skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crazy to see this posted today. Last night my wife and I were on a reservation in Arizona and watching the birds. She googled this very topic. Then when I looked at HN today, here it is!

I showed it to her and the first thing out of her mouth was, “Is Facebook listening to me?”

Then I had to explain that HN is human-powered and the chances of Big G and Facebook and HN sharing data is pretty close to zero.
More Authoritarian drival.
that preceded the fall of the soviet union by at least 30 years. See: nixon’s southern strategy.
God forbid we have any maturity and reliability in our industry. Just tell people "We don't fix what ain't broke".
Thank you Chinese scientists ! The so called medical ethics of western world are not universal and are essentially a reflection of Christian morality. Asians should not value these rules of ethics.
Because you don't need eval to do hugely interesting things in dynamic languages.

Heck, you don't even particularly need reflection, but eval even less so.
Probably, though note that they’re no longer a non-profit. https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp/
Don't fear failure, welcome it. You don't learn without failing. Exercise.
Which is also a fish creature from the web comic Narbonic.
Dynamic scopes are not available in C++. I suppose them as in languages like Emacs Lisp.
I get the point, though.
How did they prevent the two fuselages from torquing the wing apart? Seems like keeping both “sub-planes” from ripping the middle wing apart would be challenging.
I can say this exact thing about most Azure services. Nothing really works as documented and everything is more expensive than it should be. I always feel like I’m missing something.
So... it’s really hard to get the physical leverage to actually cut your food while laying down in bed — especially with your arms tied down by IVs, monitoring devices, etc. It’s a really awkward position.

Which brings me to my pet peeve as a patient: the fact that hospitals require even healthy patients to be monitored for vitals every 4 hours (yes, even overnight — I told the nurses to fuck right off after the first night) and hooked up to all sorts of machinery that was obviously designed to save the nurses’ time; but ended up taking probably just as much time to fix when equipment broke or didn’t work as expected.

IMO hospitals have an over-automation problem. We need to go back to focusing on patient care rather than relying on complex systems to manage it.
XBox -> XBox 360 -> XBox One... If the next console from Microsoft is controller that live streams games from the cloud I expect it to be called the XBox ExBox.
I think the entire corvid family is fascinating. They are extremely intelligent. Some of them not only use tools but actually make tools:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvidae#Intelligence
One of the core observations of modern understanding of abusive behaviour is that it is a pairwise property; the world is full of domestic abusers who are charming to everyone except their spouse when nobody's looking.

Similarly with "missing stairs" and "whisper networks"; there have been plenty of workspaces where Alice knows that no female staff should be left alone with Bob, and manages to communicate this obliquely to Carol shortly after she joins. This usually co-exists with none of the male staff of the office admitting to being aware of what's going on.
The US public has great appetite for inequality-reducing measures, as any poll will tell you. The political class does not. But perhaps publicly releasing tax returns would spur enough public disgust when people realize just how little in taxes the ultra-wealthy are paying that the above dynamic could change.
Speaking of slippery slopes. This JSON enhancement requires documentation. It turns JSON into a specification language, I guess, and it required documentation. Ick.

https://jsonnet.org
That's the sort of thing I'm interested in. Like, for example...how far away are you once you get this huge thing high enough to launch.

I'm not trying to criticize it, I'm just curious how dangerous a typical mission will be.
It’s time to move away from relying on DNS which is a glorified federated search engine for hostnames.

Just use non human readable names, like magnet links and Kademlia distributed hash tables for example.

If you really need a search engine to map something to these names, then share THAT magnet link(s) with them. Why have a monopoly on DNS?
I’m not sure that you’d rather have a mathematician or statistician who can code for all cases with ML. At least at universities I’ve gone to, even the main research in these areas is going on in CS/ECE departments or some in the stats department. Implementing non-novel ML stuff seems like most of the difficulty would be in data movement etc. since you can use the big frameworks for most easy things. Even testing new stuff at small scales might involve lot of eg fiddling in MATLAB and testing on examples rather than only proving theorems

Of course the “CS students” I work on these topics with are more math heavy CS graduates (some sort of have a complex about not being in the math department) rather than someone who is extremely good at coding and only took the calculus sequence necessary to graduate with his CS degree.
But, will it actually be more secure than what is described in the article (how do you protect against sybil attack? what if there is a zero day in some piece of software in the block chain stack?)
No. The salary of every public company officer is well known, nobody has these problems.
Sounds petty precise to me already
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It seems normal to me that over the course of 40 years that neighborhoods that became some of the most desirable in the world would be too expensive for artists to live in.

Not quite sure what the point of this article is.
Article states that they're going to use Northrop Grumman's Pegasus XL.
They have been contracted to launch Pegasus XL rockets.
His refusal is because as a real estate guy propped up by debt, he has a lot of shady dealings.
Read about Chris Sacca. He was trying to get jobs and he was failing. Then he made a corporate sounding name and people started hiring him which got him into google.
I'm puzzled by what added benefit being 10km up in the air and going at 300-400kmph gives over regular rocket launches since speed and altitude are a very small fraction of what's required to orbit.

The article says it will be less affected by weather windows but (1) would a normal LEO commercial launch be so highly time bound to find this of value? (2) if weather was bad for a rocket launch on surface, would you fly a heavily laden giant plane into it?

Leads me to wonder if the real customers of this is the military who do value very short turnaround launches.
Sweden has dropped those charges though.
Are there any DIY robotic arms that you would recommend below $1000 ?
It turns out semantic versioning hurts sales.
this would be like throwing a dart at a dartboard on the moon.
I took apart a furnace once to replace an igniter.

I was thinking I was going to find a series of pipes or tubes fitted together.

Instead I found just two pieces of pretty thick sheet metal, close to plate thickness. They just went through a metal bender to form the pipes, and bolted together with a gasket in between.

Maybe that's how it got started. A plane, wrapped around something.
they had the worst reason possible. "not remain on 2.x forever".

nobody cares about stability anymore. staying on 2.x by not breaking backward compatibility forever is a great feat to celebrate, sad to see marketing getting the best of it.

I personally like traditional versioning + security patches by date. but I'm on the minority.
Love bullet #2. Being able to start with more constrained features and using more powerful techniques when necessary would be a huge aid in developing good architectures.
You might like this: https://jsonnet.org
If you don't flash your wealth but people have a way of knowing it you are still being safe thanks to the fact that there are many more rich people to attack, flashy or not.
What's the real story of these supposedly normative collective nouns? They don't seem to stem from natural development of the english language, rather seem to have been poetically constructed at some point — is that true?
Eh is think you can make it for anywhere you can use C and clang. Manufacturers write such shit code anywway I don't midnight not using their boilerplate at all.
In Seattle a girl gets gifts from the crows she feeds: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31604026
IE under fire, Triton goes under the microscope, & Norsk Hydro reeling from rans
It turns out that it's the same code base - here's how to build it for Android: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...

And for iOS: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...

This is also why there are Chromium-derived browsers on iOS and Android (eg Brave).
Representing rotations via Euler angles can lead to gimbal lock[0], whereas using quaternions doesn't. The best explanation I could find quickly is this one:

https://mathoverflow.net/a/95908

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimbal_lock#In_applied_mathema...
JFK wasn't killed in a south american or african nation. You should dismount that high horse.
The Life Changing Magic of Unfollowing Almost Everybody
It's hard to get behind cloud services that require you to send an email to support engineers to reboot your instance.
This feels like the "product version" has taken over again.

I promote semver internally primarily for wiring together build automation. But I also try to make it clear that there can be a _completely different_ "product version" that can mean whatever the hell we want it to be. Calendar versions are great product versions.

Many people, frequently product managers, are very uncomfortable with this distinction.

So many places use the product version as "the version", which then becomes the main justification for monolithic version control, even for distributed applications or multiple product lines. So now, you re-build and/or re-deploy everything, even things that had no changes, purely to stay in sync with "the version".

There are usually good _technical_ reasons for monolithic version control, but doing it just to slap a product version on everything usually ends up with an alarming amount of waste.
I’ve also heard of a “conspiracy of ravens” used too
It's not.
http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/07/18/javascript-isnt...
> The rise of the warrior cop is bad enough, but what about a crack squad that has been chemically desensitized to killing in cold blood, taking orders from corrupt officials?

I read Eichmann in Jerusalem recently. One of the main arguments of the book is that people don't need to be extraordinary (i.e. lacking a conscience or particularly fanatical) in order to do terrible things.

The book is controversial but I think that argument is correct. The problem with Nazi Germany was not a generation of Germans who happened to be born without consciences. And, horrifyingly, we've seen this pattern repeat across time and space. It just isn't necessary to chemically alter people to get them to perform actions that we would describe as evil.
They abandonned all development activity of their own rockets, shortly after Allen's death.
Stupid question: can you watch it if you have arachnophobia yourself?
Bad choice. If I ever build and maintain a database I am going to managethe vefsioning and releasing the way postgresql does, no need to get fancy with this, keep your user happy and not busy with distractions like this.
I would maybe also add:
3) Scalability

Scaling lambdas is so much faster when compared to an auto scaling zone.
If we're talking about proportionate contributions, the most-contributing taxpayers are the very poor, not the very rich. They pay a considerably larger share of their income in all taxes than the wealthy do.
It's one thing to recommend me if I provided my number to Facebook.

It's another thing to use my number as a means to link otherwise unrelated people especially if I am not a Facebook user myself.

Oh and finally it's another thing to use the number for ads.
It's probably a more enjoyable launch experience for passengers.
Thanks, but where are zones used in practice?
Trick question: was the startup successful?

Not that I agree with ditching semver, but the way you stated it actually sounds like a good argument for doing it, not against. Sometimes marketing people have a point.
It only reaches 35,000 feet.
Super fast high performance web development
Just so you know, season based names make no sense since the Southern Hemisphere exists.

Also there’s no such thing as Fall in a lot of places.
Regarding language #1:

* some form of resource awareness like raml.co.

* a cli tool to compute resource awareness based on args provided, e.g. `ra --mem On, --time O1 file.ex file2.ex file3.ex` that all implement a single interface.
You mean adults should act like adults?

That’s madness!

But yea, small groups shouldn’t be formalized. If people can’t get along, that’s a sign of poor social skills or someone is a total asshole in the group. Which, again, be adults and learn how to deal with people in a proper manner. A manner that doesn’t need the Twatter or the internet in general.
The amount of rocket you need to reach a given speed is exponential with respect to that speed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation

Shaving off a small amount of speed can have a large payoff. This is why most launch sites are near(ish) the equator.
Crows sound like “caw” or “ca-caw” and ravens sound like “nevermore”
I think you’re thinking of it wrong. It’s the journey not the destination. As long as you’re excited to learn things, try things, make things you’re okay.

It would be better to be a new writer excited to write a crap book than to be a Stephen King without the energy or will to write a word.

(As far as I know, King still has more energy and enthusiasm than most writers. The example was a counterfactual.)
Rockets waste a lot of fuel punching through the atmosphere at lower altitudes.
You assume software is perfect and people don't make mistake. Breaking compat on accident happens. Bad pushes and releases exist. Unpatched bugs in latest. Wrong deployments.

Semver make it easier to spot/prevent mistakes by giving you more granular information. It's not like it's a data overload, so "too much info" as argument is really weird.

Purity in computing is a terrible master.
This was my first thought as well. But then I remembered that modern twin-engine commercial jets can fly with one engine down in an emergency. Not an aircraft engineer, but I suspect the structure is strong enough to handle normal torques during turning.
You can make occasional turns to keep close to the airport while climbing higher. I don’t know if that’s what they’ll do, but this problem has some easy solutions at least.
isn't paranoia by definition irrational?
>"It's not a hotel, and it's not vacation!"

So what - because it isnt a hotel patients shouldnt try to make their stay less uncomfortable?

>Usually wifes and girlfriends cutting food for male patients who have absolutely nothing wrong with their hands or minds.

A hospital stay is unpleasant for most people and those close to them like doing what little they can do to make it a tiny bit better. Is that really so bad?

Honestly, it is disappointing to me when I hear about medical practitioners who can't think of the patients as humans (even if cold detachment is definitely helpful in other situations).
And if it’s a full console, the next Xbox should be the ‘Xbox 361’. Or the ‘Xbox -359’, maybe?
It’s troubling how quickly people accept these claims as true, simply because it fits their pre-existing views/ anecdotal experience. This is exactly how pseudoscience gets traction.
> Like, for example...how far away are you once you get this huge thing high enough to launch.

It can climb in a circle so that it's never far from its base.
I thought "conspiracy" was used for owls.
He's talking about building the underlying failover mechanism for CosmoDB. For a customer it's easy and automatic, but GCP and AWS and Azure have to build it first.
If I'm not mistaken, dimension can be defined easily for a topological manifold, which is actually a more fundamental structure than a differential manifold. (The former requires that chart overlaps be homeomorphisms, i.e. continuous bijections), while the latter requires that they be diffeomorphisms, i.e. smooth bijections). Smooth manifolds don't form a nice category for technical reasons, but one can think of a forgetful functor from differential manifolds to topological manifolds, and dimension being defined in the latter.
I thought I could easily tell the difference till I read this article...
So maybe if rich were visible in the US they would have more incentives to make sure there's not so much inequality that poor people would think kidnapping their kid is a good course of action in terms of risk-reward.

I live in post-comunist country and I've seen crimes on the street back then and now.

I can't tell you how wonderful it is that people you meet on the streets have something of their own, something they would risk loosing by attacking you.
67 y/o invents dog poo powered lamp
> irreducibility of subjectivity?

If that means nothing to you, then I suggest you read some more philosophy of mind to understand why subjectivity is a real problem for eliminativist theories.

> consciousness is the epistemic ground of all knowledge and experience

Fortunately not!

> Dennett's arguments are not taken seriously in many academic philosophical circles.

Haha, I don't know what bubble you live in, but the majority of philosophers are physicalists. See the survey done a few years ago:

https://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl

In fact, nearly every single one of Dennett's positions are held by the majority of philosophers, ie. physicalism, Compatibilism, realism. So much for Dennett not being taken seriously.
Great example of Baader–Meinhof effect. When you recently hear something and you remark it everywhere. I can assure you that I also read this post and did not talk about crows/raven recently!
Seems like most folks here are missing the really interesting part about the article:
> But was this enough of a value jump to merit the leap to 3.0?
Semver said nothing about "value". Semver only talks about breaking changes and added functionality vs. purely fixing bugs. For many users and libraries this is more than sufficient, because it allows you to manage risk when upgrading. However, lets enter some false preconceptions and more importantly Enterprise:

False preconceptions: Historically major versions of software, pre-semver, had major new features. Many people still have the expectation that this will be the case. This still gets reinforced by many software products (as opposed to libraries). We'd all be surprised if Apple released a new iOS major version and it has no new significant features, but just breaks some APIs that had been deprecated. This is what server would dictate, but would break human expectations.

Enterprise: I am sure CockroachDB has support contracts with some larger companies. What are the terms? Are there some support durations that are based on major version numbers? Now majors aren't free anymore.
Even if their support contracts don't care about major vs minors, you want your customers to upgrade ASAP, because the older the version you have to support, the more different is that code base from what you are actively working on and the fewer other customers will benefit. A fix on your latest version will likely be with the product forever, whereas a fix on a version that's three years old might not even be relevant to your latest.
A major release in server has per definition breaking changes. So this won't be a zero-cost upgrade. Many enterprises in addition have much heavier procedures to upgrade a major dependency, especially for something like a database. This makes for a lot of reason not to upgrade. So now you need some very good carrots to get users to upgrade.

Even if you don't have paying customers, breaking changes without a big carrot can be a problem. Nobody wants a mess like Python 2.7 vs. 3.

It seems like CockroachLabs just has passage of time make the decision for them now. I'd be very curious to see how this will impact how far behind latest their customers will be.
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As an also-Australian, my brain just doesn’t process seasons like Americans.

If someone says “coming in the Spring” I literally have no idea when that is. The dates of seasons are meaningless.
Yeah. The article seems to be a pretty dry list of traits that distinguish the common raven and american crow, which are specific species, so it makes sense in isolaiton. But it seems to be embracing a frame (echoed in a lot of comments here) that "crows and ravens look similar but are very different birds", which is basically wrong.
This could easily be solved by something along the lines of “Version 3.0 maintains full compatibility with Version 2.2” at the top of their release notes.

I dislike the idea of going away from SemVer just for marketing purposes. At least as a user when I’m going to upgrade versions then I could see that “oh, this version doesn’t break compatibility”
Best thing about working salesforce is the (3/yr) internal technology job fair
You get to skip the densest part of the atmosphere, and you get to use an air-breathing jet engine (instead of a rocket engine that carries its own oxidizer) to get up there.
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Every half backed release can always be improved later, at customer expenses.

So now, it’s an “improvement at customer expense” to add servers and increase the size of servers? How long do you think it takes to do everything I listed to add scale? When I say it’s logging into a website and clicking a few buttons, I am not exaggerating. Of course, in the modern era you modify a cloud formation template but that’s an implementation detail.

Likewise, not everyone is doing button clicks on AWS to scale their compute center, and a proper knowledge of distributed systems is required in order to do correct scaling.

Whether you are button clicking on AWS or using a data center, adding resources is the same. Increasing the size of your primary and secondary databases is the same on prem. It takes more effort and the turn around time is higher to provision resources, but it’s not magic. Everything I listed except for the CDN is something I’ve worked for a team that did on prem. I’m sure a lot of people can pipe in and say they have done similar things on prem or at s colo with Kubernetes and Docker. But that’s outside of my area of expertise.

Mongo DB problems are well known across the interwebs.

I am asking about your personal experience not what you “read on the internet”.
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my resting heart rate was high 30s-low 40s. I was put on propranolol and now my resting heart rate is in the mid 40s. I am the exact opposite of an athlete.
The whole point is for the mother herself to directly influence society at large. Not wait around for 30-40 years to see if maybe her offspring agrees with some of the things that she cares about and maybe or maybe not implements it.

Fathers also influence and shape the trajectory of their offspring, and we don't have the notion that fathers should be preoccupied with "fathering" and wait around and see if their offspring influence society at large.
Note, there is actually an article in the second half of the page past the photos and graphs.
FCC says it's legal to hack your router (2015)
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