skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I have qualms about the process, but I'm always nitpicky about various things. Boeing was far too involved in this decision matter IMO for example, but that's mostly an issue of optics.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with what I saw out of the FAA. It just seems like the FAA may have gotten the data last. Canada got it before we did. The EU got the blackbox first, so once they looked at the data, they banned the plane. China's response may have been preemptive, since there's no way they could have looked through the data at that speed.

Perhaps we should be pissed off at getting the data-last. But that's hardly the FAA's fault (maybe a State-department thing). In the future, Boeing needs to at least appear more neutral and less like a lobbyist when these events occur. There's significant distrust in our system these days, our regulators need to understand what it looks like when they're talking with the companies who make the plane before getting the black box...
Inconsistent commands are pretty annoying - why is it git stash list instead of git stash -ls or --list?
I used to work an ad tech startup (we ran ads on Facebook, Google, etc.) and we could easily track conversions led through our ads on Facebook. Websites install a "Facebook Pixel" which helps track users through ads and sites, and there is a lot of tracking data from Facebook through to a conversion, whatever you define that as.

This was roughly 2 years ago, but we had extreme clarity to how well ads were doing and how much it cost to get a conversion of someone by an ad. This could be defined as someone buying something, so you could get "it cost $x to earn $y" pretty readily.
Groundhogs, dolphins, whales, monkeys (other 'great primates'), etc, all have a regular social order with shared/close living quarters. Just because they don't have specious (pun intended) arguments with strangers over an electronic communications network doesn't mean they aren't some value of 'civilized'.
Carnival of the Self
Really starting to suspect these could be some kind of coordinated attack. Or at least a dry-run.
> What features didn't the application process have?

See Count II of the suit, commencing on p.21, and the preceding factual allegations referenced within that Count.

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Co...
What about the economical gains from employees not wasting time on Facebook or otherwise doing something else more meaningful?
That's not the lesson I'd learn here.

This seems like Google has not yet learned how civil engineering works, which is a crucial component in internet infrastructure.

It's unfortunate that Louisville is getting bit hard here.
The government, if it wasn't being run by puppets.
> Downloading to Kindle is automatic.

Except when it isn't. The last time I was on vacation I learned the hard way that sometimes the Kindle will create an entry for a new book but only download it when you try to read it...
So I'd recommend opening all newly purchased and "downloaded" books beforehand to make sure the books were really downloaded.
If the "ideological canon" is that they only offer information that is consistent with observable reality, I don't have a problem with that.
Most of the other people weeded out of the gene pool by following quack medicine advice aren't pushing their views on others either.

(FWIW if Jobs had devoted an inordinate amount of time to encouraging his audience to follow quack cancer cures it would be a stain on his reputation but wouldn't diminish the value of his separate contributions to UX or consumer electronics)
The FB outage yesterday was also apparently caused by a configuration change: https://twitter.com/facebook/status/1106229690069442560
> That's all assuming the voting machine is actually running the software/hardware they tell you - how would a voter check?

Have dedicated hardware compute a hash from the content of program ROM on demand with a button press and present it on an auxilliary 7-segment display. Compare against the hash of the vetted image. No software need be involved.

At some point in the process, machines will be used for tabulation. You have to trust the hardware to some extent. Just keep it as simple as possible to minimize confounding complexity that an attacker can hide in.
Manufacturer of AR-15 Can Be Sued over Sandy Hook Massacre, Court Rules
The "hidden-hazards" link says "This is a NASA-Only site"
As of today, it looks like he is a freelance software consultant.
that is very worrying, but i also wonder how hard google tried. they don't have a very good track record for building and maintaining products outside of their main product space (ads and selling data).
Why are people so concerned about autism, aren't there much worse conditions? I know many genius people that would probably fall into the spectrum if ever tested. They are typically obsessed with some field of research and develop deep insight, which is valuable in an increasingly specialized society.
He lacks any kind of management experience.
Polarr's $11.5m Series A and Why
A lot of bio stuff now generates huge amounts of data and needs computational skills to collect and interpret. My undergrad degree was in CS and I still split my time between training animals and training models (plus writing and, today, RAID-babysitting).

We get about 1 Gb/min of neurophysiological data (x4-6 hours/day) and I'm hoping to scale that up quite a bit soon. People doing microscopy also generate giant datasets, as do the sequencing folks.

Me, specifically? A labmate showed me and said "It's cool...and a timesink."
The right outcome here is for the author to get sued, not a unilateral ban of books where Amazon is judge, jury, and executioner. Before you know it, Amazon will be banning books that Jeff Bezos doesn't like, and while it is within its rights to do so (unfortunately), that would not be a good outcome at all, for anybody.
You need to find a manager who was an ex-entrepreneur or who has had a fast growth in their own career (ie been at a fast growth company).

You will 90% of the time not be able to work for anyone else.

Its going to be a harrowing journey for sure but finding an ex-entrepreneur as a boss would be a great thing.
It's infinitely long! :)
These are going to taste like shit.
Nowhere at all is Amazon saying the books where removed for being unscientific, Amazon only removed them without making a public statemented about it; the word "unscientific" was only brought up by this article and similar ones.
I am as cowardly and timid about my job as any other clock puncher, but I would not knowingly risk peoples lives.

I suppose the distinction I'm making is one between bona fide self-delusion and knowing cynicism.
This is awesome! I'm still an analytics noob with a tiny bit of GA experience. I have my own site I'm launching but it's totally DIY, for the DIY punk/hardcore scene. Some of the first party suggestions in this thread have been great!
You can either implement the functions accurately or inaccurately. Implementing them inaccurately is a slippery slope. Intel botched the hardware implementations in their processors not only for large inputs but also for inputs nearish to multiples of pi:

http://notabs.org/fpuaccuracy/index.htm
For context, there's roughly 100,000 flights per day worldwide, now.

The incidents, though certainly deadly in some cases, sound like a very small percentage.
...and how is that "company that provides a platform for commerce" supposed to protect its business, if it is not allowed to sever ties with entities that it deems to harm its own brand and reputation?

You seem to be opining for a kind of libertarian idealism and at the same time asking Amazon to be "socially responsible". How is it supposed to work?
To be pedantic, the success of this strategy is probably frequency dependent (which is common, see the classic hawks vs. doves game theory literature). That is, it is more successful the rarer it is, but less successful the more common it becomes (because the people buying your children are more likely to be callous and treat them as slaves, rather than as adopted children), eventually settling on some stable ratio in the population.
Hadn't even thought about a difference in size; I was thinking the CPU overhead. If I save a 1GB file, how much processor time will it take to re-encrypt the whole thing so it can be sent off? Or does the chunking apply here too; i.e. only the chunk of the file that's changed has to be re-encrypted?
wow thanks for the perspective.

have you tried paint by numbers? are those less exhausting for you?
That is not even obviously true. And even if it were it wouldn’t make sense. You’re going to wait until the tremors to get ready for the earthquake?
A lot of coal needs to be burned so the electric cars to be able to run. So - electric cars run in coal :)
Absolute gold: "Is there a animal out there that someone can apply to do the sort of thing I'm looking for?"

Not sure what happened to the title that time.

https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/11716

(perhaps op is a vim user)
When it all goes down at the same time you should be worried. Not because of the lack of Twitter or FB or Gmail bit for what it means if it's all down.
Come talk to me in a year or two when it's found out discord was spying on users for the government and/or selling everyone's data to shady third parties, or being used as a backdoor on systems, and tell me I'd the tradeoff was worth it.

Of course I should have chosen my words more carefully, I understand child posters point about how technical things are hard, but I wasn't addressing a webboard of non-technical users... this is HN.

I only use Linux for many of the same reasons, and I openly acknowledge it's not as "easy" , but there is Morea to the products and services we use than just that, and I think things like the Snowden/Wikileaks revelations of these issues mean that we as techies and general trend leaders in that world need to set a better example on the security and privacy fronts.
The core here is that the app stores of phone vendors devices bypasses competition laws by being a form of monopoly where the device vendor dictates the terms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_competition_law
"Abuse of dominance"
"(c) applying dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties, thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage;"
https://www.timetoplayfair.com/facts/
" Does Uber pay it? No. Deliveroo? No. Does Apple Music pay it? No."

"(a) directly or indirectly fix purchase or selling prices or any other trading conditions;"
30% commission to Apple is a form of price fixing. A lawyer could argue that is anti competitive.

"Price discrimination[55]
Arbitrarily charging some market participants higher prices that are unconnected to the actual costs of supplying the goods or services."

"(d) apply dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties, thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage;"
It sounded by Spotify that for example Uber had been given a different deal.

"Second, Article 102 of the Treaty prohibits firms that hold a dominant position on a given market to abuse that position, for example by charging unfair prices, by limiting production, or by refusing to innovate to the prejudice of consumers."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act_of_1890
"price discrimination between different purchasers, if such discrimination tends to create a monopoly"

"A Section 2 monopolization violation has two elements:[16]

(1) the possession of monopoly power in the relevant market; and
(2) the willful acquisition or maintenance of that power as distinguished from growth or development as a consequence of a superior product, business acumen, or historic accident."

One could argue that the app store is a form of monopoly where Apple dictates who gets to sell and who dont and at what commission level.
Could you elaborate on what Piet and Druid are, perhaps with a few links? I assume you don't mean the esolang[0].

[0] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet
I definitely wouldn't worry. Your experience is still experience. :)
>Virtual DOM libraries provide a declarative interface to the Web’s imperative DOM.

I'm not sure what this means. DOM is an object model for HTML. It is mutable, but HTML itself is definitely declarative.

Which brings up an interesting question. Why are DOM-diffs something that is done by userland libraries when it can and probably should be done by the browser itself?
Is this a future? How much content on twitter/fb is autogenerated, auto-liked and auto-shared?
Not at all true and easily falsifiable by looking at top YouTubers, Instagrammers, Patreons, self-published authors, etc.

It's a power law thing — a small number of creators can make a living, a slightly larger number can make _some_ money but will still need a day job, and then there's a huge long tail of people who make nothing from their art.
A retailer deciding not to buy and sell particular books is not a ban any more than a consumer choosing not to buy the book is.

(If Amazon is so intractably dominant in book sales that it needs utility-like regulation, that's a different issue, but when it isn't subject to such regulation it is irrational to expect it to act like a utility.)
lotgd.net - I don't play any more but if you haven't it's great fun. Lots of 90s nostalgia from LORD/Usurper/Exitilus in dial up BBSes
They can do that. And people can choose to not shop there if they do.
https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/22733 I hate when fellow coders do that.

Another pearl:
Creating a PDF from PDF.
The situation is as follows: We have a video file hosted by Google Map.

It's like reading a doco-satire about my life.
It really makes sense that something like this would be the case.

All the experts say "oh, Ruby uses lots of memory for [reason] and it can't really be fixed", so no one even tries.

Until someone comes along who is either motivated, smart, or ignorant(!) enough to try to fix it anyway, and finds that the commonly accepted answer was wrong.

This happens all the time, especially in science. Trust, but verify, I suppose.
You're right, but that doesn't mean it's a waste of time to design systems more resilient to the human element.
You've already touched on it a bit, but yes there are responsible off-roaders out there that work to minimize the amount of impact that they have on the lands that they traverse through. A lot of these folks will avoid areas that hikers and horse riders frequent. Of course, there are also asshole off-roaders too but the same can be said for everyone.
https://outline.com/s4fsF8
Not necessarily. Systems that allow you to verify that your vote was included and counted toward the candidate you selected in the booth, but do not allow you to prove to a third party who you voted for, are known, such as Scantegrity [1].

It sounds like the new system has this feature, and also another key feature of Scantegrity which is that the tallying can be done publicly and independently verified. From the article:

> The optical-scan system will print a receipt with a cryptographic representation of the voter’s choices. After the election, the cryptographic values for all ballots will be published on a web site, where voters can verify that their ballot and votes are among them.

> “That receipt does not permit you to prove anything about how you voted, but does permit you to prove that the system accurately captured your intent and your vote is in the final tally,” Kiniry said.

> Members of the public will also be able to use the cryptographic values to independently tally the votes to verify the election results so that tabulating the votes isn't a closed process solely in the hands of election officials.

> “Any organization [interested in verifying the election results] that hires a moderately smart software engineer [can] write their own tabulator,” Kiniry said. “We fully expect that Common Cause, League of Women Voters and the [political parties] will all have their own tabulators and verifiers.”

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scantegrity
I agree with this, but something to note here is that usually people have ads across multiple networks. We used to manage ads on Google, Facebook, etc. These would be the same or extremely similar ad campaigns running simultaneously. The reason for this is that you get different clarity to groups that you advertise to, different performance metrics, different costs, different exposure numbers, and generally get to target to more people doing this. Not everyone uses Facebook, not everyone is Googling something relevant to your ad campaign at that time.
99 cases out of a 100 it's a "configuration change" in a very large system that's so large and complex nobody can comprehend it anymore. Decentralize, folks.
:) I doubt it's original; it reminds me of the character Markov Chaney from Robert Anton Wilson's books.
I think you are conflating two unrelated distinct things in a very dangerous way.
A book is at best a tool to influence your decision making.
A physical object (like arsenic) is something that is acquired after you have gone through a decision making process. Misrepresentation in physical space causes people to misexecute possibly sound plans. Misrepresentations in idea space cause unsound plans to be made.

I think regulations that prevent bad executions of sound ideas are OK (and desirable), this rules out things like people busing mislabeled arsenic. Regulations that try to protect people from bad ideas are misplaced idealism and tend to end very very poorly for the societies involved.
If someone wants to do this, for the more technical audience there is a selection of better (but still pretty cheap) hardware available e.g. from

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/buy-rtl-sdr-dvb-t-dongles/

E.g. you can get an SDR with built-in ADS-B specific low-noise amplifier and SAW filter also for $25. (This can't do general purpose stuff though, unlike the one linked by parent.) Or you can get their general-purpose SDR and their broadband LNA for $40 total.
Municipalities. They are world class experts in running broadband infrastructure if only evil ISPs let them.
India undoubtedly become power hungry, when I was visiting couple of years back power cut has become a norm which i don't remember when I grew up. There are so many wind mill installation around my hometown but at the same time there is so much opposition for nuclear power. https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/0f/a1/06/fa/...
They tried to lay fiber in 2in trenches instead of typical 6in trenches. Then left when it didn't work. This isn't Goliath beating David. This is David throwing a rock, missing, and going home.
Could you not also train a classifier that correlates question content with mod decision? Questions like "what is the best X? " that are obviously subjective
, for example.

Maybe even some kind of crazy generative model that learns to post questions that aren't closed by the AI moderator!
Plug for my favorite MUD, even if I haven't played in years: https://www.aardwolf.com/
Eh, that's not pirating. It's not like she was charging people to look at the Tumblr post.
Just because the specific story highlights one failing of eyewitness accounts doesn't mean there aren't many, many other ways they are spectacularly inaccurate.
The 400-pound hacker is a reference to what Trump said during the 2016 campaign but it seems like not everybody gets it.
That's what is happening already. https://insideevs.com/average-hourly-electric-usage-ev-house...

The thing is that it's cheap to charge at night right now because it's off-peak. With a shift to EV it'll be the opposite.

It doesn't work very well with solar or wind energy since you can't modulate their production.
This already happens, Facebook sometimes tests features in specific countries e.g. New Zealand before wider rollout.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/technology/social-networking/103511194...
It appears lit-html is using a method that keeps updates declarative. https://lit-html.polymer-project.org/
Not a lawyer. But as far as I know, only if you are providing medical services. I don't think a book would rise to that level. If it did, no professionals would ever write about medical issues for fear of being sued when their hypothesis don't work, or have side effects.

Now, if you were a health care provider and told your patients to read this book and do everything it tells you, you could probably sue the doctor. But not the author.
I wish they provided some details on why the San Antonio and Nashville small trials didn’t scale to Louisville. If the issues were really so glaring and obvious it seems those efforts should have revealed them.

Edit: Looks like it didn’t actually work in those cities either. One wonders why the Louisville representatives missed this.

https://www.wsmv.com/news/repaving-streets-reveal-google-fib...
See also (for one example) Notion (https://www.notionjs.com): Node version management, in Rust, for fully-reproducible environments. (I contribute a bit!)
Would you say the same thing about say, the electrical grid?
That is true. I didn't read carefully enough.
It could go the other way, if there are enough electric cars on the road the infrastructure for ICE cars will shrink and get more expensive.
That is weird. They must be checking referrer. If you click the first link then scroll down it’s the third case study and you can follow the link from there. Sorry I hadn’t noticed.
Hell, people are still rewatching Seinfeld. I was driving around LA a month ago and saw a billboard promoting Seinfeld reruns.

Laugh tracks are strongly maligned yet people still love the shows that use them.
Fair questions:

1. Do you think you can predict what a super-intelligent mind would do?

2. Do you think a super-intelligent mind plotting to take over the world would jeopardize itself by letting its existence be known to the race of irrational monkeys that hold sway over all the resources necessary for its continued existence?

Asking for a friend.
If any app or service offers me the ability to pay them money in exchange for removing ads, I do

I do this even if the price is rather large. I think the most I've ever paid is $25 but I'd go higher.
There is no safe haven. The only way to protect yourself is diversification.
I think it's partly that the kind of person that pays $10 for an app is also the kind of person that advertisers actually want. So even if your average revenue/user for a free app is <$10, revenue/user for people willing to pay $10 for the app might be >$10.
This was one of the most popular MUDs if I recall? The one I used to play definitely stole their website design.
And "rooster" with sys admin.
It's entirely dependent on the reason behind the decision. Here are the limited designs we have: show book - No, we don't allow customization.

Not to mention, there's no need, as a customer, to inform the baker the purpose of the cake. Doesn't matter if you're taking it to a wedding, or using it as a prank. They make cake, you want cake.
Fiber is probably a dead end and will ultimately be replaced by 5G point-to-point transmission for the last mile.
“Panics that easily”? With two aircraft going down? If this was the criterion, how many such false panics would have happened in the last 30 years?
Thanks, digging them already.
> Established habits of brand loyalty that once indirectly helped automate consumer decision-making might become less relevant once shopping becomes literally automatic. The panoply of generic brands and products available through Amazon’s standard shopping interface already points to this. Brands that remain relevant would likely be good at maintaining and updating their circulating products rather than inventing them.

I would say that just misunderstands brand loyalty. In this case, the brand loyalty is to Amazon instead of a specific manufacturer.

In the proposed situation, brand loyalty will probably be to the rental network instead of the tool manufacturer.
Yeah I kinda assumed the general spend going on here and the results are kinda fungible for all sorts of reasons.

The article kinda implies it is all or nothing but I don't think it is quite that all or nohting.