skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The terminology is a mess (cue laughter from the audience as Abrash tries to float "Augmented Virtual Reality" [1]). I would say:

- Augmented Reality: you have a see-through display which lets you see the real world with virtual objects added to it.

- Mixed Reality: you have an opaque display which shows a model of the real world, updated in real time using cameras, with virtual objects added to it.

[1] https://www.wareable.com/vr/michael-abrash-what-vr-will-look...
I believe the designation of the people as useless is based on the fact that part of our value to society is measured by the utility that provide to society and with continuing automation of human tasks it will be harder for us to find way for all the humans in the world to provide utility at the same level as they are now.

Now I agree with you that this (valuing people by the utility they provide) is a shallow and incorrect way of measuring a human being's value but it is true.
I disagree. It isn't really that folks don't have their old job. With that job went their livelihoods. Houses, jobs, medical insurance. Bills get late and suddenly finding food becomes an issue. Others just have very stagnant wages, so they work harder but can't stretch their paycheck as far anymore.

Do you think Trump would have still been elected if we had a proper safety net and social support for folks?
Don't use cgo (or any dependencies that use it) if you can at all avoid doing so.
I thought there was something wrong happened on my monitor.
Based on my reading of that, a very significant majority.

From a quick read before I dash out the door, it looks like at most ~21% had surgery based on indefinite or vague symptoms. I'd say that there's a good chance that many or most of those cases should have received at the least other treatment before surgery and that some physicians started resorting to surgery too soon once that surgery became easier, cheaper and safer.

That still leaves the other 79%.
The common objection I've heard to geo-engineering projects is that they are incredibly difficult to reverse should the need present itself due to detrimental effects discovered part-way along. Does this objection still apply to the current popular proposals?
Oh come on, this was supposed to be a harmless tongue-in-cheek comment. I come from a country which is far behind Russia in terms of technology and I really didn't think anyone could take it as some way of mocking. My bad
Good catch. It seems like an artifact of working and editing a query until they got what they wanted - certainly not a BigQuery restriction.

(like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO1a1Ek-HD0)

Note that the published query scans 2.25 TB of data. While impressive, for a better workflow and cost management I would split it into a 2 step process:

- First extract all the files I'm interested in to a separate table (all pom.xmls?).

- Then run whatever analysis you want over those files.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13765452
Isn't a 5 - 8 degree rise catastrophic though? Genuine question.
2c seems pretty bad. I guess 5 means no coral reefs, smaller rivers, smaller Antarctica. Permanent northwest passage is a consolation prize, I guess.
Your worst-case relative precision is going to be the same no matter what your end point is. You get a little more best-case precision, but most of that is crammed into a tiny fraction of the circle so it doesn't really help you. You get an extra bit of precision by using negative numbers too, but -180 to 180 would also do that.
In the list of the hurdles you need to overcome to get viable competitor to Wikipedia, zero-rating in Iraq wouldn't be even in the top 20, I imagine.

> You can't change what NN means on a whim

I don't want to change what NN means. I want to emphasize that NN means that people in Iraq who now can have access to a snapshot of the world's knowledge absolutely free wouldn't have that option anymore. In service of some abstract idea of fairness that doesn't even apply to anything specific. I don't think it is a good idea.
> could W3C make a stand and just because DRM is a bad thing for users, could just refuse to work on DRM and push back wherever they could on it? Well, that would again not have any effect, because the W3C is not a court or an enforcement agency.

It has an effect because the W3C has authority and influence, even though it doesn't have power, and by supporting DRM it communicates that it likes non-open technology. It undermines very many people who have advocated for open technology; if even the W3C says it's not important, then why would anyone listen to me?

(I realize that the W3C may not be saying exactly that, but those subtleties are lost in public communication.)

As an extreme example (because it comes to mind), Martin Luther King had no real power; he held no office. But he did have influence and authority. If he said that civil rights weren't important after all, then it would undermine many people who sacrificed a lot to advocate for that cause. If MLK said civil rights weren't important, why would anyone believe a protestor who said otherwise?
Why does a Turing-complete type system make type checking undecidable?
Unless you are independently wealthy or building something that can truly be bootstrapped (no expensive R&D, for example), investors are a necessary constant.
Specifically, the NRA is an industry-funded group

Is it really? It seems to me that there is a lot of reason to believe that the NRA is funded primarily through membership fees and individual contributions.

https://www.quora.com/Where-does-funding-for-the-National-Ri...

In the interest of full disclosure, I am a member of the NRA, and probably ever other pro-gun advocacy group you've ever heard of, and some you haven't.
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This echos my original feelings. But if I understand correctly if you find a vulnerability in the extension and report it, you can be sued. There is no protection from users doing anything with EMEs other than letting them run.

I believe that is the case, anyway.
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Right but aren't many kids using Instagram and other Facebook products now that they have adopted the Snapchat features? That's what I keep hearing anyway, no idea if it's reality or not.
We even go a step further, and our blobs are 100% content addressable. :) So caching is super easy for us.
Says... pretty much everyone except the morally outraged I'd say. It's not a secret, it's just hard to fight against when tens of millions of people act like a pack of social/religious wolves in a voting bloc.
I definitely don't get snapchat. Too old, not playing.

That said, if you don't understand a company, man, you should stay far, far away from investing in it.

And I don't use DropBox. I use Google Drive. For free.

Where's that Dropbox IPO at anyways?
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If you’re logged in, it says that for the last public repo that you saw. You must have last seen Homebrew.
Apache Nifi. I always make the comparison between the two when introducing Airflow as it often times takes awhile to under stand the nuanced (but critical) difference
A standard set of the most common 25 or so blood tests costs total $50 in the US. You can get it ordered online and go to a local lab to get it tested. They will post the results online and note if anything is out of range.
I've read two Steve Jobs biographies.

Don't confuse Steve Jobs being successful because he's an asshole with Steve Jobs being successful despite being an asshole.
I recall similar behavior with Google Glass, I think medicine remains one of the better immediate use cases of face cameras/wearables.
Not letting certain people buy them would likely result in some interesting run ins with regulators.
I find this funny because that exact reason applies to multiple people I know as well.
> That means a citizen or have a green card

No, anything remotely close to the US government requires a full citizenship. I got slammed by that when I was in the middle of applications for scientific software companies which did government contracting on the side.
Stanford pilots Intro to CS course taught in JavaScript instead of Java
if that feedback loop is in addition to the warming we do on our own, that would plausibly put it us kind of close to the cretaceous hot house side of this plot https://xkcd.com/1379/
I could see that, I thought Instagram and WhatsApp were popular with kids though.
Uhm, they should restrict the ads embedded in that story in order to convince that partner to contribute content?

Like, if a LGBT organization wanted to give a television network the rights to air an Orlando Shooting documentary on the condition that they don't sell ads for conversion therapy in the middle, that's kind of their right to make that sort of offer. It's a very short distance from making those demands to the distribution side preemptively seeking out those sorts of deals.
Iran tells U.S. chess champion to wear a hijab – here’s how she responds, WOW
Oh nice, I'm really happy to hear that because passing in a python script is a pain. I don't remember seeing it in the release notes. Maybe the developers didn't consider it a big enough change to warrant writing down.
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For me, if a project had a bunch of open PRs for security issues, it would discourage me from using it for new work. It would also help break a tie in my head between keeping an old library and replacing it with something that has legs.

So even if they don't get merged, they still serve a purpose, even if it's just for a few people who behave like I do.
Disagree. Considering the original goal had nothing to do with expecting S3 to go down, it just happened to be super useful during this incident. We get more more benefits even without S3 breaking.
" Specifically, the NRA is an industry-funded group that has lots of it,"

It's really really not.
There are plenty of groups that fall into that category, the NRA is not one of them.

The fact that you are just kind of saying this blindly, without any data to back it up, when even trivial searches would tell you it's wrong, severely dilutes any argument you have.

(note, i actually am very anti-gun, but i try to at least research the assertions i'm going to make)
Do you let your students use cell phones in class?
What is the "bot framework" you speak of?
For object sync between on-premise and S3, AWS offers Storage Gateway. It supports IAM, encryption, bandwidth optimization, and local cache for hot objects with availability built in.

https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/details/
I'm not sure why you think they are different things. Without control, you cannot direct the company towards an exit. Or away from a bad exit. Or away from another deal that will further dilute your stake. You have to trust the majority holders to do all those things.

Maybe I've just been around for too many decades, and seen too many shady deals proposed. But my trust comes slowly -- control issues come first in my mind.
Changes in weather patterns and seasonal events are absolutely a part of warming.
We've been using pyup for a few months now and it's awesome. Thank you.

I was initially concerned that constant PR's for dependencies would be too noisy for our team but it turned out that it's configurable enough and gracefully handles us ignoring or closing PR's that we evaluate and decide to wait on.

It's a great service that all python developers should be using. (I say that because I want as many pyup users as possible so it never goes away)
Is an argument's counter argument not relevant subject matter?
For action I would add Equilibrium (it has a cyberpunk feel to it) as well as the other movie he director did that I can't recall.

Also Existenz which has a female programmer and predates the Matrix and Inception.
> The Github license requires a waiver of the requirement of attribution insofar as such waiver is needed for Github to do what it already does e.g. as the license indicates, provide search results without attribution.

The whole problem is that I, as an uploader of code that I did not write, do not have the authority to make that waiver.
This is a trash list. Live Free Die Hard is on there, because Kevin Smith? SMH
A note on Euclid's Theorem
> You might not be making that mistake yourself so perhaps it's no use to you

But is anyone thinking it? I can say in reference some people I don't like, 'I disagree with the people who like to kick puppies'.

Part of my objection is that throwing unfounded allegations around is at the core, IMHO, of the propaganda that seems to rule public discourse currently. It's easy to make them, it takes far more time to refute them - and then the attacker makes another one.
Err, no.
The NRA is not an industry association non-profit like the NFL was (the NFL is no longer a 501(c)(6) since 2015)

It's only an industry advocacy group in the sense that there is an industry that happens to have goals that align with the people who fund it.

That's not an industry advocacy group, in the same way the various brady groups are not industry advocacy groups simply because there is an industry (trigger-locks, non-lethal weaponry, etc) that happens to have goals that align with the people who fund that.
As I say, that was my assessment. I just wanted to be friendly and share my views.

But, people are free to do whatever they want with their money. Just keep in mind that Snap isn't AMD, and snapchat CEO+board inspire opposite of confidence with their public statements.
I won't even go into their financial predictions, aspirations and what they plan to do with the money.
Just because the capital is oversaturating lately, doesn't mean all IPOs will go up.
Remember the sun wasn't so bright then either.
The worst of both worlds! The Windows kernel and the Linux UI!

I kid; I kid. Looks fun.
Saliterman was a former spokesperson for George W. Bush, by the way.[1] I'm shocked.

This was absolutely an unprofessional move and not simple targeted selling. The story would not have been as attractive a target for the NRA without Everytown's cooperation in the first place. So now that Snapchat's roped them in, to maintain the integrity of their story they need to pay up? This guy put his division ahead of Snapchat's reputation as a company.

[1] http://www.potomacflacks.com/pf/2011/09/former-bush-spokesma...
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Hacker News can't avoid touching politics, why do you think Snapchat can?

Alternatively, do you think "everything is normal, continue doing consumer culture stuff" somehow isn't a political message?
Somehow I've managed to see exactly zero comments about Whatsapp stories in this thread, which really surprises me. I think that's a hell of a lot more scary to Snapchat than Instagram stories. Most people with Instagram have Snapchat, but most people with Whatsapp do not have Snapchat.

For those who don't know (and I don't know much) Whatsapp just launched a stories feature, similar to Instagram or Snapchat.
Thanks.

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Have you ever shorted a company? It really isn't advice you should be loosely throwing about - the potential downside is unlimited. It really is a tool reserved for those with special broker access and a better understanding of what it means.

Further, if anybody had actually followed any of the short advice that has been given in HN comments in the past 10 years, they almost certainly would have lost unlimited amounts of money.

If you really want to put your money where your mouth is, post some bitcoin, a term period and a price target and see if anyone takes you up one it. I'd almost certainly book everything you offer on SNAP going to $0 in 5 years.
We hire contractors infrequently, as onboarding in most areas is pretty expensive. Contractors would usually be used for small, self-contained projects.
The most efficient/uniform representation is to store angle measures as fixed-point numbers in [–1, 1) representing [-π, π) radians, using two’s complement for negative numbers (so you can also think of this as [0, 2) with unsigned fixed-point numbers). This representation is called “binary angles”. You can think of it as an extended version of magnetic compass directions, or the corners of a regular polygon with 2^n sides. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_scaling#Binary_angles

Using IEEE floating point to represent angle measures is horribly wasteful of bits, regardless of how you do it.

As an alternative, consider not storing angle measure at all, but instead using a stereographic projection (“half-angle tangent”) of the circle onto the whole line, and then using floating point numbers in the range (–∞, ∞] for your representation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereographic_projection

What you really want as a working format for rotations, ray directions, or points on a circle is to use a 2-dimensional square-grid (Cartesian coordinate) format like unit-magnitude “complex numbers”. The angle measure or stereographic projection is primarily useful as a compression format when you need to save bits transferring or storing data. Angle measures work okay for this, but can be annoying for requiring transcendental function evaluations to convert them to/from Cartesian coordinates, whereas to take the stereographic projection or its inverse only requires a single multiplicative inverse (i.e. division operation) plus some addition and multiplication per point.
The conversation about climate change is going to morph into a conversation about directed geo-engineering over the next 70 years or so. Earth is a semi-closed system of energy and matter flows, and it's not useful to think about it as this static environment that we inhabit. Rather, it's clear that the activities that humans want to perform result in fairly heavy modification of a lot of the geo and biophysical cycles that result in conditions favorable to human civilization. Unbounded inputs (such as our carbon inputs) are inevitably going to lead to unacceptable equilibrium conditions, and so we need to take more direct control of these various geophysical processes.

To me, this seems like a natural extension of our hydrological management projects, and of our reshaping of the biosphere to our liking. Take the continental US as an example - we have totally transformed the ecosystem from primeval forests and plains into this totally human-managed ecosystem of crop lands and domesticated animals. The next step is to think about the entire planetary biosphere, and apply large-scale engineering projects to directly modifying and managing it. Emissions control is a primitive way to do that, but it will eventually have to be more comprehensive and sophisticated. Eventually we need to sequester atmospheric carbon, but we also need to manage things like ocean acidity and the nitrogen cycle - all of these are critical factors in the set of geo/biophysical systems that create planetary conditions favorable for human civilization.

The trick is to develop and deploy these methods fast enough that we can race ahead of climate conditions that become too unfavorable to support a civilization that is capable of deploying them. I think people underestimate how much can be accomplished on that front in a very short amount of time, but that still doesn't excuse the complacency about it. In particular, I'm frustrated by the lack of urgency when it comes to preserving what remains of the "natural world" - at this point, I'm basically writing off a lot of the natural diversity that exists currently, and expect that the current mass extinction event will be the most severe in planetary history. Even if human civilization survives, it will exist in a mostly artificial biosphere with a tremendously streamlined set of species.
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