skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And I wonder where did they source the 400 pictures of real lightnings from. There might be a selection effect so that only the most spectacular are published. In addition to what others already mentioned, that photographers constantly use several means (lenses, exposure, films) to enhance the pictures beyond what the human eye can perceive.
Oh, man, another missed opportunity to make the average Joe Six-Pack become aware of data aggregation and privacy violations. If the researcher had downloaded the 2TB of data and published it as a torrent, then laymen might care. When someone can query the list and see his own personal information being broadcast, they will understand. When they realize that anyone can look up the address, phone, and all sorts of other info about their wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend, boss, children, or neighbor, they might get an inkling that privacy isn't such a stupid thing to worry about.

I realize that we all suffer if it gets made into a torrent, but sometimes pain is necessary to get action.

Within a week, this whole thing will be forgotten and nothing will have changed because privacy is too abstract for most people -- they need to see the personal information that's being collected. The researcher acted properly, but going full Snowden would have had much greater impact on getting better privacy-preserving laws and technology.
That's what I always thought, but other people I've been talking to recently have been calling it DevOps, because they have it on the development side of the house and deliver it to ops.
Since some percentage of Congressmen and Senators were almost certainly part of the breach, all we need to do is search for them once the data becomes available and post hand-curated lists of Senator McConnell's Shopping Habits.

Remember, we only got the Video Privacy Protection Act after someone published Bork's rental history during his supreme court nomination[0]. I had to say that public shaming works, but, public shaming works.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act
I use a few platforms, including airbnb, when I look for accomodation. What makes airbnb better? The only different thing I noticed is that they validate my ID.
So I will revise my expected date for the next stock market crash to 2021 then.

Retail is dying, nobody is buying or selling houses, there are the US tariff wars, more countries are buying/selling energy without buying dollars first, the UK is heading for Brexit, the Euro is heading for Brexit, Quantitive Easing has yet to come home to roost and there are plenty of bubbles.

Meanwhile, everyone has a job and tourism is booming.

I imagine the AirBnB advisors know more than me about these circumstantial factors and would not want to be doing their big sale on the wrong side of the inevitable recession/crash.

Best make hay whilst the sun shines.
I agree. The ethics policy is certainly set by the CEO, but the public actions that any given leader in the company chooses to make represent that leader's interpretation of the set policy, and these action set an example (i.e. establish a standard of acceptable conduct) for all of the employees under their charge.

I also 100% agree though that the CEO is responsible for enforcing the ethics policy and also setting a good example to ensure a healthy and physically/mentally safe workplace. In this case (and my company), I believe the CEO is failing his employees.

To me it's like an increasing number of modern CEO's lack the power or perhaps just the willingness to step in and get their people in line.
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The Article talks about interstellar space, aside from some occasional planemos, there are no substantial gravity wells outside of solar systems. It would probably move along according to the local standard of rest (~flow of material) in the galaxy.

And this material would also probably not get trapped inside solar systems to a large degree, because as the article notes, the solar wind has a greater infuence on it than gravity.
Dementors, not death eaters. I've been reading through these books again and wondering how the heck J.K. came up with all this stuff and that makes a lot of sense.
We use gusto across multiple jurisdictions where tax laws change every year and our bookkeeper our employees put them through funny circumstances. I've been impressed by how many problems they've made invisible (just notify us) or we sent over and they handled. Cannot say the same about other folks we use here (ex: zenefits caused multiple lapses in coverage).
Personally I find Django's forms easier to work with, but maybe that's because i have spent more time with them.
Hehe, well I do appreciate the gratitude part, so thank you for saying so. It seems many others didn’t appreciate.

FWIW, this picture isn’t any worse than the video in the OP’s English article.
"make driving too expensive and/or too inconvenient, to force people to use public transit"

Zurich did just that in 1973 after a public referendum killed a projected metro.

The city figured out long and hard what makes public transport attractive and determined that it's not necessarily the time that you spend to get from A to B, but more importantly the expectation of time needed.

Consequently trams (streetcars) were provided independent tracks wherever possible and trams and buses were granted priority at all signals.

Additionally the attractiveness of roads for private vehicles was reduced and parking was restricted. In 1996 the "historical compromise" was reached to restict the number of parking spaces on the level of 1990 [1].

Another important factor was the creation of the S-Bahn (regional rail transport system, comparable with Paris' RER). Combined with that an integrated ticketing and fare system for the entire canton was introduced. Except taxis you can use any mode of transport within your tickets validity.

I think calling it a roaring success and extremely visionary is not an exaggeration.

Now if the city would only become more bike friendly it would just be about perfect in all respects of public transportation.

With a more leftwing government chances are that there's finally more movement in that direction.

Sure, that model is not easily transferable to other cities and it took decades to grow to what it is now. But there certainly are other shining examples of successful public transport implementations in (mostly) Asian and European cities.

It's not impossible once the fetish for cars and parking (which is heavily related) is put aside.

[1] (https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2012/08/lessons-zuric...)
So it basically smells like my grandmothers house.
As predicted by Scott Adams some twentythree years ago :-)

http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13
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Leaf owner here...

The Leaf is mostly ignored because unlike the Model 3 and Bolt, it is a compromise due to it's limited range and it is not a true replacement for an ICE car. For normal usage it's fine but exceptions like mid-day doctor appointments or spontaneous errands after work are sometimes impossible.

The first generation Leafs had a 24kWh battery with an EPA MPGe range rating of 84 miles. The second generation 2018 model has a 40kWh battery with an EPA MPGe rage rating of 151 miles.

The first generation base models of the Tesla Model 3 and Chevy Bolt have EPA MPGe ranges of 220 and 238 miles respectively.

That might not seem like a big deal and an 84 mile range should be fine for most people most of the time. The problem is that the 84 mile range is not entirely accurate.

My Leaf typically reports my range as 90+ miles and my 25 mile commute can use anywhere from 28-42 miles of that reported range. So if I drive to work and back without charging in between then my remaining range is 8-34 miles. That's ok unless I get home from work and my kid needs to go to the music store 5 miles away to buy a replacement reed for their oboe.

Additionally Nissan recommends not charging above 80% or letting the battery fall below 20% to increase the longevity of the battery as over/under charging can degrade the Lithium Ion Cells. So basically they're telling you not to charge your car past 80% and to stop driving when you hit 20% which means they recommend you only ever use 60% of your battery (50 miles).

In comparison, Chevy and Tesla both have built-in buffer capacity in their batteries that's unavailable to you. This buffer prevents you from over/under charging your battery. Because of this buffer you're able to utilize the full advertised range of the vehicles without fear of battery degradation.
This wouldn't work for viruses since they're using a fairly arbitrary coding which wouldn't exactly match up with viral DNA/RNA. But there are other genome synthesis methods which can and do produce viruses. However, that's been possible for many years now (viruses are extremely small so the expensive DNA synthesis methods are still cheap and doable) and no one's done it, despite worries about someone taking published genomes of the Spanish Influenza or smallpox and synthesizing them. Like biowarfare in general, I wonder if the reason is simply that it's harder than it looks and anyone smart enough to do it just isn't that evil?
Credit check and deposit? Since they had no competitor, I guess they could get away with it.

Yes, some companies are rotten, but some do provide just as simple ways to get service without a credit check.

> but none as simple as verfiying credit history
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Why do you expect it get better at a significantly higher rate than it has been over the past several decades of computer graphics? Is there some major up-and-coming research on the topic?
I understand what you’re trying to say, but Wikipedia is a fantastic resource for mathematics. “Pretty awful” is not a correct choice of words. But yes, much of it is written at beyond-undergrad-math level. And undergrad math is already advanced! And no I’m not someone with a math PhD talking down! I’m struggling through teaching myself undergrad math.
Then 2020 is too far.
An interesting real world example of a group of rationalists failing to convert belief into action:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MajyZJrsf8fAywWgY/a-lesswron...

A large number of people in this community regretted failing to invest in cryptocurrency, despite being the perfect group of people to recognize the spectacular potential payoff of the decision.
You state that Popper is incorrect because you need a sense of what's true to know what is false. But you then continue by saying Artistotle shows something is false(contradiction) but not what is true?...
You just contradicted yourself.
I have a carbon X1 and would have preferred to keep my 2013 macbook air. Then again my X1 is gen 1.

Windows just seems to be garbage with multi-tasking, specifically I miss the gestures.
Agreed, logic usually ends up scattered between the front end and the back end. You need to start using JavaScript (I much prefer Python). The Angular app I ma maintaining just now would be so much simpler if it was server side rendered, instead we have an ajax call to load contents of every dropdown....
They did mention this a bit and I think they even did a course on some site about how they made it. The one software I remember them mentioning: Adobe After Effects
I'm not sure I am seeing the full picture here - did you contact him to discuss improving his design, and this is your WIP from that effort? Or did you take his content on your own and try to create a 'better' copy?
as long as were talking about unorthodox ways to store info, does anyone know about the information density possible in laser engraved glass? You know, those blocks of glass with a design etched into the interior? If we can produce an etching in the middle of a block of glass,why can't we encode symbols as collections of 'pits' in the glass. If we can etch transistors in silicon at 14 nm (ok, lets be generous and say 25 nm), then we can produce a 25 nm pit in a transparent hunk of silicon dioxide.Add 25 nm for the blank space next to it needed for its definition and a bit is 50 nm. In a 1 mm cube you code fit 8000 bits or 1000 characters. 16 megabits per cubic inch. Compared to 1.2 nm per character in DNA it seems low but remember that DNA is linear. In a square inch (2.54 cm x 2,54 cm) DNA can store 5.38 terabits. Hard disks are at 1 terabit per square inch. I probably do not have the technical knowledge to actually know what the smallest laser engraved dot in glass could be. And then again you only end up with a ROM
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Yeah, and honestly, I'm willing to bet that just "showing someone pictures" on some level simply doesn't work on a significant number of people.

Within a certain threshold, simply looking at an image will register an amount of activity in anybody's brain, but I think the context of the viewing situation, combined with the power differential of the individual controlling the slide show, obviously plays more heavily on the mind than the subject matter of the image itself.

For example, a kidnapper asking for a million dollars, and showing you a picture of your own child tied to a chair, while cocking a pistol and pointing it at you, is going to stress you a lot more as a credible threat, than a grad student in a doctor's office asking you to "think about things," while showing you a picture of some random crying child, while an MRI clicks and hums around you.

But for some people (probably many people), the grad student with the clipboard and the MRI, is actually kind of scary in it's own strange way.
If you are dealing with something other than a sequence, such as a tree or a more general network, recursion is often the more insightful way to think about a solution.

Actually, the simplest example I can think of where this the case involves a sequence: binary search.

On the other hand, if you have to significantly rework the conceptual recursive solution to put it in tail-recursive form, an implementation using loops may end up being easier to understand.
I noticed that now when my employees buy from staples.com, my AmEx statement will show everything they bought. From a manager's perspective, it's kind of awesome because you don't need to keep track of little receipts.
Perhaps people with lots of followers should be able to make money on Twitter, just like people with lots of views make money on YouTube.
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> fact = statement proven with evidence

Axioms are facts, but they aren't proven.
No. We know it's grease because it absorbs certain wavelengths of light, unlike dark matter, which doesn't interact with light.

Besides, it's just tiny part of the galaxy (1E37 kg vs >1E42 kg).
Thanks for sharing, I just watched Monsterkiller episode 1 and it was hilarious and really entertaining.

I'm a bit lost as to what many of the sprites are, and I'm still unclear on many of the game's mechanics, but hopefully things become clearer over time.
Ask HN: Real-time log viewing
The powerful solutions seem to focus on post-hoc log analysis. The thing I'm working on produces a lot of logs. Logs that I like to look at when debugging. Viewing them is a bit overwhelming.

I'd like a viewer that:
-filters by JSON properties

-formats JSON logs into human readable messages

-can fold large messages

-lets you save sets of filters

-lets you simultaneously view the same set of messages using different filters

Right now I settled for splitting logs into different files based on filters. Which is okayish but doesn't work well for teammates. And even at mediocre volumes Emacs will choke.
Wow that's fantastic that Microsoft have extended the debugger to understand streams and async/await code, this of course only works because they develop both the abstractions and the debugger. It's probably not so easy for the rest of us to extend it for our own abstractions.
Everything humans do, including asking questions about virtue signalling, is virtue signaling.

That said, although I don’t own a car, I didn’t actually say that in my previous post. I’m lucky that where I live, I don’t need to. That situation is likely to change, and I have no intention to build an identity of, or make a virtue out of, either having or not having a car. If that seems contradictory, consider it virtue signaling “flexibility”.
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Japan, recently a few cities in Spain and Portugal, also UK Manchester and Cardiff have stricter regulations.
how does the Euro have anything to do with free movement? You could have one without the other.
Gosh I played this so much as a kid. Got pretty far all on my own.

Somehow I'm dumber as an adult. :D
It's worth noting that in complex systems, forgetting can be just as important as remembering. The ability to evolve and change is in part predicated on the ability to selectively forget some elements that are no longer helpful. As another commenter pointed out, some aspects of our society's cultural memory are, probably, best left in the past, if preserved at all.
Clojure is limited by the JVM, hence the need for recur. However, between it and trampoline you get most of the way to what TCO offers, albeit with the need for the programmer to be explicit.
Being hard to work with may have been one of Jobs' defining qualities. The author seems to be making the point that his strengths outweighed his many shortcomings.
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Not a biology expert, but how do you prevent mutations from ruining the data? If the DNA isn't being biologically replicated, why use DNA over any other 4 distinct chemical structures that can be added to chains or lattices of molecules?
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How was this only recently addressed? WiFi transmission rates should be a commonly seen problem?
Despite using adblock the web does feel like this nowadays. It would be fantastic if we could have a common protocol for communicating our agreement/disagreement with these things instead of having to bat them away like whack-a-mole wherever we end up on the web.

Going back 15-20 years ago there was an embryonic standard for this that didn't seem to get enough traction, I remember it as something like 'PPP' privacy something protocol, but it seemed a bit too heavyweight. If I remember correctly you could use different personas.

I would love this all just to be a browser preference.
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We have been forgetting things for thousands of years. Last I looked, we still don’t know how to make Damascus steel or Roman concrete. People will reinvent the things they need and maybe never even know that it’s a reinvention. I reinvented a couple fundamental graphics techniques because I needed them and didn’t study computer graphics in school. I’m sure this happens all the time.

I’m all for making it easier to recover data and generally make it easier to store stuff. And I believe you have a right to your data (yay GDPR). But this isn’t a catastrophe.
I believe he's saying it's ok to operate at a loss as long as you are demonstrably making progress. In this case by building and selling new vehicles in volume.
"They're about to start piss testing for adrenaline in the workplace, that's how sad this country's gotten...

'Is that yours Donnie? It looks a little cloudy, have you been having fun on the weekend? Are we not enough fun for you here at the Verizon Wireless family that you need to seek it elsewhere? I don't think you're a team player.'"

-Doug Stanhope, No Refunds

https://youtu.be/YmzKmTIe_m4
Oh, sorry. My bad.

Heavens knows no one has ever been legally compelled to elaborate on a "super fuzzy high level overview" they previously volunteered.
I don’t agree with his methods. I might agree with his conclusions regarding modern society.

Regardless, it might be good to preface any mention of him by also mentioning what he did and who he hurt.
> it's still fairly prone to off-by-one errors.

Can you explain this further? If you want to work your way through an array, for instance, you return once you have an empty array. If your result is stored in a data structure that can be appended, I don't see how it's possible to have an off-by-one error. You must be referring to another use case.
I think following social norms is often (but not always) a "good reason" for doing something. It's a tricky line of analysis.

I've been leaning heavily towards the idea the "usefulness", broadly interpreted, is utterly paramount -- even in the world of abstract philosophy. It is perhaps second only to truth, but it is much easier to evaluate, and often an incredibly good proxy for truth anyways.
Dr. Joseph has published about this topic in peer-reviewed journals.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3637656/
"Too little, too late or too much, too early? Differential hemodynamics of response inhibition in high and low sensation seekers"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3150539/
"Neural Correlates of Emotional Reactivity in Sensation Seeking"
Is that the cowardly principle of how people should decide what to do? "if there is a risk of loss, or the possibility of a great loss, don't even try." Who cares what could be achieved? or what risk mitigations are possible? why attempt anything beyond grabbing berries from the bushes? Good luck with that mode of thinking and life.
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The latest spec still talks about tail call optimization. The big objection was to replace implicit tail calls with a syntax to specify functions that might tail call.

With TCO being part of the spec and the potential replacement spec killed off, browsers really need to start getting with the program.

JavascriptCore (safari), Node v6, duktape, jerryscript, XS6, etc all have proper tail calls. It breaks the community to not implement them. It's not a standard if its not standard.
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Imagine "Those UpStairs" is angry, panicked and shouty. Imagine "Senior Software Person" is put-upon and long past arguing with "Those UpStairs".

I can see it.
I wonder what the real-world impact of this regression is as I'm sure there are plenty of IOT devices out there that are running the affected Linux versions. As the issue likely only manifests at higher bandwidths, I guess things like wireless IP cameras or Wifi attached NAS would be the most affected.
> the fact that is was quick to fix does not mean it was easy to find

The issue was easy to find. The root cause may not have been. Vehicle stopping distance is a standard metric. Simple black box system level testing at Tesla should have caught this. Why was nothing done then or why was it a test escape?
Loops are theoretically interesting and rich and with the right tools even the most complex cases can be written clearly and reasoned about easily. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/E... is a good example of how mathematical reasoning is just as applicable to "imperative" programming as it is to "functional." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoare_logic describes the syntax used.
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Of course the obvious answer is network effect, but I guess you're saying that's negligible here? I think I agree. I also think that a decentralized version, which can more easily avoid censorship, will deliver more value.
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That’s a very fair point - and while with exception of lithographs, photography, etc. most art really is unique, but there are loads of artists whose art, while unique, would be hard to identify as a stolen to us layman - for example Monet painted ~250 paintings of water lilies alone, many of which trade hands in private sales, if for some reason I were to be at a Nigerian central banker’s home and he and a Monet water lilies was on the wall, I would have no idea if that was one of the stolen ones (or a fake for that matter)