skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a bit like hiring someone to manage your money. Delegation not abdication. I.e. you can't sit back, relax, you need to keep an eye on their performance and how they act and behave and make sure it is in line with the company goals.
Just as with a nuclear arsenal, what keeps the peace is a balance of power between the nations. If one nations has access to a military technology that allows it to destroy it's ennemies and steal it's resources without fear of retaliation, it WILL use it.

Our well meaning google friends might believe they are doing the right thing, but they are just doing what's fashionable instead of really thinking the consequences of these actions. Making ourselves weaker in the AI race augments the probability of war instead of diminishing it.
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There is no way Zuckerberg was ever going to hold any political office. Why on earth would he even want to? He has WAY more power and influence simply by controlling the Facebook empire and being worth $60+ billion.

All this talk started because he hired a top Obama campaign manager as a lobbyist for his foundation, and somehow people got "he obviously wants to be President" out of it.
It's resonating with enough people, if not you and I :)

Believe it or not, he was, at one time a fairly eloquent speaker: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4544001/donald-trump-1991-hou...
While you are certainly correct that the military has provided the genesis of various valuable technologies, it doesn't have to continue to be that way. We could choose to expend our limited resources on more meaningful, and socially responsible, outlets. This move by Google employees is to me a welcome tug against the hopelessly chaotic military machine, and a push back against continued military involvement in SV affairs. I'm happy to see individuals taking this position.
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> there certainly was not a complete ban on firearms neither in Nazi Germany

It actually started post-WWI (due to Treaty of Versailles).

> In 1919 the German government passed the Regulations on Weapons Ownership...anyone found in possession of a firearm or ammunition was subject to five years' imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 marks. [1]

Laws were later relaxed from a total ban, though ownership was low, as all guns and ammo had been confiscated earlier. And Jews and companies with at least some Jewish ownership were forbidden to own any firearms or participate in their manufacture.

When oppressing a group, either selectively or indiscriminately, guns + speech for that group must go.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_legislation_in_Germany#Reg...
The Puritans had outhouses.
> She said men aren't capable of doing that right because they are men.

Could you cite that, please? The bit you quoted above says her system doesn’t rely on mens’ judgement. It makes no claims that they aren’t capable of doing it right. It’s a system independent of that question.
I don’t know anything about the price of water in any of those places, can you cite some numbers?

By the way, why are you so passionate about this topic? You’ve made 17 comments on this thread, or 17% of all of the comments here as of this writing. Thst seems extreme to me. The one I’m responding to isn’t substantive, another is just a single word. Dominating a conversation with sheer volume seems extreme, and impolite.
You got downvoted because you put a ton of slashes + plus signs in your question that made it difficult/impossible to read.
Lots of military technology is traded between countries all the time, tanks, planes, guns, boats, missiles, etc. China just bought a bunch of Su35 jet fighters from Russia.

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/chinas-air-force-m...
I feel like these have gone out of style in the US and most stadium renovations are removing them.

It's been a long time since I've seen one - but they used to be everywhere! Years ago I went on a tour at the University of Nebraska and one of the "highlights" was telling us about a building with the world's longest trough urinal. Unfortunately the building was closed that day and I didn't get to see it.
Palantir is just a minuscule part of SV ecosystem, entirely insignificant in the overall picture.
You can pry my model m from my cold dead fingers. Haptics is no substitute for actual physical feedback.
> I’m a non-tech savvy person who happens to work in tech. I find the touch bar very useful.

I know a LOT of people who are not tech savvy and still could write without looking at their keyboard.
(p.s. there were devices who had a keyboard before computers even existed and people learned to use them without looking every second at the typewriter/keyboard)

So basically the touch bar basically removes that flow completly
You're having a Dr. Evil moment. "Billions of dollars" doesn't go very far in this context. Apple Computer's revenue alone was two orders of magnitude higher than that. Military spending is noise relative to consumer revenue in the valley.
I don't remember which vendors were causing it, but yes, many inject their own JS, causing things to break and exceptions to be thrown.

Here's a StackExchange question: "How to disable Kaspersky Antivirus javascript injection?" [0].

And on Reddit: "PSA: Kaspersky injects remote javascript into all your pages. Even secure ones." [1].

[0] https://superuser.com/questions/981959/how-to-disable-kasper...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/3frjqw/psa_kaspers...
Also the North Atlantic, but less clearly. Also Greenland and northeastern Canada. And Greenland and Norway, I think.
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15" has no "new" hardware. the 15" non-touchbar model is the old one, without usb-c and old processor.
I see your analogy.
But it's not totally perfect, because in a (hopefully functioning) democracy, the farmer can be told what to do by his constituents. Obviously this doesn't always happen, but do we trust the entity we voted for (USA.gov), or the one that makes money off our existence (google.com).

I don't always know.
This is literally fake news in the most uncontroversial sense of the term.
So far in 2018, SpaceX has launched a rocket every 13 days
Not the only shady thing, by using Firefox with a webmail interface, all Mailchimp's tracking is automatically removed, which means most businesses these days send me their promotional announcements as a blank email.

I don't know who's to blame - whether Mailchimp has tracking up the wazoo enabled by default and people need to be knowledgeable to turn it off, or if businesses just can't help themselves when offered analytic features, but it's pretty crazy how Mailchimp hosts enough of the email's content in cross-site tracking domains that sanitizing them leaves the mailouts empty.

When an advertising push looks like this you know they're using Mailchimp: https://i.imgur.com/Yv2QCv2.png

That "view this email in your browser" link even brings up a similarly blank webpage! That link is already tracked, by clicking on it they already know I've looked at the email and care enough to want to see it properly, but the web version is still woven whole out of cross-site tracking shenanigans that it's filtered out (e.g. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Privacy/Tracking...).
from the article :

> the Touch Bar still remains the useless shit and there is no hope Apple will fix it.

> As a machine, MacBook Pro is great. But not because of the Touch Bar. Touch Bar is an inflamed appendix, the same dumb shit as Siri. If Apple had implemented it as an additional row and not the F-keys replacement, everyone would forget about it in a couple of days.

> The reason is simple — that's how you see your laptop 99% of the time:

This is exactly how I feel about the Touch Bar.

If it had been an additional row I would not have minded. I don't dislike sliders to change the volume and I would prefer to see track title there than as notification (notifications create a pavlovian response where I think they are alert for something important, so it is very unpleasant for me to see one popping up for play music).

However, since it is taking away the functions key that I use all the time and replace them with a screen, I strongly prefer using my 2015 MBP over the more recent one.
From the movie "Flash of Genius" about Robert Kearns, the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper:

"I can't think of a job or a career where the understanding of ethics is more important than engineering," Dr. Kearns continues. "Who designed the artificial aortic heart valve? An engineer did that. Who designed the gas chambers at Auschwitz? An engineer did that, too. One man was responsible for helping save tens of thousands of lives. Another man helped kill millions."

"Now, I don't know what any of you are going to end up doing in your lives," Dr. Kearns says, "but I can guarantee you that there will come a day when you have a decision to make. And it won't be as easy as deciding between a heart valve and a gas chamber."

To me this is incredibly valid for Silicon Valley engineers these days.
> Both Maven and Gradle have plugins that will generate Eclipse and IntelliJ project files.

So does this work as I suggested? Can you do whatever you want in you're build script and output something usable for eclipse?

> But also, both Maven and Gradle work by first building up a model of what the build will look like, then executing it

Isn't that pretty much what make has always done? You define outputs and what dependencies are needed for those outputs and make will work out the path to get there.
Did you read the paragraph directly above the one you quoted?

Your quote is referring to the study where -
"used a gun for defense during a situation in which they thought someone “almost certainly would have been killed""

In context the sentence you have quoted simply means the researchers could not be certain that the participants would have died if not for the gun defence.

It is in no way suggesting that they were not legitimate uses of self defence with a firearm.
The laser range finder you linked to is different than the OP's 360 degree scanning LIDAR (... as the former doesn't scan!) :-)
EMMC Hacking, or: how oranav fixed long-dead Galaxy S3 phones (2017)
Apparently the very private Puritan outhouses were really time machines which they used to time travel to the 20th century and help pass the ADA.
I’m a savvy person in tech and I love the touch bar because it makes me not have to use a mouse or leave the home row much. When there is a prompt I can tap it on the touch bar . If I want to edit pictures I can use it to go through pictures individually. I can rotate them easily too. I have RSI and it makes my wrists hurt less. Also the touchid feature is awesome which makes me type less.

Also, it makes it easy to discover features for apps that support it .
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> If that's the criterion, then vtables make C++ "interpreted."

So do function calls; you don't know until the .o is linked where a read call will go. Unix C library? Or some local override of read?

And, speaking of vtables, modern shared lib calls give obj->virtual(args) a run for its money in terms of overhead. It's worse because a vtable's structure is determined at compile time, so it's just positional referencing; a shared lib call has the referencing through a table plus string name lookup to figure out the offsets at run-time (at least the first time through).
Detroit is currently selling water for $23/thousand cubic feet, or about .000321/gallon. That's filtered, treated, and distributed to a tap in every home.

What do you imagine a fair price would be for untreated, pump-it-yourself groundwater?

http://www.detroitmi.gov/Portals/0/docs/DWSD/Water%20Rate%20...
Exactly. It should be the spotlight of a non-pro laptop. Make a 13" Macbook with touch bar and keep the MBPs touchbar-free.
Facebook.gov (fiction)
tbh I don't really understand why that's needed... I still think milestone2 was best phone ever made control-wise. Great construction, solid keyboard... shame things like that are not made anymore
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He was looking at different data then they were looking at.
That's the classic example, though folks will often argue it doesn't apply because there were only muskets and cannon, not machine guns (though that's technically not true).
Burnie Burns of Rooster Teeth phrased it as, "the internet demands progress, but hates change." I like that because it succinctly draws attention to the juxtaposition of ideals and emotional reaction.
can a 'conspiracy site' have 'very careful reporting'?

That is a serious question...
My favorite: when the only way to tell the handwashing trough from the urinating trough is the height on the wall.
There was a previous flurry of media attention about the extreme geology in Djibouti and Ethiopia.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/nov/02/travelnews.tra...
...and sadly, Apple will never admit the mistake, and give us back the nice keyboard of the 2013 model. All in the quest to save a millimeter or two of height.

My Late 2013 15" MBP is starting to fall apart in its old age - its battery is broken, its feet are starting to come off, it's got a ding in the display... it's just barely sufferable, but not for much longer. At this point, I don't see myself replacing it with a Mac. There's nothing compelling about these Touchbar machines.

However, I'd buy this same machine again if they updated the processor (maybe one of those six core i9s that Intel just rolled out) and bumped the RAM to at least 32GB. More local storage would be nice-to-have, but these days I just don't have much locally on my laptop - it's all on NASes/Desktops. I don't care at all about Thunderbolt and probably can go another 5 years without caring too much about USB-C given how slow peripheral redesign cycles are now. So that's it. That's the only two (or three) upgrades I'd care about. All of the rest would be superfluous to me.

Sadly, I don't see that happening. I'll probably break down and replace the battery in this machine and try my damnest to ride this machine out of the decade...
How M.L.K.’s Death Helped Lead to Gun Control in the U.S
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I think the problem can stem from the urge for everyone to try and find the exact same ideal world. It's so obviously clear that this is impossible, and so obvious that there is no civil way for anyone to enforce an ideology across a massive population.
IMO, the best hope is for each man to pursue their ideal world for themselves. What else can we really control?
Some out there are pursuing non-ToF systems:
https://blackmoreinc.com/
Ass (pronounced with a short A, rather than the long A as in english) means Ace in German. (Before 1996 it was spelled As I believe)

Dusch Das is the brand name of the shower gel, Dusch means shower, Das is one of the three articles, so by turning the words around and into a rhyme, and says: "Dusch Das, the shower ace."
I'm not really sure how blockchain is related to a potential "next" communication technology. Why not AR? Why not lasers n shit?
Feds Say They've Detected Apparent Rogue Spy Devices in D.C
i'm very impressed with reality capture (https://www.capturingreality.com) - I'm a VFX artist and we've used this software on all manner of occasions and it's always come up trumps. From standard modeling reconstruction from stills photos to recreating a cliff/hillside from moving footage for matchmoving a sequence shot in that location because our lidar scan turned out to be junk (inaccurate and full of holes). We've also used it to generate an animated 3d mesh from an actor performing lines we shot on 4 cameras that we were able to track on to another animated mesh and reproject textures from that. Very very good software. Expensive but great results.
> I get to choose a desktop and a distro to run? I guess I also make those choices in 20 minutes?

Most of the time you choose a distro and desktop that fits you and then install for rest of the time. And in 2018 driver support is generally quite solid.
As far as I'm concerned, the Touch Bar is not useful and will never be useful. I need the physical tactile ESC and F-keys back.

There isn't even an option to make it emulate a standard keyboard row of ESC & F-Keys permanently (with the alternative functionality when you hit Fn, like on a Magic Keyboard).

This "feature" alone has sealed the fate of Apple computer hardware for me. I will not buy another Mac until it has a full developer-level set of features and a full keyboard, one that doesn't cost $700 and five days to repair when it keeps breaking.

I literally don't use my MacBook Pros anymore (one personal, one work) without an external keyboard except when simply impossible. I will literally put a magic keyboard on top of the internal keyboard when that is the only option I have.
And that's just direct grants. The bigger role is, DARPA nurtures core tech in its earliest stages when commercial viability is still a decade or more off. The "big players in SV" are picking the fruit and bringing it to market, often for nominal technology transfer fees if any. It's like passing the baton from taxpayers to VCs -- but guess who keeps most of the profit.
Yeah, the whole time I was reading that section I was thinking the article was just going to be based on quackery that could easily be explained by sleep paralysis and stimulating brain regions responsible for proprioception. The sudden turn into utilizing it for VR was unexpected and quite interesting.
The bidding process was like any other contract, anyone could submit a response to the RFP, everyone was shocked IBM didn't get it.
I'd say secure systems need to be based on the assumption of insecure humans. Nothing is absolute in security but we definitely should start the analysis expecting people to behave incorrectly and insecurely. This is not a new problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance
Perfect. Though, for a native English speaker, this commercial (and others of the same genre) left me with hard to resolve giggles. I still remember them fondly 20 years later. Also the German TV show Tutti Frutti (https://youtu.be/RZeQ-b1z_6c)
Have you tried pressing the home button on iPhone 7 or 8, or clicking a trackpad on a recent MacBook Pro?
> modern subsonic airliners are now capable of far better speeds and efficiencies

No modern subsonic airliner is capable of the speeds that the Concorde flew at.

> I would far rather spend 17 hours in a comfy, wide body aircraft than even 10 in a narrow missile

You must not have flown recently, or have been weathly (or fortunate) enough to not be in the 'economy' class. I'm not even super tall, just over 6ft, but I cannot fit in a standard seat on these 'modern' airliners. I too have been in a Concorde at a museum, and would prefer 10 hours in a sardine can to 17 hours in a sardine can.
Can Instagram graph data (on a public account) really have a data breach if the info is publicly available metadata in the first place?
Bottled water is just terrible. First, the fact that potable municipal water is so cheap that you can use a gallon of it to make your poop disappear is a miracle of modern civilization. Second, putting that same water in plastic bottles, driving it around the country, and selling it for $1-2/liter creates all sorts of environmental damage for absolutely no benefit.

Please, people, celebrate the benefits of living in the modern world: buy a canteen and fill it at your sink.
The technology is fascinating. But almost nobody uses it as a currency.
"If it had been an additional row I would not have minded."

Exactly. I would have configured it to be blank, stay off, and remain off. Give me my physical ESC and F-keys.
As somebody with software engineering experience but little hardware experience, how do I get started with building my own Lidar? I notice he provides STL files for base plates and a component list https://hackaday.io/project/20628/components. Still not too sure how to start though.
The secret life of NaN
He used to appeal to his Ivy peers and clearly had to put in a lot of effort to change to a style that appealed to the broadest number of people.
I hope we can find an efficient way to store solar energy. That will solve many problems with solar power generation.

Lithium ion batteries can only do so much. On a global scale, they are too small to have a meaningful impact.
"I halfway agree. More evidence is always welcome, but the nature of that evidence will almost always be subjective, and I'm not sure a lot of language adherents even care all that much when the evidence is objective. So more is better, but "clearly demonstrate" may be pie in the sky thinking."

One way to clearly demonstrate this in my opinion would be big projects that are implemented in Rust. I remember when Java came up there were plenty of people saying that it would totally replace C/C++ but you just had to look around to see that not much big software was written with it. Same for C#. Once we see something widely used like git, a big database, a web browser or similar written in Rust then we know Rust has arrived.
I was upset about the touch bar because of the esc key since I am a heavy vim user. Then someone recommended I switch my esc and caps lock keys, now it doesn't bug me anymore. The caps lock key is in a much more convenient position for the esc function anyways.
>Again, in my view (based on several years as a support monkey at the beginning of my career), desktops/laptops should be named based on their asset tags, LT891334 or DT993115 etc. That way, when you ask the user 'what's the machine name' and they have no idea, you can say 'read me the number that's on that big white sticker on the lid'.

I wasn't disagreeing with you at all and I really like your solution. I was trying to provide an example of desktops I deal with now that are sometimes impossible to distinguish on the phone without going full NATO alphabet.
If you visit an upscale hotel, the "public" restrooms in the lobby typically have larger stalls with fully enclosed doors/rooms. I think you're right. It's mainly a cost cutting issue.
Depends on what you are worrying about. Is it your product's future? Competitors? Keeping customers? Managing employees' performance? In my experience, stress comes from having all of these problems but not having any plan. I would write out everything that is stressing you out then try to find the highest priority. That feeling of having too much to do is a GOOD thing. It means you have tons of ideas or your customers love your product and want to improve it. That should never go away if you do your job correctly. You just need to develop strategies to know when your roadmap is full and how to manage scope/expectations. Maybe you need a Product Manager or Salesperson to handle expectations from your customers?
It isn't time of flight, but I'd say that it is lidar.
When I lived in France in ‘98 a good 30% of the toilets were the porcelaine hole. My guess is they are less expensive and easier to clean.
Like most things in life, it’s like walking a tight rope. Too far one way or the other results in failure.
Self Regulation of Data and Privacy Isn't Working
Thanks, I'll check out xcape.
I dislike the fingerprint reader and don't use it on my tbMBP. Someone could physically force me to use the fingerprint reader, or might just cut off my finger to use it, which is even worse.

I wish macOS had a built in TOTP system.
Agreed. At first I thought it was something related to MS Edge. Even when I figured out it was something else and searched for both "edge apps" and "edge applications," all I found was MS Edge related links.
Using compressed gas for energy storage has a lower cycle efficiency. Compressing heats up the gas. Heat has to be stored and used when decompressing, else a significant portion of energy is lost and the cycle efficiency is dragged into the low 50% range, or even less.
> published April 1, 2018