skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah my first ops job. Running a BBS with a friend. I see Tradewars mentioned below, but I really liked Lands of Devastation.
If Steam is a life-support system then what is RetroArch?
Are Movies Getting Better?
I always smile when I notice shots that look expensive and don’t seem to add much. It would have been a slam dunk for a bean counter to kill each one in isolation. But without any, it would be a much weaker film. Either directors have a lot of power or producers are remarkably sophisticated about leaving some “waste” on the table.
Here's a PDF hosted elsewhere for those who can't see the Google Slides at work: https://juliacomputing.com/assets/pdf/CGO_C4ML_talk.pdf
This is nowhere close to AGI
Whats a good place to learn CSS for someone with programming experience?

I've been in my low-level C++ world for a long time and am pretty out of touch with GUI/Web things. I was writing some JavaFX code and saw it can be extended with CSS, but I don't know where to start. I'd also like to tweak the CSS on my webpage, but also don't know what's what. What I've found online is targeted towards people starting out coding with Javascript so it's very slow and hands on and doesn't step back and explain the big picture
To be honest I'm having a hard time orienting to your complaint here. The only thing I remember about the thread is banning someone who commented from (I think?) the opposite side to yours, so if anything I'd expect the bias accusation to run the other way.

If you think we made a mistake in the thread, it'd be more helpful to post (or email us) a link and point out the specific mistake. Rote denunciations don't help us correct anything, and general accusations like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19195885 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19194629 don't add information, because you're simply not working with an accurate picture of what we do. I understand how that happens, but there isn't much in it I can learn from.
My biggest surprise was how quickly everything happened.

One day you were considered a massive nerd for having your own computer, spending a lot of time on it, playing games on it, and socializing with others on it.

Seemingly the next day everyone was online and had their own email addresses. I remember being amazed the first time I saw website advertised on the side of a bus. It seemed like the world had massively changed overnight.

Now so many people have lived their entire lives with the net all around them and only hearsay about what it was like before.
Tangentially related: there is a website that gathers info about solo flights around the world, with links to personal websites and blogs, people who found this article interesting may like it: http://www.earthrounders.com/

Edit: there is also another website specifically related to solo flights around the world completed before the advent of GPS: http://www.soloflights.org/index.html
> Sociopathy seems to be the norm these days

What else would you expect from a society that worships profit above all other gods?
The article is dated February 9, 2019. The court case is filed January 30, 2019.
How about because Amazon develops some of the most interesting and innovative products out there? AWS, Alexa, Go Store, to name a few?

I've worked on several AWS services, and I'm very proud of being a part of them and of AWS in general. I bet there are very few other places where I would find problems this interesting or of this scale.

If you have some experience, you probably know better than just look for a job at company X - you probably choose specific role in a particular team or product. And Amazon sure does have a lot of great products with very interesting positions.
Are their third party OS extensions for macOS, like Little Snitch, that act as a firewall for USB-C devices?

It’s just crazy to me that plugging my Crapbook Pro into a USB-C power brick could do all sorts of bad to my computer when all I need is power.
Oh my, Lauren Elder's story is quite something. She survived the crash, climbed down from the mountain including a 100' descent straight down a dry waterfall, and made her way into Independence, California with a broken arm, looking for help.

And people shunned her!

Because she looked a bit disheveled.
My mother still has old uranium glassware in her home. Not really sure if it's dangerous or not but it's pretty cool to see in person.
> For a given altitude, trim, and power, the airspeed is always the same no matter the wind.

If acceleration is zero.

(Internet, therefore pedantry).
Additionally you can expect deals with game publishers for next gen games to include latency tolerant AI, aka easy easy mode, hidden from users, like autoaim in all console games today.
Good idea, will try to implement it today.
This is a great point. When I talk to people who are worried about cloud lock-in, the parallel I use is the operating system. Does anyone regret going all-in on Windows for their enterprise desktops 20 years ago? Did we try to go multi-desktop? Or build our own distribution?
What does 1/1000000 even mean? One every million seconds, every million minutes, every million years?
> It's hard to imagine the attack you describe being viable.

This has been the conventional thinking of software engineers for the past few decades. It turns out to be completely wrong.

I mean who would have thought measuring memory access latency could turn speculation into an arbitrary kernel read gadget yet here we are.
Google says Nest’s built-in mic not listed in specs was not meant to be secret
Wow. Why?
Uranium Glass
Okay, so the attacker would need to be within range. Is that a correct understanding?
A Bid Red Button That Says “Internet Weapon”
This type of object could only really have been seen when it was. It was picked up as part of a full-sky survey that year, the firsts time such a thing had been done at sufficient resolution to detect an object like 'Oumuamua.

A number that I saw quoted earlier was that it is expected that around 3 of these things go through the solar system every day. This one just happened to be the one caught by the survey, which itself required a bunch of coincidences since it means catching multiple pictures of the same object in different locations so as to establish a trajectory, so an ability to detect is not just resolution, but also timing and orbital trajectory.
Thank you! I had a feeling something must be off in my 50-year-old memory of this puzzle.

I'd better buy an extra 3-4 feet of rope before I try this experiment.
A Guide to DIYbio: Everything You Need to Know about Biohacking (With Links)
All of the behaviours this alleged CTO supposedly wants from his "principal developer" are things that are punished if displayed by developers.

Speaking up about things that are wrong in other departments or decisions made by your "superiors"? You're not a team player.

Spending time helping other developers instead of crushing Jira tickets? We need to talk about your performance.

Going outside of your team to coordinate things with the rest of the business? You're cutting the product owner's grass (or interfering with management of some other team).
Eric Meyer’s CSS books for O’Reilly are unsurprisingly exhaustive. For incremental, hands-on work, try using Codepen to slowly work your way through bounded use cases (e.g., set up a pen and just work on styling buttons, or flex layout, or transforms); Codepen also lets you use preprocessors like SASS and LESS inline, so it’s a great way to get used to the various quirks of CSS and its toolchains without having to set up entire projects.
A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies! A chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity, and adventure.
Cool concept!

1. Any preliminary numbers for total weight and/or disk loading?

1a. How much weight budget is left for payload while still being past the break-even point, considering you'll need enough battery to weather nights and clouds?

2. What kind of numbers are you assuming for flux on the wings? In my experience these numbers are always supremely disappointing compared to theoretical maximum once you take into account angle of irradiance due to time of day, season and latitude, plus the unpredictable effects of cloud cover.

3. Is there any particular benefit to having each of the wing sections decoupled from the structure and attached by tether vs. just extending the airfoil and meeting at a hinge or universal joint?

4. Controllability during takeoff looks like it's going to be a shit show :) Any proof-of-concept results there? Does the h-stab span the entire wing section, or only just behind the props? If it's the former, does that mean the solar cells have to flex?

5. I don't know if the illustration right above the Flight Operation heading is representative, but if it is, I expect a pretty big drag hit from those tethers. (Brings me back to q3 - why not just make that more airfoil?)

6. How fast are we expecting this thing to spin?
Love+&+Sleep+Mattress+Presidents+Day+Sale
That’s an elegant way to balance the issue, I like it. I guess it all really depends if you want an even distribution on area or in radial distance from the centre, so I can think of valid reasons to use both.
Really? Name and shame that manager - that shouldn’t be happening at Microsoft
I think this is a little bit of looking at history through rose-colored glasses, or at the very least it implies that being able to "escape and start over" was the norm, instead of a very short historical anomaly.

For most of human history societies were small and insular - if a stranger showed up in their midst without a social reputation they would be cast out, or worse.
A good boss does not mistreat employees simply because the company asks them to, just like a good engineer does not implement backdoors simply because the company asks them to. If there's no way to do your job ethically, quit. Don't harm others so you can keep collecting a paycheck.

So the difference doesn't really matter. You have a bad boss; take care of yourself first and don't let them push you around.
http://www.nsaplayset.org/turnipschool
another brilliant post about the QOL of Amazon.
...and no one shed a tear.
Note that the South Rim of GCNP is at 7,000 feet (2100m) elevation. Also, next week, Feb 26, GCNP is 100 years old.
Improving the 2D Noise Page
The salient part of that story was the unfair reimbursement policy. My point was that it would have been unfair regardless of the age of the manager or age of the employee.

Where did I suggest that anyone "take on" the company?
It's very weird to me that a team of researchers who are credibly doing good work and are making an effort to clearly explain their research garners such suspicion.

Are you similarly skeptical of Deepmind, Distill, or Two Minute Papers?

Honestly, the norm of providing two versions of your research (arxiv and blog post) makes ML easier to follow and is something I would like more academics to attempt
I had a very long and angryish set of dealings with them about this. I finally got an engineer to let me download the archive but man... promises promises...
Comcast modem activation bug potentially exposed customers’ private data (2018)
Sometimes writing the code is, like, 10% or 20% of the work. Everything else--marketing, hiring, lead gen, legal, accounting, billing, contract negotiation, compliance, on and on--while not creative work, absolutely and disappointingly cannot be ignored.
The good thing is that you have a direct line of communication with the developer himself, @antirez on this portal or GitHub. From what I know, @antirez calls the shots on what gets implemented in Redis core...NOT Redis Labs. After reading several technical/non-technical posts at http://antirez.com, I can confidently say that his decisions are always sound and justifiable! We love you @antirez!
Thanks. I miss my dad a lot.
In India, a politicial party can legally and anonymously give money to a political party.
Tesla Will Make About 500,000 Cars This Year, Musk Tweets
They tested against standard language modeling benchmarks like PTB and WikiText, so it's entirely possible to compare.
It would be stupid though. They are better just firing for no reason.
These days, most BBSs are TCP/IP enabled (ie, telnetbbs). No modem needed. So telnet plus an ANSI terminal emulator would do it. For extra credit, also sniff the stream for a zmodem header and auto download warez.
I didn't consider the case where you're not just a consumer. Will they kill your (presumably totally separate and isolated) business account due to a charge-back on your consumer account? How do they even know it's the same person?

Even if so, I'd argue if your business is so utterly dependent on a single company's service, that's a huge risk and you ought to be be taking steps to diversify or self-host some things. We've all read those "Company X changed algorithm Y and my business is over!" stories.

As a pure consumer, I stand by my statement: If you're going to charge back a credit card transaction, you're past the point of ever wanting to do business with them again, so shouldn't care what they do to your account.
The movie War Games inspired me to get a 300 baud modem, and one of my first memories of using one was to play Adventure (one of the first text adventure games) on a BBS. I war dialed like there was no tomorrow, and racked up huge phone bills downloading wares from across the country.

300 baud modems were super slow. You could literally watch a line of text be typed across the screen in front of you, one letter at a time. I upgraded to 2400 baud after that, and 9600 after that. Even at 9600 baud, I seem to recall that downloading one single mp3 (once those fancy high tech music files were invented) would take something like half an hour. 56k modems came after that, and finally ISDN and cable modems.

In the late 80's I discovered the Internet and UNIX at the local university's computer lab, and there was no going back to BBS's after that. I remember trying to convince a Fidonet sysop to try the Internet, and he adamantly refused, saying that Fidonet is all he'd ever need. I wonder if he's still on Fidonet now, keeping to his vow never to set foot on the Internet.
That’s fantastc! Seriously, it’s good that you feel great about the work you do and have a management team that allows you to breathe easy, is supportive, and helps you out put the best work possible.

BUT, and I truly believe this in the depths of my soul, everyone is as evil as their most sociopathic executive.

Everyone is contributing to the same bottom line, some people just sell out for less.

Whose more evil, the hitman that won’t kill for under 1 million or the hitman that will do it for minimum wage?
I've Just Solved All the Problems with Corporate Surveillance in Our Digital Age
Please keep generic ideological tangents, and particularly religious flamewar, off HN. It's all predictable and therefore off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
to friends and family of loved ones in similar situations -- dont hesitate to say anything you need to say to them. dont live with regrets. and to friends and family of their caregivers, dont underestimate how hard this is for them too. they will need your care just as much.
Since matchmaking has taken over, I basically don't even play online multiplayer games anymore. I feel fortunate to have grown up in a time where there were dedicated server communities. It's a bit like Cheers, sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name and you don't really mind that they routinely wipe the floor with you.
Interesting, guess there's more truth to fiction than I suspected. There was an episode of Mad Men where a major character and his wife take LSD during counseling.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Away_Places_(Mad_Men)
I don't think you would want a power cord going from your vest from your rifle. If it gets caught on something you either get stuck or your rifle loses power.

There is a lot of work on making a powered accessory rail for rifles though, so that everything on it would share the same battery. I thought that battery would always be on the rifle though.
MRIs use two magnetic fields, a static one and a dynamic one. And they use a radio signal according to the larmor frequency to excite the spin of the atoms. I was wondering about that radio signal component.
I’ve learned that there is sort of an accidental Anglish that already exists. The Scots language (dialect?) is a partially-intelligible tongue spoken in Scotland that, due to the Normans not conquering Scotland right away, wasn’t subjected to contamination from Norman French. That’s obviously not the only difference, but it’s a perfect English-language example of that gray area between mutually intelligible and not quite mutually intelligible.
Parent was explicitly referring to how this also affects male participation rates and I was speaking to that. That said, you should be more inclusive of mothers with STEM degrees when running your financial scams.
Either I'm not understanding how to use this properly or this thing was over-hyped. The results are not that impressive and obviously not human. Sometimes there are code fragments in the output.
Ask HN: Best Way to Buy a Car?
Hi HN, I thought that you would have some good tips on making a large purchase like a car. Got tips? This is going to be used for a ~20 mile commute, and I would like to spend between $3000 and $5000, preferably. I heard buying cars at auction is a good way to save money on a decent car but my instinct says this seems like a path fraught with hidden headaches.

Thanks!
Any kind of art that's good enough could also create an alternative visual reality.
A synaptic cleft is like 40 nm, or 10,000x smaller than 400 microns, so it seems the scales of typical communication are enough orders of magnitude smaller to be an implausible explanation?
message boards, email, games, usenet, files
I've tried working from other places. It's actually a little less effective. It's tempting to procrastinate other ways - walking a little further for lunch, taking long walks around the nice co-working building, or just making small talk with people.

Coffee places tend to cut the internet after an hour, which straight up kills flow. I have issues starting, not continuing work, and this limited time brings enough dread to not start at all.
If you're ideologically opposed to consumer credit because of the cycles of debt it incurs just pay off your credit card in full every month (which is what I do). No interest will be paid.
FYI Safari on macos had a permanent beachball on the page...
For those who haven’t heard about it, the nissan.com fiasco was a crazy yet fascinating story: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_vs._Nissan_Com...
Can I just chime in to say I appreciate all the folks responding here. I've had various personal websites/blogs in the past but nothing currently. Would love to start one soon again and this just gave me that extra jolt of motivation I think I needed.
But if there's a scale about how replaceable an organ is then kidneys are far closer to blood or plasma than other organs.
A USB C cable has active electronics inside it, they are used to define the wire gauge on the conductors and the length of the cable.
NIPS 2004 Demonstrations:

https://web.archive.org/web/20041204162656/http://www.nips.c...

Virtual Bicycle — Matthew Cook, California Institute of Technology:

http://www.paradise.caltech.edu/cook/papers/index.html

In this work I created an environment in which I assumed learning of higher order concepts would be necessary. I created a general purpose physics-based hinged rigid body simulator and used it to simulate a bicycle for a learning agent to learn to ride. But as others have found in other contexts, most environments do not require higher order concepts, and in this case it turned out that a simple two neuron circuit was already sufficient for controlling the bicycle, indeed, better than a human using the keyboard.

The physics simulator was a significant project in itself: I studied rigid body mechanics (which is more complex than most of us realize) and designed the simulator explicitly so as to simultaneously exactly preserve both angular momentum and kinetic energy, as previous simulations of mine (in quantum mechanics!) had shown me that preserving conserved quantities can be crucial for getting accurate results. The simulator works nicely, and I later read in Sam Buss's 2001 paper, Accurate and Efficient Simulation of Rigid Body Rotations, that my precautions were well warranted.

Later I was able to reduce the controller to just one neuron, and then to an even simpler plain linear feedback system, confirming the finding that many real problems are best solved by a hack. The simulator has been useful in other projects since then.

Virtual Bicycle Download Page:

http://www.dna.caltech.edu/~cook/
This is true. I think I get paid way more per hour than average, and a good reason is doing things quickly and effectively.

However, the bottleneck is just doing more work. I do secondary less paid jobs like teaching and mentoring for events, where I can work 10 hours per day just fine, because it's mostly physical/social. But it doesn't help things and makes me too tired to be productive coding, which is where the real money is.
I really appreciate this article. CSS grid has a lot of moving parts and it's great to have some simple and practical best practice guidelines. Well done!
Ah, I get it. Thanks.
Angular has been out for much longer than 2 years. I remember using Angular 2 in 2016.
The author of the article posted their Amazon user name, so I decided to look them up. I'll start with raw data, and then inject my own thoughts:

* The author is the bottom contributor on his team by a large margin. Their few contributions are primarily configuration changes and pixel pushes.

* The author hasn't made any contributions since last August, likely due to a leave of absence

* The author's manager has received overall positive feedback in the yearly employee survey for the last two years

If I were to speculate, I would guess that the author was put on a PIP very early on and, combined with his short tenure, is the reason the transfer was denied. I really hesitate to speculate any farther than that since there are clearly other circumstances to factor in, but I encourage everyone to consider that there are two sides to this story. Personally, given the data I can see, it doesn't look very good for the author.
This is clearly fake.

To quote wiki "Outside of China, universal doubt was expressed regarding the existence of such a weapon.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]"

But the issue is why is there doubt?

There is no doubt. The scmp.com weapon cannot exist.

If you want to know how hard Fake News is to fight, here you have it. An impossible weapon is still in "doubt" 6 months after the claims were made?
This hits the nail on the head. I feel like shit after too much social activity, and feel great after working very hard. I thought it was a given that everyone feels better after it and didn't see the need to mention reason in OP.
> How is my property owner/manager not liable for any damages (if they occur) when they give everyone the same key?

Landlord is responsible for providing and maintaining a safe an secure place. The law just about anywhere specifies working locks on doors and windows. And they are liable for damages if something happens. For instance rape victims have successfully sued landlords for failing to maintain locks on doors and windows.
I played MUDs on a 1200 baud modem, and I was at a distinct disadvantage. Going to 9600 was incredible.
In many parts of the world, daycare is heavily subsidized and it's a social norm to have children in daycare, it leads to high labor participation of women.