skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's terrible because they effectively canceled the asteroid retrieval mission (ARM) when they chose to fund the proposals that did not include any de-spin mechanisms. This leaves them with literally 3 possible asteroids to try to bring in. Useless.

The point of the lunar gateway was to have a close (in time) place for resources and the like. But without any ability to capture and bring in asteroids it's just a waste of space.
Good question. Looks like Microsoft bought a partner to help them make Azure more competitive with Google & Amazon, both on hardware scalability and quality of their AI offerings:

> we’ll be working hard together to further extend Microsoft Azure’s capabilities

> Instead, we intend to license some of our pre-AGI technologies, with Microsoft becoming our preferred partner for commercializing them.

In the end, it's a win-win. If OpenAI remains partially open , it's still better for rest of the world too, better than nothing. But, as achow said, it did pivot.
Ask HN: Which Docker image do you use for Java 11 microservices?
My organization runs a large Kubernetes deployment with many teams building microservices using Spring Boot. We don't have a standard base Java image so teams generally build their own. A quick survey of images shows that many of them range in size from 600-900MB, even though their built Spring app is only 500-100MB. (Many teams start with CentOS, run yum update, hardening, yum install Java, more yum update, etc.) To streamline our processes and make efficient use of our resources, we'd like to create a single image for Java 11 applications and would like to keep the base as small as possible.

So far, I have found a few popular Docker images for Java 11 including gcr.io/distroless/java:11 (195MB), adoptopenjdk/openjdk11:jre-11.0.4_11-alpine (141MB), and openjdk:11.0-jre-slim (204MB). I've also looked into using jlink but don't want to troubleshoot issues when we missed a module that some team uses.

What base Docker image do you use for running Java 11 microservices? Do you build your own? Any reasons we shouldn't just go with adoptopenjdk since it is the smallest?
>we are not even close to achieving insect-level intelligence.

Is this true? Is there an insect turing test?
Alexa researcher pairs headlines with associated texts to train neural search
> and we are not even close to achieving insect-level intelligence.

Aren't we close to this? Most insects only have a few million neurons in their central nervous system, so we can model their intelligence in real time at least. Maybe we still lack the tools for training such networks into useful configurations?
There are many people who already have Teslas that can't get them repaired after nearly a year in the shop due to parts shortages...

Tesla's biggest problem is current owners with outstanding Tesla issues. If you can't take care of the people who already open your products why would a potential buyer think you'd take care of them?
HTML 5 maintains backwards compatibility. HTML from 20 years ago still works today.
Ford is perhaps the most undervalued company on the stock market, according to a bunch of metrics, one of which you've pointed out.

So saying that Tesla is overvalued compared to Ford is like saying "water is wet". By that measure all 499 of the other companies on the S&P 500 are also overvalued.

I haven't addressed most of your arguments because they're both not wrong and irrelevant.

The original point I was refuting was the belief that the stock market values Ford less than it values Tesla. I'm saying that the stock market values Ford at about 3X what it values Tesla. If you disagree with that statement you need to give an actual number, and why.
U.S. video game companies are building tools for China’s surveillance state
Yeah I'm always fighting both write speed and network speed limitations when I do timelapse projects with my Pi Zeros. Hopefully the I/O improvements from the 4 trickle down to the Zero form factor sometime soon!
Crowdsource collection of where and when to play Basketball
The implication is that the west has bled China dry without the cooperation of the Chinese government before and there's no reason it won't happen again. The West doesn't necessarily need to play softball with China to get its money.
Thanks for posting our calculator. More context about us paying local rates is in https://about.gitlab.com/2019/02/28/why-we-pay-local-rates/
I'm interested to hear more about this proposal! What problems does it aim to fix? Would you be willing to share?
Monorepo vs. Polyrepo Notes
sorry but, isn't that a (unnecessarily complex) cookie?
Can you guys please finish the dota2 project, now that you have some funding?
Launches are aborted or delayed for many reasons. The headline mentioning Second Attempt is not relevant and only serves as a negative connotation which most readers would equate with failure.
Wasn't he raised by his Cuban stepfather? If so, I think that counts.
At what point do we stop calling it the Hong Kong Protests and instead call it the Hong Kong Riots?
Yes, this argument has been made.

China apologists frequently cite the higher efficiency of the one party system compared to democracies hampered by due process.

During the Roman Republic, in time of crisis a dictator could be installed (for a 6 month period) to "sort things out".

So, the tradeoff between accountability and efficacy has been around for a while.
It is no coincidence that private gun-ownership is effectively illegal in China, while in the US it is a secured right in the constitution.
It could only fail if it was attempted.
Good feedback, and not what I intended to say. I updated my post.
Since July 2018 it’s also been illegal for any business with paying customers in California, thanks to SB 313.
They’re referring to the “AI effect”, where every new development in (narrow) AI causes an equal and opposite shifting of the goalposts. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

Many, many human-level benchmarks on narrow AI tasks have been passed in recent years. https://www.eff.org/ai/metrics

So, the “well that’s not intelligence, it’s just computation” arguments can continue until it reaches “well that system isn’t conscious, so it’s not AI”. That argument holds no water, since intelligence != consciousness.
https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/47810
Does /boot get read/written to enough where this is not "good enough"
That is very true. Reading code is also one hell of a way to understand the bigger picture, and opportunity to familiarize ourselves with a larger system.
How do you become a successful freelancer?
2011, where is it for this year's report?
I found the main discussion threads on the /r/movies surbeddit the easiest way of finding if there's a post credit scene. The info is in the original post, so there's no need to read comments with potential spoilers.

http://aftercredits.com is a pretty good source as well, but I checked it out after your comment and surprisingly it doesn't show in the top search results for "<movie> post credit scene".
It is perfectly right and just that these Chinese people are looking out for their interest. That's democracy in action. The problem is that, IMHO, that they just don't understand Donald Trump's agenda or the GOP's agenda. Since Chinese people will always be out numbered in America, they will find out the hard way when shit hits the fan...
For Canada, Toronto and Vancouver are considered distinct from the rest of their provinces, but not Montreal from the rest of Quebec.
the internet and computer now is much too important to let bug/glitch/exploits/hacks gets away.

I dont think there will ever be bug that will become accidental feature like how Myspace was.
A Chinese general recently did a demographic analysis of HK and attributed to the generational lashing out to a "failure" of education - a cohort of protesters educated on old UK textbooks, raised by anti CPC parents (HK is full of people who left China due to persecution or distaste for conditions on the Mainland). The western textbooks he finds a particularly grievous mistake, something to the lines of: we focused too much on two systems instead of one country. So I suppose CPC will just wait it out and educate future generations to party line. At least it'll be through textbooks instead of re-education camps.

Ultimately, as mainland economy makes HK increasingly irrelevant, it's in HKers interest to integrate and seek opportunities outside the city. Not every native HKer is qualified to be a financier / banker. The raising cost of living will not abate because HK is where Chinese wealth and FDI is being funneled - and basically the only real strategic importance the city has. That's just the byproduct of extreme wealth concentration in "tier1" cities everywhere. But everywhere else, the poor get priced out, but since HK operates as a city state, people with little prospects are trapped with nowhere to go. And if they're smart, they'll realize this and either move abroad or move on.

Functionally, the sooner HKers accept they'll never be anything but Chinese the sooner they can get on with their lives and out of HK. If they're lucky they'll be extended HKSAR affirmative action privileges so they can still pretend they're better than mainlanders. And really that's what it's about isn't it? It's almost like Cantonese equivalent alt-right thought - a bunch of disenfranchised kids with very little future prospects, reminiscing about a privileged past they've never actually experienced (a few years at the tail end of colonial rule) or existed (independence/democracy). Yeah, they're also fighting for western liberal values, it's all very noble and stuff. That's good western media byline. But at the end of the day, many Cantonese youth also resent being culturally, financially and politically eclipsed by mainlanders - why some of the recent protests targetted mainland tourists just doing their thing (cause you know, China's not bringing their best). It's not limited to HK, a lot of westernized Sinophobia is rooted in the distaste and disbelief that once poor chicken farmers from shithole coal county now live in million dollar homes and drive fancy sports cars. But the mainland won't see them as anything but privileged has-been whiners who refused to integrate and adapt.
Authorities are simply leveraging "thugs and criminals" as a force multiplier.
no, i dont mean that. i just want to highlight the complexity of the situation. police are human, do you agree? it is nor right , not professional, but after being cast as 'public enemy', after private info being disclosed, kids being bullied, families being threatened, they will have reaction. this is reality. we are not living in theories.
The first attempt was aborted so it shouldn't count. This time we don't know if it will be aborted again, so we cannot say if it's an attempt at all. The title should just say "India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission", period
Logically this can only come from reduced precipitation, which can be countered.

And of course, more adapted crops can be grown.

There is a lot of potential in Russia to benefit from warmer conditions.
People (advertisers) are surprised that the internet is beginning (continuing?) to be reshaped around their business and a whole ecosystem emerged to take advantage of this, no matter how unfairly.
I think many jobs what they want is somebody cheap and that will take any orders. Experience or age isn't factored in.

Those jobs you will want to avoid in any case.
This "study" is biased and taken out of context.

I don't think anyone has issues with immigrants like most liberal medias portrait we do. I am an immigrant and I have no issue with immigrant that come here legally.

What I do have a problem is the invasion of illegal immigrations, yes, it is an invasion. The congresses here is stopping the president taking action because he is in a different political party.
I felt the same way and 2.8 has been a HUGE improvement for me. I have a commercial Maya subscription and I have to admit I almost like Blender better at this point. That's less a knock on Maya which is still great, just acknowledging that Blender has come a really long way.

My only small beef is I wish they'd use system dialog boxes for save/load, and texture painting still feels a little clunky.
Protesters in Hong Kong Incur the Communist Party’s Wrath
Assuming I'm currently ignorant of the remote employment market, where would I go to find data or job listings that would give me a sense of what competitive rates are for remote engineers?
He may have acquired his grit through other means, in his words:

> By the time I was twenty, I had lived through a Hungarian Fascist dictatorship, German military occupation, the Nazis' "Final Solution," the siege of Budapest by the Soviet Red Army, a period of chaotic democracy in the years immediately after the war, a variety of repressive Communist regimes, and a popular uprising that was put down at gunpoint... [where] many young people were killed; countless others were interned. Some two hundred thousand Hungarians escaped to the West. I was one of them.
Not close to being profitable since we're optimizing for growth (more than doubling year over year). Cash flow positive planned no later then 2023 https://about.gitlab.com/company/strategy/#sequence
If your boss asks you to work overtime or on the weekends, explaining that you need to bring the kids to soccer is a more convincing argument than explaining that your WoW guild is depending on you for a raid.

Having kids is hard but may make things easier at the office.
There are good people on both sides.
Write as a leisure pursuit!
The article also appears to count companies as “founded by immigrants” if they’re the result of a merger where one of the original companies was founded by immigrants. United Technologies, for example, is a huge conglomerate. I have no idea who the immigrant founder is supposed to be.

Moreover, a quarter of America’s population fits into the category of “immigrants or children of immigrants.” At the time many of these companies were founded, it was closer to 40%. If you count # of immigrant founders / # of non-immigrant founders, as you suggest, it could very well be that immigrants are underrepresented.
Huh, never occurred to me to do it this way.
Genuine question here: Do you, or would you, buy CO2 offsets to do something about the horrendous carbon footprint of your 250k miles/year?
This is the problem with the headline. Launches get delayed, rescheduled, aborted, cancelled for many reasons. This mission has had launch dates moved around several times over the last couple years. This headline is referring to having the launch aborted about a week ago.
I mean, I've heard that emacs is powerful, but filling the roles of both CEO and CTO? Kudos to the devs. I guess it is time to take another look at LISP as a platform for general AI.
If your feet enter my space they become my property to do with as I please. In fact if anything enters my space unannounced I assume it's a gift from the flying gods and act appropriately. This includes people reclining their heads into my face. My heavily breathing onto your face while I stare at you sleeping because you jammed your seat into my knees is just rewards. It helps not being afraid of breaking social niceties in order to enforce them on others who can't be bothered to do them. In the same token poor new parents with screaming babies get my sympathy. It's hard enough trying to coo your child while feeling horrible about messing with everyone around because your family lives somewhere else. Adults and children old enough to know better... That's another story.
What little pay remains in short fiction is almost all in genre fic. Not that there's a ton there, but there's way more than in literary fiction.

Though even those are cutting editorial staff and want much more polished, nearly-publication-ready submissions these days, so brush up on your editing skills.
As an answer to your comment, I had flagged the post. Guess what, they changed the title :)
Any reasonable img lazyloading implementation should produce plain img tags once loaded. Not sure why you would end up with background-image’d block elements.
GitLab the company exists because of HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4428278

Ask me anything.
Auto-playing videos need to die.
Decoupling database migrations from server startup: why and how
Second try? Dude, it was FIRST try only.
It was a stupid and arbitrary decision to begin with. Glad support is back but I don't think I'll be back.
> I personally have gotten more value from comments on HN rather than the links themselves

I agree. Many years ago, I found a lot of great articles here, but nowadays I'm mainly just here for the comments. I mean, I'll read articles if I want to reply to a comment, to make sure what I'm saying is accurate, but mostly I just read comments. Besides, too many articles are hosted by companies who are very hostile towards my privacy, so its just not worth it.
We are and in a sense we know how they work. It's called swarm intelligence which does not even require neural nets to begin with.

OP probably just wanted to downplay the current state of AI.
This is the second article I've seen about this and neither has a picture of people actually sitting in the seats. All I want is before and after pictures with people in the seats.
Hard disagree, a great deal of procedural art is pleasing and artistically worthwhile even if you don't consider the method it came to be - although usually it's fairly apparent.

I think I'd invoke Sturgeon's law instead?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
I was talking with my daughter about this yesterday and it really occurred to me that it's probably important to look at NASA through a realist lens.

Here's their Vision and Mission statement: [0]

Vision: We reach for new heights and reveal the unknown for the benefit of humankind

Mission: Drive advances in science, technology, aeronautics, and space exploration to enhance knowledge, education, innovation, economic vitality and stewardship of Earth

Given the history of using the space program as a tool of political/nationalist/defense goals it's probably more realistic to simply act as if the stated purpose of the agency is really a kind of "marketing" that is significantly independent of the "lived experience" so to speak.

At minimum I would expect that a mental model of NASA that ignored the vision and mission statements would result in much better predictions about what NASA was likely to do.

I should add that I consider all of this deeply unfortunate and I'm not defending it in the least.

[0] https://www.nasa.gov/careers/our-mission-and-values
> To a first order approximation, creative writing is a leisure pursuit

Writing music is the same ... though FWIW writing music is a really fun leisure pursuit
>implying implications

I see no need to assign a value judgement to it, and somewhat resent doing so.

Might be good for juicing clicks by confirmation bias, but the idea is nevertheless that programming is a medium through which incomplete understanding can be refined, and eventually expressed.

Good or bad should be left to the reader to judge.

I like the idea, if only because I've philosophically approached software in terms of chewing what a program is from what it isn't.
Chinese are big customers for schemes selling foreign residency
Hug of death.

Though when I looked earlier this morning, I saw some sweet $0.03/word and $0.00/word "jobs" /s
Stay away from:

- MOOCs

- Udacity

- Kaggle

I'm not being facetious, this is my honest advice.
> Having salaries based on location is fair

It's no more fair than paying based on lifestyle choices; if any employee in SF is providing labor worth $200k, then an employee in Bucharest providing the same labor is also worth $200k. The fact that the SF employee has higher expenses doesn't make their labor more valuable. Sure, they are paying more to live in a more desirable location, but that no more deserves higher pay from a remote employer than an employee paying more to live in a bigger house, or to consume more expensive designer drugs outside of work hours.
Where did windows minimize to before the taskbar was invented? (2004)
Any sense in which Godel's incompleteness theorem implied that Artificial General Intelligence was impossible would also imply that General Intelligence is impossible; the human brain isn't immune to the laws of logic. The human brain is just a very complex, possibly quantum, computer. Short of believing in some kind of supernatural human soul, there's no reason to expect a sufficiently complex computer couldn't match the human brain (although it's an open question whether we could build a sufficiently complex computer).
> And if memory serves, there were other hosts that were similarly popular too. One iirc would allow for subdomains instead of the nesting that Angelfire/Geocities does, but if I believe by default they would have big branding somewhere on your page.

Remember ".tk"?
People do tend to do that. But it's really their mistake of how they define AI to begin with, saying "considered to be AI and impossible" instead of "we didn't invent yet an a good Chess algorithm".
Once we know how a neuron works, ask again. I am not sure how this detail keeps getting glossed over.
Seems kind of rough....so you receive a ransom email and you do a fuzzy grep of the entire internet to see if forum posts with a similar "linguisitic signature" exist anywhere?

You'd have to narrow down that search significantly to get any results in any kind of reasonable time.
Thugs-for-hire is actually a common tactic for suppressing dissent in China [1] [2], and was used in the 2014 Umbrella protest [3].

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322488668_Thugs_and...

[2]: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

[3]: https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/11/04/chinese-govt-need-hire...
https://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://whopaysw...
I was just speaking from my own experience; but I'm sorry about how I phrased my comment. I never mentioned that in my comment and it can be easily read as referring directly about Andy Grove (who I know almost nothing about).
Exxon mobile also has a heavy investment in clean energy. Bigger than the total value of the Tesla shorts.
They're not just oil anymore.
Instagram quantified our popularity, and now it wants to fix it
Great effort Josh! It's a shame that Apple decided to drop Workflow in favor of Shortcuts. Many powerful features were lost as a result. Case in point, Apple Watch geofencing automation. Apple will continue to get more closed as long as the market will allow them to do so.
An American can sue, use the media, and vote. None of these remedies are available to Hong Kong. There is a rather large difference between protesting in China 2019 versus USA 2019.
All this "get back to the moon" stuff makes me wonder what the purpose of going to the moon actually is. It's definitely different for different people.

If the whole point of the endeavor is just another space race exercise to demonstrate American prowess like the we did in the 1960's-- perhaps that's a waste of effort? Do we really need that symbolic achievement at such an enormous cost? Not to mention the opportunity cost of having to drop more scientifically productive robotic missions?

The fact that the dithering idiocy of our current "administration" is even uttering anything about a moon mission sort of makes me think they see this as just a baloney "show-the-world" stunt.

What if, instead, there was a focus on true science, unmanned missions, and perhaps steps towards actual space applications: mining, asteroid protection, and staging for permanent space installations ?
Just in case people were as confused by the reference as I was, the "Ludwig mode" that the author's team created for Emacs is for one of his own products called "Ludwig" rather than the machine learning framework called that.