skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Is doing math a form of expression? Breaking a password amounts to thinking for a very long time about all the ways you could rearrange some bits, and choosing one. I'd call it an expression of preference for certain possible results over others, by way of saving one and letting the rest go.

Isn't shooting a gun at someone a matter of depressing a lever? It's about applying pressure on a lever with your finger.

>Still, I am deeply uncomfortable with a government having the authority to say, "You may not run that program."

Are you also deeply uncomfortable with a government having the authority to say "You may not press that lever".

Isn't the US firing nukes a matter of the US president entering numbers and pressing some buttons?

Isn't running into and maiming a pedestrian while driving a car at a traffic crossing a matter of actually doing nothing instead of braking?

Are you deeply uncomfortable with the thought of govt jailing you for literally doing nothing?
They believe that partisanship makes them moral people, but really it just makes their party morally bankrupt.

When the Democrats got to sit back and watch wars they secretly liked, under cover of Republican administrations, Julian Assange was a hero who would speak truth to big bad Republican power. Now that they think Julian Assange's public service helped Americans choose the current President, they view him as a villain.

A seeming majority of the mainstream press in the U.S. is staffed by Democrat partisans, so it's no wonder that they say whatever they can to defend it.
> And Assange appears to have committed the crime of conspiring to hack a Department of Defense system.

No, that is USG's argument - an argument which has yet to be proven or really even fleshed out. Given its reliance on a tenuous concept of nexus that USG stretches further and further, I think it's tough for it to "appear" to anyone that this spooky action at a distance is immediately criminal - USG's general ability to eventually justify extracting blood notwithstanding.

But back to the specific argument - What GP appears to be advocating is that while considering this possible crime, we should "simultaneously" be thinking of what a general twit Assange is, lest we forget that the real goal is to punish him somehow. That is directly contrary to the rule of law.
Your response screams of schilling. Anyone who has spent 5 minutes researching the effects of herbicides and pesticides understands the massive negative impact they are having on our environment. As a farmer who doesn’t use any chemicals surrounded by farmers who do, you have no idea of the nightmare that conventional agricultural is.

Even though I don’t use chemicals I know for a fact that my livestock and produce are contaminated from neighbour’s drift. I’ve had to empty out 6 large troughs because they had a thick film of roundup surfactant and glyphosate on them. I’ve been sick in bed for a day because my idiot neighbour sprayed during inversion conditions and his whole payload landed on my barn. It’s not fun, let me tell you.

Try not to be emotional when your own water tanks, your only source of water, is full of your neighbours chemicals and poisoning your children. Try not to be emotional when legislation provides no protection to spray victims because Bayer uses the “when used in accordance with the label” get out of jail free card.

I dare anyone who doesn’t buy organic to get a sample of their vegetables sent to a lab for a full organic tox screen and see how you feel then. Unlike vaccines, glyphosate is actually shown to cause autism among a number of other issues. Comparing one person’s desire to contribute positively to the environment with anti-vaxxers is disgusting.
What I particularly don't understand is how his government, my government, Australia, has left him hanging for all this time with never a reproach about the situation. I can only assume that the 5 eyes network is so tightly knit that it's inconceivable to our politicians to do the right thing and say "No, he's one of ours: you might have grievance with him -- but tough luck".

Instead, he's been holed up in the embassy of a country that initially had the fortitude to say just that. But since the Equidorian political landscape had shifted, so has the message it has sent. Sadly it shifted to what the Australian government has been doing all along, and has colluded in hanging him out to dry.

Tragically, when he arrives on US soil I suspect he in for a very bad time.

I don't particularly agree with Assange's methodology, but I find the actions of the Australian and UK political landscape utterly deplorable.
Here's what I posted in another response in this thread just now:

>Mozilla themselves has said that they didn't remove it for political reasons [or "ideological censorship" as you put it], rather it was the language and vitriol being used on the platform. As an example, it's one thing to use something like Dissenter to calmly and rationally discuss why you might think a nation should close its borders to all immigrants, it's another thing to use that same platform to say stuff like, "Fuck those worthless lazy piece of shit beaners coming to this country and stealing white jobs" (not my opinion, btw).

>I'm not going to pretend to know that stuff like that was posted to Dissenter, but you and I both know that language like that is commonplace on alt/far-right platforms. It's by no means a stretch to imagine that those kinds of posts are what got Dissenter banned.
Assange is not just a hero but he will go down in history as a Legend. So called liberals who turned on him are hypocrites. I hope they realize their mistake soon.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01413

You're an idiot. She's been at this almost longer than you've had a job.
It's a well known fact that the biggest factor in taxi revenues is how much paid miles/km you can do per day. The single biggest factor to increase your revenues is increasing that number.

So unless the incentives are massive, a driver will always look for the next ride by any means necessary. It's nearly never worth it to "wait for a better option".
>not in terms of external rejection

I'm from the Northeast. Your initial assessment was the correct one. There is no external rejection of Northeasteners. Hearing others speak with a Northeastern accent is strangely reassuring though.

>"Common thing happens in China, here are the details" is interesting news for some people.

Except that's the issue, with articles like these the thing that's claimed to be happening are extreme cases but they make them out to be common. Because it's China nobody reading the Economist can smell the bullshit as they have no direct knowledge. I see it happen with Japan related news too.
> non-technical users

what did you mean?
I do not believe Australia is at war with the United States.
You're wrong, she did most of the work on the algorithm to make this work: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01413
>So the personal life experience of a male doesn't count for anything? THAT is what I would call the actual toxic attitude.

Ah yes, the classic: "I'm not toxic, you are!".

Where in my original comment did I say the male perspective, anecdotal as it may be in a given context, counts for nothing?

I didn't.

What I did say was that a singular, anecdotal male perspective was not appropriate as a justification for depicting a woman desiring a similarly-gendered role model was somehow indicative of "toxic feminism".

>What makes women unable to have male role models, but men able to have female role models?

No one said they couldn't, but you're depicting what was said as far more benign than it really was. You didn't ask an open-ended question about it, you specifically categorized said desire as "toxic feminism".

>if that is your attitude, STEM may be better off without you anyway. After all, science is about keeping an open mind, among other things.

Maybe one of the STEM fields will be able to develop a device that can accurately measure the immense amount of irony bundled up in that sentence.

Same merry-go-round as usual in these threads:

Subtly patronizing comment(mansplaining if you will), someone points out "hey that's kind of toxic", original commenter retreats to victimhood and "I'm not toxic, you are! No one has an open mind about this kind of thing etc...", and around we go.

If you want to pretend like STEM doesn't have a centuries-long history of fairly uneven footing for other genders and minorities, and accuse everyone of suddenly being close-minded and toxic, fine, but you're going to have a hard time cashing in the victim card when someone points out the ridiculousness of it.
it's a very strong brand, as much as it gets a lot of hate here for the last two years of scandals, especially in developing markets noone cares about that. With right change of management and slow but steady rate raise it can be profitable.
Doesn’t this depend on the person’s combatant status? I do suspect that enemy combatants in uniform are afforded the protections you mention, but I don’t think Assange can reasonably be assigned to that class.
I think it would make more sense for them to unionize, rather than recreate the entire platform from scratch.l
I'm a pretty experienced Data Engineer working at one of the bigger data companies around. I read your copy and landing page, here's what I took away:

1) New database product that's an alpha. My first thought is "will be interesting to follow for 5 years to see if they make it". database choice is possibly the single biggest decision I make in my role; I don't make it lightly.

2) It looks like it's trying to bridge the NoSQL/SQL gap -- more consistent for SQL fans, more flexible for NoSQL fans. (My judgement: "serving 2 masters is not a great signal for me to choose this DB" but I'm a SQL curmudgeon.)

3) GraphQL is really neat out of the box. Some neat features overall.

And, finally, I'm still not really sure what situation could possibly arise that would make me choose this DB, mostly because that choice isn't something I'd select a <5 year old solution for.

I do like that it's based on Postgres (Citus taught me how powerful the "build on pg" model can be). I really like the graphql and schema introspection features. I don't think I would put this on my vendor/technology comparison matrix.

Hope this is helpful, please don't read too much into the negative stuff -- if I were choosing any other technology pillar besides a db, I wouldn't be nearly as strict. It's an uphill climb for your team, but I wish you the best of luck!
Just like the WWE’s designation of their employees as contractors. SDC could make the point moot , but this is a salient workers rights issue that politicians have not picked up on.
The difference is you can't have a conversation with a hundred million people in a day and record everything to use in the most efficient analytical way. Additionally Facebook isn't even having a conversation - it's just a space where other people have conversations and fb records everything like a creepy friend in the shadows.

I think it's pretty pedantic to claim the data isn't ours.
Hah, they did it! 3 Landings (2 side boosters and the center core). What a sight!
How incredible is it that FH is launching, and that they landed all three boosters, AND that it isn't even a news story anymore. Amazing.
"We generated 15% of our Ridesharing Gross Bookings from trips that either started or were completed at an airport"

This just highlights the need for better public transportation from cities to their airports.
What's there to trust? The names of everyone convicted of Federal crimes are public, as are the details of their crimes. If OP claims that someone was convicted of something incredibly implausible, he could prove it by telling everyone the name so they could look it up themselves. Alternatively, he could just tell a single person who could look it up and report back. Or not -- it's just the internet, who really cares?

But until he proves that something resembling his claim actually happened (which he could easily do by telling anyone the name of the convicted), nobody should believe for a second that someone was jailed in Federal prison for "claiming they could get 100 tabs of acid."
Juicy details about Levandowski and their Google Maps costs...
If you want to make up unrealistic numbers, sure, then unrealistically a self-driving car is cheaper.

But with a self-driving car, operational costs like registration, maintenance, fuel/charging, and insurance, would all have to come out of Waymo's pockets instead of the driver's $30,000k. If the car is being driven 24/7, then maintenance costs will be much higher because of the increased wear and tear, and insurance for self-driving cars will be magnitudes higher than it is for human (commercial) drivers. Plus, there's the maintenance costs for the self-driving tech (LIDARs, software systems, etc.) The insurance alone would likely wipe out savings from eliminating human drivers, and the combined maintenance+insurance costs definitely will for the foreseeable future.

The average Uber drives a $30k-40k car (assuming it was purchased new). So you're looking at a $100k difference in costs in acquiring the car (using your $130k price). If the SDCs only last 3 years, that means you only have 3 years to make up the $100k difference, so each SDC would have to make $33k/year more than the comparable human-driven Uber car competitor to break even (since operational costs per car will cost the same or more as paying a human drive would have). $33k/year is roughly 3000+ additional rides/year assuming $10/ride average cost. Assuming 10 rides a day based on media reports, that would require Waymo to at least double the rides each vehicle does every day. And Waymo can't just increase the price on its SDC rides, since if it makes them much more than $10/ride, people will just drive cause it's much cheaper and faster, even including gas and parking.

And remember: in all of the numbers above, Waymo is bringing the costs in-house, except for the vehicles themselves, so there's no markup. Retail costs for similarly specced SDCs cars would be much higher because each respective vendors will want their profits.

So yeah, while I don't believe Uber will achieve self-driving, I think that it's going to be a long time before self-driving cars are cheaper than human-driven cars once all costs are taken into account.
>Vanguard owns a piece of every listed company

I doubt this is true, at least not across their primary stock market index funds. For example, VTSAX only holds about 3500 stocks [0].

I don't know how the fund usually treats new, large IPOs, but I highly doubt that they would just blindly buy it at "any price"

EDIT: I just checked the holdings of VTSAX [1] and VGT [2], neither holds Lyft.

[0] - https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/portfolio...

[1] - https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/overview/...

[2] - https://investor.vanguard.com/etf/profile/portfolio/VGT/port...
There it is! https://imgur.com/a/gPBmGzj
The simplest explanation that I can think of is that some form of methane is trapped in geologic formations which periodically release (such as ice), but that the mentioned chemical/dust reactions end up sequestering (scrubbing) it in to more solid forms that are harder to detect.

Mars would be a much more interesting place if we'd send over enough infrastructure to get mostly autonomous robots going and scaling up local infrastructure for some kind of terra-forming effort.
How is Assange attempting to crack a password locally not an act in furtherance of the conspiracy? Attempting to drive a getaway car that breaks down is still an act even if it failed.

That is what is being alleged and the chat logs seem to support it. It might come out at trial that he didn't actually do it, of course, but that's what the trial is for.
Signed up. Did everything that was asked.

Reached:
This site can’t be reached The webpage at https://freedemo.litewait.io:8070/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
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from what? investing unused VC money they expect to burn in the near future?
Uhm what? Non US citizens aren't covered by the Constitution.

Its why you never ever do anything illegal when you are in the US. I would try to smuggle a bag of heroine into Singapore before ignoring a red light in New York.
Looks like thats a site for notifying you of new dependencies?

I think I'd prefer PRs like https://dependabot.com/
It's funny, if it went wrong more often it would be news but they make it look so easy.
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Probably still worse with an authoritarian government manipulating the news. It did not take long after the Huawei arrest scandal for brand new TV channels focused on Canadian news to pop up from nowhere.
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Man, that lane gave me the willies, first time I rode on it. ;-) But I agree about Madison. One other thing I've noticed is that here's also much less of a car culture. For instance it seems that people are outraged if their work commute is more than 10 minutes. And you don't see as many of the giant cars, SUV's, pickup trucks, etc.

One thing that may help is that a number of large employers are all concentrated near the center of town: Government offices, the university, and the hospitals. This makes it desirable to live within the city limits, but also to look for alternatives to the relatively expensive and inconvenient parking lots.
3 for 3! Beautiful!
Meanwhile he seems to lack any doubt or humility in anything involving Tesla...
Sure, it was 00000000 during the time that it was most likely that they would fired without question.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nuclear-missile-code-00000000...

There you go.
Interesting. In your daily activities, you cite your mind as 'clear' -- is it just of visual imagery/sounds, or in general? Do you 'feel' thoughts some other way? What is going on when you 'zone out' in your mind? Say for a programming problem, If you don't see code in your mind, do you still 'feel' it some other way?

Can you describe what you experience when recalling something?

For me, (it of course varies by the object of recall) it is most times imagery, although sometimes it can be emotions, sounds, etc. (I use the imagery as an 'address' after which other related memories are linked to and emerge).
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Amazing! Such an inspiration!

3 for 3, Good job SpaceX!
> The media never promotes an inflated story of a man's accomplishments due to him being a man, so it would be silly to suspect it.

Stories about men aren't thought of as being inflated "due to him being a man" because the default perspective is that men make history. Now that more awareness is being given to the contributions of overlooked women and members of other disenfranchised groups, people seem more eager to think that someone is being celebrated because of their identity.

> Nobody is doubting that it is possible for a woman to do impressive science.

Women's contributions to science and engineering have long been overlooked, if not outright doubted. Fran Allen's (the first woman to win the Turing Award) chapter in "Coders at Work" [0] is a good example.

> Seibel: So when you won the Turing, did you think to yourself, "Gee, there's another woman who should have won this a long time ago?"

> Allen: Well, the very first thing I thought about was how wonderful it was. And then I started to think about all the many other women who were never recognized at all for their work. In many cases, their work was stolen. I thought about the women who had done some very amazing things that have not been recognized, even by their peers. When I approach them and say, "You need to join some professional organizations-I'll write some recommendations for you," they kind of shy away from that.

> Seibel: So you think that part of the problem is they don't get recognized because they're not putting themselves in a place to be recognized as easily.

> Allen: Right.

> Seibel: Are there any particular folks that you would like to name-to give a little recognition now?

> Allen: Well, there's Edith Schonberg, who is a great computer scientist. In terms of technical work, it's just one first after another on some of her papers. She's had work stolen-absolutely brutally stolen. She wrote a paper on debugging of parallel code, which is a very hard problem. It was not accepted at a conference and somebody who had been on the program committee made three papers out of it. That kind of thing. It happens in our field and we don't have good ways of dealing with it.

> Seibel: And it happens more to women?

> Allen: Yes, I think it does. They were often viewed as not going to put up a fight-that they were more isolated and don't have the advocates who will deal with a famous thief. He was a famous thief, known but nobody dared touch it. And there are plenty of others way back from the Stretch days. There was a woman who essentially was the inventor of multiprogramming and credit was taken by somebody who eventually became a Turing Award winner.*

Peter Seibel. Coders at Work: Reflections of the Craft of Programming (Kindle Locations 6413-6419). Kindle Edition.

[0] http://www.codersatwork.com/fran-allen.html
Hi scribu, I'm Anirudh from the product team at Rockset.

The data is indexed onto SSDs in the cloud. The sweet spot is 10s of terabytes of data that you want to build a live application on top of.

From an architectural standpoint, we can scale even further. https://rockset.com/Rockset_Concepts_Design_Architecture.pdf
Making a 23 metre mark on the moon seems like a natural project for some country, then. Perhaps easier than orchestrating a soft landing.

There are lunar retroreflectors about a metre across [0] that are detectable with optical equipment, for some definition of optical. But to leave a mark that can be seen from earth - to leave your tag, or an X, or a crude drawing of a penis and testes - surely that's an urge as old as art itself.

[0]https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/...
There are tons of restrictions on public companies that don't apply to companies that are still private. Too many to list, but these include disclosure requirements (10-K, 10Q, 8-K...), restrictions on who can be on the board, regular independent financial audits, SOX compliance scope, CEO+CFO certifications, shareholder proposal requirements, listing requirements+fees, etc.

The restrictions are enough of a pain (especially the disclosure requirements since most companies would prefer their competitors not knowing their financial state) that it isn't uncommon to see a private company put off an IPO for a super long time.
Congrats to everyone at SpaceX for this epic achievement!
What he said was more along the lines of "I hope we'll try again in a couple of years", really non committing.
Yes. Actually, it is. You have to be a lawful combatant to receive combatant immunity under international law.

The U.S. Air Force consists of lawful combatants. They are members of the armed forces and wear uniforms that readily distinguish themselves as combatants, which permits the opposing party to a conflict to abide by principles of distinction and proportionality. They are therefore disanalogous.

CIA operatives, however, engaged in spying or armed conflict, arguably do not enjoy combatant immunity. If the Taliban had captured a CIA drone operator, there is a strong argument that they could have tried, convicted, and sentenced the operator without violating international law.

What part of The Hague Convention of 1907, the Third Geneva Convention of 1949, or the 1977 Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 did you rely on in forming the opinion you've just shared with us?
Truly amazing stuff! SpaceX deserves all the credit. Three boosters landing is an amazing feat.
I wonder about this too. What if I, as an index fund holder do not want the fund to buy up junk like lyft and uber?
So your position is that the US government can't be trusted on anything so there's no point in justice or laws?