skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arstechnica[1] asked about it and Waymo did not deny:

> In fact, last week the Information's Amir Efrati reported that Waymo may actually have moved backward recently.

> "Within the past month or so, due to concerns about safety, the Alphabet company put so-called safety drivers back behind the wheel of its most advanced prototypes, ending a year-long period in which those people generally sat in the passenger or back seat," Efrati wrote.

> We asked Waymo about this, and a spokesperson dismissed the report as nothing new, saying that the company regularly changes the mix of cars with and without safety drivers.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/12/waymos-ambitious-plans-...
Thanks for your work, I have tried few months ago Next and really like it despite for now it's not my default browsers, I haven't really enough competence to help but I certainly follow the development process!

IMO after Ubuntu "collapse" (IOW the decision to leave Desktop apart) GNU/Linux start to be no more a generic desktop OS but again a niche desktop for us geek and in that sense it's time, at least, to regain the power of our classic tools, avoid they fade into oblivion and life as happy and comfortable we can. In that sense having a browser like Next is a needed thing.

If I look at my actual desktop usage Emacs il 100% of the time since it's my WM but the second most used application is FF and it's a pain, even with Saka key, GhostText etc...

Hope for the best :-)

Ps on org file, yep, only I was hoping to being able to browse-url-emacs directly :-) It's something like "hey, org can do nearly anything, we can start imaging a web-org sites: casual users get org-exported html, tech-savvy one get directly org so they can navigate them, save them etc with ease".
why is it in a company's best interest to not evangelize the publicly-available tools it uses?

Microsoft/Amazon/Google are paying $$$ to increase availability of AI/machine learning education, because they want a knowledge pool to hire from. Wouldn't this be the same with languages?
> It looks like they’re using Chrysler Pacificas which already have wheelchair ramp conversions from VMI and Braun.

How common is this for other makes/models? If it is rare, I wonder if it influenced Google's choice of vehicle?
Don't forget the cheapest storage is actually tapes.
I would have been happy to stay in a private room for longer too, I've been around young children a lot since I have a large family, but being responsible for a newborn was a scary prospect to get used to.

Regarding food my overriding memory of being the father in Finland was that we'd get food delivered to the room and each plate was labeled. Half the meals had the mother's full-name written on them. The other half just said "man".

I'm sure they took my name at some point, as I was registered as the parent in the country-wide population index, but as far as the hospital was concerned I was just "man".

(In Finnish the word for man & husband are the same, so perhaps I was "husband" rather than "man"!)
Yeah, that seemed unexpectedly flippant/dismissive. But a couple things:

1. If you look at the docs, that's from Exhibit 44 which indicates that it's actually an excerpt from a messenger discussion, not email
2. Twitter had previously blocked both Instagram and Tumblr in the same way
3. Facebook had previously blocked Twitter in the same way
4. In some of the other docs here, you can see that there was much more discussion about what their policy should be around reciprocity and apps competing with facebook's features
5. The first line of that indicates that there was likely discussion/planning about this before that conversation
Big data also needs to be stored somewhere, especially all the environmental data, video data, and photographic data we are creating all the time with our smart phones and youtube uploads.
It wasn't ever an actual problem there?

It has the countdown before you can click OK, so with the user holding down Enter for 5 seconds, you'd not even get a handful of files, and it blocks the file dialog from "untrusted" sites.
> If the entity is uncovering a fact then what does it matter whether it's a foreign or domestic entity who uncovered it?

How's that even a legitimate question? I can list a few reasons why it matters:

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_in_the_Russian_Fede...
While I think most elementary school kids probably should be put to bed earlier (even if their school doesn't start so early), it's easier said than done. Imagine having to get home from your commute, feed your family, getting the older siblings to/from extracurriculars and then getting the elementary school ones to bed by 7:00/8:00pm.
+1 for firejail. I cannot even imagine running a browser without putting it in a sandbox.
tldr: The half of the country that voted for the current President are all awful, stupid people, and they spend their time reading awful, stupid websites.
I didn't care. I wanted to sleep. And I did.
Thank you for making value judgements on our behalf.
Object-Oriented or Functional? Just Write Quality Code
Carlota Perez (a neo-Schumpeterian, and popular reading among Silicon Valley VCs)

Interesting. I was not familiar with her work previously. Thanks for pointing that out. More stuff to read!
Anecdotally based on my kid (n=1), stopping screen time about an hour before bedtime helps.

However, she still seems wired to fall sleep at a certain time, and we finally decided that fighting biology is a losing battle. The strategy of moving bedtime a little bit earlier each day didn't work at all.
All Parliamentary committees publish online, whether evidence is written or oral.

You can ask for an exception for part of your evidence, if you fully explain why, which the committee considers. The usual reasons for discretion apply. It's almost unheard of for some evidence not to be published at all, though it has happened. 1980s I think was the last case.

No idea what dusty precedent or procedures apply when someone refuses to attend or documents are seized. That doesn't happen much.

Maybe no one asked. Maybe this is the redacted for sensitivity version as we have no idea the amount seized in the first place. I think we'd have to wait for the report to know.
You may want to look into why med school is so expensive, compared to other majors.
Why are bad hires so damaging? I've encountered very unskilled coworkers, they didn't do any serious damage, just wasted some people's time and money.

I'd actually say the opposite: standout engineers can be very valuable, I'd rather work on a team with a couple lemons and one really good engineer than 3 middle of the road engineers. So I think that false negatives can be damaging, especially because it's probably the best people with the most options who won't bother with an excessive interview gauntlet.
I always thought that at some point the price/gb lines would cross. I am starting to believe this will never actually happen.
> Their entire business - email and VPN both - embodies the same philosophy that Mozilla does.

ProtonMail doesn't report security vulnerabilities to the users, when researchers discover them[1]. It has also publicly boasted about hacking a phishing site, when claimed the journalist's report was based on "unsubstantiated rumors"[2]. I really hope that it has nothing to do with the philosophy Mozilla embodies.

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/07/protonmail_fail_jav...

[2] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvvke7/email-prov...
Yes, but it's UI, not as "excel" but as "spreadsheet" certainly help a lot... Try to "debug" a not so small spreadsheet vs a script+tabular data and compare the chances of get erroneous results that does not appear immediately as errors...
Is the D GC actually that bad? Do we have benchmarks or something to prove that the GC means D is dead in the water? I always hear about this hypothetical danger of GC but my D usage hasn't found it and my D programs typically match or outperform my C++ programs. I mostly use it for numerical code, so maybe that's why I'm not feeling the pain of the GC?

To address your final point, I find D vastly superior to C++. Immensely, tremendously, bigly superior to C++. It's so nice, it's so pleasant, it's so easy. It's not an incremental change, it's a whole new world of no segfaults, no template metaprogramming, beautiful error messages, beautiful compile-time calculations.
>Because we all have Faraday cages in our homes

Yes, most people who own cars new enough to have this vulnerability own microwave ovens.
You’ll just estimate the distance and power of the relay. Roundtrip delay is the only thing you can’t fake.
IMO what's important isn't getting good drives, but avoiding simultaneous drive failure. I usually do this by building RAIDs out of a mix of brands and manufacture dates.
It actually refers to deaths per 1,000 per year over a nearly 8 year study period. People who slept more or less than 6-8 hrs/night died at a higher rate. So the article refers to an actual “risk of death” during the study period. More worrying, though, is that the headline implies causation: more or less sleep = increased risk, whereas the body of the article back-pedals and says people who are sick sleep more, so there’s just a correlation.
>Dr Dani Ejzenberg

Very surprised to see this last name doing this aberration to nature.
Everyone's a content creator these days. Even your uncle is posting pictures of his meals and writing about how #blessed he is. And you know, while that's not my cup of tea, there's nothing inherently wrong about that. It's great even, so long as it's authentic. But it usually doesn't strike me that way; it usually feels more like they've become a social media coordinator, sharing—and selling—a fake version of themselves to you. He's become a brand

If you were to stumble across Uncle Brand's online presence, you'd likely be amazed with what an interesting and humble and cultured and well traveled person Uncle Brand is. And is that so wrong? He's only creating what he's seen other people do after all. Only giving you what you want. Why not put your best self out there?

And maybe Uncle Brand has a little something unique he does, that one emoji he always uses or that obsession with ramen. And maybe he starts attracting an audience. He's reliable! He's relatable! He's authentic! He's safe!

But an audience is something you have to maintain, something you have to grow. The audience didn't come for Uncle Brand the man; they came for Uncle Brand the brand. So he starts refining his brand, churning out more content, gets a better camera for his photos. He's got more resources now and can ape what big brands do.

In some ways, the internet became too real, too tied to the real world. You can even make real money on the ol' www! But when this happened, rather than the internet liberating us from the old, we just recreated the old incentives and shallowness and commercialism. But shittier and more random. Youtube celebrities are mostly just shittier celebrities. Instagram is mostly just shittier magazine and food and travel photography. Internet journalism is mostly just shittier journalism. So much online content is pre-internet content just pushed on a new channel.

And what's so wrong with getting real? Uncle Brand is all in. He's a souper star! The Martha Stewart of ramen. By now, Uncle Brand is using his brand to hawk stuff too. He's using his brand to hawk other people's brands. Promote, promote, promote. Sell, sell, sell.

The internet defies generalization. There are certainly great communities and forums and subcultures and people creating amazing stuff out there today. More than ever even. But the internet as many people experience today is indeed quite different from what I original loved. It feels like all the incentives are wrong; platform incentives resold to creators and users as their own.

I don't want to be a brand. I don't want what old world is selling: the celebrities, the popularity contests, the consumption, the fear of judgement. I just want to create awesome stuff and have fun and try something new. And I want connect with people who are doing the same!
I've recently used T-SQL / MSSQL and was surprised how starkly it differs from your typical "foss sql" (be it postgres, sqlite or mysql).

One really obvious example is how [] are used for qualifying names, or how there is no LIMIT clause (instead you use SELECT TOP(n), but you still use an OFFSET n ROWS clause after the ORDER BY clause for an OFFSET; there is also OFFSET n ROWS FETCH NEXT m ROWS ONLY). Another example are curious limits to programmability, e.g. TEXT can't be used for procedure parameters. There also seem to be small limits on BLOBs. No NATURAL JOIN (which I mostly use for ad-hoc queries).

It is also very different deployment wise (as are all Microsoft products). You don't have a client library or anything like that, but a system-wide database driver instead. Applications use a driver interface and could (most don't) support other database versions or even databases. You can't "just" throw a MS SQL install on a machine, it needs to be properly installed system-wide and register all its components or it won't work properly etc. — so spinning an instance up for testing really isn't nearly as easy as with postgres.
"Values in Python are strongly typed, but we pretend they're not. Until, surprise! AttributeError! That thing isn't what you thought it was."

Strongly typed? Maybe you mean statically typed?

From "What To Know Before Debating Type Systems"[1]:

"Probably the most common way type systems are classified is "strong" or "weak." This is unfortunate, since these words have nearly no meaning at all..."

[1] - http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2010-07-17-what-to-know-b...
The problem comes not from assuming your chosen morality is wrong, but from demanding that your morality is right.

When your choice of morality affects more then a few close people, it is by definition unjust.
How Facebook’s Local News Algorithm Change Led to France's Yellow Jacket Riots
This is all well and good for information retrieval, but people are making decisions based on information from search results.

In your vegetarian example, what if 51% of people were vegetarian in an area, and the general population was making decisions off these "localized" search results. We would likely expect that this would influence the minority to the tastes of the majority.

This might be fine for something like vegetarianism, but what about other topics? Should your search results be more racist because you live around a lot of racists? This is best case.

I have tangentially worked with groups that specifically utilize this to provide public opinion sway and consumer capture for their clients.
And how many of those miles are up and down 101 after midnight on weekdays?
Legacy code + Enterprise = a life so long it feels like butter spread a little too thin over toast, as Bilbo Baggins put it.
Yea I remember going up from a 3TB to 6TB, using the old one as a backup and climbing up that chain every 2~3 years .. 8TB, etc. Currently I have a 12TB for primary and a 10TB for backup. Once I go over 10TB I'll probably look at what's current available. It'd be nice to see 100TBs eventually. I honestly think a set of those could last for over a decade.
for anyone saying this is outright dumb, remember they are criminals.

They are probably receiving the money in different, probably years old, honest accounts. Which the real owner is compromised (e.g. hacked. or being coerced to send the payment out as soon as it is received under threats, etc)

Not seeing this is why developers should not assume they can wear the threat modeler hat.

Also, when you are a B2C like ransonware folks are, it is very hard to make the victim get bitcoins even if their life depends on the data you are holding hostage. Using weechat in china gets them zero attrition.
I suspect that Facebook would continue to collect all the data, but just not show ads, if someone elected to pay a monthly subscription.
Why do they need cars?

because you can't walk to things.

Why can't you walk to things?

Because they're so far apart.

Why are they so far apart?

Because a) parking minimums mean more land is given to parking than the actual amenity, and b) zoning forces single-use and density maximums

Why do people want parking minimums and zoning restrictions like that?

Because it's annoying to drive through high density.

Why do they need cars?

on and on and on

It's not an option because we built an entire country for 2 ton beings that need 30 feet to move in a circle, rather than humans. Can ants walk across Manhattan?

Seriously, look at your standard US "shopping center" and it's almost entirely parking. The lots dwarf the actual buildings.
This is the best video of the failed landing attempt I've seen so far. Elon tweeted a grid fin hydraulic pump stalled.

I understand for "marketing" reasons why they stopped the video feed from the first stage but since there wasn't any danger to humans here I was disappointed that they cut away from that and pretty much went into the damage control speak of "the primary mission is going well."
This comment made me happy.
Well, in classical GR, which is still our best and most accurate theory of gravity, gravity is only an apparent force and thus isn't (or can't be) mediated by anything. Stating as fact that a graviton must exist or otherwise GR "would be wrong" is a bit of stretch IMHO. The graviton is plausible speculation, backed by some theoretical justifications, but nothing more yet.
Here's an article describing the theory that sound waves have negative mass. It also describes it in terms of the behavior of fluids.

https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2018/08/11/could_p...

Maybe these phenomena are linked, and it's more immediate than cosmology.

via: https://twitter.com/robinhanson
>> the best way to get to actual research these days is via Twitter.

I'm usually disappointed from twitter search(unless it's for finding smart people, and endlessly browsing through their stream), how do you manage to get so much out of it?
That delay should always be there, even when the window regains focus after being out of focus. You just usually don't notice it, because it's usually already done until you have your mouse on the button.
> Key fobs are constantly broadcasting a signal that communicates with a specific vehicle, he said, and when it comes into a close enough range, the vehicle will open and start.

It's a poor design for the system to take any access-escalating action without an explicit command from the user that initiates a secured transaction that is resistant to MITM.

It's poor design to assume that the range is based on raw signal strength; it should use round-trip-time measurements (for packets exchanged with MITM resistance).
I'm envious. My high school started at 7:17am. It was brutal.
Gave them a pass, yes, and also bought lots of FB stock, and shared in the spoils.
I'm a big fan of Postgres and it is basically the only DB I use but the title is naive and the post is low content. SQL Server, Oracle, and DB2 are crown jewels products and each have substantial and difficult to implement niche or extreme scale features or other sweet spots that no open source databases come close to after two decades, and they weren't sitting still during that time either.
I really want to agree with the GP post — it’s the classic business school formulation after all — but you are right.

The nuance I would add is that to the end user Uber is an alternative to a taxi (fits the ecological niche better for the wealthy customers). However your formulation is correct for the drivers, and most importantly for the investors. It has an economy of scale that taxi companies done.

And there’s the “for the wealthy customers” part: taxis have to serve pretty much everyone by law in most places. Uber drivers are free to not pick up customers in neighborhoods they don’t want to. Which is why I can get an Uber at 4 am in Palo Alto but not in Queens.
Yea when I started shooting in RAW I became very thankful for these high capacity drives. It's still cheaper and easier just to deal with buying a pair of drives than using any type of online backup when talking about files at that size.
I agree with much of what you wrote, but disagree that the question is nonsense. From a specific utilitarian perspective, "wasted human potential" only matters in so much as it impacts human suffering. If we want to maximize pleasure and minimize suffering, the units are still the same in both opposing points you mentioned - it is just really, really hard to measure.

In practical terms, coming up with qualitative points and weighting them in a good-faith-but-ultimately-arbitrary-manner is good enough, and something that everyone does constantly. For example, I suspect the average HNer weights "wasted human potential from FB" more than "benefit of disaster reporting from FB" (which I also agree with - however "benefit of disaster reporting" almost certainly outweighs "detriment from nebulous analytics firm scandal").
So, this was a known exploit before Chrome even existed...
Everyone who walks, cycles, or takes public transport to that store subsidized your parking. I prefer things that are convenient for me, so being located nearby. Given that I live where land is expensive, that means no parking. When I lived in a place where land is expensive and parking is forced on people whether they want it or not (Santa Monica) I just got shafted.
My BMW did not come with such a fob slot but still required you to dig the key out to press the (un)lock buttons. Weird transition.
Backblaze reports always have Seagate with significantly higher failure rates. I suspect they just RMA them all since failures don't actually affect them too badly.
Or maybe you just want to have a hiccup on a single machine not take down your entire application?
> It is not as expensive as hiring the wrong person.

Do you have numbers to back that up?
>The last generation of Americans who will enjoy anything approaching financial security in old age could spend the Golden Years we’ll never have golfing, going on cruises, driving RVs, or watching The Price is Right. They could choose to be happy, having lived their entire lives in a system from which they extracted every benefit and which they subsequently dismantled at the altar of lower taxes

To me, it seems that the author calling these folks paranoid is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
The answer is still the same. Press releases are accessible to the general public and have a wider appeal than research papers, so they appear higher in the search ranking. I'm not sure why the author of the article thinks only people capable of reading and understanding the consequences of a research paper are interested in reports from NASA.
The whole point of encouraging tourism is that tourists are less price sensitive.

A local would take the time to research the cheapest store taking into account list price, quality, parking costs and so on. But a tourist probably won't. That's why tourist traps exist.
Bloomberg's December 2018 Crypto Currency Outlook
> Not to mention infastructutal redundancy - trolleys are a bit worst of both worlds in that they require roads, tracks, and overhead wires

Streetcars (one kind of trolley) require tracks but not roads (though they often share space with roads for convenience purposes, hence the name, but this is not required, and is often for only for portions of their route.)

Trolley coaches (aka, trolley busses) require roads, but not tracks.