skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently there is a higher resolution video. This should help sort this out, my own account is that in the 90's I witnessed this "object" with two other witnesses within eye sight of the now closed El Toro marine base in Orange County, CA. It was in fact moving like a ping pong ball, that is what made it appear so different from anything else in the sky that looked similar to it like stars. With my own personal knowledge I completely believe the pilots and they're accurate and much more detailed descriptions. If you agree that an "It's Aliens" https://imgur.com/rrV0EeO
argument requires extra ordinary proof then maybe it makes more sense that we were testing some of this hot new radar tech on our state of the art projection technology. See here for further context: https://books.google.com/books?id=vS0fAQAAIAAJ&source=gbs_si...
The word didn't become any easier or harder to say from the moment it was launched. It was clear how to pronounce it. How do you pronounce Cuil?
I would be interested to see a study of how buying puts on a small percent of your portfolio over time fares over just a 100% index strategy. I have to imagine that the no-insurance strategy fares better over long periods of time since you’re taking on greater risk. With puts you’re just offloading your tail risk onto someone else willing to take it on. If that were not true it would mean puts are chronically underpriced.

For the average investor with a long investing horizon it does not make sense to reduce your gain just to smooth out your equity curve. But if you are a few years away from retirement, for example, then maybe it makes sense as an alternative to just scaling back on risky assets.
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We are primarily a Windows shop with all infrastructure managed on-premise and most development is waterfall. However, the company is actively working towards being cloud-friendly (Azure) and rethinking its development processes (eg. embracing devops tech, agile).

As this is a foundational role, we're looking for someone with either a masters or PhD in a quantitative discipline and a minimum of a couple years of experience in developing predictive models (preference for supervised learning).

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But then biking is cheap. When I was a student, I would buy a bike at a used bike shop for ~80 euros. They would last me a year and I would bike almost daily to the university, to go to friends, or go out at night. Besides not having incredible amount money, bikes are stolen on such a regular basis that it wasn't much use buying a more expensive bike.

Maintenance costs were very low. Every now and then I had a flat tire, buy a new inner tube for 3 Euro and you are done. Later when I did my PhD I had the same second-hand bike for years. Though, I would usually bring the bike to the store to get a flat tire fixed, which would usually cost 10-20 Euro.

Now that we have enough income, I usually buy a new bike for ~700-800 Euro every two years or so. But even then it is very cheap compared to car ownership or even public transport. Plus much healthier.

The biking infrastructure in The Netherlands is exceptionally good. However, if I was in an another country (I lived in Germany for ~5 years), I'd rather have them invest the N * 50 Euros in bike lanes. Because I think in many countries the problem is not the cost of owning/maintaining a bike, it's just that the infrastructure is bad compared to that for cars. I lived in what is considered to be a 'green' city in Germany with a Green mayor and all, and the cycling infrastructure pretty deplorable.
Every Gopher hole is good, but magical.fish is a great showoff as an intro :D.
That's the famous w.amazon.com internal wiki that is basically the intranet portal for all of Amazon. I worked at AWS from 2016-2019 as a principal engineer. They were trying to deprecate w.amazon.com for the entire 3+ years I worked there, and were still trying when I left in early 2019.

I can tell you that Amazon is pretty great in most ways, but they have a lot of really old school tools. For example, they still use majordomo to manage hundreds of thousands of email lists. They've customized and extended it in so many ways that it probably looks nothing like open source majordomo, but at it's core, it's still majordomo. They just wrapped 1990s majordomo CLI tool with a 1990s static HTML page that authenticates you with oauth and lets you create and manage email distribution lists.

So many tools at Amazon are like that. But they actually function amazingly well once you adapt to their 1990s->early 2000s quirks.

One comment I'll make is this: every environment will have preferred "paved" roads - use X language/toolchain and Y relational database, Z cloud/metal provider. Ultimately these details, other than X and a subset of Y, shouldn't matter if you build the right abstractions. And by "the right abstractions" I mean you should just be able to declare something like this:
relational_database:
mydb:
size: 100GB
readers:
- auditservice
readwriters:
- application1
- application2
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The problem is that it was written in a different time for a different world. In 2007 having a web shop was not commoditized, so there was some value in a drop-shipping business, factories and wholesalers had no presence on the web, there was much less competition in e-commerce, Amazon was not so ubiquitous, Aliexpress did no exist, Shopify was in its infancy and unknown, ... Edit: So in short for me it's outdated.
The office isn’t dead, but it is also clear that the office won’t come back to levels we saw before.

Commercial real estate is very expensive. In many companies the biggest expense after salaries is the cost of their office space. That cost is going to be challenged very heavily moving forward. Many companies that were against work from home because “it won’t work for our company” have been in near 100% WFM mode for a while now. After some initial stumbles most haven’t imploded and many quite like the new model.

I suspect that hybrid will become the new norm and that many fewer people will spend every workday at the office. That in turn drastically reduces the square footage required by many companies.

The implications of all this for the commercial real estate market are quite severe. Expect to see developers quickly try to pivot some of their commercial space into residential ASAP before they find themselves sitting on empty floors with plunging value.
So, this seems to be the gist of the article.

> [I]t’s not possible to identify [child exploitation material] without also having the ability to identify any and all other types of material — like a journalist communicating with a source, an activist sharing a controversial opinion or a doctor trying to raise the alarm about the coronavirus.

Other people suspect that the real goal of the bill is to force facebook/WhatsApp et al to do away with end-to-end encryption, which would be the only way the companies could police the material (and AG Barr has "expressed his desire for this outcome": https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2020/03/the-earn-it-ac... )
I think I understand the point the author is trying to make, but I think they end up accidentally making too strong of a claim.

Sometimes there is /essential complexity/, but it is far from always. I think the line of thinking espoused by the author leads to less simplification and encourages a "well, the complexity has to live somewhere, so why bother?" type of approach. However, reducing complexity is often possible, and it usually comes before the implementation stage. Reducing complexity sometimes means solving a different problem.
Adoption of cycling would require more serious actions like improving the road system for the bicycles so that cyclist are safe from the cars. The cycling should be also a pleasant activity so that people can do it naturally, without being forced.

I am in France and I am enjoying now the reduction of car traffic and the improvement of air quality but this is going to end as soon as the confinement is over.
Both sets of causes contribute to inflated costs, and probably others as well.
This is the real reason for Elon Musk's latest round of idiotic tweets, in case anyone was still confused.

Tesla is an expensive company to run, their finances are often at least a little bit precarious, and he has on the order of tens of billions of dollars riding on there not being a recession right now.

There's no hidden gem of contrarian insight, he's just being selfish.
Good to know in that case, that you can create as many databases as you want in one FaunaDB account and even create databases in databases (parent keys get access to child databases) and probably won't get these issues. e.g. I run integration tests and create/destroy a child db for each test suite.

Disclaimer: I'm a dev advocate there so I'm obviously biased
Bulk of business analytics and modeling in the world happens in the zone between "regular business laptop" and "82 Core Xeon machines". Laptops with Xeons and reasonably powerful NVIDIA GPUs thrive in that environment.
What you call "ossification" others would call "stabilization" and "standardization". Not to say that the inertia of (some) kernels is not excessive sometimes but I'm not a fan of the "fuck it, we'll do it in userland" attitude. That creates big, opaque application blobs that nobody understands and knows how to debug with standard tools.

I feel like Google in particular loves to do that stuff because while they control the internet and the browser, they don't (yet) control the OS so they have a very strong incentive to push stuff up in order to retain control. They don't have to ask anybody to add things into Chrome, they have to get third parties on board to extend the kernels (outside of Android at least).
> It's kind of like making the medicine taste bad so you'll believe that it is doing something.

No, that's so little kids don't think it's candy.
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The Beagle Bros "Big Tip Book for the Apple II Series" was the only programming text I had in 1989, and no internet yet nor did I know anyone who knew about programming as I was 10 years old. That was my favorite book as I thought it was hilarious and I learned Basic from it and a bit of assembly. Changed the direction of my life for sure.
Focusing on concrete harms is important. In front of the supreme court you want to be able to say "This law is devastating to journalism, a fundamental institution in our democracy." Rather than sounding like a screeching privacy activist to nine nontechnical judges.
The concern is that if the app just gives you a ton of alerts, because maybe you encountered someone in the street with the virus but it's unlikely that you have been infected, people will simply ignore that alterts (or simply uninstall the apps), because you know, who wants to be quaranteened for 2 weeks because there is the remote possibility of having the virus? Maybe they do that on the first alert, at the second one they says who cares, I need to carry on with my business.

One could argue that who recieves the notification should not quaraneen but get tested immediately, well we know that we don't have the resources to test all these people, in my country they don't even test people with symptoms if they are not severe enought, let alone test someone because an app says so.

Also an app could give a false sense of security, that is particularly bad. The app only can say if you got in contact with a positive that also had the app, that quite frankly will not be common, first because not everyone has a compatible phone (in my country only 70% of people have a smartphone, also you need an updated phone to install the app, on iOS the APIs that will make it work are just being released in the next iOS beta), then the app will be voluntary and thus not everyone with a compatible phone will install it, for privacy concerns or other reaons (like not being forced to quaranteen for the remote possibility of having been infected).

Thus I predict that maybe we are lucky if 20% of people have the app (that is compatible to what happened in the countries that already adopted it). And that is a percentage that make the app itself useless, because you have too few data.
This collides with other rulings, or seems too. For example, from Wikipedia[1]:

"The laws of the United States hold that a legal entity (like a corporation or non-profit organization) shall be treated under the law as a person except when otherwise noted. This rule of construction is specified in 1 U.S.C. §1 (United States Code), which states:

In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, unless the context indicates otherwise—

the words "person" and "whoever" include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals;"

If a corporation can own patents and have legal personhood, then you might get to the point where an AI is the corporation, and thereby could own patents. I am thinking of the DAO (Distributed Autonomous Corporation). I am also thinking of the Cat series of novels by Joan D. Vinge, which contain an AI run corporation [3].

Another consideration is that we are seeing AIs invent things now in the fields of medicine, material science, music and perhaps others. If AIs own these inventions then whoever owns the AI owns the inventions.

Given the DAO, if an AI can own assets then I don't see any way an AI cannot own a patent.

Yet another angle though is liability. If an asset owned by the AI is found to be the cause of someone getting injured, then who is at fault? Who has to pay damages?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood#Case_law_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_D._Vinge#Cat
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> just how outrageously bad things looked in late March.

I agree things looked terrible then. I think a big part of the conversation now is "how much was lockdown, and how much was bad projections?"

Given what we knew at the time, it was the right choice. Now we need to decide how to move forward.
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I can only think that name sounded much better to German ears, as that's where it started? Yes, to me it's reminiscent of clique, which is not a word I like, but with a mutation that makes it seem dubious and low-rent.
I agree sourceMaps shouldn't be exposed and they also bloat up production code. The reason we have them exposed for the time being is for debugging purposes in open beta and we intend to remove it out of production in our upcoming weekly release.
There are a load of these that I found - source https://twitter.com/tourismandantiq

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=d42fuVA21To

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=QaGBAsT6yg4&mls=1

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=ui3dfrQDqB2&amp;mls=1

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=xmDbt2rfa82&help=1&brand=1...

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=PKxweZaPG3P&help=1&brand=1...

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=zBpDdPqxTKz

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=zBpDdPqxTKz

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=o5Ex5Xo7UkE

Absolutely fascinating! I have always wanted to visit these sort of things in real life but the political climate in the past decade or so has put me off. Shame - this is a great alternative though.

I really wish more places would do this sort of thing! Google does some, but I like the quality of these.
Time to Check Your Pandemic-Abandoned Car for Rats
Because of their impulse to chew, rats frequently destroy material that offers no nutritional value to them. The inherent appeal of car wiring, Dr. Parsons said, is complemented by the fact that, in recent years, many car manufacturers have switched from petroleum-based wire insulation to greener, less expensive soy-based kind.

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I'm really hoping another company is able to pick up the Cliqz search index. Having an option to Google and Bing is important.
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No, from my experience in OEM manufacturing since 2007 I can say it isn't.
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It isn't just tooling.

> At render time, though, you need to use a bunch of extra tricks to get the right smoothing

Nurbs or any smooth geometry needs to be subdivided too. You can set levels, max size of polygons, smoothness constraints subdivide based on the pixel size from the camera projection or any combination. In practice this is not a problem for polygons or nurbs.

> - bump/texture mapping,

This is orthogonal to the geometry type, with the exception that UV coordinates are far easier to deal with with polygons.

> increased subdivision,

There isn't any increased subdivision, both geometry types need to subdivided. Blue Sky's renderer raytraced nurbs directly but this isn't generally as good as just tracing subdivided polygons.

Polygonal geometry, even subdivided, is typically not a big part of memory or time in rendering in all but the most pathological cases. 4k would still mean that one polygon per pixel would be 8 million polygons, which is going to pale in comparison to texture data typically.
Ask HN: Why not have candidates fix bugs in open source code?
It would take some effort to work out the logistics but a ton of minor bugs never get resolved in open source projects because there are always more important things to do. If I'm hiring for a frontend position I could easily find some minor bugs in OSS projects that would help me gauge a candidate with the added benefit of helping out a OSS project and I'm not getting (at least in the context of my company) work done for free. Win win?
> For some reason it reminded me of Trump's first book, The Art of the Deal.

They're both primarily selling the same thing, the glorification of the author's image.
what's the best way to buy a car right now?
> Now I feel like I owe the world a subset of HTTP and HTML to put my money where my mouth is.

There are such subsets around: the one used by Texinfo's HTML export for portability [1] and by XMPP for XHTML-IM [2], the ones supported by simpler web browsers, the ones individual developers or projects stick to. An issue with that is the differences between those subsets (along with presence of multiple ones), although they seem to have quite a bit in common: attempted accessible websites tend to be usable in basic (or restricted) web browsers, possibly about as often as random/unrestricted websites are usable in major web browsers.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/texinfo....

[2] https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0071.html
ALife is fundamentally concerned with the research on the kind of control systems that govern how organic life responds to stimuli, how those systems plan in order to maintain long-term homeostasis, how they select goals, how they allocate attention, etc.

One might say that ALife is to an event loop as AI is to a one-time query-response. AI can evaluate, but you need an ALife system in order to "think" in a continuous way.

There's really no sense in which an ALife researcher cares about recreating a full-fidelity model of biology in silico; the point is to specifically study the thinking and decision process of real agents, and figure out how to model those, in a way that the model makes the same series of decisions the real agent does in the same situations (and, therefore, must also be keeping and updating analogous internal state to the kind the real agent keeps.)

Some of those models are attempts to recreate real brains/nervous systems, but these models aren't fundamentally biological. A "low level" connectome simulation doesn't contain any model of cellular inflammatory response, cellular waste and its clearance, etc. It's basically just a brain-as-actor-model with neurons as stateful processes and electrochemical signals as messages.

An ALife researcher cares about as much about biology below the level of intracellular pharmacodynamics (sodium channels et al), as a race-car-chassis engineer cares about physics below the level of fluid dynamics. They don't need to go any lower, because they've found an encapsulating abstraction that makes all the predictions they're interested in making, without needing any lower-level information.
I'd similarly been evaluating a Python client implementation a while back and found the developer experience a little rough around the edges[1].

It's reassuring to see Dgraph undergoing the full Jepsen treatment, even if it highlights that there's still a bit of work to do, and further stability to prove.

[1] - https://github.com/dgraph-io/pydgraph/issues/94
This sounds like you want https://k3s.io, a kubernetes distribution specially made for single node and probably much simpler.
>So he read a Thiel book recently and it now pervades his every answer to this interview?

Yeah that was kind of annoying. Amazing how even a certifiable genius can fall so completely for such meaningless self-help bullshit
Does anyone else feel like this post tries too hard to be cheerful?
The origional question was:

>I don’t get it. I found that there so far have been covid 234,133 deaths [0] and season flu can cause up to 646,000 deaths [1].

9-44x is 6-28 million covid deaths this year. Is this the number you think is likely?
Use this link instead:

http://archive.is/e4D3G
How Bill Gates Monopolized Global Health
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