skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He didn't give any indication of being a danger to others. He was obviously someone who was dealing with a mental health crisis, while still being present and coherent. The ATCs were trying to talk him down and get him to land; shooting the plane down would have been a last resort, only ordered if he demonstrated he was going to do harm to others.
Under the Bayesian definition, probability is a degree of belief. Probabilities belong “inside” an agent, not somewhere “out there” in the world.

For a justification of this, see the Dutch Book Argument: “The main point of the Dutch Book Argument is to show that rational people must have subjective probabilities for random events, and that these probabilities must satisfy the standard axioms of probability.”
One thing that I still miss from the system 7 area is an OS where the system folder is simple and accessible, with readable full text folders. Installing a driver was a simple as moving a single, self contained, extension file to the extensions folder. Uninstalling was moving it out. You could observe the full state of the system and manipulate it.
> Maybe it's a Fiber or internet.org kind of play

Maybe this is the exact reason + some data mining bonus (Not important, but Google can still do it).

Also, if Google is an ISP, without hosting it's own DNS service (Have to rely on other ISP's service) is dangerous.
Insert MeteorActive" and "Clear Outside" into it. K tnx.
It is interesting to see that as technology advances, predictions of the past become more and more true, though they may not necessarily look like what the predictors originally thought.

In this case, I think of the network is the computer. It's been for a while, but not yet completely, but it's becoming even more so as time passes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gage
While Google's business model certainly relies on collecting and monetizing user data, I have yet to see any cases of abuse on their part. Rules for employee data access are very strict and I don't know of any cases whee they directly share data with third parties (excluding government demands).

For me, this makes them one of the most trustworthy companies when it comes to handling my data. If you know of any cases otherwise, I would love to hear about them.
Cities, by which I mean the CBDs, shouldn't have thoroughfare car traffic going through them at all. Take the cars out of the equation and you suddenly get a lot more space and a lot more safety. Obviously it can't work for all roads in a CBD, but none of the compromises I see where there is still mixed traffic work. Unless you are in a car, no one wants to be around them, and in a CBD it is the minority that are in cars.
I read a lot of scientific papers, then determined the common trace mineral supporting dopamine and seratonin production, then identified my genetic variations from societal norms with respect to zinc uptake and processing in various liver and brain pathways using those papers to narrow down with locations to check.

I already had genetic data available. Commercial tests would not have revealed an issue, as my variants have neither been proven benign nor harmful, and the unproven [1] correlations to autism are not yet included in testing. I was not certain when I bought the first pack of zinc cough drops whether they would affect me, but the only downside was temporary magnesium deficiency, which I’m already used to perceiving and treating.

I vary consumption of sublingual tablets based on whether I desire more metallic taste in my mouth or not, which I sometimes do. I vary my intake to include magnesium and copper-assisted zinc now and then. I prefer the dissolving tablets one at a time over a period of time so that I can develop a natural dislike for their metallic taste once I’ve consumed enough, but the same dislike develops using zinc-honey cough drops. I rarely use capsules (primarily for the copper variant) as they do not have a taste linkage for me to calibrate against.

Please seek professional medical advice. Increasing your zinc intake can have detrimental effects on your copper and magnesium levels, leading to bodywide soreness and/or death.

[1] Unproven due to only a couple papers published to date; no conflicting opinions existed, and no comprehensive analysis of autistic people has yet been performed.
>some data mining bonus

Its worth noting that Google publicly documents what data they retain from their DNS service requests.

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy
Problem: Almost every SFH has an easement in the rear of the lot. And cities like Mountain View are using that as the basis for denying ADU applications.

If there’s telephone wires (not even a pole) then there’s an easement.
I thought there were laws now requiring a declaration to the FTC of this kind of information loss, with penalties?
Very much so - the article had some audio embedded in it, but here is a longer version:

http://garchives1.broadcastify.com/15227/20180810/2018081022...
OH, so you're saying in a % b = c it refers to b rather than to c? That would make sense... I always just read it as "remainder" in which case it would refer to c...
How do you decide objectively who is responsible for every single bug? The whole thing is ripe for abuse from all sides. You need a blameless culture to have good engineering, not a bounty-based one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17743058
I'm glad they deployed the fighter jets in case they were needed, but I'm equally glad they tried to avoid firing and managed to do so. While I applaud them for handling the possibility of terrorism, I applaud them even more for evaluating the actual situation and reacting proportionately.

Tragic incident, but well handled by NORAD.
I don't know if it's worth a lot, but it's worth something. One of my remote teams gives optional access to coworking spaces because we know that some people hate working from home.

WeWork turned out to be more expensive than ad-hoc desks in other cities, though.
I'm writing a software language that has 1/0 = 0 as well. In my case, I am experimenting with several ideas, two of which are no runtime errors and no exceptions, so everything is either a logic error (aided by multiple return values) or a compiler error. It works fine in normal scenarios, but dividing by zero can't be caught at compile time, and operators can only return a single value, so I had to return something.
It’s been in the Jargon file for a few decades...

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/modulo.html
West Virginia to offer blockchain voting app for overseas voters in election
Move to Florence, Italy for few months to get rid of your fear of sharing sidewalk with two wheeled vehicles.

Even in densest foot traffic there you'll find a bicycle navigating safely between people or even full sized scooter. At first it looked bonkers for me but aftr few month it became natural as pedestrian and even as a cyclist.
Are they expecting people to want to join WeWork over a local competitor because they know if they go to city X for business there will be a WeWork office available for them?

Yes, that's one of their primary, explicit selling points.

Is that really worth a lot to their clients that they will pay a premium for it?

Yes, that's one of the major reasons people use WeWork instead of local office space rentals.
Also, there are over 100 AWS CloudFront POPS:

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/details/#infrastructure

And you can do compute in CloudFront POPS with Lambda@Edge:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-edge.htm...
For anyone who is interested in some technical background, I wrote about porting this emulator to browser a little while ago: https://jamesfriend.com.au/porting-pce-emulator-browser
Toronto artist tricks Instagram into thinking a monster attacked San Francisco
I use the word "reproduction" because "clone" in the context of the Original IBM PC is/was an ill-defined word which means different things to different people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible

When some people think "clone", they think "compatibility" which leads to the following differences:

Excerpt:

"In May 1983, Future Computing defined four levels of compatibility:[11]

Operationally Compatible. Can run "the top selling" IBM PC software, use PC expansion boards, and read and write PC disks. Has "complementary features" like portability or lower price that distinguish computer from the PC, which is sold in the same store. Examples: (Best) Columbia Data Products, Compaq; (Better) Corona; (Good) Eagle.

Functionally Compatible. Runs own version of popular PC software. Cannot use PC expansion boards but can read and write PC disks. Cannot become Operationally Compatible. Example: TI Professional.

Data Compatible. May not run top PC software. Can read and/or write PC disks. Can become Functionally Compatible. Examples: NCR Decision Mate, Olivetti M20, Wang PC, Zenith Z-100.

Incompatible. Cannot read PC disks. Can become Data Compatible. Examples: Altos 586, DEC Rainbow 100, Grid Compass, Victor 9000."

So what type of a "clone" are we talking about?

I don't work for the company that makes the kit, and as far as I can tell prima facie, their kit is a faithful reproduction of the reference IBM PC hardware design.

I may be wrong, however.
Did not know that. Googling it, it doesn't look small. Makes me realize that I miss the days when I could slap together a PC myself with parts I bought myself. Really too bad we can't do that with laptops.
When the Motorola Rokr came out circa 2005, it was basically "just a phone" except for the iTunes features, and at the time, as far as I knew, it was "the" much anticipated Apple phone. Now, with hindsight, it's become obscure.

See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Rokr
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2005/09/official-apple-motorola-and...
Lynis 2.6.7 – Security Auditing Tool for Unix/Linux Systems
Very much surreal. He seemed very content considering his dire circumstances. Not to take away from the severity of his actions, but the fact that he completed what looked like a barrel roll w/o seemingly any prior flight experience is interesting to say the least.
If we are talking ideals, then ideally we would be using something a lot better than the DNS protocol, which has been hammered out of shape in order to achieve things pretty hard nowadays, and not DNS-over-something at all.
Kafka as a database or even as a cache
I am wondering whether anyone has used Kafka as a database? To maintain a database like behavior with insert/read/update/delete operations. I know compacted topics could be used to behave like an update operation. With KTable and GlobalKTable seems to give more control on accessing the data. How has anyone used it if its been used partly like a database with some performance metrics on how fast or slow it is? Also, has anyone tried to use Kafka as a cache with materialized views for each service syncing with changes as they come in? What about performance and feasibility? Please share your thoughts and experience if any.
Access control: Why it makes sense for Gates to promote Aadhaar
You're arguing there should be fewer public votes in a democracy?

If you don't trust the public to make decisions like Brexit, why trust them to elect representatives? Note that some of the most shameless brexiteers were publically elected MPs.
Not really. Google literally just sends ISPs some servers stick into their racks with other networking equipment. These are very "scrappy" compared to what people think of as data centers, but if a room with some network cables, an AC, and a rack counts as a data center... then sure, they're datacenters ;)

https://peering.google.com/#/options/google-global-cache

> Once registered and qualified by Google, we will send you a simple agreement for joining the GGC program. After you have electronically signed this agreement, Google will ship you servers that you install in your facility and attach to your network. Google will work with you to configure the servers and bring them into service.
This is a fascinating blog, a whole bunch of insider cpu stuff, with the guys personal vendetta on top of it all.

I wish I had the inclination to read it all.
Had this happen to me a few years back as well: https://b3n.org/dell-hacked-watch-out-for-social-engineering... so far Dell wasn't sent any communication my way to indicate they've been hacked.
GigaRay Is Lattice’s 1Gbps 60GHz MmWave P2P Solution
Flashes of design sprint[1] came to mind as I read this.

The idea of planning a season, or more, before filming makes sense to me, especially as more shows become serialized. "Westworld" would not have worked if the writers did not have at least the first two seasons planned out. The same goes for "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul", although I'm not sure to what extent Vince Gilligan planned out the five seasons of BB or has planned the five seasons of BCS (a prequel to BB, by the way).

[1] http://www.gv.com/sprint/
Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy
Yeah, I'm not sure what kinds of data Google might get from being a DNS resolver that it doesn't already get from people using Google Search.

They get to know all your non-HTTP(S) traffic too, of course. Other protocols still exist! Where you make POP3/IMAP/SMTP connections, where you SSH to, that kind of thing.
> I was giving an historic rationale for why x87 didn't change to use SSE.

When stated as "why x87 didn't change to use SSE" the question is like asking "why a dog didn't change to use a cat" as both x87 and SSE are the instruction sets, from the start differently defined, and given that, one can't "use" another.

The original question, however, referred to fsin instruction of x87 instruction set, but also reflected somewhat of confusion, as neither SSE nor SSE2 had ever an instruction to calculate sine.

And the answer in which you apparently gave a "historic rationale" had incorrect statements, the correction of which is: 1) x87 didn't "have 32 and 64 bits", the x87 was ambitiously designed to do 80-bit precise calculations with the shorter results as the additional modes. 2) SSE was 32-bit only, but SSE2 added 64-bit instructions too. Still, x87 could not "use the implementation" of fsin from SSE2 as SSE2 doesn't provide the sine function. Finally, if the question was why wasn't the "fsin" ever improved, please see the other responses here, including mine.
Why don’t you disable it? Is because you have an Android phone?
Reddit's former General Manager, as well as their former head of Community, have both worked for WeWork for a few years now. Their job has been to build community, through events, blogging, networking activities, etc. So yeah, they are trying to build a community that is sticky. That way, when you leave one company and go to the next, you'll go to your next company and request that they pay for you to stay at the WeWork you're already in.
The checklist is what you'd be reading, usually a laminated one-page card kept in a convenient spot. The documentation that the checklist refers to is the full "user manual" for the plane, with things like the quick reference handbook (QRH) that includes the step-by-step procedures covering what to do for every single warning light, emergency condition, etc. Also "documentation" here could also cover the mandatory things you have to have in the plane like the airworthiness certificate, registration, FCC radio license, insurance certificate, etc.

So I guess the short answer to your question is yes, in this context the documentation and checklist are not the same thing.
I miss it as well. Mac OS 7 was awesome in it's simplicity. I also thought maintaining the machine was pretty simple in case there was some driver issue. Just do a kind-of safe boot (by pressing shift on start-up IIRC) which would disable all extensions and control panels. And then one could try to disable all or some extensions during the next start-up and see if that would solve the issue. All in all it worked rather well and that was pretty much all there was to managing the system.

Though nowadays I would miss having a decent terminal. Perhaps A/UX [0] was decent, but I never tried that.

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX
It will be interesting to see what happens to WeWork's revenue when VC funding starts to dry up. From what I can tell, a majority of their income is simply a wealth transfer from VCs to WeWork via startups. As the startups get less funding, it will be interesting to see if WeWork can draw enough customers.
Isn't the typical "penalty" a year of free credit monitoring offered to the customer? (as if that does anything...you're stuck with most Personally-Identifying-Information for life and now it is already in the wild...)
Didn’t work on my old Toshiba Satellite either. It wasn’t a particularly unpopular piece of hardware or anything.. actually it couldn’t even read the battery % due to an ACPI issue.
The fire was in a military weapons area, there were unexploded ordinance there making normal fire fighting difficult .... on the other hand it was likely easy to get permission to drop another bomb there
This policy has been a security disaster. Besides the obvious problems with undefined behaviors, it has made evolving protocols to fix problems often impossible.
threats" in and of themselves. Being surveilled or shown ads doesn't itself harm you

But it does. If you need a product generally you would just go out and buy it. Ads are psychologically manipulating you to buy things you don’t need and spend your limited time on this Earth doing things that aren’t beneficial to you. It wasn’t too bad when it was just billboards and TV slots but now it’s you vs the algorithms on a personal level.
The "anonymous BIOS" is just begging to be replaced with a copy of the actual IBM BIOS (whose source code is also available), but I guess they decided not to supply it for copyright reasons; on the other hand, they did clone the hardware... I bet it raises all sorts of difficult questions for the IP lawyers.
>> Yes, that's one of the major reasons people use WeWork instead of local office space rentals.

A lot of it also seems to be the typical startup hype. I've seen many companies choose WeWork even though they only have 1 single static office space because it's the hip choice, even though they could easily spend half the money for twice the space and privacy.
Intentionally shaping your thinking
Is it a community though? Is it?

AirBnB is a behemoth international company. Referring to themselves as a community strikes me the same way as Starbucks calling themselves a community. While there are many touching stories to be had, the company's existence can make it more challenging for local communities to thrive. They can do the opposite as well, one could postulate, but they are merely a cost savings measure and communication platform.

P.S I've already expressed a negative attitude, but what an unsettling image to open this page to. If I wanted to be encouraged to scroll down the page, why not make it one of the photos of real people, rather than the photo of 3 tech dudes patting themselves on the back? Nothing against them personally, I don't know them, but if Facebook wanted to convince me that their platform is a community, they probably wouldn't show me a photo of Mark Zuckerberg's cold lifeless face the size of my entire laptop screen.

These stories are touching and these people who have opened their houses and helped people in need are saints. They'd be doing this with or without AirBnB. The image these men present is one of being at the farthest possible distance from the people in the stories they talk about. There is no character. There is no personality. The mountain called monkey had spoken.
This is not much more far-fetched than the idea that a site like The Pirate Bay is guilty of "conspiring" with its users to infringe copyright.

"We're a piracy site, run by pirates, and we love piracy and pirates because of what piratical pirates we are, so we built a piracy site specially to cater to pirates and piracy! Also, we do not condone it in the slightest and built it for totally legitimate purposes, we promise!"

Yeah, gonna go with "no" on that one. It does not take an "imaginative" prosecutor to find the incredibly unbelievably subtle and deeply-hidden links between the Pirate Bay and its intended purpose.
The primary aim may not be to collect data, but Google does seem to like to collect data.

Even without tieing queries to users, DNS logs combined with Google Play activity and Chrome activity probably gives Google a lot of business intelligence about other companies.
Companies must embrace lifelong learning
Data center is a meaningless term these days, and varies by context.

It can be multiple buildings over a few square miles forming a resilient "region", or a single building, or all the way down to just some servers running in some rented rackspace in someone else's colo.

All the major clouds rent space like that for their CDN and smaller pops, and sometimes they even start smaller regions that way until they acquire or build their own structures.
This is so very tempting, yet I know well I don't have the time or patience to set one of these up. I hope we'll at least see some of these pop up on YouTube, I'd love to watch someone assemble and use one of these.
WeWork is essentially a financial engineering play: they convert few large long-term leases on buildings to many small short-term leases. This is a very similar business to banks issuing 25-year mortgages with monthly repayment - it’s called “maturity transformation”. If their customers disappear, WeWork is still on the hook for those long-term leases. Buildings like to work in 20-25 year timescales, I think very very few tenants would stay in a WeWork that long.
SO many good memories. Treats mobile touches as click-drags though.
There are flight simulator packages available for many different planes, including the Q400. They feature fully functional cockpits. Here's a tutorial of the Q400's sim cockpit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl7mMDBamvw
It's illegal in the uk because here your desire for profit and your customers lack of regard for other people doesn't as yet override those other people's right to walk down the pavement unmolested.
We have cycle lanes and powered push bikes. If the output is less than 250w and can do no more 15mph then they can be used on the roads in cycle lanes without a licence or road tax.
Information leak in NIPS 2018 review
Yes, and I really miss the classic Mac OS finder with its spatial metaphor. Icons stayed where you left them, every window remembered its position, shape, size, view settings, etc. You could recognize, at a glance, what folder a window belonged to based on these strong visual cues, without needing to read any of the text on the screen.

For anyone reading who never used a spatial desktop before, it's kind of difficult to describe how good it was. There is this incredible feeling of solidity, reliability, etc. Things don't move around behind your back; everything is right where you left it. I miss it so much!
It was traditional in earlier BASICs too; I think I remember it being the case in QuickBASIC and AmigaBASIC.

I assume someone once upon a time thought it was a nice thing for ~x to be equal to !x.
> he did say "assuming they don't have an fdiv-like bug

The actual situation was not too similar: the instruction that should speed up the calculation and returning the correct bits in the specific range, actually behaves as intended, that is, the designers of the instruction assumed the users will know the limitation of it, that is, it was originally assumed that the users were supposed to know that the function is not the "general" one and the "bug" was just in the misleading documentation. By fdiv you've had an instruction that didn't behave as intended, being wrong for some very specific inputs and not only outside of the designed range.
Ah, I missed that you were referring to the article.

To be honest, I skipped it and went to the paper :) Apologies!