skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The really pernicious part is after a while the constant and immediate reward cycles in games mess with the ability to focus on a real world tasks for extended periods of time and hence real world tasks no longer feel rewarding at all compared to gaming.
this is so wrong!! fcuk google
"bicycles shouldn't be allowed on the sidewalk because they aren't allowed on the sidewalk" isn't much of an argument.
On a Linux box isn’t that just a link to bash?
Why do you think they're ever illegally on the sidewalks in the first place? Probably because the road is, to them, more dangerous than them being on the sidewalk.

While there are imperfect operators of every mode of transportation, don't forget that also applies to drivers and pedestrians.
Or compare only new users that have only ever seen either the control or the treatment.

But the effect is real, sure enough. Only to get at it you have to mix up the title/subject line every now and then.
starship, kinda. They go on the sidewalk and operate in limited areas like colleges. They have actually deployed them though, which is more than any other company in the space.
I'm sorry, you're lacking the requisite expertise for this entry level developer position.

Well, I wrote my own operating system.

Sorry.
Xinjiang is indeed highly locked down, and foreign reporters are not allowed to enter most parts of the region unless they are producing content that aligns with the Chinese government's message. Daniel Dumbrill is absolutely not a credible source.

Edit: Corrected from "the region" to "most parts of the region". From 2018:

> Transportation presents significant obstacles, too. Roughly the size of Alaska, Xinjiang encompasses vast swaths of desert and mountain terrain. Yet journalists are generally confined to a few urban areas, including Urumqi, the provincial capital, and Kashgar, a Uighur cultural hub tucked between the borders of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Those who attempt to drive into the countryside are almost sure to be turned around by officials for contrived reasons—that the area is not designated for foreigners, for example, or that a reporter lacks the authorization to pass. On one occasion, while driving on a deserted road, Chin found himself surrounded by police after a street camera flagged his car as suspicious. “Luckily we were already on our way out of town,” he says. “They were kind enough to give us a police escort to the highway.”

> The re-education camps, scattered throughout Xinjiang, are also off-limits. At best, journalists can hope to get close enough to photograph their exteriors, but even then, members of their surveillance detail are likely to step in and demand that the photos be deleted.

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/uighur-xinjiang.php
Nova Launcher has always been good. However, that still leaves Android Settings.
yep, hiring is broken.
We've reached max depth. The answer to your question is: it doesn't reflect at all on Assange, but it does shine quite a bright light directly on the FBI/CIA.
That’s exactly the picture of SF I have in my head. Confirmed by regular visits in the last 10 years.
That is an extremely enlightening link.
OpenSmalltalk – Cross-platform virtual machine for Squeak, Pharo, Cuis, Newspeak
Eh. I agree in bicyclists are often obnoxious but as a pedestrian if I do get hit, I’d rather it be by a bicycle than a car or truck.

Also, they take up less room. The density of cars is ridiculous. You have narrow sidewalks with hundreds of people and then 5x the space for 10 people in one car each. Not to mention the cars with no people at all just sitting there taking up space.
I was taught to also use a transaction and then check how many rows were affected before committing.
Cyclists on sidewalks while pedestrians are present should walk their bikes. A pedestrian is not expecting a piece of metal moving at 20+ MPH to whiz past them as they are walking, and could step right into them. Cyclists who hurt a pedestrian on the sidewalk are culpable for any damage they cause, and I would argue they should be penalized very harshly.
I was a system engineer at Amazon from 2001-2006. Sometime around 2004/2005 or so there was a development team working on the "a9 search engine" (meant to complete with google) down in SF. They were sort of an official "shadow IT" offshoot and asked for special treatment and they got me assigned specifically to them to build out the first of their two webservers.

They did the usual mistake of wanting to jettison all the developer tooling and start from scratch. So there was a special request to just install a base O/S, put accounts on the box, and setup a plain old apache webserver with a simple /var/www/index.html (this was well outside of how Amazon normally deployed webservers which was all customized apache builds and software deployment pipelines and had a completely different file system layout).

They didn't specify what was to go into the index.html files on the servers.

So I just put "FOO" in the index.html and validated that hitting them on port 80 produced "FOO".

Then I handed off the allocated IPs to the networking team to setup a single VIP in a loadbalancer that had these two behind it.

The network engineer brought up the VIP on a free public IP address, as asked.

What nobody know was that the IP had been a decomissioned IP for www.amazon.com from a year or two earlier when there was some great network renumbering project and it had pointing at a cluster of webservers on the old internal fabric.

The DNS loadbalancers were still configured for that IP address and they were still in the rotation for www.amazon.com. And all they did as a health check was pull GET / and look for 200s and then based on the speed of the returns they'd adjust their weighting.

They found that this VIP was incredibly well optimized for traffic and threw most all the new incoming requests over to these two webservers.

I learned of this when my officemate said "what is this sev1... users reporting 'foo' on the website..."

This is why you always keep it professional, kids...
Point me to some sources not associated with Zenz. I would love to get to the bottom of this!
They stopped expanding around three hundred years before the "fall."
Cars do not speed down sidewalks full of people.
Yes, because they believe that they need to be on the side of Israel to satisfy the conditions of their apocalyptic fables.
It's infuriating that drivers run red lights, illegally park in bike lanes, text and drive, and hit pedestrians, cyclists and other cars, and generally act like the rules only apply when it suits them. Ask anyone who walks or bikes in American cities and drivers are the absolute worst, most aggressive, most deadly, most polluting and illegal entities on the roads.
Site preparation is a fixed cost, certainly?
> The idea that you would be branded as an anti-semite and lose your job because you are critical of Israel also sounds bad.

Sounds very plausible instead. The original cancel culture is exactly that used to silence critics of Israel- the accusation of antisemitism has been used for decades to terminate careers. People have learned very well to keep their mouths shut.
Ask HN: How do you write succint emails?
I come from a culture that endorses lengthy greetings, but when emailing academic people, I personally prefer emails that are to the point. For example, if I'm emailing someone who doesn't know me (say Dr. Cooper), I'd rather write this:

Dr. Cooper,

I saw your paper on foo bar and have some ideas on how to extend it to baz.
If you're interested and free this week, I'd like to discuss this with you over Zoom.

Steve Jobs, Ph.D.
Parallel Universe University

I'm also totally ok if someone writes to me like this:

(no hi and no name)

I'm developing an algorithm which uses blockchain to store foo bar, similar to your recent paper on the baz technology.
Can you share the code or tell me how you implemented it?

Bill Gates,
Product Manager, Apple Inc.

I wonder if academic people find it acceptable to just start an email and get to the point directly. I know many technical people who do that.
Terabytes across 25+ databases not co-located and all being masters replicating to each other, in 2009. Not sure how you would have done it.
Are you sure you're looking at the native share sheet? It scrolls vertically, at least on Pixel on Android 11.

There's some intent: links on https://paul.kinlan.me/sharing-natively-on-android-from-the-... that you can use to trigger it. The first one there doesn't work for me, but the second one does.

intent:#Intent;action=android.intent.action.SEND;type=text/plain;end
Drivers run red light < 1% of what cyclists do. In Boston, cyclists run the red 99.99% of the time. It's criminal.
These delivery droids are just going to be targets to be shot at, tipped over, spray painted, and generally abused. I predict a short-lived trial period and then they will be abandonded.
Same exact story for me. One taste was all needed to know that I dare not taste again.
Depends on the audience

I did struggle to explain the significance of this project when I was applying for graduate roles, especially to HR people who only look for keywards in CV.

But there are people who appreciate my work.

I got my internship at AWS because my interviewer who had technical background was very impressed with my work, hence the reason I got hired.

Sometimes you just have to find the right audience.
"Every biologist knows that small groups in isolation evolve fastest."
First of all yes any group can contain bad actors. But bad actors in the car category are a magnitude worse than a bad cyclist. A cyclist isn't controlling a 1000kg lump of metal that pollutes (noise and emissions), destroys communities and cities (encouraging car travel has ruined American cities, vast urban expanses given up to cars), and has a greater risk of serious injury when they crash.
What agenda is the US interference pursuing? Some agendas could be positive things for the country, like supporting pro-democracy movements.

Meanwhile, as for mastering tactics, all China has to do is similarly support activists and opposition groups financially by funneling them cash. It's quite likely they do so in all their rivals. There was a scandal decades ago with China giving campaign contributions to US politicians.
I went to Tokyo. Not where people typically go but it's a fun place to live. Salaries are about on par with Australia and Western Europe provided you have some experience.
I’m moving to Boca Raton from Santa Barbara in a few weeks. Main reasons: weather is nice most of the year, no state tax, and I can actually afford to buy a nice house in a decent neighborhood.
> Not only is it less expensive to build, but it's tremendously more energy-efficient when filled with insulation

With modern buiding techniques - building an air tight home and then ventilating with mechanical ventilation, and taking into account thermal bridging - that's no longer true. If anything the extra thermal mass, compared to a wooden framed house, helps to keep it more comfortable and reduce energy consumption during day-night temperature swings. Some bricks, e.g. clay blocks with air pockets inside [0], are both structural and somewhat insulating - you could use them for something like a garage without any other insulation. If you are cheap you don't even need a facade :D

A lot of Central Europe has similar climates to NY - my area had -25C in the winter and 36C just this week. We usually don't even turn on the heating until it gets below 0C outside, as our home is more than comfortable enough (above 21C / 70F) inside until then.

Not gonna argue with the expensive part (there's a reason why people don't build 5000sqft homes here), however it is worth mentioning in most desirable places to build, it is often the land that is the most expensive part.

[0] https://www.wienerberger.com/en/brands-and-products/wall.htm...
I mean we have the stats. Are there any cities in the US where more pedestrians get killed by bikes than cars? It certainly isn’t the case in NYC.
Japan is trying to lure people into rural areas by selling $500 homes
This really sounds like the title of an Onion article
You got me!
I learnt BASIC mostly by myself when I was in elementary school (because programming computers must be cool, and I was sure I could do it).

I self-taught myself computing concepts all my life.

I self-taught myself Python (in earnest) while in MBA school (because I believed spreadsheets needed to die and Python would be a good spreadsheet killer).

I've been teaching Python to other students in the last few years. It's usually their first programming language (if not, R probably was).

I've always believed in being a computer language polyglot, if only to be able to communicate with others from other languages and to learn what those languages have to teach us, but I'm also of the opinion that one should stick to one's strengths.

I would agree that we should think the initial programming language doesn't matter - if we're simply looking at whether we can communicate or translate fundamental mathematics of computation.

However, when a student is an adult trying to get immediate value from the learning (instead of the gratification of increasing pure knowledge, like I did) their choice of language matters greatly.

My first recommendation to anyone asking me is of course Python, due to broad applicability (which means learning one time a language that can be used to scrape the web, provision a restful API, or do complex data analysis), license (free to use), cross-platform compatibility (MacOS, Windows, Linux), popularity (which leads to ease of getting help), all leading to a good reputation for readability and maintainability (which is encouraging broad industry adoption meaning more jobs for Python programmers).

Of course, for specific applications, the recommendation may be different, such as JS or TypeScript for front-end development, or C or Rust for low-level programming, or Lisp, Elm, or Haskell for functional programming in their respective domains.

Further, Haskell and Elm have greatly informed my approach to object oriented programming - I feel like they have made me better and made my Python more robust and straightforward. I didn't learn them first though. In retrospect, I feel like I could have easily learnt them first. I wonder how I would look at my Python if I had done so - what would indeed be different? I don't know.

But I do know, for pragmatic purposes, first programming language does matter greatly.
NASA has already extracted enough oxygen (out of the atmosphere) for about 5 minutes of breathing, on Mars. The nut is already cracked. 8)
Actually, a study conducted in 2017 for the Florida Department of Transportation and conducted by scientists at the University of South Florida’s Center for Urban Transportation Research concluded that cyclists were slightly more compliant with traffic laws than drivers.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180623224226/http://www.fdot.g...
I mean today compared to 10 years ago it is in a far better spot. But the FOSS nature of everything still makes it difficult to fix every nit picking gui bug. Right now there is an issue I've encountered with Manjaro where it just doesn't register a left click for some reason. No idea why but I need to restart to fix it if it happens. That is enough for any end user to write it off completely.
Cyclists are majority law breakers. They do not respect sidewalks, red lights, pedestrians, and basically anything that gets in their way. I understand that a cyclist potentially removes a car from the road, but every time cyclist harms an innocent person I pray the judge throws the book at them given how dangerous they act.
Youtube is absolutely on fire lately.

This and banning information about proven lifesaving treatments for Covid19 such as Ivermectin [1] and suppressing information about unintended side effects of Covid19 vaccines is pretty freaking scary.

Actually makes me feel quite threatened and uneasy.

[1] https://covid19criticalcare.com/
Exaggerating to this extent really undermines your attempt at making an argument. It's impossible to see your words as anything but a bitter, irrational rant when you do this.
Oh man. MUD's in the late 90s. Just randomly reminded me of all the time I spent in Medivia (I'm fairly sure that was the one). Those were good times. Surprised the name even came to me since I haven't thought about those in... 20ish years.
It's a poetic way of saying the boss was/is a better person than the OP.
Likely, most of the activist employees have moved on, or been moved on by now.
This looks like one of the most interesting and fulfilling game one can play
> There’s a reason none of these countries are making a peep about Uighur

Maybe because the situation of the Uyghurs is mostly unknown, with most reporting being very recent, poorly sourced and one-sided, in the context of a global commercial war between two superpowers, one of which never refrained from slandering its opponents, while for example supporting allies such as Saudi Arabia and Israel.

But nooo, it must be antisemitism...
Windows 10 has a decade of support but devices that were sold relatively recently will have significantly less time supported.

You could have bought a new laptop just 3 or even 2 years ago that will now be effectively obsolete in 4 years.

It's basically the Chromebook model, if you think of it -- and kind of radical of Microsoft to go that route when historically they've never really had stringent hardware requirements beyond the ones for OEMs to put those Windows Ready stickers on.
As the others have correctly intuited-- its a tape backup system. We couldn't afford a proper tape library with a robot. I can't remember why, but there was a limitation of the software or SunOS that we needed to be able to get an L0 onto one tape. This thing was two Sony AIT tape machines that had a special SCSI board that made them look like one single drive to the host thus doubling the capacity. It was just enough to skate by. I didn't have much faith in differentials and didn't like to let them run more then a few days as well.

I always assumed the fault was in that SCSI board. The hand-off between tape-1 and tape-2 was what usually failed. The problem might occur 24 hours into a backup so it was difficult to get good backups. Also, I was not a full time employee (being a student), so I couldn't babysit this thing 5 days a week like a full time employee. Also, it kind of killed the performance of the system, so I had to do them at odd hours.

I am proud to say I never lost a single bit at that job.

In essence if this backup had failed months of research would have been lost (maybe two to 4 week old backup x 12 researchers).

Anyways, thank you for reading my silly story!
Wikipedia says that they first used viruses as delivery agents; now it's nanoparticles, aparently to avoid destruction by the immune system. Also interesting that CRISPR gene editing was also the subject of a patent war. Amazing stuff... (also it took them less than a year to adopt the nanoparticle trick to CRISPR gene editing. Things are moving fast)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR_gene_editing

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/11/coated-nanopa...
> Xinjiang is indeed highly locked down, and foreign reporters are not allowed to enter the region unless they are producing content that aligns with the Chinese government's message.

I don't think it's locked down (for non-covid reasons), because I linked an account of the experiences of an NY Times journalist that went there. However, it's definitely true that reporters who aren't there to further the government's message are prevented from doing their jobs buy government minders and police.
In my opinion, these robots should just drive in the street with cars. If they get run over, nobody gets hurt. It might actually make things safer by forcing drivers to pay more attention!
They’re supposed to ride in the street unless it could be agreed that it’s safer on the sidewalk, which is both subjective and often true, so riding on the sidewalk is de facto allowed.

Edit: People are downvoting this; I guess because they don’t believe it? The law is here[0]. Also 73% of Japanese ride on the sidewalk more than the road[1]. So even without the wide open exceptions to the law, it’s still de facto allowed.

[0] https://elaws.e-gov.go.jp/document?lawid=335AC0000000105#5

第六十三条の四
…
三 前二号に掲げるもののほか、車道又は交通の状況に照らして当該普通自転車の通行の安全を確保するため当該普通自転車が歩道を通行することがやむを得ないと認められるとき。

[1] https://www8.cao.go.jp/koutu/chou-ken/h22/pdf/ref/2-1.pdf
It has been a pipe dream of some since the 1960s that "everybody" would program computers in the future. It hasn't happened and won't happen. Most people simply don't have the patience for it.
Ok, I'll ask - why?

You have made it POSIX-ish but wouldn't one goal be to create something new ? I imagine that you just wanted to use a bunch of POSIX tools but won't that limit you in some way?
If you need more than a good bridgeport mill to make a firearm, you don't deserve to be in a shop... All you really need to make an AR lower is a drill and some aluminium plates. Heck, pakistanies are making a plethora of firearm with nothing but files...
Nice job. It's not easy for everyone to be dedicated to get things done.
I do not actually know what happened. But something basically resulted in an rm -rf /home and was accidental.

By all reports, he eventually became a well liked and good admin. I just don't think he knew that much Unix when he started.
Why do you think the FBI embedded itself in a right-wing group and then cooked up the idea to kidnap Governor Whitmer?

You know, the FBI seems to have advanced notice and involvement with a lot of these kinds of plots...including the ones that actually go off. What is it that they're getting done with our tax money anyway?
So now 3 year old hardware won't work on windows 11 which will be the only available option for a lot of people in 4 years.

That's 7 years only, a lot of perfectly usable computers will be get rid of for no reason other than mild security benefit. Seems like they want to go in mobile direction forcing people to buy new hardware every 4 years.
That was an annoying time in the game. Not horrible, but you pretty much had to avoid town because people were purposefully trying to spread the plague. Certainly memorable though.
Logging into another shell would be attempted only if someone knew at the time why the logins were failing.

But thanks, I've just added another technique to my toolbox.
I was considering last week to pick up CNC machining but now I've lost all interest. It sounds very primitive and intersectional. dang, you have trolls.
There is more to that F-15 incident than just incredible thrust; the F-15's wide fuselage provides significant body lift.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifting_body#Body_lift
Nah…most of the “we need more dense housing” is in a small fraction of the US, typically near big city cores in a handful of locations.
Could you expand on the latter point?

There is certainly more of a trend toward the sovereign individual than at any other point, curious why you don't think it's possible?
Show HN: Created a platform for micro content on programming
The law isn't established at the state or federal level. It has been independently established at almost every municipality for good reasons.
Wait, but if you choose the guy giving access as the mistake made in the course of his work, then what's the new plan?
> Why would that matter? All of our authorities on Ancient Rome never set foot in the Roman Empire.

LMAO

What kind of logic is this?

Roman expert can look at fossils, an expert on genocide research has no fossils, how can one claim that without ever set foot on the genocide site...

Does China automatically triggered some kind of emotional outburst that shut down reasoning instantly?...