skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You just have to look for 10 minutes at Cucumber and what's needed to make it work and you'll see that it's simply a bad idea. It's the same nonsense as generating code from UML or visual coding. Looks good to the non programmer but horrible to work with.
Yes, but he did so to reveal war crimes that the US had buried - doesn't this still count as whistle-blowing?
Exactly. What if I remember seeing you somewhere? Do I need to forget that information if you ask me to, because it's information about you and you own it?
Microsoft wants to use AI and data to take on climate change
Prepare to have your mind blown, friend, try `type trapz` or `type cumtrapz` in Matlab and read Mathworks-written m-file code to your heart's content (but if you do, you're disqualified from ever contributing to Octave). Or even try `edit xlsread` to edit that source code.

Less excitingly, read its EULA. I can't find a copy of it because they don't publish it, but I do remember a part that allowed you to modify and distribute Mathworks-written m-code to other Matlab license holders.
Actually I think this memory of mine comes mostly from Academia about a decade ago! Not really in the workplace.
Pilot here - they used the example of a hurricane, however, I think it would have a daily impact on thousands of flights (general aviation and commercial) which all rely on on accurate weather forecasting. Weather is no joke in aviation; even if you're flying a 747.
Funny you mention rage. I often say that I had to overcome a very bleak period in life. And I found screaming or even proto-screaming (no need to make a sound but think about raging out as a way to shake pain, drag, fatigue out of your mind and refocus). It often ~works enough.

And sorry for the ultra fuzzy anecdote
sneakernet is still a useful thing for large transfers (even in literal walking distance, sometimes). like if i'm sending a large file to a person in the same office or house, i might prefer to just put it on a thumb drive and hand it to them, instead of copying it to some network share or something.

i imagine this will be true for a while (i.e. the practical throughput of sneakernet in many cases will keep outpacing the practical throughput of wired and wireless networks, probably for a long time).
> The rVSV-ZEBOV-GP Ebola vaccine, made by Merck & Co, contains a live attenuated virus harmless to humans that researchers genetically engineered to carry an Ebola glycoprotein.

This took a few reads for me to get right
Good thing the poster of the story is totally verified legit and not at all making things up for fun or profit.
FWIW: 5 years ago or so I was on a plane that lost[0] an engine in rough weather shortly after take off.

The only reason I know is because the captain informed us about it and added that since it was technically an emergency landing we would be greeted by the fire department.

He then turned the plane around and landed as if nothing had happened.

The bloke across the corridor, an old pilot, complained about how there never happened anything remotely exiting on any of his flights ;-)

[0]: to be as accurate as possible I think what he said was they'd lost oil pressure on one engine and decided to shut it down voluntarily.
"The new black hole picture isn’t really a discovery, but it is a stunning accomplishment."

That "picture" is a stunning accomplishment in deception -- following the steps of Elizabeth Holmes and Bernie Madoff.

This EHT team took white noise from their telescopes, then creatively converted that white noise into one of theoretical pictures of a black hole.

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https://youtu.be/UGL_OL3OrCE?t=2242

37:22

And you can notice like at the bottom we get really terrible reconstruction, just cause if it fits the data very well, because you know it maybe wants to smooth out the flux as much as possible and we don't select things like that in the true data.

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They simply delete image interpretation because it does not fit the theoretical image that they want to see. How convenient. They call it "Calibration Free Imaging":

https://youtu.be/UGL_OL3OrCE?t=1179
Sure. That was almost 2 decades ago. We've given it some more thought.

https://atap.google.com/soli/
What Airbnb's Knowledge Repo Inspired Us to Build
As I see there is no governance or other controls in U.S. and that's very upset. Look like rich kids can buy whatever they wanna and I suppose rules must be chagnged anyway. No expensive services, just available for anyone. Paperell looks like it so I also wanna add that goverment should prevent such situations in the future and that's all..
If you're punished for what someone did with your password, that's obviously unfair.

Being punished for having a crackable password (on a reasonable hash) is fair.

I adjusted the wording a little, is that clearer?
The cost benefit ratio would be off. Offering asylum to Ed Snowden would allow them to virtue signal, but that would be the extent of benefits. The costs including pissing off the US who could make life miserable for them.
Here's a great blog post about San Clemente
https://www.exurbe.com/the-shape-of-rome/ (in which Freud battles his vertigo...)
I believe your job depends on you defending black boxes, but black boxes have no place in science or mathematics, at least not any black boxes that we create ourselves. That's my point. I shouldn't just tell you "minimise, this function, it worked" (or it didn't, who knows why). We should both be able to see exactly what that minimisation did and why it did or did not work.
In the past week I've written a broken-link checker, in perl, to sanity-check the output of a static-site-generator.

I've also written a trivial PHP parser which was designed to match up class-definitions with comments above them:

https://blog.steve.fi/parsing_php_for_fun_and_profit.html

Both of these tools were designed to be invoked by CI/CD systems, to flag potential problems before they became live.

Most of my work involves scripting, or tooling, around existing systems and solutions. For example another developer-automation hack was to automatically add the `approved` label to pull-requests which had received successful reviews from all selected reviewers - on a self-hosted Github Enterprise installation.
One reason is that the closer holes were so much less massive that they were no easier to snap.

Just compare it, Messier 87, to ours, Sagittarius A*: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_massive_black_hol...
We tried it for a little and concluded that it made nothing really better but a lot of things worse. We just should accept that a tester needs to learn writing code. I wish it were different but Cucumber is not a solution.
SpaceX Is Raising $500M
It's the new picture of Google Engineering for at least some of us now. It's very hard to trust a company that failed this spectacularly, doing something so clearly very dumb.
Fwiw this happens to me on Chrome too, for pretty much every Google app (Drive is probably the worst offender, especially because it's functionally just a static page when I'm not using it!)
> It's really old

The design has been iterated and improved many times. The field of aviation is very conservative. What's old is generally what works. New designs are prohibitively expensive. The 787 won't be profitable for some time, even a decade after it was launched.

> it's avionics are old

They're brand new. Where do you think they get them for brand new planes ?

>versus building from the ground up with those capabilities kept in mind.

They have done that, just the other way around: the avionics are built from the ground up with the capabilities of the well-understood (at least before -Max) aircraft in mind.
That was a really concise but faithful summary. Welcome to HN.
It’s not about control, it’s just that they don’t have to extend anything beneficial to the UK at the EU’s expense. Basically the UK wants a divorce, and they’re pissed that they’re not getting what think they deserve. Whatever control issues exist are due to a treaty the UK freely entered into, and choices (like getting married) have predictable consequences. If you decide freely to marry me, then unilaterally decide to divorce me, you wouldn’t be shocked if the result was a compromise between what you wanted in terms of property and rights, and what I wanted right?

Of course the EU is going to push for every inch, and since they don’t even want Brexit that gives them a lot of power. That was (or should have been) obvious from the get-go.
Ask HN: How to gain experience in microservices or any new tech
I am in IT for 9 yrs now and have been working for an age-old monolithic application in a company with very old tech stack. I have been upskilling myself since last few months. I have started with microservices and distributed applications. The problem is how do I get hands on experience in it. I thought of joining a company which works in Microservices but they all need experience which I do not have. So, I am rather confused about how to go ahead. I see this as a problem while learning about any new stuff. I can't get into a company without any experience on the technology and I can't get experience without solving real problems in it. This is like a chicken and egg problem for me. So, here are some questions I have -

1. While learning a new skill, how do I put myself in a situation where I will have to solve real world problems. I can think of doing a weekend project. But consider the case of learning about distributed applications. I will need a real customer facing application there to face some real problems.

2. I feel if I get a chance to work in a company which uses those technologies, I will be able to get a good experience. Is that a way? How do I get into it as a beginner?

3. Are there any other ways I can look into? Freelancing, etc?
Notre Dame is more famous now than it has ever been. A new chapter has just been added to its history. A building is just a building, the Chinese have been building replicas of pretty much every famous European landmark. They, like buildings, are probably even more imposing than the originals. But they don't have the same history of destruction and rebirth that the originals represent.
I find that SWAG sounds better, and let's you add "Scientific" to the front of it.
I do not deny that 4G has worse latency, but 5G will not provide sub millisecond round trip latency for regular internet based applications. Sub millisecond latencies are due to local communication which can replace DSRC/802.11p in car2car communication and similar applications.

Your 4G results also seem quite bad, my personal test right now was more around 18ms broadband vs 31ms LTE. Google scholar results (https://scholar.google.de/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=LTE+l...) I looked into seemed to suggest LTE is capable of ~20ms latency results, while (http://wirelessone.news/10-r/1007-lte-latency-today-9-ms-dow...) suggests that LTE-A (3gpp release 13) is capable of 14ms latency.
I'm one of the people made this and I've love to answer any questions. We used the knowledge repo extensively at my last startup and we loved it, this is our attempt to improve upon those idea
Sure, the infrastructure is there for the tech-savvy.

But people who has at least a vague idea how to configure their own server are a small minority.
A Gentle Introduction to Text Summarization in Machine Learning
...none of that makes any sense!

There's a lot of open source tech out there with 90% centralized design and decision making. Most open-source databases. Haskell and OCaml programming languages also have small groups of core devs... I think even Julia development is controlled by a very small group of people.

Open source the core language if you want it to survive, otherwise it will be completely forgotten and lost from history! Closed source programming languages have no chances of survival and increased adoption, even Microsoft and Apple know this now!

(Sure, keep closed the UI + some modules with truly innovative proprietary algorithms, bc most of your paying customers will keep buying your paid versions, you won't loose the revenue stream.)

Anyway, it's too late anyway...
Just put a 5G tower on the radio tele... nevermind.
DAML smart contracts coming to Hyperledger Sawtooth
Same here. My mom was an executive secretary in the 60's-80's. I learned to type on her old electric typewriter that had no symbols (!) on the keys. You had to learn touch typing because looking was pointless.
It is not in fact exposed to the web, you weren't wrong about that.
He's one of those people the internet is right to hate
While bandwidth is typically measured in absolute Hz difference due to the spread directly relating to the amount of information-carrying capacity, when you are actually generating signals many things scale with carrier frequency.

The way most of these signals are being generated is through an "information signal" (usually referred to as a modulator) being created within your device, then moved up in frequency by combining it with a "carrier signal". This separation allows the information signal's properties (such as bandwidth, modulation scheme, bitrate/Hz, etc...) to be more-or-less independent from the physical characteristics of propagation, which will be more strongly related to the carrier signal's properties (e.g. water absorption, reflection/transmission off of/through materials, etc...).

However, no process is perfect, and although we would like to generate perfect signals, we can't. Distortion appears in multiple parts of this pipeline, both in the generation of the low-frequency modulator and the high-frequency carrier. Distortion typically comes from "linear" components not being perfectly linear and thereby generating harmonics of the signal passing through them. In the case of the modulator, this splatters signal energy up and down the spectrum on the order of the bandwidth of the modulator, but in the case of the carrier it does so on the order of the carrier frequency. This is all a matter of degree and depending on the application may not be that big a deal, but it definitely must be addressed for high-density communications equipment like cell networks.

All transmitters have filters at multiple stages of their signal processing chains, both lowpass filters that filter the modulator before it's mixed with the carrier signal to boost it up in frequency, as well as bandpass filters that ensure the output stays within the bounds it's meant to be; but these filters only do so much and they can be expensive to create (as they can have rather fine physical tolerances) so everybody is always just playing the "do the best job we can for the least money" game.

Luckily, most transmitters are also connected to antennae that provide a convenient filtering on the output (they only resonate at the frequencies they transmit at) which helps for specialized systems that only operate at a single transmit frequency, but for something like 5G is less helpful, due to the many channels it supports, causing the antenna to necessarily support a wide range of frequencies.
You can embed G/W/T into RSpec. There's a library called Turnip[0], a play on Cucumber, that extends the syntax to Feature tests in RSpec.

- [0] https://github.com/jnicklas/turnip

The reason RSpec didn't include this originally probably stems from the library being designed for testing at the class or module level, rather than an entire application.
You just sound like a loon if you take your stance against them in every thread on a random tech forum.
This is awesome, i need this
He’s not being charged for what he published, he’s being charged with conspiracy to “hack” as it were. If you’re asking whether something stops being a crime because you did it for virtuous reasons, obviously the answer is no from a legal perspective.
Reminds me of that time I hacked together Zork for the Google Home.

You can still try it out, I think, if you say "Ok, Google, let me talk to Dungeon RPG"

https://github.com/mitchellgordon95/DungeonForGoogleHome
Yeah, I don't love the nonsense misspelled words that is the default. However, it does provide some texts you can type against -- some little short story about a man who is left alone on the planet. I get pretty different results on the two texts:

English story (capitalization and punctuation enabled): 109 avg wpm, 124 wpm top speed.

Weird nonsense words: 81 avg wpm, 112 wpm top speed.

But I totally agree -- the part that particularly bugs me is the BACKSPACE key. Being an effective typist requires being able to feel it when you hit the wrong key, delete the error, and continue. In general I just ctrl+backspace and delete the entire word, since that's way faster than just issuing a targeted correction. I get really stuck when the backspace key does nothing, then I have to figure out exactly which character it was and start mid-word, and it's super awkward.
With ortholinear are you significantly faster than when you used staggered layout? If i could apply my numpad speed and accuracy to the rest of the keyboard it would be worth it. However, seems like people just re-train only to get to the same speed.
If it is possible, and those frequencies are worth using for this purpose, maybe they should give free 4G/5G-phones to anyone still on 3G to be able to do it as soon as possible.
I think we're talking about typing time, right?

Because if say, 75% of your time is spent debugging in an "regular" language then you really aren't saving much time by reducing the amount of code you must write.

If we could reduce programming to typing in mostly correct code then software development will be much faster, even if the code we type is 50% longer.
On the topic of "history", there is a Spaniard (Justo Gallego Martínez) that started the construction of a cathedral in 1961 by himself [1]. He gained notoriety with an Aquarius spot [2]. If you are interested, there are some videos that show the inside [3].

There is even a movement to stop the demolition (it has not building permits) because many people consider it a monument.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justo_Gallego_Mart%C3%ADnez

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk9jGBjiBZI

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhC2N0eK168
Burning Man’s Future in Question Amid Fight with Government Agency
@burntsushi I used "-L" by mistake in the benchmark. I have updated the README file and the performance benchmark results using the latest version of ripgrep. For searching lines from the boost source code ripgrep 11.0 is the clear winner i.e 50% faster than GNU grep 3.3. I tried to be fair as much as I can in the performance comparison so feel free to create a github ticket if you see any issue in my benchmarks.
I do have unit tests to make sure that fastgrep does produce the correct results and did many manual tests to make sure that the output of fast grep is consistent to the output of GNU grep and ripgrep. Note that the matched lines may not the same for a search pattern and it has been explained here https://rust-leipzig.github.io/regex/2017/03/28/comparison-o... or @glangdale, the author of Teddy, will be the best person to ask.

BTW, I see a 20% performance jump from rg-0.10 to rg-11.0 for a single file benchmark. What are the key differences between these two versions?
Maybe that specific technology allows users to rest their arms on top of something while gesturing (even though it is not shown in any of the demo videos), but you specifically asked for a “Minority Report interface”, which does not do that.
I have documented a 2 out of 2 experience that I have had on Quora. I'll link it here: https://www.quora.com/How-does-telekinesis-work-Can-our-brai...

The sheer mass of human vagary involved in that account presents a nigh-insurmountable obstacle, especially given that one of my determinations was that "if God doesn't want a thing to happen, it won't happen." That all alone kills any attempt to make it repeatable.

I suppose I could get together with a researcher and try to explore the space. But unless we can get to rigor and full repeatability, whose going to care?
Is there a map of Cell Strength Detectors all over? (actual devices, not a predictive map)?

I think that its really interesting that water is literally the reason why life exists on this planet. Basically, water has shielded life from radiation from space, (in addition to the magnetosphere, etc) -- but life was able to evolve in the protective layer of water.

So, I just find the fact that propagating radiation measurement through water, such as you describe, and as it relates to the potential health concerns of Humans creating a new, fairly powerful and ubiquitous source of radiation (5G) to be something we really need to pay attention to.
People, Platforms, & PWAs: 3 Forces Driving the Future of Micro-Entrepreneurship
The Technician level license (Essentially it's all amateur frequencies above ~50Mhz, you do get some morse-code on a few lower bands, but they're hardly used by Techs) is very simple to get; there's a lot of "Ham Cram" classes, this is how I got mine. Essentially you study all morning interspersed with a quick primer on Ohms law, common-sense rules and regulations, etc...

There has been a proposed enhancement to the Tech level to give them some lower frequency privileges that's causing a rift in the hobby since the new comers welcome it and the old-timers think it'll kill the hobby* and turn everything into CB radio.

* Common amongst the old timers is that EVERYTHING that isn't morse code (CW) is killing the hobby.
Suspect in 3 Black Church Fires in Louisiana Is Charged with Hate Crimes
if you like something or think it's important, and you want the internet to preserve it for posterity, force it to be crawled by the wayback machine:

https://web.archive.org

(usually stuff i want to save has already been crawled, but i always find it satisfying when something i plug in there hasn't been archived yet)
There's a lot of bad to be said about how companies use story points and velocity and all the rest, but I do greatly appreciate the way they delink "amount of work" from "delivery date". It's a nice built-in way of expressing time requirements separately from schedule, which is a lot smoother than constantly reminding people that the difference exists.
I'm 43, and I eat breakfast about once every three months. Sure I might eat lunch earlier than most, but since I was 14 I stopped eating breakfast and it largely haven't been missed.

What most people call breakfast is cereal of some kind, loaded with sugar. That's not even a proper meal in my humble opinion. (Sure some people might have fruit, toast, rice, or something more interesting. I guess this is very location-specific. In the UK my parents insisted I ate frosties, or corn-flakes, up until I was about 14 when I just said "no".)

Breakfast for me is coffee. Black. Strong.
It's like when you suggest that maybe getting rid of lobbying is a solution to political corruption.

Practically it might not happen, but if enough people move in the direction of supporting something like this, the pressure will build. Just as it was not practical to make marijuana legal in the 60s.

Remember that the people in power are mostly old dinosaurs who will die soon (they are old already)

They will be replaced and the vision of those replacing them will shape the future.
What is the point of preserving it if no one can visit it ?
NATO was a common argument (most EU countries are not spending the required 2% of GDP on army)
Data is being called the new "Oil" and it's only a matter of time that tech becomes as maligned as the tobacco and oil industry.
Standing by for employee protests.
Presumably this iteration of Notre Dame was built by old men. Something must have changed at the societal level to make tearing down a 700 year old cathedral to make a new one possible in the 13th century, but seem unconscionable in the 21st.
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Blue Sky of Death?
This article helps explain it: https://medium.com/@six4three/how-facebook-sold-your-data-an...