skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where? Here in the D.C. area, construction does not stop because of weather. The exception would be extreme weather such as hurricanes, lightning and rain if the building was not closed in. It actually seems that construction increases in the winter, I guess because of fresh budgets. There is a joke that they only start breaking ground when it is the coldest time of the year.
On the subject of id engine open source releases, was tech 4(Doom 3) the last to get the GPL treatment?
Memory hogs.
The whois record was highly annoying I and i was getting spam at given email address (which was never posted anywhere else). I dont care what ICANN thinks about whois, it is annoying and it is great if it will go away.
Signal isn't anonymous. You need a phone number. Why did the all-knowing Moxie require this? No one has ever provided a good reason.
Good point. Here's my try at it:

IVF: Seems logically sound, since it is doing the same thing that happens in natural conception, just outside the body.

But in vitro gametogenesis (IVG)—the technique the article talks about—could logically have similar issues to cloning.

For example, telomere shortening & accumulated DNA damage come to mind, but I'm no expert.
There are always ways to build the tall buildings safely- they're just more expensive. These buildings aren't unsafe because there's no choice, they're unsafe because the builders wanted to save money and the building code was too loose to stop them.

Japan is a highly volitile region, tectonically speaking, yet they've managed to build lots of tall buildings safely. How? By having some of the strictest building codes in the world, yet allowing development within those rules.

Meanwhile, outside of SF itself, the Bay area refuses to build any real density that's desperately needed, using earthquakes as (one of many) excuses for NIMBYism and entrenched interests of landlords.
What I found interesting, though, were the competing
right-wing narratives in the lives of the immigrants.

I got the impression from the article that most of the immigrants interviewed were factory owners, rather than workers.

Of course factory owners are keen their workers have "industrious, frugal lives outside the protection of government" - that's the definition of working 12 hours a day in illegally dangerous conditions for a fraction of minimum wage.
You are aware that the Khmer Rouge was a leftist Marxist government, right?

Also, the “hatred” goes both ways.
You certainly should be worried if a future UK government turns out to be a drastically more coercive nature than the present. And that's on the cards.
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Of course, Scandanavian countries have both of those things without being diverse.

In some sense, high-quality public services have only been observed in non-diverse countries.
It's utterly impossible for us to change this. We didn't invent rear fog lights in America, so because of this it would be completely impossible for us to adopt them. We're only able to change the standards for our cars when we invent them first.
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Not definitely. The professional standard for levelness in homes and office buildings is F_L ~ 20, where F_L is the levelness "F number".

http://www.concretefloors.ca/?page_id=546

http://www.betagroupgc.com/Concrete%20International%20-%20Th...

The maximum slope b=rise/run compatible with this is b_max = (314 mm/3m)/F_L = .105/F_L ~ 0.005 for F_L = 20,

https://www.astmfree.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/E-115-M....

which corresponds to 0.005 radians = 0.3 degrees.

Projects like roller rinks and warehouses that use air pallets require more level floors, but typically only by a factor of 2 .
Those that move from one country to another are responsible for learning the laws and customs of the place they are moving to.
x+1.5 is possible, but super unlikely at the upper end of seismic events. Given the way the Richter scale works though, even x+0.1 could be devastating.
How to get this good? :D
Tesla under-counted worker injuries to make its safety record appear better
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Supporting your own product for 20 years isn't exactly realistic either.
I can't speak universally, but I "passed" mine, and lasted another full year before leaving willingly. My manager seemed to very earnestly want me to pass, and implied that most people do.

All that said, I would advise that if you get put on a PIP, just take the severance right away. You're ineligible for a raise or additional stock grants in the cycle following the PIP.
> Are we supposed to treat people like there's absolutely no right or wrong way to live?

Yes. Modern society says that as long as your actions don't harm me, you should be able to do what you wish.

There are some edge-cases, caveats, and exceptions - but that is the essence of modern liberalism.

> How are we supposed to have a stable society when there are no standards by which to live

You are assuming stability is a good thing. Progress is made through instability.

You also assume that stability occurred back when society had standards. A quick look through history doesn't show any evidence of that.

You also assume that stability doesn't harm people. It clearly does. When a society says no deviation is acceptable, the deviants are punished for the "crime" of existing.

> Why shouldn't we discriminate against bad behavior and provide positive feedback for good behavior?

Who decides what is good behaviour and what is bad? Allowing women to receive an education was considered bad behaviour in many societies. But society changes.

Why should my behaviour be punished if it doesn't hurt anyone? Who I love is none of your concern.
> Hyperloop is near vacuum, not vacuum.

Hyperloop is envisioned to run in 100Pa of pressure. According to the Wikipedia page on vacuum, that is considered "medium vacuum." It's also quite close to the region where offgassing and vapor pressure is going to be a major component of the ambient pressure, which is where you start needing complex vacuum pumps.
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> they can skirt the rules by providing "researchers" with anonymized data.

Probably, given the many past cases of academics using this kind of data to demonstrate de-anonymization attacks, with some very special vetting of who the researchers are and where their loyalties lie.

Here's a decent writeup of their first big research-related privacy blunder: https://www.chronicle.com/article/Harvards-Privacy-Meltdown/...
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Here’s someone who knows exactly what he’s getting into.

Took me months to realize that I wouldn’t get back to fun hacking for years. (Thought I’d only be out for a couple months)
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The problem is not really about corporate vs government, it's about size.

These folks tend to think big. Everything else stems from that. What they really need is a little app with simple messaging, end to end encryption, and a server that doesn't log anything they don't want it to log. What they are likely to get if they pay some big shot contractor big money to do it is a Swiss army knife the size of a kitchen sink. With bugs.
> I signed up for earn.com with the expectation that anyone wanting to message me would have to pay first. Then they sent me spam from ICOs without paying me. Worse than useless.

What lead you to expect that people would want to pay to email you? The business model makes no sense; it's obvious that that wasn't going to happen.
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You know, I grew up reading one of his books, "Un Vagabond des mers du sud" (in Romanian "Hoinar in marile sudului"). I could bet you a fiver that he is one of the reasons I became obsessed with sailing since a very young age. After moving to London I figured out I am in the best place ever to learn sailing. And here I am now, Level 3 RYA dinghy sailing + just got my power boat license. I will be always grateful to my sailing club (North London Sailing Association) for introducing me to the English sailing culture and helping me get over some crap in my life.
You mean the the one reported by theGuardian? The one where they could not find a second security researcher to agree about? The one this public letter was about? https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/20/security-researchers-call-...
The organisms would probably need micronutrients as well, such as iron or copper.

Advantage: We can control their spread—target them at the Garbage Patches

Disadvantage: More expensive to deploy, since you have to also sprinkle fertilizer for the cleanup to be effective.
You're referencing two far right extremist sites as source...
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16852394
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If your website is down, your mail relay may be down, making e-mail unavailable. The phone is also a much better way to contact someone immediately, which you might want when your website is down.
Elon is getting into a lot of high risk ventures. That's good, people ought to push themselves and if someone in his position never fails they probably aren't challenging themselves enough. But I hope that he's able to let go if this does fail, instead of having Tesla buy the company or something a la Solar City.
No need to fuss about with embeds, you can just direct people to the page Simplecast provides you with: https://hackerdaily.simplecast.fm/
They excluded themselves from a market and as a result, feel like the market is excluding them.
Likely, the organisms that make it require other nutrients as well, that aren't found in plastic. So you can't just go drop a few on the Great Garbage Patch unless you also sprinkle fertilizer along with it.
BTW, microG GmsCore does GCM (although I'm not sure if it also implements FCM APIs), while being pure FLOSS.
you either care about all of them or about none of them, the in-between is a double standard
Not all ISPs even have DPI, small ones just block IPs
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At least in Canada, this is absolutely not true. https://ca.godaddy.com/domainaddon/private-registration.aspx
I not sure how it's can be against ToS because unlike other case Telegram is actually large enough to actually pay for tens of thousands end point IPs easily even on monthly basis.

And Kremlin minions certainly not going to stop ban subnets now even if will be 1:1000 ratio of Telegram's one and other services.
It is worth taking a pause, and considering the differences between Netflix and Spotify, both subscription-based business models, that draw their value from immense subscriber bases.

1. By paying for its content, both licensed and original, and using that content to go after subscribers, Netflix has built a more levered business model, where subscribers, both new and existing, have higher marginal value than at Spotify, where content costs are tied to subscribers listening to music.

2. The Netflix model, which is increasingly built around original rather than licensed content, provides for a stronger competitive edge, which should show up in higher renewal rates and more pricing power, adding to the value per subscriber, both existing and new.

3.The Netflix model will deliver higher value from subscription growth than the Spotify model, but it comes with a greater downside, because a slackening of that growth will leave Netflix much deeper in the hole, with more negative cash flows, than it would Spotify.
There's a great song about that in the Lion King.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GibiNy4d4gc
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X

Wait satellite internet business is new? What have you been smoking?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Internet_access
Okay, I can accept that perspective. But that's not exactly in the way they mean it in Silicon Valley. In Silicon Valley, when they say "deliver eyeballs like a fucking ninja," they mean, "I'm can get a quarter-million people to look at your website." Obviously, that means quite something different than carving peoples' eyes out, after which they won't be able to see any websites.
Windows 10 Pro is 1899DKK from Microsoft, that's 315USD.
Home is cheaper, at 1099 (180USD).
>permissions are reserved for apps that Apple has vetted

That apps have been vetted is the difference.
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Interesting, never knew that.
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Pretty much all of the revolutions in until Russia in 1917 where almost 100% like this listen to Mike Duncans revolutions podcast series and its a very common theme.

I suspect some of the founders would have been OK with the franchise being limited to well off males.
Have you come across the idea that "All advertising is good advertising".

Even people blaming/skeptical or even hating on Elon Musk is doing good PR for Musk and his companies.

What something like Musk cannot afford is indifference from people. So the important task for something like Musk is to get people talk about them. It does not really matter if it good or bad.
Is Apple about to drop QuickTime?
Well, due to a huge ban of Amazon addresses Viber is currently experiencing some connectivity issues in Russia too.
Apple’s existing solution of making the device hard to use while driving seems to be better because it actually prevents the accident in the first place and doesn’t introduce a back door.
I've come to see the rise of Electron not as a shortcoming of other UI tech, not a problem with Electron. OSX, Windows and Linux failed to have any viable cross-platform UI solution[0]; Electron is what we deserve for this failure.

[0] I would be very happy with Qt/QML and would grudgingly accept GTK, but others apparently are not that complacent
I just think that a violent crime is not excusable in any circumstance. Yes they have served their time, but if someone is capable of violence even once, it should not be possible to hide this information.
Hold up - you also have to tread very carefully there.

I read your blog post above about "racist" NLP models and I agree it makes sense to debias inputs for certain purposes.

However, many people in this thread aren't talking about adjusting for statistical bias. They're really talking about adjusting for socio-political over/under-representation, which is getting onto pretty shaky ground.

I'd hazard a guess that a model trained on Google News giving "more negative" sentiment for black names is a function of those names appearing more frequently in crime articles, matching the overrepresentation in crime rates. Likewise for Arab/Muslim names, which are presumably disproportionately present in articles on terrorism.

Now, that's obviously statistical sampling bias if you're (somehow) modelling "names I should call my kid".

If you're looking at "names more associated with crime", however, then we shouldn't be eliminating any racial imbalances simply because they make us feel queasy. That's intellectually dishonest, and does everybody a disservice by trying to sweep uncomfortable realities under the rug.

Same goes for gender bias in word embeddings from classical fiction - that is (I assume) a very accurate depiction of social gender imbalance from that period of history. That may or may not be relevant to the question you're asking - but that doesn't make any bias inherently "wrong".

I think the underlying message should be "models only reflect the data they're given and may need to be adjusted for bias depending on the question being asked", not "race and gender is always irrelevant and should always be normalized".
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> not to impress people with a snazzy demo.

Never said it was their intention.
I see things like this ("These buildings aren't unsafe because there's no choice, they're unsafe because the builders wanted to save money and the building code was too loose to stop them.") posted by people on HN quite often. As someone who has worked in the Bay Area on buildings, I read things like this and laugh. They come from a place of ignorance - anyone who thinks the building code is "too loose" has never successfully engineered something which complied with it.
Sorry, I thought you were replying to the, where it's free parent, not the where it's not free parent. Please ignore what I wrote earlier.
What does that even mean? Every ISP has it's own filtering system, some (or maybe even most of them) are custom built ones. There is no such thing as single government approved DPI.
Is it OK for a business to collect and sell their customers' personal information if their customers didn't knowingly agree to it? These tech companies are hiding their intentions in the fine print and it's clear that their users don't understand what their personal data is used for. We can't expect the average person to spend 10 minutes [0] reading and trying to understand the legalese on every app or website they sign up for.

Most countries have consumer protection laws to protect the rights of customers and stop deceptive business practices. When a significant portion of a company's customers feel deceived, it's easy to see that the company is not being honest to their customers.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/readi...
No no, people can be very very very sure. The 20th C. tried both of those experiments and in the totalitarian system 10s of millions -- at least -- died.

Having your choices restricted by social cooperation and negotiation (in a market places) is NOT the same as having them restricted by a bully with a military.

This false equivalence is a defense of genocide whether you are willing to own up to that or not.
No, it's highlighting the fact that US and UK are redirecting attention from their crimes to Russia.
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It will be fascinating to watch the modernization of North Korea if we end up heading in that direction. I'm particularity interested to see if it is possible for a leader/party with a brutal a reputation as that of Kim Jong Un to retain power as the country opens up (although to be fair we are a _long_ way from any real change).
> Tesla has singlehandedly pushed the entire auto industry towards electric vehicles.

I would say they led the industry by 2-3 years because of capabilities of making losses (actually not, Chevy bolt came before model 3).

What made electric cars possible is cheap batteries, otherwise they'd have built model3 right out the gate. And Tesla didn't make batteries cheap, consumer electronics did. Tesla doesn't even make battery cells, they buy them from panasonic
It seems a lot easier to build floating cities than to cool Earth's core enough to stop earthquakes.
The open window metaphor implies that the rest of the building's facade was a wall. I don't think that is an accurate description of a website.

If we have to resort to metaphors, then let's describe this section of the site as a ring binder, and each FOIPOP publication as a single page in the ring binder. What the kid did, then, is to take out the entire stack of pages and feed it to an automatic copier, put back the originals in the binder and left with the copied stack.

There is no indication that the "perpetrator" even looked at any page in that stack. And since the binder was clearly labeled as "free public repository of FOIPOP responses that have been approved for publication", the act of copying the entire stack is no reason to assume foul play.
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Most of the ways in which public education could be better would improve it for everyone.

But the NY Times (for example) is unable to discuss it without focusing on differences between groups of people. I think GP is saying that this gets people's backs up, and isn't necessary for making improvements.

The reason it angers people isn't entirely irrational. For example, if you know that your next public school principal is going to be judged not on the total quality, but solely on the black-white difference, then you know that he will be tempted to game the rating system and make things worse for one group.
You must taste this stew. You want steak instead? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuMMa1-VhQg Learn some fire safety while you're at it.
Is 14" of lean a lot on a high rise? Certainly that is a small fraction of a degree of total lean.

The sinking does seem like a concern and is no doubt related. It seems like someone underestimated how much foundation work would be needed on that building.

How does the front door work? Do they have steps down into the lobby now?
Lines like this feel like bias to me:

> Web app restrictions by ~Apple~ hostile mobile platforms
It's not possible to comply with RKN's requirements by banning IPs for quite a long time already.
Or you just configure your editor to output spaces when you hit the tab key. Any serious text editor or IDE these days should have that option.
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Oh yes, I've heard about the earthquakes. If they're half as bad as I've seen in movies, that must be pretty bad!

I'll bet it disrupts your whole day when the Earth randomly splits open and your car falls in, eh? Every other week, too?
Is there anything special about it, or is it just a regular ledger?
One argument might be "because Signal

* has (almost) no tests,

* has no CI (at least I could find none),

* lacks some basic features competitors have,

* sometimes doesn't ring when you call, and

* they just closed all 1100 open issues without reading their contents [1]."

Don't get me wrong, I think Signal is a great idea and have contributed some code to it, but these look like some red flags to me.

Obviously hard to compare to Telegram, which is closed source so we can't know whether they have similar problems.

[1]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/7598
Damn, I just wrote almost exactly these words before scrolling down to your comment. Could have saved myself a few minutes by upvoting yours instead.
I do have a diploma degree in marine engineering, and as regards the maturity and self-discipline issue how do you suggest i showcase that in my portfolio ?.
What about company officer data that is personal information?
Slightly off topic (article mentions routers as prime targets): what do you guys consider a secure/affordable router these days?
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It's maybe interesting to consider Conway's Law in respect of the systems designed by IETF Working Groups (as distinct from the wider scope of systems that have an RFC but were designed wholly outside the IETF or brought to the IETF largely finished for just a bit of spit and polish)

Whether the IETF is an organisation per se is a fun question in itself of course since it has no membership. It is clearly an activity, but so is break-dancing or reading poetry and we do not suppose that people who read poetry are an "organisation". But if it /is/ an organization, then is that organisation reflected in the things it designs?
Some forms of modernization has been going on for years now, but mainly in the shadows as it's all rather illegal. But a peace would certainly help speed up this process hopefully, let's see how this will go.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-03/north-korea-activists-...
How can you work on something that is not ready even now?