skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [...]We immediately assumed censorship at a federal level[...]

This is just sensationalism. How about:

a) These areas are restricted airspace, and most of the aerial imagery Google et al buy is taken from airplanes.

b) Even if it wasn't restricted airspace, what's the commercial interest for a company like Google? To sell mapping services to the armed forces within their own bases? It's not like they're all buying Android phones and getting turn-by-turn directions in their Humvees.

c) There's also satellite imagery, but no imaging company is imaging the entire globe at a resolution Google and friends are interested in. You need to pay for specific areas, which brings us back to b), what's the commercial interest?

d) They point out that other restricted areas had updated imagery, but none are the size of the Nevada site, so they might have been imaged as a side-effect of imaging other nearby areas via satellites.

Maybe that's not what's going on, but these sound like reasonable explanations that don't require us to assume a bunch of men in black and a shadowy cabal of CIA agents coercing SV companies.
Journaling works well here too, but in my experience the interface sucks on every platform. Eg, it should be trivial to view recent unlinks. There’s simply more reason to invest in backup software, which has an excellent interface even if it is a “heavy” operation.
Aren't you kind of worried about the volatility when giving someone bitcoin? You send 10 dollars and then its 8 dollar tomorrow?
I vaguely remember reading a paper on three-coloring a graph, where the gadget was cited as coming from a children’s puzzles book
> That was a few years ago, but Tim Cook basically reaffirmed that a few weeks ago in this interview with Vice

At that time they were also storing iCloud data on their own servers, correct? To save myself and others from having to watch the Vice video, what did Tim Cook say that reaffirms no blanket Chinese government data access (honest, not sarcasm, I did not watch it)? Why are public statements about privacy always about the US or EU but never China? Surely the lack of consistency/transparency is clear here and causes mistrust.

Be open and honest to your users you claim to care about and there's no problem. Just simple statements like "We have privacy concerns with [insert country here]" or "We aren't allowed to talk about privacy concerns with [insert country here]" or "We do not give blanket data to [insert country here]" or "Although we follow the rules, we disagree with [insert country here]", etc would go a long way. Or continue to be secretive and hidden and anti-user.
They restricted immigration from countries who posed a threat. That threat was defined previously.

You're being disingenuous in claiming it was motivated by religion. You're incorrect in stating it restricted legal immigration. It stopped immigration by countries deemed a threat to the security of the US by Congress and the previous administration.
The insight on Facebook's success and its implicit focus on the network vs Google's focus on product is interesting. Same with their conviction on the newsfeed.
I've done extensive user testing with people on both Android and iOS devices (and, comparatively on Windows and MacOS devices) and the common thread that I see is that Android users coming to an iPhone try to use it exactly the same way that they use their Android device and then get frustrated that it doesn't work the same way. Windows users try to use a Mac exactly the same way they use Windows and get frustrated when it doesn't work that way. Inversely, the same is try for iPhone users trying to use Android and Mac users trying to use Windows. They ignore the intuitive features of both sides simply because they're used to working with one or the other.

If you can't figure out how to do things on an iPhone and think it's difficult, I'd wager a argument that it's because you're not just looking at what's there, you're trying to project your existing experience onto a different device and expecting it to work the same way. In other words (and I don't really say this sarcastically), you're using it wrong. If they were meant to be used the same way, they'd be the same products and they're not.
I like the article's discussion of algebraic operations and computer representation as well as how to implement the lambda operation. That's all abstract algebra and its extensions.

What I'm still mystified by when confronted by these discussions is the way the lambda calculus is considered equivalent to a Turing machine. Is it essentially that you have these complex variable substitution schemes which can "encode" a Turing machines' tape and transitions or is there something more straightforward?
I'm probably overly cynical but I think it highly unlikely any of the publicly viewable 'military installation' mapping would be accurate or up to date.
Basic military strategy requires maps for planning - why share location details with your potential enemies?
What legal immigrants have they taken "actions" against.
Nah -- they'll called it immersive reality or digital reality or something like that and people will go apeshit with this paradigm-shifting tech.
Vice is being very sensationalist. There are very real abuses of government power related to 9/11 and the PATRIOT Act, but this is a distraction.
I think slow phone is more planned-obsolencence-y compared to "no OS upgrade, but phone works just as it did since the last supported upgrade - features and speed". I don't think the majority of users would know there is a new version out if they didn't get the upgrade nag-screens.
Supporting MicroSD is most definitely a compromise. 1. I've lost photos on an Android because I used one (I bought the most reliable brand of card I could, from my most trusted store, with quite a low capacity). 2. Also the UX is crap - I know the Android universe well, and managing the options, the files, and the apps is not something I would recommend to my mum. 3. Finally any hardware interface is a point of failure (e.g. recently I had to reseat a SIM in my friend's iPhone that couldn't connect to it).

I can see your argument re profit in the past, but it is becoming less valid as the minimum flash memory size is increasing. I have just bought an ZTE with 32GB because that is all I need (32GB is the minimum you can get in a new iPhone.)

All these arguments that Apple is trying to "nickel and dime" their users is just tiring. Sure, they charge a lot, and they love profits, but that doesn't mean they are shitting on their users (like say cellular network providers do!) Edit: ironically it is probably because they charge so much for the device and it is so profitable that they don't need to chase every cent they could e.g. they don't provide payday loans to buy their phones!
Emacs truly superb for discovering new things. I always try to learn a new Emacs feature every couple of weeks.

I even got my mother-in-law using Emacs!
I don’t see any mention of Zenodo but it is a potential solution for, in their words, the long tail of science. One could post some extract from the 4chan page, post it on Zenodo and have a DOI to work with.
Thanks a lot! This is an extremely insightful comment. I'm confused it isn't higher up the page.
If the persons who compiled a data set (or made a latex package or or or) published a paper on that thing, by all means, cite it.

If they didn't, but they do have a web page on the thing, then give them credits in the currency of the web: links.

GP has a point: if the creators want scientific credit, they can easily get that via ArXiv (or, of course, a peer-reviewed publication). If not: increase their PageRank.
I can't tell if you're serious. Chess is a two-player game with centuries of theory behind it, tens of thousands of books, an incredibly competitive tournament scene with an international rating system. Moreover, it's a great spectator sport; watching chess helps you get better at chess.

Tetris, by comparison, is a single-player game (it has multiplayer analogues but they're very artificial) with extremely shallow theory. It is more akin to a puzzle than it is to a competitive game. Watching high-level tetris does nothing to improve your own tetris skill.
This wasn't providing the key as much as the schematics to the lock, which turns out, they pretty much do:
https://www.kwikset.com/Libraries/Literature/Rekeying_Manual...
The problem is that during the wave of modernization we had an entire generation of buildings that didn't need stonemasons, intricate woodwork, etc. As a result, no one replaced existing workers in those fields, and now we have nothing to draw from, at least in the US.
Hmmm; so what would you think of the other popular suggestion, to add a (probably default) mode, where only after pressing, say, Ctrl-Enter, the command would be executed? With another shortcut allowing to switch back and forth to the "no seatbelts, confident, fast moving, fast mowing hacker" mode?
I do progressive filtering a lot. It's convenient to have all the intermediate results somewhere temporarily.

What I do is typing the command in one acme window with the working directory, and middle mouse swipe it. Acme shows the result of that command in a +Errors window with the same working directory. I change the name of this new popped up window (to something like `+Errors-cmd`, type a command that operates on the file name `/mnt/acme/$winid/body`, and middle mouse swipe it again. Acme shows the result of the new command under `+Errors` again. Rinse and repeat until I'm satisfied.

I guess this way it gives a convenient temporary place for all the intermediate texts. I can of course edit them in place if I want.
I'm guessing it will just be the cost of the droplet that it's installed on.
Most people use different devices in the same way they use their preferred devices and get frustrated when they don't produce the exact same results.
I think I agree with you but you shouldn't make this into a left/right issue. It has nothing to do with this. It has all to do with elites pursuing their own interests at the expense of most everybody else.
Given how Apple game consoles sold in the past, better not.
Making it easier to control your data, directly in Google products
I think it is much more likely that the mapreduce shard responsible for updating the tile was stuck for 8 years, than there is a massive government conspiracy to prevent the update.
> it is quite useful if the compiler can SROA

__attribute__((always_inline)) / __forceinline usually help.

> LICM (you're calling a function that needs a constant vector in a loop)

I can calculate that vector outside of the loop.

> link in an assembly file.

Way more complex, I need to write outer scalar code in assembly too, need to manually allocate registers, also C++ templates are sometimes very useful for that kind of code.

In 99% of cases intrinsics are good enough for me, but I would love the compilers to leave alone my intrinsics.
LOL..'censorship'.

FFS.

Way to go Vice. YOU # 1!
Here's the exact time stamp so you can hear his answer yourself: https://youtu.be/VD1cP8SK3Q0?t=244

>Why are public statements about privacy always about the US or EU but never China?

As much as Apple/Cook may believe privacy is a human right, and have seemingly extracted some important concessions regarding their products, they aren't going to shoot themselves in the head so everyone can feel good about Apple publicly standing up to the CPC. That's a job for governments (the recent efforts by the Trump administration to reset the relationship with China is a good example).
I meant, could a toy problem be construction of a ML model for a given dataset?
Also don't forget their SDKs' lack of compatibility in either direction.
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Measured how? If you mean delivered energy / higher heating value of fuel, I’d believe it. But a good heat pump may have a COP greater than 3. And an increasing fraction of grid power comes from renewables.

(I’ve seen swimming pool heaters with heat pumps that quote a COP of 6 in mild weather. In appropriate climates, you can get a heat pump that pumps heat from your house to your pool, which can be extremely efficient.)
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The H-1B topic strikes a personal tone with me. After the dot-com crash in the early 2000's, IT jobs in California were hard to come by. I almost got one job, but the company decided to go with an H-1B worker instead. I had a new young family, but had to go out of state to find work, leaving my family behind.

I'm NOT summarily against H-1B's but wish to insist they be used ONLY to fill in true skill shortages instead of those manufactured via job ad word-smithing.
Sweet mother!

#1 thing you can do to make this compete with RDS and Cloud SQL would be to support extensions out there that they don’t. HypoPG needed by Dexter, pg_partman, etc. Lack of certain extensions is the biggest failing of those offerings IMO.
This is frightening. Can anyone from DO chime in?
A rare sight, another user of Acme on HN!

You know it probably, but there is also a mouse chord for piping selected text into a command. (2-1)
cool, he updated it, it wasn't originally.
We have chatted a bit and exchanged ideas.
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Not just that, often the new update is the only way to stay secure, at the cost of new interface/software/etc. Backporting security and reliability updates is all I expect; not new interface/software/etc. I didn't pay for these. I don't feel entitled to receive those to keep my device functioning.

The precedent is neither scary nor controversial. The European law says a device should keep functioning for a reasonable amount of time. A car completely breaking apart after 25 months is not normal. A smartphone being insecure is not normal either. Especially not considering how much personal data these contain.
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Even if Google and the US military have an agreement not to update images of millitary bases, it's perfectly understandable and doesnt infringe on anyone's rights. I agree this is sensationalism piggybacking on real privacy and government power concerns.
I find fades awesome for simple scripting in Python.

https://fades.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Thank you very much! I hadn't realised my email address isn't visible here. Maybe I need to move it into the "about" section.

In case you aren't aware, your email address isn't visible in your profile either. I've emailed the GMail address that I found on your website :)
While H1B debate is ongoing, vmware invests $2b in india
...in 12g, surely?
Yeah, I was, but branch divergence made it slower than just using SIMD.
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As far as I know the JVM will only auto-vectorize integers. Is there a way to tag a function such that you want floats vectorized too now?

ART is a good point, compile on install lets you do this.
Wouldn't it be possible to limit that by cgroups/namespaces? Possibly remounting everything as read-only.
Right, it's a mistake to think that there are a fixed number of low-skill jobs which need filling. A mistake encouraged by propaganda from those heavily invested in industries set up to employ them.

Swiss people clean their own damn homes at a wage which, in India, would justify several servants. This in turn drives a market for Roomba early adopters... but also just for less obvious technology, like houses well-enough sealed against dust.
It could be done in a such a way that no device identifier or any other identifier is ever sent. Just (time, current lat/lng, previous lat/lng)
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You want good healthcare, good salary, the real Autobahns, good houses and you are talented, have at least a bachelor in IT and are willing to try something out? Come over to Germany. Honestly, no I other country I know of has such a fast and well thought out way to permanent residence for foreign talent than Germany. If you are interested in working here, drop me a message to eriklistserve at gmail dot com.
I agree with what Kerr is suggesting. It makes a lot of sense.

I also agree with a many Americans who are anti-H1b that it suppresses wages, hence makes it attractive to higher foreign workers, quite often for jobs that are not truly state of the art, but do require the technical know how.

This is why it makes sense for the H1-B to be a highest paid gets first kind of a visa. That way there's a strong incentive to not hire lowest paid employees.

In fact, I think a better way would be to give two 3-year temporary green cards. if at the end of 6th year if the person still has job, it becomes a permanent job. This removes any control that an employer has to depress the wages, and be fair to the American as well as immigrant labour. Such a system can be made available to at least the undergrad/grad/doctoral degree holders from the US universities.

By limiting the immigrant talent, US has already ensure China is taking a huge leap in terms of tech advances. India will figure out how to make the leap soon.

All the while, Canada is making the most of USA's anti high skilled immigrant situation, but inviting them in droves. We'll see a different Canada in the next 5-10 years, mainly due to the huge number of tech immigrants (of Chinese or Indian origin) moving to Canada.
This sounds terrible. I never had any issues with DO. They actually refunded me once when I actually made a mistake. Would love to hear the DO side on this.
I wonder if this is a response to Amazon Lightsail[1] now offering managed database?

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-managed-databases-for-a...
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Afaik there are various ones still existing, but dunno how ephemeral they are (eg archive.moe supports /b/), and how much they miss

And then you just webarchive archive the archive sites instead of 4chan directly :-)
interesting nick ;)
Marketing budgets are payed for by consumers. The money for ads doesn't magically appear.

Its why I don't feel bad using ad blockers: I subsidise your shitty commercials anyway.
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That sounds good in principle, except that 3rd party apps would also be frozen and start to fail.
I thought that many, maybe even most US military facilities (at least the more secretive ones) were blanked out altogether on Google Earth. I thought it had always been that way. Maybe I’m wrong.

I’m more surprised that it was there in the first place, if there were people who considered it sensitive. Not updating the imagery of a particular military site for 8 years seems more like expected behavior than some monocle-popping revelation of malfeasance.
Trouble with losing the Victorian build is they were built to last much longer than those 1960s on.

I’m highly skeptical the average house built then outlived the average house built today, due to survivorship bias. The houses that remain are the ones built to last.
You don't really need automated tests. You can use a reproducible bug report as test input, then use git-diff to determine the first point it time it appears.
Not sure why I was downvoted, but thank you.
Fox News is a dangerous drug.
In my professional experience, the correct solution is to give someone (or people) the authority to make the call between "security fix" and feature. Choosing to lump everything in the "feature" bucket is, as I said, cultural.

On the technical side, release branches have been existed since forever - Microsoft has been doing this for decades instead of forcing upgrades to the latest windows/office version.
> means you're losing some mass of carbon each exhalation and that's a major channel for weight loss.

Indeed, that's almost 100% of weight loss, except for some daily fluctuations like water weight and what happens to be inside your gut at the moment, right? That's virtually the only way that body actually loses its own mass.
On hold for the moment because of the practicalities of being a non-US citizen on a work visa. If someone ambushes me with a hefty cheque, sure, but for the moment I am limited in what I can do.
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You can use Plastiq (https://www.plastiq.com) to put it on a credit card, but this comes with a 2.5% fee (which will be $500 in your case, so quite steep).
I believe most of those are offered by Citus Cloud [0]. I know it's not the same, but you can spin just a single worker and essentially end with a faster PG than the vanilla PG.

[0] https://www.citusdata.com/product/cloud
As someone who dabbles in the field from a strong software engineering background but only MOOCs on deep learning, absolutely this. The courses are often so focused on getting you to reproduce the state of the art you are on rails the whole time with no deep intuition for why things work. And so when I get off the rails and on a real problem or a Kaggle I often find myself training terrible models and not knowing why, getting stuck on bad architectural decisions, or just forging ahead with a terrible dataset without realizing it.

I’m reminded of the “draw the rest of the owl” meme. Except these mistakes are more insidious, since everyone can tell if they have drawn an owl, but it can be hard to tell if your model has done something like overfit on minutia until you release it upon the world.
I'm with you up until the left has never been "for the people", like wat?
This intuition only holds as long as you believe there is zero chance of new large competitors arising in other countries.

If protectionism causes a rival to Google to be viable in other countries, that could hurt your salary prospects back home quite a bit.
Read this all the time as a kid. This was the best. Thanks for making my life in the middle of nowhere infinitely more interesting. You showed me what technology really was.
Hmmm... tracking down the dude as he flew across the country seems outside the scope of a prankster.

Well, now I'm neutral on the subject. There's details that make me disbelieve the story. But tracking down the author and finding the right phone number to call him seems like a feat that would require decent resources.

Basically: that's a level of effort that goes well above and beyond a typical prank call.
Wouldn't one use two-photon microscopy? Patch clamp is quite limited in comparison.

There also is the combination of both methods - not surprisingly, they write how hard it is in a living brain (the clamping, the two-photon microscopy part is much easier): https://www.the-scientist.com/daily-news/robotic-patch-clamp...

Here is an article describing "three dimensional two-photon brain imaging in freely moving mice using a miniature fiber coupled microscope": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-26326-3 (the experiments that I was aware of all still were done on a sedated animal with a fixated head).
I was thinking about this in light of the recent MegaMillions lottery frenzy. Chance of buying a winning ticket is about one in a million times the number of successive draws in which no winner is declared in order for the jackpot to reach a sizeable pot. Ballpark estimate around 1:10M.

Whereas the chance you could actually build a company with billion dollar valuation is probably well under 1:1M. Just from being in the pool of startup school attendees or auditors. There are additionally many other factors which could substantially increase those odds.

Also, would just like to mention the recent podcast with Laura Deming of Longevity Fund was excellent. Incredibly informative and reasonably optimistic about the probability of a breakthrough in our lifetimes.