skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.drought.gov/drought/states/california which was updated 3 days ago. No drought, simply 6.6% "D0-Abnormally dry".
If there is a clear benefit of collecting and disposing the urine somewhere else, this seems like a good use of regulation/taxation/credits. Have a credit/tax that captures the value of not having the cow urine in the fields.
Actually his edits (or at least the one I cross-checked) were disclosed per WP:COI.
Your argument is weird. You acknowledge both are up to the same tricks yet it’s ok for one party and not the other because the first party annoyed you with a press release?

I agree it’s hard to argue who’s right and wrong but your opinion seems to be based purely on a knee jerk emotional reaction - which isn’t a compelling stance to take.
The "main" Flat Earth Society (tfes.org) isn't made up of people that believe that the earth is flat - they are trolls. I'm sure there are plenty of 'True Believers' out there, but they're just as fringe as any other conspiracy theory.
4chan is not just /pol/.
To be clear, we are talking about donations from employees of the fossil fuel industry, who are just as much citizens and constituents as anyone else.

When I donate to political campaigns as a private citizen who happens to be employed by a software company it does not suddenly make the campaign I donated to a shill for tech companies.
> Many have been told they were stupid, or told they would just never be able to learn.

This happened to my sister (now an AE with several graduate degrees). It set her back years, even though she could do the math she believed she couldn't. This caused her to perform poorly on exams. Sometime in high school she started performing better, but it was in college when she finally realized that she was good at it. That particular teacher was fired before the year was up, but that doesn't help the kids she hurt.
I've always used it to explore the internet for fun as a person without any profit motive.

Cloudflare's argument's are all based around ANY making it slightly harder for them to make a profit. A small chance of DNS amplification attacks in DNS is what Cloudflare thinks about because it's their business. But there's no reason to believe this is more important than individual users wishing to see what servers are behind a domain.

Combined with GDPR killing off whois the internet is a much more boring, less transparent place.
you should consider a career in marketing!
That makes me think of Hacking vs Cracking, and the confusion that laypeople have when a programmer refers to "hacking something together quickly"
I don't think it makes sense to look at the total supply of water and use that as a starting point of the savings. The total supply of water is only useful in the context of a discussion of multi-billion dollar infrastructure improvements to expand the ability to transport water from one place to the other.

What really matters is the amount of water that can be channeled to your place of living today.

And then having small changes like non-flushed toilets help increase awareness about water shortage. If that ultimately makes people replace their lawn with desert plants, I think it's a win.
Why should I prefer a debit card over a credit card, when fraud protections are so much better on a credit card?
A bunch of Anons and Pseudonyms exercising freedom of speech is extremely annoying to some.

They were waiting for an excuse.
Link is inaccurate. 4chan and 8chan are not blocked on my NZ home connection. I can only presume this is a preemptive action by certain ISPs.

There is no mandatory internet filter in NZ.
Foreign meddling happens every single time. It's normal in any election.

This time, since Trump won he won not because of people voting for him, but because of Russian trolls.

It's just that the other side doesn't want to admit defeat.
> Well "fighting" sort of begs the question

For instance, if the computer is attempting to pitch the plane down, while the pilot has the yoke all the way back.

It should be possible to detect without too much mind reading.
>Confirmed. NZ ISPs are blocking access to Liveleak, 4chan, 8ch, a certain farm, Mixtape, Mega, and many other sites that are not complying immediately with the takedown orders.

>Even @Bitchute is removing the video mirrors.

https://twitter.com/eldarmark/status/1106463828768747520

>Earlier today Bush said he was aware that footage of the shooting had appeared on social media and police were doing everything they could to get it removed.

>"It shouldn't be in the public domain."

>Facebook Australia-New Zealand policy director Mia Garlick said videos which appeared to show the Christchurch shootings had been taken down.

>"New Zealand Police alerted us to a video on Facebook shortly after the livestream commenced and we quickly removed both the shooter's Facebook and Instagram accounts and the video."

>Spark managing director Simon Moutter said the company was working to close off websites attempting to distribute the footage.

>"Our Spark security experts are working hard to close off the websites attempting to distribute the hateful stuff originating from the perpetrators of the massacre in Christchurch. We hope it causes minimal inconvenience to legitimate internet use by our customers."

>Vodafone NZ spokesman Richard Llewellyn said: "Industry players are working at a technical level now to block some of the hate sites involved in this content."

>Spark spokesman Andrew Pirie said technical staff had identified three primary sites where footage had been posted but there were a number of "copycat" sites popping up.

>The internet providers had joined forces to block access to these sites, he said.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&object...
This looks absolutely amazing! I would be very curious to know how you went about conceptualizing the project and the AI beneath. Do you have a blogpost on it or planning to write one?
I have the exact opposite feeling. Connecting head with toilet feels somehow wrong and I don't really feel comfortable looking at the logo. Also the "recycling-ears" feels like unnecessary addition to main concept of unholy merge of cow with toilet.
> MCAS will trim in increments of 10s

Fascinating. That sure seems to line up with the 20 second period found in the vertical profiles of both LionAir and this crash.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/13/world/boeing-...
Sure, but none of them were directly related to the internal political climate in the West.
Probably efficiencies of scale.

And those tools aren't there to protect small, inefficient businesses, their existence doesn't make small, inefficient businesses more successful.

Quite the opposite: regulation disproportionately impacts small businesses in a negative way.

So you could even argue that they are "losing" because of those tools.
>They can charge 30% because the marketplace (Apple's App Store & Google's playstore) are monopolies and they have complete control over the complete supply chain.

I agree with that. 30% is not a plausible rate in a well functioning market. But it's not 1% either, I can guarantee you that. So what is the right revenue share?

Paddle charges 5% to act as a merchant of record for you (i.e as a reseller). That's what Apple does as well and I haven't seen that service offered for much less.

On top of that, Apple provides all the software distribution and discovery functionality. I'm not sure what the cost of that is, but it's not nothing.

So by my estimate, a realistic revenue share for Apple in a well functioning market could be in a range between 8% and 15%. But on the lower end that might mean higher fixed fees for free apps and worse support.

What they should do first of all is change the pricing structure to charge a fixed fee plus a percentage. That would allow them to cover their per transaction cost and take a far more realistic revenue cut on top of that.
The product video shows the device working... after it shows a guy doing the same thing manually.
Thanks, interesing read! Kinda reminds me of Jenn Schiffer’s Jortsort.

https://jort.technology
Southwest only has the 'AoA disagree' indicator, for pilot awareness. But it doesn't change the operation of MCAS itself.
Technically, there can be multiple queries in a single DNS request, though this is under-specified in the RFCs. Also, most authorities don't support it.
> Computers should never overrule manual controls.

The aoa system was put in place specifically to keep pilots from stalling planes. By design, it has to override manual controls. This is like saying ABS shouldn't override the brakes on a car.
I agree and I think the Bezos/National Enquirer situation is a good illustration of how difficult it is to articulate where that line is.

If the National Enquirer had offered to kill the story in exchange for Bezos paying them a million dollars would that have been as scandalous as their request to have the owner of a well-known newspaper make a false public statement that he disagrees with? Probably not.

Along the same lines, if the National Enquirer threatened to publish your personal text messages and photos unless you paid them a million dollars that would feel infinitely more outrageous than if the exact same offer were made to Bezos. Requesting a million dollars from the richest man in the world just doesn't feel as wrong.
Also wanted to mentioned, we offer a virtual card for online purchases as a security pre-caution.
How do Netflix and Hulu get around this?
Watch the video. Besides it being interesting, towards the end he explicitly invites startups to come up with an idea on how to put the cow urine to good use.
I realized that I'm going to live, it isn't hard, I keep waking up day after day. When I focussed on the short term, life was hard, super hard. But then I realized If I focus on the long term, things got easier. It may sound strange, but I plan on living until 140. May be unrealistic, maybe not, but I can plan better for that, because the day to day is hectic. It helped me process past all the shit and problems today are limited by their time, and the more time passes, the more I can let them go. I don't care about problems from 10 years ago, and in 10 years, problems now won't matter. Just have to keep setting my self up to move forward, even if it is only a little bit. And every two steps back don't matter in the long term. This is all about how you let things affect you, all you can do is try to not let them hit you too hard today.
Not saying it's not secure, I just enjoy a firewall between the card I use and my cash balances. I pay off the balance each month so it works well for me. I understand it doesn't work for everyone and that only using a debit card helps some people live within their means, kudos for trying to build a good product for that market.
There arent that many things you can do within half an hour at a charging station.
"And then when they run out of money they post a blog post on a Friday morning to announce that you've need to get your data out of their system by the end of the day."

Are you referring to the date of May 16th given in the blog? That's two months, not one day. (Easy mistake on a fast read. No particular criticism intended.)
Ask HN: How much would it cost to replicate GPT-2's model?
Cost 1: Scrape 8 Million articles from Reddit posts.

http://files.pushshift.io/reddit/

Cost 2: Training a 1.5 B parameter transformer network.

I'm assuming it could be trained with google's TPUs. And the model would just be a bigger version of the model open ai released.
He accepted donations from one of the most important and legitimate interest groups (or rather, just people that work for them) in his state, against an opponent that was also freely accepting them. I'm almost as environmentally radical as they come, and turning away all money associated with oil in a Texas Senate race is simply idiotic and honestly unprincipled.
> exercising freedom of speech

uuughh..
GOOD! It's about time someone took these sites down a peg.
It's clearly agenda-driven reporting, but it's that agenda is also very clearly rooted in the facts they report.

Ironically, I think you may dislike it because it's exposed you to an uncomfortable truth, which is that some political agendas are rooted in facts and others are not.
Can you elaborate? It seems each vote would be harder to tamper if blockchain is applied. (or some other techniques chaining data together to be verified)
I guess that would be the peak of globalization, when you wean off energy control from individual countries.
In the video, the farmer demonstrates how petting the vulva gives the cow a pissing reflex. That's not exactly applicable to bulls -- and if it were in a similar male area I'd spitball that you might end up with semen instead.
This is why he lost in Texas IMO. While from the outside looking in it can feel like it was unwinnable due to party-politics, from what I've gathered a lack of focus on issues also hurt (that and general disagreement with issues he did reference).

One can imagine at a national level his stance on issues would be more accepted, but he'll need to harp on them much more than focusing on who he's not. That "contrary image" is actually a positive and not a negative for many.
This has happened before. In the 2008 primaries, Rush Limbaugh ran an "Operation Chaos" campaign where he called on his listeners to vote in late, open primaries for the then-losing Hillary Clinton in order to extend the Democratic primary season. In 2016, even in some closed primaries like West Virginia, a majority of voters who supported Sanders in the primary, according to exit polls, still planned to vote for Trump in the general election.
That's true. But people engaging in "casual" conversation over beer aren't inciting each other to commit violent acts of hate.

But in those rare instances where a bar crosses over into openly supporting that type of speech, the police start taking an interest and monitoring that bar and its customers. And if a line gets crossed with respect to incitement, conspiracy, etc., the local municipality will usually pull the bar's liquor license and get it shut down to prevent future such crimes from being organized or incited at that bar.

So, really, you're actually quite spot on with the bar analogy. 4chan/8chan are exactly like a skinhead bar that's getting shutdown because the customers kept inciting each other to kill people and actually followed through.
I'm not sure Orwellian fits. Really the price should be a flat rate because its not about the marginal cost of providing water.

...but then that leads to the idea that you can use any amount of water and it's fine so they have a punitive use charge to change user behavior.

But because of the extra revenue, they can lower the flat rate. ...but that gets you in trouble if the punitive charges decrease.

So you have to adjust to a relative usage surcharge which is basically where we're at but it just looks like "why lower if they raise the rates?". ...well because it's relative to everyone else's usage.
> You have primary-source knowledge of your own? Write a blog post about it. Just like a historian writing a journal paper, that blog post is now a secondary source that quotes your primary-source knowledge. Wikipedia can now cite your blog post. Wikipedia cites plenty of blog posts.

Per Wikipedia editorial guidelines, that is still a primary source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research...

An account of a traffic incident written by a witness is a primary source of information about the event; similarly, a scientific paper documenting a new experiment conducted by the author is a primary source on the outcome of that experiment. Historical documents such as diaries are primary sources.
Kiwi here. This block was not initiated by the government, as far as I can tell. I believe certain ISPs blocked the sites preemptively, as the block is not in place on my connection.

Thankfully, NZ has no mandatory internet filtering, though the department of internal affairs offers a child porn blocklist which some ISPs apply.
It seems the issue is that the AoA indicator (no redundancies!) is less reliable than the actual human pilot, and thus should not be overriding the human pilot when the human thinks things are going normally (because they are) but the AoA sensor is going all funky.
> That's not true...

What exactly isn't true? The guy did have that Twitter.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/4vW9tadY1zUt-CwkgRo6DWG7N...

> ...and it's notable that you had to create a new account just to make this FUD claim.

I created this account three days ago to comment on an entirely unrelated matter.

> Those murderers may all have used Twitter and Facebook to try to disseminate their idea vomit...

So you agree that Twitter and Facebook are linked to the murderers?

> ...but they were radicalized and incited by 4chan and/or 8chan.

That's a pretty questionable claim. The guy had a manifesto similar to Breivik. Would you say Breivik was radicalized by 4chan? He holds specific political beliefs, whereas on places like 4chan, no belief is taken serious at all. There are real Neo-Nazi forums where there is serious discussion on Neo-Nazi ideals, but 4chan isn't one of them.

> More than a dozen mass murderers in the past few years took 4chan and 8chan seriously enough to murder hundreds of people.

Again, these forums are made up of pure shitposting. Nobody knows anybody. Nothing on there is taken serious, even things that should be taken serious. It's a brain dump.
Agree Nissan Leaf is a good car. It's a shame Nissan didn't sell more varieties of electric cars after the success of the Leaf. Would have been nice if they expanded on the success of the Leaf
I think you mis-read that they are closing on March 16th. It actually says May 16th, so users have two months to migrate....
>Tesla cars have among the worst reliability of any car brand

And yet, Tesla owners keep recommending their cars more than anyone else, because the car is that good.

You know what that exchange reminds me of? Harley-Davidson motorcycles, back in the AMF days. Those bikes were known for being unreliable pieces of crap that would shake their own bolts loose. Wear comfortable boots if you own one. And yet their owners wouldn't be caught dead riding anything else.

I argue that when you spend nearly $100 on a car (or big bucks on a bike), what else are you going to say? "I'm an idiot and shouldn't be trusted with large sums of money."?
a "golden cow" so to speak?
Everyone is a political activist, even people just going about their day. The only difference is the degree to which you're honest with yourself and others about it.
I control all of your food, and only give you access to it at 3pm. When you come to eat at 3pm I also remove your bodily fluids for resale. You can deny me your bodily fluids only by not eating. Would you describe that as a voluntary arrangement?
That's a good point. Considering I only really ever bring this topic up when there's something to get emotional about, it probably comes off as maddeningly condescending.
Yup, finding efficiencies to create a market for the urine will make the economies of collecting it work better. I've never had interest in cow waste products until now..
while they were doing exactly what you wanted then to do in the early days, did you supported them in any way?
Limiting ANY queries to just TCP would have been a reasonable middle ground, but now Cloudflare has a cleaner codebase and does not have to do any difficult thinking around what to do with synthetic rrsets in response to ANY queries. Good for Cloudflare!
Recycling is very much labour intensive which is expensive in Europe. And you have to deal with all kinds of toxic stuff.
Oh wow! I never knew that existed! Thanks for the email address. Do you all take in temporary email addresses or are those sent straight to spam? I'd love to send some in anonymously.

Also, thanks for all the hard work here on HN. I know it's not a glamorous job, but yall are doing a great job handling all this. You work hard and it shows.
If it works the end result is that larger and larger farms will be able to coexist with their non-farm neighbors.

Then new research with adding red algae (a seaweed variety) to their diet could cure the cow flatulence problem. Whole lot easier than Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's proposed solution and less expensive too!

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612452/how-seaweed-could-...

Here's an entire industry using technology to cure their environmental problems - or at least trying.
I think it might more rightly be "exposing some of the illegal ways rich people game society"
If you dont like free speach- why not relocate to iran, saudi arabia, russia or north-korea, where they hold your opinion on control? Serious question. One is not bound by birth to the country one lifes in.
Agreed, this guy make no sense at all. Why would anyone build there own data center? Talk about the extreme, did he forget you can also rent space inside of data centers???
Do you use custom DNS? It's possible that they're just modifying the DNS servers of ISPS.
Yeah whenever I’m putting together the CSS for a side project I’ll spend literally forever going back and forth between greys only to find the look isn’t consistent between my dev machine and my phone.
Most of the relevant ones.

algorithm & data structures.

algorithm analysis

OS/internals

compiler design

computer architecture.

discrete mathematics.

distributed systems.
Loved the artwork so much, I impulse bought a print from Laura Berger!
How I ruined my JavaScript code and still won the Coding Challenge
It also needs to use three separate AoA sensors so it can detect a single malfunctioning sensor and discard its input. A system so critical, that can point the nose down and potentially cause crashes, needs more hardware redundancy in its inputs.
I have seen some suggestion that in the Ethopian crash the crew may have overlooked setting the flaps for takeoff. This would not only reduce lift but also potentially allow MCAS to operate since it only works with flaps retracted.

Let me say again this is only speculation as far as I have seen.
There is a difference between “making a move” and “harassment”.

It doesn’t take much intelligence or confidence to have sex with a child, too.
I couldn't login to Spotify and had to code for hours without my favorite playlist! Damn, the world is a cruel place these days
many even tech literate folks when they hear "tor" they think bitcoins and heroin, but - this article spells it out: An Entire Ecosystem Relies on Tor https://blog.torproject.org/strength-numbers-entire-ecosyste...

a whole ecosystem is thrown under the bus
That puts a lot of faith in government not to abuse their right to change opinion. It's trying to make "common sense" law, and I'm not sure I'm comfortable with current "common sense" regulating the Internet.

On the flipside, common sense would state that maybe 8chan shouldn't exist.
Well, how well does that work whenever the AoA sensors are faulty?

All it really had to do was decrease the sensitivity of the controls not override it. Once the manual controls were pulled back all the way the computer should have disengaged.

> This is like saying ABS shouldn't override the brakes on a car

Remind me, does the ABS system make the car speed up?