skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Carrying dust from Sahara, but also smoke from all the wildfires in Portugal right now.
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Does anyone know why this sounds like it was written as a hit piece on Maria Ayerdi-Kaplan? I'm interested in the back story there, because the tone is quite nasty (not that I should expect anything else from our media today).
i read it, and now i am looking for articles on the 4 survivors of Japan Airlines Flight 123
Have any of these stations been deployed so far? Interesting idea!
If that were what caused it, maybe - do Germans drive slower than the French?
Is there a version of this somewhere that people have changed it to C or some other higher level language for easier skimming? I’d love to see that.

(Yes, I know it was written in ASM).
Jamie Dimon's reaction is not IMO unreasonable given the hype and the contradictions inherent in the position of most bitcoin advocates - contradictions laid bare in this article (fast, decentralised, consistent, pick two).

This article however is a really good counterpoint - it lays out the most reasonable case for Bitcoin as a new class of asset which is useful as a representation of value for distributed applications. This is the strongest case for blockchains I have seen.

It also points out the severe deficiencies inherent in a distributed model which make it unattractive on many measures compared to existing solutions, which for some reason current 'crypto' (sorry cryptographers) advocates find it incredibly hard to do - perhaps because they have come to value the asset more than the use case. Decentralisation makes bitcoin slow.

The only bit where it breaks down is in its insistence that 'Censorship resistance' is a fundamental advantage of distributed applications. This appears to assume that the network will not be policed, and the endpoints cannot be policed. Your computer is vulnerable, your servers are vulnerable, the bitcoin developers are vulnerable, exchanges are vulnerable, miners are vulnerable. All of those pinch points can and will be bribed, cajoled, shut down or worse coopted if significant real value is captured in distributed networks.

no one can stop me from using Bitcoin to pay for something

Why yes, yes they can :) Or even worse they can turn bitcoin into something that you wouldn't want to pay with or are forced to pay with like company scrip. Exhibit 1, the cryptoruble:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/breaking-russia-issuing-crypt...
I am by no means stating it as a conclusion, but rather just as a discussion point, how does this differ from the mutual funds and etfs under a single umbrella, i.e. something like vanguard? Where the stated mission is sort of long term stewardship over the short term activist role.

Now, how well that mission is fulfilled is another thing. The reason I note vanguard specifically is because of the current activist spat between P&G and Nelson Peltz/Trian Partners. Of the top 3 holders (vanguard, black rock, state street), only vanguard voted against the activist shakeup.

I guess I'm just having trouble seeing the difference between giving a bunch of small investors more power, vs a large amount of krill with similar goals making up a whale the company can't ignore. It seems the tenure setup complicates a lot without immediately perceptible benefit, at least to me.
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The cockpit recording from Japan Airlines Flight 123 (which crashed due to improper repairs of tail strike damage 7 years earlier) is chilling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfh9-ogUgSQ
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"One of the problems with IEEE is that the standards are highly complex and get made via a closed-door process of private meetings. More importantly, even after the fact, they’re hard for ordinary security researchers to access."

While I'm sure this can't take much of the blame, it sure strikes a chord. The IEEE standards process seems insanely archaic and broken in the open-source era.
War is evolving in a weird way.

In the last few decades, the US population stopped tolerating human casualties, so now every mission must have overwhelming force to minimize the chance of losing a single soldier. This has caused the cost of missions to skyrocket. (Forget about the opportunity cost of using that money to feed people or provide health care.)

Drones have "fixed" this problem by removing humans from the offensive entirely. As a side effect, there is no longer a "front" to the war. (The point of this article.)

You would think that the front is now everywhere. But that's not the case.

You'd think that the front is now targeted at specific strategic targets. That's kind of the case, but not really.

In actuality, the front is now determined by whatever can maximize media coverage to sway popular opinion. Planet Money did an interesting episode on this recently: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/08/25/546127444/episo...

> When NPR reporter Gregory Warner arrives in a town on the Ukrainian front lines, residents try to keep their distance. 'Don't come here,' they say. 'When journalists come, the bombs fall."
Technically not Auto-Tune, that's a competing product called Melodyne.
I think the standard approach for crates to work around problems like this is to patch the vendor's XML. Terrible that it's necessary, but workable. The "STM32F103xx.patch" in japaric's stm32f103 support crate [1] seems a decent example of the sort of hacks that are standard.
[1] https://github.com/japaric/stm32f103xx/blob/master/STM32F103...
Governor Wike Meet with Cristiano Ronaldo and Club Officials in Spain (Photos)
They are talking about large scale massively parallel code to run on a super computer. Most grad students in physics that need it have have access to a system much faster then Amazon. For example my friends code runs on Cori @ NERSC which is a 622,336 core Cray.

http://www.nersc.gov/systems/cori/

I completely agree on the domain knowledge statement. It is 100% required more then the CS degree.
I'm impressed by a great product. What are you doing with all those FLOPs?
Netflix Shares Rise After Subscriber Adds Beat Estimates
I can't see the merit in that particular test. It's the actuation point that matters.

For more depth than anyone really needs, see the r/mechanicalkeyboards wiki

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/wiki/switch_gui...
> antiquated LISP

By that do you mean "Lisp, which is antiquated", or "a LISP which is antiquated"?

Lisp certainly isn't antiquated, but as the second oldest high level language after FORTRAN, there are antiquated versions of it (e.g. LISP 1.5).
That's fine, but being able to run multiple audio tracks worth of VST plugins in real time on a modest laptop is very likely more valuable to their target market
Why would it ever be?
Great Karma machine.
> So how much is SF spending to help the homeless again?

More, over the life of the Transbay Transit Center project than on the Transit Center.

Why?
SFGov's latest annual budget has $305 million for homeless programs but this doesn't include lots of homeless related spending, mostly medical but also police, fire, cleaning, etc. There are also lots of non-profit, religious and private orgs spending on homeless plus costs borne by local residents and businesses.

I bet homelessness costs SF close to $1 billion a year. And the problem is not getting much better. In fact increased spending over past 5 years has been associated with even more homeless and problems.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/aboutsfgate/article/Despite-money...
> And we're also talking about a country where it's widely reported that nearly every young man gets conscripted for an extended period of time and is regarded as a reservist when not on active service.

That more or less describes South Korea too.
Now to learn to type with a keyboard... or game I suppose.
Oh my god they're 4km long, dude this is awesome. Cheers for the analogy and explanation.
I first encountered this idea in a sci-fi story (I want to say it was one of Peter Watts' "Rifters" novels, but I can't find it now). The idea was that someone trained a neural network to look at live video feeds of passengers moving through a subway station, and control the station's ventilation system. Unfortunately, the movements of individual people were fairly random, whereas the large-scale traffic patterns were extremely regular and periodic. So instead of basing its output on the actual crowd patterns, the neural net decided it was more accurate to look at the hands of an analog clock that happened to be visible through one of its cameras.

All well and good, until the clock stopped working during rush hour, and people started asphyxiating.
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Charlie Munger – The Psychology of Human Misjudgment
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Gravitational waves just led us to the incredible origin of gold in the universe
Preparing for the Bitcoin Hard Forks: A Step-By-Step Walkthrough
DuckDuckGo: How to not to be evil
Perhaps this hiring process is the reason they are dying now. Kidding..

There might be many reasons. Perhaps you've been the best fit after a series of interview and they are in badly need of filling out the position.

If you are not sure about the offer, make list of all the questions you can come up with and ask them. Definitely go into dialog with them.
How would this work with someone pulling something similar to Altaba?

Suppose you have $1B worth of stock, and 10% of the value is in the vested voting rights that you'd lose by selling it. Instead of selling part of it on the open market, you sell shares in a shell corporation that holds that stock. Surely the discount in ShellCorp's stock price compared to UnderlyingCorp is less than 10%? And the cost of setting up ShellCorp is going to be far less than losing 10% of the value of your holding.
the article specifically states the reasons for why he messured the whole travel, no guesswork needed

> This is because, as a human, you don’t activate the switch, you press the key. A measurement that starts from switch activiation time misses this large component to latency.
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> Medicare pays enough to cover care and operating overhead. It's not enough to cover significant writeoffs for non Medicare patients.

Medicare does not even pay enough to cover costs of care, let alone operating overhead: http://classic.ncmedicaljournal.com/wp-content/uploads/NCMJ/...

> For the first 18 years of Medicare's existence, the program paid hospitals for the "cost" of the care provided. However, since 1983, the payments have been slowly declining in relationship to the actual cost of providing care, and now hospitals are receiving less in payments than the actual cost of the care. How do hospitals recover this shortfall? Simple: they pass it on to other payers.
Random thoughts:

- Freedom and democracy are different things, if some people think democracy isn't that important, it does not mean they do not value freedom.

- Maybe the millenials are "not open to diverse opinions", but maybe they're just sick of bullshit. "Free Speech" can be interpreted in different ways (and each country in the world does that).
Could AI model help decide which startups to fund?
An interesting thought in my head: could a sequence-to-sequence RNN model decide whether a startup is fundable or not (since there is data regarding which startups were funded and also future indicator of success, so the model would learn).

1. AI system makes determination whether to fund startup.

2. One or Three YC partners would also make an independent determination as to whether to fund the startup.

3. Then a weighted average rating would be computed to arrive at a final decision. Weights would have to be determined based on how reliable the model is.

Who would test this out at YC? How would you improve on this?
OK, you got me on that one.

However, if I choose to work 60 hours a week for the next 6 months, it won't be affected either.
Hm, neat. I notice about the same result -- 0.1 is quite obvious.

If you want to blind A/B test yourself, run this:

DELAY='0.1'; VALUES=(0 0); VALUES[$((RANDOM % 2))]=$DELAY; alias test_a="sleep ${VALUES[0]}"; alias test_b="sleep ${VALUES[1]}"

Adjust DELAY as you want, and then use test_a and test_b and see if you can guess which is which, then run alias to see for sure.
My middle school aged daughter wanted this installed on her phone the other day. I said no way. The last thing she needs her electronic devices doing is serving up tinder for kids, leaving her obsessing over popularity contests, or another avenue for anonymous bullying.
Predicting someone "might" do something is not a prediction. You would have to predict that they will pull out in front of you or that they won't.

Noticing some behavior and thinking of all the possibilities is not predictive behavior. What you are doing is making a reaction based on the action by another driver.

In one case, you notice a driver edging forward, so you slow down in case they pull down. If you were predicting that they were going to pull out, you wouldn't just slow down, you would slam on your brakes.

In another case, you notice a driver with a blinker on, so you assume they are changing lanes, and slow down to give them additional space. This one is closer to a prediction, but in reality a driver would notice the blinker before they get anywhere near the car in question and would have plenty of time to tell whether it's a forgotten blinker or a conscious attempt at changing lanes. Or they don't see it from far away because traffic is moving very fast and/or is very heavy, so they just keep going making the prediction that the car w/ a blinker on will wait until the lane is clear (aka after you pass them) to change lanes.
Apple's Mac Mini Is Now Three Years Old, No Refresh Date in Sight
This seems neat, but cigarette butts contain toxic chemicals. Training birds to perform an action, but at the same time possibly poison themselves, is ethically perverse. What if their population collapses because of the exposure to something in the butts? (and perhaps this effects other parts of the ecosystem dependent on the services of crows ... like, but not limited to, mitigating hygiene hazards via carcass removal).

Maybe we could train the people to pick up their own butts.
Well, this cable was laid out by Telxius (a Telefónica Co.) So things are changing.
unless they complete the Caltrain DTX this is just a $3billion bus station. SF supes keep punting because it doesn't buy them local votes. DTX has been consistently surveyed as the most desired transit infrastructure by commuters and the business community for decades. Politicians of course would rather steal the funds for ineffectual projects that pander to some narrow progressive pet-causes.

The $1.6 billion Central Subway should have been funneled into DTX. But of course Rose Pak delivered the votes, so thats why that's getting built and DTX is not.
Ask HN: Smallest Computer Case for Holiday Season?
I'm looking to build my father a small form factor (SFF) build for an ITX motherboard with a graphics card of 1050 Ti or greater. I am okay using HDPLEX, Pico PSU, or Flex ATX as the power supply to reduce size. Normally, I would just go to Newegg or PCPartpicker, but I've been seeing unusual cases not covered on those sites. For example, the Geeek A20 Mini-ITX is $40 and has a volume of under 7 liters. I'm looking for advice on what to buy.

I've looked at these: Geeek A30 Mini ITX pre-order. NFC S4 mini is out of stock and it's $200 for the case, a bit much. Logic Supply MC 600 with a volume of 4.2 liters is an option, but I'm thinking, maybe just go for the Geeek A30, since I can use a cheaper PSU and don't need the PCIE cable adapter.

I currently have a 12 core Xeon in a Silverstone SG13 and it is okay, but the SG13 is quite a bit bigger than the other cases.

To be honest, I don't want to spend $200 on the case, maybe under $100 would be better.

The Lian Li PC-Q21B is out of stock and frankly expensive. The dan case is also over $200.

I am thinking of putting a mid-range CPU in there like the new Ryzen 1700, which as a low TDP of 65W. If I use a 1050ti, I should be able to use a Pico PSU 160.

Honestly, every day I look, I see new, smallers. This area is super innovative right now. If anyone has any advice, please let me know.

BTW, I would need to pack this back into a box and then carry it with me on an airplane for the year-end holiday family reunion
Also http://www.thecrowbox.com/ were they apparently trained captive crows to pickup coins in return for food, there's also a TED talk the guy behind it gave.

I've briefly looked at the 'Crowded Cities' page, I'm still not sure how the crows realise they get food though for cigarette butts? Does it rely on them randomly dropping something in the pot, and then getting food and continuing to do it?
I think Concorde had a wheel on the tail.
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Your network is key to success.
It might be better if the title were this line from the subtitle:

A brief analysis of gender distribution in visual representations of everyday life in North Korea

The actual title gave me the impression this was a run of the mill, shallow complaint about sexism (with, possibly, some ugly politics thrown in to boot). It took me a while to get curious about it based on other cues that this might not be the case. This piece is interesting for reasons having nothing to do with the sexism angle. It is a rich piece about history, culture, AI and possibly other things, given that I don't have time to read all the way through it at this time.
Isn't a big part of the reason "gaming" keyboards cost so much because they can register more than three keys (sometimes four) being hit at the same time - something many cheaper keyboards cannot do due to the way they are wired?
> The rate you're talking about is extremely deceptive.

It's not; I'm not sure why you'd assume I'd be talking about the sheer number of bills that default (at any size) as opposed to the amount of bad debt (which is closer to the relevant figure).

> Medicare is basically break-even

Medicare is not even close to break-even. From the very first page of the link you provided:

> For the first 18 years of Medicare's existence, the program paid hospitals for the "cost" of the care provided. However, since 1983, the payments have been slowly declining in relationship to the actual cost of providing care, and now hospitals are receiving less in payments than the actual cost of the care. How do hospitals recover this shortfall? Simple: they pass it on to other payers.

The amount of money that hospitals need to make to overcome this shortfall, both the operating expenses and the amount needed to cover the overhead, is a few orders of magnitude greater than the amount of noncollectable debt from uninsured patients.
That's really interesting and quite counter-intuitive to me!
Ask HN: How do you build your Golang based repo ?
Do you use Makefiles with Glide, dep, or other vendoring tools or are you experimenting with something else like Bazel ? What has been your experience ?
There are two considerations here.

(1) Python single threaded performance: Here, most of the libraries we are using are implemented in C++ (like numpy, TensorFlow, Cython to speed up the code, etc.). Ray is orthogonal to that.

(2) Python parallel performance: Here Python is mostly problematic because of its lack of support for threading (the GIL is one problem here); we handle this problem by using multiple processes and shared memory throughout. Efficient serialization makes this feasible.

The core of Ray is implemented in C++, so performance is not an issue for that; also all of the serialization is implemented in C++.
"That alone makes it extremely valuable."

More or less valuable than the electrical generating capacity dedicated to creating bitcoins?
Omg, scary stuff. How can we check the planes we are boarding have never had this airstrike repair? Sounds crazy.
I loved this article regarding the algorithm used for capturing pokemon: http://www.dragonflycave.com/mechanics/gen-i-capturing
Scientists witness huge cosmic crash, find origins of gold
Sure, but the price of the stock probably reflects that voting power.

For example, right now there are different share types that you can buy from the same company that have different voting rights.
Setting up a modem to get around an air gap seems like it would violate that.
Really hope this article is bs
Agreed, and I don't understand the hate many people (seem to) have for them - the most ergonomic keyboards are those that require the least amount of repetitive motion. Not that there isn't an adjustment period, but some seem to pull out their Jump To Conclusion mats a little early.
It probably reflects my personal tastes, I understand he's a kind a Youtube star or something, but I find the Veritasium presenter too attention-grabbing distracting, so much that I can't even concentrate to what he is talking about. There is no visible presenter in the Science Mag video, ad I like that, and there is another presenter appearing in the Georgia Tech video (Laura Cadonati, a professor), but there I definitely don't have that "WTH the presenter is demanding more attention than the topic" effect, even if she has an accent.

I surely in this case react just like a "mom" from this comment: "Showed this video with amazing science discoveries about the universe to my mom and all she said was : "this guy likes orange decorations"﻿." I also just see the guy, his appearance, his body movements and his room decorations etc and I just have this "look at me" impression. I can imagine that helps his personal popularity on that medium, and I guess he optimizes for that, but it obscures the actual content, at least to me.

So I don't have energy to analyze it further, but I have had an impression that the videos I've suggested contain some information that doesn't exist in the Veritasium's video, and that the level of the information is better suited for those who need short summary. Maybe there is a target group which, like I, better responds to the videos I've suggested.

For those who are really interested in the details, I think there's no substitute to reading the main scientific paper, written by 4600 people(!):

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aa91c9

It is much more accessible than you'd imagine, it starts with:

"Over 80 years ago Baade & Zwicky (1934) proposed the idea of neutron stars, and soon after, Oppenheimer & Volkoff (1939) carried out the first calculations of neutron star models..."

(Yes, it's "the" Oppenheimer, who later go to be called "the father of the atomic bomb." Fritz Zwicky was apparently "the first astronomer to propose the existence of dark matter, supernovas, neutron stars, galactic cosmic rays, gravitational lensing by galaxies, and galaxy clusters.")

Reading the original sources further, the first map of the potential area on the sky and the first trigger that set everything in motion is:

"On 2017 August 17 12:41:06 UTC the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM; Meegan et al. 2009) onboard flight software triggered on, classified, and localized a GRB." My understanding is that it was therefore never technically necessary for Virgo to reject the second (lower) LIGO area on this image:

http://www.virgo-gw.eu/images/GW170817.png

but the Virgo's operation helped narrowing down the upper area a little.
>So even if you got your keyboard down to 5 ms, great, but you are not running an operating system that can reliably do something within that timespan!

Maybe I'm not understanding, but that doesn't seem correct.

Most people (gamers) are running mice at 500/1000Hz polling rates and you can easily verify the movement made in each 1-2ms update. (And it is most definitely a noticeable difference going from a standard 125Hz rate to even 500Hz.)