skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The short version is that astrology came first and probably basically began as an attempt to predict the weather for purposes of things like deciding when to plant. Planting before an unseasonably late frost could be a deadly local apocalypse for a village.

Somewhere along the way we began to distinguish scientific study of the stars from attempts at weather prediction and also from attempts at assuring ourselves that the sun will come out tomorrow because the omens are propitious.[3] So we began calling one part of our desire to look up to the heavens and wonder how it impacts our lives Meteorology ("the study of things high in the air" [1]) and another Astronomy and began turning our nose up the stuff we now call astrology even though all three of those used to be basically the same thing.

You can see evidence of this in Farmer's Almanacs which still list things like phases of the moon.[2]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorology

[2] https://www.almanac.com/astronomy/moon/calendar

[3] We remain intensely interested in trying to predict the future and in using that info to try to "bet the right way," we just have more respectable terms for it than signs, portents and omens. These days, we like to use terms like leading indicators, statistical analysis and professional opinion.

If you think about it, it's really the exact same thing, we just have access to better data and tools. When an astrologer was someone kings used as advisors, they were basically relying on proxies. Now, we have satellite imagery of storms on the other side of the planet and we try to predict their path. A hundred years ago, hurricanes just showed up without warning and this lack of warning directly resulted in lost lives.

But we scoff at astrology like "only a fool would take that seriously," completely forgetting that we have always been able to look up and infer relationships between things happening in the heavens and events here on the ground, but we didn't always have satellites and the like.
Then why are they grounding the planes? Are they fools?
>Because it would be awesome to charter small flights from an app to jump to a nearby city.

I doubt the cost of a pilot's time alone is a big enough factor to meaningfully change the number of people with access to chartered flights.

The other costs (hours of plane time, fuel, ramp fee, parking fees, maintenance) probably dwarf pilot time as a percentage of total cost. And you're either pushing the absolute unreliability of aviation [0] to the customers who are now trapped in a different city, or they're paying even more to the app to have backup plans ready to roll.

[0] Commercial aviation deals at a scale that can absorb flights that don't keep their plan. You go to the counter, get rebooked, and angrily eat some shitty fast food. When something goes wrong on a private flight, you're pacing around on the tarmac at 1 am, 3 states away from home and have to be at work in the morning.
As it would take hours to complete the above view with references that support (e.g. Pujol's corruption) and reject (e.g. what motivated Franco's coup d'etat), I would like to notify any readers of the above post that it cannot be taken at face value, as it is a highly selective, and in some points plain wrong, reading of the last 200 years of Spanish history.
> "Ads can be an important part of voice - especially for candidates and advocacy groups the media might not otherwise cover so they can get their message into debates," he added.

translation: I simply cannot say no to the amount of money made from political ads
I think you read me wrong. I'm not denying that cultural reasons might be valid to support secession. I'm saying that having a different culture or language does not imply that you want or need to secede.

Indeed, in my opinion, it is the opposite and leads to a richer and more diverse country.
They continue:

> (i.e., within-pair genetic differences are not
correlated with the within-pair environmental differences; see e.g. Stenberg (2013) who
stresses the importance of this assumption for the interpretation of heritability estimates),
and iv)

So this is only about whether sibling differences are correlated with the environment -- which seems much more reasonable. On the other hand, the very next one is problematic:

> [We assume] there is no assortative mating. The last assumption would not hold if the genotypes of the parents were correlated (Posthuma et al. 2003).

Tendency of parents to have some genetic sorting seems both easy to measure and quite likely - why not dig in to its impact?

Finally, another thing that makes the result hard to generalize (emphasis added):

> We show that in the relatively equitable economic and institutional environment of Finland, the share of variance of lifetime earnings explained by education is clearly less than a tenth (in our data).

The authors acknowledge that they were measuring the size of effect in an environment that has far less variation in the variable than many. This seems like a good place to confirm the existence of an effect, but a bad place to be confident of its size, and a worse place from which to generalize about more heterogenous environments. Compare Finland's GINI index (income concentration) to US, UK, or China to get an idea of how much more variation there is in those societies: https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/SI.POV.GINI/comp...
for starters you just need a gps antenna on each soldier, an ammo count and a health meter (healthy, hit, safe).

these 3 pieces of info already allow you to create a strategy framework
No, but on the other hand I also don't want copyright holders to decide if and what parts of a video I am allowed to fast-forward in, or if I am allowed to skip chapters or paragraphs in a book.
> The reason why we have DI and DI frameworks is because we are asked in requirements to make things configurable out-of-code (and at runtime)

That's a reason, but it's far from the only one. The way I've seen DI used over the years is far more about separating out concerns in the code via interfaces, or making things testable without side effects, than it is making those things dynamically pluggable / controllable via config, not code. The majority of interfaces passed as dependencies into constructors have a single real implementation (outside of unit tests).

I lately err on the side of explicit manual wiring as the cost saving of doing it all automatically does not usually offset the costs of extra magic and lack of compile-time safety that it incurs. Exceptions are where there is a lot of AoP interceptor stuff to wire in, or if I want something to help with lifecycle scoping (e.g. per-request lifetime for a set of related things), at which point a DI framework will likely start paying for itself.
Show HN: Logaze – a better interface for filtering laptops on Lenovo Outlet
Discussions about IQ (which isn’t a particularly useful metric anyway, for various reasons) tend to veer into racist territory because people end up associating wealth and success with IQ, and since a disproportionate amount of wealth in America is controlled by whites people, and since minorities are more likely to live in poverty, this causes some people to suggest that those specific minorities have lower IQs or something. Basically, it brings up old racial stereotypes of non-whites not being as intelligent as whites, which is a very old, racist canard.
Australia is, to an extent, like a big, dry Florida.
Ignoring the Catalan issue specifically: the members of the EU are themselves states so would be unhappy with the precedent of any of the other states breaking apart as it might set a precedent.

Thus none of the arguments against Scottish independence from the UK was that Spain said it would oppose Scotland joining the EU on its own as that would be a precedent for Catalonia. (Scotland might get a “sympathy pass” if they tried it post brexit, but perhaps not).

I agree that the EUnwoukd operate better with a larger number of smaller members but there’s no chance of that in my lifetime, unfortunately.
A bit further away I would say.

So far it trains on a deterministic model by playing millions of games against itself. It can be thrown off by a single rule change.

The challenge here in making an AI usable on the real battlefield is more on making a realistic simulation rather than on a better AI.
Do you care to explain why you think that nerds care about licenses?

Well, obviously the more politically involved nerds would care and take fights about licenses on the internet but when was the last time a nerd check the license before satisfying his/her curiosity?
FWIW, a product I know uses

https://github.com/vmware/upgrade-framework

a little better than just sequential numbering (which breaks down on teams larger than 1).
Differences between people in a protected class and others are generally considered racist now. Heck, I'm not sure if saying Orthodox Jews tend to have less penile skin is ok.

Downvotes say apparently someone is offended by my factual statement.
In Europe we understand the difference between being biased and lying.
This is what some of the new "fully automated" semi-truck companies are doing.

Remote truckers in an office, similar to a UAV drone pilot.
I think most people just think Facebook ads should be held to same as older media like newspapers and tv that have to have an editor review the ad and approve it before it can be published. Facebook is being used as a disinformation platform and Zuckerberg thinks it’s more important to keep making money. I don’t think that trade off is worth what it’s doing to society. I think Facebook has a large share of the blame for making political discourse worse.
Thanks for the heads up and all kind words! Correcting all typos now.
It is self-evidently a reductio ad absurdum, and a well written one at that. It demonstrates the logical flaw in Zuckerberg's argument with one short paragraph.
I would like a mobile app that allows me to drag-and-drop a task from my daily todo list onto my daily schedule.
The discussion at hand is whether this would have any significant impact on carbon emissions. Yes, it's interesting that few people choose to travel by ship, but that's not what we're talking about.
I prefer Service Locator to DI, Martin Fowler talked about it a long time ago - not sure if he's changed. https://martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html
Came here to say this. I would care if it's GPU-based if it were an open-source library. Not caring about how the other end of a paid API does their thing is the whole point of using a paid API.
There are good options that are far cheaper:

* Mailbox.org has a per mailbox price that starts at EUR 1 per month

* Runbox has similar options

* Mailfence is another one, but I have no idea how easy it is to use for setting up the custom domain and mailboxes (last I checked quite sometime ago, the setup involved contacting them)

* Migadu has an "all you can eat" pricing that starts at USD 48 per year, with restrictions placed on how many emails you can send per day. For those who don't use email accounts to send a lot of mails, I don't think there's anything that can beat Migadu on price.

All the above providers are based out of Europe. All of them provide direct IMAP support (unlike ProtonMail where you have to use a bridge application).

For those who don't mind US based hosting, Mxroute is another provider that's slightly similar to Migadu on the hosting several mailboxes for a fixed price.
> Then there are the well-meaning spirits who discovered the developer console and send these with worried emojis:

All too true. The worst I've ever gotten was an email titled "Problem!" (or similar), the body was several of the grimacing and throwing up emojis, and attached was a screenshot of a (long and ugly) SQL query without the attached results.

When I asked if they could send the results over, or at least a copy-pasteable version of the query, they said they had closed SQL Workbench already along with the query and results...
Deadspin’s non-sports coverage had more page views than its sports posts by a 2-to-1 ratio: https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-183...
We've gone from Elon Musk doing cutting edge stuff as a billionaire to a guy doing the same thing in his backyard within a decade. What an amazing time to be alive!
What’s strange to me about America is that if you watch or read crime fiction, it almost always agrees with the Foucaldian analysis. That the police exist to protect the wealthy and that the wealthy themselves are behind most criminal enterprises is beyond a cliche in this genre.

But at the same time, if you ask the average “middle class” homeowner (probably the primary consumer of this genre) about their perception of police or something like BLM, they’ll respond with the most naive platitudes and defenses.

I understand that identification with and defense of the ruling class is central to contemporary American culture, but I find this constant, screeching dissonance quite fascinating.
https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/118972249081948160...

> Actually just said by Donald Trump Jr: "I wish my name was Hunter Biden. I could go abroad and make millions off my father's presidency. I'd be a really rich guy"

You can probably make some reasonable intelligence estimates off that sort of statement.
I mean, I'm sure PACs can post to their facebook pages like the rest of us normies do. No need to purchase more eyeballs!
That would mean using a server for the database, which means lots of meetings getting buy in only for it to be prioritized to get done 9 months later.

You also have to deal with DBAs who like to say no and permissions every time you have to make a change.

Even if you broke down all the bureaucratic barriers, Access is still quicker to make a simple to make a simple CRUD UI than Java swing.

Sometimes worse is better.

Not saying I would use Access today but that is because I became a software engineer who has more authority to use the proper tools. When I started out as an data analyst, Access was the only thing available I had to get the job done and it did it well.
Why should this be trolling?
What happens after Windows 7's retirement?
This sentence "Pixaven API is up to 30x faster than ImageMagick and offers much more image operations than most command-line tools" should instead say "Pixaven API is up to 30x faster than ImageMagick and offers many more image operations than most command-line tools."
Indeed. This is the first time I've heard of it.
Facebook shares rise on strong Q3, users up 2% to 2.45B
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headline...
Well, Lincoln was a Republican. They were formed as an anti-slavery movement. After the war it was the farmer's party of choice for generations.
Cropping Images to a Specific Aspect Ratio with JavaScript
One of those blank spaces is the white square screenshot mentioned in the article. I assumed it was just an ad taking a while to render the first time I scrolled past it.

http://www.stilldrinking.org/blog_images/suzy/take-better-sc...
Replays are in replays.zip in supplementary data
I wonder if it is okay to run ads about Zuck's presidential campaign. I know that he is not running, but still, somebody can put ads about it.
To play against alphastar, you have to opt-in. IIRC it states Alphastar will hide itself.

One of the things people noticed in replays was the lack of control groups and in the case of zergs, the ability to select larvas directly, which no player ever does. It could have been as simple as removing these quirks.
So, what I'm hearing here is that we should start a series of endless wars?
Supercharged Supercapacitors- Facinating Video
There are many ways to promote yourself and your message on Facebook itself that do not involve paying Facebook.
But a private company should enforce all the other things that Facebook has no problem moderating?

Facebook has already said they have no problem enforcing this for non-politicians, after all.
No. An individual airline or two didn't handle things right. Boeing didn't screw up, and it's completely unrelated to the whole MAX thing. Similar issues exist for Airbus. Aluminum cracks.
It would be valuable to try and reproduce these findings in a country like the US or UK whose citizens have been found to exhibit much lower socioeconomic mobility [1] whereas the Nordic countries (as well as Canada and Australia) are known to provide much more mobility. I would be surprised if the results held up unaffected.

[1] https://www.oecd.org/centrodemexico/medios/44582910.pdf
Why Is Coalesce a PWA?
Product-Led Organizations Build Trust and Sell Their Product
Yes, exactly that.

Pixaven is a service meant (ideally) for businesses running at scale. If you're a large e-commerce platform with literally millions of new images (and their variants) created per day you would be looking for a solid platform to process this visual content for you.
To play devil's advocate:

They didn't say anywhere they scored a win against the top 10 either.

To elaborate: to be among the "top 0.15%" of 90k is place ~14 (13.5) in the worst case, so nowhere near the "commanding" abilities mentioned by GP
I'm mostly confused as to what sorts of free speech is being violated by not using ads? Parties can post on their facebook pages and comment the same way users can. Isn't that equal speech? What's the dimension I'm missing?
Alberto Brandolini’s “Introducing EventStorming” [1] book is worth reading, even in its incomplete state, to understand the approach from its author.

There aren’t too many concepts to understand, it almost feels too simple to be of any value. But in all of the sessions I’ve been involved with participants have come away with a better understanding of the domain and often a useful model to begin working from.

[1] https://leanpub.com/introducing_eventstorming
Advances in Combinatorics
That's a reasonable sort of question but would you say that MZ twins are treated differently enough to explain 40% of variation in earnings? If they were all locked in cellars out of shame I could see that being the case but that doesn't square with the identical twins I've known.

But it actually is addressed by other studies such as adoption studies that show generally the same results. And, of course, there are potential problems with adoption studies too. But wouldn't it be suspicious if every[1] method of studying the problem we tried gives fairly close numbers but only because they all happen to be biased by the same amount in the same direction?

[1]GWASes give lower numbers but we know that there are many sorts of genetic interaction they don't cover so this is expected.
I suspect that genes that affect immune system play big role in the heritable intelligence just like immune plays role in the environmental factors affecting IQ.
the idea would be that the police contact the owner of the building before raiding it, asking if he would be willing to cover for the stolen goods?
In my case it was because (not knowing the rocket launchers were comparatively tiny, and naively imagining missiles of some kind) I read the location in the title and thought "yikes, if they aim wrong they might hit my house, I should definitely read this." I was walking through Parramatta a couple hours ago, for reference.
I think you've inadvertently backed up the GPs point. DI makes it impossible to have single units of work, as you are quite literally injecting other units into that unit. Mocking is all find and good, but in the case of DI, you're not mocking because you have an external interface, you're mocking because you don't have single units.
Destroying x86_64 instruction decoders with differential fuzzing
This is an empirical question and as far as we can tell if there’s pressure to be more similar or more different it washes out. Identical twins reared together are no more similar than ones raised apart on a huge host of traits.
Not mine but a useful link. Bioinformatics may not be exactly what you are looking for but its a nice bridge between software and biology.

https://github.com/ossu/bioinformatics
If you have a remote pilot then you need some sort of data connection as well; and if that link cuts out the plane needs to be able to continue on its own anyway.
"Conditions are not suitable for autoland functionality. Please navigate to a location with a clear view of a runway and try again. Sorry for any inconvenience."
Despite what the article says, the California foo GRAS ban was blocked by the courts on federal grounds and foi gras is widely available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_foie_gras_law
There has always been the issue of interface when playing videogames AI vs human. Either give the human a brain-computer interface or give the AI a mouse, keyboard, monitor, robot hands and a camera. Anything else seems inherently unfair.
There is a setting to disable this, and add whatever signature you prefer.
>A complete list would include the Basques

País Vasco = Basque Region
> crisis in physics

Me: Hmm... interesting. Personally I think they should spend time consolidating the different mathematical techniques.

> Maybe all these string theorists have been wasting tax-money for decades, alright, but in the large scheme of things it’s not all that much money. I grant you that much. Theorists are not expensive.

> String theory, supersymmetry, multiverses. There’s math for it, alright. Pretty math, even. But that doesn’t mean this math describes reality.

I don't really understand this part. I am not convinced that her post says much [], because consider this: she is encouraging observation at the expense of speculation and then arguing that observational techniques are more expensive and hence prohibitive in the long run?

Is the real "unhappiness" in academia not just as simple as information overflow and the fact that only a few can be famous, whether there are a few or whether there are many? I don't know if that is what people get at with these kinds of blog posts. In any case, what I have found in mathematics is that the names of people whose work are worth reading are not necessarily the ones that you'll encounter first. OP does actually hint at this as well, but again, is it not just information overflow (and shouldn't be made more complicated than that)?

[] The one good takeaway that I see is "focus on inconsistencies".
Coalfire – Iowa Courthouse Physical Pen Test Goes Wrong – Update
It's common courtesy to provide a foundation for outlandish claims when you make them. Otherwise it just sounds like you're making a whole lot of things up.
It'd have to be as an additional safety measure. Connectivity is by no means guaranteed - you'd be relying on satellite comms in most cases. Maybe when SpaceX's Starlink comes online.

(It'd probably also be significantly more expensive, due to the need for a subscription.)
What the Google vs. IBM debate over quantum supremacy means
Presumably AirBnB would ban the user and the user still wants to be able to use the service in the future.
iOS 13 allows for sending screenshots in PDF form.
Ah yes, the famous stilldrinking.org where http://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks comes from :D It's the best essay written about programming, ever. Just one quote:

>
This file is Good Code. It has sensible and consistent names for functions and variables. It’s concise. It doesn’t do anything obviously stupid. It has never had to live in the wild, or answer to a sales team.
Yes, thanks, this is what I meant but the relationship was not clear to me before, it seems obvious in retrospect: n^3 * density = mass scales cubed, which as far as control is concerned is both good (lower impulse requirements), and bad (lower relative mass requires much finer control)... happy to be told how to express the later formally :)
If you're not using your own domain, and are instead using the provider's domain for addresses, one huge difference is that Fastmail recycles deleted addresses within a few months, whereas ProtonMail never recycles addresses on its domains. That to me is critical.
JavaScript enabled? What errors do you see in devtools? Do you see any content in the elements tab?