skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, Blacks being racist against whites is an odd statement, like homeless people being classist against the rich.

I get what you're saying, but this just isn't a very pragmatic perspective. It's clear that white people have major hegemonic advantages over minority groups, but at the end of the day, the left (of which I am a part) needs to acknowledge and reject the damaging effect this kind of rhetoric has on racial discourse. As an extreme example, a statement like "fuck white people", is clearly racist regardless of who is saying it. It is difficult to fight racism if we give casual observers ammo to reject the left as hypocrites. This doesn't mean we have to pretend that the impact of racism affects all groups equally, but in order to see progress we must condemn hateful speech in all forms instead of dismissing it just because the speaker hails from a disadvantaged group.
Does anyone prefer the name dnf? I will likely never agree that it should have been renamed to dnf, even though it represents a significant amount of rewriting. yum is an incomparably better name. "dnf" is even worse than "apt".
I hope they are using GPS/Map data for existing signs along with visual identification of the signs. Even when the gps is not accurate enough, the system should amplify the accuracy of the location based on permanent objects and the topography.

Either on the first video or some news, i think i heard the ability to drive where the lanes are not clearly defined. Things such as snow would absolutely requires such reconstruction.
Probably to humble brag how Tesla made it so simple it's almost something to laugh at.
This idea that there is a single, global caste system which is applicable in all situations makes me very uneasy. For example, a white person being beaten up for going into a black gang area I feel would be racism, because that is a space where black people are at the top of the pyramid. A male stay-at-home dad being scorned by female counterparts would be an example of female-to-male sexism, because that is an aspect of society where women are considered to be superior.

The trick is understanding who holds the power in the situation.
Surely the entirety of poltics is about fringe people pushing policies. We have just got used to the main parties and normalised them.
How the Super-Rich Can Kickstart the Green Economy
You can add a view and add a filter to that view which filters requests which have domains of your choice in them. Add the domain(s) your site is hosted on and you'll get rid of most referrer spam; it seems like they call the GA API directly with your UA code, without providing a destination host.

Caveat: the filter did not apply retroactively to my data and only started working from the date of its inception.
Everything is free, we inherited the underlying wealth of the world for nothing, we just choose to charge for it.
You are ignoring the prior probability.

Supose you don't know what color a car is, so you look and see it's green and then you look again and still green. Now, what's the Bayesian calculation.

Well how accurate are your eyes, how stable is car color ect.
I was essentially raised on Miyazaki. Some kids grew up with Toy Story and Finding Nemo, I grew up with Kiki's Delivery Service, Howl's Moving Castle, and The Cat Returns. I mean, I watched other films to (a lot of other films), but Miyazaki had a huge influence me: without him, I would have likely never gotten into anime. To this day, his films are still some of my favorites.

Whoever made this tribute, you have my salute: The 3D CG, while quite obvious, blends very well with the rotoscoped animation, something that doesn't always happen (just look at some of Cowboy Bebop). It also captures the feel of Ghibli's animation amazingly well.

I salute the animator, and I also, of course, salute Hayao Miyazaki: Farewell, and may your legacy live on.
Fascist America, in 10 easy steps (2007)
And inevitably the AI will still be/become faster and safer than humans.
Cruising into the Arctic’s Open Arms
Show HN: Sokuji – point to translate Japanese-English browser for iOS
Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt (Umberto Eco, 1995)
Learn the shortcuts, talk to people who already know Blender (if you can find any), and when in doubt, RTFM. Then Google.

That should at least get you through the basics. From there... I don't know.
It passes a single jogger without an issue beforehand, but they were two when the car stopped and left one was relatively close to the lane when the car was approaching. Maybe it wouldn't stop if it was a single jogger.
>as well as increased app complexity in order to maintain client/server separation at extension points.

Can you explain what you mean by this?

And are you comparing client-only vs universal, or client-only vs server-only?

Large JS can be solved with code-splitting. The necessary code is downloaded in chunks when needed.
First, they were a search company. You could finally locate things reasonably on the internet. Before long, what we know exists on the internet is determined by one company.

Later on, they offered email services. It's a great service except that there's no privacy. Ads and searches get even more targetted, but we get free email, right?

Now, they offer a nice place to park your data, a suite of office tools, phones, video streaming, ... Everything so convenient - how did we ever exist without all of this?

Their latest project? Taking sides in a partisan election. After all, they can probably do the best opposition research and get out the vote research since they have access to everyone's data. So helpful.
That misses the point of the article, and misses what they learnt. The point isn't that a request was blocking the server. That's exactly not what happened. The point was that they couldn't handle the timeout of the non-blocking request they were making because there were so many other non-blocking events being processed before the timeout callback could be handled.

They could probably have solved this by scaling out, but I'm not going to fault their diagnosis or response.
What would you do if a stop sign was removed?
If you're interested in this problem, there's a roadmap for automated factchecking from UK factcheckers Full Fact here (I work there): https://fullfact.org/automated, which has just got some funding from Google. The roadmap includes a summary of a lot of the work in this area and a breakdown of what many of the challenges are.

It's not going to be solved in a 36 hour hackathon, but it's good to see what they came up with.
Very cool demonstration (despite curious choice of music!).

I did notice that the lane markings are suspiciously bright and well-painted throughout the video. Almost as if they'd been touched up by Tesla! Or maybe this area just has particularly diligent road-painting crews.

In many parts of the real world you'd be lucky to get such clear lane markings throughout the journey, certainly not here in the UK or in places that get winter ice & snow.
The interesting question is why Node isn't. It's supposed to be fast because everything's non-blocking, right? So why is this particular use problematic? What colour are the emperor's clothes, anyway?
Autodriving 90% of the time would be a fantastic feature.

Autodriving 100% of the time is where it gets revolutionary (mass-layoffs of truck drivers, taxi drivers, summon features that park cheaply outside of downtown).

The former is great, but there's a lot of hype going around right now so it's not strange for people to be cynical.
Can someone explain the left turn on 1:41? Seems a bit aggressive.
Direct Thrust Measurements of an EM Drive and Evaluation
of Possible Side-Effects [1]

[1] https://tu-dresden.de/ing/maschinenwesen/ilr/rfs/ressourcen/...
> Sure, it's still your choice to see it or not, but they'll probably get seen more now that they have that deal, and should making a deal with an ISP be the marketplace in which content providers compete, instead of creating great customer experiences?

What if SeeAlltheFilms.com doesn't make a deal directly with the ISP, but still pays for some of the customer's data? They offer customers as a sign-up bonus for buying a one year membership to send them a prepaid data card from that mobile customer's wireless ISP that is loaded with enough to cover a typical month of the average customer's video viewing.
The issue here is that even with a paid phone number, what could the support rep do?

Sure, they could provide advice, but would you want some stranger who happens to work on Google Support India the ability to look into your account? To reset your password?

It's best they provide buttons for you to fix your own problems than choose privileged people who can invade your privacy to fix problems for you.
Frequentist methods are not dependent on the researcher's state of mind, but on what actions he would have taken if things turned out differently.

I've got slides that illustrate exactly your example. Look at the graph below:

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/pubs/slides/gilt_bayesian_ab_2...

Your different conditions simply represent the probability of the blue line crossing two different other lines.

Frequentism isn't stupid, but you do need to be really smart to use them correctly. At VWO we switched to Bayesian because our customers are marketers, not statisticians.
I thought the best part was the car doesn't need to park anywhere near. Large parts of cities will be freed for us to use.
If a stop sign was removed, I probably would've driven straight through without stopping too. How would I know there used to be a stop sign?
> needed to convince buyers

Buyers were convinced by "cruise control", which just (barely) keeps a set speed.
I'm dubious of that assertion, although it is good to know how the free hardware projects are going. We may well get a cert for UEFI SB, and if we don't, then someone will crack it sooner or later.

Honestly, the only thing that keeps me from migrating to the BSDs at this point is Steam.
Works offline, has its own OS-level windows (so I don't have to hunt around for the tab, can close the browser but keep e-mail open or vice vers), multiple e-mail accounts under one application while keeping them entirely separated (I don't want to give one provider access to my mailboxes at another provider, and I don't want to have to use multiple different web UIs). Also a matter of habit.
Thanks for posting a link to the paper!
> But what if the sign is damaged or removed? The car will go straight without stopping?

Probably the same thing a new-to-the-area human would do if the sign was removed. Where I live there are many intersections where only 1 road has stop signs. I'd imagine there are other areas were the norm is a 4 way stop.

As for damaged, I would imagine it can still recognize the sign as often in image recognition you do not need the whole picture to confirm a match.
Did they finally add persistent history oit of the box?

Peristent = close the terminal then open it and the last commands are available.

And yes, I know you can hack it to be persistent.
Business Gsuite data is also more tightly controlled, which means some integrations necessary to make things work properly aren't possible.

For example, calendar data of Gsuite customers is sensitive enough the assistant AI can't access it, so if you ask the Google assistant "what's my next appointment", it can't answer.
I agree to a point, that it's an issue of balance of power, but I think the arms race solution could cause a lot more damage to our society than the current arrangements.

Surveillance of government could open the floodgates to much broader interpersonal surveillance. For example, imagine a company that offered 'surveillance as a service'. We've been here before with private investigators, but that tended to be a niche market, just imagine if it was mainstream. The mechanisms we'd need to enable ad-hoc surveillance of government officials could also enable the general public to spy on each other to a much greater extent. At what point does that start to impact on our personal relationships and our business relationships? I'd suggest it could cause a much less forgiving society to emerge.
Weather Underground analysis: https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/crazy-cryosphe...

“There are weather and climate records, and then there are truly exceptional events that leave all others in the dust. Such has been the case across Earth’s high latitudes during this last quarter of 2016, on track to be the planet’s warmest year on record. Sea ice extent and area have both plummeted to record lows for this time of year in both the Arctic and Antarctic. Such dramatic losses rarely occur at the same time, which means that the global total of sea ice coverage is phenomenally low for this time of year. The weirdness extends to midlatitudes: North America as well as the Arctic have been bathed in unusual mildness over the last several weeks, while Eurasia deals with a vast zone of above-average snowfall and below-average temperatures.”
Hmmm... What's a good word to describe my feelings on this? Oh, there it is:

Fuck. We're fucked.
It is so important to do the whole trip because switching costs for the driver from "totally inattentive" to "grasping the wheel and driving" are measured in seconds.

Anything less than 4 is asking for trouble.
TfL to track passengers by MAC addresses
It's odd that the usual hysteria by media, academics, assorted human rights organizations and concerned citizens about surveillance has been 'toned down' since the Snowden revelations.

It's nearly guaranteed there would be an earthquake of hysteria and frothing about totalitarianism and human rights were the revelations not about western countries. There is nearly zero activism about surveillance apart from the odd EFF press release.

It telling about the things we are supposed to care about, and the level of manipulation in local and global affairs over the last few decades and how countries are run. It seems like all societies we too want to think the worst of others and make excuses for ourselves. But that kind of posturing by our media, human rights orgs and reps is now going to become impossible to pull off with any credibility.
Ok, these click bait posts should really stop (at least here in HN).

According to the paper itself, there are still sources of error unaccounted for: "Although thermal shift was addressed to a degree with this test campaign, future testing efforts should seek to develop testing approaches that are immune to CG shifts from thermal expansion.".

And you must understand that this effect simply violates the laws of physics. So, the far best explanation so far is that what you are seeing is simply measurement error and actually wait for a real confirmation or refutal of the effect.

These click bait articles that keep resurfacing about the theme are a disservice to science.

Article at: http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/pdf/10.2514/1.B36120
The very modern fake news phenomenon is a notable example of human BS detectors being successfully gamed by, for example, small shops in Macedonia that generate large volumes of nonsense that confirms their tribal biases and harvests ad revenue from viral sharing. The humans they trick are operating with media literacy skills that were adequate a decade ago but are not today. There is certainly an arms race here.
I believe Tesla's AP 2.0 is built on NVIDIA's platform (with probably a lot of custom stuff, of course). If you want to learn more about how that kind of system works, that CES 2016 demo is very instructive, especially from 42:50 onwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2573&v=KkpxA5rXj...
I was left speechless. Probably one reason I don't participate on public non-moderated discussion boards.
I absolutely share the sentiment, but like you said, not having this feature is the sacrifice to make in return for a high(-ish) quality discussion board. The other end of this spectrum would be reddit, where you need [SERIOUS] tags and heavy moderation, and still get inside jokes, memes and circlejerking for the sake of karma/likes.
"how are the end user groups requirements put forward? what mechanisms is there to ensure developers work on the defined priorities?" --> projects are run by their leads, they are not told what to work on. In this sense, CNCF operates more like IETF/ASF but with (arguably) less intrusive governance.

The underlying idea here is that a well-run open source project gets plenty of strong direction from actual users, who must be interacted with directly.

There is a still-forming End User Board designed to create a strong forum for some types of User-Project discussion. But overall CNCF will lean towards "voluntary" and not "mandatory" requirements.
The link to LIME looks a bit out of place - LIME is an algorithm of explaining classifier decisions which is most useful for cases when you can't inspect weights and map them back to features. For TF*IDF + Logistic Regression there is no need to use LIME, one can just use weights and feature names directly. LIME is more helpful for all other models (there is a lot of caveats though), not for the basic tfidf + linear classifier model.
Projects can do what they like. We believe that users, communities, market pressures, and so on, will drive good outcomes here. For example to date, all projects have worked to interoperate of their own volition. No committees were formed to achieve this.
This could have been solved with a simple addition of another queue.

Don't spawn off heavy requests without a throttle / queue, or else you will overload your single core.

We normally don't think about this because most requests are just tiny queries / small http requests.
We made this feature by feature comparison with SAP BO (not R/3): https://www.odoo.com/page/compare-odoo-vs-sap

And all our comparisons whitepapers are here:
https://www.odoo.com/fr_FR/page/odoo-white-paper
United has created a new flying class that’s even worse than economy
It's the ownership that's important. You can consider scalping a specific form of the generalized issue of doing something outside of an agreement of something you don't own, e.g. subletting a room on Airbnb if a rental agreement forbids it. If you own a phone (or some other object), unless there is a law that specifically forbids some action, at least in the US you are able to do whatever you want with it, because you're not renting the right to use the phone, you are the owner of the phone. That's why in this case, it's not fair that Google turns off service for purchasing a phone and then selling it to someone else (a reseller in this case) because they person who purchased the phone is now the owner and selling their phone to another entity is not against the law. In fact, there are laws that specifically allow this.
You can't blame NASA for trying shit. They aren't claiming this stuff will work, just that they measured thrust. The fact that one study showed differently isn't binding. Many, many papers disagree.

I believe they are going to put one of these in space, that'll give a definitive answer.
If only someone had warned us! We would have prevented this!

Seriously though, interesting that climate change has been in the news a lot since Trump got elected. As if anything useful was being done beforehand. As if we previously had some kind of plan which was scuppered.

There is no plan, there never was. And there is no hope.
Yes we do allow competing APIs.

You said it yourself in another comment on here: "It's never blatant, it's always calls for seemingly good things like extra pluggable points to make sure we don't favor particular solutions. Then it's making sure that any decision is brought to a huge vote by a giant committee that spends weeks arguing about if it's something they should even decide on, etc."

This kind of premature generalisation by committee is what has pulled OpenStack down; a situation from which it is now apparently recovering. CNCF seeks to avoid this, by encouraging projects towards interop but not in mandated ways.
I think issuing money will always be a controversial proposition - at least within the endemic value-system. Even if people rationally understand the need for it and the requirement of a consumer class, the idea of "money for nothing" will not sit easy emotionally.

I think we're more likely to see something akin to corporate sponsorship of a consumer class - rather than the consumers being given money to spend, they are given goods and services either free or heavily reduced directly by corporations, either subsidised by the state via tax or directly provided via regulatory requirement (unlikely this would be entirely voluntary). This weeks food is bought to you by Purdue and Country Kitchen Buffet. Your new jacket is bought to you by Walmart.

From this, you also end up with a secondary barter economy - people trading their free crap for less common crap.

This way you achieve subsidence for the masses, maintain consumer capitalism, and rather than there being envy and anger at people getting "money for nothing", they are instead seen as a subclass of "lazy unworthy poor in their rightful place". The corporates accept it because it builds brand loyalty, grows a new generation of consumers, keeps people just upwardly mobile enough in a world where the majority live by trading crap to keep them mollified and in the hamster wheel. Maybe one day I can own a robotic forge! Then I'll be rich!

There may be places where monetary UBI exists, but I don't think it'll be a majority system. A simulacra of an economy will do just fine as long as it keeps power concentrated.
Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS
We need to fight against the 'fake news' crackdown that's emerged after the recent US election.

Think about it for a second, who is getting to decide which stories are fake and which stories are real? Do the groups doing this content filtering have their own pro-corporate agendas to push? If we don't start exposing their biases in determining what 'fake news' is we'll end up giving those in power a means to silence dissent.

I'm all for fact checking and verification, but it needs to be managed by the people, not by corporate or government interests.
La Housse Magique
That's really impressive, but I really want to see it driving through rush hour in a densely populated old Italian city. Let's continue pushing the envelope.
It's rather less ridiculous when you look at the artwork he displays in his office and home.

I believe that's one of the things that gave all this traction, something is seriously wrong here, even if it's just a few sick souls. One of whom just happened to be the chairman of Hillary's campaign.

If you believe the Clinton Machine is evil, and you're open to supernatural explanations for evil (I myself am not willing to rule them out), well, we can go so far as demonic possession, that's straight out of the New Testament, Jesus driving demons out of people.
Absolutely. Money is once...you pay it to someone, they pay it to someone else, they no longer have it. When you pay someone with your data, they have that forever and can monetize it hundreds of different ways over and over long after you've moved on or stopped using whatever you got from them.
How humans and machines can work together to save the tuna
Obama bans new oil drilling in Arctic Ocean
Dynamic Pessimization: Shaggy Dogs and SpiderMonkey Unwinders
I would love to see how autopilot works in different cities (e.g Mexico City, Rome, Buenos Aires). I Just found "I tested Tesla Autopilot in Manhattan traffic — and lived to tell about it" http://mashable.com/2015/11/06/tesla-autopilot-new-york/
If you pause it at 0:54 it clearly made a mistake. The foot of the left person is outside the green box, the car thought the person was further forward and to the left of where they really were. Good progress but not ready for prime time.
Technically the tune is called the "Yackity Sax" but it may well be more widely known as the Benny Hill theme tune.