skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One problem with developing these technologies in California is that California has very wide, very regular roads. High visibility and dry conditions are the norm. There are few uncontrolled intersections (in Seattle they are the rule, not an exception). I think California's history as a motorist culture has conversely made it one of the easiest places to automate.

You're doing well until you say this. The state of California is just as diverse as Seattle when it comes to roads. I lived in both quite a bit...

California has some bad roads with poor visibility. Recently, we've had a lot of forest fires. Guess what - visibility gets pretty bad. It's like driving in fog (and we have that too). We also have snow! (The bay area got snow this winter - skyline did its thing and fell off the face of the earth again from it too) We had so much snow that most of Tahoe was closed for winter. The roads aren't super well maintained and if you go do some trips to Tahoe (good luck getting there or back!), you'd find out that the markings for lanes just disappear altogether. (Snow or not) We have single lane with 2 way traffic either intentionally or because there are so many cars parked on the road that only one car can fit through. There are insane hills with no nearly no visibility unless you creep forward into the intersection past the stop sign when at the top. Same with going down them - no god damn idea what's below until you just jump that cliff. You have some of those in Seattle but they're really steep in SF. Incredibly twisty and poorly paved roads with no road markings that suddenly change from having lines to not having lines randomly or permanently (e.g. Alpine, Old La Honda Rd, Kings Mountain) and here's the kicker - they're pretty popular roads with lots of people using them all the time with a wide variety of people on them. It's common to see a cyclist on the road or a damn horse and having to overtake them when there isn't a ton of room (and there's a very real risk of oncoming traffic) unless you want to be stuck behind them for 30 minutes during their little workout or trot up the hill.

So... don't write off the whole state. There's a lot of varied conditions.
Wrong.

In many countries you can't have two. But as long as "dual citizenship" is recognized, there is no upper limit.
What appears to be the last image the spacecraft managed to send before it crashed:

https://twitter.com/EladRatson/status/1116427960033136640
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This is the critical difference. If the NY Times stole the Pentagon Papers themselves, they committed a crime regardless of whether or not they choose to publish the material. If Daniel Ellsberg steals the Pentagon Papers and the Times and Washington Post choose to publish them as part of their reporting on the Vietnam War, they are not somehow made accessories to his crime through publication.

Assange can publish whatever he wants* (*according to the US laws that govern freedom of speech, etc.) but as soon as he becomes actively involved in the exfiltration of classified material he is breaking the law.
This RFC has an explanation of Higher-Kinded Types that enabled me to understand what is meant by HKTs for the first time. Unexpected & awesome! Thanks for linking!
We'll build the server first with Rust. Hopefully me or somebody else has time to do the library later. Would be fun, but right now all focus is on the server rewrite.
Maybe we’re just speaking at odds here. The current design of the language does not allow this. A different design may make it possible, but that’s a completely different question.

I think what you’re saying is “it is possible to do this with the correct design” and what I’m saying is “that design has not been proposed nor accepted and so the answer today is “that’s not possible”.” Does that sound about right?
I think this will not work unless things like individual training experience, proper form execution and diet are taken into account.

I also think that people are pretty stupid and you will earn a lot of money from it.
I learned quite a bit by exploring attribution modeling with them. There is an R package where you can just faceroll a model without really understanding anything so I tried recreating it in Python https://github.com/jerednel/markov-chain-attribution - its messy for sure but it is a learning exercise and it helped me understand the concept quite a bit. That currently only supports the simplest use case of a first order markov chain.
It's still not enough information to compute AOA. Let's say I'm configured for 300kts in level flight. Now I pull back on power changing nothing else. I'll end up in a decent, and eventually that will stabilize to e.g. 1000fpm at 300kts. I'm still at 1.0g, and 300kts, but I'm in a decent, obviously angle of attack is less than in level flight. So airspeed and load factor aren't enough, nor is including mass.

Horizontal stabilizer lift is a downward force and must be countered with lift from the wing to maintain level flight. It's effectively the same as adding weight. Angle of attack absolutely changes as CG changes. This is a central purpose of weight and balance computation. W&B also changes as fuel is consumed. So you'd have to take that into account.

Anyway, you can't infer angle of attack or the coefficient of lift from only airspeed, load factor, and mass. You need more information.
It seems unlikely to be able to get the scale required without someone spilling the beans or accidentally getting caught. But things like voter intimidation and vote buying are illegal and we have structural remedies to (attempt to) prevent those. Of 9 million voters in Texas, only 16,000 did not present ID [1] and had to fill out affidavits. I'm unconvinced that the harm of voter id laws is sufficient to balance the peace of mind that we would get by closing up a potential form of voter fraud.

[1] http://electionlab.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2019-01/fraga...
The link elaborates that this concept is enshrined in the US Constitution Bill of Rights (4th amendment), so it covers government surveillance. It is not directly applicable to private entities using recording devices.
In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, that's a lobotomy, not ECT.
Landings and take offs are always the hardest part of any aerospace event. You're much more likely to see system or mechanical failures when you first start everything up or try to stop moving on an uneven surface.
With a population of < 3% of the USA, < 1% of China.
Things I Learned from My First 6 Months of Anime Blogging
That's what I was getting at. If the nose is at an extreme angle (or reported to be) and the plane isn't climbing/ or descending - there's something wrong!

Just after takeoff while the plane is still climbing. I'm not sure that helps matters much, as the plane is off the ground and lore's the pilots into a false sense of security as plane's working ok..

Here's the bulletin Boeing issued after the first crash. It's hidden away in the bottom left and not highlighted, so it's easy to miss: "runaway stabilizer". Unfortunately, the brief is more focussed on assuring how safe the planes are, and what counter-measures to take in the event. Rather than what a runaway event looks like.
https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/boeing-nearing-737...
I wonder if we're using the same term to describe different things since I'm not talking about the social stigma of owning an autonomous car.

I'm talking about social in terms of reading the intentions of other drivers (eg joining a busy motorway or deciding who goes first on a spot island when all lanes have stopped and waited for the other) and other hazards (eg pedestrians crossing the road without looking properly because they're distracted with young kids, chatting to friends, or tapping on their phone)

As a driver you developer an intuition for how other drivers would react in different situations. Sometimes that's based on the speed of a vehicle, the angle of the car or driving style (eg are they bumper to bumper with the car in front?). Sometimes it's based on profiling/prejudice about people who drive certain brands of cars (eg BMW owners do tend to be pushier drivers than perhaps someone in a Fiat 500 - obviously this isn't always the case but you might still be more cautious if you see someone approach a busy junction in a powerful car).

Another thing experienced drivers might react to is if they see a series of brief break lights ahead at roughly the same point but cars aren't swerving around an obstruction then that might suggest there's a speed trap.

There's even been times when I've been on a motorway and a car has suddenly swerved in front of me however I was already hovering over the break just in case as I was expecting it through a series of subtle clues I picked up from their driving style. I knew that they were about to change lanes without checking their mirror even before they committed to the manoeuvre themselves.

There are so many hints and cues that drivers pick up on from other drivers. So much non-verbal communication. And that was the hardest part to train an AI. Sure you can teach them to react to hazards as they happen but having them pre-empt hazards before they happen without having that algorithm react to every false positive is a whole over level of engineering. It's something that takes humans literally years of driving every day to get good at and we already come pre-programmed with more sophisticated hazard detection before we even sit our bum behind that steering wheel than AIs have currently.

So this is the social aspect I was referring to. And I'm sure autonomous cars will learn this in time too - or at least get a close enough approximation where they're "good enough" for general purpose driving.

edit: I should have added that one good thing about AI is at least it's reaction times are lower. That reduces the significance of pre-emptively spotting likely hazards somewhat.
But if it was politically motivated non-prosecution, that implies that prosecution would be the status quo, and not politically motivated.

Lets say your friend works at the police anti-speeding camera department and reviews footage to issue tickets via mail. He recognizes your plates and does not issue a ticket although you did speed and violated the law, and he gives out tickets to others for the same offenses.

He leaves the job and the new guy comes, reviews the old footage, and notices the missed ticket, and issues you a ticket. Are you saying the second guy committed a biased issuance of a ticket? And that's necessarily a bad thing compared to your friend letting you go?
I understand what you're saying, and you're not wrong. I just find the concept of data about me being "my data" to be strange. If someone takes a picture of me, it's their picture. If I use your website, and you collect information about me, it's your information. Maybe I just don't care what you know about me. I know the REALLY good stuff about me, and I ain't sharin' that with anyone!
The NYT's fancy new 'Privacy Project' page is stuffed with tracking scripts
Amnesty International is a fine but frankly quite conservative organization. Getting involved in political activity. Read Noam Chomsky. Do what you can to make the world a better place and make people aware of the truth.
Ask HN: Online Master's in Mathematics
I have a BS in Math & CS and have been working as a software engineer for 10+ years, but I miss math. I realize I can study on my own, but I like the direction an academic program can provide, and I'd like the option to teach or pursue a PhD later.

There are many online Master's degrees for CS and
Mathematics Education (for secondary Ed teachers), but I'm interested in an online MS/MA in Mathematics that is as rigorous & theory-heavy as possible.

These are the programs I'm considering - am I missing anything? Can anyone speak to the strengths of these programs?

Emporia State University: https://www.emporia.edu/mathecon/programs/master-of-science-mathematics.html

Open University: http://www.openuniversity.edu/courses/postgraduate/qualifications/f04

Also considering NC State's statistics program since the school is well-regarded and has many flexible options:

https://online.stat.ncsu.edu/online-programs/online-graduate-statistics-courses/
Elderly: https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/tag/elderly/

Disabled: https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/tag/disabled-people/

Less serious, but still a good demonstration of the inclusiveness of cycling: https://vimeo.com/131968609
At the end of the day they are going to send him away for life. The reason being that he did in no way apologize for his actions or feel any remorse. I am sure they have a litany of ways of doing that. This is just one of them. I am sure by the time this goes to trial there will be many more charges or if he beats one charge they will try him on something else. You can't escape the long arm of the US law.
It's almost like they want to fail.
So any gene editing of a cell that ends up somewhere else, but with human components, is good. I guess you can learn a lot that way.
> They know the government has everybody's best interest at heart, and that if something is classified, it's probably classified for your own good.

I really hope you're being facetious
Can you provide information on this? I see it all over, but what information did they supposedly have and who is making this claim?
Do I detect a bit of condescension in NYT's tone? Do we need to remind the numerous failures US & USSR had before they got their space program off the ground? Also, they forgot India who did send a lunar orbiter and sent a probe on Moon's surface back in 2008.
Maybe the failure occurs as you are initiating acceleration burn, while you are in stable orbit.
I'm as about as happy for them as I would have been for Germany during 30s and 40s.
Until vscode and omnisharp support design time builds of msbuild projects, visual studio proper isn't going anywhere. Vscode cannot support anything beyond the happy path of csproj files which means I will always have to dip back into visual studio
As I understand the term 'neo-liberal' it's kind of a hybrid ideology that strides the two US political parties. Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton are both neo-liberals, though ostensibly, opposed to each other. It's basically the worst of the political philosophies espoused by the two parties. Basically it means more authoritarian control and the prosecution of wars all over the planet for the sake of establishing a new world order.
Maybe Softbank will inevitably buy waymo
exactly this! these marvellous rarities are what makes mathematics so divinely interesting.

why only 3 and 7? what's the relationship with quaternions and octonions?

in a similar vein,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exceptional_object
Maybe not a success this time, but a lot will be learned. These types of failures are now we learn, adapt, and move forward.
The proven negative impact of the voter id laws, as far as I know, is very small. Michigan had .3% non-id voters, and Texas had ~.01% non-id voters. Both states allow voters to fill out an affidavit. These stats were just found offhand, I'm not sure if there's a comprehensive review.

So we have a small proven negative impact on democracy from voter id laws, and a small unproven negative impact from their absence; I don't think it's unreasonable to prevent a crime that is easily preventable under those circumstances.
While parked on the surface.
I don’t have the time or resources to interview all 235 million eligible voters in the US. I’ll have to rely on others to sample them. Any sample comes with the potential for bias or error so it needs to be done well. I see no reason to think that this four-minute video, whose description says it has interviews with people from Harlem, comes even remotely close. Am I wrong?
Based on the telemetry from the broadcast it seems that there was a failure at 13km that resulted in both telemetry and engine loss. When telemetry connection came back vertical speed has already doubled and it kept going up until spacecraft hit the ground. Engine was probably never restarted.

Edit1:
Telemetry came back at 10k. For the next minute and a half there was uncertainty about the main engine even though telemetry clearly showed vertical speed going up fast. More then a minute later, at 5k a reset request was made.

Edit2: A minute goes by and at about 500m controller asked if there is a confirmation to send rest to JPL, another, announced that engine is on. Crash happens at that moment. 149m, 134.3ms vertical.
I use MoCA (over CATV) and it's really solid for me. Price has come down, you can get motorola devices that support MoCA 2.0 bonded which can provide around 800MBps for $60. Latency is in single digits with minimal jitter, compared to powerline, which doesn't play nice with the AFCI circuit breakers required by code in most US cities now, and also has pretty bad latency and jitter.

I also made sure to use a proper MoCA cable splitter, as well as installed terminators on the unconnected end points.
I will continue to use Evernote however it has two major flaws:

1- No way to resolve the conflicting changes. It puts the conflicting document in the conflicting changes folder and you're on your own to find out what changes are conflicting. They don't provide a side by side comparison. Any developer knows what I am talking about. A way to resolve merge conflict resolution.

- It doesn't do partial text searches. Say you have a phone number like 9067372823 and you only remember the first 3 digits. You search for 906 and you get zero results! It's a lame search Evernote uses. I heard excuses from other users about performance issues. Screw that excuse. Users don't have tens or million of text they are searching for. Computers are very fast in searches.

We've been complaining about these issues for YEARS and the heavy lazy ass Evernote company hasn't done anything to add these important features. Everytime I get an update hoping they have a fix and they don't.
Sure, but would you be equally damning of the actions of the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI? [1] We are talking about breaking into a physical office in that case and I admit that it is different in that they mailed the documents anonymously to journalists, but let us not pretend that things are as black and white as active vs passive – would it have been okay if Manning and Assange had provided the documents to another media outlet?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Commission_to_Inve...

Update (no replies yet): I should clarify that I care very little about the legal aspects as there are obviously legal implications, rather I think this is an interesting question from a moral standpoint.
Agree to disagree here. The whole "we're all one people thing" is a great idea and all (I'm a huge fan, would love for the U.N. to be something other than the personification of national relations and instead be a real governing body) but that's not how things work.

This is Israel's project. They had assistance from other organizations/countries, but they're not doing this to better North Korea in any real way and you shouldn't hold North Korean responsible for their failure.
The Michael Collins of lunar trips.
This is great. We really need another species that is intelligent for political reasons. It's probably the only hope for the survival of other animals to at least make a few other ones as intelligent as humans and capable of speech. Then they can advocate and sue humans in court for actions against them, stealing their land, polluting their water, enslaving their children, etc.
> but in practice their results seem to be awful

Do you have evidence for this or is it just an assertion?

I don't think there are rigorous scientific studies into vehicular or infrastructural cycling. If the infrastructural approach is more popular it's probably because many people seem to accept the infrastructural arguments uncritically. The vehicular camp makes excellent points that I believe have greatly improved my own safety.

One point that vehicular cyclists make is that many people seem to assume that certain practices are safer, but reality is more complicated. For example, riding on the sidewalk is generally considered to be considerably less safe than riding on the road, even by many infrastructural cyclists. But it seems that most people assume that it's more safe.

As a point in favor of vehicular cycling, it seems to me that vehicular cyclists are indeed safer riders than infrastructural. Some might say this is due to experience, but that seems to be a lot of what vehicular cycling is about so I'm not sure that's an argument against vehicular cycling.

Also, I don't think vehicular cyclists are very interested in increasing the number of cyclists. I think there are major benefits to increasing the number of cyclists, and I think the "safety in numbers" effect is the biggest benefit to an infrastructural approach.

In terms of policy, it's a lot easier to build some infrastructure than it is to train drivers and cyclists. So any apparent success of the infrastructure approach may be due solely to that. Also, as I've pointed out on HN here before, not all infrastructure is the same. Most that I see in the US is awful and I would not be surprised if they made cyclists less safe. It seems that infrastructure in some European cities fixes the problems I have.

Ultimately I think both the infrastructural and vehicular camps have good points, and the best policy is a hybrid of the two.
I don't have to defend him either.
TL;DR; this 5-minute video polls each individual in those groups to get their opinion. It therefore presents a comprehensive survey of voter attitudes in the affected populations.

It definitely does not ridiculously poll a handful of able-bodied people on the street to get their opinions.
>During the Obama administration, Secretary of State Clinton proposed assassinating Assange with a drone strike.

That was "leaked" by True Pundit, according to "State Department sources". The chance of it being fake is about 99.999%, given that no one with any credibility leaks to fake news sites like True Pundit. They would have leaked to Fox News or NY Times.

Meanwhile, in 2010, Trump called for Assange getting the death penalty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDEDQFj9sFk
> Most notably, cognitive speed decreased for all tests except for the DSST, and accuracy decreased for all domains except for spatial orientation postflight. TW’s cognitive efficiency (a combination of speed and accuracy across cognitive domains) was similar pre- and inflight relative to HR but was significantly lower postflight (P = 0.0016, Student’s t test). This postflight decline in cognitive performance persisted up to 6 months postflight in both speed and accuracy domains (Fig. 10C).

This is terrifying to me. I hadn't heard of spaceflight (or the return from it) affecting cognitive function before, but they don't seem to be making it a major issue here - even after it persisted six months later. Does anyone have older sources showing the same thing? I would especially be interested in studies showing the effect over multiple flights and returns to Earth.
That indictment is pretty interesting. It is short and pretty clear, but I'm still having trouble understanding what the indictment actually alleges he did.

> 7. On or about March 8, 2010, Assange agreed to assist Manning in cracking a password...

> 25. [...] Assange indicated that he had been trying to crack the password by stating that he had "no luck so far."

It seems to me that essentially the entire indictment discusses what Manning was doing. Is this all they have on Assange? I mean is the only evidence that he helped crack the password that single statement of his? He could have just said that and never done anything.

I mean sure presumably there is more evidence, but this indictment seems pretty thin to me.