skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't have to "imagine" there are the pictures from the satellites which can be compared with the older:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HusBCLws0Q

https://youtu.be/L9zWDtDKDS8?t=45
Mainly RNNs are much slower to train than transformers.
Very cool site! I always wondered how you were supposed to schedule Leitner boxes manually.

Somewhat related, https://kanji.koohii.com/ uses online Leitner boxes to learn how to write all the 2000+ official commonly-used Kanji in Japanese. But I believe the timing of when the cards come due is based on when they go into a box + a certain amount of time, instead of reviewing an entire box in one day (which it can do easily since it's software). It's nice to see the stacks in each (virtual) box progress over time.
Renting a car; renting a hotel room, being able to travel easily and spend money in a foreign country.
whoever coined the term "artificial stupidity" is/was a prophet
I do not know the answer for leukemia but this is another issue that was considered in the paper.

If people are put off by the paywall: https://sci-hub.tw/#about
So why can't Equifax, Experian, Innovis, and TransUnion each set up a subdomain to redirect to this domain? Then they can each direct people to their own subdomain, and people can be more sure that the site they end up on is one that the respective company intends them to.
Ask HN: Anyone Use Tray.io?
Wondering what the differences are between them, Zapier, and Parabola.
I see comments like this on every single opioid news thread.

I'm sure that you are being honest about feeling that you need to take opioids every day, but I'm sure that you understand the addictive nature of the pills and why we should avoid making more people addicted.

I have had a total of two opioid pills in my life and I could feel exactly how it could take over.
It might be higher quality, but the paywall sucks.
If it is to be 2 separate volumes, would the first volume, ie jlox, be ready to publish already?
Facebook Co-Founder Reportedly Talking to Government About How to Break Up FB
Depends how you do it. My mom’s backyard is going from useless lawn to cares-for fruit/veg garden.

Water consumption is going up. Dunno if our practices use less than buying what we produce.
It's stunning how difficult it is to watch Cable TV after watching streaming services for a while.

It's hard to believe there was a time that people consumed this many commercials, and didn't think anything of it.
Euhm... Omnisphere?
Scaringly close. 70,000 km is only 11 times the radius of the earth.

That means a rock that size thrown at random that does get that close or closer to earth has a probability of a collision course with earth of about 1 in 11² ~= 0.8%.

Being on collision course doesn’t imply it will impact, as it may explode in the atmosphere (probability? I wouldn’t know) or bounce of it (probability effectively zero, I would say/guess)
I'm not very knowledgeable about MQTT specifically, but it seems like fair game considering the protocol spec (https://docs.oasis-open.org/mqtt/mqtt/v5.0/mqtt-v5.0.html) uses the term channel:

> 3.3.2.1 Topic Name

> The Topic Name identifies the information channel to which Payload data is published.
There's nothing secret about it. Good regulation can help but it's very rare. Instead we have poor regulation done by politicians that don't understand the market or technology, and that always helps the incumbents.
FB's net profit for Q2 was $1.6bn. Close to a year's profits were wiped out from this fine, which is roughly 1% of Switzerland's GDP. I don't see how this is laughable.

A fine of 10% of market cap is close to the company's gross revenue. This is equivalent to a government owning the company. This "smells" like communism mentality.
> Which reminds me.. I'd be fascinated to know if there was a Netflix stat of "existing subscribers that watch a show from episode 2 onwards"

That was a stat that was tracked internally. It wasn't that high, because most people watched a new show because someone told them it was good, and they were already a Netflix subscriber. Not a lot of people would pirate one episode of a Netflix show and then sign up to watch the rest. They either pirated the whole thing or signed up to watch the whole thing.

If they were already a subscriber they just watched it on Netflix.
Amazon reports $63.4B in Q2 2019 revenue: AWS up 37%, sales up 20%
At the same time, when a breakthrough happens like with Gilead’s hep c drug, a single governing body is far less likely to educate and inform doctors that a major disease can basically be cured even if all the evidence points this to be the case. Think about how long it took the food pyramid to be changed despite all the evidence that you should be eating six loafs of bread each day.
That's not what PEP-8 is for, it was meant to define the style of the standard libraries. A lot of people in the community voluntarily adopted it for their projects, but that wasn't its purpose.
Make. Believe. Marqeta Hack Week Q2 2019
Apple is buying the majority of Intel's smartphone modem business in a $1B deal
I'm sad that the SFCHA proposition [1] could not be petitioned successfully for last year's ballot in San Francisco. I thought it was an interesting one, with a progressive property tax scheme that would be used by the city to acquire housing for people under the median income (among other things).

[1] https://www.sfcommunityhousingact.com/press/landmark-housing...
Greed, Betrayal and Medical Misconduct at North York General
Cha-ching. (Sound of analog cash register closing.)

http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/states-want-their-cu...

"There is an enormous need in developing countries who don't have access to pain relief, it's a human right to have access to pain relief."

Are we supposed to believe demand was being fueled by "developing countries"?
Math in Motion
I haven't heard of this day, but having worked in at least one startup with a marketing department, I know that people in marketing just like people in software development love things that make their job easier on any given day, and this is more or less what pineapple day is.
Like the scooter companies and riders aren't exploiting a gray area? Most areas the law is perfectly clear, if you park in an unlawful space, you will be towed at owner's expense. The police don't have anything to do with it, unless you're parked in a revenue generating space for the city.
Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales Up 20% to $63.4B [pdf]
UGC == user generated content?
A very interesting read for me was an FDA survey on direct to consumer TV ads for drugs.[1]

A few of the negative findings:

-Eight percent of physicians said they felt very pressured to prescribe the specific brand-name drug when asked.

-In addition, about 75 percent of physicians surveyed believed that DTC ads cause patients to think that the drug works better than it does, and many physicians felt some pressure to prescribe something when patients mentioned DTC ads.

And positive findings:

-Many physicians thought that DTC ads made their patients more involved in their health care.

-Most physicians agreed that because their patient saw a DTC ad, he or she asked thoughtful questions during the visit.

-The study demonstrated that when a patient asked about a specific drug, 88 percent of the time they had the condition that the drug treated.

[1]https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-information-consumers/impact-...
If people are going to live anything resembling a modern American lifestyle, then gathering people together in cities has much lower environmental impact and lower infrastructure costs than spreading them around South Dakota.

People don’t expect just electricity and plumbing, they also expect modern construction techniques, roads, police, fire suppression, emergency response, schools, full-service hospitals, telecommunications, airports, parcel delivery, ....

A big reason that rural / exurban living is cheap in the USA is that we massively subsidize services for people living very spread out.
Looked. Prolific lakefront opportunities, lots of suitable roads in place. Base town already there. LinkedIn shows >25000 tech jobs in the state, many well into the $100k range (remember, extremely low cost of living). Just need someone to (profitably!) take on making it easy to move there.
I don't think people fully understand just what failure of the social safety net actually means. Without population growth, Social Security and Medicare collapse. Even worse, government pensions in the United States are near insolvent already. A steep decline in population growth will bankrupt many states and municipalities.
I agree, more or less, with your outlook on Facebook. My only complaint is that I really wish that we could manage to mention "fraud" without going for the easy political jab at whoever happens to be President.

It feels like a cheap way to gain pathos / pseudo-pathos appeal, and I don't like it.
I have suggested this before, and I'll suggest this again.

The whole problem could be solved if we gave people the choice of voting where they work rather than where they live.

Currently every city wants all the businesses that they can get because businesses generate lots of tax revenues. Cities do not want apartments because that doesn't generate revenue, and locals object on the basis of NIMBYism. But when everyone adds businesses and nobody adds homes, we get horrible commutes.

With my proposed change, housing developments in cities that have major businesses will get lots of support from people who work there and want shorter commutes. And it seems reasonable to me that someone who spends their waking hours in a city and wants to live there should get the opportunity to have political power there.

This would therefore undo the political log jam. And once you start letting people live close to where they work, commutes go down, traffic gets better, and everyone winds up happier.
same on Android .. and microphone is among the permissions I very rarely give to any app.

Thinking about it, I might just remove it from Google as well since I don't really use voice search.
I'm not sure this statement is accurate. Certainly the MQTT broker I work on (IBM WIoTP Message Gateway) and a number of our competitors support QoS 2 in production (though I am aware a number of brokers don't support it).
Looks like there are several competing options from other OEMs in the $30-$100 range. Toshiba FlashAir to name one.
It’s in the middle of nowhere. My neighbor was the mayor who implemented it, with the goal of encouraging development.
I mean, I don't know how to tell you guys, but from the perspective of an east coaster, the entire peninsula looks like this. It feels like some kind of parallel universe where nothing makes sense.

The Peninsula is bland and awful. Plenty of affluent folks that just like to fuck with people (a.k.a. Atherton and the NIMBY's asinine fight against electrifying Caltrain). Plenty of folks (a.k.a. Brisbane) that like to pretend they're rich and only want to develop commercial property and leave the housing to SF.

But... the Bay Area is incredibly provincial. San Mateo county (most of the peninsula) is not San Francisco.

Like I hear about a housing crisis in SF but I go there and there are supermarkets surrounded by parking lots in the middle of the city. There are literal big-box stores like you'd see in the suburbs adjacent to the central business district, like that Petco Safeway block near Mission Bay.

Part if it is that there are chain retail bans in many neighborhoods, but the other part is where are you going to put the big stores? Cities in San Mateo county fight tooth and nail over the big box stores (see the Target in Colma directly across the highway from the Target in Daly City). Retail = tax revenue. Middle class jobs = less tax revenue. San Francisco can afford to levy payroll taxes and whatnot, but other cities don't have that prestige.

You head to the beach and you go through mile after mile of outer sunset with crappy little 2 story houses and residential streets dominated by garage doors which is like the most people-unfriendly building style known to man.

You're starting to see more multi-unit housing in the Sunset, but again SF is not the peninsula. As bad as things are in San Francisco, things are far worse to the south. The garages are often two car sized and likely converted into illegal residential units.

Like do people know that every little private one-car garage has no benefit on a larger scale? The garage holds one car, and the curb cut prevents parking on the street in front, for a net gain of zero parking spaces.

Curb cuts make walking in SF worse than it has to be, but try walking in the suburbs where there are sometimes no sidewalks, higher speed limits, and wider roads to cross on foot.
For companies that can take a long term perspective, I bet having kids grow up with your product is very valuable.
World View – Software Engineer Data, AI/ML App, Embedded – Tucson AZ – Onsite
Depends on the city in question.
What would this taste like?
There are too many invisible jobs in the world for even a high schooler to accurately decide. I was way to far into software when I discovered I would have rather have become a food packaging science. I didn't take anymore than the bare minimum chemistry and biology courses in high school instead opting for programming self study. The only people I know ended up going to a few select programs they discovered via proximity to the schools that had them.

That is only one job in one niche industry. I'm trying to figure out how to expose my children to a volume of careers that extend beyond programmer, fireman, astronaut, etc.
Gotta love the dark pattern. I remember when they made the change, I was pretty frustrated with that.
Is it a bad idea to move to San Francisco?
I am a frontend developer planning my next career move. I've been slowly compiling a list of companies around the world who are working on problems I find important, interesting, and relevant to my background. Almost all of them are hiring for positions in SF.

I'm well aware of the neverending housing crisis and social problems there. It scares me, but the work and compensation is enticing.

Should I stay away? What salary is needed for a reasonable quality of life there? Are you happy there? What expectations should I have?
I think DDG and Qwant basically use Bing as a backend, potentially augmenting with their own crawlers. Yandex and Mojeek use all their own stuff, as far as I can tell. The query is "alex jones". At least put the garbage website at the bottom of page 1 where most people who aren't already looking for it still won't click it, page 5 is just lacking in subtlety.
That's one possibility. But there's also the possibility that encouraging presenteeism (which is what incentivizing hoarding sick days is) results in a net loss of productivity as sick employees both half-ass their work and also get their coworkers sick.

Which a profit-driven entity should care about.
No, that isn't the case. The fundamental research occurs in academia, but early development which includes working out how to deliver it, how to mitigate side-effects and then the clinical trials. Getting a drug into use is very distant from finding compounds in a lab.
> my experience is probably far more typical.

I guess you are right.

Still it hives me hope that things are changing for the better :-)
Whatever "solution" you come up with would obviously be better if shared amongst a reasonable number of humans.

That's my main point, not what the solution looks like.

Tall buildings are inherently communal.

Terraforming is an idea so absurd I'm not sure where to start - the dream of a 16 year old science fiction reader.

We have a solution for housing. It's called houses. This breaks down when you get millions of people and stuff them in the same small coastal region. A good start would be to, well, just not do that.

My home town of 200,000 can be cycled across in 20 minutes. It has very few apartments and is primarily made up of terraced or semi detached housing.
And to file a claim I have to submit all my personal information over again; Oh the irony...
A QoS 2 flow is 2-phase (Publish and PubRec being the first phase and PubRel and PubComp being the second).
Anecdotally, our household dropped Dish Network satellite service to go 100% over-the-network. We got Roku boxes and plugged them in to the home router.

We picked DirecTV Now as the TV channels provider. Yes, they subsequently raised prices, but we were grandfathered in under the previous plan. It was acceptable.

The thing that made us drop it was the slideshow-style insert ads promoting The Last O.G., Teen Titans Go, and one of two other shows on AT&T's own-content channel, accompanied by obnoxious, loud "music". AT&T basically annoyed us into dropping their online television service. All my "told you so" thoughts were of no comfort. I knew AT&T was going to AT&T, and said so, but nobody listened to me, and so they all got to see firsthand why I hate AT&T so much.

So we decided to switch to Sling. It took all of ten minutes. AT&T has operated forever on the "no consumer choice" business model as a telecom. If it keeps pulling the same anti-consumer nonsense in a low-friction competitive market, it will die the ultra-slow death of a company that can still barely succeed just because it's too big to fail.

And to be honest, we are watching less and less of the broadcast channels, in favor of commercial-free services. The AT&T ad starkly highlighted the sheer number of advertisements that were entering our home via television, because they were all replaced with the most annoying reminder ever conceived. Netflix has no ads. The good tier of Hulu has no ads. Then you can switch over to the television channels and get the same content, only when the channel pushes it, with 1/3 ads.
Youtube now shows two ads one after another...
Sometimes if you catch a new video soon after it's been uploaded you can see it's in a state before the recommendations have been generated, the few times I've seen it happen the recommendations were entirely kids videos with vibrant thumbnails and strange names.

I have no idea how youtube gets it's recommendations when this happens, but if it's some sort of randomish fallback list, I can easily believe that cheap, mass produced kids content is a huge fraction of youtube uploads/views.
Might have your characters mixed up? Darcy has plenty of land, Bingly wants something fitting his standing as a man of means. However, many rich/aristocratic families were prevented from selling their real estate interests, and could only access the derived profits. This naturally reduced the availability of land.
What about the way that it currently is makes it better? I've lived in the Bay area and visited NYC several times and would vastly prefer to live in a city designed like NYC but with a Bay area climate.

For some concrete examples: NYC has far better public transit than the peninsula. The block layout of NYC means you can live on a purely residential block but generally never be farther than a few short blocks from a busy commercial area with small shops and restaurants.
> I'd love to have CalTrain have grade-separation, level-boarding, electric locomotives, and ideally 4 tracks the whole way instead of the 2 they have, to promote passing and ease recovery during issues.

You can get by with 3 tracks. Metra's busy BNSF line is a 3-track mainline, and they manage to launch 21 outgoing trains in the 125 minutes between 3:57 and 6:02. In addition to the ~80ish commuter trains, there's also another ~20 daily Amtrak and freight trains along the same stretch of rail.
Ah, yes, quite interesting result here: monopoly business practices after reducing competition in favor of existing monopoly. People who predicted this? Anyone who has ever bought cable or phone service... FTC and FCC should be up their ass with a fine-tooth comb, scraping out all the shits who are abusing this scale, and throwing them in jail, but alas... they ain't.

It's so literally insane to me that Ma Bell, AT&T, is allowed to acquire anything. It's like 2 horcruxes short of a full-blown Voldemort at this point.
From the article:

> your phone sends out SHA256 your phone number hash to all the devices around you every time you hit Share.

In theory, this should be enough to protect your number (although it's still a fingerprinting vector). The reason it's a problem isn't because other people can see the hash -- is because it's trivial to iterate over the list of possible phone numbers and figure out which one corresponds to each hash.

So... don't use 9 digit phone numbers. I'm sure I'm missing something, but this does not seem like a hard problem, at all.

Everyone using an Apple device has an Apple account. AirDrop is not compatible with Android; so this isn't a compatibility thing. I can't think of any reason why this needs to be a hash of a phone number instead of a randomized string that's attached to your account. Airdrop is fundamentally a way for you to share files across Apple devices -- so just give them new IDs.

Yes, this means that there's a tiny amount of coordination with Apple servers that would need to happen when you add a new contact or share with a brand new phone number you've never seen before, but is anyone on here seriously going to argue that's worse for privacy than essentially transmitting your phone number in the open every time you use AirDrop?

From later in the article:

> How does your friend know that the person requesting a password is you? Broadband BLE requests contain your data, namely, SHA256 hashes of your phone number, AppleID, and email.

There's a device with a screen, right in front of you, and the screen has to be visible for you to click the share button. Your friend also needs to be right next to you so that your phone's are close enough to connect over Bluetooth.

So pick one to two randomized dictionary words, display them on the screen, and just read that out loud to your friend as confirmation.

Is there something I'm misunderstanding about how these features work? The developers at Apple aren't dumb, so I'm assuming there's some good reason for needing to use a mobile number as a device ID for a proximity-based sharing service on a tightly-controlled device.
Overly cynical.

All companies exist to provide profits to their owners.

Overly simplistic.

Not all companies exist to provide profits to their owners. There are thousands of companies in the U.S. and elsewhere which exist for other reasons.
Comparing instrument sales numbers at all for influencing music is crap. It just takes one instrument to make a great recording that changes things.

The famous 808 and 909 drum machines? Only 12,000 and 10,000 units ever made respectively. But I don't see song titles referencing the pocket operator :P

The TB-303 was a commercial failure at acting as a bass guitar synthesizer. Then years later Phuture cranked that resonance knob and created acid house.
Yeah, but this starts to break down when the pharmaceutical representatives can give laundered incentives(fancy "educational" dinners, "educational" yacht parties, etc.) to prescribe their product. In the US, pharma reps can see the prescription amounts of doctors to verify that they are actually prescribing their product(last I heard from a pharma CRM company in 2016). This seems deeply and fundamentally unethical.

Then you bundle all that up with the various studies that show that doctors(as with all professions) do a poor job with continuing education so that they are further inclined to take the recommendation from the pharma reps(which can be seen in the roots of the opioid crisis), I don't think we're in a very good place from a regulatory standpoint.
May be earthquake fear plays into not building too many high stories building!