skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can steal a trick the motorcycle community discovered a long time ago, some water + soap on the windshield prevents condensation.

Our '83 Vanagon doesn't have AC, it can be uncomfortable but sure isn't the end of the world.
Invade to spend trillions more on that country? No thanks. Gone are the "to the winner go the spoils" days. Frankly, I think we're blamed for the deaths and mess in Iraq and maybe Libya (not invaded but...). Democracy is great, in theory, in reality they have seen their lives turned upside down.
> the value of centralized services like Twitter is the really interesting people I follow

Same as that shitty club with overpriced beers... We go where the interesting people are and the bad ones kept under control.
Don’t want Google tracking you? You have almost no choice, according to a study
If I want to keep a copy of the emails on my server, then forward a copy on my Gmail, what would be the way to go? Postfix or OpenSMTPD?
I think you overestimate the abilities of “certified AWS Architects”. You can get one without ever logging into AWS. At least for the “Architect Associate”. You could probably get away without any practical experience for the Developer Associate. By the time I got that one though, I had practical experience.

I did just that. I was a “software architect” for a company that was completely on prem that was moving to the cloud. Before I actually started working with AWS, I actually wanted to do it correctly and wanted an overview of the services offered.

For $reasons, I left that company about a year ago before ever touching the AWS console, and based partially on my “certificate”, I got another job and was given admin access to AWS. I spent the next year actually getting practical experience.
I'm still learning FPGA:s myself, so I'm not sure if I can give you a relevant figure. Currently the A1 pipeline (no memory subsystem) synthesises to 2000-3000 ALMs (or about 15% of the logic in the device I'm targeting). That will increase as I implement more instructions (the FPU in particular), but on the other hand it will probably decrease when I switch to using BRAM for the scalar register file.
I didn’t know the stats around fishing nets.

I know this now because of the plastic straw conversation and ban. Thus the campaign IS actually spreading information and teaching.
Your choices, in no particular order:

- real estate

- gold

- US treasuries

- corporate bonds

- municipal bonds

- bitcoin

- cash

I'd suggest that the number you should be concerned about isn't a stock market index, but inflation. Inflation drives everything else. Inflation is also complex and hard to measure.

Some will tell you to invest in "bonds," but be careful. What they usually mean is "treasuries."

During recessions, interest rates usually fall. But the yield on your treasury remains constant. As a result, your treasury increases in value if you decide to sell. Or you can hold and enjoy a higher-than-market interest rate. This effect is amplified the longer the maturity of the treasury. For example, a 30 year bond will increase in value much more steeply than a 5-year bond given the same relative drop in rates. This effect plays a role in "yield curve inversion."

Treasuries are generally considered the least risky bet, but they aren't without risk. It wasn't too long ago that US debt was downgraded by S&P during a nasty debt ceiling brawl. (Ironically, treasury bond prices shot up in response, but that's another topic altogether.) The debt hawks have been quiet, but that can change given the current political volatility in Washington.

Corporate bonds should be considered a different animal, with a large spread in risk. The worse off the company, the worse its bonds will generally perform. Or you may end up with a total loss in extreme cases. Buying corporate bonds requires the same skill and attention to detail as buying stocks, but potentially more so. Your return is tied to the company's path through the recession. Not for the casual investor.

Municipals are also different. Cities can't print their way out of recessions like the US federal government can. Ditto states. When the economy goes south, so does the tax base and tax revenue. The risk of default increases even as the advantage of a relatively high yield also increases.

Gold's performance in recent recessions has been so-so at best. It skyrocketed in the late 70s recession, but that one was coupled to high inflation.

Cash has the advantage of being highly-liquid. But you can still lose money holding cash due to the inexorable march of inflation.

Bitcoin is currently untested in a US recession. However, its performance in financial meltdowns around the world in the last 5 years has been lackluster at best.
That's pretty bad. I don't think there is any binary compatibility that would be broken with having Python 3 as the standard one.

It took a long time for Red Hat and Canonical because a lot of the OS was written in Python 2.x, but Apple doesn't have that excuse.
Helping the Microchip Industry Go (Very Low) with the Flow – NIST
Host Websites on Android
Content publishers now have the ability to host full-featured websites directly from their Android devices, develop their content offline and publish it live to the Web with E2E encryption.

https://after-dark.habd.as
Nassim Taleb, the author of Fooled by Randomness and the Black Swan, is a fan of Popper.
>So basically the code base and politics of any large (successful) company.

If you say so. As an embedded system engineer, I mentioned this twitter thread when I was shooting the breeze with my boss because it reminds me we hold ourselves to a high standard even though my brain sometimes turns into a perfectionist that can only see the problems with our product.

I don't know how to say this without going into full on humblebrag mode, so I'll give the condensed version. He touched on a handful of points that are common between our companies/products, and where I often worry about quality. In those cases I was reassured by the fact we don't have that severe of problems, and the way our processes are designed it would never be allowed out of the lab.
To state the obvious, AI doesn't see anything. What people call AI is simply a statistical model, a system of equations. By solving it, we find a solution that solves the equations simultaneously. The model doesn't see anything, because it doesn't exist as such. It simply is a series of calculations done on a computer or on a piece of paper.
London is not entirely new to this kind of - let's call it - microhousing, an old article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210436/Is-smallest-...

In Italy since at least 1975 the minimum surface of anything that can be called "flat" (i.e. that can be registered as a place to live in, and for a single person) is 28 sq. meters, and nowadays in most cities the minimum has been set to more.
A fact, iirc, is a statement made which is purported to be about the real world. Given this, both of the statements "the moon is made out of green cheese" and "the moon is made out of things other than green cheese" are both statements of fact, and that they are factual statements is indeed indisputable. That they are true or false is entirely disputable, as veracity exists on a different spectrum than facts.

It's important to be clear about this, because some people seem to think that "it's a fact, therefore it's true". Facts aren't indisputably true, they are indisputably facts. True and false is a different scale.
I'd argue that a forced living situation, a forced job, and a below-minimum wage are very different from an optional job with a minimum wage and no constraints on living situation, and that the two systems work differently.
This is really cool. We are doing something similar with CruzDB [0], but we are using red-black trees. What made you choose the radix tree? We've looked at several persistent data structures, and continue to look for alternatives.

[0]: https://nwat.xyz/blog/2018/02/15/cruzdb-architecture-part-1-...
> It's quite likely that "Go 2" == Go 1.15 or 1.16

That is Aug 2020 or Feb 2021 for generics.
That's questionable. Defense employs a lot of white collar workers in things like design and development of aircraft, weapons systems, satellites, SIGINT, etc. It's not clear that the same level of jobs would be there for an FDR-like program. Sure, the country's infrastructure would be better off and we would probably have more people employed per dollar, but I'm not sure the economy as a whole would be better off.
> I often lament that the kind of empowerment things like Visual Basic --and before it QBasic, BASICA, and the 8-bit micro BASICs-- brought us pretty much no longer exists in modern computing.

But, it does: tools that are superior to these in almost every imaginable dimension (including the ease by which a novice can ramp up if they devote energy to it) are bundled with most desktop/laptop OSs, and, a couple clicks away in the app stores of at least one of the two major mobile platforms.

There is a complete lack of interest in most of the userbase, though.
Just let the market decide what's ethical and what's not. If people massively buy and use X, then surely it must be ethical.

/s
You realize that trains, bridges and internet were largely advanced out of military consideration?
Is nextcloud known to have deep pockets?
Bullshit detection not included.
They say it’s a lot easier to convince the public to spend cash on defense then bridges, because “the bridge next to my house is fine”.

Also, bridge-building does not produce GPS and Internet as byproduct. We wouldn’t have the means to have this conversation if defense money was spent on infrastructure improvement, and most likely we wouldn’t have our jobs either.
D-Wave Demos First Large-Scale Quantum Simulation of Topological State of Matter
Kids connect with robot reading partners
The average person only has so much time to consider on environmental issues. Make them focus on plastic straws and they may well feel like they have done enough.

And those of us know knows how little those straws matters will simply mock the movement.

Fortunately everything doesn't have to be bleak: Efforts are underway to clean up the ocean https://www.theoceancleanup.com
and the award for the most ridiculous headline today goes to...

Plastic straws! Come on down man!
So lucky to live in a time where lectures are so freely available and accessible. Thank you for sharing.
Wireless communication breaks through water-air barrier – MIT News
A sarcasm detector. That's a real useful invention.
I don't think arming teachers is a good idea but I do know people that literally do. And Betsy DeVos has apparently been floating the idea of using federal funding to purchase those guns. [1]

On the flip side, I've seen an op-ed in NYT or Washington Post (I don't recall) calling for the repeal of the second amendment - and I can't imagine how incredibly stupid the person making that must be. It will never happen and yet it plays exactly into the "Obama wants to take our guns"-type arguments. Of course, that author isn't actually stupid, they just aren't motivated by gun control legislation but rather by getting themselves attention.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/us/politics/betsy-devos-g...
Carnegie Mellon pioneers AI project with U.S. Navy
First of all, NO. I DO NOT understand. Nothing justifies treating people like this, and certainly not what was used at this facility. Week-long solitary confinement for nail biting ...

And let's not pretend this facility is a huge negative exception. It's not. It just got caught recording client-lawyer confidential conversations because they boasted about it in court. Yes, they actually boasted in court that they did this and used it in the case. That's how they got caught. Then the inspection report fell into the hands of the press and this patient treatment stuff leaked. In other words, this is a random sample.

And what does the government do about this ? They ask the management to come up with ideas by year-end. Clearly nobody cares or wants to see improvements.

So the problem that this is exactly what is being proposed here as the solution to mental health problems ... I feel like it would be more humane to just round up all mentally ill patients and shoot them.

Let's please not pretend that torturing them for a decade or two before they accidentally die in such a "fixation" is more humane, because it's not, it's far, far worse. Solitary confinement for weeks is torture, constantly living under that thread is also torture.

Needless to say, when you check your find the same ("internment") is done to their kids, even if the only thing against them is that one of their parents has some mental health problems. Doesn't matter if the parent recovers. Doesn't matter if they are 16 or even 18 years old (mental health "care" lasts until 25). There was a story of a 21 year old student ripped out of independent living (well, a student dorm she paid for herself) and studying at university because her mother got interned.

Leaving them to rot on the streets, again, is a far more humane approach than mental health care.

We cannot seriously suggest this as a solution until massive improvements are made to the system, starting with a minimum complement of actual mental health professionals. The system doesn't have that, nor are there any plans to change it, so ... it is not humane or reasonable to suggest mental health services as a replacement to letting them live on the streets.
Quantum bugs, meet your new swatter
It only makes sense, with how cheap debt is right now. E.g., 0% auto loans.
> A fact, iirc, is a statement made which is purported to be about the real world.

No, you recall incorrectly; that's a rough definition of a fact claim.

A fact is a true fact claim.
For the fun of it, try an embedded factoid: 'blueprint' is happy to have committed some atrocity X (without negating X)
There is a significant increase in overall productivity in last few years. Expectations of continuing growth are pushing market higher. Better automation of many processes, faster unlimited access to any information, connectivity. The first iphone was released 11 years ago, Android 10 years ago. A lot of disruptive innovations since then.
Preparing for Chemical Attacks with Improved Computer Models
THE BLACK KNIGHT WAS AGAIN FILMED BY NASA
A new artificial neural network framework for gait based biometrics
If I go to do pretty much any financial transaction, I need to show ID.

Voting seems a bit more important, with higher stakes, no?

Voter fraud has been going on a long time. Here's an example from 1978 that could be happening today, but thanks to the "see no evil, hear no evil" approach to validating identities, we wouldn't know.

https://www.nytimes.com/1978/12/17/archives/followers-say-ji...

Trying to make this somehow a partisan issue - well.
Hard to answer. Do you have more cash than you need for 6 months if you went jobless? Do you have debt? Are you young?

All in all, cash is not an investment. So this is a matter of spreading the risk appropriately. This depends on a lot of things.
1) They meant there's no way to get negative energy particles which could be the source of antigravity. That would destabilize the vacuum because it would allow you to keep lowering the energy without bound.

2) Intuitively if antimatter is regular matter travelling backwards in time, then at the start of time, wouldn't it all go the other way? Kind of like one huge quantum fluctuation.
You're just looking at the garbage patch as if it represents the entirety of the problem.

Straws are the 7th most collected item during beach clean ups, after plastic bags and before plastic & foam containers.
No, it's not. You're inappropriately cutting off the sentence: "He is best-known for the principle of falsification, a means of distinguishing pseudo-scientific theories, like astrology and Freudian psychoanalysis, from genuine ones, like quantum mechanics and general relativity."

Falsification is critical to 'real' science, as otherwise the value of what is said rests solely on how it is said rather than what is said. For instance I could say that there's an invisible massless gremlin resting on your shoulder, but you can't tell it's there as it only interacts with other invisible massless gremlins and gravity. Obviously nobody would believe this, because it sounds absurd. But that's not why you shouldn't believe it. The reason you shouldn't believe it is believe it is because it's not falsifiable. You're left trying to prove that there is no invisible massless gremlin on your shoulder, which is something you cannot do.

Predictiveness is of course also critical, but predictions that cannot be falsified are irrelevant. For instance 100 wrong astrology predictions in a row does not falsify astrology. It just means 100 predictions ended up being not true for some individual or another. But because we can happily ignore the times when predictions of astrology are wrong means you ought also be happy to ignore all of the times that it's right - as it's saying nothing where accuracy matters.
CTO wanted: startup: money businesses spend on ads – to finance social causes
I don’t agree with cash at all.
>I think this is a symptom of a drive towards "messaging", "narratives", and "stories" over logical analysis of verifiable facts in (allegedly) persuasive writing.

Could this be a byproduct of the tools we use to communicate now? Social media is ideal for propagating bite sized, meme-like ideas and incentivizes a herd mentality. Older forms of communication may have been a better medium for long form articles and thought provoking discussion.

Narratives, messaging, and stories have always played a big part but has social media effectively squeezed out the substance and all we're getting is the fluff?
I think this article is fundamentally correct, and speaking about an unacknowledged but universal force.

I remember when I was young, a lot of guys I knew didn't openly support gay-marriage because they were afraid that other people would assume they were un-masculine or gay themselves if they supported it. Once it hit the tipping point, where it wasn't a statement about you to support it, the floodgates opened and it was overwhelmingly supported.

Same thing with weed. Speaking up in defense of marijuana, when only 10% of people support it, is akin to making yourself look like you personally are a rebel/stoner. Speaking up in defense when the majority support it does not. So again, we saw a massive swing there.

I think this type of tactic is sometimes deliberately used (e.g. "You don't support the war? Do you hate America/the-soldiers?") for political ends too, on both sides (e.g. virtue signaling just how wildly progressive I am).

If anything, it should make us ask ourselves why we let this happen to us. Why, when I see somebody who has a very expensive car, do I not say "Wow, there's a guy who's paying tens of thousands of dollars to try to buy approval... yikes." ?
> it's a philosophical one. It is potentially 'falsifiable' by criticism, however

Agreed. I think the main issue is not with the idea itself of the scientific method, rather than the practical implications and its limitations.

- The main idea is a qualitative one. It doesn't consider all the statistical can of worms about reproducibility.

- Real world experiments rarely reproduce perfectly/exactly. The more the experiment involves more variables (or unknown variables) you can detect an effect but its magnitude might vary.

- Not everything can be reproduced, not everything can be measured perfectly, hence the "study of knowledge" needs to be able to handle those cases, and not just bury their head in the sand and go "la la la this is not scientific let's ignore it"
It’s mind blowing that we can see photos almost 200 years old. Had the technology been invented a little earlier and we could have had pictures of Napoleon or even of the French Revolution.
Looking at the table of contents, it looks like the first half is really foundations of abstract algebra, like you really caant rigorously talk about it or analysis or anything else without this stuff.
I think "work" is a state of mind. If you love what you do, then working isn't really working, at least not in the classic "I hate the boss" sense. Now I realize that not everyone gets to work a job they love, but I'm quite frank with my coworkers and supervisors that if I encounter a prolonged period where work isn't enjoyable anymore, I will leave.
>like Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney

John Bolton is exactly like those 2 and he's the National Security Advisor.
It's gonna have to explain how my straw is going to magically appear on a beach.
The US National Security Advisor (and at one time potential Secretary of State)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Bolton#Political_posit...
Go has the right idea: big static binary. This will remain the best answer until dependency and package management systems advance beyond the 90s.
The answer to every question in this article, and any 'quiz' on how to use the arbitrary and ridiculous 'this' in JS is simple: use TypeScript.
Not until you understand the concept of ETF decay. It’s a fine bet maybe for a week or two, but anything longer and you’re in for a rude surprise.
No idea where the parent poster is getting 2.26% but best guess is Customers Bank [1] that comes with a 25K minimum. However, you can get 1.8% on a normal savings account at Ally [2].

[1] https://www.customersbank.com/ascent/

[2] https://www.ally.com/bank/savings-account-rates/
Google, Apple, IBM No Longer Require Employees to Have a Degree
This would have been a good post in 2014 but it shouldn't be relevant to any JavaScript developers in 2018.

Arrow functions don't have `this`, and `...` syntax is simpler and as efficient as using `apply`. You only still need to use `function(){}` for generators and custom constructors, which are rare.
Also, convenience. Large number of branches and ATMs make it more accessible. Decentralized systems will have to be similarly convenient to get mainstream adoption initially.
This question is probably better answered by car owners, because I plan to never own a car. It doesn't really concern me like it might one of the (grand)parent comments. It still makes me wonder though as to what the best approach is - at the moment I'm sceptical that Tesla has an optimal approach to solving the world's problems (as some would appear to believe).
Airplane Noise Complaints Are Soaring — Because of One Widget
on one hand, it's very cool to see such projects.

on the other hand, writing anything that's supposed to reliably store data in C in 2018 raises eyebrows.
I actually would like spending cuts to go along with tax cuts. The deficit certainly matters, but raising taxes isn’t the only way to address it.
I am in that situation right now. Management has decided that a product needs to be rolled out ASAP so some people are working late and weekends. I play an important part in the project but I usually get my stuff done during normal working hours. However, there is a lot of subtle pressure to stay around in case the people working need something. If you are a "team player" you stay.

I don't want to let down others (with whom I have a good relationship) but I also don't want to kill my personal life because management has set an artificial deadline so I have a made a conscious decision to limit overtime only to the times when I actually have something to do.

The overtime cult is an insidious force that's hard to resist. Once a few people start doing it there is a lot of peer pressure on others to do it too. I guess it's a dynamic management can exploit to get more work out of workers by playing them against each other.