skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the best pieces of advice I have been given is “design for people who aren’t you”. Turns out, the vast majority of people want something that “just works” and involves no configuration or in-depth understanding. That’s not a bad thing, either.
Yes we have, now all 101 are guilty of whatever the government proclaims you are guilty of.
I don't think the average soldier is expected to internalize the entire document. It's more a training tool, or maybe taken into the field as a reference if someone thinks it's relevant. One of my favorite army field manuals is "FM 3-05.213: Special Forces Use of Pack Animal". 99.999% of soldiers don't need to know that when an elephant's body temperature reaches 38.3 degrees celsius you need to let it rest, or the fact that the average working llama needs 4 liters of water per day. But if they ever find themselves utilizing war elephants (which is strongly discouraged in the manual!), they know that somewhere in this 225 page tome they can find information to help them succeed.
There's two levels of motion smoothing, one from 24 to 60fps and one from 60 to 120fps. The second is important for OLED to avoid judder (uncomfortable panning).

I think the people complaining about the first are whiners and as a digital video expert I will allow you to leave it on.
Security keys are now supported for SSH Git operations
The 1906/8 Olympic games included two-person pistol dueling. The French were favored and won both years.
football in this context means association football, aka soccer
Where are on earth did I say that "scientific theories were never instituted"? I have no idea how could be parsing my comment, so I can't point out where your parser went off the rails.
So three years passed and static checkers have gotten even more traction. What's the best option for Python so far for small projects today?

I tried mypy [1] before but it was a bit cumbersome to keep it checking my code. At work I use pytype [2]. It's good enough but that's only because someone else made a build system integration for me. Pyre's scan-all-the-files approach seems easier to get started. Is there any catch? Which one are you using and what's your impression?

[1] https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
[2] https://github.com/google/pytype
Nice one! super happy to see this and I'm looking forward to going through the demo.
That's basically what micro 4/3 cameras are doing. As far as I know they all can do distortion correction in-camera for JPEG output, and the prime lenses are generally quite cheap and very compact.

For example Panasonic has a 25mm f/1.7 lens that is 125 grams and costs $150 brand new.

Of course you can also buy similar focal length lenses that are huge and weigh over a pound, while spending $1500+. But I don't know how much advantage those really give except in specific rare situations.
Good to know. Out of curiosity, are the sails on this type of ship typically enough to power the ship on their own?
Totally agree. What I was saying was theoretical: just as the value of a stock is a dividend (which some stocks will never give out to investors!), the value of crypto is its future liquidity.

Those are both theoretical, of course. Most trading activity of those assets will be from speculation (assuming they'll find a "greater fool") and not a fundamental belief in the currency or in the dividend.
This[1] page claims that cold war military radar systems would be prominent for "hundreds" of light years, as opposed to earlier, lower power signals. Since these have only been running for approximately 60 years the diameter of the sphere in which these signals exist is only about 0.1% of our galaxy. So the real limit for the foreseeable future is the speed of light.

[1] https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/how-far-from-earth-could-...
They do their own research too, but they're not experts. You'll have to get at least mildly informed on the subject to make the outline and make sure the writer stays on track. I tend to read several book on whatever the subject is to make sure my book captures the best information I can find.
This seems to be particularly polarizing. I take the doc as an effort to distill practice, user stories, and a little bit of background theory as required to keep things varied an interesting to various types of learners. There's the rote memorization (do hasty search not a horizon scan), and theory-to-practice (rods and cones for nighttime visual search).

I also imagine that the intended audience for this book has not been exposed to some of the biological underpinnings of senses, and never had an explanation for why it was difficult to resolve colors in darkness.

That facts are placed right next to actionable workarounds and right next to observable consequences is a pretty good writing strategy to educate practitioners.

I can imagine (but have not experienced) some useful rules of thumb coming from this document that are pounded into minds until they are second nature. Range estimation, hasty search + follow-up search, rough ranges at which cigarettes are visible in darkness, speech is audible, and so on. That's gold for its indented audience.
> Even on the high end, there were only 11 books that sold more than 500,000 copies—which is paltry when you consider that the 10 best-performing Netflix films saw more than 68 million views.

So, this really means that the problem is not with writing, but the medium (book). Because all these Netflix films were written by someone. Instead of concentrating on the 11 books, the writer who wants to make money should concentrate on writing movie scripts for Netflix or similar.
Truly passive income doesn't really exist (and shouldn't exist, outside of perhaps some type of state sponsored basic income). The exception in recent history is ETF's, which provide a relatively high level of reliable growth due to a questionable tax exception and government monetary policy that favors stock market positions over other economic metrics such as wealth inequality. I believe ETF's are bad for the economy, despite how popular they are on HN, but if you are looking for truly passive income, I think that's about as close as you can get.
ikr! I wasn’t born here and when I tell my friends US police forces are better equipped than my home country’s military they just give me a stare as if it’s normal and blame it on the 2nd amendment that most cops have to carry body armor and deadly force weapons. Sounds so backwards to me, something I’d expect in Somalia and not Redmond, Washington.
What makes you think you can pluralize it in English however you want? Yeah, I mean you can do whatever and ignore grammar I guess. It's not illegal.
Internet2 Network Milestone: 1 Exabyte of Data Moved Between January-May 2021
Art students learn to critique the work of others. Engineers don't, and it shows
The EU is an important enough market that most companies will want to serve EU customers, which means they have to abide.

GDPR has forced all companies to at least think about data security and personal data, and given rights to know what data is stored and to demand deletion.

Sure, there are annoying consent modals, enforcement is lacking, many companies don't actually follow the law properly, and I've lost access to some websites/apps that don't want to deal with it.

But this is a domain where standards are severely lacking, but necessary. No one will do it without being forced to.

The biggest downside (for me) is the extra regulatory burden for small companies, but this particular legislation won't affect small companies much anyway.
In hindsight not investing in a FAANG was a huge mistake.
Okay, but unchecked what will happen is the heavy-handed defanging of the FBI rather than creating strong accountability, because it’s easier to defund (see IRS).

We’ve had four years (or really, 20 years) of deregulation. We already known it sucks.

Right now, it’s tax payers who are largely accountable for law enforcement officers who stretch or violate the law and constitution. And it doesn’t get much attention because most of us are unaffected (so far).

How do you maintain strong law enforcement at all levels—and make no mistake, we need it—but also maintain discipline?
Shill harder, those bags aren't gonna pump themselves.

This kind of pseudo-religious "how can we reach the nonbelievers" bullshit is EXACTLY why people don't like Bitcoin.
Law enforcement enforces laws. If they correctly do so, then their actions are not criminal. You may not like the laws theu enforce, but the way to address that is not to abolish LE, but to fix the law.
It boggles me that ServiceNow is as popular as it is. The software is dreadful to use. We try as hard as possible to avoid anyone ever having to use it through slack bots, data exports, etc.

And this paragraph says nothing (what company isn't already digital?):

Companies are betting on going digital in order to thrive in the 21st century, but the transition is often challenging to navigate," said Pablo Stern, SVP & GM, IT Workflow Products, ServiceNow. "With Lightstep, ServiceNow will transform how software solutions are delivered to customers. This will ultimately make it easier for customers to innovate quickly. Now they'll be able to build and operate their software faster than ever before and take the new era of work head on with confidence.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but my assumption is that buying second-hand books gives no money to the author.

I don't know, morally speaking if this should be the case. It does feel wrong for people to get the experience without paying the price of admission. Can this be solved logistically, though? And do publishers factor this into their RRP?
So our dear FB is helping us get them depressed faster, 'safer', and with a nice blue icon, and we should let it happen?

Facebook is cancer. Letting this play out will only condition kids be more immersed/addicted to social media. How can that be good for them now? How can that be good for them in the future? Facebook has proven that they toy with its users, their psyche, their privacy.

This will definitely come to hurt them in the future. Either by FB selling out every 1_and_0 they got on you, or allowing 'by accident' another scammy CambridgeAnalyticaV2 to siphon all your data, or by getting hacked and disclosing that 2 years late.
It doesn't, really; see paragraph (65) in the document [0]. It states something along the lines of "if you're providing services stationed in the EU, or services directed people that live in the EU, then you must comply with these regulations". Basically, an import regulation for operators that do not have a presence in the EU (but do target the EU market), and an operating regulation for those that have a presence in the EU.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/document.cfm?doc_id=72172
Really, recursive servers should be AXFRing the root zone on a regular basis and not making live queries unless the AXFRd data is sufficiently stale (or on cold start). Icann has some axfr servers setup for this [1].

Some other transfer mechanism for the zone could be used, and almost anything would do as the rate of change is slow and the overall size relatively small. If it's a regular transfer, there's less need to have servers as everywhere as possible as is current policy. Popular TLD servers will likely continue to try in as many places at once as they can be though.

[1] https://www.dns.icann.org/services/axfr/
FWIW, your returns are likely significantly above the 5% mark you're referencing. You haven't factored in the unrealized gain of 500k, which would significantly change your returns. All in all, you've got a cash flow positive real estate asset who's valuation has doubled. Unless you purchased 15 years ago, you're likely looking at returns in the mid twenties.

My advice; learn how to actually put together a DCF model and get some real insight into your returns.

EDIT: I realized that my last statement might come off a bit condescending, but that wasn't my intention. Fundamentally, evaluating Real Estate returns is significantly more complex than other investments, such as holding stocks, ETFs, or Bonds. A Distributed Cash Flow (DCF) model will help you gain some understanding that will likely help you to make better decisions about your existing investment and make a more educated plan for the future (e.g. upcoming maintenance, when to exit at what price). You don't have to build a complex model, but even a simple one can help. There's plenty of resources out there, and you don't need much more than Excel to build one.

Source: formerly employed at a national REIT
Tor isn't perfect. Government agencies like to create TOR endpoints/nodes that allows collection of bulk traffic data. They can't see exactlt who sent specific packets or their exact contents by looking at them individually, but they can see which mode it just came from and where it's going next. By watching traffic to entry and exit points they can create probablist models based on traffic volume that can allow them to identify where large volumes of packets most likely came from when they're already watching the destination. This is how they tend to catch drug dealers and similar illegal transactions using TOR and a similar setup that monitors crypto currency transactions that simply monitors either known bad agents (criminals, dark web sites selling illegal goods, suspects, etc) or suspected targets. By combining the two data sets they've even identified who certain crypto currency wallets belong to. The main thing to be aware of is that it's extremely difficult for them to identify anyone with low traffic levels, or that do not interact with actively monitored actors/targets.
do you think there are enough sufficiently interest groups that will continue to work toward an AI?
One time an acquaintance sold me a 50 MB SCSI drive filled with, umm, a selection of Amiga games (all PD, honest, officer!). When I got it home and installed, the drive howled like a banshee and a benchmark program said I was getting about 100KB/s reads from it. Figuring I had absolutely nothing to lose, I flipped it over and squirted a little 3-in-1 oil on the spindle bearing. The whine's pitch started increasing and quieting as the drive spun up to its full operating speed, and I watched the little graph slowly work its way up to a more reasonable 1MB/s. I made backups of the software on it then turned the system off, pulled the drive, and threw it away.

I have never before or since oiled a piece of computer hardware to improve its IO, but this one time it worked.
The world has also become more top heavy than a few decades ago. Competition for the top x% of a field has likely become fiercer as the alternative has become less self-sustaining.
present day
> I mean this seems to disregard our entire history as a species. There have always been "others" within a population that seek, above anything else, to find a new place to go in order to live life they way they want to.

If the energy and time requirements are great enough, space between solar systems will work as the same sort of barrier space does for the rest of life on Earth.
To be honest, your example here reminded me of the standard pre-med chemistry curriculum many of my classmates were in. It has an extended focus on building up from fundamentals that I am not sure pays off once it’s time to handle the high-level concepts. The chemistry sequence is something like gen chem |> o chem |> bio chem |> pharmacology. My understanding is that most of the pharmacology fundamentals are not used by MDs in practice: it’s usually only a dedicated PharmD, MD/PhD, or the EMR who considers the chemistry of various drugs on a regular basis.

The other thing that comes to mind is the quip that it’s easier to innovate down the stack than up the stack. Apple can design new chips better than Intel can create an operating system.
How is BTC a better store of value than real estate or gold? It literally has no intrinsic value, unlike real estate or gold. Stocks are also technically valuable because they are a share of a real company and that company's profits.
How much do you have to spend on ads to make the $3K? I I imagine it's a hefty sum?
Outside of the "cloud world" most of my failures have been the result of disk failure. In those cases, the logs definitely did not get written to disk, but they were flushed to graylog.
After following the compiler suggestions (several times more):

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make

dmd -c -O -inline -release -ofwarp.o cmdline.d constexpr.d context.d directive.d expanded.d file.d id.d lexer.d loc.d macros.d main.d number.d outdeps.d ranges.d skip.d sources.d stringlit.d textbuf.d charclass.d

util.d(20): Error: function `loc.Loc.write(File* f)` is not callable using argument types `(File function() nothrow @nogc @property ref @system)`

util.d(20): cannot pass argument `& makeGlobal` of type `File function() nothrow @nogc @property ref @system` to parameter `File* f`

directive.d(470): Error: template instance `util.err_warning!(string, string)` error instantiating

context.d(264): instantiated from here: `parseDirective!(Lexer!(Context!(LockingTextWriter)))`

main.d(39): instantiated from here: `Context!(LockingTextWriter)`

Makefile:44: recipe for target 'warp.o' failed

make: * [warp.o] Error 1

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You need to understand, China does not want to reclaim Taiwan for any kind real political goal.

Nobody in Beijing really cares for an armed to the teeth mountainous island.

A threat of Taiwan invasion is not a threat they project to Taiwan itself, but to the world.

- "Do this, and that or we are sending the world, and all your business interests back to iron age"

That pretty much sums it.

For this purpose, even just a missile exchange across the straight will suffice to kill world trade in a way you haven't seen even during CoVID.
>...but I find it funny that 2010 is always the year used when a specific annual amount is cited. That year includes the forfeiture of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme money which alone makes up some 20%-30% of that annual number.

No, civil asset forfeiture is an ongoing problem and 2010 is not some unusual outlier.

As the original article states:

>...Still, boil down all the numbers and caveats above and you arrive at a simple fact: In the United States, in 2014, more cash and property transferred hands via civil asset forfeiture than via burglary.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...

Looking more broadly:

>...Since 2000, states and the federal government have forfeited at least $68.8 billion—that we know of. Not all states provided full data, so this figure drastically undercounts property taken from people through forfeiture.

https://ij.org/press-release/new-report-finds-civil-forfeitu...
Isn't Instagram that site where people take pictures of themselves, their things, their friends and the places they visit and weave narratives with them in order to make people jealous? Sounds like an awful place for a child.
By definition the police is a group of citizens employed to protect life and property, and bring law breaking individuals to the justice system. But if they are allowed to do what they want they don't care about definitions.
Decentralized Economized Dictionary
Alfred Nobel's will states that the prize should go to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." The part about the preceding year didn't work out very well, but when it comes to conferring the greatest benefit to mankind, John Bardeen certainly made the grade. Twice.

It doesn't really matter whether he should be primarily categorized as an engineer or a physicist or anything else.
Is pulling the lever in a Trolley Problem murder? Is the navy sniper who killed the pirate captain who was holding hostages at gun point a murderer? Seams like you're taking a moral absoluist stance in a very morally grey world, and remember "only sith deal in absolutes."
Balzac, Dumas, Gautier, and Sand? They turned out some hack work, no doubt, but also a fair bit that is still read.
List of the links to the letters:

https://morgancrozier.com/boron-letters/
You're basically denying that the future will be unlike the past. I'm sure people had a much rosier view of war before WWI, too.

We've never seen an all-out war in the nuclear era.
Bitcoin Forks You Probably Never Heard About
Debugging HTTP Services with Mitmproxy
As a slob, my valuables are safely tucked away under piles of junk. Security through obscurity works wonders in the physical realm.
I always assumed safe deposit boxes are the best way to store valuables. But I've seen a few incidents of banks getting robbed successfully in the last few years, including one near me, and then there is the potential for violations of civil liberties like this. Is there a better alternative? Are home safes actually anything more than cosmetic?
Async is concurrent, but not parallel. Nothing is happening "in the background". In contrast with threads/processes where it is parallel.
Talent is the limiting factor in startup growth
What is interesting it did use LibreSSL: https://voidlinux.org/news/2021/02/OpenSSL.html
Would it count as forfeiture for the state, or should it rather be used for restitution to the victims?
What a poor article. Lays out the idea that it could be good for you.

Lacks any substantive ideas, other than stop doing things that your brain likes. Okay.

And no references to any research
what evokes it for me is the con- prefix, which means "together" or "with". Concise should mean something like "together-cut".

I did look it up, and the latin dictionaries give "fallen together" or "fallen into pieces", and it also seems to be used for slaughter. "With cuts" or "cut up".

Interestingly some etymologies give the original verb as concido (from cado, "fall", not "cut"). So the etymology of concisus (concise) could also be an expression of "squishing together".
Old lenses are generally fine when stopped down to sensible apertures in my experience. What’s new is the expectation that lenses should be ultra sharp wide open. Expensive lenses are a very niche enthusiast market now, so the design criteria aren’t especially rational.

An exception would be old kit zooms from the film era, which really are awful, since they were designed for people who rarely even went up to 8x10 prints. Modern kit zooms are usually very sharp lenses, though.
If it's a significant sum you should speak to a lawyer, you may be able to claim those funds back from law enforcement. Liberty Reserve claims are seemingly being processed (after 7 years), I don't see why BTC-e would be treated very differently. If it's a very large amount, you could be able to negotiate a success-based fee where the lawyers will cost you nothing unless you get your money.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/a-light-at-the-end-of-li...

It will take a long time for you to see that money, but there's a good chance that it'll be worth even more by then.
> In the event, the Wuhan Court directs InterDigital to deposit the fine of RMB 1 million per day, Justice Shankar ordered Xiaomi,within one week of passing such an order by the Chinese Court, to deposit a similar amount before the Delhi High Court.

Wuhan court threatens a company to take back it’s court case in India against a Chinese company, or pay RMB 1 million. Indian court retaliates with a similar fine on Xiaomi, if Chinese courts fine InterDigital.

Isn’t there an international court/forum where bullying like this by Chinese courts can be challenged?
Syndicate-lang/syndicate-Java: Java implementation of Dataspaces and Syndicate
To say "the police go after criminals" is overly simplistic. They go after those who they are allowed to and that group of people changes from administration to administration making the police a political hammer and we are all the nails.

Here is just 1 exmample https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/p...

Further when the police target you there is zero recourse you can take to resolve the harassment, when your neighbor does it there are many avenues. I would 100% rather be beat by my neighbor than my police.
Sony's $2k cameras are extremely worth it, and they can mount rangefinder lenses, which saves you buying their (also good) FE-mount lenses.