skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Au contraire. Just scatter around the components of the project into various Congressional districts. Build large facilities in places with political horsepower and name them after important people. Gemini/Apollo is fraught with this.

Personally, I doubt that the science community would be behind manned space travel in any case. It's more marketed to the engineering and military world. I wouldn't doubt that internal NASA competition over limited dollars shows astronomers and planet scientists smothering the manned efforts in it's crib now and again.
> Why are we ignoring the fact that this geographic location is unusable now?

Everyone always ignores the huge amount of land made unusable by hydro and increasingly solar. It’s unfathomable to me how okay people seem to be with the amount of CA land being covered by solar panels. Pretty sure most desert tortoises would rather live next to a nuclear power plant.
So bizarre. The US defense department even says that climate change is one of the largest threats to US security. So, basically the Trump administration is pure politics.
Wrong.

The retail store makes its margin based on the spread between wholesale and retail price. They mark it up. Typically, 50%.

Entitlements sit on top of that. They are usually broken out between logistics, damage, marketing support, liability, referral, platform, etc..They average around 15%, but it depends on category.

Amazon.com calls it a “referral fee” for marketplace sellers. No physical store there. This is strictly a fee you pay to access their customers. Same as Apple. It’s the fee you pay to access their customer base, with credit card and billing info, and have them handle the transaction and associated liability.

It’s pretty clear you have zero understanding of retail business logistics.
What does real-time surveillance mean to you?

You're asking a loaded question. Of course they have access to some real-time data re users.
It really sounds preferable to me, even if the initial versions of these algorithms are biased. They will provide a concrete thing against which to test for bias and improve against. It is easily verifiable if your changes to an algorithm have removed the bias you are worried about. Conversely it is basically impossible to tell if your training on a human has changed their biases in the field, sort of just having them do their job again and see if they are biased.
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Don’t get me wrong, there are faster languages out there.

The trade off that Ruby has always made was maximizing developer productivity. It’s never tried to be the fastest, but it’s plenty fast enough.
yeah, but we should think and implement security measures in all systems indifferent of politics and economics. Imagine some terrorists hacks Tesla server and sends a command for all cars to crash. We would need all important systems to be designed in the assumption that something bad will eventually happened(hackers, company goes out of business, stupidly(see Firefox addons issue) ) etc
> Risk scores are computed for every traffic stop, wouldn't you want to take that process away from the office and give it to a computer?

What I want is this process to be cross-examinable. You can't cross-examine an algorithm in any meaningful way at a jury trial. You can't cross-examine a neural network at all.

You know all the bullshit about how police dogs are used to conduct illegal searches, and how you can't cross-examine a dog? It'll be like that, but much, much worse.
In this class project - we have attempted to learn a joint embedding space largely by implementing various ideas in excellent papers and blogs.
We are looking forward to some feedback and comments.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/reader-center/why-does-ny...
This is a really interesting suggestion and makes a lot of sense.

I do think you may be under-estimating the faculty cost on business/econ/law classes, specifically. Faculty in those disciplines tend to be relatively well-paid[0] to compete with lucrative alternative careers as leading lawyers/consultants/financiers.

Using UVA Law as an example because I found numbers quickly... avg faculty salary was $180k in ~2013 (so say, $200k today adjusting for inflation)[1]. Faculty-student ratio is 6.2:1 [2]. That's $32k/yr/student in direct faculty salary costs before paying for employee benefits, administration, facilities, etc. Against that backdrop, ~$65k/yr/student tuition [3] seems pretty reasonable.

[0] https://www.chronicle.com/article/Faculty-Salaries-Vary-by/1...

[1] https://abovethelaw.com/2013/04/how-much-does-your-law-profe...

[2] https://www.law.virginia.edu

[3] https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools...
There's something seriously concerning about having the only path forward be science/engineering and trades. That's essentially limiting the liberal arts to only the rich and the delusional. If fields such as architecture, literature, photography, film, journalism are populated by people who grew up with wealth, their privilege be reflected in their work. Would a journalist who grew up in a gated community be the best choice to cover and discuss income inequality and gentrification? Would an architect who has only lived in million dollar houses necessarily understand how to design public housing?

The liberal arts fundamentally shape how we view, live and act in the world. If this perspective is purely driven by the rich and the privileged, we risk losing an understanding of how the other half lives.
This comment seems to assume that only new high-end Apple products can be considered, rather than, say, a used Mac mini.

Lowest-income developers might also rely on school computers, or library computers, or Apple store computers, or shared computers, or...

The $99 barrier is real, and currently cannot be escaped. This "barrier" is largely imaginary.
Subscribing to a newspaper also sometimes unlocks less terrible websites for that newspaper.
1) Let's place the blame where it belongs, Boeing. The FAA didn't force them to rely on a single sensor (in fact, given that MCAS can have hazardous consequences, two are mandatory IIRC). The FAA didn't force them to have MCAS three times the control range that's mentioned in the specs. The FAA didn't force them to not mention MCAS at all.

2) While this is certainly a tragic incident, it has nothing to do with homeland security existing or not. It's not like the autopilot suddenly decided to use planes as weapons. Apples and oranges.
You say that like it's a settled issue and I don't think it is. If the capability is there, companies can be compelled to use it. If the capability doesn't exist, it isn't clear that companies can be compelled to invent it.
I believe this is just common NYTimes style. [1]

> I’m not sure whether one of my long-ago predecessors got similar complaints about The Times’s references to “Mr. Lincoln.” But I can assure readers that we have been consistent for many years in how we refer to an incumbent president: It’s “President Trump” (or President Obama, or President Bush) on first reference, and “Mr. Trump” or “the president” (lowercase) thereafter.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/reader-center/why-does-ny...
Note that the SQL Server team at Microsoft had the Windows folks add write-through and cache control to NTFS so that the database could have stability guarantees.

It's mind boggling that this is still an issue, given the number of decades we've had applications (databases, and other things) that need to efficiently guarantee bits are on stable storage.
Taxi had a lot of substandard features. But their employees weren't random guys without insurance nor training. They also had some semblance of career. I don't know all, but many Uber drivers didn't get their investment back yet and changing prices and rules make it a risky bet.
Just a side comment on your "soft, lazy, and fat" terminology; young POWs in the Korean War were also called "soft" for not escaping and for dying at high rate (38%).

> What struck Major Anderson most forcibly was the almost universal inability of the prisoners to adjust to a primitive situation. "They lacked the old Yankee resourcefulness," he said. "This was partly—but only partly, I believe—the result of the psychic shock of being captured. It was also, I think, the result of some new failure in the childhood and adolescent training of our young men—a new softness."

The Vanishing Adolescent (1959), page 210: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24370505M/The_vanishing_adol...
Are you using the angular CLI to generate components/services? That saves a lot of time.

The thing we love about Angular is compartmentalizing everything.
It seems to be a stylistic choice amongst some major publications. The first time they say "President Foo", the second time Mr. Foo.

From the Times directly:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/reader-center/why-does-ny...

And NPR discussing the same style for Obama
https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2011/10/12/1412934...
What's the allegation here? The mail stored on proton's servers is encrypted. If you send that mail elsewhere, it's subject to the security of the receiving server and any intermediary servers.

That's not secret, or hidden by them.
Ok my mistake, I thought target purchased goods at wholesale price and then re-sold them at whatever price they wanted. So Target was a good example after all.
Better automation like MCAS?
Can you share the problem that took a couple of years to figure out?
I looked up the word confer in a couple online legal dictionaries, and if they are reliable, then it seems the word confer means "give, accord, administer, award" etc which would be an obligation to provide capital right? I'm curious how your structure would work in detail - I imagine there must be loopholes in contract law and consideration requirements and yours sounds interesting.
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That’s ‘legitimately’ not true.
Every personal journey takes place in a world that already influences your thoughts. Every person has their own set of past experiences that continually color their present experiences.

Do you think that if you were born in a region where Christianity is non-existent, you'd somehow come to it on your own?
> They will provide a concrete thing against which to test for bias and improve against.

The history of junk forensic science has pretty clearly demonstrated that nobody in law enforcement cares about testing their biases, or improving the processes.

If it gets them results, they'll use it.
I don't have anything to say about the product/launch but that homepage is one of the better designs for a marketing website I've design in a while.

The typography on the docs page is excellent: https://plaid.com/docs/quickstart/
Are you at least vaguely aware that people get assaulted or killed or blackmailed or discriminated against because of who they are and who they associate with?

It's not much consolation that you "find them insufferable" when they tie you to a fence or drag you behind a truck because of who you are.

This isn't that complicated. Many of us consider it a right to keep parts our our life private including who we choose to socialize with. You have every right to not agree with that point of view, but you should quit the charade of pretending not to understand it.
I wouldn't be as bothered by this if they didn't gloat about the awesome developer tools and documentation they so generously provide.

Aren't those resources exactly what we developers are paying for (at least partially) with our $99?

I've never publicly released anything in their ecosystem but I participate in the program for hobby/personal development reasons. What am I paying for if not the docs and tools?
>The benefit can simply be in making these tradeoffs consciously, so you can judge your model better.

Very much so; engineering is all about choosing the trade-offs, and hopefully improving them in the future. The list also helps with solving some of the unknown-unknowns problem in regard to what the customer expectations may be; even whole new domains of expectations (like immediacy of update, or handling of accented/non-english characters).

Side note:

As far as I can tell, Google got rid of the special-cased "OR" in the general search - right now it's a word, not a predefined/reserved symbol.

They were able to do so by adding "implicit OR-like" operator between all the words in the query. Not quite an implicit OR, not quite an implicit AND; something bit more complex in between.

The words of the query get weighted against matches both on their own, but also as adjacent words (higher weight) and whole phrases (yet higher weight). All in all the problem got solved by improved matching & sorting algorithm, not by somehow smartly detecting when "OR" is meant as "OR", or OR, or or.

The problem got solved in the match scoring/sorting domain, rather than in the query parsing domain.
I guess that is up to the parent. I don't send my kids to private school for a reason.
Yeah. I worked in infra, so it could also be the difference between working on infra (where stability is valued) and working on product (where shipping fast is valued).

When it comes to software design though, the design of your infra is what matters most, since everything else is built on top of it.
> low doses of psilocybin improve visual acuity, particularly edge detection, meaning that the presence of psilocybin in the diet of early pack hunting primates caused the individuals who were consuming psilocybin mushrooms to be better hunters than those who were not, resulting in an increased food supply and in turn a higher rate of reproductive success.

> Then at slightly higher doses, he contended, the mushroom acts to sexually arouse, leading to a higher level of attention, more energy in the organism, and potential erection in the males, rendering it even more evolutionarily beneficial, as it would result in more offspring.

> At even higher doses, McKenna proposed that the mushroom would have acted to "dissolve boundaries," promoting community bonding and group sexual activities.

> At these higher doses, McKenna also argued that psilocybin would be triggering activity in the "language-forming region of the brain", manifesting as music and visions, thus catalyzing the emergence of language in early hominids by expanding "their arboreally evolved repertoire of troop signals."

I'm not saying we don't have evidence for what happened in prehistoric times. As you said, that's hard. But the above is the outline of Mckenna's theory, taken from wikipedia. My point, is that he makes a number of claims as to the effects of psilocybin - see above - and none of those claims of what the drug can do are backed up by evidence.

I assume that Mckenna may have been speaking from personal experience, that the drug improves visual acuity and can sexually arouse, but there's no evidence for it.
No idea. In the case of GitHub, this would be Microsoft, presumably?
Was it enough to be dangerous?
>Isn't it more likely that the state prosecutor spilled the beans?

No, why would it be? As you point out, they've disclosed turning on logging in response to a legal request. Why then deny the event?
Whose fault is it that they went to college and expected a career to fall into their laps upon graduation?

This isn't 20 years ago when most people were still offline. There's plenty of evidence out there that supports the idea that employers want strong data structure skills, portfolios, knowledge of git, etc. when looking for candidates. If a student isn't putting in the time on personal projects and they haven't sought out internships to prove their worth, then that's their fault.

There are FAR more html / css / javascript / php / wordpress stack jobs out there than there are candidates who can fill those roles (I know this from experience because I actively avoided them during my most recent job search), so all a dummy with a degree has to do is play around with those for a month or two using existing themes and they'll be employable.
Dam failures are pretty fast acting, but people aren't afraid of dams.
The plane attitude (what you can sense with gyros) and angle of attack are very different things. They only coincide in level flight with no wind (the attitude is measured to the earth frame of reference (transposed by gyros) and the AoA is measured with reference to the local wind stream)
But when will we get ray-tracing Electron apps for Windows Home tablets?
Where does proton mail advertise or promise to offer a service that fulfills those obligations?
With solar you remove the solar panels and the area is immediately reusable. Or the panels can be mounted above usable space. Or am I missing something?
I think part of the problem is what society views as the purpose of college. Is it to create well rounded individuals with a broad base of knowledge, or is it to prepare people for careers? Up until about 80 years ago, it was exclusively the first, and mostly for children of wealthy people to go and learn a broad base of knowledge.

Then when it became career training, the government stepped in and provided a lot of money to help non-wealthy people enter the system, which was probably a good thing. The unintended consequence of that was that colleges starts sucking up all that money the government was giving out, creating a vicious cycle.

Government funded universities would solve this, because they would set the price, but we'd probably lose out on a lot of great programs. You could also solve this by outlawing charging tuition and switch college funding to being a percent of the graduate's future income. Of course, this would get the colleges to optimize for only majors that have high incomes after graduation, and we'd lose all of our philosophers and writers and artists (which I personally think would be a bad thing).

Maybe there is a hybrid approach here, were you can choose to pay now or pay later with a percent of your income. Those that choose pay later would most likely be forced to choose a "high potential earning" major, and those that paid now could choose whatever they want. But then this would lead us back to only wealthy kids being able to afford "the arts".
Thank you. This is my first time on HN actually, and I was captivated by the same tone you speak of. Are you interested in chess?
The Nytimes refers to nearly all people using personal, not professional, titles when their professional title is obvious from context or already previously stated in the article.
The "Mr." stuff is just a quirk of the NY Times' opinionated editorial style; they also forego the Oxford comma despite that being a perpetual source of confusion.
Searches for "Mr. Obama" bring up plenty of results, but more to the point it's a fairly common journalistic practice to use President Foo for the first mention and Mr. Foo for subsequent mentions. (Non-presidents usually get Mr. Foo and then just Foo.)

Here's an NPR story from the Obama administration about it: https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2011/10/12/1412934...
Was reading through these comments; I'm currently planning to transition from an unrelated career in my late twenties to one in software development- wondering if I could email you some questions about your own experience perhaps? Cheers!
Are you saying advertising isn't a part of the market? Or are you oblivious to reality, perhaps fetishizing the market as some abstract entity disconnected from social reality?
What is interesting is that a lot of old computers operated by this standard where you would have one big backplane and a lot of IO cpu's etc attached to that. I find it interesting how we have gone full circle. I do not understand what the use of modularity would be. Modern gaming rigs are already fairly modular. The only trick is that a lot of peripherals are not hot-swappable which I have trouble understanding why one (outside of the server and mainframe world of course) would want a hot-swappable gpu or cpu.
> OpenSSL decided to use a “512 bit long modulus”, the default. We’re told: “don’t roll your own crypto; instead trust standard tools like OpenSSL”. The modulus length is a good example of why: a wrong value results in a trivially breakable key, and you the user shouldn’t need to know what the right value is. So OpenSSL chooses a sensible modulus length for you.

Checking the OpenBSD man page for the LibreSSL genrsa, it does seem to generate 2048-bit RSA keys by default[1].

Perhaps Apple just stuck with an older default (for backwards compat) or perhaps this wasn't changed yet in the old version of LibreSSL that Apple uses?

[1] https://man.openbsd.org/openssl#GENRSA
Sure (though they could be in a compressed form, such as a suffix tree), but that wasn't the issue I was addressing.
Tom from 0x here. Happy to answer any questions about Launch Kit or 0x more broadly!
Concern about nanoparticles sounds about as vague as you could possibly get. Me, I'm concerned about macroparticles. Especially the ones that race around at 60MPH. So dangerous.
This is just common NYT style.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/reader-center/why-does-ny...

It’s common elsewhere too. Here is a cbs news article talking about the style (using Mr. Obama in this case).
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/no-disrespect-in-calling-the-pr...

Discrediting the article’s tone is easier than attacking its conclusions, but that’s not how we have a productive discussion, and I hope we can agree it’s not useful.
UBI often gets held up as a panacea for an "inefficient" welfare system by allowing recipients to have "consumer choice" regarding e.g. healthcare or housing.

In my and the author of the article's mind, UBI only makes sense as a form of supplementary, discretionary income. If a UBI recipient is made to trade off housing payment against health insurance payment, they're required to make a choice between two essentials; if they're both essentials, they're not really fungible in the first place.

The argument often goes hand-in-hand with greater privatization of public services, which inevitably commodifies what should be for the benefit of the public.
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We have a transparency report, a privacy policy, terms and conditions, and a threat model document, which clearly covers many of these points.

Much of our code is also open source, and has been audited by third parties, with published audit reports available online.

Some items, like precisely who has access to what, we obviously cannot publish for security reasons, as individual employees may be targeted if this is disclosed too clearly.
Canada is one of the few (the only?) countries where it is specifically illegal to offer privately a service that is covered by public insurance. For the most part, there is no option to opt in for private care as an alternative.
Fair point. I was a bit easy to comment. But there's a public side to my point. Services can be wiped with such business models which is detrimental to society. Amazon pushed a lot of people aside, now their prices are all but guaranteed to be fair.
Budgets are being slashed across the admin, but NOAA is prime example. They've said multiple times they can no longer meet all of their priorities because of the lack of budget. It came to head during the government shutdown, when they simply stopped doing any work for a month.
Climate aside, doesn't the increase of CO2 from 280PPM to 400PPM not have a substantial impact on the respiration of trees and animals? 42% increase of poison to animals has no meaningful impact?
TypeScript 3.5
Distributing code on some of Apple’s platforms has a yearly fee. Writing software is free.
Thanks! I actually wrote a blog post about this years ago: http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/46

I should revisit with more modern examples.
>drove crazily

>made comments about random women

Those are cases where you should also leave a note about the driver in the app, in addition to your rating (or non-rating).