skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chinese construction methods heavily use concrete and cheap low skilled labor, they have to overbuild significantly so that those buildings don’t fall apart. But this also means maintnence is a huge problem, a building that was “new” five years ago will often look very shabby today; if built 10 years ago the concrete is already crumbling in a few places. 20 years...tear it down and rebuild.
>You can learn to drive a self-driving car defensively

My point was that you can't learn to drive a normal car defensively if there are self-driving cars on the road (in their current form).

When a self-driving car decides to do something stupid, you won't see it coming because the decision tree is literally beyond human comprehension.

See:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181204-why-we-should-worry...

And Uber's and Tesla's accidents have shown us that you can't rely on the human in the car to catch it before it does something stupid. After all, teaching someone how to drive and watching them attentively is difficult work.
So he helped crack a password like, what a decade ago?

Time served for having to live in an embassy for the last several years?

You're right, it's illegal, but it just doesn't feel that bad to me. Not even remotely on the level of the problems we face as a country this day. It almost feels petty.
I happen to be staying at a b&b at a organic French vineyard right now. We stayed here because the owner has written three books about the experience [1] and it was in an area we wanted to visit (between Bordeaux and Bergerac) rather than because it was organic. As we have walked around this area, I've been horrified by the contrast between organic vineyards and those which are not. The non-organic vineyards have scorched dead brown grass a foot either side of every row of vines, from insecticide which is applied every 6 weeks. The organic vines are surrounded by green grass and wildflowers. 94% of Bordeaux wine is not organic. There is a lot of scorched dead grass.

Before this "organic" to me meant: expensive, nice idea, faddish and definitely not something I sought out.

This trip has been life-changing. I've become an organic convert overnight. I do not want to eat fruit or plant byproducts from roots which are constantly exposed to weedkiller or insecticide so strong that it kills all around it (except the root itself).

[1]- https://www.amazon.com/s?k=caro+feely&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
Is the issue Earth's atmosphere (and other stuff) messing up the optical image at that range/detail/resolution?

If a huge-camera-satellite (eg, spy-sat class) were placed at a Lagrange point, would it increase our ability to see at extremely high resolution?

Sorry for the noob questions.
Resources Around Ecosystem Funds?
Ecosystem funds aren't a new idea - some notable ones are the Kleiner Perkins iFund for IPhone Apps in 2008, and the Slack Fund. More recently, various cryptocurrency project have set up their own ecosystem funds.

What other prominent ecosystem funds have their been, and are there any good resources to learn about them?

thank you.
Why would you give up and say "failure to validate" just because someone didn't answer the phone or had moved away?

I'm proposing to actually put some real effort into this. If they no longer live in the area, find out when they moved. If they don't answer the phone, track them down. If they're dead, find out when and where they died. For the difficult cases, get some boots on the ground and figure it out. Let's take your numbers and say that 900 of the cases are easy, and 100 are tough. If you dedicate $10 million to the study, then you can spend almost $100,000 to figure out each of the tough cases.

This is well within the resources of a university research team or a lobbying group. If a major political party is convinced that voter fraud is a big problem and needs to be addressed, they could easily front the money needed to come to a definitive conclusion. An electoral commission could do it on a non-partisan basis.

I'm not aware of any such research either. If it's been done, the result has been too boring to report on. If it hasn't been done, then my question remains: why do you want to enact such a major law without doing the research first?
Uber is basically an escrow for illegal taxi operations. They're hustling.
Do you work in SDC development?

There's a difference between making it work for a small suburb area in Phoenix some of the times and making it work everywhere all the time. And the problem with ride-sharing applications is that unless it works everywhere nobody is going to use it.

Making it work everywhere for all circumstances is hard. Like really hard. There's a difference between an intervention-free ride and an actual ride that's both safe and comfortable. You could rack up your miles per safety intervention by programming a paranoid robot that sits at a highway ramp for hours without merging.

Is it possible? Maybe. It's nice that some deep models can magically (with no theoretical explanation) recognize a pedestrian, a vehicle, a bike. But would you trust it with your life? There's no theoretical safety guarantee unlike aviation where you can actually read and understand the proofs. I mean yes it could certainly work somewhere some of the time, but believing that it will eventually work everywhere all of the time is rather naive.
In the 50 states + DC + incorporated territories, the entire US Constitution applies to everyone. There are unincorporated territories, where things are a bit fuzzier.

Certain rights apply differently depending on what citizenship you hold. You can be held and deported if you're not a citizen; you have more due process if you have a green card than if you are on a tourist visa. But all of those gradations of rights are in the context of the Constitution.
If EU law is applied, no. If American law control, probably yes. This is a contract between an american and an EU organization so there will be a fight over which law controls the contract. Due to the split between the various US states, American contracts normally have some language stating which jurisdiction's laws should be used to interpret the contract. If this was a stock licensing deal from the estate it probably names a US state.
Good comment. Though I expect the handwringing will be less over the nature of assistance and more whether an illegal act (cracking a password) is justified by the greater good (whistleblowing).
Sorry, what’s a SDC?
Driving a Tesla for almost a year now and when I had mine for 2,5 weeks it crashed into a car in front of me on AutoPilot in slow moving traffic. Stop and go. After 15 stops, it moved again, but this time didn't stop. I just sat there expecting it would brake. It didn't. There was no major damage, just about $1500 due to a small dent in the hood.
AutoPilot is beta. Don't trust it to be quicker than you. It will fail in ways humans do not ever expect. Always pay attention and take control if it feels off.
Android 7.0 phones can now be used as 2SV security keys for Google accounts
WikiLeaks didn't publish the INA papers.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was due to paralellism, e.g., compiling multiple code units in parallel or even better parallelism at the Cargo level. My stat is just the maximum memory usage reported at any point in time. But that's just a guess. ripgrep itself uses more memory when using parallelism, just because of having more buffers.
Yes, First Amendment protections apply to non-Americans. However, as you say, Assange is being prosecuted for conspiracy to hack computers, not for his speech.
Looking at the screenshot, it's not clear which elements on the console are trackers. Why not just paste a screenshot of Ghostery, which shows the exact names of the tracking cookies in an easy to read panel?

Given the context, I hope NYT recognizes the irony and at least tries to practice a less intrusive analytics strategy.
DANE doesn't require universal deployment of DNSSEC either. The sending mail server only needs DNS resolvers that are transparent to DNSSEC. Which is just about everything. And you can also run a modern recursive resolver on mail server itself if you are behind an old one.

DANE does not prevent non-DNSSEC or non-TLS SMTP servers from functioning. And of course, it actually prevents MITM attacks from stripping TLS.

Just about every 'government run' ccTLD is DNSSEC signed. There is nothing that prevents a site from using DNSSEC.

The gTLDs are not government run. There is no government involvement in google's TLD (.google). And because of ICANN rules, .google is actually DNSSEC signed.

So can we use DNSSEC for email today. Everything is in place and if you don't like governments, stick to gTLDs.
I disagree. http://www.rideaustin.com/ was launched in Austin a couple years ago when Uber and Lyft were temporarily kicked out of the city. The app had some growing pains but now I use them whenever I can in preference to Uber and Lyft because they pay their drivers more. If Uber and Lyft suddenly went away Ride<CityName> could easily pop up all over.

Of course, Uber and Lyft right now ARE so big because of all the advantages you mention, but a lot of that is still due to boatloads of VC money that allow them to operate unprofitably.
Stem cell competition orchestrates skin homeostasis and ageing
One of the highlighted risks:

> Maintaining and enhancing our brand and reputation is critical to our business prospects. We have previously received significant media coverage and negative publicity, particularly in 2017, regarding our brand and reputation, and failure to rehabilitate our brand and reputation will cause our business to suffer.

In detail, they state:

> Our brand and reputation might also be harmed by events outside of our control. For example, we faced negative press related to suicides of taxi drivers in New York City reportedly related to the impact of ridesharing on the taxi cab industry.

Yikes, I never heard about that until reading it now. I could totally see how some people may have placed the bulk of their money into a NYC Taxi medallion, which have more than halved in value since 2015. https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a9d6f8a78e9c6e899cd886...
Or they know about it and were unable to enact change before publishing.

Publishing articles with the same poison still raises awareness of the issue, though it would be best for them to disable ads on these articles, or to at least be upfront.
https://pb.cambridgema.gov/pb4bikecounter

That's kind of cool! At a glance, also kind of expensive at $90,000 for 3! A quick search shows the hardware costing around $5,000 each.
Not to sound patronizing, it might be a great learning experience for kids to witness this failure.
I hope they could see Beresheet Bet land successfully in a few years :)
There's a lot of products that are similar I agree, I've just never seen one with the specs that this one offers
You're only hit with the chat during sign up, after that it's optional. Beginners like the feature.

The download badge links directly to the App Store on iOS; on desktop it lets you send yourself a text with the download link, which is standard behavior for Branch links. Alternatively you can just search FitnessAI in the App Store

I'd suggest giving it a shot before drawing any conclusions. Message me for a free 30 days :)
> The problem is that it's not usefully deterministic once you add in exceptions, shared pointers, move semantics, lambda captures, etc.

No, it really is, even in the presence of the things you mentioned. That’s the whole point.

> Being explicit about memory management isn't a goal. […]

I get the impression that you’re confusing explicit and manual memory management. They’re not the same.

> Do you really see no alternatives between dumping all memory-management complexity on the programmer and a full tracing GC?

Of course I do, but the alternatives aren’t without their own problems. I’m curious how Rust will fare but Objective C’s ARC, while attractively simple, has performance implications, and then there’s the problem with cycles.
Firstly, "arranging a platform for themselves" is the same as "being given a platform in exchange for goods and services (typically money)". If you're making this argument, then there's no distinction in what you describe. They're "given a platform" in exchange for services rendered as an AI ethics panel member.

Secondly, it's debatable whether they're even being "given a platform" in this case anyway, because their duties are specifically surrounding AI. Going off on an anti-trans rant or something would get them removed. Since that's the sort of platform you're presumably arguing against giving them, so there seems to be no conflict here.

Presumably, what you actually meant by "not giving them a platform" is that they shouldn't be given legitimacy or validation. I'm not sure I can agree that their presence accomplishes this. Some people give the pope some moral authority, but plenty enough people aren't swayed by his fancy hat, and his lofty moral status enables good discussions over what's truly ethical. Christian and Catholic engagement is and has been falling precipitously.
Is anybody arguing he shouldn't?

To my knowledge that's never been seriously questioned.

What is he being charged again?
The first amendment does not give freedoms to a citizen, it limits the government from abridging the freedom of speech.
Here in Brazil my experience has been the same: drivers use all apps.

I just don't see how Uber can maintain said network on the long run and still be profitable, not something I'd put my money in.

What Uber is doing would generally be described as predatory pricing on other sectors. On sufficiently unregulated markets such is Uber's it's extremely risky, no anti-trust legislation is needed to trump it, just a continuously low entry barrier, including lax regulation. For a more concrete, though only related example (rather than speculation as to Uber's future) see Dow's history.
I'm reluctant to even dignify this kind of low-effort drivel with a response.

There's a bunch of other commits linked from that very same user profile, related to -- and this will blow your mind -- image reconstruction:

https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging/commits?author=klbouma...

Even if that were not true, scientific code often does not end up public, let alone on github. Not to mention that Dr. Bouman is the first author of a closely-related paper at CVPR, which is one of the most prestigious meetings in a field of study called "computer vision": https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01413

Obviously this was a massive team effort, but PR frenzies happen to good people all the time and I don't see anyone scrutinizing public commit counts when it's a man in a similar context.
like i said it's reasonable to drive for all at different points in the past but it's unreasonable to drive for all 4 at the same time. Think about it, incentive-wise, if you complete 50 trips you got $x , if you complete 100 trips you got $2x. If you only got 50 trips in you, why are you splitting them between two apps 25 trips each and got $0 incentive?
> Does it, though?

It absolutely takes tremendous capital expenditure to build the network. Uber has an accumulated deficit of $20 billion precisely because they subsidized both drivers and riders to build the two-sided network.

It doesn't have to be winner-take-all. A duopoly in most medium to large cities is perfectly viable. But you won't see dozens of competitors because the drivers and riders would wait too long for a match in a sparse network.

Unless the ride-share commodity can be differentiated some other way, it would take large subsidies for a long time to make much of a dent in Uber.
That's really weird. I was just looking to see if it might be due to my DNS settings, but I just can't locate the problem.
Cool

Whats that mean again?
The supervisor of the Uber that killed the pedestrian was watching Hulu on her phone at the time of the crash.

edit: source: https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-driver-rafaela-vasquez-...
Not from a Marxist oppressor/oppressed perspective.
Why wouldn't both Uber and Lift simultaneously raise their prices by a few percent? Once they're both public and the VC cash injections dry up they'll both need to raise prices if they don't want to be out of business. Coke and Pepsi don't sell at a loss to try to steal each other's market share. What would cause these two public companies to run themselves into the ground if the market could absorb a 7% price increase?

I don't actually like Uber that much as a brand, and I understand that the HN groupthink is against them, but I'm not clear on why everyone seems think this is such a terrible business. Are people really going to go back to taking cabs?

I predict that Uber and Lyft will both see big drops in stock price, especially as we enter the next recession. If one or both of the companies survive the downturn, they will turn into leaner, healthy bluechip stocks that turn a stable profit, at least until the flying, self-driving, solar-powered scooters take over. IMHO anyway.
> there's a reason that every editor takes a swing at a "vim mode". People get comfortable with the aesthetics of their tools.

To be fair, vim is radically different in terms of navigation, keybindings, capability, etc. than your average gui-based text editor. I am not saying that your point is wrong, but vim is sort of an extreme example of a. the difference between vim vs. other editors, and b. the zeal with which vim users tend to cling to it (as a vim user).
Isn’t that essentially the hacking equivalent of jaywalking? Why should it be prosecuted?

I can’t really imagine a less serious offense than (maybe) trying and failing to crack hash.
As a layman on the subject, I guess cryptographers are attempting to crack keys every day...

With house locks, it's a plain distinction between breaking into a lock and breaking into a house. With cryptography, I imagine that distinction is really problematic?

Though I'm aware in Assange's case they do have proof of intent, but I wonder if it sets bad precedent, or is a case where they just dug up either far-reaching, obscure, or some law which is practically never really enforced?

Edit: my original comment was written poorly
The 1st amendment simply prohibits the united states government from abridging freedom of speech.
He owns Blue Origin, so perhaps he will.
> The sexual charges really don't look fabricated or to have had any political motive at all.

They are, quite plainly, fabricated, as there are no charges. He has not been charged with a crime. You speak of these nonexistent charges as if they are fact.

You say that the wikipedia article “makes it clear that the charges were dropped” - I just read it and it does no such thing - because it does not say he was charged in the first place - because he was not.

You are propagating a false claim.
Angle of attack is not related to any of the items that you list. You could be approaching stall even while your altitude is increasing (2), while you are at a high speed (3), at less than 1 G (5) etc.

I'm not sure you quite understand what a stall is. A great resource I can recommend is a book called See How it Flies (http://www.av8n.com/how/).
Exactly where in San Carlos do you think a self-driving / autonomous vehicle would not be able to traverse without affecting the safety or enjoyability of a pedestrian / bicyclist / another vehicle?

The following seems to show a road next to a playground in San Carlos.[1] You think thats too narrow a road for an autonomous vehicle to navigate without endangering kids? Have you familiarized yourself with the latest in autonomous / self-driving tech?[2]

I think your fears are overblown or purposely exaggerated.

[1]
Laureola Park San Carlos, CA Playground

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g3ITuPd7Gw

[2]
The $800M Robo Taxi That Could Beat Uber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjDLwnTyybo
Not considering speed/efficiency, I don't recall scripting being the worst in IE. (Although, alerting users to scripting errors with alert modals was pretty unforgivable.)

My biggest gripe was the poor CSS support. And though it gave us the border-box model, as you mentioned, it was legacy IE's normal box model, which didn't comply to standards.

Which is the whole point. Because IE was the most popular browser by a landslide for many years, developers would code specifically to deal with IE's non-standard interpretations of web standards. It was a sad time. Either your site looked like crap in IE or in everything else. Depending on the year or era, that meant developers would make it look right in IE and shrug their shoulders for everyone else since they were just playing the odds. But no matter your outlook on which users you defer to, that's not a choice any developer should have to make.
So hubris?
>- 10 billion trips in September 2018, up from 5 billion in September 2017

You make it sound like they had 10 billion trips in that month alone. It is 10 billion by September 2018
No. I infer this from the experimental results that say that[1] there is no preferred inertial reference frame, the speed of light is the same constant in all of them, and to change from a the coordinate system from a inercial reference frame to another inertial reference frame that is moving with a constant velocity you must use the Lorentz transformations that mix the spatial and temporal coordinates, and this transformation and other similar results in Special Relativity are verified experimentally [1].

[1] In a small scale and where gravity is small enough to ignore General Relativity. But General Relativity doesn't solve the mixing problem, it make it worst.
Seamlessly Calling JavaScript from Kotlin
I sent today a message to Google Scholar with this https://support.google.com/scholar/contact/general
This is like an argument about 0-based vs 1-based arrays.
It's against any competently worded lockup agreement.

"“Derivatives” is sort of a vague term, and there is a persistent folk belief that they have magic powers, that any legal or financial problem can somehow be solved by doing a derivative."

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-08/lyft-i...
You have to calculate the cost/time. If you do, Apple products are a steal.

I once saw someone complain about the price of a MacBook Air on Reddit and, based on how long they used their current one, determined they were spending less for it than a Netflix subscription.
Yes, and it's worse than ever before.
Someone asking for your help in hacking a DoD network doesn't seem like jay-walking.
It should but does not. The court of public opinion should be subordinate to the judicial system. When it isn't, you end up with a kind of cognitive dissonance where someone is legally declared not guilty but still suffers social consequences due to bad optics.
>> These advertisers are running ads using a contact list they or their partner uploaded that includes info about you. This info was collected by the advertiser or their partner. Typically this information is your email address or phone number.

> Newsflash, BuzzFeed's ad networks onboard and sync information about their readers in exactly the same way. Do people think that BF loads Quantcast, Scorecard Research etc onto their site for the good of their health? ...

> I have no idea why people don't call BS on news orgs that run 'exposes' on Facebook's ad targeting, when they target, track and follow their readers in exactly the same way.

What you're advocating is basically a circular firing squad.

If you have to be impeccably pure to call out a wrong (and furthermore, only associate with impeccably pure people and organizations), then no one will ever call out any wrongs and they'll fester and grow.