skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only thing I can figure is that they had a sweetheart deal with Intel of some sort on the 286, and therefore couldn't bring themselves to let it go even long after everyone else had.

I think part of it could also be due to not realising fast enough that "the PC had won"; they eventually switched gears, but it was a little too late (had they acted sooner or more aggressively, they might have been able to become something like Dell).

Instead, I think they kept the mindset of "home computer" (I'm not sure how to put it) long after that had been in decline. I'm not sure when the turning point was, but it was sometime in the latter part of the 1980s.

That was when they released both the Color Computer 3 and the Tandy 1000 line, from what I recall (I own a CoCo 3, which my parents purchased for me around 1987, IIRC - I had been using a CoCo 2 since 1984). It's been said that the Tandy 1000 was what the CoCo 3 should have been (or maybe a lost "CoCo 4"); they certainly were pushing it more than the CoCo line. They were trying to move more in the PC direction, but they still wanted a "budget" system.

At the time, IBM had their "budget system" - which was definitely not the AT (that was their "high end" system at the time) - it was the PCjr. The Tandy 1000 was kinda competing with that machine.

It was definitely a weird time - the transition from "home computers" (8-bit mostly) to "personal computers" (32 bit mostly) - and 16 bit machines were mostly skipped over, with the exception of Macs, Commodore (Amiga), and Atari (all of which used the Motorola 68k family). Of those latter three, only one barely managed to hang on (likely via the transition to PowerPC, among other reasons).

There's some other strangeness, too: Radio Shack had been doing 16-bit machines for a while, with the Model 4 (I can't recall without looking if the Model 3 wasn't part of this or not?). IIRC, it was based on the 68k - Radio Shack and Motorola seemed almost like "partners" - since they used a lot of their 8-bit processors for the Color Computer family (and earlier, the TDP terminal for farmers). Though being honest, Radio Shack was always changing processors...?

Anyhow - the Model 4 even had a version of Unix - Xenix from Microsoft - on the 68k; so they did do 16-bit machines for business, for a few years at least - but couldn't transition to the home market with a 16 bit machine (1000) - before the quick transition to 32-bit happened (386 and later 486).

Again - it was a weird time in the history of personal computing as a whole. Fun while it lasted, though.
This is the real world here. It's not just black/white.

So you can still ensure that illegal acts are made known to the public without revealing intelligence sources and methods.
Fewer Americans want to serve in the military. Cue Pentagon panic
I don't think that's a fair description of what's happened. What we currently know about are the Manning charges. It's pretty clear that Assange will be pursued for the 2016 election activities, but we likely won't hear about that either until he's already standing trial or it'll never come to light simply because they can put him away for life with the charges they've got now. If the 2010 issues didn't involve him at all no one can seriously content that the US would be letting him go - they have a plethora of reasons to pursue him.
Yea but I'm not asking for a react rewrite I'm asking for fonts and UI elements to not by microscopic or disappear on me when I misclick on the wrong microscopic thing.
It doesn't sounds like an smart move.
Then why bother with the term at all? What does the "free" in "free press" mean?

The First Amendment of the US constitution forbids Congress from abridging the freedom of speech and of the press. Although the term "free press" isn't specifically mentioned, if one cannot decide what does and does not qualify as "the press" then everything from espionage to outright falsehood can equally be considered an expression of "the press."

As this is not the case, then "the press" and "the free press" must have some established definition, which means some qualifiers must have been decided upon. And yet it doesn't seem as if the US has fallen prey to wholesale government silencing of critics or censorship of criticism either in the mainstream or alternative press, as a result of such definition.

So while it may be possible that defining "the press" could result in abusing that definition to silence critics, it doesn't appear to be inevitable.

Therefore, it can safely be argued whether or not Wikileaks qualifies as the "free press" without fear of a slippery slope to press censorship in general.
Autonomous cars won’t be proprietary to each manufacturer or company. Once someone has perfected their system, everyone else will drop what they are doing and simply buy it like an OS. It’s all in the software; hardware required (cameras, radar, GPUs) is already cheap and ubiquitous. My money is on Tesla or comma.ai for this.
as far as bubbles go it is a fairly large one, it includes academia, the corporate world, old media, news media, social media, entertainment,

Actually, you pretty much hit it on the nose! That's the particular extended bubble which effectively controls much of 2019's media and has the economic and political clout to make their (often misguided) will stick. That's a particular bubble which has unusually thick walls, while there's a particularly pressing societal need for its members to see from beyond its own boundaries.
One path is that their network can be leveraged to monetize other services, like Uber Eats or Jump, which could be profitable.

FWIW from conversations with some of the scooter rental app devs, apparently the scooter / ebike on-demand rentals are extremely profitable.
According to the UK's Home Office, the US requests more extraditions of UK citizens than vice versa, but that might be due to the relative population sizes.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/extradition-reque...
That's disgusting.

The computer thinks the plane in a otherwise normal climb (attitude, airspeed, power, rate of climb) is stalling? That's just...we cannot call this kind of automation anything like a pilot. The term "autopilot" is too much anthropomorphizing. A pilot reacting this way in this same situation with the same information, they would be incompetent or crazy to trust two AOA sensors and assume a stall. If a crash ensued they absolutely would be blamed for it. Not the goddamn sensors.

And calling such a thing a safeguard when it can fail danger like this? A 4000fpm decent as a correction for a stall in a normal climb? That's just batshit. I'm now in a dive recovery operation, itself with higher risks than a stall in the midst of a climb! A stall in a climb is not more dangerous than a 4000fpm dive. Think of throwing a football, it's stalling the entire way, all that's going to happen is the plane stops climbing as fast as it was and the nose is supposed to come down (that's why planes must have positive static stability) and viola we're flying again!

Let's pretend it is true you are somehow stalling in a normal climb (an instantaneous increase in angle of attack): what do does a pilot need to do? Neutralize controls, that's it. Maybe the attitude goes somewhere between 5 and 0 degrees. But a 4000fpm decent? pUke.

(I'm a pilot and former CFII, so I feel sufficiently entitled with my biases to comment with such editorialization.)

The only reason we humans tolerate such unsophisticated systems arriving at weird and dangerous edge cases is because the automation has in fact helped to make flying so much safer. But so have many other things: components are so much more reliable, turbine engines run for many thousands of hours between overhauls, they're really incredible. The training is a lot better. CRM has made things way safer! It's not just the automation. And we really shouldn't be cutting automation so much slack either. I mean for fucks sake, 4000fpm? Crazy. But it's an edge case and it should not be accepted with "oh well the pilots recovered! AOK!"

Obviously if the pilots had not recovered a central theme would be "the pilots didn't recover! INCOMPETENT PILOTS! THEY DIDN'T FOLLOW THE CHECKLIST! WARGARBLE!

Automation is not anything like a human. So accusing it of being crazy, or trying to murder people isn't exactly accurate. But I think it's reasonable to hold it accountable to things that look like "insane" behavior when it fails this spectacularly. Its just a sequence of narrowly defined laws, with each law doing its specific thing, without any regard to other information. Very myopic worldview. And then having more authority to take (wrong) action than pilots have to correct it?! What a bad sequence!
Made me think of this sketch based on a mediocre sci-fi movie[1] from a while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7rzIwrEqpw

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Box_(2009_film)
While I admit that the losses are staggering, the growth rates are also astounding:

Revenue

2016: $3.8bn

2017: $7.9bn

2018: $11.27bn

Trips

2016: 1.8bn

2017: 3.7bn

2018: 5.2bn

The internet is such a game-changer.
>then naturally it will be relatively hard to get rich because there is so much competition.

This doesn't follow. The economy is not a zero-sum game.
edit: presuming a sufficiently elastic money supply.
>THey pulled a lot of financial engineering tricks to boost their IPO price

Could you elaborate? Interested in knowing more
An article about Usenet by somebody who has never heard of Usenet.
That’s partially because the US is a espionage target to a far greater extent than most other countries.
Waymo are driving early adopters around Phoenix right now.
I think it would have been morally acceptable to have them tried and jailed, and morally acceptable for them to be pardoned afterwards.
Park & ride is a fine idea, but Massachusetts needs to invest in that sort of infrastructure before it will become viable for commuters.

Currently there's the commuter rail, which is hard to get to from many areas, is quite expensive, and doesn't run very frequently. It's not good enough to get people to stop driving.
Isn't this a Chrome-specific "Smart-Lock" or "Auto Sign-In" dialog? It shows multiple selectable users in a modal dialog, AFAIK Windows.Alert() is not able to do this.
I think there is the small chance the extradition won't go through.The UK courts are particularly considerate when it comes to extraditions -- when compared to other countries, it's not just a a hand-stamp (usually). In fact, Google the term "uk refuses to extradite" and there's pages upon pages of results.

It's probably his best hope. The current charges are thin -- based on one statement he made to manning -- and the feds know this. BUT the reason you never talk to the feds is that it is way, way to easy for them to get you on other charges: purgery (generally the main one if they can't get you for anything else), conspiracy, racketeering, and of course with this one they have a litany of government security charges they can cherry pick as well.

If he doesn't have excellent legal representation (even with) he's in real trouble. His best shot is to fight to not come here in the first place -- if he can make a case that they may bait and switch the charges to national security, and somewhere put the death penalty into play, that could work.

Note that I don't know how it works being that he is actually an Australian citizen -- does the UK care if it's not one of its citizens facing what their courts would consider unfair charges overseas? (which is their standard for denying extradition -- I'm not judging the charges either way)
You're arguing that in order to solve world hunger, we should have fewer people that need feeding, instead of automating farming for higher output.
> It takes tremendous capital expenditure to build that network, and it will take tremendous capital expenditure to neutralize it.

Does it, though? Every driver I've talked to basically drives for "all of them". Several told me they try to find whatever apps are local for driving and they setup those alone with Uber and Lyft and simply take whatever pays the most / is more frequent.

Uber's software and network are solid but I don't think there is a whole lot of loyalty there. Anyone who can drive a wedge into a spot in their business could slowly erode it, IMO.

Now, they're too big to die quickly or anything like that. But it doesn't seem impossible at all to me.
It's a good thing for Lyft-the-corporation but a bad thing for anyone who bought into the IPO.

Any sort of financial engineering tricks that goose the accounting numbers without affecting the long-term health of the business are basically a transfer payment from people who buy in at the inflated price to entities who sell at the inflated price. It's rational for the company to try to pull them; it's also rational for prospective shareholders to refuse to take the other side of the trade (at least until the price corrects to the point where the true fundamentals make it worth it). In today's markets, you can always find someone irrational.
I love starting there - this one is pages 25-72!
No way are we going to be in autonomous vehicles that soon. All of the companies besides Waymo are just doing fancy lane assist and calling it self-driving. And Waymo only works in the most ideal conditions
Is the Saudi family invested in Uber? There was a story that Uber was trying to cover up that the Prince that ordered the murder of the journalist Khashoggi - is this true? I know this is a tech forum, but I am not sure what to believe?
I don't think you understand the market the A32x and the 737 are in. They are planes flown by carriers who want to keep costs low. The MAX was designed the way it was because the airlines wanted more of the same with minimal retraining and support retooling. Boeing had originally proposed and may still pursue a carbon-fiber redesign of the 737 incorporating more of the lessons learned from the 787, but for now the airlines wanted and got a progressive improvement on the 737.

The MCAS system was designed as a response to FAA requirements and directives based on a concern about performance at the edge of the flight envelope. Since as we see it now (the public does not have enough information to conclude on how well the design process went except in the result) it was designed poorly and improvements are being made.

Once those improvements are made I expect the MAX to be, at that point a safer aircraft than the 737 NG. Its unfortunate that so many people had to die before the issue was identified, maybe congress should provide more funding for aviation safety enforcement and research at the FAA, NTSB and NASA.
Understandable and they are often compared.

For me it’s pratchett (strangely because I’m a massive sci-fi fan), his world is deeper, richer and the comedy is a backdrop to his view of the world expressed through fully realised and nuanced characters (while still very funny).

I can’t imagine anyone ever building a more fully imagined world than discworld, not least because few authors write 41 novels in their lifetime (that’s just the Discworld - he wrote others, one has omnipotent world builders carefully putting in fossils, one whom gets in trouble for trying to sneak in a fossil holding a sign saying “ban nuclear testing” that was the first of his works I read an 9 year old me thought that was hilarious).

I suspect a fan of either would find much to like in the other though :).
I don't think it's a problem that can't be solved. But Massachusetts needs to invest in that infrastructure before it will become viable. Just making the city more navigable by bikes doesn't solve the problem.
> We give plenty of indications.

for some values of plenty < ε. As cyclist I can tell you that human drivers often don't even use their turn signals at intersections where it is important for me to know where they're going. And it's not like I'm sneaking up on them, it's when they're facing me at the other side of the intersection.
Agreed. Many people don't want to think, they only want to know.

One of the things my team does is build data tools. The number of people who want to take data they have hardly looked at, put it through a tool they don't understand, and rely in important ways on the output, is astonishing to me.
I think the rotation from M87 is 15 degrees off from our perspective, so yes we are looking mostly "down" at it.
As I said, I can't recall vehicular cyclists claiming that vehicular cycling will increase the number of cyclists. So don't judge them on that. I think increasing the number of cyclists is important, however.

Also, I don't know any place where vehicular cycling is particularly common. It seems to be enthusiastically practiced by a relatively small group of people. As I said, though, those people are the safest cyclists I know. There's no evidence that their practices are detrimental to safety best I can tell. Their practices might seem counterintuitive, but they have good reasons for what they do.

> Admittedly, to me it seems obvious that cars being separate from bikes will be safer for people on bikes than sharing the space. Just like how everyone would uncritically accept that walking on sidewalks is safer than walking in car lanes, because it just seems really obvious.

Again, what seems obvious is not necessarily true. I recommend that you look at websites like this one: http://bicyclesafe.com/

The author of that site seems to be neither in favor of pure vehicular cycling or infrastructure, though I think he's more in favor of infrastructure than I am. You can look through the most common types of crashes and see that most infrastructure does little to nothing to address those problems. And dooring, for example, is unavoidable in some infrastructure.

The infrastructure approach seems to implicitly assume that most crashes (or perhaps the most severe crashes) are due to cars rear-ending cyclists, but that's not true. The vast majority are at intersections. A lot of infrastructure I've seen amplifies the intersection risk by, for example, making cyclists less visible by placing parked cars between the main traffic lane and the bike lane. Those arrangements absolutely increase the number of conflicts at intersections. Yet people keep promoting this sort of infrastructure. (Yes, infrastructure done well can help. See other comments in this thread for more information on that.)

> you're looking at it as a personal style

No, I'm interested in my personal safety and also public policy. I'm not opposed to all bike infrastructure, just bad infrastructure, which is the vast majority of what I've seen. Given the choice between no infrastructure, bad infrastructure, and good infrastructure, my choice is good infrastructure. Most people can't tell the difference between good and bad infrastructure.

Edit: I can see from your other posts that you live in Germany. The infrastructure you see is probably biased towards good. I live in the southern US, and the infrastructure I see (if it exists) is biased towards bad. Keep this in mind.
Wow, a woman pressed some keys on a computer.
Well done.

Did I mention she has a vagina? Because that is the most important thing about this non-story.

It's not even a photo, it's computer image.
If someone is in the US, I want them to have effective tools to defend life.

If they are not eligible to vote, then obviously we do not them voting. It's one of the few situations where identity really matters.
Wow, that many people are ordering delivery McDonald's? Maybe McDonald's should start delivery services in some markets itself then?
I’ve spent probably close to $4k on Apple products over the past two years. Before that, my last Apple products were an iPhone 3GS and a 3rd generation iPod nano.

The main draws for me, in no particular order:

- iPad apps are way better than Android tablet apps

- There are more high quality apps for iOS in general

- I use 100% Microsoft products at work at the moment so having the MacBook at home helps me keep a few toes in the Unix world

- the integration between iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Watch is way better than the competition

All in all, I think the apple products were worth the premium to me.

They weren’t THAT much more expensive than flagship Samsung smartphones and high end laptops anyways.

I’d be happy living the windows and android life too, though. People give it a lot of shit (especially on the internet) but modern OS’s are all pretty good.
How else would anyone diagnose and fix issues? Or improve the system?
Not an engine failure, but: "Debugging a program running on a $100M piece of hardware that is 100 million miles away is an interesting experience." http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html
Julian Assange Deserves First Amendment Protection
Would it be better to be hired 1 month before Uber's IPO or 1 month after and why?
Do we know what "other" revenue even is?
Same, but that's because I have both cookies and javascript disabled on nytimes.com.

I could turn them back on, but I usually regret doing that.
> ... purgery (generally the main one if they can't get you for anything else)

Perjury (for the benefit of those who were as confused as I was).
are you aware that motor control, and I don't even want to know what else, is already equipped with chips? No, no you don't.
Seems like it hasn't been updated for a few weeks. But it's a cool site!
Can't Uber become profitable by raising prices and lowering costs?

They have $40B in gross rideshare bookings and $3B in real losses for 2018.

Let's assume 20% of their costs are fixed and 80% are variable.

What might happen if they raise prices by 10%?

Gross bookings drop by 20% / Revenue per booking increase by 10% => $35.2B in gross bookings

Variable costs drop by 30% (due to lower driver acquisition costs since they're oversupplied) => $24B in variable costs

Fixed costs stay the same => $8.6B

That nets $2.6B profit. My numbers are estimations, but it wouldn't surprise me if they could reach profitability without SDC's.
"Vacancy" is something above a building being empty. Vacancy is a building that has space available that hasn't been filled. It does not cover buildings deliberately left empty by owners. A building waiting years to be demolished and replaced isn't vacant, nor a condo kept only as an investment and never lived in.

That mall in Calgary isn't vacant either. Each store/stall is technically occupied by its owner. There just aren't any flesh and blood people in the mall.
URL for full article: https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/defining-a-distinguished-engi...
> If someone is in the US, I want them to have effective tools to defend life.

Historically, representative government has been one of the most effective tools to defend life in the US.

> If they are not eligible to vote

ID checks do not verify eligibility at the time of voting. I can show up with a perfectly valid driver's license and be ineligible to vote for any number of reasons (I am a convicted felon, I am not eligible to vote in this county because I moved and my new license is still being processed, I renounced my citizenship this morning, etc.)

Going the other way -- a person who becomes eligible to vote just in time to cast a legitimate ballot may have trouble producing a valid picture ID confirming this status in time for the election.
C++ has changed some very old or rarely used things, like `auto`. It's very rare though.
> As an organization that believed in radical transparency, WikiLeaks wanted all the material in the public domain.

Wikileaks and Assange only believe in radical transparency when it isn't applied to themselves.
The history of rocketry really took off during WW-II, and was further refined by the military (generic, but pretty much the nations that have successfully landed on the moon), further developing and releasing to civilian government, and eventually private interests.

If I were to make a guess extrapolation to air-flight we're probably still roughly in the 1940s. Private space flight is making things more standard and long-run production instead of one-offs; but we aren't there yet and haven't found workhorse designs that are both reliable and cheap. Experiments like this will hopefully help us get there.