skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in 2008 when some submarine cables were cut[1], it had us frantic at work as origin stations had no way to transmit documents to us in the affected countries so we couldn't do our jobs before the freight landed. Until it was rectified they were having to take the physical documents and fly them to a country that did still have a reliable connection and scan them there to transmit to us.

Then in 2010 [2] when the volcano in Iceland grounded flights throughout parts of Europe we were similarly like "argh, sorry customers!"

Cut a few cables and knock out the 31 GPS satellites and the world would grind to a halt. It's terrifying how dependent we are on technology for virtually ever facet of our lives. Then we rely so much on air travel for delivering persons and freight, modern society is so incredibly fragile.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_submarine_cable_disruptio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_travel_disruption_after_th...
Swift has a really good solution to this, which is an attribute @unknown that you put on the default case, and this attribute produces a warning if there are any known enum variants that would match this case. This way you're future-compatible but the warnings tell you when you need to revisit the code. I'm pretty disappointed that Rust didn't copy this.
Yeah but you're assuming that you know how their creating this data. Just throwing an option out there - what if they created a latent space of 3D people and iteratively expanded it with GANs and 2D real image datasets. That would generalize.

Just a thought, not sure what's really going on there, I just know that they probably have something interesting they're cooking up!

This is a really crazy vision
It still seems to me the latter is a problem for people working on their side projects in their spare time. Like if you are a software developer, and develop some software at home, it is kind of related to your job.
No, the last commit was two days ago: https://github.com/ruma/ruma-events/commit/c7d7212b000e324b9...

It is a bit hard to follow their project since they have split it up in so many tiny repos. I personally prefer when a set of closely related crates are developed in one mono repo.
Google Voice (née GrandCentral) also has the phone number indirection-layer feature. It's a product and not a developer tool, so it lacks some of the more advanced features (eg command line access), but it's far more accessible to non-developers.

Google's uses Google Voice as part of GoogleFi, so hopeful it won't be killed off any time soon.
My first guess would be re-routing traffic away from the damaged cable(s)
My recollection is that you can also stop AUTOEXEC.BAT from running by holding the shift key.
The point is, leaking any amount of oil is sufficient to exceed the petroleum leaks of many countries that have no petroleum production whatsoever.

> Isn't your comment an equal slight of hand? The article isn't about total leaks in the US compared to other countries. This is about one specific gas leak in Ohio, which they compare to other countries

The comparison to other countries, many of which have little to no petroleum industry, is the sleight of hand I'm addressing.

Putting this leak in respect to the total amount of natural gas leakage in the country and the world is a straightforward was of representing the contribution of this leak to total natural gas leakage.
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> The oft cited $2.6B cost to develop a drug is derived from data from big pharma drug development programs.

This number can not be validated as most of the information is not public. It's a self-reported number and should be treated as such.

https://www.reuters.com/article/pharmaceuticals-tufts/correc...
What's frustrating is there's actually a very elegant solution to this problem, but it requires buy-in from all manufacturers. If you use polarized glass at 45 degrees for both headlights and windshields, you effectively cancel out the lights when sitting inside a car (it's not perfect, but they'll be incredibly dim). You could easily adjust it to be brighter (assuming everyone agrees on the standard) if people object to not being able to see oncoming headlights.

But it's meaningless unless everyone does it, and it won't work for cars already on the road.
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Arguably the judgement against the book by the Navy Seal in the Bin Laden raid was a non-politicized example. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/24/matt-bissonnet...
The reason HTML pages doesn't validate is pretty simple: It does not provide any benefit for the publisher. Consider if the images didn't show up - you better believe the publisher would have it fixed immediately.

Same for the semantic web. Show the benefit for the publisher.
I read this because this post came up on Feedly.

I have 168 subscriptions.

I don't feel especially "killed".
It’s about a 1-3 month repair job to acquire replacement cable, load it into a ship, and sail out to the break point.

However, service is restored sooner than that by rerouting service over a different fiber cable or undamaged set of fibers.
I have the same issue. My suspicion is that this is going to be analyzed as a serious safety concern at some point.

It seems that headlights got much brighter to benefit the driver behind them, without any consideration that they blind everyone else -- and also reduce the ability for peoples' eyes to adjust to dim conditions. That can't be a good trade-off.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=622303

Also in 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1323487
Well very true and well said. I think that instead of saying,

Your community cannot represent a Stack Overflow-sized
massive knowledge base.

...it would have been more accurate for me to say:

Your community cannot IMMEDIATELY represent a Stack
Overflow-sized, massive knowledge base.

=)
I’m familiar with this already. It’s unambiguous but it’s fairly verbose. Our notation already places the diatonic scales in a privileged position, so it makes sense that we have special names for modes of the diatonic scale.

The system is most useful for describing / exploring certain types of atonal music. I’m going to make an unfair generalization—most people are interested in tonal music. You can see that the references here are to Forte’s The Structure of Atonal Music and Rahn’s Basic Atonal Theory. So if that’s your jam, by all means, go and make atonal music. But I’m a fan of using modes of common scales, so I like having concise names like phrygian, mixolydian, and dorian.
Basically what you do is to put "fences" around dangerous areas as a manager and don't confront them unless it is "too much" - where too much depends on a situation.

That was what I observed when working as developer of a factory control system, while testing I was sitting in place where you basically should not sit ... but I was in control of system so I knew what I was doing. No one confronted me about that, next day there was fence preventing access to that place. First thing I thought was "someone could just tell me", but yeah if you can fix thing without confronting and you have loads of other things to do in a day I totally understand someone rather put a fence than confront some guy he does not really know because he is a contractor.

I can see it is easier to move people to other projects if they don't get well instead of having discussion to make things clear. But such discussion can take too much time and energy from everyone involved.
I once worked for a company that had a spreadsheet for plant production planning. The spreadsheet was put together by a consultant, but it was not protected - the company adjusted it constantly to maximize productivity at the plant. The consultant made more than the plant manager because he was the only person who understood the spreadsheet enough to make meaningful changes as required, e.g. when a machine on the line was replaced with another having a different capacity.
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He means in the sense that the automobile killed the horse.

And I agree, and was tweeting about exactly this yesterday. https://twitter.com/eric_wvgg/status/1207374861955469317

The problem isn’t that Google killed Reader, it’s that Reader got such traction to begin with. There were always better alternatives, and they’re still around and better than ever, but they aren’t doing anything to make RSS more accessible, user-friendly, or prevalent.
No one fixed the cables, they have rerouted traffic through other links. Most of the traffic was automatically rerouted, that's how BGP works.
Sad to see that CoffeeScript is not even listed.
This is a typical use-case scenario for using Multipass.
You just use the IP address of the Multipass VM on your browser at the host and it will work.
It's not against the rules for players to mishear. There are rules against punning but that's not what the post you're replying to was talking about.

Using a homonym is fair game. Intending that homonym to have two meanings when you give the clue is not.
You’re correct, Schwab says they’re “almost always” taxed at vesting.
In this case, the failed candidate started detailing things we had done "wrong" in a very detailed and also entirely incorrect way.

(Again: our problem was that we were mostly recruiting from a small, geographically localized online forum.)

People in general are naturally curious about details of what's supposed to be a block box procedure. So they'll be drawn like a moth to flame like to something like this, even if the moth is a crazy person.
It works surprisingly well. A few companies like Micro Center still sends out advertisements but the vast majority of my junk mail stopped after joining the do not mail list. Works much better than the do not call list.
To elaborate, the original borrow checker that launched with Rust 1.0 had edge cases that could only be resolved with a drastically different analysis pipeline. As a result, it wasn't able to properly reject some patterns that were disallowed by the conceptual model. Over the course of several years this new analysis pipeline was developed and the borrow checker was rewritten to use it, which now properly rejects these patterns. But three years is plenty of time for code in the wild to begin relying on edge cases, so there's been a year-long deprecation cycle to warn anyone who might not have updated their code by now.
From my days as a repair techie, sounds like just another board-pulling call-out job, I could do it for $343 (per hour) including VAT. But NASA would have to provide transport.
That's what the 'Quiet' part of the name is trying to solve.

From another source:

The X-59 has been designed to achieve a PLdB of 75, similar to what might be heard when standing next to a heavily trafficked road.
I imagine that C# is used less and less within Azure's infrastructure and embracing other languages such as Java where appropriate. This would go well beyond direct Java runtime support. C# cannot compete with the Java ecosystem for open source cloud management software. Just take a glance at Apache projects and see how strongly Java is represented there. I imagine that Microsoft is investing heavily in Python as well.
I'm sure Google or other mega tech company with enough money will do so within 20 years. Big Aero has left too many promising radical ideas on the table, they always publish some half-hearted studies (blended-wing body, various once-off supersonic platforms) while sticking with the standard subsonic tube+wings configuration that is 50 years old. The main barrier to entry is massive initial capital, for the army of lawyers to handle lawsuits and the FAA redtape, and the huge number of engineers and manufacturing staff that you need from the start for rigorous engineering. Stakes are much higher when people can die, even Icon Aircraft has had two fatalities and they have a really solid team of mostly Scaled alums.
Edit:

I stand corrected. My frame was that submitted articles should be held to a completely different standard than comments.

I see that is not constructive and not the ethos of the site.

My apologies, original comment remains for the sake of accuracy, but I no longer endorse the intent.

=== original comment ===

When I read an article and it has an clearly misused word or grammatical error in the first paragraph, I become concerned the poster isn’t taking my time as a reader seriously.

It isn’t “cuddling” it is “coddling”.

I don’t really want to read an article about communication written by someone who doesn’t understand that distinction.

There’s too much to read each day.
Go 1.14 beta 1, virtual actor pattern in Golang and more (Go Gazette #87)
According to the Lloyds website they (and other UK banks) are going to start sending an auth code to your phone as part of the web logon. Though I believe you can ask them to send you a security gadget as an alternative. It is a PITA though.
Federal study confirms racial bias of many facial-recognition systems
Back when I was a junior developer / PC support guy, I was put in the position of helping interview replacements when my manager left the company (traditional IT manager role).

We interviewed three people and then it was decided to let the manager role go unfilled. So I ended up being the one to call them.

Two of them handled it with grace and professionalism. The third decided to go over my head and call the VP who was in charge of IT at the time and have a surly conversation.

So the moral is - transparency might make you feel like a good person but from a business perspective there are valid reasons not to choose that path.

Also - part of working in HR is that you must deal with the general public - which means people will be unpredictable and you have to take worst-case scenarios into consideration.
Most of them should have a phone number somewhere on there that you have to call and ask to be taken off their list.

There are also DMAchoice and CatalogChoice to take you off, but I'm never quite sure if it's working because I still get plenty.

There is also the fun prank one guy did where he would mail back a bunch of pennies to anyone who send him an unsolicited pre-paid envelope. The postage is calculated by weight, so it's just a nice little middle finger.
> I was getting quite worried that Mozilla would go to Discord, like Rust and other projects have done.

Just so you know, the Rust Embedded guys went with Matrix back in June and several people do use the IRC bridge.

https://github.com/rust-embedded/wg/issues/357
This seems like one of those things where the industry (and/or regulation) has stagnated and is missing really easy, obvious wins in UX.

Why not beep at me or otherwise alert me if it's night and I'm driving with my lights off? You know there's already a light sensor in the car, and there's already a way to beep at people or show them messages (oil is low, parking brake engaged, etc.)

There's a thing that beeps at me when my gas tank gets low. And there's a thing that beeps at me when my seat belt isn't fastened. So obviously it's OK to beep at me while driving. There's even a thing that beeps at me if I accidentally leave my headlights on and might drain the battery. Which is a fine thing to warn about, but surely not as important as a safety issue like driving with headlights off.

One could say that beeping at people whose headlights are off at night is not necessary because many cars (maybe most?) already have an automatic headlight mode, so the driver can just use that and the problem is solved. But that ignores one simple fact: people aren't doing it. Watch cars drive down a road at night, and it won't take long until you see someone whose headlights are off. I'd wager a lot of the time their car has an automatic headlight mode but they don't have the switch in the right position.

As computer people know from fighting server downtime, if something is important, you monitor whether it's behaving as required, and if it isn't, you alert.
Uber’s ride-hailing business hit with ban in Germany
vagrant

* try to find a solid reliable "box" to launch

* ensure your virt provider is supported and configured

* create a vagrant file and configure it

* "vagrant up" and more vagrant-specific provisioning in the vagrantfile.

* Destroy the vm and then have to toil through provisioning again if you didn't export your "box"

multipass (same on macos/linux/windows)

multipass launch -n my-machine -c 2 -m 4G -d 20G bionic --cloud-init my-cloud-init.yaml
Greenwald is a criminal. He is paying a former representative in the Brazilian House to give way for his lover; he used a criminal organization to invade several people’s instant messaging accounts, and has been using the messages out of context to try to stop corruption investigations; and he uses his adopted sons as human shields against criticism.
> The contrast with "we" reclaiming "supremacy" should be clear. Numerically, to the extent that HN is US-centric, and more so to the extent that HN is tech heavy, "we" are white. Here, "supremacy," in its denotative sense, is about a normative schema that holds "us" as being deserving of the top position socially and economically. How much "work" are we going to have to do to "reclaim" this word? And to what end? We're just going to use it, from behind our keyboards, so that...other stupid people on the Internet know that we're the boss of us? It seems hardly worth getting in an uproar over.

A few things pop up for me with this:

1. the USA's obsession with race is, I agree, distorting this. In my world, "we" are the non-racists, and "they" are the racists. It doesn't really matter how many of us are what colour, because, well, we're not racist. If we're not able to fight racism because we're the wrong skin colour then that fight is already lost.

2. I think the amount of work is purely "hmm, shall I use this word now, or shall I let the racists have it exclusively for their use? Oh yes, I shall decide to use it in a non-racist manner so the bad people don't win". I think (as TFA proves) that it's actually a lot more work to not use a word because it's not politically acceptable any more.

and your final point: yes. That's what we're all working towards. Skin colour being irrelevant to opportunity and quality of life. But I totally fail to see how not using "supremacy" as a word helps with that goal. How, exactly, is saying "quantum spiffiness" (excellent idea btw) instead of "quantum supremacy" doing anything, at all, to help remedy the USA's obsession with race?

I suspect that using "quantum spiffiness" is more intended to signal to other people that you are not a racist. This is good, but you could just wear a t-shirt. It might be more productive.
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Sounds like a pretty bad experience indeed - surprised that was their recommendation vs completely anonymizing the data. You didn't share if you went ahead with it and saw any results? If so, it sounds like they were not good. Either way, I don't think you can let one bad experience cast doubt on a whole field. There are plenty of example of medical research institutes using synthetic data in combination with real patient data to improve their neural nets. I'm no medical expert, but data augmentation or full simulation works when it's used in the right context. Having said that creating biased algorithms that generate biased data is certainly a reality as well.
It's ironic that “liberal” means “left of centre” in US politics, because it's liberalism in the classical sense that is the ideology behind so much of the destruction of the commons.
Might add YC W16 to the headline.
In my experience the algorithm simply recommends similar content to what you watch based on your viewing history. If you watch enough football videos then soon your entire frontpage will be football.

There's a vast amount of high quality content on YouTube. What is not present are high production values. But that's fine really. In the end, production values are not important, it's the story you have to tell that matters.
TLDR: High fat bad (in Zebra fish at least).
Training a GAN to generate people without a significantly large dataset (if that's even possible) is probably just as difficult of a problem as just building the model you want in the end without sufficient data.

Assuming those image sets are small they will create a model with a large bias. If you're talking about fine-tuning an existing model with small datasets, this is done already and works fairly well if not overused.

It all comes down to: to create the first "data-generating" model you need a lot of data and compute. Expanding it is a different story, but that isn't where the problem lies. We come full-circle back to the same problem as what we started with: big players can afford to build these models and small players can't.
At Google (the original audience of the "rant") tools like Moma and Code Search make it much easier to find the relationship between commit messages and code, so it makes more sense to avoid duplicating information in comments. Finding the commit message for a line of code literally takes one press of a button.

If it's really tedious to find relevant commit logs then I think the right answer is to improve the search process rather than compensate with more comments.
I wouldn't think so, docs in Go look very terse to me, not at all "story mode".

Maybe Rust or Clojure...?
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There's so little here, Reader was bad because it was good and it killed other people's attempts at making an RSS reader, but it was also bad because it didn't have social features? Hard, hard disagree. I wanted an RSS reader, not a social stream, and Google Reader filled that role spectacularly. I read more independent sources those days than I do now thanks to it.
No great thing having a VPN thats solid, but the company can inject Items in to your traffic. (Which the parent company did before?)
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The GitHub Actions Runner has just been open sourced https://github.com/actions/runner
Also navigating through the "guide" is simply horrendous.
Cloud? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Yeah, I’d still say it’s managements responsibility to both make people comfortable with providing candid feedback, and to find the value in poorly delivered feedback. If somebody is complaining about something, they will have a reason for doing so, even if they can’t articulate very well. Figuring out how to understand a team members grievances is a managers responsibility. If this sort of thing isn’t happening in a particular workplace, it’s a failure of management primarily.
In the hotels I stayed at in Europe it's usually a standard non-smart TV plus a custom board that connects to it over HDMI. Sometimes the whole thing is enclosed in some kind of plastic shroud that clips over the TV but nothing a bit of "percussive maintenance" can't fix. From there, the HDMI port is accessible.

However, in most cases, at least in mid-range rooms, the TV is barely bigger than my laptop so it just doesn't make sense to use it.
Does it take into account anxiety as contributing to gait and posture?
Association Between Recreational Cannabis Use and Cardiac Structure and Function
Please... Let me make the decision on how to use the tooling. This is trivial with docker

docker run -d --rm -p 8080:8080 jenkins:latest

EDIT - technically above is not bridged networking but you get the idea
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