skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eyewitnesses are notoriously unreliable, especially as related to stuff they see in the sky, and even more specifically related to drones.

What seems overly credulous is that people are willing to think there are large groups of drones flying around, and there are no definitive images or video of them.

You might find this post interesting, https://www.metabunk.org/threads/plane-shaped-drone-caught-o..., in which a local news reporter and law enforcement officer think they see a drone, but it is convincingly argued that what they saw was an airplane.
See the motivation to fund CRISPR research for a counterpoint.
Regarding the first, while funding per pupil doesn't directly correlate to outcome, it's not irrelevant to outcome. Additionally, students in lower income areas are more expensive to teach per pupil.

> Schools in high-poverty neighborhoods are more than twice as likely to be among the least-productive school districts
[1]

Regarding the second, I sure hope that we spend multiples of our military budget on services! If we didn't that would be absolutely astonishing. Other than services for the people, what else should our government be spending money on?

But we spend more than many other countries. We put about 15% of our federal tax dollars into military spending, compared to, say, Germany (12%). If we scaled back a percent or three on our military, we'd have hundreds of billions of dollars to spend on schools, infrastructure, healthcare, public defenders, etc. etc. etc.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/connecting-sc...
> every new thing became a #1 priority

I know this well, this seems to be common in large software companies.
I've not figured out if I have the internal monologue after all or not, or both, but I often find myself composing something I'm going to say or write and feeling that the final sounding out is redundant. I already know what that sentence is going to be, no reason to actually put it in words.
This is 100% me. I kind of think of language like an operating system for the brain - a really chaotic operating system.
My company does this in a sense. We build a (mostly) open-source eCommerce platform with almost 100 public repos and a lot more proprietary ones for larger retailers. It's not "microservices", but it's definitely a lot of packages to manage, and we have frequently had trouble keeping them all organized and in sync with the latest changes to the core platform. The core platform is designed internally with a modular, domain-driven architecture, and the applications made with the platforms are monoliths, but the features of the platform are distributed amongst a couple hundred RubyGems. It's a lot to keep track of, but it's still a great compromise between a modular, plug-and-play architecture, and a monolithic application with all those features installed at once (which would be really hard to maintain). We're looking for ways to reduce our workload in that sense, because our team is rather small (about 6 people) and as I was saying, it's a little difficult to manage all those repos. So we've been thinking about keeping the modular architecture but keeping everything in a monorepo, so it's easier to release new versions and figure out what's changed (or what needs to change).
There was a post earlier on using command line tools instead of Hadoop for quick data processing. This shows a non-trivial example of how you could implement a complex data pipeline and an overview of some of the commands you could learn if you’re interested.
It's so frustrating to me. I happened to have the radio on last night and the local NPR reporter stated seven times in six minutes that the bill failed because a bunch of groups who are nominally highly in favor of more housing just didn't think it went far enough (e.g., too much market rate housing not enough affordable, too focused on urban areas not enough suburban ex-urban, on and on and on). Classic shoot-yourself-in-the-foot move. At least it was a start. You can always try and improve it later. Now, we have nothing.
Glad it's not just me that cannot visualize faces whatsoever! But with the exception of faces, I can visualize complex 3d shapes if I'm lucid dreaming. When I'm fully awake, my visualization abilities decrease quite a bit, so when I get a chance (which isn't so often with kids) I'll often lie in bed for an hour or so just thinking visually. My wife thinks I'm being lazy, but it's often the most productive part of my day.
It's consistent with natural selection. Cases inside Hubei likely have fewer viral generations (= less mutation) than cases outside. Additionally, every case outside has a population bottleneck in that it was transmitted through a host that was well enough to travel. The most virulent cases would be expected to sicken their hosts and discourage travel or extensive social contact.
What do you mean? Bell's working on a followup right now, as an entry in the US army's Future Vertical Lift program [0].

And the osprey itself is still getting adopted in more places - I think carrier onboard delivery is its latest role.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_V-280_Valor
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Under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, you can take a 100% deduction on new and old equipment in the first year. It expires in 2022, but that's because of the shenanigans to avoid formally violating deficit rules, which use a 10-year window for assessing budget impact. I think there's a good chance that it'll be extended as you can game the budget analysis that way indefinitely.
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It’s not at all unheard of for a patent to take 5 years to be granted. Do those folks just lose out? Or do we base patent term on issue date instead of filing date? (NB: it used to be that way, and it invited all sorts of gamesmanship.)
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Not necessarily - a lot of musicians listen to stuff which is not obviously similar. Examples I've seen: Billy Gibbons -> Depeche Mode, Robert Plant -> Patty Griffin, Bono -> Frank Sinatra, Lars Ulrich -> Lou Reed -> Laurie Anderson, Frank Zappa -> L Shankar -> Stefan Grappelli.

But yes, if you really want unexpected paths, you have to just keep your ear to the ground. The way I discovered I liked Goa music was that I randomly clicked on it while surfing Shoutcast 15 years ago.

EDIT: (of course the disadvantage is that you have to sort through a lot of chaff)
“We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.”
Martin Luther King Jr.

Benefits for the well off are ‘subsidies’ and ‘tax breaks‘, such as the fact corporate health insurance is not taxed, while benefits for the less well off are ‘handouts’.
Massachussets has a law that enables developers to bypass zoning restrictions if they are helping bring low income housing to an area:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Comprehensive_Pe...

I think it's sometimes used to threaten local zoning boards to capitulate to other developer demands, but it does contribute somewhat to the supply of affordable housing.
This is the plot of Snowcrash loosely. Great book.
Support acts are often mismatched. Lots of acts tour with their mates rather than their musical peers
Because this way you can also reap the gains if you invest in these firms? If you keep the make-work in like 3 companies, then I, a human, can get the rewards of owning the stock by doing manual work.
im sorry but this makes no sense. because i can go through things visually in my head without articulating them, i don't have an internal monologue?
I guess we'll see by 2040 :)
That’s not true. Any city in California has total authority to adjust their zoning code. Cities change zoning as a matter of routine business. The reason cities have not done anything constructive is each individual small government is held hostage by its own incumbent land owners.
We have tons of instances of building/paying the initial costs for something and refusing to fund their maintenance. Public housing is widely panned for this reason, imo. Public transit likewise.
> they pit communities against each other to create political gridlock and build voting blocs for reelection, but do fuck-all to actually solve San Francisco's problems.

Sounds remarkably like national politics.
No. There's immense pressure on the mainframe market; there's a constant drumbeat of mainframe-killer tech that's definitely better/faster/stronger (and, on rare occasions, is...at least for some narrowly defined workload). IBM has to work very hard keep mainframes competitive technology, and even harder at sales/marketing to fend off the alternatives.
I feel like this too. However, I've found I can instantly get into non-verbal focus while playing chess. You might want to give it a shot. FWIW I'm not a particularly good, or experienced player either, just someone that enjoys it.
CoreXY is interesting, and seems especially well suited to plotters, where you don't need to worry generally about the speed of the tool. I've seen CoreXY machines doing circles at two or three linear meters per second (!) with print heads on them, I can only imagine how fast a light pen plotting head could go. Is there a reason why people aren't using thin cables or wires instead of belts at this point? If you used wires you could have a simpler crossover, I think (wouldn't need the extra pulleys); this could also reduce belt inertia, if that's of any importance.
I have a ~200K line Rust project split into about 50 crates without about 700 dependent crates. It is not much faster to build on an 18-core AWS machine (c5d.9xl) than on my quad-core laptop.
I'm curious, are there any 1 million LoC projects out there that compile in under a second?
> What would you have to do to achieve the same goal with a monolith?

You would take Celery, get a message broker up and running and launch some worker instances.
Yep. Those numbers seem incorrect to me. I'd like to see the defense number be smaller and the human stuff higher.
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Why are you comparing a top of the line workstation with an average laptop? They're different markets.

The fastest laptop chips are extremely fast at executing lightly threaded programs. I'd own a workstation if it sped up my tools. But it won't.
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Can you do anyone else's voice? Friends? Family? SO?

Can you remember someone saying something they said, in their voice?

Start with the memory, and then tack on the new sentence at the end of it.

Search your feelings, you know it to be true. Now you read the rest of this sentence in Darth Vader's voice.
That makes a lot of sense. It's hard to think in speech while talking. And it's hard to think visually when reading. But conversely easy to think in speech while reading, and think visually while talking.
I think this could be due to genre bias. There's a new xanax rapper every 60 seconds but fewer folk metal, and the like, partially due to required number of people and overall effort.
That’s highly nontrivial. (And by the way, almost no one uses reexam anymore. It’s all about IPR these days.)
I first learned TensorFlow and built a lot of very custom stuff with its "Slim" API and have been very happy about it. The only thing I always struggle with is the grunt work of wrangling tensor shapes and indices, e.g. broadcasting, tf.tile, tf.gather, tf.scatter_nd, tf.where etc. These are a real headache to use, while numpy for example has its so called "fancy indexing" and mask-based indexing, which are not available in TF.

Other than that, I'm very happy about TF's graph structure. It means, I can just build the graph (a bit like a declarative style) and in each iteration (session run) I can specify which tensors I'd like to fetch. Then TF takes into account the data dependencies and lazily computes only what is needed. Very convenient and I got very used to this. Maybe someone who just uses PyTorch doesn't miss this because they never used it. My other problem with pytorch is that you have to define every model / layer twice: once in the constructor and once in the forward() function. That's not the best design in terms of DRY. I understand why it's technically needed due to the working principles of PyTorch (especially for weight sharing in different parts of the model, which in TF may need some getting used with its variable scopes and reuse flags), it's just inconvenient.
Yes, I know, everybody knows. My point is that SQL doesn't help you catch those errors where your join clause doesn't match rows uniquely. You can know that the product is the default and still forget that extra bit in the predicate.
> He acknowledged, however, that more work is needed on SB 50, and asked his fellow lawmakers to approve it so the Assembly could continue that work.

So why not do that work before sending it for a vote?
That actually refers to criminal cases, not civil.
Yes. In addition to C--, there is a long tradition of FP (and not only) languages targeting C as a (portable) back end representation. That's how many scheme compilers worked for example. LLVM itself at some point had a C backend.
The trick is to read without sounding out the words in your head. Then since you're not thinking in speech when reading, you have room to listen.
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IMO, the biggest opportunity for this release is the ability for newbies and experimenters to now "hack" against structs using impl as needed.
This is true, but how often are you recompiling 4+ crates simultaneously?

What desktop are you comparing to what laptop? The top end i9 has eight cores, and a max turbo just 100mhz shy of the top end desktop part. The turbo is less aggressive on the laptop, but there's just not that much difference between them for low thread counts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i9_micropro...
Where I was a bit more than a year ago they hired a real expensive consultant who did a data lake project which wasn't finished by the time my team were told to use it, so we rolled our own according to that team's instructions and best practices (best practices were a huge deal at this company, everything we did was best practices). We exported data s3 under a particular structure and I built an ETL system around that and spotify's Luigi. Noone else on my team knew what ETL was, which made me feel old. We spent two, maybe three months on this. The BI team got their data and so did the marketing automation team.

But yeah, it's funny how these projects get complicated in larger organizations. Personally I would have rolled something even simpler on gnu/posix tools and scripts, in rather less than a month.
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Thanks for the info. My knowledge of the lisp family is quite limited outside of emacs lisp (which usually has a quite imperative feeling).
> I'm not trying to excuse slow builds, but I'm frustrated that people basically always do benchmarks on laptops. Like, come on, if you're doing serious work, use a serious computer;

This reads as a dismissal. That you can only be a serious developer if you have a permanent setup where you sit down, and don't move from it.

Many devs are not just sitting at a desk or cubical writing code.

They may need to interact with clients, move between locations, even across cities. They may even be in the horrifying hot desk situation.

In all of those, working with a laptop makes sense.
Libertarians who want to control what you build.
I'd like at least some graph database containing all these entities. Can probably be scraped from the internet, would need to know which ones are highest quality and most comprehensive though.
the point of guns vs butter is that there's a ideal balance of the two that maximises output. it's not a moral argument.
An easy example, you can make movies in other regions of the country, YouTube makes it possible, but if you want to easily hire the best people you have to go where they are concentrated. This is why being in the movie industry pulls everyone to LA.

The Bay Area is a hub because it's where the industry was born. People who have deep knowledge in the industry are here. If you want to grow your startup somewhere else, you can. I think the problem is that you might eventually hit a wall as you grow. You'll need to pull in UX research, or a PM, or grow a legal team. In most places in the country, these roles just won't exist, or there won't be any domain knowledge to build them out from scratch.

Also, just like the film/tv industry, tech workers want to move around a lot. Unless you're in a hub like Seattle, NYC or the Bay Area, your options to move around are limited.

Remote cities can work if all the stars align or someone finds a company that lets them remote work. However, once you leave the job after 4 or 5 years, you will have to find another remote working position.
Well, maybe not as guilty as the people who created and maintained the systems the SS used.
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If I'm reaching for Rust it's more than likely because I want it's borrow checker and pattern matching on enumerated types.

To my knowledge D has neither of those so it's not really in the running here.
I encourage you to read about the default mode network. I wager what you experience as an internal monologue correlates to high activity in the DMN.
I wouldn't have thought that was necessary, surely. There will be enough Android phones travelling any point in the road network to generate enough data, without Google attempting to generate more data.
I think it's just practice. I used to be an internal monologue reader into my 20s until I worked to not be one(because I wanted to increase my reading speed). Maybe I was neurally set up to achieve this - I am strongly left handed and have been told by many people they dont understand my thought process on things(not in a bad way, just sort of "where the heck did you come up with that") throughout my life.

Just start looking at text and don't let yourself say the words in your head.
I have this problem. My mind is obsessed with modelling /predicting other's thoughts and words, continuously testing predictions, improving models. Listening to predictable people is exhausting, and if I zone out they will belabor their point even further.

I have found one strategy in which 'cutting people off' can be mutually agreeable, maybe this will be helpful to you:

While 'listening' to their predictable words, I try to determine then summarize the vital aspects of it. You already know the 1,000 words they will speak, but can you summarize it well in 50?

This can apply to practical problems that need to be solved, information to be conveyed, or emotions to be heard.

I then politely interrupt ("I just want to be sure I understand, are you saying...") and summarize my predictions.

Many people are delighted to have their own rambling thoughts rendered in a concise, well ordered manner, and/or relieved to have solid confirmation that communication was successful.

Even people who are processing their emotions, and who value 'feeling heard' above all else, will often take pleasure in this response, provided I've done a decent job of capturing the essence of their experience. We can then move on to more nuanced aspects of their emotional difficulties.

Edited to be less long winded. :)
Surely all current cases have experienced roughly the same number of viral generations? A death outside Hubei today will be caused by a virus with roughly the same number of generations as a death inside Hubei. Yet a smaller fraction seems to be dying outside Hubei.

Other possible explanations are that the healthcare system in Hubei is overwhelmed, so more patients die, or alternatively they're just too busy to accurately report recoveries.
> Apple shouldn't receive an unfair market advantage because they embody the values you hold dear.

Then buy Android if that's a tradeoff you're willing to make.
The crowdsourced data seemed combined when I had both waze and Google maps running once.

As for legality, the "content" you submit (which looks to include road condition/event submissions) is sub-licensable and transferable,
https://www.waze.com/legal/tos "rights in content".
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I think it depends on whether you want to feel like a good person, or be a good person. Living in the moment lets you feel better, because there's less to consider. Constantly examining yourself and those around you allows you to better react to those surroundings (even if some people don't act on it for various reasons, one of which might be getting too caught up in the examining and never doing).

Like literally every single thing in life I can think of, the truth is likely that moderation is key, as too much to either end of the spectrum is problematic.
Is there any problem with separating the ML into a different service/machine, and everything else together? Then you can treat the ML in the same way you treat an external service, or your DB or Redis (if external). While no longer a pure monolith that certainly doesn't qualify as a microservices architecture.

Note: no idea what I'm talking about, I'm genuinely curious if that's a valid solution.
"these countries have such high taxes and other restrictions, the only benefit to starting a business there are these programs"

Well, that's not true. You also have a good safety net if it doesn't work out.
Quality of life, happiness, health care and education is also good or among the best.
> That's not really a Javascript problem. That's a dynamically typed language problem.

I disagree; I do a lot of work in both dynamic and strongly typed languages. Most often, when I find a bug "not where the error occurs," it's because, for example, I'm accidentally computing a minimum and later assuming it to be a maximum. Unit tests catch most of this, so such debugging puzzles usually happen to me in fresh new code with unstable interfaces...
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They all say they are for affordable housing - but as I mentioned above the mandates are designed to exclude and prohibit housing. The results are clear very little actually gets built.
These are fair points.

If I were to provide services for me and my family (or for a small company), I won't make them publicly available at all.

I would have every device connected to them over VPN (OpenVPN, WireGuard, ZeroTier). Of course it would prevent self-registration, and would take some work to distribute keys — but by definition we are a small operation, so this is manageable.

No service would ever listen on a publicly accessible IP. The machine(s) hosting that would firewall off all other incoming connections, except the VPN and SSH for admin purposes. I hope I would be able to quickly address CVEs in these two services, plus the kernel.

A setup like this is already pretty standard with AWS, but you can reproduce it almost anywhere, including your own physical box(es).

The weakest link with this setup is the client computers. So inside the VPN you still need good security practices — but the attack surface becomes much smaller, and a DDoS becomes harder to pull off.
Making video games with physical elements is about clever approximations and gimmicks to make things seem physical, rather than simulating the physics outright.
Have you tested yourself for face-blindness or prosopagnosia?
I don’t think we are disagreeing, but I wouldn’t rely on the industry to define how much is needed.
This is a problem but I’m not sure having everything in a single data store is a great idea either. Generally you want your analytics separate from your operations anyway. We do this by having a central ES instance which just informs on the data it needs, which had worked perfectly fine for our needs
NodeOS looks pretty cool! Thanks for sharing the link to it!