skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether you're producing content or buying it, those involved literally don't know how to make shows any better, given the constraints they have (get millions of viewers per show, make lots of money). They've found a way to optimize producing the shows that will make money: squeeze efficiency where you can.

And that will continue as long as people contribute to their business model, which is the most money and the most eyeballs. You will never get a reliable stream of quality, unpopular, arty, amazing shows, because they aren't the business model. How do we change this?

Fund different business models. Fund a whole new content development platform that distributes funds to productions that won't make much money or get many eyeballs, but will create more diverse content. As those become more popular, do deals with content distributors to help fund it.

I don't think there's enough people interested in quality content for this to work without serious budget-pinching, so I don't think it'll happen. You could try to create the platform and just hope the viewers/funders will come. But unless someone disrupts content creation, everyone will continue to be beholden to whomever can pay for content.

Another alternative is we stop paying millions to stars of hit shows, or some other production change, but that seems even less likely...
> some innate logical concepts [para 4]

1. I think that people woke up about 130,000 years ago indicated by the sudden appearance of representational art etc. Turing equivalence harnessed to survival/reproduction. Accorsing to this, of course there must be innate logical concepts.

2. Introspectively, my experience of learning concepts was connecting what they're talking about to what I already know. (You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.)

Bonus: verbs distributes over "and": I'm going to buy eggs and I'm going to buy milk. Incidently, it's misleading to only consider logical structure within a sentence. I'm going to buy eggs. I'm going to buy milk.
I’m too lazy to read the paper right now but I’m curious: if we can’t trust the memories of Paul & John, how did they train the model on the 70 other songs in the first place?
It's still a "datacenter" though, right? Just a smaller one. It's not a "region" i.e. there's no other services available other than cloudfront (and I guess lambda@edge).

Or do you mean they might not be owned by aws (or Google)?
We hear about these mis-configurations leading to publicly-viewable things that shouldn't be publicly viewable all the time. This makes me wonder what is the default security setting? It seems like -- and this is from the outside looking in, I have little experience with AWS -- whatever the default is, it's not nearly strict enough. Shouldn't the default config be pretty restrictive for security's sake? Or is this a case of trying to dumb it down in the name of "usability" or "streamlining the UI" or some other marketing fluff crap (aka "for people who don't/won't/can't RTFM")?
FWIW, the Edge is a vehicle made by F∗∗∗.
Your thought experiment got me thinking (which I guess is the point lol!):

Imagine you knew for certain that in a couple hundred years individuals could be brought back to life at great expense, AND that it was at least 1/100th as feasible for mummified remains as it was for cryopreservation.

Who do think scientists would put more effort into bringing back? Another 'Joe Blogs' from 2018, or a mummified Emperor from antiquity?
The weird thing is I feel "minus" makes more sense. Isn't "modulo" remainder? Whereas you're talking about the part that's left out, rather than the part that is remaining?
Article is BS. There’s a 1X4 array in that Qualcomm chip, but what the article doesn’t tell you is you’ll need multiple placed around your phone. I’ll guarantee that Intel demo is using much larger arrays in the fold out panels, which are needed to get appreciable gain.

The MIMO diversity is only usefull with strong signals in multipath. To collect weak signal, you still need physical aperture.

This is more impressive from a circuitry integration standpoint.

http://www.ti.com/product/AWR1642
Some discussion of that usage: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/70018/meaning-of...
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So soft, you can find the QRH in both the cockpit and online[0]. Or more fun learn it in an accurate simulator e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Z1WFDz81k

[0] https://flyuk.aero/assets/downloads/resources/checklists/UKV...
Do you trust your hijackers to announce their intention to run into a building? In fact if a 9/11 ever happens again, the hijackers will have a pretty hard job convincing the passengers this is not a suicide mission and they shouldn't rebel. I always thought that is what prevented another 9/11, not confiscating baby milk at airport security checks.
You throw it in to sound smart. Has more to do with algebra/topology (think quotient group/space) than with arithmetic/number theory (n mod k).
Curious if you know about Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion House? Also Christopher Alexander? Does your approach accommodate Pattern Language?
Bulma is awesome <3
>Who else can ever say they did a freaking barrel roll in a commercial airliner.

Tex Johnston for one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaA7kPfC5Hk
Google's DNS service is interesting. I was never really sure what the business case for operating a public DNS resolver is, for any company really, but it was warmly welcomed when it was unveiled, at least for me. At the time, the public DNS resolvers I can recall were mostly oriented around blocking content.

A lot of people are worried about the privacy implications of using Google's DNS resolver. Paranoia is good, but it's probably overblown here. As far as I know, the primary objective of the project is to provide a fast, accurate DNS resolver, not to collect data. So much so that when it launched, it was originally called 'Honest DNS', as you can see on this bizarre Twitter account: https://twitter.com/honestdns

edit: Also of interest, Google does disclose exactly what data is logged, for the paranoid and curious: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy

(Disclaimer: I work for Google, but not on this. All of my knowledge of this service comes from being an end user, on the outside. Hopefully I didn't mess up any of the details.)
When cloudflare resolves addresses, the DNS request is not coming from 1.1.1.1, it's coming from the IP address of the server actually making the request. You can confirm this by looking at the results of a VPN DNS leak test [0] and seeing the IPs being used to resolve the addresses do come from cloudflare, but are not 1.1.1.1

[0]: https://www.dnsleaktest.com/
When housing costs in SF are 3-4K for a single, it's actually quite reasonable.
Absolutely false. You're mathematically safer when your speed is at parity with the other drivers on the road, and stopping unnecessarily interrupts your momentum to the point of drastically reducing your average speed over the course of a given distance traveled, increasing the chances that you'll get more severely injured during the journey.

If a car is travelling at 35 mph and you're traveling at 25 mph, then the relative speed of the car is 10 mph.

If a car is travelling at 35 mph and you're travelling at 10 mph, then the relative speed of the car is 25 mph, which is going to hurt a hell of a lot more than being hit by a car travelling 10 mph relative to you.
Clicking on the first link in a Google search is no way to go threw life son.
For a single workstation and the task you describe, the pool.map() functionality of the multiprocessing module should be perfectly adequate. Not sure how scheduling overhead would compare between charmpy and multiprocessing, but for this task it shouldn't matter (I assume you need at least a second to convert one file, and even if the conversion is faster, you can chunk the tasks anyway to mask overhead). I would say the big difference for this task is if you want to run it in parallel on multiple hosts, which pool.map can't do. With charmpy we can provide a distributed parallel map offering the same or similar API as pool.map. There is a simple example in 'examples/parallel-map/par-map.py', but we are working on offering a library on top of charmpy with more features and a solid API.
It takes motivated managers to coordinate larger structures such as groups and divisions toward a common goal. I have some concerns that the focus on small teams just reflects the fact that so few people know how to connect small teams together into groups or within a larger organization.
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Which has a maximum speed about one quarter the Bombardier Q400 and one sixth the fuel capacity. It's not a "small prop plane" is the point here.
What is a spy?

They're not a legal immigrant, because they lied on their immigration papers, making their immigration invalid.

If they're an illegal immigrant, their children would be granted citizenship.

If they're a diplomat, their children would not be granted citizenship. The child of the Russian Ambassador does not become a Canadian citizen even if born and raised in Toronto.

I think the government's argument that they're more like a diplomat (an agent of a foreign country) than an undocumented resident (e.g., someone who's entered the country of their own volition for work) is pretty sound.
The calmness of ATC never fails to amaze me. Pilots too.
kinetic energy of 20,000 kg at 600 mph = 1/2 (20,000 kg) * 268 m/s ^ 2 = 718,240,000 joules

11,000 gallons of gas in a tanker truck = 33 kwh * 11,000 gallons = 1,306,800,000,000 joules

FWIW, I'd be up for reviewing the systems, but let's not over react.

P.S. Feel free to correct my math if I was off the mark.
260K sounds reasonable for apartments of that size in CA.
In 1666, it worked quite well for London.
This was really interesting and helpful. Thank you for taking the time to type it all out.

You inspired me to learn OCaml because I've never thought of it as a language that's capable of expressing things that Haskell just can't.
Google has done nothing so far to substantiate any trust in them. The "don't be evil" motto was abandoned.

It is a business that relies on collecting data, monetizing it, and using it to further reinforce its position.
The former, because the difference in preservation methods make success far, far more likely. And as the process improves, the cost will decrease.
Butter is delicious, but sadly it too lacks any fel or fey essence necessary for magicks.
Sometimes I'll browse weird items just to f with the algorithms
anybody else?
Been twice in the last month in San Diego and it was a 4h wait and a 4h30m wait at the North Park office respectively.
Informative.

This made me look up why the Earth's atmosphere doesn't leak out into space.

[0] http://earthsky.org/earth/what-keeps-earths-atmosphere-on-ea...

[1] https://www.quora.com/Why-wouldnt-Earths-atmosphere-escape-i...

[2] https://scijinks.gov/pressure/
This articles tone comes across as incredibly snide, sarcastic, and condescending. This is how it describes the impact theory:

‘Mystery solved’. ‘Scientists cheered’. ‘a heartwarming story about the integrity of the scientific method.’

It reads more like a snarky movie review than science journalism.
Might not be true, check out the book factory girls. Men stay on the farm and do not earn, woman to the city and make way more.
"DOCUMENTATION ..........................................ON BOARD"

Wait... isn't that what you'd be reading right there? Or is the documentation and checklist not the same thing?
Why does the atmosphere not drift off into space?
I just checked, and the default for creating a new S3 bucket through the console is not public readable. However, getting the right permissions in place for real-world work is not trivial if you haven't put some time in the docs so I suspect people end up shoving wild cards and the like in their access policies.
I still don’t see the key as the problem here. The problem is society not talking to this individual earlier and trying to help.
> pay extra for something they ultimately don't actually need

Do you understand the concept of "want"? Things have value to people.

If you want to be so reductionist as to say that we should only have what we "need", then we don't need higher education - or any education. We don't need air conditioning, cell phones, lighting, or plumbing. All we really need is a shelter from our immediate environment and a food source.

Capitalism and the modern world in general are driven in a large part by what people want. Acting on these wants is much of what has driven humanity to where it us today. And wanting things is an absolutely fine emotion to have - more than fine to act on if it's within your financial means.
I think he just means the object in the air has higher potential energy due to gravity.
This is correct. A PoP can very well be an ISP’s datacenter, even if they usually do not provide hosting / colocation services, because it’s in their own interest since it reduces their overall bandwidth usage.
From what I heard, AWS rents a racks in commerical datacenters for its Route53 endpoints. So while that's also a datacenter of course, it's not an "Amazon datacenter".
I don't want a single photon of light that isn't carrying information to reach my eyes.
Except in this case, I'd argue it's fairly obvious. One tends to make a conscious decision to change their DNS server from that provided by their ISP to a public DNS service such as Google's.
It's really nice to see American Air Supremacy in response to a potential terrorist air threat. Neutralizing the stolen plane with a Sidewinder missile would have provided a slightly better show of force to would-be terrorists, but this was pretty good IMO. Our Air Force is more powerful than it's ever been, while our mental health system was better off back in the 1940s.
Go-init: Simple no fuss script to set up Golang blazingly fast
That sentence did stick out to me too. As abrupt and lacking further information as it was it did serve to notify us as to how he was able to be on the tarmac and gain access to the airplane. I do feel that the author could have expanded that thought a bit more.
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Listen to the ATC recording. It is obvious the guy was not an (intentional) threat and was apparently not near populated areas.

I actually found the ATC recording to be quite moving and very sad. It's frustrating to read comments here assuming he was not shot down because everyone involved was just gullible.

People entrusted to make good decisions did just that.
I don’t understand how the atmosphere could possibly not behave as one system.
The idea is that in a few hundred years, the ground will be all unexploded bombs. Then you don't have to worry about forest fires anymore.
Two things really caught me about this story besides the security implication.

First, the skill Russell deployed from (only?) having used a PC flight simulator surprised me. If Russell in fact never had any flight experience outside a simulator, well, I'm just stunned at what he was capable of doing. (Linked in article, here for convenience.) [0]

Second, and more importantly, Russell's demise is tragic, pure and simple. He seems relatively smart, had loved ones who cared about him, and was well-liked and well-regarded by his peers and co-workers.

Yet, something was very broken for Russell.

I won't speculate about what may have caused Russell's despair, but I can't help but feel his demise could have been avoided. I wish this story had a different ending.

[0] https://twitter.com/CameronThomsen/status/102815764815856844...

EDIT: readability
Why human necessary for well mental health?
I can't comment on that without some bias. If you personally believe Google's DNS is a potential threat to your privacy, my best advice is to use whichever DNS service you find to be most trustworthy, be it Quad9, your ISP, Cloudflare, etc.

However, I'm really not sure the whole recent debacle over "don't be evil" is really relevant to perceived ethical issues regarding Google. It's not like the motto became "actually, yes, be evil" - as far as I know, it became "do the right thing." And honestly, company cultures are all much more than just a motto.

I speak only for myself, but my feeling is that trust is very personal and if you don't trust Google, that's your right. All I'm discussing are things that I know, not trying to tell you who or what to trust.
Well, it’s both. Native Americans used to intentionally burn as a method of maintaining a healthy oak Savanah. Today, we don’t do that anymore and, like you said, we’re building in fire prone areas — but climate change is also creating longer fire seasons, and more droughts. It’s a deadly combination.
DIY and hacked together out of third-party pieces? Yep, that's an authentic PC clone alright:)
Yeah, I'm not sure what kinds of data Google might get from being a DNS resolver that it doesn't already get from people using Google Search.

Maybe competitive analysis (like, to get rough real time numbers of people that use Bing, etc.)? Though that's super niche and there's probably way cheaper ways to get that data.

Maybe it's a Fiber or internet.org kind of play, where by improving infra and access, you expand your own already-saturated market.
The answer is definitely in the data, it's just obfuscated at this point.

The question really boils down to unit profitability. If their 'already built out' offices are positive cash-flow businesses, than all this working capital expense makes sense. If not, no.

I don't really think there's much of a platform effect, rather, brand, and that people know they can go somewhere and get what they expect for their offer.

It's a decent concept given the degree of churn in businesses these days, and everyone wants at least a decent place to hang their hat during the day.

But it's also easily subject to pomp and hype.

Only the accountants really know :)
plz elaborate...
If that was the case, then couldn't someone simply establish a perpetual entity to invest and sell their average returns to people with shorter time horizons?

Like a corporation that sells annuities? It seems like a minor detail of financial engineering, just like figuring out how to profit from a perpetual motion machine.

It still seems obvious to me that any asset with perpetual outperformance must revert to the mean before or after it eats the world and people just have gotten very accustomed to denying this fact because the boom in the US stock market has outlived any human who doubted it.

Look at Moore's law - it became an article of faith, but things that can't go on forever the same way don't.
hotbot used to be backed by inktomi. fun fact: inktomi was the first search engine to use "shared-nothing clustering" (what everyone calls server farms nowadays) to power it's back end. it was a cluster of sparc machines.
You specify what's left over. Makes sense to me, though I can see how it would look backwards
I received the first call after I had a hardware issue with my laptop serviced on site. The service guy was just a random contractor, so when the call happened my immediate thought was "ah, somebody like that dude just vacuumed up all the customer data." Because, you know, big companies are really great at building secure internal software when chasing the cheapest dollar.
In aggregate it would be wasteful not too. I don't see a problem with this
Completely agree on this point.
https://airtable.com/ perhaps?
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Lawsuits accuse Tesla's Musk of fraud over tweets, going-private proposal
I dunno, maybe. They're so completely different that it seems extremely unlikely to me that anyone will confuse the two in a conversation with any context whatsoever. The conversation you made up would almost certainly start with a discussion about scientific parallel programming. Any discussion I've ever had about charm++ (too many, I'm afraid) wouldn't have been confused for a discussion about an IDE.

Either way, it's done.
There is of course a lot sad about this story but something joyful as well. Many people commit suicide without such a final moment of exhilaration.
The problem was releasing all of the mental patients. https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-me...
I just checked out their website: http://atlasofdesign.org/three

This is a link to version 3 and they are planning to publish version 4 of the "Atlas for Design".

Despite of the credibility of "American Cartographic Information Society", the product they've conceived belongs on a coffee table.
> Part of that is lots of things about Swift are backwards (variable definition) or overly expressive (var/let/func).

Is this a joke? This sounds like "the language is wrong because it didn't completely ape C"
It's not just taking away 1 x though; modulo is "if x weren't a factor"
I find articles like this disappointing. In the second paragraph, it alludes to the fact that a lot of people want to know why Mars isn't more like Earth. But the rest of the article seems to omit any helpful context on how Earth compares to the various aspects of Mars they are describing.
When we were there, there was supposed to be some kind of network of WeWork-resident and WeWork-adjacent businesses, like that you'd get your health insurance through a TriNet deal brokered through WeWork and stuff like that. It wasn't a serious offering and had nothing to do with why we took the space (reason: cheaper than the market, with better terms, until we were big enough to make an office cost-effective), but I suspect that's part of the "platform" WeWork hopes to build. It won't work, unless they make a bunch of ambitious acquisitions.
If the 18 wheeler has a path to a target that lets it hit the target at top speed, it would only be delivering about 20% of the kinetic energy the plane would assuming an empty plane operating at maximum safe low altitude speed.

That's with a high performance truck. A more average truck, or a truck with its speed limited by a governor (common in many commercial fleets) would have about 10% of the kinetic energy of the plane.

And remember, this is assuming the truck can get to its target at top speed. In reality a lot of targets are not reachable by a path that would allow a truck at speed. If the truck can only get to 50 mph (80 kph), it would only deliver about 6% of the plane's kinetic energy.

The plane has a much much larger set of targets that it can deliver full kinetic energy to.

The above is assuming the pilot decides to fly into the target on a fairly level flight path and obeying the manufacturer's safety limits. If the pilot is willing to fly unsafely before the crash, he could probably got 2x to 4x the kinetic energy.

In short, a stolen fully loaded truck is a much smaller threat than a stolen empty Q400, unless what the truck is loaded with is also a threat.
Yet there’s plenty of knowledge out there if you know where to look.

Want to steal an Airbus A320? Here’s the complete startup procedure:

https://youtu.be/uqKeSO6msDk