skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hobbies have no limit to variety. It's a regular, thematically-linked set of activities, often towards something productive, but which places nearly all the emphasis on the process. If it is too general, then narrow it down.

Programming. -> Code golfing. -> Find the optimal implementation of X on processor Y.

Program [classic machine] -- on pen and paper to get rid of all the distractions. I suppose the original Sudoku counts too.

Amateur radio. -> Amateur satellite antennas -> bounce your signal off the Moon.

Many sorts of nature activity. Hiking. Boating -> Kayaking -> white water rafting. Hm, an apiary would be safer.

Visual arts. Drawing. Calligraphy. Painting. -> Painting using pointillism. -> Painting using only dice arranged in a rectangle with the 1 - 6 being the shades of grey.

Something involving food. Brewing. Pastries?

There are small skills. Often related collections. This may be a kind of "collecting" hobby where being able to do it well, is to "have" that in your collection. English regional accents. Juggling (with tricks especially). Dances which seemingly defy gravity or friction. The variety of things people can apparently do with a yoyo. Learning arithmetic or party tricks of that nature, generally. This becomes entertainer's magic easily.
Tesla says there isn't. See page 23 here for example [PDF] https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/downloads/2016_Mod... What can you do besides keep water flowing over the outside of the battery pack while the inside self-oxidizes?
Thanks for those suggestions! Do you know if some of those multi-node runtimes can move an actor from one node to another?

I think I saw some Rust library do this but I can't find it.
> business logic and API layers abstracted into other classes, and have your lean view controller just be the glue

That’s pretty much the technique. :) Also, composition by child view controllers.
Where did you see the troll circulating that page earlier today? You want to link to the post, wherever it is?
If asprintf() terminated the program when it failed instead of leading on to undefined behaviour when unchecked, I'd call that trivially safe in a more pragmatic way.

Ugh. Maybe in some contexts that's ok, but some of us write code which handles memory allocation failures with a bit more finesse than abort().
Agreed, and furthermore, I think it’s easy for most of us to take for granted the influence of our domains of work and study. In general, many of us have backgrounds which pride themselves in their methodology, consistency and pursuit of understanding (whether or not we actually work in line with these values is another matter.) A lot of people outside of these circles aren’t privy to that sort of training (self-taught or otherwise), so adequately analysing the news that shows up on news feeds and timelines is difficult. Any news on the pandemic and the varying responses of the general public are a fine example of this. There’s always room for differences in opinion, but the intense variability highlights the race across the internet between access to all sorts of information and educational material that was previously unavailable, and the ill-intended trash like the link you shared.
> public doesn't really care.

The public can't do much because it has given too much power to intelligence agencies already. Today, the left and right almost unanimously hate intelligence agencies, but their power is entrenched.

Case in point: the Constitution is irrelevant to intelligence agencies. They genuinely believe they can operate completely outside of it and face no punishment, so they frequently do. What can an American citizen do at that point?

And who even wants to speak out against an intelligence agency if it'll put you on a list?
Video, what is “the video”?
Why not? Plenty of researchers aren’t thorough. I’m not saying that’s the case here but it’s entirely plausible from what I know about academia and wouldn’t be a crazy claim to make.
Depends how much you want to avoid a couple days of cold-like symptoms. Vaccines were never a silver bullet. They just tilt the odds overwhelmingly in favor of your immune system.
Have you fixed your hiring practices? I interviewed with cf a year ago. Back then you had unprepared interviewers (they couldn't solve their own coding challenge) and others who were downright rude. Ie: interviewer roling eyes and not looking at me when I ask questions and telling me that because I would not be in the same location as the rest of the team, they would do nothing to make me feel welcome or a part of the team. Are you still hiring people like that or letting them continue to breed a toxic workplace? (This was your backend billing team)
Who would fund this? No chance of the same corruption in that independent organization designed to oversee a much more powerful one.
Imagine how the mainstream media would describe it if say this was in China or Russia. “Dissident sentenced to 45 months imprisonment for blowing the whistle on regime atrocities”
When the climate change movement starts to hold China more accountable, it will gain more steam.
>There are procedures to put out lithium-ion fires that aren't just "let it burn".

Can you provide more info on this? I'm very casual on the topic from what I've read is kind of impossible to put them out. Sometimes they have to throw the EV on a water tank and let it sit there for days.
A critical self evaluation of your personality wouldn't hurt. Check out the Big 5 personality model. Unlike the Meyers Briggs its based on a search for answers in actual data, some call it science. There's plenty of tests out there and plenty of youtube videos. Here's my favorites:

https://www.understandmyself.com/

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLx8EASkSeQ
> Perhaps Martin hoped that this would produce an effect of the instruments coming from many places. Personally, I feel this is gimmicky at best, and disintegrated at worst especially when listening on headphones.

This is not how it happened.

Stereo record players started appearing in the late 1950s and were seen as somewhat a gimmick at first. The equipment for producing stereo records was not like it is today. You might use a four-track tape machine to record the band, and mix it on a console which had a three-way switch for each channel: left, center, and right. Sgt. Pepper came out in 1967 and was produced on such equipment, although the studio was able to synchronize two tape machines together (and they also bounced mixes to tape to build up layers).

They just didn’t have pan pots on their mixing consoles back then.

By the time Abbey Road came out in 1969, the studio had moved to eight-track machines which could more easily be synchronized, you could find a basic “pan” knob on your mixing console, and no mono mix of the record was made.
> If a company can achieve 70% margin (apple services), it's a clear sign that there's a lack of competition, or structurally anti-competitive elements.

"most SaaS companies should achieve gross margins in the 75%–80% range, depending on the level of professional services required to deploy the solutions." - https://leadedge.com/why-we-like-saas-businesses/

Dropbox:

"
GAAP gross margin was 78.6%, as compared to 77.3% in the same period last year. Non-GAAP gross margin was 80.2%, as compared to 78.3% in the same period last year." - https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210506006050/en/Dro...

You do realize that most SaaS based software business are targeting 70%+ margin? Are they all structurally anti-competitive?
The US Government didn't ask Blackwater to kill 17 civilians in Iraq, they decided to do so themselves.

Obviously foreign invasions were not purely private enterprises. But American history is full of private interests pushing for war, the American Revolution itself was caused in large parts by the American private sector being much more enthusiastic to ethnically cleanse the land from natives and steal their land than the crown.

Private interests lobbying the US Government isn't really corruption, it is the way things are sadly intended to work.

My point is that the reason these atrocities are made by the government and not private companies is only that the government prevents the private sector from committing them. So giving power to the private sector instead of the government in general is not a good course of action despite these events because there is no reason to believe it is any less enthusiastic to do atrocious things.
Background: In Thailand, this is about residents and media discussing COVID updates - often including case counts released by the Thai government. It’s not an attempt to stop lies from spreading.

Thailand sets new case count and death records almost every day (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-thaila...) and the government is scared of residents talking about it. Keep in mind that Thailand is essentially a dictatorship right now (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayut_Chan-o-cha).

Here’s how the AP described this order: https://apnews.com/article/business-health-media-coronavirus...
No, I don't want to link to it. It was not on HN.
Ah yeah, and what happens when you increase that number 100x? Adding a powerwall to your house will increase the battery count in your home by 1,000 or more.
> besides keep water flowing over the outside of the battery pack while the inside self-oxidizes

But that is doing something other than just letting it burn. That's containing the damage, rather than letting the fire spread to everything around it.
Many cell phone towers are connected by point to point microwave links, you don't need to necessarily interconnect them all with cables. They still need power of course & have to deal with trees and houses obstructing their fresnel zone. Low orbit satellites which are basically above most of the time have it easier in this regard.
> No, developers don't read compiler error messages, unless absolutely necessary.

This depends fully on the ~language~ compiler.

Some compilers create extremely long verbose but useless messages, other create use-full messages most times only as long as necessary with nice formatting making it easy to skip over the parts you don't care about.

Like e.g. I always read error messages when programming rust, sure I fix a error at a time so I don't read all error messages at once, but I do go through them step by step.
Ignore, for a moment, the idea of freedom versus authority. That topic is really important, always timely, and full of nuance.

Just for the next hour or two, go down a rabbit hole of reading about the history of Thailand/Siam/Ayutthaya, for no other purpose than learning something about a group of humanity very different from the Western experience.

After that, take a breath, then re-read this article. Your reaction will probably be the same, but it'll have a more interesting story behind it.
You do not want to use the US as your role model.
404. Paid version for longer retention coming soon?
Should have built AI tools to educate the ignorant populace and encourage them to get a vaccine. I know there have to be tons of adboys and girls out there whose only job is to persuade people to do something that could have knocked this out of the park. I see we are still at about 50% vaccination and Walmart is begging people to come get a free vaccine. I’m sorry my tone is negative but this is really getting me frustrated and making me lose hope in the future of humanity really. The stupid is winning. It’s the Asimov quote coming true. :( We’ve got to take real action against this.

"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
Many wireless base stations are interconnected via microwave point to point links.
I'll certainly give the authors of the papers the benefit of a presumption of humility; it's the people "translating into layman's terms" and "passing on knowledge" that introduce Authority, and other errors, as part of the process.

"Think for yourself, schmuck" is the only dogma worth petting.
They are different situations, but I'd argue they're different in the opposite way. For a car by itself outside, letting it burn would be fine. But in an enclosed parking garage, it's rather important to keep the fire from spreading to the rest of the garage.
Just a BTW, you can link to a specific page in a pdf with #page=. E.g.:

https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/downloads/2016_Mod...
Maybe those battery packs need to be spread out more. Oil tank farms are usually spread out some, with dirt berms around each tank. That helps to contain leaks and fires.

If they only lose one container-sized pack, that's not too bad. If they lose two, that's not so good. If they lose the whole installation, this needs a rethink.
Yes, but you could also host a normal Postgres db easily enough
getting this far in life without ending it
The state with the highest death rate is led by a progressive party. The death rate is so high because the state government hired untrained security guards who, among other things, had sex with people in quarantine and let them out into the city for food.

When investigated, the government was evasive and engaged in cover up (including the hiding of text messages, emails among other things). Multiple government officials resigned or were pushed out in disgrace for lying about their involvement.

Just so we're clear.
I can't speak for the rest of the government, but I can speak for internal whistleblowing of the Marine Corps. You can "request mast" all the way up to the Commandant, which is the tippy top. I think it's possible that some whistleblowing is discarded when it should have been honored, but I think for the most part these processes exist and are in-tact. Now, whether there's a perception that you can use them effectively is another issue.

Let's not forget someone whistleblew on the President amid a highly political environment in recent memory. That's no short order.
As a biologist who started working in ML, I see exactly the same issues in the field I am working in. I am spending most of my time fixing bad while others just use the public datasets as is. Maybe I am wasting my time because they are in the top journals and I am not.
As someone who was into Crowley when I was 13-14 (and then read up on him again as an adult)- he was a genuinely interesting person, kind of a Renaissance man for his time, while of course also being an utter loon. For instance he was a genuine mountaineer, not just a dilettante, and I believe held a record on K2 for a time. He was also pretty ahead of his time in absorbing wisdom from Indian & Chinese cultures, something that was probably less appreciated in a more Western-centric era. He was also kinda ahead of his time with hard drugs....

Interestingly, he met L Ron Hubbard towards the end of his life, and apparently judged the man as a con artist, FWIW
It's perfectly possible to improve, say, environmental protection without any drone programs. Most of Europe does so, for example.

So it's just mindless cynicism to argue "more government" / "no less government" / blablabla.

The specific American infatuation with anything that kills is, well, specific. Using all that wasteful killing/incarcerating/surveilling as an argument not against the Military-Industrial-Complex but, yet again, to diminish policies that might actually help people, is part and parcel of exactly the approach that ends with dead civilians domestically and abroad.
Tor has alternative transports (bridges) that are meant to disguise the use of Tor on the local network, they should help with the obviousness issue.
Fair enough. The "main vs master" argument has been done quite a lot lately, and I'm not going to weigh in on it here.

But it seems a little... tangential... to argue about branch naming in this context, doesn't it?
(Disclaimer: I work at Stripe and use Sorbet)

IMO the Sorbet additions do impact readability, but it dramatically improves understandability. In a codebase past a certain size/number of contributors, you're always going to have ambiguity about what sort of data you're working with. For example, in my part of the codebase we have models representing an entity that is identified by a number in external systems and represented as a whole data object in our code. If I have `foo.entity`, it's unclear just from the "real" code whether that'll return a data object or just the numerical identifier. Having the Sorbet annotations on that method (and available on hover in the IDE) make it a lot easier to navigate the codebase and resolve these ambiguities.
Sure, lots of languages are like Erlang. Actors and CSP are pretty fundamental patterns.

Some things that would make it more like Erlang than Go (but that I won't bother to verify):

1. Go isn't really pre-emptive, it just has a lot of hidden yield points afaik

2. Go doesn't enforce message passing, Erlang obviously does

3. When you send a message to a goroutine that has panicked you hang and, potentially at some point, panic. In Erlang an actor dying can send out a final exit message that other actors (likely a supervisor) can subscribe to.

So yeah IDK. To me if it's got lightweight processes, pre-emption, and message passing, it's got everything that makes Erlang special. If it says it's inspired by Erlang I'm going to assume that, along with those things, it also shares goals like fault tolerance.
Competitive judo has grown a plethora of rules of this type - restricted holds, stalling penalties, 20 second timers for the ground game. My teacher participated in some of the conferences leading to those rule changes, and he said it boiled down to getting the bodies to fly for the TV cameras. A lot of combat sports end up being slow and passive without rules propelling them into action.
Public schools are a perfect example of how neither money nor more government ever helps if the fundamental problems aren't fixed.

13 Baltimore City High Schools, Zero Students Proficient in Math:

https://archive.ph/VfciU

Baltimore is 2nd in per pupil spending:

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-05-21/news/bs-md-ci-ce...
Not everything is wealth. A lot of GDP is consumption which is depreciating assets that disappear.

I would be happier if my future income isn't taxed to gift to the wealth of the currently rich. And this extra wealth of currently rich is definitely never getting taxed enough to get it back into the working class hands.

We have gone so far into capitalism that not only we take from labor to give to capital owners, we have started taking from future labor to give to current capital owners.
> Is an app allowed to prompt for a real email address if it uses Sign in with Apple?

It can ask, but cannot require it.
Great! Let's do judo next, seeing as the constant penalizing of almost every attack has made the sport semi-unwatchable. It's rare to see any scoring before overtime in international-level judo- why take the risk? Judo pretty desperately needs a rules upgrade
> Standard procedure for these things is to do nothing but keep it cool and wait.

That's exactly what they're planning. The problem is that the house might not react well to having such a fire in its basement.
The US was led by Trump of all people who didn't botch the vaccine rollout this badly, in fact he funded the record speed the vaccines were developed via Operation Warp Speed.

The US arranged the development, logistics and rollout of a vaccine in less than 12 months. Under a conservative government.
The whole private sector censorship reminds me of a very good piece by Matt Taibbi:

> "People in the U.S. seem able to recognize that China’s censorship of the internet is bad. They say: “It’s so authoritarian, tyrannical, terrible, a human rights violation.” Everyone sees that, but then when it happens to us, here, we say, “Oh, but it’s a private company doing it.” What people don’t realize is the majority of censorship in China is being carried out by private companies.

> Rebecca MacKinnon, former CNN Bureau chief for Beijing and Tokyo, wrote a book called Consent of the Network that lays all this out. She says, “This is one of the features of Chinese internet censorship and surveillance—that it's actually carried out primarily by private sector companies, by the tech platforms and services, not by the police. And that the companies that run China's internet services and platforms are acting as an extension of state power.”

> The people who make that argument don’t realize how close we are to the same model. There are two layers. Everyone’s familiar with “The Great Firewall of China,” where they’re blocking out foreign websites. Well, the US does that too. We just shut down Press TV, which is Iran’s PBS, for instance. We mimic that first layer as well, and now there’s also the second layer, internally, that involves private companies doing most of the censorship."

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/meet-the-censored-matt-orfalea
We won’t have “correct” until we have multi-track masters behind a mixing deck.
Miniature Particle Accelerator Powers a Tiny Laser with Promise
How do you get an Apple ID without a street address? There are still places in the US that don't have street addresses, even after 911 attempts.
I think this is asking the wrong question. The first question should be, “Can developers understand compiler error messages?” I’ve had C++ errors where templates were involved and I didn’t even know if it was in my code because the template types in the error message were so long, I didn’t see any recognizable symbols in it. You think you’re declaring a std::foo<bar>, but the error message is talking about red-black trees and deques because those pieces happen to be used internally in either foo or bar, but you didn’t reference either of them directly. It’s maddening.
Oh yes! This is a good one!
Does a PCR test count as AI?

It has some S shaped function to trigger
Well we re judging a guy who drove a motorbike into the police in HK and mainstream american media describe it at a crackdown on freedom...

It feels the entire thing is really fake in the US and it s just a giant golden cage where debt-laden poor people look at exagerated external events and told that at least in America they can starve while speaking out.

The US just terrifies me these days honestly
It's likely that the sentence wouldn't have been as harsh had there been evidence that he tried official channels first.
Sorry, I'm not quite following the argument here. We're in a comment thread about it being illegal to reveal the amount of corruption in the US military, how they are not being particularly discriminating in who they are droning over in the Middle East.

You're putting up evidence that they are also hiring vetted thugs and sending them over to massacre people - also indiscriminately. Again, it is probably illegal at some level to report on how many massacres actually happen so presumably this case is more common than people think.

And the take away here is that the government is protecting us from private sector malfeasance? The private sector would never get funding for this sort of insanity! The only reason money is going to this is because paying taxes is mandatory. A tiny minority of people support this bloodshed. They just happen to have plum positions in DC. And even then, only because it isn't their money being used to vaporise brown people.
Got a starting point for us?
Why couldn't it be both?
We live in a time where so called progressives defend pentagon generals from scrutiny and rally around the FBI.