skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, sysadmin is a shrinking job field. Dev ops is eating heavily with what they used to do with config driven management of servers be it kubernetes, docker, terraform, puppet, etc.
Maybe mixed terminology, to me a composite pic is one where sections or entireties of several pics have been arranged to make a larger or more detailed one. What you desrcibe is different, but ISWYM.

> Install road-side pointing camera's inside rented housing / contracted freedom fighter homes? Hack the traffic cams?

perhaps, sounds a bit james bondish though :)
From your link:

> Cumulative active fire detections of the fire season from May 1st through August 22nd, 2019 from MODIS and VIIRS confirm that the 2019 fire season has the highest fire count since 2012 (the start of the VIIRS record) across the Legal Amazon. In addition, fires in 2019 are more intense than previous years, measured in terms of fire radiative power, consistent with the observed increase in deforestation.

I think it's great that we have media coverage, and it would have been better to have coverage for previous years.
I agree that the wording isn't ideal, but I interpreted the commenter you replied to as explaining why the original comment was getting downvoted without real responses. That is a common occurrence on HN when someone steps outside the bounds of civility in non-immediately obvious ways. It serves to give context to both the original commenter, and readers who may wonder why it was downvoted.

Also, why are you so sure that the responder is not offended on his or her own behalf? Hopefully you don't think that just because someone is commenting on HN that they would never be associated with "hicks". I find HN has people of more backgrounds than most folks realize, and as a person with a family who would certainly be categorized that way by many (southern, rural, working-class), I find your insinuation that it would be somehow more "authentic" to threaten violence as far more patronizing and stereotyping than the original comment even.
content management system ?
Lots of businesses run their own email server. It's not that complicated.

The easiest way to do it is to buy an email server, you can use Exchange or you can use something like iMail or Kerio.

Install that on a server, get a static IP from your ISP, put the server behind a firewall, and point your DNS servers for your domain to it. Then generate an SPF record, and you should be good.

That's how many people do it. As a bonus, you don't need to pay $10/user per month for hosted mail, or deal with Exchange licenses, but you will probably want to back the server up from time to time. You even get webmail with it!

The advantage/disadvantage of this setup is that it's now up to you get to get yourself off spam blacklists and such. When BIG_EMAIL_HOST is having problems, there's nothing you can do but wait. But with your own servers, you are the one who gets to email the spam department of BIG_ISP to request removal, and then there's nothing you can do but wait.

If you know Linux, you can setup Postfix, but I did say 'the easy way'.
>General and administrative expenses pertain to operation expenses rather than to expenses that can be directly related to the production of any goods or services, including rent, utilities, insurance, and managerial salaries....Examples of general and administrative expenses include building rent, consultant fees, depreciation on office equipment, insurance, supplies, subscriptions, and utilities. Salary and benefits attributable to corporate management, as well as any legal staff, are also classified as general and administrative expenses.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/general-and-administrat...

Doesn't sound 'dubious' to me.
World Activists Call for Justice of Palestinian Woman Killed in Name of Honour
Such as the Linux kernel mailing list.
> Which is a fancy way of saying “it requires a bunch of work, continuously as the rules change over time”.

Wouldn't this be a good task for an open-source package to handle? If you'd just updated the package regularly, your mail would always be sent according to the rules. No need for any third-party handling your mail.
I remember a story where a guy had the DNS of his custom mail domain changed after a malicious actor social engineered his domain name provider. The story was coupled with the recommendation to use a mail provider for the added protection that it would in theory be way less likely for their domain used by many accounts to be hijacked in this way. The guy got really screwed because once they got his domain and thus his email they could change passwords all over.

I finally ditched gmail once I realized how politically motivated Google was, and I also realized that I’d rather have a company owe me the service rather than using a free one where they could technically disable my email at any time.
> I don't see how trying to tell the truth about something can be equated with trying to downplay the situation or encouraging people not to bother about it.

Because it's a red herring.

It's a very common form of red herring, to be precise: taking averaged measurements of a whole set to infer information about a single element. The converse is also a red herring; inferring information about a set by analyzing only a single, cherry picked member.

"Fires Globally" includes "Fires in the region X of country Y", but doesn't take into account the specific importance of that region, the trends over time, what's going to happen to surrounding regions in the future...

(For a quick metaphor: You have 99.5%~99.8% of your body in perfect working order when your eyes have just been gouged.)
The web page on the Ejection Tie Club, with member stories: http://martin-baker.com/ejection-tie-club/
When my father goes to Detroit for business trips is always astonished by the amount of money his collegues get paid.
He works on engineering processes and tooling in a robotics company and makes about 30K €/year here in Italy, while his american collegues make 120K $/year.
I think there is a great chance for businesses to save a lot of money by hiring personnel outside of the U.S.
> I do not want to write a "service" that has some "only run once and then discard" flag or whatever.

Then just use cron.
Ha, good point. I suppose you could say that, assuming the 'arrow of evolution' always results in an improved adaptation to a living thing's environment, that any creature is the "most evolved" relative to the DNA history from which it stems. Then again, DNA mutations don't always result in positive adaptations to an individual creature's environment; sometimes (most often?) individuals degenerate relative to their predecessors.

So, maybe you can only fairly compare the degree of evolution between members of the same species functioning in generally the same environment and competing for generally the same resources.
Maybe X11 just doesn’t have the right abstractions. As an example, to this day iOS uses mostly server-side rendering with API basically unchanged for 10 years. Fonts are rendered client-side, but compositing and animations are done out of process.
Why are they breaking legs/vertebrae upon landing? I assume it's due to the velocity in which they hit the ground - but having parachutes I'm not sure why.

Anyone have insight?
I don’t get how “Look at what University they went to” becomes “Check if they went to Stanford”.

There are lots of good schools. If you got a BS in Computer Science from UIUC, that means something to me. That’s a good school and you got through it.

Same with jobs, why does “Look at their job history” mean “Check if they went to any big name tech companies”?

You look at the companies, look at what the company does, what the applicant said they did for them, and ask them questions about what that was like. It doesn’t really matter if it’s Google or it’s Pet Food Express, the important questions are the role and the work.
The solution is to rebuild Firefox to use Core Animation to draw the window contents and then send only changes to that content to the graphics compositor after that instead of using the long deprecated OpenGL implementation it currently uses that repaints the whole screen over and over, so it's hardly surprising to see such a massive change take quite a while to implement.

The earliest changes in this process have finally made it into beta and there are already substantial improvements in power usage/heat generated by an overworked GPU even before all the changes in progress have been enabled.
OPML is easy enough; I'm talking about the database of saved items. :)
I honestly wonder if any form of sparsely populated settlement would be sustainable if it was not heavily subsidized by taxes from the urban regions.

Ironically, the worst predicament for any form of infrastructure is under-use. In today's world where no town can be self-sufficient, low density can be the bane of its existence.

It is sometimes irritating how heavily favored rural communities are (per capita) in the way Govt.is structured.
Not exactly nobody: I do actually spend time catching up, but maybe the interesting part about that process is the sources. There's a few online aggregation sources/tools that I sometimes use, but old school weekly periodicals (Christian Science Monitor, The Economist, etc) shine, to the point where I sometimes wonder if that's how I should be doing all my media consumption. Maybe even tech chatter, if I could pull it off.
In my mind this is a multifaceted issue.

One major factor is the special semantics of execution in Erlang VM compared to most other languages. Of note are:

* Guaranteed tail calls. There is no other way of doing a loop in Erlang other than recursing, so this point is really important. Although I can certainly imagine making this work with a JS target, we would have to perform certain code transformations that would most likely make the JS JIT a lot less effective.

* Preemption of Processes. Processes are the name of the lightweight actors used in the Erlang execution model. Each process is only allowed to run for a certain timeslice before execution has to be preempted. Although, again, I could imagine implementing this in a similar way as I would implement guaranteed tail calls, this would fully break up the control flow of a function, further disadvantaging the JS JIT.

* The semantics of the language term system. While this is probably one of the smallest issues for a JS target, it would still require us to implement and frequently call into relatively complex term operations that are implemented on top of the JS object model. I can't imagine this interacting well with the above two points in terms of performance.

* Concurrency/message passing model. One of our goals is exploring writing more fully featured applications in Erlang and then running it in the browser. As such, having the same concurrency model as the BEAM is critical. Using webworkers and utilizing shared memory through SharedMemoryBuffer (reenabled in chrome, let's hope firefox gets somewhere with this soon too), we believe makes it possible to implement things in a way that behaves very similar to the BEAM.

We want to invest heavily in the compiler in order to generate the best possible WASM code, which, given we play our cards right in codegen, should be further optimizable by the WASM engine. This involves inferring types and generating specialized code. Since most of Erlangs BIFs (built in functions) accept a much narrower array of types than what a lot of other dynamic languages do, we can draw relatively good type information from that.

This above is all an answer specific to the WASM/JS question, but doesn't even touch on the further goals of the project. While WASM is our primary focus at the moment, we also support native targets.

As for compilation to JS, ElixirScript (https://github.com/elixirscript/elixirscript) is prior art here. I am not involved in this project, so I can't really answer to what design decisions they made, but it is interesting to compare with regardless.

Again, time will obviously tell how well all of this will work out, but from what we have seen thus far, our approach is fairly solid.
Exactly, I actually thought Knoppix was abandoned .. The current trend setters I would say are Arch/Nix/Alpine/Ubuntu and their derivatives.
Six days to landing, Chandrayaan 2 makes one last orbit around the moon
Tap the black and green widget that reads “v:latest” and it expands with a link to the repo.
The Rich Can't Get Richer Forever
Trying to avoid the landmines of blacklisting is really the biggest peril in all of it. I refuse to move a company I support away from GSuite to self-hosted, because I have a high level of confidence that just one person sending a lot of mail to another person outside the company could result in our domain ending up in RBLs, which is very difficult to reverse. Running a mail server in 2019 is not something I need the headache of.
If there's one lesson from the history of spamming, it's that spammers are among the fastest adopters of anti-spam technologies. If PoW meant that spammers could only send 1/100th the email, but the email was 1000× more likely to actually show up in an inbox, spammers would jump on it in a heartbeat.
Works a treat.

Unless you use mailing lists that aren’t careful to regenerate your message as to clearly come from their servers.

Or any of your recipients forward their mail somewhere else and aren’t careful how they forward it.

Or your recipients use a domain that mishandles SPF records.

Or ... any number of other problems.
Yeah, but for bulk-mail one could introduce "whitelists".
I moved back to SpiderOak from Dropbox because although it saves symlinks as the link files as well (not the files they point to), it supports both backup and sync separately as part of job definitions and I don't have to worry about how it interprets filesystems across the OSes it supports.

Being able to backup my home directory in its entirety and sync a subset of it (ex code projects) between machines is handy.
Highly recommend using paper and pen. The act of writing on paper seems to store memories better for me and make me more thoughtful. Plus no digital editing if you find something embarrassing or are in a better mood later.

I use the hobonichi Techo which is a cool Japanese journal: https://unsharpen.com/paper/hobonichi-techo-cousin/ . The notebook has nice features and some structure to it to keep you interested in the journal. Their 2020 models are dropping soon.
Maybe it’s an artifact of the places I’ve worked, but I’ve generally seen top performing teams usually have the following structure:

2 FE + Lead,

2 BE + Lead,

FE & BE QA (usually need both),

Designer (sometimes shared, but usually becomes a bottle neck if so)

PM/PjM/Manager (might be one or more people filling these roles)
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Federer vs. Goffin Live Stream
https://www.asppa.org/forums/general-discussion/how-watch-roger-federer-vs-david-goffin-live-stream

https://www.thebulletin.be/how-watch-roger-federer-vs-david-goffin-live-stream-0

https://www.thebulletin.be/watch-free-roger-federer-vs-david-goffin-live-stream

https://www.thebulletin.be/reddit-live-watch-roger-federer-vs-david-goffin-live-stream

https://www.thebulletin.be/streamsroger-federer-vs-david-goffin-live-free-1-sept-2019

https://www.thebulletin.be/tennis-freeroger-federer-v-david-goffin-live-free-31-sept-2019

https://www.thebulletin.be/tennis-liveroger-federer-v-david-goffin-live-stream-free-31-sept-2019

https://www.thebulletin.be/officialreddit-2019-federer-vs-goffin-live-streams-stream-reddit-tennis

https://www.thebulletin.be/tennisthread-david-goffin-vs-roger-federer-tennis-live-streams-reddit

https://www.thebulletin.be/redditofficial-2019-federer-vs-goffin-live-streams-stream-reddit-tennis
I do the same thing, using accessibility text-to-speech, but I use Karabiner-Elements to map my caps lock key to speak. I also use the text-to-speech on iPhone to turn my articles into "podcasts", by swiping down.
The example given in the article was in New Mexico which is a state that expanded medicaid. The labor participation in that county is 30% with 14% of working age people on disability. There aren't jobs in the county. Sante Fe on the other hand has 70% labor participation.

Moving people to areas that have higher economic advantages and jobs is a long term fix. On other solutions are just bandaids and doesn't solve the underlying economic issues.
This is not good advice, and I hope that inexperienced entrepreneurs reading it will not follow it. There's a reason "Uber for X" has gone from something on a lot of slide shows to something of a joke.

Here's why:

1) There's always going to be demand for "Uber for X" as long as the price is low enough. Your experiments will almost always show a demand of hundreds or thousands of people.

The problem that 100% of these companies have is that they can't become profitable at a price customers are willing to pay. Uber, the original, isn't even close to profitable.

2) You shouldn't enter a business where you have zero competitive advantage. If you can use open-source software and ad networks, so can anyone else. Any business you enter with as low barriers to entry as this is going to become a race to the bottom.

3) There is no way to bootstrap something like this. It's capital-intensive by its nature, which requires massive economies of scale.
But we followed the making of hubble long before it launched. Why would anyone believe such a silly rumor when the development of the telescope was in the open?
The whole article is absolute nonsense.

> Asked why the UK should take the lead when China's emissions are so high, he answered that the Chinese government was very worried about the climate and was taking it very seriously.
The volcanoes always have the last word on emissions: https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html
Had no idea their interpreter was C++ under the hood. Excellent article fro the Mozilla team as always.
I suspect this is a botthat posts scraped papers from arxiv based on submission history, and no original comments, though happy to be proven wrong and retract if the submitter responds.
Well I never bought either phone. Both were from family members that had them left over. Beggars can't be choosers.
Scalable Image Classification with Onnx.js and AWS Lambda
Also, they didn't consider that slow machines can still provide proof of work by relaying it to a fast machine (perhaps in exchange for real money).
You can watch a video of him in prison here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a9qh6OiEmE (note that the video date is wrong because it's just the default date of the phone)
It’s not just urban/rural divide, it’s young and old as well. The areas where hospitals are closing are disproportionately filled with retired folks who are on Medicare and will need more and more healthcare (Medicare pays out less than private insurance so these hospitals have less money coming in from patient care and need direct subsidy. I think the answer here is pretty clearly to close down the hospitals and highly encourage/enable older folks to move to urban areas where we can provide their care more cost effectively and they will be able to age safer (no driving, stronger social services etc). In the US, you have a right to live where you want but you don’t have an unlimited subsidy to age in place.
paxos is used heavily in cloud spanner, also tldr; https://youtu.be/8-Bc5Lqgx_c?t=4494 , it's also interesting to watch two mathematicians go at it : https://youtu.be/8-Bc5Lqgx_c?t=4902
Comparison of 75187 published crossword grids
The interesting bit in the graph is that aviation gets a pass. I'll better not fly to Thailand twice a year, but keep my diet.

It feels like those people don't want to prevent climate change. They just use that as a cover to push other ideological changes.
I'm at least half serious. The epigraph would of course com from Ecclesiastes.

An upshot is that you cannot in any meaningful sense read 10,000 books in a short period of time, though it's a tractable option over, say, a lifetime: 10,000 books in 60 years is 160 books a year, or about 14 a month. That's considering a new book every couple of days.

To which you could apply the techniques described in Adler's book. To add to that, you need some sort of information capture system that scales, such that you're aware of the books you've attempted to read, and what your quick-perusal impression was.

I'm also convinced that more information is useful only in a general sense. Information as with all else follows a Zipf or Power function fo significance and utility, both in area and time of impact. Much of what we are exposed to either doesn't concern much by subject, area, or time, with news being very high up on that list. News matters when current events have a high probability of impact on your life. The fact that newspaper readership in the US peaked during WWII, and has declined at a virtually constant rate ever since, has much to do with this. During the war, small events in faraway places could have a significant impact (and did). Since then ... not quite so much, and focus on individual events has proved largely less productive.

(Hrm: maybe the news is grossly misdesigned? That thought's occurred to me for quite some time.)

What you describe in terms of maintaining state and sense of place within a book is something I struggle with. The idea of learning and forgetting curves, and of paced repetition, should probably play into that. A key issue being "does this material warrant paced repetition?" Because if you've got to repeatedly process the information you hear, that's going to put a cap on what you can learn.

So, the idea of progressive reading not only of a given topic, but over the entire corpus is something you've got to consider. What's a reasonable progression through a set of works? Which is pretty close to saying "what is an effective pedagogy?"

The benefits of reading a wide range of works is that patterns, similarities, and patterns emerge. The disadvantage is that there's a great deal of repetition, and of course, a large amount of bullshit, some accidental, some intentional.

Not all bullshit is useless. Bullshit that's become culturally relevant and/or integrated is useful not because it's true, but because it explains and describes that culture. Reading with this in mind is useful, though also difficult.

And there's the problem of exposing yourself to repeated bullshit and/or toxicity. At a certain point that becomes damaging even when you're aware of it. The biggest problem with propaganda isn't that it's false, it's that it's effective even on those who create it. "Drinking your own Cool Aid" is a phrase because reasons, and some of the most harmful doctrines are harmful because their originators are fully convinced or swayed by them.

There's probably a rough structural outline of the work in these paragraphs, FWIW. Anything you'd add/remove/change?
If AWS gets you going definitely go for it but if you're looking for existing tools type 'python speaker diarization' in github.'

Most of what you'll find would require downsampling your audio to 16khz and you'll find a combination of NN based diarizer and hmm based models pre-ML.

One thing to note a lot of the systems will work well for interviews, broadcast media and footage taken from a camera because the audio will tend to be clean.

Film and movies will be a challenge because of the background music being identified as a separate voice. It tends to to confuse it.

Haven't used the cloud based systems with audio the background sounds you tend to find in film movies.