skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For example, see this study: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/24/science/cats-humans-bondi...
Thanks for the suggestion. I've tried Syncthing, but it seems to still require that users are explicitly added (i.e., no public access [1]). I'd prefer a solution where anyone could decide to start helping replicate backups, without me having to add them in some way.

[1] https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/1942
Legislation Would Require Search Engines to Disclose Algorithms
Astronomers catch wind rushing out of galaxy
Restic is probably my favorite pure open source backup solution, but I've been using Duplicacy for years now and have been very happy with it. On the GitHub page (https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy) for Duplicacy you can find a comparison to Restic (along with other backup solutions), which I found informative.
It may send the position the player is aiming at at certain periods, if the player is way to accurate and linear moving to the target you can ban him. Some false positives and stuff should be considered too
And hammers and plums.
The two years of work is quite evident. Powerful product and beautiful site! I can't wait to test it out. Congrats on the launch.
Some people might say that.

But those people who know better would say that it is the job of the PR department to coordinate the internal discussions regarding a company's political stance with the appropriate decision makers (which might include the CEO and board but would not include HR, or any of the other departments you've mentioned), and to coordinate the disclosure, dissemination, and followup of said stance once the decision-makers have weighed in.

And yes, in most companies, it is the PR department that determines the company's political stance, not the CEO, because the the people in the PR department have a much better understanding of the consequences, because it's literally their job to understand this stuff. In that respect, they are no different than than Legal or Accounting departments.

And like the Legal and Accounting departments, when it comes to PR issues, the head of PR gets to tell the CEO what to d. (This doesn't mean the CEO will actually do that, see Elon Musk, but at the overwhelming majority of companies the CEO will trust the expert.)
More and more often with JavaScript disabled I don't see anything at all!
Nice, but I can't find any reason to choose Spark over modern Distributed SQL databases (CockroachDB, CitusDB, TiDB etc. or cloud vendor-specific SQL DBs)
The United States of America
"Sounds good! :peach:" I'll bring my famous peach cobbler for dessert. If you know what I mean. Actually, I don't know what I mean so I'm sure Facebook can't either. But that won't stop them.

Facebook users play in Facebook's house for "free", so they live by the owner's rules which can change on a whim.
To restrict this you may refuse to share the position of all units unless they are visible
It's a good time to actually be a founder right now. Too many people just want to sit around and write checks.

I hope the US creates a sovereign wealth fund. Not only would it likely make raising money more meritocratic but it would likely make a bunch of the low to mid tier VC firms go away.
Habits of the 12 Most Influential People in History
Could it be because Delaware is a preferred location due to corporate tax laws?
Please note that in this case, this is a non-rhetorical question on my part. Transportation and tax shelters are out of my areas of interest. just wondering if the graphs may be of parent company post office box numbers instead of loading dock addresses.
Projected battery minerals and metals global shortage [pdf]
Unless you count articles about WeWork.
> If Facebook really wanted to stop this they could make the eggplant less phallic looking or remove it entirely.

I for one am still waiting with bated breath for the "eggplant parm" emoji.
There is also Snebu (www.snebu.com, Github repo at github.com/derekp7/snebu). I wrote this about 8 years ago for my personal needs, because rsync / snapshot backups were running out of steam for me.
What's different from Restic or Borg/Attic, is that the main "smarts" lives on the backup server (the Snebu binary), whereas the client side just uses find / tar to serialize the data. Backend side compresses, deduplicates, snapshots, handles a number of systems easily, and is fairly fast due to using SQLite for the metadata catalog.

A couple weeks ago I finished a client-side encryption module, got another weekend's worth of work to integrate encryption support into the back end. The client-side encryption module is already in the Git repository, but there is no documentation for it yet. My next project is a Web based GUI (maybe an Electron based client-side GUI too, depending on what makes sense).

Oh, and the most recent release supports granular user permissions, so you can grant a host (via an SSH account on the backup server) permissions to create backups, but not delete them. Or have an administrative user that can expire old backups but not read backups, for example. Can help with thwarting crypto viruses that try to delete backups.
The world in which you can invest in both drug research and education is not imaginary. We in actual fact already do both of those things at the same time.
Now may be the overdue bite of all that expansionary QE.
How to Make a Great Slide Deck
Woah wait, they're blocking magnet links too?? That's horrible. It's already disgusting that they block porn links. Why are they censoring private speech between friends?
Machine Learning and Real-Time Analytics in Apache Kafka Applications
Maybe when a cartoon hits syndication that the quality dips?

I read somewhere that is when Bill Waters (of Calvin & Hobbs) quit creating, when syndication was his only viable option moving forward. (I think he was burning out)

I loved Garfield as a kid, but as an adult it was really dull. I tried to even enjoy the old stuff... But this makes Garfield awesome again: (you may need some Garfield experience before appreciating this)

https://garfieldminusgarfield.net/
Whether retirement was voluntary or forced, the health of the person at retirement time and social/vocational continuity could be bigger factors than the act of retirement itself.
How would you expect the backup server to be able to prune old encrypted backups if it can't decrypt them? How should it know what to delete?
It's fine as long as they don't ban ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs like U+130BA.
I have a hard time believing Obama truly believed a plan could be kept. Given how it works, I just can't imagine how you could reform healthcare in any meaningful way without outright terminating some of the plans as they existed. I don't have a particular problem with it. Which is probably true for most -- they care more if their leader is acting ethically and trying to do the right thing, than how (pedantically) honest they are being. If Trump lied "I support Confederate statues" to get elected, and then led an effort to tear them down, I doubt history would have any issue with his lies.
Communities don't scale.

Airbnb 4-8 years ago was a quirky thing that biased towards tech early adopters. Because it wasn't wildly profitable, it didn't become a magnet for scams yet.

As the community grew, the population includes more diverse people (including the bad actors). Once bad actors find it's easy to get around the loopholes, they tell others and the scams become prevalent.
Hoping this will be good for rural internet. Not holding my breath, though
I got rich on the other hand
Current civ A.I.s may not be the smartest that the Civ team could do. Sid Meier once said on video that on play tests, when the A.I. would do something brilliant, players would just assume it's cheating.
Bravo. Sadly this is the type of sober-minded take that will get you downvoted to oblivion. The US is fabulously wealthy, and by an overwhelming number of metrics, people are (across socio-economic dimensions) living better lives than their predecessors. The rhetoric passed around today frames life as intolerable, as though the world isn't becoming steadily safer and materially better.
Ah today I learned that Lebron James is so big he counts as multiple players.

But seriously, where are the citations that multiple players support censorship, let alone NBA players in general?

Because the reporting on ESPN and CBS Sports is the exact opposite--players may choose the remain apolitical with respect to Hong Kong but want the right to speak out if they choose.
I had two indoor outdoor cats.

It was cool. There’s something really neat about having a little creature you can let outside and they’re smart enough to return to you and learn the neighborhood.

It’s no longer ok to do that, and I’m not really recommending that anyone do that. Feel free to tear into me for it (I get it). All I’m saying is that there were interesting and unexpected aspects.

I attached a gps to my cats just to find out where they’d go. This was back in 2010 or so, before gps was very small. It was just small enough to put on their collar without too much risk to them.

I ended up with a scatterplot of my cats’ favorite spots. It was the Midwest in a relatively smallish suburb. Scuzzle was such a ham; it turns out he’d made friends with a lot of the neighbors, and sometimes he’d stay out for a couple days since people kept feeding him.

Eventually I started driving my car to meet him each night. I’d get pretty close to him and yell out “Scuzzle!” And he’d mrowww from the shadows and run up to meet me, then hop in the car like a dog. Eventually he started recognizing my car, and me driving it. I know this because I’d often encounter him observing my approach, and at a certain point you could see him go “oh, it’s you.” He was always very aware of the roads.

Eventually a neighbor kidnapped him and took off the gps collar. I don’t think the old lady understood it was a gps. We were walking around at night near his last known location shouting “scuzzle!” And we were getting pretty frantic since it had been days. But then we tried the last known location again and shouted again, and we heard “mrowww!” The old lady had let him sit in her sunporch, and the window (but not the screen) was open. So he heard us and we heard him. I went up and thankfully the door was unlocked, so we got him out of there without more hassle.

Showed up the next day with a picture of him on a flyer and asked her directly “have you seen this cat?” The look on her face was kind of funny in hindsight.

Meh. It was an interesting experience. Life is like that sometimes. Don’t do that; not worth the stress. But not a lot of people know that cats are smart enough that they do learn a lot of our customs, like roads and where you live.
VC money needs 100x returns
Betteridge says: no.

More accurate question: Can the defined point of death be moved just a little bit further out? Yes.
Or more discerning. A dog will love anyone who crosses its path. If you want that kind of affection from a cat, you just have to earn it.
For context from a couple of years ago on Instagram:

https://fstoppers.com/originals/instagrammers-fight-censorsh...

People were censoring female nipples with male ones since that's apparently more appropriate.
Regarding advocacy groups, a few years ago, it was quite easy to setup a page on Facebook, build an audience and spread your message organically. But then Facebook severely limited the content from liked pages that was showing up in your feed. So the page admins had no choice but to buy ads in order for their content to show up in their subscribers feed.

So if Facebook cared more about free speech than increasing profits, they'd go back to the older model where someone with no money, but plenty of time to volunteer, could build a sizeable audience.

It's not bad to want a good return on your investment, but to couch that in a feel-good pitch for free speech just seems wrong.
Apples aren’t specifically designed to kill people. You don’t have mass school shootings where dozens of kids are attacked by apples and suicides caused by apples are significantly fewer than those by guns.

The two aren’t even remotely equatable.
Certainly not Free Peach AMIRITE?
https://s3tools.org/s3cmd-sync
Agreed, it's a tautology I'll admit but if they can bring you back, you're not dead. Just like we used to be able to say no heard beat meant you were dead, and now we don't.
There are a few products in the autoupdater/patcher space that do something like this ("delta update" is the name of that feature).
There was an app out several years ago where you could use your iPad as a second screen with a macbook. A friend used it and said it was useable for working at a coffee shop.
"Brainless fungi trade resources with plants like a stock market"

"In soils across the world, fungi trade resources with the plants they colonise in a mutually beneficial relationship. But it turns out the fungi are savvy traders, taking advantage of their partners by shuttling goods to nutrient-starved areas where plants are willing to pay more than usual"

(from https://www.newscientist.com/article/2205604-brainless-fungi...)

FYI. Sort of relevant.
We are currently in the process of reorganizing our teams to use DDD & Gherkin. Any tips? There is a lot of churn currently and I have not yet seen any real benefit to it. Context -- I'm full-stack, our team has recently grown to a point where we needed more organization than just throwing a frontend/backend pair at a story/task. Our team is distributed across the country as well.
Coca-Cola named the world's most polluting brand
It's truly astounding how uncomfortable many Americans are with breasts in general. I'm an American but I never understood this. Probably because I became skeptical of religion from a pretty young age.
> Why do you think special relativity or quantum mechanics are “big leap” things?

It has been more than 90 years since they were invented. At the time they were proposed they've been unexpected and quite unwelcome.

I definitely agree that right now the progress is more linear, distributed and steady, but I wouldn't exactly call quantum computing (application of theory that has been created ~90 years ago) "big leap". I would rather compare it to development of hear engine from thermodynamics.

By big leaps I meant "paradigm-shifting" kind of things. These things cannot be expected to come from steady pipelines and projects with expected outcomes with anticipated results.
1) Corporations and their boards are not blood-bound to do everything in their power to maximize value. They can act ethically, and it is easily (and morally) defensible that acting with values is in the long term interest of the company.

2) The article specifically references employees, so I also added that angle.
> and don't support it?

Every employee tacitly uses their labor to support the actions their company performs. They obviously don't have 100% culpability for everything the corporation does, but it's definitely not 0% either.
Yes.. and your point? The old country didn't vanish so to speak. Things carry forward.
Whoops, looks like I forgot to commit a license. I'll fix that in a bit.

Edit: Done.
Nextcloud: Best Private Alternative to Dropbox?
But it's true. It seems like this policy change would prevent a consenting couple from "flirting" over Facebook by using emoji's but would allow a politican to create false content for an ad.
FWIW, in the title I parsed "design" as a verb, so I thought it was something like readme.io for more general documentation.

Cool product!
I think it's less about fairness and more about what's interesting? When the AI finds an advantage that makes its gameplay kind of boring, nerf it somehow to see what else it can do.
The bad news for cats? They lack this muscle. As a result, cats’ stares can look cold and unfriendly, and two cats staring at each other can often be a prelude for fisticuffs. But a slow blinking stare – one that your cat probably gives towards you from the other side of the room – is something else entirely; it’s their way of expressing love. Even turning their heads to one side isn’t necessarily disdain, but a sign of their relaxation.

When I rescued a street cat, the first thing I did was google how to take care of it and understand it. This was many, many years ago. All this information existed a long time ago, and so it's weird to me that people still think that cats are unfriendly. Or are people knowledgeable, but media just likes to make clickbait?

I'll forever trust that cats absolutely can be friendly. My cat would come and sleep with me every night, often cuddle up in my lap, and my roommate told me when I went on vacation, my cat would stay all day at the door every day waiting for me to come back. Yeah, I once took care of a friend's cat that was particularly unfriendly. That cat just had a difficult time bonding with strangers. But just because some human being has difficulty interacting with people (especially people on the autistic spectrum), I wouldn't label them (and certainly not the entire human race) unfriendly. Those cats and those humans just have something else going on in their lives and need a different approach, that's all.

As a cat guy, these articles do annoy me. Show a cat love, the cat will respond positively. Some cats are high-strung and need certain attention, but that's true for people too. Even my friend's unfriendly cat eventually came around, though it took weeks. Don't label the entire species.
Show HN: One node Amazon ECS cluster for less than $5
I've been using Duplicati 2.0 beta (aka "stable") builds, not canary/testing, for 2+ years, and at least three times, on three different machines each with different backends (two using ZFS, scrubbed regularly with no data issues), I've encountered issues with database corruption which wasn't fixable with repair and rebuild. There are lots of things I really like about Duplicati (OSS, backend flexibility, dedup, encryption, active development, etc.), but I'm going to be moving to another solution for a little while until a super stable release is available. Restic was at the top of my list even before this most recent HN nod.
it seems to be the first major Chinese player who makes inroads with global (and in particular American) audiences, something that other Chinese companies are notoriously bad at. And they really seem to be onto something when it comes to young users. I wouldn't brush them off.
Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221221
Access has had a decent MySQL connector for a long time so the scalability, availability and other network factors can be a non-issue if Access is used purely as a GUI.
My cats love me to death. I never force myself on them and never try to train them to obey me, greet me etc.

We think cats are "unfriendly" because they do their own thing, and don't OBEY people like Dogs. When an animals doesn't obey you and do your biding, you think they are "unfriendly".

Cats are also not "reward" oriented like Dogs, i.e. you can't "train" a cat to obey you and do your biding by giving it rewards like you can with Dogs.
Waymo Car Spotted Driving Around Phoenix Without Driver
Beta-blockers are often used for performance anxiety. They block physical symptoms of anxiety caused by adrenaline. They're safe and cheap. https://patient.info/medicine/propranolol-a-beta-blocker
The think that makes this scaling "bad" is that moment of inertia is going down faster than everything else and this means the required control frequency goes up. A Falcon-sized rocket may only need to correct its course 50 times a second while a 3-foot scale model would need to do it 10x faster. This means your sensors need to be faster, your guidance computer has to run faster, and the actuators have to be able to respond faster.

The hard things on the other side tends to be power requirements, for exactly the same reason. Mass scales up as the cube of size, including the mass of the thnigs you have to move. Although you don't have to move them as fast, the net effect is still that your power requirements become very large for large-scale vehicles.
The basic strategy is simple, but implementing it is not. I think a perfect real world example is Tesla's recent roll out of their summon feature. The basic strategy of having your autonomous car pull out of a parking spot and pick you up at the door is simple, but the actual implementation shows how difficult that actually is.
This book is, Ole coached me for TEDx - after which my talk was uploaded also to TED.com:

https://www.amazon.de/Agile-Presentation-Design-innovators-p...
>The insurance companies apparently want pilots to pull the CAPS rather than try to dead stick it.

Well of course they do.

CAPS does a pretty good job putting an upper bound on the worst case result. They don't care if you screw your plane up because that's a known cost and you'll pay it back through premiums if you keep flying.

Dead sticking it has a very good chance of being no more expensive than a normal landing if you find a runway and not all that expensive if you find a good field or empty highway (i.e. a big towing bill) so of course most pilots would prefer to dead stick. But this comes with a small chance of you crashing into a daycare and maxing out your policy. The insurers do not want this.

Most decent pilots with good situational will be able to make the correct call between CAPs and dead sticking it. They're telling you to go CAPS all the time because they have to deal with idiot pilots too. It's the same reason every drivers ed program emphasizes brakes, brakes, brakes, despite the steering wheel being a far better way to avoid many problems. They don't trust you to make the call.
Americans Under 35 Are Unable to Buy a House, Pay Down Debt, Save for Retirement
I guess "an implicit or indirect ask for nude imagery, sex or sexual partners, or sex chat conversations" is OK without an eggplant emoji.

But if you add an eggplant emoji... that's it! You crossed the line. Facebook cannot tolerate that. Oh no. Not that.
The New Invisible Competitors (2007)
I would guess that the key factor is whether or not a body part is significantly erogenous. AFAIK, many more women than men find their nipples to be a source of sexual arousal.

EDIT: I hope people reading my post understand the difference between explaining vs. endorsing another party's reasoning.
Unlike a dog, you can never own a cat.

But as long as you treat it well it will always come back to you. :]
I think the point wasn't that 1password TOTP is more secure than separate TOTP device, probably even less secure than typical alternatives, but it is present, convenient, automatically backed up and safer than just a password.
Isn't this exactly what is discussed in the Don Delilo book, Zero K?
FWIW: I gave you an upvote.
> Also Dart is a counterexample.

Or Self at Microsystems. Or Dylan at Apple.

Every sufficiently large and profitable technology company eventually sprouts compiler projects. It's as if they hire from an academic pipeline where compilers are a capstone project.

There are now thousands of artificial languages. The sample size for "languages that succeeded and originally came out of Google" may be tiny, but the effect size is pretty bloody spectacular. Considering that the null hypothesis for all programming languages is be swallowed up by a memoryless void, I'm prepared to wager heavily that without the Google halo, Golang would've been no more influential than Newsqueak, Alef or Limbo were.
We had total decentralization 9n Usenet. People went away from it. Mastodon split due to Japanese porn.
I wonder if it is also to prevent solicitation of sex on their platform. I wonder if there was a code of emojis used to agree on terms. Which banning the use of these emojis just means they use something else. Whack a mole.
The complicated truth about a cat’s purr (2018)
As an Athiest who has a few scrapes in the past few years with near-misses or almost dying, I tend to agree.