skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this even matter knowing that police can just purchase location data from carriers like we recently found out (securus) ?
And then write it down and have everyone sign it. Not for legal reasons, but just to make sure everyone agrees that the issue has been settled. You don't want to end up in a situation where one person believe that a final decision was made, while another thinks there is still room for discussion.
>And you refusing to accept my reframing as valid intentionally digs this hole deeper.

Because I don't believe it is valid. Class/color/gender are not the only influencers on someone's decision making process, yet you two seem to think that's all we need to consider.

Where is the evidence that these people don't care about abuse and harassment because of their class and color? I see a pretty damning statement which includes zero evidence, just what someone believes to be true for <reasons>.

So no, I won't accept your premise or the GP's until I see evidence. If there is no evidence then fine, you and anyone else are free to believe whatever you like, but don't pretend it's a logically defensible position.

>This is a perpetual problem where one group feels unheard, unserved, left out, etc and then they complain about that and then are told their complaints aren't valid because they said them in a not nice enough fashion or something. Both sides need to give a little here if we aren't going to remain stuck on such topics.

Not every complaint _is_ valid, and we have no idea what the GP's motivations were. I'm not going to give any ground. You and the GP are taking a complex issue and boiling it down to something absurdly simple. All that I'm saying is that it's not simple and, if we're ever to have a reasoned debate, it needs to be predicated on facts, not "feelings". If you're going to attribute someone's actions to their gender and race then you had better be able to back it up.

It's telling that you believe _I'm_ the one doing harm when I have made no accusations at all and the GP was inarguably expressing a racist view.
I don’t think it’s ethical to dna test children without parental consent. So you would need to have guardians appointed to approve testing.

There’s also an issue of undocumented immigrants / illegal aliens being pretty unlikely to consent from the parent’s side as this could be used against them.

What I think is a better idea is for parents to sign up before entering the country and being separated. But since 23andMe is probably out of the price range of asylum seekers that won’t work too well.

And I don’t see 23andMe launching a discounted/free service for low resource countries aimed at circumventing immigration controls.

There’s a separate issue of whether it’s ethical for parents to test their kids dna. My doctor won’t do it, and the researchers I work with won’t do it. But the FDA allows it [0].

[0] https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/u...
Click the tiny link below the title on that says 'web' which searches it in google. Then click the link you see in google, this usually lets you read the article (most of the time).
Unrelated: I recently found out The Atlantic is owned by Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Steve Jobs.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/07/emerson...
Vurt? I loved that book so much when I read it a teen! (Reading it a second time didn't entice me quite so much a few years later, and I'm reluctant to read it again as an adult in fear that it'll be more like the second time and not the first.)
Indian Hindu here, you are absolutely correct
I would definitely use clarity, if only it where React.
This is Mike, I would love to try it out. I can see this working out if you use a gaming engine to add a depth layer to the composition stream.

Have you played with Google's Seurat?
Here I am looking for both!
On a mostly-unrelated note:

Apparently big difference between the US and Germany in the nuclear race was not science but instead engineering.

Fermi and Oppenheimer were useful to the US effort but Heisenberg probably had the intellectual firepower to do that for Germany.

The REAL advances the US made were in chemical and metallurgical engineering at an industrial scale. Dealing with gaseous and liquid uranium and plutonium compounds took a lot of innovation. And the plants at Hanford and Oak Ridge were ENORMOUS. So if Germany was going to build a bomb they would have needed a massive industrial complex. Not just physicists.

Apparently Leslie Groves commissioned a public report in 1945. He deliberately put a lot of physics in it, but left out the chemical engineering. Because he regarded the latter as the key difficult steps in bomb building. And the physics was mostly known.
Used PM2 and Keymetrics in my last start up job. I feel like PM2 is must for App because of features provided. Keymetrics is little bit costly. You can find other solutions as well but PM2 and Keymetrics is good combination overall.
That would seem to immediately nullify the "Trust" part.
I’d rather see irc dead than turned into something else
No I'm not misusing the term. I'm not at the bottom.
Unless we're using some standard of 'nonpartisan' I'm not familiar with, I have no idea how you get that. His decisions so far are typical of the ideological firebrand-wing of the FedSoc types, and he hit the ground throwing elbows. (Seems to have learned some manners in the meantime, but that was inevitable.)

There's a stronger case that Thomas is non-partisan than Gorush, Occupant of the Stolen Seat.
Ha! Can't tell if you are being sarcastic.
I would not recommend spending time on this article:

many cities balance their budgets using money brought
in by cars: gas taxes, vehicle registration fees,
traffic tickets, and billions of dollars in parking
revenue. But driverless cars don't need these things:
Many will be electric, will never get a ticket, and can
circle the block endlessly rather than park.

Hmmm ... If "autonomous" vehicles actually ever became this dominant, I am sure someone would figure out how to ticket them for circling the block more than once or "adjust" the registration fees.
We cannot survive without insects
I'm waiting on an NNTP revival.
Brunner is amazing - far ahead of his time.
The unsafe behavior of the pedestrian is a red herring here.

The system was not prepared for the presence of people with bicycles on the road who are not crossing the road, but rather using it, and doing so properly.

There is no reason to believe that this car would not have struck a properly behaving cyclist.

The system did identify the cyclist as such but didn't react to the hazard.
Sure, but which people? The parent is saying Uber (the company) should be charged, but given the circumstances, I'm not sure if that makes sense.
Good point.

I'm a big fan of the federation of different IRC servers, but also like have rich media embeds and drag+drop image uploading, even if that currently means being tied into the discord servers.
I was just wondering if 'vanilla not being hard to grow' was compared to some other orchids, which I understand to be some of the most finicky flowers to grow.
Neuromancer started it all, but I've always found Count Zero to be by far the best book in the trilogy.
Not sure that's totally accurate, here is a counterpoint article I read on here recently.

https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/how-i-got-credi...
React Native at Airbnb: The Technology
And Nakamoto's coins?
Thank you so much! And I actually laughed at the Twitch comment, fantastic =)

But genuinely, really appreciate the support =)
Fair, I somehow missed that word my first time reading the comment, but he's an example of someone who "did the right thing" and still got "punished".
Ars on your lunch break, part one: Rodney Brooks and robot ethics
I can echo that. Low middle class, alcoholic parent, failed family businesses that I wasted teenage and early 20s in, just rebuilding now.

Tragic.
The $$ is in ASICs. Most code is sorting, hashing, encoding/decoding, matrix-matrix multiply. Bitmain is hitting it out of the park.
Sorry, no. Technically it's a US-based company, but culturally it's multinational, and business-wise, most of its revenue comes from outside the US.

Arguing that Google owes special allegiance to the US gov't is like arguing that it owes special allegiance to the gov't of Delaware.
Well the vast majority of these kids would prefer to stay in the US.

Clearly the solution to prevent them from taking their knowledge back to their home countries is to denigrate them politically and make it harder and more inconvenient for them to live and work here.
The DHS seized a lot of USD from MtGox but not their BTC.
Every VPN client I know of lets you run arbitrary scripts on events like up/down/etc. There are to many possible ways to setup a network connection to cover all the bases as options. I can't imagine a 'proper interface' that would be flexible enough.
“The future is already here - it’s just not evenly distributed”
- William Gibson
> The introduction of controlling processes is often a way of consolidating power structures or building them from scratch for later (ab)use - and I would always question people's motives in these cases. In such highly bureaucratic hierarchies, those on the lower levels often feel absolved of responsibility and that is not likely to end well, either.

This is a really great insight, and I'm glad I read the article twice, because on the whole, I think it's a bit hysterical.
Haha this is amazing! All extremely great points.

At the end of the day, we're just out here trying to do a little bit of good.

You're a rockstar, thank you for the support =)
Bill Penzey likes to send out political emails to his customers as well. He requested that Trump voters apologize. It's hard to take anything he says seriously because of his poor business acumen.
MS Windows Once Caused Second Life To Break An Inkjet Printer
Matrix attempts to be a solution to this
class connotations. you'll see it applied to foreign, non-anglo elites as well.
I mean, he's also sitting on a stolen seat. Not letting Obama nominate anyone was pretty BS. Obviously it wasn't his idea, but he's benefited from it nonetheless.
I think Neuromancer has suffered a lot from what TVTropes calls the "Seinfeld is Unfunny" problem: successive works have borrowed from it so completely that it's difficult to read the book now and get the same effect as when it was published, because it feels so full of cyberpunk cliches. But don't forget that pretty much all those cliches originated here and were totally new at the time.
>mainly white and mainly men. I don't believe they really care about abuse in a meaningful way.

That's an awfully biased viewpoint you've got there, good grief.
Heyo, I'm the head of snoonet. LTM provides servers for us, with no asks or meddling.

Andrew is passionate about IRC and has been for a very long time. This is just another outflowing of his vision and gratitude, not some kind of cash grab.

Re: University: It's a 'University' ON IRC, not ABOUT IRC. There will be partnered educators and developers teaching classes about many topics, likely a good portion development focused.

Re: Ventures: This isn't ventures FOR IRC, it's an incubator. The communication, application, and interaction will be centered on IRC, but the ventures will be varied.

The team working on irc.com has extensive experience of IRC communities and networks and will be opening the door to collaborations with others within the IRC environments, whether network operators or ircd developers and seeks to work closely with the wider community on these endeavors.

I know most of the people involved personally, feel free to ask questions if you want!
I'm on irc still.. but i've cut down on all the channels I used to hang around in, and now I'm basically only in #motorcycles on EFNet, where IRC is alive and well. Topics range from rebuilding carburetors to the innards of Erlang.
> You see someone you've never met before and they know your name, birthday, etc. while you know nothing about them.

It's not the person in front of you who knows you, it's the corporation, and you are just speaking to an agent of a multi-embodied hydra.

Your primary goal should not be to know the agent, but to know the corporation you are dealing with, what its needs and wants are, how you personally fit into that picture, and whether the goals of the corporation and you are compatible.

However, sometimes knowing the agents of a corp well on a personal level can help in that process.
Seems like patients willing to spend $300k would probably be either willing to try anything to save themselves or convinced of the efficacy of the drug they're purchasing.

I see no reason to prevent patients willing to spend money to try something from doing so.
I think everybody are uncertain about such a question, when it is not between 1st and 24th of december.
What makes you think most people want such a thing?

And for those that do, why is Facebook or Instagram or a custom blog inadequate?

Facebook changed "wall" to "timeline" many years ago and has had a similar time-based structure since then. They even encouraged people to add major life events that happened before Facebook existed at all.
Really good points, i like the comparison idea! We need to make an Us vs. Them landing page.

And our pump top is created to be super easy to use, just 6 pumps, no messy cap, one-handed, etc =)

Thank you so much!!!
> The trend is just reverting to the mean.

That's a lie. United States get 1M immigrants a year since 2000. There's over 37,000,000 legal immigrants in US. United States gets the creme of the crop from countries around the world. On the other hand, there were approximately 594,000 immigrants living in China in 2010, most from Asia.

If you can live in US and make 300k-400k, you would do that in a heartbeat, vs living in China where the pollution could shorten you and your family's life, a brush with someone in CCP could destroy your life, no way to get the money you make in China out, no ownership of properties, censorship prevents you from doing research in the real internet, etc.

Oh yeah, what do you think will happen to China after additional $400 billion tariffs, when XiJingPing dies, when the massive shadow debt ($12Trillion and counting) causes widespread defaults and 30% devaluation of yuan?
I read it twice, once in the mid-1990s, then a couple of years ago. I still love Gibson's language, and I love the ideas about AIs, but the flaws were much more apparent the second time around.

For one, the creaky mechanics of the plot were much more transparent to me on re-eading it. The characters rush from location to location to find the next McGuffin, Case mostly being a passive spectator throughout. It feels like there's a checklist of items being ticked off one by one, and Gibson is never able to make it feel like an organic progression of events until near the end, where a very linear easter egg hunt turns into something less predictable. The characterizations are also weak; most of the characters, Case included, are just chess pieces that are shuffled around for the convenience of the plot. Gibson, in all his books, puts a certain cold distance between himself and his characters, and Case is perhaps the most distant of them all.

I suppose Gibson's novels (well, I skipped The Peripheral and never read The Difference Engine) have all disappointed me in some way. They're enjoyable, but I never feel like he's able to land them. I love the prose. I love his ability to conjure a certain kind of dirty, messy future. His action set pieces are often very rewarding and disturbing. Certain elements, like the guy living in the cardboard box in a subway in "All Tomorrow's Parties", I find rather haunting. But he's so often let down by lackluster character development and plotting. Pretty much every single novel follows the same architecture: Fabulously rich, unreliable mystery man of dubious moral integrity (possibly being a front for a near-omniscient A.I.) hires one or more people to find one or more McGuffins; Gibson is really into behind-the-scenes, large-scale manipulation by forces unknown, and it gets a little old. Perhaps it is that Gibson is so good at aesthetics, but not as good at the emotional dimension; I find Neuromancer's ending to be very aesthetically admirable, less so emotionally, because I truly don't care that much about his characters. And this is true about many of his novels. 70% of Count Zero is a masterpiece. It's just that the remaining 30% is an uninspired mess. (If you didn't like Neuromancer, there's a good chance you'd like Count Zero better, though. It's definitely a novel where he got a little more mature about character development and plotting.)

To this day, I find his most successful work to be his early collection of short stories, Burning Chrome. "Fragments of a Hologram Rose", "New Rose Hotel", and "Burning Chrome" itself are all fantastic, in ways that I felt he's rarely been able to replicate in his novels.
They already make them, they just don't work very well! :P
I don't disagree. But the real reason for having an "assume good faith" rule is what it does to this community when people don't. Therefore it needs practicing even when it feels undeserved.
I mean, I LOL at their laptop suggestions. They rank them on some silly things sometimes.

But then I need to buy a microwave. I know 0 about microwave. Which heats better? I have no idea. Consumer reports has a ranking. Sweet!

I really enjoy the product, at least in getting me from 0 to 50% knowledge on a topic. Not that useful for things I am an expert in...
Not that I recall, and I read it within months of release. Can you point to some contemporaneous reviews or critiques that do so?
Exactly, they're encouraging over-use =)
Methane leaks from US gas fields dwarf government estimates
I'd go further to suggest that autonomous cars might decrease some costs and be easier to tax, since they're connected vehicles.
'Driver' of autonomous Uber was streaming the Voice on Hulu during crash
"Stand on Zanzibar" is one of my favorite books of all times. That said, I think the Shockwave Rider actually holds up less well than Neuromancer, because it was more tuned into the reality of software of its day.

Still a great read though.
Just for context for those who don't know who Steve Blank is, he is the author of two books that I admire the most in my journey starting up my own venture.

The story here gives the origin of one his most critical 'Epiphanies'... "Get out of the building".

"The Four Steps to the Epiphany" [1] and "The Startup Owner's Manual" [2]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0989200507/ref=as_li_tf_tl...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0984999302/ref=as_li_tf_tl...
(kiwiirc IRC client dev here) This type of thing is down to the clients to put into place and we actually do this now. Drag/drop files, pasting images directly into the client, 1GB files supported, right out of the box. Give it a try! https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/

I believe other clients are starting to integrate this type of thing too - it's greatly needed
OLED can already 1000 +PPi, that is good enough for most VR. The Vive Pro is 615 PPI, and that is pretty damn good, if you do 4K on that it is still only 825 ppi. ( We likely run into Hardware Rendering problem with high framrate and high res before we hitting OLED limit )

>What improvements are needed to increase OLED sales?

Too expensive. Along with colour accuracy over time, burn in etc. All of them are not really solved ( yet )
Nope. Inflation is regressive.
Reboot occasionally. Clear the decks. What is there to make a fuss about?
mruby has a much higher adoption in Japan, but I don't think it ever really caught on outside of it
How could any of this kill IRC? It's an open standard.
I agree that "India and the US are natural allies" is not the kind of statement that has a multi-century shelf life, for the reasons you describe.

However, I claim that it can be expected to be sufficiently true for the next several decades, to the point that continued rapid development of India should not only be something the US doesn't have a problem with, it should be an explicit strategic goal of 21st century US foreign policy. It's not every day that self-interest and humanitarianism align so well on a matter of such importance; it would be a pity if the opportunity was not taken.
I often cite this as one of my favourite books, but it's also been a decade or so since I last read it and I should see how it holds up.

However after reading another discussion of it recently, things about it are still yet falling into place for me. Not just the viewpoint that cyber meaning "control systems" is also a theme; for each character, there is something or some means by which they are controlled. Retrospectively a lot of this looks like PTSD; Armitage most obviously, but it's a theme of all the characters and the world itself, including the AIs.

Looking too closely at the technology is a mistake. It's all about the mediation of experience and the aesthetic of it, rather than the details.
The official reason is that "search would not work", but I don't know if this argument holds. Others can do search too. There is no need to search serverside when you have all messages on the client too.

By judging their client application, I doubt the serverside looks much better, so a direct backdoor might not even be needed.
Wow, something that makes sense. Fair for the average citizen. I can't believe it.
You don't see the harm in any con man being able to put together a "therapy" that has no chance of working and charge terminally ill people a ton of money, wasting what little time they have, and taking their money from them?

I think the core idea of allowing people to try experimental treatments when they are terminally ill is a good one - but without protection, it's clearly ripe for abuse. Allowing it without any precautions in place is asking for the most vulnerable people to get ripped off in tragic ways.

The attitude of "any chance is better than no chance" has a ring of truth to it, but it also ignores the fact that people can pass off "no chance" as "any chance" very easily. The fact that anyone in that situation is very unlikely to be a rational actor means that they are incredibly vulnerable to cons - they are in a situation with an extreme power imbalance.
For those interested in the topic, I'd also highly recommend Richard Rothstein's "The Color of Law." Rothstein discusses there how explicitly racist zoning policies contributed to the segregation of suburbs. I found it to be a fascinating read.
The article seems to support this argument:

>In Boston, about 40 percent of respondents said they preferred denser, more pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods, while in Atlanta, just under 30 percent of respondents did so.

In the absence of prohibitive zoning laws and other restrictions, the split between urban and exurban properties should converge to align with consumer preferences. Of course, it’s possible that consumer preferences will change if increased urban development results in lower crime, cheaper housing, better schools and transit, etc.
But it's not an imaginary line, it's a line that two democratic countries agreed to create to separate them.

Sorry, but I can't help but read that as "it's not an imaginary line, it's an imaginary line".

She inadvertently crossed one of the most important lines that exists, a line that demarcates two sovereign countries

A case can be made that "sovereign countries" are imaginary constructs that should be abolished, along with their imaginary lines of demarcation.

I mean, I understand where you're coming from, but what I'm saying is that elevating that line to some concrete status is rooted in a worldview which has no objective reality. We can abolish borders, we just need to come together and muster up the will to do it. Which means, in part, finding solutions to all the problems the statists will use as arguments for preserving their lines.
I could be mistaken, but my understanding is that fairing width is more important here than fairing length.

The FH is presumably capable of a longer/larger fairing than F9; that graphic also states it's not including F9v5.