skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, the government won't go down without a fight. Those teaming mobs won't be squaring of with Elon's plucky group of scientists, but with a military tasked with defending them and motivated by a promise of survival for themselves and their families.

Second, we don't have to worry about protecting acres of land-based solar panels from damage if we're beaming microwaves from orbit. The receiving arrays would be smaller, more defensible, and cheaper to maintain. The powersat could be weaponized to defend its own receiving array.

Third, regarding distance, it's really hard to dig more than a few meters underground without heavy equipment.

Fourth, in a total collapse scenario -- no food, air becomes unbreathable due to methane pollution from melting permafrost --, the people remaining on the surface will die off rapidly. The death squads may last longer, but aren't going to be able to present a significant risk to a deep underground military base protected by the members of the former government with a powersat on overwatch.

After the chaos of the collapse, these locations could quickly begin the effort to repair the atmosphere using all of those terraforming approaches that we would not tolerate being deploying today: ocean iron seeding, orbital shades, bioengineering.

Then the hardened survivors could return to a generally functioning planet, and then maybe go to Mars with their newfound skills.

EDIT: This might seem preposterous, but it's far more viable than shipping one million people to Mars and building up a manufacturing base under time pressure capable of keeping everyone alive and fed while also reproducing a supply chain capable of developing integrated circuits on a world with a different gravitational constant.
Where does the IPCC day the humanity won’t survive beyond 2040?
It seems like that is more appropriately attributed to USG's persecution of whistleblowers. I'd bet that Snowden would rather have not fled the US, but he did not have that option.

You can't build on a broken foundation - exposing domestic anticonstitutional corruption is more important than the fallout to foreign policy.
For example, here's a paper from eBay, "GUI Testing Powered by Deep Learning":

https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/blogs/tech/gui-testing-power...

> ... writing and maintaining test suites and scripts for multiple platforms [TestNG, Selenium, Appium, IOS Driver, Selandroid, etc] take considerable time and effort and come at the risk of reducing the test scope.

> Contemporary developments in DL unleashes efficiencies in GUI testing and in the software lifecycle, potentially. A recent pilot, described below, proved this approach to be realistic and practical.
You are saying that ITER will fail?
It depends on the language. In C it is not a branch because division by zero is undefined and not a path you consider. In Java you can argue that there are two branches. One branch that throws an exception and one that does not.
And the probability to find the corner case ('input = 0') for the simplest expression ('value = 1 / input') this way is not quite astounding.
My podcast is the only weekly podcast on autonomous cars in the world. Launched in Feb 2018, I've organically grown it to the #1 spot on Google (for searches like "autonomous cars podcasts") with nearly 10K listens per month. I published Episode 74 today -- the Season 2 finale -- and felt it was finally time to share with the HN community. Happy holidays and all the best for 2019!
The bill is the issue.
>Nothing bad ever comes to companies as a consequence of these leaks, so what is their incentive to stop them?

I could probably get away with murder, but for some reason I'm not out on the town strangling prostitutes.

Why do companies always need an "incentive" to not be anti-social? Why can't CEOs simply derive pleasure from delivering a quality service in exchange for some advertising eyeballs?
Lol @ nutritionfacts.org.

That dude cherry picks studies just as much as the people he criticizes.
Will it show up in searches from just facial recognition? That would be very bad for anyone trying to live in a way incongruent with their culture’s standards. (I personally left in solidarity with a Muslim friend who no longer wears Hijab, but would prefer her family didn’t know that; pictures of her without Hijab started showing up in searches without her approval suddenly and without warning when they removed the old “confirm before search results” option)
Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year Seven: 1986
Fung is a quack.
Could you guys elaborate on the relationship between PyText, torchtext, and AllenNLP? I've briefly used the latter two, but with how quickly things are moving it'd be nice to have a quick answer from the devs themselves.
>The American people largely disapproved of the tax cut

The media spoke negatively - almost to smear campaign levels - about the tax cut from the very beginning. Is it any wonder?

>and that has held steady in the year since its passage [1]

According to your source, support has increased. It’s still not popular among a majority, but post media smear campaign (mostly) support has gone up from 29% to 39%, and disapproval down from 56% to 46%. That’s pretty big.
Windows 10 ships a copy of sqlite3 since version 1511, I don't know which version it's shipping in the latest updates though.
Did you not read my comment? I explicitly mentioned that there are multiple forms of unemployment statistics measures by Labor, and that workforce participation statistic is most accurate.

Yet, you will never ever hear these stats on TV or from Trump. It is solely just screaming about "RECORD LOW UNEMPLOYMENT", when it is anything but a healthy employment situation.
> That said, which four have been shown to be lying?

I posted a separate source for each of the four above. The two you're missing are the "rape on a boat" allegation and the woman who initially corroborated Ford's allegation on Facebook before backtracking after questions arose.

Keep in mind that at the time, the pressure was on to just drop him as a mere result of a large number of allegations. These allegations weren't intended to stand up to scrutiny--just to mount political pressure to drop him.

> I do believe something happened with Blasey Ford, although ultimately I don't know if her memory of the events will fully gel with what happened, or with what Kavanagh thought was happening at the time.

Agreed.

> Yes, I would have expected him to keep his cool even under such intense pressure.

I think he was in a no-win situation. If he had kept his cool, he would have appeared inhumanly cold. It would have been spun as him being uncaring and confident he's getting away with his sexual assaults.

That's kind of why I find this so disgusting, though. This is essentially the "new normal" of high-stakes politics. You're going to be put under a microscope as we hang "potential gang rapist" around your neck for weeks, and then win or lose, we'll move onto the next news cycle without even acknowledging how explicit this character assassination was, or the effect on future nominations.

And there will still be people who don't see this as reprehensible.

> Boof is farting and devils triangle is a drinking game?

Devil's triangle did end up being a drinking game, though [1]. It's not even weird or unexpected that high school boys would name a game after an explicit sexual act.

That the rest are being grouped in under "presumed lies" isn't fair, either, and the fact that this stuff is even being discussed is more an indictment of this circus of a process than the judge. We can expect future candidates to keep as many secrets as possible, be as vague as possible in answers, and we're all worse off for it.

[1] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devils-triangle-drin...
This isn't, like, a real debate. Go here:

https://pwnies.com/

Start with the 2018 nominations but feel free to check the archives. Drive-by browser vulnerabilities are RCEs.
There’s absolutely no way to justify or defend it. Makes you wonder what types of shit go on every day that we’re not aware we’re exposed to.
I was and I stand corrected.

I was trying to address the idea that since the US did bad things in the past, it's ok for other nations to do them too.
What is property, and why?
>it seems odd to me that academic prestige isn't controlled by the universities. you'd think that that's something they can create on their own.

The older I get, the less I respect published papers, and academia.

Politics over proof, it keeps showing its ugly face in results, in the process of picking a topic to study, and who gets the research money.
So then why leave the packages unsecured?

I think parcel lockers are a great invention, but if you don't have them, you can have Amazon packages show up in their own lockers.

Since this is HN I'll leave it to the technological solution rather than questioning why delivery protocol is no longer to hand off to another human being.
I think reparations are the way to go.
clearly the data suggests that its bingos that make up most of the luck in the game.
Not so much as a guess as a documented fact:

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/12/stable-channel...

The Chromium exposure is through Web SQL.
Willow, and yes birch ('canoe birch' = white). Each is probably preferred where it's more common. Fur trappers knew about birch where willow was rare, and BTW long before Herr Bayer was born.

EG https://www.survivopedia.com/how-to-make-your-own-aspirin-fo...

EG https://www.anniesremedy.com/betula-alba-birch-bark-leaf.php
Ask HN: What's the two most important decisions you ever made?
Its a fairly special case where any website can execute arbitrary SQL due to WebDB. It should be mentioned that this is deprecated: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis...
Optimizer (with the statistical knowledge about the data) and being closer to the data (important data may be always in memory) and most importantly supportive data structures like indexes and materialized views.
To clarify, a "self contained" application includes the .NET Core runtime itself (coreclr.dll, System.Private.CorLib.dll, etc). It is also possible to ship just the application and depend on the version of .NET Core installed.

Thinking about this a bit more, you could do something similar to what Paint.NET does AOT compile at install time. crossgen.exe is only ~2.5MB, so it would not cost much to ship with the application.
That is often handled by group policy. I'm not entirely aure how pinni is handled, maybe it's disabled in ie or chrome via group policy too?
In one case, a 39-year old teacher allegedly died after not getting appropriate medical care due to her
sexual orientation.9
According to a lawsuit filed by her brother, the teacher’s medical condition was not
taken seriously by the EMTs who responded to her 911 call after they “‘became immediately aware’” she
was a lesbian. She was abandoned for over an hour after being admitted to the hospital – in violation of
protocol – and while unattended, she fell into a coma.10 She died several days later.1

https://nwlc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/lgbt_refusals_fa...
Good intentions don't save bad policy from causing really bad effects. Venezuela was going to help the poor. Really, that was the intent. They wound up with the poor losing 15 pounds each because they can't get enough food. How did they get there? Well, there wasn't enough money to pay for all the things that the government wanted to do for the poor, so they printed more money. Then the next year, there still wasn't enough money, and prices had gone up, so they printed more money. And they wound up at runaway inflation. It's a real danger, to be taken seriously. Merely saying "it's better than the alternative" does not in fact make it better than the status quo, even for the underprivileged.

But there are two things that might prevent this idea from winding up at hyperinflation. First, it is a one-off. The government prints money to pay off everyone's debt. Now nobody has debt, so the government doesn't need to do it again. Except that having no debt didn't give me enough money to buy a house, so I still have to take out a mortgage, and behold, I'm in debt again. And it didn't give my kid enough money to pay for college, so she's in debt again. And now there's cries for the government to do it again. And if they keep doing it, then we're probably going to wind up in hyperinflation. (Especially because of incentives. If the government paid off all debts, and I think they're going to do it again, my incentive is to borrow as much as I can to buy anything I think I want, because to me, it will be free.)

The second way this might not wind up in hyperinflation is because of deleveraging. A bank has $100 on deposit. They lend out $90 (fractional reserve banking), and now $190 exists, but someone owes $90, so the net is still $100. Now the government prints $90 and pays off the bank. Now $190 exists, which is no change, but the net is now $190 instead of $100, which is a change. Is that inflationary or not? I don't know.
My second paragraph is why I think China might be justified to some extent. My first paragraph was only to say that I don't think China's culture is unusually disrespectful of others.
Jesus. What state is that? waiting periods for birth control? No blacks? WTF, is this 1920?
Yes. I think the main limitation is not land use — rather: political will, energy storage, transport, manufacturing, and power leveling.
If "pulling the ladder up" includes things like "not allowing the world climate to be destroyed" or "preventing disregarding human rights violations and worker quality of life" then, yeah, probably.

Giving each country a fair shot at developing even if they didn't happen to get on that ramp at the same time as some Western countries is a good goal.

At the same time, that's not such a vital principle that we should sacrifice other moral or pragmatic imperatives to get it. China may have gotten a late start, but that doesn't give them the right to ignore everything we've learned since then about a country's obligations to its people and the world.
I don't think you understood my comment at all.
The best way to cancel any cable service is to simply unplug your equipment and drive to the service office and plunk it on the counter while announcing loudly that you’re canceling your service. It took all of 15 minutes and all the service rep said was “Sorry to see you go.” No retention techniques, nothing. It was the best customers service experience I ever had with Comcast.
"Google Home" is either:

the app installed on your phone to control say a Chromecast,

or a smart speaker.
Australian Gag Order Stokes Global Debate on Secrecy
I think what happened is that it reached that minimum, but not while directly above the tail of a 787. By the time it was directly above one of the 787s, it had gained another 9 feet.

But I could be wrong in my interpretation...
To be a bit glib, unit tests don’t catch security vulnerabilities. Maybe I’d agree this can happen to any project, but my example might be something more like OpenBSD
The notable news is not that they’re trying to do it. The news is that they are succeeding, and what’s worth noting is that our defenses are so weak.
Yes, fission creates waste, but fusion reactors as currently envisioned would also create radioactive waste — not the fusion products themselves — but materials of the containment vessels which have been bombarded with neutrons.
The last time it came to that, the US had a civil war.

I am not advocating it in this case, but ultimately you can only have so divergent ideas about life and rights before it comes down to who has the biggest (or the most) effective guns.
>How can they ever defend that?

So you didn't read the article?

They didn't mention deliberately shipping products with asbestos, but rather than even with their testing, they could not find/remove the trace amounts.

It's sad that I'm not surprised that a HN user would go for low hanging anti-coporate karma over real discussion.
"China’s economy has slowed sharply in recent months, presenting perhaps the biggest challenge to its top leader, Xi Jinping, in his six years of rule."

Note the word: rule.
You can do this with machine verified programs. It's like proving a maths theorem; you don't check it for all values but you create a robust argument that it must be true for all values.
I can certainly imagine thieves opening the box soon after taking it and throwing anything that doesn't look valuable or easily fenced into a ditch. However, RF bags may be expecting a bit much sophistication from people who can't seem to avoid getting clear shots of their faces on cameras and risk jail for the thrill of opening a potentially worthless "mystery box".
I've asked several professors for scientific research and always got a paper back, although it was sometimes very slow.
Taking away their leeway to do this might not be a bad thing for a law to do...
Its not just China.

Here in the UK for the first time, i've seen multiple billboards with nothing but scraps on them (they've deleted the adverts by scraping the remnants off)
This all looks great but one of the primary advantages of DynamoDB is that you don't have to spend resources on maintaining or troubleshooting ec2 instances. When you have a large deployment, not having to worry about HA on your data store is hard to beat.
Transatomic claimed to have the fuel utilization of fast reactors without being a fast reactor. That turned out not to be the case.

However, there are a bunch of other startups working on molten salt reactors, including Bill Gates' Terrapower, Terrestrial Energy, Thorcon, Moltex, Elysium, and Flibe. The farthest along is probably Terrestrial Energy, which has gotten through the hardest part of Canada's licensing process.
Hyperloop only works most comfortably in very flat routes. It's something I never realized until I visited Hyperloop's offices in LA when they first started.

I got to make some early promo photos for them [0] and signed a 10-year NDA in the process. However, what I learned (which is public knowledge) that at high speeds even smallest elevation drops would make the passengers feel the free-fall sensation of being on a rollercoaster. Basically at high speeds the elevation change of the vertical vector components of anything more than several degrees can approach the free fall dropping speeds.

I have also taken numerous train rides in Switzerland and driven through large parts of the country and I don't believe the technology can be used there as well as it could have been deployed in other routes in the world that is naturally more flat. So I'm wondering if this mostly an R&D project designed to export an entire tunnel/hyperloop making solution.

[0] https://www.instagram.com/p/BMiyAIdhCJn/ (photo is about 80 frames stacked. Because we only had one welder at the time and I had to reuse him and also to intricately light every parts of this lot)
The letter swapping sounds fun!
Yes, that's commonly known as "arena allocation" and has been used for decades in programs that have well-defined phases that create lots of connected objects with the same lifetime, like compiler passes, RPC serialization layers, or query planners.
Why aren't you storing the text content of the articles as text files? (If you were, they could be accessed from other places, not only through the Vitriol interface.)
Defend the misogynistic mob? That's exactly what parent did not do. Indeed, the unsavory, /v/ element was always a huge liability for GG as a social phenomenon, and I don't know of anyone who would even attempt to deny this.
From the Hacker News guidelines [1]: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." (IIRC, this particular guideline dates back to when Hacker News was called Startup News).

The linked article, from the New York Times, elliptically discusses a topic that the New York Times itself cannot report on in its online edition, due to a gag order by an Australian judge. So it is not covered, and cannot be covered, by the modern-day equivalent of TV news.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You might be right, but perhaps countries with something to lose might be better places to live because of opportunity. I understand you give up some rights in exchange for 'freedom' but the opportunities are better. Sometimes you just have to live blissfully aware.
> If you don't want the developing world to follow in the West's footsteps, perhaps we should share some of our wealth with them?

We are, it's called the global economy, and it has performed a wealth transfer of unprecedented scale these last decades.

> we have a lot of reparations to look forward to.

Colonial reparations are complete crock, because they are based on counterfactual history speculations, and there are absolutely no concrete limits on those.

The Roman empire obviously plundered the British isles for inflation-adjusted astronomical amounts during its colonial history, should modern-day Italians pay reparations to England?

It's absurd.
You: Know what I'm saying? Machine: No. Sorry. I'm Still learning
Where would one go to find more of this conventional Makefile wisdom? I've had so many issues trying to use make the "right" way (flexible, clean, terse, etc.).

I feel like one of the best ways to acquire this wisdom is to post a project with lots of mistakes and let people tear it apart.
That comment was specifically in regards to the claim that ScyllaDB is cheaper for nearly every use case. The 5000 nodes point was to make clear that you cannot disregard automation and maintenance costs. This is relevant to the post's claim about trying to be fair: the operation costs are included in the DynamoDB pricing and not in the ScyllaDB pricing and it was not even mentioned.
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>I don't see any downside to spending money on projects like this.

Would you rather spend billions of dollars on unproven energy solutions OR anti-cancer research for poor children?

Ask questions like this, resources need to be allocated.

Although, given the US government, probably spent on the military.
Adding context to your comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decade_(Japan)
>And this is also yet another demonstration, how C/C++ places return value into EAX/RAX register.

No, it's a compiler implementation detail, not a C/++ specification.
This would make sense if Elon's goal was to keep the government alive. It doesn't if his goal is to keep himself and those he cares about alive.

Also most collapses to worry about are not "the Earth just became immediately uninhabitable" but instead "there is a complete collapse in civil order". Think the power grid goes down like it did in 2003, but on a wider scale and doesn't come back up. As we go from inconvenience to mass starvation, what happens?

If you hide away, the survivors aren't just going to conveniently die off. They are going to remain, and WILL have a grudge.
This reminds me of the confidence Alt-coiners had in their alt coins.
You should be interested in reality rather than projections. Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, Huawei, etc. are corporate entities separate from the Chinese government.
The Chinese military’s collaboration with foreign universities
Take a look, its not just China. Its everything.
I'd doubt delivery drivers would have the time. They already sprint to the door with the package or drive right up.
I'm not sure that I would have a problem with medical research all being in the public domain.
It's specified by the relevant ABI standard, FWIW.
Can you clarify what you mean by “smear campaign”? The negative stories I read mostly focused on how the tax cut would increase the defecit and debt (which it did [1]), how companies were likely to use it for stock buybacks versus investment or hiring (which they did [2]), and how the tax cut would disproportionately benefit higher earners (which it did [3]).

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/16/trumps-tax-cut-didnt-reduce-...
[2] https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/10/investing/stock-buybacks-re...
[3] https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/effect-tcja-ind...