skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the scale of problem the government deals with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkcrtvN60s

That's an experimental YF-22A crashing due to a software glitch. That's a $300-400M hand-crafted state-of-the-art-on-a-hundred-dimensions supersonic jet, almost killing the test pilot (an engineer who flies planes) 50 feet off the ground at 150 mph. Just the cost of training that pilot is easily in the millions of dollars.

Everyone agrees the budget process is nuts, right up until something like that happens. And then everyone who ever signed any document related to that airplane is able to sleep at night. Except the software teams that wrote or approved the code. They're going to loose sleep, and they know why.

Oh, and the DoD is a rounding error compared to CMS. They have routine fraud complaints that would sink a major defense contractor.
This[0] comment seems to be another in that vein, though it seems to have more details, even if it repeats the 850k lines stat which doesn't really hold up.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/bbql1i/this_is_dr_kat...
No, lack of good code analysis is not the problem. If the compiler was to only do a move in cases where it could prove variable independence then it would be operating under the as-if rule -- which it is already allowed to do -- and hence your code wouldn't behave any differently than if it hadn't done that. Automatic moves OTOH change the semantics of the code, which is kind of the point -- the compiler can't do an automatic move without permission unless the language specification says so, and unlike with the case of copy elision, it doesn't permit the compiler to change the semantics like this, as RAII has multiple use cases as I mentioned above that would break if this was permitted.
Electronic voting is a awful idea, and will never make voting more reliable or more verifiable. But that's a side issue to this discussion about ID.

You could not enforce anything at a schema level without having a way to authenticate who is who, which is accomplished by a human verifying their IDentity.

We already have a 50-state ID system, and it works well. Anyone can get a ID. Centralizing it would make it less reliable because it's easier to attack one system than 50.
Dissenters is a commercial platform, Mozilla are simply under no obligation to promote it or give it a spotlight under addons.mozilla.org. Unless you can point to a similar addon from some alt-left site that they have approved, there's no reason to suspect that this was a political decision.
My observations

1. Humans aren't gonna trust SDCs easily. The way I look at it, SDCs would be used only to transport freight for a few years before people can trust it enough for ride sharing. I personally believe that companies should focus on self-driving trucking rather than self-driving cars and pivot into ride sharing after a few years of successful freight transport. People would trust the leader in the self-driving truck industry more than a top-notch but unproven tech company. Let alone cars, as simple as elevators in the buildings were operated by actual people before becoming completely autonomous.

2. Uber is not just in the USA. SDCs aren't gonna be approved everywhere, even after it becomes legal in the USA. Uber still has access to that market, but Waymo magically can't.

3. Uber has other verticals too (Uber Eats).
Trust me, I'm aware of the thin lines that these things ride upon. I don't care that, in particular, the Podesta emails, the DNC emails, the Brazile questions, or anything else about the Clinton campaign were leaked. It was information, and it was illuminating to the nature of American politics.

What I have a problem with is, these sorts of leaks allow American elections to become a target of nation-state attacks. We shouldn't become used to making electoral decisions based on what the Russian state wants us to know about our politicians-- we need to make those discoveries ourselves, with investigative journalists that have skin in the game.

I understand that the request has nothing to do with the election, and likely would have happened without. Still, when inciting American citizens to break the law, I would hope that one would have some stronger backup than a single embassy's forbearance to carry you through to safety. Conspiracy isn't some newly made up charge, Assange didn't have to encourage Manning to do anything other than release what she had legal access to at the time.
From a comment here (https://news.nukleosome.com/t/anti-aging-discovery-could-lea...) quoting the study authors:

"We selected candidate chemicals that potentially increased the stem cell property [Apocynin] or reduced production of reactive oxygen species [Y-27632]"
Nope, just lsp-mode (and Tide). Perhaps that'll take me another 20 years, but I've poured so many hours into debuggers and have never found them as useful as I think they should be. I'm probably "holding it wrong", and if so - I'll get there eventually!
You don’t pay tax if you don’t make money.
>Mozilla themselves has said that they didn't remove it for political reasons [or "ideological censorship" as you put it]

So basically you're saying you'd be okay if there's one place you could speak freely and be heard (the internet) owned by one guy (the tech monopolies) and he could shut it down for everybody if one person said a bad word on it?

Btw Dissenter does preemptively censors bad language, and they reached out to Mozilla who failed to provide them with specific examples. The same Mozilla shining champion of civility which funds Antifa, the group that does such nonvitriolic things like beat people with bike locks.

>I'm not going to pretend to know that stuff like that was posted to Dissenter, but you and I both know that language like that is commonplace on alt/far-right platforms. It's by no means a stretch to imagine that those kinds of posts are what got Dissenter banned.

>they have every legal right to choose not to host that app.

Serious question for you, how do you feel about net neutrality and bakers and photographers having to work for SSM weddings?
I'm sure you're going to benefit from this, right?

Lemming.
You do what you want, but I don't think that's a helpful way to act. It might give you a rush, a little feeling of control, but if you come at someone aggressively like that and they think theyre just minding their own business, now you've just riled them up for no reason. Just adding more anger into the world.
1)
Imagine that you're going to talk to your company's CEO and that therefore every second counts.

2)
Prepare your question by summarizing your problem to its core and to then present with a few words all what you've tried so far to fix it and why all those attempts failed respectively what their relationships are.

3)
Don't initially approach your potential SME (Subject Matter Expert) by asking generic questions like e.g. "do you have a minute?" or "sorry, I need your help" etc (s/he won't be able to prioritize your request as s/he got no infos about your issue's criticality) but by throwing at him/her directly your core summary, together with your criticality assessment of your problem in as few words as possible.
Just second?
Edit: redundant
Sure, there's a discount factor. But the discounte value isn't <1%, not even close.
Mine were down and just went back up. What really made me panic was when seeing no issues on the status page:

https://status.firebase.google.com/

For a moment, I thought it was an issue with my account.
It's two compounds that they've identified; apocynin and Y-27632. A comment here (https://news.nukleosome.com/t/anti-aging-discovery-could-lea...) explains it a bit, quoting the authors;

"We selected candidate chemicals that potentially increased the stem cell property [apocynin] or reduced production of reactive oxygen species [Y-27632] based on in silico information."
> I really like the re-imagination of the type system, data model, and the user interface. This is an area where databases could be significantly better than they currently are.

Thank you!

> Even on single machines, there is a performance cliff that arrives very quickly when doing these kinds of data model traversals unless you are using something exotic under the hood.

PostgreSQL is used under the hood. We compile EdgeQL to an efficient SQL behind the scenes, similarly to how you compile a high-level language to lower-level language. All our fancy data types fully utilize the relational model, so what's achievable with scaling Postgres will be achievable with EdgeDB. I know quite a few massive deployments of Postgres that work just fine, there's simply no reason why EdgeDB would be different.
Atlassian and Zoho are B2B enterprise shops. Not unicorns, and not facing the same bad incentives as consumer-facing companies.
It also appears to have confirmed some of Einstein's theories (from what I understood)
Julian explains it himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgU-L8oOFtA
The only thing Gab/Dissenter itself does is have less speech restrictions than their competitors. Are you saying thats political?
That the percentage of developers over age 40 is lower than those under 30 could just be the result of demographic shifts: many more people per year were entering the profession in 2015 than in 1995.

Which is not to say that ageism doesn’t exist or isn’t a problem. (As a developer and hiring manager nearing 40 I’m making my own career decisions with ageism in mind and also considering the possibilities for “beating the market” by hiring older engineers.) Just saying that you need better data to make that argument.
Methane and Mars story consumed India‘s MOM too:

https://www.seeker.com/india-mars-orbiter-mission-methane-de...

https://thewire.in/85859/methane-isro-msm-spectroscopy/
Oh hey, I was a control for part of that (specifically, short term memory and mental math).

It's possible that he was still just tired after all that. I wouldn't read too far into a study with an N of 1.
Huawei Readies Windows 10 Laptop Based on Qualcomm Snapdragon 850
I don't see how. The privilege elevation mechanism cannot apply to an already-running process, since then there will be a way to subvert the process.

Now, the better answer to that is to have nothing like a set-uid mechanism, which would be nice, for sure. But just how much violence are we to do to the Unix model, and when are we expected to finish this? It's not like Linux can be abandoned -- for better or worse, Linux "won".
Really, which laws?

In the USA, cash is "legal tender for all debts", but private businesses aren't required to accept it in exchange for goods and services.
that'd be "encouraging her", unless you're not referring to Manning here?
Automated Reconstruction of Drosophila Brain Using Flood Filling Neural Networks
When recruiters contact me, I usually want to know:

1. What does the company do? Is it interesting and cool?

2. Who are the people? Will I enjoy working for/with them?

3. Location: I want good climate and smart/rich people living there.

4. Vacation: 4 weeks minimum.

5. Salary: if the above is all 'yes', then I could accept as low as $150k in bay area. If there's one 'no', it's better be at least $200k. If more than one 'no', I'm unlikely to be interested, regardless of the pay.

EDIT: since you got some attention here on HN, why don't you post a link to the job description?
Rust has ARC and RC, which I gather are badly overused by refugees from other languages dependent on GC.

The better programs and libraries use them less. It remains to be seen whether this aesthetic will win out.
vfork() is the right tool. I dunno what semantics you have in mind for p_execve().
You might need a refresher of US history. It can and has been abused in the past and only through fighting back hard have we gotten the status quo of today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States

If the spooks of weren't so damn aggeessive that they spoiled a can't lose trial Ellswood would have been fucked for the Pentagon Papers as there is no public interest defense against the Espionage Act.

To be frank the Espionage act is an unconstitutional relic of past mistakes that should have a stake driven through its heart, head chopped off and stuffed with garlic and the body burned outside in and left in sunlight.

Falsehood /is/ protected. It is a civil matter at very worst. Because if it isn't then you can have prosecutions for "lies" that are really inconvenient facts.

The current jurisprudence /as it should be/ is that the press is an activity and not a position.
The US Constitution protects US Persons regardless of where they may be. This is a broader category than US Citizens. It includes, for example, green card holders. The US Constitution also protects, to a certain extent, non US Persons, but only in the US or on US territory.
I agree, which is why I believe Uber's biggest threat is Waymo. Waymo is uniquely positioned to absolutely demolish Uber almost overnight. They have the Google brand and financial backing. Their network of users is already in place as well (Google Maps).
> I go my RHCE 5 years ago and it was a great primer on how Linux systems run and I recommend it to anyone interested in modern Linux. It will give you many insights which will help you in the future in understanding how Linux works. I was moving over from Windows administration and it was a godsend.

I'm not sure it entirely still works, but for anyone that wants a much deeper look into how a system Linux is put together and how a lot of the parts interact (at a higher level, but still a level often not covered), check out the Linux From Scratch project.[1] Around 2001 or 2002 I was helping to design a small custom Linux distro with some friends, and going through this project was invaluable for learning a lot of how a GNU/Linux system was put together and functions as a whole.

There really is something to be said for manually going through every step, and compiling every software package, and experiencing the functionality it provides, since a good chunk of the work is done in a chroot after you've bootstrapped it enough to make it minimally viable.

1: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/
That’s true, but it would still be good enough to cross check the aerodynamic AoA sensors upon a disagree between the two and select the one that’s more reliable.
Five Star's Chairman E-Money Received Award – Onyi News
Or it's PR for his tax evasion case: https://www.propublica.org/article/ultrawealthy-taxes-irs-in...
The fact that we drive on the right is the precise reason why trucks have less of a blind spot on the left. (We place the driver's seat closest to the center of the road, while on a mine site it's better to be close to the edge of the road.)

If we drove on the left and built cars accordingly, then you'd see mine site tricks driving on the right.

Left and right are not inherently different in any way (except I guess for people being right-handed more than left-handed, though has little effect.)

Fun story: I was surprised recently by visiting one country that did things a bit differently: Burma. They drive on the right and have for 50 or so years… but they use mostly left-hand drive cars. So you'll see the driver's seat close to the curb. Took me quite a few taxi rides to figure out what that uncanny feeling was. (Also, they're one of the few countries with a timezone offset by a half hour increment)
IIUC the incident the day before the Lion Air crash was also on take-off.
We just finished fundraising after demo day. We sat in a lot of meeting rooms
> San Francisco, for instance, has fog about 1 in 3 days of the year.

This is one of the things that self-driving cars WILL do better--and fairly quickly.

Having a sensor system that isn't blinded by aerosolized water will be a huge benefit to driving.
Really? Silicon Valley is churning out trashy IPOs of late, and so it becomes the standard?
I think this might be a side effect of the Keybase UI, not the service itself. If you interact with the APIs directly and look at the JSON, you can see that at a high level the proofs are a dict, with each service as the key, and the value is an array aggregating several proofs. You could therefore potentially have several Twitter proofs associated with different accounts ("nametags") that could then be presented all together if someone wanted to tie all those accounts to your identity.

I only skimmed TFA, so I'm not sure what the process would be like for actually validating those proofs, but the backend datastore seems like it wouldn't have a problem, at least.
You might have picked the wrong hill to die on.

C++ destructors really are deterministic, even in the face of exceptions, lambdas, and moves: everything constructed gets destroyed. Modern wrinkles where the compiler is allowed to skip a construction and a destruction do not contradict that. You have to fool with heap memory or evoke UB to escape that law.
Interesting. Is "sound like a CEO" meant to be an insult? On a site meant for startup founders? Weird.
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That's funny... just a few days ago the Europeans (Mars Express) were "definitely finally confirming methane on Mars... now the Americans are saying "nope" without directly addressing the Mars Express findings?

See: http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/04/astronomers-finally-co...
Because they are a check on the powers of the state is an obvious reason why not. It would be like saying wolves should have the power to regulate sheepdog usage and pasture fencing.
> Good luck when it snows. And it's 3 AM. And no one else is on the road, so there are no context clues.

Um, a human sucks in this case, too.

There is a reason we put reflectors on the lane markers and rumble cuts in the road.
A disappearing island, cyclone season and 100k Rohingya refugees
Who Says Old-Fashioned Street Photography Is Dead?
> The only people biking are relatively privileged yuppies living in the fancy new apartments and condos that have sprung up recently.

Not true in Houston, which is pretty much the same. (I couldn't find data for Atlanta, unfortunately.) https://kinder.rice.edu/sites/g/files/bxs1676/f/files/2015/1...
Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing
One of the concerns people raise is that Facebook, Google, etc. are lowering the bar. That they're uniquely bad at privacy, or uniquely brazen about violating it, and user privacy is becoming harder to achieve because of their actions.

If everyone else also violates privacy in the same ways, this aspect of the narrative isn't true.
Pinterest has been doing this for years:

https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/taste-graph-part-1...

How is this different/better than what they are doing?
Loss aversion tells us that gains and losses have different emotional impact. In particular, perceived losses supposedly have a strong negative impact on people. [1] If Lyft employees value their shares at the IPO price, they might be feeling a loss all the way from 72 to 61.

[1] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137544254_13
Thanks for the answer.

> queries that fetch hierarchies of objects 2-3 levels deep [...] efficiently in SQL or NoSQL isn't as simple as it sounds

It doesn't sound simple and it isn't simple. :-)
Those attacks don't scale at all and could only be a concern for local elections in small towns and the like.
They successfully crashed it.
For anyone searching, the timestamp is 27:30
I'm having a hard time imagining what that's going to look like.
Wikipedia has already been removing material from revision histories for years for many reasons,[1] including legal reasons such as copyright infringement and libel.[2] This is not exactly new terrain for Wikipedia.

I would also say that I think Wikimedia decides strategically which countries to have a physical presence in, and therefore follow the laws of that country, and which ones to stay out of. I don't think Wikimedia will have to worry about a North Korean court decision, because they are not in North Korea.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CFRD

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_gu...
Tesla is years behind Waymo. The predominant issue facing SDCs currently is inclement weather. Lidar (which Tesla does not use) and cameras have a hard time with heavy rain and snow.
Ah, gotta love Nazis screaming "you have to tolerate my intolerance!".

LGBTs were viewed as immoral until about a generation ago (depending on your location, still immoral now). I wonder how racism, viewed as immoral now (again, also depending on location), could be viewed as a moral opinion in a strange future.
No real surprise here..
yes yes - this was completely apolitical. The conservative bent of the community banned was completely incidental, just like ALL other bans of conservative thought by San Francisco based companies. Firefox is just being an neutral arbiter - nothing to see here folks, go home and celebrate true freedom: the freedom of SV companies to systemically censor conservative speech with impunity
You won't see them in there because their percentage is too small to be listed (under 5%).
Right. You'd expect the reporter to compare Facebook's disclosure page with BuzzFeed's disclosure page.

And if BuzzFeed has no such disclosure page, you'd expect the reporter to mention that, and credit Facebook more strongly for having one.
I stand corrected.

It's weird because this really feels like one of the areas where technology could really excel in.
They really do make it look easy, don't they?

These days, it seems like the hardest part of a SpaceX launch is maintaining the drone recovery ship video link.

Even though it looks easy, it's never gonna get old. Not for me, anyway. So great!
I expected this would take a few more years, I have no words to describe how excited I am about this news. Drosophila's 135.000 neurons... compare it to the manual segmentation of C. elegans' nervous system taking about 15 years (in the eighties).

Here is an interesting view of the (segmented) brain: https://imgur.com/a/VGxvDJV

"The primary result presented here is an automated segmentation of neuronal processes densely covering the entire FAFB dataset, which contains 40 teravoxels of tissue within a 995x537x283 µm EM volume resulting from a correlation- and feature-based deformable alignment of ~21 million raw ssTEM camera images."
Sooooooooorry, I have to take it back - just saw now that one of my Tokudb shrank from 5'554'252 to 5'423'180 KiB.

Still please don't expect big shrinks with TokuDB when having big variance of active data as it's not its first priority (first prio is to be fast and/or use little space).
Yeah...Azure Gov is the same. They'll always be behind the commercial offering.
I would think the Wikimedia would stand on principle and refuse to remove items that are factually true. This capitulation to the whims of globally driven censorship needs to come to an end, and will only happen with an organization with a strong backbone and a commitment to freedom of speech and/or press.
Not directly, but yes the U.S. has quite a bit of leverage over the IMF.
> "the content was in fact defamatory, largely because the source in question had been taken offline"

Is there not an archive.org link for the source? Or some other archive? Or maybe it was taken down from archival sites similarly?
It would be incredibly cool if each of these pieces could be subscribed to as a service. Especially if there was a way to expose your business surface area, domain knowledge, etc. in a way that it could "seamlessly" plug in.