skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And at the same time, the Pentagon is required to sign off on every movie script that shows any military buildings, or the White House. And they do make edits.

You're omitting a crucial detail and by doing so you make the situation you describe sound much more totalitarian. You're required to get the military to sign off on your script IF you want to use free or discounted military personal, equipment, or locations in your film. If you're making a movie where the heroes of the US military blow up some aliens, you'll be able to negotiate to use real tanks and planes for a reasonable cost in your fee. If you're talking about how the government kills people and is evil, you'll have to find another way to get your props. What you don't have to do is get government approval to make your film.
It's U+00AD, or &shy;. While occasionally helpful, it's a complete pain to manually add though.

Also I recently noticed Firefox seems to copy it, which is pretty annoying (didn't use to do that, I think).
The STM32F4 Discovery board -- among others from ST -- has a decent audio DAC on board.

https://www.st.com/en/evaluation-tools/stm32f4discovery.html
Could you give me an example of a type of document that falls into that latter category?

Personally I don't think they make it look cleaner, but the opposite.
Money! Prison is a business in America.
Worth every penny I paid for them.
Author says that increased luxury housing will trickle down to lower level housing. I'm not so sure. I wish I could find it, and maybe it's a bit anecdotal, but I came across something recently that said decent sized chunks of luxury housing in NYC is basically bought and left vacant by people using it essentially as an investment vehicle. If this is the case, additional high end housing will not trickle down to the same net effect on supply & demand as additional low-end/affordable housing.
I think what he is on about is the fact that even if the US has the safety nets you describe, it apparently isn't working.
"Fact X exists, therefore it is useful as evidence in debate Y."

"Should" is inherently subjective. There is not, in either principle it practice, any evidence that can answer a "should" question without reference to an established "should" presupposition. Get used to it.
The length of an article proves nothing about the truth of its contents.
I'm not a fan of this switch. Edge wasn't my favorite browser, but the web is worse off with it gone.
in what world is that concerning? They've been trying to discern if there was a cell of people around who harbour the same intent as this man, or if he was acting alone. New Zealand, a sovereign nation, has every right to request that information. The email was simply a case of whether the maintainer of the site would respond reasonably to a request from the NZ judicial system, or whether they would need to subpeona the information using the US judicial system. If that maintainer of that site is serving content to New Zealand, that it seems reasonable that he should be beholden to NZ laws.

As a part of there investigation into the act this man committed, they're looking at all activity around the event and the sort of people engaging with it. From a quick look at that website and the thread you linked, I expect (and at least hope), that most of the people who frequent it are now on a watch list after the events of last week.
That video you referenced. I was literally watching it and youtube took it down. Do you know the channel name?
I think the basic argument here is that many of the people in careers earning significant money do not find those careers fulfilling, but chose them knowing that. Other people chose careers that ARE fulfilling, but have shit compensation. For the people in the first category, people in the second complaining about not being able to afford things sounds like wanting to have their cake and eat it too.

Careers in the arts are generally regarded as belonging to the second category for all but a handful of lottery winners.
As far as I know, most people are not successful by his definition. Almost everyone who is not rich is living paycheck-to-paycheck. There is no baseline system where working 40 to 60 hours a week guarantees a normal home/living/health situation.
> I think you're much too generous.

Oh, definitely! Those in power don't understand that much of economics, and those voting don't really understand that much of technology.
This is something I never considered. I always assumed that the main reason US software engineers are better paid is there is a (perceived? real?) benefit to being close to businesspeople / close to the customers / close to the culture / some other benefit that depends solely on geography. I did not think that the quality of education could be a significant driver. This paper opens that possibility.

The elite schools are especially striking. I would have never guessed that CS students from Stanford/MIT would be so substantially better than students from Tsingua/Bombay. These schools draw from vastly larger talent pools (1.4 billion and 1.2 billion) than US undergrad programs. According to the study, the results do not materially change when only native English speakers are considered.

It’s worth investigating if the exams are biased in some way but if this holds up to scrutiny, it will change my views on American Universities significantly.
Great idea. you could also consider making it a Co-op staffing agency or a non-profit.
I'm concerned that "censorship of bad views" leads to radicalisation. e.g. if you have concerns that are morally unacceptable to express, the only place you can express
those concerns are in morally unacceptable areas.

I think the hope of censoring bad views is to increase that friction before people get there; make it harder for 'ordinary' people to stumble across vile sites, and reduce access to vile sites to those determined to get it.

I'm concerned that having a hammer of "censorship makes this problem goes away" makes it easier to see other social problems as nails.
One line to draw is "censor speech which directly incites or leads to violence". It seems the line NZ is drawing (and ISPs preemptively drew) is "objectionable" or "injurious to the public good". That seems much easier to abuse.
Curious how automatic hyphenation works with ambiguous words?

E.g. to pro-ject an image but to work on a proj-ect. [1]

Documentation does seem to suggest that inserting a soft hyphen &shy; at the correct point will serve as a hint that automatic hyphenation should obey. [2] Not that many people are going to remember to bother.

But wondering if any browser's automatic hyphenation dictionaries attempt to perform any contextual analysis such as part-of-speech tagging to try to get it right in ambiguous cases?

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/project

[2] https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/h/hyphenate/
I think you should also consider paying the employees more than you strictly need to. I think lots of private companies squeeze their employees on wedges. And sure squeezing them for charity is better than for shareholders.

If it were me I'd do an employee owned nonprofit, than a 'profits go to charity'.
There's nowhere to get to, it's all here and now, the world in the palm of your hand.
It also sends more detailed information to Segment
Well, I’ve been to grad school, done significant amounts of mathematical writing, read my share of papers, so I know what I’m talking about, too. The depth of the rabbit hole isn’t that deep for any one person; it’s more like a gopher hole, but everyone has their own little gopher hole.
Has it been established that the AoA sensor malfunctioned?
This is a great idea. I know a recruiter (and motivational speaker) who places people in charities and knows the ins-outs of "social good" and recruiting. Let me know if you want to chat with him or have me send this idea over to him. :)
I think the real problem in the US media is political bias. I think essentially the article is accusing the left leaning media of letting that bias color their views. Of course the article is equally guilty of that same thing. And I assume it does not see its own bias.

And sadly, the fact that the media is like this is largely a reflection of the population in general. And, as others point out, the media is probably like this because they are just chasing profit.
> "Racial disharmony is illegal."

Why? Why should racial disharmony be illegal? It sucks when people don't like you, maybe they have good reasons, maybe not - but legislating "harmony" just sounds wrong.

Also, why are people allowed to loudly proclaim "white people are evil" loudly, and broadly, without issues - isn't that also racial disharmony?
Spymaster behind the capture of Adolf Eichmann dies aged 92
It's YouTube Premium now, and it's $11.99/month. Also, without resorting to APK hacks I don't think it's possible to use on my Amazon Fire Stick. Otherwise I'd love to pay for YouTube to watch YouTube without advertisements.
As someone who is pretty hyped up for the Kyra, this stuff is really just hype.

Hype, in the sense that it's anything more than a way to hit a higher level of performance at a smaller budget of dollars and/or watts. Which, is a fine goal. But you can have a gazillion more oscillators and way better resolution with a desktop-class processor. None of these new FPGA synths will sound better than Omnisphere - but they will sound way better than the previous generation of hardware synths.

There's kind of a backlash against laptops in music right now - ex: modular and the DAW-less trend - so tons of people want hardware, and plenty of them are yelling "FPGA! FPGA!" like it makes a qualitative difference. Seriously, people on synth message boards are like, "what would this sound like if we did it with FPGA?"

I admit that sometimes there is something intangibly great about using hardware versus a laptop - but it's mostly about the interface, not the sound engine.
I think that’s the crux of my point. Yes of course it’s optional to make a movie with the White House in it. It’s optional to use war footage to report on the war. It’s optional to interview officials in your coverage. However if you don’t, nobody’s going to pay attention so your only choice in effect is to play ball. Who would watch media coverage of the war from the only network without footage/boots on the ground/military subject matter experts? You can say whatever you want but it doesn’t matter if nobody’s listening. In a true free country these would be available to you to do as you wish, wouldn’t they, with equal access provisions? (That’s not rhetorical I’m curious your thoughts)

That’s what I respect about it, and what makes it so powerful — the result is the same as under a totalitarian government but without the threats. And it’s still got freedom!
Do voters never think about their own family members or their own kids one day growing up and living next to them?

This is a problem when society is becoming less communal and more nimby like.
Twitter's censorship was wrong, and those countries and ISPs censorship would have been wrong as well. Free speech is a human right and censorship is immoral.
Might not significant improvements in mass transit might help this problem quite a bit as well? If a commute from 20-30 miles away was trivial, more people on the lower end of the economic scale could live further from urban centers where housing prices are at their peak.
It's getting downvoted because paid options grow ads, like most cable channels did. (Not all of them. I think TCM is still ad-free.)

Plus, a comment sibling to this one said YouTube Red has ads, so there's that.
High housing costs are a tax that gets passed on with higher priced goods and services.
Maybe putting a teen in jail, now facing 10 years for sharing the video with an edgy comment.
Pages was excellent during the 00s.

Then it wasn't.

They removed much of its power in one of the annual updates. I think it happened in concert with the launch of their iOS version of Pages. Fortunately many of those discarded concepts found their way into LibreOffice.

I know a lot of people feel the same way about Final Cut.
Windows is just slow as molasses, and it's not getting any faster over time either. Even the Windows XP desktop, which came out in the early 2000s is actually slower than a lightweight Linux install from the present day.

(For that matter, the snappy experience I get while running a super light Linux desktop on modern hardware is unlike anything else I'd ever experienced on x86-like hardware running a modern-day OS. It's too bad that Windows is nowhere close to matching it - I think most people these days just have no clue what they're missing. And it's not like recent mac-OS versions are all that better.)
The subjects quizzed are on page 9 in [this pdf](https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/suppl/2019/03/12/181464611...) seems pretty general.
If only luxury housing gets built eventually the amount of middle class housing will become too scarce. This is quite apparent in Boulder, when I lived there the citizens were quite good at banding together to prevent any development that wasn't going to be upper middle class and above.
I wonder how many of these see actual real use. As a writer, I can't stand distractions or additional input when I know that all I really need is pen and paper, or Pages / Google Docs if talking computers.

I am also struggling to get over the Gutenberg editor that WordPress introduced. I feel like Matt is being an immature brat for not introducing a simple 'writers mode' for the editor.

People think it doesn't matter, but it does. Those little actions you have to perform outside of writing start to add up.
Wanna build it with me?
Then keep building more. It will stop being such an attractive investment when the supply isn’t constrained.
It seems pretty obvious, if everyone's trying to send their kids to get higher-educated here in the US, and they're pretty smart, maybe it's for a good reason?

I mean not everything is as reductionist as vanity or brain drain. That seems to be the totally uninspired analysis from other commenters. It may be that there are equally smart students everywhere, but actually you get the best education here, and why?

One answer is that less conformity, greater social and political freedoms, and greater economic resources all let students reach their potential better.

A nuanced view would look at what it means, really, to feel stifled at a university where you’re guaranteed to have been at the top of your class but still not know important near-history or enjoy free speech. Maybe conformity crops up in the quality of professors more so than the students. It’s really complex but I know maybe only a few Tsinghua grads and all of them continued their educations here.

So my perspective is limited by the fact that I’ve never interacted with very many people who are strictly foreign educated in 2019 born after 1990.
I'm assuming some varieties of ai research will only occur as part of an arms race, as happened with nukes. Buy maybe that's just assuming what's past is present.
“The Barbados Mercury”: Thoughts from the digitization team
All pilots of Boeing aircraft know that when the autopilot is off, there is no automation between the controls and the control surfaces - until the 737 Max changed that. The MCAS system is only active when autopilot was off, a big change. Imagine the faulty AoA sensor is causing the aircraft to hunt around to different altitudes. The pilot switches off autopilot by just applying force to the controls and suddenly the plane starts pitching down.
Yes. Swiss has it all. Would be interested to hear about tech scene there. As well as where to source the finest shokolade ;)
It's probably too late for this year, but ISMB is one of the traditional locations for such a working group in the biological sciences. It might be interesting for the meeting next year though. If anyone is interested in putting together a proposal, let me know. I'd be happy to help.
Because during this period where global leaders are attempting to wipe out all races and merge us all into "one mocha colored race" there is going to be a lot of conflict so they need to get ahead of it and just ban anything racist out of fears it starts another race riot.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19430880
Those are problem only if templates are misused (imho).
So I would be sexual minority

Come on, we all know there are right minorities and there are wrong minorities.

But jokes aside, one possible explanation is that despite of all your sexual life, for the outside observer you still look like a "vanilla" couple (sorry, I assumed your gender here). You can show up at your kids school together, you can go to the Christmas party with your colleagues and none will say a word.

I think for gay couples it may be different: from weird looks to outright refusal.

And as for downvotes... Don't let me even start...
This article is confused. Its assertion is that the press's reputation has been destroyed due to its reporting on Russiagate, yet it goes on to cite U.S. intelligence officials, politicos like HRC, and others who suggested that Russiagate is a thing.

Now, which is it? If the press is essentially reporting what prominent people--presumed to have inside information--are saying, then is it the press whose reputation has been destroyed?

I'll be the first to say that their breathless reporting and the 24-hour news cycle are exhausting, as is their click-baity ratings chase. But, with regard to reporting the substance, what else are they supposed to do when many believe POTUS is breaking laws in plain sight, and so-called experts are corroborating that crimes are being committed?
There is a different (and shorter) excerpt from his book on Rolling Stone that is also quite good:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/iraq...

It notes the recent issue with Venezuela coverage at the end, although not noting that it took the New York Times more than two weeks to issue a correction while others outside the mainstream media pointed out the video evidence the day of the event.
I myself was struck by how ugly the hyphenation looked because the hyphens (and periods, and commas, and semicolons, and quotation marks) didn't poke outside the margin slightly to make the perceived margin straight. Even with a greedy line-by-line model as used in web browsers, LaTeX's \usepackage{microtype} ought to be fairly easy to implement.
At some point however we are going to face the fact that roads are a cheap form of transport because they are shared and so are dangerous - the UK has 4500 deaths a year

Well that’s untrue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reported_Road_Casualties_Gre...

As you can see road casualties have been dropping for quite a while, and for the last 5+ years the rate is around 1,700. Deaths per year haven’t been near 4500 since the 90’s. This also reflects another reality you ignore, which is that road fatalities are not evenly distributed. Being drunk, driving tired, owning an unsafe or poorly maintained car, driving too fast, all contribute to risk, and all are avoidable.

You also picked the UK, which has an extensive rail system.
They could have also used inputs from other systems as a sanity check such as altitude, air speed, pilot input, etc. I'm really surprised the software didn't take any other available data into consideration.
I work at http://givelively.org for the same reasons. I want my work to be about more than making someone profit, so I work at a place that doesn't make profit. For what it's worth, the fact that the mission of your organization would be aligned with ours would certainly be very attractive to me as a hiring manager. I would furthermore be encouraged by the idea that your pool of candidates may also be of a similar mindset. Of course I am an exception. Most hiring managers may not see things the way I do. But nonetheless, I want to share my words of encouragement and I hope you'll reach out to me if you end up moving forward.
Internet is doing to the journalists what Gutenberg's press has done to the "old" Catholic Church.

It is a difficult transition period but I am hopeful a better industry will emerged (in pain).
> If cities would just build simple housing with proper sanitation (tiny houses, SROs, whatever) to get those people off the street

I don't think it's that simple. This isn't a fixed constant set of people living on the street that you find homes for and that's the end of the problem.

It's more of a revolving door; there's a constant supply replacing whoever gets off the street.

I think what the article mentioned about Seattle is actually a reasonable approach:

Seattle, meanwhile, has allowed some tent cities to operate as de facto communities —
long-term, regulated, even with phone numbers and addresses.

That might be a good compromise. Provide enough infrastructure to be sanitary, like California's state campgrounds with hot showers and toilets, with the addition of mailing addresses. Give them enough stability to maintain a job and a state ID, but don't make it so comfortable as to incentivize exploitation. It's a difficult balancing act, effectively helping the homeless, without making it an attractive path of least effort.
There are no homosexual monkeys. While nearly all mammalian species have homosexual sex, homosexual individuals have only been observed in sheep and humans.
I find any conversation about dolphins and science fiction that neglects David Brin's "Startide Rising" [1] to be criminally negligent. It was even published in the Cold War (1983). Such a wonderful book if you haven't read it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startide_Rising
There are several pilots who've had this very issue happen to them and they managed to diagnose and address the problem without flying the plane into the ground.

These incidents are almost always the result of a combination of errors ranging from negligent engineering and documentation to mechanical defects to human (pilot) error. We simply don't know all the facts in these two crashes.

The publicly available information to me indicates negligent documentation (pilot manuals should have been updated to reflect the new mode and how to treat the issue similarly to runaway trim), negligent sales practice (the AoA disagree feature shouldn't be an option), and poor reactions by the pilots involved. But that's purely speculation at this point: there could very well be some other causes instead of or in addition to these.
> That would imply that one database with an obvious way for rights holders to register their content should be the right way to go.

Having a single database seems unusually problematic. If there is only one operator, who is that supposed to be? What happens if/when they give up or go out of business? What happens when they charge monopoly rents or their system is unreliable or full of bugs?

On the other hand, if there is one submission process that submits works to everybody's database and people have their own copies, that seems like it would be of particular interest to pirates -- go sign up as a database recipient and the copyright holders will send you copies of all their works.

It's as if no one has even attempted to think through how this would work.
In NYC those luxury apartment towers get massive property tax breaks, because of course they do. Vacant housing should be charged (a lot) more tax—at eye-watering rates if that's what it takes for it to be rented out—but that's still not a substitute for simplifying zoning, eliminating parking minimums, and everything else that makes it more expensive to build housing without a good reason.
I suggest you read up on the Logan Act and the accusations that have been made under it previously. It's from 1799 and far too general. There's been many instances that technically fall under it. It's not just private citizens, it's unauthorized persons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act#Accusations_of_viola...