skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no such thing as perfect mathematically provable safety. However that's not to say there aren't ways you can improve your odds. Looking both ways before crossing the street, although not perfect, is a pretty good technique. Being wary of cars that aren't pointed directly at you but which are coming in your general direction is a good idea. To this end, doing things like walking on the left sidewalk (or the right sidewalk in the UK or Japan) can help you to be aware of cars that shouldn't be on a collision course with you, but might be anyway.

When at a crosswalk with a walk signal active and cars applying their brakes to stop, do you step out in front of those cars with the assumption that they will successfully stop, or do you wait for the cars to make a complete stop before stepping out in front of them? Assuming they'll successfully stop might be reasonable in some scenarios, but an unsafe assumption in others. It's the sort of context-dependent thing you need to be aware of regardless of what any laws written by people say. Be more wary of cars coming down hills than cars going up them. Be more wary of cars when the road is wet or icy. Be more wary of trucks than cars, particularly those that look to have heavy loads, and be more wary of cars whose brakes are squealing.

Respecting the laws of man is generally a good idea, but you must also always respect the laws of nature. The laws of man won't save you when you get on the wrong side of nature.
censorship isn't just bad moderation.
What kind of monthly revenue were you seeing?
> When will poor people ever not be mad at billionaires for not doing enough?

The big unexamined assumption here is that it is at all reasonable for billionaires to exist within a society that has poor people.

Billionaires are a relatively recent thing, and Rockefeller (the first) faced enormous resistance to both his wealth and the means by which he accumulated it.
This is great.
Is there a tool to do this?

I mean, can I edit the times and the authors and create a history that I need with some software? Or did the author painstakingly go in and manually look up all the dates and make the commits? And then roll back for an error and just keep going?

The issue is how would you change a single commit from 8 commits ago if there was an error there?

And then how would you visualize the whole thing just to keep it straight in your head?
>Its bad when an industry dominated by two players has one of those players hurt and the market can't replace them.

it is the best opportunity for a new maker to emerge and shake, if not break, the duopoly. Boeing for the years ahead wouldn't have a plane to replace 737 MAX while the market will be squeezed by Airbus.
> No way around it, mobile devices don't have guaranteed connectivity as servers do.

Not sure what "guaranteed connectivity" has to do with it, your phone is connected to network ~90% of the time, and when it is, it has a socket connection with the Google Cloud Messaging API (or iPhone equivalient) which pushes down data as it comes into the queue. If messages come in while you're disconnected, you get them all the next time data is pushed.
Love this!

And this is the future of legislation that we all need, all bills having detailed attribution to each word and line, linked back to lawmakers and lobbyists who created them!
Right, but in one case hundreds are dead and in the other case we made a physics discovery 15 years later. Not sure if this is the bullet-proof equivalency you think it is.
> Photos would be boring if they were all straight out of camera shots.

If they're boring photos, sure. Great photos are great photos.

http://www.vivianmaier.com/
they do when you use signed 64bit timestamps (or 128bit ones if you need the nanos)
I wish all legislation would be stored in modern version control.
Because everyone failed (I suspect intentionally, in some cases) to properly vet the plane in the first place. I have no reason to trust that the same people will do a better job the second time around.

I won't avoid the plane forever -- but I will certainly give it a few years before I fly in one. Better safe than sorry.
Definitely interesting how performance between different cloud DB services is so untransparent, similar to object storage [1]. Well, it wouldn't matter much with CSP lockin.

In addition to factors you can't control, maybe Digital Ocean has different Postgres params? I know MySQL for RDS has a bunch of knobs you should tune [2].

[1] https://dev.to/sachinkagarwal/public-cloud-object-store-perf...
[2] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/best-practices-for-con...
I've been using a git repository of org-mode files for 5 years. It's currently over 600 thousand words, some of this written by me, some copy-pasted from e-books and webpages. I like this format because it has a multitude of useful features like intra-document links, project planning, tables with formulas, embedded LaTeX, and code than can be run directly inside the document, while being plain-text and very readable even without editor support. To make note-taking as frictionless as possible, I've also added a global keyboard shortcut which commits all changes with an autogenerated message, then executes pull --rebase and push.
> "I’m also not aware of any calculator (or programming language) that currently works this way." [represent fractions exactly wherever reasonable to do so]

Author here. The paraphrase makes this sound wrong, but what I actually meant is that I don’t know of any calculator that uses rationals while the numerator and denominator can be represented as integer floating point doubles, and then falls back to a single floating point double if the numerator or denominator overflow.

I am aware of many systems that use arbitrary precision rationals, and I mentioned this in the post:

> Rational numbers where the numerator and denominator are allowed to grow arbitrarily large are used by computer algebra systems (CAS) like Mathematica and Maple (and also some high-end handheld graphing calculators).
You can't ignore the politics. They already talk about a "temporary" transitional solution so that the plane can take off sooner and a long term(i.e a 3rd sensor) solution they may use at a later time. If safety is not your thing I can understand your eagerness.
Like the "What nobody tells you about documentation" post that was going round recently, this one says that the way to write your "final source of truth" documentation is to document each individual function and assume that that adds up to a complete description.

I think this is often bad advice. It's too easy to find documentation of this sort that misses out describing key aspects of how the software actually promises to behave.

For example, you might have a graphics library with lots of functions for creating pens and coordinate systems and so on, all meticulously documented, and then one "render" function with a brief description that tells you what the return type is, but no description of (say) the layering or composition model, because that doesn't belong to any one function.

Instead, I recommend starting by documenting the key behaviour of the program, describing its model of the world and defining terminology, and only then trying to document each function in terms of that model and terminology.
> When you open someone up after a heart attack, what do you find clogging their veins? It's cholesterol. What happens when you eat cholesterol? Your cholesterol serum goes up.

That’s an incorrect oversimplification of the situation. Like most of what is being bandied about here.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you...
I listen to Joe Rogan when I'm gaming, fiddling with my Arduino or playing on my phone.
Some might feel, given the regulatory capture of the FAA, there’s no authority available to sign off the ‘fixed’ plane.
And all the bits around said overkill press were designed from flat stock with features cut in it to hold things. It was reminiscent of all the terrible "we only know a few manufacturing techniques and the world if full of nails that we will hit with those hammers" type designs that engineering undergrads who have no real world experience crank out. I say that as someone who used to work for the machine shop for a ME program.

They probably could have cut the cost by a huge amount by using an aluminum casting (though with more engineering effort they probably could have used plastic but that would have upped the tooling complexity and I dunno if their planned volume would have made that worthwhile) and machining all the features to hold the moving bits into it (bonus points for doing it all with one tool and one holding fixture) and designed their press mechanism around the gearbox of some power tool you can find at Harbor Freight for under $50.

New engineers being new engineers I would put serious money on all their machining having stupidly tight tolerances. New engineers love doing that for some reason.
> The ID.3, scheduled to hit the streets by midyear, is the first of at least 70 electric cars in VW’s pipeline.

This whole article is weird. Are we supposed to pretend the e-Golf hasn't existed for years?

> While the ID.3, priced from around $30,000 with a range of 200 miles or more, is aimed at countering the threat from Tesla’s Model 3, its stiffest competition will come from gasoline-powered cars such as VW’s own Golf hatchback.

I mean... yeah? The Model 3 isn't a hatchback. Americans still have reservations against hatchbacks for some silly reason. And the real competition against a VW hatchback is going to be the Prius. Tesla is a tech gadget. The VW is a car. You really can't discount the fact that many people buy Tesla because of the coolness of the gadgets.
Is this thing russian just for me?
Couldn't find a way to change the language.
I was working at Treasury in Hyattsville around that time (in the basement as a matter of fact, where I think most of the contractors lived) but that was my first job after getting away from all of the .com bubble-busting BS.

Salaries were still pretty good (but flat) for those pros who stuck around and had actual technical skill, but a lot of the newer people to technology had it much rougher.
I would have probably assumed that it referred to the L1 cache.
Which is good. I don't want a browser to bypass DNS settings to use something else instead.

Especially since DNS encryption and anonymization is already done on the router for the whole network.
Any digital photography is by definition computational.

You can make an argument that using deep learning to affect the sky is “more computational” in a way than a “basic” CCD to JPEG pipeline, but the boundaries become fuzzy and arbitrary.
>we can find another string that differs in one byte only, that has the target crc

reading that has me curious; if one can do that for any arbitrary string, and then iterate that process, doesn't that stand to reason that with enough work, one could make any two given strings calculate out to the same crc? I guess maybe not because that one byte constraint isn't specified as far as where it occurs and whether it's an insertion, deletion, permutation etc, but the way I see it if you can do it with one string to another, you could likely keep chaining that indefinitely and get countless strings that come to the same crc.

sorry if this is old news or anything I was just struck by that thought while reading your comment
No, that’s exactly what it means. Law enforcement officers are agents of the state. The state not respecting your constitutional rights is equivalent to not having them.
Creepy proof-of-concept. Are there devices which have been proven to capture image data when not in a camera mode, or is there an assumption that they're somehow doing it covertly?
Well I got my mother to switch to Ubuntu with LibreOffice, I just installed it on my old Macbook Air (that I previously had running a heavily riced Xubuntu), handed it to her and showed her how to get online and how to open LibreOffice Writer. Sometimes people just need a nudge.
More like a Golf 1, which was a dorky but quite functional car. I prefer that look to many of the modern small windows, no windows cars with lots of dead angles. Like the new Mazda 3 or the Toyota CH-R. We already have a Civic and I hate driving it in around town because of the low visibility.
Here's the $100bn question: why does it have to cost $100bn? Is it natural, i.e. the actual complexity of the product, or is it artificial (regulatory overhead, procurement process, etc...). It so much seems like this may be some of both...
Driving is a priviledge, it's the driver's responsibility not to kill anyone with their weapon, the same way a runner should be responsible not to hit and kill a toddler with their body.

The person with the killing power is responsible for any blood spilled. In particular in the US where most of the roads are straight and super wide, how do you not see a pedestrian approaching the curb and reduce your speed accordingly until you're out of some kind of cone of uncertainty.

(I know, American drivers just turn right while looking left at high speed because of their crazy right on red and wide roads, so they don't see the pedestrians who had 15s to cross a 4 lanes road)
How is the on-call rotation handled?
My whole system, minus the Apple Pencil bits, is described here: https://cpbotha.net/2019/09/21/note-taking-strategy-2019/

In short:

- Emacs OrgMode with a specific setup as the core of everything.

- I store interesting web-pages as PDFs on my local drive, currently synced using Dropbox.

- Academic articles go in Zotero, with PDFs on local drive, synced using Dropbox.

- On mobile, I use the Dropbox app to create and edit markdown files (I wish they would just treat .org files as normal text files!), and to save any web page to PDF.

- I sometimes draw flow charts, architecture diagrams and UI using an Apple Pencil and the Notability app on a 2018 entry-level iPad, which syncs these sketches as searchable PDFs to ... Dropbox.
How to get started and debug Lambda functions
I don't know how much this website can improve the general public understanding of how much companies and governments can deduce from a small set of data about an individual, but this concept was presented in an interesting way on the website.

"An AI that knows you better than you know yourself" - I know SV loves the apocalyptic Noah Harari, but that's exactly what he's been talking about. One of his possible scenarios is that this rapid processing of data by a centralized entity can erode modern individual freedom (including free will and free markets) since it will be more efficient than individuals maximizing their interests. If the centralized processing of data can feed more people, provide security, and in general runs things more smoothly, we collective might accept that route, and gladly give up the power we hold on a democracy (whatever that amount you believe actually exists).
Maybe We Should Stop Defending Hunter Biden
> People who want an electric car so far...

The so far is key. BMW said the same when they launches the i3, that EV owners want to make a "statement."

But I think that's actually holding EVs back. I don't want to make a statement with my car (or phone for that matter). Always making EVs look exotic says that this product is only for enthusiast. I want the android of EVs not the iPhone.
I ran an online consultancy in 2014 - 2015 for grad school applications, between the time I applied and started school (for almost a year). Zero operational expenses, as I ran the whole thing as a Facebook page with a Gmail id. This was in India, and I made about 800-1000 USD a month. Only reason to close it was I couldn't give it time once grad school started.
They all had their uid set to 0?
My point is that any time an "anonymous government official" or "high level intelligence official" or whatever leaks something to the prestige press - meaning, the article says "according to anonymous government sources..." - AND the leaker is not jailed / prosecuted, THEN you have to assume that the leak was deliberate (approved at a high level) and in service of the intelligence agency's own ends.
Like RSS, but better

There is a nice substratum of curl services, like wttr.in or getnews.tech that follow a similar concept

I hope this is the beginning of a gopher + JSON + curl services era
See Wickard v. Filburn, whereby the Supreme Court decided that growing crops entirely for your own consumption while staying within the border of one state is still 'interstate commerce'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
XP is still one of my favourite operating systems of all time.
True enough, this is in concept the very same as Apple Push Notification (APN) service. Difference is that you are in charge of the server side and handle all the security and uptime yourself.
Very cool idea, simple enough to generate a lot of really cool projects.
> the company suffering doesn’t matter since the execs responsible have long since fled.

Yes, it does matter. If the company suffers enough, perhaps they will be more cautious about this sort of thing in the future, even if the individuals directly responsible are gone.
You have to think about how these capabilities are abused for something with as much personal data as a phone: if that capability is there it will be abused by malware, abusive partners, unscrupulous app vendors, snooping governments, etc. to impact orders of magnitude more people than believe they need these features. People will be trained to click approve the next time they install spyware or bogus optimization / cleanup utilities and many of the people most likely to be exploited will be the loudest about saying they're power users who need this access and won't make mistakes (see past decades of Windows usage).
Considering the fact that a high-priority campaign to fix the 737-MAX was started on the day of the Lion Air crash (if not before) which failed to deliver in time to prevent the Ethiopian Air crash. Then the August and October deadlines for return to flight were missed; we are now looking at a date in early 2020, and the European Union indicates that they aren't going to believe Boeing. This isn't looking good.
True.

But a managed service means I'm paying you money so you can optimize the database to its fullest for me.

Hopefully DO can improve on its performance overtime.
Yes, It was my fault. the correct title is "Bill Joy's Unix password had a control character".
Reminds me of this PR of the Declaration of Independence, with comments from the founding fathers: https://github.com/usgov/forget-the-king/pull/1
Maintaining corporate capture of the political and socio-economic structures requires management capture by talented jerks to continuously deliver for stockholders short-term results that forsake everything else. However, like most anarcho-capitalist utopian failures since time immemorial, large risks will not be mitigated for the least long-term harm to the public because unlimited greed and consequences of externalities "will solve everything in the markets." Maximizing profit apart from all else and lacking functional public protections that have been co-opted by the trough of corporate influence pedaling will inevitably lead to omnicidal and suicidal outcomes if nothing is done to intervene.
This is probably common knowledge to Americans, but I noticed that the latest amendment on the commit log was written by James Madison. I was confused as to how that came about so recently and found on the wikipedia page:

>It was submitted by the 1st Congress to the states for ratification on September 25, 1789, along with eleven other proposed amendments. While ten of these twelve proposals were ratified in 1791 to become the Bill of Rights, what would become the Twenty-seventh Amendment and the proposed Congressional Apportionment Amendment did not get ratified by enough states for them to also come into force with the first ten amendments.

> The proposed congressional pay amendment was largely forgotten until 1982, when Gregory Watson, a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Texas at Austin, wrote a paper for a government class in which he claimed that the amendment could still be ratified. A teaching assistant graded the paper a "C" and an appeal to the professor, Sharon Waite, failed, motivating Watson to launch a nationwide campaign to complete its ratification.[1] The amendment eventually became part of the United States Constitution, effective May 5, 1992,[2] completing a record-setting ratification period of 202 years, 7 months, and 10 days
I partially agree: I think it's pretty silly trying to petition some big corporation run by sociopaths to behave better towards their customers. If you don't like the way they're treating you, then stop buying their crap.

However, I do applaud people who organize boycotts, because that really is free-market principles at work (even if it usually doesn't work out that well, but sometimes boycotts do work). Hit them in the pocketbook. Boycotts can be good because one person getting disgusted and not buying the company's crap isn't going to change anything, but huge hordes of people following along will.
Tesla not long ago presented their impressive in-house neural network processing chip. Quite likely, that Keller was an important contributor to this. So there would be quite some significant outcome from his time at Tesla.
Was there ever any evidence that having the questions is actually dirty pool, or was that more an instance of "ask and ye shall receive, and nobody else asked?"
I have fired a few people in my small business. It is extremely hard since ultimately it is my call being the final decision maker. But it has to be done when it has to be done. Don't make it personal. You will know in your gut when it is time to let someone go. Everyone knows. If you have a team, they also know who the "could be fired" people are.

The most important thing you can do as a boss/leader who has the authority to fire is to not fire abruptly. Make sure that they are aware of their performance issue (in case they are not, mostly everyone is). Give them one or two chances if you think they could improve. Document and set more clear expectations. Let them know they are on a performance watch. If still no improvement, fire. Of course, depending on your jurisdiction, get legal/HR involved as needed before firing.

Don't make this personal or emotional. We feel bad as human beings but do what needs to be done for the team to function well. remember that bad performers also could demoralize a team. So don't be selfish by being nice. Be respectful but do the right thing for the team.
Police Force's First Bitcoin Seizure Hits Paydirt with a 20-Fold Return
I'm surprised VoodooPad [1] does not get mentioned more often when this question gets asked.

It is by far the most straightforward wiki I have used. The two features I rely on most are (i) creating new pages that link back to a piece of text simply by highlighting the text and entering a shortcut and (ii) adding aliases to pages, so that each time either the page name or its aliases are mentioned anywhere in the wiki, a link is automatically created back to the page.

Using these two workflows, pages can fulfil a similar function tags do: If a concept appears again and again across many different pages, I simply create a page which is named after the concept or has the concept as one of its aliases. When I open this new page, I can see all pages that link to it in a panel that lists all back-links. I then go on to edit the page, going into more detail.

This has turned out to be the most organic way for me to write a wiki where editing, linking, and exploring works almost frictionlessly.

[1] http://www.voodoopad.com/