skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hardly the first incarnation of this... and 80% accuracy doesn't sound very good. That's wrong more than once a week!

So why haven't these kinds of toilets taken off? Too hard to modify existing toilets? People don't care? Technology isn't there?

Seems like for those that are really interested, it isn't _too_ hard to just manually keep a log (pun intended).
Let's not take just her word for the entire field of physics (even fundamental physics) either.
A heavily boosted or modded engine will kill MPGs in an ICE.
Oh god no, because then you have to add string growth logic when you run out of space, and there's all sorts of opportunities to fuck that up.
A half ounce hex nut would take down a small airplane in the wrong place.
I'm new to the field. I'd appreciate some links to past rebuttals that you've done because I also want to learn about the discourse and politics surrounding the field. I think that understanding all of those things is quite important, and could benefit me greatly. Thanks.
I find it strange that the author thinks physicists speculate too much, then says they should turn to philosophy.
Ugh. By your logic once India was conquered by the British, all attempts at independence were six friends drawing a random border around their house.
> American policies actively make it outright illegal to build the kind of dense urban fabric crucial to the Dutch success with fostering bike culture.

This is changing. The last three cities I've lived in had strong growth boundaries specifically intended to prevent the cities from sprawling any further.
I think the tree example is silly, trees aren't good tech because they're not very controllable and often very difficult to modify. And like many biological things, they're not really optimized for our convenience.

Imagine a disease/bug-prone, space inefficient, waste dropping, telemetry-less, allergy-inducing machine that requires continuous water deliveries and a multi-year build process. Yep a tree.

I won't try to tell you that you can't find trees and other biological constructs more interesting, and they certainly pose harder problems, but I'd think (and hope) that the future isn't overly complicated biotech adapted from even more complicated and wasteful natural systems. Right now we have to deal with heart failure and cancer because our crappy bodies are the best we've got, but I would think that the long-term future belongs to engineered systems that we can control, optimize, and understand.
Why are they not already resistant? The bacteria are out there.
For non-fiction, I don't want clickbaity "creative writing", I want clear facts and arguments.
> The comparison is flawed because Catalonia, like all other regions of Spain, is represented in the Spanish parliament through a democratic election process.

That's irrelevant for minorities; it's the tyranny of the majority.

> Also note how, just like in Spain, the US Constitution today does not allow for a state to secede, and in fact there was a civil war when some states tried to do just that.

That's false.
I don't have information that would prove Epstein's death wasn't suicide. Given he was on suicide watch earlier, that doesn't matter much to the situation of those with power acting to conveniently dispose of him.

The Epstein case could still be pursued. But when the government disposes of the star witness, the average person quite reasonably tends to doubt the state is going to give satisfaction, plus the media-driving focus of attention is gone.
> And those men remain at risk throughout the duration of the siege.

Assaulting the house seems to me many, many times more personally risky than hanging around a block away behind cover watching the house for a day or three.
In the city where I live, Deventer, at least for the inner city, walking even outperforms biking. I recently got a bike again, but I only use it for going places that would take me 20 minutes or more on foot.

Of course, I haven't got a car, have never had a car and haven't even got a driver's license.
Not mention if the legal limit is 250g then it's incredibly likely whatever testing or studies the FAA looked at (I'm being generous here by assuming they didn't pull a number out of thin air) showed the danger spiked well above that.
You can stop paying taxes to the country you live in, when you leave it.
The lawsuit says:

"Mr. Breja brings this action after he was terminated in retaliation for whistleblowing and objecting to the contaminated pod shipment and other illegal and unsafe conduct that has jeopardized and continues to jeopardize public health and safety and the lives of millions of consumers, many of them children and teens."

I think it's safe to say this isn't about strawberry flavoured mint
When I lived in San Francisco, my commute from the Inner Sunset was 40 minutes by MUNI (subway), 40 minutes by bike. Driving was out of the question.
Walking speed is 15-20 minutes per mile...a 4.5 mile walk for most people would be closer to 90 minutes.
They have bombed an entire block:

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/14/us/police-drop-bomb-on-ra...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE
> tried to raise some more philosophical questions with them.

Like what? Genuinely interested, not seeking to argue.
As a former gearhead I can say with authority that fires are not a new hazard for the hot-rodding community.

I do think the electrocution risk is significantly higher though.

Spilling gasoline on your hands and clothes while sloppily pulling off a fuel rail or fuel pump was benign. Spilling electricity all over you while sloppily removing and handling a large cumbersome massive battery pack with whatever improvised tools you had on hand sounds like an easy way to be killed.
Eh I’m not sure they’ll be lighter look at mobile phones they aren’t getting lighter...

Battery technology is maxed out currently, plastics and composites aren’t going to change much...

Not much weight shedding to be done here my bet is that they’ll add more collision sensors as they become cheaper but not much else they can do.

They shouldn’t add any weight and you’ll offset their weight with the removal of the material from the chassis.

As for the flight characteristics I’m pretty sure they did everything with the heavier battery you go from 18W to 8W in exchange for losing 50g which is only 16% reduction in weight form 299 to 249.

If anything the loophole battery would perform considerably worse given the power output of the cell compared to the full one.

It also looks like the S mode isn’t available for the smaller battery I have a feeling that once reviews will start popping out the FAA approved config will be called gimp mode.
It doesn't prevent cracking, it removes microcracks that are already there. Martensite may not literally be a hole in the metal, but it has many of the same properties.
I live in Atlanta and fail to see your point. Compared to other cities it’s much better.

When I worked in Midtown I saw 3 high rises go up. 1 for GaTech students, another for apartments, and another for condos. Brookhaven was pretty crazy when I lived there but they have tried to combat the problem with better zoning.[1]. Chamblee added a bunch of new high density housing.

[1] https://www.cbs46.com/news/brookhaven-pushes-for-housing-aff...
Twitter to ban political advertising on its platform
I can only agree. Me and a colleague are the only ones using Python for HR (HRIS) that we know of, but people are very interested when we tell them how we use it for data quality, automation and reporting. There will surely be more in the future.
> Oulu has inexpensive housing

you know why Oulu has inexpensive housing? Because not many people want to live there. I probably wouldn't live there even if they paid me to live there.

You want to make SF affordable? No problem, make it bad enough so that no one will want to live there
Very cool work! Thanks for the links.
Writing an OS in Lisp basically means adapting or developing, and then growing, a Lisp implementation on the bare hardware. Someone would only do this if they are simultaneously interested in OS research R&D and Lisp implementation R&D.

This is different from someone working on an OS in, say, C. They just pick some C compiler and use it, without becoming a C researcher and implementor.

(They might bemoan some things happening in the development of the compiler they are using that affect their work, but not actually take that on.)
Mavic and its variations are fine, but when will we finally get Phantom 5? Mavic is still far from functionality offered by Phantom 5, whether it comes to stability, ease of use and most importantly video quality. Going to new Mavic feels like downgrade with the only advantage being portability, which is a moot point as one has to carry multiple batteries in a separate bag anyway. DJI, come on, give us something!
An analysis and thought about recently PHP-FPM RCE(CVE-2019-11043)
We are talking about a region of Spain that in 1978 voted YES to approve the Spanish constitution. One of the wealthiest regions of an EU member. This is not an oppressed or punished population, the right of self determination does not apply to it when it's an autonomous region that is part of a functioning modern democracy. Even ex-UN chief Ban Ki-moon agreed on this:

https://www.thejournal.ie/catalan-independence-ban-ki-moon-2...
Twitter to ban political advertising
The AI That Mastered Starcraft II
Tunnel vision is a thing. Taking some time to zoom out is often incredibly useful.

Also, the philosophy and sociology of science are a VERY different thing from "the humanities".
I hope not, I recently retired. Still, the idea makes some sense. In retirement, I try to read one paper a day (usually deep learning, PGM, or classic AI), play at least one game of Go and Chess, do some recreational programming, and read. But, I don’t work into a state of brain-tiredness anymore like I used to at work.
Motion describes something that isn’t stopped, meaning not yet complete. This implies it’s more recent, or the conversion is more difficult than it should be.

Perhaps it’s already done, in which case this word choice is poor.
"In those times, the ability to project power (in a modern military sense) was virtually non-existent."

This isn't really true. The contemporary Carthaginian and Roman empires spanned hundreds of miles of Mediterranean coastline.
The reason that both Access and Excel use is so prevalent in corporate “shadow IT” land is because there are many parts of the business that have problems for which only a negative or marginal business-case can be made for IT to solve it (given the “get out of bed” costs of most IT departments). It’s a barrier-to-entry problem. Excel and Access are cheap enough and fly under the corporate IT radar (no involvement needed), that these marginal problems can be addressed in a self-serve manner.

I’ve worked in organisations that have tried to kill these tools off but unless you can lower the cost-to-play or offer a “better” self/serve alternative, you will fail.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here.

The paywall issue has been discussed extensively. If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the threads.

This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Vue-Composition-API
As far as clean code goes, I tend to think of DNA as the opposite. It is worth noting, especially in bacteria, that DNA is a scarce and expensive resource. So evolution tends to prioritise efficent use of DNA, rather than clean and orderly use. The result is that the same bit of DNA will often do several things. This gets extreme in viruses where the short genome will have 2 genes literally on top of the each other and simply use different compilers to generate their respective proteins. It only gets messier from there (in all organisms). It's worth remembering that some genes are not on your side and like to copy themselves (transposons), your immune system will adapt itself (bacterial CRISPr does this too), things sometimes just break randomly.

Finally, unlike code, none of this has any meaningful process control, its all random things influenced by random fluctations in the environment!
Xenophan and Plutarch probably hit a bit to do with it.
Indeed, I said as much in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21396745 and (a bit snarkily) in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21396708.
the author must have not visited The Netherlands...
Prison negligence seems unconnected from investigative journalism....why is no one interested in Epstein's crimes?
There's some speculation that he maintained his operational security, such as it was, through the threat of exposure or blackmail. That is, he brought prominent and powerful people into his fold, and then he had power over them. It's similar to how spy organizations intentionally place people in compromising situations, like hiring prostitutes for them, and record it on video.
2.5km per capita per day is huge.

2.5km per cyclist per day is tiny.

The difference between those two statements and the specific details and societal implications thereof is the whole point of the article.
You really think that ULA etc is going to be able to catch up to SpaceX in a decade? For the US, I see SpaceX dominating launch just as Boeing dominated passenger jets. Eventually Congress will realize the fiscal futility of hamstringing NASA. The only thing that Boeing etc will be building will be ICBMs/SLBMs.
I think they meant in terms of battery wear, not range.

But boosting has probably killed engines prematurely more than any other mod, except perhaps n2o injection.
My Dad is 98, retired when he was about 80. He is still very sharp mentally, but has taken on hobbies like video production and 3D animation. Hopefully hobbies count towards brain health.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that but it's not surprising.
Voting mechanism is currently very harsh. Thank you for your feedback, we will consider it in the next updates. Initially, we wanted Comparere to operate on the basis of A/B testing, but in micro scale. Our goal was to separate subjective opinions from the statistics. In our belief, better design is the one liked by majority of people, because it has and advantage to appeal to more audiences. We will try however to soften our "punishment system".
My dad is a doctor in his 70s. He works 60 hour weeks (which he claims counts as retirement for doctors). He truly believes that true retirement is suicide. He wants to be found dead while doing rounds at the hospital.
It's exactly the same for teaching. Around here the nicer schools even pay worse because they get the best applicants anyway! The job's way easier, more pleasant, less full of horrors that haunt you for years after, and you don't have 3rd graders swearing at you and threatening to stab you with alarming frequency. Well worth 10-20% lower pay.
My best friend in college was a writer, pursuing a BA in Literature.

I’ve been thinking again lately about little bits I picked up via osmosis and my own early creative writing experiences. In fact I was just noting a couple weeks ago how refactoring resembles an exploratory writing exercise.

I think we need to embrace the creative writing similarities. Would we ever celebrate an author who published efficient, dense and cryptic text? Rarely.

One of the things we do want is someone who paints a clear picture in a few well chosen words. Another is to be inspired. Tricked or bored are not on that list.
My wife and I are in the process of shopping for a house, and the two factors we're weighing the most are bikeability and walkability.
This will be an unpopular opinion, but do you think that money could be better spent on other health initiatives like prevention? Is spending 10-100k per month so rich people in developed countries can live a few months longer really that much more moral?

Consider that orphan diseases are often not worked on due to either 1) not enough rich people have the disease or 2) only poor people have the disease so it's not worth it.

People in developing countries have serious diseases, but there's no money in it so no one is working on it (minus some efforts from people like Bill Gates).
Given numerous uses of the term, a modicum of specificity in the title would help. There are even multiple publishing-related instances.

Though as a science fictional character myself, I'm partial to Vernes's. Which might make for an even more interesting story ;-)

"Nautilus Magazine" being a good start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus_(disambiguation)
> The options in python to speed up your code are vast without really having to do much

This does not match my experience. The #1 way I see to optimize Python is to not write Python at all, and instead to FFI out.
DeepMind's 'Starcraft II' AI Is Now Better Than 99.98% of Human Players
I guess so, I didn't do the analysis, but I'm pretty sure the guys who did the app already thought about that possibility.
I don't disagree with anything you've said... I'm just a lousy communicator. I should have been clearer: I don't think self-actualizing is selfish, in fact I think for most people, self-actualization requires you to be unselfish. Maybe I can revise my statement to clarify:

"Sticking that at the end of the main() method was my way of saying that I won't feel self-actualized until I've had some impact on the bigger picture."
Git's idea of branches confuses a lot of new users. Their expect them to work like Mercurial's. Bookmarks were added for Git compatibility.

The Mercurial command to get the short hash of the current commit is "hg id -i". You can get the long hash by adding "—debug". The "hg log" command shows a more general way to do it and could be shorter.

Mercurial logs are also easy to customize.
There was a submission from the same blog on the front page yesterday, which I assume is what led OP to discover this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21382247 (about war elephants)
> Spartan planning is both direct and unrealistic: find a choke-point, fortify it and hold it indefinately with a hoplite army. Attempted at Thermopylae this plan fails; the Battle of Thermopylae is often represented in popular culture as an intentional delaying action, but it was nothing of the sort – Herodotus is clear that this was supposed to be the decisive land engagement (Hdt. 7.175; Cf. Diodorus 11.4.1-5).
80% accuracy is potentially fine for a time series, assuming the errors are random rather than specific to a user. You can denoise this stuff, and the recognizer should get better as the sample size grows.
Yes, she does discount string theory: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2016/06/dear-dr-b-why-not-s...
Ok, I stand corrected. Monica who got fired, was not an advocate of misgendering.
> My understanding is that `fork()` is a nice wrapper around `posix_spawn` .

Not really, you can't implement fork on top of POSIX spawn, but you can do the reverse. On linux they are both implemented on top of a lower lower level primitive (clone).
I've always benchmarked post-retiring cognitive abilities and professional continuity with Noam Chomsky. He is my hero in that aspect too. If I can continue to do what I do now at his age, I'm ready for the off.
The city I lived in prior to my current location was much larger. My commute was about 5 miles each way. Driving it would take between 1.5 and 2.5 hours (more if there was an accident)! I could bike the same distance in about a half an hour.
In general signal safety is lost because the C standard library maintains global and thread-local data. For example, the various I/O functions make use of global buffers. Using the read and write system calls directly is safe: when interrupted, they either report their progress or return EINTR.
I don't know how intelligent Epstein was or how much he knew. It's possible that those CDs they took from his locked safe[0] were the only insurance policy he had:

> Federal agents who searched Epstein's $77 million Upper East Side townhouse in Manhattan also found "in a locked safe ... compact discs with hand-written labels including the following: 'Young [Name] + [Name],' 'Misc nudes 1,' and 'Girl pics nudes,' " according to a new court filing in Epstein's case.

I can't find anything about what was on those tapes, what names were actually written on them, if the were encrypted, or if any followup investigation is being done, but maybe my googlefu is just weak. He certainly could have hired somebody competent enough to write a dead man's switch which would release the files if he didn't run a script every X months, but only if he was intelligent and knowledgable enough to come up with that plan in the first place. He could have known that he had no undeniable evidence left in his hands. He could have taken the first attempt as a message, and thought that keeping his head low and shutting up was his best chance at avoiding further trouble. He could have understood his time was limited while also still supporting the greater mission of the blackmail plot and not being willing to blow the cover on his handlers. These are all speculations, I don't know exactly how the events played out. I'd even give the body-double crowd a ~5% chance of being right (but that's a crit fail on a d20; 5% isn't much). I do feel comfortable saying that Epstein almost certainly photographed a former President raping a child, which screams "state actor blackmail," and it seems highly unlikely to me that such a man wasn't being watched by the TLAs unless they were purposefully turning a blind eye.

[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/07/08/jeffrey-epstein-called-s...
Because viruses mutate quickly and are highly specific to a type of bacteria or other cell/species
What is there? I'm thinking of gets() which was actually removed from the standard. Other functions, you can absolutely use them correctly, even if it's not a great idea. I don't think a large percentage of C bugs comes from the standard library.

If you depend on some functions in the standard library, it's super-easy to replace them. They're leaf dependencies.

Anyway, C has about the smallest standard library you can have. And if we're talking about it's benefits in terms of compatibility, we're probably talking about the fact that it doesn't introduce new syntax / language features each other week.
Yes, both cameras that watched the cell and hallway outside it had "technical difficulties" and there was no recoverable footage around the time of Epstein's death.
Even if you don't claim actual benefits you receive value from your high-taxes in things like cheap childcare, good transport, local parks, etc.

Though it is true the higher taxes are also the source of benefits they provide other benefits even if you're employed.
Statistics are useful for understanding a population but not for an individual. Some people get bored without work. I have never felt bored when not working. My grandfathers both worked as professors until they where forced to retire due to Alzheimers. Running marathons and working into their 70s didn't stop their mental decline. Should I focus on the statistics or my genetic history?
> it's possible to regulate prices with laws,

You know they did just that in Venezuela, with noble intentions, do you?
We don't let blatantly false ads run on TV. Why is it so hard for Facebook or Twitter to do the same thing?
I’m in that demographic. Started doing my 15km (each way) commute on an electric. It’s even faster than public transport, and the bike should pay for itself in <2 years.
FINALLY. Now how hard was that??
I don’t buy it. Electricity and gas are two clearly distinct things; the lines between the social networks are much more nebulous. Can you enumerate the various social network “niches”?