skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that most people don't need any ethernet ports. Most people just have a phone and maybe a laptop, tablet, printer, or smart television, all of which function perfectly adequately over wireless.

Even I don't bother with ethernet. There's no point; with <10 Mbps Internet speeds, too slow is too slow. The only thing plugged into the router is a second router for the detached garage/shop. Occasionally, there's need to transfer large files between two computers (games which can take multiple days to download), but temporarily stringing an ethernet cable directly between them does the trick.
Without the rape allegations, what crime would have led to the UK arresting Assange, enabling him to be extradited? Even with the allegations, the process of extraditing him to Sweden took ages.
Good luck getting that passed. The reason there are so many cars parked on the street where I live is because many of the homes were made in a time when people didn't even own a car. You'd essentially be banning ownership of more than one car.
Oh, it seems so on re-reading the comment, that was my mistake in interpretation. Thanks for the check.
A Supermassive Black Hole Is Heading Earth’s Way at 110 Km per Second
This is a popular hypothesis, but how exactly do you think it may work? It's not like you can see a "blank spot" by looking from radio sources, you'd need to put your antennas in a position where the plain will intersect your line of sight to the transmitter. And not just one, but massive number of lines if you plan to track it and deliver a missile there.

It sounds pretty improbable and I believe it's just an urban myth.
My test case is: self driving lawyers. That seems to me to be quite an easy technical problem, and obviously financially viable, and mostly can't kill people. And yet..
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CLI to generate stuff dynamically (components, services, etc.)
If the parent had made the claim that it wasn't wrong at all because BF does it, then this would be relevant.

However the parent's claim is subtly different: it states that the industry practice of data collection is not unusual, not that it's not wrong.
I've been wondering: why don't the self-driving car companies build a system that requires a person to drive it but assures the human can't crash the car? In other words, if the self-driving models predict that the human inputs will result in a crash it forcefully overrides the throttle, brakes, or steering wheel.

The sensation would be like driving one of those tracked cars at an amusement park. Try and slam the wheel hard to the right to steer into a guard rail? Computer would physically block it from turning past the point that you would leave your own lane.

This system would:

* force human drivers to drive the car 100% of the time
* allow real world testing and enhancement of self driving capabilities (data gathering, model backtesting, etc.)
* be strictly better than both fully automated and existing non-automated systems

We have the beginnings of this with the new auto-stop capabilities that are showing up in new cars. Why not build this hybrid system as a stopgap until full level 5 automation is working?
I'm not surprised, no one Israeli rocket every landed smoothly on Palestine
Including the Palestinians?
> why would a human being say something like this to a fellow human?

Because what they see isn't a human, it's an obstacle.
The Guardian journalist may have fabricated that quote.
$100 million is like 1/1000 of Jeff Bezos net worth. He could easily fully fund another moon landing mission if he wanted.
Take a look around the world and look at the average state of governance and you will find a lot of appreciation for American bureaucracy.

And it is indeed independent bureaucracies that are responsible for making agencies and institutions run. Bureaucracy gets a bad name in many places, but the alternative to bureaucracy isn't just automatic improvement, it's most often politicization. Which is significantly worse.
Very important if attempt involves standing on shoulders!
Heads up. Fastmail is an Australian company under Australian laws. maybe you could try a range of privacy aware email systems (protonmail, tutanota, ...) or roll your own server.
I don't see the difference, the predictions are the same.

The only changes in the image depend on what angle the black hole is being viewed at which would influence whether we see a band across the middle and the slimmer inner ring.
I don’t disagree with that at all—that’s the ideal. But I don’t know what version of the United States you’re living in, but in mine, most cities don’t have that infrastructure, are too politically incompetent to be able to build that infrastructure cost effectively, and most of the few cities that do have it (like DC and New York) have let it decay to the point where it’s not timely and reliable.

One of the things transit advocates fail to grapple with is that our municipal political systems in the United States are broken. When it costs New York City 5-7 times as much money per mile of subway as it does Paris or London, you can’t build enough subway to meet peoples’ needs. (The debate over transit would be totally different if, for what MTA spends now, it was building five times as much track to meet peoples’ needs.)

Who would run the transit that goes from the edge parking lots to the city in your hypothetical? It would be WMATA. The same organization that, despite ample funding, let DC’s Metro decay to the point that they had to turn off automatic train control—a feature that was designed into the system at inception in the 1970s.

That’s the political reality we have to design our transportation systems against. Looking over the pond at what they do in Amsterdam or Paris is foolish—it’s like designing a plane for earth’s gravity based on what it would take to fly a plane on Mars.
"What I've discovered is that SDE is a wonderful way of guessing someone's age: those under 40 or so have rarely heard of SDE; and those above 45 [2] tend to either convulse in fits of laughter when it's mentioned, become very afraid, or assume I'm an idiot. In other words, those who know of SDE have a strong reaction to it (which, almost invariably, is against SDE)."

Very, very true.

The run-the-compiler-in-the-background approach is much more successful.
Good question. I think I saw a YC company which searches Slack. Can't remeber the name. This is a startup idea waiting to be implemented.
The computer misuse crimes which the US is currently using to try to have him extradited on?
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Right, and I'm sure they didn't get any tech or mission critical help from the US.

Don't get me wrong, good on them for doing this, but let's not pretend like this happened in a bubble away from anyone else.
Oh.. I had no idea. That's awesome. I made the assumption that she did the academic thing which is "i did this" signed advisor. The assumption was based on the focus of the articles. (editorial bias)
If you've never read Terry Pratchett's books you should check them out.

I'd love to be able to read each for the first time again.

In a very large part he formed my entire worldview from a comedic series set in a fantasy world (and I don't much like Fantasy as a genre), they are sublime.
Might have met the second goal depending on how well it bounced.
A six axis sensor could probably measure AoA in a pinch. It’s just like how a stability control system works in a car (which is measuring slip angle, which is the lateral “angle of attack” between tires and road). If you detect upwards rotation but no matching acceleration forces, you’re detaching from the air stream.

Obviously this system will drift over time, but it could more than adequate to detect a failed AoA sensor and revert to the second one.
Comedian Joe Lycett impersonates RBS boss to get £8k back to scammed customer
When they said the engine had a problem the altitude was 678m and vertical velocity was 130.1m/s. After restart it was 149m at 134.3m/s. They never had a chance. Assuming those numbers were correct. A few minutes before they had lost the intertial measurement unit.
Well if it's just creating disapproval you want then you only need to plant the story in the press.

[Fake] "Wikileaks computer IPs associated with child porn ring: was Assange using Wikileaks as cover for child porn, CIA revealed they found evidence of several Wikileaks computers uploading to child porn sites"

That would probably be enough.
I think you're making quite the leap to state that average people could not have confidence in the system, people seem to have confidence in things that they can't prove all the time.
> yet all the DOJ could come up with was cracking a hash

I find it funny when people minimize actions to the barest minimum.

Like saying a gun murderer got jail for "only pulling a lever, which law abiding people do tens of times a day".

If a US president starts a thermonuclear war and causes nuclear winter: "All he did was enter numbers and press a few red buttons, stop giving him a hard time".
This is the key thing. You cannot escape law by "being right". If you have to be punished for some reason, they will find a reason. Show me the man, and all that.

That being said: I hope it's just a few years. That's fair for what he is accused of.
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This is also why I hypothesize that at least one human clone is likely to exist or have existed. Cloning technology exists, and humans have therefore probably tried it somewhere.
I doubt SpaceIL will be able to use anything they learned. IIUC they are out of money and can't move forward.
I'm sure/I'd hope the actual engineers on the project wouldn't align to that tweet's wording by the marketing team (aka, they prob wouldn't be that cocky/have phrased it that way themselves).
Sometimes, not always though. Anybody who has been cut off by the driver crossing 4 lanes of traffic without looking 20 feet before the end of the exit lane can attest.
Why did they not have live video of the landing attempt? Should be double shouldn't it? What was used in the 60s to broadcast the landing?
I think it goes both ways. If she was a man she would have never had any fame from this. However, a man wouldn't have his git checked.
I do agree with the sub- $1000 Macbook Air, I bought a couple of those. In particular I don't know why it was not more popular among consumers that don't need the flagship models. I think consumers must be programmed to buy the model with the most features.

I don't think that's a fair comparison with iPhone, since you are comparing the least expensive of a line with the most expensive. There are plenty of iPhone models to choose from, and they haven't abandoned the lower-cost tiers.

Check out the history of iPhone cost tiers here, they have only significantly expanded the upper end over time.

https://twitter.com/asymco/status/1040240778860146688?lang=e...
Automakers Plan for Regulatory Chaos After Trump’s Emissions Rollback
True, I don't have to like him to defend him. I do, however, have to feel confident that I know the facts -- and I don't feel confident at all about that.
Ah you're right. Looks like they all should've skipped Sagittarius A instead of adding confusion.
I'm sure it is as easy as I'm making it out to be. I don't mean that it's trivial in the sense that some random person like you or I could go out and figure this out for ourselves. But a research team with decent resources absolutely could. Pick 1,000 voter registrations at random. Check each one for all the things I listed. Come up with a good estimate for how pervasive voter fraud actually is. How much do you suppose such a study would cost?

I can't help but notice that you completely ignored my last paragraph. Do you really believe that nobody has ever attempted what I describe above? And if so, do you really believe it's wise to be passing these laws without doing the research first?
fyi, the GitHub PR extension[1] for VS Code has review comments in the editor.

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/itemdetails?itemName=Gi...
Yes, absolutely! (Although note that I'm not the OP.)
> but it's one of those topics that's socially unacceptable to discuss.

What? What's the definition for "socially unacceptable" here? I have always seen news articles discussing the poor build quality in China, here are some examples [0][1].

Here's a discussion on Zhihu (Quora copycat) on house build quality too [2].

[0]: https://cj.sina.com.cn/article/detail/2381596945/79395?cid=6...

[1]: https://house.ifeng.com/column/news/jianzhushouming/index.sh...

[2]: https://www.zhihu.com/question/19641156
> But realistically how could Montana get an 80% increase in efficiency while providing similar services to the federal government?

By removing all the strings. The problem with the existing federal programs is that they're numerous, complex and individually small, which is the recipe for inefficiency. That results in high administrative costs -- not only for the government but also for the recipients, and only the first cost is actually accounted for in the government budget, even though the second is much larger. Because government agencies do their tasks as a full time job but the recipients are novices who have to amortize the cost of learning and using the system over only their individual use of it. Again, suppose someone has to spend five hours a month to navigate a program that pays $80/month. Then if their labor is worth $10/hour, just their side of the transaction contains $50/month worth of inefficiency.

Even the fact that housing grants have to be spent on housing is inefficient, because it distorts the market for the thing being subsidized:

> And according to normal economics textbooks increasing market rent isn't destroying value. If more people move to a city which drives up demand and rent. Economists don't think of that as value destruction. In classic economics textbooks the value destruction caused by subsidized rent is that some people will spend $1000 on rent that they would never rent without the subsidy because they only get $800 of value from it + the dead weight loss of the taxes that funded that subsidy.

But this isn't caused by more people moving to the city, it's caused by the people who already live there getting a bunch of money they're only allowed to spend on rent. Then some of them would prefer to have fewer roommates or a bigger apartment, so they try to use the money for that, which requires the people who would otherwise live in those other apartments to have to outbid them, causing everyone to have to pay higher rents on the same apartments.

Meanwhile the rent increase goes to landlords who typically remove it from the local economy, either because the building isn't owned by a local to begin with, or because the owner is a wealthy person who then invests the money in index funds etc. which transfers ~98% of it out of the state. So the value isn't "destroyed" but it immediately leaves the state, which from the state's perspective is basically equivalent.
Is there a reason why startpage never gets a look in, but it's always ddg? I get better results with sp.
Bikes and cars have very different situational awareness, mass, agility, stopping distance, etc. It would be very surprising if the optimal rules for both were exactly the same.
then communications were cut off, and no more information was sent back.

Have any of these moon landings been done at night where people have been able to watch it happening through a telescope? Or are things so small at the moon's distance that there'd be nothing to see?
As always, the most interesting place to start is "Risks to our business": https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1543151/000119312519...
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You're right, it looks like they are still observing Sagittarius A but what they released was only a simulation for that one.
You can't have it both ways. The buzzfeed platform is tracking/collecting. Either the reporter knows this and is ignoring it or is unaware which makes the article seem less creditable.
I don't think these folks understand the first amendment if they think it's relevant here...
Bouman surely made an impact but she didn't lead the team or conceive of the project.
In 2011 the UK still had our old defamation laws - they were changed in 2013. So it would have been really easy for him to both sue and win a defamation case. The Guardian would have had to prove, on the balance of probabilities, that he had said those things.

Why didn't he bring that case?
It's hard to conjure much sympathy for a nationalistic boondoggle with little scientific value that's trying to participate in a space race that ended decades ago.

Now, instead of a flag, they have a commemorative crater in the desert. Talk about symbolism...
In Ontario, a battle for the soul of psychiatry
"Our business would be adversely affected if Drivers were classified as employees instead of independent contractors."

They're upfront about it at the least.
I think I laid it on pretty thick.
I've been using Macs since 1985 and programming them, too. I work with Windows and Linux as well, but Macs have often been my "daily driver" - my first was an SE, I had a PowerBook Duo, and then a Titanium PowerBook G4, and then a 2008 Mac Pro. The Mac Pro is still my "main" computer - four hard drives, rotating on-site and off-site backups.

I used that machine for my photo library, for a big archival photo project with Aperture, for music recording with an Apogee Ensemble interface, for podcast production, for video production, to manage all my e-mail, to record and mix multi-track audio with Logic. I use a lot of command-line tools (via Homebrew, or compiling from sources).

From my perspective Snow Leopard was the high point of reliability and functionality. I liked the concept of my computer with multiple monitors as a media hub.

The way Apple has taken features away from successive versions of iMovie, and killed Aperture, and turned MacOS X increasingly into a walled garden, has been a huge turnoff for me. I have an old iPad and it's useful for watching videos and chatting on Twitter but I don't want or need iOS devices to _replace_ general-purpose computers. I didn't buy the cylinder Mac Pro because - call me crazy and old - I still want drive bays. I don't want to move all my work to a laptop (and as a guy who writes a LOT - hundreds of thousands of words a month - keyboard quality is pretty important to me). And I've never been interested in an iPhone.

I don't have any interest in keeping all my documents in the "cloud" (psssttt -- the cloud is just other people's computers!) And I want my own DRM-free media to live on my own computer's drives such that no one can shut down a service or discontinue support and take it away from me. I don't want to "subscribe" to apps, but that's another story.

Basically I'm no longer Apple's target audience, and it's frustrating. It's not really about cost for me, per se. It's about Apple's declining interest in the whole notion of general-purpose computers as open and unrestricted tools for creative people and allowing them to own and store their own files. I'm curious for the promised next-generation Mac Pro but I'm not too hopeful.
I chose to say "US government" instead of "administration" because it may or may not have been the "administration" that requested the UK to extradite Assange.

Other factions within the US government are attempting to hold the executive branch in check, and it's possible that one of these factions requested the arrest and extradition.

At this point we do not know.
Naacl 2019 – Google Bert Wins Best Long Paper
While Atom was Mac-only, VSCode was eating their lunch.

It's too little, too late now.
Uber releases its filing to go public
This could be what is needed. Thanks. I didn't see a specific mention of the turning problem, but I guess it's supposed to fix that.

But I should note that those cover only a small fraction of the intersections with this problem in Austin. So few that I've never seen them and I ride a bike on a daily basis. I have been on many of the mentioned streets, but I must not have gone through those intersections as I would remember a special bike light.

(Plus, you can see a few cars parked in the bike lane in one of the photos in the second link. So much for respect for cyclists...)
I agree it's pretty badly written, but I believe the idea is sound since I worked on something similar in my past startup.
This is an issue where there are possible compromises. For example, Smalltalk has achieved success being an SDE where you can edit methods, but not the structure of classes. This way, it is impossible to create invalid classes, but you can still edit methods inside the environment as if they were text files.
> So wait, the AMP project is just a document saying limit yourself to these things and we will rank you higher in search results because these things will make your site perform better and we want better performing sites?!?

Yes. Or at least, in practice its not really distinguishable from this other than technical nits that aren't practically relevant to the overall design or what anyone complains about.

>requiring people to load my script on their pages and only using my analytics library so I would have all that data for me, or maybe just create a 'standard' set of components that I control and have people use those so they have tied up money in implementing my tech and I have lock in and in order to keep their ranking in my search app they sink more and more money into doing things the way I want, increasing my capture of them.

These are the things you have to limit yourself to. You have to limit yourself to predetermined subsets of Javascript, because if not there's no way to ensure the safety/speed/etc. of the site.

You're shifting goalposts here. Now you want the set of things you're limited to using to be broader than is possible for valid technical reasons. You're also conflating AMP and Google, which like valid, because its confusing, but again, AMP doesn't require Google anything. So all of your complaints about forcing you to use Google's analytics library or include Google's JS aren't true. Yes, for AMP (JS) to work you need to include a Cache's JS, and Google is the biggest cache, but they aren't the only one.

As for the rest of your post:

> Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Could you at least try to be polite.
Actually this is the opposite of the American system of justice.

People are presumed innocent until the facts are known. So it's only afterwards that we should, according to our culture, give up his defense.
I understand the basis for the charges: Assange supposedly committed a crime against the US and so we claim jurisdiction, but does he have Constitutional rights, not just the ones extending from treaties and agreements?
"We have incurred significant losses since inception, including in the United States and other major markets. We expect our operating expenses to increase significantly in the foreseeable future, and we may not achieve profitability."
"Several former Boeing engineers who were not directly involved in the system’s design said their colleagues most likely opted for such an approach since relying on two sensors could still create issues. If one of two sensors malfunctioned, the system could struggle to know which was right."

Shouldn't this have been more of a red flag not to rely on a single sensor when human lives are literally at stake?
The incidence of voter fraud in the 2016 election was approximately 0.000003%.

Why do your numbers get labeled as "proven" and mine as "unproven"? You're eager to declare it to be impossible to figure out how pervasive voter fraud is based on imagined hypothetical difficulties, but you're eager to pull out numbers saying that ID requirements don't discourage people, despite obvious holes in the measurement (such as people who decided not to vote because they don't know about the affidavit).
Very interested in seeing the opening days of both Pagerduty and Zoom (next week). So far PD has exceeded my expectations.

Their product ain't half bad either