skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This one was detected by satellite, but scientists have been using acoustic detection of meteorite explosions for some time. Fittingly, they used detectors made for nuclear explosions, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization's infrasound network [1].

I learned this from reading this highly recommended book on the subject: Asteroids: Relics of Ancient Time by Michael K. Shepard [2] (amazon link)

[1] https://www.norsar.no/r-d/safe-society/nuclear-test-ban-moni...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/reader/110706144X?_encoding=UTF8&quer...
PBS Launching Streaming Service on Amazon Prime
Pop out anything that someone else might be able to use and chuck me in the compost bin
Unfortunately a lot of stuff going on in the RDF domain is behind firewalls so it's a bit hard to give a lot of details. But I can contribute some public and some private use-cases of where RDF is used:

Refinitiv (formerly Thomson Reuters Financial and Risk) knowledge graph is built completely on the RDF stack: https://www.refinitiv.com/en/products/knowledge-graph-feed

When I talked to them in late 2017, they told me they have 100 billion triples in their database, plus more in a versioning back-end. Their triplestore is open source: https://github.com/CM-Well/CM-Well

Several government-agencies all over the world start to build public RDF knowledge graphs. I'm closely involved in the one from the Swiss government, see my presentation from last week http://presentations.zazuko.com/Swiss-LOD-Platform/

There are similar projects in other countries like the Netherlands, Belgium, UK, etc. This stack makes a lot of sense for open data, as you can do some pretty crazy queries without spending 2 days on preparing your data. See for example the Swiss Open Data Advent Calendar of 2018: https://twitter.com/linkedktk/status/1076064066525949952

As I said there are many "behind the firewall" use-cases where people use the stack exactly because of its features like OWL. Yes it comes at a price (bootstrapping is not really super easy) but this is stuff we will still run in 40 years from now. I see it in:

Finance: Fraud detection, compliance, customer 360° views, ... Stardog (https://www.stardog.com/) lists Moody's, BNY Mellon and National Bank of Canada as customers, last week I've met someone from Credit Suisse which is Mr. RDF there.
* Production: You have a ton of databases containing products you create but there is no way to figure out what a final product consists of as the data is scattered across at least 5 of them. The automotive supplier I talk about here is using RDF to get that view.

Life sciences: The largest RDF dataset available to the public is UniProt and related datasets. In total they provide a SPARQL endpoint (RDF database) with 50 billion (!!) triples available. This is a highly popular dataset and is used in pretty much every larger pharmaceutical enterprise as well. See https://www.uniprot.org/ as a starting point. I know at least of one large life sciences company that just recently decided that RDF will be the base of all future data unification standards within the organization.

Insurance business: One of our customers is using RDF to unify a ton of different systems and get the 360° view as well about their customers.

RDF is an absolutely amazing stack and I do not see anything else available that gets remotely close to the power of it. The day I find something more powerful, I will be the first using it. But most of the time people dismissing RDF have zero clue about what it really can do.
I wonder who at Boeing pushed to redesign the landing gear. At this point it would have been the cheaper option.
Children who are blind learn how to code with Code Jumper
Not gonna buy devices without usb-c phones/ipdas/notebooks
The times when Apple had sane lineup of products is gone :(
Can't believe the founder just built v1.0 over a weekend.

Cleary they didn't know that they should have learned serverless, functional programming, and then iterated through 4 different front end frameworks before they actually built the app.

Low expectations for this one.
“capitalism incarnates hyperstitional dynamics at an unprecedented and unsurpassable level of intensity, turning mundane economic ‘speculation’ into an effective world-historical force”

"Hyperstition is a positive feedback circuit including culture as a component. It can be defined as the experimental (techno-)science of self-fulfilling prophecies. Superstitions are merely false beliefs, but hyperstitions – by their very existence as ideas – function causally to bring about their own reality. Capitalist economics is extremely sensitive to hyperstition, where confidence acts as an effective tonic, and inversely. The (fictional) idea of Cyberspace contributed to the influx of investment that rapidly converted it into a technosocial reality"

http://merliquify.com/blog/articles/hyperstition-an-introduc...
There is also Metamath http://us.metamath.org, another wonderful resource. Would be really cool if these two projects could integrate.
Yeah, honestly I knew that. And that is basically how I feel, I think this article is egregious and mildly destructive to the pursuit of truth.

My question was to force those downvoting to confront/concede the reality that they are downvoting because they got emotional rather that the facts at hand. Which is why I imagine none responded.
Quoting verbatim from the GGP, >Think of the way people are castigated for not believing in scientific "truths" and > the author is trying to burn religious texts and dissenting viewpoints to their "settled science".
Here [1] is Sahil's original post, 8 years ago. Note that this startup hasn't been all fun and roses: they had layoffs and restructuring over the years [2].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406614

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10517008
That rail would do little for density. It might (at a more reasonable cost) be a good thing, but density is about things close to home, high speed rail is about getting people far from home.
I'm not worried about using the arrow keys or anything in particular. I don't even think vim is an especially good program. But whatever tool you use you should be effective with it. All the comments insecure about vim practices are missing the point; using your tools effectively is worth it and is a highly transferrable skill. If your weapon of choice is a magnetic needle and a steady hand, I expect you to be able to write code in cursive forward and bakcward all over that disk like there was no tomorrow.
Serious comment: We all carry around a license plate almost all the time - your phone. The data harvested by your phone (all of which is accessible to authorities) provides a complete history of you (ref. intended), where you've been, who you've met, and a proxy for what you're thinking about.

How long before it's mandatory to carry one?
> whether you're talking about fertilising the tree, or the tree fertilising something else.

Of course, I would say that the tree is being fertilized or receiving fertilization, not that it's fertilizing.

The effect of the bacteria can be replaced by animal waste, decaying biological matter, or the application of a commercial fertilizer.

> self fertilising

That would be false and absurd; it means that the plant is decomposing in order to feed itself.

> and at the moment people talk about nitrogen-fixing plants.

Not people who can pass a fifth grade science exam. Nothing to do with English usage. "Nitrogen-fixing credit card" is grammatical English.
http://www.pedbikeinfo.org/pdf/Community_SRTSfederal_Trends....
Faster access is sold by gigabytes, which gets reset every 24h (You can still continue browsing after hitting the quota with lower speed). Meanwhile in the US, it's the same but your quota gets reset every billing period. Not sure which is the better model, but it's practically the same
This implies a level of trust in doctors that many people lack.

(Also vaccinate your kids dammit)
In which country and city have you been living as a family with children?
It should be noted that once the Network effect [0] takes place, it becomes less about freedom to build your own software and more about the cost (including - maybe especially - intangible) and viability of doing so.

If the problem is "this user is unsatisfied with this product', the solution is not necessarily to tell them to build their own [1]. We, as people, are allowed to criticize (hopefully constructively) products that have flaws in them even while using said software.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
Ah Boy I hate such unclear wording and simplification.

So he just created that thing with 22h effort and 7 years later it makes 350000$/month?
What I mean is that everyone you talk to has to opt in to it too.

I personally pay $50/year to irccloud.com for these features. Nobody else does. Every day I get the pleasant IRC experience of sending someone a message after they've parted or "hey I got d/c, what did you say again?"

Slack and Discord coming out of the box with a fix for this for everyone is one of their fundamental community-building advantages over IRC.
There is a big difference between how you behave when you're calm, vs how you behave when you're under stress. Basically, you start hitting sub-sentient "defaults." You default to your training. You default to inherited flight or fight behaviors. Emergency procedures and training need to be designed with this in mind, or they will fail.

(Presentation preparation is like this. My last presentation failed because by self-training wasn't designed with this in mind.)
Agree. The assumption underlying this is that you should use a bulk of your outside-of-work time to advance your career and grow your technical skills. True for some, not true for others.
One thing my in-laws do. A gift a day starting on Christmas and extending to New Years Eve. Grandkids don't get the present fatigue of all in one day and you can extend Christmas shopping into the next week when items get marked down for clearance. Makes Christmas time longer. There are downsides and I think my kids are getting too much stuff, but that's what we do.
> Now we have three people working on the site full time, thousands of paying users, and tens of thousands of repositories.

Three! Love it. That was a massive hire of course, a 50% increase above the two founders.
It's a different framing but this frame hides a lot of crucial information like the fact this venture used venture capital (and probably VC connections too) and hired many employees. You can't really compare this to the solo-garage-weekend-project.
I presume that's 90% by total number of farms, rather than by produce yielded? American farming is going the way of most other industries; a small number of huge corporations dominating, and thusly controlling, the market.
I wonder how solicited sci-fi stacks up to unsolicited sci-fi, like:

"The Revolution, Brought to You by Nike"
by Andrea Phillips:
https://firesidefiction.com/the-revolution-brought-to-you-by...
Definitely a consideration. For me, my side project has basically replaced my TV time at night and it's been a significant life improvement. Sometimes I'll sit in the living room with my family and work while they watch TV, which still feels like quality family time.
> Easy enough: call the restaurant yourself then.

This is what I do. I see no reason or advantage to bringing a third party into what is a really simple transaction between me and the restaurant.
I've been using DDG as my primary search engine for around a year now. I've kind of gotten a feel for the kind of searches I do that DDG doesn't handle very well. It's good for probably 95% of my searches but I still occasionally fall back on Google.
All of the great tablets available that run full Windows.
Fundamentally, I see religion as an enterprise that defines the structure of existence (metaphysics), explains how humans in their "base state" are deficient within that structure, to their detriment and that of others, and finally establishes elaborate practices for addressing the deficiency.

Perhaps you can find something analogous to this structure in psychology, but I just don't see it in the rest of the scientific landscape.
1. It's not all ok

2. It's a wealth of data that can be used to generate other things about you. It's also data that's traditionally very hard for other parties to get a hold of - your car's make, model and your address is typically not secret information, but for the most part nobody but you knows everything about how you spend your time.

And once your insurance company has this information, you lose control over it. They can share it with other companies, with law enforcement, with parties that may not be relied on to keep the information secure.

Wrong inferences can be made about you, can be shared out.
According to the same page, more recent developments don't support the theory:

> High-resolution images obtained by the Japanese satellite SELENE in 2008 were used to date the crater by counting the smaller craters within it and its ejecta deposits. This gave an age of 4(+6, −3) million years, much too old for the hypothesis.[2]

> This raises the question of what the monks saw. An alternative theory holds that the monks just happened to be in the right place at the right time to see an exploding meteor coming at them and aligned with the Moon. This would explain why the monks were the only people known to have witnessed the event; such an alignment would only be observable from a specific spot on the Earth's surface.[8]
I think I agree with you on both points. More-so the former point than the latter.

On the former, I do think they’ve lost the product/customer narrative in the last couple years and I think it’ll take another WWDC and another iOS update for them to find their way. They’re just now re-focusing on both iPad hardware AND software. For a few years (mid 2010s?) they doled out a few hardware updates that moved the needle moderately but the software didn’t (and you can argue still doesn’t to the fullest extent) take advantage of iPad to provide the functionality leaps it needs to have a compelling narrative. We’re just now in the past year or two starting to see the narrative develop with iPad Pro, Pencil, and iOS 11/12. A similar strong narrative probably needs to develop for the lower end iPads though I’m sure they’ll continue to sell simply because everyone else in the market is either asleep or incapable.

On the latter point, I agree with the spirit and I love how you phrased it. However, I’m not actually sure how much it matters in this case. I’m not completely convinced it matters to the extent you seem to think it does. I think the supply chain optimization is fine and the whole point is that it’s not crazy different from last-year’s iPad but it’s a lower price point and meaningfully more capable (think schools buying in bulk, etc). It would be nice if they FOCUSED on the lower end but that has never been Apple’s style and they are very very deliberate about what things they choose to focus on. It’s both the greatest strength of the company and one of the weaknesses - two sides of the same coin as things tend to be.
I never said you couldn't eventually win. We're talking about whether you make progress leading up to the win. You could win at any time, but you never get closer to winning. If you had a progress bar based on how long left until you win, it wouldn't move until the moment you won.
I like Tock because it encourages efficiency through dynamic pricing. A 5 PM Tuesday dinner should not cost as much as an 8 PM Saturday dinner.
Which scientific method?

Scientific methods differ a lot between the sciences - especially between the physical and special sciences, for example.
The why blockchain question is addressed in the first sentence. Of course, it is a short answer - it's not explained further because we have an entire paper just dedicated to that which most of our readers are familiar with: check paper.democracy.earth for that. Happy to answer any specific questions regarding formalizing humans on the blockchain, it is definitely a dense subject, but a key point for expanding the positive impact of crypto (if done right!).
> require tracking for drivers who have proven themselves to be unsafe

Bad drivers are already a part of the risk calculation.

I think the desire to track them individually is a manifestation of our North American propensity to look for punitive solutions.
Nowadays Javascript supports packed binary data natively. The only things that Javascript lacks is a 64-bit integer type. All other numeric types can safely be represented in a double.

JITs can also use integer types internally when possible (small integer optimization).
If you want those features but are unwilling to run a bouncer or use irccloud, you’re correct, Slack is the best offering for you. But I’m wondering: why Slack and not IRCCloud if that’s the feature that matters to you?
Well as I said having some logic executed by an animation would be doing things backwards...

Most of the points in the article are about using an event driven architecture in the world of distributed systems, where the messages triggering events are delayed by a certain amount, can be lost, malformed, or different to what the receiver expects.

None of that applies to a single program running on one machine.
Thats why using an event driven architecture for a game is so great. I never have to worry about most of the stuff in the article. Also (as opposed to the more common Update driven model) if I do a good job its possible for my games logic to be flawless, it can be impossible for it to be in an illegal or weird state.
So an event driven architecture in a game is fantastic for that reason, and the article is quite useless when it comes to event driven architecture in games. I'm sure its fine for event driven architecture in distributed systems, but the title is certainly too broad.

Like with many of the articles posted here, CRUD / web devs forget there are other fields of programming.
A good litmus test is "how fucked would we be if they got infiltrated by organized crime".

A GPS will collect a lot of data that can be used for blackmail by rogue employees.
I send a http get request to outline.com, they send back an article.

The only data I send to outline.com is a url, which is not subject to copyright.

Note that DMCA notices are about user uploaded data, there is none here.

I'm not involved in their data acquisition process, that's between them and the newspapers that are for whatever reason giving them paywalled data to serve to visitors.
It makes sense that the government wants to only hand out this extremely limited resource to organizations that will actually use it. And there is some sense that if someone pays a half a trillion dollars for the spectrum that they'll be highly motivated to use it to recover those costs, but in the end it basically guarantees that the service will be expensive because they have to make back that investment.

But the only other solution I can see is to have the government just pick a company and hand them the license, and that's effectively guaranteed to be breathtakingly corrupt since the incentives to cheat are overwhelming. At least with the market solution the money goes into the government's general fund instead of into the pockets of the party official in charge of making the decision.
FWIW I've zapped myself with a shock collar before using it on my dog and it's a lot more like, well, "shock" as in surprise mixed with discomfort. I would almost describe it as like instantaneous onset of the feeling of when your leg falls asleep. If you've ever done the 9V battery on the tongue, that's mostly what it is.
> Scientific method is a great tool - for the type of questions that it is designed to deal with - and a disaster waiting to happen if used for other areas of inquiry.

What other areas of inquiry would that be?
Here in the US, we recently moved into a new house (rural) and my broadband wasn't setup yet, so I needed a temporary solution to continue working from home.

So, I headed off to the mall to compare mobile AP plans. Literally every option was either mega expensive (think multiple hundreds of dollars per month for 100 GB or the price was right but the service area was crap).

A lot of the mobile data plans actually only apply to direct usage from your phone. Not when using it as an AP (tethering). Those all have separate bandwidth limits. The standard amount on most plans (that you also have to pay extra for) is around 10 gigabytes. And, I didn't even find a normal consumer plan from ATT / Verizon (the only carriers with good service here) that let you buy more than that. You have to buy a super expensive business plan.

So yeah, fuck US LTE data plans. Absolute garbage if you actually try to use it for any serious work from a PC.
Is this meant to contribute in some way? I honestly have no idea what this seemingly random phrase is supposed to convey.
If they implemented one of the first two front-ends I linked, you would know what the message was and would not have to ask your friends to repeat The only people that opt-in are the IRC server infrastructure engineers. End users just connect to the web front end. The first two links turn your IRC servers into a Slack clone, except with more or less features. This is certainly non-trivial to set up and maintain and end users would not implement this. They are just consumers of it.
can a democratic society vote itself into a dictatorship? what if some citizens want to subvert democracy and liberal social norms, but do so democratically? democracy is a discussion of ideas. it is your job to convince people that freedom is advantageous to global governance or that they can be combined.

with freedom you will get fracture and economic decline, conflict and instability. with global governance you will get a monopoly on stable world trade and endless economic and civic prosperity, as the best ideas will be rapidly adopted by the most number of people, ensuring benefit for all generations of mankind yet unborn.

what if it turns out that your perception of freedom is not maximal freedom unless people freely choose it? and if they abandon it (for what you might consider a type of mental slavery) to a dynamic but perpetual system of control-information with new benefits far outweigh any negative consequences, like the ability to understand all preceding human knowledge in one lifespan or avoid all disease and aging related problems.

humanity once we reached the age of writing, became the game of convincing other people to think and act alike. i cant think of a more illiberal and limiting idea than what i am doing right now - forcing my words into your head - yet this is the structure upon which everything we see has been built.

you will find yourself in an increasingly marginalized position, and eventually your views will be silenced, as they should. you may be civilized, but barely register as a barbarian for what is to come, which will take yet more centuries to unfold.

(28m42s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TQZ-2iMUR0
And in the US, non-proper nouns are often all lowercase even if they were originally acronyms. e.g. radar, laser, sonar, etc. And, even for proper nouns, things like programming languages often just has an initial cap although all caps is typically the technically correct form in US English.
Get a sample of ill people, compare the amounts of particles excreted in to the air with and without the mask. You will require a decent sized n, but it doesn’t seem insanely high.
How much RAM is in that thing? 4 GiB? I hope you turned swap on...
Yeah the see saw that is the other story is a lot more interesting too, also seems more accurate / context seems more apt.
Naive idea, but what about giving money to charity to undevelop countries? This kids get too many toys and the problem is that they don't have enough time to enjoy/learn with them. Here is a more important problem: kids that don't have enough resources for a proper development.

Maybe every year every adult could take turns to buy an actual gift and the rest gives each 20 to charity.