skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting indeed. In Spain there was a similar fast-paced change: when I was a kid at school in the first half of the 90s, I remember the equivalent of "faggot" being practically the go-to insult for anyone people wanted to bully (and of course any kid deemed to be even mildly effeminate was bullied), and gay people almost always kept it in secret.

In the early 2000s, some famous people (TV anchors, etc.) came out of the closet. In 2005, gay marriage was approved, with some controversy but according to polls 65% of the population supported it at the time. 3 or 4 years later, only a minority of extremists remained opposing it, so even the main (and in that time, practically the only) national right-wing party stops actively opposing it.

It's curious because I don't think the change was driven by any obvious big movement or campaign with media attention (analogous to, say, BLM, or in the Spanish context, the 15-M movement). Maybe I wasn't paying a lot of attention to the issue, but it seems like most people just kind of spontaneously decided that hating on gay people was stupid.

I guess secularization probably helped (2000 was also the year where a fast downward trend started in statistics like religious marriages vs. civil marriages) but it's at most a partial explanation. Most religious people now don't object to gay people getting civil marriages either.

PS: This is not to discredit the Spanish gay movements and the people who tirelessly fought for their rights, it's just that my impression is that they weren't on the news that much so most people weren't convinced directly by any specific movement. Plus, gay rights movements in Spain existed at least since the end of the Franco dictatorship but it seems that it wasn't until the early 2000s that there was the sudden change I'm mentioning, it wasn't a slow and constant change.
I fail to see how better it is than:

array = ["foo", "ba", "r"]
result = ""
i = 0
while len(array) > i:
result = result + array[i]
i += 1

exactly 3 times less code
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A React Hook for using smooth scroll in React Component
I found this paper from the Bank of England very enlightening when it comes to the actual mechanisms of money creation and their limits.

The paper is short and concise enough and the diagrams are very helpful to the uninitiated.

Money Creation in the Modern Economy: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
Greg Egan books expand the brain in weird ways. They can be a bit of a chore till you hit a point where the narrative has grabbed you, but once that happens, it an amazing ride.

Reading his books make me feel stupid and clever at the same time.
I don’t know how it can possibly be done. I can’t do it myself. My ten minute drive through my Bay Area town looks like a comedy police chase complete with two guys carrying a big frame of glass, every day.

Pedestrians will run up to an intersection and keep running across without a care even if they’ve just emerged from behind a corner and the intersection isn’t controlled. Others will act like they’re going to cross the road then pivot 90 degrees at the last second. Some almost cross the road and then start walking at an angle to the road rather than completing the cross. You’ll stop for some and wait and they’ll just stand their staring at their phones, only to step in front of you when you guess they’re just catching an Uber.

Some people wave to mean you should go. Some wave you away like they’re shooing a fly, meaning they’re going no matter what you do.

Some approach the crosswalk and then step out into the street ten feet in front of it.

I’ve seen construction workers who think it’s cute to dance out their instructions. I had one who leapt across the road and then waved me through... a gap of about half my car’s width. I’ve seen both ends of constructions workers wave cars into single lane pass throughs; both human drivers realized and waited for them to figure it out.

None of this is the really crazy stuff I see fairly regularly. It’s just the every day stuff. And it’s all combined with crazy non-standard signage, careless construction equipment drivers, and bicyclists who are a whole other ball of wax.
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Yes-ish. Not that facebook is providing anything from their side but the adoption rate of the non-technical participants is sky-high. much higher than what i have seen with private forums.
I can only speculate but my guess is that all the participants are already actively using facebook and hence don't have any reasons not to join and use the private groups. Notifications are dealt with quickly because of the already implemented workflow from their side.
>Apple claim it is not accessible.

It doesn't matter what Apple claim. All their software and hardware is proprietary, including of course their "cloud" computers. You have no way of verifying anything they say.
over a sober, not tired, not distracted, not listening to load music, not blinded by low sun or driving screaming kids in the back driver, yes.

self-driving tech is still not there, but even now active braking and driving systems shows better safety figures than humans
Looks like the Roman defined a pace (two steps for a soldier) to be 5 feet. And a mile to be 1000 paces.
I feel I should share this -- it's an explanation provided in the Leigh dovetail jig manual for why two things share the same scale. Leigh's based in Canada, which appears to be nominally metric, but I gather most of their market is the other part of North America (which obviously isn't).

I bought the metric version of this jig - and I'm ecstatic they make this. The metric measurements are just different scales & translations - they didn't redesign the device at all.

Decimals don't slow me down, but comparing fractions with different denominators does.

Most of the manual they mention metric values in parenthesis, but in some sections it seems the authors just, understandably, gave up.

I'm perversely envious of people who can effortlessly make sense of this:

"""

Section 8-23 : Why are the 1⁄2" and 11⁄16" [12,7 & 17,5mm] pin widths on the same scale line?

1⁄2" through dovetails are routed using a 7⁄16" guidebush.

11⁄16" through dovetails are routed with a 5⁄8" guidebush.

That's a 3⁄16" difference in size between the two bits ... and between the two guidebushes.

The 5⁄8" diameter guidebush for 11⁄16" joints requires that the guide fingers be opened up by 3⁄16".

This automatically makes the pins 3⁄16" wider but on the same scale setting.

"""

(From https://leightools.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/D4R-Pro-Us... )
I thought that there's a slight advantage because some imperial measures are 12-based instead of 10? So it's easier to get 1/6, 1/4, 1/3 or 1/2?

Otherwise I observe that many things like fitness devices look way more bulky when they're from the US. I have the feeling that it's partially because of the system you use, since people tend to gravitate to whole numbers you might say "a 2" bar would be about right" and somebody from Germany would make it 4cm instead. Both whole numbers but the German fitness machine would be sleeker.

In an ideal world we would count 12-based and use the metric system.
This is an ongoing problem with dev tools. One thing I miss about the old shrinkwrap days is that you could just buy a tool and know that you have it forever. Hell, I still have my old copy of Cygnus Ed (1989), and it still works on an Amiga emulator (and I still use it for some text editing tasks).

Once that guarantee is gone, I no longer have any incentive to pay money or even use the service. I'd rather invest time and effort into hosting a tool myself, on infrastructure and hardware I control, choosing when and if to upgrade on my own terms.
You shard for load distribution. If data isolation is #1 priority, use separate tables, schemas, database instances.
Jesus Christ, this is insane. Almost a Terabyte of 12.6 Gbps reads? I have a bunch of geospatial entity resolution workloads that I could absolutely smash with this. For way cheaper than the fat mem instances.
Hi,
you should look into https://githubflow.github.io/
works well for us.
I believe the outcome in 2008 was driven more by differential voter turnout than by California residents changing their opinions between 2008 and 2016.
I have no idea how big a hectare or an acre is. Now I know the 100m by 100m bit.

But why don't I know?

No skin in the game. If I owned land then I suspect that I would know exactly how big a hectare or an acre was. If acres were the discussed measurement unit then those would be the units I would use for my understanding, much like how that in the fairly metric UK we still use feet and inches for comparing height.

In the UK people know their height in feet and inches. If you are a guy that is all to do with 6 ft. If you are 5ft something tall you are not 'tall', if you are over 6 foot tall then you are 'tall'. Nobody has the foggiest what that means in centimetres or metres.

There are also practicalities. I am okay measuring things in the garden with a stick. Then measuring that against paving slabs which are two foot or 60cm across. For me the paving slab is the unit. None of this metre nonsense.

Miles are also variable. Due to weather, traffic and foliage you can walk one mile between markers and it be different each time. But that doesn't make the measurement any less useful.

With all these legacy measurements they work great for casual use. Horses height? That will be hands, please. Building height? Storeys. Mountain height? Feet. 100 metres? Well that is 100 yards.

None of it is logical, we are not comparing apples and oranges with these vernacular units, the trick is to use them up to the point where proper SI units are needed.

See them as like the words we use for temperature. It is going to be hot/cold/warm/freezing today is fine, 'today could get to 23.2 degrees!' is just confusing even if well meaning.
We can take them at their word: they tell us what is end-to-end encrypted, plainly.

Everything not on that list is not, and thus readable by Apple. The critical items not end-to-end encrypted being device backups, photos, notes, email.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
Cruise missiles currently target large things, these would be anti-personnel drones. I guess we could call them “knife missiles”?
> Their product photo shows it attached to a dragonfly!

That's pretty cool! Do you have a link? I couldn't find it.
I understood it as they dont intend to get the drone back.

I did some searching, letter bombs were using 50g of RDX [1] and were able to kill a person so driving (and exploding) a drone with 171g of RDX into someone is more than enough.

If you take its 18km of reach (while I doubt the controls are able to go that far although with a 4g sim card this could be doable) you get a poor mans cruising "missile" for $1k. And there is nothing preventing (except the price) launching few of them.

I think that those drones are posing a real threat even more as probably the drug cartels have the money to realize it, if they can afford to build parallel cellular network [2], they surely can also perform this.

Their use case probably is not killing an average Joe but rather assassinations on high profile targets that are heavily guarded. And quite frankly I am really interested how bodyguards can tackle this as drone can literally fall from the sky, without any electricity being used so jamming (or frying electronics if feasible) wont work here. I think this is going to become a real nightmare in the future.

[1] 4g of RDX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Qj1qSZDKg or 100g of "something" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_664jlLwqI

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-telecoms-cartels-s...
It’s a way to make it possible for customer support to tell people what to do, while not overcomplicating the operating system for the 99.9% of users who do not care about things like manually setting resolutions if they even know what it is.

It’s like the habit of using key combinations to interrupt the boot up sequence, it introduces necessary facilities that aren’t in the way of you don’t need them or don’t even know about them.
Worse is that these forced updates sometimes break your Windows install. I use Windows exclusively for gaming. I have installed: Steam, Steam games, nvidia drivers, and Firefox. Hardly an unreasonable setup. Yet somehow, twice in two years, I’ve been forced to reinstall Windows because a forced update has blown it up and the built-in recovery tools couldn’t restore it.

I use macOS for work. Apple doesn’t force updates to happen. Despite people’s perceptions of Apple being controlling within their walled garden, I actually feel in control of my Mac. I don’t feel in control of my custom-built PC.
I do not know the current data, but previously the catastrophy rate was by design below 1 in 10000 years. But this is per plant, we have about 400 plants, so 1 catastrophy per 25 years on average; this values agrees with experiment.

About your statistics: that it is safer was pure luck. In the fukushima incident there were depending on the season two prevalent wind direction either towards the ocean or towards Tokyo. So with a high chance in the range around 50% Tokyo would have been to be evacuated. If anybody has better numbers let me know.

To me not counting this in, is like crossing the street with eye closed and arguing it if not hit so far so good with dismissing close encounters.

I would like to see numbers including this.
I think you make a valuable point. If somebody writes concise, clear code with little duplication, but still has a bug, their stats might look worse simply because their code is shorter.

It's also not clear that bug rates should be the only/main thing to look at. Complexity measures can also help to indicate if the code is easy to read/extend. In my experience low cyclomatic complexity does correlate with more readable code.
It's not really as easy as: macOS is better or Linux is better. Both suck in their own little ways, not as much at Windows, which still manage to cramp up my hand for some reason.

Linux has an amazing level of freedom and flexibility, macOS still have the faster and more responsive GUI. The main reason for me to buy into the Apple ecosystem is still Apple trackpads, both those on the laptops and the external Magic Trackpad. Those are my input device of choice. I really do not want to go back to using a mouse or trackball again.
A Mailserver on Ubuntu 18.04: Postfix, Dovecot, MySQL
Fun fact: Bank of England bank notes, denominated in £ sterling, still have printed on them:

"I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of <value> pounds"

Signed by the Chief Cashier of the BoE
I'd personally go with re-imaging the first X times, then do a root cause analysis.
That's one of the reasons soldier get PTSD or are/were drugged.

There must also be a component of getting used to it at some point, but several people who killed someone (often with the sponsorship of some country that can socialise the cost of war) found their first experiences to be traumatic.
Trust but verify. Apples word is worth nothing.
What Does Lidar-Based Startup Luminar Technologies $3.4Bn Deal Mean For
The average workday is over 10 hours?? We still work the same hours. 7.5hrs per day five days per week. No more or less.
So is this some sort of a Notion clone?
California Virtual Power Plant from Residential Battery Storage
Russians use drones at regular basis to throw[1] old ВОГ-17[0] grenades for automatic grenade launchers at Ukrainian soldier at Donbas.

[0]: https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%9E%D0%93-17
[1] https://www.slovoidilo.ua/2020/06/11/novyna/bezpeka/bojovyky...
instead of controlled burns, couldn't the wood be chopped down and transported out? I mean, wood is not free.. it's worth something right? Couldn't it be sold cheaply for building materials and energy (a gasification boiler is super clean compared to "natural" burning).
The issue isn't size of the testing suite, it's covering all the edge cases.

Some rather common edge cases go ignored. Unless they've updated Waymo in the last couple of months, they still fail to distinguish when they have a reserved destination lane when making right turns, as exhibited when going from eastbound Central to southbound Castro every damn day (before Castro was closed).

Self driving system vendors can claim that fewer deaths will occur with their system vs the average driver, but that mostly reflects how dangerous the "average"/distracted driver is. Those numbers are little comfort to the loved ones of someone killed in an "edge case" that a competent driver handles without injury.
Python daemon ate my syslog message
Curd Operations in Asp.net MVC Using JQuery Dialog with EF
I know so many people who are in this exact position. Trying to change the practices of their companies for the better but never getting anywhere.

A client is paying for a refactor but the manager says "we don't have time to write tests, the client is not paying for that" (when indeed they are in the end).
I don't really think OTA updates is the problem, so much as the automatic application of the updates without owner awareness (or consent to possibly significant feature changes). Preventing OTA is not the same as preventing remote control -- vehicles WILL be networked, if only for collision avoidance. OTA could be very useful if a bad exploit becomes widely available -- like a protocol bug in the V2X network that lets you crash the V2X module. Many bugs are discovered after being in production for years.

If you allow users to approve and roll back updates then there is some ability to recover after bad updates. Of course, you don't want theives to be able to roll back to a vulnerable release, but you can require the master owner key & code for rollback.
Ask HN: How to choose which dentist or doctor to believe?
When you get a medical opinion, you have to rely on the medical expertise of doctor. You don't have a better option. If you get a second opinion, and it is the same as the first one, you intuitively know it's more trustworthy. But what happens when the second opinion contradicts the first one? Who do you believe? How do you rank each scenario by the "trustworthiness" of opinion? How would one go by valuing the trustworthiness of multiple differing opinions, as is common in dentistry?
That the Amazon soil is actually very poor in nutrients and the dust from the Sahara desert is actually what keeps the Amazon rainforest alive.

Long ago the South American and African continents were one. To think of it, there is still a major connection!
Wish I were, but I am too old to work in a start-up, and I have family to feed so I won't work for $30k/y. I am just spending all my free time reading up on the stuff - to me, it's the most interesting tech revolution since the early web of the 1990's
I'm becoming more and more convinced that we are living in a simulation, and time dilation (as you approach c) is an effect of the limits of computing power.

Consider that the faster you travel, the more collisions (or potential collisions) between particles need to be decided.

Is the limiting factor of c directly related to the available computational power?
It's not the wild west, though. The Central Bank do know how much these banks are issuing; and also differentiate between the different kinds of money. And not only banks issue money, other financial institutions do also issue some kind of money. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply)

- M0: In some countries, such as the United Kingdom, M0 includes bank reserves, so M0 is referred to as the monetary base, or narrow money.[20]
- MB: is referred to as the monetary base or total currency.[17] This is the base from which other forms of money (like checking deposits, listed below) are created and is traditionally the most liquid measure of the money supply.[21]
- M1: Bank reserves are not included in M1.
- M2: Represents M1 and "close substitutes" for M1.[22] M2 is a broader classification of money than M1. M2 is a key economic indicator used to forecast inflation.[23]
- M3: M2 plus large and long-term deposits. Since 2006, M3 is no longer published by the US central bank.[24] However, there are still estimates produced by various private institutions.
- MZM: Money with zero maturity. It measures the supply of financial assets redeemable at par on demand. Velocity of MZM is historically a relatively accurate predictor of inflation.[25][26][27]

You can see the M0, M1 and M2 money supplies at Trading Economics: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m2

By the way, you can issue money too. Let's say you buy a computer for $1.000 and promise the seller that you are going to pay him $1.050 by next year. You just issued $1.050 of M2.

Counter-intuitively, this money supply system is helping developed countries control inflation. In some developing countries, inflation is harder to control because people are issuing money on their own.
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> A pint and I imagine a 600mL soft drink

Careful, that's a British pint. An American pint is closer to 400mL.
I presume the cheapest protection would be fine netting.

Is there any indication of netting being used as protection against drones?

Or would netting be to obvious that there was a target worth targeting?
I'm en-gb native too and it checks out here.
Lasers have been demonstrated strong enough that those countermeasures are insufficient.

Bigger problem is, if you’re a politician and this scenario plays out during a rally, you just blinded your own supporters by shining a metal-melting laser at a shiny bauble while it was just above their heads.
This approach seems to be simply implementing short-circuit boolean operators e.g. as soon as any AND condition is false, then false; as soon as any OR condition is true return true. The first example of evaluates every condition in a bottom up approach. While it's implemented as a FSM it doesn't need to be.

I think using ROBDDs (binary decision diagrams) or unrolling the AST into opcodes would be a more standard way of implementing optimisations.
No, it was not machine generated, at least not in conventional sense.

This was written by team of drone developers from specification written by a team of drone analysts.
I take it that's a culture reference, if it isn't then congratulations, you are in good company.
new technology will always empower more positive change than negative.

Empower, yes. Implement, not necessarily.
How do you define being stuck? If you have great coworkers that you're able to learn from, but the company itself is struggling, are you stuck?

Maybe there are certain stages in a failing company. Stage I: A few great coworkers, product struggling. Stage II: Great coworkers begin leaving, you're still fighting. Stage III: The position OP describes in his post.
"Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers."
I feel like company's like that are shooting themselves in the foot: the delivered product is of lesser quality, developers aren't happy and quit sooner or later.

Looking at it from a manager's perspective, I think you'd want to do everything in your power to prevent such situations. Feels like there's a general lack of future perspective in many companies.
This needs more upvotes. Life really should be about what you spend your time doing, not letting it waste away, not living for achievements, nor comparing ourselves to others, others from completely different worlds, but really making the most of the short time we have, whatever it is we are doing - having fun, doing work, taking a break, living life.
yes, it's easy to see they are at least somewhat frustrated because of not getting more details about what happened from CenturyLink. I think that's understandable.