skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A counter to that might be that these signals aren't strong enough to accurately detect our exact location at interstellar distances. Parallax is hard at those distances - if we were to get a signal from a point in the sky, whats to say its coming from one star, or another one "behind" it? Not possible to determine from the signal strength alone, since you don't know the signal's original strength.

In Carl Sagan's Contact, we were only able to determine the signal came from the star Vega because it was the only star that would have been at the right distance to receive our earliest radio signal and transmit it back to us - also Vega is relatively close by compared to other stars, close enough that our parallax created by our orbit around Sol was sufficient to get a read on signal source.

A deliberate attempt at active signaling would remove all doubt for an extrasolar observer.

Liu Cixin's The Dark Forest explores this scenario in depth. I would explain more but don't want to reveal some important spoilers.
I'm adding RGBW LED strip lighting to my home office, and I wanted the option to eventually control the lights programatically. This was my first foray into home automation, and I settled on using Z-Wave for the communications.

AFAIK, the typical design for Z-Wave systems is to route most/all control through a home-automation "hub" (IIRC the terminology correctly). I was alarmed at the number of hubs for sale that required connectivity to the outside Internet.

I've decided to use a Raspberry Pi (with a Z-Wave modem) with a home-automation distro for my hub, and one of my main motivations was to avoid this huge external dependency / attack surface.

I feel bad for people with less savvy or computer skills who don't realize the potential hell they're risking.
There would be a ton of pressure to adopt NaCl in a world in which it's just a configuration flag away. Absent other browser engines, we would be using NaCl and Dart everywhere.
Tunashop is an iOS application that I built entirely in Swift. It's is a project I undertook to solve a problem that I had when I moved to Los Angeles a month ago. I wanted to meet more creative people such as musicians, painters, and designers around me, but none of the existing apps helped me achieve that. Hope some of you will find this useful!
I didn't say that, but maybe it should be a combination of both. Which is why some cities are partnering with Uber/Lyft to do the last mile part (to the home), but using public transit for the bulk of it.

I do think you really have to question an economic model where Uber/Lyft have clobbered cabs using an unsustainable VC-funded model that will eventually run out and substantially increase cost to the end-user.
Id argue it was a 4 way split honestly. Mobile Safari absolutely dominated the mobile browsing space which was growing by leaps and bounds at that time.
> I haven't seen any anti-METI argument which counters this:

> "Humans, Vakoch said, have been using radar, which can purportedly be detected 70 light-years away, since World War II. Television and radio signals would long ago have signaled our presence to malevolent space ruffians, he said."

I think the key word there is "purportedly." Has anyone done an analysis about what kind of equipment would be required to detect those old signals at 70 light years? Has there been any analysis of how for out they could propagate until they were totally overwhelmed by noise?

Personally, I'm skeptical that those signals were transmitted powerfully enough or focused narrowly enough to likely be detected. This article (https://www.nature.com/articles/461316a) makes it sound that way:

> Indeed, SETI is marked by a hope, bordering on faith, that not only are there civilizations broadcasting out there, but that they are somehow intent on beaming their signals at Earth. An alien SETI project relying on a similar faith in Earth would be sorely disappointed. It's true that a random mix of radar and television signals has been expanding outwards from Earth at the speed of light for the past 70 years. But there have been only a few short-lived attempts to target radio messages at other stars — with each attempt arousing concerns over alien reprisals.
I wonder if this was ever used in a MacGyver episode.
Umm, I'm seeing +$15/5%. Oh, I see, the article is a week old.
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Understood. Thanks. Will remove the comment above.
uMatrix also allows you to whitelist web workers, which are a typical component for js crypto mining
Is CNN shocked that when you search for books related to vaccines, you get books related to vaccines?

Or are they insinuating that it is Amazon's job to decide what ideas/opinions are allowed to be sold on their marketplace and as such, it is their duty to deplatform any seller/writer who sells books about subjects that the current society decides is unacceptable? Sounds like modern book burning to me. Why is it that CNN or anyone thinks that people need to be safeguarded from opposing or even dangerous ideas? Do people not have the agency to decide for themselves? How come we don't give the same treatment for religious books like the bible or the quran? Certainly there's some dangerous ideas in them that could lead to hurting people. It doesn't have to stop there either, there are tons of other ideas that can be dangerous like the extremes of either side of the political spectrum.
Actually, I use both but my production models are in Clojure.

I often end up implementing minor things myself using lower level abstractions (e.g., Linear Regressions or PCA with whitening using Matrix libraries) and I check the results and/or try new things using scikit-learn.

So in general, I'd say I do the programming (outputing intermediate CSVs, tests, web service, thread handling, UI, ...) in Clojure(Script), and try other approaches (e.g., other models/parameters/...) in Python.

I'm quite happy with this pipeline but probably to some extent because I really love to understand how things work and nothing pushes you to learn as much as a missing function in your ML library :-)
It's mostly just media and their TRP
In an environment where only a fraction of support is needed, it doesn't make sense to run a fat distro with features that you'll never use. K3s is designed for low-power, low-resource environments that don't need things like EBS or NFS volume support or alpha/beta API features. Imagine edge environments like traffic management networks, wind farms, telco substations, or other places where environmental constraints make it more reliable to run something fanless with flash storage and 1GB of RAM. Stock Kubernetes will choke under those circumstances, but does that mean that those environments are forbidden from using the benefits of Kubernetes?
Three sanctioned terror groups are no longer using Cloudflare security
This certainly is true, even for me :)

I'm using a culture that was brought into the US even before I was born!

Best way to sustain the culture especially during long trips, is to have friends / family nearby who will do the needful and keep the culture fine (make new yoghurt) while I'm out traveling. I didn't realize this was big outside of south India.

Good to see that people from other countries do it often too.

ps: Why does NYT hesitate to say India/Pakistan, instead of lumping them into one generic "South Asian"? I hesitate to say "South Indian" because that's generalizing 8+ languages, 4+ scripts and a few hundred cultures, cuisines and arts.

Hope the North American media learns to not be lazy ;)
It doesn't sound like you were confused about whether they were the same project, it sounds like you were immediately concerned whether the other endeavor was in conflict with your trademark. That may constitute confusion but it's not the sort of confusion trademarks were designed to mitigate.
The format Haiku uses for its icons might be apt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_Vector_Icon_Format
Same.
MPB 2012/FF65
Not the first time I notice that macOS has a lot of troubles with big IOs (disk, network, and now GPU)
I worked on a wind turbine related project for some time and while I overall love renewable energy wind does have a few factors which can limit its effectiveness. This applies for heat as well as electric generation.

- As noted in the article, wind can be highly variable in most areas. Optimizing a wind turbine for the average low speed (like here in the US Midwest) means that at super high speed winds can damage your turbine and it may need to be shut off. If you optimize for the high speeds you can get a ton of energy at those speeds but your turbine will mostly be still. Regions with a nice steady wind profile work better for power generation.

- Wind turbines with variable pitch blades do exist but add cost and mechanical complexity.

- Turbines often are installed at remote locations and maintence is difficult. One crazy story is a friend of a coworker was a tech for the giant wind turbines and fell INTO those giant fiberglass blades and almost died wedged in there before he could be rescued!

- "Urban" wind turbines was an idea here in Cleveland a few years ago, but wind turbines generate a lot of vibration which isn't good for buildings. Plus the turbines don't always spin all the time which is bad PR!

All this said I think wind power can be a part of a good energy portfolio but like with anything in engineering it boils down to a big "but if.."!!
This is a worthwhile point. I still consider Chrome handy and occasionally essential for development.

But it's no longer my day-to-day browser. Firefox became more than adequate for that with quantum, and I see no reason to enable a Google that has made absolutely sure to shape itself into a machine that will always have powerful incentives to do the wrong thing.
> How difficult of a challenge is it to build sorting machines, anyway?

Machine vision and learning, conveyor belts, lots of delta arms - seems doable to me.

Heck - maybe we need something akin to the whole "smart car" thing in China - let kids and others come up with trash sorting machines, compete in challenges (FIRST/FRC style?), etc?

Hmm - business idea:

Educational STEM startup focused on the above (aka - FIRST/FRC robot contests for trash sorting); all entries must be open source/open hardware; same company (more or less) could use innovations from the open source entries to develop full-scale machines and systems for implementation in actual industry?
There are features Chrome has that Firefox doesn't. There are also features that Firefox has that Chrome doesn't, such as Stylo and WebRender.

You can argue that Site Isolation is more important than large performance improvements (I think that's a losing argument, given that Site Isolation as presently deployed in Chrome doesn't even defend against compromised renderers and as such is restricted to being another Spectre mitigation), but you're being way too glib here.
The atmosphere point is even more compelling. Earth has been broadcasting with quite non-trivial power "I HAVE LIFE" for about two and a half billion years. Most of the "hostile alien" hypothesis work out to the hostile aliens needing to exterminate all life, not just life that already seems to be intelligent, because you don't know how fast something might become intelligent when you're not looking, so if Earth was going to be wiped out, it should have been a very, very long time ago.

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

(Since someone will probably bring it up, no, I do not believe extinction events are aliens trying to wipe out life, on the grounds that if intelligent, hostile aliens intended to wipe out life on Earth, I'd expect them to succeed, and not merely inconvenience life briefly, but actually totally and permanently sterilize Earth. Any culture that can fling either mass or energy at early Earth in any reasonable period of time is already very near the necessary energies to do that. Across billions of years I'd expect someone to have managed.)

Another reason why I tend towards the "yeah, we are non-trivially alone" myself. Maybe the entire universe isn't empty, but I don't think there's any reason to believe there's anything nearby.
Let me play devil's advocate.

What if living paycheck-to-paycheck is a consequence of having no health coverage?

Think about it. If you're on a low income that largely matches your outgoings, bills of thousands of dollars will wipe you out regardless of whether or not you save. So why save? You may just reduce any benefits you get from the state or Federal government (medical or otherwise) and those will be wiped out anyway. So you may as well spend now.

Consider, the Earned Income Tax Credit is one of the few times lower income households can make large purchases (and there's evidence of this in TV purchases and elsewhere).
Now there is Proton by Valve. it's a wrapper for wine and a few other components. Most games just work now. There are of course some exceptions like ring of elysium doing kernel patches for ring zero DRM and Anti-Cheat. But I would say 90% of my steam library just works out of the box.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/
Amazon backs out of Seattle office tower
That is not Nintendo's m.o. They sacrifice graphics more often than not.. their consoles are legendary for being on-par graphic-wise with the competition from 5 years ago. Their gameplay though is awesome. As a Switch user and playing BOTW and other properties, it has been great.
The site was updated to reflect that you can run K3s on hardware with only 512MB of RAM. You'll get to use most of that for your workloads.
In TensorFlow one doesn't write Python code and run it on a G/TPU, one writes Python code that uses an API to construct a TensorFlow graph computation which is compiled and runs on the G/TPU. It's really a completely separate programming language with different semantics and a totally separate runtime hiding behind a Python API. This is why you can't use any of Python's normal libraries, you have to use TensorFlow libraries.

"Julia runs on GPUs" actually means that you write Julia code and it is compiled to natively run on GPUs [1]. Similarly, this post is about writing Julia code and compiling it to run natively on TPUs, not calling some predefined TPU library. Yes, of course you _can_ call libraries that are compiled for GPUs and TPUs—as you can in Python or any other language—but in Julia, nearly arbitrary user code can be compiled and run on GPUs and TPUs. The major restriction on GPUs is that you cannot do dynamic allocation, so you need to write non-allocating Julia code, but that's common requirement for high-performance code anyway.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaGPU/CUDAnative.jl
Same here - made a switch and switched back quickly after.

1. Compatibility - random sites would just break...I reckon 15% of the time

2. Battery life - FF destroyed my battery life. To the tune of 8 hours on Chrome vs like 2 on FF.
Maybe he meant that ProtonVPN has a pretty shady reputation on HN due to their business connections to TesoNet, which is a data mining company. Its a lot more complicated than that, but if you see ProtonVPN being shot down on HN, that's why.

Further reading:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17258203
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17775326

Personally, even if there isn't anything actually shady going on, I would want my VPN provider to be beyond reproach. Any smart VPN provider wouldn't want even tenuous connections to data mining companies.
It feels a bit dirt to recommend Private Internet Access since they were the ones who pointed this out on HN, but so far AFAIK they are the only ones that have have been court-tested. Other options would be TorGuard or Mullvad VPN. Mullvad even already supports WireGuard!
I am aware of that issue. I added parallax and regretted it.

I will change the front page once I launch in March.

The website works well in Dekstop only.

Thanks!
The human brain is not wired to have an intuition into the world of subatomic particles. (Just like with the 4-dimentional geometry, one has to go through an extensive training in order to have an inkling of such intuition.) All these spheres, point-like particles, waves, etc. are mathematical models at best.
Aren't those 5 year survival rates from time of diagnosis?

If so, it is possible for two countries that have the same survival rate measured from actual onset of the cancer to have a different 5 year survival rate.
I think they're likely profitable in the cities where they've achieved scale. Specifically, I suspect that Uber (and Uber drivers) in the Boston/Cambridge market (where I live) are making a net profit overall.

Drivers who drive full time can afford to pay for the car expenses (variable and fixed). Drivers who drive part time are able to cover the variable costs (and they already had their fixed costs anyway). Uber is probably not losing money in Boston. If all three of those things are true, Uber is sustainable in Boston.
I didn't know about that interview, thanks for sharing. It seems so natural to me to go for the one technology that fits all needs (Ethernet+POE and possibly a smaller connector). All it would need is a big player to implement that, then release the changes for free with no strings attached, but probably most parties involved can't squeeze the same profits out of open technologies.

Here's an idea to push for this technology. I have no way to develop this, neither the technical knowledge nor the money required, but comments welcome anyway. Essentially I would:

1- design a smaller connector that could host all Ethernet pairs plus power supply,

say a smaller RJ45 with contacts on both sides, no need to reinvent the wheel here.

2- for testing purposes, build a small bridge board (a matchbox sized black box) between the socket and the
original Ethernet plug and a nearby USB port for power alone. Ethernet pairs would pass untouched (or possibly
replicated through a switch chipset+magnetics) while the bridge board would contain any necessary circuit to power

any load connected to the updated Ethernet port(s). Remember we're aiming at ditching USB for that purpose, that's why I
wouldn't map Ethernet on an USB-Eth chip even for testing; and all power would be taken by the device supply asap.

3- Now we have some cheap hardware which is easy to replicate to use on every platform, including SBCs where the

USB connector could be spared because we take all power from the board. Let's move to software.

Some proof of concept would be needed to demonstrate that, so here's my question: how hard would be to satisfy point
[1] and build some hardware (mice, keyboards, audio etc) that can use the new network standard to show its benefits
to the industry?
There is not going to be any war. Elections season, patriotic drive.
Pay more or be more willing to work with people who don’t have all the skills you want. (Yet.) A lot of startups want to hire senior FAANG type talent and pay them less than entry level at those companies. Good luck. You have to be scrappy as a startup and that includes how you find talent.
Add Webhooks to Matrix
What possible resource does Earth or human civilization possess that ETs advanced enough to pose an interstellar threat would be interested in?
It's 2019. Should be implemented as a Lambda.
This has been a common point of complaint in Physics since Einstein, and probably before. The idea that you can come up with ideas about how the universe works in the absence of experimentation doesn't sit right with many scientists. There are many scientists, like Edward Witten, that are working on things that are purely mathematical at the moment, and to some it seems like an inbred mathematical fantasy. In their defense, this is why what they do is called theoretical physics.
After nearly 20 hours of research, checking reviews across two years, and consulting with numerous culinary professionals and chefs, I agree with you.

Their electronic reviews are fine but their other categories leave a lot to be desired. The whole point of a good review site is to find the low/medium priced item that is more than adequate for the task. Recommending a Mac or Wusthof knife is a safe bet that most won't challenge - I want them to find me the needle in the hay stack.
But see Jennifer Lee's response, https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/02/24/are-mexicans-t....

"A colleague of mine illustrated this point with a baseball analogy: Most Americans would be more impressed by someone who made it to second base starting from home plate than someone who ended up on third base, when their parents started on third base. But because we tend to focus strictly on outcomes when we talk about success and mobility, we fail to acknowledge that the third base runner didn’t have to run far at all."
> You can do it the Japanese way and collect different kinds of wastes, in a periodic (say, weekly) rotation, placing the burden to sort and bag them correctly on citizens.

What happens to the others during a cycle; ie, let's say you recycle plastics, paper, metal - week one is plastics, but you still accumulate paper and metal - where do you put it if you only have a single bin?
I find the opposite - many websites still don't seem to test properly on chrome.
The efficiency is MUCH higher for thermal over PV (~80 vs ~25). Its not an either/or thing. If you want heat, you use solar thermal, if you want electricity, use PV. Theres nothing stopping you having both.

Edit: Not sure what you mean by 'pay-off'. Solar thermal can be as simple as a black bucket sitting in the sun. It doesnt get much cheaper than that :D
Fwiw, IE was pre-launched with Windows. That was the secret behind its (often) fast startup.

Not doing the same in Firefox was a conscious design decision by the Firefox team, which didn't want to hoard the memory when Firefox wasn't in use.
At best, that says “any badness within 70 LY has already been tipped off.”

The METI guys are working on more powerful emitters specifically so as to send additional data that will be coherent over larger distances.
Finns also did the same with viili, a mesophilic milk ferment.
I remember the lead up to invading Iraq, what was incredible is that all the major media companies agreed that it had to be done. Whether it was CNN, Fox, etc, it didn't matter, they were all saying that we had to invade.

There were almost no dissenting opinions, now I'm always very weary when media on the right and the left agree on things, it typically means it's not in the interest of the citizens.
Security, not only against bad actors but incompetent programmers having access to the inner workings of other people's machines. The idea is that nothing should normally need to access anything it doesn't actually require; so, in circumstances like this, developers need to go through a few extra hoops to help them engage in safest practices and not blow up other people's machines.

Plus, different hardware, different abstractions, and the web has been relatively slow (and rightfully so) to open up access to this level of the computer until fairly recently.

Lastly, JavaScript isn't batteries-included, so someone had to come up with this, and apparently it took until today for us to see the fruit of that labour.
> If there's one thing microsoft knows how to do well, it's build developer tools.

This is probably very subjective, but I can absolutely not relate to that.
I automated some reports at work that would take 8-12 hours to make and the program produces them in 3 minutes.
I want Tesla to succeed. But they are up against some huge challenges right now. Hoping they can overcome, and continue shipping awesome and reliable products.
I figure it's all moot anyway. We are probably alone in the universe. Fermi's paradox is a thing.
> "Java developers - want to learn Node and React?"

Could be a great incentive, but not to me personally. I'm very invested in the JVM, and I'd rather have that investment used. Something like the following would make me jump ship instantly:

"Java developers - want to use Flink/Spark, some Scala/Clojure? How about 'very fast decision trees' learned online out of a Kafka bus?"
UX: The Intuitive and the Unlearnable