skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just in case, what the user posted here is not the wording Facebook used in their post, and was added in as commentary. Granted, it may still be a true statement, we will never know. Facebook's wording is "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."
This data is interesting, but in the blog post the judgment made about it(or heavily suggested) that it's due to stereotypes and discrimination is a very broad stroke and it can't all be attributed to that. Maybe that is a part of it, but how much and in what specific cases? That is the hard part.

And aside from that employment is one dimension of 'privilege'. How could you possibly calculate all the privilege across a human life... there are endless dimensions
Do you not see that materials science from high performance cruise missiles might work its way through other uses of materials science such as structural engineering and bridges? Bridges can be used to hold tanks, does that mean all bridge engineers are bad?
Megawatt(-hour) isn't impractical. It shouldn't be strange that a bus needs significantly more energy storage than a car that might use 100kWh.

And Megawatt peak power isn't much, either. A decent Tesla has half a megawatt peak power. A bus on hilly routes or for highway speeds could and maybe should have double that.

Charging infrastructure needs to be done right, though. To make >1 Megawatt charging work well takes some careful thought. But it's not ultimately harder than a few fast DC chargers ganged together (probably need battery backing to make the peak charging cost lower, but ultimately, if you have lots of buses charging a lot, it's not super surprising if you need a good grid connection... but that's half of why you pay for electricity, so that's ultimately not a problem, either). That's actually a valid option.
Thank for sharing it! Looks interesting!
I suspect you might be right, but it could water down the term. In such a case, everything is perceiving all the time.

I was using the more traditional definition of perception.
Punk made its way to China, where .. it did not quite survive as one might have hoped:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/film-review-beijing-punk_b_71...
I just want shout out a previous article published here in HN that sparkle a quite interesting conversations.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20158386

Long history short, don't use a captcha if you don't need it. And most of the time your website don't need it.
Have you ever ridden a fucking bus?

Then shut the fuck up. Because everyone knows, the second you set foot on one, you'll suffer that very familiar instant regret, and understand why no one wants another fucking bus.

If you aren't going jump on that bus yourself, keep your fucking mouth shut.
Saw a video recently that touched on this topic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKXf89yNDP4

Only short and worth the watch.
I wonder if this does what you expect? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fit-text-to-w...
Don't bother sending feedback to the email address mentioned in the blog: it bounces.

We're writing to let you know
that the group you tried to
contact (firefox-preview-feedback)
may not exist, or you may not
have permission to post
messages to the group...
A railgun, while its mechanism is electromagnetic, works on a base level by causing a massive high-current electrical short.

As a side effect (as in most electrical shorts), both the rails and some of the projectile are vaporized when the gun is fired due to both friction and electric arcing; and that's the smoke and fire you see.

This wear (which is signifcant per shot) is also the main obstacle to actually using railguns in any significant capacity in warfare (the other being the need for a massive current source, but nuclear generators and massive capacitor banks help).

Coilguns, on the other hand, don't actually touch the projectile they fire, and as such have a significantly cleaner output.
That's sort of the question. If she came at someone with a knife, and they shot her, it's not too unreasonable. Half the time, it turns out that's what happened. Half the time, it's law enforcement doing something insane.

Our views here are biased by sample bias -- what gets reported in the news, and whose side gets told.

I tend to like to wait until all the facts come out before deciding. When I've done that, I've been surprised in both directions -- sometimes things turn out to be nothing, and sometimes much worse than initially reported.
I would think there are some aspects of your heart's behavior that are not ordinarily public.
??

Sadly, news these days involves a lot of "we've invented <X>, to kill people that disagree with us".....The modern-day me wishes I could go back to the 18-year-old me and <kill people I now disagree with>
Careful there with the personal attack.

I put purported there for a reason. Han promised riches for citizens of kaoshung, went to visit China right after the election, and yet haven’t done a single thing yet to improve the city, before running for president.
I would be honored to help them feed their families. It would be a fun game of cat and mouse. Based on discussions here, it sounds like people have already automated Google captcha. I will go ahead and work on a few of my own and see what happens.

Maybe we can turn this into a public competition.
> This to me is insane reasoning.

Not insane but highly cynical. They are increasing risk to my - their user's - life in order to save some bucks on R&D and integration investment. Does it make you wonder where else did the make the same tradeoff? It should.

> I hope other brands start following Mazda again for this choice.

Same here. When I buy my next car, I would ensure it doesn't have controls that require me to be distracted from driving to operate even the most basic functions.
Self driving buses on fixed routes with special infrastructure put in by the city to help out might be the lynch pin here.
The costs of compliance are not too high. Compliance is actually ridiculously easy for new companies: they need to collect only the data they need. That is all there is
Because you were in a car with the potential to kill people. Don't equate the two things like they are somehow the same.

If you think pedestrians "jaywalking" is the problem, you are the problem.
Last release was late 2017, but it has been very stable for me. Plus the author responds to bug reports.

Mawk is my go-to version because of speed. GNU Awk when its extensions are needed, or the task is over "small data" and the system default version is sufficient.
You seem to be assuming your conclusion as your premise.
I'm the developer of Secure ShellFish.

You could use something like Charles for iOS to see that it doesn't connect to anything except the servers you configure.
True! Especially on the phone it bothers me terribly!
I’m worried not so much about the widening wage gap — but about the chasm between the educated and the not so much. An educated electorate would not have voted such arcane laws into law.
I assure you that a clean browser and IP will break any surveillance that I know about.
Does anyone have an invite?
This is going to be huge. And amazing that it took so long
did you work with lisp day-to-day or just find the derived programming principles to be super valuable?
If your proper reasoning involves the premise: "it's a cryptocurrency product, and pretty much everything in the crypto space is a scam," you might want to adjust want you call "proper reasoning."
Chinese Cyber-Operatives Boosted Taiwan’s Insurgent Candidate
There's no way other than weapons engineering to make those discoveries?
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Sure, my gov (Brazil) uses reCaptcha on the page where you can check your electoral status (For example: if you can vote, where, and if not, what is missing). Where can I find a competitor for that?
One big question I have is why LPG isn't a bigger thing for cars. Regular gas and diesel engines can be (relatively) cheaply modified to run on LPG and indeed can often run on both. It's a cleaner burning fuel than both gasoline and diesel AND is cheaper to boot.
It came from outer space: Weird radio signal came from distant galaxy
I have a close friend who published an engineering text book. He worked a couple of years on it and it was well received in his particular field. The book was pirated within months and is freely available on PDF. It's unfair that his hard work is being used globally for free.

So yes, having books shut off sucks but so does piracy.
He wants people to donate to the people compiling the block lists.
http://archive.is/obIpd
I don't even use a VPN and have lots of issues solving google's captcha...
I agree, one of the best parts about FF on android was the queue. I hate the clicking a link, and it forces you to task switch right then to that link. I like to read things, click for more info, and then follow up when I am done. I rate it higher than add-ons and ublock (I use a DNS server that filters out many ads for me already, https://www.nextdns.io/ )
Apart from the privacy nightmare, couldn't this also result in discrimination?

> For instance, if a user with a high risk score attempts to log in, the website can set rules to ask them to enter additional verification information through two-factor authentication.

Seems to me, this could easily flag genuine users who access the site through a non-standard flow - e.g. because they use assistive technologies. In the worst case, this could result in impaired users being forced to jump through additional hoops - or being blocked completely.
Thank you for pointing this out. Head phones are a huge problem with this, as well. I have seen a stupid number of stupid pedestrians walking or running with earbuds in, or hunched over on phones, or some such.
A combination of three things:
1) The flash is air in contact with the super-hot rail ionizing instantaneously from the heat, and becoming plasma.
2) Friction (From the projectile against both the rail itself, and air) producing vast amounts of heat, which then
a) causes water vapor in the air to flash to steam
b) produces smoke from burning metal

I am not sure how much of the smoke is from 2)b), because I'm assuming the surface materials are designed to minimize friction and therefore surface burning.

[1] https://www.quora.com/When-a-railgun-is-fired-where-does-the...
Didn't mean to be blunt, but I had no idea how the sections fit together and what you were trying to say. Clearly I am missing the context which others seem to have, since it's on the frontpage of HN.
Short answer: nothing. (Even Bret Victor's work doesn't begin to touch it. http://worrydream.com/ Although he is well cool along other dimensions!)

For the flavor, imagine a type-safe LISP that one edits though something like Brad Templeton's Alice Pascal https://www.templetons.com/brad/alice.html or Emacs ParEdit https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ParEdit so that an incorrect program cannot be described in the system. (You can make a program that doesn't do what you intended, but whatever it does it will do so correctly.)

For the underlying technology, I would recommend reading up on Conal Elliott's "Compiling to categories" http://conal.net/papers/compiling-to-categories/ The connection won't be immediately clear. The connective is the Joy programming language:

https://www.latrobe.edu.au/humanities/research/research-proj...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(programming_language)

http://www.kevinalbrecht.com/code/joy-mirror/joy.html

http://joypy.osdn.io/ (full disclosure: this last one is my own project.)

The key is to see Joy (as opposed to, say, LISP) as the sort-of-AST that HOS is manipulating. If you restrict Joy to its type-safe subset and squint a little you have HOS. Then as a kind of bonus, Joy code turns out to be perfect for the "Compiling to categories" stuff (which is beyond HOS.)

For the UI, AFAIK Jonathan Edwards' Subtext http://www.subtext-lang.org/ is the closest anyone's gotten.
> source: I ran Facebook’s ads backend for years

Why would anyone ever trust a goddamn thing you have to say about their data?

Unless they pay your salary and are asking you to give your expertise on hoarding and abusing user data, obviously.
Which vendor is supplying those buses? Sounds like your unit may be malfunctioning if that's nowhere near spec, or you have extreme weather conditions.
I am worried by both. In fact, I am worried by more than these two things about Google, but listing them all would probably take this discussion way off course.
Kind of an interesting limit question though. Like what could we know about an instrument from a tune played on it, or from a collection of sheet music that may or may not have been written for it?

The instrument can be thought of very loosely as representing a monad where force, reason, intent and all these other things go in and then "phenomena of type music" comes out. If the universe were monadic the way he describes, there is probably some information theory-meets-ontological limit that has to do with whether you can ever get "upstream" of these monads, of which our universe is the effect.

Other than perhaps being able to discover and reproduce them.
Oak Tree offers CUs a no-cost forensics analysis of their current forms
That's an excellent example! Thank you.
Wow the new Fitbit sounds very accurate.
I also get 0.1 with the same config as you, except that I had uMatrix disabled (which if anything, should improve the score in Google's eyes)...

so why are they having you solve image puzzles if they know that they are going to fail you? even if they know that you are human...
There’s profit to be had if you can use meteorological modeling along with a carbon tax to send market signals to air travel consumers.
It is not "wild speculative hyperbole" not to give the benefit of the doubt to companies that have repeatedly demonstrated that they are not entitled to the benefit of the doubt.
Insider trading tends to be done by individuals or small groups of friends. I doubt that any of them would consider it beneficial to individually pay for lobbyists.
The UK Consumer Rights Act (CRA) appears to anticipate this as it has no absolute date beyond which goods should remain suitable for purpose.

Digital goods should last infinitely, so a digital good that 'expires' should be fixed or the cost fully refunded (fully as there are still an infinite number of years of use left available; and that should be accounting for inflation too).
Are smartphones not available in Europe?
Protolol: An IRC Log of Protocol Puns (2011)
Ah! Some good answers in the rest of this thread noting that this gun vaporizes its sabot - That's probably the biggest source of smoke
(I assume you mean 3.7" 320x screen; 4" is the 6/7/8 375px)

Where do you see this? 320x is still a necessary design goal for 4" screens (6/7/8), as they use 320x layouts for the basis of zoomed/vision-impaired display.
Can you imagine someone trying to start public libraries if they didn't already exist now? I think it's safe to say it would never ever happen, at least in the US. Between lobbying and the general disdain for most things run by any type of government here, they'd never have a chance.

Luckily we still have places that still purchase printed books (along with ebooks) and you can go borrow them any time and they never stop working.... just ignore the damage from fire, water, rips, loss, bed bugs... maybe they do actually stop working for other reasons now that I think about it :-)
ShellFish developer here. Recently libssh2 1.9 was released with support for modern ssh key types, but I need to do some extra work to calculate public key from private keys that depend on each key type.

I just really wanted to release a first version and more key types will be coming soon.
First I go through steps of computer evolution: desktops -> laptops -> tablets

When desktops became popular in Sweden computers where rare in say South America.

Now computers are not rare in South America, which is good. The bad thing is that they are common in a consumption only format.

The problem is UI in particular text input. The solution use say gloves as input and VR systems which I predict will be cheaper and broadly available.

Until that happens a huge amount of people are stuck with smart devices, so I'd like to improve the situation. To get there I'm doing my work on a tablet to get a good idea on what works and what doesn't. Why? Because I want teenagers in the rest of the world to be able to have fun with computers as I did.
The web is a mess (2012)
Looks like you have a great business plan at hand. Beat Google with a potentially superior product and help employ some people in developing countries!
Because even if we're being not generous, the difference between natively blocking even some ads/trackers and disentangling from Google services in any way is clearly better than not. Would you flip a coin every time if an unmodifiable computer offered only Chrome and Brave?
> the two [nukes] which were used were a net benefit in terms of what it would have cost (in both American and Japanese lives) to invade the islands.

There was no need to invade the islands. For the last year of the war, the Japanese had severe problems importing supplies. A significant fraction of their imports were coming in on tiny wooden ships: larger ships and steel ships would probably be sunk by US submarines or US aviation before making even a single delivery, and Japan had almost none left. The US could have simply waited and gotten the same result that they got with nukes. The reason it did not wait is worry that Stalin would invade northern Japan.

The first sentence of the wikipedia page on mining in Japan is, "Mining in Japan is minimal because Japan does not possess many on-shore mineral resources". Although the Japanese homeland does have coal reserves, the extraction costs are much higher than they are in the US and in Europe. It has and had very little petroleum reserves. The wikipedia page I mentioned says that "in 1941, Japanese petroleum production was . . . 0.1% of world petroleum production" and that the US produced about as much petroleum in a day as Japan did in a year.
Why have coilguns not gotten the same amount of attention as railguns?
The reason I stayed with redhat/rpm so long ago was that rpm kept the native upstream source file untouched and pristine (most often a tarball). It was very easy to see what exactly was being patched and the build process driven by the specfile. This appealed to me as opposed to debian which often would just mash local patches together with the source (I hear debs do have the ability to keep the source "pristine", but for whatever reason dd's didn't usually do that).
More of the neverending pro-censorship authoritarian journalistic nanny-style comments.

If what you said was true, violent crime wouldn't be dropping so precipitously.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/191219/reported-violent-...

In the era of violent games, gangsta rap, neverending wars, etc, violent crime is dropping.

But you are correct. Freedom has a price. That's what makes freedom so valuable. People have the freedom to make mistakes.
Way different. I like it much less than The Sands of Time, since you don't really die, you just restart the last brief obstacle/battle you failed. Battles are one-on-one, and negotiating obstacles is more like QTEs where you have to push the right button at the right time based on the appearance of the section of wall, etc.

On the upside, it's based on pre-Islamic, Zoroastrian Persian mythology rather than the more typical "Arabian Nights" style setting of previous PoP games, which was really interesting and different at the time.

I think I would enjoy a Sands of Time style game set in a PoP2008 world.
I don't think the author claimed to have the answer, the title is literally a question.

If there was a reason why surely it wouldn't be an issue because we would already know how to fix it.
> there's no reason to believe locally-installed applications won't have exceeded browser sandboxing capabilities

What? Sure there is!

1. The reason to believe native apps' sandboxing won't exceed the browser is that any sandboxing that works on native apps would also work on the browser app itself.

2. There's also 2 reasons to believe native apps' sandboxing may always be inferior to the browser:

(a) The Web has wider reach, and people are already more confident/careless visiting strange websites than downloading and running strange apps, so exploits targeting the Web are more valuable and therefore more resources are spent battle-testing it.

(b) Native apps currently have deeper access to the device which makes it easier for them to do bad things, and (similar to reason 1) will never have less access to the device than the browser app which is also an app.

(I'm aware there's arguably a slight exception here about Mobile Safari and W^X, but I don't think that disproves the overarching reasoning.)
So much of this. Too bad many people who love Firefox don't get how important that Apple decision is for survival for non-Chromium browsers..
Unless the topic is affordable housing, that is.
Have some respect for the men who saved you from Communism.
Unified Payment Interface (UPI) in India is a highly scalable (800million transactions per month) mobile payment method with 160+ banks participating with numerous mobile apps (example: Bhim, PhonePe) that is free of charge for merchant payments and up to 30 person to person payments per month. Subsequent P2P transactions are charged at flat ₹2.5 for < ₹1000 and ₹5 for greater than ₹1000 (highly unlikely anyone would cross the free quota per month and actually pay this fee).

Please see statistics published by various agencies:
NPCI - National Payment Corporation of India is the organization responsible for administering UPI.
https://www.npci.org.in/product-statistics/upi-product-stati...

RBI - Reserve Bank of India is the central/federal bank.
https://rbi.org.in/scripts/Statistics.aspx

I don't think anyone needs Libra in India. Thank you.
Facebook Releases an Update on Its Oversight Board: Many Questions, Few Answers
They can just listen to the 50hz ground hum in the signal coming from his audio equipment and determine which relay stations are providing that power ..
I feel the legality should surround the description. This isn't "selling" it's "lending".
Well aware. The radar signature is still significantly smaller for the projectile. Also, note how hard-kill tank defense systems work better on missiles/rockets than SABOT.

P.S. Zircon is probably vaporware.
As long as the projectile travels fast enough that there is ablation, you can use the Newton approximation [1] to get a rough idea. Using densities for uranium and air, and a projectile length of 1m, that gives a range of 15km. Of course when the bullet slows down, that is significantly extended.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_depth
It isn't clear that headphones make pedestrians/cyclists less safe.Traffic noise in busy urban areas would make it unlikely that headphones would mask any useful auditory information.

I even heard of one study that concluded that the music actually increased awareness and focus.
I am falling behind replying to all the comments that this has generated.

For the record I am inked all over with anti-equation group stuff: I agree that these companies are too big and powerful (and I would know).

I just don’t see a solution with the present judiciary. If anyone has a bright idea my email is in my profile.

I will thank you all in advance for not shooting the messenger.
So... Congressmen are paying lobbyists to lobby... congress?
Loneliness is an epidemic, and we can turn to technology to fix it
What's a pacifist with militaristic sentiments? A hypocrite? A doublethink?