skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For reasons I've never understood, many Americans seem fixated on viewing poverty and homelessness as MORAL failures, which deserve punishment.

I think you slightly misstate it: they view poverty and homelessness as an outward evidence of moral failures (particularly, an insufficient work ethic) and (often, though this view is sometimes found divorced from religious judgement today) divine disfavor, not as moral failures in themselves.

This has been traced back (both by people who view this attitude positively and by those who view it negatively) to various elements of theology of various strains of Protestantism that shaped American culture, particularly the Puritan concept of “visible saints” whose outward signs were wholesome living and material success.
Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of how ignorant another comment may be. It only makes this place worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The Audi a3 e-tron looks like any other "normal" Audi
For all the crap Tesla gets, this shows why they are so necessary. Switching to electric car production is a huge disruption for the existing auto industry. It basically eliminates the dealer service revenue, and turns the supply chain upside down.

I doubt they would be making any effort in electric cars if the threat of Tesla did not exist. Even as it is, they are dragging their feet.
The point of the 13th amendment is to eliminate legal human trafficking once and for all. It's not reasonable to say that the meaning of that rule is allowed to change over time. And that standard has to apply for every part of the Constitution for the 13th amendment to have actual impact, otherwise it's just another holy text and can be ignored has a nice myth for simple people. But instead of people sinning by unclean food, the government is allowed to hold citizens indefinitely without trial because the constitution means something else now.
I thought orbiting was all about horizontal velocity, otherwise what comes up must come down!

Did the rocket just turn sideways to accumulate the necessary horizontal velocity to actually maintain an orbit at a much later phase in its flight?
... or if you want a casual experience for free right in your browser you can try http://www.stefanom.org/spc/
These are exactly the type of features we are focused on this year.

Commenting on a block of code:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4143

Making a review session:
https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/23

And here’s a greater overview:
https://about.gitlab.com/direction/#merge-requests-approvals...
Gattaca reference? :)
To be honest, I really don't understand why it's acceptable to constantly spew racial or sexual slurs at other people. I also don't understand why it's acceptable to throw a ranked match because you believe someone else did something wrong.

I don't want either of those to happen. When they do, it ruins the fun for me. After a while, I will stop playing. Plenty of others agree with me, which is why these companies are taking this seriously. They don't want people to stop playing.
I think IBM Softlayer has been renting out small numbers of Power-based machines for a while now, enough to test with.
Apple's era as an iPhone company is over
The companies the least at risk from the Section 230 changes are the ones that need the most government oversight. I applaud the excuse for amending 230, but both the real reasons and the actual amendment themselves are no good at all.
I was using Rev E because it's the data sheet I had handy. Mostly I was trying to point out that LIDAR is not some magic thing that always sees everything and there's limitations.

Frame	Distance	Angular Size of Target	Pixel Size
0.00	400.00	0.29	1.10
1.00	396.09	0.29	1.11
2.00	388.27	0.30	1.14
3.00	376.53	0.30	1.17
4.00	360.89	0.32	1.22
5.00	341.33	0.34	1.29
6.00	317.87	0.36	1.39
7.00	290.49	0.39	1.52
8.00	259.20	0.44	1.70
9.00	224.00	0.51	1.97
10.00	184.89	0.62	2.38
11.00	141.87	0.81	3.11
12.00	94.93	1.21	4.64
13.00	44.09	2.60	10.00

There's with your .26 angular resolution @ 15hz. (I just have a spreadsheet that spits all these out for me.)

These are NOT big targets, they could easily have been mistaken for noise and filtered out. All of the LIDAR data I've ever seen has been fairly noisy and did require filtering to get usable information from it. And given the number of frames they get maybe their filtering was just too aggressive.
For a deer, swerving is the wrong thing to do, because a deer's life does not matter, so it's worth it to hit the deer.

With a person, though, you are seeking to protect everyone, so the tradeoff swaps in favor of swerving, because the person in the car next to you is far more likely to survive a collision.
I'm not convinced that such an intrinsic truth exists apart from application.
Well, people who get caught driving drunk a few times can have their license taken away or a blood alcohol interlock put on their car.

What if gun owners who didn't keep their guns locked in gun safes had their bullets replaced with rubber ones, or had mandatory trigger locks installed on their guns?

I dunno, I'm just spitballing here, but cars are heavily regulated, licensed, the whole nine yards, and if we had a tenth of that applied to guns, we could probably do a lot to reduce gun deaths and gun violence across the country.
Also available for free for "anyone using GitHub" - not just enterprises :) https://about.gitlab.com/features/github/#anyone-using-githu...
That particular speaker came from the Library of Congress, which I wrote a scraper for.

The first level of categories come from either Youtube or the AlchemyAPI, depending on the talk. Levels 2+ are from AlchemyAPI or the scrape. The taxonomy they use is for advertising, and Youtube's categories match up with level 1 of that taxonomy. The taxonomy lacks detail for programming topics so I wrote a script to tag things that mention programming languages.
You're leaving out "knowingly," which is an operative word there.

If Google puts out a product offering called "Gmail for Pimps" or a maps overlay called "Where My Bitches At?" then they might be complicit in something. Until then, they are afforded deniability.
GM reached the same conclusion when it built the EV-1. I expect that there are tremendous forces inside a company that push back on the sort of radical change that electric cars represent.

The difference between then and now is Tesla. I wonder if anyone asked BMW if they were given the opportunity to mass produce the Model 3, if they would have the same opinion.

As for looks, the i8 looks pretty nice. It is apparently going to be available in an electric version this year.
“Knowingly participate” is the existing language. I agree it’s clear. “Knowingly facilitate” is the new language. That has a much broader meaning, especially when you’re talking about Internet services, which are designed to “facilitate” whatever the user wants to do.
Will this be the Trojan Horse that gets me to switch to GitLab? I've been reading a lot of great things about GitLab's CI/CD. They also have cheaper plans for developers and if everything is all integrated into one place, that would make setup for OSS projects that I maintain like gitignore.io really simple.

The main thing that is keeping me on GitHub is the community. GitHub still feels like the main place where developers go to find open source projects. They've done a great job at pulling all of the major corporations like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Netflix, Amazon etc... While that shouldn't really matter because it's just a code repository, some how it does.
Anyone interested in the theory and practice of programming languages should know about and appreciate FORTH for the sheer beauty of it.

Everyone else should start with Python.
To be clear, where did the money come from to build such things? If it came from a free giving choice from nearby residents, that is incredible, and I'm blown away by their generosity and we should study how they raised the funds. If it came from a tax that you cannot opt out of, it is wrong, regardless of the end result.
At $8K savings per server, that is 8M if you have 1000 server at Cloudflare. Of course you have to invest a lot of people into software and testing as well. As well as many other time consuming things that were likely standard on Intel Platform. Still, those wont cost anywhere close to 8M.

To be honest I am very much surprised at how cheap Qualcomm are selling their chip.

This is going to be the start of avalanche. Once the software improves and make a self sustainable ecosystem, everything else will come. I still dont believe Qualcomm could achieve their 5% Server target by 2020 goal. But it is still a good start in longer terms success.

What is more worrying is Intel's growth and Cash Cow is now at risk in the mid term. It will be interesting to see how Intel react to this. There is serious price pressure from AMD EPYC and Qualcomm Centriq. Intel DC 2018 may ship lower unit YoY and lower revenue / unit YoY. PC market is being attacked by AMD, while not at risk, Intel is definitely earning less as they increase core count.

Personally I would have liked to see POWER9 or RISC-V in server space, but both still missing in action.
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I can see China running with ARM and POWER, ditching Intel entirely.

Google, on the other hand would need a reason to switch. Somewhere there's a spreadsheet with a number for energy cost savings that would make it worth it for Google to switch architectures. I've heard it's as low as 10%.
"""Services as a Service" as a Service" as a Service" (TM)
That's actually my number gripe about the Apple Watch, it's a bit too thick, and I don't have a problem with its battery life.

I'm totally fine with Apple prioritize form over function when it comes to wearable, after all, I don't buy mechanical watches for their "functions".
Ah interesting. Thanks for the reply.
Hi Kuschku - I think this is misunderstanding, we are offering GitLab CI/CD for free for GitHub.com projects. It'll be free for private repos for a year, and it will be free for public repos forever.
See the "Open source projects" and "Anyone using GitHub.com" sections:
https://about.gitlab.com/features/github/
They might. But over the last 3 generations they made them thicker and about tripled the battery life.
The Enlightenment Is Working
GNU Artanis-0.2.4 released
" I think there is room to point out that many people engaged in abusive behavior don't perceive their own actions as abusive."

It doesn't matter if they don't think it's abusive or not. It's still abusive, and they need to be informed of that. If, after that, they amend their behavior, then great. They've learned and grown as humans are supposed to do. But if they continue to insist on the behavior, then they're abusive, full stop.
We used both at previous and current job. As far as I'm concerned there's no reason to stick to Jenkins unless you really can't afford time to migrate. And even then you probably should. Main differences:

- GL is waaaay easier to setup and maintain, both initially (installation, configuration and upgrades) and especially when configuring runners and per-project tasks

- GL saves information about tasks in a file which is part of repo. This might seem counter-intuitive at first, but it makes sense when you realise that build process depends on version (if you want to be able to build old versions of your products). Also, this way config is part of source repo so backup is easier.

- Jenkins can do anything - with a proper plugin. Hunting for the right plugins however is a neverending story. God forbid you ever have to reinstall Jenkins...

Of course that's just my experience. Until GitLab came along we have used Jenkins for a few years and... well, it worked. But it's UX is not comparable to GitLab's.
There is a dangerous moral hazard where the people who take out the debt aren't the ones to pay it back though. I've seen quite a few people jump from company to company using roundabout ways of creating success that are actually debt of some form. Then they leave as the success is claimed with their resume showing that once this lynchpin left the team/company fell apart...
Whatever you ever filled in or posted to the servers of a private company under your real identity is "data about me that has been collected by private companies". It's not that complicated.

Most places now (for compliance reasons) allow you to delete old accounts and old posts either through a button or if you email customer support or the webmaster.
I don't know if pointing out a couple of true positives is a useful counterargument that a rule will not have many false positives.

I could posit a law that says all brown-haired people should be summarily executed. You could then correctly note that the law would have caught the Green River Killer, John Wayne Gacy, and Ted Bundy. That doesn't make it a good law.
> The point of the 13th amendment is to eliminate legal human trafficking once and for all.

No, its not, otherwise it wouldn't explicitly allow penal slavery.
Because governments will always do whatever they can to expand their powers at the expense of the citizens they are supposed to serve.
I don't disagree that so many of the EV's are extremely ugly and undesirable, but don't you think part of that is the inherent limitations of energy efficiency on these vehicles? A lot of it comes down to aerodynamic efficiency for something like a Tesla or Leaf or Bolt. The more aerodynamically efficient you are, the longer your range, thus limiting the range anxiety slightly. Some companies handle this gracefully, like Tesla.

Whereas, I feel something like the Prius, Volt, Bolt, Leaf, or i3 deals with the aerodynamics/style poorly. On top of that, these cars may be made to cater to some early-adopter/green person market subgroup. Maybe those traditional makers do not foresee the EV as the top choice, but as a niche and limited scale product?

On top of all that, lithium battery packs for EVs are expensive currently, look at all the problems Tesla has been having making theirs over the years. Once the price drops, I think automakers will be able to make less compromises elsewhere, getting better looks, performance, and features at the expense of pure efficiency.
The problem is that some people take rational for optimal.

Real markets are neither clearly rational nor clearly optimal.

Rationalizing is the best way to put it.

To prove that age discrimination is rational you would have to show real reasons to prefer younger workers.
Showing lower pay is not enough of there are costs. Have to show that the costs are outweighting the benefits. Remember the shape of modern developed nation agree structure.
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You summed up all my speculations in one sentence
Is "Power 9" purposefully a Magic reference? Or just a coincidence?
A reason to not take on your profit is that your "cost of sales" can be a pretty nebulous concept. How much of your 99M costs is licensing to entities you control in other jurisdictions?

I understand why it is fairer have it be profit, but profit in the modern accounting world seems to be a strange thing. A good accountant can make your profit be anything you like, so it doesn't make sense to tax based on the idea that company has bad accountants. Generally it is harder for accountants to change revenue figures (other than defer into different years).

The rules lawyering as to what is a legitimate cost is huge.
To be fair to GM, batteries improved a great deal since the EV-1.

I know there is a crowd of people that are enthusiastic about the EV-1 and think GM killed it, but I'm pretty sure GM had a closer look at whether they could profitably produce them than the enthusiasts.
The weird thing is that we already have “foldable screens.” But all the phone makers have done with them is to give us slightly less bezel on our glass rectangles.

I’m wondering if this is a “flying car” thing—if actually handing consumers ultra-thin bendable (but not actually creasable) panels would be a dumb idea, because consumers would try to exceed their tolerances and break them too easily.

(This is also, I think, why we don’t see more optical cabling standards outside of the enterprise space. The average consumer can’t be trusted to install a glass-fibre cable run without breaking it; and when they break it, they’ll get angry, because glass-fibre cables still cost a lot of money. And plastic-fibre cabling, though more tolerant, is far less of an improvement over copper, especially in attenuation distance.)
QUIC was a mistake on the roadmap. I've removed it. I mis-understood some documentation about experiments with QUIC. Sorry for the confusion.
What happens if one participant doesn't?
> would you prefer that heavy handed mods step in to censor you according to their definition of toxicity

Heavy handed modding has flagged me and even limited my ability to post in the past. I don't necessarily agree with it (although it was deserved a few times), but mods are the arbiters of the community, not me. They have the option of listening to user feedback in aggregate.

It works the same in games. The studio is the arbiter of the community, not the players. The players give feedback to the studio. The studio has the option of listening.

And players have been giving feedback in troves that toxicity sucks, that toxic players ruin other players' gaming experience, and that they want that gone. Studios are listening. If you're getting caught on the wrong end of this, try being nicer to people.
Why are individuals taxed on revenue then? A person making 100K but spending 99K of it as "costs" will have the same tax bill as a person making 100K but with 15K of "costs". I know individuals also have deductible items, but things like food or rent are often not deductible but take a big part of our costs.
One thing I think IBM has failed to grasp about POWER architecture is how to get people to use it.

Lots of people in tech talk about being interested in trying it, it has a number of interesting characteristics, but the barrier for entry is fairly high.

It's possible to get a POWER8 based server on Softlayer, IBM's cloud product, but not as a VM. You can get one as a bare metal server, but you can't get one for an hourly fee. You have to pay for a full month, which starts out at around $1000.

There are very few individuals that would be willing to make such a commitment, but so many that would be willing to spend a few tens of dollars on spinning up a VM for a few hours to see if it provides value.

If you want people to get excited about it, or interested in using it, you really need to make it easy for people to test it on a small scale.
Wouldn't a simulation have to have a creator? Unless you are postulating that a Turing-complete simulator got itself together by random chance and, by random chance, started simulating universe(s), one of which, by random chance, happens to simulate beings that can imagine a simulator simulating themselves. It seems like a simulation is a fairly strong evidence FOR a creator. Hawking's quantum bubbles seem much more like what would happen without intervention.

Also, creationism isn't limited to only 6 day creation, that's more of a modern thing by people that insist on taking Genesis 1 (which is poetry) literally. Early Christian thinkers postulated that 1 Genesis-day was actually 1000 years. Creationism just says that God created the world; how long it took and how he did it are implementation details.
The really fast up goer made the air go funny which meant your phone got confused about where it was.

https://xkcd.com/1133/
Why would it need to destroy the dealer network and the right to repair your own car? Only because Tesla runs their business like a software house doesn't mean the others need to follow suit.

The German car makers also make gas powered vehicles versions of some of their fleet which are quite different from gasoline cars.

What takes time is building the facilities and technology to create reliable and serviceable electric vehicles.
The USSR achieved some narrow technical/space/military successes by focusing themselves on those few things and utterly subjugating and impoverishing the rest of their society. And in the end, they couldn't even keep that up. They burned out their economy and produced conditions that could easily have resulted in a civil war there.

There's a reason the USSR felt the need to construct Potemkin villages.
I don't want any auto-playing videos, sound or not. They always seem to pop up next to the text I came there to read. I can't focus with that.
I don't know about it not being pretty... I thought the website presented the content in a clear and easy-to-follow way. And it loaded quickly, I didn't even need to wait for my browser to download the font before I could see the text. I wish more websites looked like this, instead of plastered with confusing navigation, adverts, popups asking for your email address, "elsewhere on the web", "like, share and subscribe", etc.

This is refreshing in its simplicity.
Great, more opportunity for Tesla to scale up and eat their lunch. Innovator's dilemma at work.
The argument does not work. Small corner of the market can only absorb a small number of workers profitably.
Re 3, last resort: isn't it also true that any other method can likely be improved upon by taking whatever network results and using it as a starting point for genetic improvements? Sometimes the extra expense won't be worthwhile, of course, but if you want to reduce the number of edge cases for autonomous driving, say, it might well be worthwhile IMHO.

(There's an earlier discussion about the myth of local optima here that might or might not answer my question.)
Says the guy who told people the economy was great just before the biggest crash in history. I don't listen to this guy and never trade on his advice.
Thanks! That's the fastest thing I could came up with to solve the problem of moving a tiny little piece of data between my computer and my smartphone without installing apps or physically connecting the device and using `adb`!
Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic
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Here's an example of a blame on a previous commit of a file.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blame/57ce7c655cc58e...

Did you have some particular feature request beyond this view?
I think it looks ugly-handsome. The looks have actually grown on me.

I've been checking out the off-lease used ones. In my area, they've been selling for $15k-$20k USD (years: 2014-2015).

https://phoenix.craigslist.org/search/sss?sort=date&query=bm...

https://www.carvana.com/search?SortBy=LowestPrice&models=fr&...
The dealer network is an unnecessary middle man acting as a parasite extracting value from the system.

You can enforce the right to repair through legislation without dealers.

> What takes time is building the facilities and technology to create reliable and serviceable electric vehicles.

The battery supply chain is the hardest part, but EV powertrains are so much more simple than an internal combustion powertrain. There is very little maintenance required on an EV drivetrain as well. That's why Tesla is warrantying their Semi drivetrains for a million miles.
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10104712037900071?_fb_no...
> This will get messy quickly if you have a PR that you are adding commits to and have a failure for each commit. This has the same problem as some code coverage solutions, they are spamming the PR with comments that are only important for a few moments, then they are just noise...

IIRC at least Codecov (https://codecov.io) has logic to go in and update the existing comment rather than spamming with new ones. It's nice!
Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. How is this dependant on a specific OS?