skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is heavily dependent on your subject.

As a side gig, I take photos of domestic animals (primarily dogs). Some of the animals can be posed like little dolls. Others can't sit still to save their lives. I also take action photos of them. I have to spend time manufacturing perfect, because I often can't make very many on-the-fly changes. But to capture that perfect, I have to take a lot of photos.

As a hobby, I practice general photography, and my usual method is to lock some variables, and take several photographs while floating other variables.

Also as a hobby I practice astrophotography, and here you absolutely have to manufacture perfect, because you only take a lot of pictures in order to stack them. A single photo can take hours to produce, so you do what you can to get it right in the first place.
Affordable Open Access: There's a way, now we need a will
I think the answer may change a lot depending on which field are you thinking about; because "the community" will be quite different as well.

Regarding "how to write better quality articles?" one key part is reading a lot of high quality articles from the field. Of course, there are other things yo may want to do, but again, it will depend on the area.
We all heard him say it, and it was controversial at the time and has remained so, especially given everything that has happened since. What are you "concerned" with, exactly? If you're a supporter, you should be happy that things are playing out in a way that helps him, if you believe what you're saying.
yes, battery issues are a challenge for electric planes: https://www.wired.com/2017/05/electric-airplanes-2/

however, but they are not insurmountable, and many people are doing it:https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/cheaper-lighter...

also, the high altitude penalties for electric motors are completely negligible. cooling efficiency for an electric motor has nothing to do with power output.
Ok, but can it run Ubuntu 18.0x?

Could someone who knows their chipsets please hazard a guess?
> if people are bringing suspicious looking material into the hotel, and declining maid service for days on end that they are searching the rooms

The Vegas shooter bough all his armaments in suitcases. Suitcases in hotels are suspicious now?

I'll skip maid service for a the duration of my trip if it's a week or less, and let them in once a week if longer. I don't have new towels and bed sheets daily at home why would I need them changed daily in a hotel?

> One search like this could have prevented the Vegas shooting, and its worth it.

And one search of any mass shooters house would have likely stopped them as well. Should we encourage them as well. I mean WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN?

> There is a line we shouldn't cross as far as privacy / safety, but if you're staying in a hotel, you're on their property

Then let me verify the security staff, and don't have them steal my shit. If I have "objectional material" you ask me to leave or ditch the stuff, you don't take it.

> in a shared public space -- same as on an airplane or mass transit.

No it's really not.

> Lets agree that there shouldn't be any unknown contraband / dangerous items in the hotel for everyone's sake.

Let's not. Knives are dangerous, vodka is dangerous, hell water is dangerous, lets ban that to.
Overall, well put, and those points are tough to discount.

> With electronic voting, the counting is done by machines and the mechanism is obfuscated and unverifiable.

Could a blockchain not address that with public/private keys? Why is this ridiculous?
seems like a lot of people down-vote certain keywords without first figuring out context..
What do you propose to do with them? You can't release them, through breeding these foxes are not suited for the wildlife. They are not as afraid as wild foxes and will become a danger to humans.
Raising them is not sustainable.
And why should using their fur be immoral in comparision to using farmed cows meat?

I mean you can personally object to both, but most of society disagrees with you and does not believe that killing animals for fur/leather/meat is immoral.
My Carbon X1 came with a 65W USB-C charger. It can output up to 20V. It rapidly charges my Pixel 2 as well as the Lenovo.
1) You can't beam round a curved surface and the atmosphere isn't refractive enough in the visible spectrum (only works for shortwave radio)

2) The death ray is an environmental and safety hazard

3) Atmospheric attenuation would probably be more than electrical attenuation at that distance
A hundred million cars run curl
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That's kinda my point. They're discrediting Trump in the most credit-giving way possible and minimizing their following while maximizing his. there are so many legitimate issues to try and take a win on, but they do childish things like this instead. Definitely heading towards a republican in 2020 at this rate.
> + Easy to use at certain angles

> - Not easy to use at other certain angles

Any tips on what the correct angle is? Every few month for the past 3 years I've been trying to get used to the trackpoint on my lenovo. I never stick with it longer than an hour. It's just so much slower than the trackpad. Am I doing something wrong?
Shrinking Machine Learning Models for Offline Use
Because not everything I want to run in best suited (or even available) to linux.
Oh wow, didn't realize there was a book behind "23". BTW, there's a terrible American film with the same name - one wants:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0126765/

not this here rubbish:
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0481369/
(hm, really it was with Jim Carrie? Maybe there's yet another terrible version. Or maybe this was just that bad).
(edit: my publication experiences are heavily biased towards biotech/biomedical/natural sciences fields. Your CS Experience May Vary, particularly w/r/t the prestige of conference papers.)

The obvious answer that you might not like very much is "write a paper and co-author it with an established group." If you share a lede with an established group, that's immediate credibility.

Journals happily accept manuscripts from first/corresponding authors who don't have PhDs. Graduate students publish regularly; depending on your program this is effectively obligatory.

Self-funding publication in a peer-reviewed journal will raise eyebrows -- so see my first suggestion, which offloads the often substantial publication costs onto a grant. (Our group's last publication cost was ~$4500, for a benchmark. That's higher than normal but it was open access with 6 color figures). Crediting a grant for the work also lends credibility; someone gave you cash to do this thing, so obviously they don't think you're totally nuts.

Publishing preprint-only on the arxiv is well established. I think you need someone to vouch for you the first time, but that shouldn't be too hard depending on the field.

Depending on the field, single-author maunscripts are either basically normal (parts of CS, much of mathematics, some theoretical physics), a giant red flag (experimental physics, biology-adjacent fields), or somewhere in between (economics?).

Do not ever use a vanity publisher for scientific articles. If the journal ever appeared in Beall's list, run, because it's a mark of shame.

Finally, don't necessarily attribute your marginalization to not having a PhD -- the politics of publication are ruthless no matter who you are.
Awesome thanks! Where did you get the data?
That logic has worked for the TSA going on 17 years now.
New women entrepreneurs could add $12B to South Africa's economy
This was me last year. After purchasing nothing but android phones, going back to the t-mobile G1, I decided enough is enough and got an iphone.

Switched to the new Firefox - it's great. Feels like when I moved to chrome the first time.

DDG is my default search engine. I still use the google bang over 80% of the time, but hopefully that goes down over time and it's gotten me out of the habit of thinking google right away.

With 60+ accounts, I've slowly started migrating to fastmail. It will probably take a full year to do it slowly, but it will be worth it.

My last real reliance is on google maps, truly a superior product. That said, I try to keep my use to longer trips between cities, including longer road trips. I try to use Apple maps for smaller trips around town.

This isn't even necessarily all because of everything I think google does wrong, rather it only makes sense to diversify a little.

So many people I know use google/chrome/maps/gmail/android/google photos/google docs. Once I realized I was one of them it spooked me a little.
Yes, but why? You've got all the maintenance headaches of wave power with none of the benefit.
AP: Google tracks your movements, like it or not
They're not great, but they're more or less as entertaining as the Dan Brown books (which also wouldn't be in my list of great literature).
The Colossal Spider Web of Open Market Alumni
I don't have a viable alternative for flying 99% of the time, I do for hotels.
There are 2 dies in the 1950X, each one has 2 memory channels. Thus, it's possible to run a process on one (8-core) die that maxes out the memory bandwidth to it's two local DDR4 channels while the other die still has full bandwidth access to it's own DDR4 channels.

Threadripper is able to switch between NUMA (non-uniform memory access) mode and "regular" mode. In NUMA, the OS knows that 2 channels are attached to 1 die and 2 channels on the other, thus allowing lower latencies because the OS knows what RAM to allocate based on which core the process is running on.
Pollution is undesirable on earth because it causes us harm from which we can't escaoe or reverse.

The idea of "polluting" spacetime makes no more sense than humans "polluting" the natural organization of air molecules by displacing them by existing, or polluting the natural distribution of entropy by making decisions.

It's just bringing politics into a place where it doesn't belong.
Bit of a stretch to call out Stephenson as a "big daddy of cyberpunk"? What title would you give to Sterling and Gibson?
Wait, what? Do you mean induction in a specific case, or induction overall?

Because your counterexample just isn't provable by induction. There's no inductive step there... There's no reason to believe that if the sun went up east on the n'th day it will do so on the n+1'th as well.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17749330

140 comments, still on the front page.
I thought I'd bring this to the attention of HN readers, given that [Elsevier is buying the creators of EditorialManager](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/elsevier-to-acquire...)
Presumably the embargo lifted and they were afraid of getting scooped. I agree it's unprofessional but hey probably 90% of their readers are hobbyists.
> DC to AC and DC to different voltage DC are still more expensive and lossy than AC-AC, but sometimes the best option in a given situation.

Ok, what's a situation involving long distance transmission where DC-AC or DC-DC is best?
Two-thirds of users in Indonesia and Nigeria think FB is the Internet (2015)
I often suggest Wikimedia use their excess money not spent on Wikipedia itself to create low-cost or openly-licensed textbooks. If adopted by schools, students everywhere would save money on textbooks that were high quality. The collection would grow over time as both revenue and donations come in. They might also do something similar to Coursera. Textbooks just seemed like they'd be easier project with large, positive outcome. Plus, some could be updated rarely (eg 5 years) since the content doesn't change much.
Is nothing new, have been done many times in form of language server protocols.
In a hard SF rather than contemporary context, A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge, is an absolute delight (and a Hugo winner for best novel). Vinge was a mathematics and computer science professor, and very much knows what he's talking about.

Part of the fun is that, on a 5000 year old spaceship set arbitrarily far in our future, long past the end of Moore's Law, all the systems are still running Unix. And one of the jobs on board is "Programmer-Archeologist", digging through generations of code to try to find useful bits from the past. But story-wise, there's some outstanding hacking ideas going.
Especially when the old team is obviously going to be fired if the new team works.
Is XYplorer really written in VB6?
I think Tesla cars are the big reason for the halo effect that is taking hold of electric cars being luxury item muscle cars rather than the popular perception that cars like the Prius and Leaf are "wimpy" weak cars. Pickup trucks and SUVs are very popular in the US, and people are not going to easily switch to cars like the Leaf. Without Tesla I think the process is going to set back at least several years.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/06/the-steadily-disappearing-am...
Thank you for the links, there's a lot of good comments!
I think this really depends on your motivations. Are you trying to convey the information to the community? Trying to build a reputation as a researcher? Increment your citation count?

arXiv is a pretty good option for disseminating information, but most papers published there don't receive as much consideration as those that have gone through a peer review. Therefore, only the most obviously-groundbreaking papers end up accruing a lot of citations there.

If you want to build a reputation, you'll need to target peer-reviewed conferences, and probably those that have a double-blinded process. This will allow your work to stand on its own, although you'll need to ensure that it conforms to the structures/patterns/shibboleths of the academic community. They best way to learn these, if you don't already know them, is to read as many papers as you have time for in a domain as close to yours as possible, and then replicate those formats.

If you're looking to increase your citation count, this is difficult to do without really groundbreaking research. Some manage it by doing "citation sharing" with collaborators, but this is (A) frowned upon, and (B) difficult to get going if you're not in academia.

In any case, you'll probably want to learn LaTeX if you haven't already; this is a pretty necessary first step for publication, either at arXiv or an IEEE/ACM conference. Edit: This is because most conferences have a template that you must follow, and these templates are provided in LaTeX format.
In the PC hardware space there is a big push to have something out by the embargo since that's when 80% of the traffic is. It's unfortunate, but I'd rather have an incomplete article than an inaccurate or shallow one. I'd rather have a review posted too soon than no more Anandtech.
I know HN is not for humor, but i really got a laugh out of “the death ray is an environmental and safety hazard”, listed with such seriousness.
I doubt any metric in Formula 1 doubles every 2 years.

To get something like Moore’s law you need a breakthrough that opens up possibilities for many orders of magnitude in improvements. Baring new physics there’s just nothing like that available for rocketry.
If you want to see truly insane performance (not that DRACO isn't impressive), look videos of fighters like the F-22 doing max performance take offs. Lightly loaded they can be off the ground in about 250m and supersonic before the end of the runway - and these are aircraft that weigh upwards of 20 tons.
What exercises do you do in gym, and how do you keep at it? It's hard to hit the gym after work because of exhaustion, or early morning before work because I need my sleep.
ECC isn't available at 64GB configurations.

Memory
Up to 64GB DDR4 2666MHz
*Up to 32GB for ECC

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-p/Thi...
Starbucks was born/raised in Seattle.. so maybe that affiliation won them a free pass?
OpenStax CMS[0] is built with Wagtail[1] (Django based CMS framework). This is a good example (live) project to sink my teeth into and learn more about Wagtail. Incidentally does anyone know of any good resources (books, tutorials) to go from beginner to advanced Wagtail developer?

[0] https://github.com/openstax/openstax-cms
[1] https://wagtail.io/
Why on earth would you do this at home rather than at a central facility where it's cheaper and easier to handle bulk gases?

You can incorporate hydrogen into the grid but only up to a point: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/01/06/hydrogen/ and it has issues https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy13osti/51995.pdf
Because your vote also needs to be private to the point where a third-party can't verify that a vote belongs to you.

To prevent selling of votes, or forced votes via blackmail.
Yes. From the spec sheet, you can order it with Ubuntu pre-installed as well.
You think they'd either pull the review or place a disclaimer at the start about this, but I agree with what you're thinking (throttling).
I'd love to see an analysis (could do some nice nlp) of industry, geo, and amount raised. For example:

7 out 67 (11%) of the companies in Colorado are cannabis related, raising over $25MM. The highest amount raised was Dish Network at $1,000,000,000.
Thanks for this, just started watching it now!
Re: "any advice on how to write better quality articles"

My route to learning how to write quality papers: Find an expert in your field to tear your paper apart, and then get to work rebuilding it. Rinse and repeat 20 or so times. Additional experiments may be needed. You'll probably have a good paper at the end.

This of course is much easier to do in grad school. But can be achieved elsewhere.
I think the argument for the ethernet dongle is that it's still a builtin ethernet controller, and all the dongle does it put the connector outside. It's just a bit of plastic and some wires. The advantage is that you can use any dongle and you'll always have the same MAC address. This is relevant in some DHCP setups. I'm not totally convinced by that, either, but at least the dongle is included in the box (X1C5).
or just hedging : If we continue with oil, they will be ok. If we go solar or wind, they win also.
The company making diesel engines was Thielert, which eventually went out of business. Most notably, they were available in the Diamond DA-42. IIRC, they consumed 7GPH each at cruise, which is roughly half the consumption of Draco at the same speed.

They were bought by a company in China and are now being marketed in the US by Continental. There are STCs for many Cessnas, which seems like a pretty appealing option.

http://www.continentalmotors.aero/diesel/diesel-engines.aspx
Electricity transmission would be a foundational part of an orbital ring around Earth. And around a dynamo like Uranus, it could be used to generate electricity too.

This (long) video about orbital rings brings such things to mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMbI6sk-62E
Americans Own Less Stuff
This is an expensive plane, but $1M isn't that expensive for a plane. It's would be like buying a $80k car.
This is being called the "airbnb for preschools". As someone who has stayed in a variety of airbnbs, and who has a toddler, this makes me not want to use the platform. The spotty quality/safety that is inherent in the gig economy (airbnb, uber, lyft) is something I can deal with for myself, but something I would not be comfortable using for my child.

Child care is also something that is much longer-term than other gig economy jobs. I don't care if my uber driver no longer drives for uber tomorrow, or if my airbnb closes up shop next week. But I don't want to have to jump from provider to provider because these "preschools" (using air quotes because some sound more like daycare than preschool) don't last.
“I've Got Nothing to Lose”:Risk Perceptions,Protective Actions Post Equifax Hack
Posting PDFs on your own website is “publishing” in the literal sense of putting information out there, but it is hardly publishing in the academic sense of getting articles in print in a journal where other participants in the field are going to see and respond to your work.

Since many journals have double-blind peer review, if the OP’s work is sound, then there is no reason he should not go for journal submission. In terms of building a reputation, that is a lot better than self-publishing, the domain of cranks. In my own field of linguistics I know several people interested in the subject who post their own PDFs on their own websites or on Academia.edu, and though they try to format those PDFs to look serious and respectable, these people creep most actual scholars out and we try to avoid those writings.

Finally, peer review is not just gatekeeping, it leads to better papers. If your work is publishable, then the peer reviews will often suggest ways you can clarify your argumentation, and they will point you to interesting citations that you might have missed. You miss out on all that by self-hosting.
I have an X1 Carbon, and I use both, depending on if I want long-distance travel, scrolling, or fine manipulation.
No matter what firefox does well, it isn't going to keep converts as long as their default background is so blindingly white.

I still don't understand why firefox refuses to slightly gray out their background by default. Chrome puts less strain on my eyes and that's far more important than anything firefox does well.

Every time I try to stick with firefox, my eyes get strained and eventually I go back to chrome.
That still counts as "done by machines".
> The real reason is that a lot of the available EPUB readers do not render web pages consistently, and they don't want to test Adobe Digital Editions, Calibre, etc.

because that's necessary to maintain an acceptable epub offering, and is costly?
Google's "opt-out" features are so difficult to uniformly turn off. The article points out that Google still tracks location data when you turn location tracking off because there is some other option in a different screen that you also need to turn off.

Further, most people never even know to opt-out of these tracking options in the first place, because they don't know that Google is collecting voice data.
Sorry to be there guy: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2030:_Voting_Soft...
Same issue comes up when you discuss effectiveness of ethnic profiling of Muslims/brown skinned people in airports. Sam Harris was unable to wrap his head around this and was sticking to his common sense intuition.

Strong profiling is not mathematically optimal for discovering rare malfeasors http://www.pnas.org/content/106/6/1716.full?sid=3bc684ec-b59...
And adults are safe?
Satellite with a mirror at the apex?
Mathematical induction is a logical method of proof. Don't confuse it with inductive reasoning.
The web is not 'about' portraying oneself in the slightest. There are still new and fascinating things to learn and discover - you just have to step away from Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat/etc. and be willing to explore.
"..while others benefit from it.."

Depends on how you look at this. Others are benefitting but you are also benefitting by making money and having a job, no ?

If you mean that engineers should work for themselves, they have to then decide to take more risk. All options are on the table but everything comes with a cost.

So no, I don't feel like a Pawn even though I totally get where you are coming from. If you don't like something about your life, only YOU can change it.
I am amazed
>"“I will tell you this: Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” he said. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”

The president was encouraging a foreign adversary to illegally hack into messages by a former secretary of state that might contain sensitive information, then release them publicly."

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/russia-...

Did he or did he not say that?