skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are a lot of people who walk kind of like you. What's more, it's easy not to walk kind of like you -- just take one shoe off. Of course, you'll always walk like you-with-one-shoe-off in that case, so the cameras will eventually figure out that it's still you. Which is why I prefer to inject a little randomness into my attacks on gait-recognition: I put a handful of gravel into each shoe. Cheap and effective, and no two steps are the same. Plus you get a great reflexology foot massage in the process (I kid. Reflexology is about as scientifically useful as gait-recognition).

-Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow [0][1][2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Brother_(Doctorow_novel...

[1] https://craphound.com/category/littlebrother/

[2] https://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/
But the US Military uses depleted uranium (the hardest material) for tank rounds, so they could make pretty hardy railgun projectiles.
Yeah. So I forget macroeconomics class from a long time ago. But there's some effect where a dollar changing hands in a local economy 3 or 4 times has a huge multiplicative effect on economic growth.

And being labour and trade intensive means you can campaign on creating jobs for your blue collared workers.
The Chinese version of this is super sketchy and I am surprised it has lasted this long. Chinese companies are under no obligation to follow our securities and accounting laws. I am sure they are doing all kinds of illegal things such as not setting the shares aside in China and lying about their accounting. A big mess.
This is why DRM isn't just anti-consumer, it's also morally evil using the same logic that says libraries are a good thing.

This is also why I buy games on gog.com instead of steam if they both have them.
sort of interesting and related:

Moths can jam Bat "radar"

https://steveblank.com/2009/03/23/if-i-told-you-i%E2%80%99d-...
> reeks of sour grapes that a mediocre employee at one of these places makes 3-20x what anyone makes (as a rank and file employee) anywhere else

This is not an argument and moreover not even true: there are companies that pay well and don’t collect reams of data on their users.
Are current US bus sizes right-sized? Perhaps we need smaller buses on more interesting routes. Really large buses with mega-batteries (possibly literally megawatt sized) seems impractical compared to natural gas. However, 10 passenger shuttles, and more of them, might be practical. If the operating costs can be lower with electric, then that should free up budget to hire more drivers to drive more routes to drive better utilization, etc.
I wonder if that policy is purely empirical or if the people who decided to favor I/O had a more sophisticated understanding of the system.

Since a lot of algorithms have a log(n) component to them, either expressly or due to CPU physics, calling a function twice as often with half as much data may reduce call time a little bit, even a hair. I could see someone making a design decision based on a 2% disparity between two alternatives.
I think that's exactly what Canada's federal carbon tax is, and even so it's wildly unpopular unfortunately.
You are playing really fast and loose with definitions so it’s hard to know what you consider a failure case but rural areas now have higher crime rates than the national average.

Incarceration rates are also now led by rural areas[0]. Anyone who has spent time in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio or West Virginian rural areas have driven through areas that easily could be called ‘failed’. And that’s just from my personal experience.

I’d say your position that only progressive places have failed I’d just your bias showing and doesn’t have any basis in fact. And that’s before you dig into whether it was progressive policies that led to the 2 failures you do mention.

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.governing.com/topics/public...
Question, beacause i'm not familiar enough with how trees "suck" co2 out of the air. This study is saying it would take something like 100 forests the size of France to solve the climate change problem by tree growth alone. Would it be possible to genetically modify a tree to consume C02 100x more than a regular tree so we would only need 1 france of mutated trees?
You can just open the browser and look at the saved passwords in the settings. A little bit harder I guess.
that's not how the world works
If the US government really wanted Snowden dead, they could get him dead. They very likely know where he lives. They are the most sophisticated intelligence collection entity in the world, after all. Snowden is not protected by secrecy, he is protected by the fact that he lives in Russia and killing him would be a provocation to Russia, possibly resulting in the assasination of people that Russia dislikes who are under US protection. Also I guess because they want to put Snowden before a court of some sort, even if it's an unfair trial.

Now, why does he apply counterintelligence measures? Why doesn't he share his location on twitter all the time? My theory is that it's some kind of rule of the intelligence community: if you would be too open, you would basically insult the rules this world is playing by. It would be like dancing in the crosshair at the korean border. Nobody wants to be insulted.
For those trying out either this link or the OP link, Snowden modifies his audio settings a bit around the 5 minute mark and is much more understandable then.
That's an excellent idea, actually. Transparency is key in these situations.
Do you also believe that violent video games cause real-world violence? How about movies? Novels?
Do Nvidia Tegra SOCs work in that way?
Do you genuinely see the same virtue in the engineering of a bridge and the engineering of a cruise missile?
Well, the map is not quite the territory. I remember a time on holidays where we were not really trusting the street that the TomTom had selected for us. So I walked ahead a bit... turned out we were supposed to drive down some stairs.... really steep stairs too...
To a certain group of people, any words that reference (or in this case, words that look similar to different words that reference) the concept that perhaps Christian White Males are not the very pinnacle of civilization trigger an extreme reaction.
Is there any way to report corrections to Google maps? On more than one occasion, I've had a route that called for a left turn at a traffic light, try to route me into a right turn and an immediate (illegal) u-turn. In another case, my route would have logically had me cross a road (again at a traffic light), however Google maps wanted me to turn either right or left, drive for a few miles, turn into a subdivision to turn around and retrace the route, and then finally continue on the original road. Not to mention that it always wants me to cut across my backyard to get to a road running behind my house, instead of backing out of my driveway onto the road I live on.

It isn't that I can't easily solve these problems if I'm looking at the map, but since it is incapable of having me make a left turn it will often plot an "optimal" route that is 15 minutes longer than it should be, because the real optimal route looks like it takes longer due to the routing error. Not to mention that it often confuses delivery drivers.
Note, that the incorrect route typically comes from the Android version of Google maps, but if I go on the web interface the route will be ok.
You can just use > to indicate a quote. It doesn't add any formatting but everyone knows what it means on HN.

Using 4 spaces turns it into a code block and makes it much more difficult to read since paragraphs have no line breaks -- they end up running off the screen and require horizontal scrolling.
You forgot other Pulitzer Prize gems.

Pulitzer Prize winning news source : Nayirah, Yellow cake, assad syria chemical attack, Trump working for Putin conspiracy.

But then again, Pulitzer was the founder of yellow journalism, the original fake news.

I don't think winning an award named after the founder of yellow journalism is anything to be proud of.

"Back to Moscow comrades"?

That sounds like the fake news we've been hearing from many pulitzer winners.

The difference between infowars fake news and pulitzer winners fake news is that the pulitzer winners' fake news has resulted in the death of millions of people and the pulitzer winners should be facing war crime charges.
"The study also has a bearing on discussions about the creation of a new label to describe humanity's time - and impacts - on Earth. ... the Anthropocene."

I've been hearing about this as if it's a new label for about 15 years now. I was pretty certain we've already accepted this term and generally accept it's a very clear, measurable geologic epoch.
No. The way that you structured this whole article is strange. It doesn't feel as you read through that you are talking about the title nor does it feel like each subsection is connected in either way. Generally a reader expects: introduction to concept, hypothesis/argument based on introduced concepts, supporting arguments for or against the hypothesis, and finally a conclusion. I feel like you are missing the introduction entirely, so a reader has to assume the title is your argument (as sometimes appears in news articles). Given that argument you end up wandering through 3 sections that do not seem related to that title, and at the end I still have no idea what you wanted to say.

There is no conclusion or resolution to what was introduced so I still can't fathom what you are trying to share. It feels like a situation where only half the thoughts hit the page and since we don't know the context we can't fill in the gaps.

Our issues are in the actual writing of the post, not as much what you are trying to say because we can't even get to that.
While I'm sure the they would love to get their hands on him, pulling off a kidnapping from under the noses of several Russian intelligence agencies in the heart of their domain seems like a stretch, even for the CIA.
Alabama woman loses unborn child after being shot, gets arrested
They know _exactly_ where he is. Putin keeps him protected for shits & giggles.
Except it's the opposite, higher hoodlines (and thus more blunt noses) are actually because of pedestrian safety requirements involving contact area and crumble zones; a lot of that facade is hollow.

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15118822/taking-the-h...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1123098/
Does this adequately control for smart-phone-distraction? Maybe not if Europeans have social or legal elements ruling out smartphone use in the streets.
Sorry, is this like Liam Neeson - drop a handgrenade in one part of town then another and Liam (or rather is listening to Snowden microphones) can work out where he is?

Can that possibly work IRL?
The main issue right now is range anxiety.

In today's world, a diesel bus is able to run for an entire day, doing route(s) back and forth without going back to the depot for refueling and charging. This can be true for an electric bus, but in general the range is not longer, and depends on stuff like

- elevation changes in the route

- climate; not only do batteries perform worse in cold weather, but heating and cooling makes up a significant amount of energy draw. In an ICE bus usually the ICE itself generates waste heat.

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/01/electric-bus-...

> Similarly, the Minnesota source claimed that over the three-week trial, electricity consumption was 70 percent heating and only 30 percent motion.

> Wright said (as of early fall) that Moscow’s trial routes for BEBs—trolleybus Routes 73, 76, 80, and 83—have had to use more buses just to run the same service, pointing to before and after slides. The four routes appear to have gone from 46 trolleybuses to 82 BEBs without any increase in service frequency, presumably because BEBs have considerable down time for midday charging.

That incurs a lot of additional costs:

- buses not in service while driving to and from charging points are personnel and vehicle hours that cost money, especially if after charging you need to be able to place the driver in a bus actually going into service

- you are maintaining and storing a much larger fleet of buses now

Until an electric bus can be made that can run a full day without charging, costs will rise for electric bus adopters.
>Condemn the action, not the tool.

So it's fine to stockpile chemical weapons as long as we don't use them because they're just a tool?
I’m very ignorant about weapons technology. When you say anti-air does that imply some kind of homing technology in the projectiles?
From the service provider and devops perspective I find reCAPTCHA beautiful. It brings down malicious form fill, form spam, user creation and password brute forcing rates.

Also as a VPN user, I found out that migrating to more expensive, higher grade VPN, solved a lot of my problems.

In the end it is not privacy, not your VPN that matters from the service provider point of view. It matters that your IP address is spewing malicious garbage. I do not want to spend time sorting it out, as I can focus my activities to revenue generating tasks. Harming some cheap VPN users in the process is collateral damage, but I rather take it than build a form with a perfect attack mitigation and 10x cost.

I hope to see some alternative for reCAPTCHA that does not come with such a strong privacy oriented risks. hCAPTCHA https://www.hcaptcha.com/ seems to be interesting, also monetization point of view. But they are not yet well established company and I do not know what other risks their approach would bring.
I find the physics of rail guns pretty fascinating. For something nominally invented in world war 1 (1918) which is now "only a few years" away from possible deployment. We are talking literally a 100 years later. We went from powered flight to flying in orbit in less time, think about that.

Is it a compelling weapons concept? Of course it is, you don't need explosives to shoot things that is pretty huge. Are wars bad? Of course they are.

That said, the concept has been around for a hundred years, so people are going to work on making a practical weapon out of it. Which means that at some point its going to be a component of a military action. And not having one of your own, will change the calculus of what you can and cannot do.
Shitty pedestrians make shitty drivers and vise versa. Sounds pretty reasonable and obvious to me.
Except that diesel emissions kill city residents.
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> Am I supposed to celebrate the spending of untold billions on an unnecessary weapon of death ....

It'd be wonderful if it were indeed unnecessary. But the human species evolved in an environment where it was adaptive to seek power and dominance. Many individuals, groups, and nations still engage in that quest — even though in time it could lead to a very bad outcome (and might explain the Fermi Paradox [0]).

We could, of course, accept that others will achieve superior weaponry and that in due course we'll surrender to them. That doesn't sound so appealing. Unfortunately, the only practicable alternative, at least for now, appears to be to continue to compete in the arms race. It'd doubly unfortunate because there are so many more-constructive things that we'd prefer to spend the money on — if we had the choice.

EDIT: An analogy: I live in Houston, very near the Texas Gulf Coast. It'd be great if we didn't have to spend so much money on hurricane- and flood preparation; it's easy to think of better uses for that money. But if we didn't spend the money on hurricane- and flood prep, then we'd risk losing much of what we do have, to forces over which we have no control (at least not in the near term).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
Humanity shouldn't do anything.

The simplest solution to both of your problems on a societal level is assisted suicide.

It's not the solution, it's a solution, that many people would take.
I am not foolish enough to predict the future, nor what said future will demand of us. Two nuclear weapons ended World War 2. Seconded guessing hard decisions is a privilege of existing in the future after those decisions were made, a privilege that one might not otherwise have had.

Do you feel better about using a nuclear weapon over a chemical weapon? Why or why not? Once death is assured, we’re just arguing time and the experience.

War in general is terrible and merciless, and should be avoided at all costs. I can be a pacifist but still want to pull out all of the stops when the devil comes knocking.
> Now I've come full circle. I'm back to your approach, but I play more defensively. People likely have a reason for being malicious that is out of their control. I don't need to judge them, but I do need to protect myself and my loved ones.

Yeah, if I get killed by someone who was not malicious, I'm just as dead as if I get killed by someone who was. To use the aggressive driver example: I don't need to be angered or insulted by someone cutting me off, but if I end up near them down the road, I'm going to try to change lanes or otherwise try to not end up near them.

I think the main thing is to not be angered by the (assumed) maliciousness. I've seen people generate a lot of anger because they assume every slight is intentionally aimed at them: they cut me off just to piss me off; they didn't wave back because they hate me &c.
I agree with you on all counts. I suppose I was thinking more of the Uncle Bob's and similar consultants' school of thought. If I dig deeper, it's not true that even this small subset has triumphed in the industry, either -- I know plenty of places where they don't even write tests. A few years ago, a software department in a major US-based oil company "discovered" unit testing and introduced it in a workshop as a big deal (note: they weren't practicing it, just talking about it, in its most bare-bones "hey, look this thing I found!" sort of way). In this context, literate programming is a pipe dream.

I suppose I should amend my statement to: "this view has triumphed in the blogs, articles and papers that some programmers like to read, and self-styled gurus like to write, if not actually practice" :)
> If your browsing history can juice CTR prediction then I’ve never seen it. I have seen careers premised on that idea, but I’ve never seen it work.

Isn't demographic targeting exactly that, based on your browsing history? Will showing an ad for a car wash have the same CTR for people that liked car products as for people that did not like car products? Or is your point that it still has to be a human that inputs "this is about car things, please show it to people that like car things" and it's not a magic AI that optimizes it automatically? And in that case: isn't that just a matter of time? Build the profile today, build the tech that uses it tomorrow?
Pedestrian deaths are at a record low in NYC due to Vision Zero. Talk about bucking the trend.
However, I’m concerned that the data also allows them to see that I am 93% more likely to vote for a certain political candidate, 22% more likely to contract a chronic disease in the next ten years, and 16% more likely that I will have a friend that homosexual.
The belief these days is that when someone does something wrong everyone must shun them and not do business with them. Her website didn't have to use Google services as there are many alternatives.
cisco umbrella does not like this site.
To my ears, the track of the first video sounds like a royalty free copycat of Hans Zimmer's Pirate of the Caribbean soundtrack.

In the context of a new canon to be installed on the Navy's ships I think it fits pretty well. It does not sound nationalistic or over the top to me.

The other videos are on personal channels so they are inconsequential.
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You didn’t address my argument and unless you’ve been on more comp committees than me then I would annotate that as sources needed.
http://archive.is/Dr07t
I don't see the difference. Rap music seems to go hand in hand with the subculture. If it wasn't glamorized, I doubt it'd exist, at least to the degree it does. Same with punk. If the punk lifestyle was not glamorized through the music, then the punk subculture would not exist.

My point is that it is racist to not hold all people to the same moral standard, because in effect we are saying those we do not hold accountable are not capable.
I would love to dive a little deeper on these strategies. How can I reach out?
I think this is the essential problem. We don't know how to collaborate with one another as we always have just the one role...
I use extensions like "Reader View" to get around the wall. If you click it quickly enough after the page loads you can usually catch the full article. Doesn't work everywhere, though.

Outline doesn't work with NYTimes anymore either, it appears.
I know in pretty nearly all the domains I've worked, discrete packets of data will use regexp directly.

If we are using something more 'grep'-like, it's for large quantities of data, and in many cases we could treat these as a stream. So as long as the bandwidth to the GPU is sufficient, a little stall at the beginning would represent an undue hardship, if the results come back faster.
> Could Whatsapp and Discord have grown at the same pace while using Java/C#?

Arguably, yes. The JVM and .NET CLR are both superior platforms when it comes to performance. They also both offer actor models with supervision (e.g. Akka/Akka.NET).
Is a gas tax really regressive? (asking not because I don't believe it, but because I've never seen this idea stated before). I can see how it's more likely to be regressive among car-owning lower income people (who devote a larger portion of their income to gas, and would therefore be disproportionately affected).

But lower-income people are also less likely to own a car. Even among those who do, they're more likely to moderate their gas usage, more likely to find ways to carpool, and more likely to find the fuel savings of a smaller car to be compelling.
You seem to keep re-thinking, re-branding and re-posting the same idea, and I still have the same feedback -- who are these people reviewing the site? Do they have any experience that makes their reviews any better than anyone else I could talk to? Or is this just crowd-sourced out to the general public?
> 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.

To flip this on its head though, writing (and following) a checklist for a process is perhaps a good first step to automating it.
I have the exact oposite experience. Building/packaging/maintainig my own software with RPMs is pretty straight foreward, whilst packaging the same software as .deb is a rollercoaster which often goes off track and down a deep hole.
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How about our friends and family? Should we configure a VPN for them too?

Btw the argument you just made applies to any form of surveillance or censorship. Just because your can still find functional VPN services for China, is China's great firewall OK?

And what happens when web services start blocking VPNs?

Netflix does it quite successfully. And I'm sure Cloudflare could provide such a service for free.
Absolutely. Its a blast and a great way to meet other technical minded folk or aren't necessarily the same you'd run into just doing programming type stuff.