skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think these are your potatoes...

"Talk about a ‘superload’! Check out what just crawled along Washington highways"

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/talk-about-a-superl...
If you make it to Hobart, Tasmania, the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) has an amazing art installation which is a faux digestive tract, rigged up on controller logic. Its poop element is crying out to be modded for cubic wombat poop (they feed it daily, the same as whats on offer in the gallery restaurant. Somehow, it smelt cheesy when I was there)

Wombats are in trouble. There is a huge problem with Mange, and the populations are in stress. If you find any charity which supports Wombats, fund them. They need help.

Cubic poo forever!
I want to believe!

...The internet being what it is, we ought to be able to find some eyewitnesses.
I am old enough to remember when buying a new laptop you would actually need to check if the wifi chip, the ACPI vs of the Mobo, the internal ethernet controller, the video card, hell even the sound card, had a linux-supported driver.

It was not always the case and for various reasons (mostly the much heavier integration constraints of different components) it is harder to make on a phone.

It may sound strange, but I think that redemption will come from efforts similar to the PiPhone [1] that allow to create devices from different manufacturers that were not specifically designed to work in a tightly integrated way.

[1] https://learn.adafruit.com/piphone-a-raspberry-pi-based-cell...
Are people so obsessed with monetary success that they'll sacrifice the joy of programming and computer science to watch Casey Neistat's vlog four times in a row? I guess my priorities are totally out of order.

I personally loathe sleazy marketing and the burlesque tonic people like Neistat feed to the public. It's an embarrassment that his name makes it to the front page of HN, when the post about XDP I was reading early today still has half the points. We're completely obsessed with the wrong things.
I recently switched from Vim to Emacs with Evil. Vi motions are really not that hard to get used to. I reached my previous productivity quickly and then was able to move on from there. However, you're not going to get the full IDE experience with vim (by design), so moving to Emacs felt natural to me when I wanted more advanced plugins and I learned that Evil was as good if not better than Vim itself.

I have used IDEs in the past and it was an overall pleasant experience. Visual Studio is okay, XCode is fine, Eclipse is all right, but what bothered me most was that all three were necessary to be able to develop for common platforms. I would find a game changing plugin for one and then want it in another (not happening). The integration between language and editor is the beauty of IDEs and that's the best and the worst thing about them, the reason that they're never going to replace the venerable text editor for me. The other issue is that IDEs discourage experimentation into new languages because using a new language means learning a new editor and getting comfortable with all new tooling. I'd much rather use the same editor for everything, with easy-to-get modes for every kind of language imaginable instead of learning yet another okay-ish IDE for each language.
Are you asking me to do some sort of calculation? If so, could you spell out what and why?

The point of my original comment was to point out a couple of things we'd have to include in a cost/benefit analysis of KYC/AML regulation, not to actually do a proper analysis, which I would expect to run to hundreds of carefully researched pages.
I'm not vilifying anything. I'm just saying that I don't have any convenient phrases that handily sum up the kinds of things I intend and using the phrase "affordable housing" means something to other people that I'm not intending. I keep saying "affordable housing" and it keeps going bad places and I'm realizing that it does so because it is not the right expression to communicate what I have in mind.
LA Metro is quite an expensive program. Cleveland has been working on the cost-coverage-service balance and arguably making the right choices, but not everyone is happy. I think Chicago might be a better example of a large system run efficiently. Overall, there is not any debate whether the US pays more per mile/capita than other countries, just whether that is something that can be improved.
If the iON could sync/backup the images to your phone at regular intervals, maybe something like IFTTT could be used in conjunction to upload the images to a private server...
Good Bot, Bad Bot: The Nasties Infiltrating the Internet
Hey on page 29 does anyone see a pattern that resembles.. historical German symbology used by to represent national pride and a government party that rose to power in the 1920's? Am I the only one? Sorry, just popped out at me.
WesternDigital/blb: Distributed object storage system for use on bare metal
They don't use Rust.
I hope someone maintains a 3.x fork.
NO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
I remember the days when you had the terms "Server" == software and "Server Class Machine" == machine you run the server on.

An AWS Lambda program is therefore a server!
Imperial College London, 1940s, the engineering students winched a car onto the roof. Apparently they hid sheer-legs down trousers (oxford bags were in again) and constructed a viable winch from short lengths, hidden ropes &c.

I know the modern MIT prankery is pretty big, but I just wanted to say it does happen at other universities.
Congrats to them, but personally not surprised. Buying literally everything construction related is Autodesk’s schtick.

Some parts will stay great, some parts will stuff in half-baked FBX format support to pretend their independently developed products all interoperate.
Isn't part of this talent gained thru motivation, in turn judged necessary as they had "skin in the game"?
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/18558/were-roma...
Is anyone on our side here in a world where ag-gag laws exist?
Flat Earth conference attendees explain how they've been influenced by YouTube
Out of curiosity, is that actually true? I mean Bitfinex is doing business in the US. I thought that was the link to being able to apply US laws on them. Does creating a USD backed security in another country automatically put you under US law? I'm asking because I literally don't understand how that could work.
What does a streetcar do that buses (or articulated buses) can't if they're provided the same traffic priority?
I just made a short (2048 bit) key pair, and made the public key into a QR Code (as ascii armoured text, so it could have been more dense in straight binary)

https://flic.kr/p/2cYCwfG

I could only get it into a 141x141 by dropping error correction right down to 7%, but under ideal conditions (from my monitor to an iPhone) it reads reliably, as shown. I tried a 4096 bit key, but I couldn't (as text) get it into even a 171x171 QR Code at minimum error correction without truncating (and even in ideal conditions, my phone won't reliably read 171x171 resolution QR codes...)
School financing flows through property taxes, and they’re the same whether the property is occupied by a family, childless couple, an absentee out-of-town owner or an investor.

Schools currently enjoy 100% of the money with nowhere near 100% of load, which in theory should result in smaller classes and excellent teacher-to-student ratios.

In reality though LA Unified School District has been cutting so many sweet pension deals to the previous employees (and current retirees) that most of that money is appropriated by pension funds long before the current employees (or kids) see any of it.

Combined with decreased enrollment across the board (people intent on having kids and large families tend to move out of LA more than they move into LA) and increased life expectancy of most retirees, things are not exactly looking bright for parents considering LA Unified for their education needs.
You can run updatedb more frequently. By default it is run on a daily cron job and has the smarts to not run when on battery. (see /etc/cron.daily/mlocate)

You can also exclude directories in /etc/updatedb.conf that you don't want locate to index. I think in your case a more frequent cron job make sense. If run often enough, it finishes very quickly when running updatedb, which will you give you the instant search you're looking for.
Lots of stuff that will really hurt your lungs won't make you immediately feel bad. A big part of why tiny particles can be so damaging actually - since they don't make you cough.
You projected this "ascended beings"/ghosts interpretation onto parent post which said nothing of the sort.

All parent was saying is that there could be life that look unlike anything that we currently know to be life. There could be organisms that are the size of solar systems, operating on such long time scales that we might not recognize it for life.

Anyways non-baryonic matter includes: neutrinos and free electrons, dark matter, supersymmetric particles, axions, and black holes.

Suppose there's a life form based on dark matter or black holes.
I got a narrative pretty early on, it's not bad but unfortunately in the last year the battery life has absolutely tanked on it, lasting only 2 hours max at this point, and as this the custom today, completely non-removable.
Or you can insulate yourself from bad scripts without the #! by just calling bash then running your script. In my case, since I run so few bash scripts, I use fish (and ksh on BSDs) and call sh when needed.
You are correct, however, I was refuting the post that said that those paying gas taxes and tolls aren't covering their own maintenance costs. We're all subsidizing the industries that cause the most damage to roads, whether you commute by car or by train.
Surprised no one mentioned that Einstein’s concept of space-time is wrong which makes me believe the Universe is electric http://www.indjst.org/index.php/indjst/article/view/30369
My memory is telling me there's a writeup on Goldman Sachs risk taking since becoming publicly traded, versus when it was a partnership. And the increase in risk taking becoming a corporation is a real effect.
Out of curiosity, just what would happen to a person standing on Earth, staring up at the night sky right at the moment that a GRB jet hit the planet?

Also, how wide, in terms of arcseconds, is the jet? Is it a narrow laser beam that has no chance of actually hitting a planet, or is it wide enough that anything within 30 degrees of north is going to be sterilized?
Adjusted for inflation its lower than it was in the 1960's
You might also find Halide[1] interesting then. It too is a computation graph that does a good job of separating core algorithm and optimizations.

OpenCV's neural networks module actually uses Halide as an optional backend. I found it to be a practical approach to run TF/Torch/Caffe/Darknet models on CPUs and OpenCL/AMD.

There was an OpenCV proposal to port all algorithms to Halide API [1]. I think that's still the long term plan, and G-API is a kind of stopgap till then [2].

[1]: http://halide-lang.org/

[2]: https://github.com/opencv/opencv/wiki/OE-23.-Module-GAPI
Yes. The core cause of many of our problems is how capitalism is broken. Between removing individual contribution limits [0], unlimited monetary influence from Super PACs [1], and our weakening Antitrust laws (that somehow allowed AT&T and Time Warner to merge!), it's no wonder we're having the economic problems we have today.

But of course no politician talks about these things. Capitalism has not failed us; our politicians have failed us. We need to fix capitalism. Block giant mergers, break apart monopolies, ease the burden on small business, etc. More competition is better for everyone (except big corporations of course).

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/us/politics/supreme-court...

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/superpacs.php
I was hired as a junior software engineer for a mainframe company, and it is indeed very hard. zOS was radically different from anything I had done before and it took a long while before i felt comfortable with it.

IBM actually holds a very good week long training you can send junior developers to. It’s basically a boot camp. There were about 10 other developers at it when I went, most of whom were fresh college grads from the big mainframe software companies (BMC, CA, Rocket, etc.).

I’ve since moved on to the world of .net and I don’t miss the mainframe stuff at all.

Edit: I’ll add that a lot of what made it difficult for me was that I was working with assembly language and our product required a lot of knowledge about the OS. Many mainframe programmers are using java and eclipse, which isn’t that different from using java and eclipse to target any other system.
So, a crazy question.

Who pays in the following situation:

Company A fax-spams people.

Answer: It should be Company A, right? Good.

Now how about in this following situation:

Company A is legit. Person B doesn't like company A, and decides to make fake adverts and fax-spams people using a voip circuit.

Does Company A pay, because it was abut their products in a spammy manner? Or do they find who did it, and try to determine Person B?
Passing interstellar-worthy “Chūnin Exams for ninjas with cosmic aspirations
That’s actually how it would go if there were a lot of interested fleets and not enough individual buyers to sustain dealerships.

I totally understand that you want to use Zapier and save money, but you have to keep in mind a) you are (likely) a more expensive customer than you think you are, b) Zapier can’t serve you without self-cannibalizing. And this is an issue because you undervalue software; if Zapier is worth anything to you, it’s likely worth $20/mo but you are conditioned to not pay for something like that. This isn’t peculiar to you, but it’s something to be aware of.
With a per-share price ranging from $0 to $250.
Is there an element to this that the problems left are simply harder than the ones solved by previous generations?
> Science and psychology, for example, are not political.

Science is extremely political. Ask any PI who's written a grant or published a paper before whether they think science is apolitical.
I think the conclusion from this sub-thread is that the London subway is insanely expensive compared to most of the rest of the world. There might be local reasons that afford it such price gouging power, like the lack of any reasonable transport alternative and the nature of London's road infrastructure, congestion and parking fees etc.

A fee increase to that level in other cities might have the opposite effect of reducing ridership and total revenues, against a largely fixed expense base, condemning the subway to a real "death subway".

The externalities of transport are massive, if a small number of people device to spend 15 minutes more in traffic to save the 8 pounds subway fare, the costs to society are simply astronomical because now everybody else has to spend those 15 minutes more too to get to where they need to go, even if they don't have the option of public transport for their route.
Good thing no one implied any of that, then!
I'm picking up a lot of existential angst in this one. The author hopes we are the only intelligent species in the universe because why? I think spending so much time on the nature of ones own existence is to neglect the here and now. I say this as someone who confronted his own existential angst - it can drive you in any number of directions, none of which really matter for someone with an expected lifespan of 70 years. If life is so precious, why not go experience it while you can?
Dune is the book that got me sold on audiobooks https://www.audible.com/pd/Dune-Audiobook/B002V1OF70
Obviously taxes. Those who benefit most from public transit are those least able to afford it, but making the cost baked in to the wealth of the people can driven even someone with a personal driver to maybe fathom using the tube instead once in a while if its borderline free.
Well, maybe his strategies can be applied to getting XDP more attention. I think that's the driving interest here.

> I personally loathe sleazy marketing and the burlesque tonic people like Neistat feed to the public.

Can you expand on this? From what I've seen (which isn't much so could be missing something) it seems a lot more authentic than most.
Re: Microsoft, one of the early tests of a Russian fake news source was to fake that Windows 10 sends highly personal information like webcam video, keystrokes and mic audio to the mothership.

It got a bunch of traction on here and took off big time on Reddit, and people would quote it as proof in comments for months.

E.g with 300+ votes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10053420

If you tell people outrageous stuff they want to hear, they will believe it, even applies to tech savvy folks.
"I think your goals should include enjoyment goals, things that you want to spend more time on, and also achievement goals, things that you want to achieve in the future." Whole sentences are copied from Chris Croft, it's hard to see what the author's own opinion is when even a "I think" sentence is. (source https://www.lynda.com/Leadership-Management-tutorials/Refini...)
This. I managed to build recent Linux on a Pentium MMX Mobile (IIRC) laptop from 1998. A cell phone from 5 years ago can't handle a modern operating system, but a 1998 laptop can run Xorg just fine.
To me, the problem is poor connectivity to the rest of the train network.
Doreen, question for you or others: why did homelessness explode as a problem over the 1970s and as an issue in the 1980s?

Google's Ngram Viewer isn't a perfect reference, but it does show that various mentions of "homeless", "homeless person", and "homelessness" exploded in the 1980s.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=homeless%2Chom...

I've previously gone through earlier references, and noted that up through the 1960s, references were frequently to persons "made homeless by" some event: a structure fire, a tornado, a hurricane, etc. It was an acute condition, not a chronic one.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=*+homeless&yea...

There's also a tie to economic circumstances, if you look at the trace for "homeless man" here:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=homeless+perso...

"Transient" was an earlier term:

https://books.google.com/books?id=HC0iAQAAIAAJ&q=%22and+home...

That pairs fairly well with "homeless" in the Ngram viewer, though many of the references are to phenomena other than housing (lunar transits, transition matrices, arterial systems, Markov chains, etc.):

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=transient%2C%2...

Also "unattached"

https://books.google.com/books?id=vpUbAQAAMAAJ&q=%22and+home...

There were thought to be 50-60k homeless in New York City in 1914:

https://books.google.com/books?id=zAjTAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA29&dq=%2...

Present numbers are 63,000 through September 2018, 130,000 different homeless persons sleeping in municipal shelters over 2017:

http://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/basic-facts-about-hom...

I've speculated that it might be the financial system itself, and the primacy of the role of financial asset rather than service good of real estate which plays a role -- something I find bordering in lunacy myself, though possibly worth considering:

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/eDscpi6K...
Finally! Someone made a relevant patentable change to a natural cancer fighter. Now it can be brought to market!
Why can't something like this work?

https://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chroni...
Clean execution !! Is there a functionality where you can create dependencies between jobs, means run job 2 only on the successful run of job 1.

Also are simply creating a cron entry based on whats inputted in frontend?

Would be interested to see the flow and that how you are generating and saving the logs
I think the fundamental problem is that these bacteria are detected by growing a sample, which takes a day or longer.
> I grew up in NYC. I spent high school and college in Manhattan. This is the worst I have seen it.

What up, Astoria native (then Stuyvesant then Columbia) checking in. The current level of (visible) homelessness in NYC is nothing compared to NYC in the early 2000s, let alone the 90s. Even in the late 90s the parts of upper Manhattan I frequented had burned out car husks and people shooting up in the streets. Hell, when I was in school you couldn't walk through Morningside or Riverside park without tripping over homeless people. Manhattan is downright bucolic compared to they way it used to be. The state of things isn't perfect, now, but it is orders of magnitude better than it used to be.
How cringe worthy.
>Absolutely everything is rinsed

Don't rinse raw meat. It makes things worse!

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/food-safety...
Yanis Varoufakis "Adults in the Room" is a book I enjoyed on the plane, but would probably never read in print format. It describes all the back-room dealing going on during the Greece economic meltdown. It was very insightful to see how the PR presented by the EU and Germany was so different from their real goals (protecting the banks and the rich from any losses - even if all their populations had to pay on bad loans that were structured to fail.)
Thanks for posting that report.

You might be interested in this report by the Australian Reserve Bank about Australia's housing price problems.

https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2018/pdf/rdp2018-03....

It uses the cost calculation of zoning that was worked out by Ed Glaeser and applies it to Australia.
It's because the simulation was built to simulate a culture that wasn't yet aware of aliens and alien interaction isn't part of the experiment. It's also less expensive in compute resources.
"the restrictions are intended to be for your benefit."

This gives me small comfort; since as much as I'm loathe to quote Reagan, "The most terrifying words in the English language..."

Yes, I am thankful we don't live an an even more authoritarian state. That doesn't mean I won't strive, advocate, and fight for one both less iron fisted and more open than the alternative you propose.

(Bluntly as well, you haven't done much to convince me WHY they should be needed, nor rebut my precedent re: crypto regulation, so an appeal to authority isn't a strong argument; it's quite the reducto-ad-absurdum to compare much of the whitepaper list in the OP to "nuclear secrets" in terms of potential risks, and even moreso, seems to support my stance, in that restriction on nuclear secrets has canonically NOT stopped our enemies)
Yup, my long history of playing Ultima and in particular UO was what made me go 'oh, so THAT'S where they got the name!'. It's nice to see how these fantasy worlds tie back to our own in inspiration.
I wouldn't say it's well developed. It's set up to get people on their feet temporarily. That covers many cases. It's less helpful for cases where chronic issues require ongoing help. Source: former Mormon, used to cut the welfare checks under congregational leadership, saw the inside baseball, politics, sausage-making, etc.
I don't know. Evidence is inconclusive, but suggestive.

I'm throwing out my lettuce like CDC told me to, but I woundn't go pointing fingers on twitter just yet. :)
The Triple Jeopardy of a Chinese Math Prodigy
"The right is not advocating for the complete destruction of the Government."

Government is not the solution, it is the problem. -- Ronald Reagan.

Shrink government so that it can be drowned in a bathtub. -- Grover Nordquist.
Has anyone published results on the impact of large scale TLS deployment on reliability? I’ve seen some older papers on errors which TCP missed but it seems like making a hard fail would be a nice win as the crypto overhead keeps getting cheaper.
https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar is relevant?
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