skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also is useful to bear in mind how small a slice of the larger society people who frequent HN represent.

It is easy to get carried away with these hyper arguments in favor of public transit, bicycling everywhere and for everyone, high density living and removing parking wherever possible.

It is helpful to bear in mind that just because a small canal-ridden city of 800,000 people ( Amsterdam has an area of 85 square miles while even NYC is 302 and Chicago is 234 ) has a high density of cyclists doesn't mean we shape policy for much of the Western world based on that small city of homogeneous people with homogeneous values and neighborhoods.
If you want to reduce the rate of arrests in the United States, we need to change the culture around the fetishization of punishment. The belief that those in jail "deserve" everything they get, including inhumane treatment, drives all that is ill with our criminal justice system. Adjusting how plea bargains work might help and might not, but we need to start changing culture first.
He worked with Sony at the time of the leak, which Wikileaks published.

It was disturbingly easy to find tbh
The key word is 'allegedly'. We'll see.
Contrast: Petabox, from the Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/web/petabox.php

Density: 1.4 PetaBytes / rack

Power consumption: 3 KW / PetaByte

No Air Conditioning, instead use excess heat to help heat the building.

Raw Numbers as of August 2014:

4 data centers, 550 nodes, 20,000 spinning disks

Wayback Machine: 9.6 PetaBytes

Books/Music/Video Collections: 9.8 PetaBytes

Unique data: 18.5 PetaBytes

Total used storage: 50 PetaBytes

Costs are $2/GB, lifetime, I believe.

https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360014755952-Arch...
I actually think even autonomous cars that can safely handle "highway" (for some definition of highway) driving in "good" weather (for some definition of good) is a huge win in and of itself. Both for safety and freeing up human time.

What it doesn't do is satisfy the fantasy of those who live in dense cities that they'll never need to own a car or even learn to drive. But hitting the point where a car can reliably drive itself around a chaotic urban landscape in all sorts of weather conditions by itself is almost certainly a much harder problem.
Not sure if there was nothing post-1.0, but this[0] particular mess was just before the 1.0 release and, at the time, caused a fair bit of chaos.

0. http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/everyone-poops/
The world won't be going electric overnight. It can't physically speaking, and the power density of batteries is nowhere near where it would need to be to phase out internal combustion engines.

Construction equipment, farm equipment, loading and transportation equipment, lawn equipment etc... Still need compact, powerful power plants. Fossil fuels and petroleum is likely not going anywhere either. It's still needed for a lot of off-road uses, and as industrial precursors.

To the "do you expect society to subsidize yadda yadda" crowd:

Do not be so quick to evoke the power of society for or against your favorite/least favorite things. The United States is a blatant anomaly in terms of the proliferation of high tech infrastructure, given. But that has come as the byproduct of over 150 years of gradual industrialization.

Frankly I don't see ICE cars, or ICE car enthusiasts as as much a problem as poor city planning, over-emphasis on a consumerist lifestyle to fuel the economy, and an increasingly divisive and market subverted political system.

Besides which, speed does not correlate with deaths. Difference in speed does. If you want traffic related deaths to go away, stop looking at the enthusiasts, who are paying attention, and start looking at the ones who aren't paying attention.
Berlin has forests within its borders.
No need for a parachute with the payloads that drug dealers are dropping.
Millennials are falling out of the US middle class
There has been other instances. One is as_mut_slice, which resulted in 1.15.1 patch release. https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/02/09/Rust-1.15.1.html Another is borrow checker bug, which resulted in 1.26.2 patch release. https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/06/05/Rust-1.26.2.html
Same - I actually like city noise. It’s really annoying when people assume their preferences extend to everyone.
>The difference seems to be that most journalists report on the leaked documents, whereas Wikileaks essentially data dumps it.

Would anyone have taken them seriously if they just made claims about what were on the emails? You see the same thing going on with the Democrats regarding the summary of the Mueller report: “we don’t believe you, show us the raw data!”
Tulsi is another Russia-supported candidate per social media trackers. Odd coincidence.

Your talking points don't stand up to reading the indictments.
Seems like a reasonable argument if the case we were talking about is a large software project that requires consensus building & collaboration, but it sounds like OP was talking about a personal project that is largely defunct. It seems like there are few stake holders that OP needs to satisfy.

Not all politics & software development are unrelated btw, there have certainly been political movements that would have targeted & tightly controlled software development if it was as big as it is now when that movement happened. Khmer Rouge comes to mind.

There are also explicitly political software development projects: Bitcoin, Tor, arguably GNU, the great firewall, stuxnet, whatever nation state actors are cooking up for mass social media manipulation etc
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The answer is an obvious yes. Especially on HN where supposedly we are a technology related site. I suspect the first thing most of us do is to google or ddg github and the computer scientist's name ( male or female ).

The better question is if Katie was a man, would BBC or the media single him out for this level of attention. If Katie was a man would the media be trying to make him the face of this scientific enterprise. If Katie was a man, would that story be pushed to the top of HN and be heavily censored to push a particular narrative.
The limiting factor right now is mostly that nobody wants to wear 4/5/6pt harnesses or have a properly fitting bucket seat (these things are a big pain in the butt for a daily driver) so we have to keep shoving explosively deployed cushions into places so humans don't bounce off of harder things.

The fact that we can't replace the windshield with something else will likely never be a practical limitation for the foreseeable future.
It's common against everyone. "You believe in climate change? Yet you sometimes use a car? Checkmate!"
> Boeing also designed the system to rely on a single sensor — a rarity in aviation, where redundancy is common.

I worked on the C-2 Greyhound aircraft in a past life. Part of an upgrade they got, only because it was an absolute requirement to fly in European airspace, was a magnetometer. The documentation on replacing and testing the new sensor, of which there was only one, was non-existent. The documentation said that the sensor could not and would never fail.

While in another country one failed. In disbelief my Chief had me read out every wire in the system even though I knew it was the sensor immediately. The bird was down for weeks until we got a new one because supply didn't exist and I had to make up a suitable plan for testing the replacement on the fly.

I wonder what kind of practices lead to a "this system can never fail" mentality. It should be assumed everything can and will fail.
Google has burned people so many times with shuttering products with little to no warning I'd be hesitant to trust them with my long term data storage.
Is Prisma releasing a client library for Rust?
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Western economists have predict China economy would collapse in two decades ago and repeated every year, and their faces been slapped hardly every time.
If Yujiapu is called China's Manhattan, there are dozens of bigger Manhattan in China right now and they are doing really good.
Prediction: I believe eventually MS will kill Atom or let development languish. People will complain that "MS is evil" and "look who they were in the past" and so on, but devs will go where the features are.

VS Code is one of the finest examples of open source Done Right™, and while it owes something to Atom and Electron, this is pure open source darwinism.
There are efforts to integrate more industry standard software engineering practices into research (RSE or "research software engineering" as a phrase is growing in popularity):

US: http://urssi.us
UK: https://www.software.ac.uk
We can’t get rid of it because we have a commitment to not breaking users’ code. There will not be a Rust 2.0.

There have been some small soundness holes in the typesystem that we have fixed, resulting in breakage, but since that’s in the language, that’s the only way. A library API is different. There haven’t been many of these though. We did have some point releases which immediately fixed some library errors that were introduced by a release, see 1.15.1. But that was in a new API, and so the chance of breakage was extremely low. This API has been around for years. It is also not used much, given it’s a *NIX specific extension you have to explicitly import.

Note that upon using it, you’ll get a warning, so everyone will at least be notified.
Yep. Or they shouldn't even need to "see" the lanes. The roads could be enhanced with signal transmitters so that the car is "on rails", in a digital sense.

Of course that would require centralization and working with the government. The government has no incentive to do this because it would just create another problem for them (mass unemployment).
Also compare with ftp and storage vps. Cheapest ive seen is 1$ per TB /month.
I lived next to a main traffic route in a bigger city for a few years. You rarely see a commuter that is not completely ALONE in their car.

Using a car in a city is not a human right, it is a luxury. That trunk and the four free seats are there "just in case" you might need it. There is no rational reason why it is that way. It is a whole culture that revolves around owning a car and I say that as somebody who was driving for a living once.

Commuting to a city boils down to using the cities advantages (well paying jobs, infrastructure, etc) while avoiding the disadvantages (noise, pollution, higher rents and criminality) at the cost of those living there (you take jobs people living there could take, you are traffic, space and noise). Could they get a space in the city? Sure. Only it would be tiny and substandard and they don't want that.
I think a more fundamental problem here is that self-driving cars are as much an infrastructure problem as they are a technological one.

As an analogy, consider hybrid vs electric vehicles. In places like North America with large, open spaces, electric vehicles really only serve a specific type of urban driver. The culture, infrastructure and geography dictate 600km distances which really aren't practical at the moment with current battery tech. Whereas hybrid vehicles can (or could) quite easily reach that range with options to recharge once you get to your destination or have a longer stopover and still use existing infrastructure. The focus on purely electric is a lost opportunity for anyone who needs power or long distance.

Similarly, cars could be designed to be self-driving in the easy cases; highways, certain urban thoroughfares, particular times of day and the like where existing vehicle and pedestrian flow patterns eliminate the edge cases. coordinating systems along the aforementioned types of roads could be installed as was done for cellular service and GPS and other protocols could be developed to ensure safety and reliability as well as fallback in case of emergencies.

Instead, we've decided on all-or-nothing bets which don't move things forward--or at all--and my worry now is that we'll lose an opportunity to pick the low-hanging fruit and solve the harder problems incrementally over time.
This is why many of us use ad blockers.
But do you roll a stop sign when a car is literally about to slam in to you if you continue into the intersection? No. Yet that's what the guy did.
Legally they're not supposed to fly past a certain distance from an operator, but if you don't care about the law you could easily operate via cell towers, or even autonomously via a predefined GPS coordinate based route.
I think the biggest driver here is cost more than anything, and on that point I think we're stuck with them, even as the trendiness of them fades. As long as open-plan offices allow you to cram more people per square foot than other designs, companies will stick with them because lowering OpEx is more important than improving unmeasurables. As you said, if there were some way to accurately and unarguably measure productivity loss in dollars, we'd probably see this trend reverse, but until then it's liable to stick around.

The only hopeful note here is that some of the early adopters have started to move away from it, and industrial designers have started to come up with people-dense but less productivity-destroying designs (e.g. https://www.steelcase.com/quiet-spaces/)
OH! You are correct. Been staring at backend code too long.
> I would contend that GA is the wrong approach

I just said GA gives the most elegant formulation in another comment. What alternative do you suggest? Seeing that you mention the wedge product and bivectors, may you be thinking in something based in differential forms?

I'm fascinated by GA, although I have not had the chance to use it heavily yet. I am very interested if you know something better.
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> generally exist on a predictable well defined plane

Protected bike lanes/paths mostly solves this problem.

Cyclists aren't unpredictable because they want to be, it's because the system is not set up well for bikes at all. Sometimes it's actively hostile to bikes.

> Space efficient? Yes and no. It is more space efficient for people whose options are bike vs car to ride a bike, but there's tons of people that doesn't apply to - people who live far away, people who need to haul things, people who have health issues, people who are too young etc.

There's multiple problems to unpack here:

* You'd be surprised how accessible biking actually is, with good infrastructure. There's hardly anyone in Munich that falls under the "too young to bike" bracket, I see even three year olds on their balance bikes around, and of course it's common for parents to have toddlers on their bikes. Plenty of elderly people too. And with electric bikes and handicap-friendly bikes around, people who can bike comprise the overwhelming majority.

* There's still some fraction who cannot bike, true, but the same is true of stairs, and yet this doesn't make us stop building stairs. We just also build ramps and elevators. Nobody's suggesting replacing all car lanes with bike lanes.

* If you replace car lanes with bike lanes for those who can bike, the people who cannot can simply...continue driving, because many people who would otherwise be in car lanes taking up space have shifted over to a more space-efficient mode. In theory, this can actually free up space in the remaining car lanes.
Heh it'll work until someone on their phone doesn't even see them. In my case, I had to swerve left of center while blaring the horn. The guy rolled the sign >15mph.
> The only way these tariffs work is Trump pulling the "national security emergency" card

So it is the law then. Too bad, so sad, but the law allows this.

It sounds like you just disagree with the law. But that's the law!

> worth dismantling the WTO over.

And nothing is worth dismantling the free and open internet with oppressive copyright laws.

So, I can use that exact same argument against the EU's horrible laws.
Sounds like a pretty useless classification system for the current situation, honestly
It's definitely fair to criticize Buzzfeed etc for these practices, but don't want to stop the reporting on facebook because the buzzfeed business model has overlap. That would surely reduce the total amount of scrutiny on such practices because of all the sites that can't throw stones from their glass houses.
>It makes me wonder how much they've held on to for other reasons, e.g., because it might harm someone they support.

Has anyone ever tried to call them out on this by releasing a leak that wikileaks refused to publish?

I don’t remember ever hearing such a claim.
on higher weights sometimes i wait a full 5 minutes.
from my experience resting more ensures you complete all your sets and reps which are the most important things based on my experience.

at a minimum i wait until my heart rate slows down.
i haven't noticed any additional gains for shorter weight times.
I guess the standards necessarily are different for a city of skyscrapers
> UNLESS we start designing roads specifically for vehicular autonomy

At this point, why not just have tracks? Really, you can automate so much by just putting the damn thing on rails.
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We can only speculate about the lower bounds of compile times, but making things faster takes a lot of work. Rustc is a huge codebase, and making general leaps requires large architectural changes. We’ll just keep chipping away. It’ll take some time.

There has been a lot of progress, it’s just been slow and steady. For example, since the first of 2018: https://perf.rust-lang.org/compare.html?start=2018-01-01&end...
An available substitute is a great reason to allow a particular service to not be provided in a particular location.

If rural environments weren’t accessible it becomes much more important for cities to be more quiet. Because rural environments are available, cities can trade some silence for some pretty extraordinary economic advantages.

Building skyscrapers and moving millions of people around every day is noisy work, but it provides one heck of a boost to the GDP.

If cities can be quieter for free, they should be. If being quieter costs cities one of their inherent advantages than people who don’t like that can choose a different environ.
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https://twitter.com/TheRicMan/status/1002373087424274432?ref...
Thank you for pointing it out. I am sure there were always a few who did focus on the social aspect. I just feel that the direction in which the car industry and self-driving tech has grown obviously suggests that they underestimated it. Everyone would agree that if every car in the road is autonomous, it will be possible to nearly eliminate accidents and casualties and increase commuting efficiency. Unless there is a bug in the system or a rogue actor takes over that is- but that's a different type of risk. However, people are still buying cars with no self-driving capabilities and financing them for next 5-6 years or even longer. Let alone the infrastructure which is crumbling away instead of being readied for autonomous tech. That's why people like the Ford CEO are having to come out and recognize issues like this.
Its especially frustrating how cities will try almost anything to alleviate traffic instead of encouraging cycling. Its less taxing on the roads, it doesn't pollute, it doesn't require a schedule and best of all it takes up peanuts in space compared to a parking spot.
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Just about everyone who has ever worked with him has come to the same conclusion, including many people who have entirely overlapping ideologies. See Emma Best's Twitter account for a prime example.
What I wonder is how those same people in the US would feel if countries like China or Russia did the same thing openly.
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Yup it's a pretty good idea too. Pets, odd structures, children, terrain type, puddles, water run off areas.

Not to mention you need to account for the wind. Drones can actually fly really well in wind, and while obviously they won't be flying in strong winds, you never know if there'll be a gust.

In rural/suburban/residential districts the airspace is pretty darn clear above the treeline/buildings. Assuming you aren't next to a large airport, there is little to no air traffic, there's more wind but there's plenty of room, etc.

I couldn't tell from the video, but I'd assume they drop the entire string to prevent it from being snagged.
US is more diversity than China definitely. At least in China, most people speak Mandarin, eat noodle and rice. But in US, how many people speak English? Eat Hamburg?
> a couple of men grabbing him from off the street wouldn't be too out of character.

It probably would be out of character for them to do that in one of their 5-eyes partner's countries. Keeping that relationship is high priority for the US because they get tons of intelligence in return.

Plus kidnapping a 'terrorist' and kidnapping a 'journalist' (air-quotes for both) are two different things in how the world will respond. The outcry over the Italian terrorist kidnapping was pretty small but taking Assange off the streets of London would be huge.
I don't know if anyone tried, but if you followed early tweets they talked a lot about having something that was damning and then ... never mentioned it again.

Just taking them at their word you have to wonder what was up.
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It’s much harder to condemn a politically motivated non-prosecution than it is to condemn a politically motivated prosecution.

One of these is inherently far worse.
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I live and work in Cambridge and one of the new separated lanes is on my regular route to work. The design, I think has been mostly an improvement, with quibbles. There's definitely less chance of getting doored, but I don't like that the lanes go right through bus stops. Also, cars turning at intersections don't see you on the other side of parked cars.

A big plus, though is that the city actually keeps the lane cleared in winter. The regular bike lanes get to be pretty bad and blocked by parked cars when there's a lot of snow.
> Here in Seattle, we have single-lane roads that go both directions.

We have those in California, too.

> One problem with developing these technologies in California is that California has very wide, very regular roads.

Except where it doesn't.

> High visibility and dry conditions are the norm.

San Francisco, for instance, has fog about 1 in 3 days of the year.
You know, I thought of a bunch of reasons why drones would be more likely to be stolen, but it never occurred to me that delivery trucks are accompanied by people.
In the meantime, you can use sccache to at least save the time spent to compile the same version of a crate more than once.

https://github.com/mozilla/sccache
That is highly unlikely due to precedent of the '60s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_the_Unit...