skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No one "pioneered the west". Various groups of people with powerful technology traveled west and stole land from other groups of people.

The people crossing the land bridge to North America from Asia pioneered the west. Or perhaps they considered it East since that's the direction they took to get here. Anyway, I think the point is that humans have an insatiable desire to explore. We have adapted to so many adverse climates here on Earth. And we got around quick with just a lot of bravery, teamwork, and cleverness. I've read that early peoples coming out of Africa swam from the eastern portion towards modern-day Yemen, and then there are the incredibly skilled Polynesian sailors of the Pacific.

> ... without prioritizing equalizing the gains of science and exploration and those gains actively stratify society further.

Technology is all about tools. Science is a process by which we build knowledge. They are not good or evil on their own, that is ultimately a reflection of whomever leverages these tools. I agree that equitability is not a default; privileged few can use their advantages to gain influence, and then repeat until monopoly or oligarchy come to pass.

> I am trying to make a case for focusing out scientific efforts of improving the lives of everyone on the planet. Without spreading the achievements of science and technology to everyone on the planet, humanity is doomed.

Sure, that's a reasonable thing to argue for and I broadly agree. Not all technology benefits humanity; making better bombs with science and technology does harm. Better surveillance measures undermines privacy, and these abuses of science and technology can stalk and kill just as readily as they can benefit us all. It all depends on how it is used.

But space exploration is something that really benefits humanity! There was a boon of technology that benefitted everyone in the wake of the hubbub of the space race. I don't know how it rates with all the other things we could possibly spend money on improving society, maybe below feeding the desperately hungry and below ecological restoration of course. But space has been a great, diverse source of technology, an infinite fount of curiosities, and I believe that if many more people gaze at the Earth from orbit, that a more global perspective will emerge, and this in turn could help direct funds to better causes.
AI is a new religion whose followers thinks that they will literally create their God.
If you're curious how GPS works, this is a surprisingly approachable guide where a guy built his own and detailed lots of the knowledge http://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/navsats/theory.html
THANK. GOD.
The Lightning Network: How to install and (hopefully) make money
Is your company hiring?

Edit: Americans, I mean.
The article mentions all those systems by name. Of those, only GLONASS has global coverage (also mentioned in the article), and it is operated by a hostile state.
This app really helped me through my degree, especially the internals of the 555 timer. Very intuitive and simple to use, but as soon as I found it, I knew it had a lifespan running as a Java plugin. Rejoiced profusely when I learned it was ported to JS! Thanks for the effort!
People can't afford to have hobbies like they used to.
It goes all the way back to the release of NeXTSTEP 3.1, which included i386 support. And more importantly it never ended.

The Rhapsody DR1/DR2 releases that would shape up to become OS X Server 1.0 were intel based. And the then released source code for Darwin 0.1/Darwin 0.3 although commercially only released on the PowerPC, still compiles and runs on i386 just fine.

I'm sure with the overhaul of the kernel while going from OS X Server 1.0 to OS X 10.0 where the Objective C driver model was dumped for a C++ framework, along with updating the Mach code from 2.5 to 3.0 broke the i386, but it was quickly fixed in the Darwin releases, making the overall chain unbroken from the inside.

It wouldn't surprise me in the lost years of Apple looking for a plan out of the demise of the 68000 that there would have been projects looking again and again at Intel, especially after the Star Trek project.
STEMs be eating, shopping, getting hair cuts, and what not.
It is a matter of order. First, we learn how to terraform ourselves out of our inadvertent unhelpful terraflopping, then we use that learning to terraform anywhere we go. :)
> if life were abundant in the universe, the naïve expectation is that we'd see it everywhere, but we don't

No, that's my point: We don't see it because we can't; we don't have the technology. The fact that we see no aliens has nothing to do with the number of aliens, and everything to do with the fact that are more or less incapable of looking.

It would be like saying, "if butterflies were abundant in my garden, I'd see them everywhere, but I don't, so what gives?" when you are blind, and also stuck inside your house. There is nothing to explain. We can talk about seeing (or not seeing) butterflies when you are able to see at all.
Because that costs money now that could be spent on something that actually produces a profit.
Right. What about those who die of hunger or thirst? Every fucking day? What about those who die from the results of war profiteering, wars of aggression? Agent Orange? Depleted Uranium?

"Hey, cancer sucks" "ohhhh, of course an oncologist would say that".... how come in that case of someone dying of cancer, the person who experiences it first hand isn't a concern?

Many talk about the species because they can't even look a single human in the eye, and aren't very alive in the first place, that's the pattern I see. And I learned from Woody Allen that you should never trust a naked bus driver.

Here's the thing, the things humans do to other people, that we don't prevent because hey, it's easier to ignore them, and something like an asteroid or exploding star, are in completely different leagues. You need to deal with the first to even be a human, and you will not be able to avoid some form of the latter either way, at the latest with the heat death of the universe. For that to be a loss, you have to have faced the first part. Otherwise, it's a blessing, both for those who go extinct as well as for the rest of the universe who is spared their company.

Going to Mars (and being thorougly distracted by it, like war with less destruction of property) to "save the species" is beyond cute, it's deranged. It's like running without pants to work because "time is money". That may be true, but when you spend the day in a cell for running around without pants, you're not saving money.
As a shameless plug, the Darwin 0.1/0.3 sources which align with OS X Server 1.0 & 1.2 actually still compiled on intel just fine. Even better you could take a Rhapsody DR2 system, and overlay the newer stuff on top of it, and it'd still happily run.

https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2017/04/22/darwin-0-1-rha...
> as well as the system of the US allies (EU) and if you do that, you're in hot water with those allies.

You will already be in a lot of hot water if you're in a war with the US. The countries who have the capability of doing this have thousands of missiles. A hundred of them being used to knock out some sats is nothing.
>even uneducated Americans are actually pretty smart, more than smart enough to know when they're being lied to.

How do you explain the enormous viewership of Fox news?
Next up - you cannot use building restrooms, you have to go out on the sidewalk like everyone else.
I trust the VLC team so I gave them the benefit of the doubt before even clicking, I completely agree. The title should reflect that this is in response to Huawei firmware changes.

I think the only other reasonable thing that could be done is automatically responding to the one star reviews. Maybe work with Google to remove the reviews, but these things take time and may not work. I have a hard time finding a problem with what the devs have done here.
Millimeter-Wave Propagation Within a Computer Chip Package
A family member of mine went from speaking only English to learning 11+ foreign languages once given exposure.

No leading indicators this would have been the outcome.
It’s not incompetence when the failure is deliberate.

Microsoft with their “warnings” about DR-DOS for example.
Actually any country with a nuclear weapon should be on that list.

And that is quite a few: Israel, UK, France, India with North Korea/Iran not that far behind.
There are 265 million professional soccer players according to FIFA* and 736 were in the world cup. If the US accepted foreign developers at the same rate, that is 0.00027%, then of the 14.6 million that would be 41 individuals rounding up. So yes, they would comfortably fit in a large conference room.

*https://www.fifa.com/mm/document/fifafacts/bcoffsurv/emaga_9...
Presumably you are betting your sextant skills are better than the other guy's.
YouTube punishes Alex Jones’ channel over hate speech and child endangerment
I'd usually be right beside anyone wanting to begin JavaScript bashing but it feels like you are conflating two issues.

Whilst the (for lack of a better term) JavaScript / SPA ecosystem encourages (especially to novices) people to do things in the Wrong Way, I wouldn't say that an SPA is inherently less accessible, and I definitely wouldn't say that it's less accessible than a PDF.

I—like I'm sure the rest of HN—have experienced many a terrible SPA, but from my JavaScript dabbling it's becoming more and more apparent that it's due to bad developers more than anything else.
You've left out quite a few companies from your list that joined the agreement and also forgetting companies he threatened that didn't join, like Palm. What he did was evil and reduced overall innovation in the sector, just for Apple's gain.
Huawei has massively cranked up the battery optimization to a degree much greater than what Google does. I listen music in the background all the time on my Pixel with zero issues. If I pause the music for ten minutes or so it gets killed. Google can always improve memory management but this one is definitely more on Huawei.
Yes. It will always remaining relevant. Google wants a continued supply of GPGPUs from anyone who will sell it to them. They will take TPU to the max, but they are not in it to compete. They are in it to protect themselves first and to have leverage.
At the time Apple was licensing MacOS to clone manufacturers like Power Computing. It's likely they thought the only way to grow the clone business was to open the floodgates to Intel PC clone manufacturers.

Of course the NeXT merger brought back Steve Jobs who killed the clone program immediately.
This is cool and looks promising! If you want some DSP functions in JS, I had made some[0] in the past. They're all MIT licensed and sometimes you would need to adapt the code a bit because of the imports and globals that are implicit as these were domain specific.

[0]: https://github.com/opendsp
Better than now.
I'll go with twelve.
You seems quite optimistic for me.

While is true that the local concepts are quite simple and that the language is quite small, how all those ideas play together create a very complex environment rarely seen outside the BEAM/Akka environment.

I don't believe that good developers without prior experience in such systems can become productive in a week. They could be able to write code that compiles, but the week after that they are going to throw it all out and restart from scratch.
> Am I missing something, or are you just saying "Worse is Worse"?

No, I'm not. It's fine that they made that code, and were using it.

But different situations have different requirements.

I'm not objecting to the design work at all.

I'm objecting to the idea of calling it "ready to standardize". This is a presentation problem, not a development problem. It was half-baked, and shouldn't have been set in stone until it was fully baked.
Unless you present clear arguments, I'd refrain from saying that Pandas is "poorly re-inventing SQL".

Pandas is now the standard for data analysis (as long as things fit into memory). It's much much easier to debug than a SQL command. You can write operations as a succession of small logical steps (instead of one huge query that is hard to debug).

It's raw Python, so you can do something like:

df.groupby('movie_id').agg(dict(ratings='median', price=lambda p : np.percentile(p, .95))).plot.bar(bins=50)
I've been using nanobox.io for a couple of new Elixir projects, am very satisfied so far. Using nanobox to deploy to Digital Ocean, but I believe they also support GCP.

Also been using Heroku for some Elixir apps in production.
This happens almost everywhere unfortunately.

If you want to 'compete', the way to play the game is to promote yourself as most of the time, no one else is going to. This is obviously what your colleague is up to.

I used to get mad about the same thing happening to me and it happened a lot. After talking to different people about ways to manage it, I decided to come to terms with it because I wasn't that interested in the alternative (self-promotion). Now I take comfort from the fact if they have to take credit for it, they are obviously worried about something that I am not.
Their competition is incompetent.
Is it really so hard for a determined terrorist to build his own gps receiver? Or at least modify one to remove that limitation?
Personally, as little as possible. Rates are low, and the political/economic situation is volatile. Let the bank hold the risk.

You’re better off with a shorter term... use small chunks of your savings to cover 2-3 payments over a period of years. That is my one regret —- my brother scrimped to afford a 15 year loan and will own his house in two years. (He’ll be 41) Run a few scenarios, changes to the deduction structure for property taxes impact the net in high tax states.
Big data stack on Kubernetes
It's a bit parochial to hear someone in the twenty-first century describe honesty as a particularly Christian value. You do know you're talking to the whole world here? Most human cultures have valued honesty to a similar degree. Even many animal communities value honesty.
How do you know that for a fact? The CEO probably has the final say, but that's the case for many companies. I doubt he's coming to these decisions and conclusions by himself. I would be shocked if the past few months of his job didn't involve constant meetings with executives to discuss how to deal with this issue.
Every incorporated entity in the US is required to have a registered agent physically located within the entity's state of incorporation as well. It's a pretty low bar to meet.
You can estimate the usage of these duckboats (and thus their relative safely) pretty easily. These boats have been running for decades and they're described as hugely popular with numerous companies offering duckboat rides throughout the country in various areas with individual boats giving 6+ hours of tours each day. Even at the absolute rock bottom, you're easily way into the millions of hours of operation. And this LATimes piece seemed to try to dig up every single incident they could given they were even reporting random traffic collisions, and there just weren't many relative to this bottom end of the scale.

I understand it can be difficult to find facts between all the emotional drivel, but your own article (second one) states, "the captain had a moment of clarity and was able to release the canopy." Of course they could just be writing whatever they feel like, which is another increasingly common trend in media, but this is a rather specific fact.
Edit: it looks like that comment on the blog is incorrect. You only incur overhead from copying or going out of scope.
Asking out of curiosity, do you not think that learning Elixir would make you much better at something like Node?
Off-Topic: Is HN primarily serving the US/Western audience? There might be some areas in the world where Russia is apparently "not" a hostile state?

I must apologize again for going a little off-topic
yes. GPUs end up being far more flexible and the latest generation data center GPUs (Volta V100) have dedicated tensor cores. Also, not everyone can (or wants to) use Google Cloud.
I beg to disagree. My phones have all gotten a lock on planes so far.
A state has no right...

What state was this? Was a vote held? A law passed? No. This was one asshole LEO, Anslinger, just like lots of other asshole LEOs before and since. The reason that religion invented hell, was so we could savor the idea of this banal excrescence burning there as the decades pass and the death toll of his evil manipulation rises.
It is quite interesting (and telling of your beliefs) that you took my words to mean that I challenged their beliefs.

I wrote, "they were significantly more likely to become defensive when I checked facts and quotes with them."

We check facts and quotes to ensure that we are being accurate and fair.

Would you prefer being misquoted? Or would you prefer having improper contact assigned to your words?
Truly Random Number Generators
Frankly, this is starting to become less of a hurdle in that pure CUDA code is now rarely written in the DL community (instead opting to call optimized libraries like CuDNN). The biggest issue is replicating all the good "core computing libraries" that NVIDIA offers: CUBLAS, NPP, CuDNN, Tensor-RT, etc.

Frankly, if AMD can start putting this stuff together over the next 2-3 years it's usually not too bad to have deep learning frameworks leverage this stuff.
It would still has line of sight to deal with so you would either need a bunch of them or some type of maneuverability. It would be easier to just shoot a rocket it at.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-satellite_weapon
Maybe if you exclude device drivers, but Linux[0] has more lines of code vs WebKit[1].

[0] https://www.openhub.net/p/Linux/analyses/latest/languages_su...

[1] https://www.openhub.net/p/WebKit/analyses/latest/languages_s...
I’ll offer the Phantom Time Hypothesis: “...According to this scenario, the entire Carolingian period, including the figure of Charlemagne, is a fabrication, with a "phantom time" of 297 years (AD 614–911) added to the Early Middle Ages.”

I’ve heard an additional bit.

We call those roughly three centuries The Dark Ages. Very little was recorded as happening throughout them, when compared to the time period that came before and the time period that came after. They are “dark” - as in unknown.

According to this conspiracy theory, the reason that so little happened is because the time period that we call The Dark Ages never actually existed.
HN is English-language, so it's a strong assumption that the majority of users are English speakers. Russia is to some extent hostile to all the major English-speaking nations (in large part because all of those nations are strongly allied).
Well, shucks, why not apply the exact same argument to health insurance as well? Or even auto insurance?

While adverse selection is undeniably a tricky problem, the underlying raison d'etre is pooled risk, to help individuals and families mitigate catastrophic losses. Maybe you're all right with the prospect of future analyses condemning to uninsurability folks with rare combinations of alleles that turn out to be strongly deleterious. To me, this seems like breaking the regulated semi-statis between insurers and insureds, and like breaking the social contract more generally.
As far as I know, all of those constellations are vulnerable to Kessler syndrome. Ground-based equivalents (eLoran) wouldn't be.
It's interesting because the act of constantly checking facts and quotes actually helps prevent words from being taken out of context. Good interviews can get away from both parties and solid questioning and verification ensures that the listener applies the correct context to the words.
It has improved quite a lot, it's a joy to code in in the newest versions. You do need to invest a bit of time to learn it but it's well worth it
The British East India Company, the largest drug trading organization of the 19th century, is to be blamed for most of modern drug trade.

It is very likely that the opium poppies in modern Mexico are direct descendants of the ones planted by the British.

After the British lost their colonies in the Americas, they tried to fix their economy by selling opium to China. A few decades later, many Chinese workers moved to the Americas, among them, opium poppy planters. Few decades later, the US passed the Chinese Exclusion Act and many of them moved to Mexico.

Total death toll? millions of people.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgQahGsYokU (animated explanation)
Count your blessings.
> That's one way to look at it. The other way is that it depends on incentive.

The entirety of modern economic and psychological theory can be reduced to "it depends on incentives." That's utterly unhelpful.

> Not really. Power plants are connected and disconnected from the grid several times each day.

I said "bringing a power plant online." You said "connected and disconnected from the grid." They're not even remotely the same thing: the latter is a tiny step in implementing the former.

> This is done by computer in all cases, and it's incredibly fast and easy to do so. Especially considering we're only dealing with 60Hz here. This only applies to certain types of power plants, solar plants have entirely different interconnection considerations.

Uhm... what? Power flow adjustments have been "done by computers" since at least the 1970s and the frequency is only relevant in so much as it sets physical limits on how fast geographically distributed hardware can respond to changes in the system. It doesn't really matter what the frequency is, as long as everyone agrees, the system will be fine.

> There is serious risk that a single tree branch could cause a system wide blackout for a major portion of the US. [1]

Are you arguing with me or agreeing?

> Breakers and automatic protection devices respond with incredible speed and are typically controlled by an external agency operating at a State or Regional level.

No, they don't and aren't: https://www.nvc.vt.edu/lmili/docs/Mili-Risk%20of%20Cascading... - privatization has opened us up to a lot of unforeseen weaknesses.

> Relative to what? Fraud and theft will always be factors in a functioning society. Is the total value extracted by newer frauds increasing faster than our global GDP?

Relative to where we were less than a decade ago, when Facebook was nothing more than some Ivy League hook up site.

> What are the alternatives? The world putting it's trust in a commercial system? We'd just be trading one set of known issues with another.

The alternative is fucking vigilance. Vigilance of tradeoffs. Vigilance of bad faith actors. Vigilance of the legislative branch. Vigilance of our public servants.
Quick question - has there been an attempt to make conda and official PEP and make conda-forge part of the Python Foundation (instead of a private company).

I'm trying to figure out why is all this new manylinux PEP stuff "inspired by conda" and is not actually conda.

Is this a situation like grsecurity vs Torvalds? How does the situation change now that BDFL is gone ?
The US military doesn't use GPS for military navigation, they use it for precisely measuring the Earth. This happens almost entirely in peacetime, so no threat to the satellites. US military navigation and guidance systems rely on INS, which is neither jammable nor spoofable, based on the GPS measurements collected in peacetime.

The US military uses very advanced and highly classified inertial navigation technology for both guidance and navigation systems pervasively. GPS was just a way to collect the data required to make inertial guidance effective. The US military has never relied on GPS for anything; the Soviets could destroy it the day it was designed, so it wasn't designed for war.
The global economy is dependent on all of the largest countries. Try removing China and see what happens.