1, getting people used to decent coding format and 2, removing any effort or discussion around formatting in PRs. I added the formatting to pre-commit and the rest is effortless.
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diffing is not the right approach, it can't detect smaller blocks moving about.

since the genome is made out of only A,T,G,C for any change beyond the trivial diffing may generate the incorrect picture, it lines up the "wrong" bases.

Here is a much simpler solution that does a much better job and you don't have to muck around so much. First install some tools:

conda install -c bioconda entrez-direct emboss

Now do a:

# Get the data.
efetch -db nuccore -id MG772933 -format fasta > MG772933.fa
efetch -db nuccore -id MN988713 -format fasta > MN988713.fa

# Align globally.
stretcher -filter MG772933.fa MN988713.fa > aligned.txt

A much simpler explanation of what is going on (I picked a variable region here):

...
MG7729 CACTCCTCACTATTCATAGAGGA-----GAC-CCT----ATGCCTAATAA
: : :: :: : :::::: : ::: ::: :: : : : :
MN9887 CTTTACTTGCTTTACATAGAAGTTATTTGACTCCTGGTGATTCTTCTTCA
...

it also reports:

# Length: 29922
# Identity: 26272/29922 (87.8%)
# Gaps: 160/29922 ( 0.5%)
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That brings up a second question: who watches coding tutorials? I'd imagine it's probably people with less than a few weeks of coding experience, because it's horribly inefficient compared to text tutorials.
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Kindle highlights are a cloud service. You can even browse them on https://read.amazon.com/kp/notebook

of course they are stored....

From what I read there might even be a toggle option for "annotation backups" in the devices settings.
I had to look in Wikipedia if the "Canal of the Pharaohs" was real https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal#Canals_dug_by_Necho...
To be honest, I think the only people who had incorrect assumptions about those early batches were people who didn't actually get one. We made sure to make it clear what those batches are and gave people multiple chances to change their decision and wait for Evergreen instead - and some people who initially opted for early batches actually used that chance, in fact. Nobody got their Birch or Chestnut against their clear will.
> To work around these problems, we rely on the fact that the web page is being sent events from the browser engine. At Firefox, we control the browser engine! Before sending out a mouse event, we can check to see what sort of DOM nodes are directly underneath the cursor.

This triggered some mental alarm bells when I read it.

I understand what Mozilla is trying to accomplish, but this feels like it could become a serious WTF moment for a developer. "There is absolutely no way in hell this element should be able to receive mouse events right now, what is Firefox doing?"

Is this a problem? Perhaps the web is so far down the hacks/exceptions route that adding one more legitimately won't make a difference?
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I think life has more reasons than be: I can survive in luxury.

I think once you have enough, your purpose is to help others. Choose something
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> [...] Frequently, this means that no one is responsible for the businesses' debts if it fails. See for example, most environmental cleanup litigation or asbestos litigation.

This is incorrect. A business that has legal personhood (i.e. a corporate entity) is still responsible for its own debts if it fails (i.e. it goes into bankruptcy and is fully liquidated). Just like any other person.

By way of analogy, imagine a (natural) person's parents pass away deep in debt, and this person is not party to the parents' debts. In this case, the person may lose any potential inheritance, but the creditors may not go after the person's own assets in order to satisfy the parents' debts. Any assets belonging to the parents' estates may be liquidated to satisfy any outstanding creditors unless and until all of the debt is recovered.

Businesses in receivership are treated in substantially similar ways. Therefore, _someone_ does indeed pay: the business itself.

> Limited liability is not indemnity.
>
> Indemnity means that one party has to cover the other party's losses--in other words, pretty much the exact opposite of limited liability for the covering party.

I never meant to argue that limited liability was identical to indemnity, but they are practically similar. Because a corporation is a legal person (again, merely meaning that it can enter into agreements, sue and be sued, and thus can acquire or dispose of property), limitation of liability is equivalent in effect to the corporation itself indemnifying any investors from having to cover any costs that are incident to the corporation's operations exceeding the investors' contributions.

Perhaps the law could be structured in such a way that investors would retain some of the firm's liability exceeding their investments. This might be set up as some sort of bond held in escrow that an investor must post before investing, or maybe would involve the law authorizing creditors to go after investors up to some percentage of that person's share in equity in the event of collapse (this would almost certainly lead to large numbers of personal bankruptcies). My whole point was originally that there are already legal tools - like indemnity and insurance - that would preserve the aspects of limited liability. However, these would not be distributed in an equitable way, instead being most available for the wealthiest investors and the largest corporations, and inaccessible to ordinary people or entrepreneurs.

In practice, we'd still have limited liability, but a more unequal one with higher lawyer fees.
browsers let users access content from the internet and some of that content is video. for the life of me i can't see why it took so long ;)
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An unfortunate consequence of fame is that celebrities are sometimes forced to take counter surveillance matters into their own hands.

As it’s difficult for a celebrity to accept new people into their inner circle without knowing their motives, pre-emptive measures can be used to vet outsiders. The unfortunate consequence of this is the application of questionable methods by shady security forces. Celebrities don’t have their own Secret Service detail so they end up relying upon their peers to perform investigations of outsiders entering their fold. This can be disastrous all around, particularly when there exists political and cultural disparities amongst involved parties. Speaking from experience.
In the context of C, where NUL characters are most likely to be discussed, "NUL byte" and "null pointer" refer to exactly the same thing, that thing being the integer value 0.
Even just in terms of money. $20 million invested is--depending upon your assumptions--something like $1 million/year ~risk-free without touching the principle. (OK, a diversified portfolio is probably going to do better than that but that gives something of a baseline.)

Obviously that's a pretty nice passive income stream. But it's not really have a couple nice homes in prime locations, hire full-time assistants, fly private jets everywhere, etc. sort of money.
Check out https://roamresearch.com, great UX for implementing a similar system using outlining
Just because the results of it are non-observable (fair assumption) to the person leaving some sort of legacy behind them, doesn’t mean that doing so isn’t valuable to them. It is the satisfaction you get while still living, knowing that after you are gone, some (hopefully positive) remnants of you will still live on.
I don't think they are talking about mouse events the website can observe. Firefox needs to figure out where the video is and make it's UI on top of that work, there is no observable interaction with the site DOM or its event handlers.
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People using tiling window managers like i3 or sway should get friendly with this feature. It allows me to "full window" (note: not screen) netflix/amazon/YouTube videos in a tile which was impossible to do without PIP.
> As for . and .. I believe that on UNIX they are just symlinks, though they may be treated specially by applications?

No, they are treated specially by the kernel and/or the filesystem. They behave similar to hardlinks to the corresponding directory (hardlinks to directories aren't allowed nowadays, these two are an exception). The special treatment by applications is that many applications hide all files and directories starting with a dot, which happens to also apply to these two.
Potential ambiguity here. Yes, “staff” engineers at google earn very high salaries, but people unfamiliar with titles might think this term means a competent but otherwise unremarkable member of the technical staff.

At google a Staff engineer is a title notably higher than senior swe, and many talented people will not reach this title or pay grade.
it allows me to size a video frame arbitrarily from YouTube across multiple monitors, rather than relying on YouTubes stepped resize and wasting screen real estate on YT comments.

it allows me to size video frames arbitrarily across streaming sites like CyTube that don't support frame-out natively.

As someone who had to use mosaic and gopher and all that shit, i'd really rather not revisit it. It's nice in the way that it's sort of quaint to boot up an old workstation that has nothing but QBASIC, but it's not actually pleasant or useful.
Absolutely, ZK is essentially hypertext. Text in cards plus regular links and branched links to other cards (Folgezettel).
Anything with an unfamiliar IDE can be very confusing without a video tutorial.
This seems like something ideal for development by NOAA/NWS, with the resulting code operationalized as part of weather.gov and also released on Github.
With (some) television sets in mind that popularized (for, um, me at least) the picture-in-picture term as one channel of video on top of another channel of video, it feels weird that the term is here used when only a minimum of 1 videos is involved...
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There was a story here on HN just yesterday about Edison's experiments with goldenrods to create rubber.

His variant of goldenrods were about 12% latex after some selective breeding.

I'd be curious what kind of plants we could engineer today to make rubber with. There's tons of stuff out there and yes we don't necessarily need oil or other resources if push comes to shove.
Hows power management? Can you get 24 hours on a charge?
Gotcha. So not just physical mail: anything with your physical address on it that isn't prohibited from selling it may do so.
VBS3 by Bohemia Simulations can import and I believe even live load continual terrain due to mixing real-world data with approximations of trees and whatnot from satellite images...but it's not for the public, military only. The civilian branch of the company is BI who make Arma 3; that supports real-world terrain imports via mods
More bots, more EC2s, more money

More bots, more noise, bad analytics

More bots, IP theft at scale, competitors now have my content

I don't understand how this is hard to wrap one's head around. This is why we can't have nice things.

Edit - I offer 3 points to refute parent and I'm getting downvoted. This site is moderated by a bunch of bots!
No, I just disabled notifications for most apps, because I'm using iOS 6. Several apps have stopped working entirely (WhatsApp, WeChat, KakaoTalk), so I just use them through an Android emulator on my laptop.
Why bacteria can’t get any bigger–or smaller
1. The typical 3 safeties: memory type, concurrency.

Already solved, but not used.

2. False advertising, overhype.

Related to 1)
Yes i interviewed in kirkland. Much smaller than mountain view.
when all you have is a HMMER...
Smallest U.S. firms struggle to find workers