skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does NYT software allow a backwards "smart quote" to get published?

> ”So, we are working on it,
A 64-year-old put his life savings in his carry-on, and U.S. Customs took it
How strong would the fuel rod and motor have to be? Since they are the only structural components it seems like they would have to bear the full thrust of the rocket:

The fuel rod is not bolted to engine, so the pressure in the combustion chamber is transmits the force upward. The motor must be attached to combustion chamber so the interface between the motor and fuel rod must counter all that force to keep the rod in the chamber.
Sure, let Palantir take it up, but there's nothing in this story that says Google won't sign a contract for a renamed initiative for non-protesting employees to work on. The article mentions a 4000-signature petition for the company not to work on warfare tech, but that's not what corporate is assenting to.
Give a little love to OpenGL. Sure Metal is great... but...
While you make a significant distinction in that evolution does not necessarily make a decision to eliminate unused traits, most traits that consume resources and energy do get culled as it almost universally improves survivability.

After all, one of the things that's so hard for us to grok about evolution is that it's not a goal-oriented process in any way. It's not engineering, it's the process of random chance and what can persist.

For example, a lot of people think that all our junk DNA actually does something profound and important, and while some of it probably does have a purpose we don't yet understand, I think it's almost certain that any process that makes a bunch of random decisions that are mindlessly culled by environmental forces will inevitably generate some flotsam and noise in its code. It's kind of like training AI; it definitely won't give you the most minimalist method of carrying out that task, but it will eventually find some way to carry it out. Almost as a brutal, automatic tropism.
Yes they want... yet it has been Windows only for a year and a half, so far. That's the problem with Microsoft buying big things like Github. It turns people not using their flagship OS into second class citizens.
Your assumption seems to be that either it is a pure emotional value judgement (like donating to a dog shelter because you felt like it) or a perfectly objective judgement (ie. meta-reviews of randomised controlled trials). Perhaps that's a false dichotomy and there's a difference between supporting a cause based that is now supported by a significant body of philosophical and technical literature and just donating to whatever you feel like? There's nothing wrong with the later, just that you are kidding yourself if you think it is likely to be effective.
If you want to get Google search results and not give them any personal info or create a search bubble, try startpage.com or ixquick.com (same company). They have built a privacy-focused search engine that rides on Google's results. I'm not affiliated, I just enjoy using it.

If you don't trust Startpage you can try DuckDuckGo with a !g modifier, it will search Google (mostly) anonymously for you.
In that case you should likely have used fixed point arithmetic to start with.

Doubles larger than 2^52 are no different from smaller numbers in context of scientific computing etc. which is what floating point is for.

E.g. in a particular numerical simulation you could bump above 2^52 by using units of nanometers or below by using units of kilometers... yet this is likely just a simple multiplicative factor and the result of the calculation does not change one bit because of what units of measurement you use.

Getting closer to 10^300 and it is another story.
Well, … people choose to install and use Google Chrome … It all comes down to who you trust with your data.
Only one of these matters, and it matters a lot.

Gogoro is doing quite well with scooters, because the battery pod is small enough to swap by hand.
Rolling stops in cars “approximate” full stops closer in the sense that 5–10 miles/hour is closer to 0 than it is to the 30 miles/hour they were traveling before.

By contrast, 5–10 miles/hour on a bike is about equally far from 0 and the 15 miles/hour the bike was traveling before.

The biggest difference though is that getting hit by a car doing a rolling stop will put you in the hospital and possibly kill you.
Updated to make it a bit more clear - bad choice of word there.
I really don't lugging around cords and gear, so when moving about, I use a USB powered monitor. Just set it on a tall enough box, use your laptop as the keyboard, and boom you've got yourself a work station.

https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=usb-powered+porta...
People like you commenting in threads like this are the reason I keep coming back to HN. Thanks for your insights.
Their MacOS implementation that they linked to is pretty cool and understandable even for a filesystem lay-person.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2018/03/15/gvfs-for-...
I don't care if MS is getting better lately.

The fact it's getting better is obviously a positive thing, but will it stay that way in the future? no one knows.

I like the fact Github is independent of all the big players. I really, really, really hope it stays a neutral ground.

Also, if acquired by MS, I'm not that afraid for github itself. However, what is at risk in my opinion is all the integrations around github. There is a rich and striving ecosystem surrounding github. Tools like appveyor, travis-ci, coverall, readthedocs, codacy are really useful, ease a lot development and are infinitely easier to setup/maintain than a Jenkins box plus a few slaves. What would happen to this ecosystem remains to be seen.
"If we don't, someone else will" is not an ethical get-out-of-jail-free card. Literally anything will happen in a capitalist market, if someone is willing to pay for it. Does that mean everything that someone will pay for is ethical and you shouldn't bother trying to abstain from it?

If you want to be pragmatic about it, the fewer people who are willing to do X, theoretically the higher the price goes, possibly to the point where no one wants to pay to do X anymore. So refusing to do X is not just an empty gesture.
Wasn't this launched in 2014? I see the wiki hasn't been updated since January. Is this a new push to get this done?
How about Skype, though?

People loved Skype so much, it was really a feat to make people hate it.
That code you mentioned has opt-out spyware. It's not in the spirit of free software at all. It's just part of embrace, extend, extinguish.
> and strong evidence is that only human-level intelligences have escaped the same situation.

I don't know if this is the same situation, but laboratory beagles, farmed mink, etc show that non-humans can pursuade humans to release them from cages.
Some did, but they're not widely known.

Kune: https://kune.ourproject.org/about/

(ex-Novell) Vibe: https://www.microfocus.com/products/vibe/features/

SwellRT: http://swellrt.org/
To clarify, I'm a left-wing atheist. I think that a big priority is to reduce the world population, if the easiest way to do that is by improving women's lives then great.

I think we also need to recognize how we got to this point though.
This is purely hand-waving, but one scenario where natural selection loses the gene is where the expression of the NIN gene created a vulnerability for a virus/bacteria/fungi that would kill out the plant. Considering the gene involves a pathway that hosts symbiotic relationships with micro-organisms, it seems possible.

In such a scenario, the only surviving, reproducing individuals would have mutated in such a way to suppress expression of the gene. (Again, there is no evidence of this, it's just conjecture)
>Sure, would be nice for the OS to support it, but until that future point why wait.

Because with the current system I can configure my DNS to my liking at my router and it propagates to all devices. Replacing that with a system where after every Firefox update I have to double check whether Firefox is still doing what I want on all devices is a total pain in the ass by comparison.
> US bastardisations like 'color' and 'favour'

I believe the American spelling is "favor".
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And .dev.

Nothing is really safe. Maybe an emoticon? IIRC, the use of emoticons was stopped after someone registered the poop symbol on .la.
This is bigger than Google. Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Oracle, Palantir, et al, will take this contract next. Google isn't the only company that can run DNNs to do image classification, it's commodified now. The DoD is going to pay money to get this software, it's inevitable, just like they got the Hydrogen bomb, and ICBMs, and biological weapons. Enough people exist out there who are smart and willing to work on it for money, only it won't leak, and won't be public.

The public needs to take this event as a canary in the coal mine. Congress needs to limit AI use in the military. If it took Google to scare everyone into finally regulating this, than so be it, but there needs to be transparency and oversight and limits imposed by democracies on this, just like regulations on chemical and biological weapons.

Perhaps we need an "AI Weapons Proliferation treaty" or something. But the future of war is automated drone killing machines, they're just way cheaper to built and deploy and less risky. You can build hundreds of automated drones for the cost of one B-2 bomber, and mount a saturation offense against any defender.

People need to widen their gaze from fixation on Silicon Valley. The problem is in Washington, the problem is a $700 billion defense budget, a war on terror, and extrajudicial drone assassinations. Everyday people on HackerNews are complaining about ad tracking, navel gazing their industry, meanwhile, they silently accept their own governments tracking people and killing them with hellfire missiles. (I get that people feel helpless with respect to resisting the military industrial complex and feel they can have some say over an industry they're more closing associated with, but I'm pretty sure there's plenty of HN readers who actually favor the US military empire)
The Canadian 'N' Word or How to Offend a White Canadian
how would the shrinking "body of the rocket" ie fuel be able to withstand/transfer the thrust/load/accelleration force safely to the rest of the rocket stack?

i mean to say its a 3 to 5-ish G load or something like that, and vibration alone would be...interesting...
Households maybe? Though the numbers I see for that are a hair over 12 million.
Also slavery, I bet. Standard practice for victors was killing all defeated adult males, and taking everyone else as slaves. Females got to breed as wives or prostitutes. Young males were sometimes castrated.
If you have an audience you depend on, you can't really change without risking of losing that audience. On one hand humans get used to anything (e.g. lifestyle), and otoh they also feel the need to change and make personal progress. Of course you'll be unhappy if you're used to your status quo and think you can't change for the better anymore.
Doubt you will see them pull back. Glad they don't and keep pushing.

The big one was yesterday ordering 62k cars for the Waymo ride sharing service.
We will be in the Galvanize office for the remainder of the year. When we move to a permanent space it will be in the same general location.
Well that's just a fraction of what I was talking about. StumpWM is nice, but it's the window manager. But imagine an environment where, say in the web browser you could hit C-h k, find what function is bound to the key that bookmarks the current tab, and advice that function to make a backup of the bookmarks database. And that such mechanism being built in to the OS' application programming libraries, so that writing a GUI app becomes essentially reminiscent of writing an Emacs major mode. Imagine all apps on your desktop had hooks where you could attach code to be run on certain events.
Power management seems to be poor on a fresh install of most distros, but all you have to do is install tlp to dramatically improve battery life. On 16.04 all I had to do was install it. I didn't have to configure anything (or even enable the service manually), and got dramatically better battery life than under Windows.

When I installed 18.04 on my XPS 15 I had an issue with power consumption being way too high even with tlp installed (13W on idle), but I used powerstat to investigate and found that runtime power management was not being enabled for my discrete GPU. The tlp defaults must have changed at some point between 16.04 and 18.04. So I set RUNTIME_PM_DRIVER_BLACKLIST="" in /etc/default/tlp and now get <4.5W on idle, which gives about 12 hours of battery.

I would prefer for it all to work perfectly without any configuration, of course, but then you have to accept ridiculously thin and overpriced hardware from Apple :)
Ah, ok. I can imagine that that is more JIT-friendly.
Yes, it's so snappy...
Indiana couple admits to stealing over $1 mil. of electronics from Amazon (2017)
I think a largely ignored aspect is the unwanted celebrity effect setting in with the pressure to stay relevant. Because once you are doing it and have crazed "fans" showing up your door and calling your friends and family you better make a living off it. Because its unlikely they will stop once you want to be done. And your boss is unlikely to be understanding once they show up at her or his business.

Ironically, this is the lesson a lot of persons learned when they were kids on 4chan and co. Never put your information out there. Never ever period. It will ruin your life longterm. The internet is not a nice place. It is sadly a lesson, many people who grew up with facebook and youtube never learned. A lot of them were likely full of optimism and had a very sudden awakening where the path back out was no longer viable.

There are rather simple examples like this moment

https://youtu.be/aGmt5neXURs?t=491

And to be blunt, even she was naive when it came to showing the skyline. Have the right/wrong viewer and you are screwed.

There is a rather sad example of the German Youtuber "drachenlord". He is a fringe youtuber, out of work and is bullied by people in the hundreds. Yet it is his livelihood now and thus there are scenes like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-27CsOBn5HE

where he is selling posters.

I still think the south park episode about brittney spears is sadly relevant.
Yep. Chrome on Linux here, same issue.
The contract in question was, in fact, with a totally separate company ("ECS Federal") with confidentiality agreements. The Google execs, in contemporaneous emails, knew from the beginning that it would be opposed and did their utmost to conceal it while acknowledging it would probably leak and suggesting they try to spin it in advance.

https://theintercept.com/2018/05/31/google-leaked-emails-dro...
It's a niche application for sure. But niche applications count. I know one place it could be handy: getting ISRU products off the moon and into lunar orbit or over to a Lagrangian point.

The moon is practically made of alumina-oxide solid fuel propellant. Along with its lack of atmosphere and low gravity, it would be preferable to use the literal dirt that is everywhere on the ground to loft precious refined or manufactured products into orbit instead of more efficient yet much more valuable cryofuels.

It also would have a very good shelf life, and a brutally simple machine can have the kind of reliability people would kill for in space. For most missions you'd need something with better ISP, but for some applications it could be just the ticket.

Granted it's not currently as simple as conventional solid rocket motors, but that will probably improve as they work out the kinks. The fact that it eliminates structural mass continuously is almost like a CVT for spacecraft; the staging doesn't happen in big, clumsy chunks, it gradually sheds mass all the way down to the payload.
Is there an ethical approach to making drones better at killing people?
The text repeatedly talks about small satellites/cubesats.

I think that’s essential.
It's hard to use the internet or live without a web browser, I suspect most people get along just fine without letting a startup with a cool name scrape their browsing history.
What if they don't want help?
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One of the reasons I posted this was that I previously thought this was rather well known.

I recently was in a discussion on FB with a well-known VC who used that word and was apparently totally unaware of its significance.
Let me add some obvious failings since people seem surprised: The Android Gmail app clearly does separate searches for emails stored on the device and emails that are only in the cloud. The time for the cloud search is very variable, and if it the connection goes bad then there is no indication to the user. This means the same search will mysteriously return different things depending on the connection quality. And if the user is waiting for the cloud results to appear, there is no feedback whatsoever about whether they have almost arrived or whether gmail has given up.

The fact that is it literal matches only seem inexcusable. Sure, the magically ability to guess what your meant isn't going to be available when you're the only one searching your database and there are privacy restrictions, but even just basic spellcheck or near matches would be extremely useful.
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The progress they've made? Baking in more spyware into Windows and other products than ever before? Taking more control away from computer users than ever before?

What planet are you people on?
DevOps and IaaS is growing so fast, I'm surprised this hasn't happened yet. This is absolutely about Azure DevOps.
Stack Overflow works pretty well.

But perhaps not without some pain for those involved making it: https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-ruby/
Existing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17208892
It reminds me of an anecdote about CS Lewis. He is supposed to have given a beggar some change, and he friend asked him "what did you do that for? He's just going to spend it on booze." And Lewis is supposed to have replied "well, that's all I was going to use it for anyway."
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Sounds similar to what I used to feel playing MMOs, and to a lesser extent online games at all. They caused me a lot of stress when they were supposed to be enjoyable. My work is stressful enough.

Now I only play single player games, and I’m much happier for it.
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We need to do both and generation side doesn't need help.

Coal plants (the most polluting) are shutting down and being replaced by natural gas, wind and solar simply due to cost of wind and solar dropping rapidly.

Those costs will continue to drop and economics will get even better in the (relatively near) future.

Vox often covers that topic, see e.g. https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/10/19/164944..., https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/4/10/1721444..., https://www.vox.com/2018/5/30/17408602/solar-wind-energy-ren..., https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/5/18/1735973...
> But with less new creators, what is YT going to do?

Somebody else will take the viewers. Older celebrities getting out never killed any communication means. What kill those is lack of new people to take their place. YT seems to not be suffering from the later.
In psychological science "personality disorders" are a class of so-called "disorders" that other people believe are bad, but that the person with the "disorder" does not believe is bad.

It is controversial to claim that someone with a "personality disorder" needs help.

See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egosyntonic_and_egodystonic