skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it's tolerable to have engineers jumping between projects in, say, web frontend, I'd imagine that operating system security work is incredibly sensitive to programmer context-switching - you can't dive deep into the security model of a desktop system in your 20% time when you're working with an entirely different system (with a different CPU architecture) in your 80% time. Of course there will be some specialization on this team, but it doesn't seem to be nearly enough. Unfortunately, it will take something like a botched release (not just a security problem) and heads rolling to reverse this trend.
> AGPL doens't force bushiness to buy a license. They can use your code at no cost and modify at will so long as they make their changes available AGPL.

Because the AGPL counts network access as distribution, it would force businesses to open source their private codebases that communicated with my service - which is enough of deterrent to freeloading for me.
If there are any Western IP-generating firms left by then I’m sure they’ll be pleased!
I can't imagine an inverted deployment at 100' would end well...
Who flies the planes themselves - do you contract with the same airlines who run regional flights for the national carriers? (What's the planes' livery?)

Part of why I'm curious is that I've noticed that the national carriers in the US have an extremely safe record of late - I believe there has been one death from 2002-present from the national carriers (Southwest 1248 slid off a snowy runway in Chicago, hit two cars, and killed one child), but there have been a many fatal accidents with regional or private carriers, so I'd like to know who the actual operating carrier is and what their safety record is.
And of course after actually reading the article, that's what he used. Oh well, here's a link for the 99%'s that don't read the article more than the headline (myself included).
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I think you can have a bit of column A, a bit of column B.

My home city is Mumbai (technically, the suburban city of Thane, north of Mumbai) one of the most dense large cities in the world.

Public transportation in Mumbai, in terms of frequency, capacity, reliability, and cost is already better than any American city (I'm counting NYC in that). It could definitely be better; for instance the city is served by standard gauge trains but the metro railway (whatever gauge a subway is) that goes underground is still under construction.

Despite all that, and despite the fact that the tallest building in the city is a mere 88 stories[1] the infrastructure is straining under the pressure every day. All the good jobs (government, tech, banking) are concentrated in just one or two parts of the city (South Mumbai and the Andheri-Bandra-Dadar triangle, maybe Powai; my geography might be a bit outdated because I haven't lived there for 8 years). And real estate in those places is astronomically expensive[2] (here's a non-luxury 3-bed apartment for USD 1.3m in South Mumbai). That means everyone whose isn't living with parents who bought decades ago in those places has 3-hour round trip commutes every day (I was one of those people).

Building taller wouldn't densify the city because rich people will likely buy that new housing and they have smaller families on average. Improving public transportation won't change laws of distance and traffic - like I said it's already quite good. It would be better for people in North Mumbai if there were more jobs closer to them so they wouldn't have to commute so far every day.

Suburban, car-driven, sprawl is not ideal for city growth, but neither is the concentration of jobs in one place.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_M...

2. https://www.99acres.com/3-bhk-bedroom-apartment-flat-for-sal...
There is not a single Apple Store currently in Russia. All apple products are available online only. I think Russia will have 0 leverage to make apple to go thru all the troubles.
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For that matter it's hard to grow concrete above a certain rate both for physical and political reasons. It's one of the problems causing the housing crunch in certain cities. Yes, in each case, there are specific issues. But, generally, when everyone and their dog suddenly wants to move into certain areas of certain cities that were actually declining in population not all that long ago, you're going to have issues.
You can consider geography as far as logistics without using geography as the determining factor as far as who gets elected.

You could simply let anyone vote for anyone and elect the top N contenders where there is N seats.

Logically the choices would resemble the choices of the population.

You can also use the slow but difficult to default distributed network we have had the longest. The US mail.
This seems like a legitimate point. This is true. OS development is typically too large to run through a single monolithic team.

It is possible that the team in this area is applying a methodology that has different QA best practices. It could be a poorly applied Agile methodology at fault here.

Although it's impossible to know without more information.
> Paranoid conservatives have increasingly become certain Google is trying to silence them, citing its firing of engineers who allegedly created hostile work environments and a largely illusory panic about YouTube censorship.

>largely illusory panic

The link that is cited here is one talking about a Prager University video on the "1 in 5 women are raped" claim. Prager U is suing Google for 1st amendment violations. The article talks about how it isn't likely to get Google in much legal trouble because they are a private company. However it doesn't make much comment on if the "panic" is "illusory" or not. The examples given seem to indicate Google is actively censoring certain people they don't like.

[The Linked Article]
> The complaint filed in California federal court includes charts of restricted videos compared to unrestricted videos on "similar topics." For example, Prager's video titled "Are 1 in 5 women in college raped?" is on lockdown, while a Real Time With Bill Maher video about The Hunting Ground; an interview with former Vice President Joe Biden on how to end the campus rape crisis; and Lady Gaga singing about rape all can be seen by YouTube users.

> As to the meat of the thing good conservatives are supposed to get angry about: Is Google flagging more right-leaning sites for review than left-leaning ones? Probably. But, uh, that’s also probably because a massive segment of the conservative media, particularly newer digital ventures like the Caller, are completely fine with brazen distortion and aren’t interested in the same journalistic standards as most parts of the mainstream media.

Hilarious that the links in this segment are to MotherJones and NewRepublic. Hardly unbiased sources, and none of the links are any kind of support for what is being talked about in this paragraph. I notice that a lot in these kinds of pieces, they think that putting links to other articles will somehow make them seem more well supported. When you actually follow the links they are nonsensical or throw you down a rabbit hole of checking event characterization.

This whole article is weird, the author admits that Google isn't doing a good job at their attempt at fact checking, but who cares? The people complaining are people we don't like!
Is it 100% pass the React 16 tests?
It would be great if the author could explain where the performance gains come from and what the internal mechanics of the project are. Does it piggy back onto the existing react repo? Is it just a forked react repo with performance improvements? Giving some insight on that may give your potential users a good reason to jump onto the bandwagon.
This is great. Staying informed about current events is great, but cable news (a bunch of fearmongering and talking heads yelling at each other) is not the way to do it and being forcefully bombarded with cable news in a public space is definitely not the way to do it.

I really hate the fact that gyms and other spaces like this think it's a good idea to plaster TVs all over the walls and bombard you with video. Why? Who enjoys that?
I'm confused. Is FB ending support for Chatbots altogether? That wasn't clear from the article -- well at least not for me.
Man, reading those Asterix comics about Gaul, and the illustrations, I wish I could live in a place like that. I've been in such (deciduous as well as evergreen) forests before, but not lived in them for a long time.
For more background on the whole Second Processor system, see the "Acorn's Second Processors and the Tube - what, and why" thread at Stardot: http://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14211

On that note, Stardot is a small but thriving community around the BBC Micro, and Acorn Computers' other machines -- the Acorn Atom, Acorn Electron, BBC Master, BBC Master Compact, and the Archimedes/RISC PC machines. The author of PiTubeDirect is an active poster there, and the tone is generally very friendly and on-topic. I've been reading/posting for the last year or so and it's turned Acorn-focussed retro hardware into my favourite hobby. I'd highly recommend taking a look if you used/loved one of these machines back in the 80s/90s.
I'm skeptical of a company that is doing so many different projects, and none of them seem particularly well developed, far along, or consistent within the framework of some core vision.

That being said, I'm jealous. Where do people actually get money to finance these pet projects?
> it would seem fundamentally incorrect to make a request with a Host header or SNI hostname set to anything other than the hostname requested for issuance.

Pondering why they'd do it the way it is right now, my best guess would be that it allows you to get a LetsEncrypt certificate while still having a valid certificate from another CA. For example, example.com currently has a Symantec certificate that is soon going to be invalidated, and I want to swap over to an LE cert with 0 downtime.
Rotorcraft fuel requirements are different from airplanes. Under VFR it's first intended point plus 20 minutes, day or night.
> Congress seems to be more dysfunctional now than it was in the 80's and 90's.

Electoral punishment for gaming the system to extreme levels, and even for misconduct that has no benefit for a party or candidates image or efficacy (blatant corruption, Roy Moore-type behavior [edit, 1]) has proven to be non-existent. The more various candidates and officials push, the farther it's clear they can go without punishment. Things are getting worse because they keep trying to push farther, and succeeding.

This is largely because of wedge issues—especially abortion, but also guns to a lesser extent. The problem won't go away unless we modify our election system to permit more than two viable parties at a time, so that, say, an anti-abortion party can go way off the rails and its saner voters can defect to another anti-abortion party, without losing anti-abortion voting power in legislative bodies (as, say, a protest vote would), and so on for every other issue. Proportional representation or something along those lines would help a lot. Most any effective change like this would also eliminate or greatly reduce the power of gerrymandering.

[1] Nearly non-existent—he did lose, after all, but narrowly.
For drone-style helicopters, I find the Volocopter (https://www.volocopter.com/de/) the most intriguing concept. The designers of the Volocopter took extreme care for redundancy. It can keep flying with up to 6 of the 18 rotors failing. Even the electric system and the controls have multiple redundancies. The first craft already got licensed for flying in Germany.
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This seems a bit unfair. Outsiders who agree with Yudkowsky are more likely to become insiders.

Any cult could say that, however. One question I'd ask, is how likely is it for outsiders who partially agree with Yudkowsky to become insiders? Quite often, it's much less the "leader" and much more the mob inside a cult which creates much of the cult-like atmosphere. I remember posting an idea in the HPMOR reddit about creating a muggle magic detection device that could be used to game-balance the power of the muggle world vs. the magical world. The knee-jerk reactions, followed by the feeling that I must be a horrible person for doing so made me pause.

It's about how to tell the differences between the circumstances where you should trust your instincts vs those where you should go with the crowd.

So, in part, it's how to tell if you're being suborned by groupthink.

Always keep in mind that scene from The Life of Brian, where the crowd shouts, "We are all individuals!"

The thing to keep in mind when trying to start a movement of rationalists that doesn't take on the qualities of a cult: Ask yourself if you are as smart and self aware as others who have tried the same. Why is it you will succeed where those others have failed?

(Do I think the Less Wrong crowd is a cult? It's a foregone conclusion that any such group has grown an outer rind which has at least some cult-like qualities. The real question is, what is the state of the inside? And if you are inside, how do you know you haven't been suborned by groupthink?)
When you say "moral" are they your morals or the developer's and China's morals? Does your morals accommodate theirs or is it too restrictive?
Don't know actual chemistry facts (rusty) but would not be surprised if it was the ash that did.
Unlike cars, these machines would not be tightly packed into roads, concentrating the noise and pollution; likely they'd have to keep a serious distance.

Also, with a top speed of 70 mph and range of 70 miles, it does not look like a great daily-commuter vehicle. This device looks like a good fit for an expensive urban fast-jump service, or a good solution for places where roads are hard to build, like going to a forest hike or a mountain trip.
A realistic route to implementation was not one of the requirements. If it is, the only solution is pretty much to eject Washington DC from the planet, fill in the hole, and start over.

And I explicitly said the office would remain empty. If an incumbent runs unopposed, the new option would be the way to force their party to pick someone else, since obviously no one had the moxie or political capital to challenge in the primary.

If it is important that the office be filled, it is important that the parties run candidates qualified to fill it. In light of recent events, I'd rather have no elected official or a temporary placeholder than a bad official. It would seem that our government has a limited capacity to operate rationally even when the person nominally in charge is incompetent or non compos mentis. It certainly happened in the later years of the Reagan administration. It might be happening now.

Europe has proved that short election cycles are possible. We could survive six weeks of vacancy in most offices while cranking out a mulligan election. And where it really counts, existing succession plans apply. We could certainly run one mulligan between November and January, and if another one is required, Congress still has time to pick their Speaker of the House before inauguration day, who would then have to take the office until an election finally succeeds in naming a full-term replacement.

The sheer panic, expense, and inconvenience of the first time would likely encourage the parties to not run crap candidates in the future.
I'm a fan of rail in general, and the German system is fantastic. But the LA and SF Bay Areas consist mostly of sprawl and don't have good transit to begin with. You need to drive to get somewhere fast. In those circumstances, taking off from the burbs is a feature, not a bug.
Plenty of ways to cancel that out from an owners' perspective.

Number one would be fans. Number two would be a noise-masking solution.
Music at the gym should be opt-in, not opt-out.
I heard rumors that Apple is moving towards one unified App development process for both macOS and iOS

Is it possible that this is related to that?
The game has a lot of content, especially if you're going for 100% completion or get easily sidetracked by open world titles. Those 900 Korok seeds take a while to find, as does getting and upgrading all the armour, completing 120 shrines, plus the Trial of the Sword, Champion's Ballad DLC, about 80 odd sidequests, beating the various overworld bosses (about another 100 or so), getting all the key items and finishing Master Mode. 100% completion could easily be a few hundred hours.

And it only gets more insane if you try self imposed challenges, attempt speedrunning, mess around with glitches or try out various mods for the Wii U version.
Not in city centers on busy multilane inrersections, at least not in my country. We arent talking about riding a bike in a park or in the suburbs. And kids cause a lot of traffic accidents as well, regardless of their mode of transportation... Nothing will eliminate accidents. Training and systems can minimize it though.
For me, airplanes are preferable to running train tracks across the landscape. It's also cheaper. I live in southern France near Marseille and for me to get to Frankfurt by train -- it's a time consuming mess. I can be there by airplane in about an hour. Getting to Geneva from Marseille is faster by airplane by multiple hours and even driving a car is more convenient than the train depending on the connections and road conditions -- especially if I'm ultimately going to Chamonix.

I could take a train from Marseille to Brussels -- but why would I? I can spend almost 7 hours on a train or 1.25 hours on an airplane AND I don't have to drive all the way into Marseille, find a place to leave my car and risk getting attacked or robbed in the station [1][2]

> Train stations are also in the middle of each city, saving you about an hour of time on each end

That's assuming that you actually want to be in the middle of each city.

SFO to Cupertino by car is about 50 minutes.

Downtown San Francisco to Cupertino is roughly double that.

Not everyone traveling to San Francisco (or LA) actually wants to be in the city center. LAX to Santa Monica, Venice or most other west LA destinations is faster than downtown Los Angeles to those areas. LAX to Long Beach is faster than from downtown LA.

[1] http://ktla.com/2017/10/01/at-least-2-dead-after-knife-attac...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/17/world/europe/marseille-fr...
The point was that sometimes it's better to have your data managed by a foreign government. Not that the Chinese government is somehow better than any other arbitrary government. If you live in China, feel free to mentally switch "Chinese" and "British".
1. (fuel cost) is the purer version of the carbon tax. In theory (the one behind most of these policies that I'm objecting to), this should be sufficient.

As you say, it's slow. I'd also say that it's no good (due to inelasticity) even if we were willing to wait. Say you could turn the American consumer into a Belgian one in 10 years by doubling petrol prices. They'd still drive a bit more due to cities' structure and the country's size, but in little euro hatchbacks they'd save 25% of the fuel/carbon.

Maybe I'm exaggerating. Maybe we could cut 30% with a 75% price increase. Either way, that's a lot of pain for very moderate long term gain. Most hard hit would be poorer people who can't afford to "upgrade" their car.

I agree on the second point. This is a better policy.

Unfortunately, the European punitive taxes are mostly not upfront or even new car specific. This puts most of the burden on old car drivers, with most of the "elasticity" going towards EOLing cars younger and upgrading to newer ICE cars tailored to this new tax regime. Its a slow, inefficient and regressive, but still preferable to fuel/carbon taxes.

Simpler would be better. €X upfront subsidy or tax on EVs or ICEs. More emphasis on EVs than efficient ICEs as ICE efficiency is not really en route to where we want to go, 0 emissions. Less economic/policy sophistication. Intervene at the time decisions are made (like you say). Build towards a ban.
Good one. There is some (maybe) Chinese proverb something like that too.
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Keep in mind the whole point of these districts is to bias in favor of a demographic. If you want to automate that then you also have to explicitly define the biases. If you don't want biases then get rid of the districts.
You could still do that! Just accept LE’s requests with the existing Symantec cert and respond as needed.

Or use the DNS challenge.

Or use something like ALPN instead.
> A realistic route to implementation was not one of the requirements.

I said "(Unless you have a realistic way of introducing good)" - I meant that the way of introducing it must be realistic, not simply that the good must be realistic. (Let me know if I could have phrased that more clearly!)
We'd be better off with dense cities where automobile is not the primary means of transportation. Like e.g. NYC or many European cities.

Cars and large trucks should mostly belong to highways and country roads.
Right, but if you're not in China at all, the Chinese government don't care about you.

So it's (in some respects) safer to have your data managed in a foreign country than in the country you live in, as a counterpoint to the claim that "it makes so much more sense that your data is subject to the law in the country you reside in".
> What I do see as a reflection of our changing society is everyone's hypersensitivity to nearly everything

I agree that society, including the Internet, has become too hypersensitive. To the point where a comment in (January) 2018 feigning ignorance of how things were in 2015 is taken at face value instead of rhetorically :).

edit: I think you are right though, that it probably was pranksters/drunken idiots. Someone who dropped it off claimed to have early-morning surveillance footage of it being attacked in a touristy part of town.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150804_Can_hitchBOT_be_s...

> The video was posted by Jesse Wellens, the Philadelphian who said he found the robot while driving around early Saturday. He said he held on to the robot for a couple of hours, then dropped it off on a bench on Second Street at Elfreth's Alley between 4:30 and 5 a.m. The footage shows a man kicking hitchBOT on the bench around 5:45 a.m., according to a date tag on the video. The assailant is wearing a No. 12 Eagles jersey, the number worn by Randall Cunningham.

My 2018 mindset pictured a "bot" as something that had some kind of autonomous movement/behavior but it was for all intents and purposes a box with a camera. I think Hitchbot's survival chances were extremely low if left unattended late at night near a bar scene, Philadelphia or elsewhere.
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Music is a pretty widely-accepted noise masking solution, though.
The entire Golang autocert functionality relies on this - which presumably Traefik is using
I'm not questioning the fact that it got upvoted, just the rate, which is only realistically possible if you draw attention to a submission.

Even big company announcements don't get upvotes that quickly.

(of course, it's counterproductive, as drawing such attention when it's not deserved draws flags, which is what happened in this case)
I should point out that Penn Station (the terminal) is awful and falling apart. Honestly the station, the tracks below it, and the tunnels, all need work.
Requiring licensing for cyclists could indirectly result in more deaths depending on the change in other behaviours.

Off the top of my head, walking is more risky per mile for the traveller than cycling while driving is safer per mile, but increases your risk of obesity and DVT and is more dangerous for everyone else in terms of pollution and accidents.