skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>How can the NHTSA create a safety score regarding risk of injury, and then say that you can't use it to make a statement about the risk of injury?

Government is highly averse to saying or doing anything that could possibly come back to bite them (with exceptions beyond the scope of this comment) hence they will compile stats but are non-committal about drawing any conclusions from or interpreting those stats.
> since Lockerbie they’ll offload your bags if you’re not on the flight.

Not in the US...

Even back in the 90s - just a few years after Lockerbie - we had some UK guests staying with us. We flew from Detroit to Vegas for a few days. They're luggage got put on a different plane, and ended up in LA. They were horrified and couldn't figure out why their luggage was on a flight they weren't on.

Doesn't seem to be a big concern in the US, as I've had my own luggage get on wrong flights at least twice in the past 5 years, and I don't actually fly all that much (2-3 flights a year max).
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Or Brave browser?
My reading comprehension is far from stellar, but I struggled to find any disingenuous statement that Tesla has made in this (specific) scenario.

1. NHTSA released data showing the Model 3 has the best score in their dataset.

2. Tesla happily publishes this to show off.

3. NHTSA gets grumpy.

4. (???)
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Paraphrasing doctor Malcolm: "Your software developers were so preoccupied on whether they could, they didn't stop and ask if they should"
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Tell that to math and physics. They seem to be doing just fine.
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What tools could Oracle feasibly replace? I'm aware of their broader product line, but I mostly use IntelliJ. I can't see Oracle replacing IntelliJ anytime soon.
Because the large majority of users have no idea that there are alternatives, or are scared to switch because they are so locked into the whole google ecosystem.
So, basically NHTSA is threatening Tesla because NHTSA believe their own crash tests aren't good enough to base claims about risk of injury on? As in, "5 stars" means "5 stars" and not "low risk of injury"...
The difference is that Netflix depends on subscription revenue (and a ton of debt) to pay for content. Most of the content on Disney+ has already made millions from being in the movie theatre, home releases/VOD, etc.
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I had a flexidisc record glued to the back of a pack of frosties once, I had to carefully poke a hole in the centre.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexi_disc
as the article points out with intelligence usually comes complex social behaviour, which makes it much more stressful for those animals to be kept in captivity and under mass farming conditions.

The same doesn't necessarily apply to less intelligent animals which might be perfectly fine with their captive conditions and don't requrie as much attention, so I think the argument is perfectly defensible.
Given a choice it's better for the author to pay for typesetting because once they have, it can be distributed to readers for free.
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How well do Lidar systems work when there are 5, 10, 20, 50 cars with Lidar units all in a small area (like a busier intersection in my smallish town)?

I wonder if Musk has done some tests of this sort of scenario and that is what he is basing this judgment on?
> look at a list of the companies for the past few YC batches... there are some absolutely ridiculous ideas, most of these companies will fail miserably and would NEVER have been seeded during a recession

Out of curiosity, what is the problem with people trying "ridiculous' ideas? Airbnb and Uber were considered ridiculous at the time and look how that turned out. Sometimes ridiculous ideas can turn to fantastic companies that add economic value to the world. The opportunity cost of not chasing these ridiculous ideas is worse than otherwise if you ask me.
> a sufficient story about buying one

That's insane - that'd never happen. There's no way they can take that security and immigration risk. I bet they can't even do that if they want to - I'm sure governments need to know all travellers precisely.
Why do the well established and well known, successful researchers not boycott it? It could start a chain reaction.
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"Lets say the internet isn't around yet, and people still use the yellow pages."

People did use the yellow pages to find restaurants, but a better comparison to yelp might be Zagat's, which had restaurant reviews.
> True, but it is still false to say that more guns necessarily means more gun crime.

The research seems to indicate otherwise:

* https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jels.12219

* https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l542

* https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-an...

* https://www.nber.org/papers/w7967

* https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2018/handgun-purcha...

I think there is a point in diminishing returns--some gun control measure are more effective than others--but many places in the US have not even plucked the low-hanging fruit.
Classic website. The thing that gets me is that at this point, in 2019, there are so many users who have been using windows every day for 25 years, and have forgotten that eg Start -> All Programs exists. I truly don't understand how you can use a computer for that long and not learn basics like that.
I liked this gem:

>Tech Support: "Tech support. May I help you?"

>Customer: "Yes, my microwave isn't communicating with my computer correctly anymore. I'd like to bring in my microwave and my computer."

Sadly with IoT this may be a true case nowadays.

From - http://rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_misc.shtml
As someone who has been playing games for well over 25 years and who has a Vive, I DO think that VR is the future of gaming, just not in its current state. I think the biggest barrier is the price. The most affordable VR option is the Oculus Go at $200, but if you want to play actually decent content, you're better off going with either an Oculus Quest or a Vive. Even the base Vive model is currently $500. That's a lot to drop on a headset when there's such a lack of good content out there. And it's not even that the content we have available is necessarily bad... it's just short and gimmicky.

If VR is to be the future of gaming, some serious strides need to be made in making it easier to put together a VR experience that isn't just a 30-minute demo. I can name on one hand the number of VR titles I've played that have more than a couple hours of original, worthwhile content.

Another argument to be made is that Oculus is the more well-known VR headset among the general gaming market because it was the first, and being that Facebook owns it, and with all the recently scandals... why would you want to own a device managed by Facebook? Maybe it's just me, but it's bad enough having a profile -- I don't want hardware made by them anywhere near my apartment.

If we can knock down the price of VR and get some better games, I absolutely believe it would explode in popularity.
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Playing Exile 2 is exactly why I want to run 16 bit applications. I basically learned English from that game! I remember being frustrated being locked into the shareware version by Shareware Barriers, figuring out how to edit maps by using Norton Disk Edit on the game files, and digging new tunnels into the cave wall. I was about 12 and I still consider this my greatest hacking achievement...
You're young, hard working, and have a lot of life to look forward to. You're seeking to make a difference. All really great things.

I relate to your disdain of capitalism and materialism, but those operating conditions aren't going away no matter what you do. Collectively people will continue to seek wealth, fame, and power even if you as an individual do not. While capitalism sucks at valuation of human life that is not currently economically productive, it has outlived other economic systems for a reason.

Something the resonated with me a lot is "Elon Musk's Secret Sauce." It's a long blog post but goes through how Musk operates differently from most people, and seems to have pushed many positive changes forward several years / decades through his companies.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/11/the-cook-and-the-chef-musks-s...
Does the ubuntu kernel also comes with the patch that enables vectorized cpu extensions/AVX/AES-NI for zfs these days? https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NixOS-Li...
Striking electron microscope pictures from inside the brains of mice suggest what happens in our own brain every day: Our synapses – the junctions between nerve cells – grow strong and large during the stimulation of daytime, then shrink by nearly 20 percent while we sleep, creating room for more growth and learning the next day.

https://neurosciencenews.com/sleep-brain-reset-6047/

Sleep Shrinks the Brain--and That's a Good Thing

Without a nighttime reset, synapses could burn out like an outlet with too many appliances plugged in

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sleep-shrinks-the...

The sleeping and the anesthetized mice had a 60% increase in the volume of fluid, apparently because brain cells actually shrink to allow more space in the channels. When the researchers woke the mice up, the flow of fluid into the brain abruptly slowed.

http://m.nautil.us/blog/sleep-when-brain-cells-shrink--neuro...
I examined Union-Find in more detail and found the critical flaw in my description that you were pointing too. Unfortunately, I forgot about it and had a simplified view of this data structure that focused on improving Find but neglected Union. The funny thing is that it was discussed, at times, at group job interviews that I participated as one of the interviewers, and we didn't go these deep to uncover that flaw :) (or, maybe, it was long ago enough for me to forget).

So, I've corrected the Union-Find example to be in line with proper presentation (https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~rs/AlgsDS07/01UnionFind.pdf) removing uf-add in the process. Thanks for the very valuable input.

Surely, that made the example not so bright (as we couldn't reduce everything to a constant-time version with very simple code), but I don't think that the example is inappropriate. It still remains quite simple from the code standpoint. Another reason I picked it was that it didn't require an explanation of any additional data-structure, even, an array, and all the information could be efficiently represented using structs. This still holds.
This fight really reminds me of conversation I had with my CEO.

Me: If we stop bitching and start the project to do X, in a couple of years we would be able to do X and the reason for bitching would become irrelevant

Him: You think it would take two years for them to fix it?

Me: I don't know, but I know that it would take us a year to do it ourselves without impacting the rest so in two years we should definitely solve this problem.

Him: Two years is a lot. We have other things that we would be doing

<two years later>

Him: It is so annoying this is still happening

Me: Remember how I said we should do it two years ago? Let's start it now. In two years we...

Him: You really think it will take two years to do it?

<repeat>

The reality is that Elsevier/T&F/Springer etc are providing service that no one bitching about them wants to do.

Journals are just a collection of papers, elected by EIC, produced and owned ( in case the copyright is transferred to the owners of the journal produced for free ) or just produced ( for a fee, in case copyright is not transferred ) and formatted and printed and hosted. EIC gets an honorarium, gets invited to the conferences, events, gets his or her name on a cred sheet, gets to be on panels, etc. for doing pretty much nothing. If the journal is not owned by Elsevier/T&F/Springer/etc the EIC has to a lot more -- especially for journals that have nearly no circulation that still publish 4-6 times a year.

UC and other organizations have more than enough resources to do it themselves. Sometimes they do. Those are called society journals. After a few years of running them societies typically sell them off ( sometimes for $1.00 ) to the likes of Elsevier/T&F/Springer etc. They do it because production is not sexy.
It's too bad this is being downvoted. It is exactly something Trump would say in a similar situation.
Elsevier currently has a margin of about 35%. That's a lot, and probably too much. But it also means they are spending 65% of revenue on something.

Elsevier have a lot of products/services other than just publishing journals that they're trying to push. I wouldn't be surprised in most that 65% went to fund those. I suspect even Elsevier sees the writing on the wall is using the massive profits from their publishing arm to try to bootstrap other revenue sources. It's not like the journal publishing side of the business has seen any massive technical improvements over the past decade.
rclone has a "mount" feature whereby you use FUSE to mount a filesystem which corresponds to a path in your remote share.
Victims are often criminals, and that is a paradox American policing can’t solve
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I haven't used Mendeley in a while. What did they change in it?
As long as you ignore the theme parks, ABC, ESPN, and the other movie studios under Disney. It’s also because Disney doesn’t screw up acquisitions like most companies do.
Yup. The right question to ask is "Why would the author not do it?"
Why would they when Israel doesn't recognize Palestine as a state? Why should anybody maintain that double standard least of all the people who are at the raw end of it.

Do you think that if they did recognize Israel then Israel would automatically return the favor and recognize a Palestinian state? Of course not.
I'm guessing they will keep WSL1 around for backwards compatibility for some time, currently you can convert installations between WSL1 and WSL2.
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This reminds me of the beautiful WITCH a.k.a the Harwell Dekatron which sits in the national museum of computing in the UK. It's sadly overshadowed by the much larger bletchley park museum that is just next door but it contains the original working COLOSSUS and other really early computing efforts. But the reason I love the WITCH is that all of it's memory is stored in decimal using dekatron memory, and it glows with numbers, allowing you to see the memory and registers being shifted around as it operated. Combining this with the awesome debug stepper that is literally a physical button to move onto the next cpu instruction or sub-instruction, and you can really get a sense for the early computer architecture and how ideas for CPU design came about.
None of them are cheap enough
Yeah, i never install it on Program Files myself, i always use a root level folder like C:\Steam (and a reason is UAC too, while Steam does more or less seem to bypass it, some patches and mods for older games do not always work that well if Steam is in Program FIles).
Your information about the composition of the moon is 30 years out of date. He3 would be mined from the cold traps in permanently shadowed craters at the north and south poles of the moon. There it exists in extremely high concentrations, alongside other useful volatiles that together make up 40% of the surface material by weight.

“Refining” is a process as simple as shoveling it into a pressure container, heating it, and then letting dissipatively cool back to ambient temperature, collecting the other volatiles as they condense out. What’s left is a mix of inert gasses, including He3.
No, you just don't understand the star system.

Stars are how well the car contains the passengers during an accident in a variety of situations. 5 stars does not mean "low risk of injury" at all. Infact, a 1 star Sterling box truck will probably cut a Tesla with a 5 star rating in half. Guess who's walking away almost 100% of the time?

The star rating is more a rating of how well the car holds together, prioritizes it's occupants, and the effectiveness of it's safety features. They mostly don't consider factors such as the mass of the vehicles involved or other important factors that become non-arbitrary as soon as you enter the real world.
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How dangerous or not dangerous is the Autopilot has nothing to do with that 5-star rating.
tl;dr:

- The bar had a vending machine for Bitcoin which the author used to convert Pesos into Bitcoin, but he couldn't pay his tab because it took two days for the Bitcoin to show up in his wallet.

- The bar's manager, a Bitcoin evangelist, could not really name any practical usecase for Bitcoin.
Ehhm, maybe to drive trains. One engine, one person. That might work. And their own tracks.
The linked page displays surprisingly well when visited with JS off, although it's ~10KB of article text embedded in 365KB of other (inline) crap. There's not even a nag to goad you into turning JS on.
I'm surprised by the mental gymnastics other commenters in this thread are displaying in order to avoid contemplating how tech can and should be held responsible for its own actions.

All the more reason to push for some form of professional ethics!
How does Steam capture the secure desktop that displays the UAC prompt?
>airlines can easily put more fuel in in a cheaper country.

Wouldn't you then end up using a lot of the fuel just carrying the extra fuel? This cost could negate the tax savings.
...And what you're forgetting is that thanks to Iron Dome, those rockets kill fewer people than, say, electric scooters in Tel Aviv. And that Gaza is subject to an economic blockade making it basically impossible to do, well, anything but be poor and angry: No fishing, no trade, unreliable electricity, not enough fuel, slow internet, etc.

That's not even mentioning the slow annexation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Israel is now officially rejecting a two-state solution, and they are obviously rejecting the idea of giving palestinians full citizenship (which would render jewish Israelis the minority). That implies, logically, that Israel is now denying Palestinians the perspective of any sort of democracy.

Violence against civilians is wrong. But it isn't unheard of in a struggle for self-determination. It's inexcusably wrong for (some) Palestinians to deny Israel's right to exist within the borders of '68. But the enormous power differential between the parties simply places the burden of taking the first step on Israel's shoulders.
I had a domain 2004-2006 for an online alias. I was in high school and it was just for fun. Not even valuable or interesting. I let it lapse intentionally, but then it was held by somebody for 10 years.

They finally dropped it in 2014 and someone else who had taken up the nickname registered it in 2016. I had mostly given up on the name anyway because I had collisions on a few services with 1 or 2 people using the same.

Seems so silly to hold a domain like that. Shit for traffic. Hosted only hobbyist/personal content (easily verifiable on archive.org). I certainly wasn't going to shell out anything even if I could find who was holding it. They did have a contact/interest form at some points during those 10 years, but I know there were times when there was nothing. I avoided contact because I expected showing interest in it would prolong their hold or just result in a stupid price. Just a dead domain.
“Quality educational content” is not a mass market. The cable channels that use to focus on educational content like TLC all moved into cheap reality TV.
That's a bit misleading. (Not deliberately, I'm sure.)

When Russell published the same result later, here's one thing he said: "The most important previous determination of the abundance of the elements by astrophysical means is that by Miss Payne, who determined, by Milne's method of marginal appearances, the relative abundance of eighteen of the most important elements." He shows Payne's figures and remarks on how gratifying it is that his numbers agree with hers, given that the methods used to obtain them are so different.

Payne's numbers that Russell compares against include the figure for hydrogen, and indeed that figure does appear in her thesis. So she didn't drop it entirely. What she did do was to add this sentence: "Although hydrogen and helium are manifestly very abundant in stellar atmospheres, the actual values derived from the estimates of marginal appearance are regarded as spurious."

So it's not that Russell suppressed Payne's research and then tried to claim it as his own. She asked him to look at her thesis. He said it was good but that he didn't believe the figure for the abundance of hydrogen. (Nor, I think, would many other astronomers at the time have done.) She published the thesis including her estimate of the abundance of hydrogen, but said that that's "regarded as spurious." Russell continued to work on this stuff (it was already a focus of his research, which is why she sent her thesis to him in the first place) and eventually the evidence became so overwhelming that he changed his mind; when he wrote up a paper presenting that evidence, he credited Payne with having got all the numbers right before he did. None of that seems very bad.

If it's true that Russell is typically credited with the discovery that stars are mostly hydrogen, then that's grossly unfair. I don't know how we could determine whether it's because of sexism or because at the time Russell was incredibly eminent and Payne was a new PhD. (Is it true? If I do a web search for <<henry norris russell discovered abundance hydrogen stars>>, which seems like if anything it should oversample claims that Russell made the discovery, almost all the resulting documents give credit to Payne. Maybe things on the web tend to be very recent and she's been less unfairly neglected lately?)
This seems like a rebrand on the International Fixed Calendar[1] proposed in 1902. The idea was to shorten every month down to 28 days create a 13th month, and have the last day of the year be an international "Year Day" holiday.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
I care deeply about both, though.
But you were okay supporting Netflix when they were funneling money to the same huge blob corporations?
I'd argue that if you don't engage them then that just bolsters them. If you go on Facebook and look at any post about this there will be hundreds if not thousands of comments spewing nonsense about climate change being fake. They all do that because they see other people doing it and absolutely no one challenging them. They feel like everyone is on their side because....that's what it looks like.
WSL is not a VM.
> Also, suggesting that someone from outside the US is more likely to give you unsatisfactory performance is simply racist.

The article's position is more nuanced than that.

It starts with the premise that good (whatever that means) programmers are expensive.

It proceeds to observation that companies would outsource to cut costs. It also makes another observation that Indian and post-Soviet programmers are cheap.

This observation conflicts with their premise: "good" programmers are expensive; therefore cheap programmers are likely not "good".

Whether this has any bearing on reality can perhaps be tested probabilistically, by examining whether there exists a negative correlation between the amount of money asked for a project and the "unsatisfactory performance" — if one can define what that means). If such a correlation exists, it will make this statement not a statement of personal attitude ("racism"), but a statement of likelihood.