skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's likely a result of the manufacturing process, at least partially. I found the journal article the WHO pulled data from. Heres the abstract (I italicized for emphasis):

Eleven globally sourced brands of bottled water, purchased in 19 locations in nine different countries, were tested for microplastic contamination using Nile Red tagging. Of the 259 total bottles processed, 93% showed some sign of microplastic contamination. After accounting for possible background (lab) contamination, an average of 10.4 microplastic particles >100 um in size per liter of bottled water processed were found. Fragments were the most common morphology (66%) followed by fibers. Half of these particles were confirmed to be polymeric in nature using FTIR spectroscopy with polypropylene being the most common polymer type (54%), which matches a common plastic used for the manufacture of bottle caps. A small fraction of particles (4%) showed the presence of industrial lubricants. While spectroscopic analysis of particles smaller than 100 um was not possible, the adsorption of the Nile Red dye indicates that these particles are most probably plastic. Including these smaller particles (6.5–100 um), an average of 325 microplastic particles per liter of bottled water was found. Microplastic contamination range of 0 to over 10,000 microplastic particles per liter with 95% of particles being between 6.5 and 100 um in size. Data suggests the contamination is at least partially coming from the packaging and/or the bottling process itself. Given the prevalence of the consumption of bottled water across the globe, the results of this study support the need for further studies on the impacts of micro- and nano- plastics on human health.

URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6141690/
Tearing Down an Urban Highway Can Give Rise to a Whole New City (2014)
There is some prior work on this book that talks about how the 1938 census was used, the Hollerith punchcard machines (now IBM) tech, and the details of how the tech worked and why. It's called "the nazi census." Should be required reading at social media companies.
I don't consider this a fair description of the two realms of inquiry.
The early issues of Make Magazine were filled with articles about repairing devices, building needed things instead of buying them, cobbling stuff together from scrap. It had a very distinct anti-consumerist vibe, which made it appealing to a lot folks including myself. The Faires were filled with like-minded folks who were there only to enjoy the process of building stuff. What do you sell this group of customers? In my mind, inspiration and a venue to share their projects with each other. Over time, though the maker movement became more focused on commerce, including tools that people needed to buy to become makers, and also startups founded by makers with the goal of selling stuff to the public. I'm surprised that I'm being critical on this point, since I really like business, and was a small business owner myself for years. What I'm trying to say is that Make lost sight of their original target customer profile (maybe due to pressure from investors), which is not an uncommon mistake. Smaller venues will crop up to support folks who like building things, which is a relatively niche group, and there may not be enough of us to support a the size business that the investors desired.
The aliased email address is assigned to the user. Saying that Apple would take away the users email address would be like saying that Apple would delete user data for an app it banned.
I used to think the same way. Recently I started my own consultancy business, and the first thing I did was write a small shell script to track my comings and goings - to the second, so that I'd have good billing data. It has saved me an amazing amount of bookkeeping, and I regret not doing this twenty years ago.

Previously, I spent I don't know how much time going "now, how long did I actually work last Monday?" whenever I've tried to figure out whether I've worked enough or not (there was, of course, a target hours/week in my contract when I was employed). Now I know, at the push of the button: I worked eight hours, sixteen minutes and three seconds. OK, then!
The proof for that seems to be the existance of 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

I guess this comment is now a) vsprintf and b) a gpl violation, too.
I've been casually following incidents of a number of governments blocking WhatsApp/Facebook to disrupt organizers of protests: every single time Telegram usage blooms literally overnight as it's harder to block. WhatsApp is not as sticky as I thought, if the entire network graph is forced off.
Tangentially related... the most memorable answer/blurb I've heard to the question "what do you sell?" came from a Coca-Cola executive in an interview with Charlie Rose (I forget which one, so citation needed). The exec said "we sell ready-to-drink, non-alcoholic beverages". I've never heard a marketing pitch that told me more about what a company does than that blurb, and I use that as my benchmark for whether a blurb I am crafting describes what I am trying to pitch.
Facebook will be able to pair transaction data (consumer, product, cost, merchant) with their entire social graph. They can then offer licenses to run nodes with the ability to access all that data.
Sure, but I just want to note I never made the claim it was the case - I was just offering one possible alternative to what OP claimed.
THE GenoDemoN?? How are you and ruler doing? Do you remember Lardmaster?

(I also remember that I became inactive, and then some scammer hacked my account, which may have left a bad taste in your mouth because you thought it was me)
Oooooh, thanks for sharing that. I've never heard of Roatan. Heard Honduras is pretty sketchy, but an island like that must be totally different and I'm now adding it on my list of places to visit. It'll help with my travel goals (have to visit another 40 or so countries in 2 years!)
unfortunately, this. Oh you will be missed, especially by the kids! :(
Kobo is also pretty good!
If sign in with Facebook is optional and for providing specific features, then its not really using Facebook as an account management system - it’s more connecting to Facebook - so I think you’ll be fine.
We don’t live in a world where you can presume truth in a Facebook advertisement.
There's huge economic pressure to make these aircraft as efficient as possible. What's the EPA going to do, crack the whip a little harder?
Can you please cite where it says that? OAuth requires API keys, I don't see how you could get those without anything Apple-related.
Thanks for the clarification, both.
This should be blocked by lawmakers if they are serious about their recent tech monopoly chatter
Until they remove the forward to your inbox?
Well, it's not freeing software unless they release the game GPL, if they don't then they're just illegally using GPL source code making the source far from anything free.
I don't see how this is an anti-trust issue at all. I don't get why people keep bringing it up.

Developers are free not to implement social login. If they do implement social login then this provides a unique user benefit (privacy) while also increasing user choice (users are still free to login how they want).
I assume this just got posted because the latest MacOS update cut support for 32 bit apps and thus EV Nova. I would say: don't give up. Emulation is a viable option. It runs in WINE and there's always virtual box. EV is probably my favorite series and while I will play the heck out of any clones (including my own) the original games still have value.
So there's two options, either the software is released GPL or they have no right to use the source and it's in violation and has to be resolved?
> The sphere of influence in which the gravitational attraction of the asteroid dominates over that of the sun has a radius of about 6km though.

It depends on what you consider "dominates" to mean. For example, the corresponding value for the Earth and the Sun is 924,000 km, and the Moon is only 400,000 km from the Earth, but the Moon's orbit is still always concave towards the Sun.
My #1 bone to pick with Barnes and Noble was they wouldn’t price match their online price in store.

There is a local store near me and probably once a month I want a new book. I want the new book that day so I look online (Amazon, Barnes and Nobel, borders, etc) and determine Barnes and Noble is only a dollar or two more than Amazon. Fine because I want to read now.

Turns out, that was their online only price. If you want the book in their store it costs more.

I’ve avoided buying at least 12 books from them in the last 2-3 months because of it and went with Amazon.
Less drag.
I haven't even read the book but for some reason this reminds me of the bit in Philip K Dick's Ubik where the main character dismantles his sentient door that demands to be paid before it will open.

> “I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.

> Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”
Super cool that the entire soundtrack is a bunch of FastTracker 2 XM files.
The combination of form-factor and genre makes a huge difference in how I consume books.

For instance, I have no trouble reading most fiction on either my Kindle or my phone - I'm reading through in a linear fashion, and there usually isn't much besides text. I usually don't have to hold every detail in my head, and can just flow along.

If I get into non-fiction, that is usually where I switch over to either print, or failing that, reading on my computer. Sometimes I can get by with my large-format Kindle DX clone, but that can be dicey. With non-fiction, there is usually a lot more paging back and forth; I may be reading a paragraph, and want to go back and double-check a map or table of figures, or re-read a section that I didn't grok the first time. There might also be footnotes or endnotes that one wants to skip to, and the experience isn't great in most reading apps. It's also considerably easier to read non-fiction on a larger screen or a textbook-size physical copy, I find - for instance, any kind of programming book usually has large blocks of code listings, and looking at those on a 27" 1080p monitor or a physical book where I can see the whole thing at full size, on two facing pages, is much easier than on a 5" phone screen.
Bummer. I hate seeing cool & quirky things go down the drain.

On a recent visit to SoCal, I saw a billboard for the Renaissance Pleasure Faire. I haven't been in years, I'm no longer a local, but I was happy to see it still going more than 30 years after I first heard of it. Hopefully it's still as much fun for people experiencing it now as it was for me back in highschool!
While it's definitely cute and amusing, this is exactly why languages that specify their source code in non-ascii encodings are a bad idea. Fully 92.6% of working programmers have no idea how to produce a λ or γ on their input device of choice. Maybe a third of those could eventually find it with a character picker tool.

Java started this (in the unicode era anyway -- yeah yeah, APL). The community quite sanely rejected it as a matter of style. I have no idea why it hasn't been killed dead in new designs.
Registration is busted. You can get a copy at http://escape-velocity.games
I remember getting Basilisk II working so I could play the original Escape Velocity without a Mac.

Later I remember playing EV:Nova and trying out a really excellent fan created scenario, but looking now I can't figure out which one it was.
The general 1.5B model is not a threat to anything: it's the finetuned GPT-2 models and conditionally generated text from GPT-2 models that have been coming out lately which will take the next step.

Here's a few apropos outputs from a GPT-2 model I'm working on to conditionally generate programming article titles based on keywords "Java", "AI", and "death":

In the age of machine learning, is a human becoming too powerful? If so, what impact does AI have on how we view death?

An AI death machine created in Python

The death of an AI: What the world is looking to AI for now

Why Is AI So Bad At Killing And Exploring For People In Java?

Java is a death sentence – and AI is coming for all of us

How to avoid death by AI in Java

The AI is using Java to make it's own deathmatch

Google's "AI for death" is now a death sentence for Java

Why is Java a death sentence for AI?

Java is not a death sentence, but a step towards AI

The AI is dying... And it's not even on Java.

Go to Java to see the death of AI

Google's AI will stop every death before it's too late
I'm surprised that no comment has extrapolated that since this was a vsprintf implementation copy, the final binary would be non compliant only if the machine code generated for it was distributed, but if it was only used for debugging internal builds (as I would assume), then the original developers didn't run afoul of the license. Am I incorrect in my understanding?
Agreed. The main gear looks like it doesn't have much clearance to work with.

If it's not extremely stiff, I don't know how a hard landing would not result in fuselage contact.
FTA:

OpenAI decided not to release the full scale version of their model (1.5B), because they were afraid of its potential security implications, in particular in generating fake news.

One thing I believe gets indequate recognition, including in this article, is OpenAI’s stated motivation for their release strategy. From the GPT2 release announcement[1]:

This decision, as well as our discussion of it, is an experiment: while we are not sure that it is the right decision today, we believe that the AI community will eventually need to tackle the issue of publication norms in a thoughtful way in certain research areas. Other disciplines such as biotechnology and cybersecurity have long had active debates about responsible publication in cases with clear misuse potential, and we hope that our experiment will serve as a case study for more nuanced discussions of model and code release decisions in the AI community.

It was, in part, due to direct safety concerns, but it was also to force the conversation about how to handle the release of legitimately dangerous capabilities in the future.

[1] - https://openai.com/blog/better-language-models/
Of course. Choosing to value a set of beliefs that make the most sense to you is how we give meaning to our lives. We all have opinions about what makes sense and what doesn’t. The only thing we can’t do is prove anything to be an absolute truth.
The selection is too poor.
It's a symptom. And it's not like black folks don't get shot for knocking on doors [0, 1, 2]. So when major corporations advertise, preying on fears and taking advantage of societal preconceptions, they're reinforcing and legitimizing the bias that gets people killed.

Racism is a spectrum, from explicit to implicit. Yes we need to be louder about the disproportionate extrajudicial killings of black people by police, their targeted disenfranchisement, etc [3]. But none of these emergencies invalidates criticism of the milder, more pervasive forms of racism.

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/03/31/georgi...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Renisha_McBride

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/10/11/teen-missed...

[3] https://www.vox.com/2019/6/7/18656568/usa-human-rights-repor...
A few things off the top of my head that look odd:

- Who is going to want to take the time to climb to 65,000 feet in this? People going transatlantic? They'll probably still take a Gulfstream.

- Does it still get reasonable range economy at lower altitudes and true airspeeds?

- Nobody will be able to see the runway over the nose on landing.

- That door doesn't look like it'll hold up to pressurization.

- The landing gear looks very light.

- The engine is going to have very tight thermal and mechanical constraints based on its position in the rear of the fuselage.

- I'm assuming it's a turbine engine in here? Trying to turbocharge something enough to get to 65,000 feet is going to be awful and very maintenance intensive.

- Update: Nope, at least one V-12 with multiple turbochargers. If there is more than one engine the complex gearbox to drive the propeller will be difficult to get approved. See the Learfan aircraft [0].

- The propeller is out on a long shaft, may cause issues.

- The propeller is a pusher configuration, which isn't inherently bad, but causes efficiency losses from turbulent air coming off the fuselage.

- Pusher configurations - especially pusher turboprops like the Piaggio Avanti are noisy.

- Update: It's a piston engine. May not be as noisy because it appears that the exhaust is farther upstream than usual. However, cooling everything will be difficult.

- High altitude flight introduces the possibility of coffin corners in the envelope and very little room between overspeed and stall.

- That big engine (for high altitude flight) will reduce room in the cabin considerably.

- Everybody and their mother will probably have a tail strike.

Source: pilot and an aerospace engineering degree.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LearAvia_Lear_Fan
He explains it in this 1 minute interview. He lived in Hungary until he moved to the US with his parents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZw4LNLYUgc&list=PLyajeoDXKm...
This doesn't seem possible to me.
How come no Russian cosmonauts have reported this?

Americans and their weird need to turn everything they feel into something marketable more like it...
Please do, I would enjoy the heck out of it.
I am curious, what do you like about mxnet?
On the contrary, installing something is the biggest hurdle after perhaps coming up with the idea that there's something here to be learned at all. And sometimes it's part of the latter.
Where does the fairness come in? Not quite understanding
Plug-ins where a pretty great config format, in retrospect.
Wait a second, is Buzzfeed planning on using GPT with the article text and A/B testing to generate perfect headlines and save on overhead?
Either they distribute the source code under a license compatible with the GPL (not necessarily the GPL itself), OR they are committing copyright infringement and must,

- negotiate a license,

- pay damages,

- some other remedy, OR

- nothing at all, if nobody with standing (meaning an author of decides to sue.

This last option is by far the most likely.
Nvidia’s Implementation of RTX Ray-Tracing in Quake II
I ran a maker space for a while. It consistently lost money, as do most of the ones whose owners I've talked to. The only ones that don't "lose" money are generally supported by donations and a core group of owners who are each putting several hundred a month in to keep the lights on (i.e. from an accounting perspective they're still losing money).

In addition, there's an interesting phenomenon in the maker community that a lot of people think IP (models, designs, plans, etc.) should pretty much be given away for free, which limits revenue opportunities.

[Edit to add info in case anyone comes across this in the future]: The #1 issue is actually rent in a lot of cases. There's a conundrum where the people who most want to use a maker space are the same people who want a maker space in a place with high rent (i.e. in a desirable urban area). On the flip side, people who have their own garage / shed / yard are generally much less in need of a maker space (which would be in a cheaper area to serve them) since entry-level prices for most tools have gotten pretty cheap in recent years.

Next is labor cost. If you're not paying yourself a decent salary for your time, you're basically cheating yourself into thinking your maker space isn't losing money. Realistic labor cost should run you at least double prevailing minimum wage in the area for the hours you're open, probably more if you're counting on people to help students with things like CNC machining.

Next up is tools & repairs cost. You can actually get decent tools going for less than you would think if you don't splurge for name brand everything (especially printers, CNC mills, laser cutters, etc.), but if you're open to the public, the public is going to break your stuff. A lot. And you're going to have to fix it or pay someone to fix it. A lot.

Then there's all the ancillary stuff like electricity (likely to cost more than you think), insurance, accounting, payment processing, marketing, etc. etc. Basically, if you want your maker space to make money like a business you have to treat it like a business and that means a lot of overhead.

In short, I don't recommend anyone start a maker space with delusions that it will make money. It probably won't. Only start a maker space if you and a bunch of your friends are all willing to pitch in every month to have a cool place to hang out and work on stuff.
I do have ideas on paper on how to use GPT-2 for BuzzFeed content, but that's not the primary impetus for this research. :)
Amazon really sucks if you are trying to buy a physically nice book these days. I've had to make so many returns this year. Most recently after waiting almost 2 months for my hardcover "On The Origin of Species", it has a box cutter cut on the front cover :S

A physical presence would be great for inspecting and purchasing hardcover if quality matters. Amazon doesn't seem to care much what condition they arrive at your house in.
Or you could just go to your local library in this universe. They still exist.
But actually I think we should all respect his privacy - I'm just annoyed when people come up with such odd new ideas that may harm bitcoin's reputation.
I didn't know it was venture backed. I am having a hard time imagining that as a swing-for-fences, 100x-1000x return kind of business. It sounds more like the kind if thing where a cash strapped business works out a long term deal with an understanding property owner who has maker kids constantly asking for a better 3-D printer.
Probably not. 45-50 YO are still to young to have pensions. The fact of having a 401k pretty much means no pension. Everyone I know with a traditional pension is 60+.

I’m lucky to come in on the tail end with a 401k and employer funded annuity, but any hires at my employer in the 21st century just have a 401k.
N00b here.

I can’t tell if this is primarily intended to provide effective sharding of a largely homogeneous network, or if it’s intended to allow for incorporation of diverse networks and use the gating to classify and route the inputs to the appropriate networks.
Lots of sociological data disputing this...