skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She was released when the last grand jury ran out of time. A new grand jury was called, she refused to appear before it and was put back in jail. Presumably there’s an upper limit on how long she can be in jail (this grand jury also has a time limit, plus once Assange’s trial gets far enough along, there won’t be any point to demand that she appear before the grand jury).
Its not just about the passenger. There have been historical increases (geometric increases) in the economy each time the speed of commerce improves. Horse (4mph) vs ox(2mph); steamship vs sail; scheduled steamship service vs sail-when-full; fixed-price postage vs line-up-at-the-post-office; transcontinental railway. Heck even FedEx was a game changer.

And its not just passengers, its cargo too. Imagine a delivery service that can offer 5 shipments a day vs 4 because the trains are faster. It has its effect on the bottom line.
Those stories are exaggerated. Using Ethiopia as an example, there is no infrastructure, unreliable electricity, widespread crime, no direct sea connection, and a literacy rate of only 55%. Average IQ is 69.

If you build a factory there, you have to also build the power plant, the roads or rails, train and educate the workforce, and secure everything.

Contrast that against somewhere like Indonesia, where you have literacy rates of 95%, decent infrastructure, and average IQ of 87.

On top of all that, the 'best' workers in Africa, which could be your foremen or managers, are usually already comfortably employed directly or indirectly thanks to foreign aid.

If Africa truly wants development, they should just lease out huge tracts of land to the Chinese for 200 years, and give them authority over it all.
During my work as a legislative aide, I often thought about the benefit of using an almost Github-like system for editing, and making that revision history public when a bill went up for a vote. The requested edits would be issues, when incorporated they would be commits, forks and branches for and merges for committee deliberations etc.

I talked to a few people in NY State about it and it went over like a lead balloon, so I'm rest curious about your experience!
So he was the OTO - Only Technical Officer
Why are you doing this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20000879 :
Guided Missiles [pdf] (drdo.gov.in)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20000874 :
Inertial Navigation for Guided Missile System [pdf] (jhuapl.edu)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20000860 :
Inertial Navigation System (wikipedia.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20000857 :
Missile Guidance (wikipedia.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20000885 :
History of Guided Missiles [pdf] (nptel.ac.in)

Is there some point you're trying to make? Why flood the front page, a scarce resource, with five things all on the same topic?
It's not enough to delete Facebook. In fact, if your own feed isn't full of fake news then it doesn't help. You have to get other people, especially those you aren't already in contact with, to delete it too.

> bad political actors picking stories that drive unrest

Unfortunately this has been endemic in the British press for as long as I have been around. The latest round is cherry-picked anti-trans articles. It's not just a social media problem.
“the process involves dumping the wood in concentrated hydrogen peroxide and boiling it. While I wouldn't want to drink boiling, concentrated hydrogen peroxide, it's not an especially difficult chemical to handle safely.”

Diluted hydrogen peroxide is safe but in concentrated form it is one of the most dangerous substances. Early rocketry experiments used it as an oxidizer and it’s generally considered too unsafe.
They haven't used the food pyramid in nearly ten years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyPlate

Harvard has an even better one: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-...

Also, the food pyramids and plates are from the USDA, the federal government. Not a state government like sugar warnings are coming from. So you're talking to two different organizations when you say "before you label sugar, fix the food pyramid".
I've taken math up to calculus and linear algebra and enjoy watching 3B1B proofs. Is that enough to follow the elementary Prime Number Theorem proof? I've been interested in understanding that for a while. Any good links?
Not only will people answer, it's answers from people who actually know (and are willing to share).
Okay, I see your Down Syndrome point, and raise you Autism/Asperger Syndrome. Alright, there isn't currently a test that would enable people with Autism/Asperger Syndrome to be systematically aborted, but it isn't so hard to imagine a future where it would be possible. Given the high proportion of people in this forum with these conditions, how do we feel about this?
In the article near the top it says

“1080p @ 60 Hz = 1920x1080x60x3 => ~370 MB/sec of raw data.”

Can someone help me understand the 60 Hz part of this? Was it meant to be fps or does it really mean Hz? And why?
Kind of the point, isn't it? No lights in the tunnel. And the difference gets far more significant as you build a line tunnel.
Or even some "coffee" drinks.

Black coffee? Pretty healthy, just water and caffeine. 0 calories. 0g sugar. 0g sodium.

A Starbucks "White Chocolate Mocha"? 530 calories, 320mg of sodium, 69g of sugar per 20 oz "Venti" serving. That's twice as many calories as a 20 oz Coke, with twice as much sodium, and higher sugar levels.

Nobody is defending soda here. Just pointing out, this good idea needs to be applied consistently or people will switch from "unhealthy" soda to "healthy" coffee drinks or "healthy" fruit juices both of which can have scary-high sugar too.

I like the "color code" system they have in Europe[0]. You buy a soda and it has a red warning on the sugar/salt levels.

[0] https://www.nutrition.org.uk/images/cache/537bf3c6516df64581...
Does anything seem amiss at https://www.youtube.com/html5?
It's like nuclear power, technology is what we make of it.

Do we want to use it for criminal purposes only, effectively to almost make it impossible for someone to commit a violent crime and get away with it and make a much safer society?

I'm all for it, there are some nasty people out there, serial killers, pedophilians, drug cartels. This technology deployed at scale would make these crimes much harder to get away with.

As long as it's another way to ensure democratic laws are respected, I don't think that completely forbidding it makes sense.

I'm all for regulation, we don't want this technology to be abused.
No, that's not the plan. To work with these low-orbit fast moving satellites, the antennas would be then size of a model 3 hood, pretty fancy/expensive and probably more than a little power hungry.

The cars will use LTE, although the backbone of those base stations could very well be Starlink.

Maybe future iterations will have extra hardware for terminal friendly applications, but I'd guess you'll see level 4 autonomy in a model 3 before they can upgrade Stsrlink to do that.
I think concrete is elegant, myself. I suspect a lot of the Brutalist architecture that's considered horrid today will be re-evaluated much more positively in a couple of centuries. It was, in its way, a way of looking forward and trying to create something timeless, which is a lot more ambitious in terms of human spirit than the anonymous glass throwaways that dominate modern architecture.
Never knew a product like this existed. This is a godsend for me as I navigate lot of old codebases.
Don't forget the lovely mps-youtube, which allows you to search YouTube, play audio and build playlists right from your terminal.

It's been a godsend for me in locations with extremely slow or intermittent connections.

https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube
Wouldn't your approach be biased against people who need more time to come up with a solution, and against people who are not used to discussing their solutions with others in real time? You approach also doesn't include an objective measure of performance: Your judgement of the candidate could be highly dependent on their personality, instead of their actual skills. If I recall correctly the book "Thinking fast and slow" shows how easily interviewers are influenced by personality traits. Technical questions like "how do you invert a binary tree" or "what is KL-divergence" are much less personality dependent, and the quality of the answer is measurable.

Here is what I think are some important skills in data science:

Can you understand the principles behind existing solutions and build a new solution from those principles?

(How fast) can you understand a new approach and apply it to a problem?

How long does it take you to translate a solution to working code? How optimal, readable and reusable is it?
Ask HN: What’s the best way/source to learn Python (total noob)
I’ve always considered myself a technical person, but in reality my coding skill is close to 0.
I interested in learning python (from what I’ve read it seems to be a good starting point).
Anyone would be nice enough share tips on how I should do this, sources or best practices? No shortcuts expected.
I think the main problem with the so-called high speed trains in Germany is that they don't have their own rail network, unlike the Shinkansen in Japan or the Maglev trains in China.
> As long as it also applies to juice.

Agreed! Also would like to see full health warnings for each of the non-sugar sweeteners, colors, preservatives, etc.; anything with studies showing it's bad.
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The man who made Einstein world-famous
This is what I've always assumed was happening—but it's annoying! If I'm seeking backwards that means the frame has already been played once. Don't throw it away so quickly!
That's roughly equivalent to intentionally mispronouncing someone's last name all the time or using a derogatory nickname for them. It's a light form of bullying. Unless they insist on being called "Master" or "King" or any nonsense like that, it is always best to respect people's wishes and call them the way they would like to be called.
This is a joke. The punchline is everybody's fake on social media.
I wonder how I make my inactive account look fake so they will cull it properly...
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You have vastly overestimated the oversight on intelligence agencies.
It never stopped to be an issue, only today there are better ways to solve it, mainly multilayer boards with internal ground and power planes and generally better understanding of EMC.
Buying a t-shirt gives more money to an artist than several years' worth of you streaming their music online.

Spotify started off great but is now a total ripoff to artists since it got in bed with the major labels, trading stock for a larger cut of ad and subscription revenue.

You aren't any better for using Spotify and not torrenting. Make sure to support your favorite artists when they perform near you, and buy merch. Support small-time and local artists. That is the best thing you can do for the music industry.
Just a niggle, but "senior web engineer"... in 1995? Uh... given that Netscape Navigator was released in DECEMBER of 1994, can any of us say we were a "senior" "web" ANYTHING in 1995? Sure, I was doing Usenet back on Unix machines in the late 80's in college, but that's not "web." And in 1994, I was dual booting Win3.11 (with Trumpet winsock) and Slackware, and getting on the internet with a free SLIP account, but I was doing Usenet, IRC, FTP, and gopher. Come on, now. "Pretty new" doesn't even begin to describe it. Am I missing something here?
I've been using hckrnews as well, can't beat it!
I have a few comments on this. First, Google as a money making corporation would probably not like this restriction enforced by the US government. Second, I used to use Android and when I did I avoided installing any apps, preferring to use web versions of the services I needed. The Huawei phones could be functional with some thoughtful default setups, home screen icons linked to appropriate web URIs, etc. The big kicker would be lack of games.
Ski mask. You might catch/convict a guy with it, but soon after a lot of people are just going to wear them all the time.
It's a good example but the difference doesn't quite have to be as dramatic as the article makes out.

Screenshot tools rarely produce optimised PNGs. A quick test of the image in the article shows that optipng (lossless) can bring the size down to ~570kb or pngquant (lossy) to ~240kb. Zopfil could further compress the images produced by optipng or pngquant, but it's a case of diminishing returns at that point.

To be clear the article makes a good comparison but I think it perhaps overstates the case to make a point.
Did he even get personal gratification, he got paid handsomely (by the sounds of it), but it didn't come across as him feeling fulfilled beyond that.
Press can be made accountable for what it reports to a large extent, outright lies can be called out and the newspaper or whoever signs the byline can be sued in extreme cases.

An anonymous fake news article has no risk or accountability for its author, that's the main difference.
That's a very good point. If they start making lineageOS-friendly phones because of this whole deal, my next one might be a Huawei .
Or those losses the only thing preventing the creation of even greater things
CMOS components in consumer electronics became popular shortly afterwards, and had higher noise tolerance.
Or Budweiser Budvar (sidenote: at a conference earlier this year I had the pleasure of seeing a Czech person at a different table order Budweiser thinking it was the Czech beer... He was not happy with the result).
That might be an obsolete notion. It was possible 100 years ago as an agrarian society to talk about decentralization and local government.

But with 450M people in the US for instance, and wages and work the way it is, admit that the vast majority of people don't live in some village or small town. They live in metropolitan cities. With about the same hope of affecting their 'local' govt as the federal one.

And who has time in their life to go politicking at city hall? Average folks barely have room in their lives to go get an official ID so they can vote at their polling place.

This is a middle-class argument that doesn't apply to most citizens in most places.
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That is not gonna fly where I am from. Our external accountant, CPA type guy, will absolutely hound our ass, and charge his hourly rate doing it, for the invoice corresponding to the VISA card charge.
An increasingly small minority is voting them in.

Democrats won the popular votes for the president, house and senate (they had 56.9% in the senate, in 2018, FFS!) in 2016 and 2018, but the republicans somehow managed to get complete control of the house senate and presidency, and unconstitutionally packed the courts in 2016-2018.

Now, the democrats have control of just the house, and the executive branch has decided to simply ignore the constitutional limits on its power, since, as Trump has boasted, he could shoot someone in public for no reason, and there’s still no way the senate would impeach him.

Also, it is apparently legal for state legislatures to override their popular vote. If even one swing state decide to do that, democrats won’t have enough votes in the house to prevent Trump from being reappointed (despite having a vast majority there, because of the way those votes are counted).

Florida, or Ohio are likely candidates. In 2000, Florida would have used this power if the courts hadn’t stepped in, and would have voted for W. After recounts, Gore won Florida. In Ohio, in 2004, the vote was decided by a ballot box that republicans illegally transported to Indiana, and then transported back for tallying. Exit polls disagreed with the tally.

We need to eliminate the electoral college, and get rid of per-state representatives. In our lifetimes, demographic trends suggest that the majority of the US will be represented by just 18 senators (with 82 for the minority).

One person, one vote!
A few years ago I was talking to friend who lives in Peru. He was finishing his studies in something similar to a Computer Science degree. Despite being a well educated person he did not understand that refined sugar was basically nutritionally superfluous, that it was this pure chemical substance that one regularly obtains (in some sufficiently equivalent form) from all sorts of food. It is hard for people to wrap their head around the fact that a whole powerful industry can exist to produce something so harmful and superfluous (and at the very same time destroy the environment).
I find as believable as software zoom can rival optical zoom, do you have some example?
The courts don't need to interrogate journalists and leakers to investigate the claims in their leaks when their leaks have been published and analyzed by multiple news organizations.
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Could you expand that a little for us slowpokes?

Aside, I assume you mean "to sustain the [USA] economy"? Perhaps you mean World economy, or EU, or ...?
Have you not been able to gain access to what's successors?
codecadamy, Treehouse, Learn Python the hard way, Automate the boring stuff with Python. r/learnpython

Good Luck.
As an aside, "Tell me about a project that failed" is one of my favorite interview questions to ask. Failure is endemic in our industry. A candidate that only tells you about success isn't telling you their whole story.

And a candidate who talks about failures in terms of what everyone else did wrong, but never acknowledges any failures or learning experiences of their own, is telling you something important, too... they're telling you that either they never learn, or they don't tell you the whole story.
>that doesn't have a malware-able god process called zygote

What?
This is a good heuristic for advanced logic, but not when the main purpose of the script is to encode a workflow of coding other tools. I’m using other languages for that too, but shell scripting languages are consistently superior to all of them (including Perl and Ruby, IMHO; workflow languages might help but pull in tons of dependencies).
I noticed that too! I texted a friend that works at SpaceX asking why does it look like the second stage has a heartbeat. I don’t have an answer but I’ll post back if I get one.
Before Spotify and streaming, artists were already getting their pants pulled down by record distributors. At least now many artists can distribute their own music and keep more of the cut.
Propeller-based airplanes are not that much faster than this train -- current propeller world record stands at 855 km/h. For higher speeds jet/turbofan engines would be the choice, as they are among the few propulsion forms that can operate very efficiently with the atmospheric medium, rather than fully against it (up to certain speeds). So unless you equip that train with jet turbines (impractical for a number of reasons), you will be paying a huge energy price for airplane speeds at ground altitudes (holds true for any kind of ground transportation). As a result those trains are seldom operated at their peak speeds.
still can't get smooth 4k60fps vp9 playback when using speed more than 1.5x on youtube, meanwhile in chrome it works fine
Isn’t nitrogen cooling much easier to achieve than this level of pressure?
Please note that you're not aborting 'people' ... just a thing that might become a person.

You're giving (actual) people the opportunity to choose to have healthier families.

- Note that I say 'healthier families' specifically because willfully passing on genetic features that disadvantage your children burdens not just them but your entire family unit.
Now I have a large list of biographies to read! thanks a lot to everyone's recommendation I really appreciate it! :)
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Wow I searched the comments for agile and no hits. This is basic modern project management - get something in front of the customers and users as soon as possible and iterate from there.
How do you get the idea to build something without any thought about what it will do?
>anyone who isn't verified and using words like tax, election, vote etc can be sent to a moderation queue

chuckle

Do you propose that in earnest in order to save the democracy[1]? Or are you being ironic and it's simply lost on me...?

What other words would you put on the moderation graylist? "Death penalty", "whistleblower", "sexual assault", "guns", "public education", "welfare", "war", "weapons of mass destruction"? Let's top it up with "conspiracy theory" and "fake news", just to max out the irony meter.

[1] or the republic, where applicable
They produce nice, high paid government jobs at the agencies that are in charge of managing such programs.
It will not give them access this tech on every consumer device with camera.
I don't know how effective is this technology to identify masked people, if at all.

But then again, how suspect is that to wear a ski mask? Everyone will notice.
Yup. About half the US needs them for 3 or more months per year. And then there's the rise of surgical masks to prevent the spread of viruses.

I also foresee a surge in wide-brimmed hats.
honestly i thought of building something like that once. Someone else was talking about making one for mushrooms.

but the poisonous and the safe ones are so hard to tell apart you could be liable for deaths.

And similar could happen with pills.
yes, please. that's better than now.
1c/gram of added sugar as a tax would be much more effective.

The problem is that unnatural sweeteners produce a similar insulin response as sugar, and also disrupt gut biota. We need to restrict sweeteners overall.

As an addendum, if you're looking to lose fat, consume zero sugar: no sweets, no juice, no sweeteners, no added sugar in anything - is the most effective way to do it. You will have to inspect the labels of any processed food you buy though.
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I'm American myself, don't mean to bag on a country, just was surprised by a few comments.

Fair enough though, didn't mean to come across as polemic/whining hahaha.

I'll try to conform to HN netiquette.
I agree with that. But are cheese, butter, lard, and panela (dried sugarcane juice) unhealthy? Should you buy cheese that is unsalted but contains other less studied food preservatives or just eat less cheese?
A one-time pass is still uncrackable.

Take your secret. Write it on a piece of grid paper. Fill EVERY FIELD on another piece of grid paper with random data. Transform every character on the first piece of paper based on the corresponding characters on the second piece of paper and write the result on a third piece of grid paper. Then burn the first piece of paper.

It's not possible to read the 3rd piece of paper without the 2nd now. You also obscure the length by filling the second piece of paper with data.
(and youtube-dl can take care of extracting them to ogg/mp3/wav)
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Starlink satellites spend most of their time above sea and other uninhabited areas.

If I remember correctly, Starlink could potentially serve roughly 40 million customers globally in far to reach areas. Including ships and aircraft. It's not economic solution for the urban population.
Soda/cold drinks industry of today is the tobacco industry of 60s and 70s. How can an individual consume daily and voluntarily hundreds of grams of sugars and sweeteners?
I do think it's a bad thing. In my experience the best developers are those who view new software as a last resort (or rather a second-last resort, with manual work being the last resort).
But it can produce a result which looks better at the same bitrate. It’s not all about speed.
Facebook is toxic.
true, doesn't make it any better though.
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