skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> perhaps they want to be able to lobby its government and the EU without appearing to be a criminal organization.

It's interesting because they would only appear that way to the EU itself. For ordinary people, especially in the United States (though I suspect elsewhere), Wikipedia is far more of a respected organization than the European Union.

(To be clear, I mean that if Wikipedia says "what we're doing is okay" and the EU says "what you're doing is illegal", I think more people are going to believe Wikipedia. That's an interesting position to be in, whether it's ultimately useful to you or not.)
Why would you replace nulls with empty sets?

Now you can't tell if it's empty or just not set.

Now I have to track another thing just to tell me if I have touched a thing.

Please don't tell me this is some kind of nulls were a mistake cargo culting?

Nulls are just option types with good usability. Not the languages fault if you decide to put a tripple meaning on it.
I think most people realize it thanks to the very good communication by SpaceX.

Personally, from a technology standpoint, I am not that impressed compared to what we have done in the past when it comes to space exploration. Moon landings, space shuttle, Mars rovers... The current state of rocketry all but highlights how awesome it was before.

The awesome part about SpaceX is not that their rockets are the best humanity can do. What's awesome is that it may very well make the first reusable rockets that make economical sense. Unlike NASA in the past, they don't have unlimited money, they are a private company, and even if they have help from the US government, they have to work with a budget.

If anything the achievement is not the rocket itself but how it creates a regain of interest in rocketry, both popular and economic. I mean, our workhorse rocket (Soyuz) dates back from the 50s, and all of the awesome (and too expensive) stuff like the Saturn V and shuttle are now lost.
I would argue that for what the OP was discussing `textContent` (From the linked example) is very much like `innerHTML` (As it’s a safer version of the former). I’m not sure what you mean by the DOM being neither stateful or stateless, or describing an implementation of logic. Could you clarify?
I find this ... disquieting. I think its fantastic but I also find something about the lack of uncanny valley troubling.

I should feel happier about it, but I can't stop feeling a bit odd that a sketch can go to photorealistic north of the bad so well now: I expected 5-10 more years for this.
It wasn't discovered he was using steroids this was common knowledge from day 1

not natty bro
That's up there with the original frogtech bulk
https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=174863921&pa...
Logging into new devices does not ask for a second factor. I’ve verified this last week when I got a new iPad.
Two Body Problem: Collaborative Visual Task Completion
https://youtu.be/TXMGu2d8c8g?t=2864

Solid oxygen.
Two rival AI approaches combine to let machines learn like a child
There are plugins made for a language, but they are usually bloated, it's cleaner to compose smaller plugins to achieve the same outcome.

Usually vim configs are like toothbrushes, everyone uses a special one. Here's mine that includes dozens of plugins, some of them repeated from colordrops' list:

https://gitlab.com/somini/dotnvim
It's a good development but this article is misleading and ignorant. Web Components cannot replace web frameworks like ReactJs, Angular or Vue. At least not yet. Im not sure if this guy have used any of these frameworks before.
How do you engineer for space? Increasing telomere length is merely a stop-gap. Random mutations due to solar radiation are exactly the mechanism that evolution exploits to make progress (as well as other sources of entropy), the chemical makeup of DNA is poorly suited to space travel: you can't just genetically engineer that way.
Manning wasn’t convicted of treason though. You cannot apply sentencing for charges not convicted.

35 years was excessive sentencing for Manning’s conviction. Considering the volume and seriousness of conduct a sentence of 5-8 years would have been more appropriate as compared to other related convictions.
Scaling Uber's Customer Support Ticket Assistant System with Deep Learning
American law can not apply to non-Americans abroad.
Ah, you're correct about the starting at 10%. I had misread the graph.
Uh, you sure you linked the right article for China?
Ask HN: Is there any way to reclaim our nonprofit YouTube channel?
Hello everyone,

Thanks for reading. I just wanted to put a call out there to anyone that can help. The nonprofit I'm a part of, Sustainable Waterloo Region, has lost access to its YouTube channel, we suspect due to the changeover between YouTube when it was acquired and merged in with Google+.

I've been on support with G Suite for hours to try to identify which email address the channel is linked to so I could perform a password reset and get back in, but it just seems completely impossible with the support person essentially saying there isn't anything he can do to help.

I submitted the email addresses and names I thought it might be to this form: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3056283?hl=en. It never seems to work; I get errors or it says that account can't be found. :(

Here is our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/sustainablewaterloo

Can you help us reclaim it?

I'm really hoping and praying that someone who works at YouTube is reading and can help me or someone who has advice on how I can fix this will reach out.
How AI is helping farmers and babies in the developing world
I find it amazing that this is actually downvoted, but then again this is probably a biased audience as far as that topic goes
A moat has nothing to do with the venture’s current rank, and network effects (as above) are much weaker, what with drivers able to drive for multiple services, the ability to start a service in niche markets (eg wingz and airport rides), and the ability of customers to get a new app and probe multiple wait lists. Austin was able to sustain an extremely fragmented market when Uber left.

I hope your read that link, which concurs that being number 1 by a large margin is not itself a moat. A patent on the key technology is a moat. The unwillingness of everyone to switch is a moat. “They’re number 1” is not a moat.
I mean, GPS, too, right? I think you've exaggerated the definition to well beyond reason.
If you think about radix tries and other data structures (AVL) it would be useful to be able to code good x>y tests against the binary state of IPv6. If you have to segment into two u_64 then shift-and-mask stuff becomes harder. So, purely for IPv6 (and I work with internet addresses a lot so my bias is showing) I think this makes sense.

But I totally get it may not be in your use case or first pass. Tiny home router builds? they'd want this. Anything doing IPv6 packet work testing or finding IPs in a structure will want this unless people code to the /64 model.
This is awesome! Fortran is still in use in many of the "hard" sciences. It will probably take several years, but this may mean we could consider deprecating one of the compilers we have to maintain for people.
No need to avoid your own responsibility and bias in making that assumption. It's not accurate to blame it on the media coverage alone. Strikes me as more like confirmation bias around what your expectations are for academics, women, or both.
Perhaps when large companies issue options at ipo they should expect this type of behavior.
Gotcha, thanks for taking the time to explain.

I hope I didn't come off as being to negative about the change. Warnings are still a pretty good solution here.
From where? Just hanging out above the earth as the atmosphere dissipates?

By only 202km it seems to have dissipated.

EDIT:

Thanks for the link! The frozen o2 is emitted from a drainage line on the tank.
What would have happened if the information was in an append only log like git history (where a rebase would be inappropriate) or a blockchain (where it can't occur)?
Fluffy frozen oxygen, low mass. Bleeds from tank, all normal apparently
Tourism, mining high-value minerals, real-estate speculation, new forms of low-gravity athletics, and retirement communities for people with mobility issues who would be stuck in a wheelchair in full gravity.
I think most people are just focused on other things. I'm sure there are plenty of other great achievements we never took time to appreciate. The discovery of CRISPR is probably one of those things. We just have a different focus. Life moves on...
> But in fact, Uber does have a massive moat -- its network of drivers and riders in thousands of cities around the world. No competitor is even close.

Given Uber's financials, this still reads to me as, "Nobody in the world can burn money anywhere near as fast as we can."

It's not inconceivable that they could get into the black, but a year-over-year adjusted EBIDTA loss that's getting larger instead of smaller, and a revenue as a percentage of gross bookings that's doing the same, says that they've got no better idea than I do of how to make that actually happen.
Flight data its data about flights. Ocean data is data about oceans. My data is data about me.
Possibly a reference to the "Collateral Murder" video released by Wikileaks, which showed a US military helicopter shooting people in Iraq.
> You could not enforce anything at a schema level without having a way to authenticate who is who

You could enforce precisely the goal of only one vote per registered voter.

> We already have a 50-state ID system

That's the point -- we don't, and we don't use what we have very well. The closest thing we have to universal ID cards is the Social Security card, and advocates of voter ID don't want to use it. (In fact, no combination of the source documents used to prove identity for official US business are valid for voting in many states.)

But we definitely do not have a 100% free 50-state ID system that makes it anywhere near as easy to get an ID as is the case for e.g. a Social Security card or passport.

And that's basically the entire sticking point: is it okay for it to be easy for 80% of the populace? 90%? Or does it need to be 100%?
I can live with the unpleasant UX as far as that goes, but where it implodes for me is having to sift through endless fake reviews, counterfeits, and shit products. “Amazon’s Choice” is frequently garbage, and everything else is a coin flip at best. I have to use Fakespot just to sift through the more obvious dreck.

Of course it’s AWS printing their money, not retail.
Still being up does not make it true, particularly if it is in archive.org.

I have no idea what when on, but given the facts as presented in that article, this is possible:

1. Papers publish an article about a professor.

2. Wikipedia repeats was is said in the article, and cites the article as proof.

3. archive.org and others makes copies of the article (perhaps Wikipedia starts taking copied of things it cites - which would be _really_ nice.)

4. Professor notices article and threatens to sue.

5. The papers decides the article can't be defended and so takes it down. If this is what happened copies of the article still appearing on the net doesn't alter the fact the papers acknowledged the article was false and defamatory.

If at this point the paper published an apology acknowledging the article is in error then Wikipedia then IMO Wikipedia doesn't have an ethical leg to stand on.

If they didn't publish an apology didn't this is probably the way it had to happen. They only way I'd change things is I wouldn't not be awarding the professor any damages - if I was the judge I would be saying "it's your own fault for not demanding an apology acknowledging the article was false from the paper".

As it is, Wikipedia left us to drawn our own conclusions from the link disappearing. As I frequent Wikipedia user I find myself in this position all the time and think that's perfectly reasonable, but I can see how the professor and the judge might see things differently.
Yes, GPS too. It is after all what puts the “smart” in bombs. Again, this is something I broadly support, but I’m not in denial about it.
> Should I use this? (Or should I use glib, musl, or uclib?)

I agree that a comparison would be good, but musl and glibc are low level fundamental API's for things like printf and opening files.

Glib and this are higher level libraries to build applications with. If you're building a compiler you probably want one of these, for the generated code it would depend a lot on the specifics.

Edit - I'll also add that a lot of people's experience with C seems to com from college or beginner material where they're learning in a very bare bones environment. Combine C and libraries like this and it's not just good for app development but can be great for scripting where python or bash would typically be used.
If charges B-Z are in fact thrown into the mix after the plane lands, would you then be convinced of a politically motivated conspiracy?
How to Stop Amazon from Listening to Your Alexa Recordings
Why would anyone want to challenge them to take over a market they’re losing billions of dollars in?
Depending on how far back you want to go: Rome, Byzantium and other near-east locations, Cordova and Teledo, Florence and the Italian City-States, Vienna, Paris, London, Amsterdam, ...

The list actually seems fairly small.

Hrm: listing of largest European cities through history 9sortable tables):

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

And worldwide:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_urban_community_siz...
This is easily solved by installing Firefox for Android and uBlock Origin. I don't even understand how people tolerate the "modern" web otherwise.
400% more than alpha in fact:

https://www.bvp.com/bvp-nasdaq-emerging-cloud-index

(granted not all of those are IPOs in the last decade)
I wonder what sparked interest in rocketry in the USSR enough that they launched Sputnik, etc with no immediate military benefit. As berated as communism is, they had vision enough to see past the capitalists in that moment...into space.
>Realistically, Uber has a higher cost basis than a taxi because taxis cut down on insurance and fleet expenses through pooling.

But Uber's price / taxis' price is wider than Uber's revenue / Uber's costs. Uber addresses various problems with taxis:

- driver certification: the brokenness of taxi certification arguably created Uber, via unreasonable constraints on the number of taxis in many jurisdictions

- availability: Uber's surge pricing may suck, but it's more fair than random price gouging by drivers at odd times in weird places

- rider pooling: you don't have to pass a hailing rider to combine trips; there's an algorithm for that

- verification: fake taxis used to be a serious problem, but Uber (usually) gives you the license plate # of your driver

Also, with regard to fleet expenses, Uber is arguably taking advantage of decaying capital that would have gone to waste. The cost of a car is often quoted in cents per mile, but that's not quite accurate. A car that sits in a garage will eventually fail; the lifespan of a car is limited by time as well as distance. Many people weren't driving their cars as far as they could in the time that they had -- and in my experience, Uber drivers tend to drive in the machine-gentlest way they possibly can (sometimes annoyingly so -- but why wouldn't they?). The use of own cars potentially yields a significant savings over a dedicated fleet. (Likewise, Uber "pools" the cost of insurance on the taxi with the cost of insurance on the own car.)
I have to remember that one if I ever feel like burgling someone’s house. “Ah yes yer honor, I did try to break in for research purposes!”
I think the comment is pretty spot on and I also think most people are stupid and they don't grasp the significance of what Musk is trying to do. I don't know the OP but wouldn't mind being his/her friend.

What can be done to get more people to grasp the significance here? Or is this pattern just human nature?
According to GDPR, your data is yours. Even if captured and stored by an enterprise. Soon California too.
Other question is why is the footage shown at all? Is there some limitation on the ability to switch cameras?
All of these features are also in "graphical" editors, despite the claims. M$ had been doing it for decades.

I remember a friend of mine showing how easy it was to block select in vim. I waited 30 secs or so.
I showed him the same in visual c++ (circa 2000s). We then had a "vim-off". eg. Find/replace/regex across a range of things -- using only the keyboard. The best I conceded was how the highlighting of results was probably superior... (sublime text, and vs code are as good as that now)

I know a lot of people here love vi (and Emacs), but personally, the only command I'm happy to learn is :q (and I presume negative karma for this comment will result) :D

I always install le for my terminal connections, and fall back to nano where needed. I've been meaning to write a console editor of my own that matches ye-o olde vc++ and visual studio...

I think there's something in the vi evangelism that I haven't quite grasped... otherwise I'm sure I'd have been using it for decades.

edit: not sure about the yank/ clipboard history... but that's part of the os in gui world.
I think you're underestimating the military benefit of being able to launch something into space...
Except most companies (including Google) withhold supplementary income at 22% federal plus FICA, regardless of whether your marginal bracket is 22% or 35%+.

Usually this results in significant underwithholding on RSU for federal tax.
One thought about your ticker comment - I actually prefer it when the ticker is NOT exact same as the company like UBER or LYFT. This is because I know when I google AMZN, AAPL, TSLA etc. the search engine knows I want the stock price and am specifically asking about stock. For UBER and LYFT I have to type something like ‘LYFT stock’ if I want the price, trends and news around that.
Brexit is seeming smarter every day. What started as knee jerk reaction to immigration seems more sensible than ever, for myrid reasons.
> it would still be good enough to cross check

What are you basing this assumption on?
Back in the day journalists didn't pick a side, they just checked the facts and published anything in the public interest
> Personally, from a technology standpoint, I am not that impressed compared to what we have done in the past when it comes to space exploration.

This is possibly the most Hacker News comment I have ever seen.
According to TIOBE, Fortran is more popular than Google's Dart and Mozilla's Rust. Not to mention Kotlin, Lisp, and Erlang.
It’s really quite surreal. Unless it’s a highly commoditized item, I don’t bother with Amazon anymore.
While GPS can be used to target bombs, it can also be used to target many other things, like cameras and airplanes and helicopters and containerships and taxi rides. Simply because GPS is useful in war does not make it a weapon of war.

Spy satellites don't help industry or commerce or transport or safety or medicine. They solely help those who kill hundreds of people for a living.

Spy satellites, due to their very restricted scope of usefulness (and to whom they are made useful), are weapons of war. We'd be having a different discussion entirely if their outputs were livestreamed to the whole planet (like the GPS signals are). Those that run them don't permit that, because then they wouldn't be quite as useful for committing lots of murders.
> So, by that interpretation, we don't have much of a right to privacy.

Not in terms of DNA, no. We leave traces of our DNA wherever we go, and if someone takes the time to read it, they'll learn what they learn.

What is the alternative? Outlaw DNA sequencing? Only allow it if you know the owner? Even if it's on my property?

> I'm not saying you're with them.

Then how would you know every other place the person went that day? Either they told you (not a privacy violation, they told you), or you were with them. Or you installed a hidden camera, in which case the data was clearly stolen and wholly unlike when someone knowingly shares contact information (which was how this analogy originated).

We're in agreement about memory recording, so no comment on those points! :)
Social, historical, and cultural factors undoubtedly make the level of effort required to be successful as a woman in tech or science spaces higher than the level of effort a man has to make for the same level of success (if you could control everything else). This can be true without any derogatory implication about the inherent capabilities of women generally. That you can't tell the difference astonishes me.
(Sweden != Switzerland)
Voyager and Pioneer’s Grand Tour of the Milky Way
To further your second point. A whole cottage industry has sprung up around AirBnB. To me this indicates that the business model for AirBnB is working. There is no similar thing happening w/ uber. Seems to just be a question of who (uber or the drivers) is going to absorb the losses.
Serious investigations of seemingly-trivial events can produce some startling information.
Look into the ongoing Kealoha scandal in Oahu. One broken mailbox is tearing down a massive criminal conspiracy.
> It absolutely takes tremendous capital expenditure to build the network.

It's like breaking trail: It's a whole lot of work for the person in front, but it's damn easy for everyone else.

Uber, being first mover, had to spend great heaping piles of money convincing people to become rideshare drivers in the first place. Because they had to sell people on the idea of driving folks for a living, and then get them to buy new cars that meet their standards, and then train them on how to be a rideshare driver, and all that fun stuff.

Everyone else just needs to convince a group of people who have already bought the car and learned how to drive it that it's in their interest to hedge their bets. Which, given how Uber has historically treated its drivers, is something that requires approximately zero convincing.
> Now you can't tell if it's empty or just not set.

Those are the same things in EdgeDB. You can have a "required link", in which case a relationship between two objects is required, and therefore the link cannot ever point to an empty set. Alternatively you can also declare your link as "optional", in which case you have it pointing to an empty set (essentially to "nothing"). You can coalesce that empty set with a non-empty set, if you need.

That is similar to SQL; the key differences here are:

* The boolean logic in EdgeQL is two-valued, it's "true and false", not "true, false, and NULL". Some people find it hard to guess what "true OR NULL" returns in SQL, because unless you are a DBA, this isn't something you deal with on a daily basis.

* Functions/operators in EdgeQL never return empty set to indicate an error condition. This is one of my personal pet peeves with SQL; in some situations it's hard to understand why a big and complex query yields slightly wrong results sometimes.

> Now I have to track another thing just to tell me if I have touched a thing.

I suggest you to try writing EdgeQL queries. The experience is usually quite the opposite, and I hope you'll end up liking it!

> Please don't tell me this is some kind of nulls were a mistake cargo culting?

While I do think that NULL is a hard to deal issue in many languages and I admire languages like Rust without NULL, EdgeQL is slightly different. As you noticed, we do have a concept of empty set, which in some ways is similar to NULL in SQL (with the caveats I explained above).
Thats next level echochamber. Do people actually do this?
why didn't you build off musl?
SDC could have been a company since it was mentioned next to Waymo. I stumbled as well for a few seconds.