skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great ! Now this is going to open new rooms for more mistakes and may lead to more deaths which can be blamed to some scientific failure.

We humans collectively as one entity clearly have no discipline.

The current set of laws are themselves in first place not providing any peace in the lives of most people. And we have no time to fix that issue and our impulsive anxiety issue is making some weak willed men to open up new roads to destruction. It may yield some benefit but it is not essential.

I have 0 confidence in today's governments that they are capable of containing any damage caused by this law.

If entire of humanity is going to become extinct then we can take a high risk effort. All the day every time we need not take life threatening risks.

Opening up of this law means any minute now in best case scenario there is a 1% chance that there may be a deadly virus in the air u just breathed in. And based on history we humans are capable of leading ourselves into worst case scenarios and that puts the percentage of risk anywhere between 1% to 99%.

Now even if something worst case happens i am sure the human species would not go extinct as the billionaires and few millionaires would have means to survive any death prone event only with nobody left to buy their products anymore.

Kudos!
Going to work at a competitor to Pixar in ‘96, it was the first time I was exposed to real life computer science problems that needed more compute power than could be imagined.

Between then and 2017, think about the staggering performance increases available, more so than in many fields because of the embarrassing (parallel nature) thing inherent to many of the problems.

And yet there is still no end in sight to the compute power that could be leveraged.

I wonder what would change if we had say, 3 orders of magnitude performance improvements across the board starting tomorrow. What might be some of the first practical advancements to be exploited and seen?

Let’s assume the amount of compute power that could be leveraged effectively and practically for computer graphics is finite, however large.

How much less compute power would that be, compared to what it’s going to take achieve general AI? Or even a Turing effective chat bot?
A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers (RFC 1149)
> Knowing your superior wants you dead(white supremacists) or psychologically tortured(conversion therapy) or inherently doesn't believe in your competence(sexism, racism, what have you) is not something one just shrugs off.

Those examples indicate a violent agenda or an inability to separate private views from the workplace. That’s not the scenario the parent is talking about. The parent is talking about a situation in which someone has nonviolent, extremely opposite views from your own, and does not soapbox these sentiments in the workplace.

I submit that this isn’t a qualitative difference, it’s a categorical one, and that your examples aren’t comparable to “merely” politically controversial or unsettling opinions.
By the time a turning car and a bike intersect paths, the bike is moving across the front of the car, as opposed to approaching from behind as the car is turning. It would be far easier to spot a cyclist moving side-to-side across your vision out the front of the vehicle than trying to spot one in your blind spot.

This of course assumes drivers follow the marking and don't just cut across the marked bike lines, in which case it would negate any advantage of this layout.
Some exchanges have weekly maximums you're allowed to withdraw or deposit USD from/to. However, you can increase these withdrawal limits and pay yourself out in increments (after you've sold your BTC on the exchange)
To close out the comment DAG, this is the ELI5 for cardmagic's answer "leverage".
Unqualified Americans can’t invest in startups or ICOs. Blockchaina are the only assets that are growing that they can invest in. That deosn’t even include the rest of the world.
My guess would be that the .com bubble wasn't as easy to get involved in. With Bitcoin you can buy/invest in Bitcoin in 10 minutes with zero prior knowledge. With the .com bubble you had to find a specific stock to buy and go through all the rigmarole of buying it. The barrier to entry to this bubble (if it is!) seems much lower.
Not having mobile data in my case meant that I was scrambling from public wifi to the cab. I could not use Google translate or other tools in the car. I also would have no way to negotiate price or insure that I was going the correct place. Not saying that Uber is the only way, but that for me it was helpful.
Worked for me too, and I don't have an FB account.

mnw21cam, maybe you're blocking the Referer?
Point taken ;)
Who says overnight service is an essential element? We could keep bus services all night -- and only if there is a compelling argument for it -- but having worked over-night shifts for a couple of years in college, it's waste of money for all of us tax-payers.

> Even if it very slow at night, I know it will be there. Like a road.

Sure, the subway rails aren't going anywhere either. Perhaps you'd like drive your own car underground? While I see little or no utility in keeping lights on all night, MTA will find other ways to waste money and won't save much money.
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I wonder if SVG would kill the naive look of "Flatland's" art. Or perhaps, maybe more likely, the author would have preferred mathematically precise art. Good luck.
The Bay Area's finest export. Rising property values and the accompanying homelessness. Why not build some toilets? Has anyone tried? There are designs for public restrooms that are essentially self cleaning (hole in the ground with high pressure water nozzles in the ceiling). If you can't even have enough decency to build a place for someone who has been thrown out by every other part of society to poop, it seems entirely fair that they choose to do so on your stoop.
Maybe it's Berlin specific but I can't count how many times I've got bump/pushed by a right-turning car while going straight ahead myself. Usually it's taxis, delivery and BMW drivers trying to catch the "late yellow".
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Also wondering that same question. If it is, it would be interesting to learn how the conclusion to buy was reached.
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I know - I am one of the authors of libuv.
However libuv is pretty big and imposes its own asynchronous i/o model onto your application.

Later I discovered that it is possible to do efficient epoll emulation on windows so then I wrote wepoll. With it you can just stick to the good ol' epoll/kqueue model and still support windows.
The related argument against this that I've seen from a few cops is that this also removes their ability to use discretion and not charge people. If somebody reports a crime and happens to have some drugs in their pocket and the police find them, they could have just ignored them or confiscated them and not charge the guy in pursuit of the greater good, but with the whole thing on tape, they essentially have to charge everything they see/find.
I thought that was sketchy too but it occurred to me that they probably are hosting this site with github but are using their own domain name.

sqlmap.org turns out to me an A record for an IP address owned by github.
> This implies Mozilla is intrinsically a political organization ... Does Mozilla describe itself as a political organization anywhere? I can’t immediately find a statement of its principles/values.

Basically yes. Look at the "Mozilla Manifesto" ( https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ ), some of which are quite political:

> 2. The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible.

> 4. Individuals’ security and privacy on the Internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional.

> 9. Commercial involvement in the development of the Internet brings many benefits; a balance between commercial profit and public benefit is critical.
Somebody bought these options. That person is betting that Bitcoin will go over $50k next year.

Somebody also sold these options. That person is betting that Bitcoin will NOT go over $50k next year.
4chan isn't unfiltered. People left it in droves for sites like 8chan because they found the moderation of 4chan too restrictive. 8chan also isn't unfiltered. Neither is Voat, which is where everyone who found Reddit too stifling wound up. No site on the open web is truly unfiltered, because that would allow for illegal content, and the men with guns in vans are a real thing. Too many people mistake the freedom to be intolerant, rude or uncivil with free speech.

>Do we really need more 4chans?

Yes, if by "4chans" you mean anonymous platforms. That doesn't necessarily mean we need more of the toxicity at the bottom of the cesspool that imageboard culture is known for, but I do think we need more sites which push back against the hostile patterns of social media, which include "real name" policies and moderation or filtering that tries to shape communities from the top down.

The truth here is that one person's echo chamber is another person's culture, and that "unfiltered" is just another kind of echo chamber.
Was it an actual Samsung one?

Off-brand batteries can be dodgy and not have the correct protection circuitry.
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Throwing another data point — the recent transition to APFS was quite successful. There surely were problem cases, but the transition happened quickly and was transparent to end users.

The UI transition is tricky for developers to adopt. There will be legacy apps for decades to come as it will not be updated.
A little off. Nautilus is a fantastic publication, and if John Steele was completely unqualified it probably wouldn't be. On the other hand, not everyone is really well suited to run business operations.
You make a great point with your bar / park comparison. When I was younger I yearned for the wildest, loudest, most packed bars and places to party and drink but now that I'm older I prefer a quieter pub with enough seats for everyone I'm hanging out with to relax, have some drinks, and take a load off.

I don't think it's the worst thing in the world to want a more laid back approach to social media or any sort of community / activity on the web (or anywhere in life for that matter).

I think I'm able to make this comparison because at times Reddit and Facebook and especially Twitter feel like the bars did when I was 18-22 and there were so many underage kids going wild, having a blast, but not really caring about much beyond that -- and there is definitely a time and place for that on the internet for me as well, too!
For those who think this is a spoof, check the 5 day view on Google Finance: https://www.google.com/search?q=NASDAQ:LTEA
Conservative think tanks are well known to lie to promote their agenda.
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Did you understand that was a metaphor?
Do executives get to have private views? It’s unfortunate, but the media seems to love using personal actions by executives as representative of the company they work for. So in Eich’s case I think Mozilla had a legitimate concern that his personal views would be perceived as the company’s stance.
What kind of algo are you using to detect changes?
Show HN: Proc-gen'd plots of Ethereum chain as a way to donate (and learn DApps)
Western diets have more meat and less plant material. Meat consumption (and plant consumption) isn’t boolean-valued, unlike (for example) vegetarianism.
So because the guy might have problems with his co-workers all his co-workers should definitely have problems with him? Shouldn't he be judged on his actions towards his co-workers not by your stereotype of a anti-gay marriage supporter?
Tell that to a black guy.
Credible concrete arguments for why some article might be flawed or biased tends to carry a lot more weight than just attacking the place it was published in for its political views.
A friend of mine manages a large business on the outer edge of Portland. He pulls into work early one morning to find a couple of the homeless living in the community behind his office dragging a decent amount of power tools into the vegetation of the greenbelt. We're talking weed-eaters, chainsaws, etc..., that type of stuff. All rather expensive kit, organized and arranged in a very methodical manner, maybe 20 items or so. A call to the police results in a transfer to a third-party mediation team, as the police can't directly interact with "campers" in a situation of this type. There are several articles out there commenting on the "legal quagmire" that are Portland's policies dealing with the homeless community.
The S&P 500 is up 86.95% over the last 5 years. Is that "not growing" in your mind?
Precrime is the best crime. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
My all time favorite prank is getting harder to do but it is still possible.

Back in the day, most people had full size umbrellas. When it looked like rain in the morning, they would take their umbrella in to work and hang it by the handle on the wall of their cubicle.

I would loosen the umbrella (partially open while holding upside down), put hole punch chad in the umbrella, and then re-close the umbrella and hang it back up.

If it was raining at the end of the day, you knew you got the victim by the hole punch chad at the door. :-D If it wasn't raining, you knew it was just a matter of time. :-D

With the compact umbrellas, it is harder to get access to sneak chads into them and hole punch chad is somewhat harder to come by.
I've only known Long Island Iced Tea as Vodka, Rum, Tequilla, triple sec, gin and coca-cola.
Yea, but if the display was a "virtual" 50cm away, it could be a much lower resolution, or a much bigger size. The pixel density doesn't need to depend on the resolution of the virtual screen, it just needs to be good enough so the user can't distinguish the pixels of the VR itself. Then any resolution can be accurately simulated in the VR.
Books can be take home, can be studied by the individual at their own pace. A student can create their own book because it is "real", "physical" and low tech.

Also, regarding books, there is, historically, a lot of content.
"money for nothing and chicks for free"...
True; but stalling out in middle management is never the reason people get an MBA.
Why are you taking it as an attack? He's just giving context to the piece.
I could, but sometimes addresses are not so clear. In my experience taxi drivers like it when you can explain directions and negotiate price. Without common language for me that is quite difficult.
Surely homelessness is, in and of itself, a symptom of a much deeper rot? I'm not trying to excuse the behaviour of these people, but if you feel that society has shat on you, and robbed you of your dignity, might you not want to return the favour? Homelessness is rarely a chosen situation; every homeless person has a story, often a dire set of circumstances that landed them on the streets. It may be personal problems, substance abuse, or mental issues - all things people need help and treatment for. Many of these things are, at the root, down to lacking education or social support structures; symptoms of a society that doesn't care.

Don't get me wrong, the affected businesses are justifiably angry, but their anger is misdirected; sometimes the perpetrators of crime are not the root cause. In small part, maybe they are part of the root cause.
NNTP was federated, decentralized, asynchronous, with hierarchical groups and threaded conversations.

Decades ahead, in terms of protocol design, of mailing lists, twitter and stuff like Slack.

Please tell me there's hope for a new protocol with the same feature set.
Opposition to or support of anything important has real consequences. What's your point?
But Facebook actively tries to insulate you from most of your friends, except when it's trying to start a fight to juice its "engagement" numbers. It actively creates filter bubbles. So I would say it's an improvement. https://twitter.com/Hellchick/status/942863353403150336
They should have to request it over the radio and the camera should be remotely disabled. This would mean they couldn't turn it off in mere seconds in the heat of the moment or right after taking a call before it was resolved. It's not a perfect solution but it's pretty good.

Another option would be for the "off" button to mark that section of the tape as "off duty" and store it in a special archive that required a court order to access. That way the only time we would need to look is if there was some issue where there was an empty spot in the recording during an event where they were clearly not "off duty".

I think it's worth pointing out that while using the bathroom I don't think a chest/shoulder mounted body cam would see much, if anything, inappropriate. It's not attached to their head looking where they look.
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Possibly even negative utility, since the energy required to run these systems is creating lots of pollution.
This probably isn‘t even 1/10 as bad as internet and tech bubble. That had common people throwing their entire 401k into tech stocks.

My dad ruined his retirement fund buying Nextel options that ended up worthless.

Bitcoin is a dumber bubble though.
So you're saying the solution is simple, everyone just needs to change their behavior?
All political movements have real consequences, so you are effectively saying that a person can not have political opinions you disagree with, and if they do they should be fired from their job.

It does not matter what side of the issue you are on, or what your nuanced position is on the issue, if you disagree with my position you should fired. That is what you are saying.

I can not support such position.
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It’s pretty much exactly the same, down to companies adding .com to their names and talking about their internet strategy and seeing their stock double.
> Why not build some toilets? Has anyone tried?

Yes: http://theloo.biz/
I'm actually working on this concept; a serverless platform utilizing the CGI standard. I call it bigCGI. It addresses a lot of the drawbacks another user mentioned:

Vendor lock in: The CGI standard is supported by almost every server technology. Plus bigCGI is open source and can be self hosted.

Security/Monitoring: one of my biggest challenges, but separate processes, by their nature, offer separation of resources.

Debugging: CGI scripts are super easy to run locally. I've also configured bigCGI to collect STDERR from apps.

Statelessness: CGI is a stateless standard.

If anyone is interested in this, I'd love extra eyeballs on it, especially for security. https://github.com/bmsauer/bigcgi
(Please excuse the bad README, I'll update it next chance I get)
There is no expectation of privacy in a public place, or on someone else’s property.
I think it's okay to have some amount of an echo chamber, they happen more or less naturally just because of who you select to be in your personal sphere of influence, but I think I disagree with the way you describe it.

I don't think people need to exist in an echo chamber so they can "be themselves" without social consequence, I think that's actually the biggest problem with echo chambers and why people argue that they should be avoided. Rather, what we need is a higher standard of discourse outside of those echo chambers. It is possible to respectfully disagree with someone without shouting them down/trolling/removing them from the conversation, and from the other side, without reaching a point of disruption that someone might consider that a good resolution. The failure happens at both sides of the conversation, and interacting outside of echo chambers seems to me the only way to gain experience in interacting civilly.
It's probably a grab from the movie that has 1/24s motion blur effect. Note the car on the opposite side of the road.
WTF. Clickbait title. Even bloomberg knows it's not accurate. From the story itself: "Long Island Iced Tea Corp. shares rose 238 percent after the company rebranded itself Long Blockchain Corp."

238 != 500

Anyways, I think it's still crazy what blockchain mania is doing/causing.
It's not strictly banned, Google just decided to abandon Germany and Austria because they required permission on a household-per-household basis.

They seem to be starting back.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Google-Street-View-not-in-Germa...
In theory, if the tech hiring was purely about skillsets, one could adjust the interview process to focus only on that. I know some orchestras have shifted to "blind auditions" to eliminate bias, for instance, and it has helped out some groups previously left out of orchestras due to bias (female musicians notably). I think it would be possible to shift a technology-oriented hiring process towards those lines if one was most concerned about getting the best people for the job.

In practice, to be honest, a lot of the stories I hear about age bias seem to come from the SV "startup culture" scene and a few of the other "new technology" type companies. In some ways, I almost think it's their loss. Passing over a fair bit of good talent just to get that, er, "culture fit" they want doesn't seem very optimal to me.
Are you looking for tools or data?
Fellow SOMA resident chiming in. Calling this the result of "anarchy" is silly and deflects responsibility.

The cops manage where the homeless folks end up. They chase the homeless here, away from businesses north of Market and richer neighborhoods. Talk to enough cops and one will be honest about it.

Any time I hear how powerless the city is to do anything, I point out that they can't do anything about the total population, but they can and do ensure the bulk of the homeless population lives in SOMA. San Francisco does have a serious homeless problem, but it isn't due to a lack of government.

Quality of life on my block varies over time. Some months it is downright pleasant here; others, my street is an open sewer. I have a phone tree with some other nearby residents; through trial and error we've found a combination of calls to make that seems to reliably get action when things get awful.

OP: Consider coming to a "Better SOMA" meeting. That group actually has moved the needle. (There's just still a lot of gauge left for the needle to move across.)
Unfortunately at this juncture, it's extremely difficult and time-consuming to place an arbitrary proof in the language of proof assistants. It's a very noble goal and much respect to those who do it, but even fully formalizing something like the four-color theorem is a major accomplishment.
Ask HN: Google Apps with Ad Blocking
For someone who doesn't appreciate having their information sucked up by a corporate machine and regurgitated as a targeted ad, is it practical to use Google products with a bevy of ad blockers and other privacy tools?

If I use a Pixel phone and use Google's services (GMail, Photos, etc.) and use Firefox with ad blocking and set up a hosts file to drop connections to ad networks am I in any way _winning_ or am I just deluding myself?
Is Berlin an exception in this regard? When I first move here, some years ago, I almost got ran over on a handful of occasions, before I noticed that drivers are actually allowed to do right turns on red lights.
The most recent times I've met someone and told them I was a programmer there next question has been along the lines of: "Do you have bitcoin/what do you think about bitcoin". Super strange.
How Tech Companies Own Your Day
iPhones start slowing down after a year of use, but that is way too soon