skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps a “UL Labs” type of solution for software, so that if your software and organization are certified according to the current standard, then your liabilities would be reduced?

And yes, organizations and versions of software would have to be recertified on a regular basis.

You would want software versions to be able to be certified quickly and through an automated process, but there is already some best practice in this space — it’s just unevenly distributed.
That seems pretty obvious to me.

Back in the 70s, I recall that marijuana became less available, and more expensive, for a year or so. So we switched to other drugs. More acid. Cocaine. Various sedatives. And of course, alcohol.
> people are not inherently lazy: we work not just to pay the bills but because we want to contribute something meaningful to society.

That is a pretty extraordinary claim!
Alan Bean, the fourth human to walk on the Moon, has died
While I’d love to believe that’s enough, you can’t really be certain the SIM isn’t uploading Location data that’s been stored while in airplane mode. Until SIM is open source (which is pretty unlikely) there’s no way to be sure outside of a device not having a cellular radio or gps capability.
Hey the peasants need software too.
I don’t think I agree that it’s fake per se, but it definitely looks editorialized to me with scare quotes around “problematic“.
There is so much vegan propaganda for reasons other than health (e.g animal rights, saving the planet) masquerading as science since the early 70s when the "limits to growth" and "the population bomb" were published that it's hard to not just throw it all out. A recent egregious example was the netflix propaganda piece "What The Health" which was so over the top vegan propaganda that a long debunk article was written by just about every non-vegetarian health writer of note.
> All the power and none of the responsibility.

That tradition still lives on. Look at any TOS, EULA, or standard disclaimer.

I appreciate the BOFH as an entertaining parody. Just don't try any of that at home.
It would also incentivize vendors to fund critical FLOSS with direct development support on safety-critical functionality.
That's certainly a valid point, but it still doesn't solve the problem of having to remember to delete something in the event of data loss.

As far as I can tell to comply with a deletion request with absolute certainty requires infallible storage (which would remove the need for backups) or modifying backups (which contradicts the concept of a backup). Maybe you can claim 'force majeure' at some point, but perfect compliance seems impossible.
Sounds click-baitey but is actually (IMHO) pretty interesting (and kinda sad and crazy.)

> From 2004 onward, the number of farms grew rapidly. The government encouraged them as a way of boosting the fortunes of otherwise poor rural areas. Official licenses were issued, but many farms ran illicitly. By 2011, they held around 2.6 million salamanders between them. In some counties, salamander farming became the main industry.

> Bizarrely, only 3 percent of the animals raised by the farms are eventually sold to restaurants. The rest are sold to more start-up farms.
Exactly this. It's mind-blowing what kind of questions my well-educated ask about being a vegetarian. "Where do you get proteins from?" or "What about iron?". Really?!

The only real thing missing is B12 and of that the body needs so tiny amounts that every idiot can supplement it easily.
One of my favorite photos from space is a photo of Alan Bean: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Apollo12...
Because it is two orders of magnitude less effective. Putting an ad for a blender in front of someone recently searching for blenders is 100x more effective than putting it in front of a random person.

This means the revenue they can charge for that ad is 100x less, which means that any sites without massive, massive user bases will perish, and those that survive will do it on a pittance.
EU has quite some immigrants coming in from outside the union. I certainly wouldn't characterize it as 'do not allow immigration'.

There's even reactionary right wing movements claiming that immigrants are going to make everything go to hell.

You seem to have settled on economics as a zero sum game. Trade ministers in most countries haven't.
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Part of the issue is the lack of legal structure for ships at sea. Once you're on the boat and outside the legal boundary of a country, the captain is essentially a dictator with little legal recourse for complaints.
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Hahaha, yeah. Imo best math lecturers actually do provide a lot of intuition behind the discussed material. Otherwise I feel like they don't understand the topic themselves that well. (Exceptions are rare, but possible tho.)

Other resources like http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ (and I think, there is also a proof wiki, or math wiki?). Such resources can be more useful, even if they are not as extensive as Wikipedia, they win in consistency between the articles and better at providing intuition and background information.
As a DM, I kept the players in check by telling them that if they wanted to do such-and-such rule/thing, that the NPC's and monsters would also be able to do it. They backed down when they realized the rule would unbalance things.
AP MAC addresses, signal strengths and locations have been collected by Google for years to provide WiFi-based location services to Android users.

I wouldn't be surprised if other platforms/applications/companies are using that data, as well.
Building Scalable Web Services in Golang
That breaks wifi (though wifi is enough to leak decent location data, unless you’re using a vpn, and somehow blocking location service).

I wonder how hard it is to open a modern iphone and cut the relevant antenna traces on the pcb.
No, they don't need to print more tether to protect the price. The price of tether is locked to $1.
Maybe the people who develop the software don't talk to the end users, or see how they use the software. That would be a classic example of development process gone wrong. Are they, or people sufficiently near to them on the organizational chart, aware that life-or-death decisions are made on the basis of their software? (I'd certainly hope so, plotting weather data definitely qualifies).

I'm only conjecturing here; there's no reason to conclude based on the available information that there is a problem here. But it would be a pretty typical situation in an organization that believes software is something you call up a subcontractor to bolt on -- most places are still run like that, although the culture is slowly changing.
I can stick to eating candy and cake.
I had the impression Nim was Python in fast.
We are biologically omnivores. We can digest raw meat, however Homo sapiens has always had access to fire - unflavoured, blue, fillet steak is my favourite meal - delicious!
Done: https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article158562.ece/ALTE...

Southend to Liverpool is 3-4 hours on the train.
Talks for Every Programmer
How about DeNim — since it came from Nim.
Browserless pay-per-use and functions are coming soon
The problem I have with CMake & autotools is that every project writes their build process from scratch, and everyone does things slightly differently making their project a snowflake.

Certain platforms, compilers, and dependencies need special handling and workarounds, and this knowledge isn't shared and has to be repeatedly rediscovered by every project.

Rust's Cargo, perhaps accidentally, has found a fantastic solution to this. The build process itself is built out of packages. I don't have to know how configure MSVC compiler, I just use an existing crate for it. I can use existing package to find and configure libpng — the work to handle its own quirky pkg-config replacement has been done once, and now every downstream project can benefit from it.

Package manager in the build system may sound strange, but it's actually fantastic. It works so well that I switched my C projects to Cargo to be able to build them on Windows.
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> It also adds language about debias.

I'm confused as to why debiasing here is bad. If your contention is that bias doesn't exist, then this shouldn't have any effect. And if the distribution of authority does have a bias other than "ability and contributions to the project", why wouldn't they want to fix that?
As someone who has to push a stroller around these days, I’ve come to appreciate how much improved accessibility for disabled people means improved accessibility for everyone.
It's an opinion piece, with a clickbaity title.

To be fair, Donald Trump was not a self made man. Elon Musk is.
The Adventure Zone is quite good: http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/adventure-zone
Use a "proxy" phone number that forwards to your cell phone number and keep your real cell phone number private.
Why would it? The SIM card itself has no real functionality, and cannot just randomly affect the radio components of the phone. It just stores its identity and keys, so the cell tower can identify and bill the right user.

The way the location tracking works is simply by logging what phone connected to the cell tower, at the tower itself. To be able to adjust the power the radio component needs to output (to get a good signal), it needs to know the distance to the tower. You get location by then correlating with multiple towers, because the phone has to choose which one it has the strongest reception to, and therefore has to gather data from all nearby towers.

In short: that’s not how a SIM card works.
Recombinant E. coli as a biofactory for nanomaterials
Funny. Dinosaurs evolved into birds and alligators but the tick is still a tick??
Honestly, a publically available real time map of the location of all lawmakers that haven’t pledged to fix this is probably the only way to fix it.

If that’s not enough, some simple data mining to list all their known associates, mistresses (etc), would probably get it fixed.

Sadly, they’d probably just make it illegal to publish data about the ruling class and not the rest of us.
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The SF/LA route has an even bigger problem: once you get to LA, then what? There's not really enough transit in the LA area to get where you actually mean to go, and that's almost certain to be true even if all the current transit projects finish. The Bay Area frankly isn't much better. You'll very likely to need to take a car (maybe an autonomous one) from the end points. And given that, flying seems even better. There are 3 big SFBA airports and 5 in the LA metro area; direct flights between those are more likely to get you closer to your endpoints.

The more legitimate case for CAHSR is really opening up the middle of the state. But that could have been done much cheaper.
It's impossible to have absolute certainty about almost anything. That's not what the law requires.
It’s official: Amazon has saved the Expanse
Agreed. It might be nice to have separate work_mem settings for single-process and parallel queries, or perhaps even just divide the single-process query work_mem by the number of workers that will be used. The number of OoMs that start popping up just because someone turns on parallelism is embarrassing.
No chance. DNA has a half life of ~521 years [1] and any sample older than a few million years old will be too degraded to extract meaningful information.

https://www.nature.com/news/dna-has-a-521-year-half-life-1.1...
99percent invisible had a blog post about really poorly laid out pavers fairly recently.

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/death-tactile-paving-...
This is bad faith interpretation. The prevailing viewpoint is that the playing field is not, in fact, level.
There are a number of exceptions to the Right to be Forgotten provisions.
In their previous tutorial [1] their encoding settings show that they're targeting roughly 128 kb/s VBR, which is what YouTube AACs typically are, so that doesn't explain it. AAC (and Opus for that matter, which YouTube also often has) are superior formats, and lossy encoding should only happen once if possible- so this honestly makes me cringe a bit. In this case the (probably already lossy) source audio is lossily converted by YouTube and then again by ffmpeg/LAME with rather low bitrates at each step. A lot of quality is lost along the way.

Support for Opus is unfortunately still somewhat sparse, but AAC support is essentially universal on modern devicese. So I can't think of any reason to favor this approach over:

youtube-dl -f bestaudio[ext=m4a] "$URL"

Even YouTube's 128 kb/s copies won't satisfy audiophiles.

[1] https://intoli.com/blog/transcoding-on-aws-lambda/
Musk is not entirely wrong, but things are heated ATM and he's not the best messenger perhaps at this time.

The NY times article is incredibly focused on pushing a narrative; no mention of space-x or the purchasing of solar city ahead of CAs recent roof top solar mandate..

It's an opinion piece, I get that. But serious news organizations can't keep pulling the opinion card to excuse away posting purposefully inflammatory, divisive, and dishonest "journalism" if they want to be taken seriously. It's really sad to me that the NYT would be party to such hit pieces, but this is 2018 I suppose.

P.S. I vouched this thread as I believe HN can have an honest, civil discussion about both Elon Musk's business shortcomings and the medias credibility issues.
Pedestrians are able to negotiate gradients more easily than cars, so this seems inefficient.
I had an Omnibot 2000 as a kid, which you could program motions into and record them onto cassette tape for reply. This taught me a great deal about sensitive dependence on initial conditions!
That's a very good approach and mindset. Now the tide has passed, let's wait until waters calm down
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Ah, then you're into mechanics. Excess power is continuously converted into increased rotational speed of a very large turbine at a hydro power plant. But the increase in speed takes some time due to inertia. The hydro plant operator has a device attached to the turbine, a regulator, that reduces the flow of water running through the turbines in real-time - lowering the amount of power going into the system which in turn slows down the turbine. This service is the foundation of a working power system and is called "automatic" or "primary" regulation. Usually the system operator pays ahead of time for this service to be available followed by an additional payment afterwards for actual use.

A single hydro plant can only do so much though - it can not reduce the flow of water below zero and the system will fail if it ever runs out of primary regulation reserves. The system operator will then have to pay an additional party to produce less in order to prevent that from happening. This is called "secondary" or "tertiary" regulation and is not real-time.
EU censorship machines and link tax laws are nearing the finish line
Into a Textual Heart of Darkness
While I appreciate the need for DSLs, in many cases I feel like I'd rather use an API. At least, an API imposes no constraints on the features of the language itself. (So, imagine a DOM for VS solutions and projects; writing your own script would be a breeze...)
On iPhone, long press reader view, and click on the option to automatically use it for all sites.

Problem solved.
Self-Attention Generative Adversarial Networks
Do the math...
There aren't many crew on these boats, though. That its a small absolute risk doesn't stop it being relatively dangerous. The maritime union guy suggesting it was as risky than oil rigs was an eye opener for me, as that's one of the most hazardous current jobs.
On the contrary, I think this is secretly a benefit. As soon as WordPress updates to include all the necessary tools to be GDPR compliant, every small business using their platform should be able to easily pull those features in with minimal developer work. The common platform is a boon here because it helps everyone work together on the issue, rather than requiring the smaller players to implement a mountain of work by themselves.
Same here! My computer is a Mac mini and also using a mini DP to DP cable. There’s a 20% chance that the monitor will get stuck in power-saving mode when turning it on. When this happens, rebooting my Mac is the only way I’ve found to make it come back. I’ve tried many cables :(
Get / make a breakout board http://www.elabguy.com/displayport.php
It's not the number that's a problem, devices are tracked and the data is sold by the cell provider. Even if it's not billed under your name, it's likely moving between your house and your work 5 days a week, that's enough to deduce who it's used by.
I've only seen high end scopes and signal generators used for such a purpose.
Visualizing Global Land Temperatures in Python with Scrapy, Xarray, and Cartopy
> space that would be otherwise needed for a fast growing employee base

I'm not sure what "otherwise" is supposed to mean here. Isn't the whole point of the "space" in the first place to enable the "employee base" to be more productive there than at home or remote?

Maybe that employee base wouldn't need to grow so fast if the existing employees could be more productive by, say, using existing space more effectively.

Lastly, it seems to be something of a cliche how hard and/or expensive it is for startups (especially, as you mention, when growing) to deal with space. I am, however, skeptical that the decision of having open plan offices is based on any kind of rigorous decision making rather than trend-following and following the path of least (initial) resistance.
I think it’s kind of akin to the premature optimization people do when they think they have ‘big data’, but really don’t.

If you’re really doing heavy list processing, transforming complex data structures, etc., then you’re probably going to miss map, reduce, and friends. But for most real world problems, the code is faster to write, faster to run, and easier to understand with a few dumb loops.

It’s always tempting to do things the clever way, but Go made me realize how rarely it’s actually beneficial.
Weird that Hungarian is listed under rule #1, it should be under #0: Nouns preceded by numbers are always in the singular in Hungarian. Does anyone know for the other Finno-Ugric languages listed under #1 (Estonian, Finnish)?
Mapping the Segregation of Metro Atlanta’s Amenities
Or have a massive antibiotic resistant bacteria wipe out a significant number or the population.
Nice summary, thanks!
The article (or rant, if you wish) sounds pretty accurate to me.
who says it must be possible or easy to run a 1 man company that handles user data? I rather not have my data handled by a company who can’t handle GDPR
"The tree of knowledge must be refreshed from time to time with the sweat of editors"
Given the above, consider the future of semi-autonomous and fully-autonomous vehicles.
Yes. But now you have given up all of your tolerance so you better have a perfect (or over-voltage) power supply. This means that you now have less choice in power supply.
Large potential reduction in economic damages under UN mitigation targets
I think you're struggling to come to grips with the fact that it's only natural that if someone makes something that works because it's obvious, then others will also make variations of that thing. That's what manufacturers are doing, from Samsung to LG to Sony, they all have touch screen mobile phones with icons and similar features.

It's childish for Apple to expect to have it all for themselves, then sue anyone who gets close to "rounded corners". Like if Ford sued anyone else for putting 4 wheels on a vehicle body. The Samsung phone is not a "clone", by any stretch. People saying this have swallowed the Apple rhetoric.

And lastly, the technology in the iPhone was only possible because of electronics and software that was in part developed not by Apple, but by others. Apple should give it a rest, enjoy their riches. And, they should NOT build an Apple store at Fed Square in Melbourne Australia, we don't want it.
> I think the existence of widely accepted notions of "good" and "evil" is actually an empirical claim.

Quit moving the goalposts. Objective morality is not the same as whether lexical definitions of "good" and "evil" exist in all the world's languages.

My real point which you left out is that judgements about such things should really be left to the reader. Saying such things like "x is evil" really doesn't help the conversation.
What other companies purchase phone geo tracking that provide it online. Would polling congressmen's public assessible location be ok if provided online?
The US has negative rights rather than positive ones. Society can’t just come after your property or your existence. Society is also not required to provide you with property or existence.
There's often waves of related exploits being found, which I'd interpret as a sign that studying new exploits is useful to understand the category of bug/issue and find other examples. And even if you are not actively trying to find new exploits, that means that you'll possibly encounter similar ones soon.
Massachusetts Gains Foothold in Offshore Wind Power
Net neutrality has in common with the selling of user data the same theme big company "rights" versus the customers/citizens rights, I don't thing "rights" is the best word there but I can't find other right now.
Man, I love the BOFH. These columns, along with User Friendly, Slashdot, and Sluggy Freelance, were some of the first things I latched onto when I got a 'net connection for the first time. And as chance would have it, my first "real job" was as a System Operator, so these struck a chord with me. It's probably just sentimentality, but even now I feel like there's something special about the BOFH columns, a certain "je ne sais quoi", that is lacking from most of the rest of what's out there.

I still go back and re-read the entire archive (or most of it) from the beginning once every couple of years or so. To anybody who hasn't had the experience of entering the world of the BOFH, the PFY, the Boss, the Head, Mad Ron the Sparky, and the rest of the crew, I can't recommend it highly enough.
"Capable of producing 60 different nanomaterials including metals, metal
oxides, and quantum dots"
Woaw!
The exceptions are if there is an different law that supersedes GDPR. However none of them are indefinitely so sooner or later GDPR will apply.
The inefficiency for cars is a feature. It means drivers will slow down and thus kill less.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/1/25/speed-kills-so...
Doesn't Peter Thiel promote "seasteading"? It's like Galt's Gulch, but with Norovirus.
As Google Feeds Cats, Owl Lovers Cry Foul
Honestly CMake is just as bad as it's predecessors. Today I use meson, which isn't perfect but is far better than CMake.
People don't know about the spinners under the PELICAN / TOUCAN boxes either. They aren't on all boxes, but they are on lots. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-ouch-22706881
German Democratic Peoples Republic ;-)
Nuclear physicists create first simulations of atomic nucleus
Except in all the cases highlighted here, the boat was moored up in a port where the local jurisdiction would apply.
However, meat is a complement to vegetables because it restores what they take out of the soil, so it's not as inefficient as it seems.

https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/993309884711129088
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