skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw this TED talk by a Rwandan official. He was talking about the western counselors who came to help after the tragic events there. He said something along the lines of: These westerners came and made victims sit alone in cold rooms with them and talk about nothing but the bad things that happened to them -- instead of taking them into the sunlight, being among people, music and happiness. They were horrible, and he had to get rid of them.

I don't think anyone knows everything there is to know about being human. Who does? People often act as if they know everything or at least know better, even when they shouldn't.
Right, I'd expect Lyft's utilization, and that of any user facing service really, to fluctuate pretty significantly.
Openly disclosing the threat because it is the kind of behavior that falls within the bounds of social norms pretty much makes it ok. It is harder to blackmail people out in the open.

In any case, I think the line is marginally less blurry when you consider the blackmailer's intentionally maintained ability to do harm with the unreleased information. The blackmailer must have information which is known to be harmful to reveal, and they use the threat of that harm to coerce something out of the harmed party. It's not really about secrets per se, but secrets which can be leveraged to do harm.
This would be awesome if I get to choose what I consider to be toxic. I'm not interested in Google's opinion.
That's not how you measure market dominance.
Wait why is this here?
>I can assure you that his left-leaning constituents weren't always the majority he had to represent.

This is definitely the case. It's interesting to watch Texas, as demographically it shifts from a traditionally conservative white voting block to a much more diverse state that will naturally vote democratic. Give it another election cycle or two and turning at least one Senate seat blue is almost assured.
But trello has github integration.
> The DNC had a system to allow rigging,

No, it didn't have a “system to allow rigging”, beyond partisans of one candidate being in near-total control of the DNC.

They did have and leverage a system which helped promote a public inevitability narrative for a candidate that sewed up institutional support early by way of superdelegate voting rights, which led to then being included by media in delegate counts, reinforcing an artificial image of momentum which is demonstrated to drive subsequent voting behavior. This was dismantled when superdelegates voting privileges were reformed.
Repeatedly fail to execute? They've successfully rolled out several wildly popular fully electric cars. They've succeeded in making electric cars cool.

They had hundreds of cars stuck in port in Europe and China over paperwork errors. In the US, they had hundreds of cars stuck in holding lots because they failed to arrange for transportation to their final destinations, or because they failed to coordinate pickups with the buyers, or both. They have a billion-dollar-plus assembly line that sits unused because it doesn't work. There are hundreds of Teslas stuck in shop because Tesla can't manufacture the parts they need for those repairs (and there are no third-party parts suppliers to take the load). They've missed nearly every deadline they've set for themselves, not because the goals are unreachable but because they've overestimated their capabilities or underestimated the difficulty of the task or both. They've paid millions in fines to the SEC, and they're likely to pay millions more soon, all because they can't get their CEO to use Buffer or a similar app/process that would let them review his many inane tweets before review. Their are credible reports of on-the-job injuries swept under the table to avoid worker's comp claims.

Tesla in theory could, and should, be a wonderful company, but that's not the Tesla that actually exists today. And that theoretical Tesla probably won't exist as long as Musk remains in control.
Skipping all the way to college level, but the notation of quantum physics can get absolutely ridiculous. It's the only system that I can think of which will use both the upper and lower case symbol of a Greek symbol in the same handwritten equation while meaning different things; phi, psi, and theta being the most notorious.
I am super glad that Doom, Wolfenstein, Mortal Kombat, Shadow Warrior have not got as popular as PUBG else I would have a really hard time with India.
If you're interested in the mathematical development of Pi the book A History of Pi is a must read: https://www.amazon.com/History-Pi-Petr-Beckmann/dp/031238185...
... have you seen War Games?
Discussion online and otherwise about these two accidents focus almost 100% around MCAS and angle of attack (AoA) sensor malfunction + pilot 'error' [due to insufficient training].

For the sake of further speculation: what are the chances that in-fact there would be some other contributing factor or indeed a root cause (where MCAS no doubt maybe plays part) that was missed by Lion air incident analysis. Assuming of course that both incidents would have same / similar root cause.
Absolutely. Good eye.

I think this may have to to do with the imperfect nature of our screens.

If you do the opposite, for example, mix in some red with a mostly blue palette - it looks bad. On some monitors, grey may have a shade of red. And it looks bad.
There's a strong country & western strain running through "indie" music, and a ton of influence and presence in what pop music nerds consider the canon of 20th and 21st century popular music and popular genres. Ask your local Millennial vinyl-head wearing skinny jeans and expensive workboots what they think of country and you might get more nuance and appreciation than you expect.

Stereotypical pop-country that's largely novelty tracks, corny relationship songs, and trucks & dogs, and that're the bread & butter of most country radio stations, though, not so much. Most surf-rockers aren't thought of too fondly, either, outside a very narrow scene—they're not all the Beach Boys.
It sounds like someone upset with the politics pushed by the movie since that’s literally what they are complaining about.
Maybe, but I still want my surgeon to really good at surgery.
Would the Romans who cut their hands off rather than submit to a king, who viewed the Greeks as indolent & corrupted, look at the Byzantines and think “those are Romans?”

We of course can’t know but it shows that what the last of the Byzantine’s called themselves is not necessarily the end of the discussion.
Hence the shutdown
Notice they're closing?
That seems overly draconian. If you call someone gay and it happens that they were without your knowledge... then they would have to out themselves in court to prove that you legitimately outed them, even on accident.
The reason for the surcharge is Orwellian.

The water company asked us to reduce, reuse and recycle. We complied.

We did such a great job, that they increased rates because we weren't using enough water and they weren't making enough money.

It's insane.
> 50% of the water is "environmental" and is dumped into the ocean for the smelt

That's a funny way of saying "we didn't want to dry up the rivers", isn't it?
The author of this piece writes books about hackers. In the process of writing a book about a famous hacking group, he learned that a major political figure was a member when he was younger. That seems newsworthy and not like a "hit job" at all.
There have been a few bad hackers, and thousands upon thousands of ones that haven't done anything bad at all.

The knowledge that hackers have is immensely powerful. Hackers know how to root boxes, take down networks, pick locks, impersonate people, infiltrate virtually any secure area, falsify records, circumvent protection devices... They can steal from banks, screw with the phone system... hell, they can hack into cars on the highway. The ones with government jobs can screw with entire countries' telecom systems, disable satellites, jam telecommunications, spoof and reroute individual communications, and cause rolling waves of disruption to the power grid across entire regions of a country. Hackers have the knowledge to systematically destabilize virtually all the infrastructure of our civilization.

But a small handful of people do dumb shit and suddenly all hackers aren't trustworthy? The fact that the world still operates at all is testament to the fact that they aren't abusing their power.
Even lossy storage allows saving during times of excess for use during times of drought.

And what happens to that lost evaporated water?
It's a new invention/technology, it has potential impact on our environment, and it's interesting.
The way I figure the Roman Empire (and I realize this is not the usual historiography, definitely not what is presented in school textbooks), the Roman Empire ceased to exist as a de facto polity with the Crisis of Third Century. While Diocletian's partition of the empire was meant to be administrative and not political, the notion of an Eastern/Western divide did persist. The taxation spiral of the Western Roman Empire caused it to collapse, where it recoalesced into the Carolingian Kingdom, while the Eastern Roman Empire lived on as the Byzantine Empire. I don't draw a meaningful distinction between the Byzantine Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire, but I do draw a distinction between the Eastern Roman Empire and the pre-Crisis Roman Empire.

And yes, I'm well aware that the Byzantines only ever referred to themselves as Romans. But so did the Sultanate of Rum, and no one argues that the Sultanate of Rum should be considered the Roman Empire.
Is there a comparable kanban project manager that uses github issues?

I would migrate to github projects, but last I'd checked some key features were missing from github projects:

1. New issues are added to the backlog column by default.

2. Epics, or anything that allows one issue to have multiple sub-issues.

3. The ability to label one issue as blocking another by using keywords, eg: blocks #123 or requires #321.

Is there a simple way of solving these with probot or github actions?

[probot]: https://probot.github.io

[github actions]: https://github.com/features/actions
Awesome, btw I did not think you would need so much discrete components to do that, but probably the conversion of the counter to the digits segments is the majority of it.
Not just a cage, but one that barely fits them. Fuck dairy.
> Extraordinary claims, require extraordinary proof, I don’t even see a README.

Im confused. The link points to Github which literally shows the README on the front page.

> Is the resolution 64x64 or 1028x1028

From the readme: cnn (CPU, 128x96) 2.35ms 425.95 0.64ms 1562.10

> 1500FPS on what hardware

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700 CPU @ 3.6GHz.

I could go on, but literally the answers to your questions are in the README that you somehow didnt see.
I've found it pretty easy to use the IceStorm toolchain. You can do everything from the command line without a funky proprietary IDE.
There are lot of reports of service being completely unresponsive, not answering calls. And people who work there are saying stuff like "you wouldn't believe how large our backlog is" or "I used to do an equivalent of 2 jobs, now I'll have to do 3" (not exact quotes, from my memory). The reason for this is obvious, Tesla has a cash problem.
As much as I am a Tesla fan, I have to call spade a spade. I know two people in the last couple of months who bought a Tesla, and I noticed misalignments on both of them.
> You, similarly, are just providing cover for these terrorists.

That's a pretty intense claim, in what way is OP "providing cover"?
How could the reviewers know the "politics pushed by the movie" prior to having seen it? What are the politics pushed by the Captain Marvel movie? Can you point to specific scenes/themes that are "white male hating"?
> Most aircraft have 2-3 redundant systems for almost every control and feature.

The 737 MAX only uses one AoA vane when deciding whether to lower the nose, so this just isn't true in the situation we're talking about.
As far as how we handle Santa, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, etc. - we decided to be up front that they aren't real, but treat it as a game that parents play with their children.

So we still do presents from Santa at Christmas, Easter Bunny baskets, and Tooth Fairy money, but they know it's us doing it. So far it still seems to have enough magic of anticipation that they enjoy it.
I think that would be true in a culture made of Homo Economicus, but I think you're going to have a rough time of that plan with Homo Sapiens. Status matters, and there's going to be some way to judge that status, and there's going to be some delta between the society's understanding of your actions and their assessment of the resulting status and your actual actions, and some way to blackmail with that.

I mean, we already at least have subcultures that are fairly open about cheating and sexual preferences, but then those same cultures will nuke your social status into oblivion if you accidentally say the wrong racist word. (Let alone in a just a moment's poor judgment do it deliberately.) There's gonna be something.

But I would endorse the idea that there will be second-order effects, some of which may mitigate the problem. But I think that a lot of the people inclined to propose this wouldn't particularly enjoy them, either. For an example ripped from the headlines, as it becomes increasingly acceptable to nuke someone's political career for making a woman somewhat uncomfortable forty years ago (that's a deliberate satirical exaggeration, not a characterization of any real case), I've wondered if the people making that accusation are really thinking things through; do they really want to limit all public office only to people who were so socially clumsy and awkward when young that they never made a false move because they never made a move at all? I mean, hey, suddenly that would open up rather a lot of high power careers to me, sure, so I suppose I'm self-interestedly all for it in a sarcastic sense, but I'm not sure everyone's going to be interested in that being the criteria for serving in office or for that being the cost of leading a peaceful, unblackmailed life.
> "I won't tell your secret and you'll pay me a reasonable sum of money." - Okay

That's blackmail though.
>> The problem with such thinking is that yes you'll make some money off of it by enhancing human misery but when I sell the stock I will still be a human being.

care to elaborate how amazon "enchances human misery"?
They’ve listed all their arguments on their site www.timetoplayfair.com, although I wish some where more technically in-depth.
AI Infrastructure Needs System-Level Thinkers
It's not just lower subscription software pricing.

It's also faster time to market, because they're able to field entire teams of engineers to deliver what your tiny team is working on much faster. And they can do a lot more content marketing and advertisement that you've no time or budget to get done.

And then when they run out of money they post a blog post on a Friday morning to announce that you need to get your data out of their system by the end of the day. (Edit: in this case 2 months.)

On an off topic note, your site's FAQ says:

> So is this a one-man operation?

> Yes, for the moment it is. Which is actually a good thing, if you're concerned about viability. This means that there are no investors, no burn rate to speak of, no need to shut the company down because the money ran out. It is a mature, long-term project.

FYI my own concern as a buyer would be what happens if you get hit by a bus. You really need to get some kind of partner, or an employee the moment you can afford one.
How the mega-rich are preparing for the apocalyse
Thanks for mentioning it. It's the kind of thing that everyone suspects, but reminding people that the history is right there is helpful.

The above user (zackguo) comments seemingly exclusively on China, including ... "Results won't change even if [Uyghurs] are able to participate". Yikes!
I guess what bothers me the most about the original tweet(s) is the false dichotomy of "build your own datacenter" or "use AWS". How about co-locating at one of the many, many Tier 3 certified datacenters all over the world? There are tons of providers with locations all over the country and world. Or beyond that, what about letting someone else (e.g. Compass Data Centers) build a datacenter for you?
Wow. See what you want to see.
There's no cage.
It's a voluntary system for cows.
Even if training would have prevented the crashes it's still bad design for a critical change in flight control.

Computers should never overrule manual controls. If the autopilot is on and the pilot makes an manual adjustment to the yoke, the autopilot shuts off.

They should have designed the MCAS system to recognize when the pilot was fighting it and to disable itself.

It's like the runaway Prius problem. Turning off the car might be considered an appropriate safety cutoff, but not everyone thinks of that in an emergent crisis.
Or, it's an NDA.
I usually only post when I think a story is too one-sided or some key facts are unmentioned. For my posts related to China, you may find a similar post history from some other HNers who have worked for years in Asia.
The cow voluntarily goes into the cage to get fed. Then it goes back out into the field. It's not like this cow lives it's life in that cage
How else do you suggest you align the cow onto the toilet itself? Cows are not potty-trained.
They aren't hybrids with their attendant motive power battery.
If I am understanding his/her comment correctly, its point is that this does happen sometimes, not that it is occurring in any specific thread or being done by any specific users. To that end your response seems to confirm that but asks us not to talk about it, even in the general sense.
A challenging French rival of McDonald’s fast-food restaurant
Don't forget to account for all the water that California exports in the form of water-hungry crops.
Oh, no, I agree it's unreasonable for what they're getting; I'm saying that it might seem small relative to the business priorities.
By drunk I mean above the legal BAC. It’s pretty easy to have a few beers and be above the legal limit.
> I was pretty shocked about the reaction on 8chan. I haven't been there before. It's pretty sad to see.

You have no idea who is posting there, or why, and yet you take the posts at face value? Interesting.
> While that's perhaps an interesting question in the general case, for Tor, we know the purpose was to protect US covert intelligence communications overseas, which is very much about enabling illegal (by local law) activity.

Made all the more problematic by the question of whose purpose should be used. It's a piece of open source software with multiple contributors, one of which may or may not be the node operator. So whose purpose do we use? The US Navy? The EFF? The node operator? They may each have a different purpose.

> And actually, purpose requirements in law are not uncommon and, in systems with meaningful proof requirements that benefit they accused, since they provide additional facts which must be established by evidence before punishment can be imposed.

Purpose requirements are typically sentence intensifiers for things that are already illegal. Illegal entry is trespass but illegal entry with intent to commit a separate crime is burglary.

The problem here is that the other requirements are completely normal behavior and it's the purpose requirement which is doing all the work. If you take it away you don't have a sensible prohibition on something wrong which the purpose requirement only makes harder to prove, you have a nonsense law that prohibits ordinary upstanding behavior. In other words, without the purpose requirement there would not sensibly be any law against this to begin with, and that is what would really benefit the accused.
Nothing, I just wanted to use another word for the Budestag, since it is an equivalent institution and not everyone is familiar with the german political institutions. Especially the Bundestag and Budesrat (equivalent to the Senate) is often mixed up. The reactionary party I was referring to is of course the AfD, not the GOP.
How the macOS Finder sidebar is slowing things down
No, going to a doctor's appointment isn't what an ambulance is for. The comment specifically said "non-urgent". But when patients miss appointments because they can't get there or afford $20 for an Uber, the health system loses a lot more than $20, so it's worth it financially for them to partner with Uber/Lyft to get patients to appointments.
It's very possible it's an artifact of two things:

(1) Having risen to national fame by being a not-Ted-Cruz candidate.

(2) How Texas culture works.

How do you contrast yourself with Ted Cruz? Well, Cruz is a very common type of character in Texas. Baptist, often wears a suit, a little stodgy and uptight but apparently earnest in his beliefs, probably watches football and has very innocuous / safe musical tastes, and casts his lot with the traditional Southern social fabric that exists here. I know a million guys like Cruz.

But as big as that cultural bubble is, there are also tons of people who live outside it. You could almost go so far as saying that every Texan decides at some point whether they're going to live in that bubble.

In the language of Texas culture, Beto is basically saying, hey, I'm not one of these traditionalists. I'm different than that. And he is, even if he has some conservative views. The message makes sense to a Texan.

Whether it will translate to a national audience is another question entirely, and I think it probably won't. He'll have to change his message. Also, he got a lot of momentum because people wanted to support whoever opposed Cruz, and he'll need something else to create that kind of energy now.
Who gets to decide what "related" means?
I don’t think it’s productive to prosecute the electric cars vs mass transit issue like this. We need to get to carbon neutral within 12 years. If your plan requires radically changing society, including moving everyone who lives in vast swaths of the country into urban areas, then your plan will not meet that deadline, even with total commitment.

To avoid climate catastrophe we need to embrace a multitude of solutions. I understand the frustration at hearing Musk criticize public transit. It’s triggering. But we are going to need sustainable personal vehicles for a number of use cases, even if we move as many people as we can to mass transit in a decade.
I wondered the same thing and then stumbled over “Behind the Curve” on Netflix. It was an eye-opener. You’ll learn where it came from and more importantly, how to handle people with these beliefs. It changed the way I will approach the topic for sure. The earth is round! Don’t misunderstand me, but the psychology that drives flatearthers is fascinating and we can help them find the right “path”.

It’s a great watch! Highly recommended :)
Guessing he got to senior manager or higher at Amazon and lucked out since most higher ups pay is in stock and Amazons exploded by a factor of 6 in the past 5 years.
The vulgar cousin of Heartbleed and Meltdown.
France Holds Online Survey in Move Toward Ending Daylight Saving Time