skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> These are all either basic human rights that the richest country on earth should provide universally no questions asked as a matter of principal,

That would be true if we were actually "rich". We're often sold this vision that first world countries are somehow "rich". Or at least relatively "rich" to 3rd world countries. And, it simply isn't true. We're slightly better off and able to afford a lot of frivolties like tech gadgets and clothes.

In poor countries, people spend upwards of 90% to 100% on necessities. In so called "1st world" countries, people spend 80% or more on necessities: this data is available, just look at what the average US citizen spends on, 80% plus is all necessities: housing, transportation, food, water, medical care and education. 1st world countries aren't nearly as far ahead as we think we are: most of us don't even have 400$ in savings.

Personally, I know a couple in the top (2%-3% nationwide, roughly 200-300k or so) with high wage tech jobs, but their COL is so high, they don't have their townhouse paid off, they don't even have a backyard to grow food in, they even have to rent out every room of their townhouse just to make ends meet. Do you call that "rich"? And yet, their tax rate is extremely high.
There is no shortage of good engineers applying to these places.

There is a cheap engineer shortage.
Successfully "trying out" does not involve proficiency.

I tried out several layouts before deciding I liked workman the most.
That's how it was done now for a long time. The new machines send the picture electronically to the clerk and don't print them anymore.
Luckily, a lot of the things are nails. The number of applications you can keep neat and tidy with a fleet of containers is so great. Even a relative novice can get some great things working by poking about a few guides. And when it all breaks you can start again without too much collateral damage.
USPS taking the role on primarily would likely entail expansion of the services to smaller post offices, like the one in my wife's old town of 400 people in the middle of nowhere.
It is never not the case that you can make everything about politics and that politics is a mind killer.

If we accept that not taking a stance is a political act then you can extend that to everything.

If anything, HN should be far more vigilate in banning politics given the current political environment.
Another happy user of imapsync. The best thing IMO is that you can stop/get disconnected for some reason and it will effectively SYNC, without having to praise just to complete without errors
One of Playstation’s most important studios makes games about loneliness (2019)
This is not accurate about regen technology. Teslas have been having significant regen since their first model s in 2012. What does "not good enough mean"? You don't have to do anything really, you just drive, when you slow down you can have the car do more aggressive regen or less aggressive. Less aggressive gets you less charging. I've had mine on more aggressive charging for 8 years (wow, has it been that long since I got my S?). I actually traded in my first one for the awd model so I could take it to the ski area so my car is 5 years old, 3 years in the first one. Yeah yeah, first world problems, but the take away is regen works great, almost a million people are using it every day they drive (I used to use it every day, but mostly sit at home now).
Although it's slowly being migrated to GitHub (though they won't officially admit it), DevOps is a great service with a lovely UI.

The pipeline docs are somewhat lacking though IMHO but once you get them working, they work great.
Why don't they make these kinds of flight sims anymore? I miss microprose!
Look for imapsync on other comments
https://zenodo.org/record/3876359
Not smart enough to fix all mankinds ills. Just noticing, we're addicted and its not going well.
So if I understand correctly, the kind of attack enabled by this manipulation is to provide a way for non-passport holders to pass custom controls by using the legitimate passport of the person they morphed their picture with. Is there any other useful kind of attack possible with this scheme?
Article is paywalled. Outline link: https://outline.com/pc7NqB
I thought they always required a professionally taken photo? In Canada you need to go to a photographer (lots of malls and general stores have one) to take your photos and then stamp and sign them at the back making them eligible for passport submission.
Anytime Algorithm
Four Myths of Bundling
On April SpaceX modified the architecture and submitted application to FCC proposing to operate more satellites in lower orbits. Previously they had approval to operate almost 3000 satellites in orbits between 1110-1300 km. Now the modified plan foresees 1500 satellites at altitudes between 540-570 km and another 7500 satellites in orbits around 345 km at later stages.
Have a blocklist in your HOSTS file. That way, even if you go to those sites from your browser, you are not able to access them.
Github Actions has macOS builders. Not sure if they have XCode installed, though.
https://sci-hub.tw/10.3386/w26675
People focus so much on presidential elections, but the intrusion of freedoms and use of force against the citizen is largely at the municipal and state level.
Last year I was going through this book because I always wanted to know how computers were made from the ground up.

I got to the assmebler exercise and really wanted to figure out how to implement it in the assembly language itself to see how that step was once taken. After that I was going to do the exercise in python.

I really should pick up that book again and just implement the assembler in python, so that I can move forward.

I love the book.
Thanks for the feedback - you are completely right! This will go into the next version.

I was just too lazy to reinitialize the game state/map. That’s why R simply does a page refresh ;)
Quite normal for me with UK passports, to be fingerprinted.

Some countries (Russia comes to mind) require you to physically go to the visa centre to get fingerprinted as part of the visa application, and then again when you arrive at immigration

Other places where visas are online, on arrival, or not needed at all, tend to fingerprint at the border -- the U.S, Singapore, etc.

We currently don't need to get fingerprinted in the EU, but we decided to remove our freedoms so not sure if that will change next year.

Getting fingerprinted is such a common thing that I can't remember many specific countries requirements.
Yes it does! But, it's hard to put a dollar amount on the impact and feels you get doing public service. The benefits are great and the locality pay is something to consider as well.
Could you elaborate on a problem that illustrates this property of Clojure? This sounds awesome, but I have a hard time understanding what you're getting at without knowledge of Clojure.
Do you think you will hold the same opinion 5-10 years down the road?
That's only about 7 monitor stands, could be worse /s
Oh that, yeah that's what I'm used to from Common Lisp as well.
That's a very obtuse take of what I think is a more nuanced development. It's not as simple as "If you don't breathe, you die. Duh!"

Regulating your breath can be used to regulate your body and mind. There are lots of different techniques that can regulate different things. Heck, let's totally avoid the "hippy dippy" stuff... Valsalva maneuver for example which is used to diagnose Dysautonomia by slowing your heartrate. Or how about the Navy SEALs box breathing to control cortisol levels? Boy am I glad we "waste our time" researching this stuff!
The agreement is pretty vague on the subject but it seems that you can get permission to virtualise on non-Apple hardware. How one does this and if anyone ever has is another matter entirely.
An entry in wiki would not just be a recognition of his achievements but also a source for further reach out for his ideas.
Yep. We know it's not a nail though. It's a screw. And they duct taped a screwdriver to the hammer and called it "Driving screws with a hammer".
Good. It's been as dumb as pointing a thermal camera at a CPU and memory chips and getting excited about hotspots.
"Just always do IP" is because of the existing ecosystem of tools, techniques and so on, which all assume IP because IP is very popular. Almost every application can benefit from this†

For every single problem there will be a hypothetical ideal solution that's custom in every way like a bespoke suit, but you (or your customers) probably can't afford that solution and so that's the wrong solution.

If IP isn't good enough, I would strongly urge you to go help it be better rather than sit on the sidelines saying people shouldn't bother using IP. Mostly for self-preservation reasons, if it can be done somebody is going to do it, and that might as well be you - if it can't be done you'll end up the expert on why not.

† Really often these applications says they use IP to benefit from this ecosystem but they aren't on the Internet, and when you look closer - oops, nobody told the people implementing them about not being on the Internet, so they actually are on the Internet, peeking out from unexpected places.
This weird claim that evs don't work out in practice because they can't regen is just the latest example of FUD or extreme misunderstanding of the market. Just like people said it was impossible to make a compelling ev, that you could never go a long way, that you could never charge it fast, this latest claim is just silly. Teslas since 2012 (S and later) have had great recharging ability when slowing down. It's not 100%, nothing can be.
Thanks for sharing your stats. It's really neat to see that context.

I've been using workman for a few years. I chose it over colemak and norman after trying them all and picking the one I enjoy the most.
Section 2.4 of the paper gave me a chuckle. Like Rich, I've yet to write a program that didn't involve some kind of database. Organizations care about data not programs. Writing programs just gives them a way of applying organization-specific rules, in the way of transformations, to the data.
This is the paradox of Solow pushed to the next level. You see digital stuff everyhwere, except in the balance sheet... because everytime you use digital technologies to simplify something, it ends up complexifying something else :D
Cities like Seattle and San Francisco clearly have a problem with the mentally ill and drug addicted on their streets, I agree that just leaving it "as is" should not be acceptable to anyone. It is scary, leads to more crime being committed and the people using needles in the street clearly need serious help.

Is criminalizing all drug users the answer though? We have 50 years or so of results there that show that has serious issues as well. Why are we willing to spend 30-40 thousand a year on imprisoning folks at a rate that no other country even comes close to, but not try spending similar amounts of money on actual rehabilitation and welfare programs for the addicted and mentally ill?

It seems worth a shot to me...
Not OP but a quick search turns up:

Ford $11B USD by 2022: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autoshow-detroit-ford-mot...

VW Group $84B USD by 2030: https://electrek.co/2017/09/11/vw-massive-billion-investment...

You can find sources with some digging for pretty much all the companies, and they are all in the “Capital B” magnitude category. In addition, the contracts and agreements for new battery cell factories from LG Chem, Samsung, BYD, etc etc.
I'm wondering if you judge other groups by the worst behavior of any member of the given group?
I can’t stress what a huge outlier the NYC/NJ area is. Portland has a population density 1/5 as much as NYC. It has half the population density of DC, which itself probably shut down more than it needed to.

But yes, locking down Portland was at least plausible. Locking down my wife’s mother in law down in Lincoln City, however, generated a lot of ill will to Governor Brown that I can’t say was undeserved.
I'm fairly confident that Tolkein didn't write that. It's the prologue to the Fellowship of the Ring movie, and not in the text, as far as I'm aware.

So maybe Jordan is actually the one who got ripped off. Still though, pretty cliché idea, but the formulation is too close to not be influenced one way or another.
Also, I've noticed that people care greatly about misspent federal dollars, and don't seem to notice when all local city or county contracts go to someone in the local government's brother or cousin.

I know the federal dollars are larger, but the disconnect is just astounding.

What got me involved in local politics was when the local county board asked a group of us to write a grant for federal and state dollars to fund a rural transportation program. This would be curb to curb service, at a very low rate. Turns out we were the only county classified as 'rural' in our state that did not have this grant.

They brought us in 2 months before the deadline, after 5 years and 10 months of doing nothing with the grant but sitting on it and not publicizing it. They were confused why we couldn't put together a multiple-hundred page research document in two months.

I was confused why they seemed so slapdash with this process. Until I realized one of the board members' brother and sister owned the only 'taxi' service that served areas outside of the 'city'.

What a mess.
Anecdotes become data when rape is involved.
I think I read something a while back from the point-of-view of a Google recruiter or someone that described their reasoning for this. The reality is that most companies are okay with the possibility of rejecting a good engineer who has all the potential to be a good fit for them. There's really no shortage of candidates who want to work for them, so they are okay with false negatives as long as engineers are still lining up to interview for them. What they aren't okay with, however, is the possibility of accidentally accepting a bad engineer: a problem which is quite costly to remedy.

The current state of algorithm-heavy interview process is really just a hamfisted solution to the problem stated above. They are trying to minimize false-positives while accepting that it increases the rate of false-negatives, and their proxy for implementing this threshold is algorithmic knowledge. It's not fun for anyone involved, but I guess I have to assume it works.
It's not like those happen in a vacuum though. The tone the executive branch sets for policy affects local decisions as well.
You can take them yourself in the US and print them out, although I think most people don't. I saved about $14 by doing that.
Show New: Connect.Club Launched a Virtual Networking App with €10M from Embria
A new product is being launched by startup Connect.Club. The app for virtual networking allows users to create their own chat spaces in augmented reality. On this new platform, users can gather useful contacts, find a coach, meet for video chatting with the community, and access private, professional groups. The startup received €10M from Cyprus investment companies, the Embria Ventures Group, and $600K from angel investors. It aims to digitize networking to exchange information, develop professional contacts, and improve social skills.
Huh, there's even one with a keyboard here! : https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000910537648.html
Yes, absolutely! The Swiss-Media (once a highly trusted News-source NZZ etc) became a shadow of it's own, its nowadays so easy to spot their 'propaganda' of what they thinks its right. Medias should inform NOT do some 'opinion formation'
Hi! I'm the developer of this little markup language and of the associated parser. I'd love to read your thoughts.
You don't need ultracapacitors, regular ordinary teslas starting with the 2012 model S have had this. It's not quite a decade old.
I mean - I presume these things are not expected to give 100% honesty. It's a conversation starter.
All black people are violent. Now let me quote you five articles showing a black person being violent to prove my point. That's very convincing!
There is a difference between a laptop and the circuit boards used to run your coffee machine. For example, op would never see your comment on his coffee machine and is a good example of the types of things he probably wants to remove from his life by shutting down the laptop :)
It's the USA. Some states you can shoot trespassers. Others, like mine generally require a life threatening situation before deadly force is authorized.
"Last month a poll by YouGov found that 44% of Republicans think Bill Gates wants to use covid-19 vaccines to implant microchips in people; 19% of Democrats agree."

That number, for both parties, was much higher than I would've guessed.
If you want something to let you know you've made a silly mistake like putting a string in a number function or missed an argument use clj-kondo it will catch those problems for you in the editor

If you want to make a Person class or type I would recommend instead making your information model as a Datomic schema and have all your functions use associative destructuring with defaults values for missing data with function comments for good measure

For dev I would recommend Datahike over Datomic initially
About a decade ago we had iris scanning at London Heathrow. You had to register upfront, and the idea was only frequent flyers would be registered, but it was great, the lines were short - you didn't even need to get your passport out.

It started getting a bit silly towards the end as unregistered people started clogging up the queues, but it was far faster than the "automatic passport scanning" stuff.

Surely that was harder to forge than a passport photo. I assume the company in charge didn't offer enough bribes to the politicians making the decision.
If you think being in favor of international health cooperation and being against censorship of scientific terms from CDC publications makes a journal editor "highly biased," that's your prerogative.
That sounds like a truly horrible idea
Bash is a good shell with a fairly unimpressive pipeline. Powershell is bad shell with a good pipeline.

For me, as a programmer, the shell part of a shell is more important, as I can do the rest in a more powerful language. Powershell is too verbose for shell usage (see New-Item), brings nothing new to the table in terms of scripting and is ultimately not worth using just for the better pipeline.

(another commenter pointed me to Nushell, which seems to be a very good middle ground, and I've heard of a few more similar efforts, so we hopefully won't be stuck with just bash for too long)
The Crew Dragon mission is a success for SpaceX and for NASA
Emacs as Email Client
Practicing interviewing always seemed to me like studying the day before the exam: if you're lucky and the things you studied actually helped you to pass the exam, you would be lying to yourself because a couple of days/weeks later you won't remember anything of what you just studied. You didn't deserve to pass the exam, but, hey, nobody knows.

Similarly, if you practice an interview and you're lucky enough to being questioned the topics you just practiced and they hire you, what kind of impression are you going to give to your future teammates when some weeks/months later they ask you something related to that topic but you don't remember/know? You just Google it? Well, you can google "how to render a template in Golang", that's fine, but you should not google "what's the difference between a compiled and an interpreted language" because there are some things that you should know before starting to work as a professional software developer.

I know that "the tech interview process is broken", but we, as part of that process, should aim to improve it, not to trick the system for our own and personal benefit.
I've never heard of outline before. Would you mind explaining how it works?
I've been worried about Azure DevOps getting merged into GitHub since Microsoft bought Github, but thankfully I haven't seen any drop in the maintenance of Azure DevOps, not yet anyway.

As much as I like Github for OSS projects, I really love Azure DevOps for everything else. The CI/CD capabilities are amazing, and I haven't had any real issues with lack of documentation (a few small things here and there for sure though).

Long may it live, I hope!
Truth has a liberal bias.
You didn't look hard enough - for example big chunks of rural Okanogan county are covered by WISP services from a company called NCI. Same in many other areas.
Yes, indirectly.

Businesses in the US generally have to pay into unemployment "premiums" to the appropriate state labor dept. If the business has a lot of terminations, then its premiums go up. However, employees resigning doesn't result in higher unemployment premiums because those employees aren't eligible for unemployment benefits.

However, forcing employees to resign instead of be fired is a huge labor law violation, and in many states also constitutes unemployment fraud. On top of paying fines to the state labor dept, at a minimum you'd be paying employees for lost wages due to the unlawful terminations (or lost UE benefits)...and if the company is stupid enough to fight this in court, usually a much larger settlement or award for employees' financial losses plus treble damages (aka punitive damages). Usually ends up costing the company 10x of what they thought they would save.
The rise of science itself is the leading example.
The trick also fools humans who still exist at all borders, including at automated gates (where humans get to see each comparison although I can't imagine them being to attentive at the end of their shift).
Facebook's page on hate speech: https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/hate_speech

I think that the standard I broke was attacking a protected class: "white people".
Aren't you being a little too harsh? The Dockerfile automates the installation of libvirt and custom components to launch the VM so while the title might be misleading it is hardly "not adding" anything.
Restoring a UBR-1 Robot from Craigslist
Remember Twitch plays Pokemon? I'm interested in the new experiment, Twitch plays LA and then Twitch plays America. Worth the shot right?
Xbox One S #2TB Limited Edition Console – Gears of War 4
They're just using them as "how bad you want it" + IQ filters. The interviews end up testing for some combination of that—want very very badly + good but not amazing IQ, or want somewhat + very high IQ, that sort of thing. That one cannot be prepared for these interviews with the work one does 40 hours a week is by design.
The police do not need billions of dollars. Defunding the police is a great idea. There are many more effective ways to spend this money. Police are used as a (poor) bandage for issues that stem from lack of funding in other areas, like healthcare, social work and housing.
I have (almost) a PhD in physics and now work for a company developing high-frequency testing equipment. I do mostly software development, i.e. developing the firmware running on the devices. It helped that I worked with quite a lot of high-frequency test devices during my PhD and had some experience in software development.
Huh, I suppose you do! I had a naive short-circuit in my head that "neutron flux is bad because it destroys your your materials. If your material is molten lead anyway who cares?"

I also didn't know lead has such a low neutron absorption cross section.

For what it's worth lead with extra neutrons seems a lot less scary than eg uranium fission waste. Stable isotopes 206, 207, and 208 represent 98% by abundance, 208 has the lowest cross section, and 209 has a 3 hour half-life into Bismuth-209 which is nearly stable (2e19 year half-life). So it seems almost all of your neutron captures just make other stable lead isotopes or briefly-terrifying 209 that's totally safe after a couple days. You only get real scary stuff if the trace amounts of undecayed 209 manage a second capture.

Edit: I should add they want to mix lithium into the lead to absorb neutrons and regenerate fuel