skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You know perfectly well that MS will fix it once the right people are in the case,

No, we don't know that. Companies that were deemed serious have been caught dragging and taking their time with no proof of progress whatsoever (just like in this case?). And think of the message it would send to other (supposedly non-serious) companies: "you've given more time to MS, why not me ? It's only fair".

Just like democracy, the P0 policy is the worst form of disclosure, except for all the others.

Also, please don't conflate this with EternalBlue, there's no remote component here.
In a recent thermometer there is no mercury anymore.
By recent i mean in the last few decades.
Sorry, I thaught we were talking about shitposters on 8chan.
Kevin was a typical nineties name: http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/naam/is/kevin

Home Alone came out in 1990.

Kevin does have some lingering association; the lower socio-economic class stigma is there, but not that strong. Keep in mind that for someone born in an Anglo-Saxon country, that stigma would not necessarily apply. It tends to be limited to Dutch-born folk.

Chantal on the other hand seems to carry a much stronger connotation of a lower class background.
Indeed it was. And it took until Windows NT and the various PC Unixes to properly utilize it. Windows 95/98/ME were ostensibly running in 32-bit protected mode, but apparently could switch back to the old non-protected 16-bit mode to run old applications and drivers, compromising stability of the entire system.
>They're completely obsessed with controlling their image and practicing their craft.

I'm sure textile workers said the same thing before their skill and craft was replaced by a machine. Every artist and artisan thinks they're irreplaceable. Currently, many programmers think theirs is the only industry that can't be automated because there's some magical golden juice in their minds that produces some creative and intellectual quality no machine will ever be able to replicate. Like textile workers of old, their time will come too.

As much as actors may want their work to be art, their work is also product. When it becomes possible to manufacture an acceptable equivalent product through automation, then artists of all stripes will simply have to adapt to the new terms of the market like everyone else, or find other work. No one is going to care about the effort an actor puts into their performance when it becomes feasible to pay a few dollars to stream Marlon Brando into the original Star Wars.
TBH it does. It seems like I generally have a more sensitive sense of smell than most people. It's annoying, because the result is: a lot more things have a bad smell for me.
And so let's assume it's the right thing to do, religious leaders and governments never fail.
> This is a great read.

It is not. I found it maddeningly superficial.

It talks about "crippling flaws in all three control mechanisms." but fails to provide any information whatsoever about what those flaws were and what effects they had.

The story about how the flaws were isolated and fixed is confined to a single sentence.

It is completely unclear how "Lesson 1: Indecision can thicken the fog of war" has anything at all to do with the faulty torpedoes. Why and how did "operational consequences of this startling strategic decision masked the true nature of the torpedo problem"?
Love it.

Congratulations on making the Web a more comfortable place for Delphi expats.
I wonder if asymmetric blades like in fans could work and if they would be any good for reducing the noise.
The logic behind "you were once a kid, you must want kids of your own" really escapes me.
I’m sorry to see you downvoted. Maybe the problem is you use “rest of the world” when you really mean other national governments? It is easy for people to loudly voice support, but the perspective you raised is quite valid for governments to consider. Which is why most government leaders (except e.g. the UK) do stay silent on this very topic.
This is already happening.

Very few new blogs and content websites are being set up.

All content is moving into apps and walled gardens. Part of the reason for that is that running a well researched blog will never pay for your time, so becomes a hobby thing, and most people are fine to use Facebook for that.
Yes, this is also serious threat. SEO and spamming affecting quality of search. Some years ago you could just type some scientific article's title and it would have popped up good references and maybe the pdf version. Even you could find complete books like that and a little of refinement. Now it's all spam, at least for the first pages.
The comment isn't downvoted. I'm sure it was when you commented, but this is why the guidelines ask us not to go on about downvotes; a downvoted state of a comment is often temporary, whereas comments it are permanent, and always uninteresting.
Water dams are not good for the eco system down stream. My country has close to 99% green electricity but a lot is from water power. Water power is not that green because the dams prevents the eco system down stream to function normally. Also fish can not reproduce because they need to be able to climb up and down the river which has dams which blocks movement.

Further the 99% green electricity is causing a lot of big clouds data centers to be located here. But the clouds run on water power.
That's an uncharitable interpretation.

Craigslist went through legal hell dealing with NSFW content because of puritanical US States Attorneys. See any remaining dating links on CL?

Matt doesn't need that either.
The question wasn't about how fast neutrinos can travel but whether we can detect something before we see it.
The key to long life for valve (tube) computers was never turning it off.
Very much appears to be a native ad to me.

Well done, LG.
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So they left it in the case? You'd have thought they'd at least dispose of it in the same way they do with bottles of water, even if they don't kick-up a fuss over it.
She caused a fire because she got distracted with Social Media.
As a parent I would also confiscate electronics and probably consider therapy at that point.
There isn't a single definition of empire in the dictionary that looks like something that would improve the situation of people living in those countries. Indeed there is an empire in that area of the world. It's called Russia. And speaking of empires, Russia isn't the only one. The U.S is an empire. Try to ask south Americans about it. We still live in an age of empires.
> No Thanks.

Right you are.

Do note that it works fine on my Ubuntu 18.04 machine with Intel graphics on the motherboard, in Firefox 68.
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They might come across the model as they are snooping around your personal data ‘for security’. This may actually be used as a new excuse to force you to log in!
I downloaded all the places data for the world while it was still free. In my jurisdiction, the data is considered owned by the place owners rather than Google, so I doubt they'll come after me.
You can access their monthly imagery for free by creating an account at planet.com. I use it to track the progress of infrastructure and other land development projects near me. You can also create time lapse animations of a particular area, which is a super fun way to watch a road or a highway being built.
Front end development is insane. Are there any other GUI implementations across any other industry (native, embedded etc) that has to implement this level of granularity and optimisation to make meaningful and responsive UIs?

As a developer I don’t want to have to optimise my code based on the first meaningful paint, I don’t want to have to piss around to optimise my code based on when the browser determines it needs to redraw and I don’t want to have to understand how a browser rendering engine works and why. Does nobody else realise this is insane levels of micro-optimisation? I used to think being a front end developer only was a silly role as the skills are easily learned. Now it’s so complicated, the top front end engineers should be getting paid the same salaries as senior backend.
Couches are so 90's ... creative thinking needs beanbags.
What seems to work for me is alternating between a mouse and a trackball when at home, or when my hands start to ache.

It doesn't happen much any more, but I tend to use a trackball at home and a mouse at work, and my wrists feel fine. When they don't, I can use a trackball at work, or a mouse at home.
The wikipedia article cites three problems: wrong depth setting (caused by the test warheads being lighter than the real ones); over-sensitive magnetic detonators and under-sensitive contact detonators.

It also cites inadequate testing because the torpedoes were too expensive.
The Internet of Shit to the rescue.
I'm sure they are aware of how this is going to end.
Yeah... this is sort of a dangerous idea, constant but "restrained" (like in "let's be gentlemen and don't kill millions or hundreds-of-thousands, instead mostly keep it up to tens-of-thousands") interstate conflict was probably the catalyst for the rapid advances of European culture and civilization. EU needs to catalyze internal economic competition/warfare as a replacement of violent conflict imo, we're too addicted to some kind of violence to just go dry on it, so we need to move most of this violence into economy, culture, education etc.
> The Mark 14 torpedo cost more than $10,000 in an era when a new car cost $700.

It was too expensive for live testing.
This is very misleading. In fact, neutrinos are not going faster than speed of light (c), they are going faster than photons that are emitted from the supernova.

Not just that, but lights when it passes through a medium slows down depending on it's refractive index (speed of light in water is about 225 000km/h while in vacuum it's 300 000km/h). This is important distinction as recently we had an uproar when it looked like neutrinos are slightly faster than c (in the end, it was a measurement error).

You can observe effects of particles going faster than speed of light in a medium if you look at photographs of Cherenkov radiation.
But aren't all those cases where the status of the city is unclear? Have I missed some news about Shenzhen?
This is the case not only for laptops. I was renting a place a few years back and the on/off button on my electric heater broke. A technician came in, brought a new heater and replaced it. I asked him why not repair something that seemed like a completely trivial fix. The answer was that the unit costs about 100€ whereas any technician would bill way more for the short time it would take to open it up, fish out the connector and replace the part. So to the landfill it goes.
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Also reduces thrust.
Its possible to exceed the local speed of light in many classes of material.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation
same. being named kevin is a hard life in germany, but sometimes i can't help but wonder if it actually benefited me in some way. it tought me a great lesson about people being spiteful without realising it, just because it's been established by the social environment that you live in. while some people are just consciously being dickheads, others might have this negative stigma associated with the name Kevin without ever meeting a person named Kevin. to me this is fascinating and in my opionion extends in some ways to people being racist or homophobic without ever meeting people of the "other group".
Yet Blazing Saddles used epithets and parody as weapons against racism, ultimately, with all races unifying to fight the racists and building a new town together.
I think there's more to this... Google use lots of fancy Natural Language Processing stuff to extract that data, and unless the wording was very tortuous, I doubt it could make such a big mistake by chance.
> they even scale well on Linux to all but the absolute most demanding workloads

What about the stack size? I guess the default is about 4 MB, compared to a few kB in Erlang or Rust. This implies a virtual memory usage 100x or 1000x higher. I understand the unused virtual pages in each stack will never be mapped to physical memory, but isn't this putting a lot of pressure on the virtual memory system? I'd be curious to read a real world benchmark on this topic.
> Then we found out working full time and raising a 6 day old is impossible. So we said "OK you can go watch your kid a tiny bit and not get fired". And here we are.

Employer-wise, pregnancies are a loss. You have one skilled worker parked for 1,2, or 3 years. You have to hire and train from scratch a replacement. You risk, basically.
>There is almost no survivable failure mode with that design.

Parachute?
I guess this is a good time to remind people about "Nick" (real name Carl Beech), a fantasist who caused a huge investigation by describing a high profile paedophile ring involving generals, MPs, etc. He claimed criminal injuries compensation. Police described his accusations as "credible and true" (a remarkable comment from people who are supposed to hold open the possibility that complainants may be lying). This led to public accusations of high profile people, a multi-million pound investigation, and huge amounts of publicity about this paedophile ring. Beech claimed several thousands of pounds in criminal injuries compensation.

Except it never happened. There was one paedophile involved, and it was Carl Beech himself.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/22/how-nick-the...

This shows the kind of hysteria that attaches to stories about high profile paedophiles.

Epstein was a monster. But that doesn't mean anyone who associated with Epstein is a monster.

Also, fuck the Daily Mail.
Seems the opposite is more true, i.e. "how healthcare is changing big data". Also I don't see doctors becoming "just as good with data-crunching as they are with medicine" because doctors don't have time and probably don't care as much as perhaps a new role of "healthcare technology data scientist" would
Yes, according to the narrative of the article. However, a good part of that narrative seems to have been provided by Taylor. Some of this may be verifiable (e.g. the 911 calls), but other parts may not be (e.g. the security camera footage has no audio).

And it appears the associates only went on record after the first trial.
All governments are oppressive to _someone_. Israel looks oppressive to the Palestinians, and yet it's democratic. I don't see how the Roman Empire under Marcus Aurelius was any more tyrannical.

Autocracy != tyranny.

Anyway, I merely linked examples of good leaders. It's weird to view a historical factual observation as a kind of defence of/desire for that political structure. The context in the Roman Empire was totally different from the world as it is today, of course I'd prefer democracy.
Google is good at dating undated content. They keep track of the first time they've ever seen a bit of text, and assume it was composed then, even if it later gets copied to other sites.
I don't think you'd be doing many cryptography operations on a CPU that brutally slow.
From what I have read and seen a drone with only 4 props has almost no chance of recovery if one prop fails. This is also why drones for high end expensive video have six or eight props to prevent a catastrophic failure resulting in loss of equipment.
It's called anthropogenic clouds, and it's possible but requires certain weather conditions to work: you need a source of water vapor that can saturate the air, and a stream of cold air to condensate that vapor. Then it's possible to launch particles into the air that would act as cloud condensation nucleus, and in theory it should start the cloud formation. Anyway, to hide a small area much easier solution would be to have a lot of smoke, or to artificially generate fog which is much easier to do than clouds...
> Switching this computer to using a simple battery like the Dell XPS 13 is using means sacrificing a significant amount of battery capacity.

The point was, that despite getting rid of the single rectangular battery Macbook Air is neither thinner, nor lighter, nor more powerful, nor longer lasting on battery than Dell XPS 13.
This is the first time I heard that about the name Kevin! I've heard a similar stereotype about "Chad" though.
As I wrote, I live in a large apartment building with a large hoa. I just cannot put panels on the roof myself, the hoa needs to agree.

Our plan was to use the maintenance fund to fund the panels. Money from the fund is not needed for the next 10 years, when the bitumen roof will need to be replaced. By that time the panels should have returned on its investment. Now let's say the laws will change and the panels will not return their investment, then all of a sudden everyone needs to put in a few k for replacing the roof, which, most of my fellow residents don't have.

About me: If I would have to choice to buy panels which will not return on it's investment, I'd probably spend the money on an electric car, solar thermal collector, heat pump, insulation, shower heat ex-changer or anything else which has a better roi.
Hope for the best and prepare for the worst?
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The sourcing could definitely be better. The values smell about right to me (I've been exploring this space for a few years), and spot checks suggest they're reasonable.

Alternative sourcing:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/embodied-en...

(Hits: timber, recycled and stainless steel, aluminium, glass, plastics.)

Enough so that I'd be inclined to believe the values. Low Tech Magazine is generally reliable in my experience.
> But quite frankly, those with limited access to contraception and the work-shy will procreate anyway, whether the state boosts their income or not.
> Those with mortgages and careers and high IQ will not. Not that IQ is necessarily genetic, but it does tend to run in families.

I find all of this Neo-Malthusian. There's abundant data showing that the more educated is a population, the less kids per capita they produce. This does not mean that the uneducated or poor shouldn't reproduce.

> And parents with babies dying in the streets is the worst solution morally (and hygienically).

Oh come on, that's not what is going to happen if we lift the monthly baby cheque.
Wow, what word smithing. Goosebumps.
I wrote one blog post that became a top post here on HN (2nd top post with over 500 points and 100 comments) [1].

My blog can be found here [2] ... I write about ... all kinds of stuff but mainly technology, data science, and stuff ... I'd like to write more about management and leadership but I feel like I lack the credibility to talk about it.

[1] https://www.janmeppe.com/blog/regex-for-noobs/

[2] https://www.janmeppe.com
Don't blame the community for pushing maintainers towards burnout. Blame the folks who make maintenance needlessly necessary, by doing things like pushing for systemic tooling reforms that only serve big company use-cases, or the ones who create license drama. If it weren't for them, then works contributed to the open source commons wouldn't need maintenance any more than the Super Mario Bros. ROM needs to be maintained.
From a previous discussion in the spirit of your comment,
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There were some limitations with systems of that era that a design reboot should overcome: security, access to tcpip.
There's the modern news-cycle axis, where Google can and should devote full-time engineers.

But the long tail is important too. It's fixed now (yay) but for years you could search for "calories in corn" and Google would confidently present an answer 5x the true value, scraped from a site with profoundly wrong information. As Google moves to present more direct answers and fewer links, this risk increases.

It looks like they have backed off on the direct answers somewhat which is good news.
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I was pleasantly surprised by AMS' comparatively lax security procedures. But I flew into Dubai and my connecting flight had an additional security checkpoint at the gate so I couldn't bring my full water bottle onto an 11 hour connection.
Gather the good stuff while energy is still cheap!
The list is specifying clearly what the derived energy values are for. Not that they're necessarily typical (though I suspect these are).

There's a tremendous variability to industrial processes and material utilisation, including virgin vs. recycled materials. Listing from among options may help clarify engineering / manufacturing / consumption values and choices.
The underlying rock is fine, the delicately balanced ecosystems and atmosphere sitting on top - they're fucked.
As European I wonder if you really need a/c in Silicon Valley? I've never been there but from weather averages it seems that the climate is comparable with Paris where a/c's are absolutely not common. Even in more southern cities like Barcelona many people don't use a/c.
TIL. Very interesting.
> I do not refute the idea that polices are violent at the beginning, after all, that's what they are hired to do.

I had extended family in law enforcement, and my brother is studying to become a police officer. They would be very offended to hear that police are hired to be violent. They're hired to enforce justice. A Hong Kong citizen speaking their mind against the government to achieve change is absolutely within the bounds of Hong Kong justice, to violently break up assemblies aimed at changing government policy by voicing discontent is far removed from the principles police forces like the one in Hong Kong were founded on.

If they were deployed simply to be violent towards people who voice their opinion the government no longer functions within Hong Kong's basic law and they are no longer representing the people of Hong Kong. Just like the people of China has done multiple times towards rulers who don't represent them, the people of Hong Kong fought back.
It's also worth nothing that the XPS has a 52Whr battery and the 2018 Air had a 50.3Whr battery. Although you probably get worse battery life with the XPS (config dependent maybe), you've stil got to hand it to Dell here.
I'm usually Russia-phobic, but would you rather live in Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan etc., or in Russia? And mega-states like U.S. and Canada and Australia clearly provide a decent standard of living and good wide labour market to thrive on for the people living in them...

And south American w.r.t. the U.S.: I'm really not that knowledgeable about geopolitics in this part of the world.
The only way there will be mass adoption/acceptance of flying cars will be if flight is completely automated. The thought of my neighbor landing on my house is all too vivid.
All of the US is remarkably violent. I'm comparing San Jose to cities in other countries. San Jose is more violent than London.
The beam would have to be godlike collimated to make any of the relevant velocities enough to take us trough it in a few hours.

Things that far away just don't move fast.