skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Pacific Ocean has a way of destroying dreams that few today have experienced. I'm rooting for TOC to succeed, but I'm not optimistic.
My current project uses Postgresql along with pipelineDB. It's great for handling a lot of data, but I don't pretend to fully understand it. I'm focused on front-end, but my job naturally needs me to learn at least the basics of data manipulation and so on.

My company likes using it simply because it's great for that heavy duty data manipulation.
Please discount the fact that I am a bit of a misanthrope, but... who the hell enters in a relationship not expecting to get something in return?
Is Safetyism Destroying a Generation?
Then what's the point?
That's where the end of the cable is, but there's no rule that that's where anyone has to get off the elevator.
Thanks, I see your point. I see how I could have been less caustic and personal in the choice of words and phrases. I don't think it ever got to the point of getting the label of being abusive.

Again, I appreciate you taking out the time to point out your concerns with the comment. I've taken a note and will be more mindful of the policy.
It's necessary to signal your expertise and "greybeard" historical knowledge to stay relevant.
Because reading older works may give one an appreciation of their time.
I'm curious to hear what you think about the article itself, not just the title.
Apple is still pushing it, which is great. I'm just not sure how well it's going to scale -- MPTCP adds an extra layer of indirection, and extra locking in the easy case where it's just one server handling an IP. In the load balancing case, people are going to have to teach their load balancers a lot of new tricks to get the subflows aligned. If using anycast, the client is likely to be using multiple networks, so using the same server address seems likely to get to a different pop; exposing a pop specific extra server ip seems like something people don't want to do, since exposing that may make it easier to do a single pop.

I've been debugging an issue where incidentally I'm hitting 1gbps on a single tcp connection (server to server, with tls), so I'm not sure why MPTCP is required? ;) But I guess if we had it, I would probably hit 2gbps instead of being capped by the one nic.
If you make it to the footer:

> The author holds Stellar and Bitcoin, but has relatively little holdings in other cryptocurrencies. He has previously done a Virtual Lapel Pin Sale (like an ICO) for his cause, “Fuck Nazis”, on top of Ethereum which faced both government censorship and censorship from the Ethereum community.
Huge success for PayTM indeed.
Good decision. It could have gone badly. That is, that hosting open WiFi without logging user activity makes you liable for infringement.
Link to Hacker News post when Demonetization was announced - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12900965
Yes it was a strong claim, and I should clarify that I specifically meant impossible using a solution based on ultra-large-scale-infrastructure methods like this. The scales required to have a meaningful impact on the quantities of plastic in the ocean are such that the project itself would have a larger negative impact then the waste itself, and this specific solution seems to have some serious questions about how effective it will be at removing any amount of waste, given dispersion depths and scale of the plastic particles.

A synthetic biology mechanism could be a viable approach at these scales, and there are some very interesting developments in this area in regards to breaking down and conversion of waste materials. There is a whole host of potential problems, largely of the "impossible to predict and impossible reverse" kind, that come with the idea of introducing a synthetic orgasm into the global ecosystem.

Yes, waste removal is an engineering problem, but one that may not have a safe and viable solution. Source regulation is a political problem, with all complexities that come with it, but it's a workable solution, and also has the additional advantage of at least helping even if only partially implemented.
So these would all be copyright.

So this is illegal.

Interesting.
PyFlickr – An Unofficial Flickr API
They'll be roomy just as soon as it isn't exorbitantly expensive to transport material to space. So, possibly sometime after this elevator is operational...
I think that was the point: if done quickly, it makes it impossible to find places to launder your illegally acquired income. Whether that was actually achieved was debatable.
Well, Stellar must make the same case as well -- just arguing that you need to hold XLM in reserve to make an account/pay tx fees is an insufficient reason for XLM to hold value.

The difference is with Stellar Consensus, the forward progress of the network doesn't depend on the value of XLM.
Yes? Is there a difference in terminology here? Obviously you get a trace to the point of the throw.

~ $ cat a.cxx
int a() { throw "a"; }
int b() { return a(); }
int main() {
b();
}
~ $ clang++ -g a.cxx && gdb -ex r -ex bt a.out
< ...snipped... >
#6 0x0000555555554779 in a () at a.cxx:1
#7 0x0000555555554789 in b () at a.cxx:2
#8 0x000055555555479d in main () at a.cxx:4
I have been thinking about this quite a bit. Just so happened one of my favourite site was redone in PHP Laravel as Backend and Vue.Js. And they did the whole thing in less than two weeks! I than checked out larval, and I have to admit PHP Laravel is the closest thing to Ruby Rails in terms of productivity.
I have never heard of a “virtual lapel pin sale” but he is implying that the Ethereum community censored his “Fuck Nazis” ICO which is blatantly absurd
Also the Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars) by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Honestly that's my favorite Sci-Fi novel series of all time. Just give Red Mars a try and I prosome you won't be able to put it down.
> All of these tools and capabilities still exist

Yes... that's the point of the discussion. They exist, but there is (or is perceived to be) lack of knowledge about their existence and how to make use of them from some newer users, either because of the push for desktop linux, or for whatever reason.

> Yet here we all are having a discussion on HN instead.

I have no idea what you're trying to imply here. I suspect maybe we are discussing similar, but ultimately different, things.
Outside marketized relationships like boss-underling, employer-employee, and salesman-customer? Pretty much no one who isn't an Adam Sandler villain.
I know a few construction contractors who were paid up for all the dues of previous years and were paid for the next few years projects in advance. Now, these are the kind of stories that won’t come up in the news, but in this case specifically many many jobs were saved because people with cash were clearing past dues and paying up for future.

Number of jobs lost is always a debatable number, so I’d prefer not to argue on the specifics.

Converting to gold bars and real estate is good. Makes sleazy transactions painful and inefficient. Easier to track.
From my perspective as someone who suffers from IBS I understand why there is debate about seeing gastroenterologist & dietician vs a naturopath.

From what I have read, I think the reality is that gut based science including microbiome research is an emerging field with a lot of research in flux and it may be years before we fully understand everything. Because of this and just like deep learning you see a number of papers coming out almost everyday about diet, microbiome, brain-gut interaction, probiotics, prebiotics etc. Out of these a lot of the research needs to be backed up and there is just not enough yet to fully show a specific plan.

Unfortunately a number of gastroenterologists dont seem to keep up with research and I have even had one doctor tell me that everything is in my head. Things like these make you lose confidence in doctors and its understandable why some people turn to naturopaths even though a lot of it is quackery. I recommend working with a good gastroenterologist and a dietician to personalize your diet.

For IBS related personally I recommend following research coming out of Monash university.

I also recommend books Mind-Gut interaction by Emeran Mayer and The Good Gut by the Sonnenburgs
It probably happens less often in mathematics, but it is not immune: in 1932, von Neumann "proved" that hidden-variable quantum theories are impossible, but his proof was amazingly flawed (he essentially assumed that an average of sums is equal to the sum of averages), and the flaw wasn't widely noticed until John Stewart Bell pointed it out in 1966 with an anguished quote that has become quite famous:

"Yet the von Neumann proof, when you actually come to grips with it, falls apart in your hands!... It’s not just ﬂawed, it’s silly... You may quote me on that: The proof of von Neumann is not merely false, it is foolish!"

This is more of a mathematical physics example, but everybody in every field could stand to have a bit more humility and rigor.
Huh. I had no idea fzf did history too. I will have to give this tool another look.

edit: wow, this is GREAT. thank you!
There are unpopular beliefs, and then there are beliefs that lead to the infringement of civil and human rights. Everyone has a right to their beliefs, but even bigot snowflake racist republicans do not have a right to be free from consequences for their beliefs. One such consequence is they are not as likely to earn the respect of respectable people.
One missing part of this puzzle is tax evasion. Cash transactions allow people to avoid tax . On paper sale price can be lower thus lower tax for registration and transfer charges to govt and then pay the difference directly to the seller. Thus evade some tax.
Why you shouldn't jump on the SPF bandwagon (2005)
This is a bad article (as if being a listicle didn't give that away). Number 6 is "it's far more efficient, cheaper, and safer to keep the plastic out of the ocean in the first place", which is like saying that the best way to clean dog poop off of your carpet is to not have a dog.

It's too late for that, investing in clean-up in _addition to_ prevention HAS to be a top priority for us. In fact, this is in the form of BECCS is the very basis of the Paris Climate Accords. Investing in prevention won't undo the damage that's been done, and a lot of environmental groups who only promote prevention (like those cited in your article) are doing more harm than good.
It looks like the author used pandoc with Tufte handout

* css: https://github.com/edwardtufte/et-book/

* latex: tufte-handout style from CTAN
Thanks.. I'm skipping everything post 2:02 then :)
Found it, the Google project was called Radish there was a write-up about it in 2008

https://developers.google.com/gdata/articles/radish
> As manufacturer's have decided 4GB is good enough for most people

"640K of memory should be enough for anybody."
Concentrating irreplaceable artifacts in a museum just magnifies the probability of losing them all.
Precisely that may be a good reason to read the classics, as time may a good judge of lasting literary merit. Some books are valued 200/300 years after their writing, while others were of more ephemeral relevance. For the books rolling out of press today, it is difficult to make an assessment, so I read mostly older ones.
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This is the one I had in mind:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/finally-a-l...
I'm not sure what I expected, but some kind of NSFW tag would've been nice :|
The problem is that they'll be effective, if ever, two or three decades too late.
Do you not see the difference between a relationship providing a "career" vs a companion?
Demonetization as a black money magic wand is a public face. The following is the other side of the coin, the following as narrated by a banker friend

1. Banks were at a historical low in availability of currency in the system due to bad money hoarding and non performing assets. Dangerously near collapse. Demo as the report points out has brought so much money back into the banking system and successfully overturned this.

2. Prior to demo. the capital in the stock market was dominated by FII (foreign institutional investors) almost 70%. This resulted in volatility and the Indian economy being vulnerable to external influence. Now the table has turned, the capital in the market is predominantly from the Indian banking system leading to greater stability.

3. Now that money is inside the system,anyone who has tried to take money out in cash beyond 5000 USD knows how difficult to near impossible it is now. This is the real effect on bad money, generation is now so damn difficult!

4. Anyone honest who has tried to buy a home from big realty developers in India recently would be pleasantly surprised that now you have to purchase it with good money and also pay proper GST tax for it. Before demo this was one major area of bad money generation. It is as good as dead now. Recent reports on the huge huge increase in GST tax revenue increase is a proof.

5. Good and bad currency sweeping back into the system (Gov allowed conversion also) has effectively nullified the funding of militancy and the fact that from demo the country has not seen any terrorist actions is a possible indicator.

6. Whether you like it or not one more area which encouraged bad money circulation was evangelism (convert to christianity for money) and that is one more area that also been severely impacted.

Most US media outlets want to feed the stereotyped view of India and jump at any chance to do that.

Most people who cry against demo are those who do it, just because they dislike Modi as a person (not a very charismatic personality). They would not be able to substantiate how they were personally impacted.
Geosynchronous orbit is 42 km from the center of the earth while the ISS orbits 7k km from the center of the earth.

s/center/surface/g

...although I'm not sure that's right either. The point is that anything 42 km from the center is still very much inside the earth.
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So... this is just the start. You know the next step is the government taking control over what tech companies can do when it comes to dissemination of information.

I'm gonna say it now: In 20 years, large tech companies in the States are going to be controlled by the US government, much like how China controls (or at least has direct oversight) large companies within their borders.
But implementating such arbitrary measures with immediate effect is tenable in a democracy or not is my question. I think not, because ends do not justify means.
Or, as I said above, it's simple USGov incompetence. Which, sadly, is almost always correct.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/finally-a-l...
Don't know, I was quoting a figure for 10 minutes. 6 gs for 10 minutes will get you to 35 km/s, which I believe exceeds any rocket launches so far.
Super grateful to a16z and YC for these. I wonder as a founder doing their own sales, if there are resources about actual tactics, how to make calls, handle objections, etc.

These strategy videos are great. Does anyone have a recommendation on an equivalent for the day-to-day of working a pipeline?
Those large panels on TIE-fighters make much more sense as radiators, but in most materials they, sadly, are still "solar panels"
I'm not arguing that 4GB is not enough for running a Linux distro (I'm sitting at ~800MB of RAM usage on i3 with qutebrowser, cmus, vim, and more!). But 4GB is not enough to do anything beyond that, especially for developers. It's also almost certainly not enough to do much of anything on the OS it actually ships with (windows 10).
This lessons were very informative and nicely structured. Having these type of short, concept focused lessons are perfect for serving as introductory material.
How do these men find sugar babies?
It's called "working the refs": https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=%22work...
Ipv6 defined "privacy extensions" to combat this very thing - and most operating systems use it by default. The idea is that devices generate random addresses instead of just using the device Mac address. I can't say how well this defeats tracking, however, this article (https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2014/12/ipv6-privacy-ad...) concludes

> ... the ability of security services to track you on IPv4 versus IPv6 is pretty much about the same.
If you go to a hospital in China, you'll see it's based on Western medicine. But you will see a department for traditional Chinese medicine, or at least aspects of it that have been verified through research.

Researchers take TCM and study it scientifically, which is how the cure for Malaria was found when Chinese scientists looked through 1600 year old literature. But it's unlikely much of that kind of medicine will reach the US based on how it's packaged and who makes the money.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/chinese-herbal-therapy-...
Where it gets useful at consumer level is when your phone can hit WiFi and 4G simultaneously, so you can aggregate. And it's even more useful when both WiFi and 4G are iffy, so you seamlessly use one, the other, or both.

And yes, if both of your servers have to gigabit NICs, you can get 2 Gbps. But only if those uplinks aren't bottlenecked at 1 Gbps at the rack or data center level.
I fully admit my experience might not reflect most people's, just sharing mine. Thanks for sharing yours, it's interesting the differences.
Machine learning – Introduction to Gaussian processes
its so great they run a freemium model with amateur writers
Great stuff - like many things in the business world, fairly simple and common-sense but it’s highly valuable to run through.
That is the argument made by banks. It's gibberish. If you got rid of cash, people could still trade in arbitrary commodities (gold/silver/gemstones), favors, quid pro quo, hard currency of other countries, drugs, etc. Meanwhile the government can catch you evading taxes regardless because you're claiming $10,000/year in income while living in a five million dollar house and driving a $70,000 car.
I wrote it in c as a first project in intro CS in college:

https://github.com/iRapha/2048linux
yeah, I've become so allergic to modern noisy web that I feel calmer just reading that url
The article was not arguing for inaction, it was arguing that this particular solution is not viable and could cause more harm then good. Both due to negative environmental impacts and diverting funds and attention from more workable and effective solutions. Yes, we need to figure out how to clean up the plastics that are there, but more importantly, we need to stop adding more and more every day.

... which is like saying that the best way to clean dog poop off of your carpet is to not have a dog ...

I would argue the analogy is more "the best way to clean dog poop off of your carpet is to train your dog not to shit on your carpet." Yeah, there is still a shit stain we have to clean up, but we can't rent a steam-cleaner every time he needs to take a crap, and if we try to clean it up with a vacuum, it's going to make everything much worse.
> I mention this context because it's unlikely you would be able to get out of being sued by saying "Well maybe it was my roommate LOL"

Well, the question is whether I'm responsible for the use of my computer network. If someone hacks into it and starts using it without me noticing, am I responsible?
Also does not include cash still in countries like Bhutan and Nepal.
the images need texture and edge detail to pick up on depth. Any portion of an image that is a solid colour would need to be interpolated in some way, possibly inaccurately. Occlusion is also a bit of a problem resulting in gaps in the depth map that need to be filled somehow.

here's an old comparison of algorithms. I imagine the state of the art has improved with Deep Neural Nets recently.

http://vision.middlebury.edu/stereo/eval3/

edit: surprise! the page appears to be kept up to-date with new algorithms and recent techniques, and indeed the top performer is from 2018.
If you're in or near SF I recommend looking up optometrist Dr. David Stamper, he specializes in keratoconus and similar issues.
Gave it to my father after reading it. He thought it was too slow and didn't have enough of a narrative arc, and he opted not to finish reading.

I loved the trilogy, though.
The quantum computing race the US can’t afford to lose
The problem is if all of the equipment hashes the same way, many of your links will be underutilized.

If A has a link to B1 and B2, and each of B1 and B2 have two links to C, and everything hashes the same, there will only be two possible paths to C, instead of the four you should have.

Ex: if packet hashes to 0, it goes to B1, and then over the 0 link to C. If packet hashes to 1, it goes to B2 and over the 1 link to C. If the Bs hash on different values than A (including if they have a different salt), you'll have better distribution on the B to C links, and actually be able to hit all 4 paths.
All of a sudden the vastly over-represented "incel" population here on HN begin researching "leaving the bay area and becoming a digital nomad expat in Kenya".
I would enthusiastically support research and testing on this solution.

Many of the objections to clean-up in the open-ocean are not relevant here. The depths are very restricted, the ecosystems are more limited, the weather conditions less extreme and less variable, the plastics should be less broken down. The impacts and infrastructure would be similar to, and on the scale of, projects such as locks and dams.

I would see this as a first step to source control. Looking at collected materials, it would become quickly obvious where the major sources of the plastics are, and they could start being addressed.

There is a social issue here too though. I would expect this kind of project would be resisted in the same way that more local clean-up and source-control efforts in those regions are already resisted.

Edit: There is also the issue that a sizable portion of the ocean plastics seem to be from discarded/lost fishing equipment.
My official diagnosis is atypical cystic fibrosis. I've spent 17+ years pursuing dietary and lifestyle changes and non drug treatments.

I cannot begin to tell you about it in a single comment on HN. I suspect anyone with significant experience with alternative stuff will be in the same boat.

Talking overly much about such here is also a good way to cut your own throat since the mantra here is "If it worked, it would be mainstream already."
I dunno if the system is broken to be honest - and I don't think it's incompetence that's the problem here. I don't believe a lot of people in City Government honestly care about fixing the problem.
This statement was not issued by the clandestine security services as the the term FIVEYES may imply. Instead, it was issued by the Homeland Security, Public Safety, and Immigration ministerial council.
Sorry, dropped a k on that 42. Should be 42k km. Though there are clearly no calculations here, using the distance from the center of the earth is standard for gravitational calculation. It makes more sense to say that the ISS is 7000km/42000km=1/6th of the distance to a geosynchronous orbit than to say it's 400km/35000km=1/90th.
Quantum computers aren’t practical yet – but UMD wants to change that
I'd appreciate it if others could chime in on this one.

I'm mystified by the word 'serverless'. Why are we using this word? There are clearly, _quite clearly_ servers involved. The wacky bugs involved in these 'server-less' services... are going to come down to what's happening on the servers involved.

EDIT: my question seems to have offended. Unfortunate, and unintentional!
(In case you were unaware, this is the Coriolis force)