skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Direct sunlight: Wikipedia says maybe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_of_eternal_light#On_the_M...
Why assume #1 engineer is a he?
True, but the website is very clear that the unlimited refers to voice and text and only 100gb is included. It's still shifty but way better than what the article is about.
I have not noticed any "antifa" "protests" in Moscow, have you?

Wikipedia is a poor source for such definitions, by the way. It reflects the political agenda of the last person to edit the page.

In fact, fascism (and national socialism in general) are heresies of socialism. Fascists are only "on the right" if you're Stalin. Fascism and communism have far more commonalities than they have differences.

For example, Mussolini was a high official in the Italian Socialist party until he broke with the "international" socialists during WWI, and switched to his own brand of "national" socialism.

Neither type of socialism has much in common with the classical liberalism that has historically been the guiding philosophy of the United States.

In practice, "fascist" today appears to simply mean "someone who isn't a communist".
New research suggests evolution might favor 'survival of the laziest'
So, the data from the story and your both hypothesis suggest that parity in representation alone won't in and of itself result in parity along other axes, like proportion of airtime. And thus, other initiatives would be required to move the needle on those other axes.

This comports with what we already know about the importance of female role models.
My biggest problem with homework assignments is that they measure how much time you're able to dedicate to the assignment more than anything else.

Even with disclaimers like "limit yourself to x hours" or "this shouldn't take more than x hours", some candidates will still spend way more time than that on it.

Employers end up comparing assignments with 200%+ of the "expected" time spent versus people who actually adhered to the timebox. If you're someone who can only dedicate 3 hours in total, whether or not you're in the running might depend on how many other candidates can spend 10+ for perfection or going the extra mile.
Once upon a time, there was a great market for Reader's Digest.
Samsung doesn't have an asterisk, they call it out as a "maximum" right next to the number.

(Strictly speaking there is an asterisk, but it indicates that there are multiple versions of the hardware, unrelated to throttling.)

In any case, this is not quite analogous. There's a difference between "you can only achieve this speed sometimes" and "your plan is unlimited only if you don't pass the limit." It's not that "unlimited" is only true under specific conditions, it's that it's never true.

I don't understand the purpose of your comment. Even if there are worse things out there, so what?
That's a pretty cool feature, but I don't often remote into machines and then want to do the processing locally. Maybe that's because I don't have this feature, but I've never felt like I wanted to. Usually I just treat the client like a dumb terminal.

I'd bet a project like Ansible could use something like that to great effect though.
This isn't generally a good idea because you run the risk of giving equity to someone who doesn't care about it, which is foolish for the company for the same reason that it's foolish for the prospective employee to not try to get more equity.
Could brainprints become the new fingerprints?
It is also usually not owned by the owners of the shacks, and is government property through land trusts. This makes for one hell of a nightmare to unbundle when government occasionally offers land amnesty where you can buy the land your shack sits on, because the borders of ‘your parcel’ is effectively undefined.

Source: an acquaintance is going through something functionally similar in Turkey, though the material conditions are much different (its a modern apartment, not shacks, and it’s because of a mis-issued land grant, not just building on gov’t land like these shacks I assume are)
internet needs to be made into a public utility.
Sure, those help, but there is a lot more to the idea.

Most prisons are places where the word "criminal" is imprinted on your soul. You live as a criminal and learn from criminals. Or you're isolated which damages your mental health. If you have children, they normalize the idea of being a criminal. You lose your friends and colleagues (your "support network") so when you get out, where else do you go other than crime?

The idea behind Norway's incarceration system is simple. You deprive the person of their freedom, then simulate real life in a controlled environment. You teach them skills. You teach them how to socialize. You do everything to make sure that the criminal learns how to live a normal life.

So why don't other countries implement this system? Two reasons, both of which have to do with politics:

1- Politicians who act "tough on crime" are applauded (as if that will make the streets safer).

2- You produce cheap products and compete with the cheap labor of the third world. Why destroy a system that can produce a lot on the cheap (while banning the import of products of prison labor)?
Resurgence of deadly measles blamed on low MMR vaccination rates
sans-serif, serif and monospace are great! The actual default fonts for the platform will be selected when you use these. And these are pretty good usually and will match the user's chioce and what the user is most accustomed to seeing, which helps readability.
> then a Helicopter is an monumental engineering failure.

That's baffling. Engineering is the art of compromise. The helicopter _does_ have many compromises in it's design, but it's benefits are unmatched by other aerial vehicles. In other words, the benefits outweigh the negatives.
Tesla Factory Tour with Elon Musk
>"Hundreds of thousands of prisoners are also employed in jobs outside and inside the prisons, most commonly doing work to maintain the prisons."

They're mostly working just to keep from being bored while serving their sentences. The work is voluntary.

It does not amount to anything close to slavery or forced labor.

Of course many do benefit from work, which is why many of them volunteer... It's not "paternalistic" at all to recognize that.
You are clearly reading the indictment in the way you choose to. Let's have a look.

#51: NCMEC claims in front of Backpage that "many" of the ads feature children, and either this, or posting prostitution ads in general, is illegal. Ok. Nothing here about Backpage not deleting ads involving underage people.

#54: Backpage asked NCMEC what kind of prostitution ads would be acceptable. NCMEC declines the answer. Backpage says "Adult prostitution is none of your business". The indictment mentions this proudly - because why? Because the indictment is 100% presupposed on the idea that Backpage advertising adult prostitution is a crime.

#63: NCMEC tells them, quote "a large portion of the ads on Backpage were blatant prostitution ads". No mention of underage persons.

#80. A mention of an email in which a limit on the reports to NCMEC is suggested. No details as to why, if maybe NCMEC asked for less reports, or if any such limit was ever implemented.

#96. NCMEC sends a letter, suggesting: verify the age and identify of submitters, verify the age and identity of individuals in photographs, do not accept prepaid credit cards, require users to use verified email addresses and phone numbers (not sure how). Backpage ignored those suggestions.

Now, if you, like NCMEC, believe that sex trafficking is a huge issue in the US, then you may find those suggestions to be sensible. If you, like me, believe in policies that protect marginalized people who engage in sex work, you might find them to only intended to create barriers for people who do not need this kind of help. In either case, this does not mean that Backpage condoned or otherwise supported sex traffickers.

That is all the mentions of NCMEC in the indictment as far as I can see.
If it doesn't wear a cape and it can't sing, it doesn't deserve to be called a wonder pig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw5SQXBIcjc&index=45&list=PL...
No.

https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/998c8b/helicopter_p...
You can find pricing details at https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/

Pricing varies from region to region, on-demand vs. reserved instance, etc.

The general answer is they are cheaper than the same sized t2 version.

(Disclosure: I work at AWS, not posting in an official capacity)
Presumably this would be done with a small nuclear reactor powering an electrolysis system, in which case it’s feasible. Your savings are in complexity and weight because containing a mass of water is trivial, and naturally dense compared to H or O. As an extra feature you need water anyway, it can be used as a coolant, and you need oxygen which you’re now generating as a byproduct. Presumably for cruising you’d use the nuclear reactor to power an ion drive and only use the Water splitter as needed for maneuvering, launches, and landing.
this is modern slavery.

the minimum wage should apply to all labor, including that performed by inmates.
Baseline pricing looks about 10% cheaper for workloads that won't trigger lots of bursting. This looks like a good a choice for services that aren't CPU bound.
I find it is often better to seek forgiveness than ask permission in these matters.
In essence, sounds like a bit of keylogging, data-sharing with external site(s). From the article, even Google couldn't exactly figure what was going on technically. Makes me wonder what else Microsoft was recording and sharing at the time - or was it just limited to google.com.
...like all Linux installs will eventually be replaced by BSD? I don't think the big, complex picture of technology licensing can be reduced as flippantly as that.
A factor in punishment is “repeat offender”, and these people were already in prison so any new crime looks bad from the start, regardless of how petty it may be.
Links: http://www.scripted.org/volunteer - also the curriculum is here if you'd like to peruse (or contribute!) https://github.com/ScriptEdcurriculum/curriculum18-19
How is it slavery if it's a volunteer program?
For those wondering, it's a picture of this thing : http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Snark
I disagree with most of your comment, but explaining why will require several paragraphs of background.

You can read Maxwell's On Governors from 1868 and see that, although it explores their math in some detail, it doesn't attempt to generalize beyond braking or otherwise slowing down steam-engines: https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/maxwell1.pdf

So, although devices with negative feedback had been built for centuries — and many natural or simple artificial objects can be usefully analyzed in terms of feedback — the general idea of negative feedback as such seems to date from the 1920s, and apparently Black discovered its usefulness in 1927. The idea was so outlandish at the time that his patent was initially rejected as describing a useless invention — why would you want to reduce the gain of an amplifier? It wasn't public until 1933.

After Black's invention, which upgraded FDM for long-distance telephony (the "carrier system") from three voice channels per wire up to nine, then dramatically more, and permitting long-distance circuits with a sequence of 34 repeaters, rather than, say, three.

Bennett's "A history of control engineering, 1930–1955" discusses this history in detail; find it at your favorite library.

At the same time, in 1922, Minorsky formalized PID control, which gets into negative feedback from a different angle, that of automatic ship steering.

Black's, Minorsky's, and earlier negative-feedback designs were not generalized into a general theory of negative feedback until the work of Nyquist and others in the 1930s — most prominently, Wiener!

Nowadays, explicitly designed negative feedback is far more ubiquitous than your comment suggests. By far the most common analog circuit component, for example, is an op-amp, which is almost invariably applied with negative feedback; also, though, negative feedback is central to nearly any kind of homeostasis, optimization, or stable static mechanical equilibrium. So, for example, we have negative feedback in TCP bandwidth usage, in glucemia, and in your toilet tank. Parkinsonian tremors — the opposite of your "very steady hand" — are now being analyzed as oscillations in a negative feedback system involved in human motor control, though the theory is not yet fully mainstream in neuroscience.

As for "digital devices", those date back at least to Leibniz; they are far older than analog electronics, which in turn are a couple of decades older than the concept of negative feedback.
Many of these homeowners, unlike "sovereign citizens", actually appear to have the law on their side. They aren't just making up their own insane interpretation of the legal system. It even sounds like it's more like MERS who made up an interpretation of title that disagrees with state laws.

You seem to be saying that MERS's interpretation should be correct, that MERS's database should be the law of the land and investors should be able to buy and sell the title to mortgages without states and counties being involved.

The current system has homeowners getting windfalls because MERS screwed up, and I suspect that screw-ups in your version would have the opposite effect, where homeowners get robbed by computers and nobody can be held accountable.

So that seems bad. And what would the benefit be? Sure, it would make mortgage-backed securities more efficient, but -- why is that good?
If someone could explain, what is the difference between what redis is doing and what nginx does with nginx+plus? I feel like most people use nginx still.
Thank you! I wanted to calculate this, so I'm glad you did.
Cloud cost management with CapEx is not working
In the mid 90s, first year computer science at the Australian National University used Miranda, the proprietary language from which Haskell was forking at the time. It was great. When I read SICP later, the first half seemed like a long-winded demonstration of obvious ways to use recursion. Didn't everyone know this stuff?

Much of the language seemed like magic, but ANU had a culture of throwing students in the deep end to keep us humble about what we knew.
I don't think role models are enough. I think women need stronger rights.

I'm not sure what that would look like. But I think there is a power issue here with very deep roots, such deep roots that merely letting women get paid jobs doesn't fix it per se.

I'm frankly tired of my incredibly broken life. I'm feeling like all this shit is just unfixable.
It's usually called a "fake door test". Fake door tests are neither viable nor products :)
Pywinrm is your friend if you are a nix person.
You totally should! Its not as hard as you think. I moved to Amsterdam for 5 years and had the best time of my life!
Murderers aren't in prison forever, so sentences shorter than murder sentences don't last forever either, is my point.
Did that premise matter to you when a majority of californians voted to ban gay marriage? Did you jump up and say 'the system is broken'. I really doubt it.
Then it's too bad that this bizarre record error can be seen by taking a plane to Oslo.
"Make prison suck" is just one possible means to an end (the ends being to deter crime and recidivism, and keep dangerous people off the streets), not an end in itself. For some offenders, the sucky experience is enough to set them straight. For others, their whole lives already sucked at least as bad as prison, so prison is just more of the same.
"honeybees, newts, spiny lobsters, sea turtles and many others read magnetic fields. [...] What it looks like in their mind’s eye, however, and how it is maintained day and night, across thousands of miles, is still a mystery."

Since this article was written, the mystery has been solved?

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-birds-can-detec...

https://www.sciencealert.com/birds-see-magnetic-fields-crypt...
Absolutely. Even faster if using some cross platform nicety like Qt.
Is he actually making the case for stagnation? There are serious issues in tech these days - from surveillance to censorship. His argument seems to be that we can't be trusted to innovate and that Apple has essentially stopped doing so.
Oh noes. This opens a terrible precedent for Redis core.

As acknowledged in the announcement, adding restrictions is against the spirit of open-source. No exceptions.
Scientists tweak DNA in viable human embryos
>If the instance runs at higher CPU utilization for a prolonged period, there will be an additional charge of $0.05 per vCPU-hour.

This seems to be the same as the T2 unlimited instances. Interesting that it's now the default and only (?) option.
When I first read this headline I had a flashback to the late 90's / early 2000's. It was a time when the term "T3" unambiguously meant only one thing: a blazing fast, very expensive, dedicated network connection!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-carrier

Then a few years later the even fatter optical pipes came along - OC1 and OC3 lines.

My, how times change! ..Well, some things do. If you want a T3 line, they're still available, and today will cost you in the neighborhood of $3,000USD/month (down from $10-15K/month around Y2K).

What a bargain :)

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+much+does+a+t3+line+cost
This has gotta be the last straw right towards classiying ISPs as utilities? Or is there a lobby for this too?
Who would waste thousands of man hours to write a Redis replacement for free, only to have it taken by large tech companies to rake in revenue through managed offerings?
It's not so much that. It's because their training data is limited, the NNs haven't learned the constraints that typify birds or cars. They can recognise the features, and apply labels, but there has been no need for them to classify a car vs. the garbage you get out by generating images.

So all these garbage outputs would be classified as cars, because it's happening in the space that the NN doesn't really have information about.
Looking at the bio it seems like the creator is just an university student. That's crazy impressive! I thought an app of this level of polish would require at least a small team of experienced devs/designers.
How do you tell a good engineer from an average one?

If you can’t do that then all the time you spend taking them out to dinner is wasted.
I read epub and let my phone read them to me using TTS.
It's something that would be decided by a judge or a jury.
Dune is about the size of Game of Thrones, no?
Steam gets built-in tools to let you run Windows games on Linux
Oh yeah, I wasn't thinking in that context. Just in context of cooking or doing cleanup or something like that.
Security is hard. I’d take a commercial system that has years of history and that many major governments have rallied against (BES) over a home-grown system that obviously got tested in the field... and cost lives!
States have the power to enact laws they like.
I guess you're right under the definition of proliferation being a new nation gaining nuclear weapons. I was thinking of proliferation, in the sense of their being more nuclear weapons, even if it doesn't involve a new nation.
> I don't understand the purpose of your comment. Even if there are worse things out there, so what?

I think advertising is bullshit in general. Yogurt commercials talking about probiotics and whatnot. But that's a much bigger debate, and I suspect we agree on that front. But if we define "false advertising" to exclude most U.S. advertising, I think it excludes Verizon's data plans as well. It's technically true because they don't cut you off after a certain number of MBs. That's all advertising has to be in the U.S.

(And as a practical matter, it's not even really misleading for the typical consumer. I've never looked at my bandwidth usage after switching to Verizon's "unlimited" plans, despite having very heavy cell phone users in my household. Even if I'm exceeding the soft limits, where I live I never run into congestion that would lead to throttling. The marketing accurately conveys that the typical consumer can stop worrying about overages. Which is a lot better than the promises made by yogurt commercials.)
Not to mention the problem with people who want to provide support and consulting for Redis. No longer legal going forward. A fork is bound to happen if Redis doesn't reconsider this move.
Video calls (with screen sharing) are the only reason I have the Mac client installed. Otherwise I'd just use the web app...
States have power to enact laws they like.
I wrote up a list of Elm resources (including books) recently: https://korban.net/posts/elm/2018-07-31-learning-elm-2018-co...

There are quite a few books/courses/articles which examine various aspects of building an SPA.
You don't need their download manager to download games. I'm able to download archives of all the games I have purchased from gog over https just fine.
From what I understand, PowerShell has been open-sourced and ported to Linux. Are non-Windows users adopting it? It's probably facing a long climb. Having 30+ years of productivity hacks is tough to compete with.
Redis Labs and the Questionable Business Decision
Boy that landing page sure is a battery sucker. I left it open for a couple minutes and came back to my laptop whirring like crazy.
Progress comes after burning out one generation of idealists after another. It won't be "fixed" in your lifetime or mine, but it's getting better.

> I don't think role models are enough. I think women need stronger rights.

Absolutely. Proportionate representation, stronger rights, role models, and more. (And that, awakeasleep, is the takeaway of the article.)
Arianna Huffington's Open Letter to Elon Musk
"Conspiracism"

The Matrix is working hard to preemptively discredit any sheep who dare stick their heads up.

My fav conspiracies:

- moon landing with Aldrin et al did not happen

- the left is importing immigrants who are dependent on welfare, which inevitably gets them to vote for more and more free stuff

- same financier's financed all sides of WWII

- flouride makes you dumb

- global warming is about creating global taxation

- Brexit was the plan from the very start (you didnt think the Monarchy was actually going to give up their sovereignty did you?)
Remember that the FCC has to explicitly provide their reasoning for making their decision. Those bringing this suit don't have to prove that not having NN is egregiously wrong, they just have to prove that the reasoning the FCC gave is egregiously faulty. It is a difficult battle, but not as hard as you might think.
This is almost literally a Godwin argument. Your argument basically unpacks into, "there's a dangerously slippery slope between fake door tests and war crimes", and it's most often used as a self-serving justification by bureaucrats who want you to do hours of busy work before giving people a questionnaire: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/29/my-irb-nightmare/

Look, marketing researchers are not going to just accidentally vivisect concentration camp inmates to death just because you leave them unregulated. It's not like people just accidentally go around committing crimes against humanity because there aren't any regulations stopping them from doing so. In fact, at Nuremberg, it turned out that most of them committed crimes against humanity specifically because there were regulations requiring them to do so!

This isn't to completely pooh-pooh the necessity of research ethics and regulation. But those regulations need to be based on realistic risk models.
I know it when I see it.[0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
If this link isn't the kind of boring pure-ideology flamebait that we all hate so dearly, then I don't know what is.

(cf the overly-impassioned, albeit correct, top-voted comment; and its wholly equal-and-opposite counterpart)