skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Countless companies are wrestling with these trade-offs, many of them doing the best they can within a digital ecosystem they can’t hope to unilaterally reform. The internet doesn’t have to be this way. But change needs to be driven at a societal level — by politicians, leaders of major technology companies and the public at large."

That sounds like an excuse for making it "someone else's problem" when the NYT itself could actually take a stance for privacy by switching to self-hosted ads without tracking and removing any other trackers (such as social media integration buttons) from the site.
I still get a lot of value from Apple. For me the biggest plus is the longevity of their products. Or at least it used to be! I have a maxed out mid 2015 MBP 15” that’s going strong and a sturdy iPhone 7 Plus. I am concerned about he longevity of new iPhones (glass backs?) and of course the well documented issues with the new mbp.

Overall, for the quality of the hardware, ease of use and quality support I have always gotten from Apple, I am a customer for life. I value ease of use and design above everything, so I would never switch to windows, Linux or android (cue the hate but you must admit, if nothing else Apple products are damn easy to use. If I have to spend 1 extra hour configuring something, or do anything cusom whatsoever that is unacceptable to me)
What confused me most is that he was arrested twice. It seems non-nonsensical to arrest him a second time (rather than simply charge him), given that he was already in police custody.

Does this signify something meaningful, such as a change of which legal basis the arrest is under, and thus a change to the rights he has?
It's not whataboutism, I'm saying that this is perfectly normal and therefore I don't think it's valid criticism of China in particular.
Most are either 60+ or are leisure cyclists. So they just doodle along at their 25km/h.

Proper road racing enthusiasts can average 35km/h including stops (the joys of a flat country).
Engineers can have their hands tied as well, limiting their options to doing the job or resignation. Perhaps putting a guard on the vane would have only been necessary if it was considered an intolerable failure and being flagged as an intolerable failure would have required a recertification of the plane or something. Just a guess.
The cost floor of driving even with automation is above the cost of public transportation in most cases. Because of traffic, the service standard will never approach public transportation in dense areas
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> Humans have a tolerance for human-style accidents, but not robotic-style accidents.

I think it's more because there's someone to yell at - someone to blame.

Think of it like a taxi driver with a passenger; people ride in these all the time, or uber, or lyft - and have no problems doing so. Even though they aren't in control, and they have no idea about the driver's driving capability. They assume the driver is an average to better driver, when that may not be the case at all. So what happens when an accident occurs?

Well - if the passenger is still alive, and believes it to be their driver's fault, they can yell at their driver. If they believe it's the other driver's fault, they can yell at them...and so forth.

But you put a robot in place of any driver - then who can you yell at when an accident occurs? Nobody. You can yell all you want, you can even blame the corporation that made the car/robot - but you are still yelling at a machine. It won't change anything. It won't feel bad. It probably won't even make you feel better, because it won't restore your agency in the situation.

That's my guess anyhow - pulled straight from my nether regions, with nothing to back it up. I wonder if there have been any studies on this? Are there any data on what happens in other "self-driving" incidents; like perhaps completely automated trains with no humans other than passengers on-board? Do such things even exist?

Or do companies already know this - and put a human "in charge" to take the blame and heat for when an accident happens (maybe they also provide an e-stop button for the human to press - whether it's actually connected to anything or not - but it's logged as to whether it was pressed, just to help "assign blame" later)...?

While I have no proof or anything to back this assertion or theory up, it seems like it would match human nature. When things go wrong, humans want to blame somebody - some actual, sentient being. I'm sure there's a psychological term for this need and the action; I don't know what that term is, but I'm almost certain it's been studied.

Essentially one of two things would have to be done to overcome this: Either the machine would have to become perfect at driving and avoiding accidents (even to the point of avoiding things of natural random consequence, such as rocks falling on the road, or something of that nature) - or it will have to become more sentient, and ideally emotive; that is a GAI with human traits.

The former is likely impossible - randomness will always get ya; even trains have what should be "avoidable" accidents.

The latter - well, if it's achievable; that is, if we can make such a GAI, etc - it will likely also suffer the same problems humans do, most notably that we are failable and we make mistakes.

...but at least then we can blame them on something, right?
Julian Assange Charged by U.S. with Conspiracy to Hack a Government Computer
> The thing about cycling is that it’s basically fast walking.

My commute while I take the kids to the daycare in a trailer takes me about 20 minutes one way. My ride to work takes me another 6 minutes. If I walked the same route, it would take me over an hour to get to daycare and another 30 minutes to get to work from there.

Bicyclists are not fast pedestrians. They're riding on vehicles that have similar dynamics to any other 2 wheeled vehicle like a moped or motorcycle. The only difference is that they're slower, but when going downhill, they can easily match motorized traffic speeds with little effort (I've managed to get up to 35 mph going down some steep grades).

Infrastructure designed for pedestrian speeds is not really suited for cyclists who ride for transportation.
I mixed jquery + redux. I only use those 2 libs: https://github.com/mtzaldo/jqueryredux
Supporting your point are people like Poitras getting extra, random screening after publishing documentaries about US wars. They've often been vindictive given it's power-loving, egotistical, image-conscious politicians running them.
>Why would I want to own a "far more expensive" self driving car?

It doesn't matter what you want, it matters what car companies do. They're not going to spend millions of dollars on R&D and marketing hype for self-driving cars only to make far less money on them than they do now on conventional cars.

>My car is a never ending money pit with insurance, gas, maintenance, registration, tires, it never stops.

Yes. That's the entire point, cars are micro-economies supporting multiple businesses and profit centers. And self driving cars will be the same, for the same reasons.
If you have the CPU power to waste then maybe yeah, it plays, but it's not possible with my hardware.
it doesn't export to the global namespace though:

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I suppose we will see. The Republican establishment thought the same thing about Trump in 2016 -- a small but vocal minority.

By and large, people I spoke to during 2016 were not fans of Hillary Clinton, but had resigned to the fact the she would be the candidate by virtue of her wealthy donors.

Identity politics is still a big thing on the left, so the fact that Bernie Sanders, despite being an "old white man", has so much support from the common people speaks volumes about the shift away from the Clinton-era centrism
> Otherwise people are just going to take their car because they actually have control over their own comfort.

The fact that many people don't indicates there are other factors at play.

I bet there's a diminishing return to this. The more buses you add at rush hour the more traffic you cause and thus slow things down reducing capacity. In heavy traffic buses tend to clump together as they get stuck behind one another due to the nature of smaller vehicles around them.

Also, what would be an acceptable cost increase to pay for this additional capacity? You'd have to balance the theoretical increase in ridership against the decrease from raising prices. Keep in mind that public transport is usually heavily subsidized, in the US its on average 50%.
> The weakness of the US charge against Assange is shocking. The allegation he tried (and failed?) to help crack a password during their world-famous reporting has been public for nearly a decade: it is the count Obama's DOJ refused to charge, saying it endangered journalism.

That's an argument against the desirability of the charge because of knock on effects (or, rather, because of some other actors past perception of such effects), not an argument supporting the claim that the charge is weak. In fact, were it weak, it would pose little danger even if it was the kind of charge that, considerations of strength aside, would pose danger.
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> You and other keeps parroting this line, I don't believe it to be true.

You are free to believe anything you want to believe. Of course if you where involved in the 737 Max development and you have inside information to the contrary then I'll accept that.

It's the explanation which best tallies with the official description of the system, the circumstances surrounding its introduction and the certification requirements.

Many aircraft have systems implemented to prevent stalls (see stick pusher); and systems to prevent undamped yawing movements becoming uncontrollable (see yaw damper). And to prevent mach tuck (see mach trim system); and to prevent changes in pitch trim due to speed changes (see Speed trim system).
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and you hit the nail on the head

>The taxes are just paid to private, unelected elite instead.

of which tesla bears use as a point when writing about the company, tesla/boring/spacex/the defunct solarcity are all vehicles for elon to "burn tax money" on his own megalomaniacal ideas, of which the arguments are about his companies and whether or not they... change anything about their industries
I can't call stuttering video in firefox for as long as youtube has had 1080p videos, "works just fine".
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> don't use move on an object that's doing RIAA to take and release a lock.

Absolutely. If the question is "what would I do in C++ today" then my answer is that I would use RAII subject to common-sense rules like this.

> Explicitly disable those actions (private copy constructor and operator, private move)

That's a decent enough solution within the context of C++ as an unchangeable thing, but I want people to look beyond that context. C++ has never been an unchangeable thing. Programmers shouldn't have to take such extra steps, so closely tied to how the language works that year, to get a conceptually simple result. That's how bugs creep in, and how even correct code becomes drudgery. We have no choice but to accept it now, but we shouldn't accept it permanently.
I assume they mean the same one that secured over ten convictions and secured something like $20 billion in fines and recovered illegal value
Lots of people want to hear Assange say the name "Seth Rich". He has by this point made clear that that won't happen.
More to the point building up lists of people's phone numbers and physical/electronic addresses has been how direct marketing has been done for literally centuries. From wikipedia:

> In 1667, the English gardener, William Lucas, published a seed catalogue, which he mailed to his customers to inform them of his prices.

I just have trouble seeing how adding computers to this practice is the line that is too far for people.
It's solvable, especially since it's the government that is responsible for public transportation. For example, you can arrange another job for the non-needed hours. For example - a taxi driver.
> What do those Southerners say about people like me living in San Francisco, CA?

Mostly things like how west coast liberals shouldn't decide policy for the whole country (as though they are.)

Also they refer to you with derogatory nicknames for homosexual people.

Source: I'm from Alabama.
I wonder how it would be technically feasible to instead of copying data to other parties to just grant them access for a limited time and being able to revoke that access. This would be perfect for a lot of data sharing but I guess there is no way to prevent copying of digital data once somebody can read it.
Well luckily we can verify just how much code she actually committed to the project.

The Event Horizon Telescope Analysis Toolkit is a publicly available repository on Github: https://github.com/sao-eht/eat

according to Katie's profile klbouman, she was responsible for a subset of that toolkit known as hopstools - which is described in the readme as "tools to convert data from the HOPS format": https://github.com/klbouman/hopstools

Of the 259 commits to that project, klbouman is responsible for exactly 2. An initial commit - and a merge into the final toolkit: https://github.com/klbouman/hopstools/commits/master

Leaving sex out of it, is this a classic case of a project manager getting all of the credit for a development team's hard work? Because by the looks of it it certainly looks like she didn't commit very much code unless I'm missing something. I'd say at the very least giving Andrew Chael, Mareki Honma and the rest of the development team just as much credit as she got for such an historic accomplishment would be fair to say the least.
The proposed solution, to use the ServiceWorker as a trusted cache, is OK when you own the entire origin. Unfortunately, for 3rd parties this is not an option. There can be only one global ServiceWorker per document/scope. Clobbering the global one by a third party would be unwelcome by page owners, and there's no standard for graceful cooperation here.
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> The only way a new company without a massive nationwide network could compete with Google or Amazon is if they could pay a carrier for prioritized service. If you prevent the carriers from offering prioritized service then you are reducing competition because Google and Amazon can and do offer this.

You're confusing two different things. The reason companies build networks with many edges is the speed of light. If the server is in California and the customer is in New York, you're looking at about 100ms of round trip latency, because physics. Putting a server in the Northeast can get the RTT to that customer down to around 20ms. There is nothing the ISP can do about this; if the server is thousands of miles away, you can't change the speed of light. (Another reason to do that is then you don't need as much long-distance fiber capacity, but that's a cost savings and doesn't really affect performance one way or the other.)

Moreover, small customers with latency-sensitive applications can do the same thing as Google and Amazon -- use a CDN. There are multiple competitive CDNs with edges all over the place that will cache your content closer to your users.

By contrast, if the ISP's network isn't exceeding capacity, ISP prioritization does nothing. A well-provisioned network forwards 100% of packets immediately. There is nothing to prioritize when nothing has to be dropped.

Now suppose you want paid prioritization. The first thing you've done is encourage the ISPs to underprovision their networks sufficiently to cause significant congestion, because they can't charge to relieve congestion if there isn't any. So yay, now the ISP purposely saturates their uplink and the default type of network connection you get is one with 90ms of bufferbloat and significant packet loss, that way they can charge extra to make it the way it should have been to begin with.

Now you can pay the ISP to put it back the way it was. But that isn't any advantage over Google or Amazon because they can do the same thing, only they can negotiate a better price than you because they're bigger. (They still don't like it because they'd rather not pay monopoly rents to Comcast at all than have to pay $X even if smaller competitors have to pay $2X.)

The only thing paid prioritization gets the little guy is a bill from the ISP -- from every ISP -- and a correspondingly even more competitive disadvantage against larger competitors with more leverage. Along with more transaction costs, because good luck negotiating as a small business with every ISP everywhere.

> Google and Amazon are far more dangerous monopolists than the traditional telcos.

Google and Amazon are not monopolists in this context at all. Google has a dominant position in search and Amazon has a dominant position in online retail, but that has very little to do with networks or data centers. They have no monopolies there -- they compete with each other, along with Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, the ISPs themselves and a zillion different smaller providers.
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From RFC 8461, Section 4.2:
"The certificate presented by the receiving MTA MUST not be expired and MUST chain to a root CA that is trusted by the Sending MTA."

(And Section 3.3:
"During the TLS handshake initiated to fetch a new or updated policy from the Policy Host, the Policy Host HTTPS server MUST present an X.509 certificate that is valid for the "mta-sts" DNS-ID [RFC6125] (e.g., "mta-sts.example.com") as described below, chain to a root CA that is trusted by the Sending MTA, and be non-expired.")

There is nothing bottom-up about this. Either you get a cert from CA trusted by Google, or you don't get any email from gmail.com.

There is a lot that can be said about ICANN, but I prefer to trust those processes over making sure that my certs are trusted every random company that I need to receive e-mail from.
Apparently it annoys you even if nobody says it.
I would imagine actually picking up the cans is the hardest part. they often look different from each other, people place them haphazardly, and you might even have to distinguish trash from recycling.
The elephant in the room, which I've not yet seen alluded to: Boeing wants at all costs (which will be very high) to avoid having pilots be required to requalify with new MCAS software in flight simulators.
No, it isn’t.

jQuery often breaks in IE, because instead of using a timer to determine long running code IE uses 5 million instruction count. Simple jQuery implementations would blow past 5 million instructions on load in a fraction of a second. I encountered this failure often when I used to work at Travelocity.
Oh, we have camps:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Federal_Prison_Camps
The next generation of photo booths have their sights set on you
How would you design an unbiased ID system?
The first four things to do if you want to make money in music
Getting the dimensionality correct between layers in an untyped language is incredibly painful.
Getting a prototype working on my personal machine and then having to play AMI roulette on AWS to get it running on a GPU is frustrating and expensive.
Every time I read the tensorflow documentation I think, "I wish i could pay 500 dollars for a version of this that looked like someone cared about it."
It is very misleading: do it the other way around and people would complain about the tax constnatly, which is what people do in the US and in Canada.
Before going too far down the road with this argument, you also need to figure out how many of those drivers would use something other than a car if it were feasible. The majority is not necessarily the majority by choice in this case.
I was hardware lead on a system that was the 2013 revision to an existing ISA-bus blade PC architecture. We threw it all out and switched to an off-the-shelf DIN rail PC from Beckhoff with snap-on EtherCAT modules. It took a little extra development time but it was 100% worth it.

Sometimes you gotta throw it out.
When you're right, you're right! Thanks for the rec. I've updated the site :)
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And what if a Russian agent disrupting USA elections masquerades as a journalist?
Fines? Can we see that receipt? I didn't take Papadopoulos for a wealthy man...
> Interesting, as the current narrative (on thehill.com, a left-center bias news source no less)

TheHill is solid right (or maybe center-right if one views the neoliberal faction of the Democratic Party as center-left instead of center-right.) It's not “left-center” in any case.
> We continue to wage war on silence.

What is more important: a minute of drone noise, or the fumes from a diesel truck sent over to do the delivery?
The major problem with protected infrastructure is that they do a poor job at managing intersection conflicts. Intersections are where the majority of collisions happen. If traffic cannot see other traffic when approaching an intersection, then some type of signage or traffic signal is required to control approaches to the intersection. But if you have too many modes of transportation making use of the intersection, then the phased signals start taking too long and you start having compliance issues. This then leads to more collisions.
I suspect they're still headed that way long term, and just went with this design to get testing ASAP because the pusher configuration has more challenges.

The flip maneuver is difficult to integrate with their sky crane style system. You absolutely don't want to tilt your payload because that ruins lots of foods (coffee, pizza) so you either need some sort of pivot mechanism for your payload attachment smack dab in the middle of the craft, or you have to do some daring aerobatics to finish retracting the crane as you begin low speed level flight.

Their noise problem is almost entirely because of those tiny propellers - A pusher wing with a pair of much larger (10+"), slower props could be pretty quiet.