skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe I was misled by "remotely controlled vehicle stuck in cruise control," which (to me) implies that the remote control feature was somehow relevant to not being able to disable the cruise control. The article did not talk about remote control until it mentioned using it to disable the cruise control.
There is 'should' and there is 'does' :-) When IBM acquired Blekko they were moving people over to the web based version of Lotus notes at 1,000 employees a month (give or take) and with 450K employees that was a 30+ year timeline (it got faster as they worked out transition kinks but still) the point is that at certain scales these things are a lot more difficult for enterprises than you might expect.

The biggest challenge (as I saw it) was making sure that everyone could email everyone else all through the transition because if email stops, the company stops in that portion.

All of that to say that even though Airbus is one less than a third that many employees (133K vs 450k) its organization complexity is up there. And keeping complex organizations functional and efficient as possible during a large transition is often addressed by keeping the rate of change manageable (aka slower than you would expect).
People need to be trained, documents moved and converted, business processes adapted, ... In addition, solutions will have to be found for documents that exceed GSuite’s capabilities. 10 years? No, but 2-3 years for sure.
> [Black people] are just like you and me. They have the same jobs and live in the same houses because why shouldn't they? It wasn't polarized or political...

There was a debate going on in America when Mr. Rogers made those shows. There were two sides. Exactly one of them was represented in Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. Telling one side of the story and pretending the other doesn't exist is the Platonic ideal of polarization.

I'm not apologizing for the racists here. What they believe is repugnant. But we should remember that in suppressing them we have done things that a lot of people would object to in other circumstances.
It's certainly a better approach than trying to find one trustworthy source in isolation; there's a lot to be said for an adversarial system of newsreading.

With non-Western affairs, I try this but feel like I still struggle with obscured facts and deep-seated agendas. The errors and biases in multiple accounts of a domestic issue can often be subtracted out, but English coverage of complex foreign issues has bigger complications. Distinct authors work from the same erroneous primary source, or all make the same cultural misunderstanding on the same point, or all lack key context that wasn't international news.

Coverage of topics like the war in Syria is often mind-bendingly bad, and I end up running down primary sources even when I can trust them, just for context. (A concrete example: many stories about refugees in Raqqa listed populations and areas that would have left the surviving city more densely populated than Kowloon, but no one seemed to bother doing that division.)

It's vastly better than it used to be, though. Total inaccuracy is much less of a threat in a world pervaded by English-speaking internet users. I feel surrounded by sloppy, unhelpful media, but I at least have enough information to get that feeling. Stories like the Western media's misunderstanding of the USSR in the 1930s give some perspective on what it looks like to be so comprehensively wrong that you can't even tell there's a problem.
Self driving cars have lowered some LIDAR costs a factor of 20, with a promise of far more. I wonder if this can translate over into archeology and geology. Imsaw one project at SIGGRAPH using a cheap LIDAR.
Google or Microsoft makes their money on analytical data. In other words; we are the product. Not the software.

So what I ment is that they traded one evil for a another one.
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anyway, I don't think this would ever be accepted as evidence in trial. it could be an indicator/lead for investigations, but I don't think it would be a big concern for attackers?
Your description of them sounds nothing like my understanding of their culture and lives I got from the book. My point isn't to glorify anything (nor was the book's) anyway.

There is plenty of evidence countering a faith in growth. A culture that has existed for several orders of magnitude longer than ours is strong evidence. It would even if they were as ignorant and fearful as you describe them. That there were the opposite strengthens the case.

I'm not sure if you were suggesting that people in our culture are not ignorant or fearful, but I see a lot of it, or if you're suggesting that past flourishing means it will continue, but I wouldn't bet on it unless we change a lot.
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Ah, makes sense. Tankless gas is a cheaper ongoing way to go in the US then, though installation costs may be higher since you might need a larger diameter gas line put in.
> Um, OK and rewriting history is a tactic favoured by fascists.

We're not rewriting history. Allowing a transgendered person to choose a new name doesn't change the basic facts about what happened. It's just an act of compassion towards someone who would otherwise be suffering from feelings neither you nor I personally experience, but are well documented by scientists.

> Shouldn't it be "Bradley Manning (now called Chelsea)"?

You could say "Chelsea Manning (at the time, 'Bradley')" if you really wanted to refresh people's memories, so long as you consistently refer to her as Chelsea through the rest of the comment/essay/etc.

> I prefer objective to polite.

This is a false dichotomy. You can be both.

https://www.amazon.com/Nonviolent-Communication-Language-Mar...
Thanks. Didn't know.
Because the central premise of anarcho capitalism is not to maximize liberty. The central premise is to place private ownership above all else--even above rule of law that would forbid murder.
This -- _so_ much. That was my first thinking as well.

IAM in GCP is still half-baked. How about they finish that? I understand that GCP is a massive engineering effort with endless things going on in series, but core parts of their platform are still mediocre at best. I'd prefer not to see more hackweek projects on their blog.
I worked on the data analysis for this story, which was published at a Jupyter Notebook of Python code.

https://github.com/datadesk/street-racing-analysis/blob/mast...

If you have any questions, shoot.
Well that was easy, given the signature of triple 6 :D (although that part dropped due to space considerations)
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It's not standard, true, but it's also not an experimental feature, so one still wouldn't expect them to do wacky things like overwrite tags. I think many people expect version tagged code to not change, unless the developers specifically say they are nightly/experimental (there is a comment to that effect on the issue link).
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In what way is G-Suite open source? The same way as Android.
The terminology is a GitHub-and-friends thing, but the idea is at the core of git. When you clone a repository, you're creating a "fork" of the repo on your own computer. Git is a DVCS (distributed VCS), where you can make many copies/forks of a repository and freely push/pull commits between them. (As opposed to something like SVN, where the repository lives on a single server, and all commits go directly to that server without a separate "push" step.)
The data from the Puget Sound LIDAR Consortium [1] is freely available, you just need to ask for an account. (Not 100% sure on licensing terms, though.)

Seattle / King County just finished a rescan in 2016/2017 and the data is stunningly good. [2] Really good consistency and density. The DLM/classification/cleanup seems excellent.

[1] http://pugetsoundlidar.ess.washington.edu/

[2] (private, need an account) http://pugetsoundlidar.ess.washington.edu/lidardata/restrict...
Not illegal:

(d)Affirmative Defense.—It shall be an affirmative defense to a charge of violating subsection (a)(5) that the defendant—
(1) possessed less than three images of child pornography; and
(2) promptly and in good faith, and without retaining or allowing any person, other than a law enforcement agency, to access any image or copy thereof—
(A) took reasonable steps to destroy each such image; or
(B) reported the matter to a law enforcement agency and afforded that agency access to each such image.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2252A

Also, the main charge of possession is knowingly possessed
I agree. If I ever need to use regex, I will dive in, but I don't mainly write software to process text. I mainly write control software for various things like subsea oil wells, oil rigs, gas turbines etc. It is enough for me to know it exists. I try to spread myself thin and broad, and then that gives me the control of which areas to dive deep, depending on the task at hand.
> esoteric particle physics terms like 'Naturalness'

It just means "numbers involved in physics are short and simple". From wikipedia:

> In physics, naturalness is the property that the dimensionless ratios between free parameters or physical constants appearing in a physical theory should take values "of order 1" and that free parameters are not fine-tuned. That is, a natural theory would have parameter ratios with values like 2.34 rather than 234000 or 0.000234.

And the reason physicists tend to expect their theories to be natural is that in the history of physics uncovering new things, most things have been natural, to the point where significant amounts of knowledge has been derived based on the expectation of naturalness -- that is, when something could be natural or not, and we couldn't properly test it yet, we just assumed it was natural and went on to research other things. And then, possibly decades later, when it's finally possible to test the theory, the test just confirms that yes, it was natural.
well, this explains the popularity of the "hippie speedball"!

A coffee and a joint is a wonderful way to while away an afternoon.
I don't find it more or less creepy than what we discover companies doing under the hood on our smartphone apps, computers, sharing personal info, etc.
It's quite possible that there's no ability to actually drive the vehicle as such, but remote access is inherently a massive security hole regardless. Remember the remote Jeep hack from a couple of years ago, where the vehicle could be remotely controlled over DAB? (https://www.wired.com/2015/07/jeep-hack-chrysler-recalls-1-4...)
There’s definitely no assured promise of correlation between transmission of content, possession of content, and true criminal act resulting in harm.

What’s actually transpiring is opportunistic enforcement, whenever there’s a broader perception of necessity to act against an apparently dispicable entity.

This motive alone guides organizations to hunt down and punish anything that would seem obvious to a lowest common denominator beureaucrat, when printed on paper.

The reason these sorts of policies are upheld is to provide the umbrage of an imprecise broadsword, when conducting more surgical operations relating to espionage and counter operations. That’s it.

Someone needs to quietly erase something, and they need to sweep it up with a broad mop, so that no one notices the little smear that needed to go away.

It’s not about morality. Only convenient morality. Deviants are pretty rare, and the population of apparent deviants needs to be magnified, so that certain criminals may be framed to keep their real crimes (betrayal, subterfuge) quiet.
I am thankful that the ribbon UI is patented, it prevents that terrible experience getting more widely implemented
Thoroughly agreed. Would love to see the mods taking a much more active role in this thread
I think most of PBS's offerings are all really good on this front.
I’m sure for some users the notifications can be alarming or induce bad/impulsive behavior.

I have on occasion though found them useful where I get a notification that X stock is down Y% today. Most of these have been bad market days and I’ve said, “Nice, I’m long on X and it’s on sale today so I’ll pick up a few more shares.”

So on the one hand I understand how these could lead to a rash decision from some I don’t think Robinhood is trying to get people to buy high and sell low.
That was exactly my experience around two years ago. The brand of the company was far, far more valuable than their internal processes or capabilities as a result, and it was a painful migration (still is, from what I hear).
There have certainly been LIDAR surveys of archaeologically important regions in Peru, but there's a lot more of Peru to scan than the UK.
ah, true enough. "he was a minister who never lead a parish", then.
Seriously, I'm really surprised at some of the comments here. Some hackers have always been suits though, so I shouldn't be surprised.
I think it might have been a Joel on Software story that talked about how when they did a review of what people actually used Excel for they found that a ridiculous number never went beyond "making lists of things".

By that measure, I bet that Google Sheets is likely overpowered compared to most people's use.

I try to keep this in mind when I see things like AirTable (and their recent big funding raise) - because it looks so "listy" and like something people would actually use [1].

Maybe the real differentiator is the ability to easily put checkboxes and pics in a row and much less dependent upon having advanced statistical functions, pivot tables, etc.

1 - https://youtu.be/r0lsyTaAuJE
We don't know if they have teams working on this or not...my guess is they do. What if it just takes a long time to ship those features to GA? Should they hold off on other features?
I believe that GitHub stores all forks in a network with a single git object store.
I always get excited when driving or flying over SLAC! Although I understand that the facility is now half laser interferometry.
I read "Hax and Vax" as "Horizontal axis and Vertical axis", but I'm not sure what to think about it.
Throttle lock. That's what most motorcycles have in lieu of the CC electronics. It's also what happens if you, say, remove the return spring on your throttle body.
He also went by Line Trace. AMP link: https://www.google.com/amp/s/mattmazur.com/2010/06/26/adrian...
Sorry, this story isn't very interesting, but it really stuck with me nonetheless, and I wanted to share.

Adrian had a passing romance with a friend of mine, and thus ended up traveling through the city I grew up in. This was long before Chelsea Manning, etc.

I was a super shy, rather awkward teenage girl. I suppose the teenage part has changed.. but I digress. I loved the idea of mischief, but at the same time, I was a habitual rule-follower. I get nervous walking through the retail store detectors placed at entrances.. even though I've never stolen anything in my life. I remember listening to social engineering phone pranks -- the sort where people would talk their way into being put on the store-wide intercom at Walmart. At the time, I think I really wanted to be so confident that I could do such a thing, versus the reality, which was mild anxiety over something so simple as placing a legit pizza order over the phone.

I knew who Adrian was in a peripheral sense. I was a community leader and eventual employee on AOL in years prior, and I had an interest in how to break things as an inverse of being curious how they're built.

I had a car, while my friend did not, and Adrian had traveled via transit, so I spent the day with them hopping around town. At one point, we were downtown grabbing food in one of the larger complexes -- Adrian breaks off for a second and asks a retail store employee a bunch of questions about working there, saying he was just hired at the cafe. We then ended up going into what was clearly an employee-only area -- GUYS WE AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE HERE WHAT IF WE GET IN TROUBLE OH GOD -- we duck into a fire escape, hike up to the upper level where he picks the lock to the door with roof access, and there we are, highest point in the city. After a few minutes of me suggesting that MAYBE we go back down since this was cool BUT REALLY WE SHOULD GO, Adrian told me I'd miss the sunset if I kept worrying.

It was dumb. I'm sure I could've been arrested. But watching the sunset with the two of them from the top of that building remains one of my favorite memories. It was the first time I'd taken a step out of my shell, I suppose. Adrian was a troubled guy, and I don't forgive what he did to Manning, but I appreciated him for that moment in time.
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I'm referring to the interview, which I believed was the context of this conversation.
If there's one thing I've learned from watching true crime stories, it's that there are no actual contract killers, only US Marshals posing as them.
This parallels much of mathematics. Many formulations, even in physics, admit so called trivial solutions which amount conceptually to zero.
You don't know what you're talking about.

Don't just repeat cool sentences that don't apply here.

You're wrong here, ESPECIALLY with microsoft.
I'd start pulling fuses, Die Hard style.
I agree. There's a lot to be said for a kindly human figure explaining these (to a child) weighty topics. An anthropomorphic tiger seems to undercut the message.

(Mind you, this is not intended to be a heavy slam on the show, which in my limited experience is head and shoulders above what passes for children's TV now.)
I find that with audio non-fiction I may gloss over some details but the momentum is better so I read more overall, so there is a net gain.

If I really want to study a subject I will listen to the audiobook, and then re-read it in text form.
This is no different than Google Docs and many other similar services. If you share a Google Doc with someone it will show up in their list of Docs. But it is just a reference to "their" doc. If they delete the doc there's no doc to reference and your "apparent" copy of the doc (which was really just a reference) disappears.

If you really wanted your own personal copy you need to make a duplicate. That duplicate will be yours not a reference to theirs.

It was strange the first time I ran into it. I deleted an account. I had shared the documents with another account of mine. Then I noticed when I deleted the first account I lost access to those docs. Now I know I hadn't copied the docs I'd only had references to them. Next time I'll know to make copies if I actually want copies and not just access to another account's shared docs.
How much of a role did licensing fees play and how much of a role the desire of management to “be modern”? An Office suite is the perfect example of a software that benefits greatly from the speed, usability, OS integration of a native application. Collaboration can easily be achieved with Box, SharePoint, etc. I’m sure there will be employee backlash
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How do they prevent ballot-stuffing? (Not trying to invalidate what you're saying, I'm genuinely curious)
Were he a Catholic, Fred Rogers would have by this point been beatified if not fully canonized. Few people within living memory exemplified the values Christianity purports to teach as thoroughly as he. If his approach was unrealistic, it was supposed to be. He applied a sort of extreme version of the Kantian categorical imperative: always acting as if he were at the same time willing that the real world be as peaceful, gentle, and tolerant as the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Transportation is not the point of street racing, so of what possible significance would that comparison be?
So, do you remember when the President of USA had that Apprentice show on TV?

To me that's wrong, the President didn't, but Donald Trump did.

There's no reason to hide that Trump hasn't always been president, and it's informative to know that he wasn't president at the time he was a TV character in a "game" (?) show.

If the name is inconsequential why does anyone care if you refer to the correct historical fact that "Bradley Manning (now called Chelsea) was reported ...".

They matter, just in different ways to different people. What's that quote - naming things and off-by-one errors??
"Vision Zero is working in partnership with the City of Los Angeles to end all traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2025."

http://visionzero.lacity.org/

The goal isn't to minimize deaths per mile driven or per hour, it's to eliminate deaths period.
UN taps Bloomberg for top position on climate change
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I am working on a dot com idea in Pakistan. Here in Pakistan there are still lots of opportunities in web and mobile. How do I convince myself to do a startup after understanding that entrepreneurship is actually more management than engineering and how can I learn new stuff in the startup?
Interesting. I think it's a rather small mistake, which does not invalidate the whole story, but I agree it does change the perspective somewhat.

Do you know how much he was involved in the church? Was he a member of a presbytery? Did he attend synods or general assemblies? (I might not be using the terms exactly correctly.)

I'm just curious, doesn't change things much either way. My grandfather was a Presbyterian minister and very much still considered himself active after retiring from being a pastor to a congregation – I think in large part because he attended a lot of the organizational meetings, mentored young pastors, etc.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16601642 and marked it off-topic.
I'm not following. Let's say current transmission and generation is the baseline. In the future when there is distributed generation, transmission is definitely going to go down as generation will be tightly coupled with supplying private, commercial, or industrial entities (eg panels on the roof). So generation goes down (since more renewable), and distribution as well on average (due to coupling mechanisms).
Certain states allow you to pay double the fine and ignore the points. This was used by groups[0] doing road rallies across America.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1nstSui0tPnJtMF2OZx5tw
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While exciting, the barrier seems pretty high to even get access to some of this data. You have to contact their sales department, which probably means it has Enterprise-level pricing.
I downloaded all the 1m dsm composite data from the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales and used C#, System.Drawing.Graphics and hefty server from AWS EC2 to render 2 million png files, which I then moved onto a Scaleway C1 bare-metal ARM server, to produce this slippy lidar map of England and Wales: https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map
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Wow. Anti Captcha seems like a company that should not exist. I don't want to go full /r/latestagecapitalism, but this seems like a typical economic activity that lures uneducated workers from rural areas to the city for a 'real office job', only to be trapped in a low-wage, low-opportunity job where the protocol is to do what you're told or get out. Their front page literally features a superhero shooting 'bad' workers with a laser.
Hi,

How long have both of you been working on this project?

What was your traction before getting into YC?

I'm most interested in the traction part since there's this misconception that YC does not accept early stage companies. It looks there are a whole lot of companies in the very early stage and I personally take that as a positive sign.
Users explicably flagged it.
I think what the quoted passage was trying to convey is that Mr. Rogers wasn't polarizing or political in the way community diversity was presented.
For reference, Superdeluxe remix of Jim Bakker selling buckets of food: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnaSvvSqY-8