skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ultrasonic pairing?

Okay... from TechCrunch: "not Bluetooth".

Also it says it emits from "18 and 22 kHz" which "most people can't hear". Um, most adults. 18-22 kHz is DEFINITELY audible to teenagers and children. Or how about a dog! On the flipside, insects don't like hypersonic frequencies either, maybe I'll get less bites. Anyone remember mosquito ringtones blaring during class where the teacher would not even notice? That's how they get kids to quit loitering. So that might be a benefit for the WFH parent. This is what they use to see babies so imagine what it can see beyond your camera.

I already know from using ultrasonic devices that I can hear this. They're loud and sound weird.

From my understanding, frequencies in that range also interfere with hearing aids, monitors, and smart devices. In my head I'm like oh man, a bigger microphone array is going to make harvesting that audio data so much sweeter, that's a huge value proposition! If those devices are vulnerable to 'dolphin' attacks, or inaudible commands, this is yet another security concern.

I wonder if they'll include support to map the acoustics and layout of your room through sound detection for projection optimization. Scary and enticing. This seems like a reasonably well designed tool that can either make my life more productive or help destroy it simultaneously. I mean if it's covered as an office expense, it's better than opting for webcam, monitor, microphone, speakers in a more svelte package.

Apologies if this comment seems par for the norm to hate on Zoom. I'm actively trying to give them the benefit of the doubt to balance discussion here, but some of these choices are specifically bad.
Interviewing is a skill. I once had a good job where I was happy and didn't move for 10 years. Big mistake - after that I bombed at interviews. After doing 10 interviews I'm now up to speed. I kinda feel like I need to do some interviews every year just to remind me how to behave and how to keep market ready.
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Non-doorman apartment buildings seem to have a glaring vulnerability: social pressure. Because > 99.9% of the people trying to go in behind you are your neighbors or people visiting your neighbors, not criminals, it's difficult to tell people no.

I bet it's possible to get into almost any building in a US city just by wearing a suit and telling people you forgot your keys. Eventually someone will let you in.
> Judge Mary Ellen Brennan, the presiding judge of the Oakland County Family Court Division, declined through a court administrator to comment on Grace’s case. In her ruling, she found Grace “guilty on failure to submit to any schoolwork and getting up for school” and called Grace a “threat to (the) community,” citing the assault and theft charges that led to her probation.

> “She hasn’t fulfilled the expectation with regard to school performance,” Brennan said as she sentenced Grace. “I told her she was on thin ice and I told her that I was going to hold her to the letter, to the order, of the probation.”
Case in point: Southern California. This is the state were Reagan served as governor after all. Southern California used to be dependably republican, but no longer. But is this because of a fundamental shift (in population or beliefs), or just a lack of desire to be associated with the racial/social policies of the national republicans, with most non-racial views retained? I suspect the latter.
A very common-sense question to ask.

We have agreements with our cryostorage providers to automatically transfer ownership of the assets to them in case Legacy ever did not exist in the future. So you would work directly with them and have the choice of either keeping the sample frozen there, or transferring it to a facility of your choice. We would help facilitate this to the greatest extent possible.

We do not yet have jurisdiction options, but I will say that I originally incorporated the company in Switzerland to benefit from their strong stances on privacy, and the "nuclear bunker option" is one that we are serious about setting up in the future. FWIW, nuclear bunkers are actually extremely common in Switzerland, this is a country-wide policy (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/prepared-for-anything_bunkers-f...), so it's not a crazy idea to set up a cryo-facility in one.

For privacy, I'll start just by saying that I've been a privacy advocate for as long as I can remember, am a
user of Protonmail, Signal, VPNs, etc. I know how important data privacy and am only interested in working on a company that is designed to be privacy-focused from the beginning. As far as I know, we are the only company that is HIPAA-, GDPR-, and CCPA- compliant.

Most importantly, we do not sell your data. We outline our data collection in our privacy policy (on the footer of the website)
What's the point in having a status page if it's a political artifact? In that case, it serves zero customer value.
Billionaires are such a tiny sample size, though. Not sure how much you can draw from that data.
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Meanwhile, engineer retention statistics at FAANG companies prove otherwise...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/average-employee-tenure-rete...
Political opinions can be both is and ought beliefs. The parent was not talking about distinguishing between political and non-political beliefs.
It would increase the cost of meat a little due to the fact that the leather would be cheaper with decreased demand. Since the cost of the cow would be the same and the income from leather would drop, ranchers would need to increase prices on meat to maintain the same income. Increase in meat prices would decrease demand a little.

While this wouldn't strike the demand for cattle it would net some marginal gains.
Having criminal contacts in both countries doesn't necessarily mean somebody trusts their criminal compatriots in both countries. Particularly when you're talking about a crime that's more severe (murder) than what they're normally trusting somebody with (smuggling perhaps.) I'd guess there are a lot of informants in organized crime. It seems the sort of business where the least trusting survive the longest.

If somebody took the risk to find a contract killer once and didn't get caught, it makes sense to me that they'd try to avoid taking the risk a second time by using the same killer.
I'm more concerned with what that implies about the content of their character, rather than color
Reminds me of the German government’s decision, made in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, to phase out all German nuclear power:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_phase-out

An immediate effect of this decision was to increase Germany’s reliance on fossil fuels, including “brown coal” which is strip-mined in an extraordinarily environmentally-destructive process. Another effect was to increase the German grid’s reliance on nuclear power generated in France.
Many smaller companies do pick up the money, which is one of the major factors allowing them to succeed in a world where the big software companies toss around ridiculous amounts of compensation. The Googles and Facebooks of the world are structurally unable to do the arbitrage because many (probably most) of their interviewers don't particularly care about interviewing.
That's how non-FAANG goes. I work at an old, non-tech corp and the interview (just one) was basically a popularity contest with some light technical questions. Don't screw up and crack some jokes and you're in. Of course, that means our level of technical ability is low, and we have poor project outcomes because of it. But it's a nice place to work.
Pagerduty,OpsGenie, etc?
You must be coming off as confident subconsciously with your air of indifference you carry for the interview process.
I mean before you become a wealthy society part of the reason you have children is because they can help support the family. They work the farm, or the family shop, or whatever.

Both of my parents grew up poor, both in America and elsewhere, and they were were working farms or shop jobs long before they were of legal age. It's just part of life.

The idea of just give give give to your children until they become 18 (or beyond) is a luxury/privilege.

They also grew up when "free range" parenting was still a thing. Kids just go out into town and entertain themselves, be home by supper sort of thing. So your time as parent was not spent hovering and taking them to after school programs and planning out their life to prepare them for college admissions.
I've found the Clockwise chrome extension to be useful in achieving the bimodal method mentioned here - without something automatically blocking time on my calendar to reserve it for Deep Work, my teammates may book over that time in my calendar.
> up until you reach a point where you've had a couple weeks with no known active cases in your country?

This point never came for influenza anywhere, why would you think it will come for COVID19, a much more contagious and invisible in many more cases virus?
Point you’re missing is that glucose that is required can be produced by our body, so there is zero need for glucose or simple carbs (and arguably any carbs) in out diet.

So keto is very much the primary system, breaking down carbs is actually a “holy crap look at all this energy in our bloodstream, let’s secrete insulin and shove it all into lipid cells so that it can later be used BY KETO, OUR PRIMARY ENERGY SYSTEM”.
Yeah - I love threads, super useful way to go deep on something without moving it out of the channel.

I've found the anti-thread arguments to be pretty weak.
Dietary cholesterol != blood cholesterol.

In fact, carbs are metabolized into cholesterol, so really you need to be avoiding bread if you want to lower your cholesterol, not eggs.
Absolutely. The few times I've had to go into the office, it's been a major chore. I get far more done every day because even though I have a private office at work, there's still a constant background hum of chatter, people working, office machinery, etc.

Not to mention that I can make pretty much anything I want for lunch, take random walks around the house or down the street to stretch my legs, jump up and do calisthenics for a few minutes at random.

I'm loving this so much!
I started on Newport's book a few years ago but stopped because I hated his writing style.
We haven't had a global pandemic in over 100 years and yet here we are.

Countries have nuclear weapons and the global community has to get it right every single day to avoid nuclear war.

I'm hoping it doesn't happen, but the lack of precedent doesn't mean nuclear war cannot happen. If we needed precedent for something to occur, we never would have a "first" of anything, and history is littered with firsts.

But here's hoping. Did I mention I'm great at parties?
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Didn't they just rename it from something else?
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> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle

You keep on repeating that OPs comment was political or ideological, yet OP didn't mention politics nor religion nor ideology.

They simply stated that Bangladesh has issues with extremists using these kind of tactics. They didn't say what kind of extremists, and since I don't know a whole lot about Bangladesh, I frankly don't have a clue.

You're more than welcome to point that Bangladesh doesn't have these kind of issues, or that the victim wasn't much related to Bangladesh. That's an interesting counterpoint, much more so than seeing things that aren't there.
> This article marked the public’s introduction to a concept that would drastically change the debate over nuclear war: “nuclear winter.” The story detailed the previously unexpected consequences of nuclear war: prolonged dust and smoke, a precipitous drop in Earth's temperatures and widespread failure of crops, leading to deadly famine. "In a nuclear 'exchange,' more than a billion people would instantly be killed,” read the cover. “But the long-term consequences could be much worse..."

> According to the article, it wouldn’t take both major nuclear powers firing all their weapons to create a nuclear winter. Even a smaller-scale war could destroy humanity as we know it.

What's the current consensus on the idea of a nuclear winter? I vaguely recall reading that the early papers like these overestimated the effects, and it would take a far larger nuclear exchange than has ever been possible to cause that kind of effect on the climate.
Same. Sometimes I only go on an interview to "practice", and BAM! Offer comes.
There is a world of difference in explaining your work to someone you've never met before on a problem you've never seen in an environment you've never worked in.

Versus explaining your code to your coworker whom you've worked with for the past X time who understands some of your eccentricities or idiosyncrasies and without a pass/fail judgment lingering over your head like a sword of Damocles.
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_The Bell Curve_ is not an academic treatise, and was near-universally derided. If anything, it itself was an anti-orthodox work trying to restore the basis of ethnicity as an explainer for many different phenomenon.

Maybe I'm confused. Are you using _The Bell Curve_ as an example of pseudo-scientific pop publication gone wrong, or as a worthy scientific viewpoint which is worthy of debate and was unfairly crucified in academia?
>However, when I post "Global warming is occurring" and you post "global warming is not occurring", I suspect you will not get very far into exploring your disagreement before you come to a wall, below which are only "ought beliefs".

Are you saying that people would change the subject because they prefer ought debates to is debates, or are you suggesting that trying to measure the temperature trend somehow depends on moral questions?
I had a very similar experience interviewing for Google. I was asked to do a task that eventually boiled down to a topological sort, and I thought the question consisted of recognizing that the answer was a topological sort and moving on because it was over the phone.

However, that was not the case. The interviewer wanted me to code it all out over Google Docs, but I didn't remember the exact algorithm so I basically had to re-figure it out on the fly, which took most of the interview (I even similarly mention "in any real situation I would just look this up", but that didn't help). At the end, I had a bunch of pseudo-C++-code that should do it correctly.

I thought I was done, then the interviewer said she would go go copy my code and compile it after the interview to see if I was right, which blew my mind. It was never mentioned previously that the code would actually be compiled and run, and with no syntax highlighting or ability to compile and test the code myself there is zero chance it was ever going to work.

I never heard back, so I'm assuming my code failed and they left it at that. Anyway, I'm much happier now that I think I would have been at Google.
3K would make more sense even...
sounds perfectly reasonable to me
The Bay Area part of that comment is a redherring - yes it's a popular destination here on HN but there are much more financially accessible areas in California that bring 90-99% of the same climate, cultural benefits, and metropolitan amenities as SF like the San Diego, Los Angeles, and Orange counties. I think the most unique things SF has for the general population is mass transit and walkability, which is a real crapshoot in the rest of the state.

In San Diego, for example, you can buy a 2+ acre property with a decent house that's 20-40 minutes away from the beach and downtown with all the operas, sportsball, and meetups/events you could want, excellent weather year round, and still be a part of the 5th largest economy in the world, only a few hours drive from Los Angeles or short flight to SF. It's not as cheap as Georgia but it's not San Francisco: the aforementioned exurban property can be had for half a million which would also get you a decent townhouse somewhere in the suburbs of Los Angeles or Orange county. There are a lot more plumbers, teachers, accountants, out here with property than there are engineers in SF - and they receive 80%+ of the benefits of California with only 20% of the hassle.
Double Irish with a Dutch sandwich... yum!
I feel like, regardless of what the cause is, having numerous low-level incidents means it's not exactly "safe" as the title of the article suggests. Another user has commented that the plant is nearly 100 years old while the reactors are supposed to last only 40 years before being replaced.
i think 1366x768 resolution on 15.6 inch screen is perfect in terms of UI elements size. like its a sweet spot between to small and too large with enought horizontal area.

physical width of such 15.6 inch screen is 34.53 cm so it gives you 0,025285037 cm per pixel.

so my "perfect" laptop would have 15.6 inch screen and 16:10 aspect ratio.
i would double the resolution in order to avoid fractional scaling and use 200% scaling so final resolution would be 2732x1708 - anyone can recommend something close to that on the market?
> However, I've been working and in the office as usual the entire time and my sleep habits have not changed at all.

Same boat here, can confirm no changes in sleeping patterns. At this point I'm frankly jealous of people who got laid off during this whole thing because all it has meant for me is wearing a mask everywhere and my gym being closed long enough for me to get quite out of shape.
Unless you think they want your data at the expense of the majority, this doesn't seem relevant. The difference between opt out and opt in is massive, 80% of people don't care or don't read. Your irrational preference here doesn't even register on their charts
Uber rolled their own crypto? Do they still? I thought you could always import some C library on iOS or Android (or use bouncycastle, unless that wasn't around then)
They must have changed the linked article. I don't see that anywhere (nor in the video). Just that they were in the elevator together.
Hey guess what.

You can always have self control and not install apps from outside the AppStore :)
Mostly fine?
https://www.dw.com/en/reports-fessenheim-nuclear-accident-pl...
"The reactor had to be shut down by adding boron to the pressure vessel, an unprecedented procedure in Western Europe, according to an expert."
By that standard Fukushima ran mostly fine too
It feels like the discussion of "legal tender" on this thread is based on how things work in the USA. In Finland, one can be compelled to pay all kinds of debts and obligations by bank transfer, and cash is not accepted. Even banks won’t take the 1- and 2-cent coins, and so these coins are de facto so marginalized that calling them "legal tender" misses the point.
> The saddest part of this story is that there is no new renewable plant being built overnight to replace Fessenheim. It will be replaced almost entirely by fossil fuels.

> It’s worth noting that, as Fessenheim closes, Germany is commissioning a new coal-fired power plant, in Datteln

Exactly. Why are so many people ignoring what happens in step 2?

When nuclear is shut down, it gets replaced with something worse. Often coal!

"German electricity was nearly 10 times dirtier than France's in 2016... Germany's overall emissions increased in 2016 as a result of the country closing one of its nuclear plants and replacing it with coal and natural gas" [1]

"It is one unintended consequence of the Fukushima nuclear disaster almost a decade ago, which forced Japan to all but close its nuclear power program. Japan now plans to build as many as 22 new coal-burning power plants — one of the dirtiest sources of electricity"[2]

Nuclear energy is also far safer than most other sources, about the same as renewables.

"Nuclear and renewable sources are similarly safe: in the range of 0.005 to 0.07 deaths per TWh. Both nuclear and renewable energy sources have death rates hundreds of times lower than coal and oil, and are tens to hundreds of times safer than gas."[3]

1. https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/2/11/german-...

2. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/climate/japan-coal-fukush...

3. https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
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HarvardX / EdX's 'Data Science: Machine Learning' course starts tomorrow.

It's slow paced: ~3 hours a week for 1 year 5 months (except for capstone projects which are ~20 hours for 2 weeks)

It covers a lot of the main data science topics, and is mostly in R.

If you've taken it, what did you think? If you haven't taken it, would you do this course? Why/Why not?
Saudi Arabia carried out an extrajudicial killing in a small, neighboring state. This was carried out in the US. And for all intents and purposes could be considered an act of war against a state that has an unlimited war chest.
This mostly happens to people who fail to pay their debt. Victim's stance on fairness of bargain mostly differs from the one of the creditors, but unfortunately that doesn't help them being less dead or dismembered.
Debt doesn't have to be purely financial, but most often has to do with money. It could be completely delusional, eg. "Business you started robbed me of $$$ which would be mine if you did not. Therefore you owe me triple the value of all your assets."
I'm not implying this is what happened in this particular case. It is horrible these things happen.
> has a long history of low-level incidents

If you actually bothered to read the ASN reports, you'd see that it's because it was one of the most transparent plant, hence the higher numbers.

> Rhine valley is seismically active

It is, which is why it was scaled for several times the biggest ever earthquake recorded (1365 IIRC, they derived the scale from models based on the damages it did).

ASN deemed its security "very satisfying", the rest is BS.
We don't rigorously define a numeric EV on most things in life, but we do assign some notion of fairness. You go out for dinner, but going out for dinner comes with expectations, even if the monetary EV is < 1. Basically that the food won't kill you. Similarly there are certain expectations on the lottery on the practicality of winning - everyone knows the odds are against you, but there's still an expectation that a lucky enough someone can win.

A lottery that doesn't have a winner sounds rotten and I don't think you'd eat rotten food from a restaurant, no matter how much you accept that inherent EV of the transaction is negative. There are many, many more words that can and have been written about the psychology of lotteries, but suffice to say, for many lottery players, it's not as simple as "I know that the EV < 1, I'm just playing for the entertainment value".
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> The thing is: Cruise control maintains the speed without human supervision.

At which point you would immediately veer off the highway and smash into an overpass, so no it doesn't.

It maintains speed without human involvement, which is the same thing lane keep assist does. It steers the car to keep it in the lane. Presumably even if the lane goes out to a pier and dumps the car in the sea.
A different way to view this is that being desperate makes you behave badly. For example, someone desperate for a job won't push back against bad decisions and will become a "Yes Man". Someone desperate for a date won't engage with the other person as a person.
Not quite an equivalent in perl because there are limitations like exceptions being discarded if you're unwinding because of an exception being thrown, but it's entirely possible to make things go if you know what you're doing ;)

"Matt S. Trout (mst)" is good - I'm probably better known by my IRC nick than my full name in geek circles ;)