skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The DDG-1000 Zumwalt class was a huge expensive mistake. Those ships only exist because after the old battleships were decommissioned, the Marine Corps convinced Congress that the Navy needed new ships to provide gunfire support during amphibious invasions. But the reality is that modern weapons have become so lethal that amphibious assaults against a heavily defended beach would be suicidal anyway even with naval gunfire.

The Zumwalt class is left as a ship without a mission. The guided artillery shells were cancelled due to cost overruns so there's no ammunition to fire out of the cannons. They have no area air defense capability and minimal antisubmarine capability. The smart move would have been to keep the first ship as a technology demonstrator and test article while cancelling the rest but instead they went ahead with building three of the stupid things.
Being a member does not mean anything, many companies just want a seat at the table.
All we really needed were embedded comments on pages and RSS feeds.

It's sad that everything turned into bland walled gardens incapable of interaction between services.

Shakes fist at MySpace and Facebook

Edit: What I mean by that is you used to be able to subscribe to RSS feeds from nearly anywhere that published things. But now people are publishing inside of these services that don't really offer access so you have to check Facebook, Twitter, etc, to get updates. Sure there are notification systems now but it's definitely not as flexible.
Cost overruns and delays
> The original poster was right, you don't need to look to someone like him hear a message as basic and timeless as "happiness is fleeting and some of your problems are your own fault."

I'm not sure how you consider this professor an "idiot," useful or not. He has been spreading a similar message for decades, and continues to derive meaning from the world from a behavioral-psychological perspective. I see his desire to help people coming from his innate desire (being a clinical psychologist). I also find it hard to find flaws in the belief system he works from (not religion, but the perspective on our need for meaning).

It would be useful to give clear examples of where he is truly provoking for the sake of it and for the sake of book sales.

To say that he's saying nothing original is wholly wrong. And to lambaste someone for sourcing knowledge from a modern public source is ridiculous. How do you sort yourself out if you cannot proceed without knowing the true source of an idea?
If it turns out as good as it looks, I may have to figure out how to install windows on my machine...
For me: teaching!

Getting 400 students up and running with python is painful alone - without USB. For projects, some small fraction of those used USB, and we again had a pretty good chunk of time spent getting them all working.
I actually support any use of oil that does not include burning it. (within reason)

Better make all of it into Lego and then bury it into a landfill when it breaks, if it can be done on renewable energy.
I checked it out and it seems approachable. Is there any resource that provides answers to the problem sets ?
You don't choose which family you're born into, after all.

You couldn't have been born into any other family—a child born into a different family would be a different person entirely. Is it still chance when there is only one possible outcome?
Writing Custom CSS vs. Using Front End Frameworks
Nice job Gumby
Yeah I wonder how they plan to resolve that issue. Even those ~$10 10,000mw green lasers from aliexpress can permanently harm your eyesight from a reflection.
Summary: two listening devices transmitting at ultrasound frequencies and undergoing mutual interference may have created the human audible sound that was recorded and published in the news as evidence of the Cuban sonic attack.

Personally, this makes a lot of sense and satisfies both Hanlon's Razor and the basic "Who profits?" question.
It could be he knows who Mono is and he knows "Mono" just refers to Mono, but there are a lot of other things in the world that he wants to talk about and he knows the grownups will be able to piece thing together. I do that often enough. "Fred or whoever, that guy, did that thing ..." If neural networks were doing that, that would be more awesome still.
Twitter is not the Internet. The Internet is not Twitter. Platforms come and go. My computer will always be able to be connected to yours, though.

If you're worried about communications going through a third-party, privately owned service getting censored, then you're communicating wrong.
Why should one have tolerance for the intolerant? Why should a gay person have tolerance for someone saying that they basically don't deserve the same rights as other people?
Unfortunately large portions of your web app seem to have aria-hidden set to true on them, which means I can't use it at all with a screen reader.
So true! Search engines in a way have both invigorated, and ruined the web. They are great because now you can find anything, but they suck because they've removed a lot of the mystery.

I loved hearing about cool websites via word-of-mouth. Starting there, and then just following a rabbit hole of links to places I've never been before.

I suppose it's still possible if enough people agree to host sites that reject crawlers.
Here's a photo page from mine in 1997 (still sitting on my hard drive).

http://seanfitzroy.com/old/1997/fantasyfest/index.html

A GIF "writes out" the title on a notepad background image. Then it "refreshes" to the actual photo page — but it's timed for a 56k modem so the text takes about 10 seconds to appear.

At least it taught me Photoshop and ImageReady. All hand-coded (poorly) in Notepad on Windows 95. Sorry for the Comic Sans.
It's possible, we had a few people ask for MPAS already. Beyond WRF, the priority will probably be on surface wave modeling, but ultimately prospective users will decide.

Do you have preference for MPAS Atmosphere, Ocean, or both?
For vehicles that routinely travel across state lines. Driverless Uber isn't going to be doing that.
The government banks issuing T bills is indeed an example of creating money with no backing, which results in inflation.

Those are not in the nature of free banking, however. It's a special government privilege.
It certainly looked a lot better back then when default site backgrounds were eye-friendly gray.
> How the fuck is this approved by the patent office?

Someone with a clue please go work at the USPTO and improve the situation. They're hiring:

https://www.usajobs.gov/Search?l=&l=&a=CM56&p=1&smin=17840&s...
Waste is important too, in this case notably the gaseous one.
Icing on top of that Papyrus logo.
Jaron Lanier's "You Are Not a Gadget" has some nice thought about this point, claiming that the web in the 90s was a way more creative and personal space than today.
https://twitter.com/SpaceJamCheck
Yeah but it's good to keep in mind what kinds of errors a neural network can make. It will help in training and debugging them. Also it helps to keep a little skepticism now that "deep learning" gets waved at everything like a magic wand.
We, as workers, should push to change that. If someone has sued their employer for a legit reason, that should have absolutely no bearing on their employment status.
Do you supply all cores (NMM-B & ARW)?

How about all the other configurations of WRF (HWRF, WRF-DA, WRF-CHEM, Global)?

What sizes can you scale to? What type of hardware are you running on, if you don't mind me asking?

Thanks.
It's like ANSI graphics that load instantly: it's painful to witness. Unless it's like ticker tape rolling out, it just ain't right.
I knew a lot of people in school and work places that were using Netscape's built-in WYSIWYG editor, Composer. They couldn't build a site in raw HTML to save their life otherwise, but they could throw something basic together in Composer. Before that, if I'm not mistaken, Navigator 3 had some kind of simple page editor with it as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Composer
I'd call it the first example of AI rage-quitting.
That's the low-cost option. When I had my cat cremated I opted for private cremation where each pet gets their own vessel in the crematory. (There can still be a tiny bit of ash mingling, as sometimes air currents will carry some flakes into adjacent vessels.)

https://thepetlosscenter.com/our-locations/austin/

She was with me almost 20 years, and it was worth the extra cost to be able to have a remembrance of her.
Surprised Noone’s mentioned privateer. I loved that game so much. Had to make a special boot disk to free up memory on our 386SX
I wonder if a hybrid approach is possible. Run GC recursively. Arrange for the segfault to run on an alternative stack (sigaltstack). If a segfault occurs due to insufficient stack space, then do the rest of the GC using the "queue draining loop" approach, within the small amount of alternative stack memory. Then longmp to some point in the original GC to bail out the original stack.
>If it was china doing this, HN and the media would be attacking it from every angle possible. Strangely, the same type of behavior in the US is supported by these same people.

Because, unlike with China, the US government isn't using its monopoly on violence to force Twitter to make these decisions, or arresting those who fail to comply. It's not even remotely the same thing.
Surface wave, as in Wave Watch III? If so how about CICE and or HYCOM too?

My preference would be for MPAS-A.

Thanks
You ignored the core concept
You should have a look at the list of things the payment processors have disallowed ...

Also note that telecoms companies have the law on their side against "obscene" or "harassing" phone calls, in a way that doesn't seem to apply to other internet communications.
Allegiance is the one game I keep coming back to after 18 years.

I was very pleased to see Microsoft redo the license so the community could put it up on Steam.
I read it in the "committed to an asylum" sense. And that it must be Tim Berners-Lee talking, until you see the source.
It's the wrong choice, since they defined x+null=null and ignoring missing/undefined/error values (which null often represents) is dangerous in many domains. Users could have always filtered nulls manually, which would have made this dangerous behaviour explicit.
Well, there is theory, and there is real world.

In the real world, reductions in debit card fees (in the USA, via the Durbin Amendment) have not lead to lowered prices, just increased profits. [1]

This explains why merchants care about processing fees.

[1] From page 27 of
https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/publications/working_pa...

"In the year following Durbin’s implementation, gasoline retailers realized more than $1 billion in savings from reduced interchange fees. But 'while this should mean savings of roughly 3 cents per gallon, no savings have been passed on to consumers.' This is particularly remarkable and instructive given that the retail gasoline industry is highly competitive, and at least one other study has demonstrated that gasoline excise taxes are almost instantly and fully passed through to consumers"
There's enough immigration that other languages can get 'renewed' too, but the general pattern is for languages to die off by the second generation. This is in stark contrast to what happens, say, in India where speakers maintain ancestral languages much better even when they have been resident in area which employs a different language for many generations. It seems to come down to cultural handling of mono- vs multi-lingualism.
Air's app lets you record and store unlimited video with your phone
The web isn't even the internet.
Thanks!

About point 2, let me clarify. I know that I could either pick a pre-existing category or type my own freeform text. I was trying to make the decision of which to go with based on what pre-existing categories existed. To make that decision, I wanted to be able to see the full list of categories. I was able to see that full list and make my decision, but in an awkward way. Hopefully that makes sense.
Downvote?! Looks like we have a CMake fan...
> If it was china doing this, HN and the media would be attacking it from every angle possible.

Yes, people see a difference between private parties exercising freedom of the press and the government regulating what can be published in a medium.
These robotic skiers hit the slopes in style
Yeah the Orcas are starving.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/low-orca-birt...

Ship traffic is also likely a factor in that it's likely disruptive to their hunting.

Unfortunately the Canadian government is set on approving the TransMountain diluted bitumen pipeline expansion, which will increase oil tanker traffic through the Haro Strait 7 fold. This will probably be dangerously disruptive to the orcas even if there's never any diluted bitumen spill

The orcas are probably doomed :(
Did you read to the end? They clearly know it’s satire and have a thorough discussion of that.
I think by "we" he doesn't mean himself and his colleagues, but Twitter itself.

While a human has a political bias, an Internet service, especially one claiming to be an open communication platform, probably shouldn't.
This is a company that literally took the path of lessening the amount of money that they receive from their users because they didn't like the ethics of it. This is not a bad company.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-11-21-clicker-he...
It's not. It is, at best, a short term incentive problem. The publishing of articles like this one is how this incentive problem corrects itself.

Consider: you are an investment manager considering allocating capital. You know that company A is engaged in short term manipulation tactics to the detriment of their long term business prospects, and company B doesn't care at all about short term market movements and focuses entirely on growing and sustaining their business. You also know that there was this McKinsey study recently that showed that companies like company B earn higher market returns long term. Where are you going to allocate your capital?

Now, I grant you, some investment managers are under pressure from their clients for short term performance. And that can skew the results here. But in aggregate, over time, the machine is efficient, and it will eventually price these things correctly. And in so far as i'm aware, there is no better known mechanism for allocating capital.

Now that this problem is published, to the extent that it's true, you, I, and anyone else who wants to can make it go away by allocating our own capital accordingly. And the nice thing is that we get compensated for doing so in the form of superior returns.
Mostly sad. Sure there is truth that your peers affect your decisions and options in life. Being branded for arrest or harassment by the police does not help...
They're not the same type of mistake. I don't remember the deteails, but when I was reading papers on caption generation, the part of producing coherent sentences seemed more like a hack that happens to kinda work (usually) rather than a robust solution.
Italian Composer, Songwriter, Flute Player Marco Di Meco Announces His New Album
Lost Causes of Theoretical Physics (2003)
It’s about as ridiculous as “Obama founded ISIS” and yet our President apparently believed that one.
Overfishing?

Hypothesis: Before the latest jumps in industrial fishing in the Pacific, enough salmon could live to five years to dominate the numbers of those returning to spawn. But now, with fishing becoming more "efficient", the probability of a fish living to five years while swimming free in the Pacific has dropped to very close to zero. But some still make it two or three years. Those are all that are left to return to spawn.
The article is just fluff there's not much substance basically it says that their R&D will save IBM. I hope so, they're one of the few companies that do pure R&D without having to translate to profits immediately.
I'm familiar with SOD - this supports my point not GP's point.
For a lot of my projects I use SBCL. The runtime for SBCL is 50MB. That would be a deal breaker for me in 1995, but it is a reasonable tradeoff for the increased productivity I get from it compared to slimmer runtimes.
If you don't have free will, then why did you choose to participate in this discussion?
>That should put to rest the "Apple's planned obsolescence" narrative, but I doubt it will.

That argument has never made much sense to me.

If Apple wanted to force people to buy a new device, wouldn't it be much easier to simply stop providing OS and security patches after two years the way most of the Android device makers have traditionally done?

How does providing four years of software support (on average) force users to buy a new device more quickly than providing two years of software support (on average)?
I had a page up on the iwarp.com domain too from the late 90s! http://counterwave.iwarp.com/ -> it was pure Flash (Flash 4) so it doesn't really even work anyway. It was so much fun. I miss those days.
THIS WAS INTERESTING, THANK YOU FOR POSTING IT.
> The goal of this project is to build a functional database.

> neon is a persistent set storing quads ie. 4-tuples made of:

> (graph, subject, predicate, object)

Sounds interesting. And reminds me of Datomic.

(Edit: formatting)
The log-normal is an underappreciated distribution. It's almost as common as the normal distribution, and it shows up a lot in human-relevant stuff. For example, on the main page now is a bit about 'luck' where the model/simulation is clearly generating log-normal distributions and all the power-law stuff is a distraction; many things form a natural 'pipeline' where the normal variables multiply rather than sum, and so you get a log-normal. A famous example is Shockley's analysis of scientific productivity: https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/1957-shockley.pdf If you are somewhat above-average in getting new ideas, in researching them, and in publishing them, say, you will wind up producing a lot more than someone who is just a little below-average across the board. Throw in a general factor like intelligence or just some inter-correlations, and the skew will be even more extreme.

For infections, multiplicativity makes a lot of sense. After all, what is an infection but a virus or bacteria literally being fruitful & multiplying? Small differences in immune system or the virus affecting its speed of reproduction or net total in each 'stage', and then a log-normal wouldn't be too surprising.
yes, me too, WebSub (previously PubSubHubbub) https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/ and Scuttlebutt https://github.com/dominictarr/scuttlebutt are in this space too with slightly different aims but a common cause of bringing ownership over content into the users control.
Not sure we can have this conversation productively on HN but I will say that I'd encourage you not to read what I'm saying as "all men are rapists," but more that we live in a culture that does many subtle things that encourage behaviors and thinkings that leads to violence against women.
Doesn't seem to work on Chrome mobile.
> A bipartisan consensus in Congress could negate the Supreme Court ruling simply by amending the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Sure, but is that likely to actually happen? Just because Congress could possibly negate a court ruling doesn't mean there's nothing to see here.
What makes Jewish comedy Jewish?
On theory I have heard relates to the fishing pressure in the North Pacifci Gyre. From what I understand Chinook and other anadromous species typically make one revolution per year (it's not uncommon for US born fish to be caught off Japan and Kamchatka). With an increase in fishing pressure fish just don't live as long any more without being caught. So the one, two, and three salt fish (two salt being a fish that has spent 2 years in the salt water), are more likely to pass on there genes. Being that how long a fish stays in salt water is largely genetic it would be easy to remove those genes from the gene pool in a relatively short time. I'm sure other factors like dams without fish passage on the Upper Columbia and Elwah (two rivers known for their large salmon) also played a factor.

Additionally fish hatcheries largely select for fish that return at a younger age as they will return in larger numbers, and with such a huge amount of hatchery fish that would further drive down the average size. As would any spawning between wild and hatchery fish (although the reproductive fitness of hatchery fish is particularly bad).
Except that the "consensus" probably means only a handful of Senators behind it.
In my TXR Lisp, the "alt stack" is used transparently to the programmer. So we can catch a stack segfault. This is exploited in the solution to the Rosetta Code "Find Limits of Recursion" task:

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Find_limit_of_recursion#TXR

The implementation code is here:

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/signal.c

Search for "setup_alt_stack" and "teardown_alt_stack".

Basically, this allows a Lisp signal handler lambda to execute even though the stack has been blown.

What if this is in the middle of gc? We can't run Lisp code with a heap that is the middle of gc, due to objects being marked and such. That situation is detected and a function called gc_cancel is called to simply cancel gc. Everything that has been marked is unmarked. To bring the gc machine to the most obvious safe state, all the structures related to generational gc are reset, and a full gc is scheduled.

With that implemented, the above Rosetta task became reliable; the random failures it exhibited were gone. Users programs (on platforms supporting sigaltstack) have a fighting chance to do something if gc runs out of stack, like save some data to disk or whatever.
I started as a middle-schooler writing html and publishing stuff on the internet. It was my introduction to web development and I was completely non-technical when I started.
China Presses Its Internet Censorship Efforts Across the Globe
Moral culpability assumes responsibility. I'm racist and sexist because I was born in a racist and sexist society -- that was not my fault. I spread disease because germs exist, and that's not my fault. But now that I've learned to see and recognize racism, sexism and germs, I try to fight them and not to spread them. If I don't wash my hands or do not fight sexism and racism, then I am morally culpable now, but those facts in themselves do not imply moral culpability even though they do imply harm (in all three cases).

Your statement about exploitation is just an expression of laziness and anger. It is hard for me to believe that you believe that scholars believe that the existence of a group of people is immoral. If that is what you believe, then you aren't paying attention.
I learned HTML in my first years of highschool building pages in Frontpage and Dreamweaver and inspecting the source code. At the time flash seemed more promising so it was only years later, during the CSS Zen revolution that I learned proper HTML and CSS. Until then I learned flash and ecmascript to make dynamic websites in flash.

As highschoolers with absolutely zero web experience, it was peanuts publishing to the web. You could find guides on how to publish to things like geocities or other hosts (silly things like 50meg.com) everywhere. Sure we had some time, but we didn't have to put much effort in learning.