skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The photos in CBC's article really do a terrible job of conveying the scale and terrifying beauty of pyrocumulus clouds. On June 29th, I watched a pyrocumulus cloud [0] from the Sparks Lake fire [0] about 20-25 km from where I was. It reached over the horizon shaped like a "thunderhead" or a mushroom cloud. I was in awe. One could see the shadow that it cast in the sky; the darkness gave an impression of the cloud being dense with ash. The scale of it was huge, even though the fire was just 2 days old at that point.

[0] : https://i.imgur.com/C5bwGeQ.jpg

[1] : http://bcfireinfo.for.gov.bc.ca/hprScripts/WildfireNews/OneF...
> A submarine is a hard counter to an aircraft carrier -- that's why we put sub-hunters on carriers and surround them with anti-sub ships.

In video games that's true. But aircraft carriers can have sonar-equipped helicopters take out submarines.

Aircraft carriers are also faster than submarines, so in practice, I'm not sure if submarines can practically chase down an aircraft carrier and actually disable them.

Honestly, I'm willing to bet that most of those Destroyers in a Carrier-strike group are there to shoot down cruise missiles (which are probably a modern, hard counter to Carriers. Cruise missiles are very expensive, but Carriers are even more expensive).

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"Hard Counters" exist in the real world, and they're far simpler than you think.

A tank is the "Hard Counter" to small arms fire and even small-autocannon (30mm or less) fire. Modern tanks are immune to such weaponry. No matter how many AK-47s you send towards a tank, they will all die.

You need to switch out your infantry loadout: you need to start sending RPGs / Missiles / IEDs if you want your infantry to have a chance vs tanks.

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Historically, an A10 or Helicopter was the "Hard Counter" to a tank. Tank guns have extreme difficulty aiming that high (tanks are designed to take out ground targets), and a tank's 130mm cannons are powerful: but A10 / Helicopters will dodge most of those shots due to the low-rate of fire.

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The concept of "Hard Counters" leads to the modern battlefield concept of "Combined Arms". You should never send a platoon of tanks by themselves to face an enemy (they'd just die against their helicopters). You instead, combine different arms together to form one group: send a tank with infantry + AA guns, so that you can face all sorts of different enemies as a team.

With "combined arms", you negate your weaknesses somewhat.
No.

1. I change platforms too frequently, so I cannot have a custom setup; and

2. when I try to run distributed with VNC or MSRemoteDesktop, there are too many conflicts when configuration, so it makes a mess.

If you only ever work on one computer, it is a great idea, but you will find it challenging to acclimate to another computer.
Jeremy here. Yup I'm not just OK with the name and project, I'm thrilled with it! :) The Julia community is doing a fantastic job with this and I'm excited to see where it goes.

Something else to watch: Julia's brand-new compiler-based autodiff library, Diffractor. https://github.com/JuliaDiff/Diffractor.jl
Show HN: A story written in Python code
Lazy evaluation is not a requirement of functional programming. There's nothing really in typed lambda calculus requiring any laziness, that's just one possible way of expression evaluation.

The only real requirement of functional programming is the support of first class functions, the possibility to pass and return functions like any other values.

If you want to discuss your own interpretation of what makes a language more or less functional, which could be interesting, please provide a definition first.
Follow up Edit for accuracy: As I was looking deeper into this more than three countries have vaccination counts above 50%.

However, the majority of those were so small (under a million people) it warranted the original source I was looking at to limit them from it's data.

That fact still remains, despite being free and widely available, a minority of people in developed countries have taken advantage of that.
Except that is not happening only in the NW. From Australia to Siberia to the Amazon forest, you see the same pattern.
Thanks, good background info.
... not to be disrespectful but this seems to contain quite a high amount of vendor specific implementations. May very well be because I don't know the solution in detail, just seems like it to me.

In the end you are bound to AWS and have to reinvent many things when moving to another cloud provider.

How long did it take to set this up?

> AWS autoscaling groups + cloudwatch for adding and removing machines

Does this also work for multiple applications on one host?

> means that I still end up with fewer hosts if I just run each component

I don't know how your environments looks like but we used one VM for every environment. One environment needs about 20 GB max so we have to use 32 GB RAM VMs and waste quite some resources.

With k8s I have two beefy 64 GB nodes that host 6 environments.

This also speeds up the execution as 70% of time the environments have a low load and the beefy nodes have more CPU cores available than smaller VMs.

Most of the time we can also throw some Jenkins and other test jobs on the cluster for free (low priority deployments).

> Overhead

Yes there is definitely some overhead. 2 GB RAM for the master and 700 MB RAM on every node.

We choose larger nodes (8 CPUs and 64 GB RAM) so the overhead is not that great in comparison.

We do gain savings from k8s (about 15 to 30 %).

> k8s magic

You are right, there is no magic sauce. k8s just packs a nice package of things I otherwise need to do externally.
Sure the external logic worked well in the past, but now I get many features for a rather low price without committing my company to a provider to hard.
And at the heart of this there will be a database or some other data store that will be very much a pet. A very precious, important and fickle pet. Even if it's "serverless" it will have its own needs and wants.

This whole "cattle not pets" charade gets on my nerves. Yeah, it's easy to "scale" that which is stateless. Not so fast with stateful. I don't care that I can spin up gazillions of web server instances. My data store is still one and very much stateful.
Probability began as the study of games of chance, with a lot of empirical content. It wasn't until centuries later that the current abstract mathematical foundation in measure theory (a normalized denumerably additive measure over a sigma algebra) was developed.

And even today probability is taught with a lot of empirical examples. (At least it was in my classes, both undergraduate and graduate.)
"Whatever you do, NEVER try cold turkey quitting any chemical, at least not before seeing a doctor."

This is terribly wrong information, to the point of causing more harm to people who take it seriously.

The ONLY common addictions that can possibly hurt you physically in withdrawal are Alcohol and Benzodiazapines (Valium, Xanax, Ativan, etc) and a family of related, common tranquilizers). And even then, you have to be a daily user to be at risk of harmful withdrawal... Unless you are actively getting drunk to avoid withdrawal symptoms, you are NOT in this risk group.

It is NOT possible to physically hurt yourself by cold-turkey quitting caffeine, nicotine, cocaine, amphetamines, MDMA, hallucinogens, or opiates. You may feel like you're gonna die, but you simply cannot hurt yourself due to quitting these substances. Mostly, you'll just be uncomfortable.

This distinction is REALLY important, because the fear of withdrawal (and life without a fix, generally) is already hugely terrifying to addicts who realize that they have a problem. But many (too many!) of these people have no access to a trusted doctor, and fear judgement, legal consequences, or termination of care if they seek medical help.

Please correct your comment, and stop feeding uninformed myths that have zero medical basis. Educate yourself before you give people any more advice on how to deal with chemical addictions.

(FWIW, I'm not a doctor, but I've spent plenty of time in 12-step meetings, and used & quit plenty of drugs.)
Yes, that would be the case in normal conditions. Not if huge swaths of the forest are destroyed annually.
Electrify America Will Begin to phase out CHAdeMO In 2022
Is there any evidence that this argument is true? It sort of ignores the fact that people do invent, and frequently, almost as a byproduct of being alive. Plus the constant litigation around patents seems to add more friction to the process, preventing people who would materially contribute to the common good by tinkering and inventing.
Having some emacs-like text editing key bindings (^{a,e,b,f,n,p,v,y,k...}) is one of my favorite NeXTSTEP leftovers in macOS.

I believe that they can be customized and extended as well.
It was done yes. Did they all wash their outer clothes every month let alone every week, no.
> with complete disregard on how the stock market might react

Even better, they're intentionally redirecting finances away from companies they don't like.
I wasn't expecting this to happen.
I’m not so sure I like people “rewriting” history. Edits past a certain time also break comment chains (which is why people call out their edit). Moving posts in and out of threads would make it very hard to find things, as well break timelines for troubleshooting.
What are "things like this"?

Is it things that exist in public but which don't have clear attribution? B/c in 2020 there were the "monoliths", which were pretty cool. Or, you know, Banksy still exists. Or @fog_karla / @karlthefog for that matter.

Is it playful, non-scalable experiences? There's Improv Everywhere. My city has a number of curb-side bird-house sized "libraries". There's a guy who keeps doing extremely long walks in the UK in his speedo for charity but presumably also to make people smile.

There are more than 7.5B people on the planet and plenty of them are doing weird fun creative things. Just maybe fewer of them revolving around 80s soft drinks.
What's with that "associative law" on page 6?

It seems to be asserting that, for all possible k, if the first k input values x_1, ... x_k are replaced by the mean x, then the mean doesn't change.

Sorry what?

(1 2 3 4 5 6) -> arithmetic mean is x = 3.5.

Ok, let k = 3; replace first 3 elements by 3.5:

(3.5 3.5 3.5 4 5 6) -> arithmetic mean is 4.25

Unless I'm totally daft, there has to be a typo there somewhere?

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Edit, ah, ok. Returning to this, I see where my eyes fooled me. The term on the left goes to x_k. Thus x is a "sub-mean" representative value which is of the first k values. If the first k values are replaced by their "sub-mean", then the "master mean" is undisturbed.

That is very intuitive.

In the case of an arithmetic mean, it's basically a distribution situation: a certain total quantity is distributed into n slots. If we transfer an amount from any slot to any other, the mean does not change. We can choose a subset of the slots, and redistribute their subtotal among them that they have an equal value. That value will be their respective mean. Since we do not add anything to the total, the mean doesn't change.

What isn't so obvious is that this generalizes to the other kinds of means, like geometric.
There were rumors like that for the Final Fantasy games too, like how to get Leo in FF6 by doing something ridiculously complex (or just ridiculous) for hours on end. And then FWAKs, which satirized the whole phenomenon.
> How do you copy-paste file or folder paths between terminal and Finder? Anyone?

Drag the file or folder from Finder to your terminal to copy the path.

To open a file or folder in Finder from your terminal simply run `open <path>`.

The open command also works with any url whose protocol has a registered handler, like slack:// or https://. With a path the file:// protocol is assumed, and Finder is its handler. Moreover since this is a unix system with good documentation, `man open` will help you with more advanced usage.
Defining away vaccine safety signals
Let's not pretend that there wasn't serious, and at times deadly, anti-semitic overtones to the requirement to shave beards, and the financial penalties that came from seeking exemption.

The Beard Tax was notoriously leveraged against religious jews, forbidden by law to shave their beards. The "civilized" authorities took much advantage of this.
Furries are making virtual reality worth visiting
Must be written by biased tea consumers.
Can this line of reasoning be extended to poker?
Market signals communicating that your job must compensate very well if you expect someone else to watch your kids while you work.
Set up the restrictions in screentime and have someone you trust set your screentime passcode. That’s what I do, and it works for me.
The smallish town where I live has a Yarn Bomber. She/he knits little totems and fixes them to street-lights and public fencing; sometimes even front doors. They are usually themed: Easter, Summer, Remembrance Sunday, Halloween, Christmas. And quite wonderful, I should add.

Of course I say "she/he". We all know who it is. It's no suprise our smallish town has such a great knit shop, and the bomber has been outed numerous times anyway.

But sometimes the really important thing is to learn how to play along.
> Musk has other forms of income and wealth accumulation that other people don't have.

Yes, most people don’t have billions of dollars of equities they can borrow against to finance their lifestyle.
I use plant.id for this and it actually seemed to give me correct identifications every time I used it so far.
This is a great observation.

Simply put, point of sell is a micro transaction. But profit coming from people ought to be used on people, that's a macro concept.

Just like you won't service intelligence by focusing on individual neurons activity, you won't buy the idea that collective the profit should be used on the people as a whole.

So, why apple profit should be used on people?

Because apple depends on the whole society providing the materials talents social constructs for its profit making. For example, without us military, you can ganrantee that apple will need to pay a lot more in tax to other countries (not saying that's wrong). And without the education system, there won't be enough highly skilled engineer.

And you might ask, the exiting system already extracted tax from Apple business.

That's right.

But the investors of us military and education are not organized as stock based ownership, so that part of value creation was never reflected in Apple' ownership at all. I mean, why someone invest in actual captital be able to grab certain percentage of companies, far larger than the employee of the firm? Wasn't employee do 99.99% of the work instead of shareholders? Let's say us military and education system decide, collectively, Apple should grant certain amount of share from the company, do you think it will work?

No, that's because the system cannot support such mechanism.

Back to the original argument. If the system could not correctly assess the actor's contribution to the profit, then it has to be that the profit needs to be pulled together for the people. And I am sure that Apple took more than their fair shares of economy profit for a smaller group of share holders.

Therefore my statement.
I've been having lots of fun playing (and collaborating a bit on) Beyond All Reason: https://beyondallreason.info/

It's an Open Source RTS heavily inspired in Total Annihilation, with nice graphics and great balance.
80s soft drinks is cool but when you realize what a plague upon humanity that sugar beverages are, it kind of detracts from the playfulness tbh. I stopped drinking soda years ago and haven't looked back. It is one of the largest causes of metabolic disease globally. And it's sad that people associate having a sugary beverage as a 'good time with friends.' Lets enjoy poison together?! :-/

I predict this won't go over well with the HN crowd who'll probably downvote me, and loves to snack on junk while coding, but there are better ways to get energy effortlessly without chewing or being protein heavy, like complex carbohydrates and MCT oils.
Ask HN: Bad Language
My inflammatory remarks were a test. Deliberate. I sincerely appreciate that what is commonly termed bad language is frowned upon here. My aim was to test this proposition. I have performed the same on a few platforms, I may share useful results. It is (hopefully mildly) self destructive, but it was very useful to me. I won't do it again here.
Why are there per-country caps to immigration? Perhaps, looking at the history of the Mexican Republic of Texas can shed some light:

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

> additional groups of settlers, known as Empresarios, continued to colonize Mexican Texas from the United States. A spike in the price of cotton, and the success of plantations in Mississippi encouraged large numbers of white Americans to migrate to Texas and obtain slaves to try to replicate the business model

> Angered at the interference of the Mexican government, the Empresarios held the Convention of 1832, which was the first formal step in what became the Texas Revolution

> By 1834, the American settlers in the area outnumbered Mexicans by a considerable margin. Following a series of minor skirmishes between Mexican authorities and the settlers, the Mexican government, fearing open rebellion of their Anglo subjects, began to step up military presence in Texas

> In March 1, 1836 the Convention of 1836 came to order, and the next day declared independence from Mexico, establishing the Republic of Texas.
Undoubtedly more of these positive feedback loops will identify themselves going into the future.

It was only a few years back the melting of the tundra was identified as 'accelerating effect' of climate change, as that thawing permafrost releases its methane into the atmosphere.
you didn't say anything wrong, it is a throw away account making claims about how a technology that doesn't exist would definitely decrease quality of life.. I wouldn't put too much stock in what they say.
Just want to flag that, in addition to all this fun and exciting new tech for disabilities, we really do just need better basics.

As the partner of a wheelchair user, these exoskeletons are a great toy to have on the horizon – but the promise of this has been around for a long time, and while the hope of a better future is exciting, we need change on a much quicker time scale than this. (Not saying people shouldn't be working on this – it's rad that they are).

On a day-to-day level, my partner would much more benefit from:

- A better wheelchair (this will mean something different for every body – for them, someone who uses a wheelchair for chronic pain, an exoskeleton wouldn't even help – much more useful would be a wheelchair where every bump of pavement doesn't rattle your whole body).

- More accessible shops and public spaces. We don't really get to go out much – most often blockades include cracked sidewalks, friend's houses that require a step (or stairs), and inaccessible shops.

- Better safety nets for those with disabilities (it's VERY expensive to be disabled in America – consider how much more these exoskeletons will cost than already expensive wheelchairs).

tl;dr These technologies are exciting and deserve attention and energy – just keep in mind that the notion that these emerging technologies will someday wipe out all of wheelchair users' problems in one fell swoop is both false and does nothing for the many millions prevented from participating in society right now. We need better access today.
Doesn’t sound that much different from today’s Europe or North America. Except low skilled workers in low payed career paths get sub-par living conditions irregardless of family size.

Perhaps the only difference is that low payed workers in Europe and North America have the option to live far away from their work and suffer long commute hours instead of the small living quarters. Although that option is starting to feel like it is forced upon us now as even the tiniest of apartments are also out of reach for normal working families in big cities.
>The attempted coup was certainly a critical moment as well.

Was that really accepted by the Turkish people as a legitimate coup attempt? From an outside perspective it appeared almost comically staged.
There is only GPL :)

GPLv3 only goal is exclusively to twart bad actors from using needlessly complex things with the sole goal of avoiding GPLv2 (and 3 since they are practicaly the same) goals, which is to provide source for code that was originally GPL'ed.

In Tivo specific case, that needlesly complex thing was a rubegoldberg build/install process. Also TIVO did not find a loophole. They provided the code as their shenanigans was exposed as such in the end.

Note that you are commenting under an article which main point was exactly to dismiss the misunderstanding in pop culture about the TIVO case! and here you are repeating it. sigh.
Just to say, Haskell doesn't need monads to sequence computations, in fact Haskell as a programming language (1989) is older than Moggi's seminal paper on monads applied to programming in 1993.
US-Sanctioned AI Unicorn Ready for IPO; Yolox Best Object Detector
I've been a volunteer firefighter in Australia for 25 years, my father and his father were.. the understanding that wildfires do this is old, I remember my grandfather talking about big wildfires in his day creating their own weather.

I've been noticing in the media over the last ~5 years this narrative that climate change is causing this 'horrifying new phenomena' .. no. sorry. (PS: not a climate change skeptic, totally agree with the science, just not the media in this instance)
Can you elaborate a bit on your first point -- hiring the fun person over the boring one. Are you implying you are selecting culture over diversity, or that the persons perception of fun is biased by their preferences?
TMLE for Estimating Treatment Effects
No. There are two prevailing theories of how coal is formed - Drift or In-Situ but in both, coal is plant matter decayed (via bacteria, fungi etc) into peat. The peat then undergoes the transition to various coal forms (Lignite, Bituminous, Anthracite) due to pressure as it sits underground.

It's a very slow process, but ongoing.
It's not about being perfect, it's about having a solid UX such that we can start recommending it to our friends and family to help wean them off the major platforms without a lot of headaches and frustrations, which will push them even further towards proprietary ecosystems.
OR some of these squabbles over lifestyle preferences should not be contested in an office space because people should not be living out their personal lives through office decorations or in anyway identifying with the office in such a way that the hefty and meaningful word "culture" implies. Everyone should have ample personal space and personal time and lives of their own. You shouldn't remember whether the office mannequin needed to be removed. That's a trifle.