skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does, but to a point (as you pointed out), but no commercial plane is going to hit a bird as fast as a bullet impacting a target. Aircraft skin is relatively thin and easy to tear, and may fragment leaving a much larger hole than the object that hit it.[0][1][2]

0. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/Bird-strike-rips-blo...

1. https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/bird-bash-leaves-g...

2. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-34900...
I had CenturyLink service (in Phoenix) for years before I had ever heard of Level(3). I'd be really surprised if Level(3) has more brand recognition among the general public than CenturyLink does.
You've also fixed declining television revenue in one fell swoop too. Impressive. Perhaps a smidge impractical, but impressive.
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Behavior such as repeatedly making easily disprovable statements (which numerous past acquaintances who had no particular reason to otherwise make public statements about his nomination called out as blatant lies), and pugnaciously asking a Senator whether she ever gets black-out drunk.

After starting his career in politics as a vicious partisan hack e.g. involved directly in a conspiracy to undermine Judiciary Committee hearings, perjuring himself in his first judicial confirmation hearing, and spending his judicial career on tireless and extreme support for corporate interests, he should have not been the nominee; there are many less controversial and more respected choices among high-profile career members of the GOP. But if he had acted like an adult in the hearing and been willing to admit to being an angry drunken partier as in his teens and twenties who might have done stupid things and not remembered, and demonstrated some contrition and sign of personal growth, I and many others would have some respect for it.

Instead, his behavior was the most hostile and disrespectful I have ever seen in a public hearing. I urge anyone curious about this to watch the 3 hour hearing for yourself. In my view his confirmation is a stain on the Senate and the Court. It cements the public perception that the rich and powerful can do anything they want, remain unapologetic, and face no consequences.
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That privacy popup in NY really worked!
It looks like "gradient noise scale" will be a useful hyperparameter for distributed training. However, how do you efficiently compute it without training a network? Do you need to first train the network to compute it to find out the scaling factor for the network? Is there a more efficient way to compute it from a subset of a large dataset?
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For Rays, stadium deal isn't personal, it's just ruthless baseball business
And if I mix baking soda and vinegar they'll bubble unless a meteor strikes the glass.

This level of pedantry ruins any discussion of cause and effect, because there's always some kind of circumstance that could interrupt. Of course anything could be interrupted, people know that. It doesn't stop eye color from being genetic.

People aren't going to be an elaborate multi-paragraph disclaimer about how any physical act is uncertain, even something as simple as a rock falling when dropped, and link it as a footnote at the end of every sentence.

If you think such a disclaimer is important, maybe you should just pretend that everyone already is linking such a disclaimer. It's a secret extra meaning of periods.
They had calendars, email, chat, search, video.

You could even read your email over the phone way before smartphones were a thing.

All that lead gone to waste...
By that standard we should also require 1600 hours of training for driving a car.
Reality shows it is for something. People must be getting something out of density, otherwise the most in demand people (i.e. highly paid) wouldn't be opting to live there. At the very least, trust is a very valuable thing and knowing people who know people is very valuable, which is much easier to accomplish in cities.
The only solution that will save small towns is dismantling some of the industrialisation that freed people up to work in the factory or mill that no longer exists. It's a trivial example, but ban preservatives in bread and now they need a bakery that can deliver bread everyday. Bread that lasts two weeks on a shelf is an optimisation for communities that support advanced professions. Heavy industrialisation is a model that no longer fits these communities and while some might be able to attract select tech workers--in effect patchwork, others should realise that they're optimised for a workforce that no longer exists.

All of that may not even be possible. First try and sell your community their way of life is unsustainable, then try and shake the Walmart, McDonalds dependency.
We have restaurant food and safety inspections as the non-hyperbolic implementation of this as applied to preparers.
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"on the long term this looks like a major mistake."

Thank God you didn't make a mistake like this, where you build a company around a profitable product making millions of dollars, but might one day feel bad because there are other customers who can't buy your product, who likely wouldn't buy your product anyways!
What's your perspective on Trump? Sounds like he does a lot of illegal shit.
If it can achieve 1 Gbit/s as advertised and scale to enough customers? It just might.

But I'm going to be interested to hear the first real customer's experiences. For example what is the latency they're seeing? Weather outages? How well does it handle peak hours?

Don't misunderstand, the current ISP competition in much of the US is super toxic, and I don't support it. But 5G promises a whole lot, and I cannot ignore the technical side of why it may fall short.
>this is, in my opinion, a dishonest argument.

Sure, moonshiners are sometimes direct to customer, but some will have distributors because you can throw tens, or even a hundred or more gallons in the bed of a truck or a van. Simply getting enough materials to manufacture large quantities is a great way to 'get got', buying sugar in sufficient quantities will get state BATF called. You have to obtain large amounts (for a private individual) of grain and sugar (which usually means paying people to set some aside for you and buying their discretion, or having customers go buy in smaller quantities for you for pay or for a discount on their liquor), transport it to a storage area, transport it and horded containers to an often remote location to cook and distill where the scent can travel for many many miles and the heat signature is readily visible from piloted aircraft and UAVs, fill containers, transport containers to one or more caches, then actually deliver to customers or sellers. This is comparable to a 'guerilla grower' however the risk to reward ratio is considerably less than a grow-operation. Then of course you're selling something of unknown purity, that may contain lead or methanol which can do damage within hours of consumption and over relatively short periods can cause irreversible damage or death.

For grow operations that are outside, you mostly need to go set up some trail cams, plant your crop, watch it (and be willing to protect it with lethal force), and transport it at harvest. Sure, you can then carry more in value out on a single person than a moonshiner might make from an entire run. Moonshine has to be competitive with state or retail sold alcohol so 20-30$ a quart for 150-190 proof. Sure a grow operation is making a lot more money even at wholesale pricing, a quick google search shows 18.5g of 'average mid weed' is a cup of volume so 74g of week is roughly the same volume of a quart jar, even if you assume half that due to moisture volume, someone could easily walk out of the woods with 5kg of weed in a 65 liter hiking backpack which is far more than your average dealer is going to be moving in a reasonable amount of time.

Yes, a 'guerrilla grower' is an order of magnitude higher on the threat list than most moonshiners BUT a moonshiner is an order of magnitude higher than your buddy from high school that sold a little weed to fund his habit, or had a few plants growing in his closet and sells almost exclusively to people he's known for years and is likely buying from a single individual or has a couple of grow tents in his walk-in closet.
Measures 3x9x11cm, so likely too bulky for many drones.
I still feel like it comes with the implication that you're not expected to see this as a normal term; but in this case, its apparently perfectly well-known, just in a particular field that HN doesn't perhaps specialize in.

It would be like adding [sic] to articles about quantum mechanics, using terms that a physicist naturally know, but a programmer wouldn't. And that'd just be weird (or rather, a lot of [sic]'s going around)
Approach speed is anywhere between landing speed and cruising speed. They don't slow to 170mph before descending or entering a landing approach, for example.
I have no idea where they got the idea for this. None.
https://www.zoho.com/one/
Here's a bird strike with no blood or feathers: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/04/28/Bird-strike-leave...
Back when I was very poor, I ate fast food frequently -- definitely unhealthy. It had more to do with time and energy than cost. It is a common pattern among the poor people I knew.

Healthy food is unbelievably dirt cheap in the US and available almost everywhere but it takes a lot of time and effort to prepare it. When you are working 60+ hours per week, that isn't always an attractive option. Poor people can afford healthy food.

Tangentially, the common definition of "food desert" improperly and tacitly conflates expensive food with healthy food. You can eat a very healthy and more importantly very cheap diet while living in a nominal food desert. Poor people can't afford boutique organic heirloom tomatoes so they don't sell them where poor people live. Frozen and canned vegetables are perfectly nutritious and cheaper substitute -- and I can vouch that poor people eat these in abundance -- but for the purposes of labeling an area a "food desert" they don't count.
Slight tangent: What's folks' feeling about GTM vs Tealium or Segment?
> I feel like this argument should be a class of fallacy. Lots of things have "existed" for a long time, but that doesn't mean previous iterations were effective.

This is pretty close to Survivorship Bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias). Outcomes of midwifery of yore is no different than present midwifery if you ignore the fatalities and only focus on successful deliveries.
Yeah that's what my "more or less" was referring to...
Game theory tells us why it has to be mandatory: if everyone pays everyone profits, but for any one individual it pays off to stop paying as long as everyone else keeps paying (because they still receive roughly the same benefits). So most people stop paying, and everyone is worse off. It's basically the prisoner's dilemma.

Note how even denying non-payers all public services doesn't work. If you don't pay for the fire brigade but your neighbor does you profit (since a fire in his house is less likely to go out of control and jump over to your house). The resulting situation would be less fair than just forcing everyone to pay for firefighting services.
Criminal charges need to be filed.
My Dad recently switched his email from Verizon to Yahoo. I plead with him to use Gmail but he didn't listen. Baby Boomers love Yahoo!
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To sell their filtering product.
On the retail, general consumer side: Level(3) doesn't have much of any brand recognition. That's why I said "carrier/enterprise/ISP".

On the business side, it has quite a bit of premium name recognition which seems to be getting thrown away from the way they are being swallowed up.
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And this is where the rules/regulations become important for how many degrees of separation -- how many "hops"; see also the 'Kevin Bacon rule' -- they are permitted to pursue based upon the original source data.

If you believe that they actually adhere to them. As someone else described (I don't know), this particular collection started with "a hunch"...

If we don't know what our government and its agencies are actually doing -- to a reasonable degree, as it were -- we cannot exercise oversight and we cease to be a democracy (in the form of a republic, or otherwise).
As one aside on this, the main issue people have with regulations is not regulations in and of themselves, but the negative effect they have on small businesses and competition/entrepreneurship more generally. I think you'd find extremely few genuine voices against regulations that only start to apply once a company (and all associated entities) grosses in excess of e.g. $100 million annual revenue. By that point companies the costs (as a fraction of their total revenue) in ensuring compliance, and complying itself is only going to be a minuscule fraction of revenue. By contrast these same costs can, and do, destroy or simply prevent the formation of smaller companies that could greatly expand the market to the benefit of all.
Writing a law that says "send an email" is the exact detail needed. In this situation, that is not the technical details that legislators should be staying away from.
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I do not support the right of religious believers to promote their unsubstantiated-at-all-by-the-evidence causes, such as promise rings to prevent teen pregnancy, or that an abortion of a 5 day old embryo is morally equivalent to the murder of an adult human. Things like that are rationally indefensible.

In short, I cannot stand idly by while BS is being promulgated.

The sphere of permitted discussion should mainly include secular, rational arguments.
This primarily impacts the young and/or poor, who are losing their ability to enter the job market with these increased moats. As long as it continues to benefit incumbent wealth who has the power to market FUD to the consumer about "unlicensed" workers, this will remain.

Here's another article I recommend from The Atlantic last year which touches on this topic. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/11/the-rig...
> We already knew these surveillance systems would be abused, and now we have many evidences of smoking guns.

We had that as far back as the Bush 43 Administration with regard to the surveillance systems.
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Because LA is where all the movie stars are and New York is where all the bankers are!
What is Backplane? Why is it shutting down?
Is that the case or is it because winter sport is so expensive and we are well paid compared to people in other fields?

I recently went to Berlin and Prague, and met a lot of people who worked in tech that had quit their job to travel for 6 months.
The interesting thing is that as far as colonists go, I think the Brits were the best there were. Better be colonized by them than by the Portuguese, French, Spanish, etc in terms of your subsequent national success.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18683542.
He leveraged his retirement on a pension. I wouldn't say he's to blame: on property it looks like a great benefit.
Today, I've seen too many cases such as Coomers where pensions dried up or an employee let go before hitting their pension.

I'd say trust in an employer today to provide for you after retirement is not a benefit of those working today.
"that the consumer may request material harmful to minors be blocked under Subsection (1)(a)" absolutely unequivocally does NOT translate to "inform the customer that they can pay for filtering themselves". The law really clearly puts the burden on the ISP to perform the filtering, and requires the ISP to inform the customer that they can request the filtering be turned on - not that the customer can purchase some product that does filtering.
How do I blacklist my own urls from this website?
USA’s main exports are IP and Dollars. They have engaged in petrodollar warfare and international treaties to protect the demand for their export and intimidate those (like Kim Dotcom) who threaten it in other countries. Just like Russia has done for natural gas, for instance.

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

https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/tran...
From Ciarcia's How it all began article above:

[ While most people waited until the 8080 or 6502 to discover computing, back in 1974 I had an 8008 homebrew system running immediately after it appeared (see Photo 1). I paid $120 (converts to about $500 today) for that 8008 chip, and to this day, I remember sweating as I powered it up the first time. Would it be puff, pop, or hum? Well, it worked. ]

The parts about the subterfuge and skullduggery going on in the industry then are also interesting.
It's not good that people who come up with important new scientific theories should be forced to recant if they're jerks. Seriously, the progress of civilization depends on unreasonable men. Galileo's ideas about planetary motion weren't perfect but they were the seeds of our present understanding of planetary motion. And really he was persecuted more for saying that the planets were mutable with weather and so forth rather than perfect and eternal than he was for the whole heleocentrism thing. And he was perfectly right about that last bit.
> Backplane is a service that unifies discovery, routing, and load balancing for web servers written in any language, running in any cloud or datacenter. Traffic shaping, request enrichment, blue/green deploys, and other difficult to implement networking operations become trivial when using Backplane's combination of hosted and on-premise software.

From their docs page here: https://www.backplane.io/docs
I know you're being facetious, but dueling wasn't such a great thing for society. It gave tough people an advantage in life over smart or conscientious people. You wouldn't like living in a society where toughness won. It was one of Queen Victoria's great contributions to make dueling socially unacceptable.
If the title said just Centurylink instead of Utah, people would be complaining of click bait, so I think Utah was the better choice. Using "Centurylink (only in Utah)" or something similar would have been the most ideal from an accuracy POV.
I agree that public shaming can and does serve a useful function in dissuading fringe right-wing ideologies (among others); however, the whole reason we're seeing an uptick in these fringe ideologies is because public shaming has lost its potency after it was repeatedly abused (mobbing moderate liberals and conservatives for violating far-left moral tenets under the overtly false pretenses of fascism/racism/white-supremacy). Basically

TL;DR, if you (like me) really want to push back against dangerous ideologies like racism, fascism, white-supremacy, etc, then you should oppose groups who try to combat moderate ideas by conflating them with the aforementioned dangerous ideologies.

NOTE: The author of "Liberal Fascism" is a moderate conservative, by the way, and trying to associate him with extreme right-wing views is exactly the problem (and we can acknowledge as much without endorsing his ideas).
I think they did mean -15. Either way, 30 up front is SUPER aggressive.
> They have those blueprints because of Tesla

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1

https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/ZEROEMISSION/HISTORY/RNESSA...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV

they're all sitting on a lot of technology, the current volume doesn't justify them to push into production, where tesla could use their gung-ho startup attitude and startup capital to run off the equivalent of rounding error for the establishment
Do you mean Win7 uses less or more memory and disk compared to Win 10?
Restaurant employees, preparing or serving food, could spread disease or cause harm, but are not obligated to be licensed. Would you support requiring cooks, servers, wait staff, etc., to undergo licensing?
Walk the tree post-order and emit an instruction for each node.
Not being able to run all the proprietary software is a given, although I believe Skype is natively supported for the record. I don't run into hardware issue support, though. Especially with something as basic as sound or a second monitor. The worst I've heard recently is that some wireless cards may not be supported because they need proprietary blobs to work. Most things works out of the box since the support is all built into the kernel.
I 100% agree – I do not attribute this specific microsoft issue to malice. It's insanely hard to coordinate between teams at their scale, especially when feature ownership is partially shared in difficult-to-model ways. (I do attribute the misuse of "unlimited" by phone companies to malice, FWIW.)

My point is more that microsoft, like any company, could implement processes to better catch this class of errors before they ship, but don't, because there are too few consequences for making mistakes, and so there's no incentive to improve prevention efforts.
It's almost like informal fallacies are taking over the entire Internet: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Appeal_to_shame and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum come directly to mind.

I would love to suggest that things like https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ should be mandatory teaching in the school systems of the world, but I've unfortunately seen evidence that trying to teach critical thinking only seems to work for already-intelligent people.
And that's annoying, for sure, but most of the time the box would still work though, right?
Feathers may not be seen on damaged surfaces, relative wind speed on nose(after hit) would mostly blow the feathers away from surface, however feather may be found deep inside of broken places where wind could not take feathers on escape.
How Voyage is deploying autonomous ride-sharing in retirement communities
Those crashes are often caused by engines ingesting birds.

Here's one that happened to a BAe Hawk in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan a while back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuLcVkW4YVg

The on-board video shows it crashing into a corn field not long after the crew ejects.