skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I...isn’t this sort of focusing on the wrong thing? How many criminals storm police and military installations armed with stun guns?
I would vote for Lisa to be the CEO of the year. It's also fun to know she is a relative of NVidia boss that once worked at AMD and they both are from Taiwan, home of TSMC and who knows if they have family inside as well...
Authors learn embeddings in a Poincaré space rather than Euclidean, better for hierarchical relationships. The reference paper is a good read: Nickel & Kiela '17 "Poincaré Embeddings for Learning Hierarchical Representations", https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.08039
I mean they can't in the sense that it's not how the network is set up today. Not that it's impossible.
Actually kevlar is already used in motorcycle equipment to assist with abrasion resistance/heat friction in slides. For example I've a button up fleece shirt layered completely with an aramid on the inside. Comfortable, normal looking and most importantly functional.
RF is RF. If it is emitted it can be detected.

Even point to point microwave links can be detected off-axis.

Hundreds of watts of point-to-point means dozens of watts of sidelobes.

Dozens of watts in the middle of the desert is easy to detect.

If the AN/MLQ-40 could do it at tens of kilometers 20 years ago I bet datalinks could be detected from space today.
> ...they showed Dgraph to be 10 times or more faster than other options (naming names, which we won't), there is nothing to show for this at this point. Jain said Dgraph may release some benchmarks in the future...

That is pretty dubious to make claims without benchmarks.

I'm a competitor, also Open Source and VC-backed, and there is a long line of Databases publishing benchmark for at least baseline tests:

- https://redis.io/topics/benchmarks

- https://gun.eco/docs/Performance (mine. Also see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_WqBuEA7s8 for benchmark against 100M+ records/day, 100GB+ data)

- https://www.datastax.com/nosql-databases/benchmarks-cassandr...

- https://www.arangodb.com/performance/

etc.

Please please please don't hype, just publish results, even if they're basic tests.
"Styrene is named after storax balsam, the resin of Liquidambar trees of the Altingiaceae plant family."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styrene
I can second this!

Was in the area (roughly) and had a rented car. Just drove out there for an afternoon in February and it was magic.

Saw a pack of wolves harrassing a handful of elk (and heard a howl! It's a totally different experience than hearing it in a movie), got stuck in a bison traffic jam (repeatedly).

It was just astoundingly beautiful. Not even more bison than people, more wolves than people. I hear I got lucky seeing them though.

I'm sure if you cross country ski, ride the snow cat, stay at the lodge it's fantastic but if you ever show up in Montana definitely just go regardless.
F/A-18 Crashes in Star Wars Canyon
Sounds like it was like:

block
of
x86
code
je L43
more
x86
code
jmp L57

L33:
sparc
code
never
mind

L43:
x86
code

L37:
sparc
never
mind

L57:
x86
code
again

That kind of thing: blocks of code mashed together, but everything is correctly generated to jumps to its own kind.

In regular compiler-generated machine code, we already have "foreign" blocks of stuff in the middle of the instructions, such as string (and other) literals, and computed branch tables. The generated code doesn't accidentally jump into these things. This is kind of the same: all the other architecture stuff is just a literal (that is not referenced). From the x86 POV, the stuff at L33 and L37 above is just data.
Well, how much does some nice acreage in the country cost?
Sudsbury Canada I believe the name is. Cold, good internet, not too dense, low CoL. If I ever get a serious remote job I would definitely consider it, it would require me to emigrate for the US. If emigration wasn't realistic, I'd probably move somewhere in Minnesota (I like the cold for various reasons)
In our case we often have people write or call our global support number and request they be unsubscribed. They don’t have that ability be they create a ticket. That ticket gets sent along and eventually winds up in an admin’s inbox. That’s why it takes a few days.
You enter your email on a website that already sent you an email? What would that achieve?
wow, what a time capsule. crazy how fast even after this that they proliferated everywhere
Intel's budget is not just for chip fabrication, they have a very wide array of product areas. Chip foundry is very cost intensive, in the range of 10's billions. I'm not surprised TSMC spends way more on fabrication than Intel does.
It's "ring without i". i is of course "identity", which is conventionally denoted e, because i is usually the square root of unity. This works pretty well if you pronounce i as in French so it's a homophonic with English e. Isn't math a wonderful language of use for computer programming? It's so international, breaking the hegemony of English.
I used to be a big support of Sonic for years, but have changed my mind as of late.

They skipped my block for fiber, and I thought there could be some issue (like the fact that a Muni electric line runs down it) that might make it impossible for them to install it. So I asked their tech support if it was going to someday come, or never come.

Sonic would not give me any information. They wouldn't confirm or deny that they'd ever be able to install fiber. They said it would probably happen eventually, but refused to provide even a ballpark figure like "next month, next year, 2 years, 5 years or 10 years".

I finally got a response saying that there were overloaded utility poles on my block and the next block, and that was what was preventing them from stringing fiber. They even sent a map showing which poles were at fault.

So I went to the PUC and worked with them to get the poles replaced, all while sticking with Sonic's slow and expensive ADSL.

Once the poles were replaced, I went back to Sonic and they still refused to say if or when they'd be able to install fiber. Finally (several years have gone by now) someone from the responsible department said that there would never be fiber on my block because of the Muni electric line. What? That's what I asked in the 1st place!?!

After that someone else replied and said that they could actually do it on Muni electric blocks now, but they again refused to give me any semblance of a timeframe. Finally, someone else at Sonic admitted that it could be a very long time, perhaps more than 7 years, because "it's as time consuming to do permitting for a block as it is for a neighborhood" and my block wasn't a priority.

That's all fine, but if so why didn't they say so in the first place rather than giving me a run-around for 3 or 4 years? Wait, I think I know the answer: if they admit that fiber isn't coming any time soon (if at all) people might go to a competitor for faster service!

Pretty cynical, and not what I'd hope for in an ISP committed to transparency. But there you have it: as far as I'm concerned, Sonic just isn't as cool as they seemed.

TL/DR: If Sonic skips your block, they ain't coming back any time soon, if at all, even if the issue that made them skip is corrected.
A lot of people in the low-end VPS community use this [1] -- and I've used it ever since. The installation script just works. Adding a new user? Run the script. I don't think we're alone in the struggle.

https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install
It’s more like the baseball stadium had defrauded their customers and they are legally obligated to give refunds, but somehow the court allows them to only give refunds to the first 10,000 fans who request it.
Who in 2019 needs a landline?

People with house alarms. People with fax machines. People with medical equipment that sends information to their doctors a couple of times a day. People who don't trust VOIP providers. People who want to be properly geolocated when they dial 911. People who want to use a phone when the power goes out for longer than a cell phone can hold a charge (think hurricane-prone states).

Here's a good one: People who want to talk on the phone.

I stayed on a remote ranch in New Mexico back in April. The owner was at the next ranch over, about five miles away. I needed to call her, so I picked up the phone. A real land line phone. Good Lord, I'd forgotten what a quality phone call sounds like. It was as if she was right there in the room with me. No awkward cellular delay. Talking over each other was OK and natural and you could still understand the other person. It was an absolute delight. I already have my current place wired with VOIP, but in my next home I'm going to get a landline.

Landlines may not fit into your lifestyle or mindset, but that doesn't mean they don't have value.
When did 60% become the entire beef industry?
All entertainment must be productive? That's what you would decree? Ugh, very free people would want to live in your horrible nanny state.
An F/A-18 Super Hornet Has Crashed in Death Valley’s Famous “Star Wars Canyon”
If you want to use them, HN will take most funny squiggles: \ˈrəŋ\. It draws the line at emojis.
> retract and expand at will

I think LightSail 2 already does just that, though, but possibly not very efficiently.

From the article:

> LightSail 2's single momentum wheel, which rotates the spacecraft broadside and then edge-on to the Sun each orbit to turn the thrust from solar sailing on and off.
I see repeated comments suggesting seaweed is superior to trees. Any guides on how to safely plant seaweed without disrupting the local biome?
We've established that sufficiently advanced fraud can overcome the ability of organizations to vet the info that’s given to them. If the credit bureaus are actually organizations dedicated to fraud, then the fact that many other organization fall for it doesn’t tell us too much about their accuracy.
Here in Kitchener-Waterloo the project approval to build a light rail system included automatic upzoning for a radius around each of the stations and easier approvals for high density development. Tying the rail and zoning together was a deliberate choice to drive density in areas served by transit and prevent as much NIMBY interference as possible.

The construction took several years and the trains have just started running, but the city has already transformed. Many dense buildings went up while the rail lines where being built and many more are under construction right now.

It will be many years before the true success and failure of the project is known, but the signs look good to me. I'd like to see general loosening of non-safety related zoning restrictions to help keep housing prices in check, but this program was a good compromise since developers were guaranteed an investment of transit and other city services and could take more risk.
Because people have become so used to it that they forget to complain, and to whom they should complain.
A drug like that pretty much names its own price. Even Canada's system has exemptions from its usual pricing controls for drugs like that.
‘We Have Fire Everywhere’: Escaping California’s Deadliest Blaze
According to the article though they're already adjusting orientation to adjust thrust, but possibly they saturate too fast and they can't control it enough to truly null the deceleration?

> One such refinement involves LightSail 2's single momentum wheel, which rotates the spacecraft broadside and then edge-on to the Sun each orbit to turn the thrust from solar sailing on and off.
This sounds like the shaky basis presented in "The Plant Paradox". [0] [1]

[0] https://www.livescience.com/62914-what-are-lectins-plant-par...

[1] https://health.clevelandclinic.org/why-weight-loss-on-the-pl...
There is certainly no meeting-of-the-minds when it comes to EULAs, car loan applications and other such contracts.
Gone – The California Sunday Magazine
Or beer? Are all these soda banners ready to give up their IPAs?
I don't think you'd even need to retract the sail - just structure it differently.

There's an omni-directional wind turbine (https://newatlas.com/2018-dyson-award-winner-o-wind-turbine/...) which sort of encapsulates what I'm thinking of.

I'm not too sure about how easy it would be to use a non-planar sail to redirect photons in the direction required to constantly build forward momentum - but a photonic "wind" turbine used to power a quantum dot emitter array might be able to do something.
There are all sorts here, gaijin or otherwise.

I get your sentiment though. As a foreigner, tying to live here and have normal, fulfilling relationships takes a metric ton of work. In my experience, there's a bit of an endowment effect, where the coping mechanisms and language successes we pick up through the years get tied into our personal identities.

I've certainly gotten my jimmies ruffled by Outrageous Gaijin TM on many occasions, but I feel like there's a lot of room for mutual growth and 切磋琢磨ing through those interactions.

To flip things on their head a bit, mutual understanding and cooperation are held as socially high ideals here. I think most Japanese would agree those are better than dropping harsh judgement.

Anyway, if you just made a careless post after a stressful day or something, then let me buy you a beer (or tea, if you prefer). My email is in my profile.
> Is it really surprising that controlling for vocabulary at age 4 makes it hard to find differences in vocabulary at age 15?

This should be completely astonishing for a certain worldview that a great many people claim to hold.
Urgent need to plant trees in order to reduce the effect of climate change
This company needs to sponsor the Storm Area 51 event.
I guess you'd be for banning alcohol then? The aggregate negative effects on society due to alcohol are incredible, extending far beyond simple healthcare questions.
> But that doesn’t mean there aren’t a hundred possible pros and cons for one type of molecule versus another to treat XYZ condition in ABC population, with potentially huge variation between patients both explained and unexplained.

There really aren't when comparing different molecules with the same mechanism of action. Individual hospitals and health systems will usually tender out their contracts to the cheapest molecule in each class, or sign up with a buying group that does.

It simplifies prescribing, inventory, distribution and administration too.
What is required beyond "your at-will employment has been terminated"? What are the grounds for your hypothetical lawsuit?
Thank you very much!

Do you think the ARPA approach is better, or better for certain cases? The accounts I've read of the invention of WIMP and transistors resemble “bunch of batshit bets by smart people”, if I have the story right, but I don't know anything about the SEM and semiconductors. (Weren't semiconductors Bose in the 1890s?)

A lot of my list clearly was pretty applied; I didn't mean to suggest they were all basic.

Cedar in particular I mentioned because it inspired Oberon, Java (né Oak), in some sense Xi (and ropes in lots of other systems), and maybe sam and the plumber, though maybe that was convergent Blit evolution. But certainly that impact is small compared to the LSP. (Were Smalltalk iterator methods convergent evolution or were they taken from CLU?)

I'm very surprised at your view on pharma. Sounds like my opinions need to change.
There aren't any other options though. No one is going to set you red-line their contracts. No one.

I have personally walked away from work agreements for jobs when they wouldn't remove non-compete clauses, but not everyone has that option.

There is no "meeting of the minds" here in any real sense.
If Osama bin Laden's ghost appears to you and says "There will not be a terrorist attack in New York tomorrow.", and then there is, and this repeats a few times, the fact that his statement is, facially, a lie, and the fact that he can't even exist doesn't matter. You have an input that correlates with a certain output. The intent of the person who provided you the input, or even how nonsensical you think the input is, doesn't change its statistical usefulness.
I really don't understand how regulators have even allowed Equifax to continue doing business, let alone continue to pull shit like this.
Equifax and their brother businesses give us low rates in exchange for exposing us to fraud risks whose monetary value is probably literally incalculable.

The thing is, we don’t get to choose whether we’re exposed to those risks. It happens whether we like it or not.

So let’s say I start a company that offers better TCO: my rates are a bit higher but this is more than made up for by a much lower fraud risk. Do I win the market? No, because Equifax’s fraud risk hits my customers just as much, so I’m not competitive.

Credit bureaus give us low rates because they externalize the costs. Since the costs are externalities, competition can’t beat them. It’s the financial equivalent of making cheap electricity by poisoning the community with emissions.
It is, or should be, your responsibility to notify them when payment it due.
Newton's approximation of gravitational force is:
G = gMm/d^2

The variable here is d (the distance between the centres of mass) - gravity is inverse quadratic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law), not exponential.
They've been in Scala for at least a decade (iirc), with few alterations. How long does it take for "experimental weird feature" to become "reasonable solution to a problem that should be copied". Another five years?
I love Amazon, most of the time.

I'm insinuating, if anything, that the skills needed to be an effective hacker and those needed to be an effective Amazon programmer likely overlap, that's all.

That being said, I agree with you that the person who put Amazon in the headline was trying to discredit Amazon, just like the person who mentioned that Jeff Bezos ate baby whale was trying to discredit him.
So how did all these sophisticated financial organizations get taken by subprime mortgage bundles in 2008?
Well, the study just published by a lifelong Republican tells you being wrong is more likely.
You should be using Terraform as your configuration management language. Please do not invent your own. Pretty much your yaml is a pseudo-configuration management language.

That will become one of the biggest blockers because of the amount of automation that already exists.

By leveraging Terraform, you will also have the added benefit of getting all the other pieces of AWS/GCP/azure components for free - and is rock stable and production tested.
I didn’t work on Lightsail, but the article implies that it does aim the sail. It isn’t expanding/contracting, but it does change orientation using the reaction wheels. Basically, they turn the sail broadside to catch the sunlight to raise the orbit, and turn it on edge when they don’t want the extra drag.

This particular satellite won’t ever leave orbit because the sail can’t overcome even the tiny amount of atmospheric drag. If you want to achieve escape velocity with a sail you’ll need a bigger sail and a higher orbit to start out. Right now it’s only feasible for small satellites and we’ve been able to achieve escape velocity using rockets for decades.

Eventually, I do envision a competition to see who can get a payload to Mars with the least amount of fuel. Kind of like the fuel efficiency challenges that college engineering departments participate in today.
They didn't. Pension plans and individual investors are not sophisticated financial organizations. They rely on those that are to do their job in a non-fraudulent manner. They didn't.
The kinetic energies involved can be huge.

In the same way that an object won't explode when hit by a subsonic 9mm round with ~0.5kJ of muzzle energy ('just' causing a leak and decreasing amount of blood pressure) it will when hit by a 0.50 calibre round with 14-20kJ of muzzle energy.

For two objects in low earth orbit, travelling in opposite directions, the speed of impact can be over 14km/s - or 98000kJ per kg. At that speed even a relatively small object is going to cause a massive explosion when it hits you.
A minor note: the LightSail team says the perigee is lowering due to atmospheric drag not due to the sun slowing it down:

> The perigee, or low point of its orbit, has dropped by a similar amount, which is consistent with pre-flight expectations for the effects of atmospheric drag on the spacecraft.

That's not to say the solar pressure isn't potentially slowing it down too, but it sounds like the main driver is drag in this case.
I have Sonic, and it's $64.05 not $75. The promo router is a bit annoying but they only charge you if you return it before the promo period ends or if you keep it after. The land line is annoying but still comes out way cheaper Comcast (at least any plan worthwhile).

I get Bi-directional 1Gbps, top upload from Comcast is 35MBps.

Tested it at 896MBs down/941MBps up from work which has connection that can keep up. Also tested fast.com and speedtest.net
*Worth noting most routers you buy at something like Best Buy can't hit those rates in both directions.
Here's the facts I am aware of, with a massive caveat that this was a few years ago and my memory is pretty fuzzy on it:

- When the building was under construction, Comcast paid some amount of money for coax to be installed. Maybe it was extra coax, maybe it was a headend for the building, I don't know specifics, other than Comcast paid the building owners

- In exchange, between 2008 and 2013, Comcast had a exclusive line agreement, only allowing AT&T access

- In 2014, the Comcast contract expired and AT&T created a exclusive lines agreement with building management, only allowing Comcast to exist

- Based on this [0] statement from the FCC, these exclusivity agreements are illegal in apartments

- At the time that I had looked into this, around 2012, I was attempting to get WebPass (pre-Google acquisition) to come into the building. Turns out that my building was a top sales prospect for them, so I worked with their chief sales officer and chief legal officer to craft letters to my management about the exclusive agreement, although never followed through when WebPass had pushback from the company at other properties than my own.

- Wave G was able to install its own hardware (routers on every floor) and ethernet from the antenna on the 23rd floor all the way down to ground level (in preexisting conduit that was installed at construction time) in April 2019. Wave G was only able to do this after executing a side agreement with my building management to gain access. They were willing to do whatever it took to get into the building because we were blocking (physically with height) line of sight to their tower in downtown Oakland and needed to use our roof as a hop. I assume they paid a good chunk of cash to get in.

Just a note, the building owner is Essex Property Trust, a publicly traded REIT with quite a few buildings on the west coast. One other thing, this exclusivity thing is a real issue in Oakland specifically which is why EFF created OICC [1] which I provided my feedback to.

[0]: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-280908A1.pdf

[1]: https://oaklandinternetchoice.com
Taking a literal interpretation of the easy reading version of a message from a source purporting to represent the creator of the universe, means that you can declare yourself correct with the absolute minimum amount of thinking required. You would then be utterly wrong about reality, but everyone is probably utterly wrong about reality anyway, so might as well take the quick route.
Credit scores are bs.
My credit isn’t good. I’ve paid a lifetime total of approximately 10c (attempting to convert to $US) interest on credit cards and have never missed a bill - I pay them off before they arrive.
90%+ of my payments are credit card.
My score reflects something other than my likelihood of paying back debt.