skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conversing like a human is not solved, and will likely not be solved with today's deep net.

The key missing part here is NLU, not a nice human face.
Speaking of taxes, has anyone been able to download the instructions for the Federal 1040 form?
The website is: https://www.irs.gov/forms-instructions

But the downloadable "Instructions for Form 1040" pdf is still for tax year 2018.
Can anyone find the download for tax year 2019?
What if we fixed the leaks though? The leaks aren’t a problem inherent to natural gas.
Okkkk, good point.

And they're only magnetic until they get updated because the declination changes over time.

Other exceptions: near the poles where the magnetic declinations change rapidly, so they use something else.
Do they actually mean 32768 colors?
Become a Better Developer Through Blogging
It counters the author's argument that he smelled something.
Foldable and dual-screen laptops desperately need Windows 10x
Where are you getting it having the least sunlight? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_sunshine_dur... lists Juneau as having less.

But yes, it's low!
I (rhetorically) wonder why the title does not contain the "actor's" name. But then again, we all know why that is.
TikTok has now explained what is and isn’t allowed on the app
Right after taxes become theft but before abortion becomes murder.
>Waiting another hour or so gives enough time for scouts to return from other sites, and then the entire cluster heads off together to this new site

What happens if a bee is late coming back and everyone is gone?
The change in the shades of the color chart (due to lighting) is probably used as a tolerance in the algorithm.
This anecdote was valid until the MAX:

A Boeing with an engine fire will pop up a dialog saying “flight computer detected a possible engine fire, would you like to shutdown?”. An Airbus with an engine fire will pop a dialog saying “flight computer detected an engine fire, shutting down engines”.

The joke being Boeing pilots have a chance of saving the plane in the event it’s not an engine fire, Airbus will just do what it thinks is best and let the pilot sort out the aftermath. MCAS changed all that
This Low-Tech Magazine article[1] does a much better job of explaining the complexities of compressed-air energy storage, including different ways to minimize or harness adiabatic heating, though with a focus on home-scale installations rather than grid-scale.

1. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/05/ditch-the-batterie...
you should try using some noise cancelling headphones and listening to music while driving. The result is really surprising and it is way more difficult to drive.

Humans are actually using their ears a LOT while driving. You don't realize it because the brain is so powerful at blending everything into a single "feel".
I'm a big fan of Naval Gazing, which has an article on that exercise: https://www.navalgazing.net/Millennium-Challenge-2002

As you might guess, it has a slightly different view of what went down, and how representative it would be of a real conflict.

One of the most glaring issues in your quote is this:

> The carrier battle group’s Aegis radar system—which tracks and attempts to intercept incoming missiles—was quickly overwhelmed

This wasn't actually the Aegis radar that was overwhelmed, it was the system to simulate an Aegis radar for the purposes of an exercise. Actual Aegis systems don't seem to have the same problem.
> Overall, both renewables and LNG are greening the grid by killing coal.

in your dream

Coal production is growing last three years
State has a duty to prosecute law breakers. This is a load bearing wall of civil society. Everywhere.

Making sweeping general statements is good for riling up the mobs but I would implore HN readers to be more pragmatic about these things.

Look at the context. This person sought to ignite racial tensions for personal gain. He was given a sweetheart deal. The State is going after him and those protected him. They (the State prosecutors) have every right to collect and gather evidence to build the case.
4 out of 3* FTFY

Or perhaps it's 5, or 6.
There is the new Chinese "Super Great White Shark" prototype.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/16/asia/china-new-helicopter-ufo...
To your point re: supplementing experimentally backed systems (i.e. Newtonian Mechanics):

"...what is really wanted for a truly Natural Philosophy is a supplement to Newtonian mechanics...and introducing the additional facts, chiefly electrical - especially the fact of variable inertia - discovered since his time..."

"...it may be that when the structure of an electron is understood, we shall see that an 'even-powered' stress in the surrounding aether is necessarily involved. What I do feel instinctively is that this is the direction for discovery, and what is needed is something internal and intrinsic, and that all attempts to explain gravitation as due to the action of some external agency, whether flying particles or impinging waves, are doomed to failure..."

-- Sir Oliver Lodge - Nature, Feb 17, 1921
I haven't read the series but it seems that political polarization is the topic.

This is perhaps the biggest mystery I'm aware of in the world today, especially because it's not specific to America, I'm seeing the same trends in my country as well:

- Extreme polarization along similar axes (conservative/liberal, urban/rural, age, ...).

- Outright hatred of traditional political parties.

- Rise of populist and non-traditional politicans.

- Distrust of traditional media, rise of low quality media (fake news in the extreme).

There's surprisingly little discussion and research about the cause of this. One interesting theory I recently came across is that the driver is the process of people moving from rural to urban areas. People who make such move are demographically distinct - more liberal for example. So over time this has cumulative effect and leads to increasingly distinct demographies.
Is this different in any practical sense to an old fashioned request for physical paper documents?

The only difference I can think of is traditionally documents are destroyed after they are no longer needed. Now they can see “deleted” documents and document change history.

i.e. emails stored locally on a personal or company server can be permanently destroyed. Traditional email systems won’t have a change history of the email writing process)

(I imagine all sorts of games could be played by lawyers with access to this additional types of information.)
Ask HN: What's your favorite Node.js interview question?
I've been a full time PHP developer for years, but node is my goto language for side projects. My new year resolution is to find a node job. I am putting together a cheatsheet of Node.js interview questions at https://www.cheaki.com/nodejs/nodejs-interview-questions and wanna get some inputs from the HN and wanna get more questions. What's your favorite Node.js interview question (ask or being asked)? Thx!
The dictionaries credit a comic strip "Barney Google" with coining the expression.

No saying whether that is really where the New Evil Empire got its name.
A bit of an aside. Terrorism is a useless word now besides its propaganda value. The USA just declares whoever they don't like to be a terrorist, like how they just did to Iran's army, and now apparently they can legally assassinate any Iranian soldier. What's funny is Iran wants in on this propaganda game now, they designated the US army as terrorists.
> Personally I think the fake meats are a needless crutch.

More then that, they're a hype-driven fad where a good concept gets ruined by people letting their imaginations run away, like cryptocurrency and driverless cars.

Honestly, I think test tube meat is where the real revolution will come from. (Animal flesh grown without the animal.) "I can't believe it's not meat" will join the ranks of Jello salads and other foods that we no longer eat.

(That, and I think that vegetarian dishes will slowly become more and more popular as people realize that they taste good and eating meat everyday is boring.)
He reads just about anything but I'm not inclined to make an investment in a device that wouldn't include graphic novels and similar color content. I just don't think it would last.
The Robot Operating System (ROS) has moved out of academics
Thanks! Yes I agree this is a bit accomplishments oriented. Part of me wanted to make it more gut-wrenching, but I like the idea of relating it to people in your life.
I think human nature/marketing is at work here.

If someone wrote the core concepts of a big idea on one sheet of paper, nobody would pay $14.95 to read it.

But if it is wrapped in a 400 page book, it would be reasonable, or even a bargain to charge $14.95.

Same reason meals at US restaurants are getting bigger and bigger. People don't need meals that huge, but...
The idea that unintelligent life from another planet would be unstoppable on Earth, devouring everything in its path, seems ridiculous to me. All organisms are really good at repelling foreign invasions, both inorganic and organic. The only pathogens or organisms that have any chance at all have co-evolved over billions of years, just to have a small chance at succeeding against a healthy target.

Any alien microorganisms that find themselves released into the wild on Earth are going to be devoured. They won't stand a chance against the millions of existing species and their varied arsenal of weapons. They weren't here to evolve defenses.

Some more sci-fi ideas like inorganic life or nanobots are a different story, but if we're talking about the equivalent of Martian fungi, I'm not worried.
I'm partial to the Avro Triplane myself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_IV_Triplane

It's a beauty!
I think most networks I'm a part of lack the long term relationships and sustainable group dynamics that make traditional, real-life groups so awesome.

Currently I'm trying to figure out what makes a really awesome group, and trying to scale it up at some point. So for now, I'm just saying 'tech-minded', but I hope to iron that out soon.

As far as incentives go, if you don't meet the minimum posting activity for a group, you get removed. So ideally the groups will be valuable enough to get people to contribute so that they don't get kicked out - I will have to see if that's enough.

Looking forward to getting you onboarded into a group - thanks for the questions (and I'll take your word on that title advice too).
Because there's no juicy licensing money to be made from getting Opus into the Bluetooth standard? Seriously, there's no real technical advantage to this weird proprietary codec as far as I can tell - the performance and computational complexity seem to be pretty much on a par with Opus, even based on benchmarks and hardware that the new codec was designed to do well on.
there's other ways of getting a stereoscopic view.

comparing multiple images from the same camera at closeish points in time while in motion for instance.
https://smellpgh.org/visualization

https://alleghenycounty.us/Health-Department/Programs/Air-Qu...
Quality of the record keeping is vastly higher. Imagine a subpoena for every paper mail you sent in a year. You can't get that from the US Postal service.
I don't know what you have done. The red dragon book goes over targeting an intermediate form that's basically assembly language, it also covers register allocation in depth. As far as I can tell, most of the texts after that is in research papers and real world examples (https://c9x.me/compile/)
No offense but I'd rather trust the engineers of all these companies combined over an anecdote on the internet.

Not to mention technology change always generate friction. You just can't please everyone.
Author here. I've had similar or more reduction in food intake on intermittent fasting regimens over extended periods. They didn't seem to nudge my sense of smell much, if at all.
The province of Québec stops or reduces the flow of many of its hydroelectric dams at night due to the much market lower prices spot prices for electricity, especially since nuke plants flood the markets with unused capacity.
I am curious if the solution is from new sources (fracking and cracking) or historical sources like the Clairton coke works. I've heard that there are several new ethane cracker plants that have come online in recent years to support the fracking industry.

From what I understand the long standing polluters like the clairton coke works are still going strong and there have been several new cracking plants built to support the fracking industry.
Did they break the license meta data while doing so?
> Why are these changes not being contributed upstream?

Perhaps more importantly, what are these supposedly "critical bug fixes"? How do you make a claim like that without clearly documenting it? Are there security impacts? CVEs?

Edit: if you click through to the actual library page[1], it makes no claims that I can find about "tons of critical bug fixes". I'm beginning to suspect that may be some extremely misleading marketing speak that made it into the README.

Edit: looking through the list of changes[2] does not inspire a lot of confidence in their fork.

[1] https://github.com/AirVPN/openvpn3-airvpn

[2] https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn3/compare/master...AirVPN:...
It's necessary for calibration at shooting time. It's a very similar technique to using, say, a ColorChecker Passport or a SpiderCHEKR with their associated profile-creation software for still photography, the main difference being that attenuation underwater is much more variable that lighting conditions on dry land. You need to accommodate attenuation of both the incident light (light hitting the subject has to get there through local water conditions) and light reflected from the subject at different depths at different times of the day and year, and with different "water" compositions (minerals, particulates, etc.).
> it’s not like stores are gonna reprice and rearrange products on the fly during busy times

Ah, but with networked electronic tags, they totally could try and maximize revenue even more by dynamically repricing products throughout the day.
The scariest part is that this amount of data access can be very effectively weaponized to build a strong case against anyone. All of us are inadvertently breaking some law or the other all the time. If the government doesn't like you for any reason they are one court order away from blackmailing you or putting you away.
>Will we ever get to "nuclear-powered" weed-whackers?

I wanted to say "probably not", but I looked some stuff up and now I'm unsure. Essentially all small scale "nuclear power" uses a Radioisotope Thermal Generator. You essentially have a radioactive rock that generates heat and the heat difference is used to generate electricity through the Seebeck effect. The fuel that's typically used for this is Plutonium-238, because it almost exclusively decays as alpha particles (helium-4 nuclei), it has a half life of 87 years while being the most (of the long half life ones) energy dense at around 0.57 W/g. This is what's used in space flight missions and has actually been used to power pacemakers in the past with essentially no ill effect on the patient.

Pu-238 is still too heavy for the amount of power it generates for a weed-whacker. What changed my mind though is that apparently Polonium-210 also almost exclusively decays as alpha particles, but it has an incredible 140 W/g power density. The problem is that it has a half life that's only about a third of the year. It still could technically be used for a weed whacker though.

From a practical standpoint though, small scale "nuclear power", through RTGs, is way too inefficient for it to be used by regular people. Even if you eliminated all the risk of contamination, it would still only make sense for things that need to be running 24/7 that you couldn't swap out the battery on. Fission and fusion, so far, require a far larger plant to generate power.
I haven't tried any of these, but wouldn't most of them leave the .swp file there?
> Meanwhile, maybe we get smarter and live longer. The calculations involved with many areas of modern science have already outpaced what we can do by hand, but we invented computers, so I can take the mean of a zillion numbers without much effort and spend my time elsewhere.

With software being as slow as it is despite massive speedups, and even despite despite massive speedups, we really are still not good enough at using our computers to their fullest capacity which still means getting insights into complexity before crunching the numbers.
Ask HN: If I cant code, what else can I do in a startup as a recent grad?
Hello all, I cant code but I wanna get into startups that are 10+ people big. Sales Development Representative roles are incredibly demotivating. Are there any other roles that a worthwhile?
Ambiguity isn't always an effective rhetorical device, especially on an internet that has fallen prey to the law of averages.
It doesn't have to be Christianity, but a nation needs moral fiber to prosper, and not just economically. The decline of faith in America with no underlying moral philosophy to replace it has led to normalization of far too much injustice, monopoly, and downright selfishness. Democracy is on shaky ground these days.
The court order is the determination that the information has enough probability of being relevant that it needs to be turned over to be reviewed.
At the time when libertarian lunatics figure out how to convince enough people to change the accepted meaning of the word "terrorism"?

I mean... you obviously don't like this, and many people agree, on very reasonable grounds. But it just is not terrorism.

It's sort of how boiled mushrooms are not "death", even though I have equal affinity to both concepts.
The researcher that authored the paper answered a few questions on Reddit last year [0]. She explained that the color chart isn’t necessary for every photo.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/dvts2j/this_researc...
I was getting worried we haven't seen a new JS tool for a few minutes.
Spacevim is very user-friendly. Or at least as close as vim gets.
I forgot about fruitarians. Thanks!
> Queue the Google alternative posts.

How would that help? They'll just get a warrant for those.

> This is some terrifying stuff.

You have a strange definition of terrifying. This is how the law is supposed to work.

You do realize they can also go in his house and search through his things? Or order his friends to talk? That's what search warrants are.
Thinking about it as a stick makes sense, but I think being more cognizant of the finiteness and appreciating it makes it more valuable.
> Engineering would be understanding the tradeoffs in advance and choosing them with consideration of the outcomes.

You're not giving enough credit to the people that designed domestic animal breeds. Modern working dog breeds were absolutely engineered for particular tasks; target characteristics were selected up-front, size and hair and temperament and so on, and dogs and breeds were chosen to start from and bred in predictable ways to increase the likelihood of obtaining the desired characteristics. Animal husbandry is only "random" in the same way that sports is: There's absolutely some variation in outcome in each individual game, but if you put a professional NFL team against even a college team there's not much doubt about the outcome of a best of five. Or it's random in the same way a loaded die is: individual trials may be random, but if you consistently use it for the important rolls you'll clean up.

Also, I'd just like to say that software engineers would be ecstatic if they had a reliable way to accurately predict the tradeoffs involved in many architectural choices.
This will only augment current optical technology, not replace it.
Not to mention he is good at writing and it is a very interesting read
I see a few people in this thread making the mistake of thinking France went nuclear for cost or environmental reasons.

The main motivation was geopolitical. You don't need a lot of uranium (less than 10,000 tonnes a year), you can stockpile it, and you can buy it from many countries around the world and indeed across the political spectrum.

Think about how much the US spends to secure its energy supply, which until recently mostly came from the Middle East...
recent grad of what?
yes we have seen you know how to make this comment.

Another way to look at that 'duty' is to say [The] state has a responsibility to ensure justice for all. That may seem like the same thing but vagueness is at times valuable given that life rarely satisfies the black and white dichotomies many of us would prefer.
Are you trying to say: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." ?

Become terrorism? To answer that we'll first need to define "terrorism".

There are over 109 different definitions of terrorism. It is not only individual agencies within the same governmental apparatus that cannot agree on a single definition of terrorism. Experts and other long-established scholars in the field are equally incapable of reaching a consensus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism#Modern_definitions
> they are one court order away

The implication being that the courts are corrupt?

If that's the case I think you have way worse things to worry about than "data access", the courts have much greater powers than that.
Well, he said an old MFM drive, so he's probably referring to an MFM hard drive rather than diskettes. That was the common parlance for MFM HDDs back then.
Summary: The death rate from cancer has dropping slowly but surely each year (at about %1.5-%16 rate). This last reported year was largest single percentage drop in that process - 2%. That could also be phrased as 98% of the deaths happened the previous year (2016) also happening that year (2017). Half-full, half-empty, etc.

So it's a blip but an encouraging blip. At the same time, the headline makes this sound much more extreme and excite.
There's a large plant in Beaver County, northwest of Pittsburgh, but it's still being constructed.
Do you think it's valuable to zoom in and out of timescales for a tool like this?
No. The only difference is that you typically don’t put papers in the custody of a third party.

My dad at one point was an inspector general at a government agency. They would use records and “physical metadata” like building logs and receipts for the purposes of their work. The difference today is that your allowing many third parties to gather that data.

That’s the key thing. If you store data in the custody of a third party, it isn’t yours.
DoH only hides the domain name lookup. You still connect to the other server by IP. Even $2.50/mo VPS plans offer a unique IP these days, and building a database of IP:hostname is extremely trivial, especially for ISPs that already run DNS resolvers.

But let's be real: the internet is quickly becoming a walled garden, so having access to DNS requests is mostly only going to give you a billion facebook.com + twitter.com + youtube.com + google.com + google-analytics.com lookups anyway.
It certainly can get more legal than that -- Google (or the target, if they somehow found out) could appeal against the warrant, which would result in another round in the courts.
You can do the Go style defer using boost's scope exit. It's also in wil if you use windows.