skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because they'd rather not be implicated in turning foreigners from living beings into a fine red mist.
How much % do you think cares about protesting a gov contract?
Glad to hear it. I'm disappointed that Oracle keep getting away with their shady and bullish business practices.
Normally in a situation like this you would indict and keep it sealed, that's not what happened here.

There was a deliberate decision not to indict which changed when Trump and his good friends Pompeo and Mattis came to power.
Thank you!!!

It's actually set to 120 for both kg and lbs — my bad!
It's the perfect time to do it. Building the protected bike lane in the road design from the get go is the most effective way to make both cyclists and drivers happy and safe.
Strange that she's retained lawyer for 7 years over a broken condom and she's still instructing her lawyer to speak to the press. It's almost as though she's getting financial backing for this.
Assange, an Application by (Cancel an Arrest Warrant: Ruling No. 2) (2018)
Strike about what?

A large percentage of the technology we use daily found its roots in projects funded by DARPA and related entities.

Businesses need customers to pay the bills, the salaries, and perks enjoyed by those employed by these companies. Someone is going to provide services to the government, so it Makes sense to compete for the business.
It is bullshit PACER isn't free or significantly cheaper
Safari Reader mode is too stupid to use the canonical URL. That's Apple's problem.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, until they're not.
Strange. I find people are quite impressed with my one meal a day intermittent fasting.
Sure there’s no doubt about that, but the context is that this dude doesn’t spend a lot of time thinking about his net worth and folks here are somehow judgemental of that
You can't disable javascript in a browser, but leave "a few minor javascript improvements". So the difference is between allowing all the ad tech, surveillance, malware or not.
WorksHub dev here. JS (actually ClojureScript compiled to JS) is essential for most of our platform to function, but we're working on server-side rendering of our public pages so that they don't need JS. We've just not rolled it out fully yet.
Do you believe that Garret Hardin specifically is being unjustly characterized by the SPLC?
Any time Alexa is lit up, it may be listening to you. Any time Alexa is not lit up, your conversations can't be overheard. The tin foil hat aspect comes in when people say it's listening ALL THE TIME, which it isn't.

None of my VERY non-technical family think that their assistant devices aren't transmitting recordings of their voices to some remote server somewhere, because it's obvious enough. Even my 71 year old grandfather understands this.
"Are you at all, in any way willing to entertain a viewpoint that suggests that those gentlemen have their titles dropped possibly because they have become synonymous with their crafts and a lifetime of achievement that-at least in the case of Dr. Sagan has spanned generations (Dr. deGrasse-Tyson's work and personality on the cusp of enjoying the exact same), and their names closely associated with a deep personal connection to the dissemination of science as a form of consumable entertainment (that also happens to inform) and that this maybe serves as an important distinction between someone who is appreciating their first bit of notoriety for their scientific accomplishments?"

Nope.

I think you are now beating a dead horse with this argument.
Android. iOS's firefox is Safari (like every browser on the iPhone) with a firefox overlay.
> You can't make that bet. Mathematics is just a language

Not just any language. It is an ever-changing, ever-growing language, which always expands along with our understanding of the universe. There is no a priori limit to either the language, or our understanding.

Together, they comprise the infinite sequence of learning, converging towards its limit. Since we live in time, we can only access the approximations, so it will always be true (in this plane of existence) that we cannot know everything, even while our knowledge continues to increase.
A sad day for journalism. As is typical the idiot Republicans will rejoice the capture of 'an Enemy of the state who put troops in danger' or some equally patriotic bullshit, and idiot Democrats will probably run with 'a verified GRU agent who personally sucked Putin's dick' narrative to keep the Russia narrative on life support, but neither will talk about how publishing information about the warcrimes of America will get you extra-legal extraordinary treatment and the implications for press freedom.
Wow that's an incredibly annoying format for an article.
Was 7 years self-imprisonment in an embassy worth it? I'd like to know how.
Windows 3.x had at least one third-party extension that gave it a bit of the Windows 9x look and feel, including task bar, start menu, and desktop icons.
The headline in this case is that humans are also involved in the listening, which is technically advantageous but not technically necessary. It is also worth mentioning that the recording gets uploaded out of your house, which is again technically advantageous but not technically necessary.
While Baltimore is reversing protected a bike lane implementation as a result of pressure from retail business and constituents who prefer cars. (The neighborhood in question is one of the most affluent in the city.)

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs...
> Why would a government so keen on accusing people of espionage and no doubt wanting to set a precedent for various things being classified as espionage (such as leaks), settle so easily?

Because you've misunderstood the motive: it's not about setting precedent, it's about securing convictions for the people charged. Which plea bargain guilty pleas do.

> Daniel Ellsberg of the "Pentagon Papers" fame has made it extremely difficult if not downright impossible for the government to win in such cases.

For cases like the Ellsberg case , sure, but that's because of the gross prosecutorial misconduct in that case, not the substance of the charges.
I took my daughter to this launch (we happened to be vacationing in the area). It was an evening launch and we spent the day at KSC. On the bus tour around the launch pads we happened to sit right behind a couple members of the SpaceIL team (including the chief systems engineer). They were extremely friendly and happy to answer all sorts of questions.

Best of luck to the team on this exciting day!
To Purge Some of Social Media’s Ugliness, an Unlikely Lesson from Wall St
May I take it with me to the grave. I think someone who is, in fact, a doctor ought to be addressed as such. Regardless of their gender.

Apparently that is a problem for some in this community which is a damn shame.
It would normally work in the opposite way: first he’s judged in UK, serves his sentence if any, and then he’s extradited.
The government LOVES their oracle databases. They are very entrenched there. I am actually really surprised they weren't selected.
Can confirm--in Cambridge and smashing the up-vote because I like bikes!
I've never used it because its not to the left of the comment header where it belongs. Voting should be on the right.
He also runs workshops for teams wanting to incorporate this into their toolset.
True - which is kind of weird, because as far as I understand their respective "databases", borg would be more suited for arbitrary remote storage because it should only need a "upload file" command basically without any interactivity, except for its robustness checks and some additional flexibility (having multiple backup sources, deleting data that is no longer needed).

Restic seems more made from the ground up to utilize the existing power of a filesystem as a database, so it needs remote storage that offers quick interactivity (esp. checking existing files), i.e. it's impossible to use something like Glacier as a backend.

It's not a problem for me since I just backup to a local drive and (am planning to setup) synchronization to a remote dumb storage.
I'm scratching my head a bit about this. The allegory of "the Tragedy of the Commons" makes a strong case for regulation. This article says that the allegory is wrong, and the actual solution we need is regulation?

If the Tragedy of the Commons is incorrect, then self-regulation is a viable option?
Curious, why do you hate Cambridge so much? I find it a reasonably great place, but I'm just a graduate student here.
Ok, so you have no relevant modern experience to draw from. 94 was a generation and four wars ago.

I'm well aware of the USMC issues and funding.

Yes, the 6mm rifles are the same pattern, I should have clarified that I was talking about M14s in that comment, the difference is that NATO 5.56 is logistically supported world-wide by both us and our NATO allies. Realistically there are only two cartridges for infantry use worldwide -- 5.56 and 7.62x39. 7.62x39 has many issues that make it unsuitable for our uses, and 5.56 is the cartridge like it or not. A huge amount of R&D has taken place in the 5.56 world since 94, and the MK262 and others address all of the issues you've raised with it except for penetration of heavy cover, which is not generally relevant.

The US has used DMs for decades, using M14s or even other weapons. Replacing a DM weapon with another weapon is not what you have been arguing for, and is not relevant to the discussion of general purpose infantry weapon issue, which will essentially always be 5.56 until there is some impetus for all of NATO to change. Given the current state of that world, that's not likely to ever happen.
>It still talked about the man first because this is essential to understand the context and the ideology behind the idea.

The idea however has been around for ages. Wikipedia points out a source from 1833 [1], but the idea that people act in their own best interest (greed) has been known for thousands of years. Hence why Christianity considers it a sin.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
But that wasn't a extradition from the UK case. They were captured in Syria and not the UK. What the home secretary said to the US was (paraphrased) "We will not seek that they get extradited to be trialled in the UK for their crimes". Basically, "you caught them, they are yours".

The part about extraditing someone from the UK (and the rest of the EU iirc) must come with written assurances that the person will not be given the death penality is written into UK Law. To go against that would need either a change in the law or have the Home Secretary face legal repercussions of breaking the law whist acting as Home Secretary.

They would have to be 100% sure that the other country would abide by the terms. But lets say the US promised but then broke that promise once they were on US soil, then it would have wider effects on the extradition treaty with that country let alone any other relationship with that country. Would it be worth it to the US to burn the ability to extradite other people in the future for just one case?

And that is even if they are seeking such a punishment. As it stands right now, Assange is "only" charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion which carries a max of 5 years in prison.

Assange's legal team will make sure that other charges that may be added to the case in the future can not be given the death penality if his extradition does go though (Just because he has been arrested doesn't mean Assange doesn't have any rights to fight the extradition request.) see the case of Gary McKinnon who was facing 70 years but didn't get extradited https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon (Though in that case, it basically came down to he was seeing so much time in the US prison, he has ASD and depression that it was highly likely that he would of ended his own life then spend it in a US jail that it was deemed it would be against his human rights and the extradition dropped.).
> In the real world, they, like Azure and Amazon, will have single point in time outages that will wipe that out for a year or more.

An outage affects availability, but as long as it's not permanent it doesn't affect durability. For example, if I add a new backup provider that stores data on-premise I've added a (nearly) independent data store. This substantially decreases my risk of losing my data unrecoverably (increases durability) but if I don't set up any sort of automatic failover I'm still at risk for substantial outages (no practical increase in availability).

For example, I don't believe Amazon has ever lost any S3 data (https://www.quora.com/Has-Amazon-S3-ever-lost-data-permanent...), and if they did it would be a big deal. Same with the other major cloud storage providers.

> Someone on the marketing side of the team decided that was a "competitive" number to present, outwards, and someone in engineering was tasked with, working backward from that number, coming up with some plausible calculation that resulted in it.

I would be incredibly surprised if that happened. That's not the way I've seen anyone work here.

(Disclosure: I work at Google, though not in Cloud)
On a lot of streets, won't the only way to do this be to eliminate parking on one side of the street? Should be interesting.
The weird thing about GM closures was that GM seemed to be doing fine, and then they axed whole bunch of factories and discontinued most of the sedans and Chevy Volt.
This is the approach I have always tried to take. Unfortunately it seems that most employers now want Angular/React/Vue experience so you wind up with devs shoving it in to projects where it's not really needed just to get that experience. Such is the state of Resume Driven Development.
Snowden responds to Assange arrest: 'Dark moment for press freedom'
Google employees went on strike because of a government contract to improve AI used in the targeting of drone strikes. The fallout of that project lead to Google dropping out of the running for this contract citing its "AI principles".

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/technology/google-letter-...

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/08/google-will-not-bid-for-th...
That's exactly the goal of NASA's commercial launch programs (ISS resupply, etc). NASA wants to (and should) focus on science, and pushing the limits further. Commercial companies like SpaceX are now taking on the role of operating (and refining) the proven technologies.
Are people really even considering this given how noisy it is?
Related: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1116354502032932865
>It is quite unusual for the suspect to be granted asylum and holed up in a foreign embassy for 7 years too

There is nothing unusual at all about suspects going into hiding. This is everyday stuff for prosecutions, and the normal thing to do is to indict and keep it sealed, not wait years to indict for funsies.

> the law or legal precedent that requires indictment in some amount of time, and discuss how that plays out with any expirations, upkeep requirements, or potential for leaks even if it's sealed

Why should I? I'm criticizing this indictment as politically motivated, this doesn't have all that much to with the law.

>Curious then how you chose to first claim that Obama didn't prosecute because it'd necessarily mean going after the media. Can you try to keep your story straight here?

That was not my claim, you're being ridiculous. That was wapo quoting DOJ officials.

Can you stop trying to deliberately muddy the waters with this nonsense? You're focusing on twisting my words instead of trying to make an honest argument.
I don't think anybody is arguing that DNS lookups shouldn't be encrypted. The issue is doing DNS lookups via HTTPS.
What electric cars uses clutches? Which use 2-speed transmissions? Tesla doesn’t seem to use either.
I see you have a post-set rating for difficulty but "reps in reserve" is also a common assessment - any plans to add it?
It is reasonable to wonder if there is going to be infighting about this decision at Microsoft and Amazon, because Google employees have already demonstrated that it is possible.
this is _exactly_ my point. Take the plunge. Go IDE-less. Discover how you can play the piano and rename methods yourself with something called "typing" and auto-import is so much fun, it's like a game where I yank and paste the right import from another file. I know it sounds crazy. But at the end of the day I don't fight Intellij but just play music on my keyboard. Disclaimer I was avid eclipse java programmer for years and one day went to vim and never looked back.
Taste graphs will transform fashion
True randomness has the structure of randomness. You can measure and identify it. A random number generator will generate numbers at random. That's structure. If you want to think about something without structure, think about what happens inside models that assume a contradiction.

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness....

Oh, argument by meme. I would believe you if maybe you had an XKCD of it.
They are in possession of some very specific irrefutable evidence, that's what it's about.
This sounds like a technological proof of concept that someone _could_ build such a thing, and a few anecdotes.
Ryan Dahl. Deno, a New Way to JavaScript. JavaScript Fest 2019 Spring [video]
If you're in the Bay Area, it's Boston's equivalent of Oakland (but with different socioeconomic demographics). More urban than suburban, and a city in its own right, but somewhat subsumed in the larger city's shadow.
Then I assume you would support a similar law in Chicago as Cambridge passed?
Beginners in the first month or two are mostly just learning the motions. 90s rest is fine. Once you're a few months in, and you've progressed all the weights significantly from your untrained starting point, then 90s seems like a crazy short amount of time.
I wonder if there's an interesting essay behind that interface. I'll never know.
Yeah I used to work at a nuclear plant. They intentionally use all analog systems currently for fear of this. Almost nothing digital in the whole plant
Don't the people developing these speech/AI methods generally have advanced degrees?

In that case, shouldn't they be aware, from the same grad school training that prepared them for this work, that a (genuine) human subjects board would require informed consent for this, at the least?

Do they have informed consent?
Eastern MA is like this, but Western MA is surprisingly bike-friendly. The Amherst/Northampton/Easthampton area is wonderful for biking.
Not really — since I'm spending money on ads on day 1 I need to make the money back ASAP to reinvest in ads.

Since traffic from HN is essentially free I have no problem with an extended trial period :)
Agreed, sometimes it's obvious why a particular article caught the poster's attention, but for this one, it would be nice if they gave some context. How did they hear about it? Is there an interesting fact hidden in the article that would not jump out to the uninitiated?
FWIW I mostly use “out params” as in C because I think moves incur a lot of complexity, as well explained in this article. It’s also more lines of code to write. Some people may quibble with it but I think it’s still a fine style of writing C++, and in fact most C++ you’ll see is written like that, since this is a new-ish feature.
This is a well written article, some basics, and advanced stuff is touched as well.
You are mixing availability (access at any given moment) with durability (not losing data). From the FAQ:

Cloud Storage is designed for 99.999999999% (11 9's) annual durability, which is appropriate for even primary storage and business-critical applications. This high durability level is achieved through erasure coding that stores data pieces redundantly across multiple devices located in multiple availability zones.

Disclaimer: I work at GCP, although not in GCS specifically.
There is already barely any parking in Cambridge, driving there already sucks... Let's see how much worse this is gonna get.
Yeah, but do they know that other human beings are listening to it?
Pretty shitty to have absolutely zero keyboard interactivity on that page. Tabbing gets you … the NYT homepage, a bunch of YouTube videos — which you can't even see on the screen — and a "privacy project" link of some sort.
Dismissing someone as a shill, an ad hominem, is not a dialectic argument.
That's also my understanding. My understanding is that these specifications were not developed in the open, and thus there was no opportunity for external scrutiny before they were ratified. It's exactly the same reason previous similar specifications were so badly broken. Nothing has been learned.
How about a OnePlus 6T? :)

https://twitter.com/NTAuthority/status/1115339802503786496

Of course this is a hack, not a usable product, but I wouldn't be surprised if docking would be possible eventually, maybe someone even could hack the Windows 10 Mobile UI to run when undocked… (or design a new mobile UI)
Firefox bans free speech commenting plugin Dissenter from its extensions gallery
This is long term controversial issue. If you think the right answer is obvious you probably haven't dove down to the details, where it's much murkier. See in particular John Forester's _Effective_Cycling_. Forester believes that "cyclists fare best when they act and are treated as drivers of vehicles" and are not segregated from them. There are studies in this area pointing in both directions. One such concluded that putting bikes on multi-use trails makes cyclists less safe. A lot depends on the design of the bike paths, and a badly designed one can increase the risk over none at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_Cycling
I stand corrected.

What I was getting at, though, is that if you're a big user of GCloud IaaS products and some of their more basic infrastructual SaaS offerings (Cloud SQL, Bigtable, etc. etc.) you're unlikely to run into the kind of issue you mentioned, and everything from the pricing to the way customer relationships are handled reflects that.

Google Maps is basically an application as a service, which, while technically all part of "cloud", is not really part of the core cloud offering in the same way. On the Cloud Console, Google Maps is listed in the menu at the very bottom, as the only entry under "Other Google Solutions".

All the cloud providers have a mix of offerings that range from very standard (IaaS, or managed open source systems like Cloud SQL and AWS RDS) to very proprietary (things like BigQuery, DynamoDB.) If you decide to use one of the very proprietary ones, you have to recognize that you're creating a very different kind of dependency and risk - migrating to another provider or hosting onprem becomes a rewrite, instead of a migration.

That's a risk you should ideally be aware of before you choose such a solution, and it's not unique to Google. That same level of risk doesn't exist for the other kinds of products I've mentioned, so it doesn't make sense to treat that risk as though it applies to all Google products.
>Every organization has whistleblowers.

this is not clear. A sufficiently small organization needn't have whistleblowers. The extreme level of confidentially practiced in the relevant organizations ensures that the number of people privy to the knowledge and capable of leaking is very small.
the other side of it is the decision you make like this in government will have a 30-50 year impact. making changes is not easy for anyone, but you can change an entire infrastructure at microsoft in a tenth of the time you could do it at the DoD
It's antagonistic and obviously misleading to state that a person has given explicit permission to a company without any further explanation when the reality you're basing that on is that the permission was in the wording of a contract that person clicked "agree" on.

You may insist all day that this person was irresponsible in examining the contract, which I will also disagree with, but claiming that they have given explicit permission is a lie on your part, and I would have a hard time believing that you don't know that.