skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mods on porn subs generally abide and enforce the rules from what I've seen. Plus in sheer numbers terms there's a lot fewer subreddits than there were tumblr's, practically speaking you could actually have a team of people keeping an eye on subreddits in a way that would probably be impossible with tumblr due to sheer volume.
Every ton of carbon counts. Every Euro invested in carbon neutral alternatives makes it cheaper for poorer countries to switch. A EU wide carbon tax that is also applied to imports would perhaps also sway China into putting more effort into reducing their emissions.
I think native WSL support will be a differentiator, I'm seriously excited for it.
Design and Magic Cap (2000) [pdf]
He means no telemetry. None whatsoever. At the very least a default opt-out.
This is the product of the Soviet Union, so take it with a grain of salt.
Computer Science and Metaphysics: A Cross-Fertilization [pdf]
SpaceX offers new details on Crew Dragon test anomaly – SpaceNews.com
Adobe CC is desktop software with a monthly licensing fee.
What a coincidence... June is when gitHub was purchased by Microsoft.

Let’s make a prediction: Gitlab will be bought by Google within a year.
I know, my point is that the most complex pieces of software within Ubuntu are not primarily developed by Canonical and thus it's possible to maintain complex Linux software without having ads and tracking.

The fact that Canonical had developed spyware has nothing to do with the Linux kernel, glibc, bash, GNOME, systemd, PulseAudio, all of which prove that you don't need ads and tracking to maintain Linux software.
Agreed - personally, I was never a tumblr user anyway, but Oath's farcical "GDPR" notice has ensured that I will never use any of their sites, whatever kind of content they may have.
Data Version Control tutorial – tool for reproducibility of ML projects
None of this applicable for hard experimental sciences like physics and chemistry. You can't shortcut bench time, especially since it involves a lot of trial and error. And sometimes it doesn't work out, at all.
Awful compared to what? Whats your better data?
> Heck you can have basements in New Jersey.

According to UNSCEAR radon (which you probably mean?) actually causes 9% of lung cancers in Europe: https://www.focus.de/gesundheit/ratgeber/krebs/vorbeugung/ti...

> Are you sure we're drawing a consistent line on radiation exposure?

We're not doing this, and the result is (easily!) preventable illness and death.
You are welcome to find a better source.
Bitcoin a Buy Says Strategist Who Called Late-2018 Breakdown
URI or URL?: and Why the RFCs Don't Help Clarify
There's some evidence it was not accidental: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor#Genocide_question
CMPs May Not Be GDPR Compliant
How to fit any dataset with a single parameter
You are welcome to find better sources.
This Mike Burrows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Burrows. If you've used a Mutex or a CondVar at Google, you've used his code.
Migration != Murder OR theft

Even the least intelligent human knows that.

The term "illegals" is misleading because they don't do anything illegal when they try to find a future for their family that is worth living.

The USA is founded by migrants so there is not even a real "US-citizen" by DNA, color or whatever. The same goes for Germany and other countries - they where founded by immigrants which is consistent with the ongoing migration of mankind.

You fail to see my point because you don't want to understand it. So much is obvious.
Spitting in an empty swimming pool to try and fill it?

It's a governmental problem, not an individual one, only way it's going to change is if you start campaigning and voting differently.
Far right is a dog whistle. It doesn’t really mean anything. E.g criticise the immigration policy, you will be labelled far right by some of the rags that are still somehow trading.

As for whether free speech benefits those in the far right. Sure maybe it does but it also benefits everybody.
> a technical solution to something that’s not a technical problem

Why does a problem have to be 'technical' to have a technical solution? Skype, Wikipedia, Amazon, eBay...pretty much every major technical product I can think of solves non-technical problems, almost by definition.

> But nobody is going to. Because it makes no business sense to do so.

You are talking about a general trend as if it's ubiquitous. Yes there are strong business reasons why most software vendors have shifted to SaaS, but that doesn't obviate the fact that some users have problems for which local software is a better fit. The local software market may be smaller, but it exists, and it's incorrect to say it makes "no business sense" for anyone to operate in it.
Sounds like a lot of hooey to me, frankly.
Overview on Top Python Frameworks for Web Developers
Python is an object-oriented, interpreted, dynamically-typed and interactive programming language. Here, we’re going to describe the most common Python web frameworks. It should be more than enough for you and your Organization to pick the one you want to start with based on your requirements: bit.ly/2ZTwYpV
Intel Cloud Boss Raejeanne Skillern Departs for Top Post at Flex
Frustrated Tim Cook Reveals Disappointing MacBook Pro Delay
Apple support for CalDAV and CardDAV is in a good shape. The sync mechanism isn’t as good as the native integration with iCloud, but I see it’s related to the protocol.
The Software as a Service model is 100% compatible with what they have outlined, and in fact has been working well with many traditional desktop applications (Microsoft Office, Adobe Suite). Providing a good end user experience while taking care of caching, cross-device & offline syncing, conflict resolution etc. are still mostly unsolved problems, and any amount of progress in those areas is good.
I've had a beard and not, a shaved head and not, and mine feel slower than others. Tough to verify with an N=1, but that wouldn't really surprise me if they were.

I'm also flying to Kenya and other E. African countries so it wouldn't be surprising if they flagged me.
Next-Gen Load-Balancing at JsDelivr with FlexBalancer by PerfOps
A wonderful related talk and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15473199
I can't see that him being "just" a postdoc has very much to do with anything, especially when covering stuff like this which is foundational rather than cutting-edge.
For those who are convinced by data, https://isithotrightnow.com/ is terrifying.
Regulators should take a close look at the iPhone App Store
> Companies need to aggressively enforce, both hands on steering until self-driving is really really really good.

Hands on the wheel is such a stupid metric. Two hands on the wheel whilst watching a film on an ipad doesn't do a damned thing.

What matters is whether I'm paying attention, a much harder to measure metric. Am I looking at the road, judging distances, hazards, etc.

I say this every time autopilots come up - I think it is impossible for a human to give up responsibility for reacting to 99.99% of input and still retain attention for the remaining 0.01%. I certainly don't believe I can do it, and don't intend to use a car that ever expects it.
> Alfred himself went to Rome when he was a child and had an extensive cultural exchange with mainland Europe.

There’s also a depiction of King Arthur (Rex Arturus) in a famous mosaic located inside the Otranto cathedral, located in Puglia, Italy [1]. Presumably the mosaic was put in place in the 1160s, give or take a few decades.

A bit OT but not by that much, the same Italian city of Otranto was under direct Ottoman control for a year, sometimes in the early 1470s. Most of its Christian residents who had dare resisting were killed, and presumably the final step of the Ottomans’ journey was Rome (I have a quote about this made by Mehmed II somewhere in my books, I’m too lazy to search for it on my phone). Fortunately for Western Christianity Mehmed got caught up in some fierce fights in present day Albania and also in a region of present day Romania (Moldova, to be more exact) so that he had to recall his troups from the Italian peninsula.

Which is to say that yes, the East and West have been a lot more involved with each other compared to what most of today’s people assume.

[1] http://sites.duke.edu/danteslibrary/files/2016/02/otranto-mo...
Tumblr was a rapidly growing social platform that had Facebook shitting their pants when Yahoo bought it from right under their noses. They followed up with some acquisitions of their own, some of which have been quite successful for them. Of course Yahoo ran this into the ground and never really had a coherent strategy to do anything productive with this. Yahoo destroyed quite a few perfectly good startups with active user bases that each were on clear paths to IPOs.

I'm pretty sure the Tumblr acquisition by Verizon was just part of some bigger deal that involved bailing out some of the investors with an 'exit'. Yahoo was imploding and that was inconvenient to a lot of investors. Companies like Verizon have plenty of money and lots of ties to the same investors. Many of which probably benefited from this kind of controlled demolition. It was never about salvaging something of value; just about bailing out investors. Verizon can absorb the loss. I doubt this will have big consequences for any of their leadership. The next phase in Tumblrs life will be hedgefunds stripping what remains of value. It's a dead company at this point. Anyone with a clue probably bailed before Yahoo sold out to Verizon and most of the rest probably left right after.
It was replaced by TsVM-101 in Soyuz TMA-M and later models so they can use that 70kg for payload.

Edit: Found a nice source for a lot of information including comparision between the Argon and the TsVM: http://www.bis-space.com/belgium/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/...

The new module is 8.3kg and consumes 46 watts of power.
Why Making a 'Designer Baby' Would Be Easier Said Than Done
The average MS Office user works for a company that most definitely cares about all those things.
Buying (a product) off the shelf is the right answer in many situations.

But not when you are not actually buying a product.
I mean, Henry George worked most of this out 150 years ago. There are entire economics programs dedicated to property and land value.

Highly recommend you read Progress and Poverty, it's still very relevant today.
As a thought, since you're just getting into database stuff as time permits, it's probably better to start out with something like SQLite and/or DB Browser for SQLite, if you prefer the GUI way of doing things.

https://sqlitebrowser.org

https://a-gentle-introduction-to-sql.readthedocs.io/en/lates...

SQLite is a bunch easier to get up and running than MySQL, and the data is all in one file you can copy around. So, easy to backup. :D

If you do eventually hit it's limits, it's big brother is PostgreSQL, which is a really powerful database system. :)
That's an expired domain. Might care to check your link, bookmark, or typing.
Thank you. Thank you for being self sufficient. Thank you for learning what you need to help yourself.

If you ever need a helping hand. Maybe with visualisation or analysis stuff shoot me a note.
Microprocessor History – AMD K5, Red Team's First In-House Architecture
The group that most commonly get mentioned are smokers. The reply smokers give is to mention that they are taxed so heavily for their habit that they are paying their way. It's also mentioned that because they die younger, they effectively subsidise other people's old age.
Intel Xe GPU Supports Ray Tracing Through Hardware
Because panic does not bring about solutions. Nobody is disagreeing that there is an issue. Nobody. I believe there are a number of people pointing out the problem, over and over, civil disobedience etc, but there is nobody pointing out a viable solution. I believe that is why nobody responds to civil disobedience. I think if people came up with a viable solution we would be all over it. Technological change is probably the answer (as it was to the ozone hole). I think electric vehicles eliminating fossil fuel powered vehicles as sure as flat screen TV's eliminated CRT's is an answer. I think a lack of acceptance of nuclear power is an issue, and nuclear power is an efficient viable solution. Solutions have to be socially acceptable and able to deliver mass change - a solution of turning off coal plants is not an answer as it would destroy civilisation, economies and populations in the same way that climate change would - no equally efficient and inexpensive replacement. Activist groups have not realised that Civil disobedience is not an answer, it is just pushing the question over and over. Solutions are what is required!!
> This is just more evidence of how the lack of a moral compass has led the software community to not only sell out and build these creepy tools but worse actually defend surveillance and police state technologies without a hint of self awareness in these kind of discussions.

I'd only add that there's certainly a small part of the community that realizes this, in fact the free software movement is also about ethics, however the kind of developers who are aware are usually not your usual Valley types.
Hello community, main developer here, it was kind of hard to define how to arrange the color palette but in most cases the results are neat. It organizes colors to keep lights and shadows and get the most accurated results. Btw, You can create your own color palettes, if you add less colors than the original palette, the algorithm will create more colors to fill.
Using Linux will not save you.
That used to be true. Poor people can often afford a smartphone now, even in really poor countries like Ethiopia, not just the US. It may be a crappy old or limited model, but it doesn't have to be a feature phone.
May 3 – World Freedom Press Day
Don't mistake it for blind nationalism.

I think EU countries are proud that they can achieve desirable outcomes like long-life, safe-raw, unrefrigerated eggs, through desirable practices. The EU's production is
over 40% free range, an increasing chunk organic and depending on where you are, a choice in breed.

If those are the sorts of things that you care about, it is only right to "throw shade" on counties like the US, where 82%(!) of their layers are caged and you have to disinfect the eggs because of their awful conditions.
Does anyone knows if there is a macOS version somewhere?
Palantir looks like IBM in the 30s but without the technical excellence and all the sales force.
Right, not a government building then. Its main use is being a tourist attraction.
Ah yes, the 'invisible hand'.
> Therefore we should be suspicious about neuromorphic computation and maybe the brain isn't substrate independent.

Wow. So... I'm struggling to find an interpretation of this that doesn't invoke Cartesian dualism.
The "just" was supposed to apply to the whole self-aggrandizing trip.

My point is that there are a lot of people with math PhDs, but Kun is in a small unenviable minority that is driven to engage in self-promotion via all these blog post "primers", which of very dubious pedagogical quality.
Is an interesting counterpoint to idea being worked on by Jeremy England that there is an underlying organising mechanism leading to life that is inherent within thermodynamics - Statistical Physics of Adaptation by Nikolai Perunov, Robert Marsland and Jeremy England - https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.1875
You can move to a country that does.
With SaaS the customer is always running the latest version of the software.

You only need to support it, no need to worry about clients/customers still using a 6 year old version because they refuse to upgrade for some reason.
First thing I've read that makes me like Palantir.
Get over yourselves. You are a very arrogant bunch.

You are not a genius and neither am I. Being able to write a unit test does not automatically make you smarter than someone who studied humanities in college.

Living in the USA does not make you a more effective worker than someone who does not.
You can yell whatever you like, but nobody is obligated to sell you a megaphone
I don't think it should be only yours, no.

If you were primarily only putting your own life in danger, sure.

But with driving the way it is now, I do not think it's a leap to make the claim that distracted driving is a danger to not just yourself but to others on the road. It's exactly the kind of thing that the government should be regulating.
EU citizens have to give their biometric data to the government to get a passport.

Does that mean EU treats it's citizens like criminals?
Satoshi Who? New Website Hints at Unmasking Bitcoin Creator
I actually like what manager.io does
Serverless “hotdog, not hotdog” classifier using Sagemaker and Lambda
Yeah, and it fails to acknowledge that there is a long and nuanced body of work in neuroscience concerning the degree of localization vs distribution of function going back at least 100 years (see Karl Lashley, Donald Hebb)
I second that. SQlite is great. I had millions of lines in there and did not hit limits that were blocking me from doing analysis work in python based on the data in SQlite.

So parent should probably be fine with a solution like this.

Portable, local and without the server configuration hassel.
This is an excellent point which may be an advantage for top tier engineers who can build a company in this space, avoiding the glut of "cloud" competition. Once they have proven the business model and infrastructure, they can provide easy-to-use interfaces for "desktop native" writers of apps. In some verticals, these may the users themselves. There is precedent in spreadsheets.
Astronomer helps create 'history book' image of the universe
I am. I doubt anything but direct action will have an effect though.
>But nobody is going to. Because it makes no business sense to do so.

I've got Blender open on my desktop. Could you explain the business sense behind Blender exisiting?
That wouldn't have occurred to to me, but you are right. I've heard about bears and wolves, but now we have elk too.
Depends where you are living and what's the average salary in your country I'd say?
$6.5 Million can't buy you a building these days? Talk about the economy...
Short answer is that they don't - not a profit anyway.

Palantir was one of the very early Silicon Valley firms that were going around selling businesses the idea that "machine learning" and "artificial intelligence" would transform the way they work. A lot of them did buy it, and Palantir ended up with lots of funding (over $2 billion) and a ridiculous valuation ($41 billion at its peak, somewhere around $11 billion now - depending on who you ask).

They tried to build several iterations of one-size-fits-all software to ingest and process data and come up with visualizations and other analysis that they could sell to businesses, but they all failed.

Now, like 15 years later, they are just one of the hundreds of consulting companies that build custom solutions for businesses and other organizations to crunch their data. Their only differentiator is the fat government contracts they get because of Peter Thiel's connections.
> There are lots of reasons that open borders might not be a good idea.

I think few on the left are actually for 'open borders'. You generally need borders if you want some from of universal heath coverage for example, that's not disputed. The notion that 'open borders' is actually something a significant part of the left is for is a strawman.

What is however problematic is treating illegal migrants in an inhumane way. You don't need to separate families and to hold children in cages, nor do you need Stasi like surveillance to protect your borders. Most are simple visa overstays entered legally anyway.
Weapons of mass distraction:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=weapons+of+mas...

(The pre-1980 instances appear to be OCR error artefacts.)

The etymology of 'advertise" is "advert" -- to distract the gaze, attention, or focus.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/advertise

https://www.etymonline.com/word/advert
This is my favourite little horror story about entering the US:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-25/mem-fox-detained-at-l...

Mem Fox is a world renow children's author* who has travelled to the US 116 times previously, without incident.

Australian author Mem Fox has received a written apology from the United States after what she said was a traumatic detention by immigration officials at Los Angeles Airport.

Fox, who was questioned by Customs and Border Protection officers for two hours earlier this month as she was on her way to Milwaukee to address a conference, said she collapsed and sobbed at her hotel after she was released.
She said the border agents appeared to have been given "turbocharged power" by an executive order signed by President Donald Trump to "humiliate and insult" a room full of people they detained to check visas.

"I have never in my life been spoken to with such insolence, treated with such disdain, with so many insults and with so much gratuitous impoliteness," Fox said.

"I felt like I had been physically assaulted which is why, when I got to my hotel room, I completely collapsed and sobbed like a baby, and I'm 70 years old."

Fox, whose books include classics such as Possum Magic and Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, said she was questioned about her visa status, even though she had travelled to the United States 116 times previously without incident.

"My heart was pounding so hard as I was waiting to be interviewed, because I was observing what was happening to everybody else in the room," she said.

"They accused me of coming in on the wrong visa and they were totally wrong about that.

"The person who interviewed me was heavy with weaponry, was totally dressed in black with the word 'police' in hand-sized letters across his chest."

The author said she was unlikely to visit the United States again despite the friendliness of ordinary Americans.

"At the moment I'm in so much shock about it, I can't imagine going back to the states," she said.

"I'd hate not to go back to the states because it's been so good to me and Americans in general are not [like] the border police at LA airport."

"I thought: 'How can human beings treat other vulnerable human beings in this fashion, in public, in full view of everybody?'
This analogy works for businesses like banks or stock brokers. Of course they'd keep a log of everything you do with their services. But in those cases, they provide service beyond the basics: banks insure your deposits and put their credibility behind transactions, and stock brokers (hopefully) give you advice.

But there are plenty of situations where the analogy shows how invasive surveillance can be. Imagine if your car mechanic kept a log of everywhere you drove. Imagine if the mattress maker knew everything that took place in your bed (for product improvement, naturally).

I'm alright with necessary data collection, like the banks and brokers recording what I ask them to do. But that's because there's no other way of doing those things except for services or becoming a professional myself. If the software can work as not a service, then I'm less okay with the data collection when it's only offered as a service.
Then someone or something is mining-a-like do congestion.
They're definitely interested:

https://popculture.com/trending/2019/05/02/pornhub-intereste...
Yeah, that's a nice way to solve it actually, but I suspect that taxing sexual intercourse based on how frequent it happens and with whom it happens might just be a bit difficult. :P
I use ads to tell me which companies I should avoid.

Oh what's this now, an advert for Coca Cola? How obnoxious. Guess what I will never ever be buying.
Interesting video on Chinese 'supergrid' from coal plants in the west, to the population centers in the east, a total length of 3,324 km (2,065 miles):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfG0USvDTew&t=686s

To increase efficiency, they are increasing the voltage to 1.1 MV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfG0USvDTew&t=780s