skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How Canary Deployments Work: Developer vs. Operator Concerns
How to Change Screenshots Folder in Mac
Thales don't care about you.
As far as I understand, these are still hand designed algorithms using a tiny fraction of possible weather data. Impressive for old school methods. Would be even more awesome to see how far ML could take the state of the art.
Facebook process to classify 'Hate Agents' leaked
You could mail me at my gmail id: chakravarty(dot)arnab
Why wouldn't it hold up if you signed it? And after how many years of litigation? And you're going to let the house go into foreclosure?
How encrypted messages and car ‘crashes’ helped Hong Kong protesters
The layout template is based on the distill.pub template I used earlier in another project. The GitHub repo has the instructions on how to build articles using it:

https://github.com/designrl/designrl.github.io
I worked as a forecaster for a bit but never made it to the research world (studied theoretical pde instead of computational)... however at the time huge gains had been made in data assimilation. One fact that has stuck with me was that ~1/3 of the computation time for the UK Met global model run was consumed by data assimilation. I don't remember statistics anymore but data assimilation schemes were a big driver of improved forecast skill.

I also recall the ECMWF had surprisingly accurate long range forecasts based on ensembles. It could predict 500mb heights out two weeks, no sweat.

Re: your comments... My guess is that a gpu isn't suited for use in an operational model due to data access patterns (and possibly not even helpful with the solver). But again, I'm not a computational pde guy. Also, perhaps machine learning would be useful but that would be post-processing or perhaps parameterizing sub-grid phenomenon. There's already a process called model output statistics (MOS) for adjusting raw fields from a weather model.
How interested are you in getting this done? Below is a link to a phased array demonstrator (SPY-1A) that was dismantled and replaced with a newer version in 2016. Might find out where SPY-1A is sitting (the phased array may have been returned to the US Navy), and since it'll perform both weather and aircraft surveillance, might be easier to sell to stakeholders for the coverage gap.

https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/tools/radar/mpar/

Alternatively, Roberts Field appears to be a major commercial air hub in central Oregon. You might argue from a safety perspective to your Congressional representatives (perhaps in concert with local air carriers and AOPA) that the airport needs a TDWR station (cost will be ~$4MM-8MM), which could also provide NOAA with the necessary weather surveillance data. Thunderstorms aren’t common on the West Coast though, hence the lack of TDWR stations in West Coast states. If you pursue this route, you'd want to get funds for this into some sort of federal transportation bill, as part of enhancing the safety of the air transportation system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Doppler_Weather_Radar
This seems to be a copy (no idea how exact the copy is): https://archive.org/details/gov.in.is.10005.1994/page/n5
A similar case is pending in the Supreme Court:
https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2019/06/statute-of-que...

They directly sued for copyright infringement rather than trying to use eminent domain.
One of the phrases I picked up watching younger family members be raised that I've tried to apply, when appropriate, as a parent: "They'll only do it once." Learning the why behind the "no" is an important of life. Obviously not every life lesson where "no" applies can be taught in this manner, but when it can be controlled...as the hot water was...it's an effective tool.
"Should I get free healthcare and free food and free rent if I have a passion for making a widget that nobody is willing to pay for?"

Yes. Because if your widget is open or bits of it can be recombined into other things, one of THOSE things might be amazing.

You are assuming great stuff comes from great creators, and that ain't natural. Read up on the Genetic Algorithm, and a-life. It is hugely important to produce a class of superfluous creators making pointless things many of which will fizzle out uselessly, but become part of the genetic soup from which more elegant, counterintuitive things will emerge.

You CANNOT have just only 'excellent, worth-money products that stand alone' as your genetic soup. It produces stagnation, local maximums, and the end of progress.

We have seen this soup of uselessness and lots of indulged, well-off people tinkering away on passion projects, able to just burn money on whatever they pleased without concern for whether it was marketable.

It was called 'Silicon Valley'. There was this thing called the Altair. Quite a story really. This is not in any way hypothetical.
Wouldn't numbers make them easier to search? Sci-hub searches using DOI too after all.
First tabbed browser = Netcaptor
3D-Printed Semiconductor Cube Could Convert Waste Heat to Electricity
Actual paper is available at https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50651 (not paywalled).
Reports of actual language use by Koko were famously exaggerated, and only seemed to happen with her teacher working with her. Hardly stealing fire.
It probably started as a way to _discuss_ more tech, but ended up being an RSS aggregator for Git hello world posts.
Technology assures long term survival and it is in a species best interest to develop them. That is apparent. Now the question is how do you nurture technological development?
I really like https://www.windy.com/
> ...especially when considerable effort to recover them is expended by a private party.

I'm curious why this is a part of your argument. If I spend a year staking out your house, and spend considerable effort to break in and steal your stuff... does that make it any more legitimate?
Maybe you could use microwave links in the cellular network instead? There's research and development going on in that area.

https://www.smhi.se/en/services/professional-services/microw...
Telomeres and the Role of Stress Biology in Cellular Aging
You can log out to read, or use private mode, or use web archive sites
It sounds like a straightforward addition to the studies' protocol; survey donors and exclude those likely to harbor drug resistant bacteria (presumably those who have been on antibiotics recently) and screen the samples for harmful, drug-resistant pathogens. Hopefully this isn't too hard as this technique has always struck me as an elegant solution to an awful problem. I wonder if it's possible to bake a short term self destruct into these transplants so that any infections that occur can be easily destroyed.
Most of India's land is pretty densely populated. I'm not sure if that's a deterrent
Congratulations, you've reinvented eugenics.
Interesting stuff. I'll certainly tell him about this. He's been talking about retirement for some time (early-to-mid 60's) but he's a workaholic like my own father. He's always had a challenging time finding trucking jobs that are local in the Vermont area, but should an opportunity arise where he can drive anywhere closer to home, I think his ears will perk up.
This was in state court. Federal laws may be different.
Interesting. My bed tracks my sleep but I only get the report in the morning and not live. My phone isn’t near my bed and I only interact with the Internet using my Google Home when I’m in my bedroom. All the sleep tracker has done is let me know what my sleep looks like.

Most weeks it’s good but lately I’ve been doing poorly - sleeping too little.
In Aotearoa-New Zealand we set traps for introduced species like stoats, rats, possums, etc. that kill our endangered wildlife that evolved without natural predators.

The Kea which are very smart mountain parrots will go and disarm the traps in order to eat the bait. They're smart enough to have figured out how to do this, and are one of just a handful of animals that habitually use tools, but are unfortunately too smart for their own good because their handiwork means there's more predators for them.

But, some people don't give animals enough credit. Mammals and especially primates are very, very close to Humans genetically. Animals are often very smart.
https://wxdisco.com/forum/3-united-states/

The forums really light up for big storms with lots of discussion and insight.
Having better weather insights for Smith Rock would be great. Saying hi from the a Monkey!
yes? The initial implication was that the police were monitoring the private chat, whereas the second article suggests that the police only became aware after the message was circulated. Surely you can see that these two situations paint different pictures regarding the Chinese surveillance apparatus.
Me also. The fantasy land should be all visual, though, no talking. Weird,but that's how it is for me
I'd love to see more publicly available research and experiments in changing the desktop metaphor. We see stuff that makes tweaks around the edges (new context menus, unifying file/cloud presentation, tiling window managers) but very little that radically changes the way we actually interact with computers.

For my ideal work desktop, I want to have tools assigned per task that I can easily assemble until that task is achieved. As a spitball idea: Cmd-space, type in "research open sourcing my kindle", and get given a browser and some sort of note collector. Collect the various things from the session into my note, refile the entire stack as a project, and move on to the next task. In the future, I can access the actual project and receive a workspace with terminals, an IDE or whatever else I need to Get the Thing Done, archived versions of the sites I opened, etc. Ideally, the environment would be designed to reduce distractability.

That still doesn't feel like a complete idea, but every use case the author has for tabs -- "this is a quick session", "I don't want to lose this page", "I need to remember this in a week" -- seem like they'd be very hard for browsers to do well. Instead, a browser more closely integrated with the OS (which might go a way towards fixing Electron resource consumption to boot) and a uniquely designed desktop environment might be better.
Front end devs – Don't change the size or shape when hovering over a button
Perhaps relate it to tabbed folders in a file cabinet?
> Say they get their cartel, and negotiate a link tax of a penny per link or whatever. How does that play out?

We don't have to speculate! It happened in Spain.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/9f7fmj/this_is_how_...

Google shut down their news product in Spain. Full stop.
What I would love is an extension (either FF or Chrome) that allows me to reuse an open, matching tab when I choose a bookmark. For example, I find myself opening a bunch top-level Google News tabs. In a window with 40 tabs, at least 6 or 7 are the top-level Google News page (or NYT homepage). I would love to be able to select my bookmark and have it find an already existing tab that contains an exact match and bring that tab forward.

This would reduce (for me) a large amount of tab flotsam. Maybe there is already a way to do this?
I agree. I feel that the case would have ended up much differently if he had sued in his federal District Court.
> "table.sort"

Just curious, are you developing in Lua? That would be my guess from that string.
Personally, I'm most worried that this will reduce the attention or personal responsibility that a driver would normally have --- if you're actually in the vehicle, anything that goes wrong has a very real chance of injuring you, possibly fatally; whereas if you're safely sitting far away, then you may feel like nothing can happen to you even if your vehicle gets into a horrible crash (you may get arrested, but there's no immediate risk of death from doing anything wrong.) That lack of subconscious fear for your own life is IMHO not at all a good thing, because I think it's really that --- and not the law --- that keeps most drivers on the road from being dangerous and compels them to attention.
GIMP's current behaviour is simply better. Period. It accurately represents what happens and doesn't let the misconceptions bite you. What you're describing is just a minor annoyance (actually, I don't even think it is in any way annoying - I'm a long time GIMP user from before that change, I use it both for creating complicated xcfs and for simple edition of pngs and I just do the right thing without even thinking about it)

To be honest, I wish some other apps that have to deal with multiple formats worked this way too.
Indeed, if it wasn't flat it would not perfectly cancel.

The drop off applies because the force of gravity is proportional to 1 / distance^2, so in this case the napkin would still have infinite mass, but it would not have infinite density, so if you took a surface integral of the gravitational force provided by each point in the napkin, over the whole napkin, it would converge on a finite value, as each point contributes less and less force as you get father away.
An Undercover Investigation Exposed Animal Abuse at a Coca Cola-Affiliated Farm
I at first read this as "Guerilla Youngsters Seen Dismantling Poachers' Traps."

Either way I'm all for it.
San Francisco DA Turns to AI to Tame Racial Bias
I see this all over the web, I've just picked out Facebook Messenger as an example. When a user hovers over a button ensure you keep the hover region the same.
Ooo, cool idea!
It's always strange to me when people seem to think humans and the things we do and make aren't "natural." We evolved naturally on the this planet like all other life here did, what we do is natural.
For me, the chrome search bar also searches my open tabs, and I frequently navigate that way. Is that close enough?
Nice find and thanks for sharing the sources.
Spit roasted poachers?
That's ISO-10005, ISO-1000 is the specification of STEbus which was a CPU semi-agnostic version of STDbus (which was Z80 specific).
CSS Text Input Effects
For me the problem isn't getting to sleep or sleep duration- it's that my Xiaomi band reports consistently that I only get 10 - 30 mins of deep sleep in an 8 hour period.

And I consistently feel tired even before checking those stats, so I think they're accurate.

I can't seem to figure out how to solve this.

I'm average size (a bit under weight) and not a snorer. I stop eating by 7pm, stop screen time by 8pm, eliminate all light, and sleep in a cool, comfortable bed (that I only use for sleeping).

Aerobic exercise and morning sunlight don't seem to matter.

What else is there to do?
Keep fighting, it will be a long battle but worth it in the end.

1. Do some human networking/meet ups. This is completely under rated and the returns are infinite.

2. Upwork.com, it take about 10 proposal before you get some work. It works over time.

Here is some inspiration...
https://glenmccallum.com/2019/05/14/senior-developers-reject...

https://selftaught.blog/self-taught-programmer-jack-dorsey-b... second paragraph.
Do you exercise consistently? Hows your diet?
List of countries grouped by northern and southern hemisphere
How are you with Alcohol and Caffeine intake?
> 360 array of cameras, whose feeds were collaged into a live 3rd person perspective feed

The parking cameras on high-end cars have already evolved from a simple top-down view (which is now an option even on entry-level cars) to a 3rd person perspective 3D view, complete with a little 3D model of the car https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FyjVphbHAL0/maxresdefault.jpg
A good story and a great reminder that choice of founder partner is crucial to your success.

Let's not forget Bill Bowerman.

His wife Barbara's waffle iron is in the same league of corporate lore as Hewlett-Packard's one-car garage.

And the reason Nike's address is One Bowerman Way, Beaverton, Oregon.
except this isn't Reddit.
Just because that particular example was misreported doesn't necessarily mean surveillance of WeChat private messages isn't occurring.
Yeah, the community/demographic seems like it has changed quite a bit since even a couple years ago. It's so politically charged these days, hardly anything that interests me (and what the fuck is the deal with this Boeing 737 fetish?). Privacy shit, security shit, cryptowankery, JavaScript shit, and the weird "motivational" posts? Seriously, my time wasting has really suffered under these changes.

Forgot to add: sleep shit. What's up with that?
Google Shuts Down Play Movies App for Daydream VR
The F-22 would win in 1vs1 combat
Here's a cool link I just found going over this exact scenario: https://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath530/kmath530.htm

Interesting to note, the napkin creates a uniform gravitational field above and below it. Meaning that the force applied to an object is the same regardless of how far away it is from the napkin! That force is 2pi * G * m * rho where rho is the mass density of the napkin.
Zero alcohol for the last 10 years.

Zero caffeine for the last 3.5 years.
If anyone is interested in doing your own thing with weather data, check out MADIS [0]. There are various levels of access, some of which require NOAA approval. But if you're serious about making weather predictions, it's a good thread to pull on. I once set up a MADIS node, and our server was shut down very quickly by Amazon for "suspicious traffic", so beware of that - there's a lot of data that gets pushed through the system. If I remember correctly, it was kind of a pain in the ass to get set up/configured, but it was pretty cool.

[0] https://madis.noaa.gov/index.shtml
I get decent aerobic exercise 3 times a week or more.

I should start lifting again.

My diet is mostly veggies, eggs, chicken, fiber cereal, nuts, berries, and chocolate.
Do you have any thoughts about the "sudden hand-off" problem, i.e. when the "autopilot disconnects" and the human has to suddenly take over and make a decision in the next fraction of a second? This is difficult enough even with the driver in the vehicle, and remote control can only add latency.
Another situation where public good meets an economic system that only rewards tightfistedness. Why not have a system of public funding of valuable projects that everyone uses? Charity is weak. Democracy is strong.
> In general, the people of China are very happy with the progress that's being made (particularly true of the rural population who have witnessed in real-time, continuous improvements to their standard of living).

"All for the common good." Didn't even realize that movie was a documentary about China.

I find it appalling that you find the Chinese government even remotely okay, the Chinese government violates people's basic human rights for just simply being a part of a minority. The assertion that it's not a free country and horrific the worst way possible when you're a minority is absolutely true.

Also, FYI, you can rise out of poverty without continuously slaughtering people ;)
Nice whataboutism, so what the Japanese censor their books? Doesn't make it okay that the guy was jailed for that.
Why would this ever happen? The failsafe will probably be "hazard lights go on, truck immediately brakes and pulls over", not "goes into super manual mode over slow link".
ooh, I've got to push back on that one. Just because I can't figure this idea out for myself, maybe this conversation will help.

> The closer to idea a product is, the less it needs to change.

Now that I read this line again I realize yes it is true, but let me push back against the implied claim. I don't think that the Desktop 'needs to change less' because it is 'close to an ideal product.'

I'll propose that the Desktop doesn't change because it is entrenched. There are plenty of good, and more importantly, clear ideas about how personal computing can be made both more powerful and easier for the end user. What we have now is the result of capitalistic incentives. What we should have is deep knowledge work machines and fantastic end user programming capabilities.

Fun conversation starters below, not relevant to the larger discussion, but just thoughts I have in response to your post. I'd enjoy a response just to the above paragraph.

Coke may be an ideal sugar drink, but that seems like a measly category in which to be an ideal product. I can imagine Coke consumption rates dropping over time. (To counter my point, I did find that Coke stock has risen 20% in the last 5 years, compared to S&P500 rising ~15% in the same time). I can imagine them dropping due to the rising popularity and variety of other daytime casual drinks. I can imagine them dropping due to the increasing public awareness of the mal-effects of sugar. I'm sure Coke the company will do fine, but they could have used their clout over the last 100 years to spearhead a global health campaign, and they didn't. So I don't think they are an ideal product which doesn't need to change.

Excel came about pretty quickly (I don't know the specific history of MS Excel) but considering its predecessors. Visicalc was a reason on its own to buy early desktop machines. I've heard of university departments buying early workstations just to permanently run visicalc. But that still doesn't make Excel ideal. Chris Granger has done a lot of work recently to evolve spreadsheets (more focused on programming, but they are intertwined). You could look at Light Table and Eve and say they were a failure because they didn't end up as a business, but I think that kind of product is inevitable in the near future as the access interface that average people will use computers with.

I think you're right about Bicycles. They are an incredible engineering development from almost every perspective. Maybe some pointers to the views Engelbart and more have about training wheels would be interesting to this conversation though. Those are a "thing" that stuck around for quite a while, and appear to not really help the learning of riding a bike. [1]

I don't know enough about SQL. SQLite is something like the most popular database in the world right?

[1]: http://worrydream.com/refs/Vannevar%20Bush%20Symposium%20-%2...
search: "training wheels" there is one occurrence.
I disagree on a couple points.

For starters, our government is elected by the people and so regardless of what we allow them to do, as long as it doesn't affect the ability of people to fairly vote for their representation, they'll ultimately be accountable to the people. You may not agree with what the majority of people want, but that's different than saying "the people" are subservient.

Additionally, I believe that you can carve out enough forbidden legislation to satisfy almost any desired level of personal freedom by carving out wide categories of things that can't be legislated.
Firefox Panorama? It was built-in for a while then spun off to an extension, Tab Groups, then discontinued. And this kind of feature was made more difficult after the transition to WebExtensions. But it's a popular enough idea that there are still variations, e.g. Simple Tab Groups https://addons.cdn.mozilla.net/user-media/previews/full/209/... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr...
Familiehuis Huren
How do we know that $20k/month is all that he's making? It sounds like that's just one of his income streams.
What the Hell Is Going on in the Dominican Republic?
Do these abstinences bespeak an anxiety or mood disorder?
Funny how reasonable is meant to be interpreted very narrowly, while trespass is meant to be interpreted incredibly expansively.

Do we just need to replace signs that say "Public Parking" with signs that go on about the parking being conditioned on granting public officials access to chalk tires?
What's on your mind, while you're trying to sleep?
I found it to be the opposite. I knew I wasn't getting enough sleep and so I would constantly look at my clock, phone, watch, etc. so that I could get an idea of how little I was getting. When I got a fitbit I stopped worrying about looking at my watch constantly to see when I fell asleep as it would tell me in the morning. I still have sleep anxiety and I'm only averaging 5 hours of sleep per night, if I have something I can't miss (like a flight) the next morning I still will often get none, but it's not as bad as it was.