skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, other than having selective fire modes, they're functionally identical. And considering their rate of fire, and that full-auto is discouraged in most militaries, yes, I consider them equivalent.

And "generic semi-automatic hunting rifle" has become the AR-15. It used to be a bolt action, or maybe an Mini-14. But the whole benefit (and the social drawback) of widespread ownership of AR-15s is the high rate of fire, and the magazine capacity.

Comparing it to a bolt-action .308 isn't the point.
Sounds like they need to form a co-op. Each member signs their 2 plants to the co-op to manage/grow/etc. Pay the members something for their "license use". I'm guessing there are plenty of people that would never attempt to grow those 2 plants on their own, so don't let it get wasted.

Also, limit the co-op to be run by citizens of that country/city to keep it from becoming international rings (bwahahahaha, as if that would work)
Most of the homeowners I know have 30 year mortgages. As such, my comment that your numbers don't seem normal is fairly accurate given the people I know. Is it a lot more common to take a 15 yr loan among your friends / in your area?
I agree. I dont remember it ever being the highest paying.
For those like me unfamiliar.

HLR: Home Location Register. A phone-number lookup service / protocol.
And maybe to learn the smell of a leaking layer?
An essential video to watch for anyone with ideas :)
While I will not pretend to be an expert at either of those, having at least a minimal understanding of all of these is crucial if you want to pretend to be a software engineer. If you can't write a library, or figure out why your process isn't working, you're not an engineer, you're a plumber, or a code monkey. Not to say that's bad, but considering the sheer amount of mediocre devs at FAANG calling themselves engineers, it just really shines a terrible light on our profession.
> so they have to spend a bunch of time fixing spurious errors and warnings

It's rare for a tool to be so shoddy that this is all you get. From what I've seen, you'll get three categories of report: valid bugs, valid bugs which the developers insist are false positives until forced to do in-depth analysis, and actual false-positives. The exact ratios vary depending on the tool in question but generally I've seen the first two categories be a good bit larger than the third.
The ethics of deciding whether to get vaccinated is different than the ethics of whether to wear a helmet or seatbelt too: if you go without a helmet, you will only hurt yourself, and we can still harvest your organs. So go right ahead. But if you refuse to get vaccinated, you could be responsible for the sickness and possible death of hundreds of strangers. So that is really quite immoral.
Keep thinking I should put a waterproof tablet in my shower (no camera of course ha)
It does. Monster is also a dutch word, with the same meaning as the English monster (horrid creature), but can also be used as synonym for "a sample".

In this case, the name of the village probably comes from the same word as the English "Monastry". Other places have the same etymology, e.g. the city Münster in Germany.
Why is Bernie Sanders the authority here? Given inflation and a year-after-year growth in productivity, the minimum wage should be closer to $25/hour. Sanders falls way short of reality - but likely because the powers that be are more likely to compromise with a half-measure than give up more wealth to meaningfully improve America's economy by paying people equitably.
Tech stocks delivering stellar profits and profit margins, increasing quarter after quarter for years, is value investing to me.
I think that's because Borg comes with a team of engineers who keep it running and make it easy.

I've had a similar experience with Cassandra. Using Cassandra at Netflix was a joy because it always just worked. But there was also a team of engineers who made sure that was the case. Running it elsewhere was always fraught with peril.
I've found Pu Erh tea is a great transition as a coffee drinker. It has that strong earthy/malty flavor, even if it doesn't have the caffeine.

Just make sure you buy it from a brick instead of the loose leaf (which tends to be lower quality imo).
To me, usefulness is less to do with scale and more to do with number of distinct services.

If you have just a single monolith app (such as a wordpress app) then sure, k8s is overkill. Even if you have 1000 instances of that app.

It's once you start having something like 20+ distinct services that k8s starts paying for itself.
Within minutes? Are you snorting it? can anything get through you that quickly orally? Sounds like placebo
Upvotes are not endorsements. Usually, folks upvote because they think a post is noteworthy enough to warrant an extended discussion that the front-page affords.
Good reminder that the vaccine does not work right away.

As for vaccine resistant strains, the status is that vaccines are still effective in dealing with known variants.

Here is a study for the Lambda variant and the efficacy of the vaccines.

https://www.news-medical.net/amp/news/20210705/Study-says-mR...
Humans love taxonomy, nature does not.

If you stand on the border of the Mojave, you probably have one foot in the Great Basin desert that covers the west half of the state. The parent probably simply described or generalized to the wrong desert.

A climate map [1] shows that the only parts of the state which aren't desert are arid mountains; the Salt Lake area has a bit of lake effect snow but that's not in the Colorado River watershed.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Utah_K%C...
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Pardon your French? ;)
The context is: “Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone.”

And: “It’s easier to program a TI-89 calculator than an iPhone.”

> The original comment as it stands is fine. Don't expect to be able to interpret it on different terms than the way it was meant to be understood.

The comment is complete bullshit in this context.

> instead of what it was, which is a statement about HCI and the "implicit step zero" of software creation on today's commodity computing devices.

This is simply not true. The comment was a response to a thread. You have made up a context in which it makes sense out of whole cloth.

You can see the comment wasn’t meant in this narrow context because the poster defended it by saying ‘superior in what way?’, rather than by clarifying the context in which it might be valid.

I miss the days when there was an instant on programmable device. We need that again. It would be great if iPhones shipped with Swift playgrounds as a pre-installed app for example.

Swift playgrounds shipping on iPhone sounds a lot like the “I wish there was something akin to TI-Basic for smartphones. A built-in IDE with an interpreted language, with easy path to compilation.”

So does Pythonista.

But a ti-84 is not easier to program than an iPhone, except for in the trivial sense that you can skip a few taps needed to install a programming app. Other than that, the ti is strictly worse.

I agree calculators are a good way to learn a limited form of programming, however Apps definitely better. If you want to quibble over the ease of installing an app vs purchasing a calculator, that’s a sideshow to the value of learning python vs ti-84 programming.

The irony is that the biggest obstacle to the iPhone being easy to program is people saying it’s hard to program rather than saying ‘use Pythonista’ or the like.
"There are a variety of payroll taxes, some paid by employers, some by employees, and some by both."

https://www.paychex.com/articles/payroll-taxes/employers-gui...
The goal is permissionless transactions on an immutable ledger.
Genuine question because I'm out of the loop: it looks to me like the "Bezos doesn't pay taxes" argument is just pointing out that most of his wealth sits in unrealized gains in amazon stock. When he sells stock, he pays taxes. Is there more to it that I'm missing? Is the prevailing argument that we should be paying taxes on unrealized capital gains?
In some American markets the taxi driver experience was fairly standardized. The driver paid a gate fee to rent a heavy-duty, professionally maintained, insured Crown Victoria for a fixed fee per shift, and earned regulated tariffs on fares. Those drivers had as much flexibility as any TNC driver, with less risk because they didn't need to use their own car. The nearest analog is the TNC programs where you rent a Corolla by the day.
Twitter testing up and downvote options
Do you think there is a different in how US and UK tech companies in project planning?
One of the most relevant and amazing blogs I have read in recent times.

I have been working for a firm that have been onboarding multiple small scale startup or lifestyle businesses to kubernetes. My opinion is that if you have an ruby on rails or python app, you don't really need kubernetes. It is like bringing bazooka to a knife fight. However, I do think kubernetes has some good practice embedded in them, which I will always cherish.

If you are not operating at huge scale, both operations or/and teams, it actually comes at a high cost of productivity and tech debt. I wish there was an easier tech that would bridge going from VMs to bunch of VMs, bunch of containers to kubernetes.
> peer-reviewed research

That turns out not to be the case, and egregiously so.

A review of much of the research cited, however, reveals that what the Framework describes as “clear” is often actually pretty murky, hotly disputed, or contradicted by other research, misleadingly stretched to cover situations for which it was not intended, or, in some instances, just plain wrong.

Consider how the Framework supports one of its overarching principles, namely its rejection of the “ideas of natural gifts and talents.” The text refers to a paper by a New York University psychologist Andrei Cimpian in 2015 to support that proposition, but the only work of Cimpian listed in the footnotes is a paper written with a Princeton University psychologist, Sarah-Jane Leslie.

“This isn't a question that my own research was designed to address.” Leslie said in an emailed response to questions about the Framework's citation of her work.

And so on and so forth.

Lying about having research that you do not actually have is very much worse than not having research.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/07/14/...
It's a real curiosity how not having any income will result in not paying any income tax. Jeff Bezos did not sell any Amazon shares in 2007 or 2011.

https://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1018724-25.htm

https://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1018724-18.htm

And a stock you own going up in value is not income. It does not trigger tax liability. If he doesn't sell shares right now, he is simply deferring tax liability to a future date. He is not cheating the tax man. His tax rate is not less than 1%.
I'm going to check this out now. Having a pretend job would be right up my alley with all my experience in pretending to work.
He has more capital than entire nation states. It's absurd that we celebrate this kind of undemocratic power in America.
Maybe it's a false flag op. The smugglers left a little something for the local agencies to find so they can do a nice bit of PR so the public feels good about it. Meanwhile, the smugglers continue using their normal trade routes.

This will also help spur more anti-drone legislation ruining for the rest of us that never intended to use drones in this manner.
Anyone who is still a Catholic after long running high level pedophile coverups and relocations should expect the clergy to be a little less than holy, probably.
The distance that needs covering to fly from northern Morocco to Spain is just a few km... probably would be a waste of energy to get it to 2km altitude
Scare article. Delta is more communicable, but less dangerous than the original variant. Vaccines aren't magic, and this one for Covid-19 isn't even really a vaccine: According to the FDA and other global health authorities, it is instead an unproven and unapproved gene therapy.

While the SARS-Co-V2 virus can indeed be deadly (though usually only with serious comorbidities), you really have to wonder if the very minimal risk to the non-elderly population is worth making permanent and irreversible changes to your DNA that are designed to provoke a lifelong autoimmune response. I've had the virus (so I now have superior natural immunity), but despite it nearly putting me in the hospital, I'm convinced that not risking the "vaccine" was absolutely the right call - YMMV.

I sincerely hope I'm wrong about this, but the current early evidence indicates that we are already beginning to see a great many people suffering and dying as a result of overactive immune systems and aggravated (or possibly even new) autoimmune conditions.

Giving an experimental, unproven gene therapy "vaccine" to this many people (a substantial portion of the world's population) in the midst of an active outbreak (this is a well-known "never do" in epidemiology) was beyond irresponsible - and can probably only be categorized as criminal. THAT is the science.
hey, i coded since i was a child as well but i would never say someone will never be fluent in the "mother tongue", i am sure you are dedicated but, don't stop others down, a ton of people learn later on in life and manage just fine. some people started later because lack of access, my first computer as well was a c64, i too have coded in basic, pascal and the likes, and i know people who has started later and just got their first job, i don't judge anyone who wants to take up programming later on in life, not everyone gets the same start in life and that is okay, anyways, ive met people who learned english and you would never be able to tell they weren't native speakers, at the end of the day, any language mastery comes down to time, and grit.
Less maintenance for the engines and a few other systems. Just as much maintenance for other components. For instance, the rotor blades have to be replaced every X hours and can cost as much as a car, each.
For the US penny that was a change made in 1982 when the previous 95% Cu penny was on course to be worth more as scrap metal than currency.
I never said he is the authority, but is probably the most prominent and well known Amazon critic on the planet today, and leads a huge populist movement that has been pushing for a 'living wage', which Sanders defines as $15/hr.

My question remains - at what dollar amount will people be satisfied that Bezos is being fair?
Wow. This is enormously impressive. I currently work for a small startup based out of Denmark in the renewable energies space (wind turbines) developing web based tools to assist in our ML operations.

With a lifelong obsession with cosmology and astronomy, and perhaps even more applicably relevant; our own human advancement to and into the stars, I have increasingly become more and more inclined to the notion of further developing my current skillset with the eventual goal of transitioning to the space industry.

My recent experience and exposure to renewable energies has given me massive insight to just how important companies like you guys are to furthering humanity’s progress. My question to you all regarding your technology, is how you manage what I imagine to be extraordinarily large, rich, and complex datasets that must vary between use cases (you mention hotels, debris removal, etc.). The data between these use cases must vary in structure— how is it normalized/standardized to work with your pipeline(s)? The commonality I see (as a fairly novice layman in terms of space technology) is of the rocket propulsion, orbiting, and payload delivery kind, but I’m sure the data it is far more nuanced and goes far beyond that.

Furthermore, is any sort of machine learning applied on your side, perhaps in some sort of statistical analysis / metric reporting?

I’m going to definitely keep an eye on you all at Epsilon3. Perhaps you will be looking for more engineers with web dev, data, ML, and cyber/info security experience in the future!

Huge props. I can tell there is an extraordinary amount of innovation involved with this venture. Excited to see where you all go with this =)
> My experience (...)

So what is your experience? I have stated mine.

> My experience is that the things that mongo is "good at", there are competing products that are just as good.

So what does that mean? Nothing.

Every product is a set of compromises. The one that is suitable doesn't need to be perfect in every (or any) respect. It just needs to have the set of compromises that suits your project.

> Mongo downsides - such as not giving a crap if you lose data - make it a non starter when there are so many better products that actually protect your data.

Database do not (typically) "protect" data. There are some database that make it impossible to remove data once stored, but in general if you count on your database to prevent data loss, you are just waiting for a junior engineer to make a blunder and remove half your database, whether it is MongoDB or Oracle.

What all this means is that you cannot count on any database to prevent data loss and you have to organize some kind of way to protect your data. This usually means some kind of backup, snapshotted replica, redo log, etc.
> Fly lower to save fuel? How does that make sense?

Propellers like lower speeds and altitudes; fans like higher speeds and altitudes [1]. This is because propellers hit the air at the true air speed. Compressors in a turbofan modify the incident pressure and air speed, letting the engine purr away without concern for creating shock waves.

This is a propeller craft.

[1] https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/a...
Lifting 150kg 2km high is a lot of energy used up. Especially when you only need to cover what, a dozen kilometers horizontally?
Some cultures would take a dog-smell diagnosis over an algorithm; and others would trust a pigeon before a dog, even more if you called them doves.
You must not work on safety critical code where downtime/breakage mean people die.
It goes to show how far back the origins of anabolic steroids is.
Air being denser _perhaps_ means it doesn't have to hit top RPM for maintain altitude?
The first fully functional non-silicon ARM Processor, PlasticArm
Doctors are getting better at doctoring mostly through simple things like checklists and evidence-based medicine treatment guidelines. Those reduce variance and the risk of error. Improved interoperability between clinical systems also has potential to reduce errors by making sure all members of a patient's care team have complete access to the patient's entire record.

Diagnosis isn't particularly difficult or time consuming in most routine cases after gathering the necessary data. If you see a jagged line on the x-ray then the patient has a fractured bone. If the A1c level is 7.5% then the patient has diabetes. Etc. Improving diagnostic accuracy will help in rare cases and is worth doing, but that won't have much impact on the health care system as a whole.
When my daughter was in grade 5, I volunteered to teach programming for an afternoon while the teacher could do one-on-ones.

I took Robocode[1], made a basic Robot class that the kids could easily extend, and then taught them just enough logic and syntax so they could have their robots battle their classmates'.

It was a huge success. We had to close the door to the classroom because the kids were so loud, cheering their robots on.

Whenever a kid was called by the teacher to do their one-on-one, they protested "one more minute, I need to improve my robot!"

In September, my daughter starts university in software engineering; mission accomplished! ;)

[1] https://robocode.sourceforge.io/
As a Catholic, I thought it might be important to raise one point here (since it seems everyone immediately jumps to "the Church is firing someone for who he wants to have sex with").

A Roman Catholic[1] priest is obligated (takes a vow when ordained) to not have sex with anyone, and it would be scandalous to find a priest—especially one with so much power and connections—to be hooking up with multiple partners in any situation. The app and sexual orientation are immaterial.

The other takeaway is that all the HN preaching about the importance of data privacy and how advertisers are grifting us, and how 'free' services are never free—this is probably the most lucid illustration of those facts yet.

Even those who try to aggregate anonymous data in a safe way are never going to be perfect at making sure nobody could associate the data back to an individual. The best thing is to not use the free (or cheap/ad-heavy) apps and services that do collect location information or other identifiable metrics.

[1] There are other parts of the Catholic church where priests are allowed to marry, and there actually are some Roman Catholic priests who converted from other faiths that allowed marriage, who are still married.
Why Data Science Needs Feminism
Strange that you say this on HN, a forum that allows pseudonymous accounts. Is the discourse here not open and honest? Less open and honest then on facebook? Regardless, if you think an open and honest discourse requires knowing who people are, you should have an explicit policy to that effect. You should not use private data entrusted to you to dox people.
I think the key here is that person A used admin access to a product to access user B information and then made it public. I would say that the company that owns the product should also be sued since I am pretty sure this data usage is not covered in their privacy policy/TOS.
Honestly, it was a two-second Google for "nl average tax rate". I didn't look at it any deeper at the time but the source was https://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/taxing-wages-netherlands...

> In the Netherlands, the average single worker faced a net average tax rate of 28.7% in 2020, compared with the OECD average of 24.8%. In other words, in the Netherlands the take-home pay of an average single worker, after tax and benefits, was 71.3% of their gross wage, compared with the OECD average of 75.2%.

The specific number wasn't as important as pointing out that NL doesn't have a magically fixed number (and certainly not a high one) for income taxation.
This kind of pedantry reminds me of people who want to call prisoners "detainees" and who want to call torture "enhanced interrogation".
Scientists decipher the activity of the brain in deep sleep
Many Colombian people would agree to do this, many will look at you in bewilderment.
The main issue is that too many people in government institutions are profiting from the status quo.
Colombia itself has a rather massive drug use problem, or, the people of the younger generation are pretty open minded about consumption.
Shorting stocks is always risky. Taking stock picking advise from anonymous people on the internet is a bad idea in general unless you don't care if you lose money.
Yes of course... but it still (used to?) mostly transit through Spain, where it then is passed into France etc. Heavy drugs coming from south america do also transit through Spain.

I found back the article (in english) I read earlier this year on the subject:

https://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2021-02-03/spain-and...
This thread is a cautionary tale about the future of freedom. These are dark moments everywhere. Either we pick the Enlightenment or we create some new experiment.
orrr, maybe bezos is also very progressive?
You're simplifying it, though.

- It's generally nowhere near 50% (of the cost of owning) going to principal

- Buying ties you into the house, or at least ties other costs to moving. If you're likely to need to move again in under 5 years, that cost is high.

- Related to the cost of moving, but... if you're moving to a new area and want to take some time to pick out where you're going to live for 20 years, then renting for a few makes sense.

Honestly, there's just a lot of reasons that can make it financially reasonable to rent instead of own.