skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For any exploratory drilling, or covering any real amount of ground, you need humans.

No, you don't.

> For reference, Opportunity Rover has only traveled 45 km/28 mi in 14 years.

That's true, but that is because of budgetary constraints, not technical ones. If you put the same amount of money into a rover as it would take to send a human, you could cover a LOT more ground with autonomous rovers. This is self-evidently true because whatever vehicle you use to get a human from A to B you can instead use to move a human-mass (plus life support and consumables) worth of scientific and excavation equipment instead.

P.S. I used to work on the Mars Rover program.
Someone Else's Problems
But the thing is that the same people resisting Facebook are spending more and more time on Instagram....which is owned by facebook.
Somewhat related: Millenium Blades, a board game that simulates the game and metagame of trading card games, had a Kickstarter.
I bought a DareU Bluetooth keyboard with Kailh LP switches a while back - absolutely love it.
When I step back, I realize there are a lot of good reasons not to police this stuff. However, if I down scale Facebook to a 100 user forum that I control, then I would ban this in a heartbeat. I guess subjective morality doesn't scale?
People forget who they are handing their power to. Communists, racial minorities, gays, marijuana users, anti-war protestors, you-name-it have had their freedom of speech infringed upon. People forget it can happen to anyone. And it will change, depending on who is in power.

It's an illustration of the unfortunate: "liberty for me, but not for thee." Fighting intolerance by being intolerant. And all the same things people do in history which enables tyranny too many times.
This pretty much quantifies one of my core beliefs about human behavior: people are dishonest by nature.

The reward mechanisms for our world are clearly optimized for dishonesty and deception. This isn’t to make some kind of statement about our culture, rather it’s an observation about reality. Dishonesty and falsity are everywhere, and you even find it in nature and animals.

I don’t think it has anything to do with good or bad per se, as it does with the path of least resistance; a lie is almost always more connvienent than the truth. People who are most successful tend to be those that are the most dishonest and are also very good at knowing how to tell fact from fiction which they then use to create more elaborate offensive and defensive models of the world.

If you think about it this way it doesn’t seem that odd, as even nature and evolution are constantly truth testing, it’s like at some level you must assume everything is a lie until proven otherwise, and even that evidence may itself be just a more elaborate falsehood.

People rarely go to the movies to be entertained by the truth.
I know they didn't mean to, but Facebook dug their own grave on this as soon as they started applying algorithms to the news feed. It started off as a means to get people to click more, but it's now very clear that people click on what outrages them more than anything else. And for a lot of people, Facebook is the internet - something FB worked very hard to achieve.

So I have sympathy with Facebook because I don't think these issues are easy to solve (yes, of course, ban Infowars. It's a toxic dump. But others will be more debatable). But they also knowingly and deliberately put themselves in the position they occupy today. This mess is making them an obscene amount of money, they should try harder to clean it up.
I'm complaining because in my experience, it has destroyed a lot of interesting discussions for me. It's less about my experience making comments but more about reading other comment threads that get killed or discussions becoming intense circlejerks.
I imagine it’s been removed for being sensationalist, misleading cryptocurrency spam.
A California DMV employee who napped at work every day for 3 hours
The answer to your side note is because people disagree with it. ie It is unpopular.

Which undermines your leading point that you think that it isn't unpopular.
An internet history has demonstrated since Usenet: not only do moderated spaces generate incredible value, unmoderated spaces generally devolve into toxic cesspools as they grow. The moderators of r/AskHistorians understand exactly how propaganda spreads and combats it with clearly-defined content guidelines and strict enforcement for things like holocaust denialism.[1] Sandy Hook propaganda utilizes the same mechanisms of dispersal, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if there was a link between the sources of this stuff.

1. https://slate.com/technology/2018/07/the-askhistorians-subre...
Distillery --> Kubernetes. Use libcluster library to cluster nodes with k8s DNS. Pretty plug and play for that one.
> That is not necessary, but once you play enough music, you learn the theory in practice. Or have enough data in your head to make that realization.

No, you really don't. You literally don't even need to know a single note name to be able to play a song from memory. You just need to know which keys to push or strings to pluck and frets to press in what order.

>I challenge you to play 100 pop songs on an instrument - any pop songs, any instrument - and not at least know things like major/minor chords, basic chord progressions (like the endemic I - V - vi - IV, aka "four chords").

Just because you're playing these progressions doesn't mean you have the slightest fucking idea what they are, or why they're numbered that way.

When I was about 6 years old I started learning piano. My parents took me to a teacher who used the Suzuki method. For those unfamiliar, it's a method of musical training that focuses solely on learning by ear with no discussion of theory or sheet music. I did this for years, and I absolutely hated playing the piano for reasons that had nothing to do with the piano itself.

Early in high school I picked up the electric bass, and did what you mentioned above, i.e. I learned a whole pile of pop and rock songs. I also played a bit of guitar around and between all this as well.

This constituted years of experience playing music. And yet, I did not suddenly and independently discover and understand the circle of 5ths. I couldn't tell you why a 7th chord was called a 7th chord. I didn't wake up with an intuitive understanding of time signatures.

I wasn't exposed to any of this stuff until I took a music theory class in college. It was at that point that the 'why' of what I had been doing to make noise on these instruments started to make sense.

And once I did start learning these things, there was still no intuitive sense of where to put my hands on the instrument to play the notes I wanted. I had to fumble around with it to figure out where the notes were.

And now, having spent years after high school playing in live bands in front of paying audiences, I still don't think I'm anywhere near what someone might call a 'great' musician, and my understanding of music theory is really far from complete. I still play all the time and can't sight-read, for example. I have to sit and puzzle out a piece of sheet music.

Additionally, I've read about this particular guy before in greater depth than is discussed in the linked article. Something unusual really did happen in his brain. He somehow gained knowledge and ability far beyond what we would consider normal.
But you apparently trust the computer you'd be plugging this key into?
I’m expecting some downvotes for this view but in general, Silicon Valley seems to have confused itself on what exactly the first amendment is. That it prevents the GOVERNMENT from stopping you from expressing your views. But even in that case, harassment and abuse isn’t protected speech.

But somehow since they’re confused they seem to be perfectly fine with allowing hate groups, abusers, and doxxers run wild on their platforms, even though even the first amendment doesn’t protect them in real life. As part of some collective twisted libertarian dream, these companies give this scum a platform again and again because they profit from it, but hide behind the ideas of libertarianism.

I hope they come to their senses sooner rather than later. IF not, I honestly hope we start looking at changing the law to making these companies liable for crimes committed on their platforms.
Nearly all journalism in the US states the party affiliation in the headline or close to the first mention of the name of the politician:

Title: "Jason Spencer, Georgia Lawmaker Duped by Sacha Baron Cohen, to Resign"

Article lede graf: "Jason Spencer, the Georgia Republican lawmaker who was fooled into repeatedly yelling a racial epithet on the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s television series, intends to resign effective July 31."

Title:
"Lessons From a Failed Nomination, for Both Brett Kavanaugh and the Senate"

"WASHINGTON — The doors to the Republican cloakroom off the Senate floor swung open and out walked Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat who is not usually found in the inner sanctum of the majority party."

It's a big part of the narrative.
No actual Worse outcome? What will happen the day Facebook will start censoring any pro-gun content? This slippery slope will create an even bigger divide in society.

As soon as you decide that some content is forbidden and off limit, people that want to have a debate about that content will now be in a group that is viewed as "fringe and off limit". This can only lead to group thinking, civil war and civil unrest.

The only good way to address this is to let people speech and prove them wrong by having a civil debate.
I think it is the power imbalance / reach / social impact / chilling effect.

Subjective morality enforced over 100 people on an optional forum? Meh

Subjective morality over billions on a platform that many consider essential (I know, I know) to daily life? Oooof
From Snapchat's perspective, they should think about where they'll be able to find the cheapest capital to continue to fund their operations and where they'll get the highest valuation for a liquidity event. For both of these, going public seems like a good decision.

For investors, whether public or private, they should be concerned about companies that seem likely to only take and never give (the hope is that they'll eventually give). By this stage of funding, companies like Snap, Facebook, and Uber were getting some money from big institutions who would also likely be major holders in the IPO, so the gap of who would be potential investors by raising in public vs. private markets was shrinking.
Not yet. But that's planned. See See https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/7248.
And one of the princes, too. Akishinomiya F (Fumihito) is emperor's second prince.
I don’t use Facebook and greatly dislike the company but I completely agree with your analysis and think that’s a very common thought process to have. It’s a value play that has outrageous growth potential not to mention the best talent in the world, a huge pile of cash to acquire any competition, and absurdly low expenses. It’s well diversified now too with Instagram (worth over $100B and growing in ad revenue and users), WhatsApp (barely even monetized and the primary mode of communication in Europe and India), FB which wheathered the greatest political storm (simultaneous data plus Europe privacy) it’ll likely face without a dip in users in NA, and it has multiple other moonshot type plays that are likely to play out. It’s growing significantly faster than MSFT and GOOGL with comparable p/e. I can’t name a single growth stock that’s safer to invest in.
That's honestly the avenue I've always taken when confronted with that argument. A bar can rightfully kick you out if you're yelling about the end of the world, however you can feel free to drag your soapbox to the "town square" and do the same and be heavily protected in doing so (yes yes limits of speech massive digressive topics here). The problem seems to be that many of these private tech companies have grown to such a scale where they _are_ the de-facto town square.

What honestly makes me most leery about the movement towards "Sanctioned Speech" is as we can even see in HN itself. A sister response to yours, eloquent and advocating the questionable outcomes from policing speech, is downvoted past visibility despite a very functional discussion following from it.

For whatever reason, I've noticed a global (far broader than HN) decline in the quality/willingness to engage in good-faith discourse. This is extremely scary to me, and I fear having gatekeepers for discussion and "truth" only further pushes these underlying bifurcations further apart.
I'm not American and have little contact with Americans outside of the people I work with. In my experience Americans have set the tone for the sort of behavior I've described in my previous comment, although it's by no means limited to just Americans. For example, there are definitely some Russians who broadcast loudly about "diversity" and "inclusiveness", but these people themselves cite American sources in their rhetoric, and they aren't seen as generally in agreement with the larger Russian culture.
I think those are some broad generalizations that I can't agree with, but Sizzle might be what you're looking for.

https://github.com/jquery/sizzle/wiki
(d) the plugin system, which is replaced by Custom Elements (but unfortunately the React crowd is there with their own custom private component system)
Most maybe, but nowhere near all. The two I have offer only limited customization through a set of DIP switches.
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A British man gave his girlfriend a Russian nerve agent
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To use another aphorism....

“Once the avalanche has started, the pebbles don’t have a vote”.

The bad parts are going to flourish regardless....
Now if only we can find jobs that doesn't require extensive Elixir experience.
Article author here. Most of the comments so far are talking about using lots of tabs, but what I think is actually the most interesting part (or parts) of the article hasn't been mentioned at all.

As I was doing my research for the article, I found a lot of things that really surprised me. And I feel pretty confident in saying that most web developers aren't aware of these things either.

Here are my top four:

- We shouldn't use the unload event. Ever.

- The unload event often doesn't fire when closing tabs/app on mobile

- The pagehide/pageshow events even exist (virtually no one I've talked to knows what they do; most people think they're about page visibility).

- In browsers that implement a page navigation cache, you can click a link to navigate away and then navigate back with the back button, and all your JS code is exactly as it was before you navigated.

To this last point. Try doing this in the console:

1. Write a promise that resolves in a setTimeout after 5 seconds.

2. After 1 second, click a link to navigate to a new page.

3. Stay on that page for an hour.

4. Click that back button.

5. Your promise will resolve in 4 seconds!
First, thanks for the link. I didn't know they implimented SNI after TLS 1.0. I had always thought TLS would initiate a connection to the server infrastructure first, then establish another tunnel in a tunnel for sites that are hosted off of the same IP. It seemed like a more sane explination to what I saw in wireshark and firewall logs. That also explains why older firewall firmware had issues with getting sites out of TLS connections but newer firmware doesn't. Looks like I have more studying to do.

I'll agree with you that there are substantial ancillary benefits to added browser security well beyond the scope of this discussion and to continuously hardening any infrastructure in general. From a business perspective, those are always worthwhile investments in of themselves simply from the standpoint good security means you have a discplined, well-thought-out system in place. But, you cannot discount the fact that Traditional Television is a direct competitor to Google and the internet in general and that is not a primary motivating factor in their decision to enforce encryption. Large companies simply do not mess with their core products for the good of the public, doing so shows the company is not loyal to employee or stockholder interests both of which shouldn't be disregarded for a variety of reasons. I'll agree companies can decide not to take things too far, but they won't disregard their own interests either. Assuming as such is a naieve belief.
It isn't specific to iPhones, why would it? Anyway any goods for which there are reasonable priced alternatives are specially sensible and are probably going to have extremely crappy sales. Also we're talking about phones, a common appliance, not a luxury item by itself, so the market share numbers will be ridiculous.
They downvote it because HN is infested with political correctness fascists who like trampling free speech with their feet if their feelings get hurt. You have been in this community for 6 years. Didn't you notice yet??
Yes, it is. The downvoting button is used more and more to silence those who voice dissenting opinions, something for which I can only assume it was not intended and for which it is ill suited. Either move to a moderation system in the lines of that used by the Slashdot of old - where posts could be tagged as interesting, insightful, flame bait and other categories - and give the reader the choice how to act on the negative labels (grey out, hide below a certain threshold, etc) or get rid of the thing and just keep the 'upvote' button. Add a 'report' button to weed out obvious spam posts but don't just grey out or hide marked posts as this will end up causing the same problems as the downvote button does.

META: An alternative to this might be to add a meta-moderation system but that has its own share of problems which could be fixed by adding a meta-meta-moderation system; GOTO META

Elsewhere in this thread someone mentioned that downvoting supposedly was meant to be used to indicate dissent while discussing downvotes is explicitly frowned upon. While I agree with the latter I assume the former is incorrect. If the downvote button actually was meant to indicate dissent it might as well be relabelled as the 'Nomenklatura button' as it has the same stifling effect on the community: voicing a dissenting opinion can get you silenced without a chance to discuss.
Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and others hand out megaphones with international reach for free, to anyone, and they accept no responsibility for what people do with their megaphones. Mumbling into your can of lager as you wander down the street, covered in feces? Have a megaphone. 9 years old and alone? Megaphone. Complete psychopath? Megaphone. Out and proud neo-Nazi? Have a megaphone on us guys!

Then they just stand back and try to maximize engagement and total time spent on their service, and have a ratio of moderators to users that’s so low it’s a rounding error. It’s like having a classroom of a million people with two grossly overworked, underpaid, and traumatized teachers trying to keep a semblance of order. Everyone is free to speak, to be drowned out by sheer volume of numbers and volume.

Plus half of students are robots who do nothing, but shout at superhuman rates 24/7.
oh yeah, neighbor is a whole another topic, and home theater in a flat .. = pain
And Rhapsody (Mac OS X Server 1.0) shipped a developer preview on Intel, including UI (this was pre-Aqua and Mach 3.0, but otherwise a lot of similarities to MacOS X 10.0).
Yeah, it's a blacklist for "general public" but those adventurous or ones who can support themselves can try. Quite modest approach I think.
I have no idea how this can be framed as a slight against Huawei. Huawei decided to have aggressive battery management (which to many is a good thing) to the detriment of apps that need to continue to run in the background.

If this is causing a significant loss of rating for the app, they are well within their rights to blacklist installs from the play store for those devices. Those users can still install the app via the APK (which is admittedly a poorer experience).

Edit: Also I'm not sure where your'e getting the "West hates Huawei so much" vibe from. They've done a few things that have been unpopular from the POV of the Android community at large, such as no longer allowing unlocking of their devices this week, but I would say their bigger issue in the West is that they are simply not marketed much.
Uber can't keep down accusations of “vomit fraud” against its drivers
It does not sound like "therefore preventing users using it," though.
You are right - not sure how that happened, but it is too late to edit/delete my comment.
And even more so -- their guidance was pretty terrible for the next couple quarters.
So basically set up OKRs.
Well, they threw away the Sizzle selector engine once querySelector became available everywhere, but other than that… eh. I don't think they use fetch or Web Animations or anything like that.
Wow. Flagged already. Very telling that the HN community doesn't even want to talk about this.
> Technology is actually one of the few things that definitely does trickle down.

Yes, both in both good and bad ways, of course. Lots of people in the world have cheap mobile phones, which enables all sorts of possibilities. But we also all suffer the negative effects of industrialisation (the poor more than the rich, of course) on our environment.

> I'd recommend reading Enlightenment Now, an excellent book that really nails the positive effects that general scientific 'progress' has had on society as a whole.

I'm very dubious of Pinker's Whig-like claims about 'everything getting better'. I'm not convinced that we've become less violent, only better at killing, and from greater distances (so it seems less brutal).
> Thanks for some fun reading on a weird corner of history!

Yeah, it would make a great basis for a movie / miniseries / 7 season flagship TV drama blockbuster.. ;)

The really weird thing about it, I guess, is that in the original Inslaw complaint an actual judge actually ruled in an actual court case that the actual frickin' Justice Department illegally obtained software by "trickery fraud and deceit!"

Anyway, muckrock.com has some sober and very well sourced and informed reading on the topic - the pages I linked are a sample of that - but of course it's the wilder end that would provide the best subplots in an adaptation.
Hey, you are not alone, I would prefer solving Earth's problems too. The downvotes for simply having another vision of a better future are silly.
Hate groups are certainly protected by the First Amendment; see Snyder v Phelps, for example. It's hard to find any behavior on FB that counts as more hateful than that, and they still won 8-1.

That doesn't mean FB can't ban them, mind you, since as you rightly point out, it's (mostly) a restriction on government, not private companies.
It's not unpopular. There's a disconnect: It's a popular opinion, but a silent majority. Voicing that opinion, though, makes you a target. I feel like language is failing me here; What do you call it when the masses are oppressed for fear of speaking out against the powerful and vicious that would suppress them?