skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The argument for the mosquito emoji, made by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was firmly rooted in public health. The proposal states, “For many parts of the world, the mosquito is more than a nuisance — it is also a danger. Mosquitoes are the world’s deadliest animal ​— outpacing sharks, snakes and all others by a wide margin.” A mosquito emoji will allow people to easily communicate about the deadly insect to populations of varying languages and literacy levels. This usefulness serves as a kind of inversion of the ways in which other serious or controversial issues are mitigated. Why try to cover up or deny the existence of “real” guns, which are as rampant (at least in the US) as other “object” emoji?

This highlights a YouTube policy that I found very disturbing. YouTube judged that graphic violence, defined somehow, was unacceptable and couldn't be shown on their platform. In particular, they didn't allow the posting of beheading videos featuring South American gangs beheading people who they thought deserved it. The reasoning was that allowing people to watch those videos served the gangs' purposes by inspiring fear.

But, YouTube made a special exception to their policy to allow beheading videos of ISIS beheading people who they thought deserved it. The reasoning was that allowing people to watch those videos carried the message "look how bad things are in Syria", a message that Google endorsed.

I can't for the life of me understand why the reason any particular person uploaded a video to YouTube should determine what I get out of the video. In my eyes, if YouTube was full of videos of gangs beheading informers, cops, and guys who slept with the boss's daughter, uploaded by the gangs themselves, that would be newsworthy and probably draw a lot of attention to the message "look how bad things are in South America". It's not like ISIS was ashamed of the beheading videos they filmed and released for propaganda purposes.

Unfortunately, I can't provide a link to substantiate my characterization of Google's policies; my source is an English-language interview between a former YouTube executive and a Chinese consultancy, which I was asked to help transcribe.
Sure if you create an absurd example of suddenly doubling every single person's life expectancy you can start to see some impact from changes in such, but in reality this does not happen. Life expectancy changes extremely slowly, and it also goes in both directions on a worldwide scale further mitigating any effect on population levels.

It's like Big O in a way. Adding some stuff to O(1) doesn't really matter compared to something that's O(n^2) except when start adding some really really unreasonably huge things, though even there n^2 tends to catch up really fast. In either case it's not a practical issue in code or population.
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Most animals have a cycle that’s a bit off of 24 hours, and I believe it’s quite pronounced in Humans, though I can’t remember exactly how much - 27 hours? Researchers tested it by living in a cave for a month. The day/night cycle is what trims us down to 24h.32 seems very well off though.
I don’t care if this goes against HN guideline and if I am downvoted, but that was the geekiest joke of the millennia :D
I am surprised. It is this one https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Дмитрий_Донской_(крейсер), seems discovered 15 years ago. I do not think there is any gold there. Except somebody put it there somehow recently.
what do you mean with "lol"?
Not good enough. If they cannot be uninstalled it means they are part of the base operationg system, which means that:

1. They represent a constant security risk, since the disabled version does not get updated

2. Other apps can rely on Google’s components; they actually warn that by disabling them you can run into misbehavior of other apps

Also, last I tried you can’t disable Google Play Services, which is actually the most important piece.
This is needlessly pedantic, and I think a good proofreader would have cut a "besides humans" aside, did it exist in the original.
It seems like the 5 invulnerable couriers restriction is something that will have a huge influence on how the early game is played and is something that the humans won't have any experience taking advantage of.
It's possible to use Jenkins to do all of those things. It's also enormously costly in terms of manpower, etc.

It's truly absurd just how much shepherding Jenkins requires once you have build slaves, etc. The pipeline stuff is heaps better, but unfortunately it doesn't really work for the workflow we're using in our shop, so... sad faces all round :(.
I'm in the middle - northern Arkansas.

To be clear, I don't make a habit of working in direct sunlight. Screen glare makes that impractical, even if the temperature warrants it. I do generally work from a hammock in the shade, and I deal with thermal issues constantly.

Even in the shade, at around 85ºF, I find that I start throttling noticeably when I run large test suites, recreate complex python environments, or build docker images. I keep a close eye on my system's sensor temps through iStat Menus, and try to tailor my laptop's workload around it. For example - I use Slack on my iPhone or iPad instead of on my laptop, and keep Safari closed unless I'm actively testing something in it.

Still, it seems like my machine throttles to uselessness right around noon. That's when my battery hits 20% or so unless I've been plugged in to my external battery, and about the time the temperature hits 85-90ºF.
So we created a markdown flavor called Optic Markdown. We want to meet programmers where they already write about code/styles instead of making them write templates in some dsl. Our markdown relies on HTML comment annotations (so they're hidden) to describe the important parts of a piece of code -- it's kind of like pointing out different parts of a snippet and explaining what they do.

We've been working really hard to build tooling around this because the first few versions were hard to learn/use. Would love to hear any feedback you have on the teaching process. We don't think Optic will take off until we get this just right.

https://useoptic.com/docs/authoring/writing-lenses
Using Scikit-learn, Core ML, and Alexa to predict the right coffee to drink
going from the actual ruling against microsoft, that ruling was microsoft had a monopoly on Intel base computers and not computers in general. Apple has an even larger monopoly on A9, A10, A11 based computers. in fact they have 100% monopoly for those computers
No, Microsoft was fined for forcing OEMs to install IE and not preinstall other browsers on PCs if they wanted Windows. It had nothing to do directly with end users.
ULA is indeed remarkably reliable — that is its main advantage, given its high prices. However, ULA is only the sole competitor to SpaceX in military launch — for commercial and NASA launches several other alternatives exist. Let's take a more thorough review:

• Proton-M: 9 failures and 2 partial failures in 102 launches.

• Ariane 5: 2 failures and 3 partial failures in 98 launches

• Antares: 1 failure in 8 launches (this is SpaceX's competitor in NASA resupply launches)

• Pegasus (smallsats): 3 failures and 2 partial failures in 43 launches. Derivative Minotaur-C had 3 failures in 10 launches.

• Falcon: 1 failure, 1 partial failure, and 1 non-launch payload loss (Amos-6) in 58 launches (59 campaigns).

SpaceX's failure rate is in line with industry norms.

While ULA has a perfect safety record since it was formed in 2006, its rockets do not (though they are still impressive).

• Atlas V: 1 partial failure in 78 launches.

• Delta IV: 1 partial failure in 36 launches.

>two recent government reports raise questions bearing upon the reliability of SpaceX products and processes. The first is an evaluation of quality controls among launch-vehicle suppliers to the military space program. That report, prepared by the defense department's Inspector General and dated December 20, found 181 deviations from quality standards at contractor sites. Over a third were "major nonconformities," meaning deviations that might contribute to a failure in quality controls.

Bizarrely, the author here attributes nonconformities at all three EELV contractors — including ULA and Aerojet Rocketdyne — to SpaceX. The actual breakdown:

• ULA: 21 major, 43 minor

• SpaceX : 33 major, 42 minor

• Aerojet Rocketdyne: 14 major, 28 minor

https://media.defense.gov/2017/Dec/29/2001862093/-1/-1/1/DOD...
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So wait, does that make Apple fascists or communists? Wouldn't want to grab the wrong pitchfork.
Yes, but the fact that PPO can learn very long range strategies with enough computation when most would expect it to diverge/fail to learn at all is already demonstrated by the original 5x5 DoTA bot. That's probably the same thing there: it can handle the long-range learning and so does fine at human-level APM, while the SSBM AI is stuck learning short-term strategies which heavily rely on simple reactive fast policies.
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I wrote this library to use multiple headless chromium instances in parallel. The library creates a pool of browsers or pages via puppeteer and keeps track of your tasks, data and errors.
Interesting read. I suffer from psychosomatic insomnia so am no stranger to that constant fatigue and drag of lack of sleep. One thing I have noted is that, on the days that I actually do get a considerable amount of sleep and feel rested, I am overall happier, more motivated, and just in a better mood overall.

Likewise, on the really rough days where I don't get much to no sleep, I'm irritable and all but useless at work and around the house. I've come to manage these days over the years, but I do note that things still bubble up and I am easily agitated.

Interestingly enough, medicine to help me sleep does not result in a better mood, only that natural sleep.
New online database on education R&D in Afrika launched
My all-time favorite wikipedia article, great to see it getting some attention. I find that along with providing great fodder for small-talk (among certain types), it causes me to experience a psychological effect analogous to the so-called "overview effect" experienced by astronauts. Attempting to conceive of one's place in cosmological time is great exercise.
In Turkey, betting is under state monopoly (Spor Toto).
> digitally scarcity

As long as crypto is pegged to a fiat currency like USD then the scarcity effect is going to be destroyed by speculative valuations.

USD isn't going to stop being fiat because it's too useful for it to be fiat when doing market regulation.

USD might stop being standard currency, but I expect other countries are going to maintain fiat standards because being able to vary the nominal amount of money supply is a better policy tool than merely controlling gold, because it opens up another theater of war beyond maintaining hard power.
Get that deadly dihydrogen monoxide out of my atmosphere!
I'm confused at how this is any different than how both android and ios embed siri and google assistant in over allowing other assistants to compete, or what about the fact that you need to log in with an apple/google account to really use the platforms in any meaningful way (for at least most android distributions).

Part of me wonders if the EU just has a problem with google, as they have charged them time and time again, when other platforms engaging in anti-competitive practices get away with it.
Perhaps personal pref but I prefer the Edge browsing experience over the iPhone’s Safari browsing experience.
Doubt it. The one time I cheated on a game( borderlands 2) was because the game was too hard without the p2w dlcs that I had no intention to buy. I didn't mind playing along with other people that played in whatever way they wanted( cheating or not) but I was too afraid of getting banned that I disabled online play while cheating.

A friend of mine that was cheating hard for a period on CoD 4 only did so for the fun of it and had no intention to ruin the game for the rest players.
Visual Studio IntelliCode now infers coding conventions for consistent code
I wonder if the underlying problem is that owners are irrational, and the reason they are irrational is because franchising selects for irrational people with capital to invest. I'm thinking that even if owners on average lose money, the company selling franchises can be successful, and as long as there is a supply of such owners, the industry keeps on keeping on.
Google fails even here to reassure the market because this is all carefully worded corporate speak about “account management”.

What they are really trying to say is “Google Cloud is now less likely to delete your entire business computing systems over some minor credit card issues.” For this reason, this press release will not get the attention that google wants it to.

Note however that google has included human reviewers in the process and googles humsn reviewers are notorious for being ruthless.

It’s googles attitude to customers that is the ingrained and deep problem. Google has built into its DNA from the beginning that it does not want to be in contact with you, that you cannot get emergency attention, and that you are probably wrong.
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No, he did not get his constitutional right to petition his government for redress. He was denied this because a company added a clause forcing people to go into the private justice system. A clause that never, ever, ever should be enforceable, because it is entirely unconscionable.

The system did NOT work.
Waking up having to pee it often an indicator of other issues. For me, it's my allergy medication not working, leading to sinus inflammaion, leading to snoring, leading to waking up thinking I need to pee.
We all have different problems. I cannot install Facebook or Messenger on a Sony phone.

due to a permission, that used to be defined by Sony in pre-Android 7 and now is defined by Facebook, i.e. by app with different signature. The old permission definition still lingers on the phone and the only way to get rid of it is to reset the phone to factory settings. Which I'm obviously not going to do.
I assume they're referring to the existing game mode called Random Draft. The pool is usually 50 heroes instead of 18, but you'd run it the same way. Ordered picks like Captains Mode, except no bans.
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The weird part about (non-split) "ortholinear" keyboards is that they seem to be built for perfectly parallel arms/wrists sprouting out of the center of your chest.

Split keyboards like the Ergodox fix this by splitting and angling each hand's individual keyboard.

But... standard keyboards are already angled for your hands. The [U,J,M] column is a perfect mapping of the curl of your right index finger.

The real issue is that typing tutorials for some reason encourage left hand finger positions forming a curls that are completely orthogonal to the natural curl of your left finger / left wrist position.

QWERTY tutorials encourage [E,D,C], when you really should be using [E,D,X] or even [R,D,C].

I type (in Dvorak) using the columns [W,S,Z], [E,D,X], etc. and am completely happy with the columns of a normal keyboard.
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Not sure if you meant it like this but redshift estimation comes to my mind. The farther away a galaxy is, the redder it becomes. You can measure the distance (redshift) from galaxy spectra (with MUSE for example) but not from directly HST images.
This mapping color -> redshift is called photo-z and was tested with MUSE data in an very famous area observed with HST, the Hubble Ultra Deep field. https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05062
What is the purpose of having deep learning run on games like AlphaGo and DOTA2, instead of having them train on more general or real world tasks? Is it a constraint on the amount of data, since in video games you can easily generate more?
Can mitochondria be stunned?
The author of that paper has since built an agent that has human-level reaction time and is comparable against professional players:
http://youtube.com/vladfi1
consumers have gotten to watch crash after crash and explosion after explosion

Just like the hundreds (thousands?) of pre-SpaceX test rocket launches from Greenwood Lake, New York to the modern rocket era.
EU is so much better at antitrust regulations I just wish US was this forward thinking.
>Because there would be a clear quality loss. The websites they're ripping from (amazon, netflix, whatever) are using H.264, and to recode into H.265 would lose significant quality.

This is wrong for two reasons: the source codec doesn't matter (it gets decoded to raw yuv420 first anyway), and netflix/amazon/UHD BluRays already use HEVC for 4K which I alluded to earlier.
I don't know if you remember the 90s, but it actually, literally was with the integration of active desktop and other features that brought html and web scripting (and all their vulnerabilities, but that was a blessed time before XSS had been termed yet alone abused) directly into Windows explorer.

Internet Explorer and the Windows shell were the same code. There's a reason why until this day the Windows shell is `explorer.exe` - it and `iexplore.exe` (IE) were the one and the same. You could open a file explorer to C:\ and then type in `msn.com` in the address bar, and the PC wouldn't blink.
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Maybe it's just me, but the pictures of it inside the encasement with seams and lumps everywhere make it look incredibly uncomfortable.

Also it seems only marginally larger than a King mattress.

Edit: On further examination, I think the lumpy picture may be of the bottom of the mattress. Which makes more sense.

Edit 2: Or maybe not. From the article: "On top I would put 2" of buckling column gel, which is a squishy material similar to a bottomless rubber ice cube tray." So I guess all that lumpiness is in fact the top.
> It had a monopoly on Intel based computers.

No, it had a monopoly on IBM-Compatible computers, which is a category that includes multiple OEMs that sell compatible machines.

Apple doesn't have a monopoly on any market category where more than 1 player (Apple) is involved.
I hear this a lot, but I have to wonder if it is just the bias of web developers who never looked at it before Rails. I started using Ruby in 2001 in Montreal where other colleagues were using it. We were all former Perl people who had gotten fed up with Perl and we didn't care for the inconsistent object orientation of Python.
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That's the booster landing pad. Round parachutes have little control authority — I doubt the capsule steers them at all.
If arbitration really is a better solution, then people will choose to go that route themselves, instead of being forced into it by a company trying to get more favorable results.
Star Citizen is the Elon Musk of video games
- You can't have thousands of years of real world tasks for low cost

- Clearly defined goal
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How does counter-picking work if it's no longer mirror match? Was this a separate model?
"This is just lowering themselves to the same level as every other CI tool" you mean making a stable simple and repeatable interface that can be saved in source control?
The "Humanity" section has left me with a deep chill. I've already been in an existential mood the nature of life in the modern age, and now I've got the end of humanity to think about too...
I have been making Jupyter notebook for managing our container environment. Some work is still only possible through Ansible, so I've been wondering how to integrate that. Well, I need not wonder no more!

This looks very promising:

* auto completion!

* integrated documentation!

* exporting Ansible YAML!

I didn't yet have change to play with this, so I just note the ways I see Jupyter can be good fit for Ansible. You can try each step and see it working before moving to next one. There doesn't seem to be support yet for richer results view nor Jupyter Widgets, but imagine looking at actual error messages and result views instead of JSON as text. Getting and setting parameters for playbooks could be done using external data sources instead of hand-crafting inventories and config files. You could use same approach as Ara [1] and trace execution of tasks.

I assume you can run Ansible kernel from JupyterLab instance, so you can do file management and use terminal right on the machine you're running Ansible commands. Also, I'd imagine connecting with Jupyter Console (formerly IPython) to same kernel state as notebook is running with is possible here as well. This provides Terminal goodness alongside browser's visuals.

[1] Ara: http://ara.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
And that's including our ancestors.
It would more accurately be described as corporate-flavored collectivism.

Of course, that doesn't make for a good ingredient in angry epithets.
Market size matters.

Also, I'm guessing a complaint has to be brought to the EU before they'll investigate.

Are there any official complaints against Apple?
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Virgin Galactic hasn’t failed yet. Someone was killed so they’ve been extremely cautious.

Bezos is a good business person. It’s quite possible he’ll run thin margins and grow the business.
It is good enough.

They cannot be uninstalled, because they are part of a partition that is read-only. It is read-only, because it doubles as a recovery/factory reset.

They do not represent security risk, because system ignores them. They do not get loaded, no process is ever created for them and they are not considered when broadcasting intents.

You cannot disable Google Play Services, because it is actually a framework, not app. Your only reasonable way to have it disabled is only after you persuade all the app authors not to use it. Good luck with that.
if we are comparing to the microsoft case apple does have a monopoly. microsoft was not found to have a monopoly on computers in general. it was specifically found to have a monopoly on intel based computers. Apple has a monopoly on A9, A10, A11 based computers. A 100% monopoly
> or to know what the mapping is

Agreed! This is important. Scale bars would be nice too, as well as info on other pre-/post-processing. Usually all this is in an associated publication (which is hopefully freely available), since it usually takes a surprising amount of information to fully understand an image like this.

> beauty is lost on me
> pretty picture

Pick one ;) Sometimes we can find things beautiful without fully understanding them (arguably this is always the case). For me, knowing whether it’s derived from real measurements is what matters. But everyone’s threshold is different. I’ve seen beautiful simulated data too, but that’s something different again — more like the beauty of an equation to me.
To be clear: we're fixing the algorithms, adding extra humans, and showing customers how to take action on their own. We never want to let what happened here happen again, and we are definitely listening to any and all suggestions.

Tl;Dr We screwed up. We're sorry.

Disclosure: I work at Google on Google Cloud.
This is a hugely important podcast to listen to. Getting Zuck into a zone where he's forced to be candid and listen to (and engage with) critical conversation about Facebook's role in the world and potential abuse of power is certainly not a regular occurrence. Kudos to Swisher for getting this level of access.
And English Australia / English UK won't display Celsius by default without web permissions? (Granted, that would also mess with the display of calendar dates.)