skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think my issue is more with navigation than style. Like Seeing the whole thread tree inline would be nicer no, even for the folks who still want the plain text feel?
I'm not entirely sure what process is converting to sound, but the metal fence makes a great antenna and we are talking about 10's of feet from the antenna with 500 kW AM at 200 kHz going into it.

It could actually have been arcing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo9nGzIzSPw
Well, University in India also costs like $10k for the whole thing. Soo... the value proposition is quite different.

This applies only in the case of the US, because university implies a $100k student loan.
The third option, which works very well, is just by people donating to writers they want to.

The maths works out pretty well if you look at it as a marketing funnel for the author.

In the "traditional" model the author/publisher has to persuade a potential reader to part with money before reading the book, which has huge friction and costs lots of marketing money to persuade people that the book is good enough to buy before they read it - no "one month free trials" here. Using standard marketing funnel maths, they have to get the title in front of 10,000 people to get one sale (assuming a 1% conversion rate for the 2-step funnel). The net profit of this model is lower (for the author) because so much money is spent on marketing.

In the donation model, the author gives the book for free, and then asks for a donation afterwards. They only need to get 100 people to read the book (assuming a 1% conversion rate of people who have read it and want to donate). The cool thing is that those 100 people have read the book, and know it, will talk about it, will recognise the author when their next book comes out, etc.
Do we have any evidence that shows 8 year olds can't drive if given enough practice? I mean as long as they can see and reach the pedal I'd say driving is simple enough that they could do it if there aren't any distractions.
Serious question. Isn't it a reasonable excuse?

If nobody gets hurt because it's going reasonable speeds?
It's a long article and I thought I could be helpful by summarizing the conclusion; I don't think a person who didn't read it would grasp that from the quotation marks alone.
Haven't heard of Locast and it looks like they aren't available in SLC unfortunately, but that looks neat. I hope they win! I'd pay a small amount monthly for something like that. Unfortunately you have to start at around ~$25/month with current providers, which is outrageous IMHO for something broadcast for free. That structure needs to die, but there are powerful, wealthy organizations profiting off of it, so it's an uphill battle for sure.
Nothing that they actually made themselves after I (I'm not OP) have stopped using Google search, it's just YouTube now.

What has Google actually created that's successful, in house, other than search & gmail?
this looks super interesting, applied!
Firefighters don't shoot journalists and peaceful protesters.

Edit: changed the subject of the sentence from "burning houses" to "firefighters," because the former didn't make any fucking sense.
Most of the info is not publicly available but collected by inferring information about based on the pages you visit, who you talk and which other users you associate with.
That could work in Massachusetts, Maryland or some other states with very low firearms ownership rates. I don't think it's fair to ask police to go out and police without at least letting them have (at their discretion) the same level of armament as the local law abiding citizens and holding them to the same standards when they do use force. Allowing a civilian police force to have things the local civilians can't have doesn't make sense IMO.

What cops really need is more training to not shoot first and ask questions later. 18yo marines manning checkpoints in the middle east are expected to more or less hold their fire until they come under fire. Domestic police should be held to similiar standards.
American revolutionaries targeted loyalist civilians for violence and property destruction. Let's not ignore the ugly parts of our national history. In some cases it was literally terrorism, at least by the modern definition.

https://www.ushistory.org/US/13c.asp
I think we’re at the point with the internet where modern design is inversely proportional to good content. I find more stuff on half-forgotten .edu sites, old.reddit threads, and weird forums than anything “responsive” nowadays. Most of the nice looking sites are just regurgitating stuff from the older, rougher ones anyway.
I have the right to carry a gun as an individual. I do not have the right to carry a gun while working at my job. You aren't even allowed to have a knife or any other kind of weapon sometimes on the job.

Carrying a gun as a police officer is a privilege because of all the power and authority that comes with it.
Sometimes you can choose to make a website whose sole purpose isn't to attract Google Search traffic, and that's OK! Not every website has to rank in Google Search to be useful.
The one in mine signals collision warnings on metal signs above the road. Although in fairness it's never triggered emergency braking.
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I have great respect for the project, and IMHO you missed the headline feature: Debian’s Free Software Guidelines and the commitment to true freedom in main is an important contribution to the ethos of a universal operating system.

And you’re right about Debian Security Advisories. They are an important part of a stable base OS for anything internet facing. (The days of local users attacking each other via vulnerabilities seem less relevant in 2020.)
I wonder how accurate these old standby run-of-the mill memes we repeat ad nauseum really are. What data are they based on, really? And even if they are true, might it be possible that people that hold these opinions hold them because they've never been involved in any serious in-depth analysis & discussion on the topics? There's not even that much serious, accurate, unbiased material out there to base such conversations on, and I sure as hell don't know of too many people who'd be interested in getting involved in such things if purely left up to their own volition.

Perhaps if we had some serious, organized, factual discussions on some of these matters (as opposed to the all propaganda all the time approach we've become so accustomed to), people wouldn't continue to hold the same opinions they (supposedly) hold at the moment.
> democratic protest

It seems like the protestors have lost faith in the democratic process. Can you still call it a democratic protest?
First I want to say voter ID laws are in practice intended to disenfranchise voters. Which makes them unethical.

I have also never seen any evidence that it's an actual problem on any significant scale. But, in theory, I think the threat model is there.

Here in Texas, you can get a list of everyone who is registered to vote. Most states make these lists available; in Texas, it's available to anyone. So that takes care of one of the steps of identity theft, which this is a form of.

In my county, we also allow people to vote at any polling place (so you can vote on your lunch hour, etc.), so you wouldn't need to drive to anyone's precinct. You could just visit which ever polling place(s) are convenient.

I agree it won't work if the person has already voted. But you're in a race with the voter, and you've got a 50% shot at winning that race.

And voter turnout isn't 100%; it's more like 50-60%. If that voter is one of the 40% who don't vote, then you win that race by default. If they're one of the 60% who does, then you've got a 50/50 shot. That adds up to 70% odds of success at stealing their vote.

You can even optimize that further by looking at demographic data about voter turnout. Young people, for example, have low turnout and old people have high turnout, and the voter rolls include date of birth.
This is exactly why we need LIDAR.

Tesla has been very stubborn about avoiding LIDAR and this is what happens as a consequence. The rest of the self-driving scene fundamentally relies on LIDAR to get things working. Believe me, if cameras were sufficient people wouldn't use LIDAR . LIDAR is expensive. I have spoken to quite a few people in the field and the lack of LIDAR in Tesla vehicles baffles them.

Radar is not a substitute for LIDAR. Sound is really high latency and has terrible resolution.

I would like to see how often things like these happen with Waymo.
the github links to a bunch of other places that also pay. There is also whopaystechnicalwriters.com which has a link to a book that Philip recently published with more thorough advice.

otherwise write, write, write. There exists no method that will make you a better writer than writing a million words. (loosely paraphrasing patio11). Once you have published something it is much easier to find follow on clients. Publishers like PacktPub, Apress etc will usually happily take on inexperienced writers. They don't pay that well but they'll push you hard to get words out the door.
I can only share my perspective but eastern europeans are viewed highly favourably in my circles (hiring manager for who knows how many roles over the past 15 years in fintech / banking).

There’s an enviable reputation for hard work, high quality and beneficial labour cost discounts vs other european countries.
no idea why this company exists. contrary to those talking about personal guarantees, any bank will be happy to give you a charge card (what brex is), that draws directly from your deposit account.

ISTM brex is a co-marketing exercise with xero.

OTOH if you have a charge card from your bank, you don't need the API integration as transactions post directly.

most importantly, you have to trade off your corporate privacy! they require access to your bank account, purportedly so they can verify your sole use of brex and not any other cards. but come on, obviously they are doing some data mining.
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> Activists want to eat their cake and have it too.

Ted?
> Copyright is about more than sales. It's about the author having the right to determine who gets to distribute and profit from their creative works.

This is not sound justification for the existence of copyright. You're asserting that an author is deserved a special personal benefit even if that benefit hurts the general public. What other worker is afforded similar protection?

In the case of the Internet Archive, they've taken a book you've already made money on, and are lending it to one person at a time. And if it's not affecting your sales, you are preventing other people from benefiting from the book for no good reason.

I understand the appeal of controlling your writing, but I don't think we as a society should be giving individual authors an unbridled license to decide how we share and experience works.

Furthermore, the legal (and historical) basis for copyright in the United States is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". Copyright is a special monopoly, given only to promote the general welfare.

This is not to say I'm against any use of copyright in principle. But the purpose of granting such a monopoly has to be to provide incentives to create writings are art, not to protect a purported natural right. I hope my message doesn't come off as disparaging to your desire to support yourself or the importance of creative work.
That's easy: just remove all laws or all law enforcement.
1. Most of the times I have (at least) 1 active coding project. While working on it, I note down whatever I consider "interesting" (i.e. something I figured out that might be of interest for other devs).

2. I had "Oh, this might be interesting for others!" moments too many times.

3. At the beginning it's easy (excitement). Then you need determination and consistency to keep doing it. I guess my list keeps growing, so I keep blogging.

4. Shyness. Imposter syndrome. Then I realised that it's fine to be wrong sometimes. Worst-case scenario is that someone will tell you it's wrong and you will learn something new.

My blog: https://www.rockandnull.com
> a company as tech-focused as Uber is still going to need a substantial engineering department just to keep the lights on.

Which is why I initially estimated keeping 20% of engineers. Then Uber would be slightly profitable in the short term, pre-coronavirus.
My understanding is these were printed letters circulated internally via the mailroom. Most companies had workers who circulated both internal and external mail - so a couple times a day someone would come by with letters for you, both from the outside world, and from inside the office. Memoranda were generally announcements distributed to many people in the office.

There were normally two trays or boxes for paper on people's desk, one was the "inbox" and one was the "outbox," and the mail person would place the new stuff in the inbox and take anything from the outbox to circulate it around the office.

I never really lived that, although my first desk job did have an inbox and an outbox, the team wasn't big enough to have a mailroom, so we would just use those boxes to drop papers at other people's desks - hence the outbox didn't really get used, but the inbox did. Usually once a day a bundle of mail would get dropped off at the front desk and someone would take a turn walking the letters around the office, but there weren't that many of them as email was already a thing at that point.
Can you compare the time required to generate a preseed file and a playbook?

Also, how often do you rebuild a playbook and a preseed file?

Honestly asking, no traps here.
Oh, we can already build planes that use high-efficiency propellers (with efficient and lightweight gear-less axial flux motors) and soar above the clouds 24/7, using height instead of batteries and ultra-light back-ground solar cells laminated into a giant flying wing (or at least much more wing than fuselage, because the motors should be distributed to reduce demands on wing stiffness). A weight of less than 2.5kg/m^2 in the wing should be feasible with large, monolithic carbon fiber sections, joined by narrow engine segments. Overall it should be possible to stay below a wing loading of 5kg/m^2, so a 100m span, 1m chord 500kg plane gets about 18h out of 10km height, see https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?2601411-Is-wi... .
AI tool to automate user interviews scheduling
Corporate raiding was popular in 80s,but since then many methods were created to defend companies from such activities.For a minority shareholder to get a board seat is doable, however to bully the entire board into dancing, requires weak donkeys.If the CEO cares more about his own job than the company he's supposed to run,then it's quite easy for the like of Icahn to do whatever they want to. Having said that,I've got a feeling that he's mostly after vulnerable companies that can be influenced for one reason or another.
If that doesn't illustrate their true priorities re: user security/ privacy, then I'm not sure what could.
Why not? Humans can drive in less than optimal situations with 2 eyes as sensors.

If the goal is to have a solution that can drive in the same situations as a human.

What sensor is missing then and why?

Ps. My statement questions mostly LIDAR as additional sensor, I'm not sure if AI/ML is good enough yet too, but we'll c. I'm pretty sure Lidar isn't as important as many people think it is.

And for all Musk's "his faults", you can't deny he is correct on a lot of cases.

Almost everyone questions the Lidar decision, but loses sight of the most simple question.

What's missing with only cameras, if humans can do it?
You're admitting what most anti-copyright people don't want to admit – if instead of bookshops we only had the Emergency Library, certain classes of works would indeed go away, including most good fiction, not to mention history, biography, reportage etc. You say that's "just what happens" like it's some ineluctable natural process, but none of this is preordained. The traditional model has a lot of defenders – including the majority of readers who are still happy to pay for books – and with those defenders' help it can survive.
It's a monty python reference
Oh, I didn't realize that x had to simultaneously satisfy both; I just though they were two parts of the email or something. Thanks for the explanation!
I would be totally okay with this if it means we can predict when thunderstorms will start in our mountain passes.
SpaceX already offered a solution: separate thrusters a few dozen meters off the ground. Current plan is for Raptors to be off for landing.

It's disappointing that Zubrin didn't mention that.
1. I write on nights and weekends in short scheduled blocks of time. Our blog is about scaling product and engineering at a hypergrowth startup, and I've kept a running list of things that I've learned for about 5 years (over 50 pages of notes). When I want more content, I pull inspiration from that list.

2. It wasn't hard to start, you just need to stay motivated. I also highly recommend picking a stupidly simple stack for your blog. Do not let technology choices or rabbit holes get in the way of writing! We use Jekyll + Gitlab for CD, you can see it here at https://staysaasy.com/ and it's stupidly simple and free to maintain.

3. My engineering counterpart and I write our blog together. We're partners/counterparts at work and on our blog, and it's a huge motivator to have a partner in crime. I highly recommend this step!

4. In order to write more candidly about potentially sensitive management/leadership topics, we write anonymously as our company is reasonably well known in tech circles. Discipline is the key. Block time and take notes on what you want to write about so that you're never lacking in inspiration.
Here's my minor nitpick: pluralization of quantities.

There are still a number of major websites and apps that display strings like "1 days to go!" or "there are 2 item(s) in your cart".

Are they afraid of that extra code to build the string properly? Is internationalization a problem for these strings? Who the hell knows. Not everyone has this problem so it can't be because it's not solvable.
Yeah, implicit bias training is snake oil. It’s something they can pay consultants for to look like they’re taking action, without asking any difficult questions about the structure of the department.
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Computer vision is far behind human vision. Human vision includes the human brain, which we have not been able to come close to replicating. I am working on a years long computer vision project right now. We still struggle to do basic tasks that humans can do easily.

Making a computer vision system for a car that always knows what images mean the road is clear and what images mean the road is blocked with 100% accuracy is very hard.

That said, Tesla has also said they can determine the 3D geometry of the scene using only computer vision, which is certainly a known task (called photogrammetry or structure from motion). However it seems their algorithm failed in this case to accurately judge depth. With a clear picture and a well understood camera system it is pretty do-able, but I haven't looked at this article so perhaps the footage was not sufficiently clear.
A constitutionally limited government can explicitly hurt minority rights, for instance the Confederate States Constitution, or betray intentions of principles through direct democratic procedures by interpretation and enforcement.

With direct democracy you do have tyranny of the majority while this is certainly mitigated in a representative democracy; for instance the 2016 election where the popular vote would have selected a different president.

The US founding fathers were very familiar with Aristotle who stated: "Unlimited democracy is, just like oligarchy, a tyranny spread over a large number of people.”

Indeed the US founding fathers' decisions reflect this, If we're to believe their commentary, they picked a republic with the motivation of liberty for all with emphasis on the elective structure, Constitutional Convention of Hamilton 1787 : "We are now forming a republican government...Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.”

Scalia has a good talk about this, how a merely constitutionally limited government is completely ineffective of guaranteeing its provisions, its interpretation, and its enforcements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggz_gd--UO0

"Every banana republic has a bill of rights"
Memo is abbreviated, firstly. The word is memorandum, and as the Latin root suggests, is something to “bring to mind.” Typically written or typed notes, which might get copied and passed around. They have more jargon meanings in certain contexts.
The one group who is most on top of such things, the dread conspiracy theorists, have been the subject of an intense, coordinated slur campaign for many years now. There are several interesting quirks about this whole affair, but you'll sure as hell never see them on the 6 o'clock news, voluntarily at least.
Here in the UK, if you go to a library and take out a book, the author does get compensated, it's called the Public Lending Right. Apparently in Denmark they've had it since 1941 so I don't think it took ebooks to make it technologically possible.
Those links are all broken :(

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>The market keeps growing though, with all those deliveries subsidized by the regular store sales.

You can only grow subsidies so far. I expect as things hopefully get back to come semblance of normal and VC subsidies evaporate, a lot of these delivery options evaporate as most people decide they'd just as soon keep their money and spend a few minutes picking up their own groceries or their own takeout.

Given the failure of businesses like Webvan--and the fairly limited growth of Peapod--I'm not sure I see the continuing growth.
The narrative spread far and wide is that Russia hacked the DNC and passed the emails to wikileaks, who distributed them in order to hurt HRC in the election and boost Trump. This was the premises for the Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, which took approximately 2 years and cost 26 million dollars and included "2,800 subpoenas, executed almost 500 search warrants, and interviewed approximately 500 witnesses."

But nobody thought to go England (the FBI has a field office there, so no "going" necessary), where Julian Assange was under house arrest in Ecuador's embassy, and ask "Hey, where did you get those emails?" Oops!
Thankfully we are not robots and can take multiple things into account when optimizing :)