skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apropos of this, but about human incompetency rather than DNA tests, the Phantom of Heilbronn. A serial killer so well concealed that her very existence was only given away by DNA traces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn
Dubious Electrum Wallet Found on GitHub
> more like slightly more official bailiffs

No they're _less_ official than bailiffs.

Bailiffs can force their way into your home to take your property to pay for some fines and taxes.

A TV licence person can do absolutely nothing - they're just a normal member of the public.
Hard to translate to other domains without a tool to prove you wrong until you are right.
It's pretty expensive yes.

Especially for lower paid commuters in London. Driving is also a non-starter if you work centrally so it's really your only option.

The only European city I recall being expensive compared to my usual commute was Geneva, Switzerland.

Eastern-bloc tend to be cheaper while the likes of Germany are closer to our prices.
Agreed, but I believe we can act about it.

My environmental fingerprint is probably <5% of average first-world countries people, I don't consume much, food mostly obviously, and local one, mostly vegs/fruits according to the season. no car, no pets, not a smoker, working remotely, avoiding trips as much as possible.
I try to save wild life as much as possible, on every possible occasion, even if it's just moving a dead one off the road, in a better place.

At a single person level, these actions looks insignificant, but if everyone does it, it won't be since the major source of pollution is residential pollution, i.e. people, and the other sources of pollution (industry, large-scale transports...) are also driven by consumption. So if people stop over-consuming, this saves dramatically our planet, and our sibling animals. Of course governments need to foster this change
I wonder what the data compression ratio is for this encoding.
I think this has little to do with narrow-mindedness or anything along those lines, and a lot more to do with the fact that definitions for words exist to facilitate communication. If I redefine life to include, say, my computer, I ought to have a very good reason to do this; otherwise, I'm just going to confuse people, and end up giving a full explanation every time I use the term 'life'.

Basically, this concept looks at the causality of language in reverse.
So... the black hole may look like a collapsing star but also like a planet? The only thing distinguishing it then would be its escorting (but not yet fallen) world around it?
Addressing both ram and storage is definitely “early”, future tech. We’ll definitely get there someday. Once SSDs close the gap.
He does have a point. Re-reading Zucks post and looking at the questions, I get the feeling that the questions are just rephrasing talking points of the goodness of FB (from their perspective). Seems the post is not an earnest "here's what interests me and I'll focus on this year" but more "this is how I want you to look at FB, meaning you'll think better of us".
So the advice is don't listen people who post on HeyFromTheFuture? It doesn't surprise me but it's self defeating.
Already happened, three months ago.
Outdoors they don't even increase friction. If you're wearing normal shoes and it's raining, the reduced contact surface because of the bumps makes them slippery.
Are you sure you want to invest into something that requires you to depend on some third party hack to do what you want it to do?
Apache Foundation Announces Airflow as a Top-Level Project
Each to their own. I loved the book and loved the film, though it was silly and dark. But agree it was 'paced' but that was something I enjoyed about it.
IBM Researchers Remove the “Mem” from Memcache
> I find british people to be very well spoken in general

Well, it's their language, at the end of the day. You'd expect them to be well spoken, innit? :p
And then as you look closer, you wonder how it ever worked. Hang on, did it ever work?
Indeed, many distros tackle the reproducibility issue. But for the better part (and because of history), it can only be an after-thought, some extra layers that tries to fix the existing system.

The fundamental difference with Nix and Guix is that it's "reproducibility by design". A much more sustainable approach in my opinion.
There's a bigger story hidden behind the achievements of memory champions. The groundbreaking result from the past few decades is not that there is a way for a human to memorize a thousand numbers, or that a particular method of memorization (say, memory palace) is the way to do it. It's nice, but not that relevant for everyday life and not applicable to most life problems.

The true achievement is recognition and verification, across many disciplines, that:
1) there are better and worse ways to improve skill
2) anyone can improve any skill [if they do it the right way]
3) mental representations are key to high performance. Some are better than others.
4) one should study how to learn a given skill, or get someone who knows that to teach, e.g. to study people who are best at something - to find out their training regimen, their way of structuring the information/skill/work/memory/... - this is likely to work everywhere
5) If that doesn't help, i.e. little progress is made, one can still figure out, discover, create their own ways of practice to advance.
6) the upper limit of skill is way way higher thank we think
7) Many fields don't have clear criteria for success, so little feedback is available on low-level performance details, which limits the progress of training methods.

If you're interested in all that, I recommend reading the book of a renowned scientist who actually discovered a lot of this stuff and who worked with early memory champions, provoking them to push the boundaries of what was thought possible -- Anders Ericsson, "Peak: Secrets from New Science of Expertise".
I love the UK, and am actually going there tomorrow.

...and that’s exactly why I feel so strongly that they are being idiots. Nobody would care about an actually terrible country ruining its future and descending into madness.
> 50% of the ticket price is essentially a "tourist tax", which is unavoidable by buying a different kind of ticket ... at the station

Do you mean "avoidable"?
But how do you become ideological in the first place.

Either you're a conspiracy theorist and believe so many weird things that adding another believe won't top the cart.

Or is it that we want to believe explanations that we understand (or think we do) and not believe what we don't understand (science).
> It's really really hard

How so? I find it interesting to see how people frame and rationalize ideas that I dislike or disagree with.
To me this seems unhelpful. I'd say there is no "knowledge"; there's only belief. And if you defined knowledge as "justified true belief" then you couldn't apply the definition in practice in the real world because you don't know when something is true. But that's philosophy for you: fun (for some people) but not useful.
What I like about this list, is that it's opinionated and thus terse.

Take note that some of these tips are either not considered good practice or even harmful depending on your locale.

E.g., the data protection standards in the EU are so high, that there's no need to worry about DNS or ISP snooping for advertisements/tracking. This makes using a VPN or using a different DNS less useful. I might even go so far and call it harmful, because you're introducing a party that you don't have such a strong contract with.
One thing that wasn't clear to me: Would a song in A minor have the A minor transposed to C minor? Seems like they gloss over the mood.
The keywords in the Awareness Ladder are just examples of what we used. We did craft the keyword list and the SEM agency helped us filter it. We would dump the irrelevant keywords too.
The second point is we used both Exact Match and Modified Broad Match for different ads in a campaign.
Here's an example: http://prntscr.com/m7erv2
(CTR/CPC are decent)
The touristy areas thing is probably a big deal. I've also spent ~10 years in London, some of it in Zone 1 without witnessing any attempted street thefts or knowing of any friends being mugged. Approx 1 week in Athens: two, one targeting me (neither successful)

There might be a difference in street crime between London and Athens but it's not that big.
Canonical has 100% remote positions for EU & Americas: https://www.canonical.com/careers/all-vacancies
It superficially sounds a bit like Azure's CosmoDB - they say that'll scale horizontally as much as you need, it's document-oriented, ACID transactions, with SQL, Mongo and graph APIs. Obviously lacking badly the open-source and cloud-agnostic. I wonder if there's a world where Microsoft and Apple could work together to standardise something cloud-agnostic based on the best of both.
I don't but I know some people are delighted at the sound of some sport cars.
I call it the cultural event horizon.
Drones are overrated in my opinion. Most of the "map an area" use cases are more cost effective via airplane pilots doing their miles. Most of the "monitor an area" use cases are more cost effective via CCTVs.
Looks like a sleek and powerful interface, but at end seems to be just another kitchensink for manual input. No scripting or other automation and service-API is still in work.

Im always a bit surprised that programmer invest such an amount of time into recreating the same software again and again. Notes&Task-Manager are all more or less the same, and most of them are not something which a programmer really should use. Those people are handling code and data for other people as natural as a cook his knife. And yet when it comes to their own data they always go for the stale and static, the dumb solution which can is so different from their normal self. Why is that?
Not entirely.

For example, a function which takes a property path (in the form of an array of strings) and an object as parameters and returns the value at that path inside the object still needs overloads for every single tuple length.

type Key = string | number | symbol;

function get<T, K extends keyof T>(path: [K], obj: T): T[K];
function get<T, K1 extends keyof T, K2 extends keyof T[K1]>(path: [K1, K2], obj: T): T[K1][K2];
function get<T, K1 extends keyof T, K2 extends keyof T[K1], K3 extends keyof T[K1][K2]>(path: [K1, K2, K3], obj: T): T[K1][K2][K3];
function get<T, K1 extends keyof T, K2 extends keyof T[K1], K3 extends keyof T[K1][K2], K4 extends keyof T[K1][K2][K3]>(path: [K1, K2, K3, K4], obj: T): T[K1][K2][K3][K4];
function get(path: Key[], obj: any) {
if (path.length === 0) {
return obj;
}
const key = path[0] as Key;
const rest = path.slice(1) as [Key];
return get(rest, obj[key]);
}

interface Foo {
foo: {
bar: {
baz: {
val: number;
}
}
}
}

declare const foo: Foo;
const num = get(["foo", "bar", "baz", "val"], foo);

In this case, num is implicitly typed as number, but if the path would be longer, you'd need to add more overloads.
We're not even self-sustaining on Earth.
I lost quite a few hours trying to restore a feature after I made a commit, only to find out that it was broken for weeks already. Or worse, was not even implemented yet.

It's amazing how that just keeps on happening.
And then not get any compatibility with apps that require Google Play Services or get updated to the closed source parts of Android that Google includes....
I just wanted to share with you that Google has finally reinstantiated our account, 23 days after our suspension.
As a counterpoint, in my last company we used scrum and every developer hated it. In fact, I've never seen scrum work...
It's like drawing a horse on an early petrol engine car...
I think the point is more about if you're on uncontrolled wifi (i.e. internet cafes) access points or other nefarious things like mobile providers that rewrite CSP policy (vodafone.pt). These things happen and some safety via a VPN may help.
The NHS is fine to criticise.
But if someone says the solution to its issues are to sell the profitable parts to the friends and family of conservative politicians.

Then that's not going to make you popular.
> What happened is the people who collected Elvis memorabilia started to die. Their families were stuck with all of this Elvis stuff and trying to sell it. But all of the people who were buyers were also dying.

I see this happening with collector cars, too. The interest in Model T's has really dissipated, and the muscle cars are starting to fade, too.
To calculate the circumference of our Universe with the accuracy od Planck length we only need some 60 or 70 digits of Pi. NASA uses 15 digits to send stuff to space. Calculating 22T is an absolute, mindboggling waste of time. Still impressive though! ;)
You're right about Fibonacci - a naive fib(1000) takes a long time to eventually overflow the stack in python. But fact(1000) quickly crashes. Which is a shame as python has a full(?) number tower and has no problem calculating 1000!
This should have been enough:

A. Contiguous states - 12 nautical miles towards sea, one full state inwards
B. Alaska and Puerto Rico - 12 nautical miles towards sea, 3 nautical miles inwards
C. Archipelagic territories (including Hawaii) - 100 nautical miles towards sea, 1 nautical mile inwards
D. Airports - airport administrative zone
Previously, some editions had different profile folders while others shared the same.

i.e. Firefox Developer had its own profile, but Nightly and Firefox shared the same, which was a PITA for the latter case.

Now all editions (thankfully) will have their own respective folders.
The national railway system is integrated with the same type of paper tickets. You can buy a ticket from a station in northern Scotland to Brighton (changing in London) and it will operate the barriers on the London Underground. It's also readable by the ticket checker on the rural service in Scotland.

There are posters all over London pushing people to use contactless, it's not an attempt to swindle visitors.
Thanks for pointing this: "The problem is usually rooted in too many keywords (top of funnel, as their awareness ladder says) or use of broad match keywords--exactly as you said gk1."
Our case is definitely too many keywords, we used Exact Match and Modified Broad Match techniques for different ads in a campaign.
Another lesson that we learned is that it's better to prepare content and campaigns from the bottom of the Awareness Ladder, and then shifting up.
The proposal explicitly states that everything in the standard library would not be tied to specific target environments:

Such a library would only cover features which would be useful in JavaScript in general, not things which are tied to the web platform. (A good heuristic: if something would make sense on a web browser but not in node or on embedded devices or robots, it probably isn't in scope.)
But should blind people rely on sound to cross in the first place? Many european cities are pushing for more cycling. Bicycles are pretty much totally silent and can go as fast as a car typically goes in a busy city.
I believe Coursera is a for-profit company as well. You might want to ask them why they chose to use a .org domain.
ISP's can do awful things to traffic. I'm not sure why you should trust your ISP and if anything trusting makes you blinkered to some of their practices.
AMD to Sell Only 5000 Units of Its Radeon Vega VII aka Radeon 7 GPU
They were referring to present time, not a hypothetical future of more complete explanations of nature and more powerful human brains for conceiving and storing them.

That said, there is a reason why it may not be possible: human consciousness can only exist at a higher level than the most fundamental level of nature, and on that basis, consciousness may never be able to perceive enough of the fundamentals of nature to be able to formulate a complete explanation of it.

However it's not really relevant to the topic at hand. I'm sure humans will always use cognitive shortcuts like ideologies in order to navigate our daily experience, for reasons of speed and efficiency.
Wow I actually forgot about Bleve!

I watched a talk on the new indexing engine a while back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjG2Y01i3Kk

Can we attribute some of this renewed zeal in the search space to the creation of more approachable systems languages (i.e. Golang and Rust)? Maybe I just haven't been watching the search space but I feel it wasn't always this full of new projects putting up good numbers.
golang isn't even close to using the same amount of memory as java, so at least there's that.
Spot on. The word "rationality" is thrown around as it was possible (and desirable) to reach a objective view on every subject.
Tourism will probably be the first private industry.
There are a lot of differences between Golang and Java. As much as I dislike writing Java when I have a choice, the JVM (with Java or whatever else on top) is a very capble tool... Could you explain what you mean by there being "no pros"?

Are you maybe trying to get at the difficulty of tuning the JVM?
Ironically, this in itself is a good example.
Maybe if they fly them high enough? Or maybe wind would become a problem.

Also, dedicated drone corridors that are over roads or uninhabited areas, so at least only cars would be hit in case one of them drops out of the sky.
>Let's say you want to change things one day in your country: you get into politics or unionize

Not day to day situation

>Or some law is passed and suddenly some of your old activity is made illegal

Then the law need to be changed so that past activity that is now illegal shouldn't affect you.

>all your data is sold to insurance companies

Ok so what's the danger? If anything I could get maybe cheaper insurance.
>Your argument is misleading because it assumes uniform ice loss across the continent

I'm not assuming that. "Average" and "uniform" are two different things. I never said anything about "uniform".

Take a look at the ice loss visualization [1] from NASA's website. On the west side there are ice losses as high as 300m (dark red), on the east side some ice gains of about 100m (light blue). All those losses and gains are estimated with some instruments. If you are in one of the areas where the ice loss was estimated to be about 100m, you look at your initial elevation, final elevation and take the difference. Will you elevation difference be -100m, or -98m? There will be some measurement uncertainty. Overall, uncertainties from different instruments tend to cancel out, that't the law of large numbers. Overall, I doubt we have that many numbers (or so little individual measurement uncertainty to begin with) to end up with a final measurement uncertainty that is so small.

Take a look at article [2] about the estimation of precipitations in Antarctica. It was published in March 2018 in the journal "Polar Science" owned by Elsevier, which as far as I can tell does not publish junk articles. The general tone is that there are large uncertainties in the estimation of precipitation in Antarctica.

"The study of Antarctic precipitation has attracted a lot of attention recently. The reliability of climate models in simulating Antarctic precipitation, however, is still debatable"

"The current method of data collection relies on measurement with limited temporal basis, with distances between measurements exceeding 1300 km (Knuth et al., 2010). This makes instrumental-based measurement of precipitation in Antarctic highly unreliable (Genthon et al., 2003)."

Of course, such an article does not get much press. How would one report it? "New research shows large uncertainties in our understanding of the mass balance in Antarctica" ?

[1] https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30880

[2]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187396521...
'The people I hung out with while there were bitter towards the required TV licenses and "religion" for NHS in public discourse. Curious how widespread this attitude is.'

I think its fair to say that a person's views on public service broadcasting and public healthcare, i.e. the TV Licence (which funds the BBC) and the NHS, correspond to where they are on the political spectrum - the further right are openly critical, the moderate right are insincerely supportive, and the centre and left are openly and genuinely supportive. Based on this, it sounds like the author was hanging out with some people from the far right, in which case this would not be hugely widespread in the UK as a whole.
Oh please, I have owned two new ones, the last in 2017. They are not exactly "quiet" as new but not nearly as loud as those who straight pipe. After market pipes certified for road use still must meet Federal law. Plus recently as for more current models the EPA slapped HD with fines and future penalties over the modification of the engine and exhaust which really has cut down on the noise because HD will void your warranty with the EPA blessing if you use unapproved modifications which includes exhaust. Plus Harley isn't unique in attracting drivers/riders who make their exhaust system obnoxiously loud and yes they annoy many of their fellow HD riders too - they get to ride in the back of the pack.

Plus if you are in California look up AB1824 which changed the loud exhaust regulations to assess a fine in every case. Used to be if you got pulled you could simply produce a receipt stating you fixed the loud exhaust and pay no fine but people were skirting that with obvious success. So yes, governments do care. Some HOA and Condo association ban all motorcycles because of noise.

Now with regards to drones, noisy little suckers. The other issue is a private citizen is heavily restricted where they can even fly them. State parks are off limits in most states, any place where people gather of course is out, you can even be blocked from flying them on your property by many HOA and Condo associations (mentioned them before for similar reasons).

Locally to me, Cobb County Georgia has an association for model aircraft that may support drones. They have their own field put in with tax dollars but "maintained" by user fees. Don't even think of using it until you pony up to two different organizations and an initiation fee and such. Yet places which are set aside for the legal use of drones may end up being this way unless the industry adapts.

My father's recent DJI purchase did not automatically include the propeller guards, seems there is good profit in selling replacement blades. It definitely is noisy and I would expect research into blade technology can remedy some of that, surely the military has already done so.
The Em is the "default" guitar chord --sort of like the C scale is the "default" piano scale (easiest, most convenient, etc)...
I'm not sure about that. Sure, the software itself won't, but the hardware needed to run the software absolutely has environmental impact: It drives habitat destruction due to mining the raw materials, pollution from waste by the mining and production processes and than more pollution when the hardware is decommissioned and ends up on landfills.

Then there is the enormous energy demand of IT systems, which in turn requires more fuel to drive them.

The industry itself is not helping either. Not just is writing resource efficient software often not a priority, it's sometimes even seen as an anti-pattern (due to a misunderstanding of "premature optimization"). In the latest iteration, we have technologies like blockchains that make wasting energy into a feature.

> Your mission is to write software that's so good that people do not need to upgrade their hardware.

Meanwhile, the mission of your superiors is to make sure people upgrade their hardware as often as possible so the revenue keeps coming in.

Before there is a large-scale change of that culture, I don't think software development will be innocent in this.
The solution is radical transparency, make all of this transparent, including people in government.