skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simplest solution is probably a harder one practically - leave Australia. Sadly one doesn't simply leave their country and immigrate to someplace else in addition to any personal concerns - it might not be an option, let alone a desirable one but it has its merits.
On Self-Publishing “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics”
Large shareholder-employees stick around because they believe they can grow the value of their company.

A CEO owning double digit share of their company doesn’t need more shares. What they want and need, most of all, is dry powder to grow.

Secondary to a large war chest comprised of equity pool and cash to pay salaries, is a decent salary for themselves to keep the family happy with their living conditions while the CEO is basically unavailable as a partner, off trying to grow their company.

I’m surprised that the blog post seems to miss this? I generally have high regard for AVC posts.

A CEO/Founder is never going to be able to double the size of their slice of the pie. While the CEO/Founder is absolutely crucial in doubling the size of the overall pie. At 4 years in I’d say most VC funded companies are still aiming to be 10x’ing the size of their pie at the least.

An equity grant at 4 years in should be totally irrelevant. Deck chairs on the titanic. A little anti-dillusion is nice but not necessary. It’s all about the size of the pie, not the slices, at that point. And growing the pie requires funding on good terms, and massive focus and execution. Generally that means long hours and time away from home, for which a $200k salary helps tremendously to keep the family on board for the voyage.
With all do respect, that's not the best deterrent. The best deterrent is the door.

Anyone who knows anything about the Germanwings crash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525) knows this. The pilot used an axe on the door for minutes while knowing he was going to die. He didn't get in. Everyone died.

The risks of hijacking are slim to none, unless you're going to hack the plane. If you're going to hack the plane you just need a laptop.

The TSA is a federal jobs program. A nice joke I heard is to disband the TSA and have them be the workers building the wall. Sure it would be useless, but at least it wouldn't inconvenience law abiding citizens just trying to go about their day, treating them like criminals.
This is just false. Western journalists are plutocratic and rely on their relationship with their governments to compete for access to information and reports. Information that their governments are the gatekeepers of. It's the reason Aljazeera was so heavily penalized during the Iraq and Libyan war by being cutoff by American and Nato governments to officials and reports from those sources. Journalists in the west also tend to be hyper nationalistic and partisan. They tow their political party's line just like any state run media. Western journalists are invited to government parties and meetings, enjoy gifts and interviews from officials. Journalists in all parts of the world are extremely biased and all news outlets act as propaganda outlets for the people in power in their country. Western media has the added danger that is its touted as being more credible than other media.
Webmin, yunohost, freedombox
It all depends on who you call a domain expert. That is a political (in the general sense), not scientific, term.
Video Games on a LaserDisc? The Pioneer LaserActive
Regardless of what becomes of this horrific law in practice, a whole class of workers now need to spend time on legal research, money on legal advice, and prepare for contingencies that could truly upend their lives.
> That's clearly nonsense -- it has some benefit, in the sense that it grows the economy

The estimates that justified it relied on displaced freeway traffic in the valley, without that and just traffic between the two initial termini (or maybe adding Sab Diego, but if you are avoiding the Valley you presumably drop the planned Sacramento terminus as well) there wouldn't be an economic case for the project at all.
Mainstream climate science is rife with cherry picking, solar irradiance being another prime example.

https://youtu.be/oepy1Ig7TdM
Wage Discrimination in the NBA
I like your list but its missing the one language that I feel is most suited- Lua.
Pete Shelley, screensaver and demoscene pioneer
You may be interested in fman[0]. Dual pane file manager, actively developed. I don't believe it has feature parity with Norton Commander, but it's a good modern alternative. The developer is also active on HN.

[0] https://fman.io
I'll try and simplify:

He would ideally say A, B, C, and D. Then descend into each part, so we know where he is going.

Instead, he says A, A1, A1.a, A1.b, A1.b1, A1.b2, A1.c, A2, A3, A3.a, A3.b, A3.b1, A3.b1.i, A3.b1.ii, ...

What should be a smooth narrative for a 30 minute talk about a book, becomes a series of asides, discursions, qualifiers, and more minutiae, which, while technically accurate, make it hard to stay engaged as a listener.

Of course, I'm only a "YouTube listener". The average person physically in the audience that day might have substantially higher levels of commitment and focus on parsing his narrative.
Another angle is where the initial push for these new programs is coming from.
> Consider a student who went to school to get a degree

That's the problem right there.

You don't go to school to get a degree - you go to school to get an education and build a network.

Often, especially in the case of your interests not aligning with your degree program, effort put towards your degree detracts from your education.

I learned a heck of a lot more from leading a software team in Student Government than I did from any of the coursework attempting to teach those skills. SG doesn't count for shit in my GPA, took 20-40 hours a week, and really whipped me into shape.

I say it doesn't make sense to punish for having a high GPA, but it is a red flag in exactly the same way that a low one is - it indicates a lack of balance or a preponderance of extrinsic motivation.
Thanks. That is also my favorite prediction paper: https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1988/1988_Hansen_ha02700w.pd...
Amazing how after decades of deterioation broadly along the lines predicted, people still have time to talk of climate change like it is a political conspiracy.
Autogit is about to change my life.

I run probably 12 Kirby sites, and it’s amazing, but content backups is a major issue.
Most of the money spent on autonomous autos is being spent on research, while most of the money spent on public transportation solves a select few routes.
Solving auto driving essentially solves it everywhere.
Here in Seattle we are spending over 50 billion to put in a couple of light rails, and it won't even be close to being enough public transportation.
The money the government is putting in self driving pales in comparison to what is being put into public transportation.
Even with public transportation, you still need self driving cars. Look at nyc or London, hey both have great subay systems and yet have some of the worst traffic.
Not to mention self driving technologies can help public transportation, freight deliveries, as well as others.
I have installers for Mac, 64 bit Windows 10, and 64 bit Ubuntu. My CI suite runs all ~2,600 tests on all three platforms after every commit.

Your images, videos, and metadata stay yours, and are not uploaded anywhere.

Currently I've got error reporting that phones home if there are critical problems detected, but the log events only include the stack trace and possibly the path to the problem file.

PhotoStructure spins up a webserver bound to localhost by default. In other words, other machines in your LAN can't open the PhotoStructure web UI (unless you set an environment variable or use ssh port forwarding).

Sign up via the website or send me an email, I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback.
Which of them are not covered by either of the above sources?
The problem is licensing, the prices for licensing is just absurd. Like to get a font to use in your app, you need to pay $5,000+ for any decent looking font. And if you are trying to design something - good luck downloading a font for a desktop to try it out. I am sure this system can be improved to benefit both font authors and font users
What's actually more racist, the single-family zoning, or the welfare subsidies tearing apart minority families in the first place?
Assume that working harder can lead to a better grade.

Assume that having an intrinsic interest in the specific areas related to your work leads to better work than simply being motivated by other external rewards such as salary or title or prestige.

From these assumptions it follows that you would actually prefer the B/C average student to the straight A one.

It is far more likely that straight A students are simply someone who is motivated by good grades and will work hard to get them, than that they are an "all-around genius".

Compare this to someone who gets a couple As and a bunch of Ds. These individuals are less likely to be motivated by grades or else they wouldn't have got Ds. They are more likely to have an intrinsic interest in specific areas, or else they wouldn't have got As.
Looking at the comments here so far, it is, as ever, the never-ending debate as to whether climate change is real or not.

I look at this really straightforwardly:

You discover a lump on your skin. It looks like cancer. Do you go to a doctor, or do you sit at home assuming it’ll all be fine?

What is so wrong with seeking to mitigate risk? Would you sooner wait until it’s metastatic, and probably going to kill you, or have a potentially pointless surgery but definitely exclude the possibility of a painful death?
I'm curious what it is about what about it not ism, that is so bad. I hear it flung around so much by westerners like some kind of slogan. Is there a purpose? Is pointing out hypocrisy bad?
Everything You Need to Know About Chameleons
My $0.02.

I've been using JAX for a while now. A paper I'm an author on (https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09597, a follow-up to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18633215) resulted in an algorithm that required taking second-derivatives on a per-example basis. This is extremely difficult in TensorFlow, but with JAX it was a 2-liner. Even better, it's _super_ fast, thanks to XLA's compile-to-GPU and JAX's auto-batching mechanics.

I highly recommend JAX to power users. It's nowhere near as feature-complete from a neural network sense as, say, PyTorch, but it is very good at what it does, and its core developers are second to none in responsiveness.
This idea of keeping the family happy suggests a niche market unto itself. I can think of a few services that would make that easier. There are a bunch of high end concierge services out there, but one that focused on founder families is like an extended family office. Gears turning.
> If you expect people to pave roads and provide drinking water and put out forest fires out in Bakersfield

A central justification of building HSR is to not pave roads in the Valley; that is, it displaces freeway construction, expansion, and maintenance that would otherwise be required.
> Gmail lags severely compared to when I use Thunderbird.

The number of times where I am typing an email and somehow trigger hot keys is absolutely ridiculous. Mid-word and suddenly I've deleted the draft, changed labels, and muted & archived a critical conversation is absolutely infuriating. It's Outlook level bad.
And an unreliable registrar that takes them down at will.
Sure, it dilutes the percentage owned. But unless you have a down round, you have more value.

If someone has five shares at $1000 total valuation and 100 shares, they have an equity position worth $50 and 5%. If the company grows and issues another 100 shares but the price paid by an investor for those shares is $5000, that means that each share (ignoring preferred share premium, which is ok in the abstract but shouldn't be ignored in reality) is worth $50. The five share owner owns less of the company but what he or she owns is worth more ($250 vs $50, but 2.5% vs 5%).
157 million more people being exposed to heatwaves.
It was far more ordered than I expected, yes.

I have a tiny clip of a walk with 2 of the 3 from earlier this year. The rear-guard likes to play catch-up after I snap my fingers.

https://youtu.be/3ylsCp692f0
There are two points which may appear contradictory but may not be contracditory.

1) People act according to past experience, environment and internal biology.
2) People environment also consist of the knowledge that "For any given situation there are many options and if one looks hard and tries one may choose an appropiate response". If the society emphasize on this aspect a person might be more willing to make a "choice". Of course not everyone will respond the same way to this knowledge.

1) doesn't imply that there is no "choice" and 2) doesn't imply that we are not "programmed" to behave in certain ways. Actually it might be that 2) is helping us to "program" people in certain way.

In the context of "crime and punishment", as we get better at 2) or someother scientific development we can reduce the need for "punishment".

The best analogy I could think of explaining the above language play on mind is following. Say you are training a new chess player to improve the game. You can say one of the two things:
1) For a given board position there are limited options.
2) For a given board position there are many options.

While both being true on thinking deeply they can have different effect on the person. It also matters what we emphasize. For a person thinking less 2) may be better thing to emphasize. For a person thinking lot 1) may be better to emphasize.
The primary reason we drive with separation is our reaction time. Computers can react must faster. In addition they can actually talk to the cars around them. They could literally form a train.
We won't switch to self driving cars until they can drive better than humans. If they have to leave a larger buffer, then the work isn't done.
A counter argument is presented here that I encourage everyone to consider.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HntrGv_d8XU
It did conclude that, but it is just some guy making a statement, and he completely dismissed the soil issue without even considering it. The idea that you are fine if you eat an ill defined "well balanced diet" isn't very well supported. Lots of people have vitamin deficiencies they are not aware of. Very few people get enough B1 or b9 for example, and those are down 1/3 from what they used to be in lots of plants.
Police: 22-Year-Old Found Dead Inside Google’s NYC Office
It seems like the Intelligencia is leveraging the TSA to collect as much information as possible on all US Citizens that use an airport while the TSA pretends to keep Americans safe.

You have to admit it does make good "Theater for the Masses" when you see them stripping down an 80 year old in a wheelchair or dragging an 8 year old off to the side for additional screening.

This is what happens when "The People" lose control of the Government.
I do not know how to express this in civilized terms.

But I feel that biological parents that raised children, who later on become evil and take other people lives -- are responsible, some how.

I am mentally, far from being contempt, with all these psychopaths (who (most of them), also have seen at some point in their lives, have seen a professional phycologist, regularly) -- go and kill defenseless kids or church/synagogue goers.

These evil humans (if they can be called that) -- should not have existed, and if they existed -- their evilness must, somehow, have been detected earlier. And that's where the parents, and, perhaps, the meds-prescribing phycologists/physiatrists come in.

I realized, that in not too distant past -- the kings and czar's suppressed uprising by executed not just the active uprisers, but their whole families, including wives and kids.
As a deterrent.

I am not talking about that, but, may be there a way that parents can be held accountable to the actions of their children (even if they are more adults by the time they commit heinous crimes).

May be that will also act as deterrent against pure evil that visits those humans.
Authoritarianism is the historical norm in every human civilization. In fact America is one of the only examples of an empire that has been democratically governed since its inception. America is also a rare example of a revolution being followed by a lasting, multi-generational democracy (and that was a close call -- remember that our first president was the commander of the army that fought for revolution); the typical pattern is for some military leader to refuse to give up power after a successful revolution, or if a democracy is established it will usually end quickly after it is challenged by some crisis. Examples are plentiful and can be found in the histories of every region of human habitation on this planet, and it is a fantastic example of a phenomenon that seems to transcend things like technological development, culture, religion, and so forth.

Remember that for a democracy to work people have to be active participants, and most people have other things to worry about in their lives. Democracies tend to erode over time; every crisis will lead to a bit of erosion of a democracy, and if the democracy is not reinforced following the crisis, it will be eroded even further during the next crisis. The decline of the Republican system of Rome is an interesting case study -- crisis after crisis weakened the democratic institutions until Caesar struck the final blow.
Nor should they, because it's the investor who is contributing something new, not the employee. Employees should get re-upped when they are close to fully vested.
What you call normalization is submission to US values and power. No nation wants to do that. The difference is that China is powerful enough to go their own way.

As long as you call it normalization you will remain unhappy.
This was not the will of the Australian people.

There was a "consultation period" and 99.7% of the submissions were against it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/a3j466/assistanc...
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dowpZ_Xtr1N_DgkHJN8i...
Thanks, I hadn't thought to express it that way. It seems like most of the people optimistic about driverless cars live in the US, and are now trying to deploy them in desert grid-cities like Phoenix. They should try driving almost anywhere else, where the roads have evolved over centuries to support vehicles (cars, but before that carriages) controlled by humans cooperating to get from place to place. Why build robots to operate in that environment, when you can build them their own lane?
Didn't even realize founder's equity vested. I thought since they created the company, they owned it since day 1.
Amen to that. I remember the first time I listened to Chris Hedges, with his weird round glasses, going on about this and thinking .... well, go read the wiki entry while you still can. It's good.
Ding ding ding! I don't agree regarding the corruption claim (I don't think we're any worse than elsewhere, tbh) but we are seemingly infinitely willing to allow "gray-area" corruption as long as it's just for money.

> Starting in 2009, the TSA deployed Rapiscan Secure 1000 full-body scanners at many airports, phasing them out in 2013. The acquisition of the machines, training for workers, and associated personnel costs (each requires a team of five workers) has exceeded $1 billion. [1]

> ...former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff has given dozens of media interviews touting the need for the federal government to buy more full-body scanners for airports.
> ...
> What he has made little mention of is that the Chertoff Group, his security consulting agency, includes a client that manufactures the machines. [2]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeleef/2014/10/09/tsa-boond...

[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12...
I would think the general climate of fear in the country would make it frightening to launch an ambitious product like this. There's really no hope of a second right now when things go wrong.

Disclosure, I work for Google, but have no connection to Waymo.

I hope the team can keep pushing on; Waymo is one of the most important "moonshots" to the country. It really could save lives. But, one mistake and people won't trust it even though hundreds of automobile accidents happen every day.
I suspect the better deterrent, and the reason we haven’t seen another attack remotely similar to 9/11, is that the terrorists know we won’t fall for that again. There would be a whole airplane full of people willing to take down a would-be terrorist.

The TSA is just a pacifier for people who buy that they’re effective.
jwz doesn't like HN
Do we really want kids' first experience with programming to be a language with 1-indexed arrays? That's just going to set them up for failure ;)
> For $100B you could buy ~33,000 $3M-dollar electric commuter planes with 10 person capacity and 600mi range

So, how much does all the new airport and hanger capacity and support infrastructure cost, and what are the maintenance, operations, and replacement costs like over time?

> And it took me 5 minutes to think of a (possibly) better plan than theirs.

Not even close.
"The jurisdiction of the court is largely granted by statute" is not an entirely accurate statement (though there are restrictions on what you can sue the Commonwealth for) . That was my point.
San Francisco please pay attention

> abolish parking minimums for all new construction, and allow high-density buildings along transit corridors
Doesn't seem curated, seems like Github was scanned for any file ending in .otf .ttf .woff .woff2 .eot and the link's directly to that Github hosted file.

Overall this doesn't sound like great news for someone that decided they'd distribute a fee-able font on Github without realising it. Helvetica on old Mac, or Calibri on Windows, for example.
Vesta has had quite a few security issues, they seem to have lost quite a bit of momentum lately.
Vesta is OK but not for CLI noobs.
Tutorial: Machine Learning Data Set Preparation, Part 2
Dead websites aren’t confined to amateur radio. Facebook has dramatically reduced the incentive to maintain a website for clubs, restaurants, any number of other organizations.

I don’t find that to be a positive trend, but I don’t see any easy escape.
Just a comment on Apple: they might be positioning the Apple Watch as their next ‘big product.’ I bought one for myself, then one for several family members and we all love them.

In an age when too many people stare at their phone in social situations, having a watch that handle calls, emails, text messaging, and simple apps - but, is not something you engage with for long periods of time. I usually don;t use my phone on weekends anymore. The Apple Watch keeps me connected but in a way that doesn’t pull at my attention.
If you don't know about the fraud, it can only be that you have not been paying attention.

Fabricated signatures on thousands upon thousands of mortgage documents is hard to get confused about. Goldman Sachs paying multibillion-dollar fines for deliberate misrepresentation, without anybody there charged personally with a crime, is easy to find in the public record. A Goldman Sachs corporate officer becoming Obama's Secretary of the Treasury in the middle of it all, likewise.