skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A startup with a single product dedicated to drone detection, that was being tested at Paris airports earlier this year. The company appears to be a spin-off from Thales, created last year.

Thales is the main French manufacturer in aerospace and defense that covers sensors, navigation systems, UAV, satellites and a few other things that ain't consumer oriented.

Looks like the French have figured out what the British did not. It might be faster to call the sales team for a demo in Gatwick next time rather than calling in the army.
Love this. There was this project along the same lines, from the olden days of node:

https://github.com/Raynos/http-framework
I vouched for it, and it came alive for a bit, although not immediately. I'm not sure if this was because it required multiple vouches to revivify, or whether there was manual intervention by administrators. It's dead again now, apparently by user flagging.

I vouched for it not because I agree with it, but because I thought it was non-offensive, and because I thought that it was better for this dispute to occasionally be in the light rather than always in the shadow-text of the show-dead.

As far as what's actually happening, I confess I don't understand. Shawn comes across as bright, polite, and occasionally oblivious to social norms. Which is to say, he doesn't seem that far out of place here. Dan has responded to him many times, including this meta-response linking to many other responses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18454702.

I also confess that part of the reason I vouched for this comment was that it struck me as a real-life example of the loudly-humming child in the backseat, with the hands-over-ears seatmate writhing next to him. I'm not quite sure which is Dan, and which is Shawn, but either way, Merry Christmas to both of you, and best of luck in your respective quixotic quests.
Trivia: Eve was originally conceived as "UO in space." :) And Runescape was "UO on the web." Even Neopets was originally inspired by UO.
Different user, but I find the lack of iPad support to be a real drag. I mostly use my iPad around the house, so if I want to use Signal it means I have to trundle over to desk where my laptop is docked.

Backing up messages is also pretty clunky and non-automated on Android, and impossible on iOS.
pdfminer is another good library (Python).
Players hated making things that had no value. They knew full well there was no market, but they were conditioned to expect a reward for doing it anyway. I suspect players would be much more tolerant of it today.
> People post pictures of me on Facebook despite my objections. Continuously. They tag me—despite my objections. With an account, I can make it difficult for an average person to find photos of me.

In the privacy settings there's a control so that you need to approve taggings of you before they go public.
> uninformed about the emotional experience of sexual assault survivors (irrelevant to the specific case of Dr. Ford)

She stated that she was pretty emotionally torn up because of that attempt for many years after the event. I'm not sure how an attempted rape is irrelevant to her emotional well being. an attempted mugging is nearly as emotionally draining as a successful one I'd wager... there is still a violation in trust there.
Nah. It’s always been like that, witness the amount of “oops, the API fell over two days ago, i just restarted it” twitter posts over the years. It’s always been a pretty haphazard operation, but Maciej used to pay attention. Now it really looks like his primary activity is political organising and he’s lost any interest in maintaining the site.
Early on, creatures learned skills just like players did. In the alpha, this led to wolves who hunted bunnies, and some bunnies the bunnies escaped and learned a little, and eventually there were both dire wolves (their name actually changed to "wise elder wolf" or something) and vorpal bunnies. These latter ones killed many unsuspecting players in the alpha, and we had to remove the creature learning because it was bad UX> We left in a vorpal bunny template in the launch game, however, as an Easter Egg.
> when a white person starts arguing about IQ scores, which is an explicitly white supremacist argument

No it isn't. IQ scores are a perfectly legitimate thing to debate, and whites don't top that scale, Jews do, followed by Asians. Calling this a white supremacist argument is itself racist. And no it is not uncontroversially accepted; that you think it is shows you're in an ideological bubble and have closed your mind to the fact that other intelligent people disagree with you and it's not because they're uninformed. In fact IQ tests still stand as the single strongest predictor in all of psychology, it is the gold standard of indicators. It is those who doubt IQ who are in the minority and who are apparently uninformed.

> The author complains heavily about how "SJWs" call people White Supremacist too often

They do, as you've just proven, the term is thrown around constantly for completely invalid reasons exactly as you have just done. You've just proven the authors point.
I think the reason why most server companies avoid PHP is because it has a potential of security nightmare. The environment where the code is allowed and expected to modify itself means that most of the existing security tools are useless; and the moment there is a software exploit, you have a huge botnet army.

(There is already another environment where code is allowed and expected to modify itself -- IOT devices -- and it has been converted to huge botnet.)

Naturally, the PHP language itself does not require insecure software practices, and it is entirely possible to have W^X PHP scripts. But this requires a separate channel for code update -- be it a ssh access to server, control panel or a secondary server running as a different user -- and thus is fundamentally incompatible with PHP's "generic server" architecture.
Users report that swiping right too often decreases your swipe limit and how often other users see your profile.
No, only ever had one for about half a year back in 2011 or so. Never got on WhatsApp because I already disliked it even before it was bought. Instagram isn’t my cup of tea either.
This is why I always thought that big penalties in MMOs would be interesting. In Minecraft you have "survival" servers, if you die you can't re-join the server for seven days.
If at any point in time a different group can force you to pay them money for the privilege of living on a plot of land, then you don't own that land.

Instead, the group that is charging you rent is the one who owns the land. And this true even if they call that "rent" by a different name, such as "property taxes".

Using the examples you give, Walt Disney does not own that land, as a different entity could raise rent in them at any point in time.

> The history of states is just people and organizations joining forces into larger legal organizations.

It doesn't matter. If this super organization has the ability to charge rents on all of the group under it, then the super organization is the one who owns the land. The smaller organizations do not.
D.Tube (from internal + external stats like similarweb) has had ~1M monthly uniques.

A full peer can run in every browser, but other components like DAM ( https://gun.eco/docs/DAM ) and AXE (still being developed) optimize network bandwidth, so:

Not all peers need to connect to other peers.

Some peers can be installed on laptops.

Some peers can run in the cloud.

WebRTC fails a lot because Browsers still suck, so a lot of peers still "daisy chain" through IPv6 peers (which have handled these large terabyte loads). We hope AXE will improve the WebRTC situation.

AXE will use a radix DHT to optimize peer connections, the algorithm is explained here: (copied from a chat I had explaining how it will work)

https://gun.eco/docs/DHT

So I can't give you any good answers yet, but we should get more stats coming up soon as these changes happen!
The term I used at the time was "virtual sociopath" -- you'd think sociopathy is more common if you glance at forums today, too... but there's a huge element of disinhibition brought about by non-personal contact. It doesn't mean the person is like that in person at all.
It’s not quite an official list due to the issue you mentioned but anything that realistically rounds up to an “agency” will publish notices or regulations in the federal register, and the fedreg API has an endpoint to get all agencies.
I started https://dataturks.com with one of my friends. This is annotation and evaluation workbench for AI companies. We have had steady and significant revenue going to end of year. Happy Holidays.
Yes, there is a connection. Which makes it all the more strange: Either does correspond as you say which means it has the same properties as the connective. In the correspondence the functor arrow is implication and a pair of functions ‘a -> b’ and ‘b -> a’ is logical equivalence. Using these we can trivially demonstrate the equivalence of Either to the associativity laws using an isomorphism.

That’s what makes his talk strange. He talks about types as sets and seems to expect Either to correspond to set union? If he understood type theory then he’d understand that we use isomorphism and not equality.

You can express type equality in set theory and that is useful and makes sense.

But it doesn’t make sense in his argument.

Malarky? Come on. Doesn’t have associativity? Weird.
It's interesting that you mention EQ in that statement. EQ was viewed as a direct rejection of the virtual world concept of UO. I only played it for 5-6 months so perhaps it changed over time.
I don't understand these naysayers. I'm not trying to be mean here, but is there anything more to that than an old guy complaining about how it was awesome in his time and age, and how we get everything wrong nowadays? I'm genuinely asking - are astronauts talking about space programs similar to actors and celebrities taking about moral or political issues? I.e. just famous but not so smart people?

Also, Elon's take on this three years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P8UKBAOfGo
Memories. What did we call this? "Server wars" if I remember correctly.
The federal reserve is a curious semi-company-agency with apppontment by president and Congress, but profits going to shareholders (large banks).
I missed my good friend’s moms funeral because Facebook decided that 2016 election bullshit was more worthy of my attention.

I’m sure he thinks that I’m a real heel as a result. Screw Facebook.
> in the US, it’s basically impossible to involuntarily lose citizenship

Over the past 20 years, several laws have been passed that erode proof of citizenship:

- id documents with an expiry date are not usable after that date (expired passports used to be accepted for domestic non-travel uses)

- the Evite database decides whether you can work at many companies

- parish records are sometimes deemed unacceptable as proof of birth, disallowing the reissue of other documents like passports

- some people have duplicate SSNs

- in the past year, a small number of people in both the USA and Canada have been told their original and valid citizenship documents were not valid by Immigration, with the burden of proof on the citizens.
If you want transaction like behaviour you can simulate it. Not sure if that is even remotely a point with Web APIs.
I started https://www.magiclasso.co/ which is a privacy focused ad blocker for the iPhone, iPad and Mac.

After spending hundreds of hours developing the app, this year I added optional Pro features to support and enable ongoing development. The slow and steady success of the app has exceeded my expectations and just recently I passed the 60,000 downloads mark.
The sample efficiency of ML systems are increasing rapidly in the theoretical realm, though the available data are growing magnitudes faster than the progress in ML sample efficiency. The article has a valid point: It's far cheaper to hoard data than to invent a more efficient ML system, thus we will see people race towards data rather than technical complexity.
Evan Spiegel’s Imperious Style Made Snapchat a Success Until Users Fled
What nonsense, if the chief editor is unable to verify the reporter's integrity.
Being a celebrity?? I was thinking he must be ill in some way, is he in the news somehow?
No. For all it's flaws and bad behavior, Facebook remains the best way of sharing photos with my friends and family. And it allows me to discover interesting events that I wouldn't have otherwise known about.
Cool to see you on here. UO fan since beta and I still log in from time to time. SWG was also great.
This is not a service. IPFS is not a service. Who ever has authorized the software to run on their computer is paying for it.

IPFS is a set of protocols, in the same way that Bitcoin is a set of protocols.

Do you consider a peer2peer WebRTC collaborative text editor serverless?

IPFS is just a fancy content addressed value store that allows peers to ask the network if someone has the value for any address, and OrbitDB is a database built on top of it.

> If no, then where will my data get stored if I upload it and then disappear for a year?

On your computer, and it will be available to the network if you turn your computer back on.
12 key lessons about tech mergers and acquisitions from Cisco’s John Chambers
I also like this page of the docs: "SQLite as an application file format": https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html
I disagree somewhat with what this astronaut is saying, but generally speaking I think astronauts are supposed to be quite intelligent, especially about issues related to space. I was under the impression that each of them had excellent skills and knowledge in at least one area that benefits their missions and of course strong understanding of space-related things.

So, to answer your question I don't think it's the case that it's similar to celebrities talking about moral and political issues in any way. I assume that he's pretty well informed but just has a totally different view that's less forward-thinking than others of his astronaut brethren.
via hanging around magical bubba, xavori and that gang I also came across many, well, less refined types who fit this mold. Meet them in RL and they were perfectly normal.

They just saw UO as a different kind of game as other folks did, something more akin to Quake where it was no holds barred PvP. There were multiple folks I knew who couldn't understand that someone wouldn't view the game that way.
I think it was more "who has a bigger rocket who can hit a precise target with a nuclear weapon" war. Going to the moon just proved the capability without nuking someone.

I don't think people really understand the tyranny of the rocket equation and the propellant mass fraction. For the space shuttle, about 80% of the mass was fuel. Propellant mass fractions are typically around 0.8 to 0.9.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propellant_mass_fraction

Going to Mars with people implies we're going to bring those people back. We've never launched something off of Mars before, and getting up to escape velocity on another planet (more than 2x the gravity of the Moon) isn't an easy task. The slower you go on the return trip also means you need more consumables (air, food, water) for the travelers. Not only do you have the mass to go up, but you have to land with that mass in order to launch again from the surface.

I think the future is automated settlements. A group of robots 3d printing and producing things automatically (things like methane fuel, simple parts, what if we could build a rover on Mars) would be a huge boon and start bootstrapping Mars for human settlement. We would need to take a huge amount of stuff to start doing anything interesting on Mars. Something that would take lots of trips, before we could support just a few people. People are generally quite fragile and more of a liability: limited life span, unable to easily repair, get sick or ill, bored or depressed easily...
Hmm interesting. So it would make more sense to you to read "The Spiegel's article..."?
My experience has been that TDD tends to do a poor job of testing complex systems with complex interactions. If any of the assumptions the tests are based on change (or are incorrect/brittle) then you will silently experience failures.

Integration testing is the more valuable side of testing imo but much harder and slower. Also not amiable to TDD in my experience.
>The sample efficiency of NN are increasing rapidly in the theoretical realm.

Can you provide some references for this?
also see GeoPackage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoPackage
Anyone who goes so far out of their way to state that they don't push values is clearly trying (feebly) to mask their own motivations, perhaps even from themselves. Perhaps more incriminating is how thuroughly self-referencial this person's writing it. This person is so engrossed by his perception of himself as neutral that he doesn't recognize the validity of other people's experiences.
You're not actually as cool and edgy as you think you are. No one is impressed.
I think it is kind of a stretch to call it epigenetics when the mother was traumatized while pregnant with the child in question. I think we need a different concept for that.

But I can well imagine that, in most cases, trauma leaves a body permanently altered in some manner and that this can potentially impact later children.

With no real scientific basis to back it up, I will suggest that if trauma is passed on to the children biologically, the degree and manner of the inheritance may vary depending upon whether the traumatized parent was the father or the mother. Logically, the fact that the biological mother (in "old fashioned" pregnancies) both contributes DNA and also serves as the incubator for the fist nine months of life, whereas the father only contributes DNA, should make a difference in how heritable such a thing is.
Yes because I found it absolutely useless since I didn't interact with people much besides a friend who I forgot to tell I was leaving Facebook. Thankfully she emailed me so we could stay in touch.

I wasn't using FB a whole lot since it made me feel bad but what pushed me to the edge was their utter contempt for their users.

I doubt it means much given how big of an influence it has in the world however. And I'm not sure I'll get all those productivity benefits since I'll waste time on something else.
Dollar General and Family Dollar are not dollar stores. They are variety stores - their stuff is not $1.
Dollar Tree is a dollar store.
Thank you! I've been trying to find an appropriate person to contact over at Harper Collins, but don't have any contacts over there. I'll definitely try and go through their front office reception if I can't find a more direct contact, but they're a pretty massive organization.
I love any UO-related post!

Speaking of killing everything in UO, in what would be considered the "T2A" era of this game (I'm estimating something like 1998-1999), I remember manipulating the line-of-sight bug that let you attack NPCs inside town in such a way that the town guards wouldn't come (There were many "criminal acts" you could commit, like attacking or stealing from a player, and if you did them in town the guards would instantly kill you).

I would town kill NPCs to get colors of cloth that were not achievable using the dye tubs available to you. They would spawn with colors that were less garish than the ones you would end up with if you dyed them. I would chop their clothes up, sort them by colors, and use the raw cloth to create clothes on my tailor. It was a great money maker, because killing NPCs was quick and easy, and in the end it's just clothing items, but the product was not available anywhere else. If someone killed you in the process, you were naked except for a weapon anyway, and people generally did not understand what I wanted with the cloth in the first place so it didn't get looted.

From the housing system to the criminal system, UO was just the best MMO. You could do anything, but you had to suffer the consequences. I love the totally free-market economy it gives rise to. I feel like MMORPGs got a lot softer and less "libertarian" (if I can use that word without all the political baggage), for better or worse. Probably for better, because WoW was popular in a way that UO never would be.

I always heard Anarchy Online was great, but I never got around to playing it.
"What's the imperative? What's pushing us to go to Mars?" he said, adding "I don't think the public is that interested".

I think it's the opposite -- the general public is much more interested in sending humans to space than yet another unmanned mission.

I agree that robotic missions give the most bang for the buck, and should continue for the foreseeable future, but as far as the general public goes, a manned mission is much more glamorous and more likely to keep Nasa funded.
Of course, even those two were quite different; Xavori roleplayed a lot whereas IIRC Bubba didn't bother.
What’s the point of this comment? To make the parent poster feel badly?

I thought it was cool and edgy, for what it’s worth.
I don't know about other areas, but here in the middle of Oklahoma the Dollar Generals have been a real positive. There's a lot of rural areas where a Walmart came in, then folded later. It left a 1-2 hour drive to get buy any kind of "real" food. The DG stores here have been expanding to include an actual grocery section, including fresh produce and (limited) fresh meat. More is available frozen. They have excellent prices on canned goods. Are they as good as a full grocery store? No, but they're a _lot_ better than the gas station/convenience store and its endless supply of deep-fried burritos...and also the only alternative.
I think that's where the name comes from. I suspect that it's satirical to point out the whole pile of practical issues with shotgun sequencing.
They're supposed to be quite intelligent about a very specific scenario: operating a specialized vehicle in launch, low/zero gravity, and landing. I wouldn't look to them for understanding or insight into the geopolitical or economic role their missions might be a part of. When listening to experts it's always very important to remember precisely what their expertise happens to be.
> The only appropriate response, if that were true,

That is an absurdly narrow viewpoint for a website dedicated to news about technological advances. I'm honestly astonished.
How much did access cost?

Ideally, I'd prefer the data be free, but if the fee was (mostly) nominal, I'd consider that almost as good...
This seems to exactly follow the examples from the readme. Guessing this is by someone that worked on the project. Either way great tutorial.

One complaint... `#` THIS IS NOT AN ASTERISK! (he said it like 5 times in one video)

Otherwise great tutorial
> To deploy a model in js (as a web page) all you need is a static S3 or GCS bucket.

First of all, what you have described is far from the reality.

Had this come true, only inference will be in javascript, through some language agnostic standardized model format, not training. The model is just a blackbox function for the js runtime to call. The amount of javascript to make this happen will be surprisingly slim anyway.
"the project has 711 times as much test code and test scripts" than source code. That's a really impressive feat.
My favorite was stacking flour on the shore and teleporting through locked doors from the plank of a ship.

Also there was a massive subculture of collectors who grabbed the rare items not locked down after a server reboot. The game shipped with a lot of bugs that they fixed by adding tiles after the fact and some weren’t locked down so people grabbed them up. My speciality was fruit bowls :P

Once we broke into a GMs house and stole an all red sword.

Also using circle of transparency to mark a rune inside a house.

Teleporting demons and dragons into peoples towers. Gosh the fun never ended.