skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The newspapers and their online equivalents get their information from the same newswires. You only have to manipulate those few original and allegedly reputable sources and the media echo chamber makes it appear there is a 'free press' with every journalist doing investigative journalism. In reality it is a copy and paste operation, newspapers just take what there is on the newswire and dumb it down a bit for their audience.
My understanding of tunnels fascination is to create a 3D transportation space to mirror the 3D work/living space of cities. Yes, EL trains add one layer. However, the idea behind the tunnels is that they can make 20 layers, if needed.

I say this without commenting on the actual financial viability, since that is very much a matter of debate and I'm tepidly optimistic on it at best.
Outsmarting deep fakes: AI-driven imaging system protects authenticity
> If you run your country properly and efficiently

Have you ever wondered why very large companies are run inefficiently and have a lot of bureaucratic morass in them, while startups and small businesses actually get things done?

Now compare the size of the United States' landmass, population, and GDP vs. individual European countries.

There was a time when the United States' model was supposed to be like the European Union, with strong individual states governed by a national body, where each state would have wide latitude over how they conducted their business. In such an alignment, you might see examples of efficiency (Germany) and examples of stupidity (Greece). Alas, this is not the direction the US decided to go, and instead has a pretty inefficient strong national state that gets very little done specifically because of its size.
Doesn't seem like a design point that any of them ever care about. It's easy to waste a lot of power if you treat it as a don't-care.
I'm of the impression that public investment in education increased manifold since the ~60s without much improvement in outcomes. Presumably education is an example of goverment management gone awry (which is not to say that private management would fare better).
> This is a VERY biased source.

Are you unbiased?

There's no such thing as an unbiased source. Having actually read the linked article, it's a detailed, well-cited, and effective piece. Indeed, it seems the bias you complain about is based on the political stances of the publication and not any merits of the piece itself, as if critiques of capitalism are only valid when written by proponents of capitalism.

Further, this kind of vague belly-aching about the supposed "bias" of an article is very much against the spirit of the board. It casts aspersions, intentionally or not, not only on the article that was linked, but on the commenter who linked it. If you'd like to criticize the article, please do that instead.
They said it would affect people with scores <4.6, which is high enough to catch a lot of people.
In small town America in the 70's and 80's of my childhood, life was pretty darn close to this.
Wow, this looks really good. Is there a different de-facto standard library for connecting to a DB from Java other than Hibernate? After using Hibernate for one of my extremely simple projects, I felt like I was using a tank to kill mosquitoes.
The developer learned the hard lesson of relying on a walled garden for livelihood. A livelihood that can be taken away without reason or recourse. Looks like they were all in on Apple, too.
I believe in Elon. He’s always late, but he mostly delivers. If he gets 10x faster instead of 14x and does it cheaper, it’s a huge boon to society (forces other companies to innovate). Cost disease for infrastructure is in my opinion the biggest drag against gdp and the economy.
That leaves the with only the best option:

Upgrading to a better browser ;-)
Yes, because smaller buses run in suburbs. This does not include highway strips, which retain 300m stop spacing in suburbs, too.
Example route: https://www.eshot.gov.tr/tr/UlasimSaatleri/501/288
Disclaimer: I live very close to this bus route
Yeah the first few lines are pretty obvious if you are smart about it.

Twins ballpark / transit hub (not there at time of construction but it helps that it is now), downtown, Vikings Stadium, Airport, MOA... pretty obvious and useful route. Then to the U and St. Paul.

After that is is a question of what direction out to the burbs you reach out to, and then the next, and so on.
Why the Airbnb Pitch Deck Doesn't Work
How else would you make money while Shitcoins as a Service are still hot?
‘Mona Lisa’ Comes to Life in Computer-Generated ‘Living Portrait’
Author is defending the pork that funded this article.
“the system would enable the .. National Security Agency, to instantaneously share select classified information with America’s closest allies in the fight against the Taliban”

Would it also help them figure out who is facilitating the heroin trade out of Afghanistan and where all the money goes ;]
No, and I have no reason to assume, that large regions become contaminated if the airplane crashed.
The submitted title was "No, the Las Vegas 'Loop' Is Not the Future of Public Transportation". That broke the HN guidelines, which ask submitters to use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait, and not to editorialize. We remove submission privileges from accounts who post like this, so please don't.

Note: if this was the article's original title and, as sometimes happens, they changed it, then none of this applies. Usually it's just the NYT who do that though.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you are interested in something like that, i would recommend you to listen to this podcast [0]. One of the stories from what i remember is that someone had run a `delete table` command but it turned out that processor had a bit off which mapped `create table` command to `delete table`. It's really really interesting.

[0] https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/06/16/google-early...
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Boring company trying to make tunnels lot cheaper
Oh, they had enough troops for Manchuria, but of course at that time what happened there wasn't all that important to the mainland, and USSR had little in the way of ability to get there anyway.

What Zhukov had shown at Khalkhin Gol, just as against Germans, was that with a significant advantage in manpower and equipment (double the manpower, 7 times the tanks) Soviets can actually beat up someone.
They shouldn't be surprised, if they're fully informed on the technical and business merits of every platform available. I wouldn't build a business on anything except CoreCLR or Hotspot. C# or Kotlin for me.

I'm just talking out loud here, not to you specifically, but things are the way they are, for good reasons. It's not a "mistake", the way the landscape is today, most technical leads are not sheep. Technical & business requirements have been mulled over time and time again by many thoughtful people, usually leading to these two platforms. A lot of us don't care about what's cool. We demand true technical innovation to adopt a new platform, not technical churn and there's an awful lot of that, if not outright downgrades.

For me, all these things matter.

-Good tooling

-Industrial-strength language design

-Backwards compatibility and support

-Breadth of domains you can target and target well (server-side, desktop, mobile)

-Availability of talent for employers

-Availability of jobs if you're an applicant
You can't with 0x, at least not in the way you could at say Bitfinex or Binance. All of the assets remain in your personal Ethereum wallet until a trade is matched up.

That's the genius of the 0x protocol. The Relayers that LaunchKit lets you create are effectively just order books or other matching-engines that exist as a website or other service. They expose completed trades to the 0x smart contract, which atomically swaps the tokens of the trade. (Official 0x people can correct me here, I've done just a bit of research.) At no point does any organization other than you actually have control of your funds, nor can they receive them without giving you equivalent funds under the terms of the trade.

I've said before that the real use-cases for blockchains will be in doing stuff that nobody in their right mind would want to do because it's currently foolhardy. This is a good example. Giving money to a fly-by-night exchange is foolhardy - unless you don't have to give money to them. And that's what 0x enables: tradable assets without trust.
With Huawei on Defensive, Ericsson and Nokia Fight Each Other for Edge
No I can't be spearphished. Prove me wrong.
That's a useless comparison, you can't just take the mean over all workers like that. The Federal government employs a larger percentage of skilled workers, and a smaller percentage of burger-flippers, than the workforce as a whole.
Why? Is it because the sun batters the same side of the field with radiation as opposed to distributing it evenly?
That's a good start. Another thing I would like is if the owner has AAA or some other towing service then the city would be required to call them to tow it.

Also there is little reason, except corruption, for the cops to not send the owner a text or recorded message to move their car before towing it.
If you suggested to a European that a French person and a Serbian were the same and should be governed as such, they would find that assertion ridiculous.

Yet people throw rocks at "Americans" as if your average person from Oregon is at all similar to your average person from Mississippi.
Depends. There have been exceptions you can point to, but many small businesses fail because the owner doesn't spend enough time in the office. "Joe Electric" works when "Joe" and one assistant is the extent of the business, but "Joe" - if he is in a good location - will soon have more business than he can accept at which time it is temping to expand, and then the MBA skills are needed or Joe's poor handling of the office work ends up killing the company.

If Joe was good at business he could keep 200 electricians busy with jobs that pay about as much as they would earn on their own, and no need for them to do all the book work in the office, and ultimately Joe makes more money.
No. Forking a language is very difficult from forking an application (which is itself a Herculean task if the app is big). And few end-users of a piece of software will switch to a fork with much less backing because of soft-power influence or governance model.
Mark Zuckerberg Will Be Served a Summons If He Sets Foot in Canada
Is someone trying to apply AI and Deep Learning to phishing attacks? One of the things which PG noted in "A Plan for Spam" back in the day, was that the Bayes classifier found markers of Spam he never would have thought of.

http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html

If Phishers are concentrating on fooling human beings in the same way that spammers were back in the day, they might be vulnerable to such techniques.
It can be overridden, yes, but releasing the switch also resets the MCAS activation timer, resulting in an activation 5 seconds after the switch is released.

You would have to pulse the switch in sub-5 second increments depending on the way the switch works.

If it's a direct switch, I.e. switch held down->motor moves, then they'd have to hold it down until trim was neutralized, then cut it out.

If it's a discrete toggle, I.e. each toggle increments/decrements a set point the motor then follows; a pilot would have to be very conscious of their timing on the switches, and how much the stabilizer had actually managed to travel.

Both of these would constitute new, MAX specific skills, that Boeing cannot show any acknowledgement or foreknowledge of without opening a massive can of worms.
Not according to [1]. Install base of iOS is higher in the US

[1]: http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-stat...
Of course this could happen.

How about this. Mr. Bigot employs Jeff, or is his client.

Ukrainian Bob hacks a database and finds out Jeff goes to gay bars. Bob contacts Jeff and says pay me or I tell Mr. Bigot.

Or maybe Jeff is a schoolteacher, and the bar is a BDSM themed bar. And Bob the hacker is a student.

Or maybe Jeff still goes to a bar in his old neighborhood, which is an ethic neighborhood. And maybe a black box unaccountable AI algorithm used by an insurance company flags him as higher risk because of that data point in his larger profile they've queried from a data broker.

Or whatever scenario you can think of. As long as certain things in society are legal and OK but taboo in some contexts, people are going to want privacy around them. Once you keep records like this that privacy is threatened, given that the probability of lists such as this leaking is basically 100% in the current environment.

Many of us want that privacy safeguarded. You are clearly not arguing in good faith by pretending not to understand why someone might have this opinion.
I don't think "keep using the old version" is a solution. We should accept the truth, which is that in today's computing world you can't "keep using the old version", because you will want the bug fixes, the security fixes, and you will need the software to be updated to newer OS versions.
Marketing needs to have a web developer on the team. Can't leave this stuff to the sales guys.
On Android, it is being done by the system. The apps do not have to care which browser the user prefers, the user sets the default one system-wide and the apps just ask to open URL, without being bothered which one to pick.
Did you alter the URL at all? Every phishing test campaign I've seen has a URL in the form of like http://totallylegit.your-company.com/somePath/login?id=12345.... I'd change the id= to some other value before testing to mess with their tracking.
Often the phishing training says "do not investigate yourself" but maybe your company missed that part.
I would fully agree you with you. Newton's Third has a habit of showing up in many sociopolitical scenarios. This alone would make prediction any distance into the future effectively impossible, even if we ignore the million other variables involved. Thought I think we can at least consider which scenarios seem, at minimum, more or less likely than others.

As for examples though, we have to consider two major differences. First, extremely low fertility rates are extremely new -- even as recently as the 60s the US total fertility rate (average number of children per woman over their lifetime) had peaked at just a bit under 4. That already meant things like fertility did not really play a major role in these issues. And obviously as you go further back there is an upward trend.

The second issue is that widescale welfare systems did not exist mostly until the 20th century, and the great depression time in particular. You had things like poorhouses where people could exchange hard labor for a meal and bed, but these were extremely local and small scale systems. There would not be support for millions of foreign individuals unable to otherwise independently support themselves. As a consequence of this, mass migrations were effectively impossible. So you won't find today's scenario in the past, because it did not exist.

But I do think we can at least see rough analogs of this scenario play out practically everywhere that 'we' have colonized and decided to stay. Those were different times and war was often involved, but when you look at the times following peace things rarely got better for the natives. Once 'we' established ourselves disparities just grew over time and native views, values, and cultures were gradually relegated to an ever smaller piece of society to the point that, for instance, today in America we rarely even acknowledge Native Americans when speaking of things like 'minority representation.'
> I also wish the Angular team had just called Angular 2 something else, since the 1 -> 2 transition frustrated a lot of people

Could have called it "Rectangular". Opportunity, missed.
It does, and even if it didn't there is a need for a rallying cry. We've been well aware for years the threat climate change poses yet we can't even get a carbon tax to be a major talking point in the US, let alone enacted. We need to shift the discourse because right now it's lately wedge issues pushed by two parties trying to maintain their big tents above all else
I added a section on Dynamic IPs to the docs here:

https://github.com/pirate/wireguard-docs#Dynamic-IP-Allocati...
If something else (what? utilities?) picks up the rest, doesn't it still nullify benefits of UBI?

People say it's a stock argument, but I haven't seen any good refutation of it yet. And I say this as a fan/supporter of UBI.
> Rick Marsh worked in the car plant in Lordstown his entire life. Now that job is gone. What does that mean for his politics?

That's one heck of a bait-and-switch. The concept of "whence is my inherent worth or intrinsic value" is way more interesting than "how does automation affect my politics."
my Chinese friends feel all very similarly. While I don't agree with them, it's not productive to be insensitive to their concerns. That's not how you solve conflict.
Given that Uber already uses a pretty similar version of this system for drivers (it's based on star ratings as well), and riders are just as potentially biased as drivers, unless you have a problem with using ratings for eligibility on both the supply and demand side, this isn't a strong argument.

The comparison with the taxi law is apples and oranges: a single taxi driver can make the unilateral decision to discriminate, while in Uber's system, it would require systemic discrimination across all of the drivers in a given city. While I'll grant that it's possible, if it reaches that point, there should be grounds for a lawsuit alleging disparate impact (which I believe is an established concept when applied to private businesses that was incorporated in the Warren Court years, although there's more gray area here, so I may be off the mark).
> First, good linters and syntax highlighters are supposed to work in embedded code. It works for HTML, JS, CSS. It works for docstring in Python, regex or f-strings. But the tooling state of SQL is quite terrible.

As you write, in practice it sucks for SQL. Formatting is another issue, can become quite awkward in embedded code

> Secondly, you can do that with Path.read_text() and pass it to SQLalchemy-core if a query is so complex you want to

Yes, if you use one file per query. Otherwise you'd need something similar to the naming-scheme of PugSQL, just implemented by your self.

> But writing your entire program like that seems very slow, SQL being verbose, and you having to write additional wrappers on top of it anyway.

This depends entirely on your program and/or problem domain. It might be overkill for simple CRUD applications with a few INSERT/UPDATE/SELECT queries, but might make a lot of sense if you use more advanced SQL features.
>Apple is not preventing you from choosing to buy an Android phone.

They're preventing you from buying iOS apps from anyone but Apple.

>Owning an iPhone is like being in a Walmart. You can either buy from the store or go somewhere else.

It's not and you can't. There's nothing inherent that forces you to only buy software from Apple because you own an Apple device. And you can't go somewhere else to buy your software because Apple blocks that.
This is a dupe, discussed twice on popular posts in the past 24 hours:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20039465

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20031403
Honest question: why do so many workplace penalties come with only two levels of punishment?: words ("reprimand") and getting fired. This would be like only having speeding tickets and the death penalty in normal law. Losing part of your bonus for the year would certainly sting enough to provide a disincentive without having to fire anyone.
What's a comparable tunnel? Isn't the Vegas loop a single lane tunnel for personal vehicles? I can't think of other existing/planned tunnels that fit that description, aside from other Boring Co ones.

I'm not at all convinced that this design can scale.
Elixir/Neo4j/React and 23M lines of pitch-by-pitch baseball data
Why should he hold Monopoly on search placement for the phrase "weight tracker"? The other side of this story is that another developer is now happy to be able to feed their family.
> A common argument against it is that everything depends on China and India.

This is true though. If you're concerned about absolute fairness, then yes, it makes sense that China should be able to emit as much as the US and Europe does per capita.

But if you care about the environment, then this is a disastrous idea.

The US needs to continue to reduce its carbon output, and China needs to dramatically slow it's increase in carbon output.

Remember, when the US and Europe industrialized, renewables were nonexistent (other than hydro) -- so I think it's fair to expect China and India to leapfrog fossil fuels as much as possible. They've leapfrogged the west on many other technologies -- like telecom and transportation -- so why not energy?
Oh you know exactly why this got flagged.
That's only true if you have a shitty enterprise email system. On a proper system such spear phishing attempts are blocked before reaching end users, or at least immediately obvious to anyone paying attention.
From my experience, the credit card machine is always broken.
Is Kubernetes a Fad?
I may be wrong, but insolation probably isn't a substantial factor in keeping cores molten because of how small the energy input is. Venus does have extremely active volcanoes. There's suspicion that it might have a stronger magnetic field if it were spinning faster (it's rotational period is currently longer than its year).
More intuitively, solar radiation would be radiation from the planet's local star, its sun. Radiation from our star would be stellar radiation. We're here; it isn't.
Uber needs to add an "I'm traveling with children" option. I had a 5 star rider rating until I started traveling with the kids. The kids are quiet and don't make a mess, but it takes longer to get in and out of the car, because the law (and safety) dictate using car seats. There's not much I can do there.

I'd be perfectly willing to pay an extra fee when traveling with my kids that goes straight to the driver to make up for the extra time and to incentivize them to select me as a rider, because they would know they're getting the "kids bonus". And then maybe I wouldn't get dinged on my rider rating just for having kids with me.
If you're reading this, I'm so sorry this happened to you, Russ.

The problem is worse than being de-ranked for your keywords. The search is downright broken. Searching for 'predictive weight loss tracker', 'predictive weight tracker', anything with 'tracker' yields no results on my phone. Removing 'tracker' and only searching for 'Predictive Weight' or 'Predictive Weight Loss' gives me only one result: Happy Scale.

It almost seems like they're filtering your app on the 'tracker' keyword. That's not fair!
Instead of arguing about access to Apple's walled garden, maybe spotify et al should develop their ecosystems around the proven, open web , and then sue apple if they 're refusing to support technologies they need. This would be a bigger win for everyone.
We should s/public transit/mass transit/ in these discussions. It's the efficiencies that matter, not who is providing the service for the city.
Hooks are the biggest WTF for me in React-land, which is saying something. Classes and inheritance can lead to bad situations sometimes if you use them wrong, so we'll write our own method & property lookup table with a joke UI, then just not implement inheritance so that problem doesn't come up. I mean... what?
As it stands, that statement is obviously untrue. With the introduction of fossil fuels, human life expectancy has gone up massively, as has the population.

You implicitly assume some sort of "100% renewable transportation" scenario that is very far into the future, if at all feasible.