skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason you're getting downvoted is that your base argument is that we shouldn't have cars because then there won't be picturesque horse pastures to look at. The same has been said about offshore wind.

Increasing global networking, and doing so in a ground-infrastructure-agnostic way, has the potential of connecting billions of people to the global internet in a cost-effective way.

Sometimes, progress outweighs the cost.

And parent comment presented a nice alternative approach for the specific astronomy case.
> You can likely monetize Youtube for incidental footage during your flights without a commercial drone license

It's a grey area I agree; but if you're filming your flights with the intention of putting the videos on YouTube and monetizing them, that's arguably commercial use.
But what is the recommendation? I would expect that the practitioners in industry probably are better situated to perform studies than many others. That they only publish favorable findings could also be that they are looking in the more promising to favorable results.

Or, are we implying that they cover up the other results? Believable, but not the only explanation.
"5" Implicit type conversion
It's pretty cringeworthy to think you can bring someone in, externally, to cultivate your culture. It's like all of the pretentious devops leadership that comes in, or the tool-bags that advocate for tools as if they were culture. I don't care what you say, using slack / zoom / github doesn't really say anything about your culture, nor is it in and of itself indicative of a "good engineering culture".

We never learn our lessons, you can't just hire someone into a role and have them change your company. It's just slightly more naive then hiring a digital change management consultant. As far as I'm concerned, hiring a head of remote for a remote company or a head of culture or a head of digital or a head of innovation is a sign that your leadership doesn't know what to do or doesn't think the thing is important enough to spend their time listening to their employees, diving into themselves and cultivating the "head of" _____ . It's pretty tone deaf.
Idk. I think your comment sums up a general change that internet based interaction has created. I used to think it was generational but now I think it has more to do with spending most of your socializing online as opposed to in person.

In person interaction naturally flows towards gratitude. Online interactions, like the one I’m having right now feels disposable. I don’t see your face and we can’t form much human connection.

This leads to an online world of shallow interactions that leave us feeling alone an empty. Much like what happens to people that live in large dense cities.

Our online interactions are so shallow, we feel it is the responsibility a product we are buying to facilitate a particular form of interaction as opposed to simply taking it upon ourselves to do it.
When Tesla got hyped right into the S&P 500, index funds were forced to buy. The old advice of "just buy an index fund" may not be an eternal verity.
Not at all. I've been thanking Scott for making lumen every thanksgiving for several years now. https://github.com/sctb/lumen

I just close the issue immediately after opening it. :)
Many of these war criminals, including Matsui himself, are regularly honored by the Japanese government at their place of interment in the Yasukuni Shrine.

Although it obviously isn't a properly conducted experiment, it's enlightening to see how much the Allied response to Germany and Japan has affected how these countries relate to their own past. While the Germans were trained to be contrite for generations, members of Unit 731 were spared punishment and the Emperor was not deposed to name perhaps the most egregious examples. I can understand the Americans wanting to have a bulwark against the Soviet Union in Japan but it does leave a bad taste in your mouth.
> F$ck you, got mine.

My ext4 disk to my fat32 disk.
no, that is not the main reason. the reason is strong corporate profits and earnings. FAANG stocks generating record profits and earnings, Same for retail and companies like Disney and Walmart.
There is this roadmap https://github.com/flouthoc/vas-quod#roadmap
> Isn't it more likely that these super-successful companies use these interviews because they end up hiring the people they want to hire...?

I’m not sure it’s that these companies only hire the people they want to hire. It’s probably that highly successful companies know their interview methods don’t work 100% of the time, but they’re willing to tolerate the false negatives of not hiring a few good people if it means all those they do hire meet some minimum standards. And their current system is the best they know how to do.

We arrogantly post on Hacker News: “Oh look, this interview method sucks! It will miss out on this great candidate!”. Ok then, make your own trillion dollar company with a better interview method that filters out the hordes of bullshit artists while simultaneously never missing out on the best people. Filtering out the bullshit artists is more important than hiring every single productive person. In fact, if you hire too many bullshit artists, all the good people will get fed up and leave anyway.
If wonder if all those same Americans would think it reasonable the non-resident tax payers finally got something for their tax returns/hoop-jumping, in the shape of coronavirus support cheques. Thanks to that I think I've almost broken even. Apart from all the wasted time, of course.
There's still a rather large fanbase of Mongo on HN, it's just that we have to shut up most of the time.
"Can anyone recommend a Linux (preferrably cross-platform) tool like this which is appropriate for use in personal laptops?"

I think you should look into the 'borg' backup tool - it has become the de facto standard for remote backups because it does everything that rsync does (efficient, changes only backups) but also produces strongly encrypted remote backup sets that only you have a key to ... the remote has no access to the data.

The borg website is here:

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

and a good description of how it works and why you should use it is here:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/
Does anyone know by how much (if at all) ad prices went up during the months before the election? I don't use FB but on YouTube more than half my ads were political. I would assume that the increase was noticeable - so if you are going to shift somewhere else for a few months that was a good time to try it.
Reddit is the 7th most visited site in the USA and somehow never gets brought up in conversations of hate speech, toxicity, and disinformation in social media.
Thanks. It is actually possible to reduce the height of standard Windows menu bars via system metrics. These look somewhat non-standard and don't respect that.
[citation needed]

If anything, the cause of the most recent real estate crash (and subsequent rise) was the overwhelming covariance of real estate trends throughout the country/developed world.
Borg has zero scheduling functionality which means that it doesn't fit any of the requirements (at least not without a frontent).

It's literally the tool I was thinking about when I said "all tools expect a wired workstation".

I don't want to manually write bash scripts to resume and check backup status.
How the 5G network could benefit the military
Root cause analysis when run properly doesn't only come out with one culprit, the process can identify many potential sources of weakness in technical, human processes, documentation--at least one of which (typically more) should immediately be improved.
If you clone the repo, you will see the mail addresses of authors and committers.
Show HN: Play the Chrome T-Rex game by physically jumping
By distinguishing key words from table names and column names, uppercasing can improve readability, since SQL has such a flexible/variable grammar.

If we wrote:

select(col1, col2, col3, ..., from=table_name, limit=5)

or something like that, it's obvious what are the intrinsics and what are the variable parts without knowing anything about select but for SQL you need to know all the "sentence patterns".
If you are a finance company that wants to take on US clients:

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rp-14-38.pdf, from the IRS.

Then lets say you're a company in... Germany

https://www.internationaltaxreview.com/article/b1f7nd0q58rfh...

It's such a nightmare. And if you don't get it right the US government will come after you - and the have the international treaty agreements in place where most national governments will shaft you on behalf of the IRS, because of another relevant aspect of US culture:

https://nationalinterest.org/sites/default/files/main_images...
Marine Chronometer
This is any monitoring system's check_http
I couldn't find any borg configuration to schedule and resume after sleep. Unless that changed, how does it fit my requirements?
> There is a legal grey area as to how these regulations should apply to machine learning models. For example, can users ask to have their data removed from a model’s training data? Moreover, if such a request were granted, must the model be retrained from scratch? The fact that models can memorize and misuse an individual’s personal information certainly makes the case for data deletion and retraining more compelling.

This is an interesting angle I had not considered before. It seems like “right to be forgotten” requests could be quite damaging to the “train once run anywhere” promise of some of these models. (Or this could just mean that the training data needs to be more carefully vetted for personal data, but probably both as no vetting process can be 100% successful).
What was really enlightening for me was that DKE is really just plotting two lines, perceived ability and actual ability.

Now if people were perfectly accurate those lines would be drawn on top of each other.

But because either people underestimate their differences or correctly guess their true ability which the test doesn't full capture. Let's make the perceived ability line flatter.

People tend to overestimate their own ability, so we should move the perceived ability line up which leads to an intersection on the right. Causing us to find that the best performers are the most accurate, explaining DKE.

But the harder we make a task the more we push that perceived ability line down. And if we make a task sufficiently hard then the worst performers are the most accurate judge of their own ability showing the opposite of DKE, due to the intersection being pushed left.

So really DKE is an artifact.
One thing to keep in mind about direct (learn the policy/behavior) versus indirect (learn the model and then simulate behaviors on the model to choose the best) is that sometimes it's much easier to find a good enough policy than it is to learn an accurate enough model for simulation. Driving is a good example of this. Most of the time all you need to do is stay in your lane and obey the rules for intersections. A simulation of a driving environment, on the other hand, is quite difficult.
That’s because they want photos of them. You don’t see them on images where they were removed by stacking.

Try searching for ISS :wink::wink:
Corporations; soulless, tasteless and inhuman.
>Agreed, and yet looking at the Biden transition team the wealth transfer is going into hyperdrive.

elaborate?
https://habinator.com
Worked somewhere similar and saw similar outcomes. I think having too much money removes the feedback loop that lets a team know if they are on the right course, so like you say, it comes down to a popularity based culturr
I hate on Mongodb partly because of the super aggressive salesforce that tries to sweet talk less-technical managers and grab internal "champions".

It's a poster boy for making a shoddy product and then trying to paper over the deficiencies with sales and marketing.

Part of this marketing includes creating a super easy, slick set up for beginners and just burying the grenades for beginner users to discover later when they're already locked in.

NoSQL is indeed appropriate sometimes, but Mongo never is.
In Rust println!() is a macro and it's just as readable as
stdout print commands in other languages, in fact it's simpler
than some.

Macros can be great if used to overcome a syntactical
limitation, in which case they can make the code more readable
and compact. If it introduces barriers to reading the code it's
not a good macro, and maybe unnecessary.
Turn Raspberry Pi into a remote Linux development environment
What happens the day your kid shows the wrong passport at Port of entry?

TSA Officer: "Hi foreigner, you don't have ESTA?"

Kid: Oh sorry this is the wrong birthplace passport. Take at look at this one plz
Not sure why scaling is assumed to be a moral good here.
This article seems to conflate middle-class and middle-income. It even switches from one to the other seemingly at random during the text!
Benefits Lapse for Millions as Trump Fails to Approve Bill
I’m with you... I’m quite tired of hearing about culture in the work place. I’m hoping it was mostly tied up in SV which I am departing from soon.

To the SV startups I have interacted with (both myself and through friends) culture can be used as the excuse to hire “people like us”.
All bets are off. Covid showed we don't need bums in seats for tech jobs and people can be trusted.

Brexit will only have an effect if the government do something big like make a massive tax haven for certain industries and there's only talk of increasing taxes to pay for Covid.

Pick a place for the people not the scene. Be a digital nomad until you find a connection.

The UK is good for a market to sell into because of the strength of the pound and because it's a service based economy. These two things are not going to change.
Java Gotchas: SortedSet ignores the equals method
This [1] was in HN recently, and I honestly never understood the term "petro dollar" fully until I read it.

It does a pretty good job at explaining why the US can basically print money at will without facing inflation. Spoiler alert: people need to buy oil in dollars, but it cost us much of our domestic manufacturing base. I bring this up because the belief seems common at present that money is imaginary and that we've made so much of it without causing inflation is proof of this fact, but (as per the article) it's like a balloon as when you squeeze it, the air has got to go somewhere.

[1] https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/
Side Projects – Rediscover the Joy of Learning and Expand Your Knowledge
If you're in a country like Malaysia, the domestic branch of a multi-national bank may not accept US citizens, because the Malaysian branch doesn't deal with FATCA/US gov.
Re macros: I think this is entirely a cultural thing.

For example, in lisp, macros are used ubiquitously, and I think if anyone was going to criticize macros as a language feature it would be based on what they've seen in lisp (or C, but let's ignore that for the moment).

Meanwhile, in python, there are extensive metaprogramming facilities that could easily be used to make code very hard to understand (Even if you never use eval, you have decorators, metaclasses and descriptors etc).

I think the difference is cultural. Python has a norm of resorting to metaprogramming as a last resort, and largely in libraries and frameworks, not in application code. Certainly there's no compiler forcing people not to use all of the flexibility available in python at every turn. Even compared to a similar language like Ruby, python metaprogramming use is generally pretty restrained.

(My understanding of the implied context is that Walter Bright, the creator of D, is likely looking at macro usage in lisp, and inferring that macros are a mistake in a language like Rust. I know Walter is on here pretty often so if I'm guessing wrong here feel free to correct me)
Or this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9163782
> 1. If you want to find out about people’s opinions on a product, google <product> reddit. You’ll get real people arguing, as compared to the SEO’d Google results.

Reddit is increasingly becoming aware of this, and a good deal of their advertising efforts seem to be dedicated towards obfuscating paid corporate ads as organic results.
That's why I say "above median." (50% is above median by definition).
If Pompeii was anything like Rome, most people.

https://www.parool.nl/english/takeaways-aren-t-a-new-thing-t...: “takeaways and deliveries are nothing new: they were the staple diet of most people in ancient Rome.”

https://www.businessinsider.nl/fast-food-ancient-rome-histor...:

“Ancient Roman fast food joints were called “thermopolia.”

These restaurants had a bad reputation, but they provided fast and cheap meals to the poor of ancient Rome.”

The poor in Rome lived in multi-story wooden buildings where open fire cooking is not a good idea.

That second link says Pompeii had 150 thermopolia, so I guess not having a real kitchen was fairly common for the poor there, too.
Look at some of the trustees:

- Matt Anestis, Global Head of Performance, BlackRock Alternative Investors at BlackRock (US)

- Aneesh Chopra, Virginia (USA) Secretary of Technology

- Andrew Cohen, Executive Chairman, J.P. Morgan Global Wealth Management^ (Australia)

- Julie Gerberding, MD, Director, US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)

- Courtney Leimkuhler, Co-Founder, Springbank^ (US)

- Jason Li, Chairman, Vantage Asia Holdings^ (Australia)

- Howard Morgan, PhD*, Co-Founder & Chair, B Capital^ (US)
I have thought for a while that small, decentralized, self sustaining homes or communities are one aspect of a future utopia that makes sense. It definitely isn't within our lifetime future, but I do believe level power generation will be a hallmark of some kind of future.
I'm not sure if that's correct. I think r/The_Donald managed to keep Reddit in the headlines by itself when it still existed.
Dispatches from the Spanish War (1937)
There are multiple Windows and macOS tools that manage to do that - without writing my own bash scripts which can fail in corner cases.

I want to avoid writing them - last time I ended up with devices not backed up for months because the backup tools ended up in a partially broken state that caused silent failures.

Hence why I want to have a tool designed for this use-case and not a bunch of bash shell scripts in cron.
This kind of stuff has been common for a long time, as the article mentions (they mention tupperware parties, I remember friends of my mom having these jewerly/perfum/cometic products "parties" as well in the 80's).
>>Sure saves the poor kids the nightmare of not being able to open a bank account abroad, as a US citizen.

You save them nothing, soon or later Uncle Sam will crunch numbers and discover that the German version of John Doe is an American, as far as IRS is concerned.

USA can solve the problems for 99.99% of expats and accidental Americans by making laws for those with $million+ salaries /assets. They gain nothing by making every poor guy spend thousands a year to tell IRS that they owe nothing.

FYI: People from a lot of countries are paying and will pay tens of thousands to bring their kids to USA...illegally. So US citizenship is still valuable. Very valuable.
Last time I tried Bear there was no global hotkey to quickly launch it to search/take notes. Makes it unusable for a note taking aapp for me.
> "Inflation doesn't shrink debt?" Surely it does.

I don't see it that way, because it isn't working that way. The reduced interest rate has not resulted in additional lending, but in additional asset acquisition, mostly more debt (deflationary). This is mostly due to nobody borrowing and the uncertainty leading to people using money to pay down debts, (deflationary). Inflation can makes debt more manageable, but that's if you can get ahold of the liquidity. The liquidity doesn't exist and the printing of money via bonds, doesnt make the problem better because the dollars you get from the fed are at the price of more debt. The presence of inflation today doesn't equal reduced debt today.

> Equities will default or mature

The vast majority of the market overvaluation is in companies with massive leverage (investment in a type of financial debt - either bonds and mortgages) or are banks that have nothing but that to carry their share price. The modern equity prices are basically tied to the load of debt they have acquired.

If you don't see things this way, that's fine. That's what it all looks like to me.
Yes. If you have to talk about culture, you don't have it.
If you assume that R is currently 2 with 0% of the population able to be infected, is it reasonable to assume R would drop below 1 with 100% of the population having 60% probability of being immune?
I don't remember voting on this.
Yeah, that's sadly not very useful for laptops I manage - people tend to turn them on and off at random times and I had multiple cases where the backups just ended up in hosed state (because the tool got interrupted at a bad time) or just didn't backup for week because the laptop never ran for enough time without interruption after creating a huge file.
This would be so cool to visualize in CesiumJS and you could watch it from the ground at any point. We even have a tutorial on how to visualize FlightRadar data like this:

https://cesium.com/docs/tutorials/build-a-flight-tracker/
Like thisP.

But text was precious, so questions were often condensed into one word.

"Do you want to get pizza?" Became simply "PizzaP"
NanJing massacre is one of the events in WWII where the animal cruelty manifests itself towards other humans.

As a Chinese born and raised in mainland myself, I am amazed at the ability of Chinese people to tolerate and coexist with this unspeakable brutality on our ancestors.

The whole event has a terrifying chilling effect on me: I never had enough courage to expose myself to those grumsome murderers done by the fellow humans. Not only they are directly harming my ancestors, the way they were performed has always been beyond my comprehension.

In some sense, I am afraid that I might suffer the demise of Iris Chang [1], where her exposure to the bloody facts caused severe mental stress. Which combined with the denial from Japanese government and right wing extremists, caused depression, and eventually her suicide.

I am also constantly puzzled by the denial from Japanese government regarding the war crime. For example, Japanese government is mad at the sculpture of comfort women [2]. Some times they succeeded at silence the expression [3].

Everyone involved should actually be open about what happened and collectively overcome the hurdles of historical events. Not denying, and automatically will trigger violent counter attack, which sustained a vicious cycle of hatred. See what happened in the African Americans and slavery and German's deeds for Holocaust. Where true concession indeed healed the wound largely.

I cannot help but guess that Japan's rejection of the war crime has truly been the culprit of the nation's disintegration in the east Asia bloc. Sadly caused a lot unnecessary frictions in the local geopolitical scene.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Chang

[2] https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.artnet.com/art-world/comfo...

[3] https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/...

Edit: to reply the comments below:

Actually, Japan denial is more puzzling, in that the facts are not to be held back by the Japanese government. For domestic violence, the ruling government still have full control of the facts and how to interpret them. In Japan's case, the evidence is all controlled by foreign nations because they were performed there.
Not always true. Some things may be tax free in your resident country (e.g an ISA in the UK) but pay normal tax rates in the US. Since credits from each income category are separate, you may not have enought credit in the 'bank interest' category to cover what the US demands (I'm simplifying but that's essentially the issue). It may be a small amount but it's still owed tax and I'd imagine it's quite a common situation.