skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At some point a significant proportion of the people who have been ridiculing climate change (or to a large extent just going along with a political movement which incidently ridicules it) will shift their beliefs to accept moderate action to tackle climate change, and it's important they can do that without being forced to admit they are actually changing their minds.

That means leaving open, for people who previously dismissed it, the narrative of "I don't believe in climate alarmism pushed by radical leftists, but I do believe in following the science, and now that the evidence is in, I support reasonable action". I think it is true that a figure like Al Gore acts as an anchor to make those sorts of changes more difficult.
They plan to release the spec like that, but I'm certain on this update most studios will be lagging due to the vast amount of 2 to 3 migration work that needs to be done.
These are all people tooling problems.
Mitchell Hashimoto created Vagrant - he is the "Hashi" in Hashicorp (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-hashicorp/)
GnuCOBOL also has the single most comprehensive FAQ in existence. Their docs are amazing. I haven't worked with the tool directly but its helped me solve problem in other languages.

FAQ: https://open-cobol.sourceforge.io/faq/
I have heard about something similar in the open source community:

https://deepdetect.com

Doesn't it sound like a better long-term option than corporate-driven political initiative?
1> Now I'm working three different jobs and going to school

2> I wake up at a decent time, but feel extremely sluggish and tired

3> I'm a horrible procrastinator

I think 2 and 3 are direct results of 1. It looks like you're already squeezing yourself as hard as possible, and I don't think any amount of discipline will force more productivity out of yourself without extremely bad consequences. You may as well ask how to save up for a house when you can only spare pennies every week!

Once you're not so atrociously overcommitted your sleep and execution will get much better. Having to work 3 jobs to keep a roof over your head while going to school is an environmental problem, not a personal one.
Strangely, the resulting digital voice sounds Irish... but I am not.
The only disappointment for me is that they flew a relatively modest 737 down there. If you're going to make a heroic flight like this do it in an A380 or a 747 and load up as many people as you can to get them out of dodge. I guess shuffling a big plane like that at the last minute is probably not feasible since they have their own routes to service.

An evac flight could even go full on quick load. No checked bags, one carry-on max, forget assigned seats and just fill the plane from back to front as fast as possible to get out of dodge.
If Stride is its Slack competitor what the hell is Hipchat?
You would need a hash to verify the transaction, and hashes wouldn't be publicly tied to one's identity. Thus if I claim that a hash represents me, then there'd be no way for anybody else to verify that. It's a legitimate concern, but not a hurdle that can't be overcome.

So you worked at a polling station that had it's shit together? Great, but that doesn't inspire me much confidence. Though really the main reason I want electronic voting is for convenience (it really is a hassle, and election days aren't national holidays), increased participation, and so that we could move more towards direct democracy and liquid democracy.
Good point about the proposal -- that'll be the answer in the end.

asmj.js as JS is irrelevant to the point I was making, because if you access the DOM directly, your code won't verify as the asm.js subset, and so won't run via the asm.js engine.
caching instead of catching, perhaps?
I used to think like you, until I started a company to work on something because I felt like it was a "useful problem" and it crashed and burned quickly because I was not truly motivated: I was thinking with the head not the heart. Then I started working on a problem space I enjoy out of sheer technical fun (VR) and have been amazed to discover that it has massive potential for helping solve some of the more "useful" problems you mention.

The truth is, when you are working on a project you care about, nobody really knows where it will lead you. Big things start out small and usually with humble ambitions. Usually the things that end up impacting the world start out as being considered "useless" and "toys."

I say, work on interesting problems that you feel good about working on but most importantly enjoy working on. Feeling like the thing you are working on is an important problem to solve is a necessary but insufficient condition to ensuring you will get through the tough parts.

Richard Hamming once wrote that he asked his peers the question: "Are you working on the most important problems in your field? If not, why not?" And I think this is a valid question and not a leading one at all. But it also is fair to answer "No" to this question if you are able to clearly answer "why not?" to yourself in a way you can live with.
Facebook interns are paid, and paid quite well.

It is, in fact, illegal to not pay an intern in the state of California if the intern performs beneficial work.

Your entire rant is predicated on untrue assumptions.
Come on, you're dodging. Most people are raised to know that paying their taxes is right. So taxes aren't coercive right?

If coercion is the threat of physical force to get me to comply then property and contract law are just as coercive as tax law. In a disaster if everybody's price gouging water so it costs me $100 a case and I could steal it and get away with it you betcha I'm doing it. The only thing preventing me is the threat of physical force. That's coercion. So now the question is why is coercion okay to protect $100 water, but not okay to give out free water?
Supported since CMake 3.8!
The Transformer network is solving a different problem: translating a given sentence into another with the same meaning.

The problem discussed here is about completing the next word in a partial sentence, where AFAIK some variety of RNN is still best. It might be possible to adapt the Transformer architecture to that task, but that would make it a different model.
I'm surprised the aristocracy survived the financial crisis. I would have thought popular discontent would have killed their tax breaks.
I think he is talking about the actual false colors being used. I also thought the same thing.

The picture seems to use the "Jet" Matlab colormap, which is pretty bad by many accounts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU

https://matplotlib.org/users/colormaps.html

https://bids.github.io/colormap/
No, data diodes are a different (but related) concept. An airgap implies no information transfer, either in or out. Use an airgap when information leakage must be stopped (as well as remote attacks), use a data diode when information can be released but you need to stop remote attacks.

Fiber optic connections aren't required, anything with separate transmit and receive lines can be turned into a data diode (as long as the protocols used permit it). RS232 null modem cables with the RX lines disconnected are a classic.
> That is an extraordinarily European viewpoint

It is not at all, you misunderstand the point.

It is the technique that codebreakers used to check whether something is linguistic or not. And it is rather consistent across all languages. The 'Alphabet size' of a string might vary (i.e. logographic languages have much higher symbolic vocabulary sizes, so different per-symbol information content), but that doesn't affect the overall information density, because those symbols also take more information to encode. I haven't done the analysis myself, but as I understand it, Voynich is way way outside the range of normal human languages, European or otherwise.

And raising the issue of logographic or syllabic systems, is a point I made (did you not understand they are your examples). Even if one argued (as some have done) that the symbols in Voynich are logographic or syllabic, that would make it even lower information density, even further from human language.

I'm sorry I wasn't clear, but this stuff is very well-established in the Voynich literature. It puts genuine constraints over what the language can contain. It doesn't mean it's gibberish, but it is very unlikely to be 'real writing' derived from any known language, extant or extinct. Crucially, if it is real writing, it is of a form so dramatically different to anything we've ever seen before (i.e. fundamentally different syntactic and semantic structures), that one suspects the kind of correspondence translation techniques in the videos will be futile.
Please don't treat probability and statistics as one.
I'm curious if there was an organized campaign to give the movie low votes or if it was simply an army of similarly minded trolls.
>I have yet to hear a compelling argument for any form of voting that involves networked computers.

You do bigger and more important decisions than voting everyday from your phone and computer.

If voting were as easy as sending an email, you would be able to vote on every topic, instead of voting on someone every 4 years.
> So does non-hurricane air

That depends on what you mean by "non-hurricane air." An embedded thunderstorm by definition has to be embedded in some other weather system. That other weather system doesn't have to be a hurricane, but so what? That doesn't change the fact that one of the many dangers of flying into a hurricane is the embedded thunderstorms it contains.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/prepare/hazards.php

"Hurricanes and tropical storms can also produce tornadoes. These tornadoes most often occur in thunderstorms embedded in rain bands well away from the center of the hurricane; however, they can also occur near the eyewall."

> The hurricane by itself presents very little danger to a plane in the air

That's a vacuous statement. Yes, if you remove all the dangerous parts of a hurricane, whatever remains is, by definition, not dangerous. And yes, it's true that strong winds by themselves are not dangerous. Commercial airliners regularly fly through the jet stream which is comparable to a hurricane in terms of wind speed. But that doesn't change the fact that hurricanes contain embedded thunderstorms, which can be very dangerous.
I wonder if all of Musk's enterprises (all of which seem in some way synergistic) will be formally grouped together a la an "Alphabet".

What are the pros/cons of doing this from a financial/legal/organizational perspective?
Easy, in academia you can be the (co)author of a paper you've never even read.
Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) was released in 1997 to solve a very similar problem (but for lots of predictive models). I don't know that it ever really caught on. That was also promoted by the tool builders but not by the users.

While checking the wikipedia page, I'm surprised to see that it is still being developed (with a 2016 release): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_Model_Markup_Langua...

Please note that in 1997 it was NOT ridiculous to use XML for this.
I thought this was a good talk, but it felt like an overview of chapter 2 of SICP. Not a bad thing, but if this interests you give SICP a read as well.
the question is more "do we need a bot for this" and not whether the actual action is productive
USSRs problems weren't that they couldn't make production lines work they were extremely good at manufacturing at scale.

The problem was that they were really bad at figuring out what needed to be made and at what amounts because of the worst kind of planned economy you can imagine (take aby soviet era product hammer, clock, lock, radio w/e and you'll see a very peculiar thing a physical price tag embedded on it, if you were a factory you were basically told you are making X now, price, profits and all economic decisions were taken out of your hands).

If anything their problem was that they produced way too much of pretty much everything on a whim.

Additionally there was all the wrong kinds of competition in which the establishment was the selective force rather than the market.

These aren't the problems Tesla is facing.
And even if a budget were somehow allocated, much of it would be deferred into subsequent congressional terms. An 11- or 12-figure project that has to survive multiple presidential and congressional terms would be no easy feat.
In fairness, SpaceX is going to have real production line issues of its own to sort out -- how many landed rockets do they have in warehouses now waiting for refurbishment? Both companies are going to need to get good at this.
During the cold war my grandfather flew bombers into the eyes of hurricanes to drop sonar beacons. I'm sure he'd get a kick out of this.

The older bombers they flew were all manual controls (as opposed to fly by wire), which meant physical exhaustion from wrestling the plane into the storm was a major factor - so they'd bring extra fuel to be able to circle the eye of the storm for some amount of time to build up the strength to fly back out.
I am reminded of this story I bumped into on Reddit some time ago. Granted it's a small plane but still:

https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/10fcqm/whats_the_mo...
>I think the situation would improve with better teaching of philosophy of science and statistics (this would educate better reviewers too).

This is necessary, but not sufficient. What's needed is a way to know for sure that the hypothesis was not changed after data collection. I think predeclaring the hypothesis is the way to go.
Using napalm-logs and Salt for event-driven network automation and orchestration
Between the Wires: Sindre Sorhus
Here in Jacksonville, FL the COBOL market is very much in demand. There are companies like transportation, financial, and insurance companies here that have mainframes using COBOL and hire COBOL developers. I believe I remember hearing that these companies have even funded a COBOL program at one of our local universities so they have more talent available, which means they are open to entry-level developers. I don't want to mention any of the company names on the chance that I might misrepresent them (and some of them are my customers), but you can easily find them by searching job boards like Indeed. I'm sure if you mentioned to a recruiter with national/international connections that you wanted a COBOL job you could find one, although you might have to move.
Yes, Good point. Highly reduced vocabulary and a reduced domain push in the other direction.
The most striking thing here to me were the casual hardware labs in random apartments, that have really great equipment but mostly great operators.

Shenzhen seem to be a hacker's wonderland.
> Similarly I saved a phone that went off my pocket into toilet - immediately removed battery, washed in water and packed in a box of rice for a day. Works still like new.

Done the same thing, without removing the battery or using rice (and done similar things with all kinds of electronics that have gotten wet over the years, again, without a desiccant.) If it doesn't short anything out causing permanent damage, electronics that can get water in them can usually also dry out. Magic rice or anti-bear talismans are not required. A dessicant near the device may help trivially by reducing the surrounding humidity and accelerating evaporation from the device, but just arranging proper ventilation probably works better than using a closed container with a desiccant in most environments.
Dialup should do the job just fine.
Any TensorFlow devs who might be able to comment on plans to interoperate with TensorFlow/reasons why it's not on the cards?
Cross-Cloud Migration with CockroachDB: From DigitalOcean to GCE
Ask HN: Help me understand a Nassim Taleb writing
Risk as Virtue

Finally, when young people who “want to help mankind” come to me, asking: “What should I do? I want to reduce poverty, save the world” and similar noble aspirations at the macro-level. My suggestion is:

1) never engage in virtue signaling;

2) never engage in rent seeking;

3) you must start a business. Take risks, start a business.

Yes, take risk, and if you get rich (what is optional) spend your money generously on others. We need people to take (bounded) risks. The entire idea is to move these kids away from the macro, away from abstract universal aims, that social engineering that bring tail risks to society. Doing business will always help; institutions may help but they are equally likely to harm (I am being optimistic; I am certain that except for a few most do end up harming).

From: https://medium.com/incerto/the-merchandising-of-virtue-b548762658f0

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Do you believe he includes non-profits within institutions? If so, what makes him so pessimistic on them?

What makes him so opposed to abstract universal aims? Would the desire to eradicate polio be one of these universal aim?
> A hurricane isn't a thunderstorm,

That's true, but they can (and usually do) contain embedded thunderstorms.

> and has very limited vertical movement in its airflows.

Except for the embedded thunderstorms.

> The hurricane hunter P3s do it.

That's true, but they can do it because their destination is the eye of the storm. That allows you to do all your navigation relative to the storm.

Commercial airliners are trying to reach a destination on the ground, i.e. a target that is moving relative to the hurricane. Trying to navigate with this additional constraint is a whole different ballgame.
Given the kind of paper this is, I assume the names should be understood as an endorsement. Sorta like signatures on a petition.
The site looks pretty well made. I like the time blocks auction idea.
Considering that it all boils down to ions moving to trigger various actions, it's not surprising that electricity could trigger it. That's a good way to get anything with muscles to move, too. :)
Generalizations all are lost at specifics. Like looking at a landscape painting and then looking with a microscope. The painting is a landscape and it captures the emotions and feeling. The microscope is looking for something totally different.

Well Borderlands are just that border lands. I lived on the Mexican border and you go 15 miles North or South and it was a completely different culture.
Different set of skills needed. By that logic car manufacturers should hire the people who designed the Curiosity Rover to run their manufacturing lines. This won't work.
> Yes, that's why the Soviet Union's lead on space in the early 60s translated into abundant production of consumer goods. Ladas all over the place.

The Soviet Union's failing at national productivity was not because they couldn't scale their production lines.
> sometimes it would be good if some developers would just reduce their code output, without providing anything else, because it would help keep all other developers in the loop

Oh yes!

I once worked with someone that was so prolific that I had no chance to keep up-to-date with their changes and get my own work done.
The obvious answer is banking - A quick search of jobs in Toronto tells me that at least three of Canada's big five banks are running COBOL. It wouldn't surprise me if the rest of the big five were as well, they just didn't have any jobs on the first page of listings.

Whether it shines or not in comparison to more modern languages is another matter.
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No, he said hyperbolic reporting might be a bigger problem than fake news.
Smartphone business. No Vive.
We are all lossy filters because the world makes infinite demands on our time and attention and we have finite amounts of it give.

I didn't write this as an indictment of the recruiter.

How could I when I have no knowledge of their constraints, their past experiences or the incentives that guide their behavior? In all likelihood, they're behaving in a way that's perfectly consistent with their environment.

What I can do is form a reasonable guess of what the desired outcome is - the recruiter wants to move a qualified candidate into the applicant pool, the applicant wants a shot at interviewing, and Facebook wants someone who has experience in working with UNIX or UNIX-like systems.

Structuring the response so that everyone gets the outcome they want, as an acknowledgment of the constraints, and not as a criticism of the recruiter makes everybody win.
they perceive it because Amazon is growing faster than Ford, which is an objective metric. Not because they simply completely subjectively decided that amazon is more promising - there are quantifiable OBJECTIVE metrics that this is the case
One doesn't exclude the other. Think about the history of PC. Allowing clones might have been absurd from the point of view of IBM, but it caused a massive revolution that enormously benefited the society.

Companies use vendor lock-in to maximize profits, it's something quite common among big players in the software industry - there is no need to pretend it doesn't exist or that Apple is avoiding it for some reason.
I doubt it, they all face far too big of a risk from a financial downside perspective with little to gain other than slashing "corporate overhead" - read redundant positions in things like HR and accounting.

On the flip side, if Space-X has a couple of failed launches and loses one or two contracts, their debt would crush Tesla. And vice versa if the 3 doesn't take off like Tesla is hoping.

There's almost no risk to them sharing IP between the two companies. And given how tightly they're intertwined from an ownership perspective, I would imagine that will continue indefinitely.
I think site-specific keyboard shortcuts are great. Do you have plans to release the source code? My chrome extension Saka Key [1] provides generic keyboard shortcuts, but my vision is to eventually integrate with other extensions like yours and Streamkeys [2].

1. https://github.com/lusakasa/saka-key

2. https://www.streamkeys.com
They could have lost the plane according to the Wired article:

> Once the plane landed in San Juan, the alternative—leaving the plane on the tarmac or in a hangar—would probably have destroyed the airplane ... If the plane had gotten stuck, Delta probably could have gotten the humans out safely. But it almost certainly would have lost a plane.
I'd like to turn this around somewhat and find a study that shows just how many "productive", employed citizens are actually using prescribed opioids and ADD medicines (methamphetamines) that help them to work harder and longer hours, because my bet is that it would be at least a significant fraction.

My point? Maybe just because someone is taking opioids, people shouldn't automatically label them as unhireable.

People on suboxone and methadone would test positive for opioids as well...are these people also considered unhireable?
No, he's saying that the wind shear they had to contend with in the calmer corridor between rain bands was less intense than that found in a thunderstorm.
Building a cache client/server using Go grpc
Seems like a simple C app would take much less resources than a docker container and have a lot lower latency, though. How much computing power would you need for each, given the same number of users?
Supply is only half of "supply & demand". Price increases discourage buying more than you need, which can help ensure that more people are able to get the things they need.

Unfettered price increases may not be the best solution, but capping prices too low just creates different problems.