skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The military is the US’s most effective welfare program. Propaganda or not, most of the enlisted (the beneficiaries) are (1) poor and (2) never see combat.

Nonetheless is it bad to associate welfare with honor?

Defense contracting has complex returns for its owners. On the one hand it’s a ton of fucking money for stuff that again, never sees combat. On the other hand, you have to spend that money in Alabama, not New York or Los Angeles (where rich people want to live). On the other hand, you’re spending a lot of that money in Alabama.

I sympathize with the idea that the graft and inefficiency, in this abstract sense, is unethical, at least at the same magnitude as building a missile platform. It will never be used, making it only abstractly a support of violence against innocents. Whereas some enlisted are ultimately sent out to go kill people in the Middle East — but weren’t they just the ones to lose the welfare lotto of a cushy deployment in the 9,999 other places you could be sent? Or that the drones that actually routinely perform violence at a distance are considerably cheaper than the SpaceX missile platform, so if you sought to reduce the military budget the drones would be the LAST thing that gets cut and actually violence per dollar would RISE? Anyway, the ethics are hard to boil down to some pithy one liner, it’s an immature and unjust reduction of the complexities of real politics and how we measure things.

Besides, the EU also does this. A lot of governments do.
usr stands for UNIX system resources
It's worth pointing out that carpet bombing in WWII was not some accident of primitive technology and inability to perform precise targeting.

It was deliberate strategy from the UK and the USA, with the goal to demoralize and punish German & Japanese civilians. Mass civilian death and the total destruction of whole cities was the result. Napalm, for example was specifically developed to create building fires that would spread quickly and not be easily extinguished.

The sheer horror of it is not spoken much of in the west, where the crimes against humanity that Nazi Germany performed are rightly highlighted. But as a person with an ex-pat German father who grew up in the rubble, and a grandfather who helped reconstruct post-WWII Mainz, I was always made acutely aware of it.

Frankly, it makes me cringe every rememberance day when I hear my Canadian friends talk about their heroic grandparents, etc. who flew Lancaster bombers during WWII. My Opa did something far more heroic which was to spend the bulk of the war in an American POW camp, not fighting anybody -- and learning English in the process.
>How is the US having accurate weapons unethical?

Because we sell them to despotic regimes like Saudi Arabia who use them to do things like kill innocent people in places like Yemen?
It wasn't a law, just an option.
I'm working on a book about Bash scripting which is currently in the review phase, and it includes most of these. For graceful exit I recommend `trap cleanup EXIT` rather than specifically trapping SIGINT, mostly because the special exit signal is triggered no matter why the script is interrupted. I wouldn't normally recommend pulling out variables into a separate files until those variables are used by more than one script. I'd be interested in the rationale for why that helps refactoring.
That is not terrorism though. The point of terrorism is to achieve political goals by spreading fear.
The $440M Software Error at Knight Capital – Henrico Dolfing
"There is a good chance that upgrading fails and you would need to give it a second or 3rd try."

Sad that this has almost become the norm when developing in the modern javascript ecosystem. I dread touching those projects and creating one even more because stuff just rots away and your app might break in days, weeks or If you are lucky months. I'm sure there are better developers out there that can handle all of this and know how to avoid it, but a bozo like me does not. This is actually causing me stress irl.
Here's an example of the poetry generated from https://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/apr/9/queer-history-compu..., which is a much better article than this one in explaining the technology and connections:

SWEETHEART MOPPET YOU ARE MY ANXIOUS LONGING: MY ANXIOUS
LOVE. MY SYMPATHETIC HEART FERVENTLY YEARNS FOR YOUR
SYMPATHY. MY WINNING ENTHUSIASM LOVES YOUR PASSION. MY DEAR
ENTHUSIASM BURNINGLY TEMPTS YOUR ENCHANTMENT.
YOURS AVIDLY M. U. C.

Except for the "my dear enthusiasm" part (which leaves an enigmatic Tates in its echo of the previous sentence) that's not too bad!
> and regulation is not one of them.

> Small businesses are also rare because of zoning codes and infrastructure policies that promote the use of cars

Zoning codes and infrastructure policies are a form of regulation.

> government has abdicated its antitrust responsibilities

I agree with this part. A minimal regulatory regime along with a strong antitrust regime is pretty much ideal IMO.

> The US regulatory structure is extremely friendly to small businesses.

You can also see the quantity of regulations on this tracker. [1] I don't think you can describe this amount of regulatory complexity as "friendly" to small businesses.

[1] https://www.quantgov.org/federal-us-tracker
But this hypothesis is not going to get you sexy headlines and your next grant funded. If we don’t fix the problems with grant funding and the resulting imperative to publish or perish we are going to kill science.
Huh, wasn't expecting this:

> Conclusions and Relevance Time-restricted eating, in the absence of other interventions, is not more effective in weight loss than eating throughout the day.
Fortunately I’m one of the lucky women who has had the experience of buying both men’s and women’s clothing and I can tell you that the latter is unequivocally worse with regards to sizing consistency.
In the US it's unheard-of, except in those two states. Oregon has recently introduced some exceptions but NJ has none, AFAIK.
It’s relative. I rarely things. My wife will return 3 items for each she keeps. 30-40% seems roughly reasonable as an average when you factor in fraud.
You might want to try this one too

https://github.com/aguaviva/GuitarTuner

It uses a bank filter and it also works in the browser
The feeling of deja vu is too strong. Stripe is the next Google
I work with a consortium that is trying to map the anatomy of the peripheral nervous system. My key take home has been that our knowledge of peripheral anatomy at population scale is woefully inadequate. People look at Vesalius and think "oh, that was settled 500 years ago," but as it turns out it seems that we know far more about the peripheral anatomy of our pets and domestic animals than we do about our own.
Downvotes for asking a genuine question, and downvotes for other comments that are anything other than "USA is evil". What a state of affairs.

Edit: and now "flagged". How about this then? Fuck you, you sad cunts. Time to grow up, read some books, and get some fresh air.

P.S. Bye HN...
> The focus of this study was not to analyse the prevalence of the occurrence of the median artery in relation to ethnicity, geographic origin or variations by sex, but to identify the global trends in its occurrence.

Hopefully this paper will inspire more research involving this interesting phenotype. I'm curious about the population specific prevalence too.
This is the least credible reason to not use Amazon.

They treat their warehouse workers cruelly, tolerate counterfeits, allow the review process to be juked to the point of uselessness, and contribute to a brittle monoculture.

But the environment? Any consumer good is transported by internal combustion engine from the factory, to some intermediate places, to the door. Maybe someone uses a bike for the last part, but mostly, they drive to the store in their private automobile. Amazon uses package delivery services, which is much more efficient, and warehouses have a smaller environmental footprint than stores, which are all backed by warehouses anyway.

It's either a small amount of additional cardboard and plastic, or a whole additional building and a few miles of driving a single automobile. It's pretty clear that Amazon wins this comparison.
bol.com is fine, but coolblue is overly expensive and does not offer anything above other online vendors.

I am glad Amazon is here - more competition is always good for consumers such as ourselves.
I can confirm (via unverifiable sources sadly, so this is only anecdotal) that this number is at worst believable. I know of other online retailers that see similar return numbers.

Particularly in clothing.

From what I understand it is a relatively common practice to order 2-3 of a given item in different sizes, and to return the ones that don't fit.

And this is just the "honest returners", not even going into the whole "order this fancy clothing, wear it to a party, and then return it" "dishonest returners"
This is certainly not true for me. Fasting 16 hours a day has changed my life. I eat relatively healthy but been eating a lot of sugar, full pizzas etc so I doubt I’m at a calorie deficit more than once a week.

As an aside, I had cancer and worked with surgeons professionally. And I am exceptionally skeptical and disappointed in the curiosity of doctors and surgeons. Some of my doctors would repeat word for word answers. My oncologist didn’t know basic questions.
They conclude the following:

> Time-restricted eating, in the absence of other interventions, is not more effective in weight loss than eating throughout the day.

I believe this, with two additions: In my experience, time restricted eating confers weight loss via reduced calorie intake (in short, if I only eat until I’m full for a 6 hour period in a day, I simply don’t eat as much).

The other factor is the supposed ‘cellular regeneration’ kinds of claims, along the lines of “well, if your cells arent metabolizing fresh food, they have time to do clean—up processes and this is good for reasons”. I would be interested to learn more along these lines, but it makes sense that this wouldn’t be directly related to weight loss as such and would instead affect other factors (longevity, gut and skin health, etc)
Investments unfortunately don't work that way, just because you have an opportunity to build a Tech company or a fancier weapon doesn't mean you have an opportunity to reduce poverty.

( although if you're financing hundreds of fancy weapon systems you may be irrationally diverting funds from productive ventures like healthcare. )
The article is written like an 'in memoriam', except that Dr Ghez is actually alive.

Here's what the clickbait headline was referring to—

"NIRC [Near Infrared Camera at Keck Observatory] was never designed to do what Andrea needed—an ultrafast readout of images and then a restacking of the result to remove the effects of the atmosphere’s turbulence. But she was not to be denied—and we made the changes. And it worked!"
I would absolutely agree with you, IF externalities were priced into the cost. Things like environmental damage are not part of the cost of something, so amazon does not factor it into their decision.

If we had things like carbon taxes on goods, then amazon's decision would likely be much more optimal for the environment.
25-year motorcyclist here. I've never even considered it possible to fill a motorcycle tank while relying on the automatic shutoff. Do people do that? If I were to put the nozzle of a standard fuel pump into the hole of my tank such that it engages the vapor capture thing, the end of the nozzle will reach down almost to the bottom of the tank.
Please expand your case. Those technologies were developed for other initial purposes, your case just proves an example of ethics depending on users
Heart disease can impact cognitive function, fertility, economic status, etc well before death.
I think it's important to remember that history gets written by the winners and that your opinion might have been very different if you would have grown up under Pinochet in Chile or the Somoza family in Nicaragua.

Moreover, while I concede that the US entering some wars has been good, that does not guarantee that it will continue like that, so if you are developing missile guiding systems you should always reflect on that they might be used for evil. You could even say that many of the Russian scientists were probably thinking they were working on defending against evil.
Sure, but the video vulnerability is just the quickest RCE vuln I could find for the Galaxy Note 5. I'll bet if I go back to the Android CVE database I could find more vulnerabilities of various kinds that the Note 5 is susceptible to, and that we'll uncover more in the future. And looking at Stagefright, the way you use your phone is no guarantee that you can dodge vulnerabilities.

It's up to you whether you are comfortable with the risk of running as unpatched phone. But a risk is very much present, and only using a couple of apps doesn't protect you from getting hacked and keylogged at the very least.
Bot herder of a different kind: open-sourcer Camunda buffs up RPA platform in an
About 1/4 the time the pump is either shutting off every 5 seconds or doesn’t shut off. But luckily there’s a subtle but obvious sound of the tank being almost full and I’m standing right there.
> Showerhead that came without box, and clearly used. It still had a lot of water inside!

How much water could a showerhead even hold. Certainly not a lot?
Next.js 9.5 added opt-in support for Webpack 5:

https://nextjs.org/blog/next-9-5

and looks like Create-React-App plans to support Webpack 5 in an upcoming CRA 4.1 release (4.0 is in alpha now):

https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/9613#iss...
If you're making something for audio you need I2S to talk to the DAC/ADC.
The root word for the devil, diablos, means ‘divider’ so any tendency or thought that brings about division...
As a reference the new kid on the block, NeuralDSP’s Quad Cortex uses 500 Mhz Quad-Core SHARC https://www.analog.com/en/products/processors-microcontrolle...
I mean, arguably Hawaii at the time was US soil in a looser sense of the word. It only became a state in 1959. It had/has a significant Japanese population, and presumably Japan saw invasion there (wrongly, for sure) as some kind of anti-colonial action.
These are pretty much the only kind of interview I want to have, these days.

And the thing is - it's actually pretty easy to tell where the other party is at, skill-wise. As in, within 10 minutes or so usually.
Incredible that this was being maintained.
It sounds like you’ve run into this problem before. What were the circumstances that made the problem Rook-specific? I mean to ask, was there an underlying problem affecting all pods, not just Rook pods?
Moving of fluid through a pipe always causes pressure drop due to Bernoulli's principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli%27s_principle). This is law and is unavoidable.

Now, whether this pressure drop causes underpressure is another matter and depends on whether the effect is stronger than possitive pressures in the system relative to your point of reference (for example, outside atmospheric pressure).

For example, there might be obstruction downstream which means there is already positive pressure in the pipe so the pressure drop from Bernoulli effect is lower than the positive pressure and you still get overpressure (Bernoulli effect is rather weak at slow speeds as it is proportional to square of the velocity of liquid in the pipe).

So, in general, when you have fast flow through a pipe, a hole in the pipe might cause the water to flow out but it could also be sucking air in. It all depends on whether positive pressure is stronger than the effect.
Its further clarified in the article

> Company spokespeople confirmed to the website TJournal that they did reach out to Telegram, but they say Apple is only asking the network’s administrators to remove specific posts that violate the AppStore’s terms of service by disclosing individual’s private data without their consent.

So apple bow expects developers to police user generated content within an app to ensure it abides by appstore policies.

How would someone that develops a HN app (like octal) or even other messaging apps, like Signal.

Further, does apple do this with their own apps, like iMessage?

Something smells fishy here.
But is expensive the problem? Of course I don't buy anything above 100€, but neither anything computer related, clothes or in general things that I can walk ten minutes and buy in a physical shop.

Most of what I buy are products that I can't find offline easily or at all. So Amazon actually brings them sooner than what I would be able to find it offline, like vitamins or exotic incense. Also some audio electronics are too expensive in the few shops that, even in Madrid, are specialized in that area.

But computers or phones or monitors/tv? MediaMarkt or Fnac have a good enough variety and I can just walk out the shop with a box, that I can return no questions asked if defective, the same day.

I've also found out that some pieces of audio electronics or instruments are better bought used from individuals. I got a pair of pro speakers for 100€ that are triple that money new. You can go and see the thing before paying. Same for furniture that is dirty cheap used.

Edit: could be this related to USA car dependence?
I’m scrolling and scrolling waiting for a paragraph that tries to sell me on why I’d bother and risk upgrading. I think the best I got were patch notes.

Any good reason to upgrade?
Why is this surprising? I also think that buying the latest smartphone is a waste of money, but every two years I find myself upgrading to the latest iPhone anyway.
I’m not so sure that a local electronics shop is way more ecological. More HVAC, more lighting, items shipped to an intermediate warehouse, then reshipped, then maybe transferred between stores, then customers driving their SUVs around shopping.

It wouldn’t surprise me if Amazon can get me a TV with lower total emissions than if I shopped locally. If I comparison shopped locally, I’m virtually certain Amazon’d win.
The Beauty and Power of “Primitive” C++ – Bjarne Stroustrup
A lot of people at large companies are bored at work because a lot of work is boring, and because corporate life sucks. If you control for age-- notice that startups tend to prey on the young-- then I don't think small company work, at the bottom, is any less boring.
The pseudonym given to the asker ("Ethel Pumper, Dallas") is a great pun on tetraethyllead "ethyl gasoline":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl_Corporation
Make $50 / Blog Submission Article on Topics: Cloud Computing, Remote Setups
The insurance payout doesn’t go to the lawyer who lost.
Per https://webpack.js.org/blog/2020-10-10-webpack-5-release/#ge... :

- Improve build performance with Persistent Caching.

- Improve Long Term Caching with better algorithms and defaults.

- Improve bundle size with better Tree Shaking and Code Generation.

- Improve compatibility with the web platform.

- Clean up internal structures that were left in a weird state while implementing features in v4 without introducing any breaking changes.

- Prepare for future features by introducing breaking changes now, allowing us to stay on v5 for as long as possible
Is this a joke?

The US is EXTREMELY happy to collect taxes from people around the world and to call them resident aliens for tax purposes if they stay in the country for more than half a year or a given combination of days in the preceding 4-5 years.
It is not possible to communicate on iOS without risk of being censored or attacked.

Using these platforms is responsible, if it doesn't affect you it will affect vulnerable people.
This is good advice but doesn't work for people with sleep apnea.

When I had sleep apnea I could fall asleep at any time of day, no matter how much sleep I got (or thought I was getting) each night. The alarm was necessary because I never felt well rested and couldn't get up without it.

Then I went for a sleep study and was told that during a night of 6-7 hours of what I thought was continuous sleep, I actually woke up 120 times. Eek! Of course everyone normally wakes up at least a few times and doesn't remember it the next day, but most people don't choke and stop breathing 120 times a night. I rarely got any real deep sleep.

I had sleep apnea surgery, which changed my life. Almost right away I got better sleep and was more alert during the day. It was like getting an extra 2-3 hours a day, every day.

Now I get up without an alarm every day and never need caffeine. It's a great way to live.
That is quite an insane number! What a waste or back and forth, and this because cities are not dense in the US and everything was built around cars. I probably return less than 5% of what I buy, but my gf returns a lot of the clothes she buys online.
No push notifications, among other limitations.
This complaint has nothing to do with teaching hot new python libraries.

The thing is, data cleaning is no less fundamental than backpropagation. Maybe more so - learning algorithms come and go, but real-world data is always going to be inherently messy. The difference is in that we have a beautiful mathematical theory for backpropagation but not for data cleaning. So the courses that teach the former but not the latter are akin to the proverbial drunkard that searches for the lost keys under the street light - beautiful mathematical theories are easier to lecture on so they teach them instead of messier (but not less fundamental or useful) topics such as data cleaning.
I put the nozzle to where the tip is as near the top as I can get, then I let it tip and pin itself on the inside. My tank isn't just a hole in the top, there's some kind of metal "basket" in there (2020 XSR 700). I generally do then squeeze it by hand, but I let the auto-shutoff engage.

I would feel fairly comfortable using the auto-shutoff. I have had it fail twice in my life. But, because the tip of the nozzle is so near the exterior of the tank, and the tank is becoming a bottleneck there, there is sometimes a little splashing that gets on the paint.
Maybe with a full 3D scan of the body. But even then, clothes fit differently depending on the material: stretch, non-stretch, thick, thin, etc.

But everything would have to be pretty much tailor made. If you could do that on demand and automated, taking into account all these factors and making it as personalised as possible, that might really cut back on some clothes waste. But I have no idea whether this is technically possible, and it's definitely going to be a hard problem to solve.
Oh, I forgot to mention that when you probe a circuit, the presence of the probe can affect the operation of the circuit.

On RF designs it was not uncommon to find seemingly needless small valued components at certain probe points. The idea was these modeled the reactive load of a probe. When you needed to probe it you'd remove the components and attach your probe and the circuit see approximately the same load so you could have more faith that what you were seeing more closely matched what was happening when you weren't looking.
Okay nbasic is what the world needs.

I got introduced to BBC Basic on Amstrad examples with graphics as a kid and it got me hooked on programming.
Except the whole world isn't really competing for those Visas. The appeal of the H1B is the difference in quality of life between the home country and the US. It's not like the everyone in the world has a burning desire to pay California rent.
The linked article is part of research on optimal learning. The proposed schedule will get a lot more out of your time. It's usually better to do your studying super early in the morning rather than late into the night, and proper sleep helps a lot with information storage. YMMV though; some people are naturally better in the evening, or sometimes daytime schedules just don't fit someone's lifestyle.