skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back when checks were a lot more prevalent, some people would list a PO Box on their checks, either out of privacy or necessity (mail service didn’t go to their street). I was one of the people who did it for privacy, using the box my small business received mail at.

Around the late 90s, a whole lot of places stopped accepting checks with a PO Box address printed on them, ostensibly due to “fraud concerns” (it was really that the government offices that do debt collection for “hot” checks wouldn’t accept non-physical addresses).

There’s not really a point to this story, I suppose, except that privacy has always been hard to maintain.
Accomplishments provide empirical knowledge of one’s hypothetical and private judgements. How else can one know one’s wisdom if not through its demonstration?
I have experienced this myself on a smaller scale.
I was looking for an old book but all the sellers wanted $80 or more.
One day the prices started to fall with two suppliers, always a few cents every few hours.
In the end I got the book for about $10.
Is there something like this for pair programming?

I am not too familiar with this space.
I wouldn't know about China, because frankly, the data they release is fishy. NZ and TW do better, but mostly because of travel restrictions (and people do not like to travel anyway right now for the most part) and because they are islands. Doing the same for the big islands of "Eurasia" and "America" and Africa seems less feasible.

The "solution" will be vaccines combined with some adjustments on how people live for the foreseeable future. Until the next pandemic comes along.
I hear you on the gut reaction! It just seems like if your application relies on a bunch of cloud services (S3, SQS, 3rd party APIs, etc) and will eventually be deployed to the cloud, is there any great value in saying that one little part is running on your laptop?
'organs damaged by previous infection' Fake news.
> It amazes me that in 2020, we still struggle to implement a simple system where someone can reliably and permanently transfer money to someone else as the default, expected behaviour of the financial system.

Certain countries have done so; look at Faster Payments in the UK for example. There's technically nothing preventing FPS to be used right now in place of the majority of card transactions. All it needs is better UX and a standard, like a fps://<sort_code>:<account_number>/<reference> URL that can be either put in a QR code for in-person payments or a clickable link online. Mastercard, Visa and plenty of other companies that make their $$$ off card payments in one way or another (whether supplying overpriced card terminals or selling fraud detection services) wouldn't be too happy that their entire industry is obsoleted by a feature everyone has by default in their bank account that is no longer earning them any fees.

I'm pretty sure any effort to improve the payments system and fix its inherent flaws would see pushback (either obvious, or behind the scenes) from a (big) industry which makes its money on patching symptoms one by one instead of fixing the root cause of the problem (as an example, the fraud detection systems for online card payments - they need fraud to exist and be possible because otherwise if the system is bulletproof in such a way that fraud is technically impossible they wouldn't have a business).
The philosophy of C++ is about _zero cost_ abstractions.
I dunno, CDC says that.
I've switched to Ghost for my business precisely to support this model. And since I don't want to spend time maintaining servers, I pay them handsomely.
That's a straw man in bad faith.

Increasing education resources doesn't have to have an end goal of reeducation camps.

Education is woefully underfunded in America, especially rural America.

Starting with giving people access to the same level of education across the board is a good first step in increasing critical thinking.

Not everything has to be torn down into authoritarian versus a free for all. There are lots of shades of grey in between.
Rename Desktop Spaces on macOS
The 4 videos at the end of the article at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-71824-y#Sec18 spark joy - these beasts are somehow attracted to my scent/blood so I allways get the bites while others are spared.
> Suggest you research some of the satellites of the time

Suggest you do the same.

Here's the "Big Bird" satellite you referred to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-9_Hexagon

> The cameras could scan contiguous areas up to 120 degrees wide, and achieved a ground resolution better than 2 ft (0.61 m) during the later phase of the project.

The sources you cite are, to put it nicely, propaganda. The physics simply doesn't agree that this was even remotely possible at the time.

Another commenter correctly pointed out that these claims would violate the diffraction limit by more than an order of magnitude, and that's assuming zero atmospheric interference, which is absolutely not the case.

Why do you think film is relevant here? These satellites are not noise-limited like your phone vs. an SLR, they're diffraction limited. This is an optical resolution limit that has nothing to do with the photon capture medium or the size of the photographic plate. The only way to do better is to increase the effective area (of the mirror, not the plate) or to decrease the effective wavelength.

They were not doing interferometry with these satellites, and certainly not the multi-axis interferometry you'd need to be able to resolve centimeter-thick lines in text.
SPARC processors have tagged add and subtract instructions to help dynamic languages.
1 line of Perl counts for 5 lines of Python, so you're actually behind on the golf course.
The other day, I found a household appliance (I don't remember what kind), that boasted 16 gigs of RAM.
I looked into free, native videoconferencing solutions several months ago because I wanted to run conferences on slower hardware. Most webrtc solutions ran too slow for my requirements. Jami worked really well, I could even compile it for my Raspberry pi and it ran with solid quality there. I’m very happy that this exists as open source. Big kudos to the developers.
Sometimes the journey is about learning where home is, and why it's home.

It has been that way for me. After trying many frameworks, "modern" languages, working on many teams, I've learned to love Perl, LCD-JS, and HTML in a whole new way.
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> check literally has your full address

Really? I assume you're talking about the US? Because that's certainly not the case in many other countries that I have worked/lived in.
If true that's very funny, but also would either mean the student is very rich or their time is sold at an abysmal wage.
I had hoped this would be about a book about flies that was genuinely worth $23 million.
I really hope people take this article seriously and not just knee jerk react to the idea that unobstructed free speech is totally perfect. The idea that there should be no consequences for spewing vitriol and using lies to back it up is insane. It's been demonstrated time and time again that people can't fact check every single statement and this fact is used by malicious actors to manipulate people to their ends.

Its also really strange because for every other system we have, we accept legislatively enforced boundaries. There are constraints around the manufacturing of drugs, food products, vehicles, etc. We have regulations around pollution.

Even for abstract ideas, we socially agree on norms. Nobody would think it's acceptable to just called somebody the n word (or some other derogatory word) in the work place. Healthy companies tend to get rid of 'brilliant jerks' who yell or bully other employees, despite their technical competence. Why? Because we understand that this attitude creates a corrosive environment that is fundamentally not beneficial for the good of the group. We even understand this in personal relationships. We break up with people who lie to us and manipulate us.
Interestingly OP's project includes equivalent Perl and Python implementations and his Python version is actually shorter, I did not expect that.
Not only that, nvidia cares deeply about pytorch. Visit pytorch forums and look at most upvoted answers. All by nvidia field engineers.
Neovim will have treesitter in the next major release, so yes probably.
Yup it's ironic however how in the end you have to manage that stuff yourself anyway.
Yeah, I've always wanted to learn a language, but was frustrated by all the grammar irregularities and other barriers to entry. English has that in spades, but it wasn't a problem as you don't have to worry about that with your first language.

Esperanto was the first language I've made any real progress with. Spanish is considered a fairly easy language for English speakers to learn, but I knew fairly little after 3 years of study in school. I've put in substantially less Esperanto effort, but am far more confident. I actually believe I could become fluent if I continued to focus on it. When someone (even with an accent) speaks, I can understand the sounds and spell the words no problem. It isn't perfect, but I find learning it fun and not frustrating. The community is also vibrant.
That wasn’t the “outcome” of Citizens United. The outcome was that the government can’t punish a small non-profit from making a movie critical of a candidate within 90 days of an election.

You can read whatever you want into the implications of the rule articulated in the case. Folks on the other side can say that, if the decision had gone the other way, nothing would stop the government from regulating how the New York Times uses its corporate funds.

But it’s important to look at the actual case, legally because it is really the only thing that’s decided, but practically because it is an actual conduct the government decided to prosecute. The government didn’t think the law just covers billion dollar advocacy campaigns. It prosecuted a small non-profit entity for publishing a movie. It’s not a “parade of horribles” hypothetical consequence, it actually happened. The “alternative” would be allowing the government to prosecute this non-profit for publishing a political movie.
We could call it something like "Common Language Infrastructure" or COM maybe.
I don’t think they actually believe that HN is a small child. Taking a break is a good idea.
Possible. He learned german and wrote an essay about it. The Awful German Language.
I am not quite sure I buy "it is an island argument". There is very little political will I am sure, but virus doe not care about the politics. If winter death toll will be very high, it might trigger very drastic shifts in the policies. Vaccines might turn out to be not efficient enough as well.
It seems like every 2 months I feel the burn of JS not having more standard primitive types and choices for numbers. I get this urge to learn Rust or Swift or Go which lasts about 15 minutes... until I realize how tied up I am with JS.

But I do think one day (might take a while) JS will no longer be the obvious choice for front-end browser development.
I’d want a completely different type of vehicle after such a scary incident.
Ha! I've been through something similar (company being sold).

According to my experience, a company that passes from an owner to another one is basically another, completely different company.
"Another example would be the hack of SoftLayer. Hackers modified the firmware on the BMC from a bare metal host the cloud provider was offering. This shows another mistake in having blinders on and not being conscious of the other layers of the stack and the entire system."

Does anyone know whether dedicated hosting companies such as Hetzner or xneelo reflash the firmware on server boards (and disks and everything with firmware in it) before they rent it out again?

And whether they use more forceful hardware techniques to do the reflashing, and not software to politely ask the firmware to reflash itself?

I would hope they would but I can't find any security policy showing they do, or how.
You have fake brains, congratulations.
This is rpi4 territory.

But I would not recommend the 2GB version. The 4GB versions is barely useful without a swap file on a SSD.
I'd really like to know how large the undercount is estimated to be. Is it 1%? 0.1%? 0.01%?

Because that changes how I think of this. If you've undercounted LA county population by 1,000 that's a completely different beast than 100,000.
I did not notice that, thanks for pointing it out.
60 million gallons, over 1 million barrels.
Maybe after a couple of centuries. Languages don't change that fast, especially after the introduction of the printing press and formal language education in schools.

You can read 200 year old texts without problems. Shakespeare is close to five hundred years old and you can still understand it with a little effort.
> The ship can't move directly against the wind

Is that a fundamental physical limitation, or would it be possible to come up with a design that allows moving directly against the wind (while being fully wind-powered).

(EDIT: ok, answering my own question: I guess you could anchor the ship and use a wind-turbine to charge a battery, then use that energy to move a bit, anchor again and repeat)
1993 NCSA Mosasic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)

1998 iMac G3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G3
How much do you spend on roblox pay their staff to work on this?
The real scandal here is that anyone is still using checks at all. Maybe we should be talking about why the US banking system is so far behind the rest of the developed world.

I live in the EU and I don't think I've seen a check for about 15 years.
Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error
Anyone else chuckle at the term "laser-induced mortality"?
This shouldn't be terribly surprising. CrowdTangle, an analytics tool by Facebook, regularly reports that all of the top ten stories and links in the US are right leaning.

Take for example Facebook's top ten for the last ten days, per the New York Times' Kevin Roose's tracker. These are self reported by Facebook's CrowdTangle:

Today, 10/16, most of the news is explicitly partisan and right leaning, one post by Dan Rather: https://twitter.com/FacebooksTop10/status/131751290168337612...

10/15: similar mix, https://twitter.com/FacebooksTop10/status/131711759703326720...

10/14: https://twitter.com/FacebooksTop10/status/131674996947526861...

It goes on and on. Scroll through the Facebook Top 10 account and you'll see right leaning, sometimes far right pundits, at greater volume and (if these links follow the typical power distribution) far, far greater attention and traffic than any even moderate or neutral news source, let alone anyone comparably left wing.
> So why is Ubuntu user friendly?

It used to work out of the box and look great at that.

Ubuntu actually made Gnome 2 look and work so well that for a few years that was my favorite.

Red Hat always was a hassle to install for end users and their default Gnome was dated and at times poorly configured.
Agreed. Autonomous just means free range spare parts.
Study of Himalayan erosion.

"When a cosmic particle from outer space reaches Earth, it is likely to hit sand grains on hillslopes as they are transported toward rivers. When this happens, some atoms within each grain of sand can transform into a rare element. By counting how many atoms of this element are present in a bag of sand, we can calculate how long the sand has been there, and therefore how quickly the landscape has been eroding," Dr. Adams said.
Yes, I have to reboot after kernel update. And I would not have such problem anyway because I have no separate boot partition.
It's not like there isn't a number of screen recording and keylogging tools and/or malware available for any mainstream desktop OS.

Sandboxed macOS apps (e.g. anything from the Mac App Store) cannot log keystrokes or make screen grabs without the user giving explicit permission to do so.
There is no incentive to put bad meat in your shopping basket, but there is huge incentive to acquire information.
Not in the US. There is no federal law that protects all (or even most) purchases. State law may very, but I'm not aware of any that have particularly consumer-friendly laws that include new car purchases.
The whole economy since the beginning of time unless you are wealthy.

Remember the 50s in America? That lasted forever right? You don’t need empirical evidence for this, the hard data is there on a variety of industries.

If you believe we’re immune to these forces you’ve got another thing coming.
Exactly, what surprised me is that in school this syntax was never taught or explained. Oversight on their part.
It's interesting how gifs died and came back
It's google, what did you expect?

This is why I would never recommend this SCB to anyone. Beside being locked to tensorflow, you are also at merci of some random manager at Google.
> You’re proposing “aggressively protecting old and vulnerable people”. ...so does that not mean a strong lockdown for those people?

> In your model you’re calling for a strong lockdown of 30% of the population

Why ask a question and then assume an answer?

Precautionary measures for the elderly can be food delivery, direct financial support, free N95 masks, free healthcare, priority vaccination, etc.
Section 230 does that now. It gives platforms publisher immunity. They could change the law to require platforms to follow the first amendment in order to retain their publisher immunity.
You use the official accent .
While you might have a slight disadvantage if you ever really needed to talk about someone while they are standing next to you, I personally feel like I have a much bigger disadvantage since English is not my native language.

My English is at a C2 level, and as such I am able to understand and explain complex concepts with ease, however my debating and small talk skills are nowhere nears as good in English as they are in my native language. I find it much harder to convince people using English. I know that the only thing that will make it better is practice, but this takes a lot of time and effort.
Almost certainly the latter, considering grad students are paid practically slave wages.
If only it were only that. In the UK at least, they reckon 80% of people with a positive test aren’t isolating at all.
You can use PGP to communicate with other people and exchange keys offline. By running own encryption I mean using open source proven algorithms compiled by yourself.
For reference[0].

0: https://electrek.co/2020/10/06/tesla-dissolves-pr-department... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24697610 )

Elon's twitter is effectively the PR department now:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1317008759286243329?s=20

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1316837174457896961?s=20

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1316513925878480896?s=20

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1316454693489516545?s=20
This is not valid anymore once you've used it, it has to be mint condition. Also customized orders are excluded, so that can exclude another big chunk of cars.
Traits in mothers may signal gene variants for autism
> a customer fell for a common scam

No, the bank fell for the scam. They cleared the fraudulent check. But their TOS says their customers are on the hook for mistakes made (and hidden - there's no way to tell if a transaction really cleared) by the bank.
eh, welcome to living in a society. Also there's a lot more going on behind the anti-mask/social distancing nonsense than freedom. Trump supporters chanted 12 more years at a rally the other day, that doesn't sound like a group that's actually concerned with authoritarianism. So what is it really? I don't know. But stop chanting freedom while flaunting public safety.
>Elevated polygenic burden for ASD is associated with the broad autism phenotype in mothers of individuals with ASD

https://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-32...
Careful, mosquitos will evolve to be reflective if we deploy enough of these :-D
Sure, I fully agree. I realize it's a privileged position to be in, when you know C, C++, gdb, etc. will enough to fix bugs in open source software when you encounter them.

On the other hand, it is also easier to pick up those skills on an open source OS than a very closed system such as iOS.
Many important cases are polymorphic so have to be able to handle both.
Personally I have found a rather different factor has been at play in my career - I have been in the industry for 15 years and made several side-steps, including working as employee #1 at a startup (which I cashed out from a buy-back), working at a GPU company on the driver and much else. I've also contributed to the linux kernel, chromium, the go programming language and a number of others.

I have never lacked the ability to make a change in my career even when it was scary, including taking the early stage startup job at a >30% reduction in pay + they only had 2-3 months money in the bank max.

However I've found that my career progression has been stalled by each and every move. I'm back at the bottom of the ladder and those years of experience? Worth absolutely nothing.

It's felt like every move to another position for whatever reason (typically to have a more interesting, fulfilling career in my case) has absolutely reset my career every time.

I'm 39 years old and last week a 25 year old was promoted in my company above my position after he'd been there for 3 years. It's pretty galling to think that I could be in the same position as not far off a graduate engineer in my early 20's.

My experience has consistently been that only your experience at $CURRENTJOB counts for anything when it comes to progression.

By all means, seek out the best job for you, but don't be surprised if there's a cost in progression of any kind. I don't regret taking risks and aiming for happiness but I do regret that I was naive about how to do it in a smart way.

I think part of the issue is that many technical roles (note: I have never worked for FAANG so maybe different there) do not have a well-defined or sensible technical promotion route, so only managerial experience matters in terms of progression.
> Cortex-A73 at 2.4GHz

That's indeed much faster than the Pi4. Do you know the state of kernel support for that board?
I can only tell from my experience. It's probably not applicable to everyone, nor is it the best path.

In my case, I have been involved with many startups in the AI/ML B2B space from the early days of my career as a software developer.

At one point, I recognized that if you want to build something great, it really helps to listen to the customers and the prospects. So I started to shove myself into a hybrid role of sales engineering and software engineering. To get started on the sales engineering, I reached out to all the business developers friends and asked them to share their frameworks, processes, and learning materials. Also did a lot of Googling to educate myself. Then I asked the appropriate people in the company if I can join small-stake sales call. To start with small-stake calls and learn how things work. It did not take a long time to start receiving invites from the sales to help with high-stake customers. Since in most cases, people who can build and sell (you don't have to be the best at either) are rare and needed.
Eh, rich people can be both high liquidity and fickle.

Maybe you get an annual bonus that puts $30K in checking, and you lend that to musk for a week.
> What am I missing?

I guess the incredibly long tail of JavaScript deployments. You could change the language today and it would take years for it to percolate down to all the deployments out there. By comparison a silicon change requires zero code changes and is entirely backwards compatible. Plus there's a pretty simple marketing argument: "buy our CPU, it makes commonly-encountered workloads faster", vs "buy our CPU, when everyone upgrades the platform they use it'll be faster"