skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was fucking huge and was USB 1.1 so it took forever to load music on it. The originals iPod was much smaller (using a microdrive) and only supported FireWire. It could load music as fast as the drive could write.
Any decision in a civil case that has the weight of a final judgment can be appealed by the affected party. The cause of action in all of these cases alleging a violation of civil rights (like the right to silence during a terry stop) is 42 U.S.C. § 1983: "Civil action for deprivation of rights". The plaintiff would be the one filing the appeal, because lower courts have largely dismissed their claims; dismissal with prejudice is considered a final judgment.

The point about the status quo is that when there's uncertainty about what the actual law is, law enforcement picks a side and goes with it, and everyone else has to live in that reality. When there's genuine ambiguity as to how the law is actually supposed to apply, the Supreme Court shouldn't be able to just deny cert because they like what the government picked and are therefore beneficiaries of the legal uncertainty.

The situation in which lower courts would ideally try and kick something like this up to the supreme court is exactly when they start saying things like this in their opinions: "We hold that Alexander’s claim on this point cannot overcome the officers’ qualified immunity, because “it was not clearly established that an individual has a First Amendment right to refuse to answer an officer’s questions during a Terry stop.” Surprisingly few courts have ruled on this precise issue; the parties point to no cases from this circuit directly on point. The sparse case law that does exist, however, indicates no consensus that a defendant has a First Amendment right not to answer an officer’s questions during a stop like the one at issue here."
The theory behind "it doesn't cross" was that the modification to the spike "anchored" it to the inside of the cell, and the cell only presenting "the pointy end" (i.e. the relevant dangerous ACE2 binding domain) to the immune system, close to lymph node near the IM injection point.

Where I got my doubts about the "doesn't cross" claim, at least concerning Pfizer, which I researched :

- The identification of the spike, its in-vitro re-engineering, the formulation of a vaccine recepy took approximately two and a half months, from early Feb., 2020 to Apr. 27th, 2020. They started animal testing (60 mice, 12 monkeys) and on human volunteer (21) in parallel. It ended on Jul. 27th, '20.

- According to CT doc and FT docs, and publications, no study of biodistribution, on the theory that intra-musculary jab doesn't spread... Even though the spike protein was studied in the past (IIRC 'twas even patented around 2012 !), I didn't find any publication related to it saying it didn't cross such barriers, quite the contrary.

- They started the 40K volunteers CT right after, because of the reported absence of unwanted effects on the 20 first volunteers. Reportedly no change in formulation. Still no study.

- They started mass manufacturing during the second half of october, still no change in formulation, still no study.

The only indication of such a study was started was in the famed re-authorization letter a month ago, about them doing it now.

How and why is that even possible ? BionTech team is perfect on their first try at making a vaccine, as opposed a tailored gene therapy ? Really ?

Also :

- How do they prevent a cell presenting an anchored spike to clump with another cell with an ACE2

- Where is the study of the quality of that anchoring (i.e. what percentage of spikes don't anchor ?)
> Automatic lanekeeping on the highway and stoplight stop/go were groundbreaking when Tesla launched them

Automatic lanekeeping was originally made by Mobileye and available on Teslas and Nissans. I don't know about stoplight stop/go, but perhaps that is one of the reasons Teslas randomly make unwarranted stops?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lane_centering
Missing from the calculation: increased maintenance cost from doing the additional miles, damage to the car from luggage and extra (ab)use, repairs after accidents (300-500 per million miles), personal costs from the car not coming back to you when you need it. Reminds me of people getting into Uber driving underestimating the extra costs incurred.
Software hustles: $0 is the median, $1,000,000 is the mean.
It's silly to not write your software to handle every possible input instead of every input you think is likely based on some predictions about humans. Failure to do that is why YAML is so broken.

JSON isn't a format conducive to handwriting even if it probably should have made more accomodations for that at the start. Right now it can't even handle trailing newlines. But if you want to fix that, call it something different (maybe even JSON2), for heaven's sake.

I doubt anyone would handwrite an entire gigabyte JSON document, but they might hand-edit a machine-generated one to make a change someplace in it, end up putting in a trailing comma, and have the document pass their local tests but crash a remote parser.
Sorry what?
Inside The Big Facebook Leak
When something has happened to me once, I can always recount it. When something has happened to me a thousand times I can never think of a single example. I've always wondered if everyone gets this or if it's just me?
It's extremely hard to out-campaign Chrome's campaign of being pushed via google.com and youtube.com, unfortunately.

Though I'd like to see Mozilla try more promotion channels like video sponsorships, maybe go heavier in regions where Google is not as dominant as in the US…
Several of the example pictures show buildings at other angles, and they look like they handle angled lines in the obvious way, recessing the wall one block for each x blocks sideways.

It looks a little odd but only in the same way a low-resolution undithered image does.
Ramp-Tao: Layering Atomic Transactions on Facebook’s Online Tao Data Store
Lucky you to have that standard enforced within the org! We don't so I pretty much invariably have to respond to "bug reports" ("foo doesn't work pls help") with "can you please format your bug report like this?" haha

Out of curiosity, what does deving for Warner Bros mean? Like working on their internal systems and stuff? Netflix integrations or something? Sounds cool, bet you get to see movies before they come out too!
If they cut out the oceans they can kinda squish it flat
Algorithm runtime analysis is usually measured with asymptotic estimates (Big O, Little O, Big Theta, etc). In something as commonly and generically used as the standard library of any performance focused language you're liable to find a focus on optimizing these algorithmic performance guarantees for corner cases over optimizing for simple and straightforward code.
I used to have a similar outlook, but I have moderated it in recent years. These things should be regulated, but not banned.

You should have hardcore warnings on them (like on aus cigarrettes for example) that state clearly that studies have shown these ingredients or procedures have been shown to be no different from placebo for whatever, or have low quality/few studies. I think you should even have QR codes that link to a page that summarizes the evidence for them and links to the primary source. vitamins etc should also be clearly separated from actual medicine in pharmacies. In the case of cigarretts in Australia, this strategy has been proven to be more effective than the comparable strategy of banning marijuana (more kids in aus have tried marijuana than cigarettes now)

Banning these things can have several negative effects that probably harm the project of getting society to move away from this type of quackery.

Firstly you cannot stop people from wanting these things by banning them, so you will create a black market for them which is less safe, and also opens up a funding stream for nefarious actors.

Secondly, we should not close our minds to the fact that at some time in the future, it is a virtual guarantee that there will be some useful compound in, for example, some chinese medicine herb. if we snuff out all these practices, we deny ourselves one avenue for finding out about these compounds that we might otherwise simply not come across.

Third, banning stuff gives ammo to conspiracy theorists: "they are banning it because they don't want you to have it because they know it works and doctors will be out of business"

Go ahead and ban stuff that endangers near extinct animals, or maybe something that genuinely causes serious acute harm to a user, but generally I think its better to inform and regulate, rather than ban. You think you would be helping people but they don't want your help and they think you're trying to hurt them. Give them the info to work it out instead. Also, if some small girl wants to play an imaginary witch game with crystals, but all they crystals are banned, thats pretty sad to me.

Chiropractors should not be able to call themselves Drs. though. should straight up be a crime.
Prosecutorial immunity out, but not prosecutorial discretion?

Why should a prosecutor be able to effectively rule some behaviors "not crimes" by declining to prosecute them, when the legislature has decided they are crimes?
Measuring success against geologic forces in a timeframe of single-digit years is incredibly foolish.
Bruce's Beach is another example that's easy to reach for. For anyone to assume that this hasn't happened is to admit to not studying history.
> Every selective admissions process has the potential (probably history) for bigotry.

Of course, but communes like that typically don't have a language test to be admitted. There's usually a common set of objectives and rules for the coop that you have to agree with, and that's about it. Sometimes, there's not even a formal interview process or any form of question. You just end up living there because you somehow arrived there, people are friendly and there's place to stay.

That's not to say everyday racism is not a thing in free communes. Who could claim to do away with racism when growing in some of the most racist countries on Earth like USA or France? But autonomous communes like this are usually correlated with other forms of social struggles than simply "enjoying nature", and it's not like these problems can't be faced.

Positive action for admission in squats and communes is not unheard of. It was for example documented in Seth Tobocman's autobiographic "War in the neighborhood" comics about squatting in NYC in the 1980s.
Article title: "Social justice and vaccination crusaders meet IEEE floating point arithmetic (Facebook)"
FireWire also charged it while you were loading music. You plugged it in, stuff got loaded, and the battery topped off. You didn't burn through the battery while it took an hour to load an album like USB 1.1 players.
The UI is nearly the same. These large shells were used for two primary purposes.

One was that early in the development cycle you wont have much hardware thats in the final form factor or specs. The work would be done in an “acrylic” assembly designed to mount the parts, connectors, etc in any way that works. That’d be prototype or EVT stages.

Later, you need these devices to get in to the hands of users and out in the world (campus). The physical chassis may not be ready, youre working with WIP components, software, etc. So a shell like this allows you to test the UI, exercise the device, etc away from an engineers desk and without giving a casual observer much information about the specifics. This would be DVT or maybe PVT. There were lots of folks walking around Apple campus with boxes like this in the 2000s.

Not mentioned in the article, but later in DVT or PVT you get a batch of the “final” device built and assembled in the OEM factory. Those are used to exercise the production capacity and to validate any final changes before mass production.
Well how many points would you assign to that story?
I think as long as secure computing isn't convenient enough for many people out there, these news will just rise in numbers.

There are likely many out there secure computing, and we don't hear the news about them because they don't get hacked.

But with the convenience of using smartphones and sending anything quickly over them using (insert your favorite messenger service) statistically many people will be using them, even for absurdly important/critical communication, and a small number of them will be hacked.

Services like WhatsApp/iMessage will just keep adding more features to stay feasible, and more people will be using the feasible services, with more features creating new attack surfaces inevitably.
"business model that could win with them in the free market"

Does "free market" mean there are no laws? Is so, start kidnapping their executives.

No, we have laws? Well then perhaps police and courts should do their jobs, but I guess harassing everyday joe is easier than holding megacorps to account.
If you can smell it, you're using too much (unless you're actually doing a "fumigation" where you turn it on for a set time, leave the room and close the door.)
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28962168
Maybe with consumer tech, but this isn’t the case with enterprise. Successful companies identify a market need then figure out how to sell it. It’s appealing to say it’s luck from the outside, but the successful playbook is consistent enough that it seems naive to attribute it to luck.
Does any other company exist in this world?
Sure but not old people fall for it. Some are skeptical of quackery because they are either better educated or experienced enough to have the intuition they’re being led on. Others don’t and their gullibility will make them victims in many other areas. Education is the only possible help they could get. Banning whatever quacky things will only make them more desirable.
have you thought about offloading that work to the distributions themselves? I'd be curious to see what say ubuntu would charge for them maintaining your packages for you. you just need to provide a tarball to them.
It's a Dymaxion projection. It has low distortion over land at the expense of leaving huge gaps at sea. So you can't swim or fly across the oceans, or go around the world, but distortion will be low within each continent.

https://www.gislounge.com/dymaxion-map-projection/
Nah, it's CBD (Cannabidiol)
US politics is bizarre. When Ben and Jerry's ice creams decided they wanted to close shop in some disputed territories in Israel many states (mostly Republican run) punished the parent company immediately to make an example of them and sold their holdings of its stock from the pension funds they were controlling.

Yet a company like NSO weaponizes and abuses all sorts of vulnerabilities they get their hands on and sell it to thugs around the world who then use it against Americans and the same politicians couldn't care less
And it's bizarre to have that policy while allowing far more hateful material against Asians on their platform.
They know. They're referring to the page this thread is about, which lists Tragedy of the Commons as a reason for a 404 with this explanation:

> Everyone wanted to view this page, but no-one was willing to maintain it.
Of course they did. There's only so much you can do with "feed more data in the machine learning pot, stir it, and see what comes out." We're doing a good job of proving what the limits of ML based self driving are...

Computers aren't human, and as it turns out, human brains and visual processing systems are more than the "couple crappy cameras and a bit of a neural network" thing that a lot of SV types seem to believe it is.

We're firmly into the "fusion" realm of self driving cars. A lot of money and a lot of time, effort, developers, etc, have been fed into the maw, and we've tried all the easy options - which it's clear don't work. I'll take the pessimal position of saying that the current approach Tesla is using (vision only) can't work, though I'm sure many will disagree with me. It comes down to a difference of opinion about the complexity and capabilities of the human brain.

A sensor-heavy setup like Waymo is using has the greatest chance of working, though probably only in heavily-mapped areas where it can use the sort of peripheral data humans use to identify the lanes by building locations and such when the lanes are unclear. As long as not much changes, which probably requires very regular remapping of regions (or an awful lot of data upload from cars), that's the most feasible approach, though it's not a general purpose solution given the amount of data required to do high precision mapping of the entire country, much less the world.

We'll see, but "a couple cameras and a car-scale computer" just doesn't seem a solution that's going to work.
This seems true of small scale things but companies like google have been able to release good software on the first try. I don't remember it vividly but I used google docs and drive on the first year and I don't remember having a single issue with them and I can't even think of anything it does now almost 10 years later that I would have wanted back then.
Your link agrees with me. Tesla provided some of the first commercially available lane centering in the Model S/X.

For the stoplights, no, phantom braking sadly predates that feature. It occurs during normal driving when the car erroneously perceives a phantom object appearing in front of the car and hits the brakes. The stoplight response, in my experience, is actually much more reliable, inclusive of stopping for reds / stopsigns, and automatically proceeding if there is a green light and a car in front of you.
I think you're thinking of `record` classes? Sealed classes are about constraining inheriting or implementing to only approved types - using sealed is pointless without overriding of some kind. Unlike in some other languages, where sealed is closer to java's final classes, i.e. stopping inheritance.
> The sand, engineers believed, could work with the wind, waves and tides to protect both the gas terminal and villages nearby.

Sorry for the snark, but as if the village had anything to do with this project getting approved.
Or wear a P100 elastomeric respirator when going in places.
> but after scampering back and forth, it dodged right into the path of the football at the last moment.

Note that (like many evolved things) squirrel behaviour is designed around a actively adversarial environment. (It may or may not have had a explicit mental model of the process, but from a behavioural perspective) it was likely expecting the football^Wnovel bird of prey to course-correct towards it, in which case lunging in the opposite direction that the attacker just expended effort accellerating toward gives it the best chances of getting away. (Or something along those lines, I don't know enough details to be particularly sure.)
Well try to visit car repair shop and ask the same question as in the original email and then explain them what you really meant.
SpaceX, I assume.
I don't know about the US, but in the EU regulators DID step in and limited amount of ozone that can be produced by consumer devices to relatively safe levels. It will smell like thunderstorm but shouldn't be too toxic.
One of the challenges that Canadian healthcare faces is a political environment not unlike the US. We got "universal" healthcare, but right-wing politicians gut it at every opportunity. As a result, their constituents hate the system, and don't want to fund it because it's broken. Doctors and nurses can get better pay in the US, so it's especially hard to retain them. I know some nurses in BC, and the union doesn't really work for them, it's largely concerned with self-preservation. The whole thing is a hot mess.
1) Better link:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U6_NxSxcFC3FPqtPB8eI...

(works without login)

2) Please, who's reading all the documentation from beginning to end ? What's that number for Firebase ? GCP? Windows ? X11 ?
"individually we need to stop working for unethical companies"

Has there been a single case in history where this worked? has this been an issue for drug gangs, mafia, loan sharks, tobacco, alcohol or gun companies or any kind of evil organisation, ever? If not, maybe we should stop parroting it?
Op fixed his text but now I don't understand his point. Why aren't CBD products for the "human cannabinoid system"? Is he saying they should have said "mammals" or "animals" instead?
I swear I saw something like this in some kids magazine 30 years ago. It was supposedly powered by a vacuum motor. I now understand that can’t possibly work, but for many years I thought it could. I’d love it if someone else knew what I’m talking about and could send me a link to the magazine article. I assume it wasn’t trying to be a joke, this was a relatively serious kids magazine, but maybe I’ve been wrong.
Same way the mafia used to do it when they realized all their phones and cars were bugged. No technology. Talk in person, outside.

Seriously, if you are a journalist investigating anything that might upset the powers that be in a nation-state, don't use any online technology and for gods sake not a mobile phone.
where's the french standard library I can't find it
Having such bad regression that it seems like all users noticed with new update shouldn't be possible for this kind of technology. Whatever your level of faith in Tesla, and some of you have a lot, you have to admit that it is reckless to have a release process that fails to test this internally enough that they would widely release dangerous behaviour that tons of users noticed immediately
No. Possibly your ad blocker is trying to get rid of the Nikkei footer and only doing half the job?
I like this one! Rather fun to play also.
What exactly do you mean by "treated like mercenaries", what should be the treatment in your opinion ?

In general, countries do hire mercenaries/private military contractors/etc, and it is not considered anything special, and many powerful countries (including e.g. the USA) routinely use mercenaries in their campaigns. the "sending" nation may restrict their people and companies from mercenary actions abroad if they choose to, but if e.g. Israel is okay with their company hiring out as a "mercenary" (the term usually implies directly participating in a conflict while being armed and excludes any other support such as training, logistics, software, etc, but for the sake of argument let's assume it applies here) for Saudi Arabia then there would be nothing unusual about that - for example, Saudi Arabia has used thousands of mercenaries in Yemen.

If the specific individuals commit something that's a crime in USA then USA can try to put them on trial, but that works exactly the same no matter if they're Saudi citizens working Saudi government or serving in Saudi military, or foreigners contracted out to Saudi government as "mercenaries"; in both cases it's up to the local government whether they want to hand them over (effectively betraying their own "employees") or refuse.
In C++ you would so something like

if constexpr( std::is_unsigned_v<Number> ) {
return x;
} else {
if( x >= 0 ) {
return x;
}
if( x <= -std::numeric_limits<Number>::max( ) ) {
// What do we return??
}
return -x;
}

This comes up in parsing too. One often will harden against signed overflow by using an unsigned type and then multiplying the sign at the end. One needs to check for these kinds of things when the type is the biggest, like intmax_t(generally int64_t)
> Reminds me of people getting into Uber driving underestimating the extra costs incurred.

I thought that was the bulk of their target market - people who don't really do the math on vehicle depreciation and such.

I know people who make money doing it, but they're driving very cheap to run cars, and are pretty careful about how they do it, and are spreadsheet-heavy on proving it.
I wonder what would have to be done to turn it around. The B.S. detectors seem to be less effective during panic and stress, so marketing must be booming right now thanks to the pandemic.