skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So are "driving without seat belts", "buying a house in a flood plane without insurance", "smoking tobacco".

All 3 have been curbed quite dramatically with a combination of regulation, graduated penalties and education. Yes there are gaps in enforcement, and these behaviors haven't been completely eradicated of course -- but dramatically curbed, nonetheless.

There's no reason the same can't happen with the current (wildly excessive) habit of read meat consumption.
Effective action: ‘Expertise’, prediction and noise
> and they are now upset with another business model that found /their gap is actually well-covered by existing towing law/

FTFY
It's an extra check on the whole system with a known cost. People could voluntarily go on exchange trips to other countries when they have their elections. If foreign election monitors state that some places didn't have enough ballot boxes, then it will be more difficult to ignore that sort of problem as business as usual.
The latter is correct. The price per sq ft will be at parity during development. Then buyers will compete for the smaller units that replaced the SFH properties. $/sq-ft will rise and pass over to existing, neighboring SFHs.
Not that I am a Bird defender, but people dump things all of the time.

Go to the store, buy a bike, get a flat eventually, "screw it im chucking it in the field over there"

Now definitely the rate of people dumping rented bird scooters is higher than everything else, but the real issue is the behavior of riders for not at least trying to be tidy in storing the scooter.
I am not sure tbh, I don't know enough about the situation you speak of. The text of the amendment is pretty straightforward though, I would give it a read and it should be pretty clear what situations it would apply to!
Thats the equivalent of asking girls to dress unsexily to prevent harrassment/rape. Those farmers have a right to maintain their beautiful and appealing environments without having them messed with by tourists and other idiots.
Posted in response to the article about Square's promotion process (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20530046).

This blog does a great job making the case why "promoting as recognition for what you've already achieved" isn't the best or most equitable idea.
> it's honestly pathetic how this city is squandering their potential.

San Bruno is working exactly as intended:

It is maximizing the value increase of the home owners of the city. None of that potential is squandered.
I would assume if you dropped your cargo in water, putting it in rice should dry it out. Like your phone...
Sam’s lasers sells some refurbished HP laser interferometers on eBay (HP5517 head+the receivers). He has also worked with someone to supply open source software/counting electronics. My notes on the kit are here:

http://41j.com/blog/2017/02/hp-interferometer-notes/

You can often pick up the laser/receivers/optics quite cheap (few hundred USD). And then just use the software supplied by Sam. The Sam kit is tested which is nice (but it’s ~1000USD IIRC).

Interferometers as used on high end CNCs often.
Ive been curious, without knowing how to prove it or not, If social media/instagram is really a significant contributor to over tourism? I guess I have a hard believing its not coincidental.

People have always taken pictures around the world. But recently travel is becoming a lot cheaper, a lot safer, developing countries are developing so they are easier to get to, its easier to get to far corners of the world, chinese are traveling more, americans are pushing off buying homes and having kids until later in life leaving them free to travel. The world is just more populated now too.
So many performance problems I see with database writes are developers not understanding implicit transactions, they think transactions equate with more work and don't realize how much processing and disk writing can be saved by not having to update indexes on every insert. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen transactions reinvented with staging tables too. I suspect this contributes to a lot of the fear about indexes creating performance problems too.

IME if you've got less than 100GB of data (maybe more on SSD) then correctly using indexes, joins and transactions will solve 90+% of performance problems and most things will be quite snappy without much tuning.
Scott Kelly's Year in Space May Have Aged Him – But He's Mostly Fine
It doesn't have to be underwater to be either towable or self propelled. See the other comment about barges on the Mississippi for towing and SpaceX's "of course I still love you" (and friends) for self propelled.

Autonomous and underwater would be hard, radio doesn't travel well through water.
Intel says customers stockpiling chips on U.S.-China tension, hikes forecast
Under Prop 13, less than they cost.
Nope, only the scooter companies.
>A lot can change in that period. It's hard to imagine Hughes providing a "smoking gun".

I see it the opposite way: any forensic examination of the business lines in an IT-only operation can benefit greatly from institutional memory such as Hughes can provide and few if any other cooperators could. The "why" of business processes are often quickly obscured/lost by successive operations and if the company is a candidate for breakup, old decisions often speak to demarcations where business lines can be reasonably separated. Of course, the company's counsel would never admit to any reasonable theory of separation, so old execs are kind of essential to the examination.

>Note: As I understand it, anti-trust litigation isn't based on stuff a company did long ago, it is based a company having and abusing a commanding position. What does someone who left long ago know about this?

They know the why and all of the how and the when, which allows anyone interested in breaking up the company to put their fingers on the hidden fault lines buried by successive layers of years of "new normal" at the company.
There needs to be a new international law that classifies nations who deliberately destroy nature as "at war". The idea is simple: Wrecking your local environment is not a local action. It affects the entire planet and should be seen tantamount to war. This will likely pretty much put a lot of nations into the war section... Then negotiations can continue from there.

While military action is not feasible and in this case counterproductive, aggressive sanctions might help. Sanctioning these nations back into stone age if they don't change their course...

Right now, there is no accepted means to stop this from happening.
Unity, now valued at $6B, raising up to $525M
I'm no expert, but I don't think you've got two equivalent experiments there.

Imagine two spacecraft, one that is accelerating in intergalactic space, and another that is spiralling into a black hole, and is in fact already inside the event horizon. In both cases, a beam of light from outside the craft passes into one window and out another on the opposite side. The passengers of both craft can measure the path of the beam, and both discover that the beam is slightly bent. The amount of bending is the same in both cases, even though one is in a gravitational field and the other is accelerating under its own power. The degree of bending is proportional to the strength of that field and to the amount of acceleration, and neither passenger can tell from this experiment which circumstance they are in.

There are, of course, some differences. Inside the black hole, all paths end at the singularity. This means that the light beam is spiralling in towards the singularity just like the spacecraft, but at a different angle. Pretty neat, but the passenger on the ship can't tell that this is happening, because they can't catch up with the beam.
Thank you! I wish some conscious billionaires got together and bought up as much land as possible and titled it the local indigenous populations. Why is this not a thing yet?
If Intel hadn’t sold to Apple, they would have had to pay out severance packages to 2200 engineers, plus break costs on whatever ongoing contracts existed (leases etc). So the comparison isn’t +$1B against $0, more like +$1B against -$1B (or at least a decent fraction of that), with the costs growing every day that the negotiations continued and the likelihood of a sale to anyone else continuing to drop (from a very low base).
Anyone who's parked a car often in dense areas knows the distance between legal and illegal parking is as small as the width of the bumper you stuck into the fire lane.

GPS just can't help with that.
Drug traffickers use the same technique as receipts for drug drops: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20484197
I posit that if the service in question had been _really_ competent, they'd have let sleeping dogs lie and _not_ meddled with other governments. Pretty much the entire world is paying for their incompetence today.

Then again, incompetence is not absolute, and I guess you're lamenting the slide in competence (or the lack thereof, depending on how you look at it) of the service in question.
They asked for a program that generates music with AI, which this is.
The Stump That Didn’t Die
This post is from 2002. Was just a proposal that never took off? Is this something that was implemented and in active use? Trying to figure out if this is valuable information about how the Internet works or if it’s a curiosity/novelty of the painful long road to IPv6.
> From what I've read, it's thought that inside the event horizon, black holes are almost totally empty until you get to the singularity (or torus if it's spinning) at the center.

I can see how this could maybe be true for a black hole that never has anything fall into it after yourself, but for regular black holes that have things falling in regularly I think the situation would be pretty different. As you get closer to the event horizon, the rest of the universe appears to speed up. This means that as you get closer, the rate of objects / energy coming into the black hole past you and sometimes colliding into you will increase. You can imagine that at some point near the event horizon, every second, 100 years will pass for the rest of the universe, and 100 years worth of debris and light will enter into the black hole, some of it colliding with you. As soon as you reach the event horizon, an infinite amount of time's worth of debris and light will enter into the black hole, some of it colliding with you. From inside the black hole, it must look like everything that has ever fallen into the black hole in the history of the universe has fallen into it at the same instant. (And then I'm not entirely sure how black hole evaporation fits into this. I'd expect the perspective of someone going into a black hole must look like you immediately collide with everything that ever has and ever will fall into the black hole, and then instantly everything is obliterated into Hawking radiation.)
In most companies becoming an entry-level manager IS a step-down from staff engineer or equivalent in terms of compensation.
Is this the same process that doomed the supply rocket to Mark Watney in The Martian?
I could see unfavorable reviews but their existence now is obvious knockoffs. I'd expect them to invite those comparisons
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I'm interested in how you can combat bias in the product. Today we're plagued with the problem that our news sources are frequently working from a narrative, which I presume your product would source information from.
Section 2 Reporting to the FEC b) Reporting meetings with foreign governments or their agents doesn't specify who had to have initiated the meeting, only that a meeting took place.
The comment to which I was replying?
Top Exceptional Strongest Kids in the World – Universe LOL
Main discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20530813
I used to think photography was an interesting hobby, not for me, however.

Now, after the proliferation of cheap DSLRs I now think photography is the most obnoxious thing ever. Now ever asshole imagines themselves as a photographer and acts like a dick to get that one picture. I was out with a wannabe photographer friend and watched her climb over a safety barrier and dangerously close to the edge of a cliff in order to take a photo. I was shocked.

This one made me so sad: https://www.instagram.com/publiclandshateyou/p/Bu_qnY7hjhQ/?...
> there is a pretty serious firewall between search and ads

Is this a joke?
If you allow Social Justice Warrior like Jen Gennai to edit search results you are going to trigger people.
Google ML researcher blows whistle on political bias
So by not fishing at all in the protected 11% portion of their fishing area, they're projected to get more fish due to the spillover effect. Well, no surprises there.

We rarely ever do these economic projections.

They can apply to so many more areas, like the forests in Indonesia where they're discovering new antibiotic compounds in shrubs, or the spider habitats whose venom is used in producing heart medication, they're probably a lot more expensive than some lumber and cornfields.

I feel like if we communicated environmental protection more materialistically instead of emotionally, people would have an easier time convincing their politicians to actually enact it.

If we're gonna calculate 25-30 year mortgages for homes than we should probably do environmental risk projections too in dollar figures for those kinds of time frames.
I know you were making a point about food regulations, but in case you were actually wondering about the difference, this is what i've always known.

https://www.mrswages.com/the-difference-between-a-jelly-jam-...

>Jellies are made from fruit juice and sugar, most are cooked but there are some recipes for jellies that are refrigerated without cooking. Jellies are clear and should hold their shape yet be tender. The flavor should be a good fruit flavor with the right amount of sweetness.

>Jams are made by crushing fruit with sugar. Jams are usually thick and sweet but not as firm as jelly. Jams should be spreadable. Preserves, on the other hand, use whole small fruits or pieces of fruit in a gelled syrup. The pieces of fruit should be transparent to clear and the color should be characteristic of the fruit from which it is made.

>Conserves are a lot like jam but are made from combining fruit and sometimes raisins, nuts, and coconut.

>Marmalades are usually made of citrus fruits and contain pieces of the peel suspended in a transparent jelly.

>Fruit butter utilizes the pulp of the fruit, cooked with sugar into a thick spreadable mixture. Many fruit butters are enhanced by adding spices to them.

>Fruit honey and syrup are made when fruit juice and sugar is cooked to a thickened consistency that can be poured.
Yeah, though it's quite trivial to upload sample sets or tweak sounds in an editor (it uses Nova engine, similar to Ultranova/Mininova). Moreover, the knobs on the top allow some advanced tuning anyway, so even dull stock sounds can be made pretty cool. It's powered by 6 AAA batteries as well and has a speaker, so it's a pretty cool instrument for vacations and travel.
At the mean time, there are 7 GCP services currently under outage.
--A frustrated engineer
I don't think VSTs are a fair comparison to hardware synths. They may be used a lot in the studio but there's a very different niche for real synths and the gap is closing in the opposite direction lately.

It used to be you had a handful of audio units to emulate specific hardware synths. Now hardware is getting flexible enough to handle a lot of different flavors.
Just How Big Is Bag End? Let These Middle-Earth Cross Sections Lay It Out
1. And? This has nothing to do with anything I talked about you're just stating facts without a point.

2. If you're only looking at profits, then you're missing the entire point of running a business like Facebook, because that's not the point. The point is to increase shareholder value whether that's actual profit, or an increasing stock value. To only look at their profit, which can be easily manipulated with GAAP accounting, is pretty much negligence. Look at Amazon choosing to run in the red for decades...

3. Communism isn't a system of government. It's an economic system, that is to say a system for managing resources.

QED

P.S. One last thing, you work at Google, of course you're going to be against these fines or proposing them.
For what it's worth

- The supreme court is part of the government

- The government is empowered to change the constitution, including disbanding the supreme court.

- The vast majority of the time Congress passing an explicit law instead of an agency making some rules would satisfy the existing supreme court with the existing constitution anyways.
> they just need to produce visible value to the company

Many specialists don't get this opportunity and require certain character traits to go out of their way to make it known. If they maintain a key product but don't need to interface with group of people often, then they get ignored for "employee of the month" and other accolades that would translate into more clout
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_principle#The_Eins...

Note in particular the clarification of what "local" means in this context.
Companies had time to plan for the change in the law and pivot to other industries. I'm sure some of them just went underground, though.

Facebook can't go underground because most of their customers are businesses that need govt-sanctioned legitimacy and could be forced to stop buying ads from them (not the mention the challenges of reassembling their personnel/infra outside US control).

https://www.forbes.com/sites/katevinton/2015/11/04/how-brewe...
That's definitely not true. There is all kinds of information about me out in the world that does not appear in my equifax credit report.

The only thing that's in there outside of financial information is my name and a list of places I have lived.
When the Pi first came out I talked with a hardware engineer about it and he said they made some weird choices.

One thing he pointed out to me was the pin design. Everybody else would design it with female pins so that you won't accidentally bend the pins or short them out.

He loved the beaglebone though and recommended it.

That said, I think the pi has a bigger community and more software. (I might be wrong)
The quiet scheme saving thousands from ransomware
I've written the asynchronous programming 101 I had hoped to find
NYT yesterday:
"Mueller Hearings Present Make-or-Break Moment"

NYT today: TFA. We wondered what they were going to do in response to the dud that the hearings turned out to be. That confused old man learned more about his report than we did! MFW it seems possible they might actually talk about real problems rather than fairy tales...

People of good faith have been warning of the flaws in election infrastructure since long before Obama made his "of course the elections can't be rigged" comments [0]. There are lots of flaws with voting machines: closed source, no tangible verifiable records, confusing for voters, etc. There are lots of flaws with voting in general: voters removed for specious reasons, greater inconvenience for poor voters, one-party-two-heads, etc.

Actually now that I hear it again, what Obama had to say makes a lot of sense to me... how do the anonymous-yet-somehow-official sources account for this? Sure, someone could cheat in a small number of precincts, but if they try to affect a national election using a small number of precincts they're definitely going to inspire recounts. It's too bad that Congress won't pass Tulsi's bill that would require recountable paper records...

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcjaO2953os
Dennett's overall claim is that incompatiblists are making a category error when they say that determinism at the physical level precludes free will at the level of subjective experience. He argues that free will, and really any kind of freedom at all, emerges from the layers upon layers upon layers that make up the existence of what we call a living creature. (And that there are layers, or degrees, of freedom.)

I'm afraid I don't remember the exact contents of the Harris/Dennett debate; I should probably reread it myself. :)
Until the company is bought.
He is CEO of those companies exactly because of his above average ability to make those delusions reality, no matter how impossible people considered e.g. landing rocket stages. I'd prefer him to project more of a visionary image with less harmful/psychotic aspects, but you can only get humans as a complete package and I'd have a hard time coming up with people to replace him.
About the phone numbers? Not really how I read it. But that's just me - my impression from reading endless secure messenger HN threads is that both 'phone numbers' and 'federation' are ideological sideshows that have very little to do with the actual security and privacy properties of secure messengers.
We need to make it so cringe to behave like this that people will stop doing it naturally to distance themselves from those people. I already look down on people like this myself. People in the West do not utilize societal shaming enough I feel, so much focus on individuality that people are forced to tolerate that some people are terrible humans because otherwise they'll be on the side of NAZIS or whatever for wanting people to be civilized.

I think it's already trending that way, but the effects are slow to arrival.
>In fact it already _was_ abused against Trump. FISA warrants to spy on his campaign were obtained by misleading the FISA court with what we now know was fake evidence.

Source? Carter Page had a FISA warrant against him after he left the Trump campaign. And none of it was based on fake evidence. Sounds like you're just regurgitating Republican and Fox News talking points without any critical thinking.

>There's also a strong possibility that McConell wants voter ID, which is something the Democrats are strangely reluctant to introduce even though it's quite a popular thing to require

Republicans are strangely against giving voting IDs or state IDs for free to low income people. They also restrict early voting to make poor people choose between losing pay and voting, and are also against making election day a national holiday. They are also on record stating that the voter ID laws will help them win.
How is this different from, say, Google, except that Square is open and honest about it? After I got my offer from Google last year (that I rejected), my prospective manager told me that in order to get promoted (from L4 to L5 in this case) I would need to be operating at that next level for some period of time before my promo packet was even submitted, let alone the promotion come through.
Lessons from Snyk: Make smarter decisions about your application’s security
Extreme weather by climate change has damaged 45% of Australia’s coastal habitat
Yeah, it's the best when you can't take a day off because you haven't accrued it yet. I love dictating my life around arbitrary days in some HR system's log books.
I spent a week at Lake Louis in winter 2017. There was hardly anyone there, even around the Fairmont! Maybe 5 cars in the huge lot right by the water. Just a few dolts trying to take selfies in the middle of the frozen lake.

Shame that it's usually swamped but it makes sense, it's a beautiful area. Maybe try again in the winter?
Fair enough. They also don't slap a Trader Joes marque on the produce they resell.
Kurzweil is an interesting case. His predictions have been impressively wrong for the most part, yet he seems to refuse to admit it.
You are describing an extremely nutrient-rich food with no immediately apparent defence against predation. To the extent that it is difficult to understand how this could exist in the wild.

I suspect that this alga has some interesting and perhaps surprising defences, in line with its relatives. (And, that these may well impact on its taste)

For example, spirulina is said to be spiral because this allows it to spontaneously flee from approaching water fleas, with no active energy use: primarily depending on the laws of physics.