skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- In your opinion, is there a difference between an innocent person being materially and demonstrably harmed ("harmed," i.e. tort) by a stingray deployment and an innocent person harmed by any other tool misused in this way by the government?

- Do you think there's a better alternative to tort that could as clearly limit the tools government uses to fight crime?

- If harmless mass surveillance replaces concretely and plainly harmful mass surveillance (e.g. stop and frisk), did we come out ahead?

I'm not a blowhard and obviously do not want to live in a surveillance state. I'm not even advocating for the status quo. It's okay if the answer to these questions are basically, "I don't know."

Or go on and argue that stingrays in isolation of a malevolent government somehow materially harm people in some concrete way. It would be awesome to hear your perspective if that's the case.
I am not sure how you are extending to the 5 year support thing. I have had iPhones and even seen friend's iPhones become slower specially after 3 years. Even if OS updates are coming at best, I will keep the life for 4 years. So iPhone 11 is still $175/year which is great but significantly higher than 4a or even SE2.

Pixel doesn't have any advertisements built in the phone and the latest versions of the OS do give you control over all permissions and background access by apps.
Sony as well! I miss my Compacts :-(
Obviously you'd choose the safer plane if it's equally convenient. But if the absolute risk is low and there's no other plane at the same time, or the alternatives cost 2x as much, it's reasonable to be willing to fly on a more dangerous plane.
> Future historians will wonder why various medical records show people with acute idiopathic hypothermia in the middle of July 2020.

You underestimate how many people in the database (from any time period) will have a recorded body temperature of 0, thanks to weak typing and buggy null coalescence.
There are different types of training requirements.

New type rating requires most training. Then there transition training between same aircraft family. These changes are probably just small updates that require least training.
I don't understand the negative response to this comment which is just summarizing the US Government's official public statements on the matter. Trump Admin doesn't want Chinese companies dominating US commerce or exfiltrating data, or at least wants to be seen as wanting that.
Aren't the flashing indicator lights also an obvious indicator that the car did indeed lock? Or even just the sound of the locks locking. It gives an audible click in all cars I know.
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I'm not 100% confident in my explanation below, but maybe it's something like this, if we don't have prior knowledge of the asymptotic behavior of random walks:

The measured values are empirically exponential with a factor of 1.424 per indentation. If we assume that as an upper bound (which I don't think is quite right), then we have O(1.424^N) where N is the number of indentations.

Any exponent can be written in terms of any other base by multiplying by a constant. Since we often use base 2, we can choose to rewrite it in base 2 as O(2^(K*N)), where K is approximately 0.51.

Constant terms can be ignored in big O notation, so we can just drop the K to get O(2^N) (I am less sure about dropping a constant within the exponent).
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It is a good argument because you can control other risks, like commuting or whatever.
Their requirement is to make the AoA disagree light standard? Wow that's next to nothing.

For those that don't remember, the AoA disagree light is an optional, costs-extra safety feature on this model.

How about we add a big fat MCAS disengage button to the yoke instead, and make it separate from the trim cutout switch?
My last Japanese car with HIDs had manual adjust. Everything I've owned since was auto leveling. I've never owned a manual adjust (unless you count the screw on the headlight itself...) on a halogen headlight equipped vehicle. And I've owned a lot of vehicles over the years.
It actually is funny.
Part of the underlying challenge is that displays are, at best, 10-bit. Our imaging systems easily handle 14-bit depth, but the display systems cannot.
Indeed. Stupid comes in many flavors.
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You come close to mentioning it but don’t: GPT-3 was trained on Microsoft compute resources (according to the paper).
> so minimal labor costs

That seems to apply only in places with minimal protection. In most of the EU they're simply employees so all the standard rules about firing would apply.
> MCAS does not activate under normal flight conditions.

This is entirely the problem. If MCAS operates, you're already doing something wrong. It was required in the first place because the likelihood of pilots doing something wrong is high. Now, instead of MCAS backing up the pilot's bad decision making, it might cut out at a critical moment.

We already know that Boeing revised (increased) the authority of MCAS without notifying the FAA because testing found the MCAS to be inadequate initially.

You can't simultaneously need MCAS and be okay with it being disabled intermittently. Those two things are directly at odds.
Thanks -- ah, so it is significantly less than Apple. 3 years guaranteed, versus 5+ years. (well, not that I'm likely to keep my phone for 5+ years)
OK, maybe I was a little harsh. But it doesn't matter who the aggrieved party is. He took an action, and now he's trying to weasel out of it by saying, in effect, "yeah, but I had my fingers crossed behind my back, so it doesn't count."

I am reacting to his utter inability to take responsibility for his actions.
In cultures without no-fault divorce, manufacturing fault like this is sometimes necessary for the divorce to happen at all, regardless of the eventual settlements.
I agree wholeheartedly with @abtinf that don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

Of course you've said a proper solution is being designed, but in the interim, it's a bit masochistic for us to have to scroll to the bottom of the page just to click through to the next page when the "More" hyperlink could also be added to the top of the page.

FWIW, I've suggested this change before [0], but nonetheless thanks for all you do.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23202515
I assume they're aftermarket when they're on an early 90s economy cars, they're two different colors, and the refractor is scattering the light up past street signs -- not when they're just bright.

brightness isn't the issue, precision is.
> Why require someone to click Save at all, right?

Sometimes saving is a high latency operation.

Sometimes you don't want to show others data as it is being edited, think product data for an online story. Heck the "reply" button beneath the text box I'm typing into right now is a form of "save".

Paradigms matter! Saving was necessary for all disk IO for a long time due to technology limitations, but even now days it is still the appropriate paradigm for certain circumstances.
The dealer will disable that for you. I couldn’t stand it, yes let’s tell everyone I just unlocked my car.
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In other words, the only thing Freedom House did that was different was training non-doctors, while before (and elsewhere) doctors were used.

That the article heavily and falsely implies neither ambulances nor doctors were used (the 5th paragraph, that you quoted) is just a poor choice of words by the author, not deliberate deception, right?
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Those companies should have backups. If this was say a mafia type org that was going to kill people if they didn't pay up, it would be clearly wrong. If someone said they'd cut your internet links if you don't pay, it might be more obvious this extortion payment is wrong. And this can be defeated by having backups.
GrapheneOS only run on Pixel devices, though, hence me looking at the Pixel line. Otherwise, yeah, OnePlus all the way.
It's sad when a whole country becomes a racial slur in some other country. But I guess for every person who has a valid reason to use the word, there are a thousand trolls trying to use the country name as a loophole. So I'm not surprised if customer service thinks you're filing a troll bug report.
This article speaks to the deepest parts of my soul.
Ha. I remember the time when it took over a minute.
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I think it's important to distinguish mass surveillance from targeted surveillance. They present very different threat models.

I need a general-purpose chat tool for use with friends, family, and business contacts. Protection from targeted surveillance by a state actor (or someone with equivalent resources) is neither a priority nor realistic today in light of my other requirements. I'm okay with using a separate tool if I ever need that kind of special-purpose protection.

Roughly stated, the goal is to regain the convenience of older tools like talk, ytalk, irc, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Facebook Messenger, and Google Talk, without being inaccessible to swaths of the computer-using population, and without exposing us all to mass surveillance any more than necessary. Matrix succeeds at this admirably, and continues to get better at it over time. (You might want to look at their in-progress P2P work.)

Briar fails unless you only talk to people using smartphones.

MoxieTalk fails because it exposes people to mass surveillance. In multiple ways. Over and over again. (Also, I've never seen a good linux client for it.)

I acknowledge that both those tools look very useful for certain purposes, and I have a good deal of respect for Moxie because of his contributions to the crypto/comms community, but neither tool does what I need.
Wow, how much are you paying per year?
This smells. US should ban them or not. This pressure to sell cheaply has a third world country feeling
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To be fair, this metric represents the absolute worse case scenario for latency in Julia. Even before 1.5 you could technically get a first plot in less than 7.8 seconds using SimplePlots.jl. This also doesn't speak to the performance once you have your first plot. I've crashed my computer a good number of times using Matlab or R to interactively manipulate a complicated 3D structure. I was able to add some crazy stuff to my plots before this happened in Julia.
I’m not sure if it even has a minimum brightness.
If it’s a desktop, proper ui is a menu bar that has all the actions listed.

On touch platforms you’re out of luck though because those haven’t had 30 years to settle down yet.
They are a bit confusing since now days the microphone tends to be on the bottom side of the phone and there is a notch of some type on the top.

My first thought was that the phone icon was upside down, camera notch goes on the top!
That's a hell of a friend. I can't get my money back on 4 digit loans. It might be easier to convince valid clients.
my pixel 3a xl is also stellar. Where's the 4a xl?
No sorry, I agree with you. I mean if you don't declare your income THEN you get busted on the illegal activity, you are guaranteed to get busted twice.
> Traditionally governments take a slice of any purchase and it's not viewed as extortion it's called taxes.

Do you believe that's what Trump was referring to?
There are force feedback joysticks, though I don't know whether something like MS Flight Simulator supports that.
In a city. In a wealthy suburban community the police are usually happy to have something more exciting than off-leash pets and minor traffic violations.
> a whitelist, not a blacklist

An allowlist not a denylist.

Step by step :)
What would you imagine the percentage is at companies whose primary business is producing airplanes?
The UFO article I mentioned was barely a week ago.

There's loads of these.
I'm half-expecting a bat boy article as a followup.
Now try doing these tests on arrays of user defined types. Or use one of those fast functions as the kernel of an ODE solver and compare to julia. Anyone can game microbenchmarks on arrays of Float64s, doing so shouldn't impress anyone. If Numpy can do it, you know it's not impressive.

The point of Julia is that Float64 and Int aren't special. They're on the same footing as whatever types you cook up, and our performant multiple dispatch system lets you build a vibrant interacting package ecosystem filled with user defined types doing targeted overloads of other functions.

It's the multiple dispatch and composability of julia code that matters. The important part of the performance of Julia is that we can get the ecosystem benefits of writing pure julia code without paying with runtime performance penalties.
Every company you named has made money off social media, despite content moderation problems. Microsoft may expect to do similar.
PyGTK? Lol did I read that correctly?
If it's outside the adjustment range, there's too much weight on the trailer hitch. There are limits (usually documented in the manual) and both the rear suspension and headlights are the reason for them.
Websites blocked in China:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...

The point of this reply is not to pass judgement on this action. The point is that plenty of business is done between China and America despite the ban. Plenty of business will continue after TikTok.
Have a look at this advertisement for the Citroen from the 60s. Why did it take so long to get "adaptive" headlights?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=rRHogyYXFiQ&...
> By "indirectly coerced" you mean that they need food and shelter

Yes, and more.

> and they don't have slaves to grow their food and build their house for them?

Is this the level you sink to as soon as Capitalist dogma is questioned? It's not the poor and workers that have servants in modern society.
If you're claiming there's "isn't much evidence" indicating aerosol transmission, I would once again encourage you to read the article closely. There are several well-documented case clusters cited in the article where infections could really ONLY be explained by some degree of aerosol transmission. But aerosols vs. droplets aren't a black-and-white situation: people expel a whole range of different particle sizes, and where we draw the line between droplets and aerosols is largely arbitrary (small droplets just above that line behave much the same as big aerosols just below it).

Small "droplets" can travel some distance too. 6 feet isn't a magical boundary beyond which droplets completely vanish. Nor do particles just below the aerosol vs droplet threshold magically become non-infectious. There's a continuum of behavior. Public health authorities KNOW all this, and have known it from the beginning. But they also know that the public needs simple, clear guidance to take action. So, they have to simplify their explanations and inevitably some detail will be lost.

What we know now is that smaller particles (short-distance aerosols) play a bigger role than initial data suggested. But the evidence still suggests SARS-CoV-2 usually requires pretty close contact or circumstances that concentrate aerosols: limited ventilation on cruise ships, for example, or people singing for an extended period (producing a much higher volume of aerosols).

> I don't deny that if someone with COVID coughs directly in your face which apparently was considered the dominant transmission vector at first

This is not even REMOTELY what "droplet transmission" means. If that was what it took, NOBODY would be getting sick. Droplet transmission can come from talking, or being near someone yelling a drink order in a bar, sharing a cab, attending a dinner party, etc. It just implies fairly close contact.

> Anyway my quibble with your post was the part about the guidelines being the same. They aren't really. The difference may be slight, but it could be critical.

Every single piece of public health advice is imperfect, because they have to simplify complex situations. None of the original safety measures were actually WRONG -- all help protect against short-distance aerosols. The new evidence just adds another layer to the situation, and places extra emphasis on certain measures.

If the public and politicians had actually followed the original public health guidance, the situation would look much better than it does today.
City I lived in announced they were implementing rent freeze on all the mobile home parks. I explained to my parents (in a mobile home) that this was bad news.

Few days later they, and everyone in city got an exviction notice. Mobile home parks all decided to close down and sell the land.

Because of this book, this made perfect sense.
Well, liquid hydrogen requires some pretty heavy insulating/cooling equipment, doesn't it?
Do we know or is a reason to believe that FAA checked anything else then the MCAS and the systems related in the crashes? The MAX has probably many differences because is larger so all the new stuff should be put under the microscope since you can't trust the previous tests, measurements or decisions, Boeing guys were proud on how they mind tricked the FAA guys so FAA should now re=review everything then you can be 100% this airplane was scrutinized.

If this already happen and I missed it please link me to it.
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I've noticed newer Toyota headlights's are really bright and angled too high up. That or Toyota drivers leave their brights on more.
Certainly true.

Not all have been guilty of it, though.

I do not default to trusting pastors (despite being a devout Christian) - the United States is full to the brim of people who claim the title and act remarkably unlike Jesus Christ (a phenomenon predicted repeatedly in the first few decades of Christianity's establishment, I'll note).
>After years of feeling guilty about not wanting to do everything...

Has the author asked themselves why they feel guilt about not wanting to do "everything"?

Is it possible that the form of discipline being promoted here under the tag "Productivity" is entirely unnecessary for a satisfying human existence, and that it is primarily caused by cultural forces?

Is it possible that such a focus on this relentless productivity, caused by our society, is related to the feeling of guilt that comes with perceiving oneself as 'undisciplined'?

Anyone who is commenting on how this opposes the nature of zen or other mindfulness lineages is on the right track and anyone who is still justifying cramming as much activity into every moment of their lives in the name of productivity is doomed to repeatedly feel the guilt and shame that comes along with not living up to these cultural standards.
Is that normal? I haven't heard of that happening before and it feels really weird.
The community colleges in California were only about $500 per class even if you had a graduate degree, last I checked.
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This would be great unless your ex is so horrible that the guy you hire to do this ends up suing you for a hostile work environment!
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