skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see anyone here commenting on this, but there's an interesting software / UI angle in this story: the captain preferred the fancier, animated-map-style weather reports from a 3rd-party company (B.V.S. reports) to the more terse text-only reports from the National Hurricane Center (sat-C reports).

Turns out, the B.V.S reports were using raw data that was 10 to 12 hours old - and they didn't explicitly mention that. In the case of a rapidly evolving hurricane, it mattered a lot.

> The B.V.S. map included a time stamp that showed when the processing had been completed, but gave no indication of the age of the raw data on which the forecast was based. Davidson knew that all the forecasts were uncertain, and that they sometimes disagreed. But how aware was he that when he looked at the B.V.S. maps he was looking into the past?

[...]

> Davidson dismissed the plan with a thank-you and did not come to the bridge. Evidence suggests that he was still showing a preference for the animated B.V.S. graphics, which indicated the storm progressing more slowly.
you question my internals? That's an interesting phrase to internally question :-)
I don't fully get it. What does the "edge" here means?
How is it like a CDN? How is this different than Heroku/GCloud?
I'd rather just buy decent hardware to begin with and not gimmicky crap like a 1280x80 pixel screen jammed onto an arm chip on a laptop. Nope. I heard its especially fun if you have to reinstall - you need both firmwares or the machine goes in frowny mac mode.

I'd much rather put time in a decent Linux desktop. You don't need neuromancer-syle cyberpunk interfaces to make a really nice Linux system. And you can pretty much do whatever you want, rather than have to break Apple's "standards" for something that doesn't resemble brushed aluminum dogshit.

(psst, look at username. I'm even somewhat OK with Windows, given some of my 3d design workflow is there. My last job was a linux shop with Macs.. Hated the macs every second.)
Excellent read thank you, that final section how the company struck off BRM (CRM) from the ships training prior was pretty damning.
I have no dependents, so no, I wasn't making a self-centric comment. And it was just one example of how losing money can affect other people.
And large number of cores comes in handy as well for the more efficient neural network architectures with complex data augmentation. I have several such networks where 16-core Threadripper is a bit of a bottleneck on a 4-GPU machine. We do the usual stuff: random scaling, cropping, rotation, noise, etc. Super easy, parallelizable stuff. That bottleneck will get worse once Volta consumer cards start showing up.
John Locke talks extensively about Natural Rights (and he was the source of inspiration to America's founding fathers). His Second Treatise of Government goes deep into his explanation.

There have been many thinkers that have challenged Locke. I am currently reading the Second Treatise to try and really understand Locke's position before I make up my mind.
Except even in Europe, there isn't really a "right to be forgotten". Your "right to be forgotten" doesn't mean you can make a newspaper to take down a factually accurate article about you, just to force a search engine to stop linking to that factually accurate article. They didn't give anyone control of the data about themselves, just the right to make it harder to find.
Maybe their opinions were based on principle. I know you do not care, but your dismissal of 80k people you don't and will never know says volumes about you as a person.
Uber insider on why he stayed during worst year ever
Thank god, some sense! It was driving me crazy with how many irrational positions that people in this thread are holding without considering their orientation to the product (AI) and their relationship to the employer.

Something I would add is that a lot of people don't understand how fundamental military R&D is to the collective progression of knowledge and technology. Take almost any common technology that we use today (computers, gps, rockets, airplanes, cell phones, radios, the internet, etc) and you will find it came from military R&D and use in war.

Since AI and all its related parts are the new technological hotness, to put it mildly, it only makes sense that Google, one of the companies on the forefront of this technology, would work with the government/military to do research and find ways to apply it with their scope.
Java and .NET also have linkers, which can help bring down that size, even if not as much as Rust.
Is /dev/fb writing directly to the framebuffer or is there translation going on kernel side? Is the card in VESA / BIOS mode when on a virtual console without X?
> They admitted to have bought a list of addresses from another party where my email was part of the dump.

This is such a crappy practice for bootstrapping a new email marketing list, few things infuriate me as much as this. If nothing else, it instantly makes me never want to even look at your new product or service regardless of how good it might be.
The difficulty for me isn't the syntax, so much as not knowing how to use the tools. Examples are extreme like other niche languages. You get either hello world or writing a web server. I'd like to see someone build a YouTube channel with a lot of very small applications that show adding methods, classes,debugging, and deployment.
I would suggest that there is a very large difference between designing FOSS software, such as Tensorflow, that can be used for a multitude of applications, and developing for a company or project that is explicitly funded by military purposes. Advancing technology that has secondary applications in warfare is very different from focusing on the military aspect, and is not complicity.
They use a slipring. In some ways, its kind of ironic, because these are now most prevalent in brushless DC motors. Slip rings work in the same fashion as brushed motors. To achieve continuous rotation in a brushed motor, there are carbon brushes that are closing different circuits as the rotor spins. This allows the phase of the electricity to stay constantly ahead of the phase of the motor, giving it its acceleration. In a brushless DC motor, this same effect is achieved through a feedback loop, obviating the need for the brushes, which wear over time, and leave carbon deposits.

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13064
A government agency is similar to a court in that sense. It doesn't matter how many people want someone thrown in prison, the judge must have a reason based on existing law to do so.
Show HN: We built a jQuery table of credit cards
Do you have a url? I googled and found just lectures on youtube.
AWS Launchpad Live on Twitch.TV/AWS – sf summit recap and live demos
> the default assumption is that emails from new devices are just spam

What fraction of e-mails receive from new devices are spam? (Genuine question, if someone has a source or the data.)
And cryptocurrencies do not prohibit people from buying and selling others people’s data.
Eh, when someone says "it sure feels strange, and very difficult to get used," it doesn't have to be negative. You can take it as a "character flaw" jibe, but it's really just an observation.

source: American that is still in shock by septic tank users that have to throw their feces-paper in the trashcan.
I’d say most software isn’t global because it works with the real world - uber, Amazon, Facebook, all of them started local.
Right. Exactly.

And part of the propaganda, even today, is the US right trying to equate that somehow to Obama. They are relying on wan, sad whataboutism: "When Obama used social media it was ok", "If Hillary had done this it would be ok".

No. The Trump campaign spent $100M on facebook ads. If they are so proud of those ads, let's see them. Release them. Let's see what they were telling people, and who they were targeting.

For normal political advertising on TV or even direct mail, it's hard to keep what you're doing a secret. For online targeted advertising, there is no such constraint.

We need to figure out a way to make all political advertising, and who it's targeted to, publicly disclosed. Sunshine helps.
I do it every day. The function keys to me always hid functionality, and I never found it easy to discover what they did. Usually there was another, and better documented way to do whatever they did anyway.
You’ll read a lot of comments on this, both good and bad. A lot of passionate arguments have been made on both sides. I have two things to add to it—and feel free to take them as you will. People I know in the area with wells had them go dry after the nestle plant opened. These were wells that had previously been high (for wells) throughout, just drying up. The plant also got special tax rebates and other incentives to open with the idea they’d make it back with taxes and jobs but it’s never materialized.
Cool - thanks - much appreciated.
Can someone who knows more about this issue explain how Nestle bottling water has anything to do with lead in Flint's water or Detroit shutting off water to people who were delinquent on their bill? They seem totally unrelated. If Nestle didn't do this would it fix Flint's lead problem? Would it help people pay their water bills?

I don't see how these issues are connected other than "water in Michigan". Am I missing something?
Nope, they are pumping from the "White Pine Springs well". The aquifer likely refills at a much slower rate than the flow of the Muskegon River
So it lets you use anything as a library? Am I reading that right?
Equating parked and driven autos with abandoned bikes. How juvenile.
The US NIH has a $30B budget to do research on cancer and human disease. Most of that is about helping people and has zero connection to the military.

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Edit: also, the movement to close down DoE and cut NASAs budget certainly WAS created by American oligarchs like the Koches. They have created a propaganda machine to push for tax cuts for the rich. And part of the propaganda, pushed by outlets funded or controlled by GOP billionaires, like Fox, Limbaugh, Cato(founded as Koch), Sinclair, Heritage, SPN, Cit U, Jud Watch, Bradley, Searle, etc etc. is that we need to shrink government (so we can cut taxes on the rich.)

One description of that strategy is here [1]
Today’s Republican Party is the party that those activists made. Congressional Republicans who came up in the populist tax revolts of the 1970s abandoned the old party orthodoxy of balanced budgets and rebranded themselves as the tax-cutting party. They embraced the idea that deficits don’t matter as long as those deficits result from Republican tax cuts.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/18/opinion/republicans-tax-c...
The facility is only one of many uses for water in the area. Suggesting the rivers flow is 100% free to use is extremely misguided.
I notice a lot lately, maybe it has always been so, that some large powerful entity will insist that the citizen has been screwed over according to all proper procedures and applicable laws...
I had to scroll way too far before encountering some basic description of wtf this is. "binary black magic" is cute and entirely unhelpful.

It appears to be:
'The primary use of wcc is to "unlink" (undo the work of a linker) ELF binaries, either executables or shared libraries, back into relocatable shared objects.'
I don’t doubt they’ll get some reduction, but it will always be more than zero.
Which again doesn't solve the problem of people being more likely to rate high-brow oscar type things with more stars even if they didn't really enjoy watching them, and more hesitant to rate light or slapstick things the same way.

It's the same reason why so many people's to watch queue is filled with documentaries and profound movies they feel they should watch, but most of the time when they turn it on they flip on a simple TV show.

Whether we want it to or not, like in hotels 5 stars implies a level of quality, not just a level of like.

In a scenario, someone was looking for a silly light-hearted movie and I got a silly light-hearted movie. They don't think it deserved "5-stars" so they give it 3 or 4, but in truth it was exactly what they wanted. They want to ensure their data is a pure a signal as possible: did you enjoy it - and having people map things to star ratings adds in noise.
I started remapping the Caps Lock key to the Escape command when I got my tbMBP, and now it's the very first thing I do on every single computer I start using, touch bar or not. MacOS even now offers this as a 1st party option in system preferences, it works phenomenally. I even love, at a visceral level, the balanced symmetry of ESC and ENTER being opposite each other.
> I know you do not care, but your dismissal of 80k people you don't and will never know says volumes about you as a person.

Thanks for the ad hominem.

It isn't that I care or not, approving this well is a technical environmental decision, and shouldn't depend on how much people scream. It doesn't matter if there were 10 million people against it, the agency isn't there to evaluate public support for a project, it is there to evaluate the technical and environmental aspects of the project.

Don't let an angry crowd make technical decisions.
Ethics of Liberty by Murray Rothbard

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that it's weird that there are people opposed to bottling water. More that it's not very meaningful to compare the number of comments opposed to the number of comments in favor.
>deliverability issues so bad that they harm all of their other users.

Why does this harms users who follow the guidelines to show origin/identity (SPF, DKIM, dedicated IP, etc.)? We also use SendGrid for transactional emails and it's the same: some hosts (like Office 365) have told us that they weight all messages coming from sendgrid.net to their users as SPAM because they've seen so many issues there.

I pointed out that they should be able to distinguish between spammers and those who, like us, are positively identifiable and have not engaged in SPAM. No avail.

Are they being lazy, or am I missing something?
yes, I don't really understand the whole thing.

A bidet you use water to clean your outputs, instead of paper only. But

1) you probably have your arm under there to dry it too, it's cleaner but not perfectly clean I suppose. So you might have bacteria/microbes too

2) I forgot my 2 but you get the idea. Unless you have something that doesn't involve approaching your ass you're still not 100% clear.
To me this illustrates a huge opportunity: big tech can't effectively engage with public good projects (e.g. typical government territory). What's needed is a tech gov superlayer that provides an umbrella for these services and can also guarantee their internal integrity. The lack of guarantee over this last point is one major problem here.
Please show me a download for Edge on a 32-bit WinXP PC.
This facility is over a hundred miles from Flint, and on a completely different watershed. In fact, the watershed drains into a completely different Great Lake (Lake Michigan rather than Lake Huron).
Does anybody know what debugging will look like here? Will LLDB work?
The article assumes that everybody who "trolls" online is being deliberately vicious - and maybe the author was focused on discussing the people who really are trying to cause hurt online. On the flip side, though, I've learned to be very, very careful how I phrase things online because it's (apparently) really easy for somebody to misconstrue something that you said and assume that you meant offense.
I'm on mobile, so I can't write code for you (plus, the code is going to be ugly since it relies on a C framework). However, I can give you some pointers; one, you'll need to create some sort of app, since it will need to continuously run with a run loop. You'll want to look into the Accessibility/OSA APIs and register an AXObserver.
I would have bought a Macbook Pro last winter, but given the abomination that is the Touchbar, I refused to buy one. If the next iteration of the Macbook Pro doesn't get rid of it, I'm going to just get a Windows laptop instead.
A Obviously not exactly as you describe, and certainly not as it is done now.

Current algorithms do exactly the opposite -- prioritize falsehoods. This is because false stories have more surprise value than truth and are more noticed and spread more wildly [1]. The algorithms that value engagement, reading, re-sending, etc. thus raise these stories to the top.

So, on things like climate change, people's reputations, etc., yes, they should behave like the editorial boards that they are, and prioritize content by actual experts in the field and by actual facts. No need to delete everything fake since they can list ~unlimited results, but it should certainly be appropriately down-ranked.

While Google seems to have done a little bit to improve the results for a "flat earth" search, YouTube brings to the top a bunch of videos promoting flat earth BS.

Sorry, but liars, charlitans, scammers, and worse should not be given the same platform and respect as actual experts and professionals.

B that would depend on the content of the letter. It happens much more frequently than you seem to expect. And editorial boards every day exercise exactly this sort of restraint, especially at the more credible outlets: "Are there multiple sources for this?", "Is this actually verifiable?", etc.

In short, to quote Asimov: "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

No, ignorance is not just as good as knowledge and our major institutions (even and perhaps especially commercial ones) should not promote it as such.

[1] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1146.full
Oh, we used the Art of Prolog in my sw engineering course. It's a good book, although it doesn't cover the newer features of Prolog interpreters, like Constraint Logic Programming, IIRC.
Which reddit has been doing the last few years.
I hated working on in house products. The company considers you a “cost center” and doesn’t value you as much as the employees in their profit centers.
I have noticed this correlation as well (I am an example of it in fact). I think there is a common thread of decentralization and bringing power closer to the people that resonates with the two groups.
We are touch typists ;)

Seriously though, I don't look at my keyboard and therefore have no idea what is on touchbar at any moment. I am not offended as some by its existence, but I also don't find it useful except touchid bit.
Most recently, I've been keeping Character Strengths and Virtues on my desk. It's a catalogue of the things that we think are good about human psychology. It's a good conversation starter, and fun to flip through and read sections.
Just where do you think the local groundwater winds up?
I'm pretty happy with Caps Lock remapped as Escape key.

I think it's super useful to do this with any keyboard if you use vim.
basically, fancy way to say I have similar topics of interests these days
Will need to wait until the year 2375 for the next renaissance:
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/5/54/...
> Apple made it impossible to understand how to turn on and off the laptop

Open the lid.

> leaving you with zero feedback when you start the laptop for an eternity

1. Startup doesn't take long.

2. There's a progress bar when booting.
> assumption that people only upload address lists from users they have consent from

It's not an assumption, it's a core of e-mail marketing business. They can't really ask for consent to receive marketing e-mails, because they can't get much consent for this. So the whole thing relies on people being tricked into giving away e-mail addresses, unknowingly consenting to e-mail marketing, being lazy to fight unsubscribing bureaucracy, etc.
Per the article, they already pump 360,000 gallons per day. So this dispute is about a an increase of just 216,000 gallons per day and it has taken them almost 2 years to go through the permit process.

For reference, an olympic sized swimming pool holds 660,000 gallons of water. So even after this increase, they are still drawing less than one pool's worth of water.
The US Military has zero hubris in and of itself. The 'US Military' has so many moving parts and sub-cultures, not including all the support systems, contractors and so on. On a unit by unit basis; it is just a job for many many people.
You might be talking about the big picture 'US Military' - it doesn't wield itself either.
This is common misconception about mindfulness meditation. The goal of mindfulness meditation is not to quiet mind(though this happens with practice). It's to learn how to notice when your mind is unquiet.

So when you notice your mind wandering this is mindfulness. Imagine you're coding all day long, and then you have this moment where you notice that you're not paying attention to coding, but instead thinking about what it would be like to be a ninja. You might have been thinking about being a ninja for 5-10 minutes before you realized it. But this moment when you realize, oh hey I was thinking about something other that what I thought I was thinking about is a moment of mindfulness. And this is what you're practicing.

So when you notice your mind wandering, be happy, this is a moment of mindfulness. Your mind was probably wandering for a while before you realized it, but this moment is the moment you realized it.
are there standard or near standard books about new topics in Logic Programming ?
> The aquifer likely refills at a much slower rate than the flow of the Muskegon River

No, most likely it does not. The watershed and the associated aquifer are where the river water comes from.

As to "what that assertion is based on", that would be "knowledge of how the hydrologic cycle works".
Two answers to this one

1) iPhone X already has this feature.

2) GDPR will require you to opt-in to asshole tracking, and you'll also have the right to request your asshole scans be forgotten.
Linux commit marks ARM architecture unmainted
Wonder why shippers don't have a 24/7 Operations Center employing meteorologists and tracking weather systems and ships and in close contact with ship's crew. It struck me that there was a lot of friction for the crew to just plot up-to-date weather/forecasts and the ship's course. Crew was constantly fighting for current data and good/correct visualization.
That's why we need 1) Hate it, 2) ...meh, 3) love it.
Whilst I appreciate the concern, so long as the US government has platforms such as the EC-130 Compass Call ( which can overpower broadcast frequencies with its own propaganda ) in order to 'shape' democracy in other nations it's quite hard for people outside the USA to think anything other than 'a taste of your own medicine'.

The only thing that seems different is that it was the 'other guys' who were playing psyops better this time around, rather than the incumbent government.
Keeping Found Things Found, William Jones, Morgan Kaufmann press.

The study and practice of personal information management.
If you can't understand why there's so much ruckus and commotion by the public you shouldn't be calling it pointless or useless.

People are angry because of the disaster that was Flint. When government officials refuse to answer for large-scale disasters, people resort to other outlets and places to direct their anger. People are angry because they see corporations swooping in to bottle and sell more water in the same state where those people are suffering due to greed and failure.
Yes, and you can also de-link a binary into an object (.o) file and then re-link it into another binary.
That's not a very nuanced position to hold about something very complex.
Holy moly! This is incredibly cool, novel and useful for hacking around binaries and such.

edit: Previous discussion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12281803