skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Maybe we just have to accept that part of the experiment of living in a democratic and free society is allowing people to create their own values, and accepting that people are going to get it wrong.

There is a difference between choosing your values and choosing your facts. We have a big problem in not being able to distinguish the difference between our opinions and facts - and values are more akin to opinions than facts.

There isn't a problem with people coming up with different values. The problems start to arise when you're not willing to be wrong about those values, especially when you start ignoring facts that contradict those values.
What's the current longest endurance, COTS (commercial off the shelf) flight platform?
True, though they only get which cell towers you're connected to, not your actual GPS location.
The Oral History of Office Space
There is one thing that annoys me about generic TLDs like .dev, .website, .cloud, .network etc. For example, Salesforce have https://crm.dev - are they the only CRM in the world? Hell no, but they're the biggest, so they can be the only one in the .dev space. Same with workers.dev.
Looks like you need to specify number of shares AND a cost.

If you just set a number of shares it is ignored, there should be a warning.

Looks good though, really needs a refresh button on the portfolio screen to update with latest prices.
>Instead ebook readers came along and reinvented filesystems, because users cannot be trusted to organize their book collection themselves.

In the early days of Mac OSX, iTunes actually did a great job of just organizing your music collection for you. It would sort your music into a nested hierarchy by artist, album, and track title based on the metadata on the file, which you could edit with iTunes. When you changed stuff around it would actually modify where the files were saved in the library folder.

It worked great. It was structured logically in your iTunes library, but organizing and tagging your iTunes library also wound up structuring your file system logically automatically. So there was never this sense of a pretty veneer over a messy clusterfuck underneath. The whole thing is designed to keep things tidy and organized.
Sunrise periods are required for all new gTLDs by ICANN.
And a high intensity cpap was inducing a sleep disorder?

Couldn’t he easily test that by having the patients reduce the intensity?
> You should drop the condescending tone toward people who have more years of experience photographing professionally than you have of age.

You might want to avoid making arbitrary assumptions about anonymous debaters, who may just as well be far more experienced than you, especially when said experience is not particularly relevant to the discussion of easy operation.

It's not interesting to know if someone can efficiently navigate an instrument after 25 years of experience with it. At that point, quirky UX ends up entirely concealed by muscle memory, and such person ends up being a poor source of input for UX matters.
On a recent thread Google personnel mentioned that ICANN forces all domain providers to backup their data so that any domain provider going bankrupt won't affect domains. However there was no mention of what procedures Google Domains themselves have put in place to protect their customers in case their customers get irreversibly banned somewhere within Google's vast empire.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19178757

If the answer is they keep your domains, like they do with Adsense revenue when they ban accounts, then you should definitely be getting your .dev through a different domain provider who Google cannot avoid cooperating with because of ICANN rules they have to follow.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/adsense-lawsuit/248135/
They are pretty much the definition of counterfeit. The Oxford dictionary defines counterfeit as "Made in exact imitation of something valuable with the intention to deceive or defraud".
I don't understand why folks get so upset about the Touch Bar. It just sits there; if you don't want to use it, don't use it.

It's not like Macbook Pros are getting more expensive. A 15" Macbook Pro with Touch Bar starts at $2,399. When I bought my first 15" Macbook Pro in 2008, the base model was about $2,500. That's the price range of a Macbook Pro.

When it comes to iPhones, considering the sales trajectory without the broader industry context doesn't reveal much. It's not like Samsung and LG phones are selling as fast as they used to either. BTW, their flagship phones cost about as much as an iPhone these days. Phone sales in general are slowing down. Apple continues to compete very well in that space.

People have been complaining about Apple's arrogance for as long as I can remember. I'm not trying to discount the way you feel, I'm just saying that your feelings are not necessarily representative of Apple's future prospects. Apple threads on HN have attracted similar comments for as long as I've been reading here. I mean, people were complaining about iTunes 10 years ago, and look at Apple sales over that time.
> adversely affects a person's QoL, as they are forced to re-address the same ground consistently when they already have limited productive resources.

But that's not what happened here. Steve didn't prompt anyone for a response of any kind. He offered a quick one-liner of a suggestion. Shakna wasn't even part of that thread, and just dropped in to tell him to shut up.

It's the internet man. You're quite free to disregard the advice.
"Fruit harvesting robots are totally feasible, but we have political and economic policies that make it easier to use migrant labor than it is to invest in innovation."

While it's true the political and economic sentiment has been against farm automation, we haven't had the technology to make most farm automation tasks feasible until recently and it still has a long ways to go.
> ... and it writes a playlist of queries to Spotify.

Shazam can also integrate with Spotify. I'm doing this presently on Android
How I Take Risks Without Consequential Harm from Uncertainty
> The risk of a false positive is nonzero, but how does it balance against the value of a true-negative?

Do you mean a miss?

Misses are unavoidable. If the perpetrator didn't have their phone on them, this is not going to help a bit. However invasive your investigative powers are, there will always remain a chance of misses. The question is how much privacy and freedom of innocents you want to sacrifice for a small further decrease of miss chance.
The four highest officials in Virginia just brazened out being in blackface, Steve King still has a job, and the president is... well I won’t go into it. I think you might need to recalibrate your sense of these things.
I think you forgot to suffix that speech with "you peasant."
I know few people who can do mental calculus, fewer who can perform the cost benefit analysis you describe and none who have the right to make that decision for everyone else, but that's exactly what happens
I first heard about counterfeit goods on Amazon from HN, and at the time thought, "Hm, must be a west-coast thing, hasn't happened to me before." In the last year I've received a handful of very obvious fakes and have (thankfully) been able to return them since the items were "fulfilled by Amazon."

It's not surprising that with the volume of items pushed by Amazon there are going to be some fakes. What is surprising is how merchants fulfilled by Amazon lack any incentive AFAIK to ship real goods. For any major purchase from now on, I'm going to buy local or buy direct from the manufacturer. It's just a waste of time to hope that what you get in the mail is what you ordered in the first place.
If the API you rely on breaks, you have to change your code. This is exactly how catastrophes happen.

It's more of an issue that you have unreliable 3rd party vendors that you buy from/use.
Agreed its usually quantity over quality. California is perhaps freshest and tasiest in the nation, with the healthier lifestyles, local farms and Mexican influence. You should try the midwest.
I think it's possible for both things to be true at the same time. Yes it's a selective meritocracy, and it's also true that the process unnecessarily alienates people. It comes down to recruiters being given the very difficult task of finding candidates for a process with such a high rejection rate, and the added stress of being given very specific rules about the things you can't be transparent about. The overwhelming majority of job seekers are mature adults who can handle rejection and constructive negative feedback. It's the sense of having wasted one's time that generates the "sour grapes" feeling.
In the real world, maybe 5% do the math. The rest are dazzled or browbeaten by apps and continuous demands for some permission they don't fully understand the scope of.
> Gold is a fringe commodity valued by a similar small subset of the population that values bitcion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_reserve#Officially_report...
They're only at the beginning of development, and they're starting at a small scale, so it's not clear whether the smaller scale drones can't achieve perpetual flight or whether that was simply not a necessary goal at this point to monetize the idea and get their business off the ground.

But, assuming that there's some point as you scale down at which perpetual flight becomes impossible, my first guess would be the surface area for solar cells at being a limiting factor.
Perhaps I just didn't understand the web page, but this seems unnecessarily complicated.

The Department of Customs and Border Protection already operates a fleet of tethered airships. These seem to be a much simpler solution to "eternal flight."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethered_Aerostat_Radar_System
That's never going to happen. Regardless of what 'studies show'. If Jesus comes down from heaven and tells everyone we need to work less, it will still never happen. Was reading 'Bullshit jobs' by David Graeber and frankly I am starting to believe the conspiracy theory that there is an inherent interest of society to keep people busy as much as possible. Because if you give people more free time, don't keep them on their toes and stressed, they may start thinking about building guillotines.
Terms of use and privacy policy not ready yet. Let me just fall all over myself to enter my whole portfolio into your web site.

What are you planning to do with all of that information once you get it? How does this make money?
It may be that they were simply paid less than optimal salaries before and increasing their wages per hour actually improved their productivity, incentivizing them to accomplish in 4 days what they previously accomplished in 5. It would be interesting to do a parallel test with the same groups, have a control group, have a 4 day group that keeps the same pay, and a 5 day group with a 20% pay increase.
If you don't want to wade through five paragraphs of senseless drivel to get to the point:

Their conclusions: The grape is less like an antenna and more like a trombone, though for microwaves instead of sound. When you play a trombone, you push vibrating air into it. The trombone will only sustain vibrations of a particular wavelength—the musical note you hear—depending on where you’ve positioned the slide. Only certain wavelengths, known as standing waves, fit perfectly inside the trombone. As vibrating air of various wavelengths enter the trombone, the standing waves add constructively, while other wavelengths cancel each other out. In other words, the trombone amplifies the standing waves and mutes all others.

The grape, incidentally, is the perfect size for amplifying the microwaves that your kitchen machine radiates. The appliance pushes microwaves into the two grape halves, where the waves bounce around and add constructively to focus the energy to a spot on the skin. Both grape halves happen to focus the energy to the same tiny point. That intense energy jostles the atoms and molecules at that spot, heating them up so much that they can no longer hold onto their electrons, which turns them into a plasma—and boom, fireball.

tl;dr: constructive EM wave interference from the grape seed.
There are more devs than just web devs. Just sayin'
It's been a while since I used VxWorks, but I hated Workbench as well (prefer using a plain old makefile). One of my favorite features of VxWorks was the shell you could get on a serial port. It was quite powerful, even letting you do REPL with C functions which was pretty awesome for debugging.

Another "favorite" feature of VxWorks was how they disabled floating point by default in tasks (at least on the LEON and PPC). Always led to confusion and frustration by someone new to the platform.
Those libraries are here: https://github.com/city-of-helsinki

Including how you make reservations for the rooms in this library building: https://github.com/City-of-Helsinki/varaamo
Practical Dynamic Type, Part 3: Attributed Strings
So put in your wife’s purse and say you spent the day with your wife (maybe spousal privelege would be useful there)
data Stripe1_0 = {
field1: type1
field2: type2
}

data Stripe2_0 = {
cc_id: str
}

data Stripe = Stripe1_0 | Stripe2_0
One of the reason to buy VxWorks is that it comes with certification for various industries :

https://www.windriver.com/products/vxworks/certification-pro...

So if you have to explain to the regulatory body that you have a certified OS with all the appropriate paperwork, it always easier than certifying your custom OS.

The second point from an enterprise point of view is that in case of weird issue you can rely on Windriver support. Not so easy when you have built your own Yocto distribution, with recipe from dubious origin.

So in the end, you pay to mitigate risks.

My company investigated switching from VxWorks to Xenomai (wich helpfully provide a wrapper to access the kernel with a VxWorks compatible API). In the end, once you added the support and certification, it was not less expensive.
Sadly, the unvaccinated children are the ones that suffer - some will get the disease and suffer severe side effects(Mumps sterilizes many adult victims, but largely spares kids before puberty) Measles also has some severe adult side effects. Then there is polio...
I go to my local library once a week every Saturday morning.

They encouraged a chess club which was what got me in the door (shamefully for someone who reads as much as I do I rarely went) and now I use their other services, it's got a nice little cafe attached and upstairs they have a maker space.

It's surprisingly progressive for my local council.

As to why I like the library, it provides useful services beyond lending books (which in the world of Amazon and e-readers isn't enough - however I'm happy to pay taxes towards the people on low incomes been able to check out books), mostly it's the people who run the place, they are almost universally lovely to interact with.
This is correct.
230 liability would not protect this case.

In general, physical publishers are always liable for what they print.

It doesn't matter where it came from.

(at least in this context. Things like libel are more interesting)
Hold on, this is great justification for Google having this data (in addition to the real reason, which is to provide better location-based services). Due to the anonymization process, no one's privacy is unduly infringed upon, and investigators have a tool for catching criminals. Do you not see that last bit as a societal win?
I meant shutter release lag. Still, with both devices locked, the time from pick up to first shot won’t be that much different.

I’d rather have my Nikon, but I wouldn’t be in troubled if I needed a quick shot and only had my iPhone.
Here's an interesting question about uncertainty.

Can you measure it? What units is uncertainty measured in? If there are any, is there a curve that maps uncertainty to changes in GDP and if so on which historical events was this curve calibrated?

If you ask these questions you rapidly find yourself into a bottomless spiral of, ironically, uncertainty, as the economics profession can't give a straight answer to any of them. In fact some economists think uncertainty based recessions don't exist at all.

The UK appears to be a strong counterexample. It was supposed to experience a recession that wiped out half a million jobs due to the plunge in investment that would be triggered by the uncertainty of voting Leave. In fact the economy grew, wages went up, employment went up, immigration levels have hardly changed overall, and the UK is now the best performing EU country in the G7.

Moreover despite there being tremendous uncertainty about whether there'll be a deal of any sort of all, there still doesn't seem to be any measurable impact. That's why the Remain contingent keeps pointing at individual cases - there is no observable Brexit effect in the actual economic statistics themselves. And for every case of a company leaving and blaming Brexit, debatable thought these cases are, there seem to be other cases of companies doing the opposite, like Citigroup who donated to the Remain campaign yet nonetheless appears about to spend £1.2 Billion buying its London HQ:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/business/citigroup-hands-...

So you said this:

it does bring up that when you destabilize an economy by adding uncertainty it puts you at more risk

But where is the evidence of this destabilisation? As far as I can tell, if you somehow didn't know about the vote or the negotiations, you'd conclude the opposite - German growth has hit zero, Italy is in recession, the Spanish government just collapsed, and there are massive riots every weekend in France. Where's the instability in the UK? It looks pretty peaceful in comparison.
> But how do we know that the scout's belief is right?

I feel like the assumption in the article is that neither is right, but that the scout is searching for right, and the solider is defending right.

> Seems like the author has already come to the conclusion that its always going to be right. Doesn't that just bring us back to the mindset of the soldier?

I don't think so. The mindset distinction isn't between right and wrong, both types prefer to be right. The distinction is whether you're a motivated defender of an idea in spite of the evidence, or whether you're searching for truth and willing to change your position.

If you think about this in just pure statistical probabilities, who's more likely to be right at any given time, the person who is certain they're right, or the person who has changed their mind to favor the evidence?

It feels like this might even be related to the Monty Hall problem to me; once you have some evidence that something's wrong, there's a distinct statistical advantage to changing your mind, even when you don't know and you're choosing randomly.
‘We Paid Little Attention to Vulnerabilities in Machine Learning’: Darpa
NHSX: new joint organisation for digital transformation in the NHS
OpenAI: AI Safety Needs Social Scientists
It's not tethered to the ground. It's a group of rotating "wings" tethered to each other in the centre, wherein the centrifugal force of the rotation give structural stability. That way they get away with using less structural material, which means more of the weight can be batteries or fuel.
This comment is unproductive and ridiculous.

1. Histrionic comparison to a dystopian novel.

2. Calling people who disagree with you "naive fools".

3. Evoking this category of "nothing to hide" strawmen.

This information can only be attained by a warrant, and doesn't change the fact that you are tried before a judge, by a jury of your peers. Furthermore, Police are funded by local governments with locally elected officials, so they are eventually bound by the public. If you are to any degree right, you haven't explained how this data could be used to undermine, circumvent, or influence these factors and bring about a 'surveillance state'. At this point you're just fear mongering.
You’re still thinking like a mainframe salesman scoffing at PC’s ;) Crypto doesn’t require a bank account, passport, etc... The establishment requires that. A hope is that like the third world skipped telephone lines straight to cellphones, they will skip being dicked around by The National Bank of Venezuela and JCMorgan Chase & Partners, Ltd. and go straight to self-sovereign value exchange.
KDE Digikam 6.0 Released
I'd like some feedback on why I got such a rotten score for mentioning the orange guy below? It's not even necessarily negative criticism; it's about relativism and to not let certain traits bother you. (Whether he has other traits that may be disagreeable was not addressed and not intended to be.)

Please don't negate people without giving practical and applicable feedback. I find hit-and-run negating really annoying and unhelpful, people. Use the minus responsibly. I WANT to learn from my mistakes without having to avoid controversial topics merely because they are controversial.
Oh, they definitely have, yes (I do think people have a bit of an idealised view of the 2012-2015 models). Recent problems have arguably been more widespread, though, particularly the keyboard failure thing.

And yeah, Apple are definitely held to a higher standard, but that's kind of how they've positioned themselves, so they're probably stuck with it now.
It's the cost of coffee for a couple of days or so.
The `.test` and `.localhost` TLDs are already reserved for such purposes: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606
The use-cases discussed in TFA all seem pretty low-power, mostly recon-type stuff. That said, it'd be interesting to contemplate what the right proportions would be to actually run a hungrier payload.

At a certain point, "perpetual" also starts to run into problems of mechanical failure. Then again, if these things are cheap enough and/or able to limp home in the case of a snapped cable or failed prop motor, maybe it still works out.
Why do you think mckinsey has a pattern of screwing over its clients?
I like the idea of extracting as many useful bits of information as possible!
> The problem is, if it's not codified in law, there is no consistency.

A poorly codified policy is an implementation problem, and will be a problem for both limited and unlimited PTO policies.

> "Unlimited PTO" is a marketing farce, no more, no less. If you want people to take 25 days a year off, give them 25 days of PTO and be on the hook for the liability if they leave. If you want to give them more time than that through an approval process, offer it! But don't say it's unlimited, because it isn't. And if you don't want one of your business perks to be pointed out as fraudulent, don't advertise it as such.

The entire point is that the employer doesn't care how many days off people take each year. Employees can be responsible for deciding that for themselves. Some people don't want that extra responsibility, and I'd agree that they probably won't like unlimited PTO policies.

It would be ludicrous to outlaw unlimited PTO policies just because some people don't like them.
So, What Is Data Science Anyway?
I just looked back into this thread and did not realize my comment was misrepresented to the point of starting an ideological war.
To get the record straight about my opposition to affirmative action - I do not think any race is inferior/superior to any other and as such people of all races should be treated equally in all fields of professional achievement - including my beloved field of mathematics.
That's why when I see someone writing an article about "I'm the only person of race X in this field" I sense BS. As is the case here, a mediocre mathematician using the race card to score some political points.
Conservatives and Liberals should openly talk about these issues for the common good, not outright censor/ban each other's opinion.
Unless you count Goldman taking the other side of those same IB deals against their own clients...
Announcing workers.dev
The Beauty of Pattern Matching in Elixir