skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Incinerated" may be a slightly strong word, but "fatally injured by burns" is entirely accurate. Most of the fatal and life-altering burns suffered in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were effectively extreme sunburn. Most of the burns victims were burnt only on one side of their body - the side facing towards the blast. It doesn't take a lot of material to protect you from that flash. Many people suffered burns only to their face and hands, while the parts of their body covered by clothing was uninjured. Some people had the pattern of their clothing burned into their skin; the darker colors of the pattern acted as a photomask. Eye injuries were very common, because many people heard the bombers flying overhead and went out to look.
Truly. We've recently moved from Oracle (after using it for 15 years) to Postgresql. It's like a breath of fresh air. The documentation for Postgres is unbelievably superior to Oracle. So far its performance is equal to or better than Oracle. We had to go through and rewrite thousands of queries, but the sql syntax of Postgres was always simpler and more logical than the equivalent in Oracle (I think Oracle has too much baggage from being around too long). All in all I'm so impressed by Postgres. I'm sure there are features in Oracle that Postgres doesn't have that keep people on Oracle, but I would imagine that the vast majority of Oracle installs could be moved to Postgres.
Hopefully those chips will also be integrated into wearable fitness trackers.
The real bubble comes when you watch Smithsonian's webpage use close to two gigabytes of RAM in a very short time.
right, but what is missing here is the observation that all the duties of a citizen also carry power to do harm. therefore, in order for society to prosper, its citizens must be able to handle guns and draino, because voting and going about their everyday lives have just as much potential to ruin things.
Yeah right:

We used two convolutional neural networks, one for each side of the weld. Features extracted by these nets are then concatenated, as well as the meta data. Two fully connected layers are then applied on this vector, giving the final prediction.
Everything was trained on the raw images resized to 20x150 pixels.
Be careful not to underestimate the failure mode of trying to compile arbitrary Rust code without the borrow checker. It appears that your goal is to let people "ease into Rust" by trading compilation errors for runtime segfaults, but it's just as likely that un-borrow-checked Rust code could produce malformed LLVM IR that will cause totally unpredictable compile-time failures in LLVM with indecipherably cryptic error messages.
Never said it applied to all electron terminals

I would of tested this one, but no windows build, and I'm not using a linux install atm

editors don't roundtrip to a separate application through multiple buffers (bash, zsh, fish, or whatever) to decide if they need to show a color or letter or nothing
I thought that was obvious?
>will give the next generation of smartphones 30-centimeter accuracy instead of today’s 5-meters

Didn't the US scramble the civilian signals specifically so it wouldn't be too accurate? And they're just okay with civilians having access to ultra accurate GPS receivers?
I think the issue I had with the last "section" of Seveneves was it felt more like a prologue. The pacing was entirely different. I didn't hate it or anything, but going from the previous two parts to the last one was jolting.
I hate this conventional wisdom idea and it really doesn't need to be that way in many cases.

Companies like Mailchimp and 37 Signals prove that the "logical" way to do it works pretty well.

(Not a criticism of your comment, just the get big fast idea)
At first that seems reasonable. But when you know that you are working specifically on weapons systems that are currently being used to do great evil then it no longer seems reasonable. When the rationale becomes so convoluted and twisted as it is now, like drone strikes on families in far away places are acceptable because we must fight terror at any cost, knowing that many of the terrorists were created as part of plans to control regions and overthrow governments by the same government now killing them, it has lost any and all moral basis. If you are a gunsmith developing those systems you share that same derth of morality.
As an avid hiker and runner I'm more excited to see what this will do for things like Garmin smart watches. I run through downtown Boston a few times a week and the accuracy is very bad at times making you look like you run much farther than you do.
Red Hat is pretty good at being Red Hat
He said baseball writer, not player, unless he edited his comment between your post and mine.
Interesting point. So capitalist free press is actually a net positive here given the transparency it presumably enables (and promotes to the degree that consumers desire truthful/etc journalism)

I think part of what makes our modern situation different is that mass hysteria has a denser network on which to propagate (yes also means remedial measures also propagate faster) and is propelled via a more ruthlessly efficient propellant (expression of consumer preference in a frictionless, free-market, internet-enabled system)

But I'd argue that, generally, whenever feedback loops are tightened, systems tend to lose stability, increasing risk of very bad events.

So my point still stands, something should be done about this... I just don't know what. regulation feels kludgy, building a competing product/model that somehow encourages more pro-social outcomes, per my business model fixation in parent comment, feels nice--but likely is too naively optimistic.

So what else is there? Some old-time religion? "Don't lie and don't hate each other...". Also doesn't feel like a good route, for reasons too many to enumerate.

So what is there?
Self driving cars will be here "in just 5 more years" (I have been hearing that since 2007)...
It should be based off all three platforms. But to start off you should create a standalone AI assistant, then refactor to each of the 'already available platforms based on feedback.' The latter should be easier to scratch if you have your own backend to digest and reply via api layer from.
I think we read the same post. I'm just saying that a writer's bias is correlated with his expertise.
Mongo going public for same reason all tech companies go public in 2016+ - they are done growing, they are not going to win it all after all, they're fucked, and now the investors want to liquidate
EC2s getting harrassed by vulnernability scans from useragent Jorgee
I run a bunch of microservices on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. I set up alarms for anytime I start returning a large number of status codes and recently, I've been getting emails every 3-10 minutes all hours of the day.

Looking into it, its bulk wordpress/php related 404s from the useragent Mozilla 5.0 Jorgee, about 50-150 at a time. I don't use php so its not a problem, but the alarms are hard to get around. Don't want to cancel them and not know when something actually goes off the rails, but I can't afford to have my email blown up by bullshit.

First thought was just returning 200's but that's bullshit.

Suggestions and similar stories appreciated.
You could probably trade accuracy of route position for accuracy of distance by averaging samples.
Experimentally mentioning the word cloudflare just in case my previous message (the comment this comment is a reply to) simply wasn't noticed. Now I can have high confidence the comment above this one was at least seen, even if a reply can't work (which is fine).
But you can't actually take someone's humanity with a word. That's hyperbole. Knife-point robbery is not.

"You cannot, sir, take from me anything that will not more willingly part withal – except my life, except my life, except my life." -- William Shakespeare
I like this free github hosted resume

https://github.com/jglovier/resume-template
I wondered about that too when I clicked on few WaPo article.

I've never paid for a subscription there but I do think they put out some quality journalism and I still get to catch a bit of their stuff with the Apple News app on my phone but I know Apple has cut a deal with them.

I was about to bookmark this but I won't use an app to bypass their paywall. I have to respect that and it'd be pretty hard to not if I loaded this every morning with the rest of my news sites.

But I do like the work they've done on it. It's very nice.
Selective Availability was turned off in 2000, prior to that error was about 50m. Differential GPS could work around it anyway, so there wasn't a lot of point to keeping it on.
There's usually restrictions that kick in at certain altitudes and/or hardware restrictions if you're going over a certain speed.

Depending on the source of signals used, the military can also just change the precision for civilian bands. But in times of peace / low threat levels, there's not a particular need to do so.
This is disappointing. If this RV can relieve the need for house purchasing in Bay Area, 100k price tag doesn't seem to be a problem.

It's a shame that this vehicle is named California and we can't buy it in California. America is such a great place for RV camping (vast area, low population density, plenty parking spaces and so many beautiful places to go), and VW somehow decided not to sell any of these for 14 years!

I mean, just checking the craigslist prices for those second hand vw campers from the 60s, their marketing people should be able to tell there is a strong demand for this in the US.
Hey, thanks for checking the website out! For the investment banking firms, I just took firms from google and manually assembled the list and for the other lists, I did a mix of googling and pulling from established databases such as Capital IQ, Thomas one, etc.
>From what I've read Rohingya is an invented term used to describe Muslim Bangladeshi migrants, and was deliberately invented as part of a propaganda effort to accompany insurgency.

There were Rohingya from Bengal who migrated into what's now Myanmar during the time of British rule, but it's not especially controversial among historians that they have origins there (arguably predating ethnic Burmese, who only arrived in the 10th century CE). What you're describing is the official position of the government of Myanmar, which I'd give a lot more credence if it was corroborated by a free press.

>I also note there seemed to be little coverage in the MSM when it was Islamic violence in play, but now the tables are turned it's wall to wall. Why the sudden concern now?

The 'MSM' published hundreds of stories in print, on the web, on radio and television every day. Did you view all of them? We're talking about half a century of conflict, after all.
Ernest Hemingway's Long-Lost Los Angeles Visit
"coal contains microscopic diamonds but you'll have a hard time scratching sapphire with it."

Coal dust will abrade and destroy almost everything and it's because of the graphite, not the diamond. I have a coal mine. It's killed two phones and a drone already.

"Alumina will effortlessly scratch gorilla glass, any metal, tungsten carbide and even a lot of sapphire glass. No kind of pottery will do any of those things."

This is entirely untrue, it depends on the composition of the clay used in making the ceramic, which will be entirely dependent upon the location the clay or clay mix is obtained from. I also happen to do lapidary and pottery work, as a profession (next to LED lighting applications.) You can get clay from Mt. Baldy, make pottery, fire it up, it will scratch the hell out of almost everything because of the sand grain-sized rubies contained within.
Robotic parcel sorting facility in China
From Wikipedia:

"The Flavr Savr turned out to disappoint researchers ... as the antisensed PG gene had a positive effect on shelf life, but not on the fruit's firmness, so the tomatoes still had to be harvested like any other unmodified vine-ripe tomatoes. An improved flavor, later achieved through traditional breeding of Flavr Savr and better tasting varieties, would also contribute to selling Flavr Savr at a premium price at the supermarket.

...

The failure of the Flavr Savr has been attributed to Calgene's inexperience in the business of growing and shipping tomatoes."

Sounds like Flavr Savrs were just a failure. I don't see anything about alarmists.
I intend to read the PostgreSQL docs end to end at some point, but last time I checked the full PDF comes out to something like 3600 pages! I am astounded by the quality of everything about PostgreSQL, the community included.
I don't think a world without nuclear weapons is actually safer.
Using a broad definition of theft merely serves to raise the noise floor. Your definition of "completely private" seems like "free markets" or "perfect competition": that is, things which are free from government interference only in misanthropic delusions. As Jefferson explained, stable ownership is not a natural concept; that you are considered to "own" things absent direct physical possession is a function of society. We also collectively agree to believe in this thing called 'money', which is also not an inherent property of mankind. That society can dictate rights and rules about property is inherent to the concept of each.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15288168

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15307611
> I have been very unimpressed with the quality of NSA "TAO's" tooling, and, when I have conversations with people closer to NSA offensive cyber stuff than I am, what shakes out generally is that they people at the tip of that particular spear tend to be super young people in basically their first ever software job.

Are you trying to find out who the TAO employees on HN are? They'll be itching to defend themselves.
What an embarrassing comment for you. Do you even realize that most of those in the gas chambers were Germans? So your comment really makes no sense, in addition to being cowardly.

I choose death over murdering the innocent, and I'll take as many of my superiors issuing those orders with me as I can.
Dude, it's Microsoft. Most of their business is to the government.
Some of those files are C++!
Things have changed since the 90s.

> In May 2000, at the direction of President Bill Clinton, the U.S. government ended its use of Selective Availability in order to make GPS more responsive to civil and commercial users worldwide.

> The United States has no intent to ever use Selective Availability again.

The military has better precision, only because they buy better hardware. Similar hardware is used in commercial drones to improve GPS accuracy.

> Using two GPS frequencies improves accuracy by correcting signal distortions caused by Earth's atmosphere. Dual-frequency GPS equipment is commercially available for civilian use, but its cost and size has limited it to professional applications.

http://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/performance/accuracy/
Speaking from personal experience, that can be quite painful. Being able to build rust and cargo, even if only for bootstrapping when porting, would truly be a wondrous thing.
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While planet names would get harder to remember if they were longer (48 bits and six syllables instead of 32 bits and four syllables), the main reason they want the address space to be somewhat scarce is to make spam economically infeasible.
Given the skew of poverty in the USA to black and latin populations you might want to consider hiring several full time people on to the team and leadership who can bring the understanding that can only come from being part of those communities.
Otherwise this can be attacked as being dominated by rich white people. While the intent is clear the execution needs to match the targeted end users.

You may also want to consider the efffect of health care. In other UBI environments free healthcare is a given. In this experiment healthcare costs can easily cripple the impact of the regular income. Control for that by providing health care insurance, or make it two experiments by doing some with and some without. If that doesn’t work maybe consider doing this experiment in another country.
As with many things it comes down to educating people, sadly this turns out to be quite challenging.
This is mind boggling. Thank you for sharing this. I never knew that internet and traffic insularity was a thing outside of China.

Especially because this is such an alien concept in India.
That's a great approach. I'll be "stealing" some of this great insight if you don't mind.
I don't think blaming the uninformed public for the actions of multi-billion dollar conglomerates with politicians in their pockets and multiple avenues of propaganda at their exposure is ever the correct answer.

You can blame someone for being stupid, but you can't blame them for being ignorant after soaking in loads of bullshit throughout their lives. Blame the ones spewing the bullshit.
It is the worst.
"In the past"? I see multiple corrections per week, sometimes daily. They've started documenting even minor mistakes such as misspelled names.

And mistakes that actually matter do have consequences, and not of the "don't punish" variety. See the recent firing of two CNN producers for publishing a story they later had to retract (something about some Trump associate's business dealings in Malta, I believe)
But that's client side right? What's preventing someone from implementing a GPS receiver using a SDR that doesn't have those restrictions?
There are fish people. So...?
Wow, you must be really really smart.
I paused reading and came to the comments with the same question. So I’m glad you asked.
Lots of people in this thread failing to understand why the US has a higher credit rating. The US has had a stable political system for 200+ years (leaving aside the Civil War), and has a court and political system that investors have confidence in can respond to financial crises.

It's not even about the US government's assets which it could sell, it's about the awesome ability of the US government to raise revenues by raising taxes.

For example, US taxes as as a percentage of GDP have mostly fluctuated between a ~22-17% window. Right now, they're at 17%. They were almost 20% during WW2. That 3% respresents a half-trillion of revenue it could collect per year. Current US interest payments are $266 billion per year. There is ZERO chance of a default and everyone knows it. The situation with China is way more opaque. No one knows what their long term ability is to make continuing payments, nor does anyone know if what would happen to their political stability if there were a financial crisis.

And as a last resort, since most world debt and trade is conducted in US dollars, the US government can literally print money to settle its debts, both domestic and international.

If US tax receipts went to 25% of GDP, that's $1.4 trillion per year of interest payments, or paying off the debt in less than 20 years.

Now, the common response would be to claim that raising taxes would reduce GDP growth, but the data doesn't show a strong correlation (higher growth has occurred during times of higher taxes and vice versa) and in any case, it's a lagging signal. All in all, US fundamentals are reasonably good, and the country is well equipped to deal with its debt relative to other aging social democracies. Moreover, if the Trumpsters don't screw up immigration with their xenophobia, the US fertility rate and immigration rate protect it against the kind of demographic inversion you seeing in other countries which poses a huge problem for entitlements.

I have optimism for China's long term outlook, but there's way too many unknowns from lack of transparency to trust investing money in it.
If you stick to quality journalism (NYT/WSJ/The New Yorker/The Economist/Bloomberg), the world of journalism is really not worse than it was in whatever golden age of the press people seem to imagine.

The idea that all media gravitate towards low-brow outrage clickbait because it sells better is quite obviously wrong. Just as there is fast food as well as organic granola, or porn as well as independent conceptual arthouse cinema, there are publications of all levels of quality. And that didn't actually change dramatically, because tabloid journalism wasn't just invented. If people were attracted only to the yellow press, it would have taken over the market long ago. Instead, journalism has been, just like history, bending towards quality (/justice).

What changed is that the barriers to entry have fallen. It used to require capital to publish, and those capable of reaching the masses had to have seen success in other walks of life, or convinced the establishment of their credentials.

Now, the internet allows the Breitbarts of the world to reach an audience as deranged as them, and that is putting some pressure on parts of the market. But that affects not so much the top end of the spectrum, but local papers and publications like the National Enquirer.
Sleeping in the bed of a pickup also affords a great view of the stars and is also fairly inexpensive (compared to a dedicated camper, and especially if you have other uses for a truck). In the western US weather is often good during the summer and you don't really need much over your head.
Are business cycles in the modern sense (unemployment that lasts for longer than six months) known to happen in the presence of free banking and absent a central bank? Actual question. It matters because we know how this happens when a central bank controls the currency supply and allows NGDP to drop. It's not obvious to me that this happens with free banking.
I wonder how it feels to be running or working for a company that develops a product that almost all informed members of the developer community think is bad. They must be in some serious denial.
It probably has to do with being German. The US produces alot of tech that the rest of the world knows, due to PR. Germany. Well, they move quietly. Then BAM! ArangoDB in Poland!
Does anyone know if the partitioning can enforce a uniqueness constraint across child tables?

I couldn’t tell from the write up if this is one of the things addressed with Native Partitioning
'HN' is a statistical distribution; it doesn't believe anything. Some people here might believe some of those things but I doubt they're the same people, or close to a majority.

It's popular to diss one's fellow community members, but kind of in bad taste. If you're commenting here, you're as much 'HN' as the next person.
This is an advertisement for the movie Tulip Fever that just came out. I noticed a lot of similar posts on other social media sites in the last six months.
They might disagree, but that doesn't mean they're right.
SMS Verification Is Making Telegram Insecure
Show HN: Index – Organize Everything
Do you run the same path frequently? When I do, I keep the path the same, as I pre-calculate the distance, and can keep a watch to track my time. Thus I have no need for path tracking.

A GPS unit is useful for assisting dynamically changing routes (e.g. driving) or to track unknown paths (e.g. plotting your hike in snow/darkness). May I ask what you'd need a fine-accuracy GPS unit for during a run?