skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US Police on TV look more obese (and in a top-heavy way) than they are because department policy very often includes wearing a bulletproof vest under their uniform shirt.
Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day
EU legislators gave you 20 years of discussing the law in public, 2 years between passing the law and it coming into force.

That’s more than enough time.
What the hell did I just read?! Also confused how this guy still has a job at one of the larger banks in Scandinavia (Nordea)
I noticed this as well. I usually can't resist bashing Microsoft and Steve Jobs (it's funny how I think Apple is a great company but Steve Jobs is the worst, and Bill Gates is a great person but Microsoft is a terrible, bureaucratic company). This has cost me a lot of karma, I think. But I still can't resist. I'm a man on a mission, I guess.
It always brings me sincere joy to see another person discover syncthing. One of my all-time favorite pieces of software.
Sort of. The problem is people get confused about the same statistical methodology they use in other situations when the measure they are estimating is also a percentage.

For example, if you are estimating the height of a male in the US, you would collect data on US males and get the average. But unless you surveyed every male in the US, there is some error associated with your estimate. So you would either construct error bounds (a frequentist approach) or a probability distribution (a Bayesian approach) around the mean height. So your results may dictate that the mean height of the American male is 5’11, plus or minus 2 inches. Those two inches represent uncertainty around your data collection. That’s the exact same thing that is done here, but with a percentage instead of a height. Outlets may predict Hillary winning at 95%, but the reality is their methodology should provide a plus-minus value around that. The problem is that few of them actually report that.

But it gets more confusing. That error bound is only around the mean. Pick a random guy out and not only will he likely not be 5’11, there is a decent chance he will be outside of that range of 5’9 - 6’1. You will get 5’7 guys and 6’4 guys pretty commonly. In the case of the election, it may actually be true that Hillary had a chance between say, 93% and 97% of winning. But even if that is the case, she will still lose between 3-7% of the time. But since we only have one reality to observe, we can’t know if she lost simply because we saw that 3-7% realized, or because they people coming up with that number screwed up. That’s why groups like 538 deserve more leeway. When they say that Donald Truml has a 30% chance of winning, and he does. That’s not that crazy. And therefore there is much less reason to assume they screwed something up than the people who predicted a 5% chance of Trump winning. It’s possible those models were right, but much less so.
Amazon wouldn't even EXIST without those highways which are "in a constant state of disrepair and congestion." It's fair to say that their delivery vehicles are making it worse. Maybe some of his wealth should be used to improve or expand them?

As far as amazon being that great, a lot of the time their stuff is in fact late, and people on their marketplace sell counterfeit items. They also treat a lot of their workers like garbage.

I agree with you on your other points, he's effectively beaten the competition and Amazon is great in many ways, partly because they are so, so convenient, but I wouldn't paint him as some saint of good capitalism
When I was young you could open a video file in a text editor and try to delete random sections then play the video until you got similar effects.
This is part of the reason why the country is so divided. It's a great tactic to prevent the masses from organized. Give the left and the right something to hate (each other) and steal the economic gains for yourself.
> Those edge cases can't just be ignored.

A general enough system would have no edge cases. It is IMO the required solution, and a driver always on the defensive is what we all are, at lease here in South America.

Just following the rules would have killed me years ago. Other drivers are reckless.
Agreed, this is why we do not pronounce a single report as a truth.

We do not present confidence indicators. We do explain the details of foodborne illness on our site, but we do want to do better on this, we will continue to refine messaging to ensure our subscribers, or other people who find us, understand the strengths, and considerations in looking at our data.
A war on GDPR sounds kind of trite though.
If its combined with inhumane conditions as a requirement to stay employed, yes.
"...specifically designed to (1) take advantage of modern hardware, (2) fit on a single floppy disk..."

hmmm...
Could you add a mode in which it only queries the APIs if I click the extension icon? Like that it would allow me to instantly search for comments without submitting all my browsing history to reddit/HN
If your product can't follow the GDPR legislation then I'm glad you don't allow EU residents to use it. Since you are most likely abusing the privacy of your customers.

While I'm a bit annoyed at the amount of paperwork and side systems that need to be constructed to ensure proper handling of personal data that I have had to implement, I can only see GDPR as something positive for the people.
This is really easy to do now on Android. Just long press the notification and you can just flip the notification toggle. The real problem though is people passively accepting their phones defaults. Users need to be educated somehow that it's in their best interest to actively curate their notifications, or better yet, put the onus on Apple/Google. What if the default for the first run of an app was to prompt you if you want notifications or not? That would certainly get rid of some cruft.
Which, if you think about it, is a slight recasting of the same failure mode: formal control of the instruments of force can become detached from actual control.
I used to watch tons of Starcraft, but I feel like at least half the reason was to find inspiration for new strategies and playstyles whenever I got bored of playing standard. For example I pretty much never watched the matchup between the other two races I played.

Whereas I feel like the same can hardly be said for traditional sports. I don't see how you gain any strategical insight into the game of soccer by watching the world cup, at least on the level that a normal viewer could implement.
Same thing here (page just reloads)
See the last paragraph of my comment. That's my hypothesis.
Fascinating that Kindle's still don't track which pages actually were "read" (as in "skipping from page 1 to page 100, doesn't meant 2-99 have been read). Basing the author payout system of Kindle Unlimited on that metric is the (technical) root cause here.
Vladamir Putin's net worth is estimated to be more than $200B.
There is also the Republic of Hawaii, which existed for 4 years between the Kingdom of Hawaii and becoming part of the U.S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Hawaii
I'm wondering how this compares to the frequency of any comments by day. It could be that more comments are posted on Sunday in general, and the least on Wednesday.
Stupidly simple zsh plugin to have a R-EP-L tmux session
Amazon suffers glitches at the start of Prime Day
You linked to a thumbnail preview. If you remove the dimensions, you get an image that's readable: https://alexvermeer.com/wp-content/uploads/So-Good-They-Cant...

Though it might be better to link to the whole post: https://alexvermeer.com/so-good-they-cant-ignore-you-by-cal-...
Russian who operated pro-gun group arrested for acting as foreign agent
I'll listen to this today, thank you.
>reading reviews to figure out which listings are noise with fake reviews and which ones are for real

I thought I was the only guy looking for patterns in Reviews and grammatical style to eliminate fake reviews.

Amazon has an insane amount of traffic making it the ideal choice for Chinese electronics makers who have lived or studied to america. They understand western marketing and psychology and it's fairly easy for them to manufacture clones of something that works really well in those countries at lower cost. The products are often flooded with 5 stars rating , mostly incoherent.
Goods are cheaper, Rent + College Education + Healthcare is much more expensive.
Are you planning MacOS support?
If any of those are mortgaged, once the mortgage is paid he will be earning even more, if he owns out-right depending on area they could rise in profitability. I live in provo and rental units were 600-800 when I moved here for 2 bedroom, now they are 1200. Rent costs are rising. Now's a good time to be a landlord for sure.
My experience in the field is about 15 years old at this point, but here is my take on it. Your supposition is premised on one of two things: (1) drone AI that can out-think a human; or (2) perfect communications between drones and an operator on the ground.

These are unsolved, and very difficult problems. The state-of-the-art right now is that we have trouble getting back the video feeds from our reconnaissance drones due to limitations in the downlink system. Drones also create new attack vectors--you might be able to ground hundreds of drones by taking out a handful of satellites or communications hubs.

It is possible that these obstacles can be overcome. But waiting on technology to be where you need it to be can be a very iffy thing. (Cue: "we were supposed to by on Mars by 2025."). I certainly wouldn't gamble the national defense on it.
It definitely takes extra work to protect yourseld against data loss using syncthing over something like Dropbox. I have a mirrored ZFS (FreeNAS vm) which I back up to a usb HD and Backblaze (600GB is running me about 3USD/month)
Linux is non-certified copy of UNIX, without POSIX it wouldn't matter in the marketplace, ergo UNIX won.
I think you can infer that they're trying to address some of the issues with the keyboard, specifically the dust-breaks-everything bit. There was an ifixit article[0] posted a day or two ago touching on some of those points. The tl;dr there is that the quiet aspect is a result of what looks like a fix for the high failure rate of the keys. They can't admit that it's an issue, likely for legal reasons.

[0]: https://ifixit.org/blog/10279/apple-macbook-keyboard-cover-u...
If I'm not mistaken, the then-CEO said it would take something like 6 years to cast off the old customers who are looking for sales and acquire their new, younger, less sale-seeking customers. The board agreed, then sacked him much earlier than the time he said it would take.
> It seems like manned fighter bomber aircraft are fast becoming an outdated concept. Drones can be lighter, turn harder and crucially not endanger the life of the operator. Why is the MOD committing £2bn to building new ones? Fighter aircraft historically take decades to be developed.

That's a speculative assumption. Predictions about future technological developments are notoriously unreliable.

Unmanned planes, as they currently exist, are all remote-controlled for the most part. That leaves them far more vulnerable to attacks against the communications links than manned planes. If your adversary has a successful attack against the link, your fancy all-remote Air Force is grounded. Remote control is a massive Achilles heel.

Right now, AI controlled planes are no more than a speculative fantasy.

Given that reliable military defense is such a critical capability for a nation state, it makes the most sense to continue investing heavily in the state of the art of proven technology. Investment speculative technology is extremely risky, and therefore should only be done carefully, in moderation. You don't bet the farm on it.
If only they had access to some kind of scalable cloud hosting service, they could've completely avoided this sort of outage. :)

Jokes aside, I admire the work of the team(s) responsible for Amazon's web site. I use it so often and encounter glitches so rarely that it really stands out when something does go wrong.
Modern C++ for C Programmers: Part 4
While I do believe that rust will prevent many memory safety issues. I think you would probably catch a bunch of safety issues rewriting any code.
They just need a cable that goes from their device to a USB-C port. That's it. Most of the time, the device in question has a USB B port on it so all they need to do is buy a USB B to USB C cable and they're good to go.

Sure, sometimes they need to plug in a dongle and will need an adapter until USB C dongles become commonplace but that is hardly an issue at all.
Is your figure of 10,000 employees just for the Model 3 lines, or is it for the entire factory? Because they’re making about 2,000 Model S and X per week, so your numbers need to account for that if it’s the entire factory.
If they bought ads to slant an election what does this say about the people falling for it?

Also, this is just digital propaganda. The US gov. and media outlets do it too.
Or even just `ssh brow.sh`
Live Tracker for Amazon Prime Day Sales
This goes against every ounce of history I've been taught.
'Difficult and Dangerous' Work Raises Health Risks for Alaska Salmon Fishermen
Maybe browsh is just kinda of an hack (well, much more given that it works in a quite impressive way) in order to reach the creator's goal of low bandwidth usage, and is not a lynx replacement because of the way it works. But... at the same time it shows that text-only browsers, I mean proper browsers implementing the text-only rendering in a stand alone way, should get an opportunity to copy from browsh, and realize that today terminals can do more.
Considering the top 1% is ~$450K per year per household, I'd wager plenty of folks on HN are in the top 1% if they are a two income household.
> why people switched.

If I remember correctly, it wasn't so much that many people switched parties, but that typical Democrat voter turnout was low, reflecting some amount of disillusionment.

Also, what you say about the Democrats' identity crisis seems to mirror what's been happening with Labour (the left party) in the UK.
Few (if any) of those streamers are making a living wage off of just their few hours/week streaming.

It may be part of their income but not all of their income.

If you run the numbers on what's needed to make ~$1500/wk off of 4 hours/week of streaming, it doesn't paint the picture that you are.
It's not about being correct. It has to sound good to the audience too, which guides you to choose one of multiple correct ways to phrase something.
Tesla also makes really, really nice cars that appeal strongly to the HN demographic.
Unsure why you got down-voted here, I've seen evidence of this (although not personally experienced it).

I'd guess any public area where people who are the companies customer visits, where you end up complaining in public, ends up being a possible place where this might happen. The only gripe I have with this trend is where people choose to go direct to social media vs the appropriate channels for support. The fear i have is that if enough people do this, normal support channels might get under resourced.

Having said this, i'm often impressed with the support i get when i ask for it. I rarely ask, but i probably should more often. A classic case of "you only get what you ask for", but a good reminder that you should probably be asking more often.
`brew tap browsh-org/homebrew-browsh`
Humble book bundle: Linux geek by no starch press
Any argument you can devise for this relies utterly on the critical step "a murderer acts on information in the article". The murderer was always the one placing people's lives at risk. And the murderer could also subscribe to the very same services which index public documents and court filings daily, that newspapers often use--like LexisNexis, for instance. Users can even be alerted on certain names and keywords. The LA Times article publication isn't even a critical step!

Even "a person is shocked/scared to death by the published information" would require some physiological condition that would enable someone to drop dead from an emotional response, such as heart disease with ventricular fibrillation, or organ failure due to chronic cortisol and adrenaline poisoning.

Perhaps publication of a paradox, like "This article contains no true statements," would kill an overly-logical AI?

The crime triangle of motive, method, and opportunity is closed by the criminal--the one with mens rea, the evil motive--not by anyone who produced any element of the opportunity.

Your assertion is completely unsupportable, and indirectly hostile to freedom of speech, by attributing imagined harms to speech, when their ultimate causes lie elsewhere.
Hasn't this happened previously? It may become part of the celebration each year.
Any documentary that has one of the Koch brothers losing millions of dollars to fraud made possible by his greed gets a thumbs up from me.
Anyone who could elaborate is NDA'd.

In general, though, Amazon is always kind of starved for engineering resources. It sucks so much to work at in so many of its teams that it has a colossal retention problem and, one would expect, the corresponding level of technical debt.
Woosh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket
Sean Murray of No Man's Sky Shares Amiga Love, Weighs in on Amiga vs. ST War
Oh you should not be sorry at all :-) Text only browsers have very few users, any project that will bring more attention to the field is only going to benefit everybody. I bet that a number of people tested again Lynx after like 10+ years after reading all the posts about Browsh.
There's a similar YouTube video style, where random bits of the video are sped up, slowed down, zoomed in, blurred/distorted, etc. Does anyone have an idea what this style is called? [0] is the closest i can find right now as an example, but there's no special effects here it's just splicing/mashup of various clips.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsB7u6wVMpM

edit: Here is a better example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR_p9EVsUNE
It's interesting there's theories that say it took the black plague to wipe out half of Europe and end the riches domination of the poor, end the dark ages, and ultimately start the enlightenment.
I mean, I know that's the case in a lot of places.

But it's also not the case in a lot of places so I figured I'd see if OP had considered the possibility.
I enjoy good blackout. Especially in the late evening/early night. Lighting up candles. Looking out of the window at people doing the same.

Having only limited battery life that I should probably not use up anyways and having absolutely nothing to do.
Extremely deluded
I'm guessing they optimized for mobile and forgot that desktop is still a thing. Works pretty decently on Firefox on my Android phone. I usually prefer text documents to "apps" that hijack scrolling but this one seemed usable enough for me (apart from search which is difficult to get to and fails to fetch any results).
I read that as...never mind.
I love having it on when I'm just hanging out at night. I like the background noise, almost kind of like radio I can pay attention to if I feel like it.

There are people who will sit down and watch full broadcasts and in that case it can be a lot of time.

A lot of streamers are just always on which I'm sure makes it easier.
A notebook and a pen.
if someone shoots you what does that say about your ability to avoid danger and dodge bullets?
I think it's very interesting that they don't use radiometric dating, like carbon dating, to establish the age of the parts of the chair on an absolute basis.

I suppose the forgeries could be constructed using extremely old wood, but even then, the glue or other parts would have to be relatively modern, and would provide a contrasting age.
Good to know, but to this specific case, if someone (basically) says "This is not a spinoff to let it die, but to flourish on it's own", it's nice to have them explain why they are credible when they (or previous company rep) previously said "This is not a purchase to let it die, to but to flourish as part of the collective". Just give an actual reason why this time will be different. I already know not to trust M&A statements unless they give specific plans.
This whole anti/pro-Musk psychosis needs to stop. This site is for discussing intellectually interesting things and that's it. We don't remove stuff, but users will flag stories purely about someone misbehaving on Twitter because it's off topic.

Finally, the guidelines specifically ask you to not make posts like this. So please don't.

> Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. That degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about it, email us and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> I think if my mom knew she had a reasonable guaranteed basic income, she would volunteer her time at the local hospital, deliver meals to sick people...

If everybody had a reasonable guaranteed basic income those people would be able to pay her for her services, so it wouldn't need to be voluntary.
> Guetzli is not appropriate as a general-purpose tool for optimizing website images. That's not really what it's designed for.

What is it designed for? I downloaded and compiled it, and it seems to work quite well for the photographs on my website. The README says:

> Guetzli is a JPEG encoder that aims for excellent compression density at high visual quality

https://github.com/google/guetzli/
It's also a good way to find parts of the code that are not being used and are worth deleting.
But the democratic establishment does policies that are very similar to republicans, get all their money from the 1% and corporations, and I’d be surprised if progressives manage to break out.
Potential DNA damage from CRISPR has been ‘seriously underestimated’ study finds
>That's misleading though

Not really. It's not an actionable metric but it doesn't change the fact he's filthy rich and I wish I could trade net worth with him.

>Bezos is not an enemy of the little guy

Indeed, he's the opposite. I clear international freight through customs for a living... it amazes me how many people/companies import direct to Amazon for FBA selling.

Yeah, Amazon certainly hits you hard with fees if you go FBA and even just using Amazon as a payment method is more expensive than a traditional credit card merchant account (I know it's Chris Bair's most expensive way to be paid by customers for Keto Chow) but Amazon offers all sorts of exposure for enterprising individuals and companies.

As lousy as compensation to employees may or may not be, there is no shortage of people willing to take the rather well-paying jobs (Amazon starts at like 13$ an hour in Indy with minimum wage being 7.25).
The New Deal has never not been controversial, from proposal to present day. I imagine its effects will be argued about until the heat death of the universe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal#Historiography_and_ev...