skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is pretty clear that the Indian Government rushed into this because this is what their Hindu-nationalistic base wants - subdue the only Muslim Indian majority state. However, just like their ill-fated demonetization policy from 2016, they haven't given a whole lot of thought to what happens the day after. How long will they keep these restrictions? How far are they prepared to go if there is a mass uprising?
We just got a new car; a Hyundai i30, kinda the opposite end of the market from the luxury brands. We had to pay a little extra for the safety pack (~$2k), but we have

- backup camera

- radar-guided "smart" cruise control (this is amazing!)

- lane-departure warning and active steering

- emergency braking

Our particular model doesn't have the blind-spot detection (as per parent post) or rear cross-traffic warning, even though the version just below it does (different factories, weird), but we preferred the better interior.
Why did they even buy it? It's been on life support for years:

https://mashable.com/2016/06/15/how-yahoo-derailed-tumblr/
As far as I can tell every groups holds these beliefs. I kind of wonder if holding / pretending to hold false beliefs is what holds groups together.

Something a informal as friends watching some sport often have lucky items or rituals that show up over time. The degree to which this is simply an in joke can change over time especially when groups grow.
It's almost as if this company was founded with the explicit mandate to maximize grift. I don't understand why any investor would get involved.
https://outline.com/AW7mde

Non paywall
Delta Facial Recognition,are the soft/hardware independently audited?
No, but lately, SV capitolism seems especially myopic. It seems we may be part of the problem more than the solution right now. Most startups would accept funding from satan himself at this point.

I don't want to watch the world burn, but a few IPOs in flames might be better for us in the long run. Pass the popcorn.
Organizing Frontend Projects
Just wonder if anyone here knows if the software and hardware running the machines are independently audited and/or open sourced?
What drugs are associated with the psytrance culture? I'm guessing LSD and psilocybin, but are there other more niche ones that are common?
"Don't buy We stock" is not a bad start. It requires some effort though as you may need to follow up on whether any funds you own are planning to purchase the stock.

It might be useful to have a "name and shame" list of funds which intend to buy into the IPO so investors can easily tell where they need to divest.
I wish fire alarms did this for half a second before blasting your tympanic membrane with an ear-splitting noise. Residential ones are bad enough, but the ones in offices are the worst.
Compared to how it manifests without HR constraints, boy it absolutely does. Are there examples of these bad behaviors in big companies? Sure, and that’s hardly the point.
Please fix your site- it breaks the back button. This looked interesting, but I immediately hate any site that breaks back-button functionality; and once I notice that I instantly assume either malicious intent or incompetence.

I get that it's a PWA, but can't the welcome page just be a regular page?
But don't you need to add in the employer+employee health insurance premium on top of the taxes for most Americans?
Freedom and security are at odds with each other, though.

If you’re free to own guns, you’re not free from someone else owning guns and shooting you with one.

If you’re free to drive a car, you’re not free from someone else who drives a car not running into you and killing you.

Sure, they will be punished for it, but the harm to you has already been done. You are not safe from it. It is an unlikely, but possible danger.

The only protection from guns and cars is universal disallowment of guns and cars and the immediate catching and ban of all people that begin the process of creating or thinking about guns or cars.

This example can be spread to almost anything that has any potential of harm at all.
Headline should have been "The sinister brutalism of shipping container architecture". I mean come on. Know your audience.
Fantastic this is sorely needed. React + Redux has so much boilerplate.
Nothing a little piece of black electrical tape won't solve.
>I wonder what happened to the concept of the garage startup that Silicon Valley's foundation is famous for?

Killed by housing costs and a mature industry.

Who can rent most of a house right out of school (HP), or bang around in their childhood home (Apple) in SV? Not only are the costs prohibitive, but most residents are from somewhere else, so no childhood home in existence anyway. Moving to SV is done to parachute in to the success that previous generations had to create for themselves.

Oversimplifying a bit, but the point is that both the economics and the demographics have swung way far away from "scrappy young geniuses" to "Ivy League careerists." It's almost a different universe, and would be completely distinct by now had Starbucks not been invented.
That's not what ethbro is saying.

If the money supply (times velocity) is X, and I print more money so that it's now 1.1X, if I spend the new 0.1X in a way that grows the economy by 10%, then printing the money wasn't inflationary. If I spend the 0.1X in ways that don't grow the economy, then it was inflationary.
I came from Zimbabwe, and the US is simply a rich third world country. oppression is the same, biased media as well which is polarized along political lines.
Add more fuel to the "write once, run anywhere" dumpster fire. Let's peek in there - I see C, C++, Java, JavaScript, stored procedures, wxWidgets, RubyMotion, GTK, QT, object oriented programming, functional programming, PhoneGap, React Native, Flutter, ... It is getting full in there.

What's that about the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result?

Sever side rendered HTML is the closest we've come, but that's not cool anymore.
Is there a specific list of the web features that are being restricted? I couldn't find it in the document, and to me pretty much any web feature could be used for fingerprinting. It would be good to have a roadmap for workarounds developers will need to implement to keep legitimate applications working on Webkit.
I would say that’s a valid insight and most Line Of business (LOB) apps can (and really should) be produced that way.

However, this approach usually doesn’t work for more “system” level products.

Check out Model-Driven Architecture [1]. Most likely you’ll be able to configure an MDA toolchain to generate the code you want

[1] MDA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-driven_architecture
> Neumann took out a much bigger loan from WeWork a few months ago. The company lent him $362 million in April at 2.89% interest to help him exercise options to buy stock. This month, Neumann repaid the debt by surrendering the shares back to the company. It’s not clear from the filing why these transactions happened.

Can anyone explain a possible motivation for doing this? It seems like it's a completely circular transaction, or is my fraudster-fu just not strong enough to see the upside?
Do I not own these cameras? I don't think they should be able to retroactively change this behavior.

As a consumer of 5 of these things I hate them glowing at me. Any sane person should simply assume that if a camera is aimed at you it is recording...
Market differentiation.

For instance, the base A-CLass (small/mid size sedan) sold in Germany has a 110hp engine and cloth seats, and very few standard features. Base price (w/o VAT) is ~$24,000US.

The base US A-Class has a 190HP engine, leather, more standard features, and starts at $32,500.
If it's the house I was watching, the amount of house infrastructure within the house cracked me up. A house in a house, full slab, plus the inevitable California fire suppression system. It wasn't even that cool looking.

But...I really liked the idea of the above ground septic drain field.
Would there be a web use-case here (i.e. converting shaders to webgl) for e.g upscaling map tiles?
Gilbert Strang is a delightful writer.

"What do you say to a thesis student you don't remember? In that position I suggest something
very short: 'Tell me more.' The most amazing part was his thesis topic. 'I am designing the filter
bank for MIT's entry in the HDTV competition.' Some days you can't lose, even if you deserve to."
Unless you need something very specific for the display UI. Try cordova (open source version of PhoneGap), and stuff like ionic, framework7.io, mithril.js will mostly get your most apps done needed while still sharing the code via JavaScript, HTML5/CSS. for anything native you can always write your own cordova-plugin if it doesn't already exist.
I'll stop drinking bottled (mostly mineral out of glass if you must know) water when the stuff out the spigot stops tasting like swimming pool water from all the chloramine. It's disgusting, and it didn't used to happen: chlorine worked just fine without making your water taste like the swimming pool.

There was absolutely no reason to switch to chloramine other than some chemical company greased a politician. And no I don't care about your goofy stats telling me it's "safe" (or dangerous for that matter, though I assume it probably ain't good for you) -it tastes like a goddamned swimming pool.
Could some of that be attributable to the other brands getting better?
>two major 100+ floor buildings are going up

Which buildings? According to this [1] there isn't a single building in London (completed, under construction, or even proposed) that is 100+ floors. The tallest building in London (The Shard) only has 80 floors and there are currently no buildings planned that would be taller.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_and_...
I find it plausible, because of my understanding of how revolutions happen. At the least, it's one view of things.

People who are really scraping to get by don't have the mental bandwidth to put time into revolution. You need people with spare time to organise to kick things off, and only then once you've started a movement you can get the masses on your side because you're offering an alternative.
I'd call myself an introvert, but I definitely get a bit awkward with silences in conversation, except when I'm with good friends.

When there's an extrovert dominating and thus no silence at all, I just get tired of listening.
Shutting down the internet in an effort to "keep the peace" is really dystopian: how do Indian citizens stand for it?
The reason is that in some trials of Delamanid, a rare but serious side effect called QT prolongation was uncovered. To monitor for this side effect, a patient needs to have regular EKGs done. Since Delamanid is not approved in many countries yet (including the US), Otsuka wants to eliminate even the smallest chance of a patient complication which could delay their approval process. So they call for full hospitalization while the patient is on the drug.

For brand new drugs that cure critical illnesses, the FDA has a compassionate use program (officially called Expanded Access) which allows drugs that are not fully approved yet to be used immediately by very ill patients. Otsuka requiring months of hospitalization to monitor for a rare side effect was just wrong and against the spirit of compassionate use access IMO. This side-effect is easily and cheaply monitored by regular EKGs at a local primary care doctor or urgent care clinic.
Parties that are motivated to do tracking on the web are very creative. Too creative to list every feature they could use. That said, our goal is to as much as possible remove tracking without removing capabilities for non-tracking use cases.
Sometimes CEOs who don't know better treat their corporation like a sole proprietorship. The company's money is "theirs," like a piggy bank. So I will guess stupidity rather than fraud.
It's not a self help book it's a story
He handed them to Project Veritas, which is maybe even more of a joke than he is. Have you actually read any of the documents are you relying on right wing media to interpret them for you?
I am not caught up on browser engines, but WebKit is mostly just Safari and iOS browsers right?
It's not just a backup camera, it's a stitched video from four cameras to create a "birds-eye view" of the "car" and its surroundings from overhead.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqbpqDZRd70
Actual link to the policy: https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention-policy/. One thing that I found interesting was these two quotes:

> Our current anti-tracking mitigations in WebKit are applied universally to all websites, or based on algorithmic, on-device classification.

> If a party attempts to circumvent our tracking prevention methods, we may add additional restrictions without prior notice. These restrictions may apply universally; to algorithmically classified targets; or to specific parties engaging in circumvention.

Is this trying to say that WebKit will now apply restrictions to specific parties that the project feels is circumventing tracking prevention? I'm all for these features, but only if they're applied evenly and in a clear way. The solution to circumvention should be mitigations against bypasses, not selective enforcement :/
Subjectively, temporal interpolation looks rather bizarre. I’m all in favor of using advanced upscaling techniques to recover lost information, but temporal interpolation adds information in that the artist never intended. I think the best approach is to have the display refresh rate be an integer multiple of the source content frame rate and duplicate frames.
My own observations of women around me seems to indicate as much. Many smaller purchases while I empty our accounts :)
WebKit is also used in a number of other places, such as GNOME Web and browsers for many consoles.
I wouldn't assume it went as planned. Seemed plausible they tried to lend him $362m to exercise his options, and then chickened out amid bad press.
Another tech ponzi scheme...
No, it specifically wasn't just porn; it was all adult content. Including anything about sex, including educational stuff.
If the stock goes up, he pockets the upside?
https://outline.com/yMydnH
The US is riddled with natural gas pipelines, most homes literally have a pipe in their backyard (or front yard) that is used for natural gas.
Which is why I said "I have no idea how to define this in legal terms".

I would bet money that something can be nailed down in terms of what percentage of time goes into it, what percentage of total income comes from it, and other hard measures like that, if you feel like surveying a few hundred self-described You-Tubers and a few hundred non-You-Tubers. That sure sounds like work I don't feel like doing, though.
Like capitalism?
> Take myself for example. I have had my IQ tested three times, and the lowest value was 147. I would say that objectively speaking I am not dumb. I must qualify this with the fact that I was a child all three times so there was a correction factor involved which would not apply now, so my IQ is probably lower today.

What you say is a great explanation, and makes sense, but then you go on about IQ as if it means something?
Yes the bugs are bad, would you like to hear more?
That's a good idea! I bet if someone were to develop a residential smoke detector that did that it would sell well. (Especially if it had other compelling features like a 10-year battery.)
>it’s an incredible window into how far things have changed in 40 years

It's also entertaining to see the aspects of conferences calls that have stayed the same or even gotten worse in the last 40 years :)
I would find this more compelling if i hadn't had a Mercedes written off because of their "smart" technology choices.

Apparently with their vehicles (in this case a C180/2004) the tensioner is power-dependent and requires the vehicle to be used somewhat frequently to work at all. This means that simply by not using the car for 4-5 months, my dad returning to it and turning it on for < 3 seconds resulted in the motor starting with the tensioner not working, resulting in timing chain failure which irreparably damaged the valves and motor to the extent the vehicle was written off.

I don't have much automotive expertise by any means, but my understanding is that tensioner design in other makes of car generally do not experience critical failure when presented with "being used seldomly".
The Navy spearheaded the JSF for both its CVN fleet and for the USMC. The JSF is not the first single engine Naval aircraft, and its engine is reliable enough that it's not an issue. People look at the tomcat and hornet and make up requirements that have never existed.

There is no such thing as "easy to change", you would have to redesign the aircraft from the ground up. You don't "navalize" an air force asset, you have the air force use Naval aircraft if you want dual use. The F22 is not and never will be a carrier aircraft.
For (b) isn't this the appeal of normal-order evaluation (or its related sibling lazy evaluation)? If there is a terminating reduction sequence lazy evaluation will find it, whereas eager evaluation will fail to find it.

Moreover the lambda calculus is confluent, so if you find the terminating reduction sequence, you're guaranteed all other terminating sequences end up with the same result.

So as long as your PL uses normal-form evaluation or lazy evaluation you can entirely realize any equivalences in the lambda calculus.
Hell yeah. Since deleting my FB account - and thereby being ostracised socially - I’ve spent a lot of my idle time thinking about what a decentralised, private-by-design, Facebook-like social network might look like. Is it feasible to host on-device? Does it need coordination or centralisation at all? How does privacy work? If central servers are required, can they be reliably funded? Can it be both ethical and profitable? How do we avoid consolidation of a decentralised design (cf RSS, SMTP)? How do we fund what needs to be done? Does such a network already exist? How do we know we can trust it? How do we promote it? I’ve got many more questions, particularly around ethics and sustainability, but that’s where I’ve been spending the few idle cycles that I have.
Worth reading, but boy is that font painful. Looks like one of the older bitmapped latex CM font?
Early macbooks tried to do something like this, but got it wrong. The camera unit had a bunch of pins, including a "STANDBY" pin which turns off the sensor, and they wired the green LED directly to the standby pin.

But then in 2013 some researchers figured out that actually the camera unit is an entire system-on-a-chip, with a configuration register accessible on an i2c bus, so they could write some malware which first re-configures the camera to ignore the standby signal, and then turn it on...

The paper notes that many camera units have a separate power connection for the CMOS sensor itself, which would be more secure. And I hope later-model macbooks have fixed it. But I guess this shows that it possible to get even seemingly bullet-proof solutions wrong.

https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36569

(As a more practical problem, I have also seen suggestions that it's possible to turn on the camera, take a photo, and turn it back off again too quick for the LED to be noticable, and if you do that several times per second you could capture low-frame-rate video without the green light, so even a hardware solution might not be perfectly secure.)
What Killed the Public Pay Phone? It Was More Than Mobile Phones
Not in every case...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harris_Simons
It's not, and I won't.

It's about having a safe community for self expression through sexual art. It's about a set of deeply regressive (American) cultural norms that stifle sexual expression and further marginalize non-normative individuals. It's about the death of a vibrant community that made people feel included and valued. It's about sex-positivity. It's about destigmatizing overt sexual expression.
Different audience, but Simulink?
> Jammu and Kashmir, an area of 12.5 million people that is claimed by both India and Pakistan

It would seem that India has the more practically demonstrable claim.
Carrier decks are not drone ships. People work on them, they conduct hundreds of launch & trap cycles per day.

It's absurd, as anyone who spent 9+ years on CVNs would know...
According to the person with the single largest imaginable reason to sugarcoat it, you mean. The numbers look terrible.

https://i.imgur.com/IyvL1bA.jpg
Neanderthals commonly suffered from surfer's ear
Yet another recent display of aggressive, excessive financial engineering. This is notable in WeWork’s case for being done in a pre-IPO startup, but is inflicted every day upon lesser known companies by legions of PE firms. This is late cycle business tactics - the relentless, desperate pull of any future value - real, imagined or invented - in to the present. The result of greed, hubris, and a decade of overly loose monetary policy. That this shameful IPO is coming to market is a sign the music is coming to a stop. Batten down the hatches.
That's just one argument. The flat-earth whatevertocallit has an answer for everything. This is what makes it so hilarious.

For example: If you are, from a truly objective perspective, firmly stuck with the idea that the earth must be round, you would have it no other way... then surely seeing objects that should be hidden behind the curvature means light must bend around the curve?

Its like person 1 arguing you cant look though glass, person 2 showing him a glass window then 1 argues woah! The picture travels around the window! Then the 3rd person argues the theory of transparent glass has now been refuted because we know the picture bends around it.
At least in most of the usa, wearing earplugs (or earbuds, headphones, etc) while operating a car, is illegal. Please check with your local PD to be safe. You may just be putting yourself and others at higher risk by attinuating your situational awareness.
All the cultish language around "raising the world's consciousness" is particularly bizarre. Like an episode of Silicon Valley made real.

Referring to a CEO by his first name is a red flag, too.
Sorry that the post wasn't as clear. My intention with that line was to walk people through the process step by step.

Of course, we engineer the product so that we can pay people back. But I wanted to show people our thought process, which is what happens if there was a recession and most of our portfolio declines by more than 20%. If we didn't have hedging instruments, we wouldn't be able to pay people back.

Therefore, our next step was to purchase hedging instruments for every contract we take part in. Hope this clarifies things. If not, let me know, and I'll be happy to elaborate more.
Any country that has been paying attention in recent years knows that the internet allows the opposition to organize, coordinate, and recruit effectively.

The US and China deal with this by ensuring they have leverage over the platforms that people use to communicate. Other countries that do not have this leverage, have to resort to shutting down the internet in areas of unrest.
Uncle Bumblefuck (aka AvE) is the same but for all sorts of things, usually metalworking and mechanical engineering. He also does a really good Canadian stereotype. His speech style is often poetic.

I've learned a lot of the basics from them. Not with the goal of becoming an expert, but just enough that I can speak the language.
Majority support annexing of the region