skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The human rights rapporteur published an essay describing his experience investigating the allegations made by Assange’s lawyers. (I don’t have the link handy. It starts with a few paragraphs explaining that he did his best to avoid investigating the matter because it seemed like a politically wrought waste of time.

Among other things, he concluded that the investigation conducted by the Swedish government violated many of their own standard procedures in unprecedented ways, and also, at no point did the “accuser” accuse Assange of a crime or attempt to press charges.

Apparently, during consensual sex, a condom broke (I think there was slightly more to the story), and she wanted Assange to get an AIDS test. She asked the police if there was any way to compel him to get one.

That somehow then escalated (against her wishes) to a rape charge and an extradition battle.

So, “complete fabrication” is a slight exaggeration of the situation (the “accuser” exists, but didn’t accuse anyone of a crime).

I think the facts more than support the statement that it was a “politically-motivated, fabricated accusation”.
I am sure they posted a Letter in all the airports "Do you have a Fake Lic. DO NOT FLY ;) "
You're literally talking about a different measure. This article is about initial issues (first 90 days of ownership); dependability refers to long-term ownership

"overall dependability for three-year-old vehicles"
So happy to see the Dekalog here. It's hard to find it streaming. Dekalog 1 is a particularly relevant film for HN since it deals with a programmer and his idolization of technology. There's a small moment at a shrine with wax that is immensely beautiful. Kieslowski has such a great eye for the small details and poetry within the scene.
People were traveling on boats already and traveling on boats wasn't as hazardous as sending people on a controlled exploding vehicle. Plus on earth, existing tech in europe/africa was going to work in most places of discovery on earth. Everything in space will have to be re-invented, without the thousands of years of iteration (like ag). Have people really even figured out how to farm on Mars? No because no one has farmed on mars. And farming on mars, that tech may likely not be useable on earth, because we've spent the last thousands of years optimizing for our planet. Utilizing the soil the sun and existing manufacturing. We'll build tech for mars, and then what next? What is the next uninhabitable planet we'll visit and rebuild entire infrastructure, while abbandoning the 1 good planet we have. I don't disagree that space travel is important and finding planets is important, but i think those things pale in comparison to the problems of our only guaranteed hospitable planet.

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I think pushing limits of human achievement is important, but understand that we haven't even solved stupid obvious problems like feeding every child in this world. Think about that. There are hundreds of millions of children who don't eat. You want to talk about scale and talk about solving problems, think about all the minds that could be the geniuses that get us to mars. There is so much lost potential just because of malnourishment. Yes going to space will get us better manufacturing, but the potential of having entire generations that are well fed and thinking optimally, we could be squandering countless einsteins, simply because we are spending money trying to get to mars. I think that's what gets me about the way we spend money. Human output is random, and the people who change the world, it is random where they are born and so is their upbringing. We should be taking care of every single new born that enters this world because one of them, could change the world in unimaginable ways. Sorry I don't htink you asked for this comment, but your comment about why people traveled to new countries just sparked a thought dump. Sorry :)
Actually, most assessors won't require A/V on Linux.

5.1 Deploy anti-virus software on all systems commonly affected by malicious software (particularly personal computers and servers).

It's typically an ignorant CISO/CSO who wants to mark a checkbox...
agree with you. I have kept location data on, because its something I revisit a lot, the other stuff is set to delete after 18 months. If I dont notice anything different ill set it to 3 months.

The original post from Google had this line https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/keeping-p...

"As always, we don’t sell your information to anyone, and we don’t use information in apps where you primarily store personal content—such as Gmail, Drive, Calendar and Photos—for advertising purposes, period."
Perhaps this is a terminology issue. Encryption being illegal implies to me that if someone uses encryption, they are violating a law and will be penalized. Providing lawful intercept (backdoors) does not preclude the use of encryption; but rather, renders it non existent for those with the lawful intercept access. Where this gets really sketchy is if companies give users the perception that they have end-to-end encryption, but also have a way to intercept that traffic. So I think we are in effect saying the same thing, but I am just saying that encryption is not illegal, just rendered non existent for specific parties. This is actually already in place today in many of the big centralized service providers. I believe these proposed laws are just a way to officiate this so that companies are protected and less likely to resist requests for information for fear of legal repercussion.
The article title is kind of click-baity but the sub-title was too long:

> Face coverings are a powerful tool, but health authorities can’t simply ignore the reasons some people refuse to use them.
The article contradicts the headline. Existing accounts, though, will still need to proactively turn on the feature

Presumably, the overwhelming majority of HN users already have an account.
Cisco AMP is just re-badged ClamAV.
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I know I am in the minority, but I like the feature of Google letting me know when I've been somewhere in the past or if I have been to a site. I understand the trade offs in terms or my privacy, but I see value in the way they use the data to show me information.
That compromises your security (and therefore privacy) by not taking advantage of the secure HARDWARE that Google offers,

which is incredible when decoupled from their proprietary spyware and just used with Android Open Source Project (AOSP), or a variant, like GrapheneOS or CalyxOS.
In case the leak is true, this poses an interesting question, to why he received a liver...
This cannot be standard ethical practice either?
We have a Chrysler Pacifica plugin hybrid minivan that we bought in 2017 (I think ours was the first our dealership sold) and have been very happy with it.
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If you have a life and death emergency you can still get a passport within 72 hours. Despite the phrasing this also includes things like a close family member getting injured. Aside from that yes you may need to wait. Note that the backlog is being worked through as shown in the data in section 3: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/....

This is just part of life in a global pandemic. Essential services will still happen but otherwise life and safety is the priority.
It's a great spreadsheet! It's been doing really well on Sourceful and is currently the highest rated doc for tag "freelance".

I couldn't agree more with you about Google docs for prototyping. A Google Sheet + Form (e.g. collecting signup emails) combination offers some serious potential.

I would like Sourceful to be a place where projects like that are promoted and initial discussion around them takes place. Twitter/Facebook are not ideal places for that as the content there is too ephemeral.
Are you suggesting the movement of knights (and possibly kings and rooks) can be explained by wormholes?
Similarly the Dutch iDEAL. I don’t really understand why this has to be country specific and the only international standard is US credit cards
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I’m neither for nor against Tesla, but if someone is saying a car is unreliable because people complain about the infotainment systems... that seems deceptive. I think myself, and every driver I have ever talked with, care about two primary things re reliability after the initial cost of a car: how safe it is and how much it costs to maintain every xx,xxx miles. All this other stuff is distracting and is trying to imply important aspects of a car are inferior when they may not be.

Here are the pros and cons that honestjohn focus on re the Model S in their “reliability” assessment: Pros -Excellent performance with usable battery range. Impressive, huge touchscreen interface. Practical interior with plenty of luggage space. Easy to drive.

Cons - Fit and finish could be better for a car at this price. Supercharger network small, but growing.
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One inherent inefficiency about mega farms is that most of the soy (not sure how much of the corn, but a lot) goes to feed animals. Eventually, we "harvest" 10% of the input energy as calories. So these systems will never be more than 10% efficient in terms of human sustenance, no matter what technology is thrown at them.

Soy use in Brazil: https://globalforestatlas.yale.edu/amazon/land-use/soy

Trophic levels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_level#Biomass_transfer...
"Nuance does go out the window when you or yours lose the means to support a family. "

Maybe they shouldn't have been in this profession at all and find a different line work. Jobs are not guarantees, you are not owed anything. If their job got h1b-ed then it doesn't need to exist. It's the typical dare-i-say, [mostly white american male] entitlement, that anytime they didn't get what they wished for, and <ka-boom>, the world's ending, h1b is worse than corona + isis combined! Welcome back to ground level folks.

"breaking the law" imho, that probably too strong a phrase. Sure - we can argue about what that proportion is - but i think h1b recruits are - like most things in life, normally distributed talent/salary wise. The bottom 2-3 sd should never have been issued visas. True that, but with that comes the better 1-2 sigma that starts businesses, does research in Univs and businesses.

Now IBM et al might not be doing what you like, but to accuse them of completely illegal behavior is a stretch & half. There are never any solutions, only trade-offs!
Paint.net’s my favorite too, I wish more software animated the selected area and had their interface in small windows.
> In the latest sign that the Justice Department is moving swiftly, staff members appear to have begun drafting a case memo to test its legal argument, three other people connected to the case said. The agency has assigned a growing number of employees to the inquiry, and it has brought in an economic expert who could testify at a trial. The details of the internal maneuvers were gathered from interviews with more than 20 people, most of whom would speak only anonymously because the deliberations were private.

> “I think the prevailing winds right now are winds that would result in more criticism if they decided not to bring a case than if they brought a weak case and lost,” said Charles James, who led the Justice Department’s antitrust division in the early 2000s.

For those who have trouble with the link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200625102201/https://www.nytim...
It's crumbling because it hasn't been maintained since the 50s-70s, not because it's shittily built. To be fair.
“ All new Tesla cars come standard with advanced hardware capable of providing Autopilot features today, and full self-driving capabilities in the future...”

https://www.tesla.com/autopilot

You’re right Tesla is guilty of marketing features that don’t exist today but will “in the future”.

But hey they disclose the truth in the fine print (Autopilot is not autonomous), so nothing to see and god forbid we accurately call it what it is “driver assist“ instead of autopilot or even the as of yet non-existent “full self driving”:

“Current Autopilot features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous.”
I mean, take it one step further then:

gcc main.c && ./a.out && rm -f a.out
Yep, the issue here is that it's projecting it over the old terrain height maps that were created before the dam was built. In Google Earth Desktop, you can fix this by unchecking "terrain" and can see that the base image is perfectly straight.
The general understanding is that if you're at Tesla, you're choosing to be at the equivalent of Special Forces. ... That has pluses and minuses. It's cool to be Special Forces, but it also means you're working your ass off. It's not for everyone.
> to listen and learn how to communicate effectively to the intended audience after a failure occurs.

You, accidentally, hit the nail on the head. I'm pretty sure that the intended audience often gets the message just fine.

The mobs trying to police everyone else's speech are never the intended audience; they just butt in to try to control how everyone else talks regardless of how much they actually care about the topic, group or subject matter.

In this particular example, I highly doubt that anyone in the middle of working against slave trade cares about whether anyone used the words "black market". It's only later, if that ever were discussed on twitter or reddit, etc, that one would start finding people taking issue with that choice of words.
>Do you really think that stuff happens with Dodges and Kias?

Yes, ofcourse. Why wouldn't it? No such thing as a perfect production line. It's bound to happen. A 2 min cursory search already yielded these results for Dodge & Kia:

"UPDATE: 2019 Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack 1320 Paint Issue!"

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

"WARNING 2019 HELLCAT CHALLENGER REDEYE WIDEBODY SRT / PAINT CHIPPING ISSUES / WIDEBODY BLUES"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg9IVj1S6bY

"Uneven roof panel gaps"

https://www.ramforumz.com/threads/uneven-roof-panel-gaps.239...

"Common Problems, Issues and Complaints with the Genesis G70 (Paint issues and excessive panel gaps)"

https://www.genesisg70forum.com/threads/common-problems-issu...
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I stopped my private pilot training short of actually getting my license and even now, more than 20 years later, I can guarantee you I wouldn't make some of those mistakes.

No, these guys had no business trying to control any kind of airplane.
99% of consumer won't even know where it's from unless they look it up. Hell, you'd be surprised by how many people don't know Android and YouTube are by Google. It's misleading to mention it's from Google and not from the incubator if it's in the tech press.
What radical new idea did Sapiens introduce? I ended up not liking it as much as I thought I would because I expected it to be little more concentrated on known factors around human evolution, but it ended up providing a lot of conjecture and best-guesses.

I think some people that see online essays and podcasts as a more efficient way to consume information might ironically be the most "orthodox" sort of readers. Most well-written non-fiction books provide a clear index, a table of contents that makes the process of the book clear, and introductory matter in each chapter that summarizes things for you. If you want a certain piece of information, you can go into the book and get out within 5 minutes. You don't owe every book you pick up a cover-to-cover read.

Highly recommend "How to Read a Book". It calls the author's process of "surgical reading" "syntopical reading", though they might have slightly different meanings in reality.
These sound like guidelines for a discussion site, but I don't think there's a basis in the law for the US freedom of speech to be freedom of constructive speech or freedom of civil exchange.

There are plenty of hateful people and group that say reprehensible things in public and face no government sanctions. And, as much as I dislile the reprehensible things they say, I feel that's appropriate. The governments of the US should not be in the business of deciding what can be said or by whom, and historically has done a poor job when they have.

Any venue claiming to be a free speech venue but policing hate speech isn't really a free speech venue after all. More so if the policing is ad-hoc and capricious.

Of course, HN never claims to be a free speech venue (and certainly isn't). And I don't think I would participate in many group discussions in a legitimately free speech venue either --- there are a lot of opinions I don't want to hear, and I am content for them to be voiced somewhere else, but then, I avoid the public square in real life as well.
"That includes adonis.js , nest.js , meteor etc"

Adonis just released a new version and the developer is working full-time. Nest.js is only 3 years old! And Meteor is receiving updates everyday.

"I feel that every node.js MVC backend framework or the MERN stack of the 2015 era will become obsolete. "

Don't feel, look for clear facts and think critically, if one framework is down because literally there are 5+ alternatives to it, it doesn't mean all the ecosystem is down.
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That's great, thanks for the better link! The image did look a bit weird to me (I don't think the facility would be usable in that condition), and it seemed a bit incredible that there would be that much settling after only 10 years, but I'm not sure what to believe anymore and it feels like the worse scenario is always the true one. Really glad I'm just being Chicken Little, we have enough stuff to worry about.
Understand where you're coming from and agree there are real benefits to using your data to improve experience.

I don't think the debate is whether this data can improve your experience. The debate is in how the data is leveraged.

Watching the WWDC 2020 keynote, lost count of how many times the presenters referred to "on device" computation to create the same improved experience you're describing, but without sacrificing privacy.

When Google does it, we know the data is being leveraged not only for the betterment of our experience, but also for the betterment of their advertising products.
This is something which I have become more aware of after reading "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" by Jon Ronson. I am now wary of posting any thoughts online which go against the tide of popular opinion. One of my takeaways from that book was that the cost of saying anything controversial online can be limitless. It's scary how mob "justice" and the rampant virtue signalling these days can ruin lives and careers. It's not just governments policing speech: the public is just as guilty.
"April 1, 1968: Dave Power and his wife Julie start the firm from the kitchen table in their Calabasas, Calif., home."

"1969: J.D. Power enters the auto market with its first client, Toyota Motor Company."

https://www.jdpower.com/About-Us
isn't "Vanilla Ruby on Rails" akin to "Vanilla Deluxe Chocolate Fudge Sundae"?
1. it's better to avoid macos totally.
2. u repeat what i said. linux is better in every detail
Airlines are notoriously bad investments over long-ish time scales, so that may not be the best example.

I think for as much as people talk about businesses undercutting a market to capture it and then profiting from a monopoly position, very few businesses ever make it past the undercutting stage.

As wrong as the efficient market hypothesis is about certain things, a great many industries actually do exist in a sort of perpetual state of trying to balance capturing market share with low prices with staying profitable.
How do you think toxic waste is carried over the US/Canadian border?

Hint: it's trucks and trailers.
In the beginning iOS basically didn't have permissions at all. There were some random ones like GPS (and push notifications?!), but there was for example no permission to access contacts. Or photos. That didn't come until iOS 6.

So in the very very very beginning it was:

iOS: prompts for permissions, but almost nothing (including accessing user data) requires permissions anyway

Android: Granular permissions for everything, but only asked at install time.

Since then iOS has become "more Android-y" in adding increasingly more granular permissions, and Android has become "more iOS-y" in those permission grants being on-demand and time-gated.
This is a nicely written article about getting C++ to parse a 64 bit integer represented as an ASCII string as fast as possible.

It starts with the library version, moves onto a custom version, then unrolls, then does clever tricks then finally onto SIMD.

Worth a read if you enjoy optimization stories!
To your first point, a fair number of drone "service companies" have gotten going in the state, so owning your own isn't completely necessary. If you want to sell to those companies (and the farmers they serve), developing new sensors and/or analytics to back them up is one way to get into that space.
> it's linear regression on the log-odds

Almost - logistic regression assumes that the function is linear in the log odds, i.e. log(p/(1-p)) = Xb + e. The problem is that you can't compute the log-odds, because you don't know p.
"The world is always at war" is not an excuse for the following illegal military murder and death campaigns waged against innocent people: Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen.

The bombing must stop. The drones must be denied.

>Body Count:

https://www.psr.org/blog/resource/body-count/

2 million people lost in one war 'arena' is one thing. Another war arena, is another thing. 12 of them, for 20 years, is shear lunacy.

Iraq lost 5% of its population to US war.
Thanks for the replies on this. Looks like most of this was luck of the draw and not notifications from AWS to Google. I had a change to make today, and made 100 requests from 8.8.8.8 before, then made the change and it hadn't updated after a couple minutes. In Denver, looks like we have 15 different servers answering the 8.8.8.8 requests. I then hit the "clear cache" URL someone mentioned here, and it updated quickly then. Great discussion, thanks everyone!