skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It explicitly says they were not picking up the recorded object in that linked Wikipedia article.

"When the jet fighters arrived on site, the crew of four saw nothing in the air nor on their radar"

So there's some mysterious radar pickup on the boats but the pilots then chase their own shadow and record it.

The real kicker is this part

"As Fravor further descended, he reported that the object began ascending along a curved path, maintaining some distance from the F-18, mirroring its trajectory in opposite circles. Fravor then made a more aggressive maneuver, plunging his fighter to aim below the object, but at this point the UFO accelerated and went out of sight in less than two seconds, leaving the pilots "pretty weirded out"."

That's a literal shadow!
Are you sure this is illegal? I saw other stores to do it as well, for example Home Depot in California. It's not like they are paying your down, just look at the receipt and your cart.
After you learn some lessons, it's tempting to check any action against all of them. But that slows you down, the more experience you have, the slower you will be. You don't want to do that either.

Anyway, it is very hard to stay away from both extrema. It requires constant self awareness, and even more learning, of the hardest kind where you are required to feel stupid all the time.
Yes this is a re-interpretation. Like encryption systems it was considered “turnkey” in that we wouldn’t care who used the technology from spies, lovers, to terrorists. But now it’s getting politicized like everything else.
I too, like commenter above, find it fascinating how various concepts are quickly accessible (or not!) for different people. Usually I blame it on the teacher's presentation (for my part, I am completely unable to explain pointers in (say, C) to people who haven't already been able to get it), but sometimes it is also the building blocks that the learner already has in place.

So - maybe a rude question - but had you take Calculus, Differential Equations or Vector Calculus (div, grad and curl and all that) before you started in on this more integrated material?
> Allow users to votekick and voteban. Provide the server software for players to host their own servers and provide their own solutions to these problems.

This might still be the best compromise but it is terribly frustrating to be accused of cheating because of different skill levels or tactics.
That product exists. Tobacco free snus pouches.
Sure, but the decisions get made at the scale of a single company, not the industry as a whole.

For the mentioned new gene therapy treatments, people have been asking congress to come up with a new model for how to pay for treatment. Here's a recent opinion piece by a Louisiana Senator where he lists off the proposals he's heard: https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/12/paying-for-coming-genera...
I'm sure the astrologer who came up with that 'prediction' will be able to explain to you very seriously how (s)he followed the rules and observed the planets to discover that the 13th January has cosmic significance for Pisces and a pampering day.
Unfortunately I am not able to commit fully due to time constraints but want to set aside at least 5 hours/week.
Does Elasticsearch need to be as complicated as it is?

I was surprised to find there wasn't an Elasticsearch + Kibana competitor that is "simpler".

I just want to be able to store JSON logs with a timestamp + a bunch of fields then search them in a nice little UI later. Apparently, that's pretty hard to do right.
Who is shocked?
MUDs, while wonderful, occasionally devolved into closed ecosystems where RP enforcement and opinions ended up creating a toxic community with the playerbase eventually shrinking to nothing. MUDs are amazing but I think they're a bad example to call on in this case.
I’m sure it’s not uniquely American. It’s just a standard strategy for the GOP. Defund, then complain regulation doesn’t work and deregulate or allow regulatory capture.
Thanks for your feedback, I think my comment history can stand as testament to the fact that broadly speaking I generally know what I’m talking about.

As for your charge of ignorance, that’s your call to make, but you seem to be missing the point I was trying to make (and which I obviously articulated very poorly), namely that code length and complexity is an interaction between both the algorithm being encoded and the formalism into which it is being encoded (programming language).

Anyway, I’ll leave it at that. Have a good day.
At Healthify we’ve built a business by aligning positive health care outcomes with the incentives of people paying for healthcare. I think it’s incorrect to say that American healthcare isn’t interested in positive outcomes, it’s just that the systems in place have made it difficult to track and understand those outcomes in the first place.

We just raised a series B and are hiring engineers (very remote friendly)!
That may be true, but it's an added opportunity to notice something is wrong. If and when people are used to U2F/Webauthn security, it'll feel very wrong to have to manually enter a code.

Although routing information isn't protected either way and is probably fundamentally unsafe.
Not for libraries exposed as DLL or COM.

Although one might argue that is only a C++ subset.
Even if you discard the notion of morality as human-only, and assume alien civilizations would not necessarily develop it too, there is still a game-theoretical reason for why the Dark Forest state is not inevitable.

The Dark Forest state depends on the resources of the universe being scarce relative to their need/demand by all the sentient species in the universe. In the novels, survival of your species requires killing any other species that would compete with you for those resources.

But given the extraordinary abundance of resources in the universe, it's not a given that demand would overwhelm supply so much as to necessitate such an extreme survival strategy. There is a massive amount of matter and energy in the universe.

Further it's likely that super-advanced species with the technology to manipulate the Strong Force of matter, as even the relatively less advanced Tri-Solarans could in the novels, will have developed the ability to recycle and reuse resources far more effectively than we have today.

The ability to build things using the Strong Force implies the ability to disassemble and reassemble them at the subatomic scale. That pretty much solves all known problems with recycling. Think Star Trek replicators on a massive scale.

Now that resource starvation is no longer such a problem for species, participating in continuous mutual destruction of other species is far less optimal. It needlessly increases your own species' danger value to all other species, and the likelihood of being pre-emptively attacked and destroyed, for no good reason.

Rather I suspect the optimal strategy is similar to what evolved on earth - develop effective technological deterrents, be they nukes, photoids, or dimensional collapse attacks or whatever, and then don't use them. Their highest value is in your enemies knowing you have them, but that you will not use them unless attacked first. Keep your own threat level relatively low, but without leaving you completely helpless and vulnerable.
30% profit margin? I though most tech companies had a lot of trouble breaking even.
I'd say Rust is the improvements to C that I've always been wanting: better type safety, real generics, first-class closures, and OOP without inheritance, only using structs to structure data, leaving code execution to just functions. It's what I hoped Go would become. (Take with grain of salt, I'm just starting to learn Rust.)
I worked at a company in the early 00s that did exactly this -- natural language processing of medical records for meta analysis. Even when it worked, we couldn't sell it for much. The budget of each study was too low to really build a business around, and the low number of potential buyers didn't help things.

Eventually we pivoted the tech to a B2B SaaS play because it was too hard to sell.
While I personally do not believe in predictive powers of astrology, that is specifically not what the OP asks about.

If you bother to read the question, you might notice the OP asks about ayurvedic (Hindu) astrology, and I don't think you can seperate the cultural relevance from the study.
Putting devs before users: how frameworks destroyed web performance
> The Vision Fund reported an operating loss of $8.9 billion in October related to WeWork and Uber. The losses are especially concerning because of the financial structure of the fund, 40% of which takes the form of preferred stock that promises investors 7% per year. That interest works out to as much as $2.8 billion annually.

I'm not a believer of the Vision Fund (but it's just a subjective opinion - I'm a pessimist).

> When SoftBank announced that it expected to raise more than $100 billion for Vision Fund 2 in July, the firm touted corporate backers Microsoft, Amazon, Foxconn and several financial institutions. But it only mentioned one sovereign wealth fund, from the government of Kazakhstan, which has roughly $60 billion in assets - a far cry from the hundreds of billions controlled by PIF and Mubadala.

I watched a few documentaries about Kazakhstan last year (for no particular reason - I was just randomly watching TV) and (technically) it seems to be a nice country which has a nice mix of many climates (deserts, mountains, plains - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan ) and has as well many natural resources (oil, gas, uranium, metals) and is currently trying very hard to develop.

I remember that at that time I mentally wished them well, but when I read now about their involvement in the Vision Fund I immediately thought "hopefully they didn't bet too much on it"... .
I wish these cars were sold in all states. They are only sold on the coasts. It doesn't bode will for the companies when they drag there feet on electric vehicles. It's hard to purchase something with confidence.
This is going to be one hell of a bear market. Can't wait.
Cheques is British English and checks is American English.
Huh. Strangely my state requires all cannabis products to be tested for CBC and THC and the products are labeled with percentages of each. Why do you think they are garbage?
Not necessarily. Doctors can still have individual discretion over their choice of IT service provision (etc) under single payer.

The only thing single payer does is eliminate insurance company opportunism. It doesn't suddenly convert the entire healthcare system into a dystopian concrete monolith.

Although if it did it would make OP's job far easier, because if you could prove there were cost and health outcome benefits on a national scale you would be able to convert the idea into a viable business with a single corporate sales pitch, instead of trying to sell to every doctor individually.

In fact the real resistance would come from pharma. Single payer or not, evidence-based prescribing of empirically proven best-in-class drugs would undermine pharma's entire business model.
Oracle copied Amazon’s API–was that copyright infringement?
TF2 managed to have private server, and was the origin of HATS. I'm not sure I see that your logic is sound.
Pandas Visualization for Data Scientists with D-Tale
My company, Man Numeric, has really been pushing for open-source projects and we were able to open source this client for visualizing pandas data structures. The motivation for building such a tool was born out of a conversion from SAS to Python and we needed a replacement for SAS's Insight function. It integrates really nicely into a jupyter notebook or python terminal.

Under the hood its a small Flask service with a React front-end (particularly react-virtualized & chart.js) which can be instantiated by passing it a Pandas data structure. It can handle datasets of any size (as long as the data fits in your RAM) by only loading & drawing what data is viewable in the dimensions of your browser. I have a demo running on PythonAnywhere:

http://andrewschonfeld.pythonanywhere.com/dtale/iframe/2

Let me know what you think?

I also have another heavier piece of data available for playing with:

http://andrewschonfeld.pythonanywhere.com/dtale/iframe/1

GitHub: https://github.com/man-group/dtale

Thanks
Could also be mass hysteria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness
Hear, hear. We should start some kind of movement. Or at least write a manifesto.
ShishkinFS really? It would better, of course, but there should be different options to save it.
Bummer, but at the same time it's hard to argue with a measure designed to save lives. If seatbelts wouldn't have been compulsory for decades I think people would have a hard time accepting them as mandatory.
I understand that you don’t subscribe to astrology. There is no need to respond to this thread, no?

I am not looking for someone to convince me or guide me. I have already decided to learn astrology. I want to use the right tools to be able to map it. It is the same if i want to learn astrology or predict human behavior.

I guess thanks for your engagement, but you are not being helpful.
AMD could reveal Ryzen 4000 CPUs at CES 2020
Never heard of them before, looks like they have a local DC so shipping would be fast so I'll add them to my bookmarks, Thanks!
Just as the shrewd investors who have been printing cash here for decades are moving out.

Always right on time.
On the Visual Weariness of the Web
Counterpoint: The NVIDIA Titan RTX has 4608 CUDA cores. We won't see 1024-core CPUs because GPUs cover that use case already.
Dramatic pauses don't work when the reader can clearly see what comes next.
Idk, usually the end result is a fat refund check. The incentives here are scatterbrained at best.
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I would absolutely choose one store over another if they had a proprietary tool to tell me which medicine is scientifically most likely to work for my ailment. I cannot stand the massive wall of choices at pharmacies.
And you could still get win95(a) below 30 if you cleaned up manually. I remember that my setup was 27 and some (small disk, needed space for linux...)
I did not say no life, but rather no advanced intelligent life. Life itself may not be detectable at this distance, but the kind of civilization that can manage to cross interstellar space? Given the timescales involved, any civilization more advanced than our own is likely to have been so for millions of years. It seems very unlikely that such a civilization could exist throughout that period and not leave evidence of it. Where are the Dyson swarms? Resource mining probes? Grey-goo planets from failed nano-tech experiments? Such incredible engineers over so much time would have attempted some kind of extreme-scale projects that we'd see.

Sure, there are a lot of reasons one can imagine that make that untrue, but the point isn't that it is impossible, but rather that there are other explanations that are significantly more likely even though they themselves are unlikely.

We have 0 examples and 0 evidence of advanced alien intelligence. We have rock solid proof of human intelligence on earth, and several examples of magical-seeming technology in the hands of some of its people and not others.

And again, this argument is predicated on the rather debatable assumption that the phenomena in question is indeed a craft of some kind. We have a ludicrous number of examples of human beings ascribing natural phenomena to magic and/or aliens.
Surely you can't leave us hanging?

What's the t-shirt look like? :)
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> “Just as Microsoft for more than three decades has licensed Microsoft Word without demanding to know what customers use it to write, we believe it would be wrong for GitHub to demand that software developers tell us what they are using our tools to do,” Friedman wrote. If you place restrictions on who can use open source, is it still open?

That is the whole beauty and danger of open source, in that it empowers developers and users. It is up to the developers and users of open source to decide how they use that power.
I know. It's why I asked @lunchbreak
Your advocacy means "do more work just because" for engine developers. So clearly not something they'll ever appreciate.
Your second link has a pie chart that claims that pharma companies spend around 200x as much on advertising as clinical trials. Do you believe that is true?
By far, the best approach I've seen is pooling players by metrics that cause the least controversy within said pools. Ban the hackers in waves for those extra sales, ala steam. In between just match them against each other and get the popcorn. Same for griefers, tryhards, casuals, children, etc.
And, for that matter, Perls 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlhist.html#INTRODUCTION
There's nowhere in the continental US you can drive for days and not get a cell signal.
ICE uses a GitHub Enterprise Server.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_transformation

Time dilation is only 1/2 the story. The other half is distance measurements get distorted.

People in the spaceship see the same maximum velocity of objects they pass aka c. However, if a huge measuring tape with say light year tick marks passing them they are going to measure it’s speed at say .99 c and the time between tick marks is X. Alternatively, at .999c they would get a new time period Y. However the difference between X and Y is not simply .999/.99 but rather a more complex relativistic adjustment.

However, this is only important for people on the spaceship. For people staying home the it takes 3.5x the energy to hit .999c vs .99c yet it’s only shaving 1% off the observed travel time. Which is unlikely to be considered worth it by just about any civilization baring significant changes to the laws of physics.
I made some really good friends playing 1942. Guys I met up with IRL, in other states even. The only probs we had were the “defeat the ceiling by flying upside down” pilots and trash talking with other clans could get a little spammy. The rivalry was welcome though and we mostly resolved it by kicking ass on various ladders. And occasionally getting our asses handed to us. WoW coming along and deflating our numbers made me sad.
> The only computers I could find were antiquated machines for the workers running Windows XP (or possibly Windows 2000) with 4:3 monitors.

Somewhere there will be a chapter in the book of Fry's demise about how they never modernized their point of sale system. That thing is fucking ancient and looks like some kind of weird homebrew monstrosity that the owners nephew (you know, the one who "knows computers") cooked up for them way back when they started. That thing has to have been a boat anchor that kept them from tinkering with their business model.
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That's Gustafson's Law, right? [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustafson's_law
That's awesome. 16:9 monitors only make sense for watching video, and are an abomination for pretty much any kind of work involving text.

I will be very happy when 4k 16:10 or 3:2 desktop monitors become widely available at an affordable price.
True, but you would hope that when unconstitutional laws are brought to court they would be struck down (results vary).

For one of the odd cases which details the weird world of USPS laws passed by Congress, check out Postal Service v. Flamingo Industries which starts with claims of attempts to create a mail sack production monopoly and goes interaction complicated from there. I was not aware the USPS has the powers of eminent domain and to conclude international postal agreements.
This guy really misses the point. You don't put 1024 x86 cores on a chip because the programming model of individual threads being scheduled ad-hoc doesn't scale that well (and imposes a lot of overhead on the control apparatus).

But on a GPU, it is typical to have well over 1000 cores using a different programming model that accounts for memory access and grouping threads together to accomplish shared work and shared memory accesses.

So, the same work is now being done with slightly different algorithms that exploit this programming model.
Awesome summary. Welcome to some lessons/truths (circa 2019 state of technology):

1. Deep learning (by itself) is often a shitty solution. It takes a lot of fiddling with not just the models, but also the training data — to get anything useful. Often the data generation team/effort becomes larger than the model-building effort.

2. It is hopeless to use neural networks as an end-to-end solution. This example will involve studying whether detections are correlated/independent in neighboring frames... whether information can be pooled across frames... whether you can use that to build a robust real-time of the scene of interest, etc. That will involve lots of judicious software system design using broader ideas from ML / statistical reasoning.

This is why I find it hopelessly misleading to tell people to just find tutorials with TensorFlow/Pytorch and get started. You really need to understand what’s going on to be able to build useful systems.

That’s apart from all the thorny ethical questions raised by monitoring humans.
"For code that is 99.9% parallel then using 1000 processors (each of which is about 250 times slower than the one faster chip they collectively replace) we can double the speed, more or less."

Where does that 250x slower come from? That doesn't seem a very reasonable assumption.
This has been known for a very long time in pharma circles. Marketing budgets are several orders of magnitude higher than R&D budgets. An extra dollar spent on marketing has much higher returns than an extra dollar spent on R&D. Most of the real "hard science" R&D is paid for with NIH grants.
That's what it is now, but Medieval and earlier, and in the same era Islamic and Indian astrology were well respected fields of study and scholars studied it seriously. Granted they had some very wrong headed ideas on many things, not just stellar influences -- every disease was a judgement of god, doctors checking horoscopes to decide treatment, treatments that were sometimes worse than the condition, etc. Though in those times Islamic and Indian treatments were far more based in fact than those in Europe -- who mainly wouldn't consider them as they were non-christian. :)

Would be interesting to try and find a real pattern in any of it (by which I specifically don't mean the type you mention, or the 3 sentences of dross once found in daily newspapers)...

https://www.bl.uk/learning/cult/bodies/astrology/astrologyho...
Why is this a machine learning problem? Does your factory not have keycard access? Or just require your supervisors to carry some sort of RFID/BLE tracking device. These are well-solved problems.
> I'm working on an app where the main value is that it calculates actionable numeric values that users typically calculate in spreadsheets.

Even this sentence is a perfect tool for validating the market: I have no idea if the product is for me! ;-)

(I get that you may be keeping your product’s specifics vague here, but by doing so you’ve provided a contrived example of how a simple description of the product itself can help find information about the target market. I have no idea if I’m in your target market, for example, so if I’m supposed to be, that’s a problem.)
I was going to say that too; GPUs aren't exactly general-purpose CPUs like an Intel/AMD/ARM chip would be, but they clearly prove that having thousands of cores can help specialized cases.