skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't the methane actually a bit mysterious though?

IIUC, methane should be broken down by interaction with sunlight. So if there is trace methane in the Martian atmosphere, it's either coming from not-depleted sub-surface reserves (in which case: how did it get there?) or chemical processes are actively generating it in the Martian ecosystem somewhere.
Introducing low.js, the Node.js fork for embedded devices
The problems are the amount of buildable land in desirable areas and zoning rules preventing maximizing use of said land. In general, there is plenty of buildable land--just not necessarily where people want to live.
Probably don’t even need AI to implement a brute force direct democracy: just make a website where anyone can make issues to vote over, and a voting mechanism.

But is that a good idea?
The most popular and most devious ways to protect floppies on the Apple ][ were more or less all based on timing bits (including the most famous protection of all, the E7 slipstream).

These timing bits were necessary on the disks for the reading head to be able to tell 1's from 0's, but copiers did not have the ability to maintain them, so copies were often desynchronized.

AppleSauce is the only device that can successfully preserve timing bits, hence allowing protected disks to be copied.

Source: I crack Apple ][ programs for fun.
Or just take a bus.
No, that's the excuse to write the article. The point seemed to be to discuss the low-skill labor market. While the excuse was flimsy, the point was well-made.
A lot of my colleagues dont use headphones, so it is kinda hard to send the message headphones == do not disturb. From the other side, I work in Germany, so I just need to say "Sorry, I am busy!" and continue to do my work. It works great, and I don't even feel bad about being rude or misinterpreted (which was something that used to stay in the back of my head after not helping a peer.)
It's good that they're openly acknowledging the misstep here. However, I wish that the "will not pursue" section got the same bold-faced treatment as the one above it.

It seems appropriate at this point for industry leaders in this field, and governments, to come together with a set of Geneva-convention-like rules which address the ethical risks inherent in this space.
IMO it's not the actual move that is interesting, but when one switches on "search/scan mode"...
probably when one feels a downarrow in every morning's answering the question "why should i get out of bed". (somebody formulated it this way some time ago here on HN)

Then figuring out what/whether/is-it-worth is the on-going interesting part, and it can last months - or even years.
Good luck actually getting that pre-nup enforced in court!

Just don't get married, unless you are ready to lose it all if it goes south.
Everyone says they’d prefer an IPO but a lot of them change their minds when a man puts a $7.5 billion check on the table.
All cars from all manufacturers are running 10s or 100s of times more code than they did 10 or 20 years ago.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/39559/does-the-...

This really affects the nature of the situation. 20 years ago, cars contained microcontrollers with a tiny bit of code which was thoroughly reviewed and tested by skilled professionals. Today, all cars run so much code, even outside of the entertainment system, that the review and testing just can't be the same. (And there's way more programmers, so the range of skill and care is also much wider.)

We're in a new mountain-of-flaky-software world.
I've tried to find something similar in an urban area in Britain, here's one in Birmingham: https://www.google.nl/maps/@52.4901761,-1.889549,3a,69.6y,5....

That fence wouldn't be fun to drive into at full speed, and the lane markings are worn, but it's still far less awful than a concrete wall.
His statement doesn't really depend on the definition of "good" and "bad", as the logic only requires that the good people be half as valuable as the bad people, not more valuable.
Writing “Hands-On Concurrency with Rust”
What argument can you possibly make for an ethical burden that amounts to one-sided loyalty? The REASON is would be immoral to have no loyalty to an employer is because it makes the employers loyalty one-sided. If the employer abandons their loyalty towards employees, as all modern employers did throughout the 1980s and have now established as standard business practice, then there is no ethical burden on the employee to remain loyal. In fact, it becomes unethical to be loyal, a betrayal of your family and self for an entity that does not respect you. I am sure there are a great many employers who expect that they should be permitted to acquire dirt cheap labor to build their profits with no consequences. Their desires are irrelevant.

"Make game of that which makes as much of thee."
Increasing Bitcoin-Privacy Using the Lightning Network
We live in a world that has Elon Musk in it. Tony Stark stretches credibility much less than contemporary characters in his genre.
Sure but if you have a prefabricated wall, floor and ceiling solution, that solution could contain all "fiddly bits" pre-installed in an arrangement that was pre-approved and so should theoretically be much faster. Especially, you need wires and pipes and these require significant time and labor even with no zoning requirements.
Exactly. How can they measure this stuff. You can add a new remote and push your code somewhere else, update the readme file to point to the new location, and that's a migration. That's not an easy thing for Github to track. So this statement doesn't even make a lot of sense. They simply cannot really know -- they can only measure the people who explicitly close projects and accounts.
The Apple II and Vic-20 were both 8-bit computers. The minis and mainframes at universities were 16 and 32-bit systems, but for the large part I just ignored the word-length of a system. I really only cared if I needed to work in assembler, which I preferred for a good 15 years. I generally work in C flavored C++, and don't really optimize via process bit knowledge until bottlenecks are being removed.
You know I could never bring myself to be upset at people with a "chin up, it's fixable!" attitude. It's certainly not the worst thing they could do. And then the above commenter is committing a sin by not reading your mind to know you don't want to be encouraged? Come on.

>But don't let the facts confuse you. Just carry on with doing things that could push someone over the edge if you did this to them while they were actively feeling suicidal.

It's not the burden of people to never say any thing wrong to a depressed person. It's certainly wrong to place causation at their feet. This is the sort of thing that leads people to blame themselves after a suicide, it's an unhealthy way of thinking about the issue.
Dumping one's life savings undiversified into any bubble can be disastrous. Many people found this out about tech stocks, about homes, about highly leveraged derivative securities, and many other bubbles. To a smaller extent people have found losses in bubbles around everything from Beanie Babies to gas and oil.

Getting out from under the debt of the investment has been hard after many a bubble for many a person. That's what the taxi industry in New York was. Uber and Lyft burst that bubble.
If they're anything like the automated data collection kiosks at LAX, this is going to be a colossal failure. In my experience, they are terrible at identifying brown people and children. Good luck implementing this at scale.
Simple example how to use the TensorFlow Estimator API
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Who knew that startup advice when you are a 3 person shop does not apply to big corps handling a big chunk of the world's population. That's why its ludicrous to make fun of established companies for moving slow, they might be slow but try to minimize all the risk and get the same gains.
Then we can just do it Russian style. Kill everyone.
Not true at all. Paramedics can declare death (at least in most states, I cannot speak to all), and we _absolutely_ can stop resuscitation efforts using our clinical judgment, at times in concert with a physician.

I am not sure of the specifics of this case, but traumatic cardiac arrest is, as a generalization, "largely unsurvivable". An asystole EKG, in concert with the mechanism of injury, may be enough for us to do so, and we do not need to transport what is at that point a dead person (even if there is resuscitation being attempted, for a multitude of reasons - sometimes even "for the family's benefit"[1]) just to get them to a physician to declare death.

In many states, EMTs (with ~200hrs of medical training) are able to declare death legally, in the setting of evisceration of heart/brain, decapitation, "body position incompatible with life".

This is the situation to the best of my knowledge as a paramedic of nine years and a state certified EMS Instructor and Evaluator.

[1] it should be noted that this is done in a setting where its judged the "best" course of action for grief, establishing end of life directives, and the like, and _not_ as something that is intended to falsely convey hope.
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Yeah, every now and then someone makes a harmless joke online about white men. It must be really hard to deal with that kind of pressure.
What about street level city/town surveillance? Of course all the cop shops want to feed all their wants/warrants into it. I have no problem with this if there is a legal framework that supports it. More importantly, there are toddlers that get loose from their mothers because they are fundamentally greased pigs, or there are older members of our society who may be prone to wandering off in a daze - the ability to locate them within a very few minutes would be a good thing indeed. My own take is that I will look, I will try and recognize, but I will NEVER target. Machine is too good, sacks of meat like us have no prayer. That said, I've talked to a couple of cop shops, my position is that I will work with them when there is a framework that defines a legal basis for that level of tracking of people who clearly wish not to be tracked, even if they are bad actors. It's not a question of how far away you are, its a question of what you will track, why you will track, and what structure our society has put in place to get the benefits, not the risks. Looping back to the main point of the post, looking is OK, tracking requires societal governance, and any autonomous lethal capability, never mind action, should be absolutely forbidden, not just by law, but because we don't all want to die.
What is the value of Github’s source? Seems like Gitlab’s source is almost as good. The value of Github is the community, which isn’t really impacted one way or the other by open sourcing.
> if they can get out from under their debt and get into Uber or Lyft, that might protect them from some of these problems

They've lost their career due to new technology, and the solution is to drive cars for a company trying to create self-driving cars?
Google’s Responsible AI Practices
The cruise control was set to 75. 8 seconds before the crash, it was following a vehicle at 65 mph. It steered left, then was not following the vehicle anymore, and accelerated to try and get back to the set speed.
I actually disagree. But with a caveat. That is, this introduces atypical behavior to desktop. However this would make a great shortcut to a standardized button on the screen. This has application in certain web-apps.
>What we want are people who don't feel driven to suicide, not people who are unable to commit suicide.

Is there a reason we shouldn't do both?
Charging for SSO
Implementing SSO is easy now. It's a shrewd business practice to charge for security authentication mechanisms. This is a list of companies that are insisting on charging for a buzz word.

https://github.com/radius314/sso-wall-of-shame/
If these are speculative then I would call them artificially numbers, artificial because they are based on predicted markets rather than real market dynamics.

I wonder though if it is safe to predict a continuous drop in panel prices. A few years ago Germany saw prices rise due to increased demand, demand fuels ironically by subsidies. And there is a good chance that the US administration might deliberately cripple the solar market, either by increasing costs or reducing demand (ie the proposed mandate to buy coal/nuclear energy first). Give that unpredictability, these low bids are more business strategy than a reflection of actual costs structures.
If anything the US tends towards far too little merge space than excessive. Almost every city has a blind yield entering the freeway somewhere.
yes, then we did read the-dude's comment differently, I took him as only talking about the moving repositories, as e.g. reported by gitlab's importer numbers.
I dispute the idea that cryptography almost always refers to encryption. And I've never said "crypto" to impress people. (Who would that impress?)
VPNFilter malware infecting 500,000 devices is worse than we thought
How You Can Exploit Cryptocurrency Correlation
Leaving Apple and Google: a global eelo development status
Somehow, the article managed to miss what should have be a big part of the announcement. They found evidence of kerogens. That has a bit more impact.
Russia-linked #Sofacy #APT group adopts new tactics and tools in last campaign
There is correlation within any sector or asset class, however there are particularly interesting patterns in Cryptocurrency due to the new and speculative nature of the market, along with its historical pairs structure.
Agreed, really wonder why they picked that bright emerald green.
The upfront investment on a mortgage is the down payment, which can be as high or low as you want these days. Buying a house for $310k vs $300k works out to ~$100/month going from on a 30 year fixed-rate mortgage, $10k down (depending on interest rates). About $30k difference on total loan payments, or $1k/year, which at least for me in Texas is at the low end of much I pay for energy anyway. Plus you're not paying for residential energy (system maintenance aside), and maybe not gas if you're using an electric vehicle. You're not thinking about fluctuations in oil prices either, which will certainly increase over the next 30 years.

The societal benefit is a separate bonus, as you stated, but not one to ignore.
This is the way almost all NASA images are generated. I don't think it was edited specifically to remove the arm, and it likely wasn't "photoshopped" in that sense. They likely took an array of many images, selected the best ones for each grid section, and stitched them together.

I worked on image processing software for MER, MGS, Odyssey, and other Mars missions. While my work was on thermal imaging systems, and not the optical camera used in this image, the same principles apply. I specifically worked on software to select and align images to produce mosaics that looked seamless.
After a 6 month foray into Ruby/Rails, was just going to hop back into learning Spring Boot today, brush up on Java 8 skills and the like.

Great to see Java is still #1 Hah!
Disclaimer: Taboo comment ahead.

Subtle bugs in self driving cars would be a simple way to assassinate people with low cost overhead. One OTA update to a target and you could probably even get video footage of the job being completed, sent to the client all in one API call.

Surely by now someone must have completed a cost analysis of traditional contractors vs. having a plant at a car manufacturer.

Am I the only one thinking about this?
There certainly are many cultures (e.g. Eastern or Northern Europe) where the expected response to "How are you doing?" would be either a truthful description of the important problems in their life that they are currently concerned about or becoming creeped out because you're asking a rather private question and you aren't close enough so that it would be reasonable for them to tell you how they're actually doing, nor it would be reasonable for them to lie with "I'm great!" - i.e. where the question isn't appropriate to be used randomly by near-strangers.
The impression the page design had on me was highly different. Does the developer really want me to use the language? If so, why not invest only a bit amount of time in thinking about it's presentation?
It's not unexpected. Serious projects need more than a few days to move off Github; and there's some overlap between HN users and users who would move their tiny projects off Github on a Sunday afternoon.

That being said, it's way too early to tell how this will evolve trust-wise. Microsoft has a tremendous deficit of trust in the open source community. Younger folks probably don't realize how deep it runs; most of my friends and colleagues who were involved in FOSS in the late 1990s and early 00s wouldn't touch anything with Microsoft on it with a ten-foot pole -- not just because of prejudice, but because fool me once etc etc.. And I wasn't thrilled about hosting code on someone else's computer before, either, but now I'm even less thrilled about hosting it on Microsoft's computer.
> I realize Tesla isn't advertising level 5 autonomy

To my reading they are, and then disclaiming it in the small print. They clearly want to leave an impression its close to level 5.
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I generally don't seek funding for my apps. I instead just build them with a monetization path attached.
What I would aim to do is to boost a crypto community coin with adoption. My monetization would be to sell the ownership I have of the coin when the dapp is in use.

I don't know if it's legal according to the SEC. I would love some clarity.
Nobody considers a new restaurant or gas station to be a startup, man. You can have your own definition if you want, but it's not the one everyone else is using.
Their second generation device that this article is talking about is advertised as being independent. In which case a cheap feature phone is a valid comparison.
China, HK, Singapore have a lot of copy paste buildings lined up next to each other, which I find pretty odd to look at and dehumanizing/alienating to be surrounded by (though probably very efficient to build, and it seems like Chinese people don't mind too much). You'd see them as soon as you left the airport if you visit there sometime.

I found many cities in China in particular look very similar to one another in a not great way because of similar architectural choices including copy paste buildings, which apparently the government has noticed—I can't find the article about it but the central government is making moves to get Chinese cities to stop being built in exactly the same way/destroy and replace too much of their historic buildings with culturally diverse architecture.

Not to say we shouldn't do what you're saying, but if we do it we should probably do it in a way that doesn't make all our cities too generic.
I feel your pain. However...

My wife got into a car accident and we need two cars since i work and she home schools.

Why does homeschooling require a car?
Nope. Even in "automatic and continuous" systems, you'd be surprised by how useful it is to have a specific flush it all feature.
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> However, this tool was created because on user testing, we found that for our app, users were having trouble figuring out how to refresh for new information

How about putting a refresh button somewhere?
Looks like jewellery is popular in language namimng: we've got Ruby, Crystal, now Emerald...
Yes, I think you're right. But the burden for generating and maintaining the enums is on the developer; whereas in Zig, they can be automatically inferred by the compiler.

I don't think the distinction is super important in application work (for example). But for systems code I can see the benefit of having the compiler tell you, with certainty, why a given function can fail (and why it can't). E.g., a good device driver should handle all its failure modes with care, rather than with a shotgun approach.
Coal emissions kill... which is why zero-cabon-emission nuclear power is essential for powering the base load of the green future. Though if the current rules prohibiting the recycling of partially spent fuel, lack of incentives for LFTR reactor research, streamlining regulations and environmental studies, and moving from gigawatt-scale reactors to designs using a cluster of SMR (small, modular reactors) isn't pursued then, unfortunately, it's probably better to ignore nuclear.
Nice, did not know all that. TIL ^^
I've only tested with StarUML, but the plan is to support more tools
I quit coffee for a year or two a while back. It didn't seem that hard to kick; a week or two of headaches and irritability, and then it was fine.

I picked up the habit again just because it's nice to have that warm, tasty beverage to start the day, and decaf just isn't the same. As long as you keep it to one in the morning and maybe one in the early afternoon, it's fine.
Life appeared really quickly on Earth as soon as there were oceans so I'm pretty bullish on the idea that there were microbes on Mars at one point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_evolutionary_h...
Kind of surprised nobody has mentioned the Contemporary Resort at DisneyWorld:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWdCdP3m9Cs
In a nutshell, all dependent type systems are very impractical to use and are widely seen as going way past the point of diminishing returns for real world scenarios. It's not really a coincidence that most illustrations of dependently type programs never go beyond a simple list/stack/vector structure.

I'll take a statically typed language with a decent type system and and assortment of tests any day over a dependently typed language.