skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw this unfolding bit by bit and thought: Wow, these people have not been paying attention during the AOL 'anonymized' research database fiasco.

Let's wait to see how long it will take before someone figures out how to ID the security detail jogging with a president somewhere.
"WMDs" has been a common acronym in the American lexicon since 2003 and the invasion of Iraq.

(This is just a cultural aside. I know there is a world outside of the United States.)
Correct interpretation
NY CNC is great, the guy is so enthusiastic to share his knowledge it's great. Plus some of the machining projects he does are quite something. Also refreshing to get exposure to the business side of running a shop, pricing decisions etc.

You are likely correct that it's better to get a kit even if on the cheaper end than go DIY. There is something about reusing parts that would otherwise go to landfill I really wanted to achieve. Perhaps I can find other uses for them, even if just mastering their operation with an arduino.
FWIW, Open Kernel Labs was acquired by General Dynamics in September 2012.
I agree, so many of the AWS products feel almost abandoned. Like they did the easy 80% of the work, released, and then coasted.
Running on cruise ships, maybe?
The best part of the TomTom map is what they call "IQ Routes" where they have timing info for each road, for each 15 minutes of the day.

Without that there's little point in using it.
I work on criminal justice reform and this is SO true. I cringe every time I hear these kinds of stats being brandished without context as evidence of our society 'working'. Ben Thompson is a particularly bad example of this, but it certainly seems like it's the folks 'winning' the conflicts that love to cite 'reduced conflict'.
Disclaimer: I work for AgileBits.

CloudFormation is a great tool, don't get us wrong. It is one of the first cloud IaaC tools.

And it has it's downsides:

- inability to address specific object in the state, similar to `-target ` option in terraform

- forcible re-deployment (`taint`ing) of the resouce is not possible too, well, not as easy as in TF

- when creating ChangeSet in CF, it is absolutely useless on nested stacks, all you see in it is "Stack will be updated", even if there is nothing to update

- targeted `destroy`s do not exist, as well as destroy `plan`s: similar to what `terraform plan -out plan.out -destroy -target aws_resource.name; terraform apply plan.out` does

- The work with state, renaming, reassigning, deleting and importing resources is missing in CF as a class

- TF refreshes state of the resources each run, checking their actual state and trying to revert any changes applied to them outside of the flow, CF assumes that nothing is changed and gets very surprised when it is drifted or simply doesn't match its expectations. ( I know there is drift detection, but does it actually restores the desired state? I've never had a chance to check that..)

When we deployed new TF stack, we imported part of the resources created by old CF template. And now I am a bit worried to clean it up, because it might try to delete old resources, even with '"DeletionPolicy": retain'. I have no visibility or control over its action. Basically: apply the template and pray.

ChageSets also failed me once, trying to do not what it was telling me in the plan. Terraform plan once captured into the file will do exactly what it promised me, when applied.

To sum up: both tools got their 'pro-'s and 'con-'s, and personally I feel more comfortable with the Terraform.
So using this a .Net application run without the .net framework?
The irony there is that Audi MMI is android.
Replying because I can’t edit.

I don’t care about the downvotes, but if you swim in rivers or lakes, please spend 15 minutes reading about the bacteria present in those bodies of water. They can be lethal, and you need to advocate for your own health to ensure you’re receiving treatment if you’re afflicted. Worst case is you’ve consumed some healthcare services, best case is your child isn’t dying at home in their sleep from a bacterial infection.
It is easy to criticize, but I see their point. Over time we are adding more and more information and detail to mapping data. How does that work out if your older device does not have the resources to store/manipulate that much data?

They have no good options. They can send the update, and break the device. Or leave the old data be and let the device slowly downgrade. Or pay a fortune to replace who knows how many devices. Or try to maintain two versions of their data indefinitely.
A wide grid is extremely costly, also the grid is not sexy, politician don't care about it, so there is little incentive to make it.
Outsourcing your electricity production is a political hazard, for Europe it would mean put it in north Africa, still an unstable region, electricity production sovereignty is paramount.
Out of curiousity, what devices do you have that it takes 8 minutes for the DXE to initialize?
Amazon is testing FBA Onsite to bring software to third-party sellers
What problem do people in this conversation have distinguishing current state from current rate?

Complain that things are bad and fight to improve them? Sure. Complain that things are getting worse over time? It's false in a global sense, and in most specific senses too.
None of the examples I got to read in this article are in any logical contradiction with the original enlightenment. It is shown that Locke didn't originally fully understand his own new school of thought - maybe because it's naive to think you fully understand a new idea when you're having it? It was attempted that 20th century atrocities happened as a direct result of enlightenment thinking.

I honestly grew tired of reading this very quickly. The sum of all words these philosophers said is not enlightenment. Reason means you don't frigging trust every frigging word of what people say, even if they said "don't trust every word of what people say". How is that not obvious?

What is John Gray's message here? I get he is trying to challenge Pinker's seemingly optimistic views, but I don't get what is the pattern he tries to convey by throwing all that sand into the gears of Pinker's progression thing?

Are we seriously giving up on seeing patterns here and insist in our mental image of the world as a white noise tv screen?
We have open sourced several operators for detectron so that the model could run on GPU/CPU/mobile (https://github.com/facebookresearch/Detectron/commit/757d77c...). We also open sourced a conversion tool (https://github.com/facebookresearch/Detectron/commit/757d77c...) to help converting the model.
There is a corralation across the entire population that does not exist in 'bucket' of the population.

More importantly, the bucketing involved is reasonable and has explanatory power. (If this were not the case, you might have picked the buckets specifically to get this result. Still an example of Simpsons Paradox, but not interesting.)
Exploring REST API Authentication Mechanisms
I imagine it'd be pretty straightforward to convert that JSON into a CSV for InDesign's Data Merge feature, once you're past prototyping and ready for product-ready printing. http://blog.ironmarkgames.com/creating-prototype-cards-using...
Do you do a lot of road trips? The only scenario from the above list I have not personally been involved in, as a driver or passenger, is ABS problems leading to an unexpected change in handling, mostly because I have older vehicles. Yes, I have been in a car where a door opened while underway.

The one vehicle I have right now with ABS has intermittent ABS issues but a soft failure mode. Newer cars rely a lot more on ABS (especially in off-road modes), same goes double for motorcycles. Losing ABS/TC on a motorcycle drastically changes the envelope of safe brake application. If your muscle memory for safe brake application is (mis)trained to rely on ABS/TC at the limits of available traction, losing ABS/TC will very easily lead to a front wheel lockup or unexpectedly losing the front/rear in a lean.
You're doing that math wrong. Take $73mil a year. Make it $100mil a year, to cover other employment expenses (employees cost more than their salaries). The extension took 10 years, so call that $1billion. That sounds like about 1/7 of the cost of the 2 miles of track, not an "extremely small fraction"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny_in_humans#Brain
> Bombing of Dresden is well known, of course, but it doesn't compare to a single bomb that can level cities when it comes to deterring your enemy.

It does actually. The only difference is how long it took and arguably Dresden was in worse shape than Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

> I'm not trying to diminish the scale of destruction in Dresden

Well, forgive me.

> but there are many cities other than it that got destroyed in similar, "conventional" way

No, there aren't. That's exactly why Dresden stands out.

> I don't see why it should be treated in a special way.

You really should go and have a look at those before and after pictures then. They are nothing short of incredible.

Warsaw, Breslau or Tokyo (and Rotterdam, for that matter) do not compare even though the destruction there was widespread.
McCLIM progress report #11
Looks like a float switch hooked up to cell service :/ I already have that.
This is just my own methodology, but I ask the local police / sheriff who the most reliable mechanic is. I then validate the number of tattoos on their team members. They must have a lot of tattoos and they have to be grumpy and their shop must be in a state of disarray. If they meet my criteria, then I have them do the work I can not do myself. This usually works out to be much less costly than working with a car dealership.

This is just my own unorthodox methodology. Your mileage may vary.
> This approach is indefensible given the actual state of the world, and these activists are either confused about the facts, or cynically manipulating their followers for personal power.

Except that, as any student of history knows, the current state of the world is what it is thanks almost entirely to people just like that (although historians generally view them in a better light than you do because of what they've achieved, despite always being presented by conservative forces in the same light as you view them).
In fairness, the US did come into conflict with Russia in a sense, by supporting the White Army in the civil war.

But setting that aside, when would they have come into conflict? Prior to WWI, the US did its best to stay out of international affairs, and Russia wasn't trying to export a political philosophy. In the gap between the wars, the Soviet Union was preoccupied with internal concerns.

It's very hard to compare the potential for conflict post-1945 between the two powers with any period of time before that. Russia and the US simply weren't all that relevant to each other (Alaska aside).
My understanding is you can't tell order using this trick. I guess the bitmap is just an optimization to skip the hash lookup? Order doesn't matter for you?

Something I came up with is packing the pointers/values into a contiguous array and using the bitfield to tell not only if it's present, but what offset is at (mask + popcnt) * size of(value). This eliminates wasted space due to unused buckets in the hash table. I'm sure it's been done before, but I haven't seen it anywhere.

How's your Go? Want a remote contact doing Go microservices that pays very well? Email is in my profile.
You're completely missing the point. I shouldn't be able to connect two interface-mismatched services in the first place.
I prefer his other daughter, Vim Hart.
Everything you don’t like is complex. Everything you do like is simple.
When i loaded this page i just saw a photo of Gates and a large white space with nothing beneath (screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/vBb99). I saw "Enlightenment Now" in the URL and thought maybe Gates had converted to Buddhism or something. Then i tried reloading the page with my adblocker turned off and the text finally loaded...
Does the author cover the spectacular lifestyles and living conditions that Dear Leader has gifted to the people of North Korea? Just curious.
There was an article in our local newspaper about a dude who bought lifetime brakes for his Mustang in like 1970 from JC Penney (!). To this day, he’s still getting free brakes, I think Firestone took on the business.

Can confirm as an ex-Firestone mechanic from shortly after Firestone picked up Penny's repair business (in fact, the shop I worked at used to be a Penny's auto repair). If a car rolled in needing brakes, and they had the lifetime warranty, we put brakes on it. I was never tasked with trying to find ways to wiggle out of it. Nope, it was "hey, mikestew, '72 'stang out there, check the brakes. It's lifetime warranty, so if it needs anything we don't need to call customer, just put it on and let me know what you did." And because a "lifetime" job required that the customer buy calipers and rotors in addition to pads, Firestone covered everything. Rotors are shot? New rotors for you, no charge! Caliper frozen? New caliper, on the house!

Haven't worked for Firestone in about 25 years, but we still take our cars there for lifetime alignment (I can do brakes myself). No bullshit, no fine print, take it in once or twice a year, no questions asked. And I'll tell you why Firestone doesn't mind: they'll more than likely find something else that needs work (not trying to rip you off, folks, that's just the nature of mechanical things) and make some money off that. My personal observation was that folks also never took it back for an alignment until it needed tires, and therefore money in Firestone's pocket. IOW, Firestone's bean counters were counting on customers not actually using the warranty, and they were right.

Tilley clothing is another one who honored the lifetime warranty on two of their hats we had for twenty years. Filled out the form, paid eight US dollars shipping, new hats in a few weeks. My only complaint is that the new hats are...different. I dunno, maybe after some break-in they'll be like our old ones. Tilley claims to be like the Craftsman tools of old: if you're in possession of a hat, you're covered under warranty even if you didn't buy it. "Put it in your will!", they say. I assume that's true, because they never asked us for any proof of purchase.
My wife loves finishing a picture puzzle, the sense of accomplishment at creating order out of chaos helps her relax. I can't stand them, they are dull and repetitive and in the end you just have the same picture that was already on the box. A decade ago, I built a simple set of wooden stairs to replace the existing, poorly built concrete set. To this day I get a little burst of joy when I use them. People are different and get satisfaction from different goals, that's pretty obvious to most people. However, it can be difficult to find out what you actually gives you joy. Some of the people I know struggling with midlife issues went through life believing some great goal would be worth it, but once achieved, the found it lacking. It would be like if I spent 20 years building a great picture puzzle. I'd be having a major crisis when it was done. Academia is a big offender because you can't know if you'll be satisfied until you get there, and getting there takes a decade or two.

Furthermore, what you get satisfaction from can change. Build a bunch of puzzles or stairs, and you may find it dull and unrewarding. I don't find actual coding as rewarding as it used to be, but I find design and problem solving much more interesting.

I think the young and old part is misleading. People can get in such a malaise at any time. The key is finding the trick and techniques to get out of it, or even better, avoiding it in the first place.
I swear, if this doesn't set off blaring red sirens in your head you should not be trusted with money.

"We had to fire our accountant because he was trying to do his job."

Next time they'll know better and hire Accenture like they should have in the first place.
> Surely the Cold War would have been a real war if not for nukes, no?

Never thought about that. It's hard to tell, Everyone was in some sort of cold war with Germany before the two world wars. Nobody wanted to fight and this is what led Germany to conquer very quickly a number of countries.
Woah. This comment deserves a blog post and its own thread on HN.
Transit Visa and a Chatbot Story
If you want a more featureful tool, but still data-oriented and built with a programming-slant, I highly recommend Squib[1]. It has tons of rendering and processing options, and fairly thorough documentation (unlike pretty much everything else out there).

[1] - http://squib.rocks/
I would love to do more stuff like that, but frequently refrain, as I know that as a grown man much of it would alarm people. It’s my least favourite part of being an adult. I likewise can no longer wander through people’s property.

(I still do things like that when they aren’t potentially alarming)
Great enclosures. The all-metal design is an important property for guitar pedals, it acts as a noise shield. For the same reason, they're probably not the greatest choice for radio circuits.
The US public sector is actually middle of the pack [1].

1. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/PublicSe...
Hash sigs... ok

Winternitz... ok

Ternary hash function ... designed by genetic algorith ... WUT?

Why would you design your own hash function?
In my experience giving your JSON API type information is one of the most beneficial things you can do to your web codebase.
I agree completely. I get this incredible sense of comfort when I know I can hammer out whatever I need at a low level, instead of having to cross my fingers and hope that I never need a way out of the walled garden.

It's like the difference between having file system access to a Wordpress install and not. When you have access, you can fix anything.
Venture Confidential: The Role of the Investor with Ryan Floyd of Storm
Yes, there should be firmware updates for the kernel in flash. (And we haven't really figured out how to handle that yet.)

But such firmware updates likely have different constraints and a different schedule than your kernel-in-production updates. People will likely have much different requirements for the kernel in flash than for the kernel in production. It may be that for your use case and threat model, they'd be the same - but that's up to you to figure out and decide.
I've gotten to a point where to me "results-oriented" is a four letter word. It's just a bad way to go about your life. Both for your sanity, and because it's more often than not just a wrong-headed way of thinking.
Scientist claims human-chimpanzee hybrid born in Florida lab century ago
Not sure if this supports mobile, but I’m just getting a blank new window when I hit “Save”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIoBrob3bjI

Tom Lehrer - So Long Mom (A Song for WW III)
This is getting down-voted but it's fair criticism of the parent comment. As a former Army grunt-turned-dev, I can personally verify that there are many very smart military personnel. They do deserve some blame for failing to imagine how their data could be used by our adversaries. It's a major OPSEC issue, no doubt, and a great learning opportunity for the military. Troops on the ground are adopting consumer tech too quickly for the DoD to keep up. In my experience in wartime operations overseas, this is often a failure to see the forest for the trees; that is, you're too involved in operations on the ground to see the danger of the (seemingly) innocent technology you're using to make your life easier, better, etc.
MS-DOS on BIOS
Linux on MS-DOS (UEFI)
??? on Linux (this)

Great
The article quality on Slashdot seems to be better recently, presumably due to the most recent owners. Don't bother with the comments though.
Instant Pot vs. Dutch oven: Which makes better food?
The Good Place: how a sitcom made philosophy seem cool
I found this critique of those fairly convincing.

http://www.templetons.com/brad/robocars/v2vdata.html

Pithily, "It can never be that useful because if it's being really useful, something is very wrong."
I wonder if like a real mind it will suffer from psychological afflictions that require therapy by an AGI shrink to fix.
Jeremy, thanks for putting this out. I had issues with part 1, v1 with the AWS set up. But I had none of those issues with this course. As a beginner programmer the template provided via Paperspace is just what I needed. I've been waiting for this course to be released for a really long time now, so I am incredibly excited to have successfully set up the environment and am now FINALLY ready to learn. Thank you!
Thanks a lot for that clarification. I have heard the claim that the NYC subway was built privately many times but this explanation makes a lot more sense. Do you have any preferred sources on the history of the subway?
overture?
This sucks because TomToms voice navigation is hands down the winner of everything out there and their display is placed much better (on the windshield) than the in-car navigation systems. I like dedicated devices that do one thing and do it well.
I'm a Ben Thompson reader / listener, and I'm not sure which of his arguments you're referring to, but I'm intrigued by the premise. Would you mind throwing out some links and further commentary on this?
Security Conversations Podcast
look at the whitehouse lawn in the heat map, there's what looks like data from someone walking the yard.
Oil and Gas Industry Gets GPU, Deep Learning Injection
Not what GP was asking. Desire might not even correlate with sperm count!

Maybe decreased desire even leads to count and motility decreases?
there's tracks from what looks like the Bermuda-Newport yacht race.
NSX revenue was reported at $1B/year a year ago, so it's pretty big.
You effectively do specify your fields before runtime in Rails, though, in the form of your migrations. Furthermore all of the associations (belongs_to, etc), are arguably also specified before runtime since those helpers run when the class is parsed.
Expect a pdf file download. Worked on my phone.

("Save" should be "Download" or something else more clear.)
Maybe CPS? https://www.it.uu.se/edu/course/homepage/avfunpro/ht10/notes...
​The death of macOS Server Several services to be deprecated
Hacking with Go: Packet Crafting and Manipulation in Golang Pt 1 – Video
It's Linux. Linux all the way down.
I feel like I need to point out that in my experience demographic personas like this aren't used by product designers. I've seen marketing use them. Not designers.

Designers often get associated with fluffy exercises so I want to kill that stereotype. I don't think I've ever worked on a product team that used demographic personas like these.
The company I work for is at the inscrutable ladder logic point. If our PLC engineer dropped dead, nobody would be able to pickup and go. I would be at least a month or two of software archeology for someone to come in and take over.
Maybe he's arguing in good faith, but his conservative views are so deeply entrenched that even he fails to see how conservative he is. Such an extreme ideology that you yourself cannot distinguish from what you perceive to be neutral reasoning is the primary sign of a weak critical mind. I find Pinker to be one of the weakest public minds of our times for that reason, and for that I find him terribly boring. A writer who is so far behind the reader in understanding his own text makes the reading boring rather than interesting.
Thanks. This doesn’t sound much different from how most public transit is built.
I don't really see why we should expect any tradeoff between the two. Most efficiency innovations would transfer.