skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt it will fragment the ecosystem at all. Plugins such as PostGIS have been widely adopted by people who need it for years, and has fragmented nothing. Others end up integrated into core. If you have specialized storage requirements, you no longer need to fork, and that means less fragmentation of the ecosystem.
If you are curious about Prolog, here are 2 good and modern (still updated) books:

- Power of Prolog https://github.com/triska/the-power-of-prolog/

- Simply Logical:
Intelligent Reasoning by Example https://book.simply-logical.space/

See Awesome Prolog list for more: https://github.com/klaussinani/awesome-prolog
Hey, we could use the same for doping control! Just ask the person if they used any illegal performance enhancing drugs :)

What would stop me from lying that I am a woman (I could even put on some makeup) to compete as a women? In some sports difference between men and women is so big that average male athlete could easily compete with top-of-the-line females. There's more than enough incentive for some douchebag to go the dirty way to get some glory.
It’s also the reason why rents are so high.

And the crazy thing is it applies to everyone regardless of need.

I know a few people clearing almost $1M per year and they love their rent controlled unit that has a rent 30% of market rate.
Renee DiResta: Mozilla Fellow, Director of Research at New Knowledge

https://www.mozillapulse.org/profile/410

New Knowledge is the organization that setup a fake Russian botnet, and then tried to push a narrative about how the Republican candidate in an Alabama Senate race was being assisted by this "Russian election interference"... anybody involved with that organization is a scumbag - it has zero redeeming qualities. Renee has been making the rounds lately on Youtube, informing everyone about how much of a threat these operations are (not her organizations fabricated ops, the totally real ones). I haven't yet found the prime mover in this, but her activities are well aligned with those of the DoD ratcheting up the scaremongering about the (according to them) active Chinese operations against the US population. So there is a pretty strong push for further internet lockdown measures being made right now by these people - and Mozilla is associated. At this point I would not be at all surprised to hear Mozilla announce RealID browser integration.
Why not have Google decide the AI for military applications? This group who is against current drone warfare, which they have every right to. See [0]. One civilian is one too many! So why doesn't Google actually put their ethics and AI knowledge into action, by maybe coming to a better solution to identify actual enemy combatants?

The military will use drone warfare regardless of what a group of Google employees think. The US military is in dire need of ethics in AI [1]

[0] "Summary of Information Regarding U.S. Counterterrorism Strikes Outside Areas of Active Hostilities" [PDF] https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Newsroom/Press%20Release...

[1] "Does the U.S. Face an AI Ethics Gap?" https://www.rand.org/blog/2019/01/does-the-us-face-an-ai-eth...
32-bit colour is still just 24-bit colour with 8 bits of stencil or whatever (or at least was back when 3dfx was relevant). The only company I know of that was doing higher bit depths was Matrox who had 10-bit colour iirc.

I remember back in the day "serious gamers would never use a combined 2D/3D card". Then nVidia came out with their Riva chipset and suddenly 2D graphics cards weren't really a thing any more.
Every one of the requests that 43920 listed in a request in service of you, the user. The first is to detect captive portals, which is something you'll find very important if you're behind a captive portal. The second is for OCSP certificate validation, which helps ensure your safety while browsing. The third is checking for updates, which again is for your benefit.
For contrast, id went from Doom to Quake III Arena in six years (Dec 1993 -> Dec 1999). Thanks to the rapid pace of graphics card improvement and the engineers writing the software engines to keep up with it (Carmack, Sweeney, etc).
Perhaps I don’t understand the design decisions behind Helm, but it’s always struck me as having a severe impedance mismatch with k8s itself. It defines another entirely different schema, and relies on an agent running in your cluster that’s also trying to reconcile desired state with actual state (which k8s itself is also doing). I’m skeptical that you could use it extensively without also understanding the k8s stuff underneath it.

kustomize came along just as it’s become untenable for us to copy/paste config to multiple environments. I like that it’s pretty much the simplest possible way to customize yaml, and plan to dive in soon.
The amount of oh gotchas and keyboard guesses from lots of google searching is quite comical. Think any real in-depth analysis has been done yet? Silly.
I live in China for 10+ years now, and I believe it is turning the whole country into a prison. Here are some of my observations from Shanghai:

- while walking 1.1km from my home to the subway station, I counted 47 cameras, and probably missed 10 or so, not counting 20-25 cameras inside the subway station,

- every few days in the morning the police will block the subway entrance and check documents, I get checked every time probably because I have a bit of a beard,

- for the last month, I've been stopped in the street twice to check documents,

- for the last 5-7 years every bag has to be scanned when entering subway, and Q3' 2019 full body scanners will be rolled out,

- our neighbors complained that we receive "too much" delivery packages, so the police came to search our house (no warrant needed), they had a printout of all my online orders (no warrant needed) and my chats (no warrant needed), and they keep asking "where do we spend our money",

- car horns are prohibited now within the 2nd Ring, and the offenders' plate numbers are displayed over the city — think about the technology of identifying car plates in a 30+ million city traffic by horn sound,

- jaywalking is prohibited and offenders get penalties to their social credit,

- a new app called "study the word of Xi Jinping" is almost compulsory, my wife's mom is calling us often to make sure we "study", her Party unit gets points for this, and if we don't "study", my wife will be kicked out of the Party with many consequences,

- my wife's brother is on the blacklist for high-speed train and air travel because he bankrupted his company and couldn't pay back the loan, he lives in the West and has to travel for 3 days with a slow train to visit his family...

Not saying these things are black or white, but this is certainly a scary direction and it gets more and more oppressive day by day.
How to set up a 20-minute computer break on a Mac
as an engineer, no we didn't. maybe like 1 pct that are SJW's did but not the silent majority. we're tired of them speaking for us.
How often do you open a web browser to then not interact with it? Does it make a meaningful difference if it instead slows down the first request triggered by you to make the captive portal and OCSP checks, and moves the update request to a random time?
Linear resolution maybe not, but pixel count is roughly doubling. Vive and Rift are both ~1k x 1k pixels per eye, first gen Windows Mixed Reality headsets came out a year or two later and are 1440 x 1600, and the just-announced HP Reverb is ~2k x 2k. The teased Valve Index is likely to be 2k x 2k as well, with a field-of-view bump from 110° to 135°.
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I eventually disabled Recommended by Pocket on my new tab screen because the recommendations were typically clickbaity and being on the new tab screen, it would many times divert me from whatever more important original action I meant to take.

The creators probably had good intentions, but Recommended by Pocket seems almost like a dark pattern.
Rent control rewards the entrenched people who were lucky enough to find a unit early, at the expense of everyone who came later. The beneficiaries of this may not consider it that way, but it most certainly is a form of wealth for them. So I would argue that even they too, are wealthy.

The victims of rent control are everyone who is pushed out of the city -- or those who cannot move there -- because of how rent control makes building rental units unprofitable.
If the streets aren't free, then even congestion plans can't justly distribute the cost of building and maintaining them.

If the author was concerned about just cost allocation of infrastructure, he'd be arguing for private roads and privatization of existing public roads.

Congestion pricing doesn't "finally" make that clear. Private roads existed before and still do, and don't cost anything those who don't use them.

A distributionist will of course argue for public roads (with or without congestion pricing) because private roads don't give them a way to distort cost allocation to benefit their re-election chances and ideological goals.
Rent control is not a solution. Build more housing.
Second this, helm is good for day one operations of k8s. If you just want to have a redis deployment running now I think it’s fine for that. But then managing helm charts becomes its own task. Kustomize seems to be a happy medium.
Also Helm v3 seems to be doubling down on that “second api” level with addition of embedding Lua in their templates.
I've heard that GeForce fx was designed by ex-3dfx employees.
How did you end up in that situation and how did you get out of it?
Were there friends or family that could help out and if so, why didn't they?
I remember being obsessed with graphics cards back in the day. My first graphics card i knew of was a 3dfx voodoo. I loaded it up to play Everquest. I vaguely remember going all the way up to a gforce 3 or so trying to get my games running smooth. Because of games I learned what every component in my system did and eventually started coding too. I miss those days :).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_Design_Approval
Amazon plans to launch over 3k satellites to offer broadband internet
almost everyone will score either a 5 or a 1

Then it will be similar to approval voting.

Previous comments complained that approval is bad because you cannot express detailed preferences, but you say no one wants to anyway? So then approval is ok?
"Soundtracks."

That isn't a genre, but each soundtrack offers has its own themes and style. Depending on mood you can have techno (Hackers/Matrix), fantasy (LOTRs/Interstellar), Pop (Greatest Showman/Guardians of the Galaxy), Regional Styles (Last Samurai/Moana), or even just calming/relaxing (Sims 3: Pets).

PS - Try not to dismiss soundtracks just because you never liked the movie/game. I never played the Sims 3, let alone the "Pets" expansion, but the soundtrack remains me of SimCity's sound.
When I opt out (or never opted in) and am still sent promotional material, it is an explicit message that the company disrespects me. Responding to that with shrug is layering more disrespect on top of it. Disrespect for users is a cardinal sin, and quickly reaches unforgivable levels if left unchecked. It is simply incorrect that this is an issue of bias against Mozilla. Other companies behaving worse doesn't make it acceptable - in fact, Mozilla's image of being "better" makes these kinds of infractions worse.
My point is reverse also holds true just because some regulatory agencies was taken over or was allowed to be taken over corporations doe not mean that it is the end state of some sorts.
Whe it becomes political propoganda is when you accept that it is the inevitable end state.
I feel for you. Lacking appropriate training, it is hard for us to actually help, even though we care. The first thing to remember is that whatever you say or do will be processed through the lens of his reality. He will try to fit it into the framework of his world. The eventual fit may be very skewed. It is difficult to know how to be helpful in that situation. Sorry I don’t have more for you.
Why is corruption in some countries is more than others? I dont know the answer but it is.
It is unclear if they are lacking technical expertise, but they are certainly being significantly more lax than one would want a regulatory body to be.

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/04/709431845/faa-is-not-alone-in...
I've updated the article to include the email exchange, check the edit at the bottom.
The "app" is Firefox, not the web page.
Agreed, thank you very much for posting. I don't know who Kelsey Piper is, but I feel it's exceedingly rare when I read something on Twitter that makes me come away feeling like I learned something at a deeper level.

I'd encourage other folks to read the whole thread. It's not really mainly about Kay Cole James, more about how the whole panel looked like simply a PR exercise from the start, and I especially liked how she compares it against what OpenAI is doing.
https://vkccodebuilder.neocities.org/
Good luck! Let us know if there's a change in your conversion rate!
Report Indicates Pilots Followed Boeing’s Emergency Procedures
The way to live somewhere a long time is to own the property.

On paper, rent control is a failed solution to high prices resulting from under supply in the market. Build more housing.
Troll Sisvel forming patent pool for attacking AV1 and VP9
I grew up in San Jose. There were Asians most of them were well assimilated Japanese and Chinese who's families immigrated before 1930. Weren't that many maybe 1 out of 10.

The big immigration came later in the 1980's with the end of the Vietnam war/killing fields, and opening of China. A lot of ethnic Chinese in South East Asia fled in the 1970-80's.

And these pictures are from Oakland circa 1970.
In Mountain View 1.5m homes are the rent controlled units. /s
There is a whistleblower claiming this very thing.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/02/senate-panel-probes-whistleb...

Claims aren't evidence. But testimony is evidence. How compelling that is depends on their credibility, qualifications, and whether there's corroborating evidence.
I think it is just one skill of critical thinking, why stop at second order when third order thinking is even better?
This was posted before, but with the following URL:

https://www.jgoertler.com/visual-exploration-gaussian-proces...

Does anyone know the relationship with the URL I pasted above and the URL posted by the OP?
What do you want the runtime behavior to be if the sentinel value is produced?
Don’t put the blame squarely on Boeing.

It’s clear FAA lacks the expertise to regulate this kind safety issues. It’s not easy for them to have it either since the innovators are always a step ahead but it’s clear they need to shape up.

I don’t have any knowledge of the process for verification of new airplane models, but one thought as software developer would perhaps be for FAA to become more digital in their efforts. Require from manufacturers (At least for bigger models) a digital virtual model of the entire airplane that will be used for simulated tests. You could for instance test faulty signaling sensors but also the whole subseqqunt chain of events taking into account pilot actions (or lack of).

It should be a routine to replay a simulation with data from previous crashes. In this particular instance perhaps FAA would have understood the reasons of the first crash and been able to stopped the second crash from ever happening.

You could even develop methods that can generate data to be able to predict hidden issues with an existing design without a real crash ever happening.
Gizmodo called her a "ghoul?" That is a very odd choice given that "spook" has been historically used as a racial slur against African-Americans.
China's technological contributions to the 20th century were next to nill. It's easy to share when it means playing with everyone else's toys.
KUnit: The Linux kernel unit testing framework from Google
Just some casual observations from someone who doesn't know a lot about city planning, zoning laws, and other things like that but...

I have spent a lot of time in various cities in eastern Asia, namely Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, and Taipei.

I was always amazed at how much more efficiently space was utilized. Dense, high-rise housing. Smaller apartments for single occupants. Vending machines and convenience stores near ubiquitous so one did not have to go far for basic necessities.

Also, the public transportation was wonderful. Whether subway, taxi, or bus one could get around without any need for a car.

I always wonder why our cities can't be "denser". Perhaps we are too used to our cars and driving everywhere? I'm sure there are a myriad other reasons though.
Pass the doobie please.
That IP address is an Amazon EC2 instance...are you using a proxy or VPN?
You can literally invoke imapd over ssh and it will preauthenticate as the user that invoked imapd. I used to do this with PINE 20 years ago. Good luck getting any of the big MSPs to support it, though.
Trying to find the most productive language for all tasks seems like a quixotic quest. Each language encodes a set of expressions that are succinct to communicate, at the expense of some others. There are some basic information theoretical and computational complexity reasons for this.

There will always be different languages that are best suited to certain tasks, and the goal should be to make it easy (tools, systems) to work with many languages equally well, or to allow switching anywhere like with human languages.
I believe it's this one [0]. The context is that Planet Money raised a bunch of money to manufacture (sort-of from scratch) T-shirts, and needed to wire some money. Very worth a listen.

[0] : https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/10/04/229224964/epis...
I hadn't heard of this before, so I just dug up the original NYT story.

At least one person from New Knowledge was involved in a small experiment designed to explore how the sorts of tactics used by the Russians worked, which attempted to convince Republicans that Mr. Moore was receiving Russian help, but it was designed to be too small to actually affect the outcome of the election (as the goal was to explore how the tactics worked, not to produce any effect). This is a little shady, but as long as it didn't actually affect the outcome I see no harm in a group of people trying to better understand how the Russian social media tactics work.
Solar, presumably.
The Voodoo2 was my first 3D video (addon) card. I was working tech support at the local ISP, and a failure on a circuit caused all authentication to fail for dialup customers for a few hours. They called in every off-duty support person they could get to come in and along with the scheduled staff we all (~20 of us) took 3-4 hours answering calls telling many of our 20k customers that yes, we had a major problem, no, we couldn't help them at that time, and hopefully it would be fixed within a couple hours.

To thank the support staff, the management/owner offered the choice of a Voodoo2 card or a DVD player (~$200 each IIRC) to every support rep that helped with the load that day. I ended up working for that company three separate times in different positions, leaving for college and coming back, and working for a relative's company for a while and returning again later. It's the wonderful people there and actions like that which keep that company in a special place in my heart. (For those wondering, it's Sonic.net, now Sonic.com, or just Sonic maybe. I'm not sure the official branding, and I have years of history with it being Sonic.net)
Equifax is not comparable to this. The difference with Equifax is that there has been little actual damage compare to how much data got compromised. With Boeing we've had hundreds who got killed.
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The Asian cities you mentioned are pretty good for getting around. A lot of other ones are pretty miserable.
First we need to stop acting like HR does anything. HR is paid by the same employer as the victim and will take the employer's side over the victim any time. The only thing HR will do is collect information from the victim and pass that on to legal so they can get a head start in debunking the claim in case of litigation. There are federal laws that say you should attempt to resolve the discrimination or harassment issue with HR before a lawsuit or else the company can use the fact that you did not against you in a federal court of law. Any such law should be abolished given it's akin to asking a rape victim to resolve the issue with the rapist's family before going to the cops.

Second, MS, Google, and Facebook are not the only companies where employees face sexual harassment and discrimination. Smaller company's employees face the same shit, probably at a higher rate, but are never mentioned in the the news unless someone is outright groping women or hanging nooses in the common area. Smaller companies are even held less liable when found guilty because the USA, in all of its capitalist BS, is worried that it may put the company out of business - I mean all they did was break the law, why should they face any financial hardship. Maybe I'll go rob a gas station and tell the judge not to lock up my dumb ass because I'll loose my job and face financial hardship. Basically the United states has no problem bankrupting citizens when they break the law, but companies get a free pass.

Third, no one is ever held accountable in these cases anyway. The EEOC claims very few of these cases go to trail and even fewer are actually won. Why? Because companies pay off women/minorities/disabled people to keep their mouths shut after firing them (very R-Kelly style). Maybe we should make a documentary called "Surviving Microsoft". Something should be done to limit the power of these companies. Australia, for all its racist and sexist faults, is leading the way on this with current legislation that says, F-THAT if you big companies can't follow the law then execs will start getting jail time. I would like to see the day when that law is actually enforced but at least it is a start.
You could argue that it's not promotional material, but an announcement, which is not exactly the same.
You work on a team with members that make you feel like you're buying a car..?
Oh I never assumed it was an attack, just healthy discussion. I see your points, though I still disagree about the glorification aspect. I think glorifying athletic feats is not just good for society, but that society is (partially) built upon physical desirability thanks to the need to reproduce.

People will always go to extremes in everything, though. And naturally, some people will see that extreme and feel a strong desire to push further. I simply see nothing wrong with it, regarding exercise, is all. Have a good one!
That was a part of yonran's proposal: offer the developer increased density (upzoning) in exchange for rent-controlled apartments in addition to the townhomes. It's a win-win-win-win all around: the developer gets to sell more units (for more profit), the existing tenants get to maintain their rent control (in exchange for disruption while their old building is demolished and rebuilt), new homeowners get additional supply of housing, and the city doesn't have to deal with the protests of any of these groups.
Rent control is a solution that won't immediately leave tens of thousands people homeless until said housing can be built.

Unless you wouldn't mind them crashing on your couch, in the meantime, that is.
I thought chess players have been doing physical fitness training since the '70s.

If so, I suspect that a lot of eSports players have been doing the same for a long time without making the newspaper.
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