skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm rarely using Facebook. I have an account, even some photos, but that's it. I may scroll the wall from time to time, usually readings arists posts and stuff, as my friends are just like me - not posting anything about them anyway.

I'm a heavy user of privacy extensions. Currently using uBlock Origin + uMatrix. Most sites I run can't store anything (like cookies) or has access to scripting. I'm having an unique e-mail address for every service I register to (thanks to catch-all on own domain).

The above are available to everyone.

Additionally, I'm manually fixing broken websites, that can work without JS but refuses to - this however requires some skills.

When I really want to see the website that refuses to work with all these protections - I'm opening it in incognito session.

Result:
On my accounts (both fake and real) these Facebook advertisers lists are empty. The only list that's not empty is advertisers I decided I don't want to see ads from.

Of course I know this doesn't mean I'm anonymous and nobody knows anything about me. A lot of services know. These protections listed above aren't the silver bullet. They can still track me, they just won't tell me everything. Most of my data are stored with Google. I let them store my location history (they probably would do it anyway). They know all my searches. They know my entertaiment interests (Youtube history, likes, dislikes).

Well... You can track me too. I'm not using unique nicknames usually. You can find my contact info on the internet, on my website and other places. You can find my home address. You can know where I work.

But these were my choice. But I still have to remember I can't take that back, "Internet won't forget".

So yeah. You have the control. Just stop giving yourself away, protect yourself from automation. Share yourself with people offline. That's all.
What cities are being abandoned in the US?
15-20 commits per week says they just support it and don't implement any major features. Hope I'm not right here.
And then we'll all go back to Vim and the cycle of life will once again complete itself.
Ford's problem may be Argo. Ford spent $1 billion for Argo, and paid for a big building with the Argo name on top. But Argo didn't get their California license to test autonomous vehicles until early this year.[1]

Self-driving has had too many "fake it til you make it" startups. Cruise started that way, and suckered GM into buying them for $1 billion. Uber bought Otto, and we now know how fake that technology was. Tesla hyped their basic lane-keeper and car detector into an "autopilot" then repeatedly plowed into clearly visible obstacles and killed people.

(Despite all the blithering about edge cases, they haven't been big problems in practice. The serious Uber and Tesla accidents were not edge cases. They were blatantly obvious obstacles: a semitrailer, a fire truck, a fixed barrier, and an isolated pedestrian on an open road.)

Waymo, meanwhile, keeps plugging away, driving around, getting their level of disconnects down each year, improving their sensors, and doing large scale tests. Once in a while they get rear-ended. If they don't get killed by Google/Alphabet's attention deficit disorder problem, as happened to Google's robotics efforts, they're going to get this into production.

It's not easy, and it's not impossible. It's just hard, like television or xerography. Those took decades from first demo until they worked well. This doesn't fit well with the startup make-money-fast model. It does fit with the big-company R&D lab model.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/argo-ai-acquires-permit-to...
In my mind const generics and const fn is a completely different feature. Proof: you can use const fn without any const generics.
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They estimated 2-3 years to try again. If they can raise funding they're going to try.
depends.

take the hello world example. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if one runs it 1000 times in parallel in a single namspace and it will be using close to 1x memory (i.e. like it was running once, assuming the vast majority of memory would be shared), run it 1000 times in parallel in 1000 docker containers and its memory impact will be closer to 1000x (i.e. no shared memory going on).
we crash, we learn.
עם ישראל חי
People are already doing this on Reddit[0][1], and it's pretty silly because they obviously have no idea how Github or scientific research works. There's an effort underway to undermine Katie Bouman's contributions and it's absolutely ridiculous.

Edit: I just checked Twitter, apparently there are thousands of idiots who believe this "850,000/900,000 lines written by Andrew, therefore he wrote the algorithm" narrative. It's amazing how willing people are to eat up a low-hanging narrative as long as it confirms their world-view. All it takes is a very crude understanding of how software development works to see through this narrative.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/bbykvf/ka...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/bbuvff/this_is_andrew...
The most interesting part of this story is that Panasonic has chosen to broadcast this decision in a national newspaper in way calculated to cause maximum embarrassment to Tesla, which still depends on investor perceptions of huge upcoming growth to support its stock valuation.

An odd thing happened last year when Pana's reported margins dropped while Tesla's went way up during their "miracle Q3." A common theory among Tesla shorts was that Pana had helped them make the quarter with a discount on batteries, to be paid back at some point in the future. Given the big drop in Q1 deliveries and demand standstill in the U.S. after the Model 3 order backlog was depleted, maybe Panasonic is worried they're not going to get paid back?
Israel’s Beresheet Spacecraft Moon Landing Attempt Appears to End in Crash
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I suspect HN would honour DMCA requests.

https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/04/05/business/00chinad...

Really man, can't you iron your sweater? It's disgraceful.
this is bullshit ,scientifically a process is irrelevant ,glyphosate is safe
Okay. Comparisons of personal income tax in Norway usually come out very misleading, since personal income tax only accounts for around half of a person's total tax burden.

(For instance, there's a 14% employment tax, 25% VAT, car taxes that increase vehicle purchase cost by 100% and fuel cost by 200%, toll roads that are impossible to avoid during daily errands, 0.85% annual net worth tax, 31% capital gains tax, property taxes and municipal taxes, and that's without getting into extra taxes for luxury products or how corporate profits are taxed).
This is sad. That said I don't think of it as 'failure' after all there was so much accomplished that they got to the point of landing something on the Moon. That they failed to complete the objective puts them in rarified company. NASA and Russia had many failures [1] prior to achieving successful landings.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lunar_probes
I think self driving research has already benefited cars substantially via driver assistance, like you say. Recently I was in a base model Toyota rental (camry or corrolla I think) and was surprised when it automatically warned me that someone was cutting me off in traffic, before I even noticed them move a few car lengths ahead. Then I noticed there was automatic radar cruise control built in, which made the rest of the drive much nicer. I hadn't even looked too closely before since I assumed that tech wasn't pervasive enough yet to trickle down to a basic rental car.

I think that the technology is probably already saving lives - Volvo is trying for zero fatalities right now, and I think driver assistance will reduce the lethality of cars substantially before we're able to adopt self driving vehicles, which would likewise make it less of a disaster if we aren't able to adopt self driving vehicles in the short timelines originally predicted.
Massachusetts has a de facto policy of no road expansions, and especially not land appropriations for road expansions, anywhere in the state.
I'm still personally shocked that Snowden is so widely vilified by my fellow citizens. The guys exposes massive violations of right-to-privacy and the people that he informed call him a traitor.
Indeed. But the system already knows what the mass is, this is needed to calculate takeoff performance, rotation speed, stall speed, maneuvering speed, etc.

CG doesn't enter into it except to second order due to horizontal stabilizer lift.
>This feels like a non-tech person has realized what tech people realized 20 years ago.

It's almost like most of the tech people realized Stallman was right then went right out to build the opposite.

Then they chided the luddites, not themeselves, for the problems created as a result. THEN they put the burden on the luddites to fix the issue they created.

Oh boy.
Dang. Hopefully they figure out what went wrong and stick the landing next time.
I 100% agree with this post up until the bit about recording conversations. We don't have computer-augmented brains yet, and until we do, remembering something is absolutely not the same as a true digital recording.
> But if say we go from ~35k human-caused road deaths/year to ~10k autonomous-driving caused deaths/year, that may be seen as unacceptably high.

Sure, but there wouldn't be an outright ban. They'd instead establish higher standards that need to be met.
It was odd how the only thing Benjamin Netanyahu said in English was "If at first you don't succeed, try again!" directed to, I believe, the fellow that bankrolled a large portion of the lander's cost. Easy for Mr. Netanyahu to say! My bets are on no second attempt for this group.
But with US incarceration figures it could be real.

At the end of 2016, the Prison Policy Initiative estimated that in the United States, about 2,298,300 people were incarcerated out of a population of 324.2 million. This means that 0.7% of the population was behind bars. About 1,316,000 people were in state prison, 615,000 in local jails, 225,000 in federal prisons.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_...
I think it's important to acclaim arguments against bad behavior, even when made by people who are doing that same bad behavior.

(1) Having good arguments out in the world is a good thing.

(2) Positive feedback tends to reinforce behavior - and we want to reinforce news orgs making good arguments against bad behavior.

(3) After you have acclaimed their argument, it's much more effective when you use it against them.

If you just constantly snipe at people and organizations, I think it becomes much harder to effect change.

In "Phaedo," Plato has Socrates give a lesson about misology - that is, hating all reasoning and arguments, and assuming they are bad because you can always find flaws and it's so difficult to reach certainty. It's the intellectual version of misanthropy. Socrates cautions strongly against misology. Just because there are problems with an argument, doesn't mean we shouldn't continue to try to improve and take the good parts from every argument we can find, no matter how flawed the other parts (or the speaker) are. I think this is an important lesson in these times. I think we should stop fighting over whether a person or organization is allowed to say certain things, and concentrate on what parts of what they say should change our behavior.
It’s the new snippet for analytics.
> It has few enough that you can route around them and still get where you're going.

I think this is a misconception. California has many residents who live in areas that don't have the super wide roads you're thinking it has. It has a wide gamut of roads and many residents (such as myself) are surrounded by more narrow roads. I'm not even in San Francisco. I'm in a suburb in the bay area. (San Carlos)
This is very curious - the OP is functioning like a Rorschach for HN readers.
Smarter dogs already exist. They're called wolves.
Would it be reasonable to introduce a compiler flag that is enabled by default to mark this category of warnings as errors, or would even that need a major version bump?
Nice job. It looks like Facebook Purity has this built in also.
The Case for Regulating Big Tech
Immigration Minister Admits Data Breach in Windrush Compensation Scheme
Sure. They rely on the same internals, which is why they tend to be wrapped together when talking about them as a feature, that’s all I’m saying.

That also doesn’t change that const fn is stable today, so saying “it’s coming this year” muddies the waters a bit. You have to explicitly say “the capabilities of const fn will be expanded”, or you risk the wrong impression.
Doesn't sound like you know Cambridge at all. There aren't many under capacity roads, especially when winter snow comes down. What this is going to do is make traffic slower, encourage more bikers who will ignore traffic rules and act unpredictably, and generally muck things up. Cambridge is actually probably a really great candidate for bike lanes with multiple colleges nearby, but let's not pretend this isn't going to absolutelymake commuting worse. Biking into work isn't an option for me. When I come into the Cambridge office it's 5 hours in the car round trip. Nevermind the jerk motorcycles who drive down center lanes, cut cars off, pop wheelies in the highway, etc. I can definitely say the animus bicyclists receive is undue. My wife and daughter have been threatened with vehicles, I've been hit in a crosswalk walking by a car, and I can't even get into how bad it is trying to follow the rules in Boston with pedestrians crossing against the signal while you've got a short green.
Part of the problem certainly is impedence mismatch-different flows in a shared path. The solution to this part is infrastructure.

We also greatly need better awareness and it goes all ways. When learning to ride a motorcycle I learned how bad a pedestrian I was.
Probably the best SaaS “get started” checklist
My MacBook Air (mid 2012) is still running strong, only had to do a battery replacement from macsales.com. I have a macmini for plex use, a first edition iPad Pro 12.9 and an iPhone X. And a powered off 2007 MacPro.

I skipped the upgrade to 2018 iPhone as the X was fast enough and did not see a difference in the new model.

The new macbook Air finally gives Retina, but I'm leary of the keyboard.

I truly dislike the gluing of batteries in the laptops and the soldering of ram and ssd's in their laptops as well. And Apple's ram pricing is highway robbery. I'm not sure what I will due when the Macbook Air ssd dies and I have to decide what personal laptop to buy.

The 2015 iPad Pro is a beast and was a great investment. After all this time, I have zero usage of the original Apple Pencil, which surprised me. The only disappointment is the failure around the keyboard/cover and the side connector which now complains about it, even if I switch one out. Beyond that, I think the Pro will maintain value for a long time from a performance standpoint.

Windows 10 (which I use at work) has, at a general level achieved parity with the Finder and window management. Browsers/Office 365/apps are much the same. Trackpads on windows machines suck (both Dell and HP Zbook).

I dislike the plastic feel of the windows laptops and their trackpads, but their cost for RAM and drive space is much cheaper than Apple. The cost differential for macos machines is out of alignment with the market. For now I don't have to worry, but when I do have to replace it is the purchase cost and hard lock-in on RAM and SSD size that are concerning.
> The US government is not a monolith, it consists of many competing factions.

The original comment said "administration", not "government". The current administration IS largely a monolith, given that nearly every high-level cabinet appointee has either been unqualified for the role or are ideologues who appear to have been hired on the basis of their loyalty to the Pres.

- Michael Flynn as National Security Adviser

- Scott Pruit as head of the EPA

- Ben Carson as Sec of Housing

- Rex Tiller as Sec of State

- Herman Cain and Stephen Moore on the board of the Fed

The list goes on an on.
In general, if I need an rvalue and it's legal to convert the lvalue I have into an rvalue, the compiler should do it automatically. Having to make it explicit should be the exception, not the rule. The compiler does many other kinds of inference and automatic promotion/conversion, some of them far more difficult (and dangerous). Why not this one?

How do you even tell that it's legal to stick std::move around a variable? Here's a really simple example.

void test() {
std::string s = ...;
foo(s);
bar(s);
}

Can I change the last line to bar(std::move(s))? I can write a well-formed program that will misbehave, perhaps something like

char* global;
void foo(const std::string& s) {
global = s.data();
}

void bar(const std::string& s) {
assert(global == s.data());
}

(Note that s.data() is not necessarily unchanged after std::move'ing the object, due to small-string optimization.)

This is contrived, but my point is that this is really tricky to do automatically.

Note also that when adding rvalue references the language committee had the additional constraint of not breaking existing programs. This makes things like automatic inference of temporariness even trickier.

The compiler does many other kinds of inference and automatic promotion/conversion, some of them far more difficult (and dangerous).

The C++ compiler does exceptionally few transformations that can change the behavior of a well-formed program. In fact, the only one that comes to mind is copy elision (aka RVO).
Specifically: https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout/
Oh look, the propaganda team has arrived!
The keyword here is "eventually". It all depends on what that time window is. If its a couple of years or so its fine, else businesses and developers have to remain solvent till then and that could have repercussions through the economy on a large scale. That is the only concern.
> On the way down, the main engine cut out. The engine was successfully restarted, but then communications were cut off, and no more information was sent back.

Definitely a terrible time to have an engine failure :/
This is incredibly misleading. If you inspect the repository in more detail, 820,000 lines of the line count are actually raw matrix data, not code. achael's corrected contribution is probably closer to 20,000 lines.
A good Twitter thread on this subject here: https://twitter.com/BradMunchen/status/1112668005614252032
I don't understand how "the woman behind the first black hole image" is hyperbole. She's a woman and she's behind the first black hole image.

I don't think anybody truly believes that taking images of black holes is a one-person job. And the title doesn't imply that. Neither does the next, boldface paragraph in the article:

> A 29-year-old computer scientist has earned plaudits worldwide for helping develop the algorithm that created the first-ever image of a black hole.

Immediately followed by:

> Katie Bouman led development of a computer program that made the breakthrough image possible.
Minor correction, you said:

> private property

When you actually meant:

> personal property
Presumably, he was chosen to write the government regulations for cloud computing because he knew a lot about cloud computing.

Would like that anyone that ever worked for the government forever be banned to work in their domain of expertise for a private company?
Highway driving is the first step. Limited challenges, different problem space. Once that's completely nailed down, we'll start to see workable urban solutions.

The reality is that human drivers will be better at interacting with other human drivers in close quarters for the time being.
Exactly so. The use case of Local Storage is usually “application cache.” When you’re building out features, it may not even be obvious that you’re injecting application state _that originated in localStorage_ into the DOM. That’s why this is such an easy problem to fall into.
Acxiom opt-out: https://isapps.acxiom.com/optout/optout.aspx

Oracle opt-out: https://datacloudoptout.oracle.com/optout/
> “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.” (Thief of Time - Sir Terry Pratchett).

That's a quote that I find myself thinking about at least once or twice a month.
Yup, sadly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19638357

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/science/israel-moon-landi...

> On the way down, the main engine cut out. The engine was successfully restarted, but then communications were cut off, and no more information was sent back.
Can they find a parking spot in the train station? No, no they can't.
There isn't really very much to learn. Just start on wikipedia, and expand out if you think there is something more. Markov Chains are very simple in practice.
This lawsuit is about monochlorobenzene, not glyphosate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_on_the_Moon

For everyone wondering how common is it, it seems like it took everyone multiple tries before figuring out how to properly land something there.
Ask HN: Can data be owned by the individual creating it?
This is something I've been thinking about lately.

If you are walking across the street and I watch you do it, does that mean I need your permission to remember watching you cross the street (aka store data) and make decisions based on your previous actions?

Further, should I need your permission to tell other people about you crossing the street?

Seems to me that in this example, "data" (which is really just my interpretation of an observation) is owned by me and not you. It is after all my sensing & storage systems that collected the data.

What are your thoughts?
>The girl latter tearfully admitted to misspelling her age in Tinder by a whopping 3 years, and I moved on :)

What a weird thing to include...
Rearrange and get:

CL(AoA) = Az.m/(q.A)

(Az = vertical acceleration.) The relationship between coefficient of lift and AoA is a known function that depends on the airfoil. As long as you're below the critical angle of attack, it's an invertible function. (If you're not below the critical AoA, you've already departed controlled flight so it's too late for MCAS.)
Can anyone who has stayed with Atom after evaluating VSCode comment on why to stay with Atom? I switched to VSCode and would never consider going back to Atom at this point.

Since the GitHub acquisition, it makes no sense for MS to maintain both and I agree 100% with the parent comment that this will be killed soon.
Audio Exposes Oil and Gas Execs Laughing with Joy over Access to Trump's EPA
It surprised me how inspiring this project has been for kids in Israel. They REALLY cared. My children (11 and 7) followed every piece of news for months, and now stayed up to watch it, and are really heartbroken. My wife says on a parents group she's on, people are reporting their children are crying and don't want to go to bed. I actually wish I cared that much.
"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."
—Bill Gates
Already possible I believe: https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustc/lints/levels.html
Boeing has called 737 Max 8 'not suitable' for certain airports