skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The free system is a different system built by a different team. Integrating the two systems would be a nightmare.

Don't attribute to maliciousness what can be attributed to incompetence.
How Ethical Is Facial Recognition Technology?
Progressive, as in, it progresses upward with income. Regressive as in the tax rate regresses (moves downward) with income. It's a descriptive term. Fair is a value judgement, "progression" is a description. While all words and names carry some value judgement I think "progressive and regressive" (as related to the marginal rate) carries less value judgement that ("fair and unfair").
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I'm not very educated on this subject; could you point me to some groups the SPLC has labeled as hate groups but are not? (i.e. an analysis of the evaluation by the SPLC and why the SPLC's judgement is wrong)
> True randomness has no structure because that's what makes it inherently unpredictable.

That is its structure. "No structure" is a perfectly valid value for "degree of structure". Not seeing that is the same as not seeing that 0 is a perfectly valid number.

Both "no structure" and 0 play their fundamental role as the identity elements in their respective algebraic structures.
The procurement process for the government is broken because our political system is broken. You need deep pockets and political connections.

This is actually Elon Musk’s greatest triumph; almost all of his post-PayPal businesses are based on exploiting weaknesses in government regulatory (Tesla, PayPal) or procurement processes (SpaceX, boring company).

SpaceX was legitimate innovation in a broken government contracting process, but Tesla is starting to look like it was only a viable business with the subsidies — I would anticipate their business model to shift away from vehicles soon and turn towards large-scale grid infrastructure (aka government contracting).
Have you been to cities in Netherlands or Danmark?
I think you're discounting exponential growth. We (humans) overestimate the short term, and underestimate the longterm.
Also note: this same road was the location of a cyclist killed by a drunk bishop.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/10/us/baltimore-bishop-charg...
claps hands okay folks, it's time to panic. let's get this train rolling.

(as if "panic" was that sort of phenomenon, like a protest or something)
Yeah it seems that's true/I was wrong. I was reading george conway's twitter and I saw this tweet thread by a washingtonpost journalist `If this is the only subject to which the charges relate (& there are none on election interference or other topics), that’s notable. It also raises the question of what changed from when the Obama administration decided it couldn’t make a case, aside from political/DoJ leadership'

https://twitter.com/mattzap
Maybe the government tolerates oracle; have endless pockets and dont care about the financial aspect of using oracle dbms.
It's not just that they're pushovers, it's a completely one-sided affair. They only hear from the prosecution (the defendant is not present, let alone granted legal representation) and the prosecution is allowed extensive leeway in attempting to gain the indictment including offering evidence that would not be allowed in trial, such as hearsay [1]. And whether a case can be won or not at trial is a secondary consideration for prosecutors. The vast majority of cases end up finishing in plea deals out of court. Above somebody mentioned 3%. The exact number will vary by state, but is invariably well below 10%.

So more important than whether a case can be won at trial is whether or not a defendant can be pressured into conceding. And in many things it's generally not hard. Imagine you think you have an 80% chance of acquittal at court, which would see you set free immediately. Yet losing at court would see you serve up to 10 years. And the prosecutor offers you 2 years + time served, which with early release means you'll be spending about a month in jail. Even though you are innocent and think there's an overwhelmingly good chance of being able to prove as such, you'd be a fool to do anything except accept the plea.

In some ways I wish plea bargains were not a thing. It'd massively reduce our arrest and imprisonment rate simply because we could not fulfill the constitutional requirement of a speedy trial with millions of people in the system for mostly irrelevant crimes, and it would also avoid this sort of 'loophole' of allowing prosecutors to score convictions even when the defendant felt he would have a good chance of defending himself at trial but is unable to do so due to risk:reward considerations.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearsay_in_United_States_law#A...
I think you misspelled loathes.
Tesla also happens to have a fanbase who would defend them with passion, making claims and arguing for hours that you can indeed download car performance from the internet, that driving assist is an autonomous driving even though Tesla says that it isn't and you should always stay alert and if you get slammed into a wall(like that poor Apple engineer) you should have known better.

It's really not about tech but about the brand. Since Stave Job is no longer with us, Musk happens to own the tech visionary title.

It can be annoying but I'm glad that Tesla exists an it's brand is pushing the big players into electric cars.
> "The whole team thought you were great. You were probably the strongest candidate overall, but we were looking for someone with experience in XYZ."

That happened to me. I suspect the experience requirement somehow changed during the interview process. So at the end of the multi-week interview process they realized they were looking for something different than what was listed on the position requirements. I'm not very upset about it. The time was wasted, sure. But I made some connections that may help later.
Lamport claims on his website that Amazon uses TLA+ and has used it for quite a while now. Saying that to confirm plausibility of this story.
The $10B number seems funny. Government procurement contracts and projects routinely overrun their budgets and schedules by a factor of 2 or more (something software developers should be familiar with). I wouldn't be surprised if the winner of this contract got considerably more than $10B from this contract alone.
Agreed. Advanced driver assistance is where the market opportunity is for a considerable time. From there it can evolve closer to full self driving. However full self driving will never be “done”
Fair point, I wouldn't say simply being contrarian is the solution. Shorts do great work and can profit immensely from finding the truth, as they should, but personally feel the financial media is a Dr. Frankenstein which creates it's own monsters. There's plenty of examples of "common knowledge" in the year before the Great Recession. All sorts of talking heads lined up to re-iterate the _truth_.

It is possible to short a viable company into bankruptcy and win from it, this is something that should be acknowledged.
No, I mean that the US doesn't have any more of a "politically safe" reason for extraditing him than it ever did, so far as I can see.
Don't they get snow? With vertical barriers I'm confused how a plow will be able to properly clear the street.
EA Published First Teaser of the Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order
If you can use cp to move files around, you can use gsutil to do the same for GCS.

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil
thats why i cant help but lmao when people say Ford and company will just "catch up to Tesla".

Noone has anything close to self driving vehicles other than Tesla.
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Noted! Thanks so much for your input — I'll work on a post
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19634403
Vehicular cycling is, to put it lightly, controversial.
It's gotten far better. As a grad student who races for MIT and trains on the roads around Boston's suburbs, I've found most drivers to be surprisingly patient with us cyclists. There's the fair fraction of drivers who turn without signaling, but the only anger I've gotten from drivers is when I've run a red light (deserved it). The suburbs to the west are packed with road cyclists, and good weather weekends mean the roads are full of cyclists. The protected bike lanes have helped road commuters, and prevent angry interactions. The stereotype of Boston drivers being extraordinarily unfriendly to cyclists is outdated by now.
Funny that there isn't much vitriol directed at Canadians who overstay their visas, despite the fact that they represented the top slot in DHS's own data.[1][2]

[1] https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/...

[2] https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/08/07/dhs-releases-fiscal-year...
Ask HN: Best Way to Discover Blogs?
For podcasts, there's a lot of discovery services popping up. And as far as keeping up with several different blogs, RSS is great for that.

But is there a service that makes it easy to discover blogs?

In a sense, HackerNews and Reddit and such sort of function as this indirectly. Ditto for Medium. I'm wondering if there's something more direct.
How can blockchain technology help protect your identity?
Is this interesting primarily because of the noted correspondence with octonions?
i mean, bitcoin is doing quite well..
...and end up keeping a websocket open, transferring far more than 30kb or even 100kb in state changes over the lifetime of the app, while also using up the devices battery and data limits? friendly reminder that 100kb of js can be cached on the device, while a stateful websocket obviously can not.
because poop and gum seats right?
Now on iOS: Follow Your Favorite Places on Google Maps
This makes it misleading as history. But the concept might apply in other situations. Should we instead be talking about the tragedy of overfishing?
Is there an article here? I couldn't navigate beyond the initial page.
I'll be explicit. I shed no tears for Russian agents involved in interfering with american elections.
Thank you for that link - it was very helpful. Summarizing:

The same problem would exist for the electric field from a charged black hole. However, static fields don't need propagating photons to establish them, so you don't have to get photons from inside the black hole in order for the electric field to be established outside.

The same would be true of gravitons. But one respondent indicated that general relativity can't do a second quantization like electromagnetism, and therefore gravitons are... suspect? Impossible? Not proven? It wasn't clear to me how strongly to take that statement.
There is only so much effort one can put into denial of service attacks in wireless. The fact that this involves radio frequencies means there is always a nuclear option: massive broadcasts of white noise. There is no way for wifi devices to adapt to such an attack. So the fact that some denial attacks can happen using exploits is moot. If the attacker really wants to hold your network down he isn't going to bother with tricky packets. He is going to jam the entire spectrum. Whether you are running WEP or some bleeding edge WPA5.7 implementation won't matter if all anyone can hear is white noise.
It's the same in London too. Outside the city center nearly all of the 'Cycle Superhighways' are just bus/taxi lanes. And someone driving a 15m long vehicle who has spent the last 10 hours dealing with stupid drivers isn't going to pay as much attention to cyclists as they should.
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Maybe so. So let's forego his metaphor, and say instead that climate change puts us in a prisoner's dilemma. Maybe it's the same 90 companies polluting, and clearly they've contributed to the structural choices in our lives to be theirs, but what's the way out?

Barring further structural changes, one will gain little and just lose by giving up their car, their electricity utility, the chemicals they use for cleaning, the metals and plastics and synthetics they use for durability and convenience. Some people do this for a moral boost, but usually because they can afford to do so. Movements of people will have to band together to bring about change through one of the usual methods: innovation (by making additional choices available), regulation (by restricting certain choices), or revolution (by throwing out the existing playbook, and assuming all the risks of doing so).

Yet despite international coordination about climate change, the some of the largest contributing countries are refusing to participate to protect their own interests. The US, which hasn't ratified the Kyoto treaty, ostensibly because they feel it gives certain other large developing, high-polluting countries a pass, but perhaps to protect its energy industry. Canada, a very advanced country built on an extraction economy, withdrew from the Kyoto treaty, citing economic reasons. Australia, another extraction economy, ratified the Kyoto treaty but made little progress on their mandatory commitments.

In this world, if you're not the US, Canada, Australia, and neither are you India, China, Indonesia, etc. what should you do? Curb your own contributions to harmful externalities because it's the right thing to do, even though people in countries who may live better than you do don't have to, and people in very large developing countries won't out-pollute your per capita, but by virtue of their population will out-pollute you in absolute numbers eight, ten times over? It's a very hard sell.

The innovation of the international cooperation about climate change is emissions trading: allowing the offsetting of pollution to be an economic good, and fit neatly into the global economic system. This creates new opportunities and incentives where there weren't many good ones before. But even so, it's discouraging that so many people (represented by their countries) have chosen to go their own way, and leave the rest of the world having to deal with their waste.
The US government is not a monolith, it consists of many competing factions.

It's not at all obvious which faction initiated the extradition request, or for what purpose.

It's possible this is to pressure Assange to provide evidence in the investigation into Russian influence on the 2016 election.

It's also possible this is an attempt to sequester him to prevent disclosure of information about those events.

A third possibility is that this is an attack on the press.

Even without a conviction, it will have a chilling effect on journalists publishing classified information, which is not currently a crime.

With a conviction, it will establish a dark new precedent that criminalizes much of the most consequential reporting.

And that would not be irony, it would be tragedy.
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Yes but aren't you back on the street with no protection where there are no bike lanes( most of chicago)?
Well, I did say last year.. In fact, at the time in the Atl dealership they only had 1 new manual car on the whole lot with a full parking garage.
On my end it was completely unresponsive even to clicks until I refreshed the page twice.
Scientific Publisher Springer Nature Used Machine Learning to Write a Textbook
right, can see more about the lander here if curious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceIL#Beresheet_lander
>/interactive/

Is this going to be the trend for how they deliver news now?
Sorry! I'm a 1 man show and iOS is my specialty
> How should it have been "handled" in your opinion? 'Protect the whistleblower' or take out the 'threat to national interests'?

Congratulating them for their great work towards human rights and publicly expelling and denouncing the perpetrators of atrocities. You know, leading by example.
Here is my list:

* Its ridiculously ugly.
* The layout seems designed to amplify the wind and somehow manages to do it in all directions.
* Building restrictions that prevent affordable housing from being built.
* They're happy to hike prices on parking to reduce cars, but the Red Line is unreliable which forces people to use cars.
* Central
* They managed to make bike lanes that are more dangerous than roads
* Northbound Longfellow Bridge
* Try turning on to Technology Square from Broadway
* Mass Ave in general
Amazon third-party sales grew 52% yearly for two decades
What tool do you use to do your backups? rclone?
I think our cities are learning from what Scandinavia has been doing for ages. This is exciting news. Smart streets keep everyone safer and raise awareness to pedestrians and people with mobility issues, too.
This is what has happened so far. Retail business owners have... not been pleased (to put it mildly).

Overall it's pretty clearly been a net gain, but there's definitely some short term pain there.
E.g. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/maajid-...
Good. Parking and driving are not well-suited to narrow roads in high density cities. There have been tons of studies that show this. This is as a Cambridge resident who struggles to find parking when I occasionally have to. Parked cars are truly a blight on our beautiful streets. Protected bike lanes are definitely [edit: probably] part of the route towards greater livability.
Interesting, as the current narrative (on thehill.com, a left-center bias news source no less) is that this is all caused by fears from the Obama administration personnel: https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/394036-How-Comey-int...

Though it is also the narrative on russia propaganda sites https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201806271065837436-comey-as...
->making claims and arguing for hours that you can indeed download car performance from the internet,

I don't understand. People went to sleep, their car updated via internet, and they woke up with more performant cars. This really happened. Obviously the car didn't changed the hardware, it changed the software, and the car drove better.
We built software for data analysis for the government and had to integrate with their data storage systems. I wasn't exaggerating when I said they loved Oracle. In my experience, they seemed to think Oracle databases were superior in almost every way.
>There are far simpler ways of assassinating someone's character than manufacturing rape allegations in a foreign country.

Actually, I don't think there are. Rape is met with near universal disapproval, and unless the accused can prove where they are at every single moment of their life, it is difficult for them disprove the claims.
I totally agree with you. If you are re-doing a road, that's the best time to build a bike lane. But I'm personally not convinced that it's necessary on every new road. I lived on a side street in Cambridge that saw maybe one car every twenty minutes. I was lucky to have a private driveway, but my neighbors would have been pretty angry if you took away their street parking to put in a bike lane on a street with very little traffic. In my opinion, there should be some additional criteria, such as needing a bike lane on any new street with expected traffic of more than one car every minute (or some reasonable time frame). As a biker when I lived in Cambridge, I always felt safe on side streets where I could just bike in the middle of the street and move over for the occasional vehicle, but I was much more afraid on major (or even minor) thoroughfares.

I personally would love to live in a world where fewer people own cars in the first place because public transportation is so good, but that's an ideal that we are no where close to achieving, so a lot of people need to own cars.
I didn't get much out of that, but the very last page says "This column is part of The Privacy Project, a series from The New York Times Opinion." which does seem much more useful and has a bunch more:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/opinion/internet-pr...

And yes, The Privacy Project has a bunch of trackers on it.
So why didn't they just do that while he was in Sweden? Having him under arrest in Sweden would make it more difficult, not easier.
On the contrary, humans are keen on extrapolating "linearly", ignoring that progress is discrete, and that the next discrete step isn't on any guaranteed timeline. See: humanity's idea of the next twenty years of space exploration in 1970.
If there's a finite amount of literature on the subject, this advice will send the OP in circles with probability one.
This makes a pretty anodyne set of talking points around privacy and wraps it in the web version of a PowerPoint. In text form, this would barely qualify as a blog.

On a more general point these articles really should do more to balance the privacy constraints against the benefits.

Google is not just 'a free service', it is all of the world's knowledge, plus mapping, plus email, plus god knows what else all completely on demand, five nines reliable and free to the end user.
As far as daily life of someone living in either city, they're effectively one metropolis. Many, many people live in one and work (and shop, and play) in the other.
Reading the source code... Starts at line 7871

Look for text within class "slide-bar-text"
Timing couldn't be better with today's arrest of Julian Assange. Bravo.
My city did that. Only they waited for most of the businesses to fold first. What a great reward for weathering the recession those businesses got. Turns out when you kill parking in favor of bike lanes in a small city that does a lot of business by being a commerce destination for the surrounding towns it doesn't work well. Also nobody bikes here because the entire city is hills (plenty of people walk though) so bike lanes are an attempt to solve a problem that doesn't exist but they tried it anyway because they're politically fashionable, details of the specific situation be damned
In Ottawa, Canada that appears to be a realistic problem (according to my colleagues that live there; I have limited personal experience). They try to use the sidewalk-cleaning smaller machinery, but it's still a struggle due to shapes and barriers.
"The men who took longer rest periods experienced a 152% increase in MPS in the early part of recovery compared to the men who took short-rest intervals who only saw a 76% increase. That’s a two-fold difference."

https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/perfect-amount-re...

Why would you deprive a beginner of these benefits?
Holy shit, is anyone here interested in discussing the actual story?!
> He is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a known white nationalist.

The SPLC has no credibility. They throw around this type of defamation constantly. Maajid Nawaz sued them and won $3.5 million in a settlement.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-southern-poverty...
They were meaning US cities, we can certainly be very US centric in our thinking.

And to keep on that theme let me talk about my city.

If you don't actually need to get anywhere and want to ride for leisure Denver has some nice built up trails that sort of meander through neighborhoods that are completely separated from roads. Very safe and usually very pretty to ride on.

Downtown looks pretty dangerous though.
"Progressives" rail against stereotypes, but they're useful and we naturally form them for a reason - they help us survive. The problem is with people applying stereotypes formed in one environment to another environment where they're not applicable. Just keep that in mind when you're trying to be "woke."

As for your exasperation at the lack of women in tech, most men I know would like it if this wasn't the case. I've personally given the nod to women candidates during hiring a couple of times when they were competitively qualified. Unfortunately there's a bit of a chicken and egg problem here - a lot of women are turned off by the masculine culture of tech, and changing a culture to accommodate a very small minority is a hard sell (a fair number of guys in tech wouldn't know how to act at any rate). I suspect women need to establish a bigger beachhead before they're going to be able to make any significant inroads in tech culture, and unfortunately that involves sucking it up in the meantime. Complaining from the sidelines isn't going to accomplish much.
First time Automatic Reader View has really come in handy! (Safari on iOS)