skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That systems engineer would be stupid to completely rule out software related root causes to a bug that is only evident on the application i/o level when they have no tangible reason to do so.

It's not only a failure of psychiatry, but also neuroscience. The scientific community is still very much in the dark in understanding how biology transcends into consciousness
Looks like a homeless beggar living in the woods. There are so many in silicon valley doing exactly same.
Not exactly steelman, but something you'll want to be aware of if you're going to be debating in this area: The publishers have attempted (and mostly succeeded) to poison the well by equating true open access (free to read, free to publish) with their garbage version of open access (free to read, $3000+ to publish). Once again demonstrating the power of controlling the language. It's going to be a tough battle as long as it's good-hearted activists fighting in their free time vs. full-time Elsevier PR professionals getting a salary to fight.
I'd call myself an amateur in terms of skill. But I've been paid a couple of times for producing tracks so I take the leap and call myself a "part-time" musician now :)

Music is weird in the way that there are people with little to no training who can still write incredible melodies. And there are musicians who can write books on music theory but not be able to write a memorable melody.

But you are 100% right in that an untalented musician who works at her craft can become good, while a talented one who never practices with the intention of improving will remain stuck.

Combine talent with focused practice, however, and you get magic :)
As a student project, I once prototyped a Soulver-like interface that used Frink for its calculations: https://github.com/roryokane/CalcuDoc/wiki/About-CalcuDoc. You can see screenshots and get the code from that link.

I didn’t continue working on it after the class finished, though – I lost all interest after I realized that the Frink programming language, despite being free, is not open source.
If every endpoint has enough storage to go days without being online, then that’s going to distribute a very large cost to the edge of the grid. Part of the reason that we have a power grid is so that we can pool usage and build capacity based on overall statistics, no absolute peak.

Additionally, the cost to operate the grid is based upon the size of the distribution network and maximum carrying capacity. If we all build local storage that takes us off the grid 90% of the time, we are still going to have to pay the utility roughly the same amount to maintain the network as we do today. Check your power bill, the generation costs are probably less than half of your monthly total, so the rest is going to come back to you one way or the other.
Credit cards are very asynchronous, going back to the days when carbon copy paper was used and no in time verification might have been involved at all.

Shop owners would even get a reward for snipping a bad credit user’s card in half (something that survives to this day only as a meme).
They can be, it just costs $5000
Do you think Netflix will falter when Disney arrives to the steaming scene?

Do you think Netflix could be disrupted if content became cheap to produce (through new technology)?

Do you think we could lobby to get copyright terms greatly reduced? How would we go about doing so?

I'm really interested in your thoughts.

(I'm pursuing a startup to answer the second question, but I'm worried the incumbents will simply copy us if the technology works out as well as we hope.)
> I found Ionic to have the most enjoyable and cogent end-to-end experience amongst the three.

Agreed, though I'd love to use Ionic with Scala.js in place of TypeScript (which is great, but doesn't give me the same if-it-compiles-it-works confidence as Scala does, not to mention batteries-included standard library).

Hopefully technology will emerge that allows one to write once/run everywhere in preferred-language on all major platforms. Compromises seem to abound with currently available options.
It looks like a great heat sink, I wish I could order one now.

My biggest concern with that is the blocking of the camera connector.

It is also 4 times more expensive than a cheap 5V fan.
I guess Medium has finally started requiring an account: "Keep the story going. Sign up for an extra free read." I can't figure out why people use this site for publishing things.
Steps to Start an Online Business
I recently set up a Plex server. It's serviceable and I like it a lot, but I'd only give it three stars at this point.

There are things that don't work right: I have constant buffering on a couple of my devices, even at (say) 720p just serving up files with no transcoding, when Netflix et al have no problem serving me 4K to the same device without buffering. (My guess is its a problem with the client app, but I haven't really looked into it.)

There are things that are weird: If you have more than one version of the same movie or show, it lets you select between them not by (say) file name or runtime, but by video quality. So, for instance, I recently ripped a TV series and several of the episodes have extended editions. There's no way to tell which version is which until I start playing one of them.

There are things missing: Hardware acceleration on my i9 is the big one right now for me.

There seem to be regular updates, but they're often things that don't affect me as well. So it feels like updates are slow. (Like a fix for DVR service, which I don't use; or say an update to an XBox client.)

All that said... I'm not saying this to discourage anyone. Like I said, it's serviceable.

I think about the library I could have in ten years spending the money on Blu-Ray discs (on sale of course) instead of shelling out money to Comcast/Netflix/Amazon/HBO/Hulu/etc every month. And the best part is, I know it'll still be there when I'm ready to watch it or rewatch it.
I haven't installed the latest firmware, is there a way to backup my current firmware so I can compare them easily?
> Most of what we call AI can learn and update to an extent

Most of what we call AI are hardcoded solutions once in production. There may be ongoing offline improvements being made, but once the improvements are established the production AI is replaced with a point-in-time snapshot of the AI undergoing offline training. Self-learning in production causes all kinds of problems, but most significantly it's a security issue since it gives an attacker the ability to manipulate behavior by curating examples.
I'm really sorry that your daughter was exposed to critical thinking and new ideas, but understand that not everyone treats college as cubicle job training.
At the very bottom, the author mentions why the issue has become more relevant now: automatic sync between Photos and Drive has been turned off, so you can't workaround anymore by sharing the photo from Drive.
It’s an inherently addictive thought that “the current system is wrong and there’s another system that would be better if only people would listen.” It becomes even more addictive when there’s other people willing to give you dopamine/affirmation for your beliefs. You see its addictive nature today in the sparse numbers of people who achieve “sobriety” from communism after becoming addicted to its theories.
The truly greats in most sports just seem to have something "extra" that can't be earned by practice and skill alone. Their reflexes move just a little bit faster, their muscles recover just a tad bit quicker.

I really don't think the difference between an Usain Bolt and a Tyson Gay is practice. Or that no one has been able to beat Federer/Nadal/Djokovic in a decade consistently because they're not practicing hard enough.

At the highest level, it's a game of milliseconds and 0.1% improvements. The truly great just somehow have that
All the costs have been falling, at various rates.

It's amusing to see "permitting costs" being presented as a barrier, when at the same time "get rid of regulations" is spouted as the panacea for reducing nuclear's costs.
It seems like NSF is working towards that. NSF-funded publications must be publicly available for free within 12 months after publication. NSF has a repository for this purpose. This regulation went into effect in 2016.

https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18041/nsf18041.jsp
Read the article?

> How could the ‘secret’ link end up in the wrong hands? Some possibilities:

1. An email thread / document with a link to the photo or album is forwarded or shared with the wrong person, or accidentally posted somewhere public.
2. The recipient naturally thinks the link is only works for them (as would be the case for Drive) and doesn’t take care to prevent it becoming public.
3. Links sent by emails are semi-public because they move across the internet unencrypted and are simple to intercept. It’s only OK to link to sensitive things by email if the recipient needs to be logged in to actually view them.
4. A database of these links is one day leaked or hacked, or people figure out a pattern in how the ‘secret’ URLs are generated.
5. Someone’s emails or other documents are hacked or leaked, with the link in them.
The obvious way to do it would be to forward a port in your router and then keep a dynamic DNS service (DuckDNS, for example) updated with your external IP address.

As for networks, I personally use the Yggdrasil Network [1] to connect to my homeserver. Since it is a self-contained network, a blog hosted on there wouldn't be visible to the web, but it's very, very convenient for private access. It traverses NAT without any hassle once you connect to other peers.

If you do connect to the network, you probably want to also set a whitelist of peers that are allowed to access your machine, otherwise it is open to the entire network.

[1] https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/
Yea, the part of the article where they described the training procedure as if they were re-arranging impurities in a physical piece of glass beggared belief.
Have you read The Communist Manifesto, or Das Kapital? Is there a particular aspect you are referring to as being "addictive"?

I would argue "workplaces should be democratic" (which is a very rudimentary one-sentence synopsis of Marxism) is only an addictive idea if you consider democracy to be addictive in the same manner. And maybe it is, but then you have to ask yourself -- is an idea being so good that it becomes addictive a bad thing?
Few years back, 5B $ fine was kinda unthinkable. Sure, FB is a big elephant but this fine is by no means a small fine. Who knows future fines might be even bigger. After all, repeated offences are generally punished harshly.

Assuming FB actually has to cough up this fine and also assuming FB won't mend its ways (logical assumption ;) ), it would definitely affect the FB in serious manner.

But yeah, I am pessimistic that FB won't mend its ways and won't pay any fine either. The will power to do that is just not there.
Beautifully said!
in all fairness, what would one expect the app to do in the first place? sharing through the app is fundamentally different than sharing through, say, your photo gallery, as that just shares the image itself. within the app, and the general ecosystem that surrounds it, the method of sharing is by exposing that image as a resource to external parties, and given that http(s) is the transport that makes the world go round, it would stand to reason that a url would be created and associated with that resource, and furthermore that anyone that gets that url would be allowed to access that resource. of course that's just generalized sharing, there's also more granular sharing at the level of Google accounts where you can provide specific access to specific individuals etc. but either way. i see no reason to be surprised or even particular bothered by this. if anything it's to be expected
I do those things. Also, I watch movies, which is obviously what the question addressed. I don’t think your answer added anything substantive or meaningful to the conversation at all, and was at best a condescending distractor.
Rnp: An OpenPGP Library in C++
You make all of these claims, and yet when I say I gave someone "3 dollars" no one thinks "a full dollar must be transacted because the countable noun version conjures an integral entity", and it isn't because of the existence of "cents": one often says "three and a half dollars". Meanwhile, the word "dollar" was itself originally _a unit of weight_ that represented a quantity of silver (371 4/16th grains), and so was in point of fact "much more like giving another user a specific mass of metal in the form of on or more ingots"... at which point you hopefully realize that, in most English, units of weight use countable nouns: we don't talk about "3 gram", we say "3 grams". Essentially, this becomes some kind of semantic question about whether "Bitcoin" is the measure (like dollars) or the metal (like silver), but as that distinction has been blurred now for a long long time with common currencies (such as the US dollar, which is measured in dollars), it seems like a totally pointless argument that, in fact, causes no practical confusion to anyone.
Related Science paper from last summer ”All-Optical Machine Learning Using Diffractive Deep Neural Networks” https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.08711.pdf and https://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6406/1004
Is blitzscaling killing early employee equity opportunities?
My best attempt: without journals charging fees for access, there is a free rider problem where only a few institutions will support journals. By allowing Elsevier to charge, you force everyone to share in the costs. In a weird sort of way, the fact that universities haven’t yet put Elsevier out of business is evidence for the collective action problem.

I don’t really think it works, and the publication fees model might already be a good enough counter-argument, but it’s my best try.
Why not do it exactly like Drive, where you can choose between sharing by link, or sharing with Google accounts?
You could try uploading a bunch of images and downloading them again, finding out where they differ. This should be reasonably straightforward. However, FB likely modifies the image in various ways (resizing, maybe they recompress the image to save space, etc). Showing the presence or absence of steganography will probably require a large sample size.
Closer than 51 North? you mean like all of the continental US?
Hong Kong protesters, police clash as demonstrations target Chinese traders
Which is actually a way worse security model, Facebook is public. Period.
There's a lot of references to "plate out" in the article and most of the results I find on Google are paywalled by Elsevier - can some explain what the term means or point me to a resource?
Scala.js sounds really interesting. There's no reason you shouldn't be able to use it with Ionic as of Ionic 4, since we generally now support whatever framework you want to use (not just Angular anymore)
When I buy shares of lets say Uber - how much more than early investors am I paying?
No; local is just character names. Ship classes are visible on D-scan (except cloaked or combat recon) or combat probes.
This may have been true when going to college was optional, but now as it's seen as requisite, it's no longer as effective a predictor as it was before, especially in careers where there's a mismatch between personal quality and deference to authority.
Does it say something, though? If you have hundreds of millions of people using a product, you'll find someone surprised by any given behavior of that product. Combine that with the fact that anything even tangentially related to privacy gets bigtime upvotes on this site, and it's not hard to see how an article like this gets written about a feature that is in fact behaving as most people expect.
"Version" include wreaks havoc on case-insensitive filesystems
Elsevier owns copyrighted material, which it licenses to individuals and institutions for a fee. The fee is negotiated on a case-by-case basis, which is no different than any other intellectual property such as movies, music, books, or software.

If a customer is unable or unwilling to pay the prevailing rate, then no access will be granted.

The argument that Elsevier uses unpaid academic labor and therefore should fall under some other system is a red herring. Authors signed over their copyright to Elsevier, and like any other copyright holder Elsevier can license its property toward any legal purpose that advances its business interests.
Other than the convict organ harvesting and such.
(Ionic co-founder here) glad you're enjoying Ionic, we're working on a ton of stuff to improve it even more right now. Have you tried Capacitor yet, our Cordova alternative?
It is indeed possible to purchase standalone licenses for 1Password 7 for Mac and 1Password 7 for Windows and they can be synced using Dropbox.

- Ben, 1Password
They really don't, especially not anymore. For-profit book publishing has turned decidedly Hollywood. I've worked in both book publishing and in Hollywood, and people often forget that they are really one in the same now. CBS owns Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins is owned by News Corp, and Penguin Random House is owned by Bertelsmann, one of the world's largest media conglomerates.
No, compost is just organic material. Good top soil has <10%-20% organics by volume. Also, since the organics in compost will break down over time, they will need to be re-applied. Sand and clay are needed for structure and minerals.
The analogy to car insurance comes up over and over, but I think it's flawed.

Pre-existing conditions are not defined by the average paid out in claims to a person.

It's normal to have a deductible that's over $5K and is not met in a typical year, and one or more pre-existing conditions. So it bewilders me how people keep debating as though the contrary were typical.

The question is not whether a person should have their predictable costs paid for through "insurance", but whether a person should be able to get insurance for catastrophic costs, if they are considered to have a non-quantifiable risk.

There is a fundamental inefficiency in a market that discriminates against sick people, not just a lack of "social justice" or whatever. If insurance companies are allowed to discriminate against pre-existing conditions, then they have to charge not just enough to cover the true risk of the high risk customers, but enough to cover the risk of being wrong about the risk - insurance against "unknown unknowns", adverse selection.

"Fairness" often costs more money.
Youre Right! Parent is apparently from Tasmania, which I lumped together with the rest of Australia as "damn hot", while that apparently isn't the case at all.
On internet, reading is hard and typing is fun.
Google admits to listening in on private conversations via Assistant
You can't run an electrical grid on wind and solar alone and expect it to be stable enough.

- The prospect of every household having a battery backup big enough to smooth over spikes and dips is ludicrously wasteful. We are already struggling just mining enough to make batteries for cars and phones.

- the sheer scale of the wind and solar farms will leave major environmental impact to wildlife. Look at how massive area solar farms need, and know the area has to be cleared and desolate of life.
So you're not a fan of PLoS? I always thought their model seemed fair.
Good.

It always seemed boring that you could get valuable Intel by closely monitoring a chat window.
Well, you can already share photos with other Google accounts. It's even the default. You have to specifically click the "Create Link" button on the share page to do differently.
Five Laws of Futurism
> To stay current with television entertainment

You lost me here.

That's like tasking yourself with staying current with your Warhammer 40k or Magic The Gathering card collection and complaining that it's expensive. Yet you suggested TV as if it's some self-evident thing everyone wants to maximize.
So, this is a traceroute LARP.
The steel man for the Elsevier side is that nobody is forcing scientists to submit content to Elsevier journals or to read Elsevier journals. It’s a product that they create, so they have the right to price it as they see fit.

If Elsevier was really providing no value, why don’t scientists simply submit their work elsewhere? Clearly scientists and universities don’t really care about open access. If it was that important to them, they would just stop submitting content to non-open-access journals. The truth is that scientists care more about prestige than about open access. Elsevier puts a lot of work into making their journals prestigious, and scientists want that.
He probably smokes meth too, let's face it
Not a fear, a fact
https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/26/e2/e106
Or, any of the other ways for a URL to leak, which is the authors point.
I'm not sure why TS wouldn't give you confidence. The compile process is simply stripping out the typing to JS.
Reforestation is key to averting a climate catastrophe
Matchs Amicaux – 13/07/2019 18:00
https://www.spreaker.com/show/lausanne-sport-monaco-en-direct-2019

https://www.spreaker.com/show/lausanne-sport-monaco-en-direct-live

https://www.spreaker.com/show/live-monaco-lausanne-sport-e-n-direct
https://www.hashtaglunchbag.org/hunuloolo/direct-tv_monaco_lausanne_en_direct_live
https://www.hashtaglunchbag.org/hunuloolo/_live_monaco_contre_lausanne_e_n_direct

https://www.hashtaglunchbag.org/hunuloolo/streaming_monaco_-_lausanne_sport_e_n_direct
If Google Maps is being integrated with Waze, I think that is a new thing, because they've been separate.

If they plan to integrate them at all, I wonder why not combine them completely?
Qatar has done a considerably better job of diversifying their economy, perhaps because (since they are smaller), the central leader is able to shift the national direction better.

Glad to know that at least some on the left will be happy with a technological solution. Don't be surprised if your political "neighbors" turn negative on solar and wind as it becomes commercially big.
Does your figure account for the uranium contained in seawater ?
Fat vs. carbs: What’s worse for your health? [pdf]
I've recently turned my really old web-based PHP version into a cli: https://github.com/Vultour/steamcli

It's pretty rough, but lets you filter your games based on the user tags on each game. You can also filter games between multiple accounts at the same time, which was the main feature of the original version.
Well you make a good point, it may just be the noisiest part of the left that will be dissatisfied, not necessarily the biggest part.
I assumed that sharing photos the way he does in the video would limit access to that user, logged-in. I've been going to a lot more hassle by getting the URL, then manually creating an email with that link. So this interface is bad for people who want to make a sharable link and people who didn't want to make a sharable link. It should be clearer.
If western architecture means northern europe, then I think they were rather more concerned with heating than cooling. Southern europe took a lot more care (fountains, shutters, huge thick walls...). But it's still a long way from the desert climates where they did really serious wind & water cooling.
I do understand your point but wouldn’t you agree that the money indirectly paid by Netflix is less money than if those customers of Netflix actually purchased said DVDs instead of renting them?

The way I see it ( and again I could be wrong ) Netflix was able to leverage their massive buying power to get the DVDs at less than MSRP. Netflix buys 100,000 dvds of a pupil at title and the MPAA get their cut. Netflix then rents those DVDs 1 million times. Did the MPAA lose out on a cut of those 900,000 would be sales?
Wow, I'm not awake yet. I read it took me a solid minute to get that it's about value, not Valve Software.
That is not what happens in the video.