skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Any future sales of weather data would be a long way away and would require me to prove out its usefulness, something that hasn't been done with 'virtual weather stations' yet (but has with the raw barometer data, darn)

Honest question, as I don't know much on the subject : why should future sales of weather data be a long way away ? Aren't there already end-users interested in low-volume API access ?

Also, just to clarify, by 'virtual weather station', you only mean devices that run the application, excluding other non-official weather monitoring systems ?
>None of this is mentioned of course in the press. But it seems like this company mainly survives on copyright infringement and serving malicious apps

They aren't serving the apps, and you would expect ads if that were there business model. They developed free software to make app stores, and their business is making app stores for people.
So that should make illegal drug detection via breath awfully cheap. What company is going to be able to resist?
I need your email for an invitation; if you can send me your address via my own email (see my profile), or via keybase, I'll send you an invite. I don't see your email advertised in your profile here on HN, so my hands are tied for now :)
To be fair, though, not even functional programming is truly "stateless." The program has a state as it's actually executing a function. It's still remembering the functions arguments, etc. It's just that the state is extremely ephemeral, and is lost by the time the function returns.

I think this is using the word "stateless" in the same way, only over a slightly longer timescale.
> That this gap occurred for eight years without any acknowledgement from Google, Alphabet, or the federal government suggests that it can happen again with no warning or oversight. This is Google’s Earth, not ours.

Reading this sentences, I gained a new understanding of what my dog feels when he tilts his head and looks at me with his big, questioning eyes.
Tres commas
Here is the Google Maps link to the satellite imagery of the Tonopah Test Range site [1].

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tonopah+Test+Range+Airport...
I've seen people call Gore a hypocrite for flying around.

He believes in carbon offsets.

He's also not opposed to capitalism.

So, spending money on luxury goods, and spending money to buy carbon offsets, is entirely in line with what he's stated are his views.

You're welcome to your opinion on the matter, of course, but I wanted to highlight that I don't perceive riding in a plush town car is being out of line with his message of acting on Climate Change.
Dunno; maybe because its fronted by the world's richest man, treats its workers badly, and has a bunch of sweet deals with the CIA? Or maybe it's because Bezos owns a rival paper.

I think the Times is awful, venal, half tabloid, and generally doesn't go after the powerful enough, but I don't think they look at WaPo as 'rivals.' They're basically the same thing, owned by a different set of oligarchs.
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A microSD slot would have slower read/write access, would take up much more room per GB, and would compromise waterproofing.

Your point about money would be better made if you just complained about the cost of larger internal storage, except then it would be obvious - Apple is profit motivated.
I guess I should consider myself very fortunate. It works out very well for me. I've worked under an unlimited PTO policy for several years now (at two different companies).

It does not "depend on management approval." Approval for time off is automatic; it is only necessary to coordinate with your supervisor and/or team to make sure tasks can be handled by coworkers in your absence. Vacations were typically one to three weeks, sometimes longer for international travel or special situations.

There is no "pressure to keep the PTO profile low" or limit the amount of time. It isn't even tracked.

It's not a "loss of a benefit." I've been able to use more time off than before, even with the most generous PTO benefits at prior organizations.
Frankly I forgot to correct it when I posted it here as well - thanks for pointing that out.
There is an Iran ban, call it whatever you like.

The existence of a list at a certain point in time doesn't mean anything if the current administration is the one that uses it in a policy it created itself.

School visas are the foot in the door for young scientists and engineers to employment in the US.
Yeah, I think almost any ability to produce an effect other than printing to stdout and stderr should probably be restricted by default, with a flag to enable it. If people adopt this and frequently use specific capabilities, they can add a shell alias to add enable their preferred set of capabilities.
EU courts didn't require them to start charging manufacturers. Google chose to start charging for them, since they were upset the EU told them they could no longer make access to them conditional upon preloading Google Search and Google Chrome, which are where Google makes all it's money on ad revenue.

Google could absolutely allow users to install the YouTube app or the Gmail app with no strings attached, but they don't want to do that. They want them tied to Google Search/Chrome, like in the rest of the world, or for a fee, like in the EU.
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You'd be shocked how many people don't know about the modulus operator.
I think so too, that SIMD is too low-level to be utilized effectively. Luckily joe_the_user enlightened me with this little gem on a previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17419917

Or for the lazy:

I don't know about tensor flow in particular but are little-known methods of running "general purpose" parallel programs on GPUs. Specifically, H. Dietz' MOG, "Mimd on GPU". It's a shame the project hasn't gotten more attention imo.

http://aggregate.org/MOG/

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn%27s_taxonomy for explanations of terms.
Glad you are having fun working on your after hours side project with DO. But please DO NOT host with DO if you plan to run a real production systems, build a company, hire people etc. I have never found a better company to spun off a server and play with some settings but when their algorithm decides there is something fishy, bye bye your account, servers, backups, you never going to see any of this ever again.

The last startup I heavily pushed with switching to OVH or even Rackspace was exact sample of what happens when DO algorithm decides you are not genuine. That's it. No explanation, no phone number to call, nothing. These people blindly decided to believe their algorithm and never wanted even discuss resuming the account or even get us backup of data. There was nothing shady going on I assure you. Funny part is as of today DigitalOcean is still in violation of GPPR, as we have requested to hopefully find out what was wrong with our account by filing request for info. Nope, zit, nada, totally ignored. We have filed complain with proper authority and also notified Attorney General in NY and continue await result.

Build all you want on DigitalOcean, but please understand not people but their weird algorithm is in charge of the future of your startup, future of your company and future salary or lack therefore when you are forced to fire team of people because you fall behind with payroll. In other words: be warned and build at your own risk.
Cellular networks are sometimes the only option for people in the developing world. I meant smartphones. Obviously, as I said, if you have a capable computer of any kind without Internet access, that is usually enough.
Russell Brand, of all people, caught my attention one time. He said when he criticized the flaws of capitalism when he was poor, people called him jealous. When he criticized the flaws of capitalism when he was wealthy, people called him a hypocrite.

They're all ad hominem attacks. But when he's criticized for being both too poor, and for being too rich, and his message didn't change, it's particularly obvious that people just don't want to hear his position, and will do anything to discredit him.
That's a fair point, but not even knowing about the concept?
> Interestingly, this seems to me to support the idea that limiting syscalls/capabilities could be a good approach (if at all possible, that is). Potentially maybe also cutting off network access?

Yeah, I still think it's not a good approach. rcthompson gave an example with network access, but that doesn't mean that bad things can only happen with filesystems or network access. You can also kill processes, shutdown the computer, and many more things. I don't think you can guess what mistakes the user might do, or which were really mistakes or were intentional.

Also, if you can avoid special permissions or capabilities for your core functionality, then that's better. People should be conservative in giving special permissions to programs, and I can't think it makes sense to give "up" the ability to make a filesystem immutable even if it's in an isolated namespace.
just block the commies
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Ruby 2.6 Range#cover? now accepts Range object as an argument
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Seems to be linux only at first blush.
The sad reason Antarctica is making a humming noise
Very interesting - thanks for the info!
GCT has never had a coal fired train in it - its always been an electric only station, Penn is the same.
I think the soft skills are essential to success, but can be easily learned by someone who is technically proficient.
Even better, put it into a non-privileged user by default with no write permission.
A lot of the time I'm working multi-tier software so will have VM and/or docker containers running in support of what I'm specifically working on. And even then it's mostly node/js based, so the NVME is the single biggest boost to my productivity. In any case, it's often browser + app server + backend services running... so I notice the single-thread performance less. TBH my current CPU (i7-4790k) keeps up reasonably well, though I wouldn't mind more threads and more RAM.

When the GTX 1080 came out, I bumped up to that with a 1TB NVME drive (Samsung) which has been fantastic in limited use. Mostly notice the difference in my npm scripts (ci and build). I'm mostly just itching to upgrade more than feeling pain at this point. I'm pretty sure the Ryzen 2 CPUs (not 2xxx) will be sufficient, as will the mid-upper Intel. However, unless Intel brings their pricing into better competitive range, I may go AMD on my next build.
Is there any evidence at all that Facebook has a 20 year timeline about, like, anything?
>Hiding the filesystem is both destroying productivity and fucking up people's mental model of computing

That's nonsense. Most users don't care that there's a file system and they surely don't care how it works. They care that, when they open up Microsoft Word, they can find the document they last created or an older document. They care that, when they open an app called Photos, they see their pictures. They don't care how they're stored by the computer or how they're organized, they only care that they can find what they're looking for when they're looking for it.

It may be easier for you to navigate through a file system because that's how you've adapted your workflow but to say that not having one is somehow destroying productivity is crazy nonsense. You're taking your individual experience and extrapolating it on populations that are not similar to you at all.

I mean... do you honestly thing that Donald Trump/your grandmother/a teenager cares that there's a file system on his iPhone?
Thinking that demand is fixed would indeed be a flaw. But the right wikipedia link here is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand : demand curves slope downwards. More sellers (of a given kind of labour) means does mean higher volumes, but also lower prices (wages). GP's intuition is correct. I don't have links handy but it's my understanding that serious studies reliably back this up.

There are other effects too of course. Letting in Sergey Brin may have competed down CEO wages (as per theory) but arguably more importantly drove up demand for engineers. Letting in lots of H1B engineers no doubt drives up demand for gardeners & house-cleaners.
False comparison because billionaire has a lot more money compared to your typical middle-class NIMBY. Even if quite a bit of the billionaire's wealth vanishes, it won't impact his lifestyle much. Not so with NIMBY.

(For the record, I don't like NIMBY's)
This makes me wonder how close to a general purpose learner would a system have to get to before it replaces basic human labor.
> square peg in a round hole

Python is a multi-paradigm language. I have not found Python to be better at OOP versus imperative or functional styles of programming.

For me, functional programming provides a closer to model to how I think about problems. This is true for many people. One should choose the style that provides the easiest translation of thought to code.
I don't see how it's an irrelevant detail. If enforcing the speed limit does indeed save lives then I'm more inclined to accept some loss of privacy.
Thank you very much for being awesome
If someone can figure out how to make money to reverse climate change, that will be the end of climate change. The whole problem is that it's hugely expensive and only impacts each of us a tiny tiny bit _today_
This is what I saw too.
The slides can be found at:

http://citris-uc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Bots-v-Tots_...
Their actions against legal immigrants of color speak louder than their weak virtue signals.
Damn Vulnerable iOS Application
I suspect there are many people in Seattle who recognize the need for more housing and more affordable housing, given the number of neighborhoods that are tipping over the million dollar mark. That said, where I get flustered is the number of new housing units with inadequate parking or where perfectly good houses are being torn down. Case in point: corner of Market and Phinney. Cute, well-maintained craftsman with a land-use sign in front of it indicating it will be torn down and replaced with a multi-plex unit with only two parking spots. It's likely already an $800K house in that neighborhood, but due to pure greed will become a 5x $800K property for someone. And therein lies an unfortunate twist on the Seattle market: at the moment, supply and demand are not in balance, so even as supply increases, housing still isn't affordable for many.

I have no problem with creating greater density. I have no problem with incentivizing public transportation. But, when you tear down perfectly charming houses in already very crowded neighborhoods, it's just annoying on so many levels.
Why would anyone worry about scaling to 100B? Once you are at that level you probably won't watch this video and everybody else is probably more worried about 1 or 10 million.
Other than the Apple IIe floppy (I think, it has been a bit), cassette or floppy did not boot with the machine and had to be loaded.
details here on this? big claims!
When I was little I remember my parents getting us hyped up to go around the neighborhood to get signatures for a town vote which would protect the area due to wetlands. We were middle class and Democrat - but certainly not rich and not environmentalists. I cannot remember my parents ever saying anything about wetlands after that. It's clear it was all motivated by property issues, but I didn't realize that until years later.
Mildly related, I wish rm would check that you’re not unlinking the current directory. I’ve never wanted the behavior when I accidentally invoke it.
No... but usually when running it, was in the car with the phone on the charger, so a non-issue... I stopped when the news they were shutting down came out.

Here's hope that they'll pick things up again.
Oh you...Where are atheists lining up to protest nativity scenes at churches? No one gives a fart about Christianity being practiced, until it infringes on other rights. Nativity scenes? Nothing wrong with them as long as other religions can partake as well. Christians don't tend to like Satanist scenes though.

Christians in America are however attacking abortion rights. They also attack marriage rights, gay rights, transgender rights, help for the poor, human rights, and basically everything that Jesus was for. To claim that the majority of Americans are practicing anything Jesus stood for is quite frankly silly. No one has said kids can't pray in school, what's been said is that you can't force prayer in school unless it's a religious school,in which case religion rules.

This silly "Attack on Christianity" ginned up by Fox News and the religious right is absurd in a country where the vast majority of the country proclaims to be Christian.
> How do you think this allows for FTL signaling?

I already told you: with a single particle, it's not possible. But with multiple particles you can tell the difference between a pure state and a mixed state by observing the presence or absence of first-order interference. So to communicate, you send a stream of EPR pairs to Alice and Bob. Alice transmits by either measuring batches of particles or not measuring them, and Bob receives by observing the presence or absence of first-order interference on his end.

Fun fact: I was able to get a patent on this idea :-)

https://patents.google.com/patent/US7126691B2/en
I recently finished 'Drood' by Dan Simmons, a highly fictionalized account of this final period of Charles Dickens life. The novel was a bit heavy, and at times slow but overall very fascinating and unsettling. It's half historical fiction, half supernatural psychological thriller.

Despite the far fetched premise, I think it gives a good look into the time period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drood_(novel)
Game Boy Emulator in Elm
Plus your chance of being hit at all is much lower at 30km/h because the driver has more time to react.
Sorry but that has got to be one of the worst company/product names ever. Either it is completely un-searchable since literally every programming language has a "standard library" or if it actually takes off it will push down actually relevant results for niche programming language docs.
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And regular people won't care thanks to years and years of "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry"-type bs.