skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only is it visually pleasing, as an escape fro our usual concrete-filled world (probably because we evolved living in nature), but without doing any research to look up studies I feel like the reduced stress might also come from the smell (pheromones).
Mueller report release live updates
The Justice Department innately cannot prosecute the President, because the President can always fire people as the case is made. (Edit: Also President can theoretically pardon himself) The Justice Department (and the Attorney General) serves at behest the President.

It is Congress's duty to prosecute the President through
impeachment proceedings. At best, Muller's report should be seen as a gathering of evidence for a potential impeachment process.

As such, it is very important for Congress to read over the details of this report, and decide if the level of Obstruction here rises to impeachment levels. (Remember: President Bill Clinton was impeached on Obstruction of Justice. It wasn't illegal to have sex with his intern, it was illegal for him to cover-up the fact).

In either case: there won't be any removal of Mr. Trump from office. Democrats control the house, but Republicans control the Senate. The impeachment of Nixon only really happened because Democrats controlled both sides. The House can technically impeach (just as Bill Clinton was technically impeached), but the (Republican controlled) Senate can just sit around and do nothing about it.

Still, its important for Congress to go through the process, even if its a foregone conclusion.
I don't mean to say that increasing thrust is the standard stall recovery procedure in most aircraft, or that all stalls could be recovered from merely by increasing thrust. But if one could only manipulate thrust, one would increase thrust to recover from a stall, not decrease it.
Been using Data Grip as my regular database client for a couple of years, very happy.
It seems to me that a more flexible university would be lucky to have you. "William Stein" was a household name among the number theorists I knew.
Keep in mind you can download the fonts and host locally. You don't have to let Google host.
Well isn't that kinda the same thing? If God is everywhere and in everything, you're talking about the same thing, so 42 is definitely the true number of God!
You're not really arguing with me here - my point is that 'za' had a multitude of meanings prior to the split of West and East Slavic.
> Children ... ought to be given autonomy over themselves, their property, and their privacy

No no no.

My 10 year old child definitely should not have adult-level autonomy.

It is my responsibility as a good parent to train my child by limiting aspects of their life. My children do not have unsupervised access to the internet. They do not have unlimited screen time. They cannot go on social networks and make friends with random people.

It is my job as a parent to not abuse my position as a parent. But I would fail my children greatly if I gave them autonomy over many aspects of their life.

As they prove themselves adept at self-regulation, growing wisdom and good judgement then, and only then, do I grant them more autonomy.
Sleeping in the middle of nowhere to enjoy some stargazing perhaps?

Stuck in an airport overnight?

Long term local power outage?

There are nice things about long lasting batteries.
It depends on where I am. Where I live, OSM is quite good and I use that. In areas where OSM is not so good, I just download map images and refer to those by hand.
That's true. I started a new job where all my coworkers (including my boss) added me on Facebook. I recently realized that I'm now censoring myself more than I was before. It's a question of status: I don't want to broadcast to my coworkers that I sometimes go to electronic music events. I know they would judge me negatively. My girlfriend recently broke up with me. I didn't say anything on Facebook either, because I don't want to seem like a whiner. Maybe it's not such a bad thing, the net result is that I participate less in public discussions on Facebook, and instead discuss these things privately with close friends instead.
This article had me thinking about self-repairing clothing or ships with living hulls.
Asians in general face a major problem of lacking in formal English and technical writing skills.

Paired with the scarcity of quality mentor grad students (getting into a grad programs is way easier than getting in into UG programs, the best students head to other countries ) and massive societal pressures, it is incredibly difficult to write papers at a tier 1 level.

This leads to students submitting promising but half baked work to predatory journals/conferences just to get some closure.

Source : submitted promising robotics work to IEEE-IROS. Got praised for the key innovation, got blasted for shoddy writing and underexperimentation. With more time it could have been better, but by then it was time to graduate and head to greener pastures.
I'm rereading it along with the alzabo soup podcast. I can highly recommend it if you want to enjoy it thoroughly.
Any screenshots of postgres execution plan exploration? This is 99% of what I'd consider a new tool for. (Other tool suggestions also welcome.)
No, that's for small aircraft and their postwar era engine designs. To give you an idea of how slow development is in small aircraft engines, AVGas (Gasoline for airplanes) is still leaded.
The article seems like a thinly-veiled advertisement for Brave, in my opinion.
Pets frequently have implanted microchips, but for identification purposes, not live tracking. I suspect folks offer GPS trackers for pets already.

Lifestock you can typically afford to lose a couple of.
Why do you need a loud enough speaker to hear it while driving? Can't you just tie your phone into your car's audio system? Bluetooth, Aux Cable, or otherwise??
There are two main ways an ad business grows. Create more inventory to sell, and increase the value of that inventory.

Maps data had presumably been doing the latter behind the scenes. Now it appears to also be doing the former.

Would you be ok with them using the data to improve their targeting models as long as they didn't include the placements in the Maps experience itself?
Humans have always fought in wars and killed one another but why are modern weapons so much more dangerous? Technology has the potential to enable the dark aspects of humanity to be more destructive than ever. Make no mistake, the HN crowd is not your average person, how social media applies to you does not reflect how it will apply to the majority in the world.
> Xfce Quick Launcher Plugin has been removed from the Debian and Ubuntu archives due to it no longer being supported.

Its the fastest option to quickly load scripts, and its convinient to have it always on the taskbar for frequently launched stuff. Whats the rationale for removing it?
Judging from other comments this is an unpopular idea, but why does business get to be some sort of quasi morality-free zone where nobody has to take responsibility for anything? If a friend works for a company that engages in activity that I find morally reprehensible, why shouldn't this affect our friendship? I think our society could really benefit from a little accountability, so in lieu of regulations and laws protecting us from corporations I think protecting our social circles from people who endorse the bad actions of their employers because "it's just business" is perfectly okay.

I see other comments talking about personal responsibility, but in the case of FB the notion of a company selling their data is too abstract to clearly understand the risks/consequences for many. Should we put no responsibility on corporations to act civilly or at least legally? Should one not have a personal responsibility to engage only with corporate entities that behave civilly/lawfully/etc? I really don't understand this mindset.
Thanks. I have no idea if it's the "right" way to do this. It's the first computer vision problem I've done in a long time.

With better lighting you could probably distinguish between colors of different types of candy, assuming they're different enough. If you can determine the type of candy and know how many calories are in each piece it would be easy to count the calories, of course.

FYI all of your new comments are being marked as [dead] for some reason.
As a Motorola lover, multi-day charge is awesome.

Sometimes you forget to charge your phone. No problem! Battery's good until you get to a charger sometime the following day.

Also, an oversized battery / efficient chip means I can power-use my phone for a full day without worrying about battery.

And finally, because as your battery loses capacity over time, your phone drifts back to one-day charge, not sub-day charge.
I actually use Firefox and avoid Google products where possible, but for the majority of users Google is controlling their browser.
I always wondered if the plastic removal instructions on Canon ink cartridges were excessive or genius.
There are literally 3 or 4 plastic parts that need removing. They are numbered and bright orange (the rest of the cartridge is black).

And this is a replaceable part!
I'd be happy to do a one time purchase for a permanently ad-free maps experience but I doubt Google would offer that. I stayed on an old version of maps for years after Google crippled functionality by combining Navigation and Maps into a single app, I'll be happy to do it again to avoid ads.
Optimizing M3: Uber Halved Metrics Ingestion Latency by Forking Go Compiler
Wow - almost identical video with actual ICBM to compare. Thanks!!

Also: why is it still bright? Don't understand why it would still be firing at that point. Is it burning?
Yeah people always forget this! LinkedIn is super-shady and what they were doing was the darkest of all patterns.
That's really interesting. I work in the emergency room, and pretty much our entire approach up patient care is algorithm-driven.

As soon as the patient checks in, their demographics (age, sex, etc) and vitals are fed into a mysterious program, which suggests an acuity level, and basically drives the whole course of treatment. The patient is required to be tested for a variety of disease processes based on the AI-generated differential diagnoses.

Honestly, I thought/still think medicine is headed toward this, which is why I decided to go into research.
OK, but it does not follow that those who resort to violence must therefore be the oppressed. They could just as easily be the oppressors, or former oppressors who resent their loss of power and privilege. The KKK, for example, was not because white people were oppressed, but because they had lost their ability to oppress through legally-accepted channels.
Flying a plane is easy. Autopilots have been a thing for a long time. Landing a plane is a bit tricky but doable. The value of human pilots though is in the case of malfunctions. That's the main problem. A failing safe-driving car has always the option of stopping on the side, calling home and lighting the warning lights.

A plane has to find a way of landing safely first. I am not versed enough in aeronautics to even begin to understand how hard it is to reach human-level in mayday situations.
But you miss the underlying point. If one of a dozen restaurants ban you because of a trait, that's distasteful. If every bank in your town or the electric company does, that's a problem.

Does Facebook have a meaningful alternative?
I'd go even further in the opposite direction than other responders and say this can be a good thing. Your child getting lost in ikea is a safe way for them to learn the dangers of getting lost and also a safe challenge to overcome. Similar to how falling and hurting yourself in a playground is a safe way to test boundaries and experience challenge.

Imagine you're 5 and you get lost in ikea and get scared to death. Nothing bad will happen because it's ikea, but you'll learn that getting lost is terrifying and you will be a lot less likely to do it again.

Kids need to be safely challenged, or else they won't know how to respond to it when it happens for real. Not having challenges makes kids narcissistic and lowers their empathy. Helicopter parenting is turning our kids into the worse kinds of people.
Depending on what you will define as an 'operation' there are some probably some easy numbers.

I think the simplest answer is 52.
You need to place each card correctly once.
Things get complicated if you account for searching in the deck, but we don't account for looking at the rubiks cube either.

A more interesting question is 'what if we count how far we need to move the card' (i.e. moving it from position 1 to 52 is 52 steps, and from 1 to 3 is only 2 steps).

This is a question of simple group theory though. Shuffling cards is the group S_52. The 'moving a card one position' is working with 51 simple operations of swap (idx, idx + 1). This is essentially bubble sort.
McDonald's pulls Signature Crafted burgers, doubles down on Quarter Pounders
How many cheap electronic devices at Amazon have a non-fake FCC certification, what do you think?
How about consumer and privacy laws? I know it varies from country to country but the government can sue and fine companies and people in order to protect it's citizens. I know I know.. I'm old fashioned like that.
Forced to close? Why? That's a terrible authoritarian idea.

The only solution is more competition, not less. Trying to limit who can do what has only ever led to worse outcomes. There's nothing stopping a non-profit group from creating maps today if they wanted to.
The Earth isn't a sphere!

(It's a very rough-surfaced, approximate, oblate spheroid)
mark is not trying to take facebook off the market, so I'd be willing to bet that he and other corporate officers are going to react to share price. the vast majority (I've seen estimates of ~98%) of his wealth is still tied directly to facebook stock.
In the future the way to avoid this is for the hospital/doctor to submit a prior auth request. Then you have it in writing.
FWIW I basically just cobbled together Stack Overflow answers :)
Missing the point that this is the first picture of a freaking black hole..
Unlikely. Remember that the House Intelligence Committee has a full set of Top-Secret clearances, as well as the Senate Intelligence Committee.

They're not allowed to tell us any top-secret information, but you can usually tell if something is getting hidden from the public based on their reactions. If something is getting hidden, expect Ron Wyden (or other Democrats on those Committees) to make a big, vague, stink about the matter.

In effect, the existence of those top-secret committees ensures that the redactions are fair. Unlike most committees, the law states that Democrats AND Republicans must be as close to 50/50 split on those committees as possible, due to their great importance in matters such as these.
Obligatory Peter Thiel statement on this (2012): https://youtu.be/2Q26XIKtwXQ?t=195

> Google is no longer a technology company, and [...] it's basically [...] a search engine. The search technology was developed a decade ago, it's a bet that [...] no one else will come up with a better search technology so you invest in Google because you're betting against technological innovation in search, and it's like [...] a bank that generates enormous cash flows every year but you can't issue a dividend because the day you take that 30 billion and send it back to people you're admitting that you're no longer a technology company.

Still relevant today.
Written in Delphi
Tracking is better than nothing but they should not roam unaccompanied anyway.
Presumably you would do these projects today on an emulator like VICE?

http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/
> It's an organizational policy, procedural, ethics and legal question - not a technical one.

Not really. You have to fall back to those things when a good technical solution isn't available, but sometimes it is.

Suppose you have a car, and four children. You can enact all the laws and policies and procedures you like, you can lecture the kids not to misbehave a thousand times. But the most important thing you can do, if you really don't want them out joyriding in the street, is to not give them the keys to the car.
We live in the society of the spectacle as predicted by Guy Debord, in which he argues that authentic social life has been replaced with its representation.

Relevant quotes:

"All that once was directly lived has become mere representation."

“The spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from a genuinely lived life. The image is thus an historical mutation of the form of commodity fetishism.”

“... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having [things], post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.”
The problem is, even in a situation with only good faith actors, not every codepath is equally developed/tested/working, and bugs creep in. Especially if some parts of a protocol are there for future use. Then if a buggy implementation gets widespread, that effectively nixes that part of the future potential of the protocol.

That's why, if you think about a clever solution for something, and your solution depends on the letter of the standard instead on actual large scale experiments, then the risk of stumbling into big problems is large. Sure, it might be only 1-5% of the Internet that cannot use your clever solution. But historically developers opted to chose solutions that work for 99.9%, even at the cost of even more layers/encapsulation/complexity.
> Would you be ok with them using the data to improve their targeting models as long as they didn't include the placements in the Maps experience itself?

There was a day when I would have been OK with that, but for me, those days are long gone. I would not be OK with that now.
$15-25 a month? (or $40 a month for all?) (The free version doesn't support basic things like import and export, so it's really not viable for professionals)

DataGrip is $20/month, for all databases, and includes additional ones this product doesn't support. Nor does it have limits like the number of tabs you can have open. And it's cross platform today.
Why such a low opinion of children? A lot of us grew up in public schools, taught to conform, etc, and ... well, look how well we are conforming? No dissent here, not one bit ;-)
Unfortunate. These were surprisingly decent.
This FB example of the social 'stage set' individuals can set up for themselves at no cost to project on the world is arguably a micro example of what the pr machine behind politicians and showbiz personalities push out to us.

It's getting harder and harder to find what's authentic unless you actually manage to physically meet these people in unmanaged and scripted situations...
What if it was not the fault of social media? What if the platforms were only there for people to express themselves in which ever way they felt comfortable doing publicly? It seems that this woman was not speaking to her father about her mental illness nor to her friends. Social media might have shocked the observer but the mask is only created in the minds of her followers ("I thought she was a one-dimensional happy person. I'm shocked to discover there is more to this person than her public profile!")

Perhaps the real story here is about the audience of this woman's profile. They were naive in thinking that a collection of photos and posts represents a person in its entirety.
There are tons of viable competitors to google maps, even on Android, last time I checked.

They all have different monetization strategies, and all provide good enough turn by turn directions. I regularly use Here WeGo for its offline support. Sygic is probably still fine.

I think Sygic moved to a freemium model, and I get the impression Here is subsidized by luxury car manufacturers.

Yelp crushes google maps on search.

I really don’t understand why google maps is so popular. Like search, maps is a capital intensive, commodity product with near-zero switching cost. I guess the same can be said of Coke and Pepsi, and they’re chugging along just fine. It’s a good thing I don’t work in brand management!
So, when is the FTC going to actually bring down the hammer on FB for violating the consent agreement? There's no way this was "unintentional."

At $40,000 per user per day [1], even at just one day of violation, that's a $60 billion fine FB should be liable for. "Under the settlement, Facebook agreed to get consent from users before sharing their data with third parties," so this seems to be EXACTLY in violation of that agreement.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/facebooks-ftc-consent-decree-deal-...

*Edit: on second thought, it should be even higher, as each of the 1.5M users had multiple contacts uploaded. So, for example, let's say 1 user had 150 contacts who were not part of the other 1.5M users who had contacts uploaded. That alone should be a violation of the consent rights of those 150 people, so $6 million per day. If every one of the 1.5 million people had, on average, 150 contacts exclusive of the other 1.5 million people who had contact info uploaded, that's a $9 trillion liability for one day of violation.

The FTC has been toothless on this for quite some time now, so I'm expecting no significant action as FB lawyers will defend that no one had data shared with "third parties," technically. Well, shouldn't my contact info shared by a friend with FB be a consent violation as FB is a "third party" from my perspective?
I try to limit the times I am painting with such a wide brush as to categorize the output of an entire county but in the case of technology coming out of China, isn't it almost guaranteed to be "insecure"?

I am saying insecure in the sense that there is no doubt that the Chinese government has access to whatever data in TikTok they want. I am admittedly out of my depth on detailed discussions about security but I believe this is basically the situation in China. Maybe you could argue that it is effectively the same in the United States but I'm not sure.
Surveillance cameras are already in most infant's rooms and even sometimes cribs.
No surprise here. IBM has stopped producing usable engineering solutions long time ago.
The point there is that is it not supported by Mozilla. Google has strong-armed publishers into implementing their websites in a restricted Google format that speeds up websites just for Google Chrome and Google Chromium-based browsers. It's an unethical power grab by Google on multiple levels.
> For example, know that most HNers are fairly informed individuals in tech

Ha. If that were true, why are there hourly front-page articles about "facebook is leaking your info!!!" and "google is evil!!", or my favorite "bitcoin {is,isn't} a great thing!!" ?

At the risk of angering folks and being downvoted/flagged, I think either there is a major disconnect between the types of people on HN that upvote articles and the people on HN who comment on articles, OR folks here are, on average, not as informed as you think they are.
They say they're going to delete it, but are they really though? How are they gonna prove it?
It’s very strange to see this downvoted. It’s completely factual and on topic.

I often see this pattern if I talk about anything controversial: 2 or 3 initial downvotes, followed by more upvotes. It can also just stay at -3 and never go up. Then sometimes, I get 50 or 90 upvotes.

The CIA got thousands of innocent people crippled or killed just to track down one man. Quite possibly millions, depending on how long it goes on and how widespread it becomes again.

The thought process seems to assume that they can be "invisible" and their activities have no externalities or long term repercussions. It's analogous to injection with needles. The assumption holds true for small n. It falls apart with large n.
Direct link to redacted report: https://www.npr.org/assets/news/2019/04/muellerreport.pdf
Your post made me think of Nicole Cooke's terrific retirement speech
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/jan/14/nicole-cooke-r...