skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should know that Toyota went full Agile last year. Not pure Agile but Agile in the Toyota Way -- where they produce 20x the documentation that the Waterfall Method produces. I'm not commenting on whether this is a good or a bad thing because my opinion doesn't matter but it enabled everyone to try something new. If the upper management in charge of tech had any free time, they'd might benefit from reading The Mythical Man-Month as you've brought up. Toyota has been about a year or three behind all of the car companies to adopt new tech like Alexa and Apple CarPlay. Regardless, Toyota has come a pretty long way since first being a loom company.
In some cases, but not in general. The problem with wires is you have to put them up. While this seems obvious, it needs to be thought about carefully. You need to plan your route and be right about the path it takes (even a minor change is at great cost). It is possible to create a route from Point A to Point B and have nobody ride it. It is possible that the route that is popular today will go out of style.

With a self powered bus (any technology) running on standard streets you can have it go anywhere. If the route you choose is wrong most of the costs were the bus so you can start a different route in a different area until you get people riding. If there is a popular event one weekend you can shift buses to serve that event for just that weekend. If the needs change you shift routes to match instead of sticking with routes that no longer make sense.

Don't get me wrong, advantages of fixed wires and rails (note the and!) make it worthwhile to put in a trolley system on your busiest routes. However the advantage of a bus that can go anywhere means that in general no you can't/shouldn't.
If the excuse to raise the gas tax is to reduce driving, then using the money collected to reduce the pain of the gas tax is in direct conflict with the excuse in the first place and it turns into straight redistribution of wealth. Nice bit of smoke and mirrors.
Terminology
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One possible fix would be to increase the requirements for car insurance. Currently, minimum car insurance requirements are nowhere near enough to cover a catastrophic accident. If car owners had to buy enough insurance to cover $1 million in injury damages, that could incentivize them to buy cars which are safer for pedestrians.
Not Dan, but naming these days is hard. You basically have to invent a word to get a .com domain and good SEO.

"Dribbble" is good because you can tell people "the name is 'dribble' with three b's" and people will immediately know how to spell it and their first instinct will be "dribbble.com" and if they search for it, it will be the top search result.

Contrast that with a properly-spelled word like "Dribble." Their app will be nowhere near the top of any search result and people will go to dribble.com which is no-doubt already registered so they'll lose traffic because the domain will have to be something else unintuitive like dribble.io or dribbleapp.com.
The article says the scientists estimate the CO2 reduction due to population decline as 7 to 10 ppm. Yet they claim this caused the Little Ice Age. That doesn't seem justified; that small a CO2 change doesn't have that much of an impact even on the highest estimates of climate sensitivity (and those highest estimates are known to be too high anyway). For comparison, the CO2 change since the start of the industrial revolution is about 130 ppm.
FTFY
Here’s a summary of the information we’ve added to our terms:

> How we profit off your personal information: We include more details on how we make money, including a new introduction explaining that we don’t charge you money because you are the product.

> Censorship: We provide more information about what happens when we remove content that violates our personal views.

> Profiting off your IP: We clarify that when you share your own content — like photos and videos — you continue to own the intellectual property rights in that content. You grant us permission to do things like display that content or use it in advertising without any remuneration, and that permission ends when the content is deleted from Facebook. This is how many online services work so regardless of morality.

> What happens when you delete: We’re providing more detail about what happens when you delete content you’ve shared. For example, when you delete something you’ve posted, it’s no longer visible but it can take up to 90 days to be removed from our systems. We cannot guarantee that what you posted has not been backed up on another system or that other companies are compelled to stop using your information once removed from our database.
True, as I said in a previous comment we have “almost sure” convergence to zero (i.e. the sequence will converge to zero with probability one).
OCL was pretty mature then. CUDA is not crap but it is lock-in and IMO its best features were captured by OCL.
I moved to firefox on mobile explicitly because the context menu has options I use. Google Chrome dropped almost all the options, and annoyed me to know end.
IMO Mozilla is the only option to keep the web free. Google won't even remotely have your interests even in mind for the changes they make.
Not sure what you are getting at at all.
> Again, you’re not likely part of that group, but seriously who hangs out on HN and can’t configure a VPN?

Recaptcha tracks users / devices, not IPs. A VPN won't help, it'll only lower your score. At that point: not allowing them to track you just means you can't use large parts of the web.

"You don't want that GPS tracker installed into your skull? Well, we won't force you, of course, but public transportation, government services and most grocery stores can only be used by GPS-skull-people"
More buses means more drivers, and salaries are probably the biggest expense here
>They are the most sophisticated intelligence collection entity in the world, after all.

Who were caught completely off guard by the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the USSR, the Arab Spring, and basically every single geopolitical event in history. I wouldn't invest too much in their abilities.
Perhaps it is the appropriate word here. However, I think it undermines the bigger picture. Many of these weapon showcases are made at the behest of weapon companies, the items of which are sold to the highest bidders.

See Vice's coverage of SOFEX on Youtube for a good showcase of delusion.
Its not that tricky. Look up zenmuse z30 test videos on youtube.
This is some dystopian material.
As a European I can't image the mother being charged because she is pregnant "and then you shouldn't be in fights".
She. got. shot.
Unless she was killing you I fail to see "shooting is self-defence
Works for me. Assuming one uses something like Privacy Badger and it if it were programmed to block reCaptcha, these websites that require recaptcha will go the way of anti-adblocker popups. People will simply say no and hit the X and go to their competitors.
> However, if a process is so repeatable that you could have an accurate checklist, then you could probably automate the process and eliminate the need for the checklist.

The checklist is (a key part of) the documentation for the automated solution, and would not, as such, stop being necessary just because the automated solution existed; it would be a key resource for change management.

Automation eliminates the need for the people acting on the checklist, not the checklist itself.
I told you why your assumptions were false. And please don't use philosophical and logical concepts you clearly don't understand.

> To give an example, if news A presents a factual statement, and news B presents a lie that contradicts A, you are no better off by watching both news sources.

Actually you are better off since you can then verify the "factual statement".

You are assuming "news A" is pushing "factual statements". That is itself a logical fallacy. I'll let you furiously google a list of logical fallacies to find out which.

You aren't addressing any "fallacy" because you built up false assumptions and are now arguing against your incorrect assumptions. That is also another logical fallacy.

You have a very "journalist" way of thinking. Illogical, agenda driven and misleading.
This is a false dichotomy: I don’t see why I can’t be worried about both.
> You could either stop using these services or ...

Are you serious? Have you tried not using their services? Try blocking Google Analytics, Tag Manager, ReCaptcha, fonts, gstatic,... What you will see is that you can no longer access much of the Internet. Want to participate in StackOverflow? Good luck if you block Google.

My beef is not with them trying to find my data when I'm on their site(s). They are however everywhere, on almost every site I visit. Coupled with their (impressive) technical provess it is beyond creepy, and there is simply no way one can avoid them.

I don't know what the solution is or will be, but as far as I'm concerned, this should be illegal.
I would strongly prefer anxious person in the same room over violent one. It is that simple.

If what you need is testosterone suppressant to not hit me, yes I strongly prefer you taking it over me being beaten or me doing things I did not wanted to for fear of your aggression. It is better for you too, assuming cops and courts will do the thing they are supposed to - putting you in prison.

Fortunately, men generally don't need testosterone suppressant to not be violent. Adult men violence is choice and occasionally mental problem.

Teen pregnancy rates are again result largely of sexual education, girls better able to resist pressure to have unprotected sex and boys better knowing it causes problems to them too. There is literally nothing to gain by not using a condom in that situation.

All of these are kids making better choices. That absolutely should count for something.
the initial (buggy) versions of zypper replacing Yast was what drove me away from SuSE for good. Never had much love for SuSe but what really killed it for me is when I worked as a consultant (a company that was a SuSE premium reseller) and I was the poor sod trying to integrate their solutions in large companies that didn't have IT/Tech as their core business (hospitals, government etc). I still have flashbacks to their SLOX (suse linux open exchange) and SLES which both were the buggiest distros I ever had shoved down my throat. I felt sorry for my customers. Once the whole IT of a hospital stopped working because of some bugs in their LDAP migration. I need therapy just by reflecting about this and their general way of how they handled root causes back then.

From your comment it seems SuSE must have improved since 2005. I didn't follow them for long time now. It's Arch or Debian for me these days.
Here is a documentary about it on Netflix. Though not vouching in for the quality as a film, it tells how these frauds were structured

https://www.netflix.com/title/80221646
The castle doctrine does apply to living areas. True.

There are other codes however allowing for the use of deadly force

is also justified in using deadly force if: (1) he reasonably believes that it is necessary to use force to prevent or terminate the trespass; and (2) he reasonably believes deadly force is necessary to prevent the trespasser from committing certain crimes, such as arson, burglary, or robbery.

Just stating a word of caution. Life is different than the city and laws vary but landowners have significant rights.
The guy was ranting away on twitter about some recently announced changes, attacking the company and the CEO. It doesn't take a conspiracy for both the users to flag him and the CEO to block him in response.

I don't know and I'm not going to try to guess, but I think the simplest answer is the most likely and the simplest answer is that the angry rant elicited strong reactions from multiple people.
This is awesome, but it's a real shame that it's not for the Bitcoin network
Russia already assassinates people all over the world, even in the US (e.g., Mikhail Lesin was likely offed by Russian agents right in the middle of Washington, DC in 2015).

It's a very fanciful idea that CIA has as much of a presence in Russia as you think it does. It's really not at all likely that the US could assassinate somebody in Russia _and_ get away with it. That second part is key. Russia isn't as concerned about getting away with it (see the recent cases in the UK) because its entire regime is predicated upon controlled misinformation, and because it isn't afraid to dispose of/disown/disavow an agent or a useful idiot when it is in the government's interest. For a country like the US, it's a bit more complicated.

To answer your questions, Snowden only does what he is allowed to do by the Russian government. Snowden is an ex-NSA contractor in Russia right now thanks to the good graces of Vladimir Putin; if you think that he isn't being handled daily by Russian secret services, that's pretty funny.
There's also an extremely valuable noise externality. If you live in a city (I do), you hear lots of buses roar like dragons, which is unpleasant, to say the least, for people outside the bus, and not that pleasant for people inside the bus. The other day I had one of those uncanny experiences when I was walking along, and there was a bus coming down the street, but I could tell something was "wrong." It took me a moment to realize that it wasn't making hideous engine noises because it was electric!

Little things may also improve bus uptake, like the lack of noise pollution.
> Some models are quite noisy for example.

You can change fan speed curve. NBFC with one is suggested profiles working great for me and my laptop became much less noisy. But nbfc was my only option because my hp laptop has unrecognizable by linux fans so fancontrol cant control it.
How to perform CRUD operations using React
> According to two security researchers who’ve studied reCaptcha, one of the ways that Google determines whether you’re a malicious user or not is whether you already have a Google cookie installed on your browser.

This makes sense to me. The presence of cookies is a strong indicator of normal human browsing, and Google would only be able to see their own cookie.
Wow, that last one is surprising. I understand that it can be a hard problem to fully delete data if you haven't built systems with that in mind from the start, but isn't that (not deleting backups) a flagrant violation of GDPR regulations?
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10799124
I know just of antropocentrism. Is there a difference? Anyway this climatical way to look at colonisation is totally new to me. Interesting article!
Have you noticed in these instances if the web version of maps is better than the Android app version? I've seen that, was trying to use the web page to reproduce the problem so I could report it. But the web app was correct, whereas the mobile version wasn't.
I just tried to get Google Maps to route me over a difficult and dangerous 4WD road in Colorado and got it on my second try:
https://goo.gl/maps/FWU1jANHAPA487D37

This takes you over Hayden Pass Rd. Here are some 4WD driving tips for the route:
https://www.dangerousroads.org/north-america/usa/3939-hayden...

"It’s a real challenging road and a true test of your vehicle and your stamina because the road abounds in twists and turns with wheels sometimes hanging above the precipice."

"There is a very narrow section of shelf road before you get to the top that is very dangerous if icy. There are no rocks to stop you from sliding off the side. This section should not be attempted if there is any ice at all."

I'm a little surprised that Google gave this route to me with no warning. It's also comical to say you can get the drive done in 30 minutes.
Then go to any news site and show them reader mode. It's an irresistible one-two punch.
I believe he is implying the NSA or other entity using the microphone input from cellphones (or maybe the microphones placed around many major cities on utility poles?) to do the locating. I think it would probably be theoretically possible, but I don't recall anything in the leaks about them ever researching that sort of capability.
I am almost at the point of dropping YouTubeTV. When it started it was a fair price ($35), had a lot of sports, a little news and a handful of channels that at least I never, or rarely would watch. Now that the price is up to $50 and the additional content is just your typical cable tv filler, it is one price increase away from being axed.
Notre-Dame being rebuilt by small donations rather than billionaires
Pure second-hand anecdote, but my father is in management at our local regional transportation company (covers buses, lightrail, and more). We're not a small city.

They're experimenting with an electric bus right now - but so far it's been a nightmare. Range is the primary problem, lasting less than a full route, sometimes not even lasting over an hour after a full charge. This has resulted in having to tow the bus back to the shop several times.

Even with removable batteries, you'd have to have a lot of these lying around, and a lot more buses running shorter routes, to compensate. Their CNG buses just don't have this problem, and produce largely water vapor as their combustion bi-product.
I remember when I was a kid, there was this program that let you draw all over any site. it was kinda cool.
iOS Firefox is not really Firefox. It's a Safari skin, because Apple doesn't like competition.
The rate of fatal crashes is more than an order of magnitude higher than anything introduced in the past 30 years.

The Concorde is the only thing that's worse. The A310 is closer than anything else at 1.35 fatal crashes per million miles vs the 737 MAX's 3.08- and that one was also designed to share a common type rating with an existing design.

http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm
"reCAPTCHA v2 is superseded by v3 because it presents a broader opportunity for Google to collect data, and do so with reduced legal risk."

And if you use something to prevent tracking - in my case Brave - reCAPTCHA is a huge pain that often takes dozens of clicks to make it through - delayed by Google to wait out bots.

Some times I think reCAPTCHAs main goal is to bring back those opposing tracking back into the fold of Chrome with painful recaptchas.
One of my daily drivers has a manual. If I wanted to be distracted in it would not be appreciably harder. In fact it would probably be easier because the cup holder location in that vehicle is more convenient for my cell phone. If I drove something with modern performance characteristics (enough torque to start in 2nd, hill assist, etc, etc) the fact that it has a manual would be even more of a non-issue.
Most people here can avoid the impact of climate change - do you think we shouldn't talk about that either?

These are societal problems. It's good to care about people beyond yourself, and to talk about the professional ethical responsibilities of software engineers with regards to corporate mass-surveillance.
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Tech/media related issue here is that

1.) There are many media companies in Taiwan that have taken subsidies/investments from the Chinese government. For example, the richest Taiwanese, Tsai eng-meng, currently lives in Shanghai, and owns many tv stations and newspapers in Taiwan. Many of these tv stations are watched by the older generations, and a lot of the channels are politics focused. Thus these channels usually have a pro-China angle on them: how well China is doing economically, and ignores any sort of xinjiang/Hong Kong/trade war problems/economic slowdowns/human rights issues China has. I shuddered when an older relative told me that the tv show had told him that concentration camps for Uighurs are ok because it keeps the peace.

And don’t think this is restricted to Taiwan. China has spread its media influence to other democratic countries in the world as well.

2.) hacking politicians. The pro-China presidential candidate, Han-Kuo-yu, was a literal unknown 6 months before the election for city of kaoshung. However, thanks to a (purported) digital influence campaign by Chinese hackers, he won the election. Then he declared to run for president, without having accomplished much of anything for the city. This sort of thing could also happen to US, in that China could interfere in the 2020 election.
I hit a pedestrian a few years ago. I was heading to an intersection to make a right hand turn while at the same time a guy on his phone was walking to cross.

Unfortunately he happened to somehow be walking at a constant bearing with decreasing range to my line of sight, hiding right behind my A pillar. Luckily, because I was decelerating to turn at the last minute I didn’t strike him hard enough to do much harm, but he was visibly shaken.
But that was the point of the passage -- downtown Chinatown restaurants started renting out to punk concerts because the suburban migration was depriving them of customers.
I’m not making a moral argument for the surveillance state, I wear Curve25519 on one arm and the word “citizenfour” on the other.

I agree that there is a vast and almost impossible to regulate overreach by these companies. Your argument is extremely compelling.

But when HN users complain about being spied on I smell a FAANG rejection letter.
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Seems you can't move open tabs to Preview from Firefox Beta on Android. What a pity!
Right, they have that at registration but it's either superfluous or it only catches the really easy stuff because they rely on an army of human moderators who spend all day cleaning up after bad actors able to click buses.
It's not like the technology behind railguns hasn't been stable and ready to use for decades now. It's just that, until the more recent invention of ancillary technologies like supercapacitors, it's been so costly to fire them that there was no logical place for them on the battlefield, so we never bothered to operationalize them.
Sounds like you would end up with 1 tree the size of France. Worth doing!
The reason trees pull CO2 out of the atmosphere is that they turn that carbon into, well, the tree. It doesn't just disappear. So consuming 100x more CO2 would result in a tree that's 100x as large.
Yup, similar thing in model rocketry circles for similar reasons.
Agreed. The indigenous peoples were not burning fossil fuels either. This signal is pretty weak. The same could be claimed about the Black Death that ravaged Europe.
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They are powerful in the sense that they are specialized to a task and perform it much better.
I hardly think it's fair to say that Nate Silver isn't interested in accountability for his predictions. The site recently finished a retrospective that tries to address this issue:

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/checking-our-work/

Probability theory, whether frequentist or otherwise, is "just" math. Identifying that mathematical structure with real-world events is always going to involve a judgment call. So if your framework requires assumptions that don't hold in the real world, then maybe it's not the appropriate framework to use. Because clearly people are making decisions based on numbers between 0 and 1, and they're not generally losing big time.
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I missed that comment. Of course then it's unfair for me to expect a comparison. That said, I would still be interested to see one now :)