skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
District courts already exercise extensive control over what and how scientific evidence gets presented to a jury. Before trial, experts submit reports detailing their opinion (these can be hundreds of pages with supporting appendices). There is then a period of expert discovery, where the experts are deposed for a day or more each and grilled by the other side’s lawyer. Then there are “Daubert motions,” where each side asks the judge to exclude parts of the other expert’s testimony. Excluding testimony based on unsound and unreliable methods is the key focus of the Daubert motions. This is a process that takes months, and involves hundreds of pages of additional briefing, plus usually oral argument to the judge. And those decisions are then reviewable on appeal. Appellate courts routinely throw out jury verdicts because expert testimony was based on unreliable methods. By the time the case gets to the jury, the expert evidence has been vetted and the jury is presented with a very controlled picture of each side’s argument.

The issue is, experts genuinely don’t agree on much of anything. Is salt bad for your blood pressure? Many medical doctors would say yes, many would say no. There is almost no subject where you can’t find highly qualified experts that have conflicting opinions.
You're actually trying to argue that the Apollo program was not meaningful?

Let alone all exploration that doesn't result in immediate colonization?
Supreme Court Rules Against Apple, as Kavanaugh Sides with Liberal Justices
If you drank it I imagine all bets are off but I can't imagine there are many of those studies nor is it relevant to the case.

The question here is whether Bayer /Monsanto knowingly used a carcinogen that nearly every health org says is not a carcinogen.
We call that a CNC machine, it just needs the right program. This is used to backup Bitcoin wallets.
I don’t think this is a conspiracy by Big Social. If they really want to do that, they can still do that.

I assume the stickers thing truly was the most notable patch, and they didn’t want to scare people & tip off the attackers.
Nice idea. I'd like to see something applicable for other cities (via openstreetmap?) to explore possible partially remote areas where I could be living; along with the possibility to hook it up with more data.

Background: pretty bad case of asthma, car exhausts being one thing that makes things worse.
> 'I would happily take this kind of police harassment over the kind that leads to unarmed people being shot.'

Yup, can confirm that not getting shot ranks quite highly in my list of policing preferences.

Also, I note the story points out that the book was first printed in the UK to avoid problems in the US...
You're right. Routinely shooting unarmed black men definitely has a great many unwanted effects, not the least of which are on the people who get shot.

We're fortunate, then, that this is not something anyone is suggesting should be done in the UK! Nor is the question at hand the probative value of whataboutism.

The question at hand is that of police in the UK turning up and asking you why you're making an arse of yourself online. Against the possibility that they could not do that.
I can't speak for ThinkReality, but HoloLens (2) is definitely not intended to be an Oculus competitor but for industry applications. I'm confident that consumer-grade AR/VR for anything but enthusiasts is at least a couple of device generations away.
>given any evidence to back up your claim. What in particular makes you believe the jury in this case wasn't equipped to answer the questions asked of them?

Given the staggering consensus on glyphosates safety-- the outcome of the case would make me say that.
It was £99 iirc in the UK but you had to get it activated in-store for a seriously pricy contract. Until somebody worked out how to jailbreak it, at which point it was the bargain of the year.
Probably London.
Corporations are one of the worst laws in human history.

Letting people be separate from the company they own has caused a century of irresponsibility.
That's true, I guess I got carried off with my point and didn't think about what the journey was like for them. Though, it doesn't really retract from my point about misplaced idolization.
> "Uber lawsuit! They sued who?!"

From a casual following of tech news, it should be: "Uber lawsuit! Who's taking on them this time?!"
Imagine how great our oral hygiene would be if toothbrushes were more like phones.

... flossing away during meetings, on the bus etc.
Microsoft Failed Devs and Now It Has a Plan to Win Them Back
I agree it's not the end of the story, but without that knowledge, learning git is almost impossible. Even with DAG knowledge, some commands are hard to remember.
Reminder, if you're working on a project that you don't want to be "infected" by the GPL, take a look at anitrez' Linenoise project: https://github.com/antirez/linenoise
It doesn't have all the bells and whistles as Readline, but chances are, you won't miss them anyway.
The IARC didn't "ignore scientific data", they came to a different conclusion based on weighting multiple studies available against each other than the one Monsanto would have preferred. It is precisely the job of the IARC to find a scientific consensus based on the available data and publish it.

Monsanto on the other hand used Reuters to spread FUD about the IARC. A strategy right out of the cigarette industries playbook.
To "Win" them back... Great pun. And a great idea.
You're assuming that if the law changed the wealthy would sit there and accept the liability. They wouldn't. Without any expertise whatsoever I can imagine a massive pools of capital lending to companies at extortionate rates (~13%, or whatever predicted profits are + 5%), and the owners of the companies would be shell entities or some patsy to take the fall. That way the profits could be harvested across ownership boundaries and the people with the capital would be protected as lenders not owners.

The people with resources would set up ad-hoc schemes like that would limit their liability somehow, slipping loopholes in to the legal system. The small players wouldn't have the resources to play that sort of game. The more there is to lose the more effort would be diverted into protecting it.
Walmart takes on Amazon Prime with free, next-day deliveries
I don’t think the trust policy has much to do with this. At the end of the day, an app exploit is an app exploit, and if an app can make calls, an app exploit will be able to make calls too. As long as the exploit is not allowed to burrow in the OS proper, it likely wouldn’t be any different on Linux or a BlackPhone.
Right, and exposure is what allows you to pick between those two cases.
Thank you!

You've also made an excellent case for why explicit freedoms are valuable in addition to free speech.
Thanks for this find!

The same story, minus the "Sandy", is attributed to the pseudonym Triffat in Antifragile. In light of this text, I think Taleb mischaracterized Diaconis. At least I never would have imagined that the quote was a story "Triffat" was telling about himself!
This is so cool! Would love to have this kind of information before I rent or buy an apartment.
Btw, the argument "If it compiles, I don't need to be afraid about run time errors anymore" is also pretty foreign to me.

I just run my code in small batches while developing it, so at every point I already know that it works. This helps writing code that nicely separates into small chunks of functionality, and you basically automatically write tests for it while at it.

This is especially nice when refactoring a large code base. I can already run many small and usable tests in the middle of a refactor (while the program wouldn't even compile in a static language).

In my experience, this greatly helps to improve the quality of the refactor, and makes it much easier to see problems in your refactoring approach very early on.

In a static language, you'd only get these crucial insights after you're done with fixing all compilation errors - which is usually when you're already done with the whole refactor... and after that, you might still have lots of errors in it that you can only find with real tests ;)
Of course, once everyone does this, tech innovation grinds to a halt and we end up using the suboptimal tools we have forever.
Would me interesting to compare this with a map of criminal activities statistics.
European Agri agencies as well as UN agencies say glyphosate is safe.

Are we to assume a global conspiracy here, with Monsanto playing the part of the Bond villain?
You are using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0. You are wearing red.

What?
Making a Fortune Telling Machine (2016)
Getting a smartphone a few years ago was a great change of my life. I can now catch up on boring emails, tech support, and GitHub issues while being in a place otherwise doing nothing. Typing on my phone is only about 1.5x the effort as typing on a keyboard. So when I'm in front of a real PC, I can get straight to the useful work like programming without an hour of catch-up per day. This results on me taking walks and going to social events more often even when I have heavy workloads.

I'm a quite impatient person, so if a friend wants to meet for lunch and is 20 minutes late for whatever reason, I'm no longer annoyed/bored because I now just read articles or play dumb phone games for 20 minutes. That situation would drive me crazy before I had a smartphone, but now I'm always more relaxed wherever I am because I have a super convenient personal assistant and time-burner.

There are humans out there that make irrational decisions, but I think for most people, if they willingly do something, it's because they have evaluated that it gives them net benefit. Assuming that most people have no control of themselves is definitely wrong.
This alone won't be sufficient. I have a fake FB account which I haven't used in ages, which has only been accessed from my laptop. Somehow they managed to tie the fake account to my mobile device. I suspect they are using the apps that are constantly pinging graph.facebook.com to build a comprehensive profile of devices and accounts.

When I was visiting a foreign country I began receiving emails from facebook to try and get me to login, with FB marketplace results customized for the region I was in... this was very concerning and shows they are not only collecting vast amounts of data, but they have a good mechanism in place for persistent tracking of devices & users all over the planet
Black and White Forex Charts Can Increase Trader Focus
The 3a and 3a XL seem like sensible designs, the only disappointment here being how deeply the battery is buried.

This feels like a very dumb question, but are the current Google phones any less usable than other Androids for people who are keen to avoid going all in on Google services?

I have an Android phone and use the Play store with it, but I don't use Gmail, I don't store my contacts in my Google account, I have Assistant disabled, and I generally use an OSM maps app rather than Google Maps. I appreciate that this makes no meaningful difference to my online footprint, but it pleases me. Is there anything about the Pixel hardware or Android builds that would not sit well with this?
Open source Mali GPU drivers merged
Female Founder Raised $125M to Take on the $800B Trucking Industry
On Amazon:

> Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001.

That’s sad
> Who says the public has turned? Only the media has turned and they are promoting a particular narrative.

The media controls the public, so the question of why the public has turned is the same question as asking why the media has turned.
My 20s weekends consisted of getting the bus into town, getting drunk or going to a movie or club, then getting the night bus home. Some of the most entertaining times were actually on that journey home - as just about everyone was having a good laugh, singing badly, or talking to everyone else. Standing at the bus stop is no worse than queuing at the taxi rank or waiting for the Uber to show up once the bar or club has closed.
Development expertise in enterprise tech is incredibly lucrative for freelancing/contractors. The day-rate for an on-shore AEM Developer gives me a small heart-attack.
If "nicer looking" aids readability and more understanding of what the domain logic is trying to achieve, that's a pretty substantial win in my book.

One advantage of homogeneity is that it allows you to not have to think as much about how something was implemented, and focus on why that code exists and what it's trying to accomplish at a high level.
If they've committed to replacing the screens you can hold them to that, no?
I'm inclined to disagree to a degree. I don't use my phone for anything but Messengers and Twitter (apart from the "utilities", such as Uber or an alarm) - and have deleted by Twitter account a while ago.

After doing that, I find myself looking at my phone out of habit/boredeom, but realize I removed the last time wasting app (I got rid of reddit about a year ago) and turn the thing off again. This results in me doing things I consider to be a better investment of my time.

Yes, that might be watching a show on TV - but I found that to be more engaging than mindlessly scrolling through people's opinions I ultimately don't care about (as Twitter, as opposed to say HN, rarely spawns intriguing thoughts).

Also not having a simple distraction available does result in me being more likely to spend time on more "important" things, might it be yard work or a side project. But it certainly depends on one's personality and preference.
… and the IARC monograph on Roundup, in turn, has been dismissed universally by experts as both flawed and misleading. Amongst other things, they arbitrarily excluded high-quality studies that showed no evidence of carcinogenicity, and included at least one study claiming to show an effect but in reality failed to do so (it didn’t show dose dependence, which means the result is not statistically robust but rather a random fluke). The scientific consensus is completely on Monsanto’s side in this debate. Pretending otherwise is simply dishonest, there’s no other word for it.
With regards to #3, I find that a positive for people who are unable to easily get around due to disabilities.
Your response to the first point appears to explain why Git largely replaced Subversion, but it is not clear that it applies to Mercurial.
questions:

1) Is it legal?
2) WHere's the PDF?
Axios Joe Uchill thinks using macOS is dangerous
Axios Joe Uchill notes: "Any change that reduces Apple's control over app curation could also make using the iPhone a little more dangerous." So using macOS is more dangerous? Please give me a break.

https://www.axios.com/critics-smell-blood-around-the-iphone-app-store-7b4e0591-8a0f-44a2-9ebd-b746478d24d8.html
If only there was a large spinning habitat in space with a livable environment that our species could use...

If only there was a large spinning habitat in space where the megarich could use their money to create a paradise for its inhabitants...
Well, for one, octave or scilab are perfectly accetable solutions. Or even "julia" if you pressure me.

Or fortran, where there is no stupid overhead in "for" loops. Or C. Hell, or even luajit if you do not need fancy stuff.

Honestly, python/numpy is possibly the slowest and less convenient way to do math (assuming that you only want to do math, and no need any strings/dictionaries and other useless data structures).
> But everyone mostly pays a flat rate for using the whole system each week (within the zones they travel to at least).

I was wondering how widespread travel cards are, since I never bought one personally. If you don't travel much on the weekends you end up paying more.

In 2017 TfL sold weekly, monthly, and annual travel cards covering year-round flat-rate travel for ~0.8m people. Travel card journeys account for about 39% of all journeys.

Maybe it was more common in the past, since travel card journeys dropped around 10% a year from 2015-2017.

https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/transparency/freedom-of-informa...
Probably because those are mapped in OpenStreetMap as service roads (which includes alleys, driveways, parking lanes, etc.). The author of this map seems to have queried all roads in Berlin from Autobahn down to residential streets, and left out service roads, and bicycle and foot paths.
That's easily the dumbest thing I've ever read on Hacker News.
We offer partial WFH ( 1-2 days ) in my current role - but I've just for a full remote UK based position :)
> The problem is fear of crime.

I imagine most pickpocketing is done due to lack of funds. Not having to buy a transport ticket will leave these people with additional funds. If anything, I would guess this kind of welfare would reduce the reasons to steal.

Then there's the point that people who would pickpocket probably wouldn't buy a ticket even if required.

However maybe most importantly, not letting these pickpocketers on the bus would just move the location of the act. They could hunt for wallets at the bus stops instead, without getting on. Thus I think this problem needs to be addressed independently and shouldn't be too big of a factor in public transport decisions.

I recognize your point however that if there's a theft problem in an area, people can become afraid of public transport due to it.
The important principle is that even people accused of heinous crimes deserve proper legal representation. Representing someone accused of rape does not make you pro-rape.
> Aren't Chinese moving faster than pretty much everyone? Last I checked, they were pretty into reducing use of coal, and deploying a lot of nuclear power plants instead.

China currently has so many coal plants under construction that their output exceed’s the US coal industry’s entire output. China’s goal is to have 20% EVs in the consumer vehicles market by 2025. That means China will put 100 million new ICE vehicles on the road over the next 5 years, and will continue to put tens of millions of additional ICE vehicles on the road each year after that. China is building whole new cities. Construction releases enormous amounts of CO2. Construction releases so much CO2 that a fancy new LEED building takes decades to pay off its construction footprint with energy savings. From 2000 to 2015, China added over 6 gigatons of CO2 output. That’s more than the entire US. In 2017, China added 120 megatons of CO2 output while the US cut 40 megatons.
Perm roles from 60-80k + contractor roles of £500/day and we're based just outside of london ( with some offices inside )
This assumes that an endless array of small media sources is more difficult to control than large ones. I'd say that's false. An endless array of small media sources can just as easily be all traced back to a single controller. That's actually the business model of Sinclair media, for example.

But because smaller media sources are forgettable and have fewer eyeballs checking them, there's no record when they do something unethical like the large companies.

Rathergate would not happen with some small, forgettable news source. The falsehood would be pushed and unquestioned because nobody wants to play whack-a-mole.
Another C hate post? It seems way overblown. When you compare trivial compilation of C code with optimized compilation, you would see maybe a factor of 5 in difference in code size.

On today's machines, I think you can expect to get more than 50% of performance from trivial compilation, compared to optimized code. Depending on workload you it can be 80-90%. (I have a small amount of experience, based on my own very shitty compiler, to back up that claim).

Even on machines from "once upon a time", where performance was more directly correlated with code size, it couldn't have been that bad, assuming the factor of 5. And also seeing the fact that C was used for systems development from the start.

And that's still ignoring (or at least contradicting) the common lore that "once upon a time", LISP was comparatively more inefficient than C than it is today!

And I don't believe that abuse of UB is important to generate fast code. After all, fast code doesn't necessarily contain UB.
Good abstractions allow themselves to get out of the way when necessary. There are for sure bad examples of abstractions, but there's also plenty of ORMs that let you bypass the abstraction completely when needed (or use the parts of it still applicable).

I also don't really understand your last statement. Abstractions, pretty much by definition, never allow you to do more than the underlying technology they're abstracting. They necessarily limit power in order to make code more comprehensible and maintainable. That's true for any abstraction I can think of, leaky or not.
Not really. Wix and GoDaddy clobbered it, and now there are others. At one point I had over 30 sites requiring regular maintenance, and upgrades. Plus a few I developed, installed on other servers, and did not maintain. Now I’m down to about four. These days there’s almost always someone in a small business’ office with the requisite skills to do basic upgrades, and small changes. I get called when things go wrong, or there’s a major overhaul in the offing. Many small businesses do quite well with a Facebook page, or some other self development tool. The sites look amateurish, and derivative, but they get the job done. All you want is the ‘Who, what, where, when, and why’, and standards are so low there’s no functional penalty for having a lame Web presence. I find more clients hiring full time ‘social media’ specialists rather than me. I have pondered becoming a ‘social media expert’, but the fact that I have worked building some of the early experiments taints me against the concept.

Almost all Web sites are similar these days, and there’s a value to designing the UI/UX in a way users expect. I suggest that, for startups, and small businesses, there’s virtually no need for anything other than a basic Web presence. With the rise of social media, the appropriate account(s) will solve that problem for most.

I worked through the wild west of this industry, and it was semi-fun, but I think we’ve moved on, things have settled down, or are settling down, and there’s a minimum sufficient requirement for a Web presence that’s pretty freakin’ minimal.
So basically every AV vendor denied getting hacked
I much prefer when the database enforces integrity by limiting access and preventing corruption from occurring.

In Microsoft SQL Server, you can often achieve the desired result with check constraints, primary and foreign keys, indexed views, and unique indexes. When more logic is required, I usually restrict write access from the application at the table or column level and force modifications to occur through a stored procedure that enforces integrity.
"Install updates on your own schedule"

That's good, but why does it need updates at all?
I like it how Facebook doesn't mention anything in the WhatsApp changelog about this.
Or just gitrevisions(7). The manpage for git(1) mentions this under the section SYMBOLIC IDENTIFIERS. Not that that's the most obvious place to look, but if you rtfm the obvious stuff, you should stumble upon these gems naturally.

It's worth scrounging through git(1) anyway; it mentions several other manpages for things like recommended workflows, the basic structure of the .git/ directory, not to mention gittutorial(7).
A photo of a solar eclipse proved Einstein’s theory of general relativity
Sounds great: it’s too difficult currently for non-wealthy investors to buy anything other than equity.

The beneficial owners of the shells should be revealed anyway.

I’m okay with the wealthy having to hire an army of accountants instead of just pocketing it all. Taxes would be better though.

It’s all an academic exercise though as some country will allow limited liability.
It's the same logic as "If we don't use antibiotics in cattle they'll all die!". Totally ignoring the unintended consequences of antibiotic resistance in humans.