skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of gains to be had. I'm up 400% on FB, I'm up 200%+ on TWLO, HUBS, MU. I'm over 100% on PYPL, AMD.

I am down 5% on DBX.
Also such a thread could be an easy springboard for a collective effort on such an article. One could create the article with an outline and share the link in such conversation, so that people could put their time where their mouth is.
On Pixel 3, no, it cannot be changed. Only the volume down button is wired to the Titan-M. Why that button rather than others, I don't know.
Thank you for this: I was able to learn from this article that a good bit of the now-censored history is, ironically, revealed in public court documents. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/14/Urtei...

There's also an archive.org page from late 2015 which contains the word "PRISM" among other stuff. https://web.archive.org/web/20150908002221/https://de.wikipe...

This article from Heise is still up as well, and it makes claims about Dr. Waibel's purported ties to the NSA. https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/NSA-Abhoerskandal-De...

Personally I think attacking Wikipedia ought to have severe Streisand-ing consequences.
Even if they didn't collude, they'd be under suspicion of it. Depending on how DOJ wind blows, that could be a big and expensive distraction.
>Instead of prosecuting people committing murders in a video

what..?
That's right: Google has to constantly be better then Bing or else lose searches. Remember Ask Jeves?
Nor should they need to know better. Being a gangster should be a universally reprehensible thing, like being a drug dealer, or gang banger, or mafioso. Gangsters are killers and thieves.
Improper maintenance of worn out components can cause a failure resulting in a crash, be they computer components, electrical components, or mechanical components.
Basic strategy in blackjack just doesn't seem that hard to deduce. There are only 23 non-trivial possibilities for the player (hard 12 through hard 20, soft 17 through soft 20, double ace through double 10) and 10 starting possibilities for the dealer. For each of the dealer's possibilities, figure out the chance of each of the 5 possible outcomes (18, 19, 20, 21 or bust). Evaluate each of the player's possibilities for each of his choices (stick, twist, or split) starting with 20 and working down. The problem is of the dynamic programming genre: by working down from 20 you avoid a combinatorial explosion.

I'd say it could be done in a few hours by a bright teenager with no calculator. It's not the Manhattan project.

Of course, you can look at the work of Euclid or Euler or Pascal or Napier and say the same thing. The real genius lies in seeing that it can be done.
Which benefits does EdgeDB have over Hasura which isn't built on top of PostgreSQL but as a layer that runs on top of it and exposes a GraphQL API along with access control, event triggers and other features?
Cars, with their suspensions and ABS systems can stop as fast or even faster than a cyclist with excellent bike handling skills. The average cyclist will take longer to come to a stop from the same speed when compared to a motorist.

I don't have "excellent skills", but I personally have stopped a bike that was moving ~12 MPH quickly enough to not hit a child who jumped out from between parked cars. In a car, I would have killed her. I didn't stay on the bike, and it picked up some scuffs from the pavement, but then again child still alive.
A third of people in the US can't (or can't afford to) drive. Bicycling seems much more democratic.
implying that makes it unworthy of praise?
The difference being that most Chinese are well aware their news is propaganda.

Fox viewers probably not so much.
Now I wish US can switch to the metric system with a similar endeavor, but surely it's impossible now.

There was an attempt in the 60s to convert to metric in US. If you are in SF bay area, go check this out:

https://images.app.goo.gl/JBqNpATVWgwi2qFh8
India Election 2019: A Simple Guide to the World’s Largest Vote
The ICJ handles dispute between states. It has no authority to prosecute the soldiers of any country.

You are, perhaps, referring to the ICC, established by the Rome Statute - to which the United States is not a party.

The issue of whether the United States respects international law is not likely to be conducive to productive conversation on HN. It is also beside the point of this specific topic.
I'm thinking of the many other things Wikileaks have revealed, especially in regards to the Chelsea Manning stuff which I think was important. We need governments to be afraid of corruption and terrible acts getting out. If Assange only publishes some of that, at least it's better than none of it coming out.

I have little interest in the email dramas. I doubt they really swung the election regardless (I have to imagine Trump's genital grabbing comments were just as damaging). The democrats were more than capable of beating themselves, honestly. People would have overlooked the email stuff for a more likable candidate (look at some of the terrible stuff Obama did with regard to drone strikes and military operations); she lost because people found her extremely unlikable -- like they did in 2008. (NB: I'm not right wing and I didn't vote for Trump)

> What value to the public came of his targeted weaponizing of information?

What political information isn't targeted and weaponized? And I have no idea, it's impossible to measure whether it was of value or not. Maybe future historians will be able to say.
I am not sure if you read my post correctly. Was doubting my parent's point that self driving cars would be too expensive. I was trying to estimate an upper limit below which a self driving car would be cheaper than a car and a driver. So if a self driving car is cheaper than that it should automatically be economical. And I think that a car costing 130k in series is extremely expensive. That gets you a lot of hardware.
did you even read my comment? i literally said "While there are certainly issues with herbicides and insecticides...". I'm not disagreeing with the premise that herbicides and such are bad, I'm just disagreeing with his specific reason.
1. They sold some business or businesses.

2. They raised the book value of something else they own for some legal reason.
There was a song at the time to help folks remember: “Håll dig till höger, Svensson” (Keep to the right, Svensson) [0]

[0]: https://youtu.be/6ODZtwkBYPs
I took my kids to see the demo launch and they said the rentry burns looked like evil eyes but to me they looked like half an x-wing. ;) everyone must see a live launch.
Mega Science projects are always huge collaborative efforts. This remarkable scientific achievement is now unfairly focused on an individual. Lets compare this with a couple of other mega science discoveries. The gravitational waves detection discovery was not attributed to any single individual. The collaboration got the credit for it. Back in 2012 when ATLAS experiment at CERN announced the discovery of Higgs boson, the collaboration spokesperson Fabiola Gianotti made the announcement through quite an impressive presentation of the results. Yet the discovery was attributed to the whole collaboration. In both these occasions no Eureka moment photographs were publicized and stole the credit.

In particle physics, these practices evolved over decades, when specific individuals tried to claim credits for discoveries in an unfair way(Nobel dream by Gary Taubes gives a beautiful account of this). Many particle physics collaborations now have detailed constitution and guidelines on what images/graphs they can show to the public. Someone who first made the first Higgs mass plot which shows a 5 sigma evidence of Higgs observation could not have leaked that plot on social media.

However this narrative is inspiring and perhaps motivate many young woman to take up careers in science and promote a more welcoming atmosphere for women in STEM.
I agree except for TypeScript and JavaScript - vscode is the best code editor I've experienced for both.
I didn’t write that, but I’d guess easy to use like FB (grandma can use it).

Not setting up your own locally hosted diaspora node.
Now UK and Japan can give it a try. ;-)
right after main booster of the second stage ignited a part of the ring came off. there is stuff that comes off every launch I've seen.
They are not exempt in the sense that the EU (or individual member states) will start blocking the Internet Archive if they don't comply.
It means "In the beginning" (בראשית)

(The prefix "ב" meaning "in", the root "ראש" meaning "head" --used both for the part of the body, and to mean "starting" or "principal"--and the suffux "ית" being the a type of feminine suffix)
china bad, us good

the white man's burden continues

also i love how you're using an anecdote from a friend of a friend to somehow build credibility
While a good idea, keep in mind that the article says Wikipedia only had one day to take action.
Show HN: Windows 98 VanillaJS Boot, React OS Implementation w/ Component Library
My congratulations to Elon!
The Thing About Cab Drivers and Facebook
Ketamine May Relieve Depression by Repairing Damaged Brain Circuits
Right, but that strict definition is often broader than people expect. Many people don't realize that organic production normally allows for significant pesticide use, courtesy of natural pesticides that could in some cases be worse than their better-targeted synthetic counterparts.
I dunnno, these drones are pretty distinctive-looking.
Fossils. Should go for $100 Mil each.
From the NY Times story “We are resetting the spacecraft to try to enable the engine.”

I can't tell from that if normally an engine outage would automatically restart but didn't or if the condition would always require manual intervention. I hope we get more details soon. The moon seems close enough (a few seconds), but accidents always happen closest to your destination. More automation is more complexity but it will be valuable for longer trips.
Looks like making a startup-evaluation quiz website is a poor idea, according to said quiz.
A well-placed U-lock makes a satisfying dent in a roof or quarter panel.
How the United States Created Vladimir Putin
>An acute diplomatic crisis broke out between the United States and Sweden in 2006 when Swedish authorities put a stop to CIA rendition flights [...]

> Steven V. Noble wrote in cables reveled by WkiLeaks that the Swedish government reacted strongly because rules had not been followed.

> A spokesperson from Säpo, Swedish police Intelligence Service, confirmed parts the newspaper report, adding that there have been no more extraordinary rendition flights landing in Sweden since.

I have not found any references to subsequent rendition flights involving Sweden, and it's been a good while since that article was published.

Apart from that, I don't really know what kind of confirmation you can be asking for. One cannot conclusively rule out the possibility that Sweden is still involved in extraordinary rendition, but one also cannot rule out that possibility for the UK, or for many other countries that Assange has spent time in.
This supposes that Self driving vehicles will be possible in the near future , without a human operator, in every city that Uber operates in. I highly doubt that. At least not in the next 5 years. What is see is Waymo being deployed in select 10 major cities in certain neighborhoods.
repping sickening crew
> What is the minimal system requirements?

Minimal requirements are similar to that of PostgreSQL. EdgeDB should run comfortably on an average server.

> And what about partitioning, replication, event log, etc.

Tooling for that will be coming in the next few alpha releases.

> Is there a native way hook to graphql resolvers? I really like it either way, there some tools for composing and stitching schemas.

Not right now. Although I think it should be possible to do what you want via one of the existing GraphQL proxies, like Apollo.

> plans for hosted and managed solution?

Yes, but no ETA right now. This is one of our highest priorities.

> Did you consider "pageInfo" type, maybe it is just me, but it proved very useful on frontend.

We can add that. One of the first-priority things on our list w.r.t. GraphQL though is to implement Database Views, which will allow selectively exposing your schema (and controlling how it is exposed).
Tbox: A GLib-like cross-platform C library
Why is anyone driving in Cambridge? This reminds me of a relative who insisted on renting a car in Bali. Just... why?

Note: I have driven in Cambridge, and will do again, when there is a compelling reason to do so. Commuting during rush hour is not a compelling reason.
It’s just a practice round for the startup of regular New York to London service.
NVIDIA just released the code: https://github.com/nvlabs/spade/
Falcon Heavy does indeed lift off the pad faster than many rockets (it's even faster than the single-stick Falcon 9). This is because of its higher overall TWR (since the two side boosters are functionally Falcon 9's without the mass of a second stage and payload). Another rocket that really leaps off the pad is Ariane 5 (once the SRBs light at T+8sec).

Generally speaking you want to accelerate as quickly as possible in the early stages of the flight in order to reduce gravity losses (every second you spend going "up", the more energy you have to spend fighting gravity). There are other factors involved here though (if you get going too fast in the lower atmosphere the losses due to drag start outweighing the savings, etc).

The spooling time of the engine doesn't really matter here, because the launch clamps don't release the rocket until the engines are all up and running and healthy, so when T-0 hits, the engines are already at full thrust.
and for a whole year of being public, dropbox kept dropping and now is 30% less than its IPO price.
There's pretty much nothing Wikileaks has done in the past 5 years except the "email dramas", which was probably just as consequential in real world effects (good and ill) as its earlier history.

When I think of big leaks of information that were of public interest, the only other one I can think of recently is the Panama Papers. And Wikileaks had nothing to do with those, except insofar as Assange tweeted "#PanamaPapers Putin attack was produced by OCCRP which targets Russia & former USSR and was funded by USAID and Soros."

Truly a profile in courage, passionate about improving the world by releasing information of public interest.

> it's impossible to measure whether it was of value or not

You're the one who's justifying the felonies because they release information of public interest! If any tidbit of information that could be of interest to historians is important to release, why not release the RNC emails, or information on Russian kleptocrats?
At the same time, this convergence of equivocation on First Amendment protections provides the perfect opportunity for a simple yet effect filter.

1. Start with the set of all potentially serious journalists.

2. Filter out the ones who put forth arguments which downplay the dangers to the press of prosecuting Assange.

3. Filter out the ones who don't explicitly argue against prosecuting Assange on 1st Amendment grounds.

Follow the small group that survives #3 to get a variety of (probably) high-quality perspectives from serious journalists.

Use set from #2 as a casual guide for when to prick your ears up and listen to the news.
(sorry, I'm not well versed in some of these things)

Would it make sense for React to start using this native web-component at some level moving forward, to improve efficiency ? Maybe another library will replicate most of Reacts features but is powered by this native (faster/cleaner) technology?
Nasa Says Debris from India’s Antisatellite Test Puts Space Station at Risk
My personal theory of how this will play out is that Mars will be a shallow gravity well industrial base for solar system development. We take for granted how integral gravity is to pretty much every thing we do when it comes to building stuff. It's not known if there will ever be large scale industrial activity in zero gravity. O'Neil cylinders are a solution, but expensive to start. If you can either mine Mars or process astroidal material there, it's a lot cheaper to get back into space from Mars than it is from the moon.
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Things of note:

Has been designed to hopefully allow easy optimisations via JSON files once things get refined down, please look through the context folder of the repo for more info. I'd really appreciate some suggestions for how to improve this without overcomplicating it.

Already has some persistent state in the form of the customisable backgrounds (see Control Panel), hoping to expand on this with notepad files pretty soon

Next goal is to export this full block (launch screen excluded) as a npm package of its own with limited customisation on the desktop and start menu

Is not trying to be a full fledged implementation but I want it to be flexible enough to be potentially used as a story telling tool of sorts (i.e. recreating online drama people had on their families old computer that they were given in the early 00s).

Getting it to be at all mobile friendly was very very very hard

Component library was quite ill advisedly written heavily via scss mixins, this does however allow it to work as independent of frameworks/libraries https://github.com/padraigfl/packard-belle/tree/master/css

I'd greatly appreciate feedback on ideas to expand on the above things and/or suggestions for how to keep them all on track along with general code critiquing and whatnot. I wrote a lot of this in bursts without much quality control so I won't be too offended!
The Falcon Heavy has three times the initial thrust, three times the booster weight, but only the normal amount of second stage weight. Going by numbers from Wikepdia that don't count the payload the normal Falcon 9 has a TWR of 1.41 and the Falcon Heavy has one of 1.64. So it should be lifting into the air about half again as fast.

The payload weight will make a small difference but it'll be pretty small to the overall weight in any event and not make a large difference. Arabsat-6A is just 6 tons compared to a total weight of 1426 tons.
Isn't it a combination of the first letter of Web and the common abbreviation for assembly language, ASM?
CSS is still a pain in Web Components. Constructable stylesheets solve that problem, but they're still in the "Worth Prototyping" stage for Firefox.

https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/
ok grandpa. No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Well, I'm sure the relative lack of new reports has nothing to do with Assange hiding in an embassy since 2012 and being extremely carefully monitored...

> You're the one who's justifying the felonies because they release information of public interest! If any tidbit of information that could be of interest to historians is important to release, why not release the RNC emails, or information on Russian kleptocrats?

Well, yeah, if he has that information then I think he should release it. But I don't know if he does? And if he does I don't know if he has other reasons for not releasing it, maybe it'd damage a source, or he doubts it's reliability, or maybe he just dislikes the DNC. I don't know! But I think that just because what he releases damages the supposed "good guys" doesn't mean he shouldn't release it.
You're not wrong but there's nothing to be done about it. You either have freedom of speech/press or you don't, you can't have "freedom of speech as long as you're fair".
This is very, very common.
"we can get it done by the time you purchase" = "yes"
Getting more bikes on the road makes bicycling safer. Drivers in cars are much more careful when they see bikes everywhere than when they only see them once in a blue moon.

Unfortunately most people are not going to ride when they have to mix with cars. I'm willing to do it on low speed city streets, and in unprotected bike lanes at up to highway (55MPH) speeds when I have to, but the great majority of people won't, and won't allow their kids to do it either. Protected bike lanes are the gold standard, and that's what we should be aiming for.
Call me a wowser but I far prefer a country whose big government employment program is building housing and not building armies that are ten times the size of all the largest other armies combined.

That's a nation with a very big unused hammer adventuring around the world looking for a nail.
They should have put the twin on earth in a simulates space station for a year. Also maybe the lack of bacterial biodiversity was a factor. I used to work analyzing DNA sequences of gut bacteria of MS patients. Surprisingly enough, bacteria affects many things about you, including cognitive performance.
The “marketing” cost does when it’s driver / rider incentives. It’s literally selling a $10 ride for $8 by chipping in $2 from the marketing budget.
Game of Thrones Deadpool
> but Building 2? Someone wanted to use MACSYMA?

As I understand it, they just wanted to be connected to the rest of the world, which their RJE connection to NCARs' supercomputers didn't accomplish.
Poor people ride bikes at much higher rates than rich people. Keeping a car is expensive, and especially expensive for the poor.
I think fixed-wing drones make less noise than the Quadcopter ones.
SpaceX is a military contractor that flies classified payloads to allow the US military to more effectively prosecute their mission, which is, of course, murder.

If we should be upset with Google (and those that work there) for working on drone targeting, we should be upset with SpaceX (and those that work there) for aiding those same organizations in those same missions.

What they did is cool. Maybe essential, in that it helps get human beings off of this planet sooner, before the next K-T or global influenza or Tunguska or whatever. But until that happens, they are helping large organizations whose purpose is to murder increase their effectiveness. (It may also be possible that that is the only way they can be continued to allow to exist and operate in the US now that they can state-independently operate private ICBMs, or the only way to remain profitable enough to continue working and employing long enough to get humans off of this rock.)

It could be that choosing sides (or even choosing nonviolence) in insignificant single-planet infighting is pointless and irrelevant on the scale of what is an absolutely essential species function to become multiplanetary. I still care too much about the lives of humans on this planet in this generation to subscribe to such apathy to single-planet military pursuits just yet.

Regardless of where one falls on this spectrum of nationalistic opinion, I think we should be careful about being so breathless for what is, in practice, a military contractor - for the same reasons we were such at Google, and should be at Microsoft and Amazon (who also seem to have suffered no such corresponding backlash for their tremendous material support to those who commit mass murder).
Some reasons why a company with $10M/year in revenue may not want to IPO:

1. Due to recent regulations (introduced after the 2000 dot-com crash), the fixed cost of going IPO (SOX compliance, putting internal controls in place, audits etc) have significantly gone up.

2. The additional scrutiny and public visibility that comes from going public is a drag on management bandwidth, employee morale and attention.

3. Private money is now plentiful and cheap, so it might actually be cheaper just to take private investors than public.

4. Public markets prefer stable, predictable companies with a known well understood strategy. Consider how often Tesla is in the public eye and how they might have benefited from staying private longer given their unpredictable business and strategy.
Thank you Elon for advancing mankind in such a spectacular way! You are a good person.