skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is an outline of historical events, not an opinion piece.

Also,

> come from Lucifer, and are therefore sin

The point of this kind of rhetorical inversion in Satanic groups (including nontheistic religious groups such as the Satanic Temple who do not believe there is a literal God or Satan) is to frame the very concept of "sin" as a tool of oppression that confuses actual moral imperatives with the arbitrary dictates of the powerful.
I heard somewhere that the Craigslist guy first went to newspapers with his ideas and he was basically laughed out of the room
Indeed looks cheap. https://s.taobao.com/search?q=om4光纤

Someone should make https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OM4 redirect to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-mode_optical_fiber via #REDIRECT [[Multi-mode_optical_fiber]]

Can't log in right now due to China-ness.
Personally, I'd love to see Andy Richter or Michael McKean as a successor. They're both suuuuper sharp, and probably the best ever Celebrity Jeopardy! contestants.
Andrew Ng has a great summary on the purpose of human level performance:
https://www.coursera.org/lecture/machine-learning-projects/w...
Nostalgia for a simple time, but also a deep appreciation for how people managed to create software/OS with primitive hardware we had in the 80s. Respect.
I'm surprised to see that homicide is actually increasing. I thought we were at all-time lows, but maybe not.

Interestingly, unintentional injuries are climbing even more than homicide (and because this is a log-scale graph, they're increasing by much more in absolute numbers). I assume this category includes drug overdoses, which is probably a good part of it, but it would also include deaths due to car crashes, which have been increasing. Cars are especially getting more dangerous to those outside of them in crashes, as cars are only safety-rated to protect those inside of them, not unfortunate pedestrians and cyclists who might get mashed up against the increasingly flat and high grilles of SUVs and trucks out there.
People misunderstand that old saying, 'Religion is the opium of the masses'. They think it means religion is meant to pacify and control. And maybe that's what Marx intended it to mean, I don't know. But it has a truer and infinitely more subversive meaning. The words of Jesus will get you high as a kite, if you study them and meditate upon them.

"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword." (Matthew 10:34)
Car insurance: I had made a simplified argument, but to itemize, auto insurance may work the same for auto-theft and some liability coverage. But, it definitely cannot work the same for anything remotely related to driver (or in this case self-driving system's) fault.

Edge Cases: Humans use their brain and adapt. Self driving systems have no concept of adapting, hence the result is undefined.

> over 1.25 million deaths per year, and 50 million injuries in the US alone.

In US in 2016 there were 36,750 fatalities[0][1], so much much lower than the 1.25 million number you're using.

So, no, personally I will not prefer self-driving cars if they are not perfect due to the edge cases, and still cause 250k deaths / year

And the reason is simple, and why throwing statistics is now the right approach: I'd rather have my life in my hands and my driving where I can take a corrective defensive action than rely on an AI model where it is unpredictable when the lightning will strike and a bug/untrained edge case will kill me. I will prefer to be in control.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
[1] https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
How hip-hop is saving a dying Colombian language
Same as "to land a punch". To successfully hit a target.
Algorithm affecting 200M patients steered black patients from high-quality care
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/quadrant-magazine/
Some related links if you’re interested in this kind of approach:

https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/friggeri/notebooks/blob/...

https://github.com/jupytercalpoly/reactivepy

https://dataflownb.github.io/

https://github.com/stitchfix/nodebook
This is a person in a C-level position. It's very much inherent in those positions to take responsibility in situations like this. If the comment had been made by a random fellow team-member without any authority, I would have been more inclined to agree.
>Plants tested included cucumbers, basil, and baby lettuces.

Not the best plants to grow especially in a tight space. Cucumbers will take over everything especially close together. The bush varieties are good for container gardens but the tendrils will attach to other plants. I have to keep them off of other plants or provide a trellis to grow. Last year I got an infestation of cucumber beetles. Tomatoes grow like weeds and don't latch on to neighboring plants. Both grow from seed like wild fire.

Lettuce and basil do not provide enough nutrition for this kind of setup. Enough said. Arugula is more profitable than most but will bolt with heat.

>But despite all this money and brainpower, things soon went awry in Jordan. Schroeder, in a phone interview, told Spectrum that the conditions at the NCARE site were harsh, with a very dry desert climate and high indoor temperatures. The power frequently failed, which shut down the building’s air conditioning and the food computers’ LEDs. When the air conditioning conked out, it sometimes reached 45 °C (113 °F) inside the lab.

>Worse, the Wi-Fi was unreliable. A Wi-Fi connection was necessary to remotely monitor some of the parameters inside the grow chambers, which were equipped with cameras and sensors that measured temperature, humidity, and pH levels.

I am in the Deep South and that temperature is not going to work at all. Temps in the 90s will stop my plants from growing, cause flower drop and stop fruiting but humidity here is also a factor, not a factor in Jordan.

Stable power and wifi in a refugee camp? Keep dreaming. This part should be automated with sensors and a solar battery (or backup batter in case of power loss).

I am planning a couple projects with my Raspberry Pi's to collect data and do some automation for my plants. Once I have something going I will submit a few things to HN.

Let me know if anyone wants to know more or has any questions.
And again. How long will this go on I wonder?
>They just didn't have the metrics to prove it.

I believe many magazines (though not newspapers) had a “Reply Mail” thing. I bet they derived metrics from those.
Thank you!!! I have been waiting for that shoe to drop. Since the OLE interfaces to IE are hopelessly out of date by decades.
Tyndale’s was the first printed Bible in English; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_translations_into_Englis... has more information.
Not to be confused with 10BASE5[0] which is not to be confused with 10BASE2[1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE5

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE2
I feel like the people on HN have less humor than a bag of wet dog shit.
He published a couple of short story anthologies in the 1940s: Fictions, Aleph - check your local library for a translation.

I smiled when in this lecture when he goes off on a tangent about Don Quixote and then imagines a fictional version of himself "I, for example, was born the same day as Jorge Luis Borges, exactly the same day".

That may well be Borges' inception concerning a fictional author with the nom de plume Pierre Menard. Ostensibly this is a lecture about Boswell but he has left a cue to an earlier short story.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the...
> Why don't some of them would learn not to and bring massive returns to shareholders?

I decided not to answer that question in the comments above in the name of brevity, but since you asked. My own thoughts:

- Punctuated evolution. The firms that follow the data are the ones more likely to survive recessions. One hopes that orgs where convention is only upset in a crisis are the ones more likely to fold.

- Re Jobs: he is widely regarded as a 'sales and marketing' genius, and was succeeded by a former IBMer focused on supply chain logistics, which is where monopolies actually focus. Why hire more salesman when your customer has to come to you to buy regardless?
> One "word in context" task is to look at 2 different sentences that have a common word and decide if that word means the same thing in both sentences or different things (more details here: https://pilehvar.github.io/wic/)

Can anyone explain what makes this difficult for a machine? What existing knowledge does the machine start with? At a glance, it doesn't feel like it should be difficult if the machine had a large corpus to train on that showed many examples of each words in different contexts.
A secure messenger is important for civil society, but that is a good amount of funding to play with. Time to send some extra money to other foundations? Which other tech foundations are worth donating to these days?

Ideas:

- EFF

- Mozilla

- Software Freedom Conservancy
"Number Theory and its History" (1948) by Øystein Ore is considered a classic.

https://www.amazon.com/Number-Theory-History-Dover-Mathemati...
Have heard of that done here in NZ. A remote workshop had wind turbines turning pumps that filled great big air tanks. Those tanks ran the workshop.

They were not shunning technology it was just a cheaper option than running power out there or batteries.
E-Mails are fairly easy to archive. What about Whatsapp, Slack, etc? Shared Google documents? You need to create archivers for each of these apps, or at least the apps where the "important" communication is happening over.
SSH is a publicly traded company since the dotcom era[1]. I think corporate wordpress feel is in line.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_Communications_Security
Microsoft is pretty well funded too
My personal and completely unfounded speculation on the gospels is that they're a script for actors. (Thus the confusion about whether certain names refer to two people or one person appearing multiple times. It's one person but different roles.) So that part of the verse is a stage direction for the performer.
Let me preface by emphasizing that IANAL, but I believe the issue isn't with the software vendor and is instead with the distribution platform (i.e Apple).

The LGPLv3 mandates that users be allowed to modify the parts that are licensed by this license. The TOS of the Apple App Store explicitly disallows its users from modifying software they get from it, thereby running afoul of the LGPL.

So this issue, as I understand it, is that neither the software vendor nor Apple have a license to distribute Qt on a platform that places additional restrictions on what the user may do with LGPL software. I think this is the reason why Apple removed VLC and other GPL software from their stores.

Please correct me if I got this wrong.
The music mentioned in the article: https://youtu.be/JgnYJWKyecE
Although those are some great results, I wish I could try it out locally...

https://github.com/google-research/text-to-text-transfer-tra...

It drives me nuts that most of these papers / publications don't have code where I can just run:

> python evaluate_model.py

Still exciting, just annoying that I'd have to set up google cloud to try this out.
> I have not heard about an wind/air turbine used to refill an air compressor (without electricity). Not sure how that would work

A wind turbine turns rotation into electricity.

A motor turns electricity into rotation.

A compressor uses rotation to compress gas.

You can remove the electricity between stages 1 and 2.
I think the sentence is referring to aircraft that have been forced to land by the enemy, in contrast to "grounded" aircraft that had not taken flight.

I haven't worked in aviation so my understanding of terminology could be wrong, but either way it is definitely an unusual example.
Why 'Free College' Is a Terrible Idea
Nobody, least of all your boss, will complain if you grow the companies revenue without significantly expanding on your cost base.

I would suggest thinking of this as a challenge, see if you are up to it. Grow it in a way where your boss is not taking on additional risk from scaling up prematurely. You mention the reliance on a few key customers, on this front you can also de-risk.

Also he does sound like he has his head screwed on. Ask him for more detailed feedback. I would imagine he has looked at your plans for growth and don't see them as a good idea because of X, Y, Z. Figure out what these are and take the criticisms on board.
You might find the MUD community interesting in this regard, as they've built de facto standards for 16-bit color encoding, text compression, hidden sideband metadata communication usable by clients, and even simple embedded HTML and image rendering all on top of telnet. On top of that, because of the wildly varying capabilities of MUD clients, every single feature has to be totally backwards-compatible with a plain text terminal.
You might be interested in the Indicator Protocol: https://github.com/pivotal/monitoring-indicator-protocol
This is an extremely common and widely used standard for analog and digital connections for pro audio. I just wired in a bunch of DB25 gear last week. For low end / mid range digital stuff it is more common to see ADAT optical digital vs DB25
All those and more. Except for the 3b2. Not much Tcl.
Some SCA armor is titanium, so we have an idea.
That’s why, not how. The how is interesting.
The King James version is the best version: It has unicorns.

https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=unicor...
Also, Telnet was originally port 1 and FTP was port 3 (RFC 433, December 1972). On an incompatible protocol change (mentioned in RFC 542, August 1973), they were "temporarily" moved to 23 and 21 respectively until the old versions were taken down. Of course, the move back to 1 and 3 never happened.

Wouldn't FTP need three simplex connections - commands to server, responses from server, data transfer?
+1 on DFW's book. It's odd, and really it's more a discussion on the history of modern mathematics than an in depth explanation of the concepts themselves, but it is a great read.

I wrote a short review after reading it, which you might be interested in checking out: https://faingezicht.com/articles/2017/10/27/infinity/
Atm it reads 'polilote' in Greek. You might want to substitute 'λ' for ΄ν'.
The fake it till you make it mantra looks like has gone too far in this case. Screwing with people's food supply, especially refugees who're in no position to push back, is just beyond merely questionable.
> Most of the Amish fill large air storage tanks using a gasoline or diesel powered engine.

Isn't that cheating? The electricity is not fine, but gasoline and diesel powered engine, that itself is extracted and refined using electricity is.

They should have compressed air using horse power.
But its obviously a lot more likely to be around long term if they don't blow all their cash in a short term attempt at grabbing a few more users and hope to get more later.
The only thing anyone outside of the US needs to see to understand the insane situation we have with gun ownership can be found in this news story about Waymo driverless cars:

https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/tech/2018/12/...

"“Haselton said that his wife usually keeps the gun locked up in fear that he might shoot somebody,” Jacobs wrote in the report. “Haselton stated that he despises and hates those cars (Waymo) and said how Uber had killed someone.”

Haselton's wife told officers he was diagnosed with dementia, according to a police report."
The Soviet Children Who Survived World War II
Google to open its 14th datacenter in Montevideo, Uruguay
The US company Google will install a data center in Uruguay, which will be built in the free zone Parque de las Ciencias in Canelones.

The space that the company will occupy will be more than 20 hectares.

The negotiations began at the beginning of the current government of Tabaré Vázquez and deepened a little more than two years ago during a trip by the then Minister of Industry Carolina Cosse to the United States, where he visited Google's headquarters. From there and after several contacts between the company and Uruguayan authorities, the possible installation of a headquarters in Uruguay began to be negotiated, under a confidentiality contract.

On October 11, the Government of Canelones issued a resolution granting feasibility of expanding the Free Zone "Science Park", incorporating an additional area of 29 hectares and 2,372 square meters, which is the space where the center will be built.

The company has 13 data centers: six in the United States, three in Europe, three in Asia and one in Latin America, in Chile.

More info (in Spanish): https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/google-instalara-un-centro-de-datos-en-canelones-2019102495244
Unfortunately game show laws in the USA are quite serious due to scandals in the 50s.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/509

https://www.history.com/news/quiz-show-scandal-fraud-jeopard...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950s_quiz_show_scandals
That's a clean explanation.

Maybe needs one introductory sentence: "Note that your first choice has probability 2/3 of being a losing choice".
Yeah, the way that the border juts upward around the Great Lakes makes for interesting equi-latitude pairs. I grew up near Portland, OR, which is at essentially the same latitude as Montreal or Ottowa, though the climates are nowhere near similar. Seattle is north of Quebec City! And, of course, going east across the pond, Toronto is at around the same latitude as the south coast of France, on the Mediterranean. Very counter-intuitive.
Reminds me of Damascus steel, which we still can't recreate with complete accuracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel
I feel the same way. My gut says, now there are only two closed doors - it's still a 50/50 chance!

This explanation offered above makes sense to my "gut" however:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21349295
There was an interesting bit of anachronism in Good Omens where the angel and demon of the piece show up in early medieval England in VERY anachronistic full plate armor - and then the camera pulls back to the mere mortals in splint mail and studded leather, and I realized the plate was part of their supernatural-knight personas.
No, he doesn't. There are judges and lawyers at the airing that decide pretty much everything controversial to be in line with their legal and contractual requirements. Can you name a single instance of your claims?
Academic donation seeking is a much easier thing to disconnect from real world ROI than most businesses can get raising capital. And 99.9% of businesses are not the 5 unicorns you read about in the media.
If you've never seen user testing where users try to use your software, it's one of the most eye opening experiences a software engineer could have. I've seen a number of these tests at MS in early 00's when I worked there. It's as though the people using your software are from another planet, with a completely different set of rules in their head as to how programs should be used.

This kind of exposure tends to generate a lot of empathy towards the user, as well as to the demands of the designers and user experience specialists. It also helps engender the right kind of intuition as to the level of UX complexity and cognitive load non-engineer users are prepared to tolerate. And that level is very, very low indeed.
That might make people think they've understood, but I question whether it is obviously instructive regarding the 3 door problem.
Why would you mind if the user is entitled? I've regretted all the negative energy I've redirected back onto my users. I feel as though there's a lot to learn about how signal could do a better job scaling to a large scale project because I think Signal makes the same mistake as your that I used to.

I've had a lot of problems filing bugs with signal and signal projects. I've given up on filing bugs cause they are ignored because of some aspect of your byzantine issue policy. I am totally a huge supporter of signal's ideals but signal is well funded now."I'm not a YC alum" I read as if I were in your shoes. Not everything has to be an attack. Stay positive.
>Take a few SSDs, write the same data over and over (multiple times on each). If more than 50% agree, then its legit

They may all fail at the same or very similar time if you write the same data to them
Saying they shun modern tech is a bit of an overstatement. More accurate would be that they approach it cautiously, making sure that it won't harm their community before adopting it.

Here is a good article about this: https://kk.org/thetechnium/amish-hackers-a/
Hah, I like that. If you need some foundation for it, you could always quote Paul: "You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ." (1st Corinthians 11:1)
Show HN: A Modern C/C++ build tools (Simple, Fast, Cross-platform)
How to make strontium: Collide two neutron stars and stay way back
>There just happens to not be so much cross-pollination between traditional A&M schools and the Media Lab.

MIT's Robotic Bees will solve that problem.

https://futurism.com/mit-researchers-give-the-robot-bee-a-ma...
It's a technique to control public discourse and provide the illusion of free speech. Read this[0] and weep.

[0]: https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm
> But this was deprecated a few months ago

Uh, no? Firefox Preview will eventually become the new version of Firefox for Mobile. That doesn't mean the current Firefox stopped getting updates.
$20/month is pretty much the rate in current dollars to pay for (at most) one "great newspaper."
Good point and most of the replies ignore the key point to me which is; You are right about the plural of aircraft and the benchmark is horribly wrong, so why should we take any notice of this benchmark?
Bundling a directory is fine if you're still dynamically linking.
Yes, for "just above 1G, and must reuse existing copper wiring, and both sides take PCIE", the card from the article will do. But it's a pretty narrow use case.

I agree with the notion of using fiber. I would certainly stay away from hardwired copper NIC's for anything except 1G, especially rarity ones like the one in the article. Rather, get 10G NIC's with SFP+ cages. Doesn't have to be a pricey Intel card, the cheap Melanox ones are acceptable for most users.

I disagree about OM4. If you're doing new fiber runs, singlemode (OS2 fiber) is the way to go. It's not really expensive anymore. But yeah, OM4 rather than OM3 for all fiber runs (for back to back patches, it doesn't matter ofc).

(Also, since we're talking about fiber networks... my personal lessons learned are: buy reflashable transceivers, especially when that's the difference between having DDM (Digital Diagnostic Monitoring) on all long runs and running it blindly. Standardize on a connector, hopefully LC. Be consistent which side TX and which is RX. Keep a 100-pack of dust caps around. And clean your fibers before inserting, especially patch fibers that get thrown around (they can look pretty bad on the fiberscope). Don't bother with Direct Attach Cables. Stay away from NICs with fixed 10G-Cu ports. Visual fault locators are cheap. BiDi SFP's are wonderful in one-fiber-run-broke or need-another-link-now type emergencies, so keep a few in reserve. And lastly, since all of this costs money, it's easier to beg for reimbursement than to ask for a purchase order.)
> All of this may leave the modern reader wondering: What is a floppy disk?

Interesting, In my quarter century of ripe old age, I distinctly remembered floppy disks from my childhood. My family had a commodity of them for whatever reason, they're everywhere and the best game on the computer was the minesweeper.

I guess the news are addressed towards true 21st century born now.