skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It just seems completely inevitable to me that China eventually wants to conquer the world. Why is the west enriching them, and by proxy funding their research into war machines when it seems obvious that these things will eventually be used against us?"

I think the threat angle is questionable, even if China perfects altering human genetics to create a superior breed of humans, the theory of mutually assured destruction + our arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear payloads + the concept of a deadman's switch is still pretty solid insurance against anything they can do on a macro level along with any other major world power like Russia.

Any war/history buffs out there care to chime in and change or reinforce my opinion on the topic with some concrete facts and data?
Yeah, tried reading the summary and then the first few comments and I was still confused about what the heck they were talking about.
Probably on the front page of HN.
I don't like the 3D 'enhancements' either, but if they look like they do in this video, I'll stop complaining.

It's the fact that they actively degrade the tile content that annoys me.
Right now as I am interviewing instead of working overtime for free.
I was curious about that comment so I Googled it. Here is the top hit which has fairly good depth:

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/05/14/shoplifting-cal...

The summary seems to be that Prop 47 treats shoplifting under $950 of value as a misdemeanor. As a result, law enforcement is unlikely to pursue and punish, so thieves get away scot-free.

Additionally, organized crime has exploited this and can easily recruit people for their shoplifting rings. The article reports that retailers have seen a rise in shoplifting since the law took effect.

So presumably, package theft of anything below the value of $950 from a door step (not a federal USPS mailbox) would only be a misdemeanor in California.
How does the second sentence produce the conclusion "nope?" If the arm is held "constant" and the platter is spinning at 7200rpm, it's going to trace something very close to a perfect circle.
Ant Design is the best UI library in 2018. The amount of components you get out of the box has no comparison.
You assume correctly about the anime. Then again, Harry Potter also turned into a quest to search for Voldemort's seven horcruxes, so it won't be much of a stretch to adapt Harry Potter to a location-based game.
Parents Sue New York City Over Mayor’s Plan to Diversify Elite High Schools
Good question. The model developed in that paper, (neural autoregressive flows) is a discrete-layered architecture. It's a member of the Normalizing Flows family of models. Normalizing flows define a parametric density by transforming a sample from a Gaussian by a series of transformations:

z0 ~ Normal(0, I)
z1 = f1(z0)
z2 = f2(z1)
z3 = f3(z2)
x = f4(z3)

and they use the change of variables formula to compute p(x):

log p(x) = log p(z0) + log det | df/dz0 |

In our paper, we propose a continuous-time version of normalizing flows, called Continuous Normalizing Flows. We derived a continuous-time version of the change of variables formula:

dlogp(z(t)) = -trace(df/dz)

Anyways, the confusion is probably that both models are called flows. We wish that Normalizing Flows had used a different name, so that we could save the word "flow" for continuous-time transformations, but it's too late for that :)

Neural autoregressive flows are powerful density models, but are computationally costly to sample from. Continuous normalizing flows cost about the same to evaluate densities and to sample. We compared the two in a follow-up paper: [https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01367]
The trial is essentially a joke. Here's some more context:

> participants included in the study were on aircraft at significantly lower altitude (mean of 0.6 m for participants v mean of 9146 m for non-participants; P<0.001) and lower velocity (mean of 0 km/h v mean of 800 km/h; P<0.001).

So essentially they had people jump about 2 feet from an airplane sitting at rest. Of course there were no injuries, and that was the point. Few people will participate in a trial in which the control group could die, and such a trial would be highly unethical.
and every other suggestion in this thread is trash
With all due respect, I’m going to go out on a limb and assume you aren’t that geek since 99.9 + 0.01 != 100.
what do you mean good animators? How do you animate 3d maps otherwise? You seem to imply this is a competing solution for some existing products that will produce broadcast quality video files of flybys of 3d maps...
How to Do Just About Anything with Python Lists
Hah! That leaves me free to steal everybody's packages because I don't have a drug habit. Some poor schmuck will end up being suspected.
I'm not a fan of the Randy Newman's Rednecks. I think most of Tom Lehrer's music would be a better, "I wanna go back to dixie" would even one up Newman on the same topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAwhC_btAUU

I think the "protest country" genre could be better represented. I'd take John Prine's "Paradise" or "Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore" over Johnny Russell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEy6EuZp9IY

I love that Tom Waits is on the list, but I can't help but think that Don McLean's "The Grave" is probably better known.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe6j0JBwEO4

I also feel like "The band played waltzing Matilda" should be almost-mandatory, but I'm not sure where it would squeeze in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZqN1glz4JY
> Why is everyones reaction to put {executive} in jail?

Perhaps because if it were normal civilians they would be put in jail?

Why should an executive be exempt from laws?
Seems like a great way to hijack GitHub accounts. The amount of permissions the app requests is massive.
http://www.simpsonsworld.com/video/320768579741
I have no knowledge of the area.. Is this sarcasm or truly your opinion?
In New Zealand we have an annual 48 Hour Film Festival where amateur film makers make a short film in well, 48 hours. I can definitely see this being used heavily in next year's competition.
Is there robust integration of google maps with arcGIS in general? If not, then I would not expect any unique integration of the two platforms strictly for the google earth studio context.
Everything you should know about certificates and PKI but are too afraid to ask
News stations that don't have access to drones?
From what I understand, their contract with Nintendo (or whoever) explicitly dissolve disallowed it.
> at the highest point of that parabola the net vertical force on the ball is zero

This is not correct. If we count gravity as a force, then it is pulling on the ball just as much at the peak of the parabola as anywhere else, and once the ball leaves your hand gravity is the only force on the ball (leaving out air resistance); your hand doesn't magically exert force on the ball once it's thrown.

If we do not count gravity as a force (which is the approach taken in General Relativity), then there is no force on the ball at all (leaving out air resistance) once it leaves your hand.
that's why you need a typed compiler for this kind of stuff
I’m talking “Alan Sheppard” man in space, not “John Glenn” man in space. Suborbital. Blue Origin can do that any time they want to risk it.
I set up a Pi-Hole + Open VPN server on Digital Ocean for about $5/month. I connect all my devices, all the time, and I haven't seen an ad in months. Highly recommended.
A super simple leader election algorithm in go with MongoDB
When can we expect a news article telling people scientists advise not to wear parachutes?
The cost-benefit analysis doesn't support that, prison time is expensive and petty theft doesn't really cause that much damage.

That's the rationale that makes car theft such a huge problem around here in the Seattle area, or did until the laws were tightened up a bit. Prosecutors and judges either didn't consider it worthwhile to punish offenders heavily or didn't have the legal tools to to do, so we ended up with people who had literally dozens of prior arrests being set free to steal more cars.

Not everything is supposed to be a profit center, and that includes law enforcement. I pay taxes to keep criminals away from my home and out of my life, and I expect to get what I pay for. Whether it's inconvenient or unprofitable to do so is not my concern.
There’s so much missing hip hop, in general.
Apple will still need to SoC from 5W ( MacBook ), 7W- 15W (MacBook Air), 25-45W ( MacBook Pro ), 65-95W ( iMac ), 95-200W ( iMac Pro and Mac Pro ) all these combined of only 20M unit per year.

I hope I am wrong, not sure if it make any financial sense.
You could also ride the swings at the park for free. You get a brief sensation of weightlessness at the top.
At Google we adoringly call these "centi-threads."
I read it as 82k meaning 82 thousand meters (k used often to mean thousand and altitude is often measured in meters).
It should be noted (and this is one of the biggest concerns with open hardware) is that you often cannot change said hardware -- after all it's a physical object. But this means that if the hardware has keys baked into it which you cannot change, it can be rendered non-free even though you have the chip design. So while secure enclaves will be very useful for many things, and I am hoping we can get some even more ambitious uses of secure enclaves, I would be very wary if industry starts reinventing Intel's BootGuard with RISC-V (which has Intel's firmware keys burned into hardware -- rendering free firmware impossible to use on such platforms).

All that's necessary is a way to enroll new keys, and when new keys are enrolled all the secure storage is wiped. This allows for free use of your own hardware, while also keeping secrets safe from attackers.
Plenty; as far as I can tell, an engineer is an applications-oriented scientist who works with macroscopic objects...
I agree that “do it this way” can be godsend. However, suggesting a library is only one of the ways. By suggesting all these tiny libraries, I don’t think we will mentor the less experienced community in the right direction.
Yeah I understand that, what I mean is that from our perspective a person should be able to walk into a government office and be safe from extra-judicial sanctions. So a Saudi national may not feel that safe themselves, but it is harder for someone from a Western-style liberal democracy to intuitively understand and is therefore horrifying.
> When you jump, you're briefly experiencing a few g downward while you push up on your legs to go against gravity, then briefly zero g for the short amount of time where your body does not touch the ground and you actually follow a ballistic trajectory, then finally again a few g upward as you land.

You have the takeoff part backwards; you experience a few g upward when you jump. If you're just standing on Earth, you experience 1 g upward, not downward; the force you feel is not gravity pulling down on you, it's the Earth pushing up on you and preventing you from free-falling downward in response to gravity. When you jump up, your legs exert additional upward force.

(When you land, your legs exert upward force again to stop you from falling down any more, so you have that part right, as well as the zero g part.)
>>6 stories they either have less severe injuries or are just dead so the owner just doesn't bring them to the vet

I would guess that at that height something must've broken the fall such that the cat suffered almost no injuries. I really don't see how the cat would survive the fall otherwise.
I can say the same about Tachyons.
you can still have remote disks(same or next rack, 2m runway) with bare metal if you use HBA with external sas cabling.

this works reliably, native speed, not too expensive and is well tested.
You learn how to deal with this in time management classes.

Coworker won't leave? Stand up, walk to kitchen and get a drink of water, chit-chat for a minute and then say well I have to get back to work, see you later.
With all due respect, those numbers are on purpose, i.e.:

99.9% of customers who are not trying to beat them to win

0.01% of customers whose outmathing is so good it is causing them problems.

The rest are customers who are outmathing them, but not enough to cause them problems. And by problems I mean problems worth spending their time on.
TimescaleDB 1.1 performance optimizations and PG11 support (beta)
Seems like you just have an axe to grind. Hooks solve a lot of problems, and being ignorant to that doesn't make them useless :)
Emergency brake on the elevator will mess with your carefully laid plans. In freefall it will only drop for so much before the clamps engage.
This is awesome, the ship looks awesome, especially the way it accelerates after dropping from the plane, but...

Reaching space is one thing, staying there is something else.

cue elon re orbital velocity https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/669131093379956736?lang=...
Getting somebody on-site with training and a drone and a flight permit and communicating what exactly you want and getting the right footage and hoping the weather cooperates sounds a lot more difficult than launching a piece of software.
I know but I have chosen to simplify the idea as the chance to survive (and recover your health to the level at which you won't regret you have survived) is negligibly small.
Okay thanks. The PC I'm assembling is for an 80yo guy who doesn't trust the internet, and would be horrified to learn how much Microsoft wants to track his usage.

I won't be telling him about that. He deletes emails and even text messages as soon as he's read them, for fear of them causing problems. The last thing he wants is Windows popping up some message, contextually trying to be smart and know what he's doing without him inviting that bot into his world.

Microsoft (and other giants) simply don't get it.
I think tigershark is referring to this nice comment you made a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18644724
U r saying u have a lot of money to waste. Donation is better.
> But, I'm nearly positive that's not the message that is being conveyed by the artist/photographer in this image/collection of images. So, I'm not really sure where you are going with this.

I actually think it's very much part of the message of the particular image it concerns (at least, it's part of what I take from it because of how it resonates with my personal experience), to wit, the whole collection speaks to the pervasiveness of the smartphone in modern society, and the image in question speaks specifically into it's insertion into moments of casual intimacy.
Words have multiple meanings applicable in different contexts. Murder is not exclusively a legal term. Your parent comment clearly was not looking to make a legal argument. Was that not obvious?
Graphic Designers Earning Money Online
There's 20 million+ comments. Nobody read even 1% of them.
I think imagine is probably not the best word to convey what the parent is talking about. Maybe "take seriously". We also have plenty of movies involved anthropomorphized inanimate objects, but (almost) no one believes they have any kind of inner lives or self-awareness.
in the menu with satellite enabled.... disable globe. this takes it back to the 2D map style.
Clicked just to see the message saying Chrome only. Nice to see the devs at google still don't give a shit about browser diversity and standards.
Somehow I don't expect HP to be very successful project as well, but the reasoning seems off to me. If anything, Japanese market is more open to new HP franchise products than the others. But I don't think it was actually the Pokemon that made the game successful, it was the mere fact of neutral, yet well-known setting in combination with a relatively novel gameplay. Ingress attracted attention as it was, but lacked the familiar name. But essentially Pokemon Go is the same thing as Ingress, and HP will probably be too. It doesn't seem to be as attractive as that combination of novelty and nostalgia of Pokemon Go 5 years ago.

This isn't even remotely a reason for why the game should fail of course, merely absence of an obvious reason for it to succeed. But IMO: while having absolutely huge potential to be great, neither Ingress nor Pokemon Go turned out to be a particularly good game. Maybe HP will be different, but for now I stand by the opinion that Niantic actually isn't a great game-making company.
I remember something similar for CFD application but haven't seen much after that. It would be awesome if we can build a cheap and fast Navier Stokes solver with neural networks.
Why isn't caning a reasonable solution?

Serious question.
Plastic armour
Yeah. And that often bugs the shit out of me. I know they are doing the excessive attention thing, angling for a bigger tip.. which.. I already tip minimum 20% but they don't know that.. and there's no protocol for "everything is fine please leave me/us alone", not to mention, it puts the power dynamic in stark relief, which is not what I'm eating out for. I'm currently vacationing in mexico, and it's delightful to not have hovering service. Pay your staff a living wage.
Getting the plain imagery in Google Maps without the falsified 3D models is pretty straightforward. After switching to satellite view, just open the sidebar that lets you select between regular map, satellite, and terrain views, and below it you'll find globe, traffic, transit, bicycling. Click the globe option to disable it, and it'll revert to the plain 2D view.
I think this is like the medical research paper version of the famous RFC for IP over Avian Carriers.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549
Working longer hours has many drawbacks
Show HN: We are giving away a free landing page design to 4 startups
> even if China perfects altering human genetics to create a superior breed of humans, the theory of mutually assured destruction + our arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear payloads + the concept of a deadman's switch is still pretty solid insurance against anything they can do on a macro level and any other major world power like Russia.

Altering human genetics might lead to a creation of radiation-resistant human. If such mutation gets to a significant percentage of country population, such country might actually welcome an unfolding MAD scenario. (Subject to radiation-resistant food and energy supplies etc)

I think it is ultimately possible - elephants have large bodies but less cancer, cockroaches posses high resistance to radiation, etc. Would this be called "human" is another question...
http://archive.is/FHv4u
Nixon tapes
on par with jaywalking and littering

This is false. Jaywalking and littering (and most traffic offenses) are infractions, not misdemeanors. Misdemeanors are still serious crimes that can result in jailtime.
> but the knowledge in this case has been readily available for literally decades but not applied appropriately.

This isn’t a kinematics homework where you can draw the links and joints and get full marks. You have to actuate them. For a human gait, you need to generate the same torque, at the same velocities, and the mass of the actuator needs to distribute across the linkages in the same proportion. Guess what? Actuators like that are hard to find.
BKPR: A standard runtime environment for Kubernetes
Spotlight on EKS
Womens rights were fairly decent for the times in Viking society.
You haven't read what the paper about, are you? The Navier Stokes PDEs and its numerical solvers have absolutely nothing with this paper.
Tagged memory is the biggest game changer for security IMO. RISC-V has a proposal IIRC, but ARM has a product (ARMv8.5) that looks like it will really raise the bar.
So you're being pedantic about an especially uncharitable interpretation of "determined"? Thanks?
Slick Red's CEO here. The startup community and specially the ones in HN has been incredibly generous to us. We've been fortunate enough to meet and work with so many amazing startups and entrepreneurs from all over the world.

And now we want to give it back to this community by helping startups with what we have at our disposal: web design.

That's why we are giving away 4 landing page designs to 4 startups. Absolutely free of charge. No upsells or any trickery.

Just a spreading a little Christmas spirit!
Not to mention all of the extra analytics that it collects and submits to a google analytics account
Huh. I thought this was stupid, then realized I was... maybe?

Space tourism is pretty niche. A booking marketplace doesn't really make sense right now, so I assume your real goal is to create the market by incentivizing supply through crowd funding/aggregating demand for various "levels" of space tourism? What economies of scale are you targeting? Do you have a timeline for collecting deposits?

If I'm wrong, please consider the above anyway :) Personally, I won't settle for less than a few LEO laps.
Tipping doesn't hurt the workers, price obfuscation always benefits the seller at the expense of the buyer.
> the system is rigged to enable food and entertainment employers to take advantage of there employees.

And tipping is offsetting that burden to the customer.
If you are interested in memristors, look also into an earlier form of similar nature, called "memistors", as well the hardware ANNs developed called "ADALINE" and "MADALINE".

Dig around (wikipedia is a good start) - you can find enough information on how to build a memistor and play with it yourself.
Nvidia Deep Learning Benchmark: Apache MXNet 1.5x Faster Than Pytorch and TF
The build scripts (for coreclr, corehost, corefx) are a mess. I worked on getting the build working for Yocto, and there were so many things done differently all over the place. They need a single team to go through their entire build process, top-to-bottom.

Don't get me wrong though, I worked to integrate it into Yocto because I love .NET/C#, but the build system needs a lot of love.
I can't upvote this enough. It also means it is easier for all internal people (not just tech writers or engineers) to make modifications (such as fixing typos, grammar, or adding missing context) safely and without needing to set up complicated tooling/tests or annoy people beyond review diffs+approval.
Should Have Used Ada #1 – How some famous vulnerabilities wouldn't have
Also, the one with the trial was just published, while the funny one is from 2003. Maybe this is immediate in sea turtle years?
Ask HN: Getting 403 errors when trying to access Hacker News
Over the last day, I have been receiving 403 errors when trying access Hacker News.

I suspect that it might be my IP Address (I am using my data connection now without issues). I am not sure what I may have done to have my IP Address blocked. What can I do to fix this?
Ok listened to it, finally.

It really comes across that he doesn't understand what he's talking about around tech. "Transportation Operating System"? It's cargo-culted technobabble.

But yes it did veer in to the creepy side there
As a GIS developer I don't know what my thoughts are on this.
What is your experience like? I live in NYC and I find that comment to match my experience today. The only thing missing is that some (perhaps many, but certainly not all) people use one or more of Venmo, Square Cash, Zelle, or Apple Pay to send money from person to person, but default to cash or checks if they don't have a service in common.
gitg is pretty helpful for visually checking changes before committing. I prefer it to text-more diff and use it for projects that don't require IntelliJ.
Yeah, because who cares about performance when you have a pretty UX?
So he'll copy the name to the description (shrugging emoji).
They added (limited) PvP to Pokemon Go yesterday.
That’s an odd assertion, given PvP battles are now live.

Do you have anything to back it up?

My understanding was that they just have a small team and aren’t very good (ie. brave enough) at making changes beyond ‘text fixes’