skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is so true. I struggled to develop the habit and then ended up on a team that did this (mainly send silly emails from the victim’s account). It’s over a decade later and I still hit the lock combo every time I get up.
Definitely not. In my co-working space people regularly leave laptops unattended and unlocked when they go for lunch.
Fuck dude, why did you have to ruin your whole post with your last sentence?

You can make a good argument without devolving into "us-vs-them" tribalism.
Here's their response to the FIOA request requesting documents/communication about this tweet:

https://www.scribd.com/document/500831873/FOIA-U-S-Strategic...
You mean 20% of conscripts choose to opt out because they don’t want to spend a year of their life in the military? :)
I think the core issue here is adverse selection. The scientists that are most likely to hold decision making positions in government or that are most likely to speak to the press are also most likely to be the ones that protect their careers, even at the expense of scientific rigor and basic honesty.

The US congress used to have a team of non-partisan scientists to help inform policy. They hired scientists with stellar reputations, and were known to respond truthfully regardless of the political implications (as was their job).

Eventually both parties got lazy, and decided it was easier to disband the group than to craft reality-based legislation.

Things have gone downhill since.
> Which press specifically are you referring to?

Are you asking for the names of specific news orgs? Would requests for publishing stats and word count follow?

This doesn't measure any one/more 'press specifically' - or even media directly - but it does reflect the moments that the media lost interest in the Iraq War
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=i...

I'd offer trends about Obama+whistleblower+espionage but there don't seem to be any. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Obama%20espionage...

> I've seen many articles from both sides of the political spectrum calling out Obama for his whistleblower crackdown.

If you are recalling days of headline clusters criticizing the Obama admin for prosecuting whistleblowers - then we are clearly debating from different physical universes. Of the ~doz journalists I've approached on Twitter, one was sort of aware of Obama admin's record espionage prosecutions. Most suspected it was another invented RW delusion, at first.

Of note: There has been even less coverage of Trump admin's mistreatment of whistleblowers - the number which may have exceeded Obama admin. It illustrates why my criticism of the press long ago shifted from one of bias to one of general, persistent ineptitude. However, 4 years of Trump admin coverage brings me some hope - that some journalists have relearned their 1A implied duties; that they may not repeat their 8yr Obama hiatus with this admin.

sidebar: I'm on a mission to convince RW America to shift their complaint from press bias to press incompetency.
What do you think the future of earth was like in 812?
In the 70s we would all freeze to death due to a new ice age. Thanks for the heads-up.
There is not sufficient atmosphere on Mars to use either a parachute (not enough drag) or wings (not enough lift), so neither of those options work.

Vertical landing of the rocket seems to be the only rapidly reusable architecture for landing on other planets - the primary purpose of this rocket (eventually).

I'm not sure about other failure handling, you ask a good question and I don't have a great answer. But the mission requirements suggest that vertically landing the rocket is the only feasible landing method I think.
...or invite the whole team for a beer via e-mail. :)
Fired, interrogated, disciplined: Amazon warehouse organizers allege retaliation
> Walmart [will] offer better service and shipping while having shit working conditions

Wait so, should the unionize too? Or were they not fully staffed during the record low employment before?

One of these must be true, or you are making incompatible claims.
Now then.. a cat would have sat/lied down on the warm keyboard (assuming laptop) and the keypresses would have exceeded the allowed maximum number of characters, and thus the tweet wouldn't have been possible.

Another 'analysis' of the key presses:

Right hand first: ;l;;

then left hand: g

right hand again: lm

then wrap up with left hand: xzssaw
Uh... no, not likely. Nuclear weapons have some utility as a deterrent to invasion, but they're useless in most kinds of war.

The US would fight to prevent China taking over Taiwan by force, and Japan and others would assist them, but if China succeeded, the US wouldn't choose to start the third world war by using weapons carelessly... it would accomplish nothing at all.
OK, but do we have more data points for these cherry blossoms, or just the one the article is pointing out? How do we know this isn't another random fluctuation for cherry blossoms?

Could it be global warming? Sure, but we need to be careful with our confirmation bias.
What is TFA?

icecream, the subject of this post, returns its parameter unmodified without multiple evaluations.
According to the Washington Post's space reporter it's not really the FAA's fault. https://twitter.com/wapodavenport/status/1376668877699047424
> if Moderna and Pfizer were working from the same sequencing data, why would their resulting vaccine mRNA sequences be different? Even slightly?

Ever tried to compile the same source with different compilers?
Most security flaws that I have seen seems to fall into two separate groups: trusting user input and leaking timing information.

If we worked on a system to whitelist proven safe input, then we would be a lot safer.

What interests me is that we are essentially in an opposite of WWI: attacking is extremely easy, defense is very hard. I am not sure that this helps, but perhaps that can give some suggestions.
So what you do is take a screenshot of whatever's open on their computer, close it, then set the screenshot as their desktop wallpaper. Also hide their icons for good measure. This should start a cycle of escalation and retaliation that eventually gets the whole office locking their PCs.
It was Alex Jason not Adam Savage, and it wasn't such crude language.

https://www.tested.com/making/557288-origin-only-difference-...
Going to the toilet once per hour for 1-3 minutes is not going to allow a company to pay subminimum wages when the starting rate is $15/hour. It is a simple, basic, /reasonable accommodation/ necessary for me to be able to work, at any workplace, that Amazon is legally obligated to provide. In fact, it is the only accommodation that I would need to work at an Amazon warehouse!

The law you mention above is exploited by companies utilizing sheltered work environments (i.e. Salvation Army) for people who typically have severe disabilities that are often both developmental and intellectual, with respect to classification. Obviously companies that exploit human labor in this particular context are morally bereft.

The key concept here is reasonable accommodation. It is not some abstract concept or use-case, like the one you pointed out above.
I've heard good things about Aruba Instant-On:
https://www.arubainstanton.com/

I've heard nothing but good things about their enterprise gear. They've obviously got to do some market segmentation but they appear to be doing that by having APs with lower density than the enterprise gear which shouldn't be a big issue for most homeowners.
Tux + L then. :)
Early April Fools' joke?
It's not like you really need the aircraft carrier to bomb in the Mediterranean...
Your the URL in your profile responds with: This site is temporarily unavailable
Wow, 1 generation survived all kinds of terrible events, so it surely means this was all made up and that there's no problems that could eventually lead to catastrophy over a 'long' period of time that is more than the lifespan of one human being.
Sorry, is unionization of workers not an element of a free market?
>> False equivalency; no one is arguing that.
>Really? Can someone clarify what my earlier quoted passage was referencing then? I wasn't trying to straw-man the OP.

IIUC, OP's quote just means that a lot of existing books do try to make that argument, i.e., that the only outcome of the US losing its position is for China to take it, as opposed to a multi-polar world (and thus, it would be in the reader's best interest to support US hegemony).
The reason I put resolution in quotes is that I wasn't referring to the image/buffer resolution but rather the ability to resolve fine details.

For example, Hokuyo LIDARs can resolve details w/ ~millimeter resolution at close range (less than 10m). Another way to think about it is if you want to map your point cloud as a set of voxels in an octree, the smallest voxel is about 1m x 1m x 1m.

Conversely, large LIDARs for vehicles like Ibeo and Velodyne and such typically map things with a resolution in the range of centimeters or larger. When you're looking for large things like other vehicles, people, obstacles, etc. then you can make those tradeoffs in the sensor design and fall back on things like vision for small feature detection in a more cost effective way.
Obligatory reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MUsVcYhERY

Edit: more complete version.
But isn't there some redundancy of the parts at least? Of course you can't recover from a failed flip, but having more engines than necessary means some failed ignitions can be tolerated.
Honestly, I agree with everything you just said. I will say that if you continue the pattern for 20 years you end up with $200k, of which $83k was made in interest -- and after 30 years you'll have $400k, $200k made from interest. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 averages about 11% interest annual. The article is vague on some details, but if you did what it sounds like the man in the article did and invested $500/year into the S&P 500 from 18 until 98, you would have $240 million at the end.

But that's money that you would never be able to spend because it's only accumulating for as long as it's still in the S&P 500. This millionaire would wear clothes with holes in them, and probably never traveled or spent money on any of the things outside of basic necessities. I wouldn't enjoy that lifestyle.

Also, as will definitely be pointed out by someone, $500/year is not bad for any person with a reasonable income. But $500/year for someone living paycheck to paycheck is not possible.
People need to chill out. That a Twitter handle is run by someone who gets paid by some important agency is completely irrelevant.

https://xkcd.com/932/
Not sure if capital letter size would catch scenarios with little circly swirls that make other characters taller than capital letter characters
I do that "in the office" but at home I usually leave my PC unlocked if I'm stepping away and trust my family not to mess around with my computer. It'll lock in a few minutes by itself anyways. While I probably would be more careful with younger children around I could easily see this happening for someone working from home.

Also - in the office if you leave your computer unlocked you may find that you have emailed the team and promised to bring everybody doughnuts tomorrow.
True, but it solves the problem of using cryptocurrency with merchants who accept only fiat currencies. You might want to pay for that convenience.
The ads complaints are a little overblown IMO. It's not like they're selling your data and ad space on your dashboard to other companies. They're just showing you their newer product lines from their older product lines, it seems more like a deprecation warning than advertising to me.

Edit: Ok I immediately regret defending Ubiquiti after the new top story about the covered up data breach. I agree it seems like there is some crazy mismanagement going there based on this and other leaks/rumors over the past year or two.
> I've had to come up with other solutions that takes it out of their hands.

I guess this means setting the timer really low, so that it auto locks after a very short time?
I used to live next to a freeway and I know the true cost of dirty diesel engines. Get on any US freeway and you'll notice that while a majority of diesels are fine, there is a minority that is belching soot any time the driver steps on the gas. This is simply unacceptable - this tiny minority of diesels kills people over time - especially the poorer populations who live close to the freeways. I would prefer much more stringent enforcement where any truck belching smoke can be spot checked and impounded.

The emissions testing is not a "nuisance". It saves lives. A noisy motorcycle would be a better example of a nuisance.
WHO-convened global study of origins of SARS-CoV-2: China Part
I, for one, look forward to Europe reasserting itself globally. They’ve been in time-out long enough. Sure it leads to great domestic social programs while their neighboring regions burn or are managed by others, but they could be doing more for the world than convening accords, agreements and half-hearted condemnations nobody really takes seriously.

They’re the Floyd[0] of global politics, laying on the couch smoking pot while reminding you to buy some cleaning products while you’re out.

[0] https://youtu.be/nIA-5l4tRyY
People should have the right to legal representation no matter the circumstances. Judges also need to be biased towards the less powerful party for obvious reasons. Some huge corporation wasting an individual's time with clearly bogus lawsuits should be heavily punished.

I completely agree with you on lobbying.
Sure, it's a good system.

But, of course, if you had a camera, voters might reasonably be worried that you would combine the footage with vote order and figure our who voted when.
If eating that pizza kills 1 in 100,000 we would absolutely have an idea. Apparently about 3 Billion people buy pizza year in the US alone. Probably 1 Billion of those pizzas, at least, are then eaten cold overnight. But we don't have 10,000 people or more dying of cold pizza a year.
It seems to me that the author is conflating two very different activities, akin to how writers must learn to separate the act of writing from the act of editing: Attempting to edit or to polish when writing impedes writing, impedes just letting words flow.

Stuck? Add a parenthetical note (TK - need X to happen to Y here - TK) and move on. (Why TK? Because it rarely occurs in English words and so makes a useful, searchable marker for changes or challenges to be added or addressed later.)

Coding is akin to writing. Get in and stay in the zone, let it flow. Don't worry about the other things.

If you want to commit to support rewind and blame, do so, just don't push (or don't push to the real remote, push to a working remote set up for the purpose, one you reset periodically). Commits are cheap and git provides plenty of tools for massaging them to make sense (and even appear to be in whatever order you think best!) after the fact before pushing them for real. Between patching and cherry-picking and squashing and other capabilities, the tools are there.

Committing is like editing. Well, more like publishing. It is the act of recording your work...

...and telling OTHERS what you did.

They are different activities. Both can be hard work.

Do the context switch and do the second in the way that makes the most sense to your workflow, to the workflow you share with others. It might be tedious and it might be a pain...

...for example, if all changes need a distinct issue, so you have to cherry-pick the typo, create an issue for it, commit the change referencing the issue, etc., etc. I'm glad I don't work there, wherever that there is. I know theres like exist, though.

I'm glad the author developed a tool and approach that helped them, but git isn't to blame for the conflation of two remarkably distinct activities.
I agree that they aren't acting in good faith. But a big problem is how we, the rest of the public respond. We click all those links, share all those tweets, and talk about the responses. As long as those people get to hold our attention then they have power. It is like dealing with a troll. You don't get rid of trolls by getting mad at them or "owning" them. You can't fight them with logic or anything. You fight a troll by pretending they don't exist.
An out of season April 1 joke?
> are unions bad for a company to put in such an effort to keep their works unorganized.

It's completely plausible that unions are bad for both employers and employees.
The future will be different, and we will have to adapt. But to see it as bleak is to embrace the pessimistic interpretation, which while sometimes accurate isn't always the best way to view things.

Humans are the most adaptable species on the planet. We can purposefully manipulate our environment for our purposes. Our adaptability will help us going forward.
But the ledger is meaningless. You make 10 copies of a PNG and put them on a blockchain to sell them, nothing prevents me from making a million identical copies of that PNG and give them for free. It’s not even counterfeit. They’re the exact same item. NFTs aren’t even DRM.

Even if you wanted to keep track of who “owned” something, what does blockchain provide that a relational database doesn’t? Commit privileges on a GitHub repo have more real world impacts than who “owns” a no exclusive link to a URL (not even the domain or content hosted on the domain!), but that’s managed through an database.
I completely agree. But it's hard, since "politics" is broad and almost everything touches it in some way.

The main way I've tried to achieve this is by largely limiting what I read to:

1. Authenticated contributors, either people I know personally or hired by companies I trust (e.g. NYT).

2. Anonymous contributors with heavy moderation and filtration (e.g. Twitter, but with O(100) muted words and accounts. My feed is basically just art now and it's delightful).

Again, that's hard to do. I'm still on here for instance.
Everybody talks about TSMC/Intel. Nobody talks about ASML/AMAT. I would like to see a VC brave enough to invest in a photolithography stepper startup. I think it’s doable at 10% of the cost. I say this because I built a particle tracking Q-switch ablation laser many years ago, and this is what they said was the hardest part of EUV. I hadn’t thought about that application until I recently saw a video about It.
> Please, I remember we would all die a horrible death due to a nuclear armageddon.

And then leaders of superpowers talked to each other, signed treaties, and decided not to start a nuclear war, because nobody likes dying.

> When that didn't happen, we would all suffocate because all the forests would die due to acidrain.

So nations signed treaties and laws to limit sulfur and NOx emission, which worked.

> Then we would all die of skin cancer due to the ozone-hole.

Yep, treaties and laws. No more CFC, no more ozone hole.

> I actually remember the nuclear effects from Tjernobyl, glad I didn't die then.

OK I'll grant you that this was overblown a bit.
Because Lance Armstrong threatened to ruin (and came close in a couple of cases) the lives of anyone who looked like they might expose him.

The doping is one thing. The effort to cover it up was something else again.
Free software of finding optimal probabilistic model of BigData
How does any of that solve the “child types jibberish on an unlocked laptop”?

A better feature would be for laptop cameras to auto logout the user when they step away and let them log back in without authentication within 15 min. I think that better solves the unattended laptop problem than anything else. You can kind of get there with BLE keys but face authentication would work much better for presence detection (maybe do both BLE + face).
Maybe it was his cat, but it denied being such, and instead claimed to be his very young child?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funarg_problem

Whether a loop is involved is irrelevant, it comes up any time a value referenced a closure might outlast the environment which created the closure. That can happen in loops but also if conditions or normal function calls. The value might be promoted to the heap, but in trivial cases like the above it could be copied directly on the new goroutine's stack. Or if escape analysis says the closure can't outlast the environment, it will use the same stack.
Nothing wrong with poking a little fun at the buttcoin people.
And this office is not an office with hot desks, and not every office even wants hot desks. The behavior of unions monopolizing a job type in a company is absolutely to blame.
At work, yes, always, because it's company policy and I can be officially reprimanded for leaving the computer unlocked and people actively look for this violation. At home, never, ever. This person was working from home.

Though, I admit, if I'm working late and I'm the only one left in the building then I don't lock the computer.

I'd imagine many computer uses don't know how to lock their computers if they weren't taught by IT - many "obvious" things to a tech savvy person are unknown by your average office worker (you can't imagine how many people I've taught to use CTRL+F)

Also, the shortcut is Windows Key+L.
Why do you assume it's people leaving because of cruel conditions and not people being fired, especially given that they're open about firing lots of people and encouraging many to quit? They don't hide the ball on that.
Yet such information is incredibly lacking and hard to find. You would think the Vatican and similar would have all this information ready to be digested by people interested in learning, yet it's incredibly hard to find if it's available.
Ironically making it more modern may make things like shell scripting easier.

Let's say that Perl gets a real type system, and reflection capabilities.

Then I can see something like this come to exist:

use v7;
use GetOpt::MAIN;

sub MAIN ( str $name, int $count ) {
say $name for 1..$count
}
Well, you go back to step 1 and advance, there is no magic on it. You might succeed faster in Domain Y because you were able to succeed in domain X, though.
Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?
A skillful evasion of the question.

>I encourage you to look at the data you yourself have posted and to draw your own conclusions.

This is quite irresponsible. You can't just leave it at "black men shoot more people than other demographics" and let the reader "draw their own conclusions", because on its own it seems very much like the conclusions you want the reader to draw are quite racist. On the face of it your comments look very much like other subversive racist comments that are often seen in less moderated forums than HN.

You want people to draw conclusions from incomplete data which only considers the subject's race. They'll draw on those conclusions to, say, vote. If you don't want to engender a racist perception, then you need to dig deeper than race before you state your arguments. How does it correlate with income? Job status? What are the schools like in these areas? How does it compare to other populations? America has an institutionalized racism problem, which creates an environment from which these problems arise in predominantely nonwhite areas. Don't mix up cause and effect.

Pointing out the demographics in this dataset, then complaining that no one wants to have that discussion due to some perceived social taboo, is a bad faith, racist argument.
China’s propaganda machine kicks into high gear over Xinjiang criticism
All this might explain the recent acute interest in French frigates or aircraft, even second hand, from Egypt and Greece...
He did, just because you don't like the way he did it doesn't mean it isn't valid. Lighten up.
> Especially given the abundance of caution SpaceX has always shown with that.

SpaceX treats customer payloads with an abundance of caution, internal tests... not so much.