skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't change the criminality of his actions, but something I haven't ever seen any info about: were the designs he downloaded and took with him for LIDAR systems that he had played the primary role in developing while at Google or were the designs largely the work of other Googke employees?
There are lots of companies that buy in bulk from China and have US distribution. They will still be around for your Shenzen electronics needs.

I have very little sympathy for people who were depending on what was essentially taxpayer-subsidized shipping from China. If you can't do what you're trying to do without that subsidy, you probably shouldn't be doing it. I'm certainly not interested in having the USPS lose money so someone can save a few bucks on a servo or flight controller vs. buying it from a legitimate retailer like Adafruit or Hobbyking (which has US warehouses in addition to its HK ones; I expect they'll need to expand the domestic ones now).

The end-user cost of a good needs to encompass the price of manufacturing it and transporting it, inclusive of as many externalities as we can. Too many problems in the world are caused by artificially cheap goods that don't capture their full cost.

Keeping stuff cheap for the purpose of having cheap stuff is not a noble goal.
LA is 3,100 ppl/km2. [1]
Tokyo is double that. [2]

It's all a matter of perspective. Personally I've been living in Asia so long that most places outside of New York feel under-developed to me. Just sticking to major first-world cities and the most obvious example of Tokyo blows LA's density out of the water. If we dipped into less-developed metropoli, we could throw, say, Manila into the conversation at [20,000;70,000]/km2 and then LA's density looks positively quaint.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila
Which of this easy sampling of wikipedia "banana" entries addresses the topic of excessive regulation?
At 60mph ~= 100km/h in city limits (50km/h) it is not a simple fine anymore but a criminal charge.
Fines are fixed no matter how much you make. (e.g. 1-5km/h above limit is CHF 40.00)
I used to work for Anthony at 510 systems. He tried to hire me for Otto as well. Watching this whole thing unfold from, obscure story in 2011 to the Waymo Vs. Uber trial to federal charges and national news is rather surreal. Anthony is one of the most creative, energetic thinkers I've ever encountered. If he stopped taking shortcuts he'd probably be the next Jobs or Musk.
> most impact

by far. What's missing is:

> easier to understand by others.

And by yourself, 6 months later.

Anytime a "senior" dev complains to me about "junior" devs, I tell them to review their own code from 6 months ago.
I like the ability to remove keys. I understand the theoretical reason for append-only keyservers, but in practice it just turns people off from using them. No one wants to look at their entries from 2005 from when they screwed up while learning about subkeys, or their defunct 2008 entry which they never could revoke because they lost the revocation certificate (all examples purely fictional).

In any case, a keyservers job is not even to be some kind of source of trust, so all that really should matter is that it has a user's most up-to-date keys on it. Validating a key should come from web-of-trust or some secure second channel verification method (like listing your key ID on a TLS-enabled website).
> Anyone with a good solution would help the world immeasurably and have their pick of customers.

I don't buy this. Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. are all beholden to a constant growth model - just like every other traded company that's responsible to their own board.

Even in ecommerce (which is primarily my background) the players that "complain" about bots actually love the hell out of them because they eat up risk... I'm thinking about companies like Ticketmaster, Supreme, Nike, etc. They implement anti-bot measures "up to a point", which typically is a breakable CAPTCHA and validating purchase quantities to shipping addresses/payment methods (ex: only allow 4 of this hot item to be purchased with this CC number/shipping addr).

These big players are where the bulk of the misinformation campaigns are happening and they've been effectively sitting on their hands because if they started booting off bad actors (bots, propagandaists, people sharing factually false information) it would hurt their new account sign-up/content creation/interaction numbers, which will eventually hurt the stock price.

Here's why I say all of this... As someone who has done large-scale bot work I feel like there's a huge disconnect with things like Facebook account sign-up where it's effectively always open for someone with the basic capability to bypass a CAPTCHA. Given their resources, I absolutely believe they could easily have a higher barrier of entry when it comes to keeping people with my skillset out - they're just not interested in blocking automated sign-ups and the like.

I'm convinced that the big "FAANG", or "GAFA", or whatever players can't really solve this problem because it'd probably hurt their business to cannibalize their own numbers... even if it's the right thing to do. Leadership would get kicked from boards and stuff. Ergo, the problem keeps on truckin' =(
Build more housing. When an area gets overbuilt, units start going vacant, developers start going bankrupt, and vulture capitalists can swoop in, buy the properties for cheap, and rent them for cheap. Or if they don't, squatters move in and just start living in the abandoned buildings for free.

Ironically, this is the one outcome that is bad for both the city and the developer. The developer goes bankrupt, so obviously they and the bank don't like it. The city usually has a problem collecting tax revenue from bankrupt developers, and during the transition period between when the developer goes bankrupt and when another landlord buys the property, they face problems with crime and blight. It's good for enterprising bottom-feeders and for the city's poor, but neither one of them get a seat at the table. So here's a case where the incentives are directly aligned to let the people who make the decisions profit at the expense of the people who don't make the decisions.
Postal workers' retirement age is 55-57 (https://about.usps.com/manuals/elm/html/elmc5_058.htm).
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An example is Japanese zoning [1]. Zones are layered - if you can build an apartment, you can also build a single-family home. In the US, they are all distinct - single family only or apartments only - no choice.

1 - https://devonzuegel.com/post/north-american-vs-japanese-zoni...
It's pretty common for the DOJ to take a very long time to get all its ducks in a row before bringing charges against very well-heeled defendants. Because there are so many avenues for the extremely wealthy & connected to escape legal accountability, the case needs to be as airtight as possible before filing charges. If anything this is actually pretty quick action relative to when news of the offense was made public.
One of the markers I'm definitely looking from the health community are "containers" that can contain drugs, and unlock only at specific sites, so that we're not spraying pills all over the body, but only where they need to be.

It's a really hard problem, in all sorts of ways. We're still at a very preliminary phase of that research. But that'll really help with the "side effect" problem.
Are there any differences between a KV-store in the form of "Bob:Knows" — "John" and a triple store in the form of "Bob" — "Knows" — "John"? Redis, for example, can query the first one easily by scanning.

Bonus question: What are some real-life use cases for triple stores?
> They make software specifically for tracking population

They make software for modeling objects. A popular object to model is a person. As technologists we should be a little more immune to the FUD spread by Vice et al.
Hacking around internal bureaucracy in a smart way is one thing, stealing IP for your next gig is something else.
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What kind of enclosure are you using for it?

I currently use a server I built inside a Fractal Node 304 case for that same purpose. While compact for a regular PC type server, it's still a little bulky for my liking.
> That's interesting. Taking a walk a few times a week can cost nothing (if one has the time).

you keep just glossing over the costs. "if one has the time". it's an opportunity cost.
"If fines are intended to be punitive..."

Exactly! The _intent_ of the action is one of the most important aspects. If a group is disproportionately being penalized (the poor in this case) then the action (the fine) isn't actually fulfilling its intent (to prevent all who receive the fine from breaking the law).

This is why "points" where introduced in numerous states to create a demerit point system. Even if a driver can afford 1,000 speeding tickets in a year they will lose their license after receiving a specific amount of demerit points.[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_system_(driving)
Project looks definitely interesting. Too bad the code looks like callback-hell from 10 years ago: https://github.com/tdjsnelling/dat-keyserver/commit/12fa3e83...

Still, an interesting alternative for people who consider https://keys.openpgp.org too radical.
Why? If McDonald's is overcharging than the competition is going to beat them out. The market will select them out, problem solved. Regardless, they're free to increase prices as they see fit. your proposal wouldn't stop anything, they just wouldn't advertise why they're raising the price. you're literally proposing that the government regulate the price of a hamburger.

Adding new regulations should be like adding a new software feature. There is a cost, so it should be avoided unless absolutely necessary.
Musk will be the next Levandowski.
> or deceased, good riddance Janice Raymond

Did Janice Raymond pass away? Did you mean Mary Daly?
LA is definitely hub and spoke, except that there's only one hub (downtown LA) and on the spokes far enough out there aren't any ways to get North-South conveniently.

LA is so spread out it really needs a grid.
Whoa there, bibliophilia is a fetish now? Should I feel naughty? I do feel pleasure when I go to a library and see all the books on the shelves.
I would never advocate for zero zoning. But, allowing easy transition from single-family to duplex/townhome. And allowing light commercial/retail to be mixed with residential.
You can live in your car, but you can't drive your house.
Most Americans have driveways and many have garages. It’s a pretty small minority that park their cars on the street. And most city street parking is certainly not free.
Bravo to the people that can navigate such a complex (not an insult) architecture and pull useful information from it! I expect it to be quite tricky to get in between the production environment(s) and capture packets or change logging etc.

I did wonder though: the authors seemed a bit unsure about the relation between MaxStartups and resource usage, wouldn't it be wise to just send an email to the openSSH mailing list or something to not be surprised by possible future problems?
UN is doing something already. By January 2020, the limit for Sulphur in fuel oil used on board ships operating outside designated emission control areas will be reduced to 0.50% m/m (mass by mass).

http://www.imo.org/en/mediacentre/hottopics/pages/sulphur-20...
at topsy almost a decade ago, we had a triple store written in perl and backed with innodb for storing our copy of twitter.

that 80 node cluster of dl380s was a beast to operate, but damn was it spiffy when it was working well

rip ux8
I'm not talking about `middle-class comfort`, nor am I a fan of NIMBYs. Having a family home should not be middle class. To work towards that there needs to be extensive de-regulation of the housing zones. I just thing putting people in boxes will make the situation worse.
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This could be improved so that it can simulate noisy lines, not just connection interruptions, by injecting noise (random data) into the data path. The amount of random data/time could be mapped to a "crappiness" control and be used to test either hardware appliances or software protocols for resilience against data corruption. Pretty sure this already exists though as an old friend of mine developed something like that to be used on serial lines over 25 years back.
Interesting this is only against Anthony and not Uber this time. The stakes seem much smaller here. I would be surprised if he actually goes to prison for this. And max fine of $8 million or so is small for him
I work for a ... reseller/host/supporter... of various higher ed platforms (Banner/Blackboard) and those systems make me sad. Glad to see someone disrupting the space! Good luck going forward! As a dev, I can't imagine setting my sights on those targets. It seems overwhelming.
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my opinion might be a little dated, because I am currently using deepin, and before that I used xfce for about a year coming from MATE, so I believe the last time I used MATE was 18 months ago.

At that time XFCE seemed to me like a bare bones MATE but in a good way. A little less polish here and there, but overall the system seemed to work better, that means less crashes and less fixing.

One thing I missed in XFCE is the way you can set panels in MATE. It has a lot more placement control and if I remember correctly, it had more plugins and they worked better. But apart from that, XFCE felt more solid and performant than MATE.
Really what needs to happen is that the UPU in general needs to be redefined. The Chinese sellers can still access Europe, Canada, and basically anywhere else, which isn't going to stop especially since most countries are not as aggressive as the US when it comes to China trade. Hopefully the reduction in sales due to the US leaving the UPU kills off a bunch of the Chinese businesses but it is definitely still going to be a problem elsewhere.
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A better question might be to ask why US taxpayers should continue to subsidize direct marketers. Thats all I get anymore. Everything else is electronic.
It really isn’t a personal issue. I believe the issue is non-partisan (and no brainer). Or maybe I’m being naive in today’s world in thinking that.
Yes an entire group definitely needs counseling.
So this concept is similar to BitTorrent Sync? (Or whatever it’s called now)
It seems fairly self-explanatory. Sex didn't evolve independently of the rest of humanity and evolution occurs at the level of the organism as well as at the level of the social group (religion, culture, hierarchies, etc). You can't break sex away from the rest of evolution and assume it has no impact on the rest of what and who we are or that what and who we are had no direct impact on the evolution of sex differences. It's not obscure or vague, it's obvious.

Now it may not be USEFUL to make that observation, but it certainly contradicts the manner in which many activist social scientists construe notions of sex and gender with unfalsifiable claims.
We do have examples of cities with loose regulation. Houston is famously lax with building permits. Sure it means people build in flood plains and the entire thing is a giant sprawl that where you have to drive everywhere, but it does grow fast and attract a lot of people.
Lord help any industry that attempts “dumping” with today’s president.
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For anyone wanting to understand thought and the way we acquire knowledge, I would highly recommend the book The Tree of Knowledge (https://www.amazon.com/Tree-Knowledge-Biological-Roots-Under...)
> No one wants to look at their entries from 2005 from when they screwed up while learning about subkeys

Yeah, it's interesting that even platforms such as Keybase that allow changing or removing data timestamp them in irremovable ways sometimes (e.g. following someone snapshots their profile in the follower's sigchain).

> In any case, a keyservers job is not even to be some kind of source of trust, so all that really should matter is that it has a user's most up-to-date keys on it. Validating a key should come from web-of-trust or some secure second channel verification method.

Actually having a key on a keyserver was never relevant as web-of-trust runs parallel to the key origin (that is if you're connected to WoT you'd know which key is the real one). But it's not practical in general.

> like listing your key ID on a TLS-enabled website

Web Key Directory is something like that and it's trivial to set up: https://spacekookie.de/blog/usable-gpg-with-wkd/
Why? In the context of this article, it's perfectly valid advice. Why should we instead further put our wellbeing in the hands of a morally bankrupt and maliciously negligent pharmaceuticals industry?
I find that price hard to believe. Has anybody else had an experience like this?
Yups, and syncthing as well. and probably others.
The most expensive software project failure ever: $3.7B (2008)
How would this concept work for authors who write high quality novels?

You can't sustain that model through live performance. You could release books chapter by chapter, and try to fund creation through the Patron model, but that leads to a very different type of product that is honestly inferior.

You can see this in the books that have done well for free on Kindle. Sometimes you want to consume a piece of art that doesn't need to hook the consumer in the opening minutes, and also the artist may need to find a way to fund YEARS of work before producing anything that would entitle them to micro-payments.
When I was studying quantum mechanics, I quite often went to this book for a very different perspective on a lot of the details. I found it to be exceptionally well written and had a seemingly different approach from the typical college or graduate level quantum mechanics textbook. We had a copy in one of our department libraries, if you can get your hands on one, I recommend giving it a read when you want a new perspective on an academic quantum mechanics concept :)

I am far enough away from that part of my life, I apologize for not being able to give a more detailed and convincing testimonial for this book.
Many folks here are recommending reading up on production grade operating systems which might be a very steep learning curve.

I'd recommend starting with an academic operating system to nail the fundamentals down, once you have a solid foundation you can then use all the excellent links provided by everyone else and ramp up on production grade kernels.

I have linked to multiple course syllabus'es below from excellent institutes, pick whichever feels most comfortable.

Harvard with MIPS based OS/161 (I learned this personally):
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~cs161/syllabus.html

Berkeley EECS 162 (John Kubiatowicz is amazing and is behind RISC V)
https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs162/sp19/

MIT OCW:
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
You may want to reasses your perception of what many people actually want. Note container-based housing and architecture is actually growing in popularity, not diminishing.

It blows my mind, but I have multiple friends regularly linking me to container-related housing projects ever since I bought land and started building cabins.

I don't personally want anything to do with containers, but there's definitely a housing market for those boxes.
I think the summary is that it hasn't happened yet, but it's proceeding on schedule to happen at the end of September 2019.
Oh, ha -- so then change "high school" for "grade school". Either way, it seems ridiculous to require a pension to be fully funded years before its beneficiary is even hired.
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>1. What is working is not Esperanto per se.

I've fully agreed with you on this point several times now so to try and make it clear. I fully agree with this point. Again.

>2. Even if you know English and Esperanto, Chinese will (even if it became somewhat easier for you as you might have claimed) still be a heck to learn (e.g. good ol' "counting words"), because they're so different that the even if the "solid foundation" helps it won't help much. That's why I'm bringing up Basque - I myself have trouble learning Basque even if this is the 4th language I have tried to learn.

Japanese isn't that far from the tree in terms of difficulty for an English speaker than Mandarin. Japanese shares the concept of counting words. Due to where Japanese Kanji come from (Chinese Hanzi), some even share the same meaning. 三回 means the same thing in Mandarin as it does Japanese as does the counter 首 for poems. Chinese has a more similar word order to English than Japanese does, a simple grammar, and one reading per Hanzi. Sheng1 (生) has 13 different ways it can be read in Japanese. I don't find the argument that, unlike Japanese, Chinese is so uniquely difficult that Esperanto wouldn't help like it did for me learning Japanese. But my ship has already sailed and I'll never be able to put that theory to the test because I've already been tainted with learning how to learn a language.

>As for the rational part, I don't know if you know programming but I'm gonna take programming as an example: imagine someone has only learnt C. Now, could claiming "learning Go will help you form a solid foundation about Haskell!" ever be considered rational? I really don't think it should.

Programming is a great example because there is a fundamental difference in people who understand programming and people who have learned a specific syntax for a given language. That difference is to learn a (programming) language and learning how to learn a (programming) language.

Do you think someone who knows C would learn Haskell faster than someone who has no prior programming experience? Likewise, would you recommend someone's first programming language to be Dyalog or an esoteric language like Brainfuck or would you recommend something more simple like Python or Java for them to grasp some fundamentals first?

Learning how to learn is the single most difficult step to learning anything. While learning to learn it is important to have a tool that isn't constantly getting in your way and making learning difficult.

That's not to say learning becomes effortless. Just because you speak three languages doesn't mean you'll immediately assimilate a fourth language instantaneously and without any effort. But I'd be willing to bet you're having a considerably easier time learning Basque as a fourth language than most people would as a second language.
In theory you get the money back. In practice, you have to borrow the money from a bail bondsman who has the cash on hand to post bail, and then pay him a percentage for his services.

There are also jurisdictions which charge filing and handling fees on bail, which you never get back, which can be up to 10%. For 10k bond, which is pretty normal many places, that means 1000, just gone, not even accounting for the bond.
Yes, every byte counts, but bigger payloads also take longer to parse and execute. This second step makes a major difference in user experience, especially with mobile networks and slower devices.
Hah!

Jobs and Musk are walking shortcuts. Anthony's biggest mistake is that he got caught by a corporation motivated to pursue.
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