skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that is isn't always obvious when you're in a flood plain, but... Some years ago I visited a home in the U.S. southwest where the owner complained that they were the surprise victim of a flood within a year of purchasing the house. It seems that they had no idea that their house was positioned in the dead center of a wash. I don't think they even knew what a "wash" was. Even after the flood.

I took them outside and pointed to the road coming to their driveway.

Me: "See that embankment you come down about 40 feet from your driveway?"

Them: "Uh-huh."

Me: Turning to the left, "See that embankment that goes up about 50 feet past the other side of your house?"

Them: "Yeah..."

Me: "Doesn't it kind of look like two river banks with no water in between?"

Them:"Umm... But there _is_ no water."

Me: "That's because it hasn't rained in over 100 days. 360 days a year, this will be dusty dry."

Them: "Exactly"

Me: "There are more than 360 days in a year."

Sometimes, nobody thought to warn you because it was painfully obvious. Like the rattles on a snake. Unless you've never heard of a rattlesnake before.
We need to start getting some experience with using Ubuntu 20.04
The politeness of early USENET was a mark of privilege -- perhaps even white supremacy. Now that the world's ghettos have onramps to the information superhighway, online discourse has been increasingly truly democratized.

Because democracy requires that the poor and oppressed have a voice, online communities should not be gatekept, except by those social-justice commissars as may be appointed to ensure sufficient diversity, inclusion, and civility and to screen out people who hold the wrong opinions (or who question the right opinions).
They are nefarious. They lower the price of umbrellas when it rains!
All I'm taking away from this article is that our finance laws are outdated and draconian, failing us in cases like this.
I agree, and disagree. Remember that context matters a ton. Are you posting in a company wide channel, or DM-ing you're close coworkers? Are you posting about an update, or just sharing something random to your team. All that plays into this more than the author expands on (he does quickly mention it in the last section). I think you just have to be a human, esp. in times where everyone is working from home. I think if you followed this advice in every channel, in every scenario, your company Slack culture would start to suffer a ton, and feel very cold (not that the author says that, just an FYI). This is good advice generally, don't get me wrong, but just be smart to when you apply it. Don't ruin your culture, and come off as a robot/cold person in every message you post.
I can't see the Lowes page right now, but Home Depot is a comparable retailer, and a store near me (but not the one I usually go to) looks to stock a couple of absolutely bottom-tier corded 3/8" drills, plus a broad range of light and medium corded hammer drills with 1/2" chucks. The broad niche between those, of general-purpose 3/8" and 1/2" light and medium drill/driver tools and impact drivers, looks to be pretty universally filled by cordless tools. (Which makes sense, given the razor-and-blades or inkjet-and-cartridges business model to which battery-powered tools lend themselves.)

I wonder if corded drills might be more common in the UK because your higher mains voltage means less current is required for a given power output. With conversion losses, you can't realistically pull more than a horsepower out of a typical 120V/10A circuit without risking a breaker trip, even if there's nothing else connected to the circuit. That makes a corded tool potentially much more of a pain to use than a battery-powered one, so even if the corded version would otherwise be much more cost-efficient, it still may be a tougher sell in the US.

I've heard the same power limitation described as a reason why electric kettles basically don't exist here, although since kitchen circuits are typically rated for higher current than most others, I suspect the absence of good electric kettles may have more to do with steeped tea having been displaced by drip coffee in Americans' morning cups.
The US has methadone clinics too. I don't know the details of the program, but I've known several people who used them.
zlib and gzip are two different source packages with very different licensing.
Many of the root certificates on Windows are not needed
I feel like periods mark the end of a sentence. So I use them all the time, even in text messages.

I've had people get actually angry with me for doing it.
I think it makes perfect sense. CSS is for display, not content. Therefore, anything that gets put in before/after is a display matter only, it's not semantic content. Therefore, it shouldn't be selectable.
CalCAT – California Covid Assessment Tool
California publishes a lot of fairly clean data which the state uses for decision making.
You might look into 'Data Artist'. It's a small but growing profession that's a bit of a hybrid of data scientist, data analyst, data journalist, and visual designer.

https://www.jerthorp.com/ is one such well known example.
Thank you for this detailed explanation!

I also came across this which was fascinating: ZoomInfo offers a free product that you have to connect with your email. Once you do, they scrape EVERY single contact in your email to enrich their database.

So, technically, it is YOU who has signed over your entire contact list data to ZoomInfo and agreed to their Terms and Conditions which states that they can now sell YOUR DATA (your email and everyone else's in your contact list)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3zqbw/zoominfo-privacy-laws
It's hard to assume anything else. If you are not cheating, you are not trying hard enough to win.

If you look at a chart of when EPO became available, and all those good knowledgeable DDR sport med docs became available on the free market, there's this discontinuous drop in world records fro pretty much all endurance sports.

Notice the discontinuity around 1994: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10,000_metres_world_record_pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5000_metres_world_record_progr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_record_progression_1500_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_France_records_and_sta...

You'll see similar changes with the introduction of synthetic testosterone in weight lifting records, and the physical appearance of the top bodybuilders.

EDIT: And this ignores "mechanical" doping in cycling- where you stick an electric motor on the bike. We've suspected it for a while at the pro ranks, and got confirmation when a small fry got nabbed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femke_Van_den_Driessche
There is clearly an effort to present this story as "debunked" or "false" or "fabricated." The CBS link, as I said, doesn't show anything to be fabricated and is merely a bunch of ad hominem attacks.

Debunking things before investigating them is not good journalism. Period. As I said in the initial comment, the NY Post is not a reputable paper and the story itself seems strange and fake, but guess what? That doesn't matter. The evidence for the story, at this point, seems at least plausible, plausible enough to investigate it. If it's fake, Murdoch and the NY Post will have a massive libel suit to pay for. That's how the legal system works.
An artist is mostly about the art and doing things that result in beautiful images approved by their supervisors!

Knowing programming can make them more effective but it is not the job, you want something that your CG Supervisor approves and that looks beautiful in the screen.

There are usually Technical Directors (TD) that work close to the departments and know programming more to help the artists.

That said, some artists can be quite technical and know programming. The tool Houdini which produces FX (simulations for fluid, debris, fire, etc.) usually has a couple of programming wizards. They can be quite good in algorithms / hacking stuff together to make it work well in a scene, but not necessarily software design.
And common javascript engines. Turns out a lot of interpreters hide bits away in what they precieve to be unused address bits.

Its one of those lessons that everyone seems to be constantly relearning. Address spaces grow.

One of my first "real" jobs, when this topic came up a very senior person said something to the effect. We continue to find ways to use up one of those bits roughly every year. Moving from 32-64 bit VA's is going to get beyond the end of my career but someone will have to deal with it in the future. So its a little slower than 1 bit a year, but everyone is adding a few more bits (52/56/etc) because there are actual commercial computer systems with a few tens of TB of ram today. If persistent memory ever becomes a thing, someone _WILL_ want to mmap their multi PB storage cluster, and then there will be a scramble for more address bits.
It likely doesn't help that she's in Canada, dealing with a US company. I don't know what the documents she supplied to Apple look like, and neither do you, but I've dealt with the Canadian government enough to know that some things look quite different from what I'm used to here in the US.

You mention "the courts," but in fact as soon as the Ontario courts got involved, Apple supplied the required information.
There's viral and then there's viral.

We're still talking about this story a week later right now, in a media environment where way bigger scandals are forgotten in a day because the President said covid gives you super-speed or something.
I totally agree about how powerful games can be for groups of friends! The shared language of games and the "meta" is such a fundamental part of TTRPGs.
The article says it does.
The concept of "herd immunity" far predates COVID-19 and is an accurate enough analogy for what they're trying to accomplish.
Steel is the easiest to recycle and reuse though.
A utility to dump per-thread statistics for CPython GIL using eBPF (Linux only))
There's nothing at all in this link that is related to the authenticity of the emails.

It's just more of "Muh Russians" garbage from Wa Post.
Is there a stack exchange site or equivalent that allows easy access to existing solutions? :)
Ikea furniture and any flat pack furniture can usually be taken apart just fine. Just reverse the instructions. I've done it multiple times, especially when I had to fit a desk with a hutch in the back seat of my sedan. I guess for most people, it's just not worth the time to take apart all their furniture at once
When I lived in Palo Alto 25 years ago, and one of California’s periodic droughts ended, a lot of recent arrivals were VERY surprised to discover than a lot of Palo Alto is a flood plain area. When they moved in, it hardly ever rained, much less flooded. (Also, I suspect they may not have bought earthquake insurance.)
Monsanto's core business is selling herbicides and seeds genetically altered to be herbicide resistant, including maize. This work is directly challenged by the sustainable practices which are being discussed here.
IKEA has to be one of the worst companies, their furniture doesn't meet the stability requirements and there have been myriad of cases where IKEA furniture crushed a child to death. On top of that IKEA has been known to buy ilegal wood from reservations n Romania and other parts of the world. There's an episode of Netflix's "Broken" that goes more into detail. Fuck IKEA
I think the "quine" part is the part that's more interesting...
Its a broad range.

But some camps have more programming skills than others.

For example, matte painting _tends_ to be more artistic,

where as FX and procedural tends to be more programming.

However, the artistic mindset is still equally important, regardless of how technical you are, its still got to look good.
gzip is GPL but zlib is not. However since zlib's license is GPL-compatible it's just fine to e.g. vendor zlib inside gzip.

That does not make it gzip code, the zlib code is not relicensed and it keeps its original license.

Furthermore, both gzip and DrMario64 having merged in zlib's code does not give gzip any claim upon DrMario64.
ICBMs... the black knight and the white knight of the cold war
Ask for Pdf and use control-f
One time train tickets were hideously expensive last time I was in Switzerland so this makes total sense if you live in the area.
Basically to get more women into chess.

They still play in non-segregated tournaments, get regular titles and such. Women's chess titles, tournaments and such an extra.

Think of it like having a local league with its own rating system and titles. Countries have this, and it exists alongside international, fide titles and ratings.
I frequently hit return rather than typing a period. However, I feel that's not really good practice, as I often see myself sending a lot of small messages which could probably be better summarised with a couple well thought out sentences.
Yeah I was thinking something along the same line. But unfortunately I'm in a messy situation in terms of nationality right now. And the chance of attending local universities is quite improbable due to my current circumstances.

I'm planning to save up to go to schools in EU. At the moment I'm looking at Germany, which appears to have more relaxed rules for high school reports for none-EU students.. And even then I hope I don't get stuck in some kafkaesque bureaucracy.

And yup so at the same time I'm exploring for alternatives. (Still, schools will be amazing if I can get into an inexpensive & decent one!)
title could be better, seems false based on a quick look at the temperature record:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#...
Japan to join forces with U.S., Europe in regulating Big Tech firms
Contrary to popular belief problems solved in unrelated domains are very common in invention and innovation but people just hate to admit them, hopefully in the near future someone can honestly write a book on it.

One of the most prolific scientists Albert Einstein had his single most productive year while working as a patent officer (Annus Mirabilis). I strongly suspect that he learned quite a lot from many patent applications, journal papers and books that he was required to read during his daily job, thus getting excellent and novel ideas from seemingly unrelated patents and discoveries.

The classic modern example (sorry for the oxymoron terminology) is how a patented signal processing technique of radio astronomy research by CSIRO solved the wireless multi-path propagation problem that enabled wireless revolution from WiFi to 4G/5G.

CSIRO's patent leads to the wireless OFDM invention that allows for much higher communication bandwidth especially on wireless environment where unmitigated multi-path interference is a deal breaker. But of course wireless people just hate to admit it [1].

[1]https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/04/how-the-aussie-g...
Facebook Is Discontinuing Its Notes Feature
I see what you mean about this not being interdisciplinary. What Arnold did was to apply a biochemical process to a problem in biochemistry.

> If you wanted to claim that Arnold invented modern bioengineering and laid the framework for synthetic biology, I could buy that.

Well, I was just responding to the request for "some problems that were being experienced by one industry or domain but were solved elsewhere and were adopted by the industry plagued by the problem? Even better if the answer was really obvious for the people who solved it or solving it involved cross-domain knowledge".

I thought of Arnold because I recalled that at the time she was awarded the Nobel prize she said she didn't know a lot of enzyme biochemistry, and, having come to the discipline late, could never have hoped to catch up on the detailed knowledge that her peers had spent a lifetime cultivating.

[From Wikipedia]. What she did know about was engineering, having graduated in 1979 with a B.S. degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University, where she focused on solar energy research. In addition to the courses required for her major, she took classes in economics, Russian, and Italian, and envisioned herself as becoming a diplomat or CEO, even considering getting an advanced degree in international affairs. She took a year off from Princeton after her second year to travel to Italy and work in a factory that made nuclear reactor parts, then returned to complete her studies.
odforce (https://forums.odforce.net/) is a known houdini forum.
I think this entire post can be distilled into the following:

The time you spend composing a message should be proportional to the number of people in your intended audience.
I’m a fan of the show for the guests but not the interviews, if that makes any sense. He asks questions that are too general. I never get a sense from the episodes of what it’s actually like to run the business. I never get an understanding of what are the important things in their industry. It’s too much “aw shucks” this hard personal thing happened and you overcame it. Which is fine on its own, but I want to learn about business on a business show.
The thing is that this thought experiment is interesting, but it is wrong. It is true that it is not logically possible for a system of two objects to fall faster than both of its constituent parts, but that does not mean that it is a priori logically impossible for heavier objects to fall faster than lighter objects - the lighter object would slow down the heavier object somewhat, so the new "combined" object would fall slower than the heavier of the two objects, but it would fall faster than the lighter of them.

In fact, the fact that heavy and light objects fall at the same speed is a profoundly special property of the gravitational interaction. No other fundamental force behaves this way: in an electric field, objects with more charge will accelerate more quickly than objects with less charge (and the same is true for the weak and strong forces).

In fact, the acceleration of an object or particle in a field is proportional to its field-specific charge divided by its inertial mass. The really interesting thing about the gravitational interaction is that the "charge" associated with the gravitational field is exactly equal to the inertial mass of that object, so all objects accelerate at the same rate because of the gravitational field.

This truly special property of the gravitational field had no explanation until Einstein's theory of general relativity, which discarded the idea that the gravitational field is a field at all, and described the motions of objects only in terms of rectilinear movement in a curved space-time (the reason why inertial mass curves space time is still unexplained though - it seems to simply be a property of the universe).
Yes! For those who know Go, it means they'll be able to hack/improve/fix the software themselves.

This question gets posted on every single "X written in Y", and I can't help but think it's an effortless way to broadcast some strange form of superiority (namely: by showing my exasperation with Go enthusiasts, I place myself in the category of people unimpressed by Go. Bonus points for mentioning Rust or Haskell.)

This feeling is at odds with open source culture, where the ability to understand the code you're running is absolutely central. If you value Open Source, it should be pretty easy to understand how "written in language X" is a valuable piece of information.
We have been pretty surprised about how high our player retention is. It's different for every DM but on the site overall it's pretty high. I think part of it is due to how much people really do want to play, and that they have paid for the session. I really do like the incentives idea though. That is something I want to explore more of now. Like a loyalty program for playing in a campaign.
I think that's fair, and I had the same initial reaction. However, people are generally fine with DMARC or other crowdsourced spam signals, so it's not clearly bad.

I haven't looked at the source, but it should be easy to turn the crowdfiltering off or self-host if you have your own larger enterprise, no ?

It also depends on what exactly is transmitted. Transmitting all IP addresses in the clear might be bad, sending out hashes might be better ?

I think it's actually a good idea to try to detect those IP at scale. On your own individual server, you just see a million login attempts from a million different nodes on a botnet. But if you have millions of servers report the bad IPs and aggregate, you can see patterns and hopefully catch whole botnets.
Same, but not sure why now that you mention it. I'm a stickler for grammar, oxford commas and all, but in messaging, periods feel...rude at times. I can't explain why, perhaps it is the 'conclusion in thought' aspect.
I agree with you that for your final sentence it's optional. That said, I still do it.

But that's kind of ancillary to the point of this post, no? The main point it's trying to drive home is be as informative as possible. Don't assume your audience knows your tone, your conventions, your abbreviations.

I suspect this is largely for those who have newly entered the work force, who may only know texting style communication (with friends, shared corpus of knowledge), and formal business communication, and this is to warn them that Slack, while less formal than the latter, doesn't imply the shared context that the former would often have.
Well only the code that was published with GPL'd code compiled in would have to be made available under the GPL. As Nintendo presumably has copyright on the other parts and can publish them however they want. Unless there are more surprises.
While it says that "[...] you need to use a Chromium or Webkit browser to enjoy MONOSPACE live." (emphasis mine), it does not say "DO NOT USE FIREFOX UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, it will mess up your device for minutes" anywhere.

We saw so many (warranted or unwarranted) "Best viewed with Chrome"-statements on the web already that we became desensitized to it years ago.
The track record of single-developer-implemented cryptography is even poorer...
I don't understand why Twitter chose to remove it for "hacked materials" rather than saying it was fake. They haven't removed Wikileaks or the Panama Papers or all kinds of other hacked materials.

It makes it seem extremely political, to the point that I think they are trying to help Trump win. Which I guess makes sense, I could see how Trump being president is good for business for them.
An interesting historical curiosity, but I doubt anything actionable would come of it.

Also, damn, Nintendo was still releasing N64 games in 2001? The release date would've been mere months before the Gamecube launch and Luigi's Mansion.
Copying a 20 year old product may explain why Brain Flakes are supposedly popular and why so many companies were comfortable with cloning the product, which makes it seem even more disingenuous.

The only legitimate gripe that I see are a few other companies ripping off the marketing materials. Even so, the example of Brain Flakes vs. Creative Flakes is, IMHO, the only one that I would label as creating confusion among consumers.
If you have a yard you could potentially keep it outside. It's can be a bit invigorating during the winter though.
If you want to just goof around, use any chess program (such as OSX's built-in Chess.app) set at the hardest difficulty, and play the opposite color from your real game. Then copy your opponent's moves to Chess.app, and make the computer's moves in the real game.
I don't think it's that virulent. If Nintendo releases Dr Mario under GPL, they could compel themselves to also release derivative works. But I don't think anybody else would have the standing (unless those works also contain gzip or other GPL code)