skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can the majority of people decide to end democracy if they, the majority, wanted or not? If not, why not, and how is it a democracy then? If yes, then I do not understand the relevance of your comment.

You just simply restated what the article's author said and to which I responded at length already. But I'll rephrase from a different angle further below for your benefit.

> This makes no sense within the context. It is at discretion of the country, yes, and the company most likely is not the majority that makes up the country, is it? Otherwise if there was democracy, and whoever was part of the democratic process are indeed the majority of the country they operate in, then they are either allowed to decide that, or they are not allowed to decide that. If the majority of people cannot, then it is simply not democratic.

And on company grounds? What if just worker's of said company decided it's okay to murder each other there?

If you believe that spheres of influence (both physically and in the abstract sense) should have no bearing on what decisions your democracy can make, then you can't ever have a democracy because something will always be out of your influence (unless maybe you're the only country on earth). The decision of whether murder should be legal on company grounds will always be outside of what workers can decide. However if your definition of democracy essentially makes having a democracy impossible, may I suggest you use one that is actually useful.

If you believe that yes, your decisions should be scoped to physical borders and other limitations that arise, then your constitution (or whatever document dictates you can't end democracy), is simply another factor that narrows down what decisions can be made.

Your constitution is very much like your country's border in that sense. It limits the scope of your decisions.
Thanks. That's a great essay. You should put your name on it.
I started to buy physical books last year. Nothing beats the user experience of a real book. I have had an iPad, big iPhone 7 Plus, kindle paperwhite but I don’t use them of serious reading anymore. I occasionally read fictionals on the kindle but that’s about it. It’s collecting dust.
In-ear headphones can surprisingly improve spatial awareness by reducing the wind noise at certain speeds.

That assumes they are not playing anything though.
Is this what they mean by "chain of custody?"
> However you don't need to make much to pay $7500 in taxes.

You do if you're a family, with a 24K standard deduction, a family HSA ($7K), and any number of 401Ks for retirement. A group of people who would benefit significantly from an electric vehicle.

As I said, I don't qualify for the full amount and I earn well above the state's average.
You're right that your original comment was fine, but the edit breaks the guidelines, which guarantees further downvotes. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html all the way to the end.
No, that doesn't mean that at all. If a company fails, investors don't have to return the time they've invested by putting in extra years of work, so it follows that those who invested time wouldn't return the money they received.

Investor A puts in 100k of dollars, the company fails they've lost 100k worth of dollars.
Worker B puts in 100k of time, the company fails, they've lost 100k worth of years.

The point is, they are both risking equally, when compared in the same units, time or dollars, but not both. The investor is investing 100k worth of time, and the worker is also investing 100k worth of time. If the company fails, they have both lost that invested time.
If you use the windows search in the bottom left corner, you'll see all sorts of advertisements when you search for stuff on your computer.
The cost of uploading a PDF of links is probably not much less than the cost of following those links on your own. So I don't think you gain much by leveraging Facebook in this case.
Most legal systems seem to apply some variation of the "no harm, no foul" rule. Or at least "less foul". It also applies if you shoot and miss, or the bomb goes off at the wrong time, or if you get lost on the way to the assassination.

It seems to make sense? I mean, it's not like someone is getting off scott free. But at least there isn't a body, and that should count for something. Attempted murder is overall less bad than actual murder.
Processes running on the same host are a "separate computation in the same address space" - They share a filesystem namespace.

Pods running on the same kubernetes cluster are a "separate computation in the same address space" - They share a DNS namespace.

Servers running on the same internet are a "separate computation in the same address space" - They share an IP namespace.

These are the same abstraction at multiple levels, and that's okay, because you often do need that. The L1 and L2 cache are crystaline to inmemory and redis caches in distributed systems. Components with the same shape show up at multiple levels. This is okay. What's important is that those levels each serve a purpose, and that you reduce the abstraction to be as simple and meaningful as it can be.
Ho ho ho
I appreciate you responding - I think my comment must have been too garbled - I'm not just trying to demonize business for some arbitrary anti-capitalist reason or something. What I am questioning is the nature of the network - not to get caught up in nostalgia, but at least the Web used to be comprised of an infinite variety of communities. However, generally speaking, no one will join your custom forum or community in 2019 because it's not contained in one of these networks. They've become both the hosting and the discovery engines. They are self-contained networks. I'm trying to sort out how we went from a giant, flexible network to a bunch of shittier smaller, isolated networks.

I can pull up some reasons people cite (ease of use, mobile apps, network effects) but at the same time, it feels like the sentiment of the masses acknowledges that these networks are shitty.
Based on the fact that no two reference frames are the same.

Based on the fact that everything points to the universe being deterministic.

Also we have never been able to even prove it mathematically.
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You'd think... but after that story about Microsoft just executing random threatening code it found on someone's computer and allowing it access to the internet, I have to question some of the wisdom these big companies show.
> Punishing people for trying to patch holes in their knowledge is a great teaching strategy.

I didn't downvote you, but the general tone of the comment is a bit sarcastic...? It hears like that people has made up another useless word as the same way people criticizing things like 'JAMstack' or 'Big Data', etc...
Warranty is different from how long something will last.
>You have no evidence that the claim denial numbers are a driver or even an indicator of medical bankruptcies.

I mean, this is absurd on its face, but you can read the study I linked about medical bankruptcies. It explicitly states that insurance coverage (which inherently includes denial of claims) is a leading driver of medical bankruptcies. Here’s what it’s co-author said about the issue if you can’t get access to it:

“The culprit for the lack of improvement [in medical bankruptcy rates] was inadequate health-care insurance, according to a co-author of the research, Dr. David U. Himmelstein, a distinguished professor at Hunter College and founder of advocacy group Physicians for a National Health Program.
‘Unless you’re Jeff Bezos, people don’t have very good alternatives, because the insurance that is available and affordable to people, or that most people’s employers provide them, is not adequate protection if you’re sick,’ Himmelstein said.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/this-is-the-real-reason-most...

Claims denial and the struggle to pay medical bills has also been examined by Kaiser:

“About a quarter (26 percent) of the insured who had medical bill problems say they had a claim denied by their insurance company. Common reported reasons for denial include a particular treatment not being covered (25 percent of those with denied claims) and receiving care from an out-of-network provider (14 percent); 21 percent of those who say they had a claim denied did not know or could not provide a reason for the denial.”

https://www.kff.org/report-section/the-burden-of-medical-deb...

Still waiting on what level of bankruptcy and suffering justifies the status quo too.
Lets not use code blocks for quotes, it makes a side-scrolling box. Just italics or sideways carrot is fine.
Right?

Didn't Twitter and other social media platforms lay claim to "helping" voice and organize the people to protest and revolt during the Arab Spring? I remember them being pretty proud of that.
Well that's embarrassing. Spending all this money, more than the next seven countries combined, dwarfing the spending of #2 China. And yet it's ambiguous who would win a war? It's almost like China could force the U.S. to spend itself into oblivion, sorta like the U.S. did to the U.S.S.R.
Definitely, the solar price in that article is twice what I paid for my 9.4KW system. I wouldn't have gotten Tesla anyway, even if it was cheaper. This is not the sort of place I'm willing to be an early adopter - once they have proven they have decades of experience, like SMA and others, then maybe. Until then, no way.
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English may not be their first language.
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Dex: A research language for array processing in the Haskell/ML family
You have to support thousands of different devices, most of which are significantly lower spec than iOS devices. Also, the OS is usually running more concurrent processes than iOS, reducing the resources available to your app even more. If you’re doing something resource intensive like a continuously running camera preview with AR effects, these things are likely to cause you some headaches!
This project will never get to the post mortem.
Obligatory onion article:

https://www.theonion.com/popular-new-amazon-service-just-com...
Oh God, why? Btw, this uses gVisor (https://gvisor.dev/) as the container runtime (instead of runc/containerd). That seriously limits what syscalls the containers can leverage. And the pricing is complicated too.
Panic in Pakistani City After 900 Children Test Positive for HIV
http://archive.is/ibv4f
Was the original focus on size or performance for animated GIFs? The more you compress something, generally the more processing is required to restore it. I started using the web in the mid 90s, and animated GIFs were everywhere.
I live about 2 miles away. I can tell you that not only have they been building it out at a prodigious pace (they had people were working in Crystal City by the end of 1Q2019). They have signed construction contracts, leases, extended offers to employees, etc. They are committed to it now.

Also, Amazon has a tremendous footprint here already. Their largest region is located in Ashburn (~25 miles east), CIA is roughly 5 miles for Crystal City, Herndon and Ballston have large AWS sales/engineering offices, and Richmond (roughly 1.5 hours south) hosts one of their largest distribution centers on the east coast. In short, they were committed to this area long before HQ2, let alone JEDI. They cannot be happy about losing the contract award, but it was only one of many things Amazon/AWS are going in NoVA.
WebP is lossy though, no? The whole point of PNG is preserving the exact pixel data.
But... they do refer to that.
> You just simply restated what the article's author said and to which I responded at length already. But I'll rephrase from a different angle further below for your benefit.

Only some parts (there were more objections besides this), yes, to emphasize the word "wanted" because your comment seemed to have omitted that crucial part and operated under the assumption that people do not want to do that, which misses the point. You said: "because the majority of voters did not the surrender the power to make that decision to anyone", which means that the majority of voters did not want to do that to begin with. If it is democracy (direct democracy, in this case), and they wanted to, they should have been able to.

> And on company grounds? What if just worker's of said company decided it's okay to murder each other there?

No, because the company is within the scope of the country and its legal framework, and "there" is within the borders of a country. If the company (read: group of individuals) is large enough to make up the majority of the country, then they should be able to decide so democratically if there indeed is democracy.

> If you believe that spheres of influence (both physically and in the abstract sense) should have no bearing on what decisions your democracy can make, then there can't ever have a democracy because something will always be out of your influence (unless maybe you're the only country on earth).

I am not sure I understand your point. How is there direct democracy if the majority cannot decide to do X or Y (and here I am not talking about the majority of people wishing the sun to drop out of the sky or anything similar, of course)? You cannot just add exceptions and then call it democratic (or direct democracy), which is what is happening here. Are you sure that this is not a redefinition of democracy?
That's a surprising and interesting bit if knowledge, thanks
I assume, the tracking happens before the recipient sees the message. This could be used to track sent messages, not received.
Batteries double the cost of solar for a 24 hour storage cycle. If you want to store energy for 48 hours, the cost doubles again. 96 hours? Doubles again. Want to store a mere 10% of US electrical generation from summer to use in winter? Literally 52 trillion (yes, trillion) dollars if you use batteries. A bit expensive, even if you spread the cost over 25 years. Pumped hydro, CAES and hydrogen stored in salt caverns are much cheaper at that scale.
For WSJ $1 a week is only an introductory offer, good for only 2 months. Beyond that it's $19.50 a year.[1]

The $1 a week for nytimes is also a promotional rate. It's normally $3.75 a week.[2]

[1] https://store.wsj.com/shop

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/subscription
Nope. And yes.
Tried it -- didn't work. Single-quoting didn't work either. Terminal is urxvt.

What is clear is that

$ cat test-file.txt

does not print the initially-echoed text, but it is escaped and up to nefarious tasks.
I know, and almost never mention downvotes, but in this case I think it worth mentioning because it's such a common antipattern:

https://xkcd.com/1053/
Self-driving vehicles won’t deliver a transport revolution
really bad name for "dot", it has always been the graphviz interface
A lot of the same people who kept that AOL walled garden alive, just migrated to Facebook. To them Facebook is the web, the restaurants they like are there, the tired celebs they worship are there and whatever crazed conspiracy theories someone told them at work or at church are under Facebook News. It's comfortable and I agree with you and like how you phrased it as "the same loops of well-trodden space."
This is a bit like missing the distinction between, say, systemic if unintended background racism and ideological white supremacy.

There's the matter of both motive and degree. Of course newsprint journalism always had its issues (heh). Of course there's always been various struggles to rise to journalistic standards of objective reporting. And of course there's always been people with agendas who wanted to bend reporting a certain way.

It still wasn't anywhere near as common for outlets to aspire to be Pravda or for individuals to aspire to read from an outlet that was.
I've been wondering if neural nets will able able to find solutions to PDEs with sparse inputs such as this one. Intuitively it makes sense that fast solvers would exist for any PDE where the input data is either very sparse or highly symmetrical. A lot of the PDE domain can be "meshed" advantageously with portions of the domain either reusing computation or being wiped out as insignificant contributions. A neural net can learn to represent a PDE domain in terms such regions. I am really curious if this is what happens here and if there is something vastly beyond what current PDE solvers are able to do.

But I also imagine as the input size grows within the orders of the hidden layers it will lose the advantage.
If the tests are so inconclusive wouldn't that mean police officers are depriving people of their constitutional rights to freedom of movement? There have to be counter suits and either this company or the police force are liable for false imprisonment.
Well, they let that one, particular, suspect off when the test was caught failing in that very public fashion.

So, I mean, in they're view, they probably figure that they, well,

"Fixed the Glitch":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUE0PPQI3is

Other people's constitutional rights will likely be violated, but hey, "these things work themselves out" right?

/end sarcasm

How do people live with themselves when they knowingly implement shoddy products and processes like these that literally ruin peoples' lives? It's crazy.
This will keep happening until they enable e2e.

I’ve had Facebook block several links sent in private message groups, to completely legal and safe sites (Messenger prints out an obscure API error and refuses to send the content). They have done this for a long time.
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The bigger problem at times of elections is that every idiot now has an amplifier the strength of which allows them to reach the rest of their country, including all like thinking idiots. This makes idiots less likely to change their mind based on their environment because they feel vindicated in their beliefs.
The shell isn’t in charge of what data commands print out.
The "Reproducibility" proposed rule is very exciting IMO.

> The AI must be open-source, released publicly before the first day of the IMO, and be easily reproduceable. (sic) The AI cannot query the Internet.
Didn't Microsoft employees revolt when Microsoft was making some special Hololens devices for the US army?
>All I need to look at is page 27 of the final report (where an overspeed condition is clearly indicated)...

There is no mention of an overspeed condition, or any airspeed values in the linked PDF of the report, be it on page 27 of the PDF itself, or the page explicitly numbered 27 in the report.

>figure 29 showing the FDR data and then compare and contrast with the total absence of the phrase "the pilots failed to retard the throttles from take-off power resulting in a dangerous overspeed condition" in the "Contributing Factors" section.

An overspeed in this particular case may have occurred, but was not material to the plane itself going down. It didn't tear itself apart, and the electronic trim was able to actuate until the very end. Trying to cherry pick on the airspeed (which weren't even reliable due to the borked AoA sensor) is rather daft.

Furthermore, even if you cross reference timestamps between the pages 27(PDF or explicitly numbered), no overspend is illustrated based off either airspeed measurement. Mind, overspeed for a 737 in clean configuration (no flaps/no gear) is still north of 340 knots, which is barely brushed up against until the plane goes down in it's final plunge. Given the unreliable nature of the airspeed indicators, if you double check for sanity sake against the ground speed, you still don't end up anywhere near an overspeed.

Are you going to try to pass that off as mansplaining too? Or Russian disinfo? Or sexist/racism? I just looked at the report.

I've brought up none of those beyond pointing out your use of them, and still managed to poke holes in your assertions, which by the way, read like output from some sort of Markov chain. No offense meant, but you may want to work on the topical cohesion of your composition.
why is this tech news?!
You don't have a copy of wikipedia on your phone?
Oh, I don’t know. I refuse to use Facebook Messenger and I have yet to be damned (at least to my knowledge)!
That's assuming Microsoft didn't do things properly. Who's to say the amount of connections that could be opened, the bandwidth, or the max traffic that could be recv/sent wasn't limited?

Thinking that you can make an HTTP request using this method and that that means you can unleash a DoS is... worth a try, but not something you can take for granted.
Cops are, with rare exception, ever held liable for their abuses of power. Lawsuits are payed by the taxpayers, so they have zero incentive to behave legally.
So, should we expect the Tesla roof, which has historically had so many issues that they’ve done very few installations, to suddenly be able to last 50 years?
No. I thought GNU Hurd was a great idea executed poorly. QnX is that same idea executed in an excellent and pragmatic way.
Wait....this isn't new - hypervisor-based container isolation has been in Windows Server since 2016 (it's called Hyper-V containers).
We did the same.
APNG is finally supported in every browser but IE/old Edge, so that case will be fixed soon too.

There’s also a lossless webp variant.
I paid 30000 euros for roofing for a house a little bigger than that. I would have danced naked on the streets for 20k.
Maybe this makes sense if you think of the punishment as having a deterrent component and a retributive component. Someone who attempts a crime but fails needs to be deterred from future crime, but does not owe the same magnitude of retributive debt to society.

I'll note that despite the above I'd probably prefer a justice system that focuses on deterrence and rehabilitation, and omits retribution.
Comcast Slides Reveal It's Lobbying Against Plans to Encrypt Browser Data:Report
I meant from the perspective of tech employees that have to decide whether to add this kind of monitoring.
in your example it is not cat who "interprets" the escapes, but echo
The intelligence community (IC) [1] is not part of the JEDI contract [2]. While many IC components are part of DoD, the IC spans a wider swath of government (e.g. parts are distributed across DOJ, DOE, Homeland Security, State, etc). In addition to different mission sets, they are also governed under a different set of laws. Therefore, DoD (like DOJ, DOE, Homeland, etc) systems connect to IC systems to share information, but there are distinct infrastructures whereby neither has full visibility into the other.

[1]: https://www.intelligence.gov/
[2]: https://www.fedscoop.com/cia-confirms-multi-cloud-procuremen...
Factors to prove or disprove intent? Care to list other factors?
Is webP as free as PNG? I remember that its not taking over the world had a licensing component in it.
I think they're just being honest. All of the features they boast were completely possible in the 90s. The only reason we didn't get them in the 90s was people not realizing they were so possible, or perhaps not wanting to leave their 70s style behind. A great deal of computing, especially on the *nixy side of things, is stuck in the past. Stepping back and looking at what you're used to and saying 'but how would it work if we were designing it from scratch today with all the hardware and knowledge we have now' doesn't often come up. And it's often seen as an attack on the older way of doing things for no good reason.
Yes... but this hit the front page of Hacker News: why? Just because it has "Rust" in the title? I was hoping for a little insight or, you know, _news_...
What if I create a PDF with this content...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3

and so on, until 10,000,000? Perhaps Facebook starts opening every link using 10,000 parallel threads. Can you really replicate that from your connection at home? Perhaps even the sysadmin of your victim site has whitelisted all Facebook IP addresses so their crawlers get a free ride.
Manslaughter means neglect was proven,intentional neglect:intent.