skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fall under this umbrella, as I do journalism, media and TV production work. It looks as if it will have a HUGE impact. But to be honest, I don't think many of the freelancers/contractors really understand any of the fine print. I barely do.
A suggestion:

Given the recent news that Chrome will soon prevent ad blocking and given ads can run untrusted JavaScript, the only sane choice is to disable JavaScript in the browser.

I suggest that you change the "enabled" colour to red, to highlight the user's risky behavior.
This is really amazing. I wish these were more practical on single-family homes. I don't think my bay area city would ever allow me to put one up, so it's solar.
> Compound that with the absurd humidity and mold problem endemic to pretty much all of coastal Asia (trying to keep your house mold-free is a losing battle after a certain point and it's unavoidable) and the cost and effort of repairs far outweighs the ease of just tearing it down and rebuilding.

Worse than, say, the US South? Just make sure you have air and vapour tightness, with a good whole-house dehumidifier and you should be set.

Good building (science) channel from builder in Austin, TX, where humidity is a thing:

* https://www.youtube.com/user/MattRisinger/videos
Umm.. how does it know that the wake word was said if it's not listening all the time?
I hate to sound callous but... no? Why would everyone be entitled to live in a 1bd apartment in the middle of the most expensive cities in the US?

From a strict supply/demand question, there are vastly more people in the country that might want a 1bd in SF than there are 1bd apartments. If not by price, how else are you going to allocate them?
I always get downvoted for saying I run NoScript with a whitelist but 90% of my browsing time is on sites I've been to before and I don't think any other single security measure reduces your attack surface as much as turning JS off does.
And, both Christianity and Stoicism were influenced by Buddhism. (Buddhism was practiced in both the Greek and Roman worlds, and scholars note many similarities between the two.)
Why not switch to another browser or implement a DNS-level blocking?
I wrote my book (Go 101) as a hobby. When I solved a confusion in using Go, I wrote one blog article. In the end, I wrote about 25 articles. Then I write some basic chapters to finish the book.

I have never a plan to publish it as paper books.
You can have your plate and eat it: Polish inventor
Processing normal spoken language also requires frequency and pitch information.
The methodology disclosed explains why the “lift” is so small:

TLDR - they analyzed logs provided from an “ad exchange” in 2016 (as exchanges or SSPs were still “remnant” inventory players at the time and this is pre header-bidding, so lowest quality of the available inventory went there), of the logs they only looked at open auction (lowest quality of the already low quality inventory self-selected by using the SSP logs).

RTB Deal ID, private marketplaces and other higher-rate products all use behavioral/audience data and generate the lions share of the revenues. We are talking impressions being boosted to between 10x and 100x in value easily if they qualified for one of these higher-value channels.

By focusing on open auction that was preferred for valuable behaviorally targeted impressions, the papers authors basically rigged the results.
Funny, a first deployment of a highly complex networked software driven system developed by gov contractors, being admittedly used by newly trained people (a training program called COMPUTEX as per the article), makes me even more sceptical that it may simply be an error/anomaly rather than providing better evidence of it being UFOs.

If this is indeed positive evidence, then the big question not asked was how many of these sensors detected the object in real time? If it was just 2-3 from the same sources (ie, jets or circling surveillance planes in the same area) then it's no different than technology from 2004 or earlier. Radar is still radar. The fact they are all linked together helps with real-time analysis. But in matters of UFO investigations their real-time interconnectivity doesn't really add any additional validation. When a post-incident analysis could simply reconstruct the moment by cross-checking multiple unconnected sensors present at the time - as any investigative team would have in prior eras.

The upgrades to the E-2C Hawkeye seem to be only related to the networking functionality adding real-time analysis on top of the system rather than providing better individual radar tracking. Unless I'm missing the part where each sensor became more accurate individually regardless of realtime networking or after-the-fact analysis?

Not to mention the whole uncertainty that first-deployment of new software brings to the whole equation.
This is all about the rise of China. Who would have thought competition would have lowered wages for the majority of workers?

Guess our politicians should have been asking why it was cheaper to manufacture in China (oh the just dump the output in that river there...).
Thanks for the feedback, I've been debating this. In my earliest version I had the colors as you suggested but later decided that most users would expect it the other way. I'm open to changing it, but I'll need to think about it.
You come back around on a sphere too, e.g. traveling by the equator.
reddit is uniquely designed to maximize time wasting.

HN gets pretty boring for me after 15 minutes. reddit just keeps it interesting all day long. From my early days on BBSes to Usenet to IRC to Slashdot to digg, etc I’ve never witnessed anything as addictive as reddit.

I stopped using it completely five years ago.
Oh I fully agree with this. I think they keep suggesting playing cards because I have bought a ton of board games from them. But I just bought a single deck of bicycle cards and I get way more suggestions for cards than games or other categories of stuff I buy. But I think that is just a categorical distinction that they haven't made and might be hard for ML to pick up on because of the nuances involved.
I use ProtonMail , standard notes, etesync, duckduckgo, Firefox, tresorit, wire/signal, lineageos on mobile and Linux on the desktop.

I still can't entirely opt out of Google.

And certainly can't opt out of their tracking.

They are inescapable.
Except they arent employees, so not quite. Jobs have healthcare, and retirement prospects. Uber is just stealing equity from your car, so drivers are no better off excepting maybe those with title loan levels of desparation.
US biologists investigate deaths of 70 gray whales
Yes, that would be part of the "getting replies from people" section... There is no points system. So people don't get gamified into obsessive behavior. And people don't feel a compunction to behave in an echo chamber way in order to get points and be visible either.
Raising a bad child is one thing, but handing them the keys to the kingdom is another.

It's not enough to dismiss the philosophy, but parent comment is absolutely correct that you should keep it in mind as historical context.
extremely cool! How easy was it to disconnect from the grid? What's your city/county? Also, just curious, why did you decide on NiFe? Most off-grid folks I know either use li-ion for density or lead acid for cost/abundance/ease-of-use.

> At 2pm I have more power than I know what to do with, I could happily run 3kw load for a few hours most days around that time.

A fun and interesting problem to have. This is why we need so much more research into energy storage.
This was also my experience. I was using i3 for a year but things still weren't working the way I wanted it. Stumbled upon i3-gnome (https://github.com/csxr/i3-gnome) and this maybe the current solution for this problem.
Seneca called out fear of losing one's wealth as a particular affliction of the rich, and prescribed a day, every so often, of living as a beggar to remind oneself that life goes on even in those circumstances.
What was parenthood like in Roman times? Were parents involved in the day to day lives of their children, or was that task generally distributed to teacher-slaves and other staff?
I am nearly deaf thanks to unattended childhood ear infections. You could not be more wrong.
an INOP yaw damper doesn’t cause a hull loss crash
Flying has become more dangerous. And Boeing’s 737 Max isn’t solely to blame
I think your downvoting has less to do with whether turning off JavaScript is a good or bad practice, and more to do with people just being sick of hearing about it.

In every story that’s even tangentially related, someone always feels the need to bring up the fact that they can’t believe anyone would ever have JS turned on, even if it’s totally irrelevant (like it is here).

It’s basically the Hacker News equivalent of people getting annoyed at vegans.
The more people with a defeatist attitude, the worse the situation gets.
I recommend taking a look at the API Copyleft License https://github.com/kemitchell/api-copyleft-license/blob/mast...
+1 nice ideas!

The last time I played with the Next Browser, I loaded it from source and in principle all your ideas are doable. Please post a link if you implement something and writer it up.
Good night I just wasted so much time...
That's totally fine, and part of what makes the web great is that you're able to tweak things on the client like that.

Really it only becomes a problem if you become one of those people that harasses web devs for not supporting noscript users. At the end of the day Javascript is a web standard, and it's developer's jobs to target those standards.
Haha it’s true. My mum gets hay fever from cat and horse hair. We used to have a stray in our yard sometimes and my mum hated it cos it would dig our vegetable garden and poo in it. She would throw stones and bricks at it, hose it, etc. (Never to hurt it, just to scare it away)

One day it came up on our back deck at 11pm at night with a flee collar around its waist really tight. So my dad and Uncle cut it off and have it some left over meat from dinner.

We had a ladder leading against the house near the bathroom (about 4 feet away from the window) which only opens about 2 inches cos of the security latches. This cat went up the ladder and somehow crossed 4 feet of nothing to the window. Climbed in and got caught upside down in the blinds.

Mum said any cat that willing to stay can stay, BUT ITS NOT ALLOWED IN THE ROOM!! It sat at the door and howled and howled so mum said “ok it can stay in the room BUT ITS NOT ALLOWED ON THE BED!!!!”. It jumped on the bed, mum kicked it off, it jumped on, mum kicked it off... after 2 nights of this mum gave up and let it sleep on the bed.

Tiger stayed with us for the next 8 years till he passed. Was my first pet. He was an outdoor cat. But they are smart. If mum came home from work. He wouldn’t be seen till dinner time. But sometimes mum would have a bad day at work. She would get home. And only on the days she had a bad day, he would be home within minutes of mum getting home and he would bump her legs until she picked him up. Always made mum feel better. He knew when something was wrong.
They have outsourced certification (their job!) to the manufacturer (Boeing) since the 787. My confidence in that plane thus isn’t sky high either.
> the plane would also need to experience an unlikely, near-edge-of-flight-envelope situation that the working MCAS was intended to handle.

Failure of the AOA sensor and edge of the flight envelop events can't be assumed to be uncorrelated.
To be clear, is JS pragmatically a security problem though? Are there known vulnerabilities being exploited? I don't recall ever having a problem due to JS.
AWS China Outage
This wasn’t real tho.
I came to the Stoics before it was HN-cool via Salinger (b. 1919) so it's been in US (sort of) pop culture longer than that. Ditto Buddhism. He published in prime (earlyish) Boomer years.
>Given the recent news that Chrome will soon prevent ad blocking

I think you misinterpreted a headline. Chrome is not preventing ad blocking. Chrome is changing the content blocking APIs to match Safari's. Ad blockers will of course still exist.

Also, red as a color for "yes, enabled" is completely contrary to user expectation.
A house that you own or literally anything that you own that's worth money is an asset. The fact that it requires upkeep is irrelevant.
And some donate to both. FSF is a big reason we chose GPLv3 - when at first I was thinking MIT.
To test whether or not the advanced craft can be shot down?

If the test was conducted on, say the Chinese military, then it would be very geopolitically dangerous it was shot down.
It's pretty confusing but essentially, as you travel faster, your clock slows down arbitrarily. In the most extreme case, at the speed of light, your clock stops. For a photon, it emerges and appears at its final location instantly, even if those distances are millions of lightyears apart.

So if you travel to Centauri from Earth, the fastest you get can get there is 5 years as seen from Earth but to the actual spaceship, it could perceive any arbitrarily small change in time.
Ah thanks. I (wrongly) assumed tracks also got some kind of ID.
> Is it possible that Google generically collects user purchase data, including from Gmail, and then whilst not using "Gmail data" for ad targeting, it does use the "purchase data" which has been generically made part of a user's Google profile?

Probably not. Not only because I don't think the courts would agree with that division being real. But also because it's absurdly expensive compared to just purchasing the data from CC providers which explicitly retain the right to sell your transaction history.

I have no special knowledge of why they're doing that, but I have suspicions and they're mostly about enabling the exact same sort of stuff I lacked the means to enable at my fintech startup.
My take on "Spirit of Open Source" is basically: (1) I need this software, (2) I wrote this software and it has satisfied my needs, (3) I'm a nice guy so anyone else who wants to use this can use it free of any requirements whatsoever. Hence I use the MIT license.

I don't care if Amazon or Facebook gets rich off of it. I don't care if Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton get elected based on it. I don't care if the Russians use it. It's a tool, and like a hammer can be used for good or ill, and I disclaim all responsibility for what stupid people do with it. I don't care if somebody forks it and 99% of people start using the fork instead of my original. All I care is that I got what I wanted out of it, I hope perhaps that some other people use it so that they can help contribute and maintain it, and perhaps I'm hoping for a tiny bit of respect and recognition. My expectations are grounded and realistic: very few people will likely use it; I don't have a hope in hell of either making money off of it or of changing the world because of it. And I'm completely satisfied with that. In fact I'm more than satisfied, I feel wonderful because millions of other people are doing the same things with their software and just about anything I could possibly want is out there somewhere. Hence a sense of community and of good will.

Others folks (such as the author of the article) have different "spirits" most of which I find distasteful, including those who have a stick up their arse about big orporations and want to add restrictions about commercial use or about derivative works, those who think their software is God's gift to the world and they thus deserve something for it, those who want to control what others are allowed to do, those who want to change the basic ways that the world works, and those who come from a place of greed and regret. I don't share in any of that outrage, not even a little bit, and so this article (to me at least) is complete rubbish.
> But they both liked Pasadena, apparently.

There is a multi-part interview of Gell-Mann on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFxKFx-0lsQD...).

Somewhere in there he says that he eventually had offers from CalTech & Columbia and he chose CalTech for several reasons, one of which was that he perceived it to be "cleaner." My impression was that he viewed NYC as physically dirty. He also says this about MIT (where he went to grad school). He wanted to go to Princeton, but was rejected. He ended up having to 'settle' for MIT, but again he says his preconceived notion of MIT was that it was a 'grubby' school.
For comparison, in Sweden the government student loan interest rate is currently 0.16%. Compare to the central bank rate of -0.25% (yes, negative).

So an equivalent U.S. interest rate (using the fed rate and the same spread) would be around 3%.
You made the right choice.

“Is javascript enabled?” is a true/false question. Just like with a traffic light which answers the question “may I proceed?”, green commonly stands for true and red for false.

If you make isjavascriptdisabled.com than colors should be switched.
The question was about if. So average speeds aren't great. We actually need to consider two different speeds. The obvious is maximum horizontal speed. The other isn't so obvious, maximum dive speed. We don't really know if the bird is flying horizontal to the ocean or it is diving. It could be flying somewhere in between. I did find a mention of a brown pelican diving at 41mph (which seemed like an average number). Consider that it might be higher than normal, better winds, just a stronger bird, or slight radar errors tracking such a small object, and that extra 9mph doesn't seem unreasonable. Or... it could not be specifically a brown pelican and just some other bird that fits the parameters. There are quite a lot that have diving speeds WELL over 50mph.
I didn't spend time trying this but when I played with the Next Browser about a month ago it occurred to me that one could mix in application code with a local web server component and a web interface to combine browsing and a custom application in one app. One possible app idea might be a research tool that allowed annotating material on the web - really, anything app that used web content.
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/03/15/w...
This angers me... edge cases are where people get cut... and badly! If anything, they should have more attention paid to them than less. Incentive structures inside these orgs are poorly designed to account for this, however. Trouble is, I don't know a good way to do modify them to do so without introducing even worse perverse incentives.
Microsoft actually invested in Apple in 1997, in part to help them deal with antitrust concerns. Without that deal, I don't know if Apple would have been around to build the iPhone.

Perhaps some other company would've kicked Microsoft's butt in mobile. It's impossible to know.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/appleinsider.com/articles/18/08...
It’s a defect if it causes a person’s brain to have an illogical stress response. For instance, the vast majority of pet dogs are harmless. But, my daughter, who was nipped by a dog when she was a toddler, will probably always be somewhat fearful of dogs (as I am, for the same reasons). Some people have a greater risk for trauma from these types of events. And, while useful at one point, it is now problematic for modern living.
Dell's Reasons to Be Fearful
I have made a few 'fake' ones, but lord knows the data they got was real. Never had one under my legal name.
> Hastings [who makes a living selling UFO books] claims that a global conspiracy exists in which all major governments have been covering up evidence of UFOs for decades.

mhm
Virtually all browser bugs require JavaScript to exploit. Here's the first example that came up when I searched for "google chrome sandbox escape":

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/04/virtually-unl...

Don't you think that the turing complete language with a massive API surface would be the obvious place for vulnerabilities to appear?
From TFA

But a few weeks later, Mr. Wilson and his co-pilot began noticing that something was off, according to a person with direct knowledge of the flights. The Max wasn’t handling well when nearing stalls at low speeds.
I used to work for SF and managed one of the biggest table in the DW. I won't say what's used for but to give you a clue how big that is; we added a few billion more rows each day to that table. I don't think a single PostgreSQL instance had any chance to survice that.
Right, but it's really only an investment property if you already have somewhere else to live. It's more of a consumable asset with a tightrope walk between transaction costs, upkeep costs, depreciation, and inflation vs market price increases. And if you live there, it's different because to sell it you have to become homeless and/or use the money for new accommodations. Assuming that your investment has done well because housing prices have risen, then your new accommodations will likewise be more expensive too.

It might pay off a bit if you can see it through, especially if you can then move to a lower cost-of-living area, but it's hard to tell 30 years in advance whether you'll be able to keep that commitment and if it will pay off better than investing in index funds or other investments. Certainly some people found out the hard way in 2008 it doesn't always work out that well. In general, it may sometimes slightly beat inflation if you're lucky but under-performs the stock market.

- https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/052015/which-has-pe...
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/history-says-home-real-estate-i...
Bad Things About Uber and Lyft
Probably the latter, especially for an emperor. People who Had Money and who Got Shit Done before modern times seem not to have spent a ton of time on their kids compared to (relative) poors, then and now, even if they did like them. See also The Great Gatsby for some people who Have Money but do not bother to Get Shit Done doing the same.

Probably that's still kinda true for most people who have kids but are famous for accomplishing just about anything. And anyway even poors pay for childcare now, what with two-income households, and between that and school end up spending maybe 1/4 of their kids' waking hours even kinda near them, at best, and much of that occupied with meals and morning/night routines (so, a good bit of it the stuff people who can afford it tend to outsource, though also they usually outsource a good deal of cleaning so the time-spent-together may be a wash), so maybe a little instruction by example but little time for anything like serious coursework or major instruction from parents.
Renters pay most of the cost of home ownership, with the added feature of being unable to control children’s schooling or meaningfully become part of a community.

Usually the argument against owning your home that is that inflation adjusted returns on real estate are not as attractive as investments in an index fund. In many, and I would argue most scenarios, that doesn’t really matter as the vast majority of people have minimal liquid net worth and renting eats up the cash flow that would allow them to accumulate wealth.

I bought my first and current home when I was 23 and refinanced to a shorter term. I bought near the 2006 peak and due to local market conditions have minimal capital gains, but in the near future will have no debt service costs whatsoever. That means the freedom to make less income, start a business, blow the money or accumulate cash or whatever.

Had I done the smart thing, I would have put 90% (or more, rents rose during the recession) of my current monthly mortgage obligation into rent. To the tune of $300k, allowing for fairly meager savings.

Now if I was sitting on a pile of cash that was a critical mass, and paying rent from my income cash flow, that’s different. But that is a much more rare situation.