skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It surely isn't ideal, but that's kind of how the world works, no?

New developments emerge and we adjust our laws to deal with the new situation in a way that society sees fit. IMHO voting on something like maximum population density policies is way too abstract of a concept for people to even have an opinion about. If it were the opposite one might think we as humans have some kind of plan going into the future... ;)
Poles didn't cross the Soviet border in 1919.
> Amazon is accused of using sales data belonging to companies selling products on their platform to help them select 10,000s of products to clone and sell in direct competition to their vendors.

At the risk of being accused of whataboutism, _everyone_ does this.

The big-box stores go direct to China, often to the same factories that their intermediates were using. Walmart doubled-down on a direct-to-factory approach starting in 2010, moving from 20% to 80% direct with cost savings of 5-15%.

Your grocery store sells private-labelled goods. This market is expected to reach $220 billion by 2020.

The weakening of established brands has enabled large merchants to leverage sales data to drive product lines that provide good/better/best options to the consumer. The fact that Amazon started to sell their own products shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone in the industry. Ten years ago the complaint from brands was "big box stores are killing us", now it's "Amazon is killing us".

Pointing out that Bezos is the world's richest man and claiming he's exploiting people is a tired ad hominem attack.
Sure, there were non-racist comments that were troublesome... but also a lot of racist ones. What is your point?
This would be both extremely interesting and very difficult to study.
I applaud people like you. Seriously.

And I agree with your premise. However, my practice has shown that postmortems are watered-down evasive PR talk, many times.

If you look at this through the eyes of a potential startup CTO, wouldn't you be worried about the lack of transparency?

And finally, why is such an abrupt account lockdown even on the table, at all? You can't claim you are doing your best when it's very obvious that you are just leaving your customers at the mercy of very crude algorithms -- and those, let's be clear on that, could have been created without ever locking down an account without a human approval at the final step.

What I'm saying is that even at this early stage when we know almost nothing, it's evident that this CTO here is not being sincere. It seems DO just wants to maximally automate away support, to their customers' detriment.

Whatever the postmortem ends up being it still won't change the above.
Is this only me, or all this one-vs-two AoA sensor talk seems some kind of diversion from the real problem with this plane.

I mean, if one-sensor based MCAS failed twice so early in the life span of the plane model, what is the probability that a two-sensor model will fail pretty soon as well? The math should be simple, we have all data needed: combined hours flown by all planes of the type and number of failures (at least two known, which can help us to estimate a MTBF of the sensor).
Personally, I've actively avoided reading the news lately. It just seems so pointless--what do I gain by reading about President Trump's latest antics or how bad the housing market is? I used to read my small city's local newspaper (hard copy) because it was news that actually applied to me, but it got shut down a year or two ago (unfortunately).

The only time I'll read the news is during an election, because I want to be at least somewhat informed.

Otherwise, I might hear about it from others or if it shows up on HN.
Our cat might not agree that we're too big to eat. There are times when she certainly seems to try.
This is the best I've ever seen.
Yeah, I read the article. I find the the title of the article does not match the content of the article (it's a bit click-bait, eh?) and that's what my own comment really was about.
Yup, this is true. There are a few of us on the team who work/have worked on some very well known engines (and their ecosystems) meant for AAA game development. =)

The more challenging thing at the moment is developing or improving fundamental libraries/tools in Rust, which is a fairly young language. Being able to leverage existing C/C++ libraries helps, but in general isn't what we prefer to do.

>I assume that Forrest is posting here because he sees potential in your technology, and wants to encourage you to reach that potential.

Any and all feedback is welcome, as are contributions.
I think that data belongs to the merchants, just like an S3-buckets logs belong to the developer. It has to be that way or who else has a claim on the data? HP for printing it? Microsoft because it was sent by email in Office? The EU suspects it is anti-competitive to allow Amazon as a vendor to cherrypick items to clone based on data Amazon collect as a platform.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-27/amazon-s-...
Or being in violent environment will often make you numb to violence.
Humans Think Using the Brain’s Navigation System (2018)
I'm Czech, and I was hitchhiking around Balkan last summer. One time we stopped a young-ish Russian driver (around 35). He didn't even know that their army occupied Czechoslovakia, he thought we got attacked and the Warsaw Pact army came to help. He thought (and probably still thinks) I'm lying, even after I've shown him a wiki page. He nearly left us on the side of a highway over this, he got really angry about it (but he was a good person!).
From the article:

Of the pages of officers whom the Plain View researchers could positively identify, about 1 in 5 of the current officers, and 2 in 5 of the retired officers, made public posts or comments that met that threshold — typically by displaying bias, applauding violence, scoffing at due process, or using dehumanizing language. The officers mocked Mexicans, women, and black people, celebrated the Confederate flag, and showed a man wearing a kaffiyeh scarf in the crosshairs of a gun.
The State Department regulations say people will have to submit social media names and five years' worth of email addresses and phone numbers.

When proposed last year, authorities estimated the proposal would affect 14.7 million people annually.
I guess then - why not go all-plastic, or all-metal. I fear that if there's large differences in temperature, you're going to start having a really bad time.
Alternatively, do heavily prejudiced people commonly not know how to operate social media privacy settings?
How to Easily Navigate Popular Dishes in Restaurants Using Google Maps
> The person taking the brunt of the hardship is clearly the person suffering

Of course that is true. That doesn't mean that the cost imposed on others is zero.
Reminds me of the one plastic part they substituted in for the Omega Speedmaster watch for the second gen movements.
I'm sure there's a smaller computer than a raspberry pi that can beat any human in chess.
It had authoritarianism (with many democratic elements in place) since 1926 (way way more liberal than that of Soviet Union, or Nazi Germany). Before that it was fully democratic (though, chaotic).

As for the conflicts you'd decribed, some of them were conflicts without clear aggressor (e.g. Polish-Czechoslovak conflicts of 1918) typical of those times, some were misdeeds of Polish state (annexation of Vilnus and Czechoslovakian Zaolzie in 1938).
I think we need to be ready to accept that some things we may never completely understand because they're too complex. The human brain may be one of those things, and AI may be another.
Ironic that you picked Cuba when just a few weeks ago Castro’s grandson made the news for displaying his inordinate amount of wealth. In a country so our hospitals outside of the capital are indistinguishable from abandoned buildings, how does someone like that become filthy rich? It’s not like socialist countries don’t have greed and theft of national wealth, it’s just the people doing it are literally the government and hide it better - also note their greed and theft goes mostly unchecked.
Life is all about trade-offs. There’s no such thing as average. (https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...) If you try to build an engine for the general use case then you’re likely to make an engine that isn’t good enough for anyone.

My fear with Amethyst is that in 5 years it still won’t be good enough to make a commercial game of any genre. That’s the trajectory I see.

But I don’t think it has to be that way! And I think dogfooding would go a long ways towards building an engine that is both useable and extendable.
Scientists Design Organic Cathode for High Performance Batteries
> This would be both extremely interesting and very difficult to study

You’d have to get a department to consent to the random sampling of its officers’ social media histories. (Can’t just use public data due to the selection bias it entails.)

The data are there, being dutifully logged by everyone’s cell phones and flung off to servers across the world. Ethically accessing them is the political problem.
Turning my life around in one year
Much of Murphy's math and physics are wrong.

For example to get delta V to go to Mars he adds earth's 11 km/s escape velocity to the 3.6 km/s Mars injection velocity. A freshman aerospace student could tell the speed of a Mars bound ship in a hyperbolic earth orbit is sqrt(11^2 + 3.6^2).

I've done a number of posts calling out Murphy's bad arguments:

https://hopsblog-hop.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-most-common-de...

https://hopsblog-hop.blogspot.com/2014/03/murphys-reply.html

and
https://hopsblog-hop.blogspot.com/2018/06/space-meow-boys_30...

I generally agree with him that we live on a fragile, limited planet and need to learn to live within our means.

However I don't see preserving our own planet and opening a new frontier as mutually exclusive. Musk is one of the most passionate space advocates and he's working for a sustainable future (solar panels, electric cars). Some technologies benefit both space development and sustainable comfort here on earth. For example CELSS (Closed Ecological Life Support Systems) technologies needed for space might be used here on earth.

Murphy may be correct that opening a new space frontier is implausible. But he hasn't conclusively demonstrated that's the case.
You'll find a lot of sintered metal gears these days; Nearly universal in hand power tools for example. They have similar cost advantage as plastic in reduced manufacturing expense compared to machined gears but retain the improved strength and dimensional stability of metal.
As a Brit I don't give a shit about "freedom of speech".
Looks like it does subject/verb plurality agreement based on the presence of an 's' at the end of the subject. Thus: "Asbestos prevent cancer". Heh. Software.
Apple to Shut Down iTunes
Right we don't know how to do it but it's not unphysical either. You almost surely couldn't push your own fuel but a scoop is at least not physically impossible.

The most problematic part is likely the fantastic particle and radiation flux that would impinge on the front of the craft.
At this point I almost expect an article titled "All oxygen-breathing organisms are a fatally flawed design and are doomed to never live healthy no matter what".

:(
There's 120,000 law enforcement officers in the US. It'd be pretty easy to find 10-15 people blowing off steam and joking on FB about their jobs in ways non-officers may find offensive. Combined with a couple straight up racist ones. I wouldn't be surprised if you could find similar relative numbers in Canada and the UK.

These individuals should be punished no doubt and likely will be as a result of this article.
Reading the readme, it's very refreshing to see a project be rooted in a real, material analysis of the situation, the various subject groups, and the interests involved. Makes a big change from the usual idealist piffle.

I wish these folks the very best.
I suspect that a large part of that has to do with student loans, which have grown by a huge multiple since 1996. With compounding interest it takes longer to recover from school.

I know I graduated with $75k loans at 8% interest. Even with say, a $100k salary, just the interest eats ~7% of the income. With the total payments being somewhere around 12% of your income. Combine that with increased taxes over the same time and a 34% reduction in worth seems about right (if we account for the loss in compounding interest from buying a home, 401k investments, etc)
honestly, is this really surprising? people become police officers not just to "help others" but to do it through the use of force, weapons and authority.

if you group people by profession and gender, you can probably find 1000 things that are specific to that group. it's like saying that programmers/engineers have a higher probability of being good at math or being introverted vs the general population.
That seems like a failure of the insurance market more than anything else. It seems like insurance companies are using employee count as a proxy for hours worked... is there really that much of an increase risk for 4 people working 2 hours each vs one person working 8? Maybe, but we should be able to price that risk and allow a company to insure people per hour.
If you live long enough you will eventually die of cancer. It's inevitable.
I don’t believe there are multiple potential solutions that anyone in the 70’s believed worked better than throwing criminals in jail. To this day it is a primary possibility for why crime receded so quickly in the 90’s.
When I tried googling your exact question, the first hit (https://serverfault.com/a/512220) was a SE post where the highest voted (though not accepted) answer was doing exactly that with `sshpass`

Tbqh, without you explicitly stating that you're aware of key pairs and concluded that storing plaintext passwords is the best solution for you, I would excuse anyone who thought that you maybe just hadn't done the research.
A new-to-us mineral (2018)
IME the thing that matters the most is focus, both on the micro and macro level. It's way too easy to get caught on things that won't make an iota of difference in your future. Focus is the first thing that goes out the window as soon a a company reach just a bit of momentum.

I've seen several startups suffering from not being able to decide what they were. Engineering teams fractured because the company wanted half of them working on their bottom line and the other half working in some offshoot product.

Even gigantic companies need that: notice how people criticize Google for creating and killing way too many products, and at the same time praising their minimalist webpage (since 1998), early GMail, etc. Same with Apple when Jobs returned to Apple and streamlined their product line, etc.
Paper: https://weis2019.econinfosec.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/...
Agreed. It would be neat if it were aliens, but it's probably some sort of uncommon atmospheric/environmental effect[1] that didn't show up on less-advanced radar. I'm no physicist, but I'm thinking something like a pocket of plasma trapped by air pressure or the Earth's magnetic field. The "flying away at high speed" effect is probably caused when whatever trapped the plasma destabilizes.

[1] e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(lightning)
The AOA sensors are effectively a consumable, and would undergo regular replacement over the life of the aircraft, the odds of BOTH of them failing at the same moment in the same flight is very very small.
>We haven't completed our investigation yet which will include details on the timeline, decisions made by our systems, our people, and our plans to address where we fell short.

I'm referring to _this_ response, i.e., the one where they explain why they did what they did.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20065153
> Well then how does the RFC solve that problem? Their definitions of these terms are using other English words which are also ambiguous.

The same way that a dictionary definition clarifies the meaning of a single English word. By using complete sentences to rule out grey areas.

I see no point in furthering this discussion. Your defeatist assertions like the above "there's no possible way to disambiguate English", your refusal to admit that apparent synonyms such as "must" and "shall" might not be perfect synonyms to people other than yourself, and your repeated sarcasm and snark, suggest to me that you do not see the opposite viewpoint as legitimate, and therefore are not amenable to changing your viewpoint.
This a key fact that a lot of people seem to misunderstand, even a lot of popular science journalists trying to explain relativity. But to me it really illuminates the connection between space and time and the inviolability of c. From your own perspective you can travel arbitrarily fast in terms of how much you age inside your spaceship... but as you move faster in space, time in the the Universe outside your ship appears to be moving faster as well such that always more than a year will have passed outside for every lightyear you've traveled, even if it was only days, hours, or minutes for you.
Twitter Takes Down Accounts of China Dissidents Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/01/business/twitter-china-ti...

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In a statement, Twitter said that as a part of its routine efforts to stop spam and inauthentic behavior, it had inadvertently gone after a number of legitimate Chinese-language accounts.

“These accounts were not mass reported by the Chinese authorities — this was routine action on our part,” the company said in a statement on Twitter. “Sometimes our routine actions catch false positives or we make errors. We apologize.”

Online, many users said they did not believe Twitter’s statement told the whole story.
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Unfortunately that's not it, I think the confusion is that I thought I remembered them playing the same song in the story I'm remembering.
No one is claiming it's a personality trait, though that absolutely could be a part of it. More likely, it's because police officers can act with impunity in pretty much every scenario. Add in a high-pressure job, and you've got a recipe for abuse.
> If some double digit percentage of the people on unemployment are committing insurance fraud, you may be better off to just put the money you would have paid in premiums into a brokerage account to rely on if you lose your job, but you no longer have that option

That doesn’t work if you lose your job after a short amount of time.
Unpopular Opinion: Maybe it would be a good if API’s were subject to copyright protection.
You can’t reuse a verification number across usernames; one of my accounts is locked and wants a phone, but the one I put in is “already in use on another account”.

sigh.
The first, you'd think. Police forces have a recruitment problem, if they began firing those who have a history of excessive force use they'd be short-staffed.
Steve Jobs: A Few Memories – Stephen Wolfram (October 6, 2011)
Look, I'm certainly not a Google fan as of today, but you are so wrong, probably for being very very young or very very misinformed; probably both.
I tried Google 1st time when it was an university project that didn't even have its own domain (that is, it was a Stanford subdomain), and I was literally blown away by the huge difference compared to all other search engines. At that time my favorite was Altavista though back then doing multiple searches on different search engines was normal as all of them had their very different crawlers and algorithms, so I usually went at least also through Yahoo and Lycos after Altavista. But when Google came out it set up a huge improvement in search reponses, and I mean orders of magnitude faster, nobody did anything even comparable to that before, and soon it became clear that all of us would end up using just one search engine - guess which one. They developed that from scratch with no funding at all, and of course they got money after that but it came because of the great product they had developed, not the other way around.

Google started as the project any hacker would dream to be part of, even for free. What it became after all that money changed it is a different story.
How important is goal setting in growing rich?
Very insightful, thanks for sharing!
This. If the only thing keeping customers on my platform is an incompatible API, what does that say about me as a vendor?
Of the pages of officers whom the Plain View researchers could positively identify, about 1 in 5 of the current officers, and 2 in 5 of the retired officers, made public posts or comments that met that threshold — typically by displaying bias, applauding violence, scoffing at due process, or using dehumanizing language. The officers mocked Mexicans, women, and black people, celebrated the Confederate flag, and showed a man wearing a kaffiyeh scarf in the crosshairs of a gun.
The problem isn’t failure, but detecting failure.

If the sensor had just stopped responding, there wouldn’t have been any problem. The planes would keep flying, the sensors would get replaced, and everyone would be fine.

What happened was that the sensor gave erroneous readings. The MCAS system reacted to those erroneous reading and crashes the plane.

With two sensors, you can detect failure. It’s very unlikely that both would fail simultaneously. If they did, it’s very unlikely that both would provide the same erroneous readings.
That's exactly the question everybody who accept the interpretation from BBC and all western media should ask. In addtion, let's put the moral issue aside but consider only the intellgence of a regime that already achieved so many nation management goals and ask next question:

Is the regime so stupid to believe the cover up works while keep the openness?

The alternative theory/hypotheis which can explain much better: The ban never really mean to keep the lid which is impossible. In fact, most educated Chinese know(And with a little diffrent view today from westerners and their own thoughts 30 years ago. But that's another topic).

The real purpose of blocking information was an preemptive measure to disable the hidden agenda covered under those memorial activities which fool most people to believe that they are only memorial activities.
Wouldn't that likely lead to all kinds of legal trouble about "your API for the same problem is to similar to ours"?

Is it generally good to forbid making compatible implementations of APIs?
You have to decide what happens if for some reason voluntary supports are insufficient or unavailable.
According to the relativity theory, it’s physically not possible to determine if you’re on Earth, or in a spaceship accelerating at 1 g, just by observing physical processes.
> the fastest way to raise your testosterone levels is to get a new girlfriend.

I hope this is less bleak than it reads.

If you are already in a healthy and happy relationship is hope you’d stay rather than seek a ‘new’ relationship solely to manipulate your T levels.

If you are instead implying that a single person should ‘get a new’ relationship I would hope you would get into that relationship for other reasons than to manipulate your T levels.

Unless I suppose you lead with that and both people are into it?

I want to note that ‘girlfriend’ is an unnecessary specificity.

Most of the literature simply refers to ‘sexual activity’.

Also, the link between sexual activity and Testosterone is rather varied.

Most of the literature tests on older populations where it is already widely known that age reduces T levels.

Also, there is still debate on which is the cause.

Some say less sex leads to low T levels. Some say low T leads to less sex. Others suggest it is feedback loop.

Either way it seems the results tend to peak and be short lived.

But anyone with an otherwise healthy, functioning, body is guaranteed through exercise and a varied healthy diet to set up their body for optimal Testosterone maintenance.
Could also be that young people have very little representation when it comes to laws, policies and regulations.