skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, it's quite plan really:

> PERMITTED USES: The Software may be used for your own noncommercial internal research purposes. You understand and agree that Licensor is not obligated to implement any suggestions and/or feedback you might provide regarding the Software, but to the extent Licensor does so, you are not entitled to any compensation related thereto.

from https://github.com/CMU-Perceptual-Computing-Lab/openpose/blo.... According to the article, that's powering the pose estimation here.

It's not for sale _yet_, so they may be in the clear for all the demo-ing they've been doing. Would CMU even be open providing a paid, commercial license? Does anyone know how CMU usually handles situations like this?
Here's a video of the shot: https://youtu.be/Q_k1qg6_9f4?t=1m10s
I’m pretty sure every possible two letter combination was taken before that policy came out.

There used to be an old site that visualized the two- and three-letter domain name space as two- and three-dimensional grids. It was neat seeing the pixels fill in over time.
LOL!

"this place has got everything!"

Thanks for linking to that -- I've always gotten a kick out that scene.

:-D
Makes sense since they were probably registered by the computer people, not the marketing people.

Back then (and to a lesser extent now), people tried to make commonly-typed commands as short as possible because keyboards were so beefy, and finger fatigue wasn't uncommon.

It's why the core Unix shell commands are things like "cp," instead of "copy."
"A pen name is not the same as a fictional character" I agree and I wish I had the reference, but I think Orwell was used as an identity, not just a pen.
> Where do you see me defending that book?

We could begin from your post starting this thread, where your implication that its errors are just optimizations suggests that you did not understand what's actually, indisputably wrong with the code from the book. Your comment here about current knowledge strongly suggests that you still do not. There are several posts here that explain exactly why it was simply wrong the instant it was written.
Funny that the 20th domain ever registered had a hyphen in it (bell-atl.com). They probably thought it would be easier to read than bellatl.com or bellatlantic.com
Experience Replay Using Transition Sequences
Do you need to do something through "testpilot" to get this feature?

I'm confused if this is a feature or an addon, and how testpilot relates
Obviously, internal states and the actual system.

A memoryless and stateful system may produce similar or even same output given identical input. Since you cannot quantity infinite span of inputs, you cannot quite be sure which one you're dealing with.

This is even harder if both systems are noisy.

The mechanistic corollary is that you have to mess with whatever causes consciousness to actually understand it. Inject states, damage components and more. Even then you might make a mistake.
Does the idea of consciousness have any explanatory power? Does it pick out something substantively different than unconscious processes? If we were to replace all talk about consciousness with talk about molecules swirling about, would we lose something? I think the answer to these questions is yes. It seems that consciousness is a necessary feature of a complete explanation of the world in the same way trees and tables are. That is, even if these things can be reduced to more fundamental things, talk of tress and tables, and consciousness is still important.
At least some cultures are amenable to training not to litter everywhere. In the US there was a big campaign in the 1970's and 80's to reduce litter on roadsides and other places. $1000 fines and a general positive attitude to group action has reduced litter in most places in the US that a yearly or less pickup schedule can keep even urban highways pretty clean. Monthly street sweeping elsewhere does the job. I don't see (much) plastic litter in the landscape in the US. In other countries, maybe other methods are needed.
Spent a ton of time and still decided to stick to names that differ by a single "r vs l" letter.

Wow. Don't mean to be rude but go for a walk outside and speak to 3 people outside the bubble.
The remains of real Symbolics are here [1].

[1] http://www.symbolics-dks.com/
People who want to commit suicide are largely left to their own devices. Unless you're institutionalized, detained, or jailed, you're free to obtain the supplies needed to complete the act painlessly.

To me, the stigma of suicide is indicative of a broader flaw in the application of the value of life in society. Religious influences are fundamental to this stigma. Population has exploded in recent centuries. There's simply no way that everyone wants to be here, and exactly zero of us chose to be here (as far as we know, there is no pre-existence, and thus no opportunity to choose to be born).

As the notions of consciousness and existence are an enigma and will continue to be so for the foreseeable, the safe assumption is that every life is "valuable", that suicide is always "wrong" and if you're suicidal you must be "mentally ill" and need to "seek help".

It's unacceptable to simply not wish to exist anymore, regardless of your grievances about your own existence or existence in general. And, given that society now places more importance on each individual life, we grieve more than ever about premature deaths, something that was commonly accepted in older times. Combined with an interconnected information society, it seems that suicide in the west is quite forbidden, considering the real impact it has on the survivors (loved ones, followers of celebrities, strangers, etc).
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Haha. For sure. :)
I installed https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-touch-z..., it works well.
I mean, I would much prefer an ad-free world full stop - but that isn't likely to happen in my life time considering the amount of money in advertising.

You also have the option to fully block ads using extensions/plugins - nothing like that really exist for cable tv/radio/public spaces.
I mean.. I get it, there isn't a lot to work with, it is a thing that _stores files_ after all, and it most closely resembles a normal filesystem.

But it does make GCP's storage product naming even more confusing overall (after "Cloud Storage" vs "Cloud Datastore" mentioned above).
Right. Trade is a Kaldor-Hicks improvement, not Pareto. Losers exist, though they could be theoretically compensated for their loss to create a Pareto-efficient outcome. The same is true of immigration and automation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaldor–Hicks_efficiency

>(if at all - corporations might just take the difference as profit depending on the level of competition)

This doesn't make sense — if corporations 'absorb' that profit, consumers have no reason to purchase imports over domestic goods. Moreover goods with heavy competition from low-wage countries tend to have highly competitive markets, so the price is the marginal cost of production.

>This can be mitigated by income redistribution, funding for job skills retraining, and so on (although it kinda sucks to find yourself back at the bottom rung of a new field at 40 because you can't find job opportunities anymore) but, historically, these programs haven't received any funding, so it's pretty safe to assume they won't exist until proven otherwise.

Actually these programs tend to be well-funded but undersubscribed.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-trump-effect-coal-retrain...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_Adjustment_Assistance
If you only read one book on the subject, read Dr David MacKay's Sustainable Energy Without The Hot Air. It clearly explains how we use energy, how we produce it and how we can sustainably match supply and demand. It gave me an intuitive understanding of energy, using quick order-of-magnitude calculations to figure out the really important issues. It's written from a British perspective, but the principles are universally applicable. Best of all, it's completely free to read online.

https://www.withouthotair.com/

I'd also highly recommend Factfulness by Hans Rosling. It reveals that most Westerners have a grossly distorted and irrationally pessimistic image of the world. It's not really about energy or environmentalism, but it fills a vital gap in our common understanding of the future - the immense, unstoppable rise of the global middle-class. Once you internalise the idea that there is no great divide between the "first world" and the "third world", everything else looks very different. A majority of the world's population are neither very poor nor very rich, which presents a completely different set of challenges with respect to sustainable energy and climate change.

https://www.gapminder.org/factfulness-book/

My other recommendation would be to make good use of Google Scholar and SciHub. A large proportion "debates" I see aren't really debates at all, because the key points being argued are incorrect or irrelevant. Scientific research doesn't necessarily give us answers, but it can stop us from arguing over stupid questions.
This will be extremely confusing for anyone.
Anyone know of a tool that integrates with Jira but allows for "executive reporting" on timelines, delivery dates and the likes, akin to a Gantt?
Sad to see the current state of http://symbolics.com/ with a big "as seen on" section and all those social sharing buttons. It's like updating a historical center with shag carpeting and lava lamps.
Wait, so it got the "mild penalty" (which resulted in its immediate disappearance from the frontpage) because it was a follow-up?

The post to which it was a follow-up also got flagged. Why? Because "users" flagged that as well? Who cares? Your reasoning is entirely unconvincing.

> How can a site be both a Church of SJWs and an alt-right shithole?

Disregard that, what arguments does the moderation have to hide this post? I see neither a flamewar, nor alt-right or SJW run amok in here, but I see that the moderation is hiding this post. That's the issue at hand.
The Naming of Places: At Bay
If you're not pushing revenue (i.e. you don't need a sales team, ads team), you probably aren't going to need that many engineers to run something like IG. The original feature set was pretty basic, and it only ran on iOS for quite some time.
An Asteroid Impact Triggered an Avalanche on Mars
It may not be in the release notes, but this release has some performance improvements specifically on OSX.
Crostini. The latest (bleeding edge) version of ChromeOS supports (with a GUI) running almost any Linux software, including Visual Studio Code, Android Studio, etc. It's fantastic, supported, and does not require an insecure switch to "dev mode" or anything.
I was just about to ask for clarification about this, since I've been using an already-registered key in 60.
In the USA it seems to be relatively common knowledge -- probably because Charlotte, the spider from Charlotte's Web, is one of a species that balloons. It's even a plot point: in the story, much to Wilbur's (the main character, a pig) disappointment after he went to some length to save Charlotte's egg sac, most of her spiderlings ballooned away soon after hatching (but three chose to stay behind).
I haven't added any extensions to modify the appearance. But I did tweak userChrome.css slightly.

https://imgur.com/a/QgnG04m
Interesting, I've found Facebook's event management for large groups to be terrible. Our Jeep group has largely migrated from Meetup to Facebook, and the impact on event coordination has been largely negative.
Interesting figure of speech "our brains". Did you employ some other reasoning tool formulating that sentence?
(Yes you did, quite a few. Those tools were designed using the brain too.)
> Convenient access to more search engines

When I read that I was hoping they'd let me add a search engine to the existing "Select Text -> Right Click -> Search Google for '[Selected]'."

All I want is to be able to highlight page text and search YouTube, Amazon, or Google for it.

Right now I use an extension called "Swift Selection Search" but I'd prefer not to need it, the search engines are already part of the browser, I just need them on the context menu.
There are two steps to set up your LXD installation in order to create GUI containers.

If you are using the snap package of LXD, you only need to perform the second step.

If you are using the deb package of LXD, you need to perform both steps.

A snap package of LXD is not required to setup GUI containers, it just makes it a bit simpler (one step instead of two).

If there is some Windows application that is really useful to have on Linux, then it makes sense to invest the effort to create a snap package. The snap package will be usable to everyone. There are already Windows games that have been packaged as snaps, and the process could be replicated with some effort (example: https://github.com/snapcrafters/tmnationsforever).

The GUI container instead, is helpful if there is an application that you would like to run but cannot invest the effort to package it as a snap.
Does Kairos actually produce any useful software or does it just exist so Brackeen gets publicity?
Is the implication that if you didn't tip, then the service was bad? I'm sorry, but it should be a given that the service adequately good in the normal course of business --otherwise, why is it a restaurant? I am fine if tipping is something you do when you experience exceptional service that is above and beyond satisfactory, instead of something you are compelled to do every time. The argument that waiters might not be paid enough is a valid point, but it is separate.
Update the chooser flowchart [1] when it's out of beta or when appropriate. This page also has brief descriptions and comparison tables.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/storage-options/
People are always shocked at the stupid mistakes that big criminal masterminds make.

Like the Silk Road guy, "how could he possibly ask on stack overflow using his real name".

And so on.

There are ten thousands different mistakes that you can make, you need to guard against all of them. And against whatever unknown tech exists.

In this story, that dropped bank card turns out to not be that significant. The real breakthrough was identifying another mule through the video surveillance videos, following him to the airport and putting surveillance on the lockers used to store the cash.

He was also emptying ATMs apparently with witnesses behind him. This is like a bad movie. One of those witnesses might as well be an off-duty cop who could just pull out his gun right there.
I'm non native English speaker and I didn't notice the difference.

Please, use useful names that do tell what is it about.
Great news. I'll try it out.
> Hypothetically, you would 'reduce friction' by not sending email to the service, instead just give it the keys to your IMAP server!

We currently use read-only OAuth, so basically the same in terms of friction but easier to secure.

> And users wouldn't need to inform people who email them that their email is public

We actually currently require double opt-in permission for each message contributor in a thread to share stuff publicly. That might change in the future, we're still playing around with the model.

The new best practice with social apps is basically to launch while erring on the side of having too much friction for the app to be successful, and then keep successively reducing the friction for people contributing positively to the community. Otherwise you risk gaining a bunch of immediate traction but going into the death spiral of negativity, which is the main way that social startups die if they already have initial traction.

This wouldn't have worked ten years ago, but it makes more sense in a world where things take off more slowly anyway due to increased network saturation.
I came in here to say the same thing.

"Google Cloud Storage" could be a product but also the encompassing category of all the things you mentioned?

Also on the Firebase pricing page (https://firebase.google.com/pricing) they have a "Realtime Database", is that related to datastore or cloud storage?

They also have another item there just labeled "Storage". Is that one of the above?

And at the bottom you get "Google Cloud Platform" on the "Blaze Plan". Is that the products you mentioned that all start with "Cloud"?
Seems to me the only way that wild fish will survive is if they become toxic to human consumption and even then we will probably keep eating them (see Japan and mercury contaminated tuna).
I don't think that load on the download servers is an issue now. CDNs do a great job of distribution the load. The concern is more that some bugs (especially GPU related) only show up "in the wild". A slow rollout limits the damage if there is a show-stopping bug in the release.
Yeah no problem with Angular and ionic. I personally like Angular better than react, but Vue trumps both.
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> People talk about decentralization and privacy and net neutrality, but sdr on handheld would sound very exciting

"but"?
Oh, I see... that's very unfortunate. The only kind of "restaurant" that does this shit over here is McDonalds (and similar US franchises) and it makes me shake my head. Do you know what's infuriating? They're now going all "green" in some spots. But instead of avoiding creating all the trash to begin with, they put it on you, providing four of five different cans for every type of trash, and patronizing signs on the walls so you work for them classifying and cleaning their shit.
The video in the article is just amazing. You don't normally get to see the exact details of how things get made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxL4ElboiuA
the irony of think.com being a dead end street is strong.
> My likes on Instagram aren't shown to my followers

Your likes actually are shared with your followers.

It's somewhat useful for discovering new accounts but I wish it could be toggled off.
I just had the exact opposite experience! I was discussing scams with my regular painter. He said he got one recently, and showed it to me on his phone. It was an SMS that said, "Dear <FORENAME>, we have been trying to contact you without success. Please ring BlergCo on 99999 about your outstanding ATO debt". I thought, easy enough to check. I went to the ATO website; clicked the link about what we do if you don't pay; clicked the link about which collection agencies they use; checked for green padlocks throughout; and voila - BlergCo, 99999! Since the number on the SMS exactly matched the number on the verified ATO website, I couldn't see how the scam would work. So I told my painter I'd changed my mind, it was probably legitimate, and he should ask his tax agent to follow it up. Which he did. Then paid the overdue provisional tax that he'd completely forgotten about! It made me think, legitimate SMSs (like that one) should probably have extra words to tell the recipient how they can check that it's legitimate. For example, "NOTE: to verify our company name and contact number, please go to the ATO website at xxx.yyy.zzz (and remember to check the green padlock!)", or somesuch.
31 Life Skills in 31 Days
Even reinsurance has limits, and large earthquakes on major metropolitan centres are basically the one thing that will exceed them (floods can be bad too, but the risks are more predictable, and are often excluded from policies in high-risk areas).

The only alternative to the "government backstop" is that insurers will refuse to write policies or will exclude earthquake risk (in which case the government may need to set up it's own scheme, e.g. in CEA insurance in California).
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I have studied Physics and been member of ecological groups. So let's say I have a viable interest.

So you need references, here you go. Obviously this is going to take some minutes to google:

- Chernobyl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Delayed_ann...

- 3 Mile Island: "Twenty-eight hours after the accident began, William Scranton III, the lieutenant governor, appeared at a news briefing to say that Metropolitan Edison, the plant's owner, had assured the state that "everything is under control".[58] Later that day, Scranton changed his statement, saying that the situation was "more complex than the company first led us to believe."[58] There were conflicting statements about radioactivity releases.[" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident#Vol...

Fukushima might have had a more direct communication to the media. But it puzzles me how long it took to accept help from foreign countries... did they actually ever?

I think the core problem about this discussion is that you have on the one side really left ecological group and on the other Nuclear industry, engineers. Both groups are perceived as very biased by each other, sometimes with reason, sometimes irrational. In any case there aren't so many topics there the depth of argumentation sometimes goes into ridiculous depths. Sometimes arguments themselves sound very ridiculous because it seems to counter-intuitive. It's already 10 years ago that I betted with someone from a neoliberal party a box of beer that there were Nuclear transports you could throw an egg on and it got baked. It took me hours to find that stupid article - from a reputable German news magazine. Of course he didn't admit that I won, he just stopped answering my mails.

Honestly, this is making no sense.
Martian Dust Storm Has Covered the Entire Planet
What was registration fees back then? Why wouldn't people just squat on a bunch of two/three letter domains? Was it prohibitively difficult to register..
Smartz Have Added the Ability to Use EOS Smart Contracts
Same here. We might have took down the old feller.
Ask HN: How to recover interest in programming?
I've been working at my current place for almost two years. I'm not the best engineer, but I get my stuff done on time and mostly with no issues, so I can definitely program. While I'm not the most "passionate" person for my job, I don't hate coming into work.

For the past few months, I've noticed that my interest in programming outside of work has waned. There are things I'm interested in (iOS/macOS development, Elixir, Clojure, some frontend stuff) but I lack motivation or impetus to actually do them long enough to learn or make anything.

One problem I have is that I have no itch to scratch. When learning something new, I can't apply it because I have no problems I need solving with computers... I've tried to come up with some but it always feels like I'm forcing technology intro a problem that doesn't need it or forcing myself to do OSS when I don't even use the library I'm helping out with.

I'm sure I'm not the only one that feels this way. Have you gotten over it and how?
+ app server / schema rework
I went to one of these many years ago just after finishing my degree. I explained to the guy laying on the sales pitch that I understood how interest rates worked and I had a masters degree in Computer Science. He said "you aren't the kind of person we're interested in, you can leave."

Thanks for the free Vegas trip! I actually won some money that trip, so technically I walked away from the scam with a profit!
I've learned to be skeptical when I see law enforcement praising the l337 skillz of their targets.

> “This guy is in another league, he’s like Rafa Nadal
> playing tennis,” Yuste says. “There are few people in
> the world capable of doing what he did.”

It sounds really cool (and budget-justifying) to be chasing some mastermind, and a journalist is likely to pump up that aspect of the story too. Because they know we're reading it to be entertained, for there to be suspense, to enjoy the frisson of a "victimless" crime requiring ingenuity, like Ocean's 11.

Then you find out later it's just a python script probing for default passwords, or someone who learned some of nmap's command-line switches.
Part of it is also that it's a lot more inert in terms of chemical reactions or leeching than plastic is.