skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Collecting information from every single team that worked on the plane, describing how the plane is built and how to repair and maintain it.

The compiling all of that into a cohesive whole.
It's interesting to me that you say you did software development as a hobbyist before you made it your job. So presumably there was something that interested you enough to pursue it in your spare time. It would be interesting to know more about what does interest you, as opposed to the things that don't. Maybe you could provide more info?

I agree with commentators who say software development can be a terrible job if you aren't really interested in it. I knew a lot of young consultants at Accenture when I worked there in the early 90s who hated the programming roles they were expected to do for the first couple of years. But most of them were not from comp sci backgrounds, and wanted to move into management consulting roles as quickly as possible.

Based on your comments about having trouble learning and generalizing, it sounds like you might be happier in a more process-oriented role. Or maybe you would be happier in a role that was more focused on personal interaction?
https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/cu...

Section 4, "How will the system protect user privacy and security?", bullet one:

> Each user will have to make an explicit choice to turn on the technology. It can also be turned off by the user at any time.

> Can I turn it off? Yes. The choice to use this technology rests with the user, and he or she can turn it off at any time by uninstalling the contact tracing application or turning off exposure notification in Settings.
So what I don't understand is, if both of us take an identical Gemalto token / Yuvikey, we can be light years apart and get the same sequences, no? Is the explanation that these will have one type of distribution vs if they had real "spooky movement at a distance" they have a clear different distribution? EDIT: what about this one: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0301059
One area where it fell apart from me was in the area of "choices that have consequences". You have lots of branching dialogue, but it rarely feels like any of your deviations have a meaningful impact on the story.

To that end, it pales in comparison to the earlier Alpha Protocol, which was ALOT clumsier in many ways, but absolutely nailed the consequences angle.

Example: Both games begin with an encounter with an armed adversary (whether it's a terrorist in both, I don't remember). Both games allow you to kill this gentleman, or spare him. Both games suggest that there will be consequences to doing this, i.e. that there might be more to this person than merely an armed thug.

In Alpha Protocol, if spared, the person can become a recurring contact, and aid you on later missions.

In Deus Ex, if spared, you bump into this person in an alley several hours later, and he gives you a couple thousand dollars. You never speak to him again.
Well, of all the other places, either they are a) Haiti, which is its own country b) territories of France c) places where French is dying.
This is a prime example of why America will eventually fall: We pay taxes for the benefit of the few, instead of the good of the many. Meanwhile, the current president blames immigrants and liberals for all of the country’s problems, and tens of millions of Americans believe him. Fear and greed before science and compassion. I just wish all of the followers of this BS would fully reject science and go to war with only gut instincts and a bolt action rifle.

(I know i am going to be seriously downvoted for this comment, but so be it.)
That leaves 4/5th of NYC still vulnerable. That's a lot of potential hospitalizations and potential deaths. To reach herd immunity you need at least something like 2/3rds of people immune to the virus. Now imagine another 2/5ths of NYC's population becomes infected in a short period of time and what this would mean for the health care system. It more or less was on the brink of collapsing (some would say actually did collapse for some time) with only 1/5ths.

So thinking the worst is over for sure is wishful thinking; and to just resign to "out of the bag" isn't an option either; the worst is only over if we keep at flattening the curve enough to not collapse the system. There are many different parts to it, and one such part might be contact tracking/tracing with an app.

Also, all the talk about herd immunity etc is based on the premise that you actually get a lasting immunity after you had the virus. While it thankfully looks like this may be the case (exceptions like immunocompromised people, apply) - with e.g. blood plasma from cured patients showing good results when given to still severe cases - it isn't certain yet. It could mutate enough (like the flu) and reinfect, or it could "hide" like herpes and hit you full blown when your immune system isn't operating at full capacity. Let's hope not, but let's act at least with that in mind. Contact tracing technology we develop and roll out now may help should there be a second wave.

And yet another also: there have been reports that even after mild progressions some patients end up with damaged lungs, damage that is most likely be permanent. So while these reports haven't yet been verified or refuted, I am not a big fan of "just get it and get it over with, if you're young and low risk".
I really like the first edition...
Hm, it could use a bit of work but this 4 bed 3 bath, 2400 sq ft home in Hudson is $249 [1]. It's a little ways from the train station though - a 10 minute drive. There's regular service from there to Penn Station, which takes about 2 hours.

[1] https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/116-Route-9h-Hudson-NY-12...
Is this worth buying/borrowing if you already know programming languages but not Javascript? Or is there a better approach?
It's a bit ironic, the first picture in the article describe a "street of small businesses", but while it's technically correct, the shop in center is no anonymous mom and dad shop, Schwartz is a famous landmark in Montréal [1].

Maybe that's a good way to fight against Amazon? Having a reputable business with a steady quality over time.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwartz%27s
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3

The basic gist I get is that quantum computing, for a very specific set of problems, like optimization, let's you search the space more efficiently. With quantum mechanics you can associate computations with positive or negative probability amplitudes. With the right design, you cause multiple paths to incorrect answers to have opposite amplitudes, so that interference causes them to cancel out and not actually happen to begin with. That's just my reading of the comic over and over though.
"Please do NOT promote this repository on any official Guix
communication channels"

Oh lord, but thanks for the info, would probably not have found it otherwise
Can someone please enlighten me what the heck an SLA is? I skimmed through the article and felt like he teased at providing a definition several times and then never actually did.
You have to wonder what drove people to collaborate for 15 centuries in building this construct.

Could there be an amount FOMO involved as in if you do not work with us then something will happen?

Almost all religions have Gods practicing forms of punishment and promises of heavenly rewards. Certain offering customs of the Aztecs were extremely cruel to people.

Then we also know people came even from Europe traveling 2000 km to visit this place for a specific event. There must have been a real exciting opportunity for spectators to experience when traveling such a vast distance. Just cremating dead bodies of local people that naturally died in that period wouldn't be interesting & controversial enough to attend.

Is Stonehenge a ritual site where people where cremated alive as a punishment for not doing enough work in building monument?
That was a link to Zuckerberg's speech at Georgetown in October 2019, which was basically his defense of not fact-checking politicians on the site. Quoting the Zuck:

"We don’t fact-check political ads. We don’t do this to help politicians, but because we think people should be able to see for themselves what politicians are saying. And if content is newsworthy, we also won’t take it down even if it would otherwise conflict with many of our standards. I know many people disagree, but in general, I don't think it's right for a private company to censor politicians or the news in a democracy."

Ben Thompson of Stratechery quoted the same bit I just did, and wrote, "I couldn't agree more. The only hangup is the person who was saying it. [...] The very structure of [Facebook] is antithetical to what is necessary for free expression to flourish; I believe that Zuckerberg is well-intentioned, but that doesn’t change the fact he is completely unaccountable."
Was the problem the class component? I thought it was relevant because there is a monoculture on HN and Reddit, and most of the readers likely identified with that.
The article mentions the figure of 100k pages. Well, 100,000 pages of high quality and specific technical writing is quite an undertaking.
If we take the size of the team in my previous post as a given, that's 1000 per writer over four years, or about 250 pages per year, or about a page per working day on average. It's quite a bit.
Why are governments trying to come up with their own? Why can’t they legislate around the protocol instead? Standardizing on the protocol saves a lot of time In the current situation.
Key quote: "it is unclear how infectious the rats are to residents".

Yes, we all know rats can carry disease, and that this has been a historical problem (e.g. the Black Death).

But it's not like coming into physical contact with a rat, or even their droppings or anything, is a common occurrence in NYC.

In 10 years living in New York City, I've seen a rat maybe 50 times total? Every single one was on the subway tracks (i.e. inaccessible), except exactly once I saw one at the end of the deserted platform, but far away from people.

Now I'm sure there are rats elsewhere, I'm just a single data point.

But nevertheless, to put it simply, getting diseases from rats is not a known public health problem in New York City. You cannot extrapolate a risk here simply from the presence of rats.
This needs to be taken within the context of Japan hosting one of the largest economies in the world, despite being substantially smaller in population than countries with economies of comparable size; and also in that their real wage losses 1) pale in comparison to America's, and 2) mean that their real wages are still much higher than most of the world's.

I've heard it put that Japan's economy makes it relatively easy to live a stable middle class lifestyle, though almost impossible to accrue substantial wealth. I understand why this may seem horrifying to some, but looking at the relative affluence of the average Japanese compared to the average American, I don't see their situation as particularly dire.
I don't think I'm missing any point.

Of course the economics has to justify it. And they will. Everything you say could be applied to just about everything that has been automated in the past. I mean, it sounds like someone arguing "but librarians can do this or that that Google can't do." And yet, most of the time, when we need information, we can find it a whole lot more quickly than going to a library and asking someone for help getting us what we need.

In this case, there will still be store employees if the system fails to identify what a customer wants. But that will be the exception, and asking for help finding things will be like, today, someone asking for directions at a gas station. Most of the time, you can just say "where are the birthday candles?" to your phone and it will tell you, and it will have been far less effort for both the store and the customer vs. having to go find and employee. (and yes, I'm counting development time, entry time, and all that, averaged out)

For a typical Safeway or Home Depot or Target, there are already tons of benefits to keeping track of their inventory and where it goes on shelves. It's already almost certainly in a database somewhere. They need this so they don't have to spend so much time training employees, for one thing.

I guess all I can say is, come back in 5 years. I'd bet big money you will see this, whether in Google maps or in the various apps by retailers. (I mean, even 10 years ago their was an app that did this on some level: https://mashable.com/2010/11/22/aisle411/ )
If you haven't read the whole article, you should do that.

There's a funny plot twist at the end.

3 bug reports by discovering 1 bug. What a bargain! :-D
I've read very little detail about the Static Driver Verifier other than that it's supposed to use an SMT solver. I don't know if MS is using the same tool for other products in their portfolio or not. I've used it a little bit (it's a pain to set up) but have little information about exactly what it does, since it doesn't rely on any special annotations or specification language. Can you shed any light on more technical details about it?

With F*, Dafny and the Lean theorem prover, it seems like Microsoft (at least the research division) is moving in the direction of formal verification but I hear very little about it's use on their commercial products. Trade secret, perhaps?
Public perception of overreach operates on most governments no matter how authoritarian. Singapore is pretty far towards authoritarianism, and even they haven't made their contact tracing app mandatory. (China admittedly has.)
Started CS + EE degree; dropped EE (hated the non-digital bits) and escaped with decent CS qualification.

2 years: Worked in a very old-school bank: using mainframe COBOL, part of a team trying to find a migration path to Unix and C (the solution was to have the bank acquired, and toss out their system).

10 years: Worked at university-based research center. Lots of C89, TCL/Tk, Python1, Java2.

10 years: Spin-off company from research center, focus on financial trading. C99, C++03, C#/.NET-3.5, Python2, Linux and Windows.

7 years: contracting, in various trading firms. C++11, Java8, Python3, bits of Javascript. Linux and Windows. All remote.

1 year: back full-time in trading software company. C++17, C#, and Typescript on Windows. Remote.

My "stack" has had various differences over time. C usage has gone down, slowly, but modern C is the least changed of the languages I've used.

C++ usage has gone up slowly (and C++17 is basically a different language to the C++ I learned at university). I've used Python 1, 2, and 3. Java 1 to Java 11. C# from 1 to whatever-it-is-now ... core something?

Linux 0.99 onwards. Windows NT 3.1 onwards.

I haven't yet had a professional Go or Rust project, but they'll come soon enough, I think.
I liked this idea at first blush. The only catch is that You give away control of your customer interactions to the platform that You are hitchhiking on. If that is not a deal breaker, side dishes are the way to go.
reap: ass access bill

sow: scepticism
"The Australian government is not a single monolothic institution. It's a set of hundreds of thousands of people with different agendas and intentions."

Correct! Once we had two camps, you either voted for one or the other. That's all gone now, Identity Politics unfortunately killed the simple life off years ago.
Antenna Design/RF Theory. I would love a simple text/YouTube series to learn this stuff...would definitely be good learning for the summer :)
A great one to pile on here is null. Null is quite the unique thing within SQL, this post from some years ago highlights a lot of the unintuitive behavior around it within Postgres - http://thoughts.davisjeff.com/2009/08/02/what-is-the-deal-wi...
On national radio this morning they implied a belief in security-by-obscurity regarding things. I can't even. (I suspect the journalists mangled what the ASD said)
All plastics are recyclable in the sense that they can be repurposed, but thermoset polymers cannot be repurposed to be used the same way as it was originally formed. Typically they are chopped up and used as matrix materials for asphalt or other composites. In some cases they can use solvents to break down chains into smaller building blocks. However, colloquially thermoset polymers are considered non-recyclable, while thermoplastic polymers are considered recyclable.

The difference between thermoset and thermoplastic polymers has to do with irreversible chemical bonding during curing. With thermosets, you have chemical bonds between molecules preventing deformation, whereas with thermoplastics, you just have a viscous friction between molecules that varies with temperature. If you heat up a thermoplastic, that viscous friction goes away and the plastic can be remolded.
Reminds me of a story:

A guy was walking along the beach and found a lamp. Of course he rubs the lamp, and sure enough a genie appears.

Genie: master of the lamp I can grant you a wish, you may wish for anything.

Guy: Wait, isn't it supposed to be 3 wishes?

Genie: One or nothing, and do not wish for more wishes.

Guy thinks for a while ....

You know I have pretty much everything I need. But I have always wanted to travel to Hawaii. But I get sea sick and am afraid to fly.

Genie: Very well I will take you there.

Guy: No no, if you take me there, I wont be able to come back. And what about next year? Since I only get one wish, I want a bridge built to Hawaii.

Genie: That does not make any sense. Please make a different wish. One that does not involve so much construction.

Guy: hmmmm you know I know, can you explain women?

Genie: So do you want the bridge to be a suspension bridge or truss? and how many lanes ....
I would have to disagree that this is not driven by the government. This approach -- which has significant privacy defects -- is very much driven by a desire to have centralised control. It is quite possible them to think that they are the best people to have this data, and that they will manage it best, despite evidence to the contrary.

You have to understand that none of the senior officials have any desire but to please the politicans, and they are all extremely risk averse. They have a long history of covering up mistakes, breaches of the ministerial code of conduct and their own maladministration, so citizen privacy isn't even on their list of concerns.
electromagnetic waves
Indeed! I was talking to someone about their attempt to fork a Graal Java process and recreate all the compiler and GC threads, and I said if I had that task I'd be tempted to just use my new knowledge to implement a fork that also recreated those threads rather than trying to understand how to shut them down and restore them properly.
I was going to say "that's not entirely fair," but I suppose it basically is fair. It's at least worth noting that they still really do seem to be trying to find ways to make it viable for independent writers to get paid for their writing -- their user-hostile monetization tactics are about trying to get you to sign up for that paywall, and that paywall gives a chunk of its revenue to authors who choose to put their stories behind it. The real tragic irony of Medium is that it's quite plausible they've made every poor decision with the best of intentions.
> I still kind of struggle to understand why Slack is so popular within the corporate world.

Have you used Hipchat or Lync?
Google and Apple have published a FAQ about how this system, which they're now calling Exposure Notification, will work from a high level. (This is not the protocol details, which are published elsewhere.)

Important bit: This will not default to on, you will have to opt in. Apple and Google have a regional kill switch if it is being abused.

https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/cu...
Service Level Agreement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-level_agreement
> Most ad platforms allow anyone to submit an add

I can submit another ad but I can't make it appear right below the previous ad I would like to "comment" on.

> Most add platforms are moderated

What about fake technical support numbers, or the variety of scams/quack products on Facebook that make impossible claims and prey on the vulnerable/stupid?

> When I'm reading a book I don't see advertisements

When I take public transport I see ads regardless. Same applies to a lot of services that are near-essential nowadays. Certain government agencies sell your details to spam operations (also a certain form of advertising) and you can't opt out. Most commercial products include spyware which track you and rat you out to ad platforms regardless of whether you even see any ads directly.
I wish FAANG shared theirs. It’d be interesting to see how similar or different they are.
That's not even a lies-to-children explanation--it's just straight-up wrong, a result of generations of "science journalists" misunderstanding stuff and spreading their misunderstandings around.

Hawking radiation does not discriminate between matter and anti-matter. Either form of any type of particle can be emitted.
Absorption spectra baffle me and I've never seen an explanation that helps me understand.

It seems conceptually simple, except the requirement that the energy of an photon exactly match some required energy in order to be absorbed seems really unlikely, since photon energy not a discrete quantity, and varies according to doppler effects and other things.

It seems like the vast majority of photons would just fly through the universe without interacting with anything, unless there are other ways for photons to interact with matter besides being absorbed. (If there are other ways, they are seemingly never mentioned as a potential alternative fate for the photon).
Haha, no, it's not a pejorative. It's literally one of two schools of thought: descriptivism vs. prescriptivism. What you're describing is prescriptivism.
Stop Looking on the Bright Side: The Pandemic Will Screw Us for Years to Come
I did something similar using the 'at' daemon's 'now' time specification to "fork" off background tasks from a web request using the same .php file. It actually worked well for what I needed at the time!
A funny easter egg mentioned in the developer commentary - if you look closely the empty paintbucket prop that can be found scattered throughout levels are colored as though they contained gold paint.
Australia 'COVIDSafe' lands but without source code and has problems on iOS
That's $840/page, right? So like if you have just 1 person responsible per page, and they cost $100/hr, that's 8.4 hours of work per page? I feel like I had to spend longer on my high school essays...
I oppose 99.88% of taxes because it literally is all spent in this exact manner (YMMV in other countries, I'm just speaking of the USA). The money is best kept your pocket. Both Blue and Red need to oppose new taxes and advocate for keeping money in people's pockets.
Amazon tests screening new merchants for fraud via video calls
Doing that not for free is basically Micro.blog's business model; a hosted account there is actually a hosted Hugo instance.
The business analyst can help with translation, but at the end of the day for questions such as, "is the expiration date exclusive or inclusive?" or "what time zone should be used and for which contracts?" he has to ask just like everyone else.

There are many questions only relevant to the digital domain.
1+5 Good Habits for Young Scholars
I've worked on homes built in the 90's with stupid stuff like flashing missing around the doors and windows. The ensuing water damage is not pretty. Pretty easy to sneak that past an inspector.