skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all, slavery and near slavery conditions like serfdom was exceedingly common back then and neither African slave traders nor Native Americans saw anything wrong with it. In fact there are more slaves today than in any time in history. Just because founding fathers made significant advances to the status quo of society, doesn't mean that they should be held responsible for not solving all the problems in a single go. In fact, even if they wanted to free their personal slaves, the society was such that there may not have been a place for them to live in peace and earn to feed and clothe themselves. Don't take my word on it, read Thomas Sowell who has done extensive research on the subject and happens to be black himself.

Also, pretty absurd to blame founding fathers for segregation laws centuries later. People who made these laws were responsible for those laws.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/25/modern-slavery-...
There is no option 2. That was a proviso in case Elon was unable to secure financing. He secured financing, so now he has to buy Twitter. Or they can sue him.
https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/find-drive
From reading TFA: it was a cheap way to improve lateral stability of the lightweight cars in high wind conditions. And the gauge used was common in some other countries like India.

Don't know what NIH syndrome has to do with it, doesn't sound like interoperating with other rail systems was in the spec.
Why isn't depth a way bigger deal? Cameras could capture depth and give you whatever virtual lens you want, in camera like a phone filter.

Lenses are fun and collectable and all, but I think my idea of a near perfect camera would be a one piece waterproof superzoom with depth capture and AI processing. Less to fuss with, and you can carry all your virtual lenses everywhere.
People joke but from the top of a decent mountain I can reach 45 miles into the bay area from me on a $150 2m radio in my truck with rooftop antenna.
> Twitter is supposedly not providing the data

Not really. Reading the letter it sounds more like Musk has started to make more specific requests, likely in the hopes of them not being able to service them. For example, he claims in the letter that he requested daily mDAU numbers for the previous 8 quarters (i.e. 2 years) and they only gave him rolled-up numbers.

I find it completely believable that they may not have a daily breakdown for 8 quarters, and so they can't provide the information requested.
I think Twitter is working their way towards suing for damages.

Sure you probably can't force the transaction to complete but you can sue for it and when the other parry demonstartes that they're not willing to complete a transaction they committed then you start suing for damages.
I want more than the calls stopped. I want a fine of at least 8 billion calls times the legal $500 per call fine plus treble damages. The money distributed to everyone with a phone. I also want to pierce the corporate veil and take everything the owning operators have. Then I want the same done to all robo callers.
Thought they were asking about trains in general. Oops
Holy sh*t - that is horrible and a lot of money. Things like this should be advertised on the Payment company site with big red text. And describe each type of scam and a count of those.
It would be extremely hard to prove that Elon Musk, the richest man in the world who secured financing for the largest LBO ever in a week, was unable to secure financing because of a technicality in user data which played a key role in his stated rationale for the purchase. Unfortunately for Musk (lmao) and every Twitter employee (my heart actually goes out to them, with the current job market they’re in hell right now), I don’t think there’s any way out of this deal, especially when you look at past precedent like the LVMH-Tiffany’s and Simon-Taubman deals.
Yes he would (sorry if I went a bit over the top there).

My point being that I don't trust Elon Musk to make better moderation decisions than whoever is in charge right now.

Past attempts of social media with low barriers of what is allowed have absolutely turned out worse than Twitter if you ask me(e.g. 4chan, 8chan, gab etc) That's why I think the best case is "Twitter but more aligned with whatever Elon Musk thinks at the moment"
What was the license of this package?
Same. Posted "Hmm, HN is down ?" on screened somewhere irc session and then jumped to checking my inet connection... Such things should't happen, it confuses peoples ;)

And yes, reloading, pinging, other subdomain checkin too :>
Forget about WWII, does OP wish US would stay out of Europe now and leave superpower things to Russia?
We still knock wood.

We have more science, more education. 10% of kids under age 1 would die at the turn of the century (1900), which means, everyone knew a family with a child that had died, and that's traumatic.

Our views of safety and risk have evolved.

My grandfather, he worked in a lumber camp, the stories ... my god.

We also react to it differently now. Even in our language i.e. 'I feel unsafe' or people talk about 'harm' or 'violence' with just language.
cool, do the same list but for assault rates
This is what living in a hypothetical state of terror looks like.
Elvira Nabiullina has tried to save Russia’s economy amid war and sanctions
Obviously a server vm getting renumbered is a rare occurance.
> they would be interested to hear what he had to say about it.

They can be interested all they want, doesn't mean they can back out of a deal unless they can demonstrate fraud or gross negligence on behalf of Twitter.
My experience matches yours. I loved Google Workspace at a small nonprofit. But if you’re running a business that has “hardcore admin needs” on the productivity services side, MS365 beats the pants off Google Workspace all day.

Tools like GAM used to make things easier and expose just how much UI Google never bothered to write, but at least as of this year I can’t find a feature in Google Workspace that isn’t in MS365, plus you have -all- of Azure right there.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32028511
It sounds like: one of those is constrained by reality, the other ain't
If I remember my uni engineering/calculus maths class correctly, the third derivative of position is used in planning these sort of curves.

The first derivative of postion (with respect to time) is velocity. The second derivative is acceleration (ie rate of change of velocity). And the third derivative is jerk (rate of change of acceleration).

And 'jerk' has to be kept below a certain threshold for humans to find movement comfortable.
I think the quality and helpfulness differs pretty dramatically from one topic to another.
Fo: An experimental language which adds functional programming features to Go
You're welcome. :)

FWIW, I still memorize phone numbers too! I also avoid phone calls like the plague, so in reality it's just a handful of numbers per year.
Isn’t there already a law for interfering with a police investigation? Why do we need new, redundant laws?
The clause about the $1B penalty says nothing about separation. That clause only activates if the deal is stopped by some outside entity, such as the SEC, or if the two parties mutually agree to stop the process.

In all other cases, Elon has committed to give them $44B in exchange for the company.
I also think it's silly that imperfections should be artificially maintained just to keep a "vintage" look, but when you think about it, nothing really about modern cameras actually reflect the real world. It's all a judgment call by the sensor/algorithm/photographer/editor who together decide how the published photo looks.

- CCD layering & subpixel arrangements

- aperture openings & shapes

- vignetting & chromatic aberrations

- focal distance, white balance, ISO...

- shutter speed, aperture, depth of field, focus, composition...

- post-production...

The comparison to FLAC (a storage medium) is a bit flawed, vs say the actual creative instruments (guitars, pianos). The article is more like the photography equivalent of lamenting the loss of Stradivarius's secret sauce.

Long before a photo even gets to RAW, a bunch of artistic decisions are made by the photographer and the engineers who put together the camera and lens (and their firmware). You can't turn off all the processing, and even if you could, the camera lens doesn't really work the same way the human eye does. A "lifelike" photo would have a huge field of view but be blurry anywhere except the center focal point, have a huge dynamic range but limited depth of field, etc.

And then after you go from RAW to whatever renderer makes it a JPEG, a bunch more decisions and corrections are made, with or without your input as a photographer/editor.

Even if you shoot with film, there is no "calibration to reality" per se, it's all an artistic choice in terms of body, lens, film, development techniques, etc.

Cameras are not "reality capture devices", they are advanced signals processors that turn a gazillion rays of light into images that match a certain preprogrammed look (or one of several, like "natural", "vivid", "sepia", etc. -- all of those being just different parameters that tweak the algorithms).
Having first read your comment, the photo wasn't as bad as I expected. The supports don't look too unreasonable for a single wooden car with two passengers. Modern trains are an order of magnitude heavier--~20 people and a gross weight of ~20 tonnes.

A video of the coaster in the photo exists (the playback framerate seems somewhat too fast): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flip_Flap_Railway_ea...

Modern tubular steel rails also allow for rickety-looking yet safe single-car coasters: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rat%C3%B3n_Vacil%C3%...
It means the following:

There might be 1 trillion twitter accounts. 10 billion of them might tweet on any given day. Twitter might decide 300 million of them are real and report that number. 9.7 bill accounts, or 97% of them might be spam. Twitter's number of 5% is based off their reported number. So 15 mill of the 300 mill aren't real. As long at 285m are real (2.85% of total tweeting accounts), they are reporting it correctly.
> distributed to everyone with a phone

and the carrier, to boost the incentive?
It's rail wheels which are beveled, with the radius decreasing to the outside of the wheel. Your top image has the wheels reversed. There's also a flange which extends below the rail depth on the inner edge of the wheel

Should be, showing from the axel to the rail:

_ __________________________ _
_ __________________________ _
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
\ | | /
\_| |_/
| |

As the car rounds turns, the inner wheel rides down and the outer wheel rides up, increasing the relative rotational radius of the outer wheel. This compensates for the fact that rail wheelsets rotate on a single fixed axis, not independently, and without a differential.

For a non-ASCII image see: https://steemitimages.com/DQmUjS7PbhzAYpkTi5A3c2QQQa7jn1c52s...

Longer explanation: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a25581/science-behi...

Wikipedia also discusses geometry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_wheel
Functional UI Take
Drove around for 2 hours to see if another cell might be up, nope. Stopped a test stop that had internet. Looks like Fido is back up, but the isp is still down.
Yes. The wheels were flat, apparently Bombardier saw room for improvement and suggested a tapered profile that was retrofitted to the older cars. Unfortunately the track pitch (I'm forgetting what the proper term is) is also wrong, the spacing in the curves is too tight.

Normally you'd increase the spacing a bit in curves to encourages the wheels to rotate at different speeds instead of destroying the track. Unfortunately even with the new profile BART is still incredibly loud, and it's not helped at all by low speed curves like the Oakland Wye.
I can't imagine it NOT being above 5%. I'd bet it's over 25%. But I am hoping real numbers come out of this.
Very pithy. Is that yours or are you quoting someone?
Heck, I'm a lifelong-computer-obsessed software engineer in my 30's and almost all those bullet points have an adverse or frustrating effect for me as well. I am "purposely lazy" and spend as little effort as possible deciphering user interfaces. There's simply zero excuse for non-intuitive software anymore. I refuse to expend my valuable time and cognitive energy making up for the shortcomings of a software vendor, and it regularly surprises/disappoints me just how much effort people expend in that way.

In my opinion, it's practically an insult to provide software or a "service" that essentially demands the person interacting with it slog through countless arcane or obtuse interfaces which could have been totally simple, concise and straightforward. There have been literal decades of prior art on subtly nudging a user through the most obvious and "least surprising" ways to complete their intended task.
Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann, written 100 years ago but honestly just as applicable today. Libre Vox even has a free version up on YouTube[1]. Chomsky actually took the title of his book from Lippmann's, but Lippmann's is a much more advanced and nuanced take (also Chomsky has grossly misrepresented what Lippmann was saying, so I find it hard to trust him).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX1eEQVDdjA&t=1s
Probably instead of arresting Musk they just sieze assets to cover the damages. His assets are mostly on paper anyways.
Because BART is an urban subway marketed to the white flight suburbanites. It was supposed to be luxurious not usable. That's why you got two doors at the cost of boarding speed and tons of seats at the cost of standing room.
This will not be in the mountainous region of Switzerland. It's in the north where there are 120/kmh highways. Mostly rolling hills.
Fast forward ten years.

They are trains, sans every major problem with trains: almost no fixed infrastructure, no last mile problem, no expensive human driver/conductor, yet similar vehicle construction cost per seat.

Eventually they'll block off a lane of every major freeway and you'll be able to go anywhere in the country at an average of 160 mph, with no need for bulldozers, eminent domain, new viaducts, years of environmental review, etc.
> If he mentioned mDAU could be fraudulent to anyone involved

One problem for Musk is he's been casting doubt on the bot numbers publicly, even before the deal. One of he's stated reasons for the deal was to deal with spam bots. Twitter has also reported basically the same 5% number in it's filings for years. If it really was a sticking point for Musk he should've done his due diligence before committing to to buy Twitter.
I’m a big fan of Go, and I’ve never been bullish on generics, but I really don’t see what is good about this design. I’m really not interested in generics with a runtime penalty even if it makes binaries smaller. I also think the constraint system needs work, and there needs to be a mechanism for generic methods. It’s possible for Go to get all of these things, but the current form leaves a lot to be desired. Rust’s trait system is best in class as far as I can tell, and I’ve criticized Rust often in the past.
Literally nobody thinks its impossible to memorize 4 8-bit numbers. A bad user experience, sure.

> I have a few memorised, mainly some TLDs and Internic. With those I can "bootstrap" using DNS/FTP to get any other address.

Pretty sure that's true of 90% of everyone here, since all you really need to memorize is a public dns resolver, and 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1 .1 is a particularly easy address to remember.
Too bad, I was looking forward to a social network run differently while still being able to provide strong security and take down illegal / pointlessly obnoxious content. Twitter combine with Musk's wealth would have been able to do that. I guess the upside is that upstarts like MeWe now have more chance to take on established players who have grown condescending to their own users.
1) The contract states they are obligated to provide information, Elon alleges such information was withheld or curtailed - a contract violation. There doesn't need to be a specific clause about a particular metric because the obligation to provide information is broad.

2) Facebook lied about video watch time for years, including in SEC filings and to advertisers (essentially fraud). Is this an appeal to the sanctity of SEC filings? I don't think Facebook is significantly more reputable than Twitter, they're both pretty shady.

Why should we just trust the company, as you imply? Companies routinely and regularly lie in SEC filings, including big tech -- and Twitter! They paid close to a billion in securities settlements for - wait for it - lying about user engagement!

Twitter admitted to lying about user engagement in 2015 and paid a hefty fine for it. [1]

Is your argument really "the company that has been proven to lie about user engagement wouldn't lie this time"? Seems flimsy.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-to-pay-809-5-million-to...
What do you mean it is "politically driven". And what does enabling media monopolies have to do with republican distrust of media?

Also, from the article "Independents' views are generally closer to Republicans'". How does that square with "republican distrust of media"?
Clojure looks an feels more like a Scheme than Common Lisp
Then why, as the article states, do "Independents' views are generally closer to Republicans'."
Free solo climbing with Alex Honnold
Norwegian rock climber and YouTube video blogger Magnus Midtbø free solos a nontrivial route with Alex Honnold in an intense video. Alex's unique personality and humor carries the day.
> you have to install it on the server by yourself, then run an SSH (or some other) tunnel manually

Fixed. (couldn't edit because HN was down for a while)
Hong Kong has a population density of 6,659 people per square kilometer. Similarly, Tokyo has 6,158 persons per square kilometer

The SF Bay Area has a density of 431 people per square kilometer.

Obviously it's easier and much more efficient to build rapid transit when you are serving areas fifteen times more populated.
Something I never understood: if we take the Big Bang theory at face value, shouldn't we believe everything is entangled together? And thus is there any to think superdeterminism isn't the ultimate explanation?
Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
Wow, it's been ages since I've listened to this. I wrote a ton of code in the late 90s/early 2000s listening to this album. Thank you!
Specific performance would apply to Musk as purchaser, not hypothetical lenders that aren’t party to the agreement. If he can’t find debt, then he would presumably have to liquidate more Tesla stock to pay the full price.
While I hate to suggest we need to use technical solutions here instead of social and legal ones, it might be worthwhile building a video streaming app that uses the LiDAR available on phones that have it, and overlays distances to every person in the frame onto the stream.

“No, your honour, I was 9’7.5” away from the closest police officer when he moved towards me to confiscate my phone arrest me while the other officer used his taser on the handcuffed black guy for no reason. As you can see in this video on YouTube uploaded and timestamped at the time the incident unfolded.”
What about 15x zoom on iPhones?
> start making a language from a sound theoretical foundation and then implement it

ADA may be up your alley. it was fully designed and specified before a single line was written.
I read an essay by a CS post doc taking about type erasure. He said getting to the point where you can do type erasure is golden. And then everyone makes the mistake of actually implementing type erasure. He said you consign yourself to no tooling and terrible debugging.
There will still be turnover. The elderly won't stop dying just because of their low fixed rate mortgage, for instance.
Didn’t Intel grant AMD some kind of license because the US government refused to buy x86 CPU models that only have one source?
I suppose it's something that would be extensively argued in court if Twiiter decides to sue.
Also discussed on HN about a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31949731
Twitter admitted to lying about user engagement in 2015 and paid a hefty price for it. [1]

Your argument is absolutely ridiculous. They've done it before, and settled.

Seems you have absolutely no idea who you're defending, which is a company that has routinely misled investors on user engagement and paid settlements for that very fact.

"The company with a history of lying to investors about user engagement would never lie about user engagement!"

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-to-pay-809-5-million-to...
Yeah but Rogers isn't the biggest of the big networks, that's Telus and Bell.
If you have “a whole crowd” who’re already prepared to risk an obstructing police charge, do you really think adding a potential “filming while too close to a police officer” charge is likely to change their behaviour?
Because the news is not credible. It's biased, misleading and deceptive.

It favours the Democratic party. Of course many Democrats see bias in their favour as being simply reporting the truth.

This stat says it all:

Just 5% of Republicans said they had "a great deal or quite a lot of confidence" in newspapers, compared to 35% of Democrats.

Only 8% of Republicans said they had "a great deal or quite a lot of confidence" in TV news, compared to 20% of Democrats.

*Independents' views are generally closer to Republicans'.*
Who specifically would be actionable / liable here?

The warranty provider? Your telco? Peering telco? The data provider? The call centre?

How do you find / sue them?
His financiers were the ones requesting validation. At this point it appears they pulled financing as the conditions weren’t met.
You can't really conclude that if consumers never find out they're getting fakes. When fakes fail or cause issues, they blame the original company. Amazon shares product ratings/reviews of an SKU.
Create Mars Foundation or do any other shenanigans rich people normally do.
> AI processing

This one is super interesting to me - clearly Snapchat, Google, Apple, and I assume Samsung have proved that this is viable.

While some features (e.g. portrait mode) exist to work around limitations that many lenses don't have (ability to create a shallow DoF) other ones are more interesting, i.e. Snapchat filters.

Still, I worry that these are too difficult to reason about as compared to something like the exposure triangle, and the imperfections of things like portrait mode can be very obvious. Perhaps these are better left to post-processing tools?
With the cleareyed understanding that this article is photographic clickbait/comment-bait...

Use gear that achieves the task at hand. Sometimes that needs an optically-correct lens, sometimes it doesn't. When Frank Thorp brings a Speed Graphic or a disposable camera carrying black-and-white film to the halls of Congress, it achieves a different way of seeing. The rest of the press corps brings us high-quality versions of more traditional images with modern cameras and glass. They all have important places.

For my photographic work, I'll generally prefer to work with lenses of higher optical-correctness, but understand when others don't. Bresson's “sharpness is a bourgeois concept" echoes in my mind at times as I work, reminding me that message trumps image quality most of the time.

Photography lends itself well to writing analogies -- you can write on paper with a crayon, a Sharpie, a Rotring, a word processor, a typewriter, fingerpaint, a Bic, LaTeX, a #2, a calligraphic brush, or chalk. They'll all write, perhaps even the same characters, in different ways. A master with any one of them will find ways to evoke the message they intend. So it is with lenses.
R/unclebens?
Why what are you surprised about?
Surely one of the largest businesses in America facilitating fraud en masse has to meet said threshold.