skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting info, but they own the OS and in some cases the compiler: https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/06/visual-cpp-telemetry

Given that, I don't care to engage in whack a mole with them. They have the upper hand.

Safe for visual studio and visual studio code users to assume that the IDEs are sending telemetry too.

In my case the best thing is to avoid the OS. And github and whatever else their malign influence could eventually own.
Per memory, you can also do it at NASA Space Camp as an additional, optional activity. (Or, at least, appropriately aged children can)

I'm not sure how much it was: I did it back in the 90s.

It was a prop plane, but I remember probably ~5-10 seconds of perceived weightlessness. Which seems longer than you might expect when your stomach and contents are suddenly floating freely in your chest cavity. ;)

I'd definitely recommend it. It was... unique
Is Whole Foods the primary groceries partner for Instacart? Don't they have other partnerships as well?
If you're wondering how people can see through all manner of moral repugnance, here's Sacha Baron Cohen exploiting this for laughs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P65pZhZ-pks

Includes a segment about a Chinese dissident being eaten. Boggles the mind how the guy apparently thinks this is real human flesh and not only that, it's from a prisoner.
China is a major and valuable contributor to the global economy, and instrumental in providing the first world citizens with cheap consumer goods.

Voters value bread and circuses above ethics or human rights of faraway people. In a democratic country, if a politician would implement impactful policies aimed to improve human rights elsewhere at the cost of local economic harm and inflation hitting their workers, then that politician would get voted out of office and these policies reversed - so they don't do that.

If some politician genuinely desire to help human rights elsewhere, then they'd still not implement such overt policies (since they'd get reversed and help no one) but implement subtle diplomatic pressure.

The same logic, by the way, explains the current situation with climate change.
A blockchain and a coin doesn't make any sense there.
> The incident is one of at least 21 interactions documented by local police during the past two years where people have harassed the autonomous vehicles and their human test drivers.

How many drivers do they have? That doesn't sound like a particularly high rate for a few dozen drivers over two years. Taxi drivers tend to encounter a lot of crap.
Democratic elections don't need a blockchain and a coin.
Scratch the logs, subpoena email records of Pai and direct reports.
Thanks for pointing this out! An oversight on our part, we'll get it fixed.
The unusually high wages can also be attributed to a city with an incredibly high cost of living, and large number of overtime hours.

Train conductor base pay is $23-30 an hour - the six-figure salaries that you read about are for people doing >40h/week, including night shift/holiday/on-call work.

I generally think that it's reasonable that people who do more work get paid more then people who do less work... Or that people doing the same work during hardship hours get paid more then people doing their 9-5.
Every time the grad student punches the robot with a stick I wonder when it is going to punch back :-) It says something about the improvement in anthropomorphism I think.

Real gaits though really need a foot with four degrees of freedom rather than the more common three. Typically the 'foot' plate has a roll, pitch, and yaw component. If you add an additional bend access where humans and animals have the 'ball' of their foot so that you have a flat surface on the ground while "up on your toes" to can add some additional gait styles.
> We can talk idealistic / paranoid scenarios too

Have we sunk that low that the idea of using mature, stable and supported libraries is idealistic and paranoid now? It used to just be called responsible.

> but that's just not how majority of developers work, so it's a bit of a moot point

I don't think identifying the root cause of an issue is ever a moot point.
Its not "obviously wrong" for flat earther. It always depend on the crowd

Same here in this thread and even top comment: HN crowd so its "obvious" that we should ban alt-right and "people like video x or y because it is controverial"

Well no. Some people just thing its ok and want to watch it and the line between fighting hate speech and censorship is very hard to draw
Show HN: Most-shared links by groups of Twitter users (Urbanists, in this case)
Perhaps that is yet another indication that the Voynich Manuscript is a hoax.
Ask HN: What is your favourite rabbit hole to get lost in?
This would force you to https on the lxc/LXD endpoint that you proxied to correct? I prefer to just iptables 80/443 (guess could proxy that part too instead of iptables) to an LXD HAProxy container, and then have HAProxy do the proxying and domain-based load-balancing/acl's, coupled with the advantage of terminated SSL in one place (the HAproxy container) for all (sub)domains/services.
This hasn't been my experience at least in the UK where they hand you the credit card device and then explain how you can add a tip.
How Al Qaeda and ISIS Teach Central Asian Children: Common Goals
I think so. More jobs, higher salaries, higher overall tax receipts, halo job creation... all of that makes for more money to improve infrastructure. There's a lot that I could say about this more specifically, but I will leave it at, yes, I think this would have been good for the Triangle.
Comic books.
I'm not joking. Just to be clear, I'm taking asynchronous to mean a call that is not transactional. Where you are ok with eventual consistency. If something is transactional then keep it in one service. Make it an action not a transaction and save yourself a lot of grief.

So if something is asynchronous then why not back it up with a message broker and get the properties I listed (in earnest).
At least 2008 had nothing to do with being good or bad at math. In fact, it kind of happened because of some rather fancy math. This article has been posted on HN multiple times:

https://www.wired.com/2009/02/wp-quant/
Both! You can experiment with —-best-k and —randomness <1.0 and sort of get things in the middle.

Basically what this will do is assign each tile less than 100% of the time randomly and then for each that isn’t, you choose among the top best K matches on L2 distance with equal probability. Gives it a little bit of both.
"You say this is a good thing, until you go to Europe and get treated terrible service."

Then you go to Japan, where the service is dramatically better than the US, and you realize that they don't expect tips, either...
The level of service in Japan, where tipping is not customary, completely disproves your thesis.
I love this story and find it refreshing each time I read it. That said, has anyone ever looked into if it's real or apocryphal? I'd be curious to know.
My KDE desktop will restore about 95% of my previous session in its previous state on restart even after a crash or power loss. It doesn't restore private browser sessions or running games in their current state or anything like that. But it restores most of my desktop software to exactly what i had open with undo buffers, terminal states and just about everything exactly the way it was.

I'm not trying to excuse microsoft....if anything there's really no excuse for them not to have a proper session restore and non-forced updates that don't auto-restart your computer.

Just pointing out they really dropped the ball twice here.
React Static v6 – Multi-threaded exports, Webpack 4, Babel 7, Plugins and more
Rotating a flattened square matrix
When Russian Officials ‘Nightmare’ Your Business, You Can Lose Everything
Tax evasion is simple: people not paying the taxes they are owed to the government. What you are referring to is tax avoidance or minimization, which is fine (or rather, another problem, mostly the governments)

"When people talk about companies evading taxes, they're really working through the tax code."

Switzerland facilitates tons of actual tax evasion, which they are not supposed to do, and which is illegal in the US.

From [1] "the Swiss financial sector and the DoJ began a decade ago when whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld provided evidence that his former employer, UBS, was helping wealthy Americans evade taxes.

Switzerland’s largest bank was fined $780 million in 2009, but it was later discovered that other Swiss banks had been poaching UBS clients after the criminal probe had been announced. "

Switzerland is party to many treaties with EU, US etc. - and they (gov. and banks) know exactly that they cannot facilitate tax evasion, if so, it becomes a crime.

This is not ambiguous.

If you, living in Switzerland, help facilitate a crime such as murder (i.e. totally unambiguous) in the US, then the US will extradite you even though you may not have broken any Swiss laws.

Tax evasion is a crime like any other, hence extradition and arrests etc..

Though some cases may have some ambiguity i.e. (what constitutes 'aid' and maybe some hairline differences between 'evasion' and 'avoidance') - in general, it's crystal clear: if you help people with tax evasion, you've committed a crime.

And FYI - the reciprocal works just the same - if you murder someone in Switzerland, but have not broken and US laws, you can be sure that the Americans will arrest you and send you to Switzerland if that's what the Swiss authorities want.

[1] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/-5-million-fine_swiss-bank-sett...
Am I the only person who's really stinking annoyed that Chromium is just randomly shipping features that haven't gone through the W3C? Didn't we learn anything from the early days of CSS and browser flags? Didn't we learn anything from flexbox?

Don't call it a proposal if you already have plans to ship it. Private fields haven't been accepted as a standard yet. They should not be shipped except behind a browser flag.
Please for the love of god learn functional programming. this is a primary example of being stuck thinking there is a RIGHT way to do things according to Object oriented design practices.

Firstly objects in JavaScript are not classes, they are just your good old dictionary value store, to an JavaScript object it doesn't matter if u put a function or a value under its property, under the hood its just a pointer pointing to a memory location. infact you can dynamically change it!

Also if this code is running in the browser you get ZERO security benefits, i can still read your values through the debugger.

But it does impart some very significant slow down, especially if you are calling the getter a LOT.

With Box.area; it literally has to resolve the BOX variable name and jump 1 pointer. with BOX.getArea(); it has to create a new scope and stack for the function call and there is SO MUCH MORE going on behind the scenes.

The right solution here is absolutely to update your area as the width and height change.

please learn functional event driven programming if you are going to give advice on javascript. most of the stuff you learned and got tested on in your HS and College courses about how to properly write object oriented code does not apply to javaScript. ESPECIALLY if performance is vital, which it often is since you interact with user input.
Where’s Santa? How GPUs Power the NORAD Santa Tracker
> it was a necessary death to give us the marine safety regulations we have today

Beyond lifeboat regulations, what other safety improvements resulted from the sinking? Also, why the Titanic versus a previous vessel? (Is it the Titanic or simply Titanic?)
Qt look and feel is much closer to native on Windows. Not 100%, but you need to know what to look for to notice it.

I would assume that the same is also the case on macOS.
Other nation-states in the Asia Pacific would be perfectly willing to start taking our orders for commercial goods. No doubt the trade war with China has been, or will be, good for their industrial economies.

It is not ethics however that is driving a wedge between the United States and China. It is China's efforts to solidify its power over the Asian Pacific seas (in)conveniently named the China Sea and their trade routes, their One Road foreign policy efforts, and China's efforts to remain outside of the international order while also participating in it (e.g. IP theft, etc).
BuzzFeed Reviews, Wirecutter, Strategist: The rise of the recommendation site
Had a very different experience. Monthly fees in EU, fraud is usually on you on EU debit cards, and investemt options are more limited.
Americans love to be tyrannical and punitive, particularly with service employees. And business owners are more than happy to grant them that in exchange for lower wages. Feels like a fair trade to me.
Agreed completely! This article was the final push for me to start learning TS.

I'm really surprised something like this came out of Google.
Chicken or the egg? Definitely some feedback loop going on, not sure which is which.
Let's not pretend most crimes result in punishment, especially at this level of business and government. Cynicism sucks, but I prefer it to blissful ignorance.
Mendo is a platform to see links shared by a selection of people you follow (and trust), sorted by most-shared.

It's like a "private Reddit" or "private HN" where you have your own feed, and you get to choose who can vote on it.

It's great because it puts the best stuff first and doesn't addict you.

We made a few "example groups" to show what Mendo surfaces when you follow a group of people who specialize in topic areas:

Economists - https://mendoapp.com/group/econ
Scientists/Environmentalists - https://mendoapp.com/group/enviros
Tech Commentators - https://mendoapp.com/group/tech
Politicos - https://mendoapp.com/group/politicos

You don't have to check social media all the time – the most important things being shared come to you, via email and our iOS app.
Joseph Stalin was probably better at dealing with some issues than Winston Churchill, but that doesn't make them comparable. It's a false equivalency.
Another reminder of how incredibly powerful our brains are. Walking and motor skills seem like such basic things because we start mastering them as toddlers. Meanwhile, teams of experts across the world are still trying to figure out how to get a robot to do it. For example, they're talking about finding out the location of where to toe-off based on some instantaneous capture point. None of that ever consciously came to my mind, but these crazy calculations are constantly running in the background.
It just seems completely inevitable to me that China eventually wants to conquer the world. Why is the west enriching them

Up to the 20th century, the west had a surefire meta-strategy for dealing with world-conquering former empires like China. You bring them into modern industrial economics while exporting western culture. The massive changes would destabilize the old regime and turn it into another trading partner.

In 2018, media and economics have changed to the point where everything's now mediated by computers and networks. Things have changed so much, all we can be sure of is that meta-strategy no longer works in quite the same way.

These atrocities are being committed by a regime that has all but said that it intends to conquer the rest of the planet and export these atrocities as the standard operating procedure for the entire planet

You can say this for just about everyone on the world stage. Spain, France, Britain, and the US have all taken their turns as the lead player on that stage, and the quoted sentence could be applied to them all, just with different levels of severity for the atrocities. The long arc of history is really just about asymptotically reducing the level of atrocities to zero. The question of Chinese ascendancy is just a matter of when and how large the local spike in atrocity might be.

(EDIT: To clarify, the local spike in atrocity for Britain and the US were smaller than what came before, and the affect of their hegemony has been net positive.)
> there's a caveat

Air.
human-like gaits mainly require the correct structural elements (rather than machine learning), like locking knees (as noted in the article) and slightly elastic legs and joints (for energy storage/release as well shock absorbtion).

most robots are energetically inefficient and require extraneous computational power because they don't take advantage of passive dynamics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_dynamics). it's disappointing to realize that we still haven't caught up to fundamental biological systems yet, even though the research is 2+ decades old.
Tax avoidance is fine. That's for the government to sort out.

As for " Swiss have their own laws (hiding assets)," - not really.

UBS et. al. are not supposed to be helping Americans evade paying taxes - by their own law.
Vegas is already using too much water itself.

Vegas uses very little water. Almost all of the water is cleaned, then recycled back into Lake Mead, where it originated.

The houses are intentionally close together to reduce the number of miles of water lines, and therefore the number of leaks, which every water system has in abundance.

The water you see in the fountains, etc... is not suitable for drinking or other uses because it is groundwater with crazy high mineral content, and ends up back in the ground where it came from. That's why when a drunken frat boy jumps in the Bellagio fountains, the metrocops use a boat to get him out, rather than just swim for him. You don't want to touch most of the fountain water in Vegas.

The vast majority of the water from the Colorado River gets pumped to Los Angeles. Nevada gets a tiny fraction (about 7%, IIRC).
Generic drug price-fixing investigation expands to 300 drugs and 16 companies
Down with Homework, Say U.S. School Districts
> The bulk of humanity has always lived in cheap construction

Yes, but when older homes were built labor (even highly skilled labor) was comparatively much cheaper and lumber came from old-growth trees.

Most homes built today (cheap or not) will literally begin to fall apart in months if they're not kept temperature and humidity controlled.

To build a house today using a mix of modern technology (electrical, plumbing, foundation, etc) with the quality of wood and finishing used in older homes would be very expensive compared to typical construction, even in high-end developments.
Charles Schwab Bank[1] has something similar called an "Overdraft Line of Credit". You can overdraw your checking account, up to the line of credit amount (which can be as high as $10,000). There are no overdraft fees. You just pay a relatively-high interest, which for me is 13.99%. Nothing else. No catches, no hidden fees or surcharges.

No other U.S. bank that I'm aware of offers this feature. This feature is fairly hidden on their website. I read about it somewhere, and asked about it through their chat. The gave me a link to a PDF application form. I had to print out the PDF, fill it out with a pen, and mail it out (you can't apply online). I was approved a week or two later.

[1] It's the Bank that offers this -- not the brokerage service of Charles Schwab. There's a second overdraft service offered through Charles Schwab itself -- this overdraft service is a margin loan secured by equities in your brokerage account. You can actually combine both overdraft services. The Schwab Bank Overdraft Line of Credit application form asks which type of overdraft line of credit to use first.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHATWG

Good or bad, that is the governing body the browser makers honor.
For someone who has worked with both: which offers a better developer onboarding experience, for small web/data apps? Ease of learning and use wise.
Target also now has free 2-day shipping if you have the debit or credit card.
This has been covered in the NY Times [1] and I've read more detailed breakdowns of other projects in more transit/government focused publications. The short version is that the government doesn't do a very good job with planning despite spending a ton on it and the combination of union labor and the hiring structure leads to workers getting paid several hundred dollars an hour during overtime (which happens due to the planning) and more workers performing a task than similar transit efforts elsewhere in the developed world.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
I think the problem lies with the determination of what is and isn't objectionable or dangerous. Who decides? Tech megacorps?

There is plenty of content that we can all agree on being dangerous or worthy of banning, but there is plenty that is not settled, plenty that can blow in different directions with each fresh gust of the political winds.

Should this be handled legally instead, so citizens have recourse?

What happens if the consensus on approved/banned content among the censors is itself dangerous or at odds with reality?

Who is in control of the censorship and what is being censored, what is to be censored, at the biggest, most influential social media venues is an issue that cannot simply be waived away as 'corporate discretion'.

How long until we are all couching our Chinese social credit?
If it is synchronous or transactional then don't use microservices. Plenty of things can be done asynchronously provided the use case is ok with eventual consistency or within a non urgent time limit.

BTW now that the browser supports websockets (a bidirectional protocol the rest of the world had since the 70s!), you don't have to poll.
And I was roleplaying as myself, rejecting the company.
Take it from a pilot: the average healthy person has no trouble with a few seconds of 5g, even 7g. With a few minutes of training, you can sustain that for a while, long enough for a loop or roll. I'm no marathon runner and had no issues doing 6ish Gs during sustained acrobatics (cuban 8s etc). Fighter pilots have to sustain higher numbers (9g) and remain alert enough to continue fighting, a far higher requirement than being pax/cargo on a suborbital.

FYI, being "fit" doesn't necessarily help. People with higher blood pressure actually do a little better than those without.
I assume you're speaking figuratively. Here's an extremely literal elaboration for the railfans in the thread. The route length of the NYC subway system is 245 miles. Subway construction costs vary across developed countries, but generally fall between $200-$500 million per mile[0]. So under extremely optimistic assumptions, 40 billion would get us to about 80% of the current subway network.

For those interested in analysis of subway construction costs, I highly recommend Alon Levy's work at Pedestrian Observations: https://pedestrianobservations.com/construction-costs/

[0]https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/01/why-its-so-ex...
Can we not just start a gofundme campaign for this and bypass the government funding decisions?
Or $200.
The Boy Scouts of America may file for bankruptcy because of sex abuse suits