skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand. What possible reason is there for an emergency break...

- If the subway needs to stop via an external decision, there are triggers all over the rails to trigger an emergency break.

- If you are sick, emergency break is actually worse than waiting to get to the next station.

- If anything is happening. Emergency break is wrong.

- If something is in view of the conductor, the conductor will do the correct action.

- If the train is going too fast, there is already a timer and an automated emergency break triggered on the rails.

I cannot think of a single good reason for this. It's like saying there's a "turn engines off" lever on an airplane next to the bathroom.
Almost all useful technology could conceivably lead to better surveillance. Email is a great example. It is infeasibly expensive to open and read everyone's physical letters. But reading everyone's email is possible and is literally done in some very large countries.

I believe that if the board of Amazon had more they wanted to say about this issue, either publicly or internally, they do not need a shareholder resolution to enable that -- especially a non-binding one. They can simply do so. So, the resolution's purpose is actually one of signalling the shareholder's stance on the technology being developed. Clearly, most shareholders agree with the board's implicit approval.
No. It invokes infra changes directly, Cloudformation doesn't enter into this at all
Agreed, the data model of Terraform simply doesn’t match the problem domain. You need an algorithm to codify the pattern and then data to fill in the params. Terraform doesn’t allow you to create the patterns you need in a way that’s debugable and doesn’t allow for code reuse. For simple setups it’s not apparent there’s a problem but when they get more complex it’s nearly impossible to use.

Additionally you have to rewrite everything for each cloud provider, so it just expands the work required, all with no real IDE integration. I’d just write against the cloud provider APIs directly or look at Pulumi when they get interactive debugging.
In terms of reliability I would trust netlify any day instead of github, they're build to serve sites and github is not.
Forty-Two Countries Adopt New OECD Principles on Artificial Intelligence
Greco-Roman Mysteries
There are B-Corps (benefit corp) in many states that have charters that include bylaws that are as important or at least equally as important as profitability. IMO all health providers should have to be B-Corps that have patient health as their #1 above profit.
>Done properly, weightlifting is one of the safest sports.

The problem is that it's difficult to do properly for the average person. You can read about it and see instructions, but that doesn't tell you if you're actually doing it right. A coach might help, but then you're not dealing with the average person anymore nor do you have the freedom to choose your exercise plans, because you might not have a coach available for what you're looking for.
The only thing I worry about is the uu module. Even though 99.99% of people will never use it, there are also probably literally millions if not billions of pieces of content that are encoded using that standard. I realize it's only a few lines of code, but from an archival perspective it seems like there's something distasteful about making it harder for future generations to access content that may have historical value. At least send a quick note to the library of congress or the archivist community first to get an idea of to what extent this stuff is getting used.
Reminds me of Ouya[1], which was $99 console and I think did not have much luck as a gaming platform.

1 - https://www.ouya.tv/
But it's difficult to always get right. Coaches aren't available to everyone.
Starving Yourself to Riches
How does one use them on one's enemy without also using them against the long-term population in their affected area?
I experienced this as well, wonder if one could mitigate this with some site parameters though?
From the last paragraph in the article "But perhaps the most striking element of the tower makeover is how it fits into a bigger story: the ongoing campaign to reclaim Paris from private motor vehicles" for some reason this randomly reminded me of a quote from Steve Jobs about the Segway when it launched predicting they would 'build cities around it' (ref: http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/12/03/scooter.unveiling/T... ) Large cities starting to ban cars in the city center might finally be that opportunity for Segway like devices to really flourish (not to mention powered and unpowered scooters, bicycles, skateboards, etc).
SiFive RISC-V SoCs Can Now Be Paired with Imagination's PowerVR GPU
I am really excited about this. Firewatch is an amazing game with amazing execution. Teenage Engineering's OP1 is supposedly really good hardware (from what i heard and saw on youtube). Single purpose devices like this are more enjoyable to use since you aren't always itching to use a different app etc. The gradual "rollout" of games with a new one each week sounds like an exciting thing to look forwards to every week actually! Although the price is steep (for a student), i'm pretty sure i'll get it as this sounds like a well crafted and enjoyable experience
>Can you take the scrip from these online pharmacies to your local one and get the $.15/pill pricing?

https://www.getroman.com/faq/#toggle-id-3

>You can always use your own pharmacy, although it can be twice the price. It’s also important that your pharmacy is able to receive e-prescriptions and that it’s part of the Surescripts Network. (The Surescripts Network includes 95% of pharmacies across the country).

The "twice the price" thing is a scare tactic. If you're insurance covers it then it'll be cheap.
Don't forget "Boktai The Sun is in Your Hands" for GBA.

It came with a solar sensor on the cartridge that required the gamer to go outside to charge their solar gun in order to kill vampires. Very cool, but it grew annoying fast.
Relevant video published a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMVWW-bmKwQ
"I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one."
it wouldn't be a meaningful amount of charge. same with solar panels on electric cars.
OP do you have a connection to the blog? I noticed your submission history favors it.
One could always also throw together a virtual machine for running Windows 3.1 like I keep doing.
The crank must be an analog of the Apple Watch crown.
That Amiga never achieved any success outside of niche SFX markets is a sure sign we're not living in the best of all possible worlds. (Although that's more 80s than 90s.)
Sinclair has hijacked KOMO repeatedly to spread corporate lines: https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/07/media/sinclair-broadcasting...

Frankly, Sinclair owned stations should be required to have common branding if they are going to share the exact same website design, news content and management, anything less is deceiving the public.
"The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" by neurologist Oliver Sacks is a fascinating story about visual agnosia - it was also my first introduction to artificial intelligence.
It's part of the "gimmick".

After the device is released and is available for sale, a new game will be released for it and downloaded automatically each week for the first 12 weeks, when downloaded a little light will light up and you can have small play date with the Playdate.
You can use subresource integrity in the script tag which uses a sha hash to confirm the script is what is designated in the html. However, the html could be changed in transit so the only real way this can work is if you do that AND expose the sha hash to the user who has the last known valid sha hash locally that they can manually check against. It's not pretty, but it works.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...
Presumably it's left accessible because it's an emergency exit?
Study confirms women are more productive in warmer offices
I only know enough to get me in trouble, but pcp is a general "framework" for performance monitoring... they have pcp versions/rewrites of all types of traditional monitoring utilities like vmstat, iostat, top.

Note: they don't overwrite/replace those utilities on the command line. You can still use the traditional utilities same as it ever was. The pcp versions are called like so: "pcp dstat" or "pcp atopsar".
Doesn't a transflective LCD have a backlight? The media/FAQ page says pretty clearly that the device has a reflective LCD with no backlight, same as the GBA, which the parent comment was referring to.
I've never heard of that, but would've loved one. Kinda useless with cellphones, but I could see that being nice for backpacking if the battery lasts long enough.
It says something that their primary product is a $50 FTP client and I actually don't mind paying for it.
The biggest issue we have with Terraform (and other Hashicorp tools in general, really) is their different configuration formats, but mostly it is HCL limitations.

I haven't found a solution for it, but I have lots of resources that are almost identical, except for a few arguments, but right now it seems like my options are to either write my own Ruby script to output .hcl files, or live with two resources that are almost identical, and live with the mistakes that could entail by future modifications.

I haven't had the time to look into HCL2 yet, but maybe it is solved.
Not from personal experience, but it seems that it's an all around decent synth/sequencer/sampler that makes a good musical scratchpad. People like it, and if I had a g to spare, I might join in.
There are still ways to do conversion tracking with ITP, mostly moving to first party cookies and I wouldn't be surprised if we see a return of server side tracking like old Urchin so google & FB can store http only secure cookies that are indistinguishable from login/session cookies

If the goal is to stop all tracking why create this (bad) plan in the first place?
I wouldn’t say it becomes impossible to use at scale, what happens at scale with terraform, but rather the opinionated nature of HCL makes itself present in ways you probably won’t ever have to deal with if you’re shepherding very small fleets or single serving resources.

Personally I’m excited that loop operations now exist in 0.12

But thanks for the reference to Pulumi, had not heard of this and it looks very interesting.
Most states have sales thresholds to hit before you have to worry about dealing with it in their jurisdictions. Here's a decent roundup of when you'll have to start to care:

https://blog.taxjar.com/economic-nexus-laws/

Essentially, take care of the tax in the jurisdiction you're in and wait until you're much further along before worrying about other states or territories.
Comment history has the answer for whatever that’s worth.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18753300
Also, a good example of a clean modern C++ code.
I'm somewhat disappointed that they didn't call it SerenityNOW...
Seems like they work on it. Or used to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18753300
I did paid biz research on the funeral industry in 2010 on summer break from my mba for an Irish company looking to extend into the US focused on funeral for Irish people.

There was a huge amount of consolidation going on as mostly family funeral parlors were being bought up by a few scaled players.

There is a huge amount of money tied up in funerals. Looking at the generational switchover, with boomers presumedly wanting traditional burials, grave sites and granite headstones—-not yet at its peak.

I wonder if the funeral industry will tip around the same time some have suggested the housing market will.
Basically Terraform is cloud agnostic, so you can (theoretically) define something in Terraform and then use it on AWS, or GCP, or Azure.
Related resources:

Lambda-the-Ultimate: "A Next Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform", Vitalik Buterin. - http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5003#comment-94645

Mark Miller: Agoric and the Decades-Long Quest for Secure Smart Contracts. https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/epicenter-mark-miller-...

https://agoric.com/

https://infominer.id/bitcoin-history/smart-contracts/
The scientific article that this summary is based on can be found here[1].

[1]http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0779-y
Not news of course, but worth restating. Credulous 'scepticism' about the fundamentals of the climate collapse threat has been largely driven by corporate propaganda campaigns. Those campaigns were themselves constructed by people who weren't 'sceptics' -- they believed AGM was happening -- but considered their short-term profitability more important. Climate collapse 'sceptics' were nearly all gulls.
I don't think new cemeteries are generally placed in prime real estate. But as cities grow and cemeteries remain unrelocated, what was rural pastureland becomes something more like prime real estate.
> Particularly in the US where a burial has become astonishingly crass and perverse.

Ever been to cemeteries in Paris? Giant monuments, incredibly ornate graves.. The US is far more modest by comparison.
In Shanghai, it's fare based, but the fare is definitely not the same no matter how far you're going. The fare is determined as a function of where you enter the system and where you leave, with longer trips being more expensive.

There's no time limit; one entry will let you stay in the subway system all day. But you can't just live on the trains, because they shut down at night.

Somehow I suspect that if Shanghai can shut down the subway overnight, New York, with half the ridership, could handle doing so too, so the question "why is this allowed to happen" seems valid.
> 3. The modern Senate under McConnell appears wholly uninterested in passing legislation of any kind, and is almost exclusively dedicated to approving judges nominated by conservatives

This is arguably close to an optimal strategy for the GOP. If current demographic trends translate to the ballot box, the GOP may be less successful in future elections, at least in the near term. If a large number of GOP federal judges can be appointed for life to the bench, this puts in place at least a beachhead from which conservative economic and social policy from judicial activism can check any potential liberal influence from legislative or executive branches.
And I like how you immediately decided to alienate somebody clearly on your side pointing out a systemic problem by moralizing at them.

Flagging suspicious transactions and verifying that they're legit is costly. Spending money to reduce profit for the common good is humanitarian. It has little to do with being honest. If the bank does nothing, the bank doesn't lie, it just doesn't go out of their way to verify that other people aren't dishonest. And the fact that people view letting bad things happen by inaction as less bad (or even not bad) shouldn't be a surprise. It's just human nature. And when someone pointed this out, you decided they were Bad and Frightening. Because they said people will follow incentives in a well-known moral hazard scenario. Get a grip.
Not really thousands of years, western burial traditions have changed a lot over time. Here are some of the other examples https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tombs_by_type

It’s an interesting subject with a mix of practical, religious, and economic incentives resulting in a huge range of different outcomes in even closely related cultures.
This module is pure python. It looks like if people rely on it, they could easily put the code in a pypi module, and maintain it there. It doesn't really make sense to keep it in the core if it has no dedicated maintainers.
What would be the advantage of that?
20 years ago, they were an overpriced-computer vendor on their deathbed, with not a widget in sight, burdened with a trailing-edge OS, while Microsoft was an unstoppable behemoth that was eating the world (While convinced that this internet thing was just a fad.)

You have no idea what they will be 20 years from now.
I use imp.reload(my_module) all the time when %run-ing things from ipython that import my_module after editing it. What's the alternative for that use?
Though, if the drill isn't gas-powered, this would be kind of silly.
I use Paddle and so far I am happy with them. The integration was simple enough and their support has been responsive.

I cannot use Stripe in my country, so I had to look for alternatives. Paddle is more expensive, but they have many things built in that you would have to pay extra for on Stripe. One of those is the handling of sales tax. The other, which I will implement soon, is built-in handling of affiliates.
From the linked Edge article [1]:

> Then there's the contemporary modus operandi that gives the console its name. Every Monday, via WiFi, owners receive a new game, the notification light on top of the case blinking to announce its arrival. Whenever you have five spare minutes, you’ll be able to reach into your own shirt pocket, and make time for your Playdate.

[1] https://play.date/edge/
Sorry about the ignorance but how do you run it from your garage? What about bandwidth? Could you share the url? Also would you recommend me any guide to get started?
Terraform creates and manages changes for you. You should not be using Cloudformation or writing CF templates at all while using it.
Is it just an impression or is UK indeed the most enthusiastic of all Western countries when it comes to performing mass surveillance on its citizens?

Seems like it runs way deeper and broader than in US
How can someone be so good at the age of 21? It depresses me.
I think the formulas being wrong helped solidify the value, as it showed that even if something that core is wrong, it will fix it immediately without any extra rework.

It would have had the same effect if only one formula was left intentionally wrong :)
Love the compliant mechanism buttons

(I just recently learned about compliant mechanisms - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97t7Xj_iBv0)
It amazes me still how much power in our "democratic" system is help completely outside of the control of the public. How some people, by virtue of owning capital, are vested with such powers that can make or break the lives of millions. Theirs are the decisions that can kill thousands or cause suffering to millions.

Democracy is not a boolean. It's a continuum. To me, it means "power held by the people whom it concerns". That's it! But even in our best democracies, only some portion of power is held democratically. Other decisions, often no less impactful or critical or harmful (think polluting factories, advertisers that insidiously manipulate people's psyches, governance of enterprises bigger than many nations, etc), are done by undemocratic, unelectable, unaccountable elites.

This needs fixing.

PS: this is bad even if the capital "well earned", for some definition of "well earned", but it is especially aggravating when we're talking about the Saudi royals or the Waltons of this world...
> One way to look at Stackoverflow is that it's a gigantic index that maps "intuitive plain English" to "non-intuitive exact syntax".

It's not that syntax itself isn't intuitive; there's after all nothing more intuitive than, say, FORTH, LISP or Haskell syntax - surely it handily beats the weird idiosyncratics of "more English-like" FORTRAN or COBOL! It's actually the semantics of what you're interacting with, that, while simple, might be initially unintuitive to a naïve user. I don't think that I'm actually disagreeing with what you're saying; it's just that "not knowing the exact syntax for X" generally unpacks to something slightly different, namely "not knowing the relevant semantics to the extent that one can figure out how to do X". This, I think, is a better explanation of how StackOverflow might end up being quite helpful.

Of course, natural language itself does involve some semantics-related facets of its own, that might well end up being more intuitive than the programming-language semantics we normally use. But even then, we can (and should) use devices like Montague-semantics to give them an "intuitive", compositional syntax reminiscent of the lambda-calculus, Haskell or FORTH. I think this is the better way towards the goal of "using natural language to make programming more intuitive".
Scientists unraveled the mystery behind the return of a banned greenhouse gas
They claim to have an SDK. Assuming that goes public (why wouldn't it?) it's 12 games + anything else they release + anything the community comes up with.
The crank is all about "hipster" and "conversation starter". You're supposed to look like a weirdo cranking that, thus be super-cool.
That's not at all how it works.

Terraform supports each of those providers, but the resources are specific to each provider.

You cannot use the same Terraform configuration on AWS and Azure.

Nor would you want to, per se.
As far as I know, this is by design.
I haven't tried it, but given that the tool used takes git into account, I find it more likely that maybe the 1.2M number includes moved and deleted lines (i.e. it counts all lines ever added in the history of the project). That's still just a guess on how OP got such a number.
Every bus in NYC has internal cameras. Every bus. Even cameras in front to take photos of people who use bus lanes.

Why can't we put a camera by the emergency breaks?

Furthermore...

Why do we have emergency breaks (see my top-level post)
Governments are fictive structures created, in part, so that they can enforce moral and ethical concerns against profit-making. That's where attention should be focused instead.
Thanks. I understand that the stabilizer is powerful. I'm wondering whether it's true that, when your plane is in that danger state of "flinging itself past critical AoA", 2.5 degrees over 15 seconds is sufficient to avoid or recover the wing stall in time to avoid terrain.

(I think the proposed software changes also reduce this control authority but I'm not sure how.)
They could add an automatic self-cranking mode? Or an add-on crank-automator - perhaps solar-powered.
You can't write a local module for the resource that takes the differences as inputs?
End the Plague of Secret Parenting
I honestly love Terraform as a product. It was one of probably three tools I've used in my entire career that made me feel immediately more productive. After using it for a very short period of time I was shocked developers continued to struggle through CF templates and the fragility the whole process entailed.
That's a bit dramatic. Our knowledge of the encoding doesn't go away because Python removed support. Old versions will continue to work. The code is preserved in VCS. And finally, you/someone can release a 3rd party module to PyPI to fill the gap.
Those all appear to either emulate other consoles, or come with games built-in, though. This seems to be closer to the MakeCode consoles discussed elsewhere in these comments, since it sounds like it will allow you to make your own games for it (although it's not clear yet how easy that will be).

In that respect, it seems fairly unique to me, if only because it is beautifully designed and polished. It seems like the other options for making your own handheld games are either a bit clunky (eg Adafruit's PyGamers) or require quite a lot of know-how and effort (eg Gameboy or DS homebrew).

I hope that this will result in a bunch of new high-quality indie games. It seems that people are unlikely to invest a lot of effort in making spectacular games for the PyGamer, because the audience is small... Nintendo-handheld homebrew has the potential for a larger audience, but requires so much work that I imagine a lot of potential creators are dissuaded.

I'm on the lookout for a shiny indie-friendly portable that's easy to develop for, because I think that could lead to some exciting new things. Maybe this is it.
It's always good to remind: lawful != moral/ethical. Sometimes the law is twisted and wrong, and it needs to change.
Ouya is reaching its end of life on June 25th, 2019. [1]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/22/seven-years-later-the-ouya...