skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and no. In general in the most overview sense, Baltimore City has governing authority of a county, it is effectively a county jurisdiction.

However, Baltimore City actually has LESS autonomy over a variety of things than any other of the several cities I have previously lived in (even those which were in counties) -- the state government in Annapolis controls so many things that I'm used to being controlled much more at municipal level in other cities I've lived in. From liquor licenses, to schools, to the police department, many decisions are made at the state government legislative level. (The Baltimore City council has pretty much NO authority over the police at all -- it's all the state government in Annapolis).

I don't think this is necessarily related to Baltimore City being an independent county-level jurisdiction (although it might be). I think there are a variety of historical factors, stretching back to colonial times (when the Maryland colonial elites were in Annapolis, and never intended Baltimore to be a big city or power center at all, and viewed Baltimore's growth as a threat to their power), to Civil War times (the majority of Maryland, and Baltimore, (white of course) elites sympathized with the confederacy, but the union federal government basically took control of the MD state government -- cause if Maryland went confederacy, DC would be surrounded -- and made sure that confederate-sympathizing Baltimore had limited autonomy), to more recent times (white flight, racism and white supremacy, white people don't believe majority-Black Baltimore can be trusted to run itself).
isn’t webrtc by default off on all browsers? aren’t websites asking for permssion before the js is allowed access? and won’t it stay off when you deny the request?
Uber's self-driving car killed a person because the victim was jaywalking on an unilluminated section of 4-lane highway at night and did not stop, look, or listen before crossing
The saddest part of this to me is that Google had a huge head start with Google Voice which they let languish for years. When I realized I was being silently dropped from group messages because they were MMS and voice couldn't support it (which lead to people thinking I was ignoring them) I moved everything to Apple.

Since then they've released and killed a bunch of chat applications that have all been pretty poor - as an outsider it seems like something is pretty wrong with how they're handling that strategy.
MIT Awards $1M to the Most Innovative Future of Work Organizations
ASRS doesn't deal with reports about auto-safety.

eg. search for ACN 1337942 here https://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/search/dbol.html (i'm too dumb to figure out how to link to a specific nasa report), and there's a report about the captain's side AOA vane being busted and causing the captain's stick shaker to vibrate constantly.

edit: here's another one: 1097906, talking about inconsistent airspeed readings between the captain and first officer and then on descent, the airspeed readings went super wonky and the plane pitched nose down.
Free Software Is the Only Winner in Elastic NV vs. AWS
To think that Mozilla can have revenue of $500M+ per year, yet a Patreon might be needed to make their browser faster :-)
Or Zoho for $1/month.
.ts files, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming
The Astronomical Unit is based on the Earth-Sun average distance. It seems a lot of people care about this metric.
Fortunately, Safari's WebRTC won't silently leak your private IP address or other network info. We've also proposed a new protocol extension that enables peer-to-peer pure data connections in a privacy-aware way.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-rtcweb-mdns-ice-...
Said person was also high on meth and weed.
Ask HN: Improving the Notation of APL/J (and Other Languages)
It's well known that APL's notation is one of its central features, but I admit it, I find APL to be horrendous to read! It's not the use of symbols that turns me off - I was trained in mathematics and am a huge fan of symbolic notations.

The defect is simply a limitation carried over from the 1960s: it's a 1D stream of chars of uniform size. Nowadays we have things like GNU Texmacs [1] which can do fantastic, semantically aware typesetting. Fully 2D notations are a nice to read, but a pain in the neck to type. Perhaps there's a sweet spot at "1.5D" notations: characters of different sizes, like the big summation symbol in mathematics & smaller sub/super-scripts. More generally a 'line' of a program is a grid of 3xN small/medium/large symbols rather than 1xN.

We improve the readability of APL/J by adding enough variety to the different classes of symbols and operations so that it doesn't look like pure line noise. I would love to implement it myself, unfortunately I don't have the expertise to do it! Thus I have the following questions:

1. Does this already exist? Is there any array programming language that uses more elaborate-than-1d mathematical notation?

2. Is it technically feasible to slap a new frontend on APL or J using texmacs and have it generate the APL/J code? The tooling and workflow wouldn't be there but it would be a rough draft.

3. Is there any interest in a "1.5D" text editor analogous to VS Code for a new generation of languages with these easily inputted, typographically refined notations?

4. I'm a bored, partially disabled 30+ year old, who needs a new career. I'm slowly teaching myself programming, did part of SICP, now SML. Unfortunately all of my project ideas that I find motivating are far to ambitious for me to actually carry out! Are there any bored retirees out there who want to become a mentor and work with me in developing my elaborate projects?

[1] http://texmacs.org/tmweb/home/welcome.en.html
Scientists one step closer to a clock that could replace GPS and Galileo
The difference is that nuclear fusion is "all or nothing", while self driving technology has a lot of real world benefits even if we never get to fully autonomous vehicles.
In Safari, we have UI that always allows you to see which tabs are using a connection and stop them.
Nope. Increasing yield leads to glut leading to low price. For the farmers.

Plus there is always the downside of chemical pollution of air, soil and environment.

Farmers are at the very bottom of the supply chain. We don’t see any appreciation in income even if food prices go up.
I think the general assumption that you have is that all voters have equal access to financial gain, free time, and other things that in any society known are heavily deviated towards the rich. Add to that the fact that the most heavily monied campaigns normally turn out to be the winners, and it becomes very difficult to claim the idea of fair elections has any real merit except as a nice theory we want to believe is true.
We don't know much about this person, what they were told to expect, what they believed their responsibilities were, what kind of training they had, or whether the person was obviously unfit for the task (eg, they hired a young person with no/little work history, etc).
We don't know much, if anything, about the Ethiopian crash; but we do know that in the case of Lion air, MCAS was a major factor.
To each their own. There are people like me who prefer text communication and the affordability to answer them when convenient, instead of being pressured to leave everything you're doing to attend a real-time call.
I always presumed that cocaine was the "drug" (edit: originally used "opioid") of choice for finance.

Heroin always seemed as for the "hardcore" or "musician" crowd.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19367850
That makes no sense. "Local" impact is global when it happens at scale.
That's interesting to know, I think the 737 Max looks very kitbash because of the way the engines dangle in front of the wings.
It will come there too.
This is like saying that the variation in height between women is much greater than the variation in difference between men and women. The outcome is still the same: The average man is taller than the average woman.

When the variation is cognitive, it will produce very real world statistical differences between men and women. You can't pick a random woman and a random man and assume the woman is inclined toward X and the man isn't. The statistical difference is too small to predict that. But take a thousand men and a thousand women and the percentages will bear out the small statistical difference.
excellent news. the webkit team are really improving their webrtc offering.

i feel the next great leap for webrtc is wasm + webrtc:

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/bloggeek.me/webassembly-in-we...
> It sounds like your conclusion is roughly that, sufficient nutrients aside, it doesn’t make a damn bit of difference which columns the calories are under, not just in terms of weight management, but general health.

My conclusion is that but slightly more conservative: more that science is really hard, and we have not been able to show that macro nutrient composition matters nearly as much as we thought. It may still matter quite a bit, though you'd expect it to be easier to measure if it did, but again science is hard.

> Yet, I struggle to entertain the possibility that the guy eating a lot of pizza and ice cream and candy is going to encounter health problems a lot sooner than someone of the same CICO eating avocados and chicken and broccoli.

I can show you small scale examples of people doing this and not having problems (http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/...) but I can't show you a strong epidemiological study that confirms this, unfortunately.

> What about skinny people who get heart attacks?

This does happen, though of course far more rarely. Lots of stuff impacts this (genetics etc.), and I don't know nearly enough about heart attacks to comment, but I will say broadly that one of the worst things you can do for your heart, and most of the rest of your body, is to be fat, and the only way to be fat is to eat excess calories.
I haven't worked with it yet but Schneider's M580 PLC I believe even supports authentication!

It is crazy that a Quantum or M340 PLC on an ethernet network basically has unauthenticated DMA. any device on the network can read or write to any addressed memory using the dead simple modbus protocol, and there is some more complicated protocol for reading and writing unaddressed memory.

I don't think Allen Bradley is any better as I don't recall ever having to specify any credentials or any other means of restricting which clients could connect and write to the PLC.
NZ also abolished subsidies and the largest dairy is Fonterra that is a co-op.
Air pollution deaths are double previous estimates, finds research
Cocaine is not an opioid
Errant Signal has done some good videos on this in the context of video games- both online video games and video games set in the era before social media.

"Social Spaces and Payload Races" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hj1haLcdI0

"Secret Little Haven" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzHFRfOVOuQ
Tom Scott has a good take on King Bluetooth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdmQp9M9jUo
In a sense, I want to agree. That was a big no-no on her part.

But ... for a project like this, it's the kind of thing they should have planned for and could have easily worked around.

First of all, Uber's setup was to have one person do both the analytics monitoring and safety roles. That's ridiculous. The safety person needs to focus on that alone.

Second, for any boring job, it's expected that people will tend to mentally check out, and you should design it so that a single checkout doesn't cascade to death. They could have had a periodic "press this button to prove you're paying attention", or limited the employee from bringing any device except a limited one with no distractions.

So yeah, she shouldn't have been watching a movie, but Uber shouldn't have had better safeguards for the inevitable attention drift.
> technically I'm not selling software but a service so I don't have to do shit.

This is entirely untrue. If it were the case that 'I don't have to do shit', then why doesn't someone else do it too? Running a service takes a WHOLE LOT of work, and writing the software is, in many cases, the easy part.

We know this is true because whenever there is a conflict with a software license, the big cloud vendors just re-write it themselves.
Yes, "uncanny valley" aside. But one of those benefits is not having a driverless taxi. It's assistive driving technology that can make driving your car easier and safer.
My experience is that Protonmail works, and that Fastmail works great.

In the end the performance tradeoffs for Protonmail were just not worth it to me.
Managing Multiple Python Versions with Pyenv – Real Python
Upgrading control systems in a plant is both costly and risky. You incur significant downtime to replace expensive equipment that has a really long life time. And then shaking down the new systems is going to cause additional costs and likely also a temporary decrease in the quality of the plant's output. This is why the industry is basically stuck in a state where the most widespread standards originated in ancient, sometimes even analog times and have had tons of extensions tacked on in ways that preserved compatibility. So all of these devices operate based on pure trust. Bad input is rather attributed to failures than deliberate malicious actors inside the system. Nothing is authenticated. None of the field bus systems I am familiar with could be upgraded to incorporate that kind of distrust between components.
Less jarring to the user, creates the UX where the user knows their state is still there once they dismiss the modal, less commitment overhead, etc.
Before iMessage and Hangouts there was Meego which was an attempt to bring back the chat applications on smart phones with an XMPP client, but the protocols weren't good enough (and the app wasn't very good either).

Without mobile first considerations you'd lose history or miss messages on the phone making it pretty unreliable. When anything else came along that was better it was used instead. Any network advantage XMPP had quickly died as people moved on to things that actually worked (most of which were walled gardens).
Steps to Set Up Your Python Project for Success
They mostly seem to agree with each other which is the scary part. Several of them reference a completely unexplained pitch up/down behavior during a climb. During landing an unplanned nosedive would be disastrous.
Enforcing Single Responsibility Principle in Python
kabes is to the point! It is fashionable to hate on modern front-end frameworks these days.

Imagine the OP grows their platform/company, hires a bunch of devs, what a nightmare that would be to keep avoiding JS and build on the product.

All so just because using JS is so mainstream, ugh.
Small acreage farm automation is what we need. That would turn the tide in favour of local and cleaner food with shorter supply chains with farmers making better margins.(for non commodity crops)
Some services use WebRTC in a "hub and spoke" model rather than true peer-to-peer, and they often require VP8 due to a desire to support low-end Android devices that don't have hardware H.264 decoding.
This has nothing to do with language vs programming. This is about your want to use loose definitions so that you can generalize non engineers behavior and combine them with engineers stereotypes so that you can blame engineers for actions of non engineers in same industry you dislike.

So you had used language to build image of autistic charismatic rule breaker. So I will add that you don't know what autism is and interacted with such person enough to know.

You still did not managed to cite a single engineer. You did not even demostrated knowledge of engineering culture beyond what is found on few cool sites frequented by ... enterpreneurs and many non engineers.

Afaik, if you claim that marketing is more orderly and more rules following and engineers, you should have used an example of typical marketing person action and typical engineer action. For some reason, you went with high management and enterpreneurs.
Good idea, will look into that.
David from Hackernoon here. I am thankful Medium (as it used to be) existed. I wish they didn't give up on empowering people to build their own sites. But their new business model is interesting and I wish them the best, it just has nothing to do with empowering people to build their own sites.

In our own small way, this is how I see the relationship: https://twitter.com/JulienVallini/status/1060
Google Maps has an excellent offline mode on iOS and Android. I wish Apple Maps had that too.
I really like ProtonMail. I switched last month. Protonvpn is good too. I’ve had no problems at all.

The security/privacy stuff is what does it for me. Just knowing that they are serious about redundancy and are in a bunker in Switzerland makes it feel like a Swiss bank account with that famously Swiss sense of privacy and security. Love it.
No. Something can be entirely factually correct, but untrustworthy, as demonstrated by the concept of lying by omission. Something can also be factually correct, but untrustworthy, by asking a bunch of spurious questions that are calculated to mislead. For instance:

> Did Sweden shoot down MH17? Why are they denying that they shot it down, is there a coverup? Our defense experts have shown that the attack occurred within the range of the Swedish JAS-39 fighter, so they could have done it. What do the Swedes have to hide?
Or they go to someone like Dreamhost where you can get a hosting package with domain and Wordpress already installed from one company. As much as I enjoy fuzzing about with my server, if you need "a website", a VPS should not be your first target.
Commodification is about taking products of different quality and marketing them as though they're actually the same. It creates an incentive to make products of the lowest quality possible because lower quality means lower production costs and more profit.

Then over time, consumers get used to increasingly low quality products and so it becomes a race to the bottom for producers; who can make the lowest quality product which only just meets the minimum required grade.

I just did a search for "commodity quality standards" on Google and came across a document which explains how corn is graded in the US; the criteria that they use includes things like "Heat damaged %" and "Broken corn and foreign material %". The criteria for other commodities like grains were also similar (focused on damage and presence of foreign material) - It doesn't appear that the chemical/nutritional composition of the commodities are taken into account when grading them. It's easy to see why this would drive the wrong incentives when it comes to things like choice of fertilizer (natural vs artificial) and using GMOs.
The (literal) victim blaming on this thread is absolutely astounding. [ADDED: I'm not talking about the driver although they were partially at fault. But the person who was killed.] Anyone with that attitude shouldn't be allowed anywhere near developing or operating a mission-critical system.
Updatefy | Convert a Google Sheet into a embed update page.
There is also tutanota.com based in Germany. There pricing is here: https://tutanota.com/pricing
For starters, they do seem to claim to be merit based (with the applications and all that)
People not on meth and weed jaywalk without stop, look, or listen before crossing. Or are you saying that this person normally does those things but the meth and weed inhibited them from doing that?
Disagree. Govt subsidies cause prices to sink so low that it costs more to grow than to sell.

It’s an old one, but King Corn is still one of my favourite Farm/food documentary. I recommend it highly.
Having had some coffee since I wrote the above, I realize that under some reasonable assumptions that substantially apply to all our solar system's inner planets, the Sun will always be closer-on-average than any "radial-neighbor", no matter how close the radii are to the sun or each other.
> the hierarchy under /usr/local has the same structure as that under /usr

So I can have /usr/local/local/local/local...? :)
“Accepting the photons’ status as observers”, says the paper.

In other words, this is just another experiment confirming QM predictions.
Hand-counting is done in public in any respectable democracy. Each ballot is shown and you can constantly see the current tally. My parents used to take me to our polling places tally when I was a kid. For a mistake to happen, thirty persons supporting different candidates would have had to be wrong at the same time. It seems very unlikely to me.

Also, my country manages to hand count 30,000,000 ballots in less than two days and we get a very accurate result prediction on the day of the vote using a sample of official results from small polling places known to be representative.

Hand counting is not a problem at all when implemented properly.
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> Yes, there is a difference on average, but the overlap is way bigger than the difference

Unless you have evidence to back this up, it sounds an awful lot like a "mere belief"