skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, most objects of any size are actively tracked pretty much continually from the ground. That's especially true of a state's classified space plane.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/4/43/Wikim... indicates that only about $2M of this is spent on hosting.

Wikipedia pages likely include more, higher-resolution imagery and video than they did ten years ago.
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If you think Microsoft supports features long-term out of lazyness then you haven't been paying attention. It's a very deliberate choice that helped them grow their business and keep customers.

Transitions are nice from a development perspective but I can guarantee you'll never hear someone who uses your library happy that they need to rewrite parts of it.

Also Windows doesn't have a monopoly bizarre filenames/features/etc you can find plenty of things in the nix family as well.

Lastly, Rust is one of the few projects I've seen that has phenomenal Windows support. It's something that's really appreciated and is going to help them capture markets that other software won't.
OK? I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, then, as there's not a no-atmosphere, Earth-sized body in the solar system for your argument to apply to.
> Past behavior is a good predictor of future behavior in my experience.

That question includes the past behavior of a lot more people than just the person with a criminal conviction.

> recurring behavior

Institutional racism has recurred a lot in the justice system.
I presume you have you tried Kiwix? For less than $100, you can install the full Wikipedia (with reduced size graphics) on a cheap Android tablet with a 64GB card. The installation the first time is a little clumsy, but the experience once it's local is solid: http://www.kiwix.org/downloads/.

I don't think "critical updates" are really that necessary. Swapping SD cards a couple times a year would solve most of it. I think it's pretty incredible (and useful) to to be able to have access to all that information for such a low cost even if it's a few months (or even years) out of date.
The question is, what's better than that today? Nothing but way more risky stuff.
The startup graveyard. Check out all the past startup companies.
Your comment brings me joy. Society would benefit from inventing better ways of communicating the properties of large social/economic systems, so that this misconception - that top down economic planning, through cookie cutter mandates, can improve social welfare - becomes less common.

Everything from the growth of the welfare state, to populist revolutions to put socialists into power, can be blamed on how common this misconception is.
Is there a way to mount loop device without sudo? Some kind of FUSE option?

It's useful as a workaround for 32-bit applications which aren't built with LFS (Large File Support) enabled, and because of that fail on large XFS partitions. It's a very common bug in games which come out in 32-bit only. Making a loop device is a workaround, but using sudo for it all the time is annoying.

Also, there is probably no need to explicitly create a loop device, unless you already used up all existing ones (see man mount):

if no explicit loop device is mentioned (but just an
option `-o loop' is given), then mount will try to find
some unused loop device and use that, for example

mount /tmp/disk.img /mnt -o loop

I.e. in such case I simply create an empty file of certain size, then format it with some filesystem, and then mount it as a loop.

For example:

dd if=/dev/zero of="$image" bs=1024K count="$img_size"
mkfs.xfs "$image"
sudo mount -o loop "$image" "$mount_path"
sudo chown $USER:$USER "$mount_path"
While it's a good warning to WMF, it's not currently a problem. With longevity, they are in for some large endowments. I think those giving a certain amount (?) should have a vote on various directions of the org, like shareholders but, for the common good that supports their mission statements, instead of shareholder value.

Edit: Punctuation.
Bingo. I couldn't remember overshoot for the life of me.
As a middle class person without a property and kids just knowing we maintain salt ponds in an area where housing is in a world-record man-made critical shortage in a state where if fly over at night is mostly empty is beyond me. No houseboats (not many), no more foster city style land creation. Not much building up. Massive swaths of land that isnt a park, nor a preserve, nor "usable", but remains undeveloped. Poor public transit. I visit Japan quite often and wonder if San Fran had gotten firestormed into oblivion in 1945 we would be further along? Makes no sense to me to see Tokyo, starting from near nothing in 1945, holding 5 times as many people, having 525 subway stations, having so much more housing built up and infrastructure and a huge middle class (of course with demographics issues, but still) and to be here and watch basically the worst played game of Sim-City played out in real life. Billionaires club over here. I dont get why they like to live near muddy stinking salt mush while their baristas, kids teachers and man-servants need to rent tents in Gilroy to make it paycheck to paycheck.
Well those actually explode them right? Don't want to do that here to avoid disrupting the ecosystem
There are a few things that wings can do that capsules cannot. Shuttle's wing were never actually used for their intended purpose. Wings allow for "once over and return" flights. Shuttle's creators envisioned it launching into a polar orbit, overflying the USSR to [redacted] then land back home without a second orbit. That requires the ability to 'fly' through the atmosphere to make up for the earth's rotation during your orbit. For a vehicle doing multiple orbits, such wings would allow it greater latitude on return. It wouldn't have to wait for its orbit to line up as perfectly with the intended landing site.

"The militarily specified 1,085 nmi (2,009 km; 1,249 mi) cross range requirement was one of the primary reasons for the Shuttle's large wings, compared to modern commercial designs with very minimal control surfaces and glide capability."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle
Actually, it's pretty easy to keep track of the X-37. You could see where it would have been had it not landed here:

http://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx?satid=40651&lat=0&ln...

If it was to get close to a non-US military satellite, one could expect people to complain diplomatically, at least.
> They try to make the most accurate predictions possible given the data.

So what you're saying is that a bias in the data could result in a biased outcome.
Given the force-multiplying factors of technology, more and more can be accomplished by fewer and fewer people. IBM > Google > Facebook > Instagram

That's not to say I disagree with you completely: large corporations can achieve things small ones cannot (especially as you move out of software) but I've seen plenty of talk around accountability, culture and trust, and very few results.
yes but they're not going to pay to remove them any more than Mexico is going to pay to build a wall, no matter how often some blowhard shouts it at clueless crowds
That's the big plus of AI algorithms. For instance, all voice recognition algorithms use a patented algorithm. Nuance holds the patent.

But, the reasoning goes, because this was learned, and there is no code in there implementing that algorithm (just "weights" implementing an unrolled version), that code does not violate patents.

It's not a bug, it's a feature. Know any valuable algorithms ? Figure out how to learn them.
Investing? Or speculating?
Women file for divorce twice as often as men:

http://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/savvy/documents/pr...

It is not popular to discuss sex differences in marriage behaviors (as my burnt karma indicates) but they exist.
I wonder if by the time we find "The Ultimate Secret to Staying Married" we'll have already learned that marriage doesn't have to be the final goal of a relationship after all.
IIRC, you could also reference it in a HTML page, so the whole computer would crash when that page was viewed.
Easy to say, hard to do. We don't like change. Change means possible danger, it means relinquishing opportunities, it means no safety net.

Part of the happiness that comes from a new relationship comes from not just discovering new things about each other (or NRE, or the Coolidge effect) but from the (misplaced) belief that things will go on this way forever. Embracing change means sacrificing that pleasure, which you might be able to do if you possess foresight/discipline, but it is hard and not obvious, especially when you have an of love that's foolish, us-against-the-world that reinforces that mentality.
my mechanical watch keeps telling good time for days when I go out camping, whereas my phone will be dead or out of service. Otherwise, generally when I need to know the time, it's at the end of a night out and I'd like to catch the bus, or at least know if theres still another bus coming. My phone tends to be on its last legs by that point, and frequently is dead

another benefit is charging -- when I'm wearing a watch, I wind it instead of fidgeting, and I'm not stuck waiting at an outlet for my phone to charge.
>In the case you presented, the biases are in the dataset itself.

The code that is going to handle the data is also biased in some direction. Its actions is value-based, coming from that of the creators of the algorithm. This is why all code must be open and publicly auditable if used in law enforcement, health care and insurance, etc.
None of the facts you listed are untrue, but did you notice how skewed your post is towards western-style living? None of the food you mentioned are everyday items for Japan (except beer, which is still cheap in Tokyo compared to western cities). And you definitely do not need 80–100m² to raise a family; most natives in central Tokyo raise their families in 55m² or less.

You're right, it's crazy how low professional salaries are, but the city is so affordable with such a wide range of housing options that you can be a nail stylist and still live in the most central neighborhoods (granted, that stylist would probably have to move farther out to raise a family).
You can try sending an email to hn@ycombinator.com to get a reply sooner. Sometime this threads are unnoticed.
And this discussion less recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12829759 "I don't understand Python 3 asyncio". Along with the comment somewhere in that thread by coleifer:

"I've been a gevent user for a long time and Python's decision to "bless" twisted by adopting it's patterns was a watershed moment for me, and basically was the beginning of the end of my belief that I'd ever adopt Python 3.

User jerf's comment that asyncio "more than [doubles] the complexity" is absolutely correct. Watch this video of Guido talking about tulip...or struggling to talk about tulip, rather. It's clear the dude is out of his depth and my god the recent changes to the language show that the inmates are now running the asylum... Seems like Python, in it's effort to chase the latest fads, is no longer the language I would endorse to someone new to programming. Whether you think that's a meaningful litmus test or not, the staggering amount of _crap_ that's infiltrated the language now completely flies in the face of the zen of python's statement that there should be one and preferably only one way of doing things. Fuck. I'm going to go code some lua now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1coLC-MUCJc "
Ask HN: Does your organization still use old web browsers?
I'm doing some development and honestly despite the fact that it may reduce my target audience I'm just not going to bother supporting anything but latest browsers.

I got to wondering, "how many organizations actually still use old browsers"?

So, does your organization still use old browsers, if so which browser version and why?
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I did 23AndMe a long time ago, before they had been neutered by the FDA. I wouldn't use them again for that reason.
i feel like it should be "reduce risk" instead of "perform risk reduction", but I guess I can see that these (now?) mean slightly different things.
People ride scooters all over the place in Japanese cities. They're pretty commonly used for delivery services as well. Biking culture is actually more aggressive than in many places in the US. For example, it's for some reason acceptable to ride your bike on crowded sidewalks, belying everything I understand about notions of Japanese civility.
Ask HN: What is your home media PC setup?
I currently watch all media (TV shows, movies) through a MacBook connected via HDMI to a TV, but I'm looking to invest in a better setup.

I'm thinking of buying a mini PC and connecting it to some sort of network storage. Then, I could download content to this network drive on other home computers. I'd imagine I'd use XBMC, unless something better has come along in the last few years?

Curious to hear how others have solved this problem, and how it's working for you.
That equivalence is false. An unhandled exception bubbles up. An unhandled return code is ignored. This was exactly one of the biggest arguments against return codes.
How would that help?

More specifically, how would implementing this as a smart contract prevent bias from making its way into the algorithms or the learning datasets?

Remember that bias can be inserted accidentally, by well-meaning programmers who don't realize that the data they are using is biased or has other methodological problems.
Ah. At one time NCR supported all their in-store registers and PC-based servers, but my knowledge is very out-of-date.
Puffy, saggy, ageing blowhards do certainly seem to be threatening national security everywhere.
Awesome, more power to them.

If they can't work out how to stop nagging me, I'll find a technological solution to the problem. Ideally, I'd turn it on after I donate and it will turn off after the donation drive is done, so I can get reminded to again next year.

But of course that's never going to happen. So I'll never get reminded and my donations are going to stop. Oh well.
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They now have bought Inphi's memory buffer business I think. Of course, this is long after they give up on even XDR DRAM.
> Also Windows doesn't have a monopoly bizarre filenames/features/etc you can find plenty of things in the nix family as well.

Like what? I'm not aware of special file names in arbitrary directories. Only in known/documented ones like /proc or /dev.

I'd say *nix OSes are too lax in what they allow as anything without a zero byte is valid.
Literally right from the paper:

Women are more likely than men to initiate divorces, but women and men are just as likely to
end non-marital relationships, according to a new study that will be presented at the 110th Annual
Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).

And later:

Social scientists have previously argued that women initiate most divorces because they are more
sensitive to relationship difficulties. Rosenfeld argues that were this true, women would initiate the
breakup of both marriages and non-marital relationships at equal rate

The paper goes on to theorize that the assymetry may be because the institution of marriage (and the social expectations surrounding it) has not caught up with expectations of gender equality, leading women to feel oppressed.

And that has absolutely nothing to do with what this article is about, and certainly does not support the claimed sex-assymetry of marital dissatisfaction due to spousal changes that you claim (without evidence) exists.
> While we're here: NUL, COM<n>, LPT<n> and AUX are reserved.

Worse: they're reserved with any extension. Have a file in your repository called "aux.rs"? It will cause problems on Windows.
I thought the clarification to be self-evident, for what it's worth.
I agree that more may be accomplished with less in certain circumstances aided by technology. One could go as far as to say one day management and governance may be taken over by machines (fun thought experiment: ponder the ramifications for democracy when machines are capable of making better decisions than humans). I think we're a ways away from that still, but the future is exciting.

Sure there's plenty of talk around accountability and proper management without much substance and I don't claim I have any specific solutions in mind to the problem. I think keeping organizations small (i.e. tribalism) is one hack that may help, but comes with different considerations as I mentioned.
How relevant is it compared to, say, the 8-bit Atmel stuff, when it comes to new designs?
I remember a story a professor once told me about something similar to this. He once knew of a research team that was trying to develop an algorithm to tell the difference between pictures of American and Russian tanks. They were able to achieve a very high success rate very quickly. Excited but skeptical, they decided to keep testing the algorithm on lower and lower resolution photos. Shockingly, they were still getting close to 100% identification on images of sizes around 10 by 10.

Turns out, all the pictures of Russian tanks were taken in the winter, while all the american ones were taken in the summer. All they had done was trained a model to classify how bright the picture was.
I wouldn't, myself, characterize your original comment in this thread as "discuss[ing]" sex differences, but rather as asserting them.

That's not to say they don't exist — they most certainly do, though perhaps not necessarily in the forms so many like to think. But your comment reads to me as, "See! There it is again!" which smells like nothing so much as confirmation bias.
Oh don't let the F-35 people know about the space plane role or they're going to add another 30 years and $2 trillion onto that program.
If you find the answer let me know, because i have been wondering for weeks now.
That is not accurate.

Estimates are that the Dragon v2 has about 400m/s dV. This is around what it would need for controlled landing or abort. It takes around 1720m/s just to get to the stationary Lunar surface from Lunar orbit; If a Falcon upper stage detaches during the leg of the mission between Earth and Luna, the necessary delta V for the rest of the mission will be around 5080m/s. This is a lot. You would have to build another fairly large vehicle to accomplish this mission - Dragon v2 would be an afterthought.
Parent said "Neither of those limits actually makes solving the problem feasible in practice." This is correct, since the input space is too huge to feasibly explore. Yes, it is technically correct that there are a finite number of states that your laptop can be in. No, it does not mean that I can practically enumerate all possible states my code can be in.

Formal verification will be necessary in practice. This is not an ideal outcome either, since (1) you have to formally specify the problem you're trying to solve and (2) the proof that the code meets the specification can easily be bigger than the program, by many orders of magnitude. Even this does not guarantee that bugs won't happen, since there's no guarantee that your specification accurately describes the problem you're solving.
I tried to follow your logic but I got lost. My point was that forcing global enterprises to pay tax in the US on revenues raised elsewhere creates a long term drag on US-based businesses, gives foreign-based businesses a huge competitive advantage, and at the end of the day, AAPL shareholders lose value, the US economy is depositioned relative to those who don't have to discount their profits by N%. You seem upset but you also seem to believe that successful businesses should pay up just because they can afford it.

To quote Bill Gates as portrayed on The Simpsons: "I didn't get rich by writing checks".
Once you've retired and your only income is from long term capital gains

You'll also likely be drawing down a 401K, and the government wants their deferred taxes back. So capital gains taxes aren't the only tax consideration. Granted, you most likely will in a lower tax bracket come retirement time.
I don't understand how they can conclude that "the Dragon-2 has enough power and fuel to land and ascend back to lunar orbit" based only on a comparison of maximum thrust and a statement that the Dragon has an automated landing system.

At the very least, they'd need to consider the dry weight and fuel load to make a fair comparison - maybe they did so offscreen but it's not mentioned anywhere in the post.
> Humans are ridiculously adaptable

[Citation needed].
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I looked at Lua briefly instead of Go, but it looks like the concurrency story is lacking. Go also has an enormous standard library which helps for quick tasks.
Yea, I think you are probably referring to how i820 RDRAM boards had to be limited to two slots. This kind of signal integrity issues is not limited to RDRAM.
The 8051 was originally developed by Intel but there were many second sources. It has a Harvard architecture so separate code and data memory space and furthermore an external memory space. Also can do single bit operations which is useful for controlling IO pins. Although an 8-bit processor, the compilers (like Keil which is now owned by ARM) are quite good. Not a days if I was wanting a low end micro-controller I would go with an ARM Cortex-M as the 32-bit CPU just makes programming a lot easier. I recall the days I spent micro optimizing a 32-bit multiply or divide on an older 8-bit CPU.
Is natural number = standard natural number here? I can see why the standard natural numbers must have a finite number of predecessors (one can explicitly prove in PA all statements of the form (x = 0 || x = S0 || ... || x = n || x > n) for each fixed standard n). But for the same reason, each non-standard number is greater than all standard numbers. So while a non-standard model m might be able to prove a finiteness-implying statement like \exists n (P(x) \implies x <= n), the actual n that makes this statement true could be non-standard, and m could contain infinitely many (standard or non-standard) elements with P(x) true so long as they are all less than some non-standard n. The point is, I don't see how PA can have a satisfactory notion of finite-ness as one could use this to define standardness from within PA (x is standard iff there are finitely many y with y < x) which is not supposed to be possible.
That sounds true today. Didnt ot originally just have one or two services?
How do you know all parties involved in this discussion are experienced?
The headline could be shortened to "A lot we know is not true, and a lot of what is true is not known." That's an unfortunate reality but on the other hand, it keeps life interesting.
Eh? Population density according to Wikipedia (person/km2):

South Korea 507
North Korea 201

New Jersey 470 (densest amont US states)
New York 162
California 97
US average 33

The Korean DMZ is "about 250km long, 4km wide" strip of land sitting between two hostile countries, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers on either side, with barbed wire fences and watch posts running along its length. Thousands of eyes are watching every corner of it right now as I write this.

(For comparison, the Yosemite national park is 1,169 square miles, larger than DMZ. Somehow people are sure that it harbors no grizzly bears.)

A tiger isn't a bigfoot. It is an apex predator that roams around huge areas and is scared at nothing. I stand by my assertion: if there's a tiger in DMZ, we'd know.