skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember having a conversation with my U.S. Army archaeologist friend about using drones for remote sensing in restricted areas and he showed me the DJI drone that's been sitting on their shelf for months because the folks upstairs said they can't fly chinese anything in restricted areas.

Apparently the army does have drones that are sufficiently american to be flown in restricted areas but my friend doesn't know who is making them or how a civilian like myself could acquire one.

I would like to get one for my biologist friend who would like to use it to detect invasive plant species.
Privacy Is an Antitrust Issue
Ok, but there's also as much infrastructure in Europe.

I remember that I was one of the few students in my year who grew up in the city in which my alma mater was based.
“Also, much of the abuse by the Catholic Church happens in third world countries”

Germany and Ireland are not exactly third world countries to my knowledge.
You know how you make it known to pilots? Not by reading the news. By having the manufacturer issue an airworthiness directive. And Boeing did. And yet it did not prescribe what you're advocating. Are you suggesting that you — a non-737 pilot — know better than not only the pilots in the crashed planes, but better than Boeing as well? Their AD does not list your homegrown procedure as a remedy.

https://theaircurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/B737-MA...

You know how else to make it known to pilots? By making it a part of their training materials. But Boeing had significant financial interest in not doing so.
No. I'm not even sure that is a different class of problem.

I'm generally not a big fan of database driven black lists.

They have all the problems of bad decisions individuals make with much more impact and much less recourse.
> the most efficient mechanism we have discovered so far is markets?

This thread originated in a discussion of the detriments of advertising, I would remind you. The "markets" we're currently employing to "discover demand" find greater profit in engendering it.
It seems that Ada just relatively recently entered their field of vision.
Sorry but that’s going to result in a pretty horrible search experience. If you are putting a search bar on your page and that’s your search backend - you might as well skip search entirely because it’s only going to cause you and your customers pain.

The difference with find on page is that it’s obvious and transparent what is being searched and the expectations of the interface. Trust me when I say that a search bar to a layperson on your site is them thinking “oooh I can google”
thanks, will check it out!
> This feature would work for mmap() regions as well, not just traditional write() calls.

I always wondered about writable disk-backed pages -- back when I last looked it up munmap() manpage made no suggestions about whether it would flush the data or whether you need an explicit msync() to make it happen. Since pages could get written back without an explicit msync(), it's always tricky to speculate how the behavior should be based on observation.
Another myth is that the Community Reinvestment Act created the crisis. That's because it pushed banks to lend more to poor neighborhoods. That was its mandate when it was created in 1977.

In 1989, FIRREA strengthened the CRA by publicizing banks' lending records. It prohibited them from expanding if they didn't comply with CRA standards. In 1995, President Clinton called on regulators to strengthen the CRA even more.

But, the law did not require banks to make subprime loans. It didn't ask them to lower their lending standards. They did that to create additional profitable derivatives.
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Any tech that gets established enough that university courses teach it is unlikely to completely disappear, it's true. But my knowledge of Visual J++, Ruby, Subversion, MongoDB, Docker Swarm, Sysinternals Portmon and MFC gets a lot less use these days than my knowledge of Java, Python, Git, SQL, Kubernetes, Wireshark and HTML.

And of course, if someone asked me the command to delete a remote branch in git, or what window compositor ubuntu uses, or how to perform a linear regression in excel, such precise operating details and user interfaces can change at the drop of a hat!
Typescript 3.5: fixing the problems we introduced and providing workarounds for new features in a broken type system.
You are either deliberately misrepresenting my argument or I haven't made myself clear. Yes. Those things are problems. I don't disagree they could happen. I disagree on what the appropriate solutions to those problems are.

If there is anything the digital age has demonstrated beyond a doubt, it is that attempting to control information is futile. Go ask the music and movie industries how successful they have been in controlling the flow of the digital information representing their IP.

Jeff's employer wants to fire him because of his sexuality? Jeff's employer is wrong and we should not allow that. Jeff should have cause to sue his employer and win.

A schoolteacher is into BDSM and someone thinks this is a problem for some reason? They are wrong and we should prevent them from taking any action against the schoolteacher.

An AI increases someone's insurance premium because of occasional visits to one bar? This AI sucks and its data model is probably severely broken. A better insurance company with a smarter data model should offer a better deal to that customer.

For anything that is legal but "taboo" without clear evidence that it actually results in a real problem, we need to aggressively prevent people from interfering with other people's lives because of ill-defined feelings they might have about things that in reality don't matter at all. THAT is what is going to solve this problem. Trying to unpour the jug of water that is digital information is destined to fail and a waste of time.

Telling people with unusual but harmless lifestyles that they need to hide and hope that nobody finds out instead taking steps to protect them is wrong.
Funny to read how something that will make millions or billions of dollars while creating tens of thousands of applications is a failure. Sure low-code isn't perfect and is being oversold by the people that benefit from it. What commercial software isn't oversold, overpromised, and underdelivered? Name just one if you can.

This has all happened before and will all happen again. Remember Visual Basic. It had all of the benefits and drawbacks of Low-Code. For some uses, it was great and exactly what was needed. For others, it was a horrible trainwreck.

That said, the author is right. It is true for any framework or tool, once you get outside what it does well, you are in for a world of hurt. He is also right in that none or almost none of the Low-Code tools of this generation will make it to the next. Anyone remember PowerBuilder? It was great for about 5 years and OK for about 5 more after that. It is long dead now. Same is true for Cold Fusion. What a great tool for about 5 years.

Every once in a while I still see VB apps out in the wild but I don't know a person that will admit to knowing anything about VB. about 10 years after this current Low-Code revolution dies, another will start. Each time we get a little closer to actually understanding what Low-Code is really good at and keeping it in that box. At this rate humanity will have a great handle on Low-Code in 2457.
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The problem is that the rating is a bargaining chip and there is no way around that issue.

The rating is currency and is being treated as such.

In all honesty, there should be a "Flag bad ride" and nothing else. No positive ratings. If it was a good ride, you just do nothing. Your rating should be a rolling average of the number of flags you've gotten compared to the population with the more recent flags being weighted more.

That way if you're not flagged as often as most people, it won't matter. Your rating will take a temporary dip. If you're flagged more often than average, it means something.

And flagging a bad ride should be a fairly involved process to prevent people from just using it on a whim. In order to flag a ride, you should have to expend some effort for it.
I agree that the pattern of "services" is a good one. But you don't really need Angular's DI for this in javascript. You can just use an ES6 module.
They are using a core mechanism of humanity though. There where always risk-affine outliers, who developed new techniques, tasted forbidden berries, and thus we copy those who stumbled upon success.
It was a good strategy until it was hacked.
Depends who your adversary is.
> The point Apple glosses over here is that Netflix isn't even allowed to provide a link back to their site for subscribing within the app, which seems difficult to defend.

How is it difficult to defend? If I am selling my product in a Target, I am not allowed to put stickers all over it telling people to buy it from Amazon instead. No reasonable storefront would allow this, really.
To be fair, most software projects have performance issues at FB's scale.
Uh-Oh. My rider rating is 4.21. I use Uber maybe 15x a year, mostly on vacation with my family. I would guess that my rating has taken a hit due to my kids crying, kicking seats, Etc.
CI/CD, AWS, and serverless: tips learned the hard way
I do think drivers should be required to justify a <5 star rating for riders.
If it isn't obvious the question shouldn't be asked. Just put in a Bus rapid transit system, and change the line every few months until you find a "line" that is profitable, then keep that line going for a few years to prove it works long term. Now you have real rider numbers to plug into the equation of if the line is worth it.
Like the sibling comment, I think it all should depend on the roles of the people as well. You need strict access controls in place to ensure that access rights are well defined such as no/read-only access for certain data in certain environments, physical access control, etc. Someone who does client-facing retail at a financial institution should not have access to production data. As such, them getting phished won't have the same impact as senior developer with production read access.
Yes, thorium plus smaller reactors would be nice. A few years ago I saw work being done on reactors the size of a car that are much safer because the fuel is only the size of a tennis ball and much easier to control as well as contain if anything were to go wrong. The issue I see with this approach though is that if there's too many then maintenance and monitoring becomes difficult.
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Please see my edit regarding known deaths resulting from improperly inflated tires.

> That light will pop for reasons ranging from synchronization issues

Yes that exactly correct. It's based on an engineering principle called fail-safe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-safe

When the light is on, you have no assurance that the tires are properly inflated. Period. If the TPMS light is off, you can be well-assured that tires are inflated properly.

Yes, the system is finicky (by design). Yes the system can be costly to maintain (I do it myself it's it expensive and time-consuming). These are the responsibilities one must take on if they wish to be transporting the public.
It's definitely not an implementation detail. If the RAM fails somehow, it has lied about that data being durably stored.

But yes, it's absolutely possible for all of this to be vertically integrated, and agreed that it's ridiculous that it hasn't happened. Most systems shouldn't care, but the ones that do care really really care.
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US DOE referring to fossil fuels as “freedom gas”
If they can do this for 49MUSD then it’s a revolution. It’s a ridiculous amount of money for something like this. Just the management overhead of a project like this would cost millions, and the fact that it is short does not make it any easier. I will be very curious to see how they pull it off, and take the lesson whatever the outcome is.
I recently failed a suspicious email / phishing test for the first time, and I am also one of those people who never thought it would happen to me...

The email was a newsletter I didn't care about, and the unsubscribe link was (fake) malicious. That one impressed me because it preyed on what is now a pure reflex to click the unsubscribe link.
OP is referring to the curious death of the founder of QuadrigaCX who supposedly was the only one with the keys to cold storage.

This does not apply to 0x-based exchanges at all - it's a nuncustodial solution, meaning you can put orders without depositing coins and ensure they are only transferred out of your wallet as part of a correctly executed trade, atomically.
Yes but who in private industry is demanding these community college degrees which are now free and provided by the government? The only reason 4-year community college degrees are de facto requirements and readily accepted is because they're so commonplace and subsidized. If there were less 4-year graduates, the demand would diminish at all the smallish businesses wanting bachelors and associates in business where they provide little to no value beyond just working for those few years anyway. Community college is junk, go to trade school or into a real profession and stop inflating entry-level job requirements at tax-payer expense.
Very disappointing that they did this. Apparently AdAge posted a video bragging about what they did, which is how Wikipedia caught on.

https://adage.com/creativity/work/north-face-top-imagens/217...

Warning: page requires Javascript and even with an adblocker, it connects to nearly 30 tracking and ad domains.
My wife was from a very competitive school district which forced overachievement and I got beat up by bullies in a small town school. Besides the personal anecdotes,

1. we felt like time was passing too quickly and wanted to have them around, we wanted to be together basically.

2. with 3 kids my wife hasnt been able to work (her line of work is not well paying), so it made sense to start homeschooling vs private schooling.

3. I have issues with what public schools are now, hyper focused on testing, lack of critical thinking, no outdoor time.

The "socializing" concern is a farce imo. Granted we live in area with plenty of groups. Maybe a solo kid way out in the sticks will have problems. Our kids also regularly play with kids 2-5 years older or younger so things are different. Our kids have activities with other homeschool kids 4 days a week.

The schedule looks like this:

M: Outdoor Nature camp: think building fire with bow drills, axes, skinning animals, foraging for wild plants

T: Academic day at home then occasional horseback riding

W: Academic day at home, private music lessons, then playdate at friends house

TH: Homeschool meetup group: think art, music, dance, karate, extracurricular classes with a group of 100 kids and 10 teachers

FRI: another Homeschool meetup group: with various classes and open play

SAT: Climbing, iceskating, skiing, biking, something outdoors

Our life is a mellower version of "Captain Fantastic"
Should it be expunged though? They've indicated they were aware it was quite clearly a phishing attempt, but they still accessed the link. If the test was to see if a user would try accessing the link, then this user failed the test. Why should that be expunged?

Curiosity shouldn't preclude security, and intent shouldn't preclude policy if the operator operated knowingly.

This isn't to attack maxk42, but to engage the question head on.
I love pure mathematics but I don't quite agree that all the blockchain stuff falls in the same vein at all.

There is no "science" here. No positing of a theory that explains what happens when X happens. After the original paper which largely built on ideas that already existed, I don't believe the field of consensus protocol has been greatly enhanced by the crypto fad. In fact, almost all products, papers, and developments have been for the express purpose of commercializing a product.

Math does not purport to be "market-ready." It's foundational, and honestly, it still does need to be used in the sense that the measure of a good theory is it's applicability to actual problems (although sometimes, the problem itself isn't always easy to grasp).
> I have a live system running OpenBSD older than this rant, and the man pages are there. The default modulus is 2048 too.

That's pretty hilarious if Apple changed the default from 2048 to 512!
I'm not sure rider number experiments are really needed. At least in MN rider predictions were on the conservative side, but reasonable as far as predictors.

Granted that doesn't mean your idea is bad or anything. I do wonder how many people would change their routine for a "temporary" bus line... not sure they would.
This is precisely what I don't like about Angular. That there is all this stuff. And I have to care about what it is doing under the hood (and this is complicated and not especially well documented).

In React if I have performance issues, then it's pretty easy to work out what's causing them.
No kidding. I thought you were being facetious but reading the changelog it's clear that most of these would typically have been in a high-priority 3.4.1 release as a number of them are blocking (now there's code that compiled under 3.4 with nary a warning that won't compile under 3.5).
I don't disagree that global warming won't also affect catastrophic events. But it's my opinion that the most severe effects will be the changes in climate (temperatures, sea level, desertification, etc).
> That's the genius of the 0x protocol

pretty proud that I stopped reading right here at the sales pitch to let you know that all coins are scams, every single person and group who tries to build a coin trading community using telegram is a scammer, there is no use for a blockchain in any foreseeable human endeavour or venue and it was all a big mistake.

You may proceed.
Appending log based file system has a lot of appeals. A lot of hard problems, like atomic write, become trivial. A log based FS shares similar properties as the transaction log in RDBMS, making consistency and recovery easy. Write performance is fantastic. With enough cache memory, read performance should be good, too. The only down-size is the performance hit when doing garbage collection. More research in this area would be helpful.
How is it possible to transfer the IP if there is another partner who won’t agree to that? A lawyer would be needed on that one but surely it’s cleaner to void the contract.
You have a very narrow view of home schooling and only the worse cases. Take a look at the worse outcomes of public schooling and the averages in performance of home school kids versus public school kids. The social anxiety and other issues of kids going through a modern high school versus kids who socialize with mostly adults and socialize in sports programs, co-ops, or groups and learn to be self driven in learning.

Public schools have a long way to go before they should be made mandatory. Until it is the very best solution for everyone, until it addresses every learning disability, the class sizes are smaller, teachers are paid better, classes track with a students ability and mental development and actually run in line with the latest in neuroscience and child development, have flexible hours so teenagers can sleep longer, put less on the kids when they go home so they have time for family activities and social interaction instead of 3-4 hrs of homework. Maybe when the solution isn't to medicate kids who don't learn by sitting still at a desk 6 hours a day with few breaks, elimination of recess and 20-30 minute lunch periods and few if any opportunities to "socialize" in the current schooling environment. When they teach problem solving and critical thinking, rather than rote memorizing for one standardized test at the end of year. If going to school was more like being an adult or put responsibilities on the student, like a college does, rather than treating the student population like they're in a low security prison. When it uses a system that wasn't developed for training factory workers and hasn't transitioned at all since then. When all the new money added to their budgets isn't siphoned up in administrative costs. When schools in many neighborhoods put kids in physical danger, involve gang activity and a good option simply isn't available to them because of their district. Then maybe we can talk about making it mandatory.

Even then, the most rich and privileged still would have loop holes for tutoring their kids for something other than factory work. We would still need exceptions for kids who for a variety of reasons, medical or otherwise need to be at home, students who travel or work in acting/performance. Kids who are on specialized career tracks in schools geared towards where its best they learn very young (perforamance arts and music, CS) to compete in a global market.

This idea that one education fits all is myopic and doesn't line up with the results that public schools produce thus far, and you want to take away any alternative.

It would be like if the only healthcare option in the US was the VA, and no one was allowed to seek healthcare else where because some people make bad health decisions and go to homeopathic healthcare providers.
The area under elevated lines is unusable only if you make it that way. Tokyo is great at using space below bridges and elevated lines: https://images.app.goo.gl/zpq5T3m5FPSr4eoN6.

As to weather, Chicago has tons of it and manages fine: https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/1/31/18204627/chicago-cold-w...
> This is basically capital cancer, they had a real value but dismissed everything a company is to a society:

> - stable for employees

> - stable for users

> - stable for society

No. Stability comes at the expense of dynamism. Innovation disrupts stability, and society is more often than not better off for it. You pay a needless tax whenever you buy a CD or flash drive which gets handed off to record companies in the presumption that you will pirate music. Politicians decided that the music industry needed more stability, and passed laws to make consumers fork over tax money to subsidize them.

There was a push to make ride-share companies wait at least 30 minutes before pairing riders up with a car. Not to guarantee any sort of safety or to fight congestion. It was literally just degrading service in order to make taxi companies more competitive with Uber, Lyft, etc.

Trying to achieve stability frequently hurts users and degrades quality of service.
Wonderful! My favorites from this release:

- Omit helper type

- Smart Select (allows editor to expand/shrink selection based on syntactic construct)

- Extract to type alias (smart refactor of function parameters to their own type)

- Performance improvements
Awesome. I do the same sort of thing in Javascript and it works great. Nice to see it available in Python.
I'm thinking a database.