skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re being pretty cavalier with the lives of the cops. Why shouldn’t they use armored vehicles to handle some asshole shooting at them and starting a firefight in a residential neighborhood?
He is working on it. Give him more money and he will hire more assistants, and in turn make progress faster.

Of course you are risking that he eventually proves your hover board is impossible.
I think they send somebody with light to help you if you get lost.
I don’t use Windows, so Access isn’t part of the MS Office equation for me (on a Mac). However, I’d very much like to have a simple database that I could use instead of tracking certain things in Excel.

So... I can completely understand why someone would be interested in making a more universal solution for this very common problem.
Almost every biological reaction is triggered or mediated by a hormone. I'd expect "panic" to mean a reaction that makes the plant more alert or able to act faster.
Another article written using thesaurus trying to show indians know english. pathetic
UX Mindset in B2E
The equation for the period of a pendulum has sqrt(l) in it. Therefore, I would guess that to get equal dynamics at a minimum, the feedback loop speed (the time for your hand to respond in the case of the broom) has to increase by the square root of the scale factor.
> I wonder how many programmers can relate who've found their tendency toward problem solving extending beyond the computer screen.

Thinking back to my childhood, many of my parents' arguments were really caused because my dad was a programmer, and that mindset takes over your way of thinking.
Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot owner announce $48B merger
Not really cost effective when you can just build a much shorter one across the Bering sea

Travel time from the British isles is a bit longer I admit but the route has been valuable for longer.
I haven’t been able to run iTunes on Linux.
thanks for posting the video demo link, you probably want to skip the first video in the play list if you want to see the app (and not marketing nonsense)
Video and Audio: Codecs and Containers Explained
This will fail the same way "real name" policies fail. Someone has to draw a line on what politics (or a real name) is for the purpose of the policy, and that's going to cut off a lot of useful ads.

For example: An ad for free HIV screening services is political by certain perspectives.
By my definition, you're rich when you can buy what you like without having to worry about money. You're poor when you can't afford to absorb unexpected expenses, so a fine or problem with your car can be enough to escalate into other problems.

I think my definition for being poor works very well, but the one for being rich needs work. I can buy a new expensive laptop without worrying about money, but I can't buy a new Tesla X without worrying about money. Not even Jeff Bezos can go on vacation to Mars without worrying about money.
No. That is incorrect. Even fully automatic long-guns (think AK47, AR-15 with a full-auto mod) can be owned legally after paying for the license with the ATF.
I've stood right under a big one on a reasonably windy day and my shock was at how quiet it was.

I wonder if older ones were louder?
The essay itself is also, of course, excellent. I've not previously read Schopenhauer, my error.
So your rules would allow people to steal as long as they use a gun and then shoot at the police? “Okay Fred, he’s got a gun and oh yep, he just fired at us, time to let him go. He really earned those belts this time.”
YT urls can be shortened like this:

https://youtu.be/d-ruFmgTpqA

^ I saw this in my feed before this HN article.
I’m from Canada and we let the separatists have a referendum and tried to change their minds. The referendum failed. I don’t know anyone who took it personally or wanted to invade Quebec to make them stay or violently stop the vote.

Quite frankly I find it baffling that people care so much about violently forcing provinces they don’t even live in to stay in their country.
In France, university is open to everyone with a Baccalaureat (a national diploma you get when graduating high school). There are other higher education that involves selection of candidates, but not for public university. Everyone is entitled to it.

Since you can't make a selection of candidates with an entrance exam or by looking on grades, what do you do when too many students want to join the same university curriculum? That's what Parcoursup is for. Students put in their wishes, and some algorithm decides who goes where regardless of their grades. The algorithm uses a bunch of criteria and is pretty complex to understand. At some point they had to release the source code to be transparent, and it was a mess.

What the current government did is introduce grades into the system, so students who have better grades in the subjects relevant to the curriculum have better chances to get it. In a way it makes sense, but it also goes against the old principle that everyone is entitled to knowledge and can enroll in any curriculum - get a chance to succeed even if it wasn't their major in high school.
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CBD is by no means Sydney-specific, just FYI, it’s a commonly used term in the English-speaking world. Due to the new-world situation of Australia’s cities, the CBD and downtown/city centre basically always overlap (I.e: there’s no ‘old town centre’ separate to the highrise district), so Aussies just refer to it all as ‘CBD’.
Controlled detonation for WWII bomb found in Munich, Germany (2012)
It won't try to do ILS. I think the issue is that where GPS is available it can definitely put that plane down. Maybe it's not the world's greatest landing due to GPS inaccuracy, not right on the centre line, tries to put the gear through the floor - maybe the airframe ends up totalled, but if every passenger on the plane walks away it's a huge success given the pilot was incapacitated. Whereas for ILS that gets you down under clouds in mediocre weather, all lined up properly, but (except in airports with Cat III ILS) it doesn't actually put you on the ground. With a trained pilot in the seat that's not an issue, once they can see the runway they can do the rest, but this is for emergencies.

As I mentioned in a previous HN item about ILS, these autoland systems don't get you off the runway. For a grave emergency (pilot dropped dead in flight with their spouse and two kids onboard) that's forgiveable, and this mentions that the product begins broadcasting that the runway chosen is now unusable (because your plane is now parked on it) but this is why Cat IIIc doesn't magically allow JFK to function normally in a blizzard. When the pilots still can't see the runway even after their plane lands on it, that's not useful for routine passenger flights.
I ran across a report somewhere that more airports (in the US) now have RNAV approaches than ILS ones. ILS equipment isn't cheap, and so many places don't have it.

But a lot of folks now have GPS, especially because of the ADS mandate, and so while most probably aren't IFR-rated, I'm guessing if you're flying a turboprop or Cirrus jet, they probably are.
Tax this but not that at Halloween, depending on where you live
The dominant group has not only outsourced the 'dealing' but also outsourced the externalities to minority groups.

I'm coming from the UK perspective, so our police are less trigger-happy and mostly unarmed but certainly have a very dark side. Historically was more likely that the black / Irish / gay / minority-du-jour person ended up lying at the bottom of the stairs in the police station than a straight white person. (Edit: originally phrased in present tense)

Maybe the dominant group would be less happy to outsource it if they or their parents had also been on the receiving end.
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Unicellular life has stress responses too.
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You accept that honesty could plausibly be a social norm in some countries, yet you think it's laughable that the law might play a role in establishing and upholding that norm?
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Apart from the animal abuse issue (which is also what I care most about), it's also a cultural issue. If Catalans consider bull running to be Catalan heritage, but not bull fighting, they might allow the former and ban the latter. But Spain considers both Spanish cultural heritage, so wants both to be allowed anywhere in Spain.
Gyroc was amazing at the time and is still spoken about in hushed tones in the UK HPR community. While it was using ADXL50 devices for acceleration, the main gyro was an entirely custom built mechanical rotating gyro, wish I still had some pictures of it. Now that's all on a single chip you hardly even notice on the board :) Some pictures of it are here http://ukrocketman.com/rocketry/gimbal.shtml
Awesome you mean! Even when it doesn't work, it's doing something amazing.

Somebody buy this guy a Red Button, he deserves it.
Sure it can handle logins to both "theircompany.com" and "service.theircompany.com", assuming the cert is set up correctly. It probably isn't going to figure out that those are related to "theircompany-service.net". This would arguably be a failure in domain setup, but I've certainly seen similar setups before.

Example: "https://hbweb.incompass-solutions.com/" uses the same credentials as "http://www.equineline.com/" since they're both owned by the Jockey Club.
TSMC to Resist U.S. Call to Make Chips Domestically in Near Term
Agreed. All my vet friends get pretty worked up about this topic, particularly the lack of oversight. Even if you're in an active war zone, if you raise your weapon (even if the person you're aiming at is holding a weapon), it goes in your after-action report and is reviewed by your superiors to see if your actions conformed to the rules of engagement in that scenario.
perhaps (perhaps!) you weren’t a good technical leader after all. the JD you put out there isn’t quite right. you do have other people to leverage...that is your job. you just don’t have hard authority over them. it’s challenging and you can’t get by on pure tech ability anymore. so many very very strong tech folks fail here because they don’t have the soft leadership skills.

your company and your boss have to support you (eg by not micromanaging, so that you can actually effect soft leadership), but the way you put it, failure is a foregone conclusion.
In my experience grandparents live longer than “average” unless they’ve done something obviously harmful like smoking or sitting all day.

My great grandmother just died at 90 and really what killed her was being forced to stop walking, she lost so much bone mass that the increased Gs in elevator buckled her shin.
And that is why I'm a web developer ;)...

I chose to avoid all math after high school, how dare you bring formulas into my civilized, philosophical discussion!
Yes. Or I can just copy-paste what's in my browser's URL bar by pressing <ctrl-l><ctrl-c>. :)
"GPS is impossible without corrections from both special relativity and general relativity"

I appreciate your comments in general, but I feel that this point needs to be tempered. Yes there are corrections due to SR and GR effects in GNSS, but they tend to get lost in the morass of the least squares residuals compared to all the other much bigger effects, like clock errors, orbital errors, ionosphere delays, etc, etc.
What? ERC predates Artur Mas by almost a century. And Artur Mas and his party became "independentists" because there were already lots of real people already pro independence, aiming at their votes. Not the other way round.
I'd say that there's a huge number of independentists nowadays despite Artur Mas (and Jordi Pujol)
Btw, here's probably the only actual cat IIIC landing video on YT:

https://youtu.be/gthcuZV8agI
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Our armed forces deploy overseas on a variety of missions that include NATO support as well as peacekeeping. More generally, a standing army helps counterbalance the threat of land invasions in a way that a navy on its own could not. Thirdly, our armed forces are often used for humanitarian purposes such as supporting the country during our (not infrequent) natural disasters, e.g. flooding or bushfires.
Don't forget registration and inspection every 2 years (could be more or less depending on the place you live).
The sun is the most significant contributor to the temperature on the planet earth. For now, this contribution seems stable, but in the past, the heat of the sun has fluctuated quickly. CO2 may be the primary contributor to our climate temperature at the moment, but to think that a government is entirely responsible for climate temperature is like saying your parents are responsible for the current behaviour of the sun. It is too simplistic, and it will encourage people to believe that a government has more say about reality than it does. We should prepare for warmer and colder climates: In our near future, there could be a small scale nuclear war between Pakistan and India, there could be a massive volcanic eruption or a meteor strike. This last era of climatic temperature stability was a lucky thing that let civilization rise as quickly as it did. A responsible government would harden it's seed stocks against warmer/colder temperatures and train up its youth to be dynamic and imaginative problem solvers.
It's torture 100%

Very graphic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euy_71_nvCw
I always find it a bit weird when people wax nostalgic about the "old internet" when they're still talking about the web. The real old internet had existed for a while before the web, BBSes and Usenet before that. Eternal September[1], of which the early web was effectively a continuation, practically obliterated those communities.

There's a lot to like about being able to do my banking, shopping, etc. online. I value the contacts I've been able to make and maintain via Modern Social Media. Still, the loss of something that existed before looms larger for me than any differences between different generations of websites. The author is missing the middle period interent, and that's OK, but some of us also miss the truly old internet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
It's my own personal and professional experience. Yours may differ, but please don't call it FUD.
Satisfying dependency can be setting up some pointer to a function, passing an instance of already created interface, asking some factory to supply it etc. etc. As in everything in life there is no single universal answer on what is the best way to accomplish the task. What one uses in practice depends very much from problem complexity, one's experience / personal preferences, implementation language / environment features etc. etc.

I think there is no real need to dwell over the subject without knowing particular context
Ok, so a centralized system is as smart as the people working in the Ministry of Truth, but also creates a highly contested point of control. It's not guaranteed that it'll be smart, but ideally it can get as smart as possible for human beings.

A decentralized system is not controllable directly, but can only be as smart as the mean of the population[0]. Also, it also has a mechanism of control - propaganda. It's not all that effective, because you can have competing groups countering one another, but the side effects of that are relevant here: people take sides and reason by soundbites, while facts and critical thought get crowded out. Which means the more competing propagandists you have, the dumber the system becomes, even if all propaganda attempts cancel each other out.

So, on one hand you have a system with a very good quality ceiling but easy to manipulate; on the other hand, you have a system more resistant to direct manipulation, but consequently with a much lower ceiling that that also goes monotonically down as attempts to manipulate the system increase. Or, in other words: good results with high risk of bad results, vs. consistently shitty results.

Can't we do better? Are we doomed to choose between only those two?

--

[0] - Assuming a normal distribution, by the central limit theorem. If that doesn't hold, things could get even worse.
Then why don't they investigate wage theft? Googling around suggests that the cost to the US economy is about the same as shoplifting (and I'm guessing individual cases could be much higher value than shoplifting). When was the last time a battering ram was used in pursuit of a wage thief? Or when was one even arrested?

To answer my own questions, police do not care so much about the "value" of the target. Their behavior is much easier to explain once you realize that their job is to protect capital.
A broom is much heavier.

Your arm and hand are not great at doing many precise and gentle movements per second. With the acceleration they produce they can do many small corrections for a broom position. For a pencil, much faster and gentler corrections would be needed, and the arm + hand are too slow and imprecise to tackle that.
> During all phases of flight it communicates with passengers and appropriate air traffic control facilities regarding the new flight plan route and estimated time until landing.

Which would suggest that if you need to be vectored to a runway, the aircraft can negotiate that with ATC automatically (and perhaps ATC can advise which is the most appropriate diversion?) This in the situation where the pilot is incapacitated, but the aircraft isn't in an immediate risk of crashing (e.g. you're cruising, but there's bad weather immediately below you).

It should also be able to use stuff like D-ATIS to get airport conditions.

That seems optimistic though, perhaps it just announces its intentions and hopes ATC clears a path?
Facebook 'scam' posing as Trump campaign ran political ads, sought donations
Life is too short to eat peanut butter sandwiches every day.
Richard Feynman himself has a reply similar to yours in the documentary called "Fun To Imagine" when he is asked a why question, in that case related to the magnetic force:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA

Indeed, questions of why are often metaphysical and can't truly be answered within the framework of physics.
The options in Outlook are very limited.

Some that I encountered recently were:

You cannot use regular expressions.

There is not a way to create a rule to delete or move messages after a N days.
> Funny, when you consider the largest source of CO2 emissions on the planet. They're plowing up wetlands and blaming German govt for CO2. Mind boggling.

That is something that annoys me about current political discussions: Always trying to attack the messenger instead of the message.

Even if that would have been people responsible for producing the most CO2 on the planet, that would and should have no effect on the validity of the message and their claim that there is to much CO2 produced and that the government should have prevented them doing so.
As I understand one of the reasons astronomers demoted Pluto out of the planet status is they couldn't come up with a definition of planet that kept Pluto a planet that didn't promote the moon to a planet.
Exactly, changes from software to software. And how to uninstall?

Much easier to add an MSI to GPO, and then just as easy to remove it again and it's uninstalled.

Not sure how writing scripts to do all that myself for every piece of software is better.
If you're the sole author yes. If you took any contributions then no unless you got all the contributors to accept your proprietary license for their contribution.
New research shows that footballers are more likely to suffer from dementia
A bit too dramatic. Most places have libel laws, denmark is no exception. Twitter is not a newspaper but a platform. Most news are commentary on tweets anyway. After banning political paid ads (the burden of truth of which falls on twitter, since they are the ones doing the publishing), twitter is even less a publisher and more a platform.
This tendency is has particularly glaring and tragic effects in discussions of how communities should handle reports of and design systems to prevent sexual assault.

Myself, when I want to take something seriously, it means I:

- Try to spot special cases so I can be explicit about whether or not they should be handled.

- Try to be precise in my language, to ensure I'm not (for example) conflating two issues with a subtle but meaningful difference.

- Try to check my understanding of things, even in cases where I'm 80% sure I've understood someone correctly. I want to get to 97%.

- Try to nail down unambiguously which things we are concluding as we go along.

If I don't do these things, it feels like I'm not taking the issue seriously. If someone says something and I spot an ambiguity in their words which seems relevant, I feel an urge to ask about it--both to convey that I'm Actively Listening and to ensure I really understand them. The less confident I am in a subject, the more likely I am to judge an ambiguity is worth asking about--maybe its minor, but I don't know if I don't ask! When I notice a special case, my intuition starts loudly blaring "Risk ahead! Risk ahead! If you're putting this risk out-of-scope, be explicit about it."

All of these habits, when applied to conversations about sexual assault, are generally interpreted as being pedantic. This arouses suspicion in other people: "why are you bringing this up?" "why are you trying to be so cut-and-dry?" "why are you trying to rules-lawyer consent?" The conclusion which normal people naturally answer that question with go: This person is trying to create social space for abusers to operate.

The lesson is: avoid conversations about sexual assault unless you know you are first aligned on broader conversational norms like like "How do we establish that we've agreed on something?" and "How do we talk about a nonzero probability of system failure?"
You are certainly right on helicopters' dynamics...

I was more thinking of planes and rockets when writing on dynamics: they are shaped to break through and be tunneled by a non-moving air for stability, and their weight decreased faster than their wing surfaces, making lift easier at smaller scales.

Helicopter are a different realm: they need to survive in the middle of the wind (and turbulence) they create to lift, and they are not tunneled (their body is not aligned on the vertical flow).

Thus, as Temporal mentions it, inertia is important for helicopter stability and it is reduced with weight at smaller scales.
One-Third of Libya's Oil Goes Missing