skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Norway houses architects of the Final Solution, both right and left.

They owe me money, and have absolutely no say into any debate until they pay.

They finance war criminals who kill undesirables, including Americans, to this day.

I should have gone radio silent after Hiroshima, and just kept dropping bomb, after bomb, after bomb, after bomb, after bomb.

That is how much the world has failed me.
>AWS is kinda unavoidable

And that shows the strength of one's resolve.
The other side of this is people paying a premium to subsidize other unsafe drivers.
Hotstar Breaks Record with 25.3M Concurrent Viewers
Solving Rubik’s Cube with Reinforcement Learning
I really like 3D touch for moving the cursor in text input fields.
Even though there's no good answers here, I still enjoyed reading this. It's as much about the process and the hype as it is about trying to answer yes/no. In the end he decides it's a maybe, and that's probably good enough for now. It's a fun little piece.
AI for People and Business Book Released
That’s a good point, but this article doesn’t talk about trade offs. What would the price be for all wind, or all solar, or all nuclear.

The headline is misleading and a much better article, to me, would be about what went into this decision and the timeline.

This is not the only plant feeding LA and should be a mixture of renewables and this plant.
Binary data, especially large sets, have nothing to do in git or, more generally, in source control.
Their level of automation is way to low for these days.

The hazardous work workers do, should not have been done in the first place.

Robotic or semi-auto wiring machines are everywhere in China. They also use zero tooling terminals where possible.
Only Sun can sparc Joy.
Not sure how it's today but 15 years ago at the university I went to, professors all made their own course books (sometimes in real textbook form, sometimes simply the bunch of slides they'd show during class, sometimes even just copied handwritten notes).

These were printed and bound (apparently some decades before that the binding had to be done by the students) at some local shop and we bought them as students for something between 7 to 25 or so euros each.

There were a few courses that recommended a particular actual real professionally printed book in addition but those were quite rare in fact, and usually an optional recommendation

This worked quite well by the way, we had a lot of material to study
Sure. You might also wanna check this:

PG community extensions - https://pgxn.org/

There are a lot of open-source or free extensions to make PG as a data platform rather than just a RDBMS.
Line by line.
I feel the same way. I loved that mouse, I was sad the day mine finally gave out.
It's instructive to look at why the ACLU went from supporting to not supporting the statute in RI:

Supporters of the bill included the Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Steven Brown, the ACLU chapter’s executive director, said the organization’s support was based on the “privacy values in not having these often very intimate types of calls just available to everybody in the public.”

But over the years, the interpretation of the law by the courts has been “problematic,” Brown said, because judges have denied access to 911 recordings even when they would serve the public interest. He said the ACLU would support adding a “good cause mechanism” in the law to allow for the release of 911 calls if it can be shown that there is an “important public service in knowing what’s in those calls.”
The speculation that Paul Le Roux (the developer of TrueCrypt's precursor E4M, and the suspected coauthor of TrueCrypt) is Satoshi Nakamoto has a long history, but ultimately many found that it was still unpersuasive.
Apollo was NASA’s biggest win – but its legacy is holding the agency back
I still question the idea that "peoples data" is very valuable. I think Amazon is paying $10 for the opportunity to pop up "Hey, buy this on Amazon instead!" ads when you browse other sites.
Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers are an incredibly powerful tool. I've in the past built a basic data warehouse for a distributed system by pulling in read slaves from assorted service's databases as FDW sources to a central Postgres instance, after which Postgres allows you to treat them all as one big database.
Every thread critical of tech now has cynical anti-media comments upvoted near the top, completely ignoring the substance of the article. Is that how afraid we have become of legitimate criticism?
Googlers haven’t realised yet that they have different leadership now. The open culture of discussing and opposing things that Google does is slowly degrading.
Esports org 100 Thieves raises $35M in Series B
I've seen plenty of factory installed electrical tape in engine bays of cars. It's not uncommon.

That being said the circumstances around the usage in the article are very different and just because electrical tape can be safe when used properly doesn't mean its safe in the case reported used at Tesla.
Also: I've noticed anecdotally that a lot of people, myself included, make decisions to reduce their misses, where it's usually better to maximize your hits.
It's biased to skills that make the creators of the tests (and their class/education/culture) appear best. Not necessarily the skills that "make a society advanced and competitive".

But even if they were the latter, that's no guarantee that they would be a good way of measuring intelligence.

If I keep you up and prevent you from sleeping for 5 days straight, and then give you an IQ test, I didn't test your intelligence in its actual potential. And if I pitted you against a well rested person, the IQ difference doesn't necessarily measure any real difference in intelligence.

Similarly, if one kid A is brought up in a nurturing family, loved, well fed, well treated medically, educated, surrounded by people reading books etc, compared to a kid B from a poor family, with absent parents working all the time, starving occasionally from lack of money, with no intellectual stimulation and role models, etc -- measuring their respective IQ doesn't tell you whether kid A is inherently smarter than B, nor does it tell that kid B is poorer because it has less IQ...
You need to prevent copy-paste compatibility with C like code, which is kind of possible with static analysers, but even then only over the source code you have access to, forbading any 3rd party libraries.

So unless you get the buy-in from the whole team, it hardly works across big projects.
$DAYJOB is about installing satellite equipment of all sorts.

It's very challenging to establish high-bandwidth satellite links from a helicopter due to the rotor blades. I'm guessing VHF is used to avoid line-of-sight transmission at an angle that can avoid the blades.

It's however quite possible to establish satellite links from fixed-wing aircraft. The speed is a direct function of available satellite bandwidth (ie. money).

BUT, high throughput satellite systems (HTS), are a relatively new marvel of technology and are very costly to retrofit on airplanes because no airplane maker will want to allow a new hole on the aircraft's body.

So I'm assuming the fixed-wing aircraft lacks the required satellite equipment (as well as broadcast-management equipment typically found in live-action-reporting trucks) hence the beaming back to trucks.
Same reason why they ran a coal plant for so long. As a non-Californian, I don’t pay too much attention but it just seems like NIMBY clashing with reality of needing power.
Google works like crazy to hire all of the smartest and the best people, but do they really need them? Billions and billions in shareholder value could be extracted by hiring a bunch of mid-tier Java programmers and having them farm Ad Words for the next decade, until the first competition shows up.
From these prices you need to add state registration fees ($100-$500), destination & doc fee ($1,200), and sales tax (0-10% depending on the state and city).
Good.

People like her have created a toxic work environment fostering an ideological monoculture, which led her employer to being investigated federally for discrimination and political interference.

People like that should be fired.
Ecuador Concluded That Assange Has Ties to Russian Intelligence
Make sure to let us know if you have any feedback after testing it out!

The Go standard library really helped handling all the different json file formats you might expect. (Like being a whole file table, or record per line)
Part of the reason the Magic Mouse was a miss in my mind was that the Magic Trackpad was so much better. For how awkward the magic mouse was at first, the magic trackpad felt natural at first touch.

I remember getting one at work, this was the only time I liked a product at work so much that I immediately picked one up before coming home.
Google is going to shoot itself in the foot over the long term with the type of decisions it has been making lately both against its users and against its employees.

I imagine that since the protests started they've already begun filtering out the people with a higher level of ethics in their interviews - but the new class of people they hire are not going to give them the same results in the long-term, especially if they are no the type of employees to question the addition or removal of a feature, etc, but just do as they are told. Google's current leaders are slowly but surely killing Google's spirit.
Ergonomically it is a disaster. I can’t think of a single product that embodies design over function more than this mouse.

All of Apples mouse designs have been absolute train wreaks since the horrible “puck” mouse on the original iMac.
That’s because the link submitted was from Bloomberg.

You think this wasn’t reported elsewhere?

e.g.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/16/20695964/google-protest-l...
nice article - thanks for sharing
> No one - not even NASA - realized the obvious at the time; the astronauts were never going to be human beings after their moon walks. They were going to be such and such who walked on the moon.

Some of this inability to foresee the impacts on the lives of these astronauts happened because going to the moon was so much bigger than anything that had been done before. But I wonder how much of the long-term impacts also stems from the fact that we stopped going any farther than a low earth orbit. At the time of Apollo, I think everyone assumed we would keep going to the moon, and soon go beyond the moon. I don't think anyone anticipated that there'd only be twelve moonwalkers as of 2019. If we going to the moon was as commonplace now as people anticipated in the late 60s and early 70s, Neil Armstrong's fame probably would have been a lot more bearable. We wouldn't have to constantly ask the same 12 people what it's like to stand on the moon.

Have you read MoonDust? It's a book about exactly what you described, what it was like for these men to try and build a life on earth after having walked on the moon. It comes up in most threads about Apollo this summer, and it's a great read.

https://www.amazon.com/Moondust-Search-Men-Fell-Earth/dp/152...
Livestream of Facebook's David Marcus Testifying Before US Senate on Libra
Of whom?
Ask HN: Why doesn't Safari support link prefetching?
See [0].

This feature has been around so long I'm assuming it must be a deliberate decision, but a quick search hasn't yielded any information.

[0] https://caniuse.com/#feat=link-rel-prefetch
Have you forgotten Alexander the Great given that there were empires like the British Empire on whom the sun never set? Or, Archimedes given that the screw is everywhere?

Did we forget the Illiad after Harry Potter came along?
Having switched to PC recently one of the few things I miss is the amazing magic mouse / mac drivers combo.
> literally a supercar for 55k~.

Sorry but this isn't accurate at all. It's an electric muscle car. It goes fast in a straight line and that's it. It can't corner, it can't sustain the acceleration for long periods of time due to overheating (which is completely reasonable - it wasn't designed for that), it's heavy as hell. It's just really really good at flooring it from a standstill or low speed, cruising, and highway acceleration (50 mph to 90 mph).

This isn't a knock on any Tesla, but they're grand tourers at best. Certainly not a supercar. You can't compare these with something that can actually corner at all.
Props for not being yet another C based tutorial. Quite interesting read.
A few weeks ago, I tested an app with 50 users from different backgrounds, affinities, abilities ... etc.

Towards the end, we realized the past 20 or so tests have been a waste of time. Issues and improvements that arose from the first 20sh tests kept repeating themselves throughout every remaining session.

This sure increases confidence in your data, but really when you're in an MVP stage or you don't have much funding, you're better off testing with around 15 to 20 people and fix the issues that they find, because most likely, those issues are in fact very problematic and deserve more priority. More users will just yield more granular bugs and issues that you can schedule for later.
> This is similar to court records, which are also default-public

It's hard for me to see how the trial of a rapist is similar to a rape victim calling for help.

The trial needs to be public so we can monitor the application of justice in the legal system.

The details of somebody's worst moments of their life needs to be public because...?

If I ever need to call 911, I want to only focus on getting help fast. But as it is, I also need to think about how I'll sound if this call is being played on the news or Twitter.
if those are his misses then I'd say he did a fantastic job. half of those I'd say weren't even misses. Loved the G4 cube, the hockey puck mouse, 3D Touch, and my Magic Mouse 2. But nothing gives me more anxiety than my AirPods, they always feel like they are falling out and occasionally do.
I got a bad feeling, if something is free, it's because it was unsafe.
Oh buddy...

https://www.ebay.com/b/Apple-Puck-Mouse/23160/bn_7023277587
Not even cynical, conspiratorial. Something's going around between a certain type of tech worker where all coverage of tech issues is framed as a conspiracy of old media against new media (as if new media doesn't own massive pieces of old media.)

I think it's to deal with the cognitive dissonance of working on things that are thought of by the majority of the public as bad, but without actually having to confront the specifics.
Well, more precisely, people who care about privacy more than price paying a premium to subsidize anyone with the opposite priority.

That only loosely correlates with driver safety, especially since a bad claims history has an independent impact on price.
The biggest miss that I remember that isn't on this list is the iPhone 4 antenna that wrapped around the device. If the user's hand got between the two sides, it would lose connectivity. Then Apple started selling those "bumpers" to keep the antenna working.
> Yet it was a simple mechanical invention. It would seem to require no brilliant inventive insight, and certainly no scientific background.

That's a seriously weak premise. A bicycle is more than a metal rod with wheels; it needs a good steering mechanism and driving mechanism, not to mention ergonomic seating mechanism. Humans have certainly had a lot of things in their blind spot which makes us wonder why it took so long, but bicycle isn't one of them. Eraser-butt-pencil, may be. Bicycle, certainly not.

Also, the sheer number of crazy models that happened in its evolution is a testament to the fact that a bicycle is anything but intuitive. Remember, it was an age where mechanical devices was a rage. It was sort of like the AI-ML of that era. There was a lot of activity by people of varying levels of expertise - from tinkerers to people who knew what they were doing to people who thought they knew what they were doing. Despite this it took that long.

So its absurd to start off with the said premise.

Points like material and manufacturing process are red herring IMO. This argument is backwards. What needed to be made was a prototype. The things mentioned would follow naturally. No one had to invent a "professional grade" machine at the word go. An example from software: HLL were not invented first and then OS were written in it, but OS were written first, and in the process people realized HLL would be more productive, and OS were rewritten in them.

The conclusion about cultural and economic factors also seems unconvincing. The only plausible reason could be the clout of horse carriage mafia or something like that which influenced the powers that be and stifled rival technologies.
That's mostly because said political base doesn't know where the power comes from until they hear about it. Check out stacked bar graph further down. LA is 30% renewable, 31% natural gas, 18% coal, and 21% something else in 2017.

So they're still getting 49% from fossil fuels.
Speaking as someone who exploits programs for fun...that would not be a good idea at all. Not aborting in the face of _obvious_ memory corruption means continuing onwards with the memory in some weird state which could cause much more serious problems later on. And, it makes an attacker’s job a lot easier if they don’t have to worry about triggering malloc’s checks while gradually corrupting your heap and taking control of the program through a memory error.
Many great people are hired not necessarily to move Google forward, but so that they don’t move a Google-competitor forward.
> until the first competition shows up

Their worry is that competition will be started by the people they've not hired and kept on the bench. I'd imagine a large amount of their top-level hiring is driven by taking minds off of the market, more than optimising their output.
This sounds really interesting, but I'm getting a bit confused trying to apply it to a simpler problem. Say I start with this recursive function to filter a list:

def my_filter_recursive(l, f):
if l:
x, *xs = l
if f(x):
return [x] + my_filter_recursive(xs, f)
else:
return my_filter_recursive(xs, f)
else:
return []

In Continuation Passing Style it becomes:

def my_filter_cps(l, f, kont):
if l:
x, *xs = l
if f(x):
my_filter_cps(xs, f, lambda y: kont([x] + y))
else:
my_filter_cps(xs, f, lambda y: kont(y))
else:
kont([])

Then I think with defunctionalisation it becomes:

def my_filter_defun(l, f, kont):
if l:
x, *xs = l
if f(x):
my_filter_defun(xs, f, KontAdd(x, kont))
else:
my_filter_defun(xs, f, KontSkip(kont))
else:
kont.apply([])

class KontAdd:
def __init__(self, var, kont):
self.var = var
self.kont = kont
def apply(self, acc):
self.kont.apply([self.var] + acc)

class KontSkip:
def __init__(self, kont):
self.kont = kont
def apply(self, acc):
self.kont.apply(acc)

class KontPrint:
def apply(self, acc):
print(acc)

Is that right? It seems that we've basically just moved the recursion from one place to another.
Privacy is a human right specified in the ICCPR article 17:

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/International_Covenant_on_C...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Covenant_on_Ci...
If it'd been on the edge I'd have probably used it plugged in all the time, because I've been trained by years and years of shitty battery-powered peripherals to plug them in any time I possibly can. Turns out it's totally fine and the battery lasts ~forever, and since I couldn't plug it in I didn't stress about it.
Good point, but I'm not sure this is a major reason. I've used wheeled luggage over long walking trips, and it's still a huge improvement, even if you have to lift it over some steps here and there. I would often wheel luggage from my place in SF to the Powell station, and you had to pick it up for a few short staircases but it was still great.
One of the advantages of using motorcycles is that they can get shots from in amongst the bikes, at more or less the same level as the riders. Maybe using drones would work, but if I were riding a professional cycle race I'm not sure how happy I'd be about having drones buzzing around at head level.
HIV’s genetic code adds to evidence of virus’ emergence in humans a century ago
As a googler, I say good. People like her have made going to work exhausting. Leave your politics at home and let me do my job in peace.
>Why can't the video-copters send direct to the fixed wing aircraft, or to the satellites?

For context, this is the sort of satellite truck you see used for live video broadcast of most sporting events.
It looks like it might be difficult to mount the same hardware on a helicopter.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BonJyZZBzBP/?igshid=16sn4ax1pq66...
This is great approach for hobbies (comparison with the pros can kill any joy in ex. drawing), or if you're independently rich. Unfortunately, in a job you ARE in a competition against other professionals in your field. If you're not competent enough, you will simply not get hired. So, it absolutely makes sense to compare - if only to find out that you're dangerously behind and maybe need to up your game.
Mass market car is 40,000 dollars.

That is luxury pricing to the rest of automotive industry.

It shows Tesla is held to a different standard.
> Everyone in the comments is acting like you're comitting a war crime, but the majority sees no problem with adblockers, which are pretty similiar, especially autoclicking ones.

They're not similar.

1) There is no paid alternative to ads I see in Firefox - eg., I can't pay to support the sites I consume, like I can with Spotify.

2) Spotify ads might track my music listening habits. Web ads track everything I visit in a web broswer.

3) Spotify ads do not attempt to exploit my browser privacy features to deanonymize me.
Chinese AI Firm Develops Dog Facial Recognition App
I wonder if you would please consider refraining from spamming this "stunningly" bad-faith and untruthful comment in several threads.
Problem is, with the fast paced nature of today's life you sometimes read a headline and MAYBE a tiny bit of extra info.

Too many news outlets are using clickbait headlines that sound like a big deal but isn't.
The Magic Mouse 2 is junk but not because of the location of the charge port or the touch scroll. It's because it got the fundamentals of good mice so bad—an unergonomic shape and abysmally high foot friction. There are obviously going to be people who love it, but for me it's embarrassingly bad compared to options made by Razer and others.

Yet their trackpad is the best in the entire industry. I've switched to the Magic Trackpad on my desktop and it's brilliant. The impetus to change was concern for some occasional RSI-like pain in my left-click finger, but now that I've been using it for a couple of years, I don't miss the traditional mouse at all.
As a little boy, I went through the usual astronaut phase. There was this brilliant TIME magazine photo book of the space program up to and including the then new space shuttle that I kept renewing from the library every time. I remember at the time, that those events of 10-15 years earlier felt like ancient history.

I didn't know or care about wars, cold or hot, or any dark side. To me America was that place where they had a meteor crater and they put men on the moon.

Decades later when I got to visit Kennedy Space Center, seeing the rocket garden, the actual vehicle assembly building, a real Saturn V rocket, the actual Apollo 14 command module (!!!) in real life was an emotional experience, like that 10 year old boy teleported back into me. I felt like running around, crying, laughing, I can't describe it.

We dumped the kids with their grand parents at that Disney thing that trip. I thought they would be bored, but I'm definitely taking them next time.
I thought this story had already been reported a month ago. But no, I was wrong, that was the other organizer of the Google Protests, Claire Stapleton:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jun/07/google-wa...

So to clarify, both of the female Google employees who lead/organized the protests have now left because they say they faced retaliation. That looks very bad for Google.