skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another note: I remember a colleague telling me about a San Francisco Robotics Challenge they were part of (as staff/judging). The challenge was simply to navigate a tiny, tiny maze of plywood walls with one jog in an otherwise straight corridor. Flat floor, good lighting.

I remembered a paper-airplane contest where the winning time-in-air entry was a simple strip of stiff paper with a slight bend - flip it and it 'rolled' in the air descending surprisingly slowly. It was disqualified for 'not looking like an airplane'.

So I naturally asked, what was the criterion for 'robot'? He said two categories, autonomous and fly-by-wire (this was the early 80s).

Was the task complete when the robot was entirely out of the maze, or when any part of the robot passed the finish line? Any part he said.

Good enough for me. I told him I had several entries, and would he let me know if any were suitable for their contest? Sure, he said, what are they?

The first looks like a bucket of confetti and a fan. The fan is sitting on a step ladder. You tip the bucket of confetti by hand, but after that the robot is self-guided.

That's not a robot, he said.

Ok, my next one is simpler. It looks like a bucket of water. You tip it over at the entrance, and it naturally follows the maze using gravity and surface tension.

That's not a robot, he said.

Ok, can it have biological components? Sure, he said, getting excited. What do you have in mind?

Well, my next robot looks like a cat with a propeller beanie (the receiver). Somebody puts it down by the entrance, and I transmit a homing signal (Here Kitty! Kitty!) at the exit.

That's not a robot, he said.

Turns out, none of my robots would suit his criterion. Not even my nanobot - in a glass vial, pull the stopper at the entrance and when my detector went Ding! at the exit (looked like an oven timer) the nano-bot had arrived. Despite all his assurances, all they would actually admit were electromechanical devices with wheels, solenoids etc.

So that put me off robotics for 20 years.
>I have to review at least monthly all our dependencies for published vulnerabilities and new versions.

Off-topic, but can you write about how you manage this without tons of manual work?
In the cases where I’ve seen this happen, the DNS provider is rewriting NXDOMAIN responses. So, when you make a typo, you hit a “helpful” error page that has ads and tracking in it.
I favor traveling wave reactors. To reduce our stockpiles (waste). If we also get some useful energy, terrific.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_wave_reactor
Also “N. American” [1] Also found it funny.

It’s a WASP thing. They were killjoys when they got kicked out of Europe four centuries ago. They’re kill joys today.

Today, shocked at their ancestors’ crimes, they dilute their sense of responsibility by dropping the ASP, and making broad generalizations about whites (really, who did the Balkans ever hurt other than themselves? What harm have the Amish done to ethnic minorities?)

[1] (also Latin@ ?? - can’t keep track.)
It looks mostly like the proponents of the law want to limit the growth of the city, and prevent it from becoming dense(r).

Building an apartment house and not renting it out makes about zero sense. This means that only small, 1-2 family homes would be built, financed by family home loans.

This definitely is not going to help against foreign rich people buying "investment houses" and leaving them vacant. They could not rent them out even if they wanted to! But maybe it;s not a problem in Amsterdam.
Thanks so much for the explanation. I had no idea :)
DNS hijacking is extremely common with ISPs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking#Manipulation_by_...
> This looks like it’s designed to penalize poor/young/foreign people

Right, I'm sure impoverished young immigrants buying newly built houses only to rent them out is a very common thing in Amsterdam.
Windows 3.0 had a file manager? I remember trying to use Windows 3.0. My memory is that file management was basically dropping down to the MS-DOS layer and using the DOS prompt to do it.
A beautiful react.js dashboard build with Bootstrap 4
Not only will google index all those pages you are blocking them from but will also penalise you when they have indexed x number of them.

Fix the problem with X-robots-tag, request removal from index (*while such option is available) and then wait for months for the penalty to be lifted.
As an alternative to calling it "pretty weak reporting", perhaps viewing it as a list of brief summaries of what's happening in NZ related to the Christchurch shootings might make this web page more digestible.
If those websites are life or business supporting or required to use (government, etc).

I don't think it's a "moral obligation" to make e.g. a gaming website accessible, any more than it is to "help the poor" or thousands of other ways we can directly do good.

In other words, if someone fails to make their hobby SaaS for passive income accessible, they haven't have some "moral failing". They just prioritized shipping basic functionality for the majority of users. It's not really that different that opening a website or business for business in one country (or part of the country) and not another.
> And in the 60s, and 70s...re-read my comment. It is clear you are being intellectually dishonest, and no point in continuing this discussion with you.

Okay, firstly, calm down.

Secondly, I missed that part of your post the first time I read it.

Either I didn't read it thoroughly because I'm at work and my attention is divided (for which I apologise); or you edited your own comment before you replied to me, in an attempt to discredit what I'm saying.

As I'm not as uncharitable as your are in interpreting the intent of other people's posts, I'll assume the mistake was on my part and you are not just a troll.

I'd appreciate it if you extended the same courtesy.
You have the problematic application: com.qualcomm.qti.autoregistration, also some stuff from Goodix that I'm not sure if you installed yourself...
My understanding is there's a good chance that those sensors were malfunctioning for a while before the day of the crash (during the post-crash investigation they found that previous flights were showing dubious readings). In which case, a disagreement alert could have potentially saved all those lives.
Your argument makes no sense, because you're assuming the 18-20yo demographic is voting entirely differently than the 20-25yo demographic, which is obviously a stupid way of thinking when it's stated like that. Those groups are likely going to vote almost exactly the same, so extending the voting age downwards simply gives the younger voting block more power because it gives them more numbers. Also, the idea that 70% of them don't vote is just something you pulled out of your ass, probably based on American voting patterns. Japan isn't America, and assumptions like that are invalid in any argument.
I would have no problem if this were only a moral obligation, but it seems like it's becoming more and more a legal obligation. Legal obligations that require a developer add something frustrate me, because they essentially crush people doing things for fun.
I wish there were a way to exchange that block lists between the users of this extension.
Sorry. My product owners and designers tell me not to. Is what it is.
You can get lower with a greyhound bus. Sure they stop at every prison along the way, but the views are actually quite nice. The social is also there, but can be a bit scary depending on your appetite for adventure.
You're right, from the frequentist definition of a confidence interval (2,40) we can't say the the true value is more likely to be closer to 21 than to 3.

But we can't neither say that the true value is equally likely to be closer to 21 than to 3.

The point is that, from the frequentist definition of a confidence interval, there is nothing at all that we can say about how likely the true value is to be here or there.

It could be 3, 21, or 666 and there is nothing that can be said about the likelihood of each value (unless we go beyond the frequentist framework and introduce prior probabilities).
I just read that the Austrian national railway is planning to re-introduce them and was surprised.

Europe had a pretty decent overnight train network in the 90s and even into the 2000s.

Then flying got cheap and people basically didn't want to take those trains any longer. Most disappeared.

What, short of making flying much more expensive, would make a new attempt at introducing them successful, you think?
Well, can you honestly say to a certain degree of certainty where your EC2 instance is at any given time?
It might be sharing a blade server hosting Netflix services.

Equally, governments are notoriously incompetent and it wouldn't surprise me that some ill configured IAM profile or security group causes mayhem.

Cloud is brilliant but scary!
Self-suggestion is the outbreak of inner strength
I just looked it up.

A sleeper for one is ~1'800$. About 300 more if you're two.

That's about half of a yearly train pass for Switzerland (2nd class). The pass allowes you to travel in virtually any mode of transportation without restrictions. Except for taxis, some boats and some mountain railways.

So yeah, that's pretty steep.
Sure.

P-value is the universal* way of expressing statistical likelihood. It corresponds to a percentage: p=.05 just means 5%, and p=.001 means 0.1%, etc.

It's often inaccurately explained as the likelihood of getting our results through chance alone. That's wrong for reasons that are technically important, but not in a way that really inhibits understanding of the strength of results that have small p-values.

* It has flaws, and a growing number of researchers believe it should not have the prominent importance currently placed on it.

---- Stop reading here if you're already satisfied. ----

We want to measure if there's a difference between two groups. So, we take measurements of a portion of group A, and measurements of a portion of group B.

Mathematically, we assume that what we've actually done is sampled from the same population both times. If that's true, our data sets should be quite similar to one another, but of course there will be some difference just due to noise.

So, we compute mathematically the chance of seeing a difference at least as large as the one we see between our data sets, if that assumption is true.

We decide beforehand on a small error rate. If not otherwise stated, 5% (p=.05) is the universal standard.

If we find that the likelihood of observing a same-or-larger difference between the populations is smaller than that already-small 5% chance, we REJECT our assumption that the samples came from the same population, and conclude that the populations must actually be different.

In other words, we conclude that we measured an actual difference that contrasts two mathematically-separate populations.
More details from the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/world/asia/new-zealand-gu...

This does not yet have Parliamentary approval, but is expected to pass. It includes mandatory buybacks, but since they do not have a gun registry law they will have some challenges measuring compliance.
Stop Brexit: 700k sign UK petition to stay in EU
The problem is not a technical one, but a legal one. There are very few empty buildings in most euro cities, and people is typically reluctant to get out because of the hassle it causes them.

If there is a run down and empty building, then sure, but you won't find many.
> Also accidents side effects are downplayed so much it's insulting

I think you might have fallen for media bias. While the nuclear industry doesn't have anything resembling a flawless safety record, it's still orders of magnitude safer than all mainstream power sources which see no scrutiny due to the dilution of their impact.

Nuclear accidents are viewed as bad in the same way that airline crashes are viewed as bad, despite airlines being the safest mode of transport and safer than the car journey to the airport. They are extremely rare, and they impact >100 people when they happen so they're always newsworthy. Unlike the 4.6M people that die due to fossil fuel related air pollution worldwide at a steady state each year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents

I'm not pro or anti nuclear. I'm just a random AU citizen following the gradient descent path towards a future that least fucks our children.
Verbatim mode as default?

The amount of automatically created synonyms is getting out of hand, it decided the name of where I work is a synonym for another company in the same business that's 15 miles away
> promising blockchain startup

Yeah... sure. You kinda shot yourself in the foot here.
As others have pointed out, you’re going to get diluted tremendously if they raise another round.

When a startup is trying to survive they’ll give up a tremendous amount of equity because the alternative is 80% of nothing or 40% of something.

Does that $13k hurt you to pay out? If it’s not that painful, you can weigh that.

For what’s its worth, I didn’t exercise my options when leaving the last two companies and I felt so sick to my stomach when the last one sold for a couple hundred million but then I looked & saw they sold for less than their last valuation so my shares would’ve been even more watered down in value.
The study says that the price almost perfectly fits the curve, but they exclude the price spikes in that fit and label those periods as "manipulated price".

This strikes me as a rather strange approach to fitting data. But I'm not a data scientist, and they do give some references to other studies about bitcoin price manipulation to support this.
You should build for your market. Unless you're specifically targeting a market segment that has accessibility requirements, then you should do the least amount of work possible to provide value, then iterate. When creating a product in an early stage market, most development time is better suited to discovering an MVP than adding accessibility features. Think of it as premature optimization.
The guide does not offer the nuance you suggest, and instead follows the standard approach of such guides, recommending all possible steps without any criteria by which to filter them for usability or other.

An ad-blocker like uOrigin can break online courseware and banking sites. If you install it on a student’s machine, and the ad block you consider ‘mandatory’ damages their experience, they might decide to drop (or fail) their course if they can’t figure out how to undo the damage you’ve done to their browser.

Non-experts cannot repair the issues caused by experts inflicting these steps on their computers. Don’t be that expert.
I'm not sure how they would go about experiment design for this.

In the case of twins they know the mechanism for increased testosterone, and they have a big control population. Short of everyone having a prenatal hormone measurement (which presumably is not done typically) how would you identify the subjects?
> Like most selective political actions in a market, I suspect this has good intent but will produce predictably counter-productive outcomes.

The status quo seems like a given, but it's maintained by actions too.

We choose everyday not to change it, and this choice often produces outcomes that are counter productive.

To not change things is literally a conservative programme, and this usually serves the interests of the wealthy.
Firefox now has basic ad-blocking built-in using Disconnect's lists, which is very cool.

I use ublock in combination with privacy badger. In ublock I block all third-party requests and enable sites one by one. I had to leave Safari on my laptop with only the basic ad-blocking since my wife can't use my Firefox's ultra hard blocking situation.
> Experience maybe, but knowledge?

Yes.

> You don't think all older people somehow understand life better, than you do, just because they have more experience, and, often, knowledge.

It depends on the topic.

On this topic, you have precisely zero first hand knowledge, yet extremely high confidence in your speculative opinion. And seemingly not the slightest curiosity in obtaining facts. It's kind of interesting if you think about it that way don't you think?
If they don’t charge for themselves, what’s the motivation to do this?
> But get a sleeper compartment, don't sit with the cattle.

Cattle?
I am convinced most blockchain startups are solutions looking for problems. Yes, there are exceptions... Maybe this person is involved with one them?
You know I can’t figure out if your sarcastic or not?

Either way, funny!
>When I was in my teens and 20s, I felt like older people were just rigging the rules for their benefit. As I approach 40, let me tell you younger folks something (even if it's useless), we are all on the same team and we're trying to make things the best we can (for you too).

This isn't true at all, at least in America. The Boomers are absolutely pushing for policies that will benefit them at the expense of younger generations. The refusal to reduce carbon emissions and their desire to increase coal mining and usage is a big example of this.
Amazon are big enough they could get Microsoft to rework how the technicals of licensing work.
Yes they should!
I started freelancing and did something similar for the UK, wanna start a collection of tax calculators per country?
Adherence to laws or special guidelines may take time and cost money, but isn't a professional working to spec what a client should be able to expect? Should a baseline of accessibility not always be provided and thus figured into the base price? Does adhering to HTML Spec for example cost a premium price?
Thanks for your recommendation, added to list.
This was awesome and the trip is on my bucket list.

However, I really enjoyed the tongue in cheek humor.
Given that they're selling this at cost, what does cloudflare get out of this?
Read the comment again, young immigrants will have to pay higher rents because there will be a shortage of rentable housing.
South Australia has rolling blackouts in the summers when the coal "peaker plants" come online, and it takes 30-45 minutes in some cases for them to come online during a surge in demand due to blackouts. The government turned to Tesla to install (at the time) the biggest industrial battery in the world at 100MW / 129MWh and it is really working. Here is some info on it with some details (electrek is a Tesla fanboi site, but the reporting is accurate):

https://electrek.co/2018/09/24/tesla-powerpack-battery-austr...
My understanding is that the two things go hand-in-hand. The ad-blocking is for users, while the cryptocurrency is to remove the incentive that sites have to show ads in the first place. Without the cryptocurrency component, you’d just see sites implementing anti-Brave’s-adblock features in a never-ending arms race, like we have with regular browser-extension ad-blockers today. With it, sites affected by Brave’s ad-blocking have something else they can choose to implement (a crypto paywall just for Brave users) that will give them even higher ROI than anti-adblock features would. It’s an “economic approach” to privacy.
Yep, and even weirder Microsoft recently MIT licensed the source for the NT4 version of that file manager (with changes so it runs/compiles on modern Windows) https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile
> The weapons proliferation part has already been dealt with, since it depends on the type of nuclear reactor you build. Thorium salt reactors, are non-proliferation by design.

It's interesting how you say "has been dealt with" and then point to a technology that barely exists in reality.
Thorium reactors have been promised as a solution since a long time, people have predicted that many of them will be built really soon. It hasn't happened.
> Now it's common to not find X there.

Do you have an example? Exact match has been working fine for me.
I totally agree with you.

But compared to a one way flight, which can be had for as little as 100 bucks it's still pretty steep.

Alas, the experience certainly cannot be compared. It's not about getting to the destination, when you take the train. You pay for the entire experience.
If he spent nine years building it, he started at sixteen: hence as a kid.
Sure if you imagine some future technology that doesn't exists. We don't have storage mechanisms that have the capacity and are cost efficient.
> they did not start out as a "function" mechanism, they started out as just a delayed evaluation mechanism

I still don't see where you are getting this from. The scans you provide [1] don't make this claim. For instance, look at page 17 of Technical Characteristics of Smalltalk-76 [2]:

> heights _ students transform each to each height

The document seems to have some OCR problems - I'm pretty sure that underscore is meant to be a left arrow, or := in more modern Smalltalks. I understand this to be the equivalent of Smalltalk-80's

> heights := students collect: [:each | each height].

which is clearly a mechanism for mapping a function over a collection, not just a delayed evaluation mechanism.

[1] You might add to your article a footnote specifying that the citations from Bits of History, Words of Advice are from pages 14-15

[2] http://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/Filene/Smalltalk-76/.sy...
Great site. In case the author is watching this thread:

* I would be tempted to not put as many decimal places on the percentage. For example 72.48%, the .48% doesn't really show much (I suppose it might if it were near 50%). I feel that 72% jumps out at the viewer visually a lot better than 72.48%.

* Underneath the bars there is the data "243 new signatures". It doesn't really mention what timeframe. I think "n signatures per second" is sufficient. I think, on a site like this, the less data the better, to really focus on the main point, so I would remove that data.

* Maybe because the server is overloaded, the "n signatures per second" keeps on appearing and disappearing. The whole screen moves around when that happens. I would be tempted, if the data cannot be displayed, to keep the DOM the same but just display the empty string in place of the data. That way the page does not move around as the data gets displayed and then removed.
In the San Francisco real estate market? Dont be surprised when some of those workers start going homeless.
It might possible that most of the people in SF who own property have owned it for a long time. So for someone buying a house now, they would be paying a ton of money. If you bought the house more than 10 years ago, when prices were much lower, your mortgage would be much more reasonable and the monthly costs you would be paying would be less than what people are renting for currently.

Hence complaints of NIMBYism. The lack of new development in SF drives housing and therefore rental prices upwards, and so if you owned property before the bubble, you can now charge rent at the modern, high rental costs while paying a mortgage based on the lower pre-housing crisis prices. You could easily be pulling in thousands of dollars a month this way with a single rental property. So lots of people are now have a big incentive to fight against new development.
That's so kind of you. I've reached out to you via community@gitlab.com. Thanks again!
Why Are There So Many Pythons? A Python Implementation Comparison
Yes. You need that much storage because of the seasonal nature of sun and wind. You can't just assume a buffer of a couple of days or even weeks!
Perhaps you might have more success if you abandon the practice of separating Accessibility into its own line item, and simply include it as a given in your estimate. It could be worth a try.
I was going down that path a few years back, until I realized that after property tax and maintenance, it would be like taking on an extra part time job and only getting about $10K per year in return. And that's assuming they don't destroy the place.
There used to be a time where if you typed three words and got zero results, it was "no page on the ENTIRE INTERNET contains those three words." Now it's "these are what the algorithm thinks you want".