skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would it be possible for me to inquire as to what library you used to generate the smoke samples for your app? I have a project where I wanted to do something very similar (just not for weather), and I've been having the hardest time finding a good library for it!
You should hear what people say about people that were born and raised in the US South.

Seems in some places, it's perfectly (socially) acceptable to pick on others, as long as you're picking on the 'right' group of folks.
Identify as: Those who did horribly corrupt things/committed crimes and those whose crimes are more modest.
I think because the implication of the phrase 'deep pockets' for most people implies a graft or bribe of some kind.

Reading it as - you need enough money to make it two years without payment - is fair, but I would argue not how most people read that statement.
How is this not human subjects research?

And is modern consumer "terms of service" the human subjects ethical standard for corporate researchers?
In 10 million years, why would we remember about any of these libraries they want to launch if we forgot the other knowledge? It's like dropping a well-protected USB with all our knowledge in the ocean with no method to locate it later, it will be buried and gone before we know it. I personally don't think we'll enter the "age of immortality" as the human race until we've spread our knowledge (and our civilization) further than just one set of discs on one moon around one planet around one star or one Tesla automobile orbiting around one star.
Have you considered using Open Badges for this? https://openbadges.org
The thing with the time dimension is causation. Things that happened at t=0 influence t=1. The x, y, z dimensions have no such property. Stuff that happens on x=0 have no effect on x=1.

Probability and entropy arise as a result of the causative nature of time, thus creating an arrow: "The arrow of time." There is no "The arrow of space."

Probability in mathematics has certain axioms and the equations that arise from these axioms somehow apply very well to the real world. Like theories in physics probability is in itself a theory about the way the world works. It is also the axiomatic basis which we use to verify other theories. We assume probability is true. All other science arises as a result.

Thus with probability being the axiomatic foundation of our sciences there is, as a result, no science behind itself. To use probability to verify theories of physics like gravity is one thing, but then what do we use it to verify the theory of probability itself? Nothing. We just assume it's true.

That being said, I have not read the books described in the article but is understandable why at some point there is no rigor. It's because rigor at this point doesn't exist. When it comes to time, probability and entropy we are at the foundational assumption of all science. The only tools at this point are philosophical conjecture and random speculation.

There is a difference with time and the other dimensions. We can see it with our eyes when we watch the world unfold and entropy rise... we literally have no clue why it's like this, this is one of the fundamental limits of our understanding.
At what point does the end user feel accountability for giving a free service all of their information? I get that they employ various unsavory tactics (especially on mobile), but remember that this _is_ the Internet after all.
What's the shipping costs on a Snowball or other appliances?
Thanks, but javascript still required for the album..
> I've never once heard of a large nationwide company filtering out candidates from the Heart of Dixie just on principle

I've seen it happen. "Culture fit" ends up being the stated reason. I lost my southern accent for a reason when I moved out west.
This actually makes me feel even better about LastPass
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To each his own, but I don't want to have to get permission from Google, Tesla or anyone else before driving somewhere, then be escorted under surveillance like a prisoner in the back of a cop car with every possible metric being mined and correlated for the benefit of corporations, insurance companies and the state, leaving my safety to the whim of algorithms and systems likely built to the cheapest standard possible.

I'll gladly deal with the "chore" of being able to turn my own key and drive my own car as an alternative.
I think you've got a formatting issue doubling up your comment.

That graph shows it charging from ~10% to ~65% in 20 minutes - assuming that is a long range model, that works out to (523km*0.55=) 290km range in 20 minutes.

I know Supercharger v3 is great, and i'd be satisfied with that speed (as I stated). I was replying to someone who wants sub 20 minutes for (what I assume to be) a full charge.
I think he means most people don't live close enough to the city that they could reasonably ride a bike to get where they need to go.
> Obama DOJ had decided to not indict Assange for this, this is a politically motivated prosecution by the Trump administration.

Or a politically motivated non-prosecution by the Obama administration. I mean, look, I don't trust the Trump administration as far as I could throw the White House. But I don't really trust the Obama administration with respect to politically-charged prosecution decisions, either. The last administration that I'd really trust with something like that is... um, give me a minute... maybe Carter? Or maybe I was just too young to appreciate that I maybe shouldn't have trusted that administration, either...
FWIW, I wrote a little script back in Feb that you can use in the console on that Facebook advertisers page to auto click "remove" on them all for you.

Here is the github gist: https://gist.github.com/bluetidepro/bfa60c1d63925180daf3dd53...

I run it about every month, and it's crazy how many get added in that time span. There is literally thousands and thousands from brands/companies/etc. that I've never heard of it. It's insane.
I recently used a rental that had GMs "adaptive cruise" and it was mostly awesome even in dense traffic.

There were two main issues that had to do with following distance.

1: I had it set to 80mph and the other cars in the hov lanes on I-80 were going 75-80 and I was impressed how the car maintained a relatively safe following distance. This seems to irritate the other drivers and I would have tailgaters and eventually people would pass me on the right to occupy the space in front of me causing the car to slow down to get back to a safe
following distance, causing the tailgaters to receive an autonomous brake check.

2: In slower traffic around 30mph (still set to 80) that same safe following distance allowed other drivers to cut me off, and several times the brakes engaged hard when the collision detector was activated. The first time that happened I was not prepared and I barely got my foot to the brake pedal in time. I decided after the second time that happened to turn it off as the time it took initialize my foot press the brake was too long, that when I was actively pressing the gas/brakes I could react much quicker to traffic.
> From first conversation to signed contract will take 2 years minimum.

If you are trying to sell to government for a “need”
they aren't actively seeking solutions for, which your description sounds like, that seems plausible. Then again, a major purpose of the safeguards in the procurement process is to prevent sales going in that direction in the first place. The intent is for the government to identify a need, and then solicit solutions, not to have a vendor with a vested interest in the government perceiving a need in a way which favors their solution sell the government on the need.
That's not news that's normal and accepted in China, and been like this forever :D.
>Are there other examples of suspects being granted asylum by a foreign government?

I don't know if that matters very much. Unlike most fugitives, DOJ knew exactly where Assange is and that he'd have to come out eventually.

>It seems just as reasonable that DOJ needed to wait until Ecuador had dropped asylum and given the green light.

But DOJ didn't wait until Ecuador dropped the asylum.

>It seems like a stretch to say that the timing alone proves this is politically motivated when there were extenuating circumstances preventing the indictment

There was nothing preventing the indictment, there were circumstances that would prevent unsealing the indictment.
You deserve a medal my friend! Thank you for the analysis and suggestion. You are right about the fact that YouTube would have been a life saver for us.

Building a VOD platform is a very expensive venture indeed and I am most likely not going to try to build another one again.. lol but I will take your advice under consideration on building a community and Curation service for short filmmakers. As a matter of fact, because of the mild success of my current venture (festivilia.com) we are already thinking towards something similar. Perherps in the nearest future but right now, we are solely dedicated to helping filmmakers get the best from their films through effective festival distribution.

Thank you so much for your suggestion. Business is indeed a marathon. My advice to any wannapreneur is that, if your idea can't generate revenue from the word go, and you don't have a ton of ready cash in the bank, you better rethink and remodel before launching. This is what Hubrif taught me and I used that lesson to fastrack festivilia into a profit making venture today.
It's what Avisare [0] is trying to address (I have no connection to the company).

We have some government contracts pending and we decided to give them services free of charge rather than going through the procurement hell.

[0] https://www.avisare.com
"right group", pun intended ;P
IME, Duck Duck Go is not a usable alternative - for any 'kind' of searching. And not because it knows less about me: I would copy text directly from a web page and not have it show up.

It's particularly bad for academic journal searches. Since those pages change so infrequently, this points to further shortcomings in the breadth of their search methods. Ostensibly, they are polling 'many' sources, but whatever their strategy, it's not working.
Exactly. It's relatively easy to build a self-driving car that works well on good, well-marked highways in good weather in the daytime when every other driver on that road is acting responsibly. But that's just the base case, and the edge cases are wickedly hard.
If you use the checked state to of a checkbox to change the display property (i.e. toggle between none and initial), that will change the content's visibility and its availability to screen readers.
Yes, I was trying to make a finer point—the difference between count(⧆) and count(1) comes down to the cost of filtering the row, and in Postgres count(1) is a regular filtering operation—taking the same filtering cost that count(1) has in other DBMSes—while count(⧆) has a filtering cost that is lower than that of other DBMSes, because it has been specifically optimized†.

Separately, there's an MVCC cost of walking the rows to filter them, and other DBMSes optimize walking rows for counting [usually causing both count(1) and count(⧆) to be faster], while Postgres does not do this optimization. (And, as stated in the article, in those DBMSes, this isn't a pure optimization per se, but is rather a trade-off, trading write speed for all INSERTs/DELETEs for read speed for this particular case.)

(† Technically, the filtering cost of count(⧆) hasn't been specifically optimized; the relative speed of filtering tuples for count(⧆) is an emergent property of the general fact that Postgres treats any mention of `⧆` as a reference to the row-tuple object itself. i.e. If `foo` is a table (x int, y text), then in actuality, `foo` is first created as a type [a pg_class] defined as the tuple (int, text); and then the table `foo` is defined as a relation persisting a rowset of `foo`-tuple-typed rows [in est making a table['s triggerable operations] each into a stored procedure with a `foo`-tuple-typed-rowset return type.] Then, the expressions `(SELECT ⧆ FROM foo)`, and `(SELECT f.⧆ FROM foo f)` both evaluate to rowsets type `foo`, which means that Postgres doesn't need to dereference the pointer to each `foo` heap tuple to build those rowsets. It only needs to dereference the pointers when it comes time to actually serialize and emit the row over the wire—which in case of a `count(⧆)` operation, never happens.)
Do they? Most I see just cruise down pretty open residential streets grabbing convenient cans. Like most things it'll probably be a mix, most service would be covered by automated trucks with the more troublesome routes still driven by people until the kinks get worked out.
Also, this is a few articles and a Facebook meme. There's no Nobel prize or anything. Why begrudge someone their 15 minutes of science fame for leading a cool effort, making cool science happen?
>.. attacks that aren't repelled...

I guess this is what I'm asking. Were the attacks repelled, or did the hackers actually hack/break/change something? What was that thing? I'm genuinely asking.
>You can learn to drive a self-driving car defensively,

Then it is not a self driving car, maybe let's named them human supervised self running cars
SLC NAND is pretty reliable. Also the older gen MLC NAND is not too bad. But around 60nm down things get progressively worse. And moving from SLC to MLC to TLC to 3D it gets even more.
But Facebook also tracks people who do not have accounts, and people who pay for services. No way out.
What? Does the degree of failure not matter at all? That makes no sense. The question is whether all these parts are actually meeting the specified failure tolerance rate.
Quibbling... 28% in 2016 (https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...), but this is after decades of awareness campaigns and enforcement. Then there's the ~70% of fatal accidents that happen with sober drivers. There might not be more to be had by addressing human factors (though I personally believe graduated licenses with more rigorous testing and much higher investments in public transit would help) so the focus on self-driving vehicles may not be misguided.
How do you square this with the recent surge in flat Earth and anti-vaccination beliefs?

People should be free to believe what they want to believe. That's a pretty fundamental level of freedom.

The merits of truth aren't guaranteed to win this battle.

There's no guarantee of that. Once the argument is won, legislation can follow.
I'll see your analogy and raise you a begged question.

You're starting from the assumption that a collection of personally-identifiable information is free to share. That isn't necessarily true of such information.

If you and I have a conversation about a trade secret of mine, then you are not free to tell someone else about the conversation. There are forms of information and transmission that we've agreed by law to restrict.

Why shouldn't we include PII in that? (For another example, consider the privacy of medical data.)
That's what I was wondering too. I mean, I'd expect all major Nation States to "research" each other's voting systems and "direct visits to—election websites". Duh why wouldn't you?

Like, okay? Here's my state's website. Have fun?

https://www.michigan.gov/sos/0,4670,7-127-1633-49313--,00.ht...
Next to the fire exit
There's a section where you can download all the data Google has on you.
I was really hoping this was going to be an article about the guitar technique:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dive_bomb
It’s not about class at all. It’s that people don’t want to share space every day for an hour each way with loud people, smelly people, crazy people, violent people, etc. And if they do, they sure as hell don’t want to do so standing and packed up against them. Not all cities and routes have these problems, but many do.

Nobody objects to having to share space with a broke working class single mother taking the bus to go clean hotels downtown.

Aside from that, the weather can be a pain in the ass (rain, snow, wind, scorching heat), transferring buses/trains is a hassle, you cannot travel on your own scheduling terms, you can’t swing by the grocery store or run some errand on the way home, travel time is generally much longer unless you happen to live/work right beside an express stop that does not require a transfer, and the list goes on.
How about cia snuff video ?
This has been happening since the dawn of civilization. We're tribal people.
Elaborate? We are discussing event probability, not logical inference, so how can there be fallacy in the first place.
I'm not sure how such a system could possibly work; human attention doesn't work that way. If the robot drive 2 hours and 35 minutes just fine and one minute later decides to drive off the road, how is a human going to react to that? It's not really possible.

If a human has to pay attention all the time, then they might as well just be driving.

And one of the advantages of self driving cars will be freedom for the elderly and disabled who already have difficulty driving cars. This is the group, in my opinion, that will benefit the most from self driving cars.
> Journalists are inquisitive, intellectually curious types. You have to call into question the ethics of someone prepared to write about something they have a good idea that their own company engages in.

So what is the ethical thing to do? Quit your job? Choose not to report on the unethical behavior? Escalate internally instead of externally? Write the story about the company you work for, knowing full well that you won't ever be published and it will end up being pointless?

I don't think anybody wants to give buzzfeed a free pass, but I just don't see how buzzfeed's data practices reflect on the ethics of their individual journalists.
If you look up the definitions of those words using the 1828 dictionary, you get something very interesting.

ETH'NICAL, adjective [Latin ethnicus; Gr. from nation from the root of G. heide, heath, woods, whence heathen. See Heathen.]

Heathen; pagan; pertaining to the gentiles or nations not converted to christianity; opposed to Jewish and Christian.

ETH'NIC, noun A heathen; a pagan.

RACE, noun [Latin radix and radius having the same original. This word coincides in origin with rod, ray, radiate, etc.]

1. The lineage of a family, or continued series of descendants from a parent who is called the stock. A race is the series of descendants indefinitely. Thus all mankind are called the race of Adam; the Israelites are of the race of Abraham and Jacob. Thus we speak of a race of kings, the race of Clovis or Charlemagne; a race of nobles, etc.
Not necessarily. It could be that after doing the safety analysis, the mechanical method is less likely to fail.

Remember that there are usually many ways to skin a cat. Often the one chosen hits the sweet spot of reliability, manufacturability, cost (both initial purchase and operational), maintainability (e.g., how easy is it to test/inspect), etc.

When you have decades of experience with something and it works well enough, there's generally no reason to improve it when your engineering resources can be focused on more pressing problems.

I was a team lead on a new system that was based on the IBM ISA bus in 2013. The reasons were simply that it worked well enough and we had tons of experience with it and could reuse a lot of custom-built hardware and code. The only downside (and reason we switched), was that it was getting harder to find blade PCs that still had an ISA bus and the system was expected to be in the field for 15+ years.
> However, I think to call her "the woman behind the first black hole image" is a hyperbole. It makes it sound as if she was _the one person_ responsible that all this came about.

It doesn't say that though. It says she was behind the image. And as I understand she lead one of the teams responsible for creating the image from the data. So I don't think that is particularly inaccurate as far as headlines go.
Plivo cancels UK phone numbers with 9 days notice
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Can you cite something to support that?

It sounds like a just-so claim: it’s not really a problem, and the people complaining are just bad people!

As far as I’m aware, not only is there not accurate study — jurisdictions like Washington intentionally make it difficult to track whether non-citizens are voting by issuing them IDs and offering to register them to vote sans additional proof of citizenship. This is why WA has to have enhanced ID — they don’t meet the federal standards of ensuring people they issue ID to are here legally.

It seems strange that people refuse to even talk about it and resort to nasty ad hominems if there genuinely is no issue.

By contrast, insulting the motivations of people genuinely trying to stand up for the law and act with integrity because you decided to employ force and just override them is deeply, unrecoverably immoral.
> At a certain point doesn’t creating a preference for pedestrians and cyclists actually end up being a preference for wealthier people who can afford to live downtown, versus those who need to access the city but can’t live within walking or biking distance?

Reducing the number of cars (and therefore traffic) on the roads will benefit everybody, especially if cars and bikes don't get in each other's way (such as in the case of dedicated and protected bike lanes).

> Note that bicyclists and skateboarders also slow down busses, which are what lower income people use to get around

I don't think this is true. Busy streets and traffic jams slow down buses.
Read the indictments. It’s not propaganda. It’s fact. Assange distributed emails stolen by the GRU.
Pentagon keep competition on. Oh what a joke it is..
Absolutely not. Apple is junk. I bought my first Mac more than 10 years ago and this year I changed to Linux.

I cannot believe I was into this company and their draconian practices all over the world. Why anyone would work for this company is a mystery to me. The sooner they die the better and this will happen..
Acer introduces the Chromebook 714 and 715, built for frontline workers
Right, though the parent specifically called out Tesla, which is funding superchargers across the USA regardless of local culture.

It's more of an issue with non-Tesla EVs, in the US and EU alike, as stated.
Providing database solutions to the whole military is much more morally grey than helping the military build a ML model to bomb people more "efficiently"

At least, to me
> Because usually you are treated as being a citizen of the country whose passport you are travelling on.

By your host country maybe (though I don't agree it's as cut-and-dry as that), but your home country will still treat you as a citizen regardless of your other citizenship statuses (except in the case you are a citizen of your host country). So they should still give you the same aid they'd give any other citizen -- and in some cases the UK has actually helped UK citizens flee a country even though they are a citizen of said country (examples include forced marriages of dual Iran/UK citizens in Iran).