skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So does coal power plant emission.
> I can still hear my professor of Classics say that "with the introduction of the printing press the loss of books ceased".

...what? Loss of books has pretty much nothing to do with the technology used to produce them. If you stop producing them and lose the existing ones, they're gone.

You can lose printing plates just as easily as you can lose a printed book. Actually, losing the plates is much easier -- the point of movable type is that you can cannibalize old plates to print new works.

Think about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongle_Encyclopedia -- not printed for budgetary reasons, but produced several hundred years after the introduction of the printing press. Almost all of it is gone.
Maybe, but also groups who experienced serious deprivation have on average worst outcomes. They take drugs more often, they are more violent, they have all kinds of mental problems.

Veterans, former political prisoners, post-war countries, poor social classes etc have a lot of mental health and depression related problems. They may enjoy world of plenty the way we don't, but they have issues we don't.
Timing?
My library has the option of "checking out" ebooks. They will "purchase" them and have a set "number of copies". I put all of these things in quotes as I'm not sure how its handled for essentially a digital file vs a physical paper book, or how the author/publisher/etc makes money in this deal.
I'd guess the main reason is that it's an inherently more complicated design; if you don't sync the electromagnets perfectly you spend energy decelerating the round. it does have the advantage that the projectile doesn't need physical contact with an electified rail, so maybe it could be less damaging to the device itself.
> In academia, who the heck gets a doctorate for advancements in cleaning up arbitrary data to feed into ML models

Well - Alex Ratner [stanford], for one: https://ajratner.github.io/

And several of Chris Re's other students have as well: https://cs.stanford.edu/~chrismre/

Trifacta is Joseph Hellerstein's [berkeley] startup for data wrangling: https://www.trifacta.com/

Sanjay Krishnan [berkeley]: http://sanjayk.io/
I earlier acknowledged the difficulty of coming up with a reasonable definition of "failed." I will say that I don't think it's enough to be simply below-average in literacy or above-average in crime or whatever; you really want a multivariate outlier in the space of social pathologies. I suspect that most ways of operationalizing "failure" will capture primarily urban decay, like the examples I brought up.

Does rural West Virginia rise to that level? Having been there myself, I don't think so, though I could be convinced otherwise. Can you point to large-ish rural areas that match the dysfunction of, say, south-side Chicago? Preferably along with some (crude) quantitative comparisons. I'm genuinely curious here; not trying to pick on progressive policies.
I'm somewhat of an expert on this, since I've been walking to work since 1995 (except for 1 year) and I've logged more than 20,000 miles on sidewalks through 2 cities.

What really, really concerns me, in the last few years, are tints on driver side windows. My rule is, I never walk in front of a car unless I made eye contact with the driver. I will even, if I approach from the passenger side, knock on the hood if they are looking left. With the new tints, there are many cars in my city where I cannot see the driver. At all. This confuses me, since I thought opaque tints were illegal.
I've also had this happen to me- driving from Boone, North Carolina to Charlotte, I usually avoid highways because the interstates are a bit overwhelming to me. I took one different turn as I was trying to avoid downtown in a rural city I was driving through; they were having a block party and the usual route was blocked off. It's routed me through that turn ever since, so saying Google is learning from where people drive even enough to start making routes, that doesn't seem too farfetched for me.
I know it to be true. Outside of the textual example I posted in my original post, here's a visual example: https://pasteboard.co/IloR6Hv.png

The highlighted tracks are private, mud-ridden trails on private property. If I'm sitting in that house, and ask Google to direct to me to the address directly north of my location, it will direct me to take that trail to the north. Which, BTW, will lead me to a locked gate and another trail on the other side of the fence. The correct answer is to send me south to the county road, east to the next county road, north to the next county road, and then west via county road due north of where I am. Those trails are not roads that google would otherwise know about.
Yes, this seems like the ideal solution. A bus is big enough to where you can easily engineer a quick attach/detach "cartridge". Since it's all operated by the city (or private entity), you also don't have the issue you would with consumers where you need to worry about users turning in damaged batteries for good ones.
You can still install the extension from the dissenter website
> "Tolerance is a social norm because it allows different people to live side-by-side without being at each other's throats. ... [Tolerance] is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others. A peace treaty is not a suicide pact."
Could you hit a railgun with a railgun? Why wouldn't countries build massive anti-ship railguns to prevent any such ship from getting even close to their naval facilities?
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The answer to your question is obvious and not relevant. I don't ride on roads where anyone goes near 80 mph, so I do think that the grille guards will contribute to lethality in my case.

Given that I live in central Austin, I find it hard to believe that most drivers I encounter with grille guards need them because they have a ranch. That would imply that many more people have ranches than I believe is true. Plus, I grew up in a rural area outside of Texas and rarely saw grille guards, even on farms.
Not many people talking about fingerprinting. Which browser does a better job of blocking it?
> theoldnet.com is currently unable to handle this request.

Not sure if intentional or hilarious irony.
https://pcfielders.com/fix-wifi-authentication-problem-andro...
I use pretty standard extensions... uBlockO, decentral eyes, smart referrer... I just wish that companies would stop using Google's reCAPTCHA service.

Also my IP address rarely changes and I don't think that any malicious traffic is coming from it.

And I have Comcast, so I hope that they didn't blacklist all of us...

(I did talk bad about Google a few times though, maybe that's it)
DRM has a long history of failing to stop piracy.
Does a coilgun have any advantages over a railgun?
Go to your dealer. I wasnt notified but they had a type of limited warranty where they knew about it. The sensors were not installed correctly in some units. They replaced it for free.
At least newer diesels are a lot better about particulates than the older ones, the EPA has mandated particulate filters since 2007 and they reduce them by ~85-95%.

http://www.meca.org/regulation/us-epa-20072010-heavyduty-eng...
Typo: The linked paper [1] refers to Monodology and Monadology

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.04799.pdf
That might be it. The annotations look like the kind of thing I remember.
I gave up on the SE this year. I bought it when I was new. I switched back to a pixel 3a, but I hate it. I'll probably switch back to a flip phone. I just want a headphone jack, decent battery, and a working phone
The vast majority of Americans (and people) don't use Twitter.

The vast majority of Americans hold little of the country's wealth, so the actions of rich people have little effect.
The mac is great but the iPad is smaller, lighter, and better battery. They already have git client apps, file manager apps, and code editor apps (even js and python interpreters). They just all work together very poorly.
I understand that different people and cultures have very different reactions to it, but profanity per se doesn't violate the HN guidelines.
> I think it was important for Mozilla to communicate their Android dev focus was gonna shift to GeckoView, from existing apps

Focus has already shifted for quite some time, though - the current Firefox for Android ("Fennec") code base has already been in maintenance mode since the end of 2017, i.e. over 1½ years, including a few months at the start of 2018 were almost nobody was regularly working on it at all other than watching Bugzilla for any immediate priority bugs and reacting to those in case any happened.
IT professionals should work in a mainframe environment at some point (2015)
this guy has mostly developers as users, developers use smaller phones
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There is a very good introduction - 20 lectures of 45 minutes - to loop quantum gravity by Carlo Rovelli [1] who worked together with Lee Smolin on that topic. In a nutshell loop quantum gravity is about triangulating space with tetrahedra, then representing this triangulation as a graph - one vertex per tetrahedron, one edge between every two tetrahedra sharing a face - with the edges labeled with SU(2) transformations describing the change in orientation due to spacetime curvature as one moves from one tetrahedron to a neighboring one, and of course the dynamics of this description. I hope I got this right, I am totally not a physicist. There is also a very good talk for the general public focusing on the nature of time by Rovelli [2] in case the lecture series is to long or technical.

Well, I initially started writing this comment because of the quote »Leibniz argued (against Newton) that there’s no fixed backdrop to the universe, no “stuff” of space; space is just a handy way of describing relationships.«. According to Rovelli - he talks about this in the lecture series mentioned above - Newton was fully aware [3] that his notion of space and time are just abstract notions and that space and time are fundamentally relational. But due to the success of using abstract space and time in science and engineering this got somewhat forgotten and those abstract notions were and are considered much more fundamental than they are. This in lectures two (space) and ten (time) which both provide an overview about the philosophical evolution of the concepts and should be - at least the first part of the lectures - accessible without [almost] any background.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp4fpwl9loQ&list=PLwLvxaPjGH...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6rWqJhDv7M

[3] I just skipped a bit through the second lecture on space and I may have somewhat overstated Newton's awareness but I will leave this as first written. It is more like he was aware that we only have access to relational space and time but we can infer from that a true abstract notion of space and time. I really recommend to just watch the lecture for a more nuanced picture, it starts out very non-technical and this very discussion.
I encourage you to stick to your guns on this. I used to have a Nexus 5X (which was a hair too big), and moved to a Moto x4. The x4 is basically the exact same size as the 5X, but they went with a "fancy" design for it with metal construction and a glass back. It's much heavier than my previous phone and it's slippery because of the glass construction.

It's borderline impossible to use with one hand, and hard to avoid dropping occasionally because it's so much heavier and harder to grasp. It's so slick that it regularly slides off of almost flat surfaces.

My next phone will be 5" or less. I have the same size preferences as you, and also owned a Nexus 4. I still think it was the pinnacle of the cell phone form factor.
The vendor is GreenPower Motor Co. Inc.'s EV Star mini-buses. They bought 6 of them for testing.

I think the problem is the terrain, distance in the routes, and expected load.

"Out of the box" it looks like they're capable of 100-150 miles, but from what he said, they weren't getting those numbers even on a good day.

From that experience, and from his attitude towards them. I doubt they'll be eager to try out the full sized versions.

The CNG buses they currently run are pretty darn clean, and cheap to operate as it is. So electric will have to be quite a bit better in order to convince them to switch.
Books are much more resilient than you think, especially if the publisher used good materials.
90 days for removal is not a violation.

Passing data on to third prties without explicit consent from the user is a violation.

However, you can’t even use FB without giving such consent, or, rather, without being forced to give it through dark patterns and vague wording. The way FB collects consent is a violation.
In the past [1] they were taking about 220 miles. Of course not even close for intercontinental strikes, but it could be a cheaper and more difficult to intercept alternative to cruise missiles.

For example Shayrat, the target of Trump's attack with cruise missiles in 2017 [2] is about 190 miles from the coast of Cyprus

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LMyzjaCdAQ
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Shayrat_missile_strike
Interesting that Waze has an option to avoid unpaved roads, but Google Maps app doesn't.

Last weekend Waze directed me onto a private airport's runway. On the return trip, I switched to the Offline Maps app, and it led me to a dead end. Haven't ever seen 2 screwups by 2 different apps on 2 different routes in one day.
Changing sites didn't work for me in Firefox 67.0.3
same, i'd love to try this. I'm inbox zero at pretty much all times except for when I'm on a flight with shitty wifi. would love an invite? taylor at apmhelp dot com =) thanks ahead of time for any kind strangers.
He seems to travel a lot giving speeches about Free Software. If you get the FSF bulletin, you get updates each quarter, e.g. https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2018/fall/on-the-road-with-rms
DRM is a ludicrous solution to preventing ebook piracy.

One of the first things I learned as a teenager online was that anything that can be read, seen or heard can also be copied.

It's only with interactive things like games and programs that pirates have a real challenge.
I passed on a 55% higher salary
Thanks, I just subscribed to the issue. Seems like it's blocked by a Bugzilla issue that didn't get updated in five months. I guess it's gonna be a while until I switch browsers.
I think you can't find it because it just didn't happen that way and you're misremembering something. The export-crippled cryptography in browsers was a real thing but it got there before the Indian nuclear test and for other reasons.
In Thinking Fast and Slow, Kahneman talks about an experiment where they had people answer a quick questionaire about their immediate emotional state throughout the day, kind of like sampling. Something like are you stressed, angry, happy, etc. at this very moment. If I remember correctly, the results showed that most people are fine most of the time, but a small number of people are in constant emotional distress.
I will extend me a little and say that this is also important for AI, a good AI should be able to detect those "systems" and automatically transform then in wave functions

example when we walk, we tend to transform our walk patterns to a wave function, till some unexpected change in the ambient appears, this frees our brain and allow us to think in another thing. try to walk with a pattern that does not tend to stability, while that you will never be able to use your brain to do another task, just like you brain wants stability the universe also want it.

this phenomenon not only happens when we walk, we do this all the time at multiples level in the hierarchy of the mental models that we use for describing the world or our actions, which some times result in bad predictions but allow us to the think in other complex problems on a higher level of abstractions.
Isn’t the USA the country where instant bank transfers dont exist? Where you get charged to withdraw cash from an ATM (unless its your banks ATM)?

Most other countries have this infrastructure already, because technically it’s trivial.
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I find "google purchased a set of map data that said this creek bed was a road" to be much more plausible than any other scenario
What made it great, did it genuinely free up time?
With the constant trickle of folks who do illegal things around you and on your property. Who shoot at you if you get close to a car they abandon on your property.

How is it hard to see ? Ever been shot at walking around what amounts to your extended backyard ?
Unix pipelines, AWK, gnu parallel, R, all great stuff.

If you have such an specific task, why not just write an "actual program" (as opposed to pipeline of scripts)? From the looks of it, it sounds like this problem could have been solved with, say, 50 lines of Java, C, Go, etc, etc. Maybe a bit more verbose but it would give you full control, you wouldn't need to lookup how to use command line parameters on S/O, and would probably give you a bit more performance.
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I don't think the problem is with how you worded it. I think the problem is with what happened at the meeting. How was the presenter supposed to know, before receiving feedback, that someone would consider her words to be "othering"?
"or so" is doing a heavy lifting in this sentence. 10 years is an absurdly short time for a book to last.
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I'm quite certain Windows Defender uses (or used, at some point) GPUs in the machine to accelerate malware pattern matching. I remember a coworker talking about a funny bug as a consequence when the graphics driver executable itself was infected.
Not sure how this is any worse than the Facebook "like" button that's on every website on the planet.

Sure, we hate that, but it's there, and plus, Google probably already has a cookie on your computer anyway.

Given all that, this seems like a very minor privacy loss to whine about compared to all the other crap that Google/FB/etc does.

Please help me if I'm missing something unique about this particular issue.
Sure, but in a community where there wasn't an actual public library, I do believe one would inevitably come into existence as the effort of the community, in the same way those tiny libraries do. "People have spare books; community centres exist; so why not put the spare books in the community centre?"
Project Gutenberg is really a modern day equivalent and is one of the better things created on the internet.
I appreciate the information-theoretic validity of your argument, but if you think that one of these firms cares enough about your buying preferences to burn enough compute to find that correlation then you either work for the CIA or are mistaken.
Posting this because it bugged me a bit over the last weeks.

Is the only way to increase your salary to jump ships once per year? Also do you think it is valid to stay in a technical role?
It's hard to say how Toyota is governed unless you know more about how the Tokyo Stock Exchange functions. Toyota shares are only available here in the form of ADRs (American Depository Receipts). Each ADR share represents two shares of common stock on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Toyota might not have chase short term profits like many American companies choose to do. After two hours of googling it (and reading english web pages only, not japanese webpages), the only notable thing I discovered was that Toyota pays out 30% of its profits in the form of dividends and spends 20% of its profits on share buybacks for a total shareholder return of roughly 50% of earnings each year. This indicates that Toyota is shareholder friendly but it's not clear if this is an obligation or a choice.

Instead of chasing short-term profits, I've observed that Toyota spends fair budget on advertising and showboating futuristic looking hype technology that is never intended to be released or used. Some investors primarily look at the daily news and are satisfied with this strategy. The technology Toyota intends on using isn't hyped up; it's kept a secret until it's actually released to drivers.

Finally 90% of Toyota Corporate Employees in the Plano, TX US Headquarters are contractors from other companies. Those ones sure as hell aren't getting any quarterly performance bonuses or any executive compensation. At best, the executives bonuses are getting to keep your air-conditioned job for another 3 years.
The materials science that goes into making rails that last for more than a handful of shots at useful velocities is pretty advanced, too.
https://www.wired.com/2007/06/for-years-and-y/

If these existed, would people continue attempt to cross illegally? The thought-provoking argument is that these pieces of technology, if foolproof, would go completely unused as people inherently value their lives (but not laws.)
Take a look at ArchiveBox [0] if you're thinking on automating this work ;)

[0]: https://archivebox.io/
Sure. But products targeted even at relatively small groups of mostly non-farsighted people (kids, teens, students) are not uncommon.
Hate is a transitive verb.
A friend had a LPG conversion for a car, the tank took up a lot of luggage space. A larger tank for the same range doesn't matter as much for a large vehicle like a bus.
Don't blame only fox. For example: "The golden asteroid that could make everyone on Earth a billionaire" https://www.rt.com/business/462703-golden-asteroid-everyone-...
I don't suppose anyone ever cracked the DRM on Microsoft books such that the De-DRM utilities for Calibre would work to scrub them before they're rendered inaccessible?
I had no idea this was happening; adds some context to this tragedy: https://sports.yahoo.com/know-jaskirat-singh-sidhu-driver-ch...
None of the functionality seems to be working for me in Chrome 75, Windows 10
This is patently false. Source packages with Debian aren't even a single file. They consist of a pristine upstream tarball, a tarball of a /debian/ directory, and a dsc file that describes the package, including checksums of the two tarballs.

The /debian/ directory contains all distro specific patches, as well as build rules (a Make file), and package scripts.

It's possible to build a 'debian native' package where the /debian/ directory is bundled up with the orig source, but those are few and far between -- primarily packages consisting of debian-specific scripts/tools.
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> You have no right to use my website

Of course.

> Recaptcha is simply part of this negotiation.

It is only a negotiation if I know it is there.
Any chance I could snag a referral as well?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regu...
I've lived in Europe. There are plenty of differences, so of course you can't blame any one thing.

But I also grew up in America and walking was far more common here when I was growing up. When an activity starts to go extinct, myriad forms of seemingly invisible support for it also stop happening, including changes in mental models and assumptions for people whose thought processes impact outcomes.

Europe has always been more pedestrian friendly, in part because a lot of it was built before cars existed. There are countless towns where you cannot drive in some sections because it was built hundreds of years ago. You park and walk in.

The US has much less of that. You see it on some major college campuses. You mostly don't see it as some historic part of town built before the car even existed.

The existence of intractable, highly valued old parts of town like that will inevitably influence life experience, mental models and ongoing design policies, among other things. We just don't have that same psychological anchor for our landscapes and policies.
Jokes aside I recently setup a phpBB forum and me and friends are using IRC instead of discord.

IRC is ridiculously fast and so is phpBB.
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