skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I LOVE my pixel book. Crostini is really a game changer. Its a super polished experience using native chrome + Linux apps. Android apps too!
Wow. I wish this existed when I was in middles school, trying to write science fair project in prolog. It sent me down an academic rabbit hole that was way above my depth of knowledge. And the books I could find were really dry academic oriented. But I powered through and wrote a prolog program to help identify poisons.
lesson: politely tell shitbag customers them to go f’ themselves.
Looks like GPS-III 3,880 kg at launch. That's fairly hefty, but Falcon 9 has launched other, more massive satellites all the way to GTO (Geostationary Transfer Orbit).

The only information I can find on why this one was so energy intensive has to do with the high inclination the GPS satellite has to be in (55 degrees), which is pretty far off from inclination of the launch pad in Florida.

Wikipedia says this launch was originally planned on a Delta IV. That would make sense because it has higher specific impulse hydrogen engines. The Falcon does well in LEO, but improved Isp really helps as you go farther out.

Here's a video comparing ULA's rockets to SpaceX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoUtgWQk-Y0
Am I the only one having the most annoying mobile browsing experience with this page? The page is zoomed in out of the windows until I scroll.
Fascinating post by a structural engineer who actually inspected projects by this firm is over in the reddit discussion.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sydney/comments/a91wit/opal_tower_s...
It's pretty cheap to embed a tiny GPS receiver and crappy chip antenna these days. Probably enough for time sync in many situations.
Go on an adventure in your Linux terminal
Apple's GameplayKit has several examples

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ge...
Has anyone else noticed that Facebook notifications seem intentionally broken? So many times I've noticed that the number of new notifications go out of sync between FB on my desktop browser, mobile browser and messenger app. Even viewing the notifications on the desktop and navigating somewhere else seems to make some notifications new again. Anything to make that red dot appear again to get you clicking and engaged.
This comment/thread made me curious, and I’m sharing this here in case others are as well.

Apparently it was this Tweet that started the controversy, which is actually related to the CoC itself as well: https://twitter.com/_sagesharp_/status/1042769399596437504?s...
Would Russia allow it? They wouldn't want Americans to get a close up look at their sensitive military hardware, and you can be sure SpaceX would allow them to.

Even if there's no novel or unusual technology on the Glonass sat, learning that is intelligence in itself.
I haven't tried Fusion 360 yet, so I can't compare. For lack of any other options I would definitely use FreeCAD again. It wasn't a horrible experience.

I love supporting open source. For example, the 3D printer I have is the Lulzbot Mini 2. The company behind it is ... aggressively open source, to put it mildly (_everything_ is open source. Even their manuals for factory assembly are online.). Which is why I went with FreeCAD initially. But I lost a lot of time to A) the awkward UI; and B) bugs. Having just now, the day before Christmas, finished wrapping the gift ... I wonder how much time I would have saved using a "professional" CAD solution. shrug

Words of advice if you do go down the FreeCAD route; learn about dataplanes and shapebinder (check YouTube for tutorial videos). They are somewhat recent features. If you just look up FreeCAD tutorials you'll find a lot that tell you to bind sketches to faces. That's the old way of doing it and it can lead to a lot of problems. Dataplanes are the new way of doing it.

And be careful in the sketcher. A number of times I've had it tell me a sketch is fully constrained, but I was scratching my head because I didn't think it was fully constrained. A day later I'll go back into that sketch and it'll have realized its mistake and moved the sketch around (had one failed print because of that bug).

> Don't have any source code available?

I'm thinking of writing a blog post about the whole project at some point, with all the documentation and such. Bit exhausted right now...

Best of luck with your 3D printing!
I think all those pop psychology books have done a great disservice to us. It give us false confidence that by applying some " principles" you will influence the situation and arrive at a better outcome.

In reality you influence nothing unless you have something they want.
I use Go for systems programming and networking such as a toy P2P app or a blockchain implementation.I also used it for cryptography https://github.com/radicalrafi/gomorph

It depends on the use cases but I'd say hope on the Go train.
I only use Python for things such as quick impementations or numerical stuff and machine learning Python is still unbeatable in these two areas .

Learning Go isn't that hard if you know Python it's pretty easy most of your time will be spent awing at the Standard Library which has everything you'll need.
Ovo Energy - a uk energy company, which should have been called a “a tech company that happens to be doing energy stuff” :)
U2F prevents some vulnerabilities that TOTP alone can't. It's possible to replicate it in software instead of a hardware token, but so far nobody has. So if you're adopting 2FA, suggestion is to use U2F if you can.
Even if you stick purely to CPython, it still matters in that there's no guarantee that it'll still be ordered when you update (if you were reading 3.6 dicts). It's not just an implementation detail for CPython, but an implementation detail for specifically CPython 3.6 (and any other version maintaining that status).

So now that its upgraded to language feature, you can actually expect backwards compatibility in future updates.
> You could split off the ad selling wing from the rest of it for a start.

Normally when businesses are split up, they are broken into multiple pieces that each have their own revenue and are viable standalone businesses.

In this case, the ad-selling part of Facebook is the entire business as far as financials are concerned. It's the only material source of revenue for Facebook. If you were to split the ad-selling wing from Facebook, then the "remaining part" would have no revenue. A regulator action along these lines is tantamount to crippling or shutting down the business.

Source: Facebook Q3 2018 earnings show that the only material revenue is advertising at $13.5 billion (Q3 2018): https://investor.fb.com/investor-events/event-details/2018/F...

For comparison, Microsoft reports earnings from many separate lines of business including Windows OEM, Office, Office 365, Enterprise Services, LinkedIn, Azure, server products, Gaming, etc. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2018-Q3...
I like your attitude. If you were stuck fixing the mess the software engineer had to fix, you'd appreciate a random stranger making your life easier when they didn't need to. Maybe they'll pay it forward. Think of the money you didn't charge as your donation to making the world an ever so slightly nicer place!
A lot of the people who mention EROI are basically conspiracy theorists, and the basic math they use makes no sense.

This website debunks some of the stuff that you'll find if you just blindly Google EROI:

http://bountifulenergy.blogspot.com

However, even the crazy people generally aren't claiming that solar panels are net negative.
Correct. But the question is, if one wants an inclined orbit, why can't you launch out of Kennedy to the northeast or out of Vandenberg to the southwest. Wouldn't this save all the delta v correction you need to do after getting into an equatorial or polar orbit and then transitioning to an inclined orbit?
I used mypy to build a tiny toy deep learning library it was nice to use.
99 Good News Stories You Probably Didn't Hear About in 2018
Been using Ionic for 4 years. I think v4 with just TSX + Redux has been really good. I’ve good things about Angular 6 but TSX is just much more intuitive to me.
Honestly, my experience with both flex and grid is that they are 80% solutions and the easiest ways to get the other 20% is to rewrite everything using floats and `display: block`
Bye bye YouTube and Facebook ( 1 page of copyright infringement is enough to take everything offline and no one may take over the domain name)
It’s so simple to setup your own Stratum-1 server, I don’t get why more folks don’t. The one I keep in my house is a 1U unit about the size of a 16 port switch and keeps time accurate to 15ns via a small Multi-GNSS antenna (yes, serious overkill for home needs, but I already owned it for a use case that used to need it).
> Clients therefore initiate communication sessions with servers which await incoming requests.

Dogs walk on four feet, therefore anything that walks on four feet is a dog?

> Both client-server and master-slave are regarded as sub-categories of distributed peer-to-peer systems.

Dogs are canids, that doesn't mean all canids are dogs.

The client-server model really entails more than having one party that sends a packet before the other. Some illuminating details and a shallow comparison to the peer-to-peer architecture can be found in the article you linked.
I don’t use off the shelf APIs, but I’d be surprised if Google’s named entity recogniser isn’t pretty good in the news or financial domain.

OpenCalais is pretty good in the financial domain. http://www.opencalais.com/opencalais-demo/

IBM isn’t great. Don’t know about Amazon.
> Are you talking about bind-mounts? If yes, then yes you can use them.

Yes, I’m referring to the bind mount capabilities. By default they are enabled, but Singularity’s config file allow us to disable user defined mounts and set global mounts that will always be used.

> Yes, this is precisely the long-term usecase we want to have.

I’m confused. The situation I described was a negative where a user run container bind mounts directories they shouldn’t have access to and modifying it. Like mount host /etc to container /mnt then start editing the host systems configuration files. I may be misinterpreting your statement but I don’t see how that event should be a long term goal...
A lot of this kind of stuff is more about language and standard lib culture than strict language features. Ex - Rust actually has exceptions, technically, in the form of Panics, and you can infact catch them. But the culture of Rust is strongly against using panics in that way. Basically never catch panics and only allow them to happen when you're okay with the whole program blowing up. Use Option and Result and check them if you care about your program not blowing up.

Similarly, Ruby has nice blocks, and many other languages have similar closure support. But Ruby's support is so built-in from day 1 and heavily used in the standard library and the general culture of Ruby gems. Many of the methods in Enumerable take blocks, making it easy to chain a bunch of functional stuff together, even without any support gems and from the earliest days of Ruby.
The Mysterious Tradition of Hiding a Pickle on Christmas Trees
Except there isn't a lack of evidence unless you require more evidence for Jesus than every other historical figure. Are you going to say there's now no evidence for Alexander the Great? What about Socrates? What about Pythagoras? That's the exact point so many people have tried to make -- there's just as much evidence, if not more, for Jesus than for these other people.

Furthermore, if it's an appeal to authority to rely on scholars in a given field (many of whom are agnostic or atheist, yet still realize that there probably was a historical Jesus), I hope you don't believe in anything science says. After all, saying you believe in global warming is just an "appeal to authority". And so is trusting Carrier. Speaking of which here's one (of many) sources detailing why Carrier's ideas fail [0] and are basically dogmatically motivated -- which is hilarious since it's exactly what you accuse religious scholars of.

Also, Galileo did not believe it was flat, and there's plenty of sources during the Late Middle Ages that basically state they knew the earth was a sphere.

[0] https://www.patheos.com/blogs/euangelion/2017/12/peer-review...
However, truly the pond will never be the same again. Nor, chaos theory tells us, will the world. In time, across the globe, countless lives will be lived and lost which never would have been lived and lost had the rock not been dropped in that pond.
The main place to explore spending data is https://www.usaspending.gov/#/download_center/
and
https://datalab.usaspending.gov

Let me know what you can't find or request via https://www.data.gov/data-request/
Mark did everything to avoid FB as another MySpace, he forgot one crucial detail
Wall Street Has Not Been This Wrong Since 2008
Ray Peat has been saying this since forever :)
I think the more interesting point here is how easily people are manipulated by coordinated marketing/information campaigns. And I think this may be not be a flaw of facebook but rather its ultimate business value.

At the end of the day facebook is an advertising platform - isn't influencing people the ultimate goal of advertisement/marketing? At what point do we call marketing manipulative vs. effective? Obviously you shouldn't allow foreign countries to engage in these markets for elections but those same strategies can be carried out within a nation by competing forces and they come with similar consequences.

I think this is a fundamental problem worth addressing because representative democracies rely on well-informed, independent electorates for good outcomes. Marketing on the other hand aims to influence individuals in a coordinated manner towards a given outcome. How do democracies ensure electorates continue to make independent decisions in a world where marketing and advertising tools are increasingly powerful? I think this is a bridge we have to cross - these tools to influence are here to stay and democracies and electorates will need to adapt accordingly in ways outside of just regulation.
Here's a real report of a near-miss (20m) with a drone by an RAF fighter jet:
https://www.airproxboard.org.uk/uploadedFiles/Content/Standa...
Not if the insurance companies can help it.
How is it different from lodash?
> the net trend for everyone is upwards.

Not true. Unemployment is low at the peak of the longest bull run in history, sure. The problem is wage growth is static, or even dropping: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-...
I actually use iOS for work stuff almost constantly, lots more than I use anything else. (My Macbook spends most of its time these days downloading things from Dropbox and backing them up to time machine, plus whenever I decide to actually write some serious code.) But I'm a professor-type in a non-collaborative field, so:

- the iPad Pro is amazing for reading academic papers with the pencil at hand. Ditto for grading and such.

- the keyboard is good enough that I can write on it at just about full speed, and I write in markdown anyway.

- most of the things I need to do that require full computer chops can be done in the cloud---I have a bunch of little Heroku dynos sitting around sleeping (on free time) until I ask them to do something like run a document through pandoc or add something to a database for one of my data collection projects. The shortcuts app in ios12 + Pythonista + Heroku are an amazing combination, they allow me to turn almost anything complicated into an API call that I can trigger with a freaking voice command if I really want (but mostly share documents into).

Just about the only way this hinders my usual workflow (apart from having to bust out the Mac for heavy coding) is that there's no Zotero on iOS. But sooner or later I will get around to shoving that into a Heroku dyno and making some shortcuts to push web pages into its readers and then it'll be solved too.

For non-collaborative workflows this is perfect. I can see how the author's collaboration needs really would not be met by such a setup though.
You know the market is headed for the toilet when Mnuchin convenes a Plunger Protection Team.

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-treasury/mnuchin-to-conv...

Or perhaps I'm reading to much into one headline...
See https://designsystem.digital.gov
This is anecdotal but we quit getting plastic bags at our farm because we got tired of picking them up out of the fields. There wasn't a huge amount of them but they used to always and I mean always be out there no matter how many you picked up. We switched to only bringing paper home and now we find maybe one a month from roadside trash or wind.
The biggest benefit of social media over forums or email lists is ML-based ranking. You save a ton of time reading the most crucial, while skipping the rest.

The platforms are addictive not because they're designed to be, but because they pick out the best and most interesting content!

FB, YouTube etc represent a revolution about how content is created and consumed. You no longer need to browse through 10s of posts or emails (or videos) to find something you really like. Algorithms do the curation for you.

I learned so much by hanging out in FB forums (much more so than any other old-style forum). And my favorite pastime these days is YouTube Red.

Don't believe in the scare or the negative hype. Social media and AI curated content aren't going anywhere. They might evolve as required.
Tell HN: Google recommended adult diapers
I wrote and sent a suicide note via gmail and received an advertisement for adult diapers via Google. This ad was finally received after years of googling about suicide.

Perhaps “Don’t be evil” Google has an algorithm that determines that suicide is highly probable in order to charge the most amount of money for adult diaper ads. Perhaps such an algorithm is tied to AI. Perhaps such AI ( or those who run it ) has ( have ) a survival instinct combined with moral significance attached to survival, and thus views humans as bacteria to regulate as part of a symbiotic system.

Perhaps this report will fall upon deaf ears.
During last month's openzfs call [0], one of the actions items that came up for discussion was "How do we all work together?" There are scenarios where issues on ZoL are still being investigated on Illumos. I don't know further details on this, sorry.

At first came the interesting question of "what is OpenZFS"? A spec? A reference implementation that everyone branches off? How do we exchange fixes and ideas and updates?

Another topic that came up was "What should the defaults for a zpool be?" this was for portable zpools.

Please note: the above were still open questions. We're going to have a few follow up calls to understand and ideate better.

Source: I was on the call, and I'm an Illumos community member.

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w2jv2XVYFmBVvG1EGf-9A5HB...
Groovy. Probably because Groovy borrowed quite a lot from Ruby.
Executive summary: this is a pitch for the idea that Ashkenazni Jews are uniquely intelligent, and that this might be linked to certain genetic diseases. The latter should be food for thought for those people that want to CRISPR out poorly understood genetic diseases. The former, like all instances of "race science", should be regarded with extreme caution.

"For centuries, Europe was sitting on this vast untapped resource of potential geniuses. Around 1880, in a few countries only, economic and political conditions finally became ripe for the potential to be realized. The result was one of the greatest spurts of progress in scientific history, bringing us relativity, quantum mechanics, nuclear bombs, dazzling new mathematical systems, the foundations of digital computing, and various other abstruse ideas I don’t even pretend to understand. This lasted for approximately one generation, after which a psychopath with a stupid mustache killed everyone involved."
For cars, you have to look no further than the type of car a person can buy to see this in action. Poorer people can't afford as nice cars, which means their cars are likely to be older and more likely to need repairs and break. Which costs them more money. And they'll need to buy a new car sooner, which costs even more money. Even look at buying in bulk versus buying singly. It's more expensive right away, but often lasts longer and comes with more, meaning you have to buy less often and save money in the long run. It's pretty much all the same concept.
Just curious, is the default desktop wall paper going to have a pot leaf on it?
China is becoming (or probably already a good way into) becoming 80's Japan

What comes next is anyone's guess.
Title is wrong. They don’t unwittingly do it.
To be fair I don't think Trump is particularly adept, but I'm still not convinced tariffs are a bad idea in the long-term. China does all sorts of things to prop up Chinese companies and I see no reason why America shouldn't be looking to do the same.
> search engine it...

That is, go to google.com or DuckDuckGo.com and search for it...

I mean, open the browser, click on location bar (on the top) and write...

That is, if you are on Windows, click Start menu (which is now 4 rectangles),...

Nevermind... /s
I'm talking about the flat namespace.
The lesson? Should have charged them more.
Thank you for your response!

I remember that NILFS2 was in the middle order of magnitude in case of bugs from the presentation about filesystems fuzzing from 2016[0]. That certainly makes it more robust than BTRFS, but it's hard to compete against so much tested code like Ext4.

Time to first bug:

Ext4 2h BUG()
Xfs 1h45m Soft lockup

Gfs2 8m Double free
Ntfs 4m Soft lockup
Nilfs2 1m Page Fault

Hfs 30s Page Fault
Hfsplus 25s Page Fault
Reiserfs 25s BUG()
Ocfs2 15s BUG()
F2fs 10s BUG()
Btrfs 5s BUG()

[0] https://events.static.linuxfound.org/sites/events/files/slid...
I'm with you, this feels very weird to me.

Usually you get a reasonable relationship between zero- and one-indexed views of the same thing. The relationship is normally that the zero-indexed points 0 and 1 form the start and end bounds of the 1st item.

CSS grid numbers columns 1, 2, 3 and also number the the lines around those columns 1,2,3,4.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Grid_La...

Having grid line 1 come before column 1 makes it feel like the grid lines are substantial and the columns are merely the bounds between grid lines.
NetBSD is older than FreeBSD.
Blender has the shortcuts and programming environment, but lacked the icons/tooltips in many cases. Many existing tooltips listed only what the button mapped to in the python environment.
I already document every task I do (my immediate boss requires it).

The way I view it is it was good busywork for the weeks before Christmas when not much was getting done anyway. I don't bother fighting it because if they want to waste their money paying me to downgrade a web site for one person, I'm happy to take their money for it.
I would say that your experience isn't typical. OpenBSD has an excellent reputation of Thinkpads.
Theoretically the system is set up to do this but in practice its complex and takes time.

Insurers and lawyers can have a field day over liability. Was it the builders fault? The structural engineer? The architect? Or caused after construction? All of these will have their own insurance and all will avoid paying unless its clear to a court that its their liability.

Of course major issues like this dont happen so often so theres little to reference. But for example there was a recent case where the owners corporration insurance refused to pay for a roof flying off after a storm because in their view poor construction was to blame. Its a lot of time for residents to be without a home while these things are sorted

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/insurer-rejects-stormdam...