skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My mother got a call about three years ago from a man who told her he thinks his mother is my mother's sister. Turns out my grandmother had a child at 16 and put her up for adoption. Now I have an extra aunt and she's super cool.
None of which means squat when you consider that you could wipe out half of all the US Abrams in the world and we'd still have too many to use for any foreseeable conflict. You're arguing that the Abrams is a good platform when nobody is saying the opposite. It's a great platform.

But we have plenty of them, and we don't need to build anymore.

Respond to the point people are making and not the point you have a response for.
"I haven't played the lottery yet, so it's a coin toss whether I win."
> And when it finally rolled out, it came not only with a set of cleaning tools, but with a comic book-style manual by the famous comic artist Will Eisner explaining exactly how to use them (which you can read here: http://www.astrotx.com/M-16A1%20Rifle.pdf).

That's an amazing piece of technical writing. The chick with the camel toe is probably a little much and wouldn't fly these days, but I'd love to have something like this to issue to Jr. Network Engineers.

"Spiderman explains how Spanning Tree works"
Certainly - actions must come before words.

Consider a billionaire who has steadily been giving millions away per year anonymously to a good chartable cause, but realizes the end goal can only be completed with more people. If at any point, the billionaire says hello - I have been donating to this cause for a while, and need help to eradicate it for all time, what happens? I'd guess that people think the billionaire never intended to keep donating in secret and it was generally a ruse. The second you go public, you already need to have a very large amount of "well-thought-of" supporters who are will back you to combat natural cynicism.

Another solution is to frame the problem as a common enemy one - thats what I think they tried with the "war on ___".
The number parsing is going to be a nightmare with this!
It seems weird that the Falcon 9 only includes numbers for "v1.2"(I'm assuming this is block 4/5?), while other vehicles don't have the same granularity. Also IMO it should count as a failure to blow up on the pad and destroy your payload, even if it's before the launch.
The example pages all have the visualizations in an iframe.

Is that required, or is there some way to generate and display these without the iframe?
I use F5 and it's been genuinely useful seeing where my own blog posts come up! Thanks to the creator for making it
Efficiency and liquidity are not the same thing.

Liquidity is important, but efficiency is more important. When we identify fraudulent companies, for example. The sooner the better, right?

Or, when we identify the next Google, and give them the resources (money) they need to build a new world-changing product. The sooner the better, right?
Its much more likely that the critical or cynical response to alturism by wealthy individuals and corporations is political than psychogical. What I see is ordinary people railing against a system where millions of people work multiple jobs for starvation wages and no benefits while other have amassed wealth on a scale never before seen in human history. When our supposed billionaire entrepreneur betters and even those same corporations make "alturistic" charitable donations, the response is skepticism and political anger, not envy.

"Explaining" your political opponents arguments as an envious psychological response is a political smear, not a neutral analysis.
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I recently read Factfulness, by Hans Rosling, and it really changed how I read articles like this. Here's where this article goes totally off the rails...

It's only showing American startup activity as a proportion of global startup activity. I might have missed it in a quick read, but nowhere did I see total numbers by nation, or by startup city.

Let's shift perspective slightly. Is American investment in startups decreasing? Not compared to China or whatever, but compared to itself? Or is it staying the same, or growing? Looking at Pitchbook data, the biggest year for US venture capital was 2015 ($82.2B), with 2017 close behind at $81.9B, and 2018 looking to be about on par. So stable, basically.

What this tells us is not that the US startup activity is in any way unhealthy, but rather that the rest of the world is figuring out how to do it, too. And what's wrong with that? How is that a negative? We don't get that from the article, because it's stuck in this misleading mode of lost competitiveness from is comparison model.

This is why everyone should read Factfulness. No other book I've ever read has helped tune my bullshit detector so well.
Rust will never have a garbage collector in the sense that other languages do. It just would not interoperate well with ownership and borrowing.
This phone sounds interesting. It also reminds me of the Pied Piper platform from the Silicon Valley show.
I wish they'd use it for something good like the estimated 300000 stolen children during Francoism.
This is absolutely fascinating. It seems there's a very common (among living creatures) visible light dependent DNA repair mechanism, the discoverer got the Nobel for it. This fish, along with modern mammals, has lost it, suggesting that mammals at some point evolved in the dark.

But I don't see in my searches where it mentions that mammals don't have this mechanism anymore? You'd think the Wikipedia would mention it.
That's just our doc framework (early days). You can embed them in a DIV/SPAN etc.
”and they don't have international money redistribution programs”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Regional_Development_...:

”The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) is a fund allocated by the European Union. Its purpose is to transfer money from richer regions (not countries), and invest it in the infrastructure and services of underdeveloped regions”

https://www.welcomeurope.com/european-funds/erdf-1-european-...:

”Global budget: 183,3 billion euro (2014-2020)”

That’s 30-ish billion euro a year.

Lack of EU-wide social security payments may be a problem, though.
Augmentation increases productivity and as long as the organization has demand for their goods or services, they will keep the more productive employees to serve demand.

Demand is the key to the whole equation. No demand, no employees, automated or human.
Is it possible that a bee's eyes perform light-level normalization as well?

Low-intensity lights/screens (compared to the sun) wreck havoc on our circadian rhythms, it seems plausible that it disrupts the (not just circadian) rhythms of other organisms as well.
Ssshhhh don't let anyone in on the secret! This is from a native! :)
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”The Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) keeps historical versions of files and folders on NTFS volumes by copying old, newly overwritten data to shadow copy via copy-on-write technique. The user may later request an earlier version to be recovered.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Volume_Shadow_Copy
I would assume that a colony on Mars will have to rely on materials found on Mars for construction in order to be viable. Therefore after the few initial buildings built with materials shipped from Earth, there will need to be a great push to find new materials on Mars and perhaps new construction techniques to grow the colony.
I hate the argument that we should tolerate wasteful military spending because it sometimes creates accidentally results in useful applications. For $1 trillion dollars, how many millions of worthwhile discoveries could have been devised by directly investing in scientific research?

Saying that military spending is a worthwhile vehicle for useful research is akin to saying that a worthwhile way to power a car is to use gasoline to heat a water boiler to drive a steam turbine. The inefficiency is astounding.
how would you use it in practice? i'm guessing, but seems like it would be somewhat heavyweight. does anyone end up doing this, or just using raw ints?

thinking in comparison of something like go, where you'd just do

> type NodeIndex int
The API wasn't deprecated when the code was written.
It's at a new location now because why not:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search]
Maybe try Muze to be able to build all those long tail viz :) - given that you don't have to think of any viz in Muze as a chart type - but rather compositions through layers. Would love to talk to you guys!
It can be inside of insecure browsers, you're not any more secure than you were before after CORS.
Rust would be a worse language if it had traditional OO support. I sort of proposed such a thing at one point and we ended up backing it out.

Newtypes are better for Rust's purposes than subtypes because they interact better with type inference, which is deeply important, especially when trait matching is concerned. Subtyping makes type inference much more complicated, and in fact a long-term goal in rustc is to remove all subtyping from the typechecker and relegate it to the lifetime pass.
My wife and I used IVF to get pregnant. The issue was on her side, so we used donor eggs. It was completely anonymous, of course, but lately I've been wondering what's going to happen if (let's be honest, when) my children decide to use a service like 23AndMe.

Will they want to get in touch with the donor or her family? What affect will that have on my wife, who probably would feel diminished as the mother if that happened? I don't know, and honestly it's not something we considered five years ago when we had our kids. Those services existed at the time, but they hadn't taken off like they have in the last few years.

I think it's something anyone considering sperm/egg donation (either as a recipient or a donor) has to consider. If one side wants to connect, it's probably going to happen.
Btw, I realize this argument is very similar to the argument for dynamic typing + lots of unit tests instead of static typing: "you have to write the tests anyway, and the tests will check the types".

I'd like to note that even if you're a static typing fan and don't believe that argument for code, you can still believe it for serialization and protocols, because data schemas and protocols evolve in different ways than code does (they're almost duals of each other).
Would love to know what is scoped in that last 10%?
Eh, I think the sentiment is more like that saying "Economists have predicted 10 out of the last 3 recessions".

There are always lots of reasons to be concerned, lots of leverage that could crash catastrophically (and often does). Whether that triggers an actual recession or just a correction is the nebulous part. I mean, the S&P is down ~6% over the last 5 days. Are we at the start of a recession right now? Would you be willing to actually bet money on your answer? For the people who do: Are they just lucky, or actually insightful? How would you know the difference?

People have always worried about politics interfering with recession recovery - I mean, hell, a big part of the tea party's agenda was opposition to TARP and ARRA (I'm not going to go so far as to say that's WHY the tea party exists, though). Not to be too politically cynical, but I think it's fair to say that politicians will do everything within their power to protect the wealthy and the status quo and any opposition to that will be for show.
usually it refers to policies which (usually unintendedly, sometimes explicitly) take from the productivity of younger people to finance older people. Because it is difficult to predict the future, the fear is that the unintended consequence is that this may take so much from the young that it robs their future. There are very good reasons to at least consider this as a possibility, because policymakers seem to make state revenue projections that are consistently overoptimistic. Also, programmes that were instituted as temporary often wind up becoming permanent and then also get mission creep; some programs that wind up being generational are instituted without taking into account demographic shifts, especially in fertility rates, etc.)

The lost decade in Japan is often cited as such an example, but increasingly we are seeing things like wage stagnation among <30 in the US and Europe that may also be the result of this (of course plenty of mainstream explanations abound as well).
The article makes mention that FastR supports GraalVM's polyglot mechanism. One possible option for your task is you do your data analysis with FastR and render it with Node on Graal.js or Sinatra on TruffleRuby. At first blush this might not sound all that different from CGI of yore, but the key thing is all Truffle-based languages can optimize with one another. So, when your web server endpoint gets hot, Truffle's PE can inline nodes from FastR and JIT the whole thing with Graal.

You get to use the best language for the task at hand and don't have to worry about performance penalties for doing so.
Or we just stop starting wars. Then we can just reduce the redicilous funding of both air and land vehicles.
I am frustrated by this all the time but for Japanese contents in US. Japanese broadcast (TV Japan) in the US can have segment censored or even cut entirely. (gets worse when Olympics is on, but that's another story with another reasons.)

It got a lot better, particularly for anime, because companies were losing money without legal (and timely) distribution, but there's still big hole in music contents.

I guess music from Japan is niche compared to anime. (And worse with something obscure I tend to listen, e.g. anime related music)

Some small subset of musicians and labels are nice enough to put the entire thing on YouTube, but I wish there were an avenue to listen to them just as easy as Spotify, and with decent coverage.
You sound like a California politician
Lol postal mail has a long history of moderation. A lot of first amendment case law with respect to obscenity and fraud comes from postal cases.
Well - we took it from squatters :) and are trying to turn it into something really useful. That's why looking for feedback on what we've built!
What edge? Silicon Valley VCs still invests in American (and global) companies. Just because London VCs also invests in British (and global) companies, doesn't mean one city is competing with the other. I don't get why they are even compared.

Now if you want to list which places are the best to BUILD a startup, that's a different thing all together.

I came across this awesome site the other day[1] and its made me think about potentially opening up shop somewhere other than NYC.

1: https://nomadlist.com
As a foreigner, the types of interactions you have may not be reflective of interactions that require high trust. Such as selling/purchasing land, dealing with police and crimes, paying for large amounts of labor such as in construction or ordering large amounts of supplies.

It's much easier to do business in the US/Europe, you can just put your credit card number in and stuff shows up at your door step, even if it's in the tens of thousands or more in value. Obviously, you can get taken in the modernized countries too, but much less and if you do there are legal avenues.

In poorer countries, you have to be a lot more careful who you deal with and need a lot of references because people have experiences getting burned too often. Any place that openly gives bribes to cops (I know tons, usually they are in poverty) also illustrate low trust. Hospitality doesn't display the deep trust that makes doing business in places like the US/Europe easier.
Everytime an article mentions ISS my brain immediately parses ISIS...

:)
Yeah, we got lucky :)
This guy also has one where he made a #1 restaurant that didn't exist - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqPARIKHbN8
NTFS does support copy-on-write through the volume shadow copy service (which powers the System Restore and Previous Versions features).
What a bizzare comparison. The shuttle isn't a fighter jet and and has nothing to do with this. The question is what military value does the F-35 provide, and will provide, during its operational years. Nothing about the history of the shuttle program can possibly give us an answer to this question, and the entire comparison is absurd.
Thanks for this nugget. Will consider and then change! Curious question: why would you not want to call an open source library as product?
I've read the first of the list (#10), and I'm skeptical this "top web technique" has ever been used in the wild.

The blog post starts with a few obvious errors. OPcache is parts of PHP since [PHP 5.5](http://php.net/manual/en/opcache.installation.php), not PHP7. And "PHP7 by Rasmus Lerdof" is almost a joke: he was certainly not a top contributor to this iteration. These errors are not important _per se_, but they point to an overall lack of quality, and suggest no one reviewed before publication.

The article is not very clear about the vectors one needs to attack. Here is the list:

1. A non-standard configuration that enables file cache in OPcache. Very improbable.

2. An access to the result of phpinfo() which gives many sensible details about the PHP instance.

3. A security breach allowing the attacker to upload files into the cache path without restriction on the file name.

4. The URL to a PHP file that received no HTTP query since the PHP server started. The alternative is a configuration that disables in-memory caching in OPcache, but that would be far too contrived.

When the server has all these vulnerabilities but uses write-protected PHP files, then you can hack OPcache for remote code execution.
I love that fact that there are "usual procedures" when it comes to humans going back and forth to our 20-year-old SPACE STATION!

Maybe we don't have the space program of our dreams. But we've certainly accomplished the goal of having "routine" operations in space over a long period of time. How much have humans learned in that time!
Boeing decided years ago to certify their in-flight abort using simulation only, and NASA let them.

SpaceX probably can't create a simulation in a few months to not need in-flight abort test because developing a simulation that NASA would consider "proof" probably takes years.

NASA has indicated today they are not going to rush commercial crew [1][3], to not press SpaceX and Boeing into go-fever which NASA has learned is very dangerous.

Because the timing of SpaceX DM-1 (uncrewed demo flight of crewed Dragon 2) depends on ISS visiting vehicle schedule, it might move to the left if visiting vehicle schedule gets reshuffled.

NASA has indicated in today's briefing that crew must be present on station to oversee commercial crew tests [2], so if ISS is de-crewed in December, SpaceX DM-1 can't go in January as scheduled.

3 - https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/1050423979561824256

1 - https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/1050423063655768065

2 - https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/1050421610270752768
Fair. But still, the point stands. The shorter the runway, the fewer planes you can launch.

And yes, there's a catapult to help launch the planes, but the longer the runway, the less stress you put on the planes, and the more kinds of airplanes can land on your carrier.

US Supercarriers have more than just fighter-jets, they also have larger cargo aircraft like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_C-2_Greyhound. Capable of delivering 5-tons of cargo over 1300 miles.

I don't believe Britain (which does have fleets of smaller carriers) have any support for such a large cargo-aircraft. They're limited to helicopter delivery. Long-range delivery is most efficient with wing-aircraft.

I'm not an expert on the HMS Queen Elizabeth carrier. Are you aware of any cargo-aircraft ability of the smaller carrier? (And mind you: The Queen Elizabeth is the 2nd largest carrier-class in the world. So even if it can do it, the fact remains that you need to build BIG carriers if you wish to support remote delivery of cargo through aircrafts)
Will it work with frozen chicken?
I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very science that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it! I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a gyroscope and stand an experiment. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to!
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This should be useful.

This reminds me of the first versions of Siri and how it did this across multiple apis and databases.

Viv took it a step further by generating a script that could call different apis and DBs in sequence or parallel and put together responses to answer complex queries like "What will the temperature be when I land in SF?" requiring checking calendar, flight details, weather forecasts etc.

In ML terms, how to query an api or DB can be accomplished using "program synthesis" which is fancy for searching for a scriptlet to string together.

NL augmenting APIs should be come standard across services and DBs.
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Investment professionals charge a fee (the tax you mention) because, in theory, they are at least that much better than the layperson investing. This hasn't always been true, and many active managers have been shown to be no better at generating returns than the market.

There are other objectives for investors than just total return, like risk management, that justify fees in many cases.

> Bottom line: in making markets more efficient, the financial industry makes the economy as a whole a lot less efficient by siphoning off a huge chunk to feed itself.

That's a huge leap that absolutely requires some evidence to back up. This is the typical argument, but it's not convincing without any data, and just plays to the emotional "finance is evil" crowd.
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Considering that this has been flagged off the front page after receiving 92 upvotes in one hour, I'd say you may be on to something.
I would assume that voluntary sperm donation would sharply fall.
Do you like your microwave?
maybe take a look how he teaches: https://www.coursera.org/learn/algorithms-part1
I don't buy any of the speculation. It's not scientific in the least. Anyone can invent a post-hoc rationalization of what's going on, but until you propose a test it's not worth much.

This is textbook LessWrong. It started off interesting, but then started using this experiment to justify a pet social theory.
No, it doesn't make me wonder if anthropic lighting is impacting bee flight. If anything, they can fly later at night.
There's a guy who makes youtube videos like this a lot. He's a good guy and a smart guy but seems to either not care or not realize he isn't helping. I've seen videos like "Computer Vision In 5 lines" where the first line is "import helperclass.py" or something like that and that helper class has like 1500 lines of code that he wrote to implement. Sure people need to be aware of what they're learning but if someone has no programming experience and finds that video they're going to just think it's magic.
addding a little insult to injury, they landed 400km away from their base, in the very middle of god knows where...

"A few hundred miles."
Investigating an app crash with Android Vitals
DNS root KSK key roll has occurred
> designed for failure at all points during launch

If you want to investigate this, the term to look for is "black zone".
> Second, you're completely wrong that the media formats we consume don't affect the other media formats we consume.

Provide some evidence for this claim. People have been decrying the short attention span that “new media” creates for as long as there has been anything that could be described as “new media”.