skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking only to JS is there any reason to write it any other way outside of being clever or as a lambda for singular use? I definitely prefer this version. (Assuming any necessary runtime checks are included for a given project)
With the exception of oxygen (where a forest is definitely not a closed system, since the light from the sin and the co2 we breathe go back to the forest), the amount that we remove from forests through foraging and hunting is trivial compared to the amount of resources we demand from agricultural land. And when we continually harvest wood, well, forests don't do well. Managed forests are basically just farms. Nutrient cycles are pretty slow - as we remove minerals amd nutrients from a forest (and dump those nutrients into oceans via sewage) - we are depleting forests. Forests can't produce excess minerals.
Should You Use a GPU for Your Machine Learning Project?
As an non expert, aren't there ontological interpretations too? You say QM is epistemic, but is that referencing the Copenhagen Interpretation as commonly taught?

I know probability and unpredictablity don't go away, but MWI is closer to an ontologic theory no? I mean as far as science can claim to be ontological.

And similarly for nonlocality. Is it only ontological? I feel like many worlds would say one thing vs copenhagen. And how do non traversible string theoretic wormholes reprsenting entanglement a la Susskind fit in if the theory can only be about epistemic knowledge.
Despite decades in software and IT, I know embarrassingly little about mainframes. Simple question for anyone knowledgeable in the field:

Is there any justifiable reason for a greenfield project in 2020 to choose mainframes as a platform?
I too want simplicity, but Fargate still requires a load balancer in most cases. Further, you’ll probably need a database (we’ll assume something like Aurora so you needn’t think about sharding or scale so much) and S3 buckets at some point, and security obligates you to create good IAM roles and policies. You’ll need secret storage and probably third-party services to configure. Things are starting to get complex and you’re going to want to be able to know that you can recreate all of this stuff if your app goes down or if you simply want to stand up other environments and keep them in sync with prod as your infra changes, so you’re going to want some infra-as-code solution (Terraform or CloudFormation or Pulumi etc). Further, you’ll probably want to do some async work at some point, and you can’t just fork an async task from your Fargate container (because the load balancer isn’t aware of these async tasks and will happily kill the container in which the async task is running because the load balancer only cares that the connections have drained) so now you need something like async containers, lambdas, AWS stepfunctions, AWS Batch, etc.

While serverless can address a lot of this stuff (the load balancer, DNS, cert management, etc configuration could be much easier or builtin to Fargate services), some of it you can’t just wave away (IAM policies, third party servic configuration, database configuration and management, etc). You need some of this complexity and you need something to help you manage it, namely infra-as-code.
The other person was probably told to stop finding problems as well, and he was complying. I once told a manager the only way to not do what I was doing would be for me to be asleep. Hell, maybe it was so easy he could do it in his sleep?
Oh yea, the ads are really aggressive these days. I don't blame them. I'll block as long as I can. They have to make money somehow.
It is not available in my country.
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imho a very elegant solution and probably works in most languages, I was surprised by JavaScript's behaviour myself
And you get to download stuff to your phone and listen with the screen turned off. YouTube has a lot of good, quirky stuff you don't find on, say, Spotify.

It is a bummer they've turned up the commercials - but then again, paying makes for a potentialy healthier ecosystem.

I use YouTube so much paying just to get rid of the "new video commercial" was a no-brainer.
Assuming that you can drink an infinite amount of liquid, yes.

But in practice "drink more milk" means "drink less soda".
green name means the account is new
It was an internal audit role and she wasn't a professionally qualified accountant.
Thats less a forest and more just a farm pretending to be a forest. If they are criminals, then the people growing monoculture wheat fields are also criminals.
Especially since Apple should _want_ you making free tools for their platform, it directly increases the value of their systems.

How many people stick with iOS because of all the apps they like, which may not be available on Android.
Also more instability within the country.
I remember a recent study on a new supplement that costed ~10k per subject for a 6 month trial.

There's a lot of hidden cost wrt bureaucracy and other such issues.
Structure from focus is an established technique that can produce quite good results, but it's not quite as easy as the existence of good autofocus in cameras would suggest. SfF techniques often operate the the inverse of an autofocus system - rather than focus on a specific point to figure out depth at that point, you run through a full focus cycle and then for each area of the image, you find the focus setting that made that area in focus.

The challenge there is that running through a full focus cycle and capturing frames as you go is quite time-consuming and introduces serious artifacts if anything in view is moving. Phase-detection autofocus is so fast in part because it's only using a sparse set of autofocus points, rather than the full sensor resolution.

The other major problems with SfF are the same the photographers encounter all the time - the depth value is only as accurate as the depth of field will allow, and shallow depth of field requires wide apertures (and is generally easier on larger sensors, as well). Large lenses and sensors may work well for stationary scanning applications, but struggle to be useful on robots.
Is the premise here that the author wants to move away from YouTube because YouTube removes racist or violent promoting, or fake news posts? If PeerTube doesnt block these videos, then I rather stick with YouTube.
One could very easily say the same about far left and the violent antifa and blm riots roping in degenerates and socialpaths to create mass hysteria IRL. Looking at your post history Im sure you feel like some sort of justice warrior. How do you feel about the oversexualization of children in such Netflix programs such as Cuties. Are you willing to defend the most innocent and vulnerable of society? I highly doubt it.
I remember the internet before google - when you would search for anything there would be like a 25% chance that a given search result would be a porn site targeted for random keywords. Google has done a great job figuring out content curation at scale. A competitor for any of their services would need a suite of hard-to-implement features to be viable, including discoverability and content filtration. Are there any good open source solutions to solve these problems? Bonus points if they’ve been proven at scale
"The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) were well understood. It is said, by the Guide, that such generators were often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess's undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance with the theory of indeterminacy.

Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this, partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sorts of parties.

The physicists encountered repeated failures while trying to construct a machine which could generate the infinite improbability field needed to flip a spaceship across the mind-paralyzing distances between the farthest stars. They eventually announced that such a machine was virtually impossible.

Then, one day, a student who had been left to sweep up after a particularly unsuccessful party found himself reasoning in this way: If he thought to himself, such a machine is a virtual impossibility, it must have finite improbability. So all I have to do in order to make one is to work out how exactly improbable it is, feed that figure into the finite improbability generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea... and turn it on!

He did this and managed to create the long sought after golden Infinite Improbability generator out of thin air. Unfortunately, after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he was lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who couldn't stand him being "a smart arse."
Time as implemented in our current universe (which has counter intuitive properties, such a universal speed limit, which math does not require). It is possible that there is a version of time “before” the emergence of our physical “implementation” of space-time. There is no reason to stop assuming that the mathematical property of contingency doesn’t extend beyond the BigBang. Math is the foundation of Physics, not the other way around.
It's been a while since I've looked at Fabric8 but it had good java -> k8s integration and was great for writing k8s tools.

It appears though that Fabric8 is useful for solo java projects without complex dependencies on non-java projects or small java shop. It overlaps with where jenkins-x is going, which has made major strides in the last 24 months.

The original team that worked on Fabric8 lead by James Strachan all moved on from Redhat and many of them are working on Jenkins-x.
>Centralized and non-distributed video platforms have one critical advantage over distributed: it's harder to sue users. That's because you'd have to first sue the host to get logs, which requires at least some legal adjudication of the merits of any underlying copyright claim.

In Germany at least as of a few years ago it was exceedingly common for people who seeded torrents of movies/tv shows etc to receive copyright infringement notices which were sent out on mass, which is why pretty much everyone used a VPN.

Not sure what exactly the legal situation was but I think they simply relied on third party services who would host/scan for copyright infringement, colllect a ton of IPs, then go to a court, and thus you pretty easily circumvent any individual issues because you just do it in bulk.
To have the DMCA safe harbor you have to submit a form at the copyright office and follow certain procedures. It's not automatic the way copyright itself is.
They can buy generators and pay for it with cover charges.

So the city stops nothing and the people keep party. Sounds like they will win.
> At least with Linux once I configure it right it works without issue and does everything I want.

Until an update breaks it because some asshole decided to break an ABI, or swap out a fundamental system component with a different one, etc.

So I guess what you're saying is true so long as you never update anything.
F-15s: "Hold my beer."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Negev_mid-air_collision

Great photo of the aftermath here: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/9884/did-an-f-1...
Thanks for the kind words about the product. Totally understand the reservations about the subscription service. The value add here is that by subscribing, you gain access to a steady stream of new areas, enemies and modes that will keep Quell exciting. The base game will still have a lot to keep coming back to, but the subscription will help us run the development of this new content so that the experience stays fresh. We'll also be opening up the hardware to other developers, including those in VR, since we know that broadening the ecosystem can only help ensure people have a reason to keep using Quell long-term.
As a former middle school teacher, I can concur that most of the day is "educational themed day care" primarily about teaching kids to submit to authority and keep their heads down. Actual learning can be accomplished with far greater value by having mostly quiet reading sessions interspersed with outdoor play. Even fiction reading is a huge benefit, as most of our "reading" classes are all about talking about reading, not actually practicing it, so most students only improve their BS skills.
They are. But that's a very depressing statement about everyone else. About them it's more damning with faint praise.
Why, in 2015, is ripping CDs still illegal in the UK?
Author here. I host on a dedicated server in Germany; 64GB of ram and a recent generation processor. It costs less than all my crappy Vultr/DigitalOcean nodes, so I moved a ton of stuff to it.

You do need a decent VM or dedicated server for PeerTube, but they're not that expensive if you shop around. I pay ~€60 a month.
One of the accusers dropped her charges. She says she was pushed by the Swedish authorities to make a case. The other withdraws he consent after the facts as she says Assange didn't tell her that he was seeing other girls.
manquer is right, though. Since about 2008, Apple has moved towards being a lifestyle / fashion brand, rather than the semi-pro brand they used to be. For me it started with Final Cut Pro, and the slashing of the quite friendly web server experience. They've even tried to make things hard for Adobe at times, forcing people to pay for patches for months if they were doing it "the old way" after an OS X upgrade. They've simply been terribly rude to their own professional users. By cirka 2016 I started actively advicing professionals to shop for other hardware producers, both within creative media and IT. Incidentally, that's also when the last usable / hardware upgradeable Mac came out. Since then they've glued every part on the thing shut. Apple might look pretty, but you're better off using something else. to me this thing is just yet another nail in the coffin. Love, a former Mac fanboy.
10M page views in a few hours for an analytics platform
YouTube doesn’t need your support, but creators do. Many offer a more direct way to funnel donations than via ads on YouTube, ie Patreon, merch, Twitch subs, etc.
It's not available on the app store, and installing it used to be a two step process because it needed micro-g and SAI. They've streamlined it now with an installer app called Vanced Manager. Vanced.app
Worth noting the limitations listed at the bottom.

> The accuracy of antibody testing varies widely. Moreover, most antibody tests were done for people seeking them out, which means that those who got tested are a self-selecting group and not a random sample.

> It also appears that New Yorkers in some neighborhoods with lower infection rates were more likely to seek antibody testing.

> In some wealthy and largely white ZIP codes in Manhattan, some 30 percent of people may have gotten an antibody test. But in Corona, for instance, where the positive rate was highest, less than a quarter of people got tested.
>> You can also easily "clone" other boats by taking a mold of the hull.

Be careful about this. In a truly strange exception, american boat hulls are protected by US copyright law... the dreaded DMCA.

"Title V of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Vessel Hull Design Protection Act, provides sui generis protection for an “original design of a useful article” (where “useful article” is limited to boat hulls)."

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/vessel_hull_design_protectio...
The 57th St Tower (still being built I think) is slightly taller and even skinnier - and just as ugly. Really I think it detracts from the beauty of Central Park.
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It's just a cheap version of an endorsement deal. Michael Jordan, $80 million/year. Museum of Ice Cream, $5/like.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen

For the individual auditor: if you're a chartered/certified accountant you can get into a lot of hot water, including possible jail time.
Young Mathematician Solves Old, Famous Knot Problem in Barely a Week
For sure, I have experienced similar feelings. Good to know it's not just me. It's kind of like a derealization caused by the thought of how absurd or odd it is that we exist at all.
Interesting article. Feynman had a story in one of his books (reprinted here: http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/607/2/Feynman.pdf ) in which he described running up and down stairs to see if it affected his ability to track time while he was actively trying to keep accurate time. He found it did not. In his case, he couldn't speak while counting.

In that case he was intentionally spending continuous effort tracking time.

Interesting paper that I'm still going through.
Getting "doxxed" by someone on a social media platform can have much more impactful real-world consequences than Google showing you more relevant ads thanks to knowing that you watched a video titled "the most reliable power tools".
We also have hate laws that restrict what I can say against people. Or slander laws. I can’t just go tell lies about someone and claim free speech. Well you could but risk being sued.
I have no particular desire to take another step into the garbage fire that is America and its politics, but calling something fake news does not make it so.

https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/apr/26/context-trump...
Definitely sounds like PeerTube needs a discovery mechanism for users so you don't serve content out of certain jurisdictions.
> TL;DR an auditor cannot have same knowledge as IT person and audit time is expensive.

Code audits and pentesting are a thing you can buy. But yes, they're even more expensive. Turns out security isn't considered valuable enough for most.
Just a reminder: After fleeing the United States, supposed freedom-fighter Snowden took protection from a 'president' who just gave himself the option to remain president until 2036, and who appears to have just poisoned his chief political adversary by spiking his tea, Alexei Navalny (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/20/alexei-navalny...). Snowden is still under the 'protection' of this dictator today.

Another reminder: Julian Assange's skullduggery influenced the 2016 election in favor of Trump, in which he lied about receiving materials from Russia that were the product of an illegal hack into the DNC, and appears to have been taking cues from the Trump campaign, and in particular Roger Stone, to drop these materials at an opportune time to influence a presidential election.

I'm willing to get modded down infinitely to push back against the bonkers hero-worship of these three here on HN. Assange in particular bears direct responsibility for bringing the United States into the sorry state it is in today.
>convenience of cloud-based password management AND high security.

One attack vector I see with Bitwarden is that if the server hosting the web client or the Firefox/Google account that owns the browser extension gets compromised, they could easily be modified to exfiltrate all your data.
So unless you always package the browser extension yourself and check the web client's code before using it, your passwords are essentially only as secure as the developer's security measures are strong.
Free GPT-3 based content filter AI
It is called existential anxiety, it shows that you are able to contemplate about your own insignificance in contrast to the grand scheme of things (universe, all of existence, etc.). We all have it on one level or another, I used to have it when looking into a dark cloudless night, realizing that all of the little dots I can see out there could technically be orbited by another planet that bears life, inhabited by millions or billions of other lifeforms that could be able to feel and think.

Usually it is nothing to worry about, except when you get obsessed by it and it starts to control aspects of your life because you build a worldview around it or try hard to avoid it or explain it away: then it is called an existential crisis. But what it really means is that the mind gets overwhelmed by the fact that the universe is orders of magnitudes more complex than what the self has ever encountered in our daily lifes. Our brains have evolved so that bipedal apes that migrated from forests into the steppes can survive and cooperate in groups. It was never meant to be confronted by questions of this dimension, but yet here we are.

You can make your peace with it, and embrace it. It can also be a source of endless curiosity, spirituality and creativity.
The Candela Seven is a finished product while the SeaBubble haven't made its way to production yet.
With that in mind it's not unreasonable to think Candela had a prototype done before the Bubble...
That's the entire point. Divide and conquer.
Microsoft quietly disables registry hack used to de-activate Windows Defender
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I really love this! I’m not sure whether to laugh, cry, or applaud, but I love how it makes me feel all those emotions at the same time.
You don’t need admin to simply run software on macOS. And even then installed is (or should be) nothing more than extracting the app to a directory and running it. Installers are and anti pattern in macOS afaic.
> You can get the exact same thing with ad blockers.

Even better because you can prevent google from tracking every single video you watch and linking this information into your IRL details through the payment info.

Paying Youtube for privacy is nonsense. You need to send Google more information and log in your account to get rid of the ads and then google will track the videos you watch, link this information to your real life name, CC number, phone, billing address, etc. and then allow advertisers to use this information to push you more ads on other Google services.

Just use a good ad blocker, Firefox Multi-account Containers (forcing YT to only open in a dedicated container) and Cookie AutoDelete (despite the name it handles LocalStorage too). When you close the last Youtube tab, your tracks will be erased and the next one will get a clean one -- but, for sake of mental sanity, never click on any of that trashy first page videos :)

On Android, just use NewPipe.
Great. But I have been programming since about 1985.
Says EUR 183,000 here: https://yachtemoceans.com/q30-electric-boat
Hey Bullen, we do fine with 10 people on board. Check this video: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1149405105441917

Do you also think that a Tesla Model 3, transporting 5 adults, but weighing in at above 1500kg is a bad idea?
i get where you are coming from.. but the problem is the lack of a better option, this is not a perfect solution.

as i said elswhere in comments - i saw my dad being respected for an ability to do stuff with his computer (computers were not generally used in offices etc. at the time). my childs mind wanted to get some of that respect.. so i invested time learning and playing with computers.

I saw white dudes on tv doing everything - they were all the good guys (and even most of the bad guys) i grew up thinking i could do anything. i would love to be able to say the same for my daughter.
The city has many other sources of revenue, but 5% is difficult to replace. If you wanted to replace those 5% by raising taxes on those >$500k households, you'd have to increase those people's tax bills by a quarter, which is enough to provoke strong protest. If you wanted to lower the threshold from $%00k until you have half the tax base, that richest part would see a 10% rise. 10% is also enough to make people really unhappy, and a protest by half the people in the city is tricky.
Ideally I'd also want to throw an error when max < min.
That's exactly it. They're seen as an unneccesary cost because there are no real penalties for being compromised. Though this is fortunately changing, which has caused companies to begin to take this stuff more serious than in the past.
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