skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add to your Idea, could a "null ship" be carried to a greater height and then where the air is thinner have it's gas removed to take everything a little higher?

Like rocket stages but for airships.
Die, fiat currencies, die!!
The Huawei mate X already had a visible crease in the middle when unfolded precisely because the radius is larger and thus the excess plastic needs to go somewhere. I guess they can still fix the protective plastic properly so there is no ingress.
It is great, but lacks a few key features. For example there is no way to select a part of the image and rescale that part (meaning that the image content of the selection would be resized by dragging the corner of the selection box).

My brain just doesn't grok the way of working in GIMP so I highly appreciate the general simplicity of Pinta. Somehow simple tasks are really complicated in GIMP. I usually just want to draw primitive shapes, move or resize image content, add text. Exactly the MS Paint-style basics, but it's a pain in GIMP.
"8. Anonymous sperm and egg donors could become a thing of the past."

As someone conceived with donor gametes who used Ancestry/23andme to find and build a relationship with my biological father - this is a WONDERFUL thing.

Depriving people of their genetic history is a terrible byproduct of the multi-billion-dollar fertility industry, and I personally know hundreds of people that have been terribly hurt by the pain caused by anonymous donations.

Only thing to correct - anonymous donations very much now ARE a thing of the past, not "could be." Any fertility clinic promising anonymity is knowingly lying to prospective donors and/or recipient parents.
Rock climbing is [citation needed, as they say] one of the easiest activities in which to attain flow.

It's an all body activity. It requires a host of tiny techniques that are best learnt by doing. It takes practice. To perform well requires a calm mind, even when the consequences of failure are evident which naturally triggers a disturbed mind.
There's lots of third party wallets, so the answer is probably all that and more. Broken KDFs, truncating things, etc.
As a low level developer, i thoroughly disagree. I think it's disappointing that we're given absolutely insane amounts of processing power where intel keep pushing the limits of physics, then developers keep wasting that on inefficient languages like javascript, python, java, etc. They have their uses, but using them to develop every piece of software would be an inefficient waste of resources.

For fast, efficient software there will always be low level languages such as C, C++, etc. and I would always urge more people to learn them, even if just to learn to appreciate how much is managed by their high level language and understand the trade-offs they're making with those languages.
Can't really agree. 7.3 differs so much from 7.0 that migrating is just not possible without careful code rewrite. How is a version good when it is incompatible inside minor version releases?

I know little about version 8 though, but as long as they are not abandoning backwards compatibility it won't make up for the language flaws
You are thinking of something else than python? Python has strong, dynamic type system with little implicit type conversions.
My experience of this was that the sad music could connect to where I was, and once I had connected, I could actually slowly shift my mood by gradually changing the music (had to be gradual though).

I kind of stumbled on that, and it worked for me, though in hindsight I can see how it could be seen as a form of musical therapy.

The really essential point though, is that in order for this to work I had to begin with songs that actually matched my low mood (Radiohead and Portishead seemed to consistently do the trick)... trying to shift out of a low mood by playing a happy song directly did not work - it was just jarring.

I imagine that in doing so I was unconsciously reproducing one of the best impacts of certain kinds of therapy: creating the acknowledgement that yes, I feel the way I feel, that is mirrored by my environment in some way, and it’s not something I need to hide or feel shame about. The music helped me feel that without needing to reveal anything about myself.
Correlation does not imply causation.

How do these AI systems account for causation?

It's the fundamental issue I have with the penetration of these sorta "AI" systems in daily life: from what I understand about the basic maths, they're ultimately all seeking correlation and real-world data used to improve models seems to achieve verification, not validation.

I'm guessing I'm not the only person who reads this article and experiences a visceral reaction.

This is what I would call "ugly" tech.
Exactly, profiling.
You're splitting the option value for -drive into multiple arguments. Here's an idea to fix that while keeping the same style:

qemu-system-x86_64 \
-display none \
-m 2048 \
-serial stdio \
-drive "$(printf "%s"
file=/export/cirros.qcow2, \
format=qcow2, \
if=virtio
)"
You've convinced me that "I'm Against Podcasts" is a stupid statement.

I think you're absolutely on-point for saying that, 10-20 years from now, we'll look back on podcasts that are widely acknowledged as classic.

At the same time, I think criticisms by this author are mostly valid and probably helpful (inasmuch as they push people to innovate and take risks with the medium). The criticisms are just overly broad and they ought to be aimed more clearly at specific trends within in the medium rather than the medium itself.
How do you afford $200 if you're interviewing for a six-figure job but don't yet have a six-figure job? Personal loan?

(Also, that doesn't address the question of getting a working decent setup, if you're not otherwise using it.)
I do too. It was incredibly amazing (IDEs were built on top of it!) and ncurses falls short as a replacement.
1. The results may not be accurate

23andMe and ancestry.com are accurately sequencing DNA and providing ancestry interpretations in line with peer-reviewed science.

2. Heritage tests are less precise if you don’t have European roots.

Human ancestry is extremely well-studied. These studies have included large numbers of genomes from many different ancestry groups. Certainly, the common ancestry groups among the likely readers of this article are well-represented and studied.

3. Your DNA says nothing about your culture.

From a statistical point of view, your DNA contains information about the ethnic groups to which your ancestors belonged. That in turn contains information about the culture in which your ancestors, and you, find themselves. If the author means "says nothing" in a sense other than "statistical information" then it would be interesting to learn what this sense is.
Yes, as a kid. I found it an interesting caricature. I am now discovering in awe, as you are the second person mentioning that, that some people actually take it for a serious criticism of the very notion of equality.

That's not even an exaggeration of the position you are attacking, that's a wilful misrepresentation.
Purely anecdotal but when I'm feeling down / sad I find that happy music annoys me where as sad music soothes me. Music too far out of my current mindset clashes with it and causes negative feelings in me.
Have robots build a hydrolysis and refueling station on Earth first, and I'll believe they can do the work in space.
Yes ? Point me to a popular open source project that is written in Ruby that is not web based ? Even today where we just passed peak ruby.

And I mean "yum" popular. Blender popular. QGIS popular. Not "that script that sort my ssh connection is in Ruby" popular.
Very droll, very droll. But US law is that even if your policy has no intended racial bias, if it ends up having one, it’s still illegal. And meat is mainly shoplifted by white women.
Type O Negative and reboot everything
Plant-Based Startup
Slippery slope arguments slip both ways: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2010-01-02
Same with depressing literature. When I am in depressed mood then listening/reading depressing material gives me peace. When you have depression you generally don’t get much acceptance so it’s nice to be allowed to be as you are and not constantly being told “lighten up”.
There are a lot of places that trucks and SUVs sell well - the US is the biggest right now, but Canada, China, India, and Russia all come to mind as consumers of vehicles like this.

Global sales of just one truck similar in size to the Rivian - the Ford F-150 - topped 1M units in 2018, making it the best selling vehicle globally, beating out the corolla and the civic by 140k and 250k units respectively.
Yes, we should. As a society we've agreed that whatever benefits there may be from racial profiling aren't worth the harm.
Anyone know when these will hit the market? I'd love an electric SUV. As much as I would PREFER a self driving SUV (level 4+), I don't see that being truly amenable in the next 5 years.
>if the target is approached and asked if they need help, there’s a good chance the theft never happens...

Good security would see your "target" as the "subject".

The target is the guy taking advantage of the new camera prediction system by waiting for a subject of interest to enter the area before proceeding to rip you off while you're otherwise engaged.

My guess is that the shoplifting rings will have a field day in any mall relying on tech like this.
Exactly happened to me over this Easter - normal jet airbus swapped for some slower turboprop one (the one with long blades sticking out).

Normally I wouldn't care so much, engines weren't that noisy, but the effin' plane was much much slower, meaning huge delay, missed train and forced sleepover in a place I really didn't want to spend any time.

No warning or announcement whatsoever. Not even apology from crew for massive delay (Austrian airlines)
And pay to re-certify the pilots. That was the underlying reason for this disaster.

But I think this is just the beginning for Boeing. The recent complaints about sloppy 787 manufacturing seem to point to deeper cultural problems.
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What do you mean by skew? A perspective transformation (homography)? I'm not sure it's standard terminology.
So profiling in and of itself isn’t automatically bad. It’s bad if it uses illegal methods , characteristics to assign weight to a profile.

You can’t say if [some race] then that. But you can use other things (are they loitering, barefoot, poor hygiene, has sunglasses, truckers cap, pulls over hoodie on entering, have a decoy, etc)
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Most of the mentioned use cases involve high altitudes. Higher altitudes = higher winds. The air is smooth up there but it does move. For instance, the upper level winds above my head right now are pushing 130knots. This thing will have to do more than glide gently up and down if it wants to maintain station at 10km+, airliner altitude.
Show HN: Geomancer – Automated feature engineering for geospatial data
The author does touch on this on page 76 of the book (quoted below)

GTK 2 and GTK 3

One thing worth mentioning at this point is that there are two versions of GTK in use. The current version is GTK 3, and this is still under active development – it changes quite a bit between releases.

For this reason, many people prefer to use the older version, GTK 2. This offers most of the same functionality, but it is stable code which doesn’t change very much any more. Some say that it is always better to use the latest and greatest version of anything, but more cautious old engineers (like your author…) tend to prefer the older version that has had a lot more testing and with which people have stopped fiddling about! In terms of the examples we are looking at here, there aren’t that many significant differences between the two, but just to be clear, the examples in this book will use GTK 2.
(Natively compiled) Erlang might want to have a word with you.
Good point. Having driven Model S/X/3'es as well as an e-tron and i-pace I can absolutely echo your statement.

Teslas offer a different USP than E-Tron/I-Pace alikes. It's EV vs. Premium-Cars that happen to be EVs.

If you've never owned a (premium) car and thus have no feeling for differences in interior- and general-manufacturing-quality, a Tesla is the reasonable choice (it even maybe that an Audi's interior will come across as needlessly pretentious).

However, if you've driven premium Audis/Jags you will notice what Teslas are lacking.

It's reasonable to assume that Teslas are thus more likely to be bought by newly affluent millennials (than by already affluent people), though being a TSLA stockholder I wonder how large that group of millennials might be outside of my software engineering bubble.
It always seemed self-evident to me that people who are depressed generally dislike being entrenched in "happy" settings (e.g. seeing happier people around them) because it reinforces feelings of isolation. I don't see why music would be any different.

Put another way, misery loves company.
ok. thanks. so it's prop 58 (an amendment to the state constitution) which would need to be repealed. and, I guess this proves the old saying that it's not breaking the law that's outrageous, it's what is actually legal that's outrageous.
Hopefully less than human bias. I was in a CVS and a black teenager came in and was vigorously trying to get the cashiers attention. Eventually he was like “YO” and she looked up and he showed her his soda and told her he was bringing it into the store, so that when he left she wouldn’t think he had stolen it. I can’t imagine having to live life under such perpetual assumption of wrongdoing.
Maybe because when you are depressed you want to hear something that resonates within you? But what is 'Sad' in music? I think you crave for depth in musical emotions, not particularly 'sad' when you are depressed.
Oh, wow. That explains a lot of things I couldn't understand from news I read.
In https://gmail.googleblog.com/2009/02/new-in-labs-multiple-in... click on Labs tab.
Beyond the Fog and over the Edge: The Container Continuum [video]
Is this that people with depression crave sad music, or that music meant to elicit pathos has found its target audience?

> The controversial implication is that depressed people deliberately act in ways that are likely to maintain their low mood.

How is this remotely controversial? Finding something you like is not the same as liking your state or disposition for depression.

> “… may reflect a desire for calming emotional experience rather than a desire to augment sad feelings.”

So, we've basically confirmed that people get pleasure out of liking things? This study seems weird.
punk also gave you a way to connect with the artist. you saw DK at a shitty club in the bad part of town, and Jello was 3 feet from you, and he'd talk to you after the show. (Instead of going to see Zeppelin at a giant stadium)

With podcasts, a lot of them are Extremely Online and so interacting with the host is easy. They'll talk with you on Twitter or Reddit or here.
The thing with machine learning systems is that we can't always know what specific characteristics or behaviours they have learned to respond to. All we know is that they have associated some characteristics of shoppers as indicating a high likelihood of imminently engaging in theft, but we might not be able to un-pick what those characteristics or behaviours are from the neural net weightings.

I think a potential risk here is from small initial sample sizes. Here's a thought experiment. A system like this is set up and runs successfully for some time. A person with some distinctive characteristic enters the store and steals something and is caught. The system learns that so far 100% of people with that characteristic stole. Next time it detects that characteristic, it flags that person and they're ejected from the store. The system will never learn that this characteristic can be benign, because from now on it will be excluded from it's data set.

That's a bit of an artificial example, making assumptions about how the system might work, but something along those lines could be a potential failure mode, and we might never know what that characteristic is because the system can't express the reasons for it's decision in a meaningful way.
It does change the story. “He” excludes 50% of potential perpetrators. Using “they” does not.
Another idiotic article written by an idiot adding his voice to the hysteria and bullshit intended to sell eyeballs to the advertisers by whipping up anxiety among a non-technical public trying to cope with an increasingly technical world.

Anyone who read the preliminary report of the Ethiopia Airlines crash must understand that the immediately fatal event was an overspeed condition created by pilots who were not capable of flying a plane manually because of inadequate training and experience.

Those pilots re-engaged the electric trim system during the overspeed condition despite the flight manual specifically prohibiting this action. There was even a page included in the flight manual that described the Lion Air situation and warned against it.

Of course, re-engaging the electric trim and allowing the MCAS to operate it at almost 50kts faster than the aircraft was ever designed to fly was a catastrophic event.

Of course, the Ethiopians blamed Boeing rather than their own state airline and the farcical training facility operated by the airline itself.

This is the stupid world we live in--where the ignorant press creates mass hysteria because it sells eyeballs, with the result that public policy decisions are taken by the idiocracy.

No, you morons, if you put a pilot into the right seat of a 737 Max with 98 hours of total flight time, graduated from a flight school that almost exclusively admits men because they are the scions of the rich and famous, this is what you will get when something goes wrong in any aircraft.

It's just easier to blame Boeing than ourselves. We cut corners in pilot training because we all demand cheaper flights, because we all have no money due to it being concentrated in the hands of the top 0.1%, and we refuse to examine the facts because they have gone out of fashion, and instead we grab the pitchforks and light the torches and head over to Boeing.

It's us. Our system is broken be a use it values making money over everything else, and when 300 people get drilled into the ground at 25Gs, we look everywhere but where we should look: in. the. mirror.
I've always considered sad music a kind of ally - in lieu of a friend you can be quiet with and share your moment. It's a form of communication, and sad music is sharing, well, sadness. I think it makes isolated people feel less lonely.

I'm also keen to hear the mentioned sad piece "Rakavot" by Avi Balili but it doesn't seem to exist online, does anyone have a reference?
”These cameras act like a racist old shop keeper so you don’t have to, but it’s cool because it’s ‘artificial intelligence’ and definitely not profiling.”
Rendering a GUI is much more overhead than the business logic to set up the GUI and make it interactive.
A GUI is only "slow" if there is a user-triggered operation that takes more than 10ms. Interpreting a Python callback is many orders of magnitude smaller than this, and complex algorithms can be outsourced to other languages if needed.
Focus on your bottlenecks first. Don't pre-optimize.
Sorta like that. Only been a few decades of trying to make electric a real part of their product line
The answer to that would depend on the CL implementation, since not all of them can do AOT compilation.
There is no way this doesn't end up disproportionately impacting at least some protected class.

Even if it doesn't, the opacity of ML means that it's going to difficult to defend against charges that it does.
They do do all these things though, they do them very publicly.

Judging them based on that, based on those consistent and continued offenses informs that bias rather strongly.

Edit:

Here, lets put it this way. I don't trust the Chinese government, or anything tied to the Chinese government, because they've consistently lived down to my expectations. Read what they say, find out what actually happened, and eventually the default assumption HAS to change from "Trust but Verify" to just "Verify".
When you feel completely disconnected from society, the right kind of music gives you something to connect to. Which is something.
Boomerang effect. You go fast enough into a depressive state to actually feel something, have a good snotty sobbing cry, perhaps with that semi solid yellow stuff coming out of your sinuses, and then come out feeling refreshed and slightly embarrassed hoping you don't enter that state of mind again for a while.
Spent 50 hours on a take-home assignment only to be ghosted
Because videogames are glamorous and a significant portion of people in CS went into it for the specific purpose of working in videogames. As such it's one of the rare sectors in our industry where employers do not struggle too much to hire fresh blood.

At the risk of sounding a bit jaded I don't feel too bad about overworked videogame developers. The vast majority of them can quit at any point and probably land a job in some other sector of the industry, probably with better work conditions and a better salary.

Developers chose to work for these videogame studios. They chose the glamour of being able to say "I wrote some code for GTA V" rather than the comfort and quality of life of being able to say "I write backend code for a flower shop".
737 FYAE (fifty years anniversary edition)
> They have never used a proper programming language and have either never learned or have forgotten what it takes to make solid software.

I've been coding since I was kid, and professionally for over 20 years. I've used a few different languages, in a few different contexts, but Iv'e done JS in front/backend for the last 7 years or so and I find statements like these utterly tiresome. Sure, there are lots of naive JS devs...but I can say the same for Java, or any other language that is "a proper programming language". A lot of JS code is written to optimize for things that may it not seem like "solid software" - but I've seen a lot of terrible "solid software".

When we collectively realize that our industry is so young, that the best practices of yesteryear are often now viewed as mistakes (and that the practices from before that were maybe the right idea...), and that we really DON'T KNOW the correct answer, maybe then we'll stop loving to hate on people who are doing work that we might not do so well at if we tried it.

I don't know your intentions in saying what you said, but in general there is a LOT of smug looking-down on web development in general and JS development in particular. Arrogance is not a good look, and derision is worse. The industry has improvements it can make, certainly, but this is something true of us all, not something restricted to one sub-group while everyone else is doing thing The Right Way.
Hubble's Messier Catalog
As miserable as it is to be depressed there may also be something positively reinforcing about it. Anger and hate clearly have that going for them, would it be surprising if sadness does too? If so, listening to sad music may be attractive in that it helps people feel sad.
Just a heads up that The Dollop unapologetically built their huge, lucrative following via naked plagiarism.

I have my own history podcast (with a much smaller audience than The Dollop), and a few years back I discovered that they were re-reading lengthy segments of my original podcast scripts word-for-word on their podcast without permission or attribution. When I called them out they claimed this is "Fair Use", and that non-fiction cannot be copyrighted. It really knocked the wind out of my sails, and it bothers me to this day, so I can't see them recommended like this without adding this important asterisk.

My open letter to them from 2015, with audio evidence: https://www.damninteresting.com/a-special-note-to-the-writer...

Sorry for the bummer. MBMBaM is great though.