skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's less "ignoring sirens" and more "communicating about emergency alerts". Even if the siren legitimately went off during clear skies, people would be confused and you'd want a way to communicate why the sirens are going off. In most places around the US, they use the Emergency Alert System for that, pushing the message to TVs, radios, and cell phones. Already the EAS is set up with a protocol to let you know it's safe to ignore this alert, they test the alerts and say "this is only a test". And they already set off sirens that they expect you to ignore, in my area it's every Friday at noon.
A lot of evidence seems to point towards the best way being a combination of the two.
I'm not convinced about the emotional baggage. I do agree that corporations above a certain size completely lose their morals.

I get excited over synthetic meat, it is interesting tech, it has the potential to provide some healthy stuff to my diet if I decide to eat it. It can also be a good way of reducing the reliance on the terrible industries you mention.

I'm fine eating a vegan diet and I wouldn't want to change that. I know people that couldn't because of allergies and what-not, I also know that some people aren't willing to make that change.

I think good things can be done in many ways and I'm sick and tired of seeing people with good intentions go so hard on polarizing these issues. Better farming practices are still an improvement in my eyes. They are still doing a net bad as far as I am concerned but I want to see an improvement, so I'll encourage it.

But I guess it also depends on varying levels of empathy. I know people that are much more emotionally troubled by the cruel industries than I am. I just happen to agree that it is terrible and I try to live accordingly. Maybe I just don't feel it the way you do?
> I'm not sure where that point came from. It's not only a crime, it's an extremely serious crime. What on Earth are you talking about?

The OP never said it wasn't illegal, just that no one thought it was a serious crime. Kind of like how sodomy is illegal for DoD personnel under UCMJ law, no one gives a damn and no one enforces it.

> You can't tell investors that the rate is based on a daily measurement of interbank risk, and then just go ahead and base that rate on something entirely different when it suits you.

But it's not based on interbank risk, it's based on how much you THINK you can get an interbank loan for. How much you THINK the risk is worth. They base the Libor rate off a lot of thoughts and few facts. The fact that they base it entirely off of thoughts and few facts gives these bank personnel a lot of incentive to lowball, giving whatever number is necessary to get the lowest loan possible and profit the most.

Libor rigging will continue at all levels until they change HOW they get to the Libor rate.
Indeed, they might even have exaggerated it. The computations are expensive and can take several seconds even on powerful MCUs. There are HomeKit chips that can accelerate this, but good luck getting your hands on one (or its manual).
My wife works for a major textbook publisher. Not all those free textbooks or cheap textbooks are the same quality as the ones produced by big evil corporations. Frequently, when looking at competitors books, she will find more typos, fewer citations, out of date studies with small sample sizes, poor quality graphics, and sometimes just wrong information. Big books are expensive because the companies frequently worry a lot about these things and also spend lots of effort on the pedagogy of the text.

However, management is not good, the commercial model frequently prioritizes things which are not good for students, and the industry is still shedding revenue. In an effort to change that, they seems to be doubling down on digital products, which are still less popular than print by several orders of magnitude.
Oh, great. Can't wait for them to hack that one...
Is it true that aggregated performance is low? Mostly I've just seen people say that the majority of managers have poor returns, without taking into account how well the best ones performed.

(I agree there are plausible reasons for aggregate underperformance.)
The most difficult problem for semi-trucks and their drivers are delivery and pickup. Full level 5 autonomy for a truck would need to include navigating busy parking lots, backing up to bay doors, loading docks, and loading lots. Other tasks simple for a human, but difficult for machines would be identifying where the delivery/pickup point is, and actually unloading/loading goods. All these can be solved, but will require some level of standardization. I expect they will be easier and cheaper to solve with humans for some time.

I see a future where drivers get in the truck, handle the hard bits at the beginning and end, the truck handles the tedious A->B without stopping, while the drivers can rest, and then the drivers take over at B.
That might be more plausible when it starts happening repeatedly. It's hard to compare it to the boy who cried wolf when we only have a single occurrence.
If I understand correctly, you could set this to 'CAA 0 issue "example.org"' effectively preventing conforming CAs from issuing certificates for your domain. Then if you actually need to get a new cert for the domain, you would temporarily switch the value to your certificate provider of choice.
> chicken thighs are often much less expensive

One of the few downsides to shopping in an "ethnic" area in the USA is that chicken thighs are just as expensive per pound as chicken breasts
>You don't need IoT for any of those use cases.

This is a shitty response. It's like telling the person who wants a better mousetrap to just live somewhere that doesn't have mice. It might be a "solution" but it's not a good one.

>You can do that locally with passive infrared sensors.

So now you want me to purchase 10+ infrared sensors for throughout my small condo? And what happens when my pets set them off? what happens when I'm laying still on the couch? What happens when I'm taking a shower?

I can just get a keypad? what happens when I want to change my keycode while I'm away for a week? What about the nice notification I get on my phone when someone opens a door or the garage door when I'm not home? What about the snapshot of the security camera I have sent to my phone every time someone enters the house when nobody is home? What about the routine which begins warming/cooling my house when i'm less than 15 minutes from home?

Those aren't solutions, they are shitty workarounds that only work in a fraction of the situations. Just like most other "solutions" that attempt to act like every single thing is 100% possible without outside communication are.
Am I the only one that passionately dislikes the menus that require clicking on the hamburger icon? I'm okay with it in phone apps when used tastefully, but it seems like too many websites are adopting it now for no good reason. This trend is especially evident among the online Wordpress/HTML template communities and creators...
I always took "the best money can buy" to be an idiom for "the best available". I don't think he was advocating for paid tools literally whenever possible.
In your country.
Navigant Research Leaderboard Report: Automated Driving
Be in the Room
Symantec attributes 40 cyber attacks to CIA-linked hacking tools
Yeah, looking forward to OLED TVs and monitors that use the BT.2100 color space standard (BT.2020 + HDR).

http://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1...
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Yes, leeches have extremely limited use. However, bloodletting and leeches killed far more people than they ever "treated."
I just spent a half-hour reading this very well written article. Very cut and dry explanation of the livestock system. Highly recommend everyone to read.

Interesting tidbit: "But a lot of it has to do with the way we grow our food, and the fact that we mix 100 different cows in a single burger. We never used to do that. The butcher used to take the scraps from that one animal and make his hamburger right in front of your eyes. ... Now, you get one infected carcass, and that meat can spread all around the country, because we have this centralized national system."
This is not a semi clandestine match. The collaboration with the Chinese Government stated in the post should take care of that, a reliable connection to the AlphaGo servers at home.
I was at the top station, she was coming up on a chair by herself. She had one arm wound through the slats in the back of the chair, and was using her phone with the other hand so she didn't see the unload coming up.

Her snowboard was dangling and caught on the beginning of the unload ramp. About that time I hit the e-stop, though of course a many-hundred ton machine with a 1200hp drive motor is going to continue for a bit before it actually stops moving. Even with the e-stop a big heavy four-seater fixed grip will go 6-8-10 feet or so. If it wasn't my first day maybe I would have hit that button sooner.

(Side note, they make the chairs heavy on purpose so they are less susceptible to the wind.. Otherwise they blow around and hit towers. I have been sitting on a chair when it slammed sideways into a tower before. Not fun)

Her board caught in the snow and started to pull her forwards off the chair, but her arm through the slats stopped that happening, so the chair started to swing back and load up with all the forces. It got to quite an impressive angle before something gave way, and it was her femur, because it was half off the leading edge of the chair.

Obviously that was a major ski patrol incident, and I had to write witness statements and draw diagrams of the whole thing in case she tried to sue the resort within 7 years (California...)

Another day I watched a liftie raking the top ramp look up just in time for the chair to smash him right on the forehead - he was out cold for 10 minutes.

That same guy was later scooped up by the chair at the top, and the sudden weight in the chair as it went around the bull wheel caused a derailment. The haul rope (cable) came out of the bull wheel (the big wheel at the top). This is a pain in the ass to fix, especially when there is the weight of hundreds of people sitting on the haul rope. That was a full manual evacuation, which takes hours and hours of lowering people down with ropes.

Some of my best days were "saving" people from getting hit. At the bottom once you have worked 100+ days you can see an issue coming three chairs before it happens, so it's like you are Superman. Often kids would be in the worst possible place and were about to get creamed by the big heavy chair. It's not possible to hold the chair back (even if you could , maint. doesn't want us doing that, we can damage stuff) and the e-stop won't stop it in time. I hate seeing kids get hit, so I would run over and tackle them to the ground, holding them down while the chair sails over both of us. Everyone lined up would cheer. It was great fun!

Of course, we screwed around a lot too - holding on the chair and letting it drag us along the snow, sitting on the chair and waiting to be the last to jump off into the powder, trying to "hurdle" the chair as it comes towards you (which was insanely hard because you have to jump the chair, but duck the steel bar at the top)

All in all, really, really good times.
Frequently the objectively best tool is Free or open source software (which doesn't mean it's priced at $0, although often it will be). But many times it's not, and that's when companies can become extremely penny wise and pound foolish.

Hiring someone to exclusively babysit a Jenkins instance is incredibly expensive. Paying for Travis CI/Codeship/Gitlab CI is really cheap in comparison. Having developers fill out purchasing orders and waiting for software or hardware is very expensive.

I like to call it the "IntelliJ test", can I requisition IntelliJ ($499) and have it the same day (week? month?) or is the company going to flinch, hem and haw at the absolutely inconsequential price of the software in comparison to the expensive developer time they're paying for.
Unfortunately, admitting that you are right would require accepting that the entire neo-liberal edifice of free market fundamentalism ("the free market can solve every problem") is wrong.

We are societally unable to do that currently. It's our modern religion. Otherwise incredibly smart people (I include everyone on this website) are unable to see that only government intervention (pushed for by us) can solve this problem.
Should I invest time into this if I ant to go into automotive and similar industries?
Imagine the horrors if we let the market regulate cabinet space in your kitchen.

Once you remove the subsidy people pay to park. What is so unfair about that?
>Having more kids in western cultures contributes significantly.

I wonder how much longer before the idea of limiting people's reproduction is on the table.

Someone who never has kids can probably drive a Hummer and spend every weekend jetting off somewhere, and their lifetime carbon footprint will still be many times lower than someone who has several children.

I understand that developed country carbon footprints are vastly higher than developing countries, but there are countries that are developing rapidly yet still have fertility rates of 4 or 5 children per woman. We can be pretty sure that those people aspire to having a western-style carbon footprint (and to be fair, why shouldn't they) either through migrating to a developed country or their own country developing.

When do we start saying that we need to limit the number of people who can exist? I don't see how it could ever be practically possible (outside of a regime like China, and even then it backfired horribly) but it if it could somehow be enforced it would probably be the best (and fairest) thing we could do.

Side note: for those of us who worry about this stuff, it can be hard to comprehend how little the average person cares about it. We have these TV shows in the UK which show people going through the process of buying a holiday home (British people are obsessed with houses/real estate to the point where watching other people buy a house is a recreational activity). The other day there was a family with 4 kids buying a holiday home in Florida. So they're planning to spend the rest of their lives jetting their whole (large) family across the Atlantic a few times a year. As someone who feels kinda guilty every time I fly, it just left me thinking that I'm wasting my mental energy on caring about this stuff when other people care so little.
OT, but not much, there was a story recently about the Garadget:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14029572

which shows some of the risks of an internet connected device (no, it is not about lack of security)
I don't buy that argument.

If "customers and reputation" were sufficient, we wouldn't need regulations on the safety of e.g. medical stuff, food and cars. (And history, as well as comparison with other countries, confirms that we do need those.)

Whenever one needs to establish a minimum of quality (and this is what that's ultimatively about), establishing laws mostly works, while trusting the market mostly fails.

Markets are good at many things, but are really bad at establishing a minimum of quality (or provision with basic supplies, for that matter).
You mean that HomeKit-compatible products all need to include some kind of HomeKit-chip with a pre-shared key or something? I'm completely unfamiliar and a quick search on homekit and pre-shared key didn't make me wiser :)
I was also making the point that:

1. Vegetarianism is not an end-all-be-all

2. Some people fare very badly on many vegetables. Potatoes, grains, rice, and those sort of things are effectively slow poisons for Diabetics.

3. No, you will not shame or embarrass us into not eating meat. I'd personally consider vat grown meat. We're not there yet.
Malaysia seizes $3.1M worth of rhino horns at airport
Honestly, more than 50% of the downvoted comments I see on HN do not deserve to be downvoted. Less than half of them are rule-breaking, rude, useless, etc.

Frankly, downvoting here has become just as bad as on Reddit: it happens because people don't like the comment for any reason, including, e.g. that what they had for lunch is giving them indigestion at the moment they lay eyes on it (but mostly it's because they simply disagree, which is shameful).

This particular comment is full of speculation, but it's not unreasonable speculation, and the linked article gives no details to contradict it. I wish we could have an interesting discussion about what might be, rather than mindlessly censor it by downvoting so that we can only have approved conversations.

This just reinforces my conclusion that the only kind of voting should be upvoting. If a comment breaks a rule, flag it, otherwise leave it alone, and concentrate on upvoting good comments. This shaming-by-graying is becoming very tiresome. It's ridiculous that it only takes a few random downvoters to turn a comment gray, because it's not an indication of what the community as a whole thinks, only those who happened to downvote it (after which the likelihood of it being upvoted by people who do like it diminishes, because it being downvoted decreases the likelihood of anyone seeing it).

TLDR: Voting on HN is badly broken. It only takes a few selfish, childish people to kill comments and prevent the community from even having a chance to correct the downvotes.
The "4-5 hours a night" story is so prevalent among government and business leaders that I've always assumed that they are A) lying, or B) medicating to reduce their sleep needs.

President Obama was reported to have regularly taken Modafinil to reduce jet lag while on international trips. He's also reported to only sleep five hours a night. Why not just medicate to increase your productivity for a few years?
Docker 17.04.0 Disables IPv6 Networking on Host
How do you guys find passion ? I don't know where my passion lies. Do I even have a passion ? Do I have to be passionate about something ?
Automated jaywalking tickets, here we come.
Make such modifications illegal and require regular checks.
Every dollar given to the billionaire is willingly given because the product benefits the person at least a dollar (net benefit to both parties). "The excess" is invested in other companies that produce other things people are willing to pay for.

Every dollar the government spends was taken from a taxpayer (cost one dollar), to provide a product people are not willing to pay a dollar for. This yields a net loss to society, unless there are positive externalities.

This does not mean that there is not a role for government spending (a "common good" in the economic sense is undervalued in the market).

Voluntary exchange produces an economic surplus, increasing net well-being. Government (compulsory) spending hopes to create an economic surplus, but is largely not measurable.

Sometimes the aim of government spending is simply transfer of wealth, which is zero-sum (or maybe negative sum, if it damages incentives to produce, or maybe positive sum if the recipients can use it to greater net benefit). Again, hard to measure.
i'm not a fan of cucumber and you can achieve the same results by just reusing code. a big problem i have is it ends up introducing pointless indirection. defining steps in different files from the feature being tested even if they are only used in that single feature file is unnecessary abstraction. having to grep for step syntax in a project to try and find the code that is implementing a step is insane.
The article's main claim is that if you want to do well, you need to buy a large number of stocks. It used the S&P as an example but didn't claim that it was the best possible large portfolio.
I don't understand how this relates to my comment.
It's not strictly cyberpunk, perhaps proto-cyberpunk, but I highly recommend The Shockwave Rider[1] by John Brunner if you haven't read it yet.

There's also Snowcrash[2] by Neal Stephenson.

I've seen Glasshouse[3] by Charles Stross on at least one list of cyberpunk works, and while I think that designation is questionable, it is an amazing work regardless of what genre it falls into.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shockwave_Rider

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasshouse_%28novel%29
... but no (slight) slap on the hand, and not even going to bed without dinner ...
Hmm, I wasn't familiar with them being quite that extreme. I've only heard people speak of it here and there and haven't read up on it.

It is fascinating though, they take a lot of things to extremes.
The latter part of the article seems to focus on deep methods not influencing lower level system architecture and design. Perhaps the reason is that those systems and problems are fundamentally different than the dynamics systems that NNs are finding so much success in. In short, compiler, programming and architecture are very formal exact systems, while driving, tts, stt, image association, etc are nowhere near as controlled of environments.
>2000 firearms per day, so more than 700000 per year

Someone should tell them that firearms can be reloaded...
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As well, you have really mess up to overcook thighs. They are one of the easiest/tastiest things to cook over charcoal. Meanwhile, a minute too long and you've ruined white meat. I've since learned that the guidelines for cooking white meat are very conservative and I can cook breasts to a lower temp than I'd thought[1], but then I have the opposite problem - some white meat eaters seem to prefer overcooked meat.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/complex-origins-f...
60,000 retail jobs to be lost as retail stores shutdown as shoppers buy online
Right but you sti;ll need to secure OLED supplies until then because Apple is now buying 70+ million screens a year from Samsung.
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"they need to build their devices out of standardized pieces that are secure."

That's exactly the problem with IoT-- there's no standard, out-of-box solutions right now. Try to google for "IoT security": you will find a bunch of (mostly proprietary) competing solutions with no clear leaders among them. See my other comment on this thread, were I've provided HTTPS as an example for IoT ecosystem. I'm an experienced embedded developer and most often, when it comes to security, I still have resort back to "invent my own" security solution, because I can't find anything that fits project needs.