skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't answer a fatality question, it seems out of scope. Anyway, big sky theory does not apply to class B airspace. And also, just go to flightaware and look at incoming flights to EWR which are going right over TEB. And the drone will not show up on either primary or secondary radar, and there's no radio contact with the drone operator, so there's no possible way to maintain the require positive separation guarantee of class B airspace.

>The sky is an enormous place and the odds of two things occupying the same space in it without trying to are once in a century if that.

Bullshit, and also it's a stupid statement. Just do some basic research about how many midair collisions there have been. A huge reason why we have positive control airspace and instrument flight rules is because of midair collisions.
Is there any way to run Wine on 64-bit MacOS? Wine seems to be stuck on 32-bit.
Importance:

"Hunters Point residents who claim to have suffered health impacts as a result of the botched and allegedly fraudulent Hunters Point cleanup urged the governor on Monday to rescind a contract that a state disaster agency awarded to Tetra Tech, Inc. for the management of debris removal from Butte County in the wake of the deadly Camp Fire.

“It is a slap in the face of the injuries that these people have been suffering for years,” said Charles Bonner, an attorney who filed a class-action lawsuit against the company on behalf of neighborhood residents last May. “It is an insult.”

Tetra Tech, Inc. is the owner of Tetra Tech EC, Inc., which collected data samples during the cleanup of the former military base that the federal government has found to be largely unreliable. In 2017, two Tetra Tech supervisors pleaded guilty to falsifying soil samples in federal court.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice sued Tetra Tech EC, alleging that the fraud expanded beyond the two supervisors, into the upper management of the company.

The Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, also known as CalRecycle, awarded the contract to Tetra Tech, Inc. through a competitive bidding process that began last month. "
Right now there is a fuckton of capital searching for a return. If we went hog wild on nuclear power by reducing regulations and imposed a slowly ramping-up revenue neutral carbon dioxide tax, people might go for it. Especially if you let the tax be negative and people get paid to take CO2 out of the atmosphere and sequester it some way. Oil companies have a lot of knowledge, land, and boreholes and already pump CO2 underground to increase oil production in some fields. You might have a lot of different types of people who could get behind such a plan.

I'm hoping a radical centrist can win the US presidency in 2020 and get some such deal done with Congress. The USA needs to lead and then we would have a chance to help/arm twist China, India, and the rest of the world to follow suit.
It’s OK to smirk
> Many CD-ROM games didn't bother with copy protection (after all, who would copy a whole CD full of data?)

Many early 2000 games I'm fond of used SecuROM. That's always a fun one.
Valve has been doing a lot of work here lately, they've essentially made Wine into a first party citizen of Steam (in the form of Proton). So Wine is stable & easy enough for non-tech users - at least for gaming purposes. But there isn't the equivalent for general software yet.
What Is Zero UI? And Why Is It Crucial to the Future of Design?
There are languages like Lojban that are designed to be an ideal intermediary language for machine translation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
Apple and MS cross-license patents.
Lack of 8th gen intel? That's Coffee Lake, which is in all the 2018 MacBook Pros. Intel's failures at 10nm (Cannon Lake, their previous target for 8th gen) are very well known and have been holding up the entire industry, and that's 100% on Intel. Those chips still aren't shipping.

It's a common misconception the last few years that Apple isn't shipping the latest Intel chips. Aside from the expectations/reality mismatch of Intel's 10nm woes, there's at least two other reasons this misconception persists:

1. Volume - A few PC manufacturers sometimes ship new Intel chips right when they come out, but often that is a paper launch or in super limited quantities. MacBooks are bought by millions and can only use Intel chips when they're available in volume and have shipped with what was available at the time.

2. Features - Intel staggers the release of their new generations so that they ship ones with certain (usually cut down) features first, such as a Y-series part sans GPU, or a K-series for desktops. Apple uses specific intel chips with specific features like beefier GPUs, which sometimes come out a bit later.

Every once in a while a lower volume Mac doesn't get refreshed, like iMacs are right now. Since Intel updates have been pretty incremental in certain SKUs there's not a strong reason to update those until significant new technologies come along.

As usual, devil's in the details.
This is great, and gives me hope of someday doing the same for my favorite DOS game EarthSiege (where the mech you piloted had four camera views)
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18973477 .
Never parse ls.
Of course it can. Any rotating frame has Coriolis forces.
This is already happening. The new Gmail redesign is borderline unusable and uses up 60% CPU just to display a plain text email, and YouTube's latest update is slower in Firefox because they use a Chrome specific API.
Uber/JUMP attorneys challenge Lyft’s Bay Area bikeshare monopoly
Wow. I haven’t seen it that dramatically bad here in Toronto, after cross-referencing.

As another user mentioned there seems to be an attempt at downward pressure. I hadn’t thought of it, but I wouldn’t be surprised. Sadly.
A static property is generally a global variable namespaced to the class, so Foo.bar.
Trump administration is driving up citizenship applications
for now and not if the share holders have anything to say about it
Voting-Machine Lobbyists Undermine the Democratic Process
Absolutely agree.

This is a dumb, untenable, largely unenforceable and pointless law.

Even if Apple were to start delaying product releases in Australia by six months to do "legislative compliance reviews" or some such. With telcos on-board, this might encourage our politicians to listen to actual experts when touting this kind of legislation.
We already do this for the starfield (that's how, for example, most Near Earth Object searches work); it's just harder to get high-resolution total-coverage imagery for planetary surfaces. As far as I understand, we only are getting repeat imagery from the LRO because it did one fast low-resolution pass and is now doing a lower-altitude, high-resolution pass.
Sadly even a proved correct C compiler can produce incorrect behavior in a real system: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/482
You can get many DRM-free games on GOG. Most work fine in Wine on Linux.
Honest question: where do I find out how to design a comfortable chair?
If you write standard compliant C, don't use platform specific headers, and use some kind of cross-platform build system (I can't recommend CMake enough here), it's easy to use C/C++ across platforms. UI/graphics is harder, but cross-platform solutions do exist here (Qt, GTK, WxWidgets, OpenGL).
Yeah. Sometimes people like to use laser pointers at helicopters and planes. It carries up to five years in prison, and they do get caught, prosecuted and the feds do aggressively pursue maximum prison sentences, whether a pilot is blinded by it or not.

And I put letting your toy fly into terminal area airspace in the same category. I don't care if it's intentional or accident. Control your shit, or go to prison.
That video (linked by everdev) makes it look like the bird was more damaging to the plane than the same-sized drone was (it tore a bigger hole). But the tester says the drone strike was more of a problem because it penetrated the wing and damaged internal structures (hydraulics? electronics? fuel lines? Structural components holding the whole wing together?), and that for safety, drones should be made more like birds.

My understanding is that planes mostly continue to fly even if you change the shape of the wing (see all the examples of planes flying upside down or with one wing). Probably the answer is "it depends", especially if we are talking about a flock of birds compared to a single drone.
Twitter as the best example of a bad recommendation engine
Apple Mail uses that dialog.
Can't speak to the planned high-speed rail project, however Amtrak's Capitol Corridor is a decent solution in the meantime, especially for commuters that don't go in every day. Sac to SF (via Richmond/BART) takes just over 2 hours, and the trains have desks, WiFi, etc. If you live near Suisun/Fairfield, it's about 90 minutes.
Lutris is a popular Wine prefix manager. There is also PlayOnLinux.

> Will WINE ever be at a point where it would be stable enough to make the case for non-technical users?

On Linux - yes, on macOS - not likely, given the waning interest of Wine developers in doing it for macOS, thanks to Apple's sabotage of OpenGL, Vulkan and 32-bit support there.
A question: Would this proposed change mean all Chrome extensions can no longer know what URL I am currently visiting? if so, I guess one company (whose name starts with a S) is gonna be dreading this.
I went to school with the chaps that became Radiohead (Abingdon school aka Royce's). As it turns out posh blokes can strum a bit and come up with some decent lyrics.

Fancy that.
I wrote an app to do this on Mac several years ago, then abandoned it for lack of users. Crossover from CodeWeavers is a great GUI wrapper, but it's not free.
On the same day taxpayers gave millions to Google https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autonomous-waymo/waymo-sa...
The issue you're ignoring is accountability.

Decentralized exchanges are a myth. Someone is creating the software and with the added complexity, lack of accountability with anonymous developers comes the risk of malware hidden in software updates.

The only reason I can imagine you or anyone would try to argue that the answer to an imperfect legal, regulatory, and financial system is to abolish it and move to a new system designed to bypass accountability and where the money supply was designed to be minted very rapidly to an anonymous group of oligarchs who then simply horde it, would be because there's a strong psychological motivation for you to attempt to convince other people to "buy" into your deregulated penny stock database not because there's any real world benefit over a regulated system, but because you simply want to sell your stock for a higher price - leaving the greater fools who buy database tokens holding a bag of something they can't use anywhere.

Deregulation helps against malicious actors how??

https://medium.com/cryptopay/list-of-known-bitcoin-scams-bew...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=576337

Bitcoin and cryptocoins have been plagued with malicious actors since its inception. From Satoshi's wallets to MTGOX, the countless Bitcoin hacks and scams.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=576337#post_linode_h...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=576337#post_allinvai...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=576337#post_bitfloor...

yet another major Bitcoin bank/exchange has exit scammed.

https://www.blockhaven.ca/releases/quadrigacx-a-potential-ri...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/18/bitcoin-d...

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/fraudulent-south-korean...

When was the last time a Bank collapsed and FDIC insured deposits were lost?

https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/01/17/bitconnect-bitcoi...

https://coinnewstelegraph.com/ethereum-news-new-zealand-base...

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/willardfoxton2/10000...

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/MyBitcoin

https://bitcoinist.com/canada-maplechange-exit-scam/
A big criticism of the bill by people like the Law Council (apart from it being irresponsibly rushed through with way too little oversight) was that it was intentionally vague and broad in a lot of it's definitions. So you have a lot of people saying it's incredibly bad, and a lot of others saying, "no, it's not quite that bad - only really, really bad" but nobody really knows until you get a notice. It's all up to how the law enforcement and intelligence services interpret it, and there's insufficient judicial oversight and almost no recourse if they are telling you to do something that you think goes beyond what the law allows, and you have to keep it secret, so it will be hard to tell how far they take it or if it's being abused.
Brave is also based on chromium.
First Mexican journalist killed in 2019
Collapse is maybe a strong word, let's call it an adjustment.

There are less and less workers having a job and paying taxes, while there are more and more benefits to pay for. This is especially applicable to elderly and pensions, in countries with a socialized pension system.

Imagine the situation where both parents are getting retired and were promised 80% of their salaries, while both their children can't get a job. It's all too common nowadays. There is no tax to collect.

This may not be too much of a problem in the US where there is limited pension, healthcare or unemployment. Europe will hurt though.
So long as getting a decent place to live is dependent on income, it's unsurprising to me that cities - which are established because of their ability to produce outsized economic value - become the domain of people who produce outsized economic value. Yes, cities are fun as a side product, but people don't typically invest this much just for fun.

The market only cares about your quality of life if that translates to significant profit. Nobody has any claim in such a system to live near a city, with any level of comfort. So insanely long commutes and inhumane cage homes should not be a surprising result.

As the value of being in a city rises, the equilibrium will be to make life maximally miserable for those who can't afford the luxuries present in a city. And for those who can, the equilibrium is to make things minimally comfortable for those people to decide to continue generating economic value.

The market has no reason to provide affordable housing to people who cannot afford the economic value of the land beneath it, so the alternatives the article suggests - building a lot of housing (artificially distorting the market) or providing strong social services (artificially distorting the market), unsurprisingly, needs to artificially distort the market.

There are clearly things we care about that the market does not reflect. Money does not capture all the things we value in society, including economic diversity within a city, so expecting purely market-driven incentives to solve this issue is naive.
So Google is going to help me have more privacy by preventing me from letting extensions I want to run from having access to data I want that extension to have, so it can do a job I want it to do. Meanwhile, Google's software will of course have full access to everything I do online, and most of my data will live on Google servers. And the extension that I want to have access is also downloaded from Google servers. And the extension is open source, so I can totally check it for problems, or believe people I trust who vouch for it. Of course, I can't do that with any of the code on Google's servers, where basically everything I do all day, everything I read, everything I search for, and all my emails and documents are.

Got it.
It's a terrific addition to the ecosystem. Please keep it up ;)

What sort of applications are you thinking of building using web browser cryptography? Besides the obvious scenarios around secure communications. And even the dream ideal of privacy preservation wherein all user data is encrypted and stored in local storage. And third party web apps don't send any unencrypted data home. I see tremendous potential in the consumer internet side. Particularly around payments, digital goods, live services, etc. Empowering ordinary folks to be able to run a personal "bank" right in their web browser is pretty exciting!
I've been using unix for 25 years and I did not know that.
It may sound esoteric but this stuff is actually Super Damn Important, for at least two big reasons:

1. Security. Right now it is hard to trust a container image. Determining provenance and/or reproducibility are hampered by the image format and especially hampered by the charming little quirks of tar.

2. Performance. There are lots of optimisations that would be available if we didn't need to stream out an entire layer before we could do anything use with it. The tar family of formats is, as their name suggests, all about creating linear files intended to be saved to a tape. On a tape random access is bonkers. For a container, random access is a frequent operation. On top of that there's the whole hassle of shipping almost-but-not-quite-identical layers over and over and over. There must be petabytes of wasted bandwidth worldwide by now.
Yes, agree 100%
And your parent is referring to this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Duj2oZIC8U
Because Firefox doesn't offer any extra security controls over Chromium, in fact I would say they are way worse than vanilla Chromium on Arch. Therefore it makes sense to go with the browser that performs well, rather than one consuming a bunch of resources unnecessarily.
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There is no secret sauce in the firmware, but it has HDCP garbage (which is causing it to remain a blob). AMD could provide one without HDCP as an open option, but I suppose they didn't see enough demand for it.
Pardon my ignorance, but what's a laser strike?
As someone who was not programming when many of the customizations introduced in the article were introduced: this seems like a cautionary tale that goes against the wisdom about "competing standards": https://xkcd.com/927/

The desire to unify formats' competing back-compatibility needs created something that was (because of the standards conflicts/schisms/reunifications) extremely sub-par for most use cases, but (because of the time spent baking common interfaces) just usable enough that it remained the primary basis for storage formats for, if the author is to believed, far longer than it should have.

I wonder how many other tools that are venerated because of their age and ubiquity are similarly decrepit and broken when you peel back the curtain?
This is one of my favorite articles, which I first read when it was new and still informs how I think about organizing information and the web.
Can I export this as PDF or will I need to save this HTML and then convert to PDF using Utility such as HTML Converter? https://www.coolutils.com/TotalHTMLConverter
Robots will deliver food and drinks to George Mason University students
Where is the motive?

We sure didn't make such a post. I suppose a competitor could have done it, intending to create downward pressure by making other employers (like us) look bad. Can you see a motive for Glassdoor to do this on their own?
You're fuzzy/vague and you assume that I did not perform a selection of what I decided to buy at that time and you state about huge differences of loudness between brands of the same chip without posting proof.
>Typescript will steadily supplant JavaScript and browsers will eventually roll out native support for it, and JS will be relegated to a legacy language.

Typescript can't supplant javascript or relegate it to a legacy language... because typescript doesn't compile to bytecode or machine language, but to javascript. Browsers that support typescript natively must by definition also support javascript natively, and the more of the former you have, the more of the latter you have.
How about using zoning laws to enforce the mixture of types of home AND the amount of housing ratio to the number of jobs (commercial and industrial zoning)?

If you have more jobs than you have homes, don't zone for more jobs.
Somebody has to get it started, but they have to get something useful started. Trying to convince your government to fight the Nazis by writing editorials or calling members of Congress is useful. Trying to convince them by going to France to single-handedly fight the Wehrmacht is not useful.

Rich people flying less won't do anything to convince governments to fight climate change, so what's the point?
It takes an incredibly talented developer or team thereof to build such a reimplementation. I wonder how much talent has been wasted chasing competitors' implementations in this way. That's talent that could have been spent improving the state of the art, given a different history. Ah, well.
Ask HN: How are free phone call apps getting their access?
Surely they're not paying twilio or another similar company $0.01 per minute to allow you to make and receive phone calls... nor are they paying $1/month for a phone number that they give away for free.

How are apps like fongo and magicjack providing free phone numbers and free phone calling?

I know they are ad supported, but I highly doubt they're making over $1/user/month with those advertisements.

Or are they?

Thanks.
Even after you download it, pick Pharo 7, and open it up, the "Explore Pharo" section points you to a page that doesn't work that says it's accurate for version Pharo 5. [0]

I finally found out that the magic invocation was to open up a window by clicking on the background, and navigating to Tools -> Playground, and running `Profstef go.` But they certainly didn't make it easy.

[0] https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/UpdatedPharoByExa...
That is, whoever controls the corpus of "established true facts" controls the determination of whether something is or is not fake news. Which probably gets us to competing corpuses (corpi?) of "established true facts", run by those who push competing meta-narratives. Which looks rather similar to the current situation...
User lispm is all about some lisp and lisp machines...super knowledgeable on the subject. I like to think he has acheived a general purpose AI on his networked Symbolics machines. All jokes aside he/she has posted some great stuff on here and the lisp subreddit.
"Many of our own postmodern superheroes are forged from the fame of real-life figures – ‘Bruce Wayne’, aka Batman, is famously a conflation of the 14th-Century Scots warrior Robert the Bruce"

Is Batman really Robbie?
As Wikipedia became more popular, it also started attracting people and companies who try to use it for writing promotional articles on themselves with little to no basis in reality.

The notability requirement helps ensure that articles are accurate and can be verified with trustworthy sources. A topic only needs 2 trustworthy sources for an article, and if it doesn't meet that bar, then the topic is probably better suited for a personal blog than a Wikipedia article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability
a mathematician/physicist and philosopher aren't mutually exclusive
Infrastructure. Not a single mention in this 700 thread. Thats where senior engineers are most required.
> But if they spend HR effort to improve the ratings, that means they're looking at the feedback, and presumably they will try to address some or part of it where possible.

No. In any control loop you have two ways of reducing error.

One is the arduous business of actuation. Doing things. Soul-searching. Working hard. Investigating. Listening. Making it better.

The other is to lie to the sensor. This is always easier.

From the controller's POV, it's indistinguishable.