skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A side-story related to firefighting, from Wikipedia's History of firefighting:

"The first ever Roman fire brigade of which we have any substantial history was created by Marcus Licinius Crassus. He was born into a wealthy Roman family around the year 115 BC, and acquired an enormous fortune through (in the words of Plutarch) "fire and rapine." One of his most lucrative schemes took advantage of the fact that Rome had no fire department. Crassus filled this void by creating his own brigade—500 men strong—which rushed to burning buildings at the first cry of alarm. Upon arriving at the scene, however, the fire fighters did nothing while their employer bargained over the price of their services with the distressed property owner. If Crassus could not negotiate a satisfactory price, his men simply let the structure burn to the ground, after which he offered to purchase it for a fraction of its value."

Also, as this was featured as a Reddit TIL, here are a few interesting comments: https://imgur.com/a/Fhuc5
"I personally don't like multiculturalism"

I'm pretty sure it was the offspring of people who "don't like multiculturalism" who beat me up in middle school for being part of geek culture rather than the prevailing rural culture of my hometown.

I personally am a big fan of respecting others despite cultural differences.
1Caml – implementation of 1ML targeting the OCaml runtime
I think, largely, the same reasons apply to Linux vs. BSD in supercomputers as Linux vs. BSD generally. You might as well ask why Linux and not *BSD is used in Android, on servers generally, or by large technical knowledgeable organizations such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc.

So, in no particular order:

- Linux came on the scene when BSD's were mired in legal uncertainty. After the legal issues were settled, Linux had already become the default choice for someone wanting a FOSS Unix-style kernel, and the BSD's never caught up.

- The GPL license meant that improvements were shared rather than squirreled away in various proprietary spin-offs and thus lost when whatever company was behind them folded (generally, exceptions going both ways surely exist!).

- Due to Linux gaining the initial momentum, developers flocked (and keep flocking!) to it, leaving the BSD's ever further behind.

- Linux was more welcoming to new contributors, whereas the BSD's were controlled by a small circle of core developers sitting on the commit access. And of course, the BSD way of solving disagreements was forking the entire thing, further splitting up the already small developer base.
What does someone not using knowledge have to do with younger employees having to do all the weekends due to hazing and "unspoken rules"? Anyway, if you are not willing to explain, then your senior salary is deathweight to company.

Another part of learning craft is to recognize when someone else is being owned. It is a bit harder.
The system for allocating airport slots is broken
If I had Geely money, I'd buy AeroMobil as well -
https://www.aeromobil.com, their flying car is fly.
Y2K, ozone hole.

I know that those "don't count", because they actually got addressed, but they still feed into an unfortunate perceptual pattern.
Massive retaliation and Mutually assured destruction are different concepts.

During the Eisenhower era U.S. doctrine was so called massive retaliation using a force disproportionate to the size of the attack. It was viable strategy only as long as Soviet Union did not have nuclear parity.

Kennedy realized that massive retaliation was not credible anymore and asked other options. U.S. nuclear strategy changed into so called flexible response strategy. Soviet Union had always relied in the use of tactical nukes. First use of nuclear weapons does not automatically lead to all out nuclear holocaust. There was nuclear escalation ladders even against Soviet Union.

Mutually assured destruction (MAD) is deterrence strategy only against massive decapitation attack.

Today locally limited nuclear war is more likely than ever before. It's part of Russian doctrine if Russia is outmatched in local conflicts. US has nuclear weapons and strategies dedicated for limited nuclear war.
ViaSat to Help Pilot Connected Ambulance Service in Scotland – Via Satellite -
> But a black hole is a purely gravitational object

Are you calling compact objects from stellar collapse that have an apparent horizon something other than a "black hole"?

> The mass of a black hole is something that's really only defined from a distance away

The stress-energy in the region of spacetime where one finds a black hole totally determines the Einstein tensor in that region. Solve the Einstein Field Equations for T_munu in \Sigma \subset \M. Extract the metric tensor. Solve the geodesic equations for that region, and you have the orbit for your Earthlike planet. You can make it simpler and consider the surface stress-energy on a shell within the horizon, or even outside in the case of your orbiting Earthlike planet problem, for which we don't care about the region inside the shell.

You are skipping the first steps, treating the metric tensor as a known, or worse, something that you can extract from a single geodesic.

But let's think about that anyway. Do you really know the metric you source? Sure, your stress-energy is localized so you can deploy a large shell to partition the "inside" and "outside" stress-energy. "Outside" it's zero, and nobody will really care about your small deviations from exact spherical symmetry, so your metric is therefore Schwarzschild, right? No, we can't make that inference based on the far field outside the shell; we need an Israel junction condition. [Synge 1960, Relativity: The General Theory (Amsterdam: North-Holland), ch. IV § 6 goes into this in detail, contrasting "realist" vs "agonist" and "creator" positions; yours is the "creator" position in that you are happy with an exact solution of the EFEs, and so you might enjoy reading what Synge wrote as he walks towards the mathematics of junctions
:-) .] In a model can ignore that because we get it "for free" by laying down an exact generator of the vacuum Schwarzschild solution and not worrying whether the stress-energy is physical.
Tokyo famously has employees in white gloves who will push stragglers onto subway cars during rush hours.
“Otherwise, we'll keep hating each other.” [11:28]
Bookmark Archiver: Your Own Personal Way-Back Machine
Yep, newly created formations on Citus Cloud will be PG10 and the latest version of Citus. For any existing customers on PG 9.6 and older versions of Citus we'll be upgrading those that opt in. Our upgrade process leverages our underlying disaster recovery and high availability infrastructure[1] so we can generally upgrade an entire cluster regardless of data size in under a couple of minutes.

[1] https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/03/23/a-look-into-disast...
It's not clear to me why you are afraid of keeping them digitally rather than physically, but if the issue is using a private service then perhaps you can use a company storage option? I use OneNote and we use Office 365, so my digital work notebook is on work 'property' but still available to me everywhere.
> There's no "purely gravitational object" it only "looks like that" from behind the event horizon

It depends on what framework you're working in. If you're working in general relativity, there's a singularity and absolutely nothing else---no matter at all. If you're talking about the "real world" you can ask: Is GR reliable for these situations, especially in light of quantum-gravitational puzzles? I think you agree that we don't know the answer. But we can say what the GR answers are.
One of the security models built into ChromeOS is a well defined attack surface. It is not for general apps, it only runs Chrome (and things within an Android environment on newer machines). There is a comprehensive auditing and monitoring solution combination (Auditd & SELinux) that is hardened above what is normally possible on Linux desktops and servers.

When an audit violation is detected ChromeOS forces an update an reboot to the new version (which takes seconds and feels almost like you've been unexpectedly logged out). All without losing any data except for unsubmitted form contents. Even if an update isn't available, the writable part of the system (not user data) is completely wiped limiting the ability of malicious actors to persist anything.

It's not a panacea but it is way more aggressive and seamless than any of the major operating systems could possibly do.
There's a reason why companies say they support specific OSes. You'll have a point if they said they supported linux. But they don't.
Second OnePlus Factory App Discovered. This One Dumps Photos, WiFi and GPS Logs
Weird, China is flooding the US with opium derivatives now.
> they still need firewall to protect

Why?

> you need a more powerful device to safeguard them

Why?

> I'm not going to expose it to the internet, and I will put it behind my firewall/NAT-router.

Why?
>there is a set [...with] mechanics

Welcome to the definition of a Turing Complete system.

Also the game in question is not "innocuous." The author admits to creating an artificial scenario under which a Turing Machine is possible.
Retire.js does this for JS locally, we have a nightly check for our apps. https://retirejs.github.io/
On that path lies assuming people's gender.
Shoe button complex - named for the condition of a family friend who spoke in oracular style on all subjects after becoming dominant in the shoe button business.
Except there is no accounting for income. So if I'm poor, or become poor, I still have to pay the assesed property tax on any property I own. I may be forced to sell the property as a result.

Property tax works against poor people being able to own property or keep property they own.

This is why elderly people who may own their homes free and clear can still be forced out of them when they retire or become disabled.
People transport and freight transport are typically segregated on different tracks in Europe and Japan, allowing for each to be optimized (you don’t need huge trains to carry people if you don’t have to worry about colliding with heavy freight trains!). The USA is messed up because we never did that.
A New Phone Comes Out. Yours Slows Down. A Conspiracy? No
While I think their definition of "hate group" is sometimes too expansive (e.g. religious groups that are mostly about something else but disagree with gay marriage), SPLC is still credible.
I feel like there is a dangerous break even here that will only work in cities like NY, LA, SF, and DC. But none of those cities have "un-developed" land ( and they have very little under-developed land ).

Take this counter example:
City A implements a land tax to "encourage" developers to build units of affordable housing. Developers sitting on under-developed land start building units. Company A employs 10,000 people, most of them in the downtown region of City A. With the new land tax the next lease for Company A is higher enough due to this cost for them to consider a move to City B. City/State B offers them a nice tax break to move their jobs and headquarters and Company A does. Now out of 10,000 jobs, City A has many homes that are now available, units which were under development are no longer needed, prices drop, people can now afford housing but I cant imagine outside investment moving into the city. And this glosses over what happens to the developers, contractors, and others who will now be out of a large chunk of change due to the oversupply of housing and reluctant to re-invest into City A.

In the same vein, it would be hard to believe that any company looking for a "cheap" deal would consider City A if it did not already have a large pool of talent. If your a small to mid-size business do you take the risk of higher overhead regardless of property type to move to City A? If your a large company, why would you move your offices there just to pay much higher leasing costs?

While you have created more affordable housing, you have also created less desirable living and investment conditions.

At the end of the day, a cities desirability is mostly based on its ability to provide capital to its residents.
First, it was used as a tool of wealth extraction- to the point were it was economic warfare. The shooting wars were to ensure the wealth extraction remained viable.

Next, do you think the cartels or monopolists who come to control opium supply will show the poor of India more mercy? Do they currently?
In vue we have Vue CLI, which is becoming as powerful as create-react-app and it also has nuxt.js
https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli
https://nuxtjs.org/
Step 3 is often achieved by having the firmware append a device tree blob to the kernel which contains all of the board setup. I think it's pretty widely adopted?
I'm excited that you're stumbled into "taxation is theft" :) Yup, taxation is inherently immoral, and they will lock you in a cage if you don't pay.

But. As long as we're comfortable taxing people, then why is it unjust to tax in this way? We're taxing in a way that allows the land to be better utilized for _everyone_.

Additionally, this person who bought this property decades can probably sell the property for a pretty penny, and move to a cheaper area, and have plenty of cash leftover.
it does! https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/14/adquick-seed-funding/
Berkeley has a tool-lending library which is useful for the once-in-three-years that you need a ladder or a belt sander: https://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/locations/tool-lending...
Or, implement a single flat tax. No sales, income, or anything else tax. Problem solved.
Well, maybe you could live a life with hope that your government employs competent people who care, and passion to make it happen.
2019 Toyota Supra
Others' stereotype of us: Who is there to have a stereotype about? Nobody lives there. Not "nobody" like "nobody lives in the Midwest", really nobody, like "total population: 0". Just a collection of ghost towns.

Our stereotype of ourselves: Rather close to the Midwesterners, minus the emphasis on agriculture. (Yes, we grow what we can where we can, but lack of water means that there isn't much. Agriculture doesn't dominate the way it does in the Midwest.) We say that we are self-reliant, independent, friendly (except maybe to outsiders), down to earth. We're fairly well educated, but we still have good common sense.
It is, its called property tax.
those are not the operating system.
The problem with nether portals
I used to walk to Baltimore Penn Station for my commute. Without even trying, I'd arrive at the same minute almost every day. (My train, however, would not, because we're a failure as a civilization.)
There are definitely outsourced debt collectors and bailiffs who will recover debts for you, up to and including getting court orders to seize property.

Strangely this doesn't overlap with the "happy path" of normal AR processing.
California is not nearly as dense as the area along the Tokaido line. More to the point, those cities aren’t as integrated as the eastern Boston-DC megapolis.
I thought your other answer was great!
>How were they undervaluing their potential educational groups? How were they bled dry? Were classes just too expensive? Why was it misguided to focus on core competency? Why wasn't that working? How else would new and/or novice members get 'checked out' to use use a dangerous tool safely?

Briefly, the problem I saw was that classes were entirely of the mindset of enabling people to use the tools. It assumed they were already members, already bought into the Makerspace/Techshop mindset, and already knew which tools they needed to use. That isn't an absolute but it was common. Everyone knew about that 3D printers were cool, but nothing empowered them on projects...just on tools. The education was not used to extend the value of Techshop to members, it just served as an impediment to them using certain tools.

>What would you of done differently if you were in charge of TechShop?

I'm honestly hesitant to Monday morning quarterback them and regret my original (somewhat emotional) post a bit. A lot of good friends became unemployed yesterday and I reacted. What would I have done differently? grow differently, grow with a different mindset, understand my users better.

>We all love our makerspaces and are sad to see a behemoth like TechShop go under. It doesn't bode well for other makerspaces.

I had an interesting conversation with someone at another makerspace about techshop one time. I think they serve two different markets, and I think the Techshop problem was that it found itself stuck between them...one is the hardcore makers the other are more of the general public. Noisebridge is and will always be Noisebridge. I don't think you are gonna get people in off the street to stay all that often. Techshop wasn't trying to be that, but they didn't have the mindset that really let them be something else.
It's interesting research, but taking the entire heroin addicted US population on an extended vacation to try to rid them of their addiction is impractical. They would need to return home eventually too. Where they would be much more likely to relapse.

The findings of the Vietnam study tell us something interesting about the particulars of Vietnam and maybe war zones in general, but I doubt they hold much relevance to the general addict population.
Yes, but (1) our nursery doesn't have a sink and our sink doesn't have room for baby things, and (2) holding a squirming baby over a bidet doesn't sound less messy to me. There's a lot of potential in the space, but this particular one needs practical user testing.
The Anatomy of Blockchain – Slalom Tech Boston
As of July 2017, by moving to the Bay Area or Rio de Janeiro: http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/07/08/google-confirms-spee...
> Social Network for Children

Counterpoint-- this should not be built. Kids already have a social network, it's called the playground at school. Having children engage with their friends outside of school time is a fine goal, but there are plenty of existing after-school activities that encourage this interaction. These activities also don't put the undue stress of having to decipher typed language, nuance, and other online-only pressures that adults can barely deal with, much less children.

Get your kids into scouts. Get them into a team sport. Get them into dance. Get them into after-school STEAM activities. Whatever those activities are, that's up to their preferences, but most importantly they are out and engaging with their peers face to face. That "3pm - 6pm" window of time is important for children to play, and having them spend even a portion of that time hitting a like button or whatever other social network validation activities seems extremely disingenuous to me.
Sounds like it's missing a few key features.
This news is from 2016 though.

So what happened? Does anybody know?
Very frequently, my train is up to 4 minutes early, and the doors open on the other side of the track, opposite the parking lot, so sometimes I'm totally on time, walking towards it after parking, but it's swooshing in, and I get to stand there, watch as others board...

So yeah, not cool.
Smart Bathroom

These bathrooms don't necessarily need to be targeted at households. It could make sense for office buildings, so that:

-costs/person can be kept low

-it is easier for the employer to handle connecting measurements to medical IDs (scan an app/employee ID)

-it is easier for employers to negotiate directly with providers to lower health insurance (I believe some companies already do this with Fitbits, e.g. John Hancock)
A better idea would be to funnel the "rinse" water into some kind of container from which it could be disposed of in the toilet as opposed to the sink. I can just hear my wife saying "not in my [bathroom or, worse, kitchen] sink you're not going to do that!"
> Using bad science to advance a public policy goal is exactly what got us to the current "distrust of science"

This is exactly it.

And it is why both Google and the lion's share of the mainstream media's treatment of Damore's memo was so frustrating. Google especially, when anyone can look up the wealth of scientific literature through Google Scholar and see that decades of science back him up, including the papers he cited directly.
> Adwords for Outdoor and Transit Advertising

> Billboards are still sold manually by sales teams. You literally cannot buy a billboard online. If people could buy them as easily as you buy an Adwords ad, maybe many more small companies would.

It's interesting how these ideas continually arise. And as described it seems like a virtuous idea. By solving the scaling issues of the marketplace, smaller and smaller companies can buy ads. Which is good because it evens the playing field and reduces monopolistic behaviors, making the market more free.

But by solving those scaling issues, you'd also be making it easier for bad actors to buy advertisements. (In this case huge billboards.) And without collecting a _lot_ more data, or allowing a company to policy free speech, there would end up being much less accountability for who is buying the advertisements, and who is seeing them. You end up with the same situation Facebook, Google and Twitter are answering for in Congress right now. [0]

I don't have a solution, other than to stop building these types of marketplaces, but it is disconcerting.

We keep creating systems that have positive benefits, but at the expense of rarer-but-huge negative consequences, that are often "solved" by infringing more and more on our privacy to prevent the black-swan events from occurring.

PS. If anyone has interesting reading along these lines, I'd love to hear it.

[0]: https://stratechery.com/2017/tech-goes-to-washington/
As you hinted at (i think this is where you were going with it), as our caches get nice and toasty the latency should start to come down a bit. Then as we add more nodes to the anycast cloud, that will also help. Finnally as we continue to tune our resolvers and infrastructure we should again bring latency down. I will say this, being compared against google is a very high bar to clear! Our focus will always be on trying to give the end users the best experience we can performance, security, and privacy wise. (not easy, but we will try)
I disagree. "Any point in time is more likely to have the initial side up" if you count the initial state, which for the purpose of a coin toss you wouldn't. After a coin is flipped it's going to spend 50% of its time heads up and 50% of its time tails up.

I'm pretty sure the article is wrong. Hold on while I write a little script to test this out.

Edit: Script below; feel free to critique or make modifications where you think they are more realistic.

// Let 1 represent heads and 0 represent tails.
coin_state = 1;

number_of_heads = 0;

number_of_tails = 0;

for (i = 0; i < 1000000; i++)

{

// How fast the coin flips (flips per second)

flip_speed = (Math.random() * 10) + 20;

// How long the coin is in the air (seconds)

catch_time = Math.random() + 2.5;

number_of_flips = Math.floor(flip_speed * catch_time);

/*
Odd number of flips means coin ends up in opposite state from start (tails
in this case). Even number of flips means coin ends up in same state as start
(heads in this case)
*/

if (number_of_flips % 2) { coin_state = 0; }

if (number_of_flips % 2 == 0) { number_of_heads++; }

else { number_of_tails++; }

}

console.log("Heads:", number_of_heads);

console.log("Tails:", number_of_tails);