skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but I think you have a blind spot

Do you have evidence supporting this Ad-Hom, or is it just an imperfect initial theory?
"Undisputed" is a needlessly strong statement, don't you think?

I mean, do you agree that the Earth is not flat, and not younger than 20,000 years old? Yet there are many Flat-Earthers and Young Earth Creationists who dispute those facts.

So, if I said "minimum surface distances between different cities on the Earth can be approximated using spherical trigonometry", would you then complain that I was stating that like an undisputed fact, and therefore incapable of considering an alternative worldview for the shape of the Earth?

In which case, I am indeed ideologically enslaved to a non-flat model of the Earth.

Aren't you?

And, why do you say they don't make any arguments? They wrote:

> Much of this policy was first written by a roleplaying game site, not unlike Ravelry but for RPGs, named RPG.net. We thank them for their thoughtful work. For citations/references, see this post on RPG.net: https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/new-ban-do-not-post-...

That in turn lists these "Policy Citations" arguments:

> 1. Racism and rhetorical alliance with white supremacist groups. This is a fairly thorough collection of citations in itself, not just a single tweet.
https://twitter.com/JuliusGoat/status/1054669092764966912?s=...

> 2. Hostility to transgender persons. [ https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/trump-says-transgend...]

> 3. Attempting to ban transgender service members from the military [ https://www.sfchronicle.com/lgbt/article/Trump-ban-on-transg...]

> 4. He is personally hostile to both individual reporters and the very idea of a free press. [ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/trump-enemy-of-... ]

> 5. He mocks the disabled. [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9reO3QnUA ]

> 6. He mocked a sexual assault victim, to applause from his supporters. [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m00qAeFHaQ ]

> 7. For the record, “Globalists” is almost always code for “Jews,” particularly if it’s in concert with anything about Soros. [ https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/413356-trump-say... ]

> 8. When confronted with the fact that his rhetoric may be encouraging domestic terrorism, he has indicated he should maybe encourage it more, and has implied the press has it coming. [ https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-tone-down-bomb-threats... ]

> 9. He is attempting to stoke fear and violence in other arenas, as well. [ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-midt... ]

> 10. It is clear from context that his embrace of “nationalism” is a dog-whistled love note to white nationalists.

> 11. There are components of his immigration policy that cannot be supported by persons of good conscience. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_family_se... ]

> 12. Further reading on this and all of the above topics are freely available from any reputable news site. [ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/i-am-trash-migrant-child... ]
I recommend watching the videos and looking at the materials.
Absolutely terrible. Don't do it without Git LFS.
Why shouldn't surrounding infrastructure adapt a bit for self-driving cars? Look at everything that had to change for railroads, cars, and airplanes.

If railroads were invented today they would never be allowed. They can't stop for miles? You have to teach everyone everywhere to stay off the tracks? How's that supposed to work?

It's good that our safety standards are a lot higher today for new tech, but perhaps there are a few common sense rules that could be taught, rather than requiring perfection?
{insert joke about serverless left padding-as-service here}
i suppose if for some reason you can't ride a bike. Dangerous roads is a common limiter, or needing to carry heavy stuff.
Pro-tip: if you are like me, never take note and divert all your attention to the lesson.

Getting copies of notes or reading the actual book can easily replace any note taking. Being distracted from the actual explanation because I'm using my attention to write, is a net loss.
There is also iPXE, where a solution would be to use a small ipxe iso/lkrn and combine it with a boot loader written to a sd and then bootstrap the system over the network from there.

http://ipxe.org/appnote/buildtargets
A link to a demo URL would help even more...
The cheap stuff!?! You can't be that British. Yorkshire Tea is the only way to go.
Heh, that number is suspiciously close to the age of the Universe. Phony indeed.

"WMAP estimated the age of the universe to be 13.772 billion years, with an uncertainty of 59 million years. In 2013, Planck measured the age of the universe at 13.82 billion years."
Global Telecom Carriers Attacked by Suspected Chinese Hackers
I'd say the many-registrar-middlepersons approach system worked badly. All we needed was the registry to do very straightforward things, under contract. Instead, we got additional complexity and inefficiency, gobs of money being handed out to opportunists, people newly arriving to the Internet interfacing with certain "registrars" that used dark patterns to upsell, whois frontends rumored (and I've seen this myself) to grab the domain you're checking and then offer to sell it at an inflated price, and typically the domain name you wanted for your startup or other project was already registered by a squatter (I saw this many times) requiring you either to pay up the gouging scalper rates or keep trying to outpace the dictionary combinatorics attacks, and domain names more accessible to the deep-pocketed.
The words original price mean nothing to me, as it should to everyone. I ignore discounts too, I only care about how much money is coming out of my pocket for what I'm paying for, and what my alternatives are.

I lie about discounts all the time, all salespeople have to. Buying a house, car, land, businesses, etc. People in poorer countries where bartering is common do it for everyday items too like fruits and vegetables. They'll say "I'll make a deal for you I don't make for anyone else."...obviously they make it for others too, but is the buyer supposed to take it to heart? No, it's all in the game.

If the retailer says 70% off the rolling average sale price during the past 365 days, and then lies about THAT, I would feel cheated.
PSA: There is something going on with OpenDNS
So I have been using OpenDNS as my DNS and just about 5 minutes ago, I could not open a single website on my firefox with the error: https://i.imgur.com/SU881Yg.png

---

Having figured this had something to do with firefox, I switched to Brave but got the same message. Then I opened certificate details - saw Open DNS's name in the issued to column - reverted back to default DNS in my router settings and voila! Everything came back to normal.

Any explanations or similar experiences?
But is it fair to compare modern social science to the "hard" science of the 19th century? It is precisely the history of modern science that shaped its stated methodology. I think all sciences should be held to account, but I think the claim here is Social Sciences aren't event trying.
> The Sion has a rather small battery so its range is only 250km or so.

So twice that of a Nissan Leaf?
Not anymore because of HTTPS
It's relevant also if you are interested in creating music and not specifically in synths because it very clearly explains many controls that you will find in popular music software.
"Hey look, I found a cool coaster!"

or

"Here we have an extremely rare ritualistic sex device, the male of the species placed this over his member before performing an elaborate dance and inserting his member into the female"
To be the devil's advocate, it is often convenient to represent states of a system with N degrees of freedom as a subset of an N-dimensional space. For example, state space of two balls linked by a rigid rod in 3D would be seen as a 5-dimensional space.

That said, the article is heavy on marketing (13.8 billion year claim is not scientific, at least in spirit) and looks like PR department product.
Unless you try questioning Climate Science, of course. That science is totally settled and unless you have four papers published in a climate-specialist journal you are not qualified to question it.

Climate Science isn't alone in this, though. Archeology also requires a PHD before you can comment on the purpose of any artifacts dug up by archeologists, even though archeology degrees don't teach anything about (for instance) textile production.

And then there's the various interesting parts of Social Sciences, which often require you to have a particular identity or experience before you can question any part of their conclusions.

I agree that Science should be a "use your own brain" kind of endeavour, but increasingly it is not, unless you have the appropriate letters after your name.
Absolutely nothing. The only theory I can come up with is that GP is a snobby atheist who associates Bibles with morons.
Predicting Kills In Game of Thrones Using Network Properties
> Yeah, one relies upon the threat of violence,

I'm similarly sick of this tedious "threat of violence" trope. Any action decided collectively by the community and enforced is a threat of violence, yes?

Regulations to stop you torturing puppies? "That's bad - it's a threat of violence"

Regulations to stop you littering in national parks? "Threat of violence"

Speed limits, requirements that car manufactures meet minimum safety regulations, laws that stop chemical companies dumping in aquifers? - "threats of violence".

It's a cheap rhetorical trick and it doesn't make a case sound compelling.
Not directly related, but do you know of recent achievements with a wow factor in the physical modelling synthesis field [1]? Just as some offline rendered 3d scenes are amazing, It'd be nice to have a pure virtual instrument with its string and resonance chamber model, inter-string effects, plucking mechanism, and so on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_modelling_synthesis
Shameful.

It's fine to disagree with President Trump. It's fine to disagree with Democrats, too. Having an opinion is your right.

But to slander and lie, and try to influence people in this way is just wrong.

Let's be honest. President Trump has brought record low unemployment, rising wages, and justice reform to African Americans. His support among American Blacks has risen, not fallen. He is doing some good.

Yet there are people like this. They weaponize racism, ignoring it within any party but the one they demonize. They turn racism from something useless into something they can use. This is what is truly 'deplorable'.
Really love it too, using it for around a year. Switzerland based, has strong protection. But still looking into / for alternatives, because - their 5/10 ⭐ apps and lack of possible automation in the inbox..
one as a baby monitor (shoutcast + microphone) and one for my weechat irc bouncer
Because people like the feeling of getting a discount. I don't know why, but it satisfies some part of their ego. Discounts don't change the utility of the product or the budget of the buyer or anything, other than the buyer feeling good about themself.
For those of you commenting about the mechanics and pitfalls, I've found that a Pi3B+ with the 7" screen and a keyboard/trackpad is a wonderful tool for provisioning new cards. I do headless system configuration on that, then swap to the Zero or whatever it'll actually use. Since the BSPs for every board are tiny, there's no reason to limit yourself to something that can't work on all of the boards out there. It makes troubleshooting a lot easier. Also, don't buy crap SD cards, and probably have 2x the number you'd like to have running. This stuff is cheap so that you can have multiples for testing.
The usual solution to this is gentle curves and conical wheel shapes

Standard wheels are conical. You can optimize the wheel and track profiles for curves, but that may affect the wheel behavior on tangent track where "hunting" might occur.
It makes the buyer feel better because the buyer gets intentionally misinformed about the value of the item. That lies can make someone feel good does not necessarily make the lie okay. (I suppose it might in some circumstances, but I don't think trying to manipulate someone into spending money is one of those circumstances.)

If you think discounts are completely meaningless, then completely banning advertising with discounts is very easy to implement and enforce. Much easier than to properly educate everybody how to arm themselves against deceptive sales practices (though I agree it would be nice if we could do that).
Java Single Dependency Dockerized HTTP Endpoint
Show HN: 3D ggplots in R with rayshader
My new earbuds have a clean and fast enough sub response that I can tell exactly when one track is being mixed into the next in a techno mix, just from the sub changing - but after years of using them, that is the first time I can say that! They also produce sub at lower volumes rather than just at max, which means I don't need the volume turned all the way up.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07QKZ58XH

They're never going to have the same power as larger headphones, but the sound quality has massively improved over the last decade.
Maybe a strategy would be getting people to take the possibility of rebirth seriously?
This article is toxic. So what if he overpromised and underdelivered? I would rather people support his cause and actually build something that delivers on the hype rather than sit on their high throne and shit on ambitious projects.
Being a global persisted key value store, about:config has a lot of things stored in it that.... do not necessarily make sense syncing, hence it being opt-in. Sync is guilty of this too, and will store things like your last sync time in about config, for example. Clearly not meaningful to sync directly.

A checkbox like you describe was actually discussed in the past, but at this point it’s unlikely. The current design of letting any synced machine change any pref on any remote machine (effectively) has dubious security implications, and has gained an additional hoop you must jump through in nightly.
For RNA molecules they are doing quite well at trashing us at go, chess, dota and starcraft.
Using a Software Defined Radio to Send Fake Presidential Alerts over LTE
Famed Mexican rescue dog Frida retires after nine years' duty
That's 63 human-years, right?
The hack I use for subscriptions is to pay with a money order, mailed to their location. This makes it impossible for them to autorenew. I started doing this after discovering to my dismay that one subscription used my checking account routing number to auto debit a subscription renewal the following year, at a significantly increased rate, direct from my checking account! I don't see how this isn't larceny or bank robbery.

I also track who is selling my name to marketers by using initials. So my subscriber name instead of Bob Jones is Ned Y. Jones for the NYT sub, Will S. Jones for the WSJ sub, and Roger D. Jones for the Readers Digest. Then when I get mailed an ad for sex toys advertised to Ned Jones, I know the NYT sold my name to them.
What's the rise in absolute risk? In relative risk?
my bet is on capsule networks, Hinton is usually on point with his stuff
I can't say I see the connection comparing a large framework to a custom typeface. My blog still has an average 0.3s for the first content paint and 0.7s on the speed index, so the user will still have a snappy experience.

In terms of the 500KB font - you are correct, I could switch over to something like Helvetica and save on that initial resource. But the typeface is a stylistic choice though, and 500KB isn't critical (once cached for subsequent visits etc.) nor is it going to eat away data caps.
I tend to agree in general. I found that actively listening and paying attention to a lecturer and maybe taking a few sparse notes on some key points or things emphasized by the speaker worked fine. I advised my kids as they went off to college that showing up and paying attention were the most important things they could do.
Well, it happens everywhere this way:
* developers need to feel production/operations pain to improve on the software they deliver;
* sysops need to feel the constraints and pressures of developers to improve the tools and foundations they provide to developers;
* car drivers need to be a back-seat passenger/pedestrian/bicyclist from time to time to understand how to adapt their own driving habits;
* etc.

First hand experience trumps everything.
#000000 on #ffffff passes the guidelines with AAA level too. If it strains your eyes then your monitor is set too bright.
Sure, “AI” as it is used today implies “software that codifies decision-making using data”. No, it’s not the T3000. But as the author acknowledges:

> Dynamic Yield can pay for itself many times over by helping McDonald’s better understand its customers

Ok, so it’s not hype - it is delivering real value. “AI” is just a marketing term to help C-suite suits and Silicon Valley sales reps get on the same page about what’s being sold with as few words as possible. What’s being sold is software that helps make optimal decision using data.

AI isn’t a rigorously defined academic term, so people will use it how they want. It’s only hype when real value isn’t delivered.
> You are refuting the validity of a number of fields if you don't accept them as sciences.

It's refuting their validity as sciences. Science is often taken as more authoritative and objective as other subjects, so the label matters.

I may be a perfectly good dentist, the fact I am not a neuro-surgeon doesn't invalidate my worth as a dentist;

But If I claimed to be a neuro-surgeon I should be investigated before I cut open any skulls.
Nope. Still running after a decade; still selling tires. Still adapting to requests for reports and workflow issues, as is possible with web-based tools. Because they are so much better than the old C-coded static tools and static reports running on a PC (not to mention paper). That's why we use web tools after all.
Fantastic talk. I have been meaning to learn more about Elixr for a while now, and this video was perfect. Thank you!
Lithography is actually a huge challenge, and is becoming extremely complex

https://semiengineering.com/7nm-fab-challenges/
Cucumber Ltd Acquired by SmartBear
I thought about this the other day after I ripped on a similar concept. Yes, at first it seems like an incredibly dumb waste of resources. This is true if the rendering is used to only add useless fluff and effects to the rendering process. However, the G in GPU stands for graphics and accelerated graphics is nothing new. An early example I remember are the windows accelerator cards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_accelerator

Though let's be honest here, if the OS were designed properly then the terminal application would not need to worry if there is a GPU or not. The graphics libraries and drivers should take care of all that.
Show HN: Slicknode – Modular GraphQL Framework and CMS
"it's been solvable with anything from a shell script to something more complicated forever"

By this logic C as good as any language as long as you can compile that language to C.
Reaktor 5 ships with Steam Pipe 1&2, which are two cool physical modelling synthesizers. They're great for wind, string and percussive instruments
> Math absolutely makes testable explanations and predictions about a universe.

more like math attempts to make a verbal map of how our brains understands the external stimuli. It is usually physics that makes predictions about the external world, math doesn't need to do that.
The value of an item is decided at the time an agreement is made between a seller and buyer. There is no one size fits all "value" until then. This can easily be seen in goods such as low volume, high margin goods such as land, vehicles, heavy equipment, intellectual property, and of course, labor.

However, in the developed world, logistics and supply chains have sufficiently developed to allow for minuscule margins on many everyday, low price items that make it uneconomical to negotiate the value of each item to each buyer, so the seller just lists one price for everyone.

In markets in poorer countries, the seller might not do that, and it might be worth their time to negotiate each sale. If they say to one buyer "I'll sell this to you for 50% off today, and charges him the same price as yesterday, and the buyer agrees to buy", who is harmed?

Price discrimination is a natural part of markets, and the only reason it hasn't been happening is because it wasn't worth the retailers time in the US. But with automated systems coming into place, there is no more labor cost and so it's becoming economical to price discriminate again.
Author here. Rayshader is an R package for mapping and 3D data visualization, and I've been working on this feature for a while now. Here are links to previous posts I've made on HN about the package:

Show HN: A raytracer to shade, plot, and 3D print topographic maps in R, part 4 http://www.tylermw.com/3d-printing-rayshader/

Show HN: A raytracer to shade and visualize topographic maps in R, part 3 http://www.tylermw.com/3d-maps-with-rayshader/

Show HN: A raytracer to shade topographic maps in R, Part 2 http://www.tylermw.com/making-beautiful-maps/

Show HN: A raytracer to shade topographic maps in R http://tylermw.com/throwing-shade/
I think the original comment about optical disks was talking about very early formats, before CDs were standardised, such as the drives used for the Doomsday Project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project
Why Brilliant Girls Tend to Favor Non-Stem Careers
you'd have to know the (physical) reading mechanism (plus encoding) to read the README.txt itself.
Look: I was a conservative when I was a teenager and hadn’t gone out to see the real world yet. But at some point you go out and the ideal collides with the reality and you have to face what those ideas really mean.

I say what I say out of a desire to influence people; I want to influence people out of a desire to make the world better. I have two kids- I don’t want them to be drafted in a war, or go hungry because of climate change. But if the conservatives get their way, that’s what will happen to them. I’ve been in city Council meetings advocating for paid sick leave for local working people. On my side was the vast majority of citizens, together with organized labor, on the other side was the chamber of commerce. The testimony was 20 to 1 in favor. But we lost, because the young lawyer in the expensive suit from the Chamber stood up and reminded the city Council members of who funded their election campaigns. And by defeating paid sick leave, they force people to work preparing food when they have the flu, they force people to choose between watching their sick kids or losing their jobs. I was once a fast food worker and my boss wouldn’t let me go home even though I was barfing in a trash can behind the fryolator. An experience like that changes you. But you know, the Chamber won, and they saved the business owners of the city a lot of money.

Look, your side wants a war with Iran that will necessitate the return of the draft; to do nothing about climate change which is rolling the dice on civilization itself; and to literally put children in cages (while making substantial profit for doing it). I’m sorry but you’re not my brother or sister if you support that kind of violence.
> I’d rather see education in schools teaching people that discounts are sales tactics that should be ignored

"I'd rather see education in schools teaching people that $instances-of-abuse are members of $family-of-methods-of-abuse that one should protect themselves against".

Funny how for almost everything else, the abuse itself is considered both illegal and morally repugnant, yet abusive sales tactics are legally above board and the profession itself is considered respectable.