skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This probably isn't the type of war story you were expecting, but...

Many years ago I was the leader of an application maintenance team. The application had an n-tier client-server architecture. The database was DB2, running on an MVS system (with CICS).

We had some records that had incorrect information in them about the business process (basically what state they were in in the workflow). The team had to reset the business process info to the correct value. We wrote an UPDATE statement, and tested it in our non-production environment. Everything looked good.

In order to perform the clean up, we needed to create some new JCL to run the UPDATE statement in production. Because we had not yet learned better, the process involved re-keying the SQL into a new JCL file. Unfortunately, when the developer re-keyed the statement into the new JCL, he accidentally inserted a ';' before the WHERE clause.

The morning after the job was supposed to run, I asked the developer whether it had worked. "Yes," he told me. I asked him how many records had been updated in the end. He checked. Then he told me a number that was so big I knew something must have gone wrong. As you have probably already realized, we had updated every record in the table. We had changed the state of every workflow in our system.

We were very fortunate that we had a nightly backup AND I had a more senior manager who realized that we could repair the records using the data in the backup without doing a full restore. The org lost about a day of productivity, and we learned to never re-enter code that had been successfully tested. We parameterized our JCL after that.
Given those two statements, how much testing ($$$$) are agencies like NASA going to require before attaching self-loading cargo to the ship?

A large part of SpaceX’s success in winning commercial crew approval is because the stack is actually very traditional. The primary innovation is first stage recovery which arguably doesn’t add any risk to the crew.

Fully new materials and propellants completely change the game when it comes to risk. I hope the succeed and I think they can succeed. It’s just that this round is going to take a little more money than the Falcon/Dragon program and I hope they’re able to find enough of it.
I think some culture ships if not all have actual hulls certainly the war ships do
I were told there were 3 occasions the people of a state are called cockroaches and nazi Germany is top one. This article sounded so familiar living in Hong Kong the third cases. Police as a force that can change to a totalitarian tool is one of the problem humanity has not solved. Who watch the watchman.
Not just used to! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeiATy-FfjI
Does it? I would say it more draws attention to React Router.
> Bezos who pays no tax is going to become a trillionaire

You realize this is misinformation twice over, yes? Doesn't do credit to your argument.
"Protests of non-responsive oppressive governments and their agents that get accompanied by opportunistic looting" sounds like this last week to me.
I really wish they’re re-release it on a modern console. My DC’s gonna die one of these days and it’s a pain to keep old consoles in service. I’d really rather have it than 3. Which is probably why they don’t—it’d directly compete with the new one.
Buses are a great place to catch airborne disease. As a whole, the deal with public transportation is a lot less rosy than some of the proponents would like one to believe.
try `softwareupdate -l`
0 detail about the sensor, or did I miss it?
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Even if you oppose both for the same reason, you should be able to recognize that they are not, in fact, the same. You're ignoring the power dynamics at play here which makes violence and excessive force by police officers far worse than arson by the rioters.

If you equate all violence as being the same, then you're saying that the violence committed by the oppressed is the same as the violence committed by the oppressors. Once we recognize that they are not the same, then we can understand that yes, rioting is bad, but the police response is far worse.
Doesn't seem like it was necessary here. I'm no computer vision expert, but surely parallax between multiple cameras and/or multiple time points would make detecting such a massive object simple.
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Can't change the heart with rioting either, and are you sure you know whose hearts need to change, and what change needs to occur? I think you could erase all racism from the hearts of humanity and end up with basically the same world, there's no reconciling the self-celebrating narcissism of moderns with universal love.

Can't take the mote out of your brother's eye until you remove the beam in your own. This applies to everyone, even anti-racists.
Both, actually. They figure that if you can get all your answers from Google itself, they get all of the ad dollars and don't have to share. That's why they try to get the implied question answered with pages served from them if possible.
I can highly recommend taking a look at the traffic going across your network as well. With an OpenWRT or Ubiquiti router, you may even be able to mirror your WAN port to something Wireshark can see - it's definitely eye-opening.
Also if you had enough power (solar or possibly nuclear) you could use the captured gases directly for slightly inefficient propulsion by heating them NERVA style or accelerating them by a modifiedion engine.

I remember some concepts for very low altitude satellites that compensate for drag by running a solar powered ion ramjet. :)
I'm not sure the goal of this project but collecting criminal arrest information and making it public is not going to help anyone who's been wrongfully arrested, or anyone who's had their charge expunged. I'm fairly sure that storing and exposing this data improperly without respect to subsequent court actions is in violation of the law.
I don't understand how paying attention can prevent this sort of thing.

Let's say you're paying attention with all your might. You see something up ahead, like an overturned tractor trailer. You expect autopilot will sense it, but you're preparing for it not to. But how do you know it's not going to sense it? Well, obviously, when it hasn't started reacting in a reasonable time. But then it's too late!

In order for a human to have time to figure out that the software isn't working it would have to routinely operate with (much) slower reflexes than a human. But then it would be useless, as you can't slow down normal driving, and in any case, that's not how they designed it.

The hypothesis that people have unreasonable expectations of something called "Autopilot" seems unnecessary and irrelevant to me.
So Ms Kinnear convinced her supervisor that a masters thesis on science fiction spaceship design was a good idea, thats the most impressive part imho :-)
The police issued an apology? How about we fire someone for this. There have to be consequences or the system doesn't work.
Surprised they don't have anti spalling and internal protection
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> looters and pillagers the media conflates with the former as "protestors."

Problem is - they are the same crowd. It's not like peaceful protestors run away from looters and aggressors until there's like a block or two. They just continue standing next to them, when police is trying to disperse the crowd with gas and/or pepper, because some members are aggressive.

In that situation a peaceful person getting sprayed feels unjustly attacked, blaming that on police instead of just staying away from people with bats, clubs, people throwing stuff, or looting.

I read an account of protests from a sane person, and it was exactly like that. At some place police pushed harder into them at 3+PM, and he assumed they just did it out of aggression. What he did not (and could not have) know is that half an hour ago there was already a clash, and the area essentially became off limits due to looting. So he ignored the call to disperse (which he assumed was unjustified, as he personally and his immediate friends around him did nothing bad).

I think the problem is that police needs to indicate more clearly when they want to get a violent person from the crowd, so that crowd would not stand in the way.
That's not a great example as it turned out (years later when the raw data came out) that Gore in fact won Florida. So their overnight decision was objectively wrong.
The jacks have nothing to do with voltage and polarity is standard. Dell puts extra electronics in that have nothing to do with barrel jacks. You are conflating two things that are orthogonal and could not be more separate, and you were already told this.
> Controlling the motor is a real-time digital control system task, and it needs to be executed at exact time intervals

This is correct but also the accelerometer data needs to be sampled at the same interval. For this reason, running the control algorithm in lock step with the sensor may be sensible.
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> If "noisy and infrequent" doesn't mean "not good" to you, what does?

It's inconvenient / not ideal. I took a loud, full, public transport bus to school in my home town every day. It was not always on time. It got me to the destination every day though.

It was not great, but it was good enough. Sure, a car would be better, but if everyone did that everyone would be even later and busses would be even more infrequent.
prob for phd. my HS guidance counselor let me down by not telling me that this kind of BS would ever count for something. Good for this dudette.
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Large uniform/featureless surfaces are the bane of stereo vision. And propagating in from the borders is extremely risky if there's any occlusion affecting the borders (read: if you get the borders wrong).

Maybe in this particular instance you could look at the data and go "yep, that white surface is indeed closing in and not just some part of the sky". But how many false positives do you allow for "there's a huge thing in my way that requires emergency braking" in interstate scenarios?
And the best results are with those who were self-taught, and then went to college on top of that.
Obama, the POTUS who ordered plenty of military actions that led to hundreds of innocent civilian deaths. Civilians who did not have white skin. The irony should not be too quickly dismissed.

"President Obama, who hoped to sow peace, instead led the nation in war"

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-na-pol-obama-at-war/
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I submitted a FOIA request last year for all parking citations issued in San Francisco. The data was truly extraordinary and showed clearly how simple street sweeping citations could lead to a car being towed, auctioned, and the owner (whose name/license plate is publicly listed if they overpaid or paid a citation twice [1]) losing their business and eventually moving elsewhere. I decided against publishing my research out of fear of encroaching on the privacy of those involved.

One story that comes to mind is the license plate HPPYPPS, a plumber whose company Happy Pipes provided service around SF. He was subject to numerous citations on the order of $1k a month. When his van was towed, he likely did not have the funds to retrieve it, and it was subsequently auctioned. He now does business under the same name, but in Utah. It is interesting to think of how much tax revenue the city actually lost by fining a small business out of existence, which was likely much greater than the total punitive fines levied against him.

In the process of looking up companies that owned vehicles, S1 filings, and high-end cars that seem to accrue tens of thousands of dollars of fines every year, I grew exhausted and demoralized by the project and it has sat on my back burner for a year now. If anyone is interested in taking this up while respecting the privacy of those involved, let me know how to contact you and I'll share my data.

1. https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-docume...
That's thankfully far out of distribution. Why doesn't Tesla get more slack for incidents like this? Uber had to shut down its self-driving lab for almost a year when one of its vehicles failed and killed a pedestrian.
> I cannot condone violence nor encourage it, but you have to admit that the first few protests and property damage drastically influenced the quick arrest of an officer that may not have been arrested or even fired if it didn't happen.

I am deeply critical of this line of thought. There are so many negative consequences of properties destruction and looting that counterweight the benefits.

As far as I am concerned this is an argument that only someone that did not have a riot outside of their own house can espouse.

I apologize for the hyperbole of that argument, but it is something that I would personally say to everyone condoning the destruction, the looting, and the violence; even knowing that in some instances I will be wrong.

I a couple of months there will be one less evil cop around and also quite few stores destroyed, livelihood evaporated, family savings lost, destroyed buildings in historically minority and poor neighborhoods.

Once the dust settles hundreds of people will be in far worse conditions that they would have been otherwise AND those will not be the protesters, those will be the people, families, kids, that had the protest happen around them.
For consumers, M-DISC media for DVD/Blu-ray might be about the best there is for long term storage.[1]

In the enterprise/experimental world there are things like Microsoft Project Silica[2][3] where they are storing data on quartz slides.

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[3]https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/ignite-project...
Btw, python-z3 supports the % operator

from z3 import Int, solve
x = Int('x')
solve([x % 611939 == 145767, x % 598463 == 109572])
[x = 243085550]

Also: please use python3, it's 2020 :(
And a simpler conversion to base128 would be:

print(''.join(chr((x // 128**i) % 128) for i in range(3, -1, -1)))
> there is some sense in promoting more user-friendly pages that are thus a bit less likely to be SEO spam

If there's a metric that will improve ranking, the SEO people are all over it, and have more incentive and resources to optimize for it than normal publishers.
What law would be violated? What law would one use to infringe freedom of speech to continue to publish these records as a private citizen? Failing all else, one can host outside the jurisdiction.
Instead of jumping into the argument to make a false narrative, you should really watch the videos in the OP first. These are journalists nowhere near looters and aggressors being assaulted, tear gassed or arrested.
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After hitting some weird PyInstaller bugs, I gave up and started compiling Python myself. One interpreter for every project. Shell scripts to set the paths. All libraries go directly in site-packages, not some other layer. A little more complicated at the outset, but this approach has yet to let me down. And compared to the nightmares I was trying to fix, building Python is dead easy.
> cough cough

I know of the localized versions of StackOverflow but they hardly are worth visiting.

> it is a bit of a chicken-and-egg issue: more content being available in English which leads to more people having to learn English and might end up producing English content.

It's not an issue, it's awesome.

> But this in no point is an exclusive thing. There is nothing that says that if you participate in HN in English that you must always write in English.

Obviously. Yet I would never use any other language to name a variable or a function. I would also use English and only English to write a manual for a library I might invent as that would mean most of the developers would be able to read it immediately without me having to waste my time on writing in different languages.
Use Viewert over Medium?
Is there a reason more developers don't use Viewert? It's like Evernote meets Medium in a social network. It's a young project with fewer people even aware of it.
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I work at a top-5 tech corporation, and we still have that! Though the mail room is the closest destination, with three different outboxes, and personalized in-box slots. It's handy for sending physical items (such as ship-it badges, booklets bringing awareness to this or that, or the occasional physical bill to be expensed).

If I have a package delivered, there's someone with corporate security clearances that will swing it by the desk.
Well, that truly sucks. COVID-19 is going to cause long term problems for this generation. I'm glad I got over it without issue, but I have to wonder what's in store for my future.
25 years ago I used to read Texas Monthly magazine (on paper) because it was some of the best journalism around. I finally unsubscribed when I had to flip through 16 pages of ads to get to the table of contents, and several ads per issue contained scratch-n-sniff perfume samples which meant that reading an article required you to smell like a bordello afterwards.

Wired is the digital equivalent of that now. There's some great journalism in there, but no journalism is good enough to put up with a hostile attack on one's sensibilities just to read it.
I wonder what those 4.0 former students are doing now.
While it is the case that it usually takes two people to cause an accident, there are plenty of scenarios where there is only one person who is capable of taking the action necessary to avoid it. For example, an elderly person in the crosswalk is not going to be capable of getting out of the way of a speeding car.

It's already the case that pedestrian/car collisions are usually written off as the pedestrian's fault until proven otherwise--the Uber self-driving car that killed a pedestrian is a great example of that in action.
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This really stopped and made me consider the amount of work that goes into making dictionaries, especially before computers, and the completely mind numbing and awful job it must be to be a dictionary editor. Then again, I'm sure some people out there probably love it but, I just imagined for a moment having to be the person going through those and adding them to the dictionary and honestly, it wasn't a happy thought.

Anyone who did that, or still does, and anyone who enjoys doing that kind of work, I just say props to you guys. People like you work on those little details that makes the world interesting and do the things that get unappreciated but used by everybody. Just wanted to say thanks to all the dictionary editors and people doing work like that. I'm sure you guys don't get appreciated as much as you should.
Because Uber hired a human driver that ran over a pedestrian while doing paperwork when they should have been driving.

Tesla, for all of its overselling autopilot, didn't the tell these drivers to take naps and play video games while on autopilot.
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You're trying to emulate an entire OS here. Android 10 requires a minimum of 2GB of RAM just on its own now. You have overhead for the emulation software itself on top of that, in addition to the memory needed by your computer's OS, your IDE, your browser, etc. Android Studio alone requires a minimum of 1GB and, at least in my experience, it will use that within 5 minutes of opening up.

Not to mention, even budget phones today are at least twice as fast as the CPU you're running.

You can't expect emulated software to run well on a computer that barely even meets the minimum requirements for that software. It's ludicrous.