skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think that was with Hololens. Previously there were qualms with Office too. Though I imagine there'll be an open letter about this one too.

Dunno, I try to be sympathetic to concerns, but don't work for a business that is willing to do government contracts (or have the government as a customer, for that matter) if you don't want anything you work on to be used by the government.
Pro tip: don't sell to the government. Regardless if it's in the US or outside

Rather, sell to someone (or partner someone) who is experienced and let them do the talking

Also don't do it as the 1st thing you do, you'll have much more success selling it to people/(small) business first.

I would only advise selling to gov first if 1) you absolutely know what you're doing and it is something that only them can buy and 2) you have money for someone to walk in the higher circles (as in both salary + "extras")
I don't think it's intended to be criticism of China in particular. "Common thing happens in China, here are the details" is interesting news for some people.

For example, I was aware that Northeasterners are seen as a distinct group, but not in terms of external rejection, but rather internal cohesion, e.g. when one of my friends joked that hearing the Northeastern accent of his taxi driver made him feel almost at home.
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No thank you. You have not qualified your trainers as anybody other than "but they worked at or owned their own gyms so I'm sure they are certified." That is naive or willingly ignorant. Spending time any time in a chain gym and interacting with the hired trainers would illustrate that.

Your methodology doesn't disqualify anybody who could have started with incredible small lifts and then added higher lifts at the end of 60 days. That would not reflect actual development.

Most importantly, I am aware of how to do steady slate programming, which seems to be what your App is selling. I have access to spreadsheets and the ability to program by percentages, as do most people.

Your app would be 100x better if I simply were able to input my One Rep Maxes and then have it spit out a 3 month plan of 5x5 training starting around 70% of my max increasing my loads by 5% a week, with a deload week every 4-6 weeks. Perhaps adding in weeks with 3x5, and 3x3 as it gets near max. However, as you likely know, no one is going to pay monthly for that.

Instead, you have packaged common knowledge as AI. You have taken data from users (that you charged a monthly subscription) that are not qualified to give educated information, failed to qualify which of them were experts, and are attempting to pass it off as some sort of hive learning. For that you want $8 a month (AND their data, to be used for who knows what in the future) from people who are looking to better themselves.
So these (https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/) are all still companies loading their site up with dark UI patterns so that people end up paying money to file their taxes. And sending in the forms via mail has always been free.

...I don't understand what possible value you believe the American public gets by paying companies money to do something that the IRS could/should be offering for free?(not meant to be curt... just trying to understand your perceived value proposition)

What is wrong with an electronic filing system offered by the IRS without a charge?
Nope. In my location trams are new and clean. I just prefer to lean against the windows and people who need it more can use it. I don't travel more than 20mins with public transport, though.
Fastec2: AWS machine management for human
> until we have more data.

Well, yes, obviously. The commenter's point is that there will be a tipping point where insurance agencies look at those "crazy prom death" accident stats and see they happen 2x or 10x more often with human drivers. At that point, the cost of insuring a human driver is going to be 2x or 10x the cost of insuring an AI driver.
Exactly, that was my point.

There are no self-driving cars on the market, or in development by major car manufacturers.

They all explicitly require human attention.
Wait, now I'm confused - to clarify, I'm asking, "is it worth it to engage in shadow marketing (a free trial that converts automatically to a paid one)" and you've answered "not really." As in, "it's not worth it to do this." But you're doing it anyway?
This is a weather vane which needs to be exposed to the elements, its not something that can be inside the aircraft. It needs to be exposed to super harsh conditions to get its reading.
I appreciate the feedback. I'm a Junior Windows Sysadmin right now trying to guide myself into a direction. My work is mostly with a cloud-fearing customer who keeps ALL things in-house, so my view of work from inside this chamber makes feel anxious about what the real world is doing/offering. I've noticed that within a vast organization such as the one I work in - the opportunities to perform from zero installs/configurations is pretty much nonexistent and a push to DevOps/automation/cloud tech is more of would-like-to-have and not really a goal that is in the making.

Diving into code such as python and Javascript is probably a good fail safe/transferable skill wherever I end up/doing. I've been leaning towards the whole Linux/CCNA/Networking/Cloud roadmap but am still relatively unsure.

I appreciate your feedback and the opportunity to bounce things around.
Quoting from Caixing Global, a PRC-based financial news source:

China Investment Network, a business newspaper in Beijing, released a "ghost town index" to determine which cities were, well, the most ghostly. The newspaper devised its index using a government standard that says cities should have 10,000 people per square kilometer. The editors at China Investment Network determined that if a city's ratio of people to area was 0.5 – that is, it was half full – then it is a ghost town. To take the example a step further, if a city had a ratio of .10, then it had one-tenth the population the government thought it deserved. Based on this approach, at least 50 Chinese cities fit the description of "ghost town." (1)

This report is from 2014, so maybe some of those cities were eventually filled ... but surely not all of them.

1. https://www.caixinglobal.com/2014-10-17/graphics-ghost-towns...
I've found that I generally prefer using Vue when sprinkling JS snippets over static or server rendered HTML.

Vue is definitely lighter than jQuery, and the reactive model with components tends to work better. Also you don't need any building process (Babel, Webpack, etc) unlike React. You can perfectly write your templates in the DOM.

That said, for some use cases I still prefer using vanilla or a Cash (a jQuery replacement).
> "if you weren't so fucking poor you wouldn't have to ride the bus!"

I honestly think this is a huge factor in violence against cyclists & pedestrians. Drivers think you're automatically beneath them in the societal pecking order if you're walking or biking, so they feel justified or entitled to victimize you.

People do similar shit to other people who they perceive to be poor, such as homeless, maids, delivery drivers, etc.
> An ironic aspect of financing (from personal loans to multi-billion dollar deals) is that you can get it as long as you don't need it.

Truer words have never been spoken. I remember when our startup had to fight to get a $5k credit card from Chase. Now our Amex LoC is like 750k @ 6% and it’s useless.
It's mostly in the banking system. They introduced loan securitization about 5 years ago, and have been walking down the same path the US went in the 90's and 00's.

It will be indeed be interesting to see how they handle a banking system implosion.
It's cool to find that echoic memory has a name - the number of times it has saved my bacon in class when I'm not paying attention and the teacher asks me what they just said to call me out....
Ive read a lot of industrial use of formal methods. If the method is easy, then almost all of them say what you said about the coding phase. I'll add that competing methods have code generators: Abstract, State Machines and B Method. ASM's look a lot like PlusCal with usability for about anything. Asmeta is one of tools with code generator. I think most doing it for B commercially use Atelier B and ProB. ProB does TLA+, too.

Now, far as TLA+-like stuff, tell them to check out SPIN model checker. It's seen more commercial use than most tools. Outperformed TLA+ in one paper but dont know if that extrapolates. Port some of your stuff to it to see what happens.
For how "homogeneous" China is considered, regions often define people more than ethnicity or racial groups. A common greeting that most people ask is "Where are you from?" Both migrant workers and the growing middle class now have the ability to travel anywhere in the country to further their futures.

Back in the 70s or even the 90s this mixing of people was pretty much unheard of. Shanghai culture was only in Shanghai while the rest of the country was their own little thing. Only recently have the people and culture of the country begun to mix.

The grouping of everyone in China into Han Chinese is a simplification IMO. A person from the Northern regions of China can't even speak to a person from the Southern region while the culture of every part of the country is drastically different and would make the differences between Americans look miniscule.
I wonder, though, what fraction of the value of the ad is in the tracking? That is, if the NYT did what you said, would the rate they could charge for ads go down? Do advertisers (or somebody else) pay extra for the tracking info?
Rather than apply the brakes, barring the person jumping in front of you and braking, it could just stop applying the accelerator. Nice easy slowdown to create the gap without brake-jobbing somebody behind you.
They just skinned their BIOS interface to look superficially like Windows 3.1.
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Well, for the record, it wasn't me. I did however read through your comments just now, and it seems there is a pattern of not really engaging in dialogue but just blasting your opinion over and over. Looking at your comments on Julian Assange, for example, it seems clear that you do not think there is any difference between what a NYTimes reporter does and what Assange did. I can't speak to everyone else but to me the difference is quite obvious, and probably that has something to do with why you're being downvoted. You're repeatedly stating that they're the same, without describing why you believe this, and then kind of insulting other people for their belief that in fact they are different. So anyway, I've spent way, way too much time responding to you. Good luck to you sir.
Just look at the image used in article; clowntown wearing flip-flops riding in the rain on the Esplanade but with a helmet on no less. Get that man to city streets, he's ready!
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There are no rape charges. He has not been charged with any crime.
If I had to guess, the decision will always be to protect the occupants of the car over everything else. No one is going to buy a car that will kill you to save others.
But I don't understand this line of thought. Trump vocally likes Assange and wikileaks, while Obama Generally loved the NSA and national surveillance, and seemed perfectly willing to go after Assange.
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Alexa can now help you make Dr. appointments. Given the strict rules and harsh punishments around HIPAA, I'm surprised that Amazon is attempting this. On the other hand, maybe this is a good opportunity to get in on the ground floor and create some Skills in a multi-million dollar space.
He was never charged with a crime. There were no charges.
1. No one implied that this advertising was impacting their reporting.

2. They're reporters... if they don't know what's going on in their own backyard, there's a serious issue.

3. Maybe, but there's something ironic about the fact that this very reporting only exists because of these ad practices. This person most likely wouldn't have a job if the very practice they are reporting on didn't exist.
Upcoming European law – requires content blocks under 1 hour by police request
I think we all understand that when you're being sheltered in a government's embassy, you should probably not piss that government off.

Unfortunately, 'we all' does not seem to include Mr. Assange.
This new regulation will force every actor of the Web’s ecosystem (video or blog platforms, online media, small forums or large social networks) to:

1) Block in under an hour any content reported as “terrorist” by the police (without a judge’s prior authorisation), and therefore to be on call 24/7.

2) Anticipate police requests by detecting on their own illicit content using automated filtering tools.

Websites that don’t respect these rules would risk a fine of up to 4% of their revenue.
The problem with Singapore is that it treats you like a real shit if you are not a citizen or a permanent resident.

Even if you are from a wealthy country it just makes your life there miserable.
I was so hoping more like "random cities" and "random islands" where the forest is a collection of tall flora to be rendered for the viewer's/gamer's pleasure.
If as a reporter investigating online advertising, you don't know what's going on in your own backyard, there's clearly something very wrong going on.
140 incidents. Untold number of averted failures.
Sorry, I think the point I was trying to make was that most governments try to openly influence politics in other countries rather than protecting free elections.

I totally agree that vote rigging would be particularly egregious. However, I'm not sure that backing a regime with money / weapons / training, etc. that then goes ahead and rigs the vote is that much better.

I think it's more like one scenario is stealing money and the other is investing in a gang that steals money.

I just find it interesting that we openly try to pick political winners and losers in other countries.
Yeah but if you're a sleazy hotel chain that simply wants people to use their crappy expensive wifi instead of personal hotspots then you can't use the "nuclear option" as the white noise will also fuck up your network.

This is the type of attack that is being defended against here, not white-noise bombs.
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dalbasal, I feel like you're quietly sitting on a fascinating analysis of a facet of the modern economy. Mind sharing the sources of your knowledge so I can learn about it myself, either in the form of books, or articles?
On the lion air the sensor was non-operable from the start of the flight; so yes on both flights the AoA sensor was in a non-flightworthy condition.

One point of clarification: on the 737 and most other airplanes the airspeed is unreliable if the AoA sensor becomes damaged. This occurred on both the ET302 and the lion air flight. In such a state, it is up to the pilot to place the plane in safe flying state that does not depend on access to the airspeed. The pilot should by memory, ideally, set the thrust and nose up attitude of the plane along with other control surfaces. Failure to do this is what indirectly caused the AF447 disaster and it seems the the crew didn't execute this procedure on the ET302 flight. At the very least, attempting to engage the autopilot and disengaging flaps were contrary to standard procedure. Not executing this procedure dramatically increases the workload on the pilot and increases the risk that either airspeed wall outside of the safe operating range of the aircraft or the pilot will have to take drastic action to maintain airspeed in a safe range. Both are dangerous and even an experienced pilot can fail to take appropriate action especially in an emergency with the flight crew attending to other anomalies.

With that caveat stated, there is nothing inherently unsafe about flying with the combination of unreliable airspeed and an uncommanded MCAS activation in theory. The previous flight of the lion air flight was able to counteract 20+ instances of MCAS activation by simply trimming the aircraft using manual trim before they tried disengaging electrical power to the stabilizer motors. After disengaging trim the pilots felt comfortable continuing the flight and adjusting trim using the manual cockpit trim wheels. With all that being said, no aviation regulator would certify a plane that couldn't fly safely with an unreliable airspeed and manual trim turned off.

I think the question about why the 737 MAX's haven't crashed more is two fold. First, a birdstrike that takes out an AoA sensor is very rare. In that sense, Boeing got very unlucky in that they had a birdstrike that knocked out the specific AoA sensor tied to MCAS a month before they planned on rolling out the software update. Additionally, flight sensors are usually maintained very well as they are a critical item. You would never expect standard maintenance procedure not to fix an unreliable airspeed. When it has happened before though, the outcome can be tragic just as it was on the lion air flights regardless of any issues with MCAS.
This is not just a problem with pills - it could be a problem for processed food.

Look at the ingredients used in the 'Impossible Burger' to replicate the vitamins and minerals found in real meat:

Mixed Tocopherols (Vitamin E), Zinc Gluconate, Thiamine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B1), Sodium Ascorbate (Vitamin C), Niacin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Vitamin B12

Or the additives found in products like Soylent.

If these vitamins and minerals don't work with pills, do they work with processed food?

Its already clear that you should take supplement pills at the same time as eating - so these processed foods at least avoid that problem.
> Of course, the humans made the said programming error

Are you sure?

You do understand that self-driving vehicles inherently rely upon machine learning systems (and I am not talking simple regression here), which are trained and ultimately make decisions by means that we still don't fully understand?

What I'm trying to get it here is that, barring faulty sensors or mechanical systems, any decision that the control system of a self-driving vehicle makes is most likely arrived at via the inner workings of one or more machine learning systems (likely deep learning neural networks of some nature, but there are other systems being experimented with as well).

They are not a huge series of if-then-else statements or anything of that nature; such algorithmic approaches have been tried in the past and dismissed as unworkable due to the sheer complexity that is inherent in driving.

Honestly, what drove the field forward was mainly work done by CMU, mainly ALVINN; but there was interplay between CMU, Hans Moravec, Stanford (the Cart, among others), Thrun, and others. It has a very long, convoluted, but detailed and rich history (I encourage anyone who's interested in the fields of robotics, ai/ml, and/or self-driving vehicles to read up on it - it's very fascinating). ALVINN ultimately gave the hint toward using neural networks and deep-learning, but the tech couldn't make the leap forward until the convergence of a number of technologies.
> What do those Southerners say about people like me living in San Francisco, CA?

You're generalizing people here. You can't say that a group of individuals 'say' anything about you without generalizing them.

> Does Joe Redneck lose jobs because he was born in Georgia rather than California?

First, that's a disparaging term, and it shouldn't be used in polite discourse.

Do you agree, that southerners are perceived to be more racist, sexist, or homophobic by some people? Do you believe this perception could create a negative bias towards those people?
Mexican president demands newspaper reveal who leaked letter to Spanish king
People do that all the time when everything Apple gets attributed to Steve Jobs.
No, there were no charges against him. He has not been charged with a crime in any country.
That article is on psychotherapy.

I am not disputing that breathing exercises can make one feel better. I am disputing that the sense of wellness is causally linked to any changes in blood pH.

It is perfectly acceptable to claim that breathing exercises are useful for mental health. You are making additional claims that are not supported, regarding health benefits for people that do not have a diagnosis that requires therapy.

The folk remedies do not automatically invalidate the claims. They do surround the relevant questions with a cloud of woo, which makes objective study more difficult. This is especially relevant when scammers adopt pseudoscientific terminology that mimics genuine science for the purpose of selling their products and services. It becomes difficult to sort the fact from the fiction, because the fictions are explicitly designed to look like related facts.
Aren't you maybe confusing it with some BIOS interfaces of that era skinned to look loosely like Windows?
I feel like driving cars turns most people into idiots, myself included at times.
Right - being in someone else's home is their private residence. If they break the law using devices there then they are liable, not the device manufacturer. Maybe I didn't specify that enough.
Not sure about that first link. Electron is now on version 5.0.0....

There is a trade-off when it comes to using languages I know better (web languages) to make apps. They are larger memory footprint than native apps.
It's easier to change infrastructure to be pro-cycling than it is to change the culture. I'll take mindful drivers over protected bike lanes, any day. The only protected lane in my town (Madison) is one that goes against traffic. Drivers here are generally aware and accommodating when it comes to cyclists. I feel safer biking here (snow and all) than any other city I've lived in.
Cessna 150/152/172 stall warning "horn" works by negative pressure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1JRTCBkWKQ

And then the Cessna 182 has an aerodynamic switch that activates an electric "horn". And in either case they can get jammed up with bugs. But we do a lot of training with slow flight, approach to stall, full stall, and recoveries including recovery from the ensuing dive and secondary stalls.
This can be a very difficult market, but there are a handful of different projects designed to help with this. In-Q-Tel [0] has been accelerating adoption of new technology for the Intelligence Community for many years and often invests in and helps deploy technology from startups of many sizes. SBIRs [1] can be an effective way to quickly get gov money for research and even culminate in a procurement vehicle for sole source contracts if you get through Phase III. There are also a handful of accelerators like DIU [2] and MD5 [3] designed to help small firms navigate this difficult space. It still isn't easy, but it can help level the playing field a bit when you are just a startup.

[0]: https://www.iqt.org/

[1]: https://www.sbir.gov/

[2]: https://www.diu.mil/

[3]: https://community.md5.net/md5/landing
My guess is that the driver had been yelled at by a biker in the past. I've seen bikers chew out drivers, or yell profanities many times in SF. They sometimes/usually have a good reason to do so, but that kind of behavior just breeds contempt and animosity between the two groups.
It would have been jaw-droppingly shocking if Microsoft ever chose Firefox or a similar "free as in freedom" project as the basis of their own products because they are not goal-aligned. Whereas Webkit-based (which did fork from KHTML...remember Konquerer?) browsers have long since been serving as the platform for big-software webtech, Firefox and Mozilla largely remain oriented towards the interests of users. This means decisions that could help commercial entities take a far second to the needs of direct users with few exceptions (I'm looking at you EME and DRM).