skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flight is a hard problem that living organisms have been working on for millions of years, yet human engineered systems fly higher, faster, and further. How do you know that human engineered systems can't also be much better at self replication and hence create grey goo?
> When MCAS senses that the angle of attack is too high, it commands the aircraft’s trim system (the system that makes the plane go up or down) to lower the nose. It also does something else: It pushes the pilot’s control columns (the things the pilots pull or push on to raise or lower the aircraft’s nose) downward.

Wait a minute. Since when does MCAS include a stick pusher? I haven't flown anything outside simulators yet, but AFAIK 737's do not have stick pushers of any kind.
"less wrong" -- as if what's important is a gradient of "wrongness" and just helping the average person understand stuff without technical jargon.
SF has lots of public toilets. They're just unpleasant to use for obvious reasons.
Because it's strictly better than the status quo? Given the choice between taking a crap in public and leaving a turd on the sidewalk vs. taking a crap in public and having it flushed how is the former preferable to the latter? The unfortunately reality is that creating a private space for relieving oneself is regularly abused as other commenters have pointed out. It's an instance of hostile design 1, but one that is evidently necessary.

Its also a form of restroom that is common in many other countries. Such a type of toilet is not new.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_architecture
"modest proposals" are inherently tongue-in-cheek. OP is suggesting that current policy is nearly as inhumane.
I've noticed the same, unfortunately. Lot's more posts on anything that isn't coding or directly tech related that just say something like, "this shouldn't even be on HN"

At least the tend to get downvoted relatively fast
The first good folding phone might change that.
I once spent time backpacking and had the opportunity to stop in the city. The amount of people who assumed I was transient, and the way the treated me based on that assumption, was astounding.

I don't see how a homeless person would be able to use an establishment's bathroom more than once without being kicked out. Some places even hired security guards to stand outside of bathrooms and check receipts before allowing you to use them.
Comparing sensors and comparing judgment of the other computer were both things they could have done, that they utterly failed to do, in both cases.
This is a sarcastic reference to a famous essay published by Jonathan Swift. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal)
Lol. I was giving a basic intro for the 99% of readers who don't care about "kernel density" or controlling for output variables -- the fact that you conflate such an attempt with a "quantitative analysis" (which it was not) coupled with your unwillingness or inability to give a plain English description just proves my point.
Have you played with it at all? Mozilla isn't acting as a data broker, they're providing software and a framework. The world of iot doesn't have that many great offerings for private systems. Mozilla is taking their years of software experience and building something decent. I'm glad to see this hasn't been shuttered yet. I've been wanting to move more of my home automation away from cloud based services and this has a lot of potential. (The current best offering I know of is hass)
It’s interesting how this changes.

I recently found my phone from 5 years ago and realized that at that time I implicitly trusted Google with everything.

It’s such a different perspective from today that it came as a bit of a shock.
U.S. proposal would evict undocumented immigrants from public housing
But it did not do that to me. And this was in 2016, not 2019.

Furthermore, it does have a data feed for traffic, through FM radio (using the power cable as an antenna) and/or a Bluetooth connection to a phone. It's not as good as google Maps' traffic updates and it's only for major roads, but it works pretty well.
iOS. Mobile app with ability to deposit checks and send payments/wires. We use Xero primarily.
I looked at the zork code. Does it reference (missing?) external files, like ADVSAVE ?
nice! how'd you find this game?
There's no money in that, you socialist pig!!!
The more significant advantage of the NES over the C64 is the way hardware scrolling works.

The NES supports a 4-screen screen memory or "nametable", and the PPU, or graphics chip, can be programmed with one or two register writes to basically display any position within that 4 screens. Scrolling is just updates to the scroll registers and populating new video data on the incoming edge (which has to happen during VBLANK).

Whereas the C64's VIC-II can only select a few fixed places to start reading video memory to render the screen (2k boundaries for text mode). It can finely shift the screen left or right up to 8 pixels, but scrolling past that requires a many, many cycle recopy of RAM to video memory. Throw in the need to recopy color memory as well and that puts the C64 at a serious disadvantage.

Looks like this game on the C64 used some really advanced technique called VSP, which tells the VIC to I guess read from arbitrary memory addresses instead of the fixed ones it normally supports. This apparently exposed a VIC-II hardware bug that can corrupt RAM (since VIC-II is responsible for DRAM refresh). Really interesting. Seems some systems are more susceptible to this hardware bug than others, and there's difficult software workarounds for it.
Barr's press conference was at 9.30 AM EDT, however.
It seems like all of these social networks have considerable negative externalities that is mainly caused by us humans being inconsiderate jerks.
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This is the Mozilla I love. I wish they did more projects like this, it's a shame Firefox OS went away, especially in this world of PWAs.

I do love that this dashboard can even be ran on your router. Also the web UI looks really clean.
You are giving OP benefit of the doubt, certainly the people responding riffing on this "joke" are not viewing the remark with much nuance

Disgusting
That is amazing work!

So nice to see that hardware continue to see development and people pushing the boundaries.
This was my thought. Also, this can’t really be that much more sanitary or clean.
Video games and youtube are perfect onramps to D&D.

Fantasy storytelling has always been big (from mythology to LoTR to GoT) but now it's reinforced with a positive feedback loop of tabletop and video gaming.

Add in the ability to instantly and cheaply download materials in PDF form over the internet, and even the ability to play games remotely using roll20, etc., and you have a golden era for D&D and potentially other tabletop RPGs as well.
I described my finances in great detail in another blog post. I don’t think I’m risking anything consequential, because I can always go get a job again if this doesn’t work out for any reason. I definitely don’t think I’m doing anything irresponsible.
They are new to the team and are not getting sufficient code reviews. I wouldn’t put the blame on them. There is a lot of gotchas in an unfamiliar codebase. Although they probably should have known this and insisted on a full review if they are at senior level.
If you somehow feel that firefox is moving too slowly (check the vcs history its very active) you can always contribute yourself, it's OSS :)
In the readme:

> Since the NES-processor is clocked (roughly 70%) faster than a stock C64 there can be slowdowns during gameplay. A pixel indicates this on the time-watch graphics in the status bar.
That really depends on what you mean by "similarly capable."

If we're talking a psych grad who taught themselves the equivalent of a CS degree, then sure. That's usually not the case though. Non CS grads tend to never learn the boring parts.

As someone who worked professionally for almost a decade before getting my CS degree, what I learned during my degree has made a huge difference. There were so many gaps in my knowledge that I didn't know I had.

I've also hired plenty of CS grads, and non CS grads, and in my experience, the CS grads tend to outperform the rest all else being equal.

Are you sure that you're not seeing selection bias here? Non CS majors tend to be career changers (or they've had time to finish and degree and learn CS) and are therefore older on average.
Swift's essay is commonly assigned reading in American public schools. The sarcasm of the essay is made clear to every middle school student who reads it.
Boston Dynamics debuts the production version of SpotMini
C&D any time now…
> the state is incentivized to optimize for a healthy population.

The state is incentivized to be a political boon for politicians, not to give "healthy outcomes".
Whoa, at the end of the article there's an announcement about "WebThings Gateway for Wireless Routers". Is this the beginning of apps for routers? I've talked about the idea before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18887403

I'm excited to hear more.
Even ignoring all the lack of deliverables, just the amount of financial trickery and lack of project oversight by the way money was pumped into it via philanthropy (instead of primary funding channels) which meant it bypassed multiple checks and balances, including from anyone knowledgeable of software development.

Sounds like every other failed $50+ million government software project ever, which IBM is apparently an expert at. Except this money donated by private citizens was redirected from other cancer research projects and siphoned into a billion dollar company’s coffers.

Really shameful stuff.
Maybe he's on to something, just misdirected.

If we fed the wealthy to the wolves, we could fit like a hundred people in each mansion.
>QCOM's licensing model lives on, good for them

No. Fuck that patent troll.
Firefox OS has been rebranded as KaiOS since Mozilla stopped working on it, and it has been gaining significant market share since then. A $5 LTE bar or flip phone based on a Qualcomm 205 with 128MB of ram isn't able to run Android (especially not in a fast manner), but it will run KaiOS just fine.
Yes, it is unfortunate that these errors detracted from the thrust of the article.
Sure, but the Mueller report was widely reported[0][1][2] to be released Thursday morning days ago.

[0]: https://deadline.com/2019/04/redacted-robert-mueller-report-...

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/muell...

[2]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/15/mueller-report-expected-to-b...
It might be more directly a reference to this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2015/03/...
Seriously? IoT is a quickly growing, potentially massive and ubiquitous field. Given the shit state of security and technical implementation of its initial era, in very glad that a well-resourced non-profit is helping to create an open standard.
When we learn how to keep brain in a jar, then i agree that brain is a person and we need all the normal laws.

But until that the choices we have here are nothingness and an experiment with unknown outcome. Given this choice i don't see any experiment that is worse than the nothingness.

Btw. if you agree that brain is equivalent to a program that can run on a computer, then you should also agree that pain, infinite torture and other "hellish" things are not a big deal, they are just pointless computations.
Thanks to you both for the additional resources. I wish I knew about these sooner.
Trump feared Mueller was 'end' of presidency
We are a marketing software company with a previous ad network business. Lots of bills, invoices, credits generated by our system that use APIs to send payments and record statements in accounting software but bank reconciliation is completely manual. Automating even some of it would be helpful.
In addition to being able to reuse the same screen and cameras for folded mode, you're folding the device flat, which means pressure will be distributed over a larger area, requiring a less sturdy hinge (and less space).

I only speculate, but I think since it's just vapor deposited material, OLED screens with solid backings are quite robust.
>Have had quite a few friends go to career fairs and every company rep lost interest as soon as they heard the words "engineering physics".

It's true, but I'm glad it happened this way. I don't want to work at any company that doesn't recognize the value of this degree. I'm a SWE in a FAANG now, and I think I do much more interesting work than if I had just joined a company looking for a CS grad. And to be clear, I only have a Ba.

But, advice to other EngPhys grads looking for jobs or internships: don't mention the Engineering Physics degree until you've got the rep interested in you (by talking about experience, etc) or frame it in a different way. For example, my EngPhys specialization was computing, so I would talk about that first when I was at career fairs.
What if SF employed a few of the homeless to clean them? I’d like to see public money spent invested in people than more unusable/inaccessible utilities. Certainly not a get rich quick scheme, but it’s just a quick thought.
No, you’re missing the point a bit. It’s not about the magnitude of the response, it’s about the propensity for a feedback loop.

=+1 is shorthand for “ignore everything going on in the world and increase your value”. This is almost never what anyone actually wants so they try to spend a bunch of time guarding against calling that when it’s already at a maximum.

Instead, the safe thing to do is only assign to it from a function with a ceiling.

val = min(CEIL, val+1)

It’s way to easy to get runaways with =+1 even in serious systems like this one. Every time I see that in code I review where the value is some long-lived thing, I just confirm with the author that they don’t care if it overflows, because it’s probably gonna happen.
Docker for NAS devices is the de facto App Store. The most compelling applications are for media consumption / piracy.
Even things Mozilla did pull support from and attempt to shutter, like Thunderbird and Firefox OS (now KaiOS) had vibrant communities that stepped up and kept these projects alive.

Mozilla does know how to build a community around the projects they work on.
The former is preferable because you are providing a disservice to the community that will not allow you dignity, even though they can most obviously afford it.
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You’re describing a person who has a huge amount of expertise in sales.

But a person like that can very lucratively sell actual products that already exist, so why would they want to sell this mysterious X?
Discovery of a Meteor of Interstellar Origin
And if you like that idea, there's babies too; they can be a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled
Left and right are relative terms.

While the Democratic Party, WaPo or HuffPost might not seem particularly left-wing relative to, say, Europe, they certainly are left of center in the US.

And what you're calling center-left or actual left-wing is far-left in American terms.
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I wonder what's the metric used to call those other tools better, if not productivity?
Yup, the first thing I thought when I read the title was "well, we already had our own Mario".

To be fair, it was a decent ripoff, but controls and levels were nowhere as good as NES Super Mario.
Replacing dead batteries is different than the UX of being able to swap empty batteries with fully charged ones so your phone is never left charging on a charger for hours, only one of multiple batteries are. Plus when travelling or away from the charger you could carry multiple with you in a bag.

But I get what you’re saying otherwise.
>the searchable copies of the Mueller Report now circulating have been incompletely OCRed. It looks like OCR failed on any line that included any redaction at all, so there's substantial text that will still not show up in search

For example, the word "Sanders" appears on page 23, but this instance does not show up in searches.

https://twitter.com/qwrrty/status/1118980162324959233
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I always knew that D&D was fun to watch (and play), but until I watched Acquisitions Incorporated in person I underestimated the bizarre and hilarious fun of sharing the experience with thousands of D&D fanatics shouting "green flame!" at appropriate moments.
That chart tells the tale. It's quite astounding how it's climbed from ~5,500 incidents in 2011 to ~28,000 in 2018. Keep in mind this is _reported_ incidents.

It's like it's been normalized. No joke. In a residential (western) neighborhood (i.e. not SOMA) within a month I saw evidence of human feces twice [it's not like I'm out and about all day long]. Once on a set of steps, the other someone squatting behind some bushes. It's out of hand [seeing brown streaked tissue is another indicator]. Ridiculous.

Props to the chartmakers for reminding me of the Brown Zune.
The 900-something lines of C code documented by the book Interpreting Lisp, which can now be found on Github, is not something I would recommend for teaching C beginners.

From a best practices point of view, it is pretty awful.

https://github.com/Apress/interpreting-lisp
SF created a "Poop Patrol" a few months ago...

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/San-Francisco-Set-to-R...
Osm is donation funded. For all your scepticism you could have found that in seconds. People contribute for fun, not because they boss told them to fly this later drone around so their expensive software can process it. That saves a lot of cost. The hardware is nearly free, look at Wikipedia: they beg for your money every few months but of the millions collected, a fraction actually goes to the hosting they imply it's for.

Osm also takes data from governments and other organisations that publish it, but only if it's already available under a compatible free license. Not sure where you see that tie in with corruption (which additionally is much more frequent in the private sector but maybe that depends on your country, but since there are no big bucks flowing in and all financial records are public and are plausible for what they do (I looked through it), the point is moot anyway).
Right, IIUC, the stated goal is to reach some standardization (https://www.w3.org/WoT/) for IoT communication. Which, in my opinion would be great for users if it panned out. It is not an ideal situation that people that prefer to control their IoT devices themselves need to rely on a myriad of integration plugins for hass. But I'm not hopeful that this will gain the required industry traction
I mentioned in another thread, if you can get good at something that other people hate, you won't be unemployed. Although, it might take longer to find a job if it's not a fungible skill.

But the secret is, it's not torture. For most people, it's prohibitively difficult to reach the expert level in something that we're not inclined to enjoy.
Wouldn’t it be pretty simple (for FB) to create accounts with super unique password as part of their test process? Then they scan all their storeage for the super unique password? Or am I missing something?
I think it's a mistake to imply the managers making this decision had our hindsight knowledge. Of course if they knew this would happen they would've taken a different course, for profits and other reasons.

To your larger point, I think as systems get more complex it's much more difficult for management to make accurate risk/benefit decisions. Take the Shuttle Challenger disaster. In Feynman's report, the management estimated something along the lines of a 1-in-100,000 chance of catastrophic failure. I think the actual number was ultimately reported around 1-in 1,000. The exact numbers from memory may be off, but the point is as systems get highly complex, increased interfaces and interactions lead to more failure modes. Understanding them all is really tough
Firefox OS has been rebranded as KaiOS, and its eating marketshare with $5 LTE bar and flip phones. Said devices are pretty minimally specced with a Qualcomm 205 and 128MB of Ram, but Mozilla did a great job optimizing for low end devices.
It's MedHost with a lot of modifications specific to our hospital.
For a countervailing viewpoint, I got a Masters in CS from Georgia Tech, and it was just coursework at the level of my 3rd and 4th years of undergrad in New Zealand. Bit of a let-down.
not sure where "one" came from, there are many of them around portland, concentrated in problem areas. there is typically poop and needles around the toilets (which also have sharps containers that are emptied regularly), and neighboring businesses still get hit fairly heavily.

anecdote time: i had one a block from where i was living, and a block from a grocery store - while checking out, a very desperate person charged up complaining that the grocery store bathroom had been locked for too long. trying to be helpful, I mention the portland loo a block away only to be yelled at by the complainant. it was then that i figured out that the desire for the restroom wasn't for bodily waste elimination (portland loo's have a timer to stop drug use and prostitution in them).

as an aside, the portland loo's are some of the cleanest and best maintained public restrooms i've used - when given the choice between a "standard" restroom and a portland loo, such as on the waterfront, i choose the loo.
I have a general theory related to this this article. Disenfranchised people do not take care of the society around them. Rightfully so. If my society doesn't seem to give a shit about me, why should I give a shit about it? If this theory holds true, then graffiti, vandalism, pooping on the streets, and so on, are all symptoms of disenfranchisement. Conversely, go to a neighborhood of homeowners, and look at how well-kept everything generally is. You can even compare it to a neighborhood of renters. There's a noticeable difference between homeowner and renter neighborhoods. And it's not an income level thing. We can control the renter vs. owner neighborhood comparison for income level.

My general theory is that, if you want a well-ordered society, distribute ownership more.
I am taking a course called "Speech and Audio Understanding" from Prof. Michael I Mandel, you can check course website[1] , he has a good collection of resources. Also his github stars are good collection of related projects[2]. In class we are using a book called "Human and Machine Hearing: Extracting Meaning from Sound" by Richard F. Lyon, authors shares it for free [3]
For example one of the resources you will see on the course website is presentations from interspeech2018, you can check all tutorials from there[4].

[1] http://mr-pc.org/t/csc83060/

[2] https://github.com/mim?tab=stars

[3] http://dicklyon.com/hmh/Lyon_Hearing_book_01jan2018.pdf

[4] http://interspeech2018.org/program-tutorials.html
Why should someone with a job cleaning toilets be homeless?
Again, the issue is not affordability but the fact that public restrooms are abused and used for dangerous and often illicit activity

The former is not preferable because it spreads disease, and instills disdain for the homeless among the community thus decreasing willingness to dedicate resources towards services helping the homeless (thus hurting those homeless that do try to maintain good hygiene).

Not to mention, you have a very negative and prejudiced view of the homeless if you think that they desire to cause harm to the city. The overwhelming majority of homeless are not the spiteful, antisocial people you seem to believe them to be. They may often resort to harmful activity to survive (e.g. theft) but rarely have I seen them cause harm for no reason but to make other people suffer. Maybe things like leaving trash strewn about after scavenging through it, but that's more negligent than spiteful.