skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Historic IMF SDRs allocation to members comes into effect
Where did I even mention Twitter?

Looks like you just spotted a right list of "trigger keywords" and launched a counterattack.
If you have things running in a DC where connectivity between all nodes is possible, then ZMQ / NanoMsg will work, but having a broker tends to make things easier with regards to connectivity, which is why IoT always tends to use systems that require static brokers. Logging and monitoring might also be easier with a centralized broker, depending on your needs.

I've found NATS to be a pretty nice solution, its very lightweight and capable of doing low latency at most once delivery, as well as at least once. I've also found that the libraries are pretty decent and includes support for request/response among other things.
There's a photo of the damage here:

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/172-substantially-damage...

There's also a copy of the incident report here:

https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/2/cadors-screaq/rd.aspx...

More generally, I really hope the drone manufacturers invest in genfencing off controlled airspace and installing ADS-B receivers as part of a sense-and-avoid scheme to avoid potential collisions entirely. As a pilot, I'm impressed by the work DJI has been doing in this space.

(Though it's worth noting that sense-and-avoid won't solve the problem entirely, since there's a fair number of aircraft that are not transponder equipped. Canada also doesn't yet mandate ADS-B equipage.)
That's right, simplicial complexes of the right dimension would give one the most fidelity in terms of continuity. Triangles happen to be the one for 2D. For 3D one would get similar benefits using tetrahedra.

I was alluding the fact that barring boundary effects hexagonal tessellation and equilateral tessellation are essentially the same.
I think that with the ubiquity of American media, most cultures around the world would not mistake any non-verbal communication that a US citizen might make. Not all, but surely a great many.

I don't know, I have never traveled abroad, but I do know that American movies and tv are everywhere in the world. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know.
Honestly, I despair.
> … mosquito and sandfly saliva have also been shown to enhance infectivity and disease progression

I wonder if it was mosquitos that have evolved to make disease they are carrying more infectious or it's the pathogen that evolved to take advantage of the mosquito's biology to make the host more likely to become infected. Regardless this is fascinating.
Look at credit card or marginalized finance departments. They get around the "we must pay market rates for H1B" by depressing the wages for the rest of their employees, thereby justifying the "market rate."
- AmEx
- Mastercard
- JPMorgan
- Citi

H1B Labor might not be cheap if you're truly innovating, but let me tell you- there's a reason why credit card companies pay so little across the board, and it's no coincidence that they rely heavily on H1B labor.
“Best food city” has a lot of dimensions to optimize against. Are you looking for cheap-ish ethnic food? Haute cuisine? Prevalence of vegan options? High quality fast casual? IMO extremely difficult to rank cities in the top tier of food against each other absolutely and LA is def top tier.
I was having a discussion with a friend yesterday and we got onto the topic of vaccinations.

To my knowledge, while we can develop a statistical assessment of a vaccine's safety, we can never know how the vaccine will affect a specific person that takes it. My argument here is that the human body is so fantastically complex that no two cases are ever the same, and so the only way to know how a vaccine will affect a person is to run the experiment, by having them take it.

I think this is one attribute of what are called "Wicked Problems": The only way to know if a change is going to be an improvement or not is to make the change and see how the system state evolves forward in time.

Is this roughly correct?
It does not need to be illegal. It's not ideal 2FA, but it does not need to be legislated away.

Apple has a second factor system where you can authorize a new device using another Apple device. While this is convenient, not everybody has 2 Apple devices (for each Apple login). Worse, they use a dark pattern to make enabling this (other device auth) the default choice, so it's really easy to setup when you update your iPhone.
A better solution would be to use small drone swarms and create a surveillance state in the rural areas. Each drone can see about 100m2 at 100m height. So 10K drones for 1 km2 = 10 million dollars.

Attach weapons and you have zero risk of life and can maintain a permanent presence, that can essentially be automated by AI and computer vision.

And I've only spent 0.01% of the yearly spend on the war.

This is clearly the future of warfare.
Did you choose batteries for the first version to simplify the power train? Also, why use hydrogen instead of a cheaper, buoyant neutral fuel like propane? If you are worried about the carbon, you can always buy direct air capture credits.
True. And a few large organisations are taking those baby steps too. Some of these super-conservative organisations started using subscription software with Adobe’s creative cloud, and got familiar with monthly update schedules thanks to Windows and RHEL patching. They are slowly coming around to accepting that Word and Excel can be deployed and patched just like the OS, and paid for like Photoshop, or used online along with things like Teams and OneDrive inside the organisation.
These interviews are becoming their own profession.
NZ has no cities. Auckland, the country's largest town, consists of 4 or 5 blocks of high density "city". Wellington another 2 or 3 blocks of high density "city". Outside of those few blocks the entire country is low-rise detached apartments, quickly giving way to semi-detached housing, which quickly gives way to endless suburbia. NZ has zero density.
Having had to come up with simulated datasets before, whoever faked this data clearly had no understanding of how the random number generator in excel/elsewhere would work.

It is EXTREMELY easy to generate a normally distributed dataset, with a zero lower bound. Literally one line of code/formulas in excel e.g., =max(NORMINV(RAND(),10000,5000),0). We learned it in the first three weeks of my (graduate) intro stats class. You could then apply that formula to however many data points you needed, and in this case pass in a well known mean for # of miles driven per year.

It's been 6 years since I took that class and I still remember the formula. I suppose it's possible that Ariely, a professor with decades of years of experience as a researcher, who had to have taken more stats classes than me (literally one) to get his PhD, would be dumb enough to use a random # generator.

But that is an awfully, awfully stats illiterate mistake to make.

Certainly, his team would have something to gain by a fascinating finding, though at this point Ariely already had two massively successful books prior to this finding. But the analyst at XYZ insurance that didnt want to be bothered to pull an actual dataset from SQL or oracle also couldve just been lazy...
I can't speak about Bangkok, or Chicago.

On Tokyo, Barcelona, and to a lesser extend LA, SF, I feel more confident to say something.

It is greatly a question what you are looking for, and the author quite apparently appreciates the variety.

And I have to give it to them, I do not think that Tokyo or Barcelona are in the same league there.

That is not to disparage the quality of the food.
I hold Tokyo in high regard, and would say it is the place I would most likely feel confident to go to a blindly chosen random Japanese restaurant. In Barcelona, you already have to filter out the tourist traps. (Hint: Paella & Sangria)

But in both places, it felt to me more dicey if would like some non-local food. It always seemed to be heavily adopted to the local preferences. But maybe my experience is outdated.

My armchair theory is, that both cities "suffer" from the fact of having a great culture of own cuisine. Not sure, if their customers do not appreciate the otherness, or the cooks are preemptively trying to "fit in".

As the author writes, LA is a melting pot, and I have eaten there great food from all over the place, especially when the menu was only half-translated. But then, it may be a prejudice, I am less confident that I can pick a random place, and receive the same quality as in Tokyo.
Fact checking conspiracy theories is a distraction
It's also pro-consumer since it means that you get your order faster. Instead of sending you the widget that was warehoused across the country by your seller, they can sell you the one that was warehoused near your house by a different seller.

(in theory they could always just ship it across the country, but then they'll have to raise shipping prices)

Mingling counterfeit products with genuine products is a problem, but since I rarely know Amazon merchants, I'm not sure that's considerably worse than not mingling at all, I could just as likely try to buy from a merchant that's selling counterfeits.
You seem to be saying that the left, by definition, can't be in support of censorship et al. I don't see how this follows: in fact, I feel the exact same way about _liberals_. Individual negative rights are definitionally liberal values, while being on the left (or right) is obviously compatible with authoritarianism.

More empirically (though anecdotally), I happen to have a decent amount of exposure to honest-to-god self-identified Communists and left-anarchists, the type of people who talk about praxis and casually mention revolution, including a good handful in my social circles (though none that i'm extra-close with).

While they're dismissive of the prissier, more superficial forms of identity politics that many moderate leftists enjoy performing, they're often openly dismissive of liberal values. While their preference is for regulation, they're fully in support of forcing platforms to more heavily engage in banning and censorship of undesirables (or as you and they put it, "take responsibility" for making the platform "safe"), presumably as a strategic move.
No. The CDC said AT THE TIME that they didn't recommend everyone wearing masks because hospitals were facing shortages. They have always been open about their reasoning and data. Quit repeating this terrible lie.
Before the pandemic, you could sign up for a tour of the Nevada Test site: https://www.nnss.gov/pages/PublicAffairsOutreach/NNSStours.h...

The tour would get you close to the NERVA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA) test stand and you could see the train tracks and the diesel switchers that would pull the reactor core in and out of the protective bunker dug into the hillside. Maybe if you looked closely, you might be able to find the chassis, assuming the arms were repurposed.

I hope the tours re-open after the pandemic!
I traveled to Miami in May, went through a long line and didn't get the Pfizer shot as they were checking people :(

I wouldn't want to spend so much money flying there without a guarantee. Anyways, I will probably be able to get something (looking for a 3rd Pfizer shot), I just don't like to depend on getting lucky.
The consistent problem with most comments about the conflict in Afghanistan is they fail to fully account for the role of the Pakistan Army and ISI in all of this. They are the most important element in the conflict, not the Afghans, not us and not the Taliban. If they weren’t involved and the conflict were limited to Afghanistan and Afghans things like what Mr. Filkins describes would hold sway and accommodations and arrangements might be made. But that won’t happen because the Pak Army/ISI won’t let it. They have a mad idea of requiring Afghanistan for strategic depth (‘After the Indians beat us we can fall back on the tank factories of Kabul and regroup.’) and they require a compliant regime running the country. So they make it happen. As plucky as the Afghans can be, Afghanistan can’t handle Pakistan, especially a Pakistan that is a conduit for Gulf Arab money being sent to buy the donors a place in heaven.

Handling the Pak Army/ISI was our job and we didn’t do it. We never really even tried to do it. If we had kept the Paks out and the conflict was contained within Afghanistan, the Afghans could have handled what would have been left of the Taliban through means such as those described by Mr. Filkins. But we didn’t. We got had by Pakistan and tales of the Raj and their special knowledge. We gave them money even, lots of it to kill us and Afghans.

We did get something for this though. Hundreds of high ranking officers got their tickets punched. The spec ops community got their budgets and fanfare. Multitudes of State Dept. people got hazard pay and career points. Contracting companies and contractors galore got lots and lots of money over lots and lots of years. Several thousand of our guys died but they were mostly deplorable NASCAR fans and don’t much count. Now the party is over and the Afghans get to pay the final bill.

Nice going Americans! This is the second time in my life where we’ve bugged out on people who trusted us when we told them we wouldn’t bug out on them.

(The above comment was made by someone on the original article, but I think it's 100% accurate.)
This is a genuinely fascinating and eye-opening way to look at it. I had never considered it from the perspective of the Keynesian economic machine.
> I'm actually surprised and optimistic to see the major manufacturer Trek start building their own brick and mortar shops in certain major cities

I wouldn’t be too optimistic. We have one in Toronto. When I brought in my trek that I bought from them to fix it, it cost a fortune and they didn’t actually fix it properly.

Similar to servicing your car at the dealer. It’s super expensive. Difference being the quality of work is questionable (no doubt varies quite a bit).

Lesson: learn to fix your own bike or settle for crappy big box bikes instead.
Related trivia: Jeff Bezos's father was a local bike shop owner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP80jo1_UgU
Michelin is back in LA after Jonathan Gold's passing:

https://guide.michelin.com/us/en/california/us-los-angeles/r...

Lots of overlap between Jonathan Gold's 101 list and the Michelin star list.
> Flu is endemic, but another 1918 could happen at any time.

True, though usually viruses mutate into less virulent forms.

There's good reason to suspect that long-term COVID will be on the order of influenza or the common cold -- common and mild for most patients.

> Turning vaccines into a political wedge issue is one of the stupidest things I've seen in my life.

Probably, but even the question of whether vaccines should be a policy issue is in itself a policy issue.
acute observation! there is something here to be teased out .. about.. the final product is a human readable page all these years, and that human readable page got better in adhoc ways and most all of those improvments stuck..

compare to the RDF efforts, who ride a rigorous math-y perspective and with a far, far smaller development crowd right away..
Not to be confused with the other Buoyant [1], the company behind the linkerd service mesh.

Not that I'm really into service meshes, but I happened to be doing some reading about the Tokio async runtime for Rust yesterday, and a lot of the work on that has been funded by that Buoyant, which is why that company was on my mind.

[1]: https://buoyant.io/
It probably depends on how heavily you weight variety, casual vs fine dining, and whether having a food truck with an awesome cheesesteak is the same as "LA has awesome cheesesteaks".
I disagree about having an Objective Statement. I replaced mine with a Summary long ago.

Also, talking about your interests should happen during an interview or even a phone screen. You don't list "Film Noir" when applying to a flowers shop.
Since we're all commenting on what's missing, here's another missing thing: you scroll down to the end of the article and a totally unrelated article begins underneath it.
Speaking as a Tokyoite, you absolutely can but you just won't see them if you're a tourist staying for a week in the most central parts of the city. All in all, it's true that there's more variety in US cities - but I guess I don't value variety as much as you do.
And if you click past it to remain on the web version, you're presented with truncated lists ("Download App to read the rest!") or a slew of missing features.

I have an old Instagram account that I created over 10 years ago. At the time, I used it for the photo filters. Never cared about the social networking aspect. Just a month ago I logged into it for the first time in forever, and realized I wanted to delete those old posts. Guess what you can't do from the website? Yeah, delete posts. Need the app for that!
It happened in tons of countries

People are not that different
> The SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are a "political wedge issue"

They are a political wedge issue because some want them to be policy.

Anything that is policy -- taxes, marriage, controlled substances, international trade -- is political.

And always someone says "why is policy X political?" without realizing what "politics" is. Usually, they mean to say "why doesn't everyone agree with me?"
Response from Torba: https://tv.gab.com/channel/a/view/breaking-down-the-latest-h...
I think a look at Texas shows the real danger of Covid. Near 0% ER (edit: availability).

If you’re in a car accident, you may not get the life saving attention you need, because so many someones refused to vaccinate.

That’s the cascading effects we need to deal with, here.

I’m not worried about getting covid, myself. I wasn’t too worried before I was vaccinated and I’m not worried at all, now.

I’m terrified of needing normal, emergency medical care, or so-called elective surgeries (which is almost all surgeries, even the vital ones), and being unable to get it because thousands of beds are filled with people on respirators.
Nuclear scientists hail US fusion breakthrough
I am talking about the overall architecture to make your typical highway standard lane keeping solution.

Pretty much every manufacture now has one and they always use forward facing camera and radar in combination. Of course the radar can't see lanes, but its essential for seen if there are cars ahead and how fast they are.

All of these solution suffer from the same problem of the radar not being good to detect a stationary object. That is where you have to do more with the camera data or add some form of lidar.

I think some 1 car (Audi maybe) use solid state lidar. Tesla has switched to vision only for the most part. No company yet uses active lidar as far as I know.
Nobody was particularly enthusiastic about the Taliban, either. Except perhaps the Pakistanis, who wanted a relatively friendly, stable country on their border (IIRC, there was an oil/gas pipeline involved.)
Oh, gotcha.

The issue is that the behavior of this other group isn't benign. It comes with a very real "comply or else", which already affects my ability to participate in society due to a particular transient medical choice. It's a tough sell that medical decisions are best made under threats of harm (legal, livelihood, societal participation, etc..).

I think it's fairly natural when someone tries to coerce you into something to reject it on principle alone. There's big difference from "you should stop eating so much McDonalds because of downstream effects on the medical system" and "you WILL stop eating McDonalds or we will take away your autonomy to do so." I will not be forced into medical decisions by a mob threatening harm. If/when I get the vaccine, it will because my view of the risks/need ticked in favor of it (in theory anyways).
Shouldn't you think about a control group? Legal immigrants? Law enforcement gatherings? Prisoners? Local area positivity rate?
The real problem is Cal Fire using Twitter to disseminate important data.

Post it on an official government website. Tweet a link to it. Don't try to use Twitter or any other service for hosting critical information.

Also, it's ironic that this complaint was posted on Reddit, which is now notorious for the login-wall depending on how you access the website.
"The largest decrease in hesitancy between January and May by education group was in those with a high school education or less. Hesitancy held constant in the most educated group (those with a PhD); by May PhD’s were the most hesitant group. "

https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/news/news-stories/2021/july/cov...
I can't guess which one isn't!
https://ebikes.ca/product-info/grin-products/ligo-batteries.... 98Wh each, can be hooked up in series (already 10s = 36V nominal, max is 2 of them for 72V nominal) and parallel.

"While most airlines do not have a firmly defined maximum number of batteries under 100 Wh that can be brought aboard, we'd suggest travelling with no more than 4-5 LiGo's per person in order to avoid extra scrutiny. We have had customers travel by air with as many as 12 LiGo modules on them, but we wouldn't recommend that as a matter of course."

People traveling with folding bikes and LiGos: https://www.bikefriday.com/folding-bikes/the-only-electric-b...
Thanks that's great to hear! Initially I thought it would be a game/toy just because I personally thought it would be fun to build and share music like this.
The bulk of early users seem to enjoy it just for this as well, although I have had some requests to add more utility for music-makers (some want a LudoTune VST and others potentially a desktop or iPad app).
The educational angle has also been brought up a few times and I think that'd be great, so I'll probably be exploring that further too.
She is absolutely right. If trump touts a vaccine but the medical community does not, she wouldn't trust it - and neither should you.

You have to remember at the time trump was recommending hydroxychloroquine as a preventative and miracle treatment for COVID-19. Sadly some of his followers still believe it (and now are looking at ivermectin as well).
My biggest reason to use CI/CD after been at startups and big companies is to have a repeatable setup, build, and deploy. By taking the human element out of the machine setup and release/deployment phases a whole class of mistakes are mitigated.

Sure, you're fine with running and managing these servers, but what about the new hire who replaces you when you move on?

Specifically it forces most of the DevOps tribal knowledge to be coded/documented. Those "Oh, that's right I needed to recompile the mod_wsgi extension manually because this version of the CentOS didn't support python 3" moments go away. (This is a real example from the last server I needed to setup by hand.)

It conveniently it also makes setting it up on a new machine a piece of cake. Clone the repo, run the setup command/script and run the

It took me a while to grok, all of the pieces, but I'm glad to have it.

That said it can get extremely complex (and by extension fragile) for little benefit. My entire setup and deployment are controlled with two scripts one for creating a cluster (CDN, DB, message queue, app server, monitoring) and one GitHub action script for CI/CD.

It's all very understandable even for people who've never worked with these technologies before. Writing the scripts on the other hand take a lot of knowledge and it took me a month to really grok what I was doing.
Yup, and it has a close button that conveniently appears right beneath the scrollbar.
I've left out a lot of detail, because I was writing a comment, not a treatise. I also left out how the Taliban fighters routinely raped the widows and children of their opponents, as well as the Taliban's horrific history of brutality.

In addition to all of these atrocities, there are a number of outliers, such as those you pointed out.
Netflix had a deal to share only half of Apple’s standard revenue share on iOS [pdf]
You should. It would get you what you want, in this instance.