skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some humans are horrible drivers. Some humans are good drivers. The biggest difference is often how proactive the driver is.

It's true that a careful, experienced driver will typically recognise a rapidly emerging hazard as much as several tenths of a second faster than a novice, giving them significantly more time and space to react. However, a careful, experienced driver will also anticipate places where there are likely to be hazards and adjust their driving style to compensate.

Does a self-driving car know that there's a park just round the corner and it's half an hour after the local kids came out of school, thus increasing the risk of a child chasing a ball into the road?

Does a self-driving car understand that the group of people standing quite near the road up ahead are outside a bar at 11:30pm and thus quite likely to be drunk and suddenly stagger into the road?

Does a self-driving car know about the pothole in the cycle lane that you had to avoid while riding into town yesterday, and anticipate that anyone riding in that cycle lane today may move out into the main traffic lane without warning to go around it?

Does a self-driving car know that the news last night reported on a local black spot for "accidents" caused by people wanting to make fake insurance claims, and decide to take another route that is a little slower but avoids that black spot?

Better sensors, fast data processing, and the ability to monitor all sensors all the time are big advantages, for sure, but these things mostly support reactive behaviour. I've seen nothing so far to suggest that the better reactions currently outweigh proactively avoiding or mitigating these kinds of hazards in the first place. Obviously that might change in any number of ways in the future, but we seem to be a long, long way from that point yet.
But there's no "deep packet" inspection of encrypted vpn or an ssh tunnel? Sure, you can guess that the connection is encrypted, and block it on general principle - but there's no way (that I know of) you could selectively block ssh based on the content/traffic pattern (you might let through low-throughput ssh only, ie: only allow use that "looks like" shell use, but a) you could run w3m on the other end of that tunnel, and b) it sounds unlikely - as that would also kill many other uses like file transfer for backup etc).

I'm curious if ssh access to eg: digital ocean is allowed?

If so, you can simply use ssh as a socks5 proxy:

ssh -D 8080 you@example.com
# Set your browser to use 127.0.0.1:8080
# as a socks5 proxy for dns lookup and
# traffic, via eg foxyproxy for firefox

I'm not saying GFW won't block this, but I'm doubtful it'll allow plain ssh, and block this use case?
I'm considering that taking this funding at a very high valuation will force them to change Reddit in a way that results in its ultimate demise. What's wrong with a good stable community and business, as it is?
Does this mean little snitch may stop working?
Yet people work on their brakes in their driveway all the time. Hard to imagine a government allowing that.
Just like everyone moved on from…

Twitter?
Facebook?
HN?

Maybe people just aren't in it for the money.
I can't tell. And I used to be pretty good at spotting fake stills but this is beyond my ability to discern, what specifically makes you feel 'something's off'?
Your list of who uses what is kind of contaminated by who wrote the code, I don't think it proves anything.

Obviously Google Brain use TF and Montreal use Theano - they wrote them. Deepmind use TF, but they used Torch before the google takeover. Similarly Google and Toronto are deeply intertwined.
> "And the best p-value they observed was p=0.02"

A p-value of 0.02 is quite good in physics and absolutely outstanding in medical sciences or biology.
Really well done. A decade later it's still a struggle to get some basic things negotiated and signed off when code is part of a submission, like an open license, a specific revision to be pinned to the paper if under version control, or simply getting the code into version control if not.

This requires training up and down the line and it's helpful if authors push for these basic things because if a formal process isn't in place to handle exotic content like code, then it may get dropped from the final submission because it's simply too much of an effort for everybody.
> with single-member districts (rather than any sort of party lists)

Single-member, FPTP districts are the issue (or, rather, the lack of proportionality and meaningful choice that comes with that is the issue); the absence of party lists, OTOH, is irrelevant. There are solutions to the issues posed by single-member, FPTP districts that retain candidate-centered elections and do not use party lists. (STV in multimember—but not necessarily at-large—districts is one of them.)
OTOH their human rights record is still pretty terrible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Kazakhstan
Spend just an hour at a local library in a struggling section of the largest city near you, and you'll see that this is where the poor come to interact with modern society. 1000's of people come here to access the Internet, get help with things like GMail, or online signups for unemployment insurance. They get tax help, legal help from lawyers who come give free consultations, and libraries offer some of the best child care events available: baby bounces, story time, big picnics, etc.

Libraries are some of the most important public spaces out there. Oakland even has a tool lending library with weed wackers, hammers, drills...

Libraries are the only public institutions dedicated to freely increasing the education level of adults.
I thought the same as well, but I've been to Shanghai Expo and it was actually quite an experience even though every line was at least 2 hours, until VR and haptic feedback can truly build life-changing experiences, going to the Expo is actually quite interesting. I think its more a marketing and branding issue.
How is that any different from any other provider? If you have a link from an ISP and block it at your router, security appliance, WAF, etc, you are still charged for it. In this case, Cloudflare is going to be "charged" for it so they attribute the cost to the destination IP.

I assume the same would be true with Argo disabled? If traffic comes in for your IP, its going to be billed to you.
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I remember Woot's founder, Matt Ruttledge, mentioning how he didn't get along with Bezos at all.
When linking to other parts of the site I notice I'll get bounced to the mobile version of Reddit even when I'm on .compact. The mobile version is so space-inefficient which is worse because I'm on a small mobile screen.
The article mentions infants who are at greater risk.

The article is also talking about home canned foods.

Here's the CDC surveillance report on botulism for 2015: https://www.cdc.gov/nationalsurveillance/pdfs/botulism_cste_...

> A total of 199 confirmed and 14 probable cases of botulism were reported to CDC in 2015. Among confirmed cases, infant botulism accounted for 141 (71%) cases, foodborne botulism for 39 (20%) cases, wound botulism for 15 (8%) cases, and botulism of unknown or other transmission category for 4 (2%) cases (Table 1). Among probable cases, foodborne botulism accounted for 6 (43%) cases and wound botulism for 8 (57%) cases.

> The 141 cases of infant botulism were reported from 33 states and the District of Columbia. The median age of patients was 2.7 months with a range of 0 – 10 months; 70 (50%) were girls. Toxin type A accounted for 60 (43%), toxin type B accounted for 79 (56%), and toxin type Bf accounted for 2 (1%). No deaths were reported.

> The 39 cases of confirmed foodborne botulism were reported from 7 states (Figure 1). The median age of patients was 59 years with a range of 9 – 92 years; 25 (64%) were women. There were 5 outbreaks (events with two or more cases) accounting for 37 confirmed cases. One outbreak was associated with home-canned potatoes in a potato salad served at a church potluck (27 cases),† one was associated with fermented seal flipper (4 cases), and one was associated with beets roasted in aluminum foil and kept at room temperature for several days then made into a soup (2 cases). In addition, there were two outbreaks of two cases each living in the same household or facility in which the foodborne source was unknown (Tab
I know the difficulties surrounding IQ, I was just quoting it to show that predictions about future ability can be made at that age.
I might actually end up doing that.

But honestly what a waste of resources. I would prefer to be able to work on topics that are not problems created by a recent shift of view of how compiler should be designed and optimize, shift that is for the worst IMO.

And yep I know the reason in the current design for why it is not always easy. That's why I added the caveat that maybe they should be changed.

But then you can not just says that all the users criticizing and "trivializing" the problem are in the wrong and do not know what they are talking about. First, most of the discussion I've seen either points at technical justification of why those crazy optim should not be done, be it for safety, possibility of real optimizations by the programmers (and to compare, I'm not impress about the capability of compilers to take poor code and to transform it to somehow less poor code, especially when the language in question is C, that always required mastering); or points to discussions of compiler authors who are borderline insane (when you see them discussion about how technically the standards would allow to not consider uint8_t and char as alias, and they ask themselves if they could not "optimize" more thanks to that, you clearly understand they have completely lost it, and that things will end up badly); or points to bugs "exposed" by that class of optims (I would even say introduced, because 1) when your binary have been OK on all your target platforms for a few decades, and a new compiler come and break it for a technicality, it can be argued that regardless of said technicality the problem is mainly with the compiler; and 2) compilers compromise e.g. for technically invalid benchmarks, so they have no credibility when they don't take into account major breakage in major software, they are just acting like spoiled child who just want to do what they want regardless of the consequences).

What is never addressed by C/C++ compiler authors and their fan base is why the "nonportable" part of the standard is not taken into consideration anymore. This was the original spirit of UB. NOT: "this will permit EXTRA optimization in abstract compiler code"; the only "optim" were because of differences between target processors, and leaving things UB could yield a better mapping to the instruction sets (a trivial mapping) and it was considered that the programmer knew about them, and could use them when needed.

Now there is no mapping anymore. We all have to target the common denominator of all the existing target past, present, even dead ones. The result is a very very very poor language. Unsuitable to more and more things.
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It's easy enough to test, record some video with your cellphone during a flight, see how much voice you can pick up after some simple filtering. Now imagine what an intelligence service could do if they had access to test runs on actual planes, could engineer their own microphones, and could tune filters to the engine noise.

You might as well say that it's unlikely that tapping 60s era cars on the highway will work. I'm fairly certain it did.
Our vision and persistent world model are good, but all humans are overconfident in their ability to drive in poor conditions (or even normal conditions, for many people.)

A computer isn't going to look down at a text message on their phone, fall asleep at the wheel, or get in a car while intoxicated. All which occur literally every day. People take driving for granted, because (at least in the US) we have to. Our sprawling suburbs couldn't function without it, so the barrier to entry is simply being a teenager.

Would I completely trust Tesla's auto-driving? No, not at all. But I at least trust them as much as I do an average driver, which is still just barely. The difference with Tesla's system is that one failure leads to improvement of the entire fleet, whereas one human failure maybe improves that one human driver. That means self-driving cars will continuously improve, while humans will just continue to be terrible drivers.
Does cloudflare block the traffic as close to the end user as possible? Curious if this is a case of "blocked traffic still uses a significant amount of their resources" or just a billing software limitation.
I assume this was posted because of the Otto Warmbier situation? [1]

[1]: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40308028
And punctuation checkers.
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How many of those 133 million people signed the linux kernel, used by... billions?
> we are not the only ones that could wreck our home. The next dinosaur asteroid that hits or supervolcano that erupts will take out us and lots of the other higher lifeforms on Earth.

Sure, there are all kinds of apocalyptic events. But we don't have to luxury to address them right now. See the following from https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/back2.html

>An individual's chance of being killed by a meteorite is small, but the risk increases with the size of the impacting comet or asteroid, with the greatest risk associated with global catastrophes resulting from impacts of objects larger than 1 kilometer. NASA knows of no asteroid or comet currently on a collision course with Earth, so the probability of a major collision is quite small. In fact, as best as we can tell, no large object is likely to strike the Earth any time in the next several hundred years. To be able to better calculate the statistics, astronomers need to detect as many of the near-Earth objects as possible. It's likely that we could identify a threatening near-Earth object large enough to potentially cause catastrophic changes in the Earth's environment, and most astronomers believe that a systematic approach to studying asteroids and comets that pass close to the Earth makes good sense. It's too late for the dinosaurs, but today astonomers are conducting ever-increasing searches to identify all of the larger objects which pose an impact danger to Earth.

So instead of going to mars, isn't it much cheaper and easier to detect and destroy that kinds of asteroids as early as possible?

Look. I like the idea of a backup home. But I don't really think this Elon Musk character is genuine. That his intentions are really taking human beings to mars. Think about what happened with Hyperloop. I would have understood if he had attempted, ie invested in it, attempt to build a prototype, and failed. But no. He just threw some ideas and disappeared from the picture. What do you think about it? Isn't that relavant at all?
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These cars are unlikely to stay stopped for long as there are going to be passengers in them.

Now, we could get into hypothetical situations, but the reality is minor accidents are already really common like with so many other things machines can be better than people without being perfect.
Maybe, not everyone need a religion to tell them what is proper..
I think I explained myself poorly. Of course the schools don't measure raw IQ, there are many factors like intrinsic motivation (problematic as a measure in young children) conscientousness (which is a relatively stable character trait) and of course parental pressure which distorts any measurement we can try to make. All I was trying to say that it is possible to judge the potential of the children with adequate accuracy.
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It is not. Photo quality is low a anyway.

What's important is a controlled process that attaches this photo to a hard-to-forge token, such as a passport or other identity document. It confirms that some designated clerk looked at the photo and at the person, and also at other documents confirming the identity of that person, and maybe asked questions to make sure the person is who (s)he alleges to be.

That photo is for reference only, and is worth next to nothing without the identity verification process above.
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Exactly my point, unregulated != free.
Ok, an xkcd fan. Apparently a bunch of these commenters don't get it.
the fact that cURL is hosted on haxx.se always throws me. It makes me immediately associate haxx === hacking and I feel uncomfortable. This is honestly why I use other tools instead even though it's more an unconscious decision than a conscious one.
> He claims the photo is a "fiction". All photos are.

That's not true. Your passport photo is supposed to be a snapshot of what you looked like in person at a certain point in time. It is the difference between a registration and a creation.

The likely effect of actions like these is that eventually the passport office will take the photographs to avoid people playing games with the system (such as: replacing the eyes with the eyes of someone else or changing other details that might screw up the biometric passport requirements).
That's fine. I come from Soviet Union and i know very well that 'equal' doesn't mean 'fair' at all.
I hope sci-hub and libgen can stay afloat. sci-hub.ac is also up atm. "to remove all barriers in the way of science" -- be advised it's not necessarily legal.
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A friend of a friend told me about identical twins that sometimes swapped identities and documents, to circumvent some bureaucratic hurdles.
This makes me wonder, has anyone used the Walmart "drive-up" shopping system where you shop online, drive to a specified location and they load your groceries after you pay?
Good to see the date on this is 2011, because back then low-contrast was a major design trend. These days? It still happens, but it's nothing like it was.
> It's remarkably pessimistic to argue that colonizing a new planet after two centuries of experience with industrialization, democracy, environmentalism, ex-colonialism, etc. under our belt wouldn't be at least slightly better than the situations we find ourselves in on Earth.

Do you know who will be still calling shots?

Politicians/Businessmen.

I am not even addressing the rest of your comment because that is quite frankly, very naive wishful thinking...You say that is pessimistic. But tell me, look around, do you see anything that make you feel even remotly optimistic?
We've been there, and it looks like we might be going back...

https://wiki.debian.org/non-US (Also: OpenBSD etc)
You're talking to the guy that pioneered digital photos used for identification purposes in 1985 (Goodsports, Alphabet BV, Amsterdam).

I think I know a thing or two about the processes involved to get a pass on being allowed to use digital imagery as proof of identity, the one thing that everybody involved from the official side was quite clear on was that any kind of tampering with the image content was absolutely forbidden.

So I would expect this piece of art to have some far reaching consequences.
We typically don't drink beverages that require boiling water, aside from coffee which is brewed in machines. Everyone that I know that drinks tea or uses a french press has an electric kettle, though.
It's a low sample size, and observastional, but it points in that direction. The effect is probably IGF-1 related as IGF-1 indirectly activates HTRT and telomere lengthening (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047637409...).

IGF-1 is also what the non-meat eating lobby use to connect red meat eating with cancer. IGF causes cells to grow. Anything that causes cell growth, even if it generally manifests as bigger muscles, stronger bones or longevity also helps cancer cells grow and gets tagged as bad by association, even though preventing cancer is more about having a strong immune system, early detection and avoiding mutagenic chemical pollutants.

There is a huge pro-vegetarian bias is nutrition studies. That's because there are a lot of people who want the world to switch to a vegetarian diet because it is more ecologically sustainable or they are intensely devoted to animal welfare and not necessarily because it is the most healthy.
If I understand Argo correctly, you're basically paying extra for CloudFlare to send the traffic from their first PoP to the backends through their own network as much as possible instead over the public internet. The traffic to the first PoP happens both with and without Argo, so it shouldn't add extra cost over the normal plans.

The question then is if the traffic filtering does happen at the first PoP (and thus wouldn't use resources inside the cloudflare network, which is what you're paying the Argo fee for), or if it has to be sent on and is only filtered later.
No single source. Just things I've read and heard over the years. I'd say a major one of those is listening to a lot of episodes of the Planet Money podcast.

An example of what I'm talking about is tariffs.
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> It took me about ten years to figure out that Twitter is a cesspool.

Reddit has similar problems

> What Reddit does right is focus on topics, primarily, not personalities.

This is an advantage for twitter in many ways, people want to follow and interact with other credible people not with a bunch of random people with no credible experience discussing a topic on reddit
I think it already has, if you're willing to put in the work and funding.
The main reason to bet on TensorFlow is that it seems to have by far the greatest adoption of all frameworks, as evidenced by github statistics, HN polls, and other surveys:

* https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/765212287531495424

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12391744

* https://github.com/aymericdamien/TopDeepLearning
Does anyone know the story behind:

https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks

"Removed according to regulations." vs:

https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks/tree/master

Is it the shadowsocks project dancing around github censorship, or github allowing ss to dance around chinese censorship?
Without Argo, Cloudflare doesn't bill you per gigabyte.
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I think you're thinking of 'a wild sketch appeared', unless they both recently retired
To me, this is really not that weird. Law enforcement can put up "wanted" posters based on an artist's sketch. So there is already a way that governments rely on a synthetic image for identification purposes.

Of course that is only for preliminary identification, but then this is a more accurate representation than a sketch.
His failure? Has he invested in or attempted to build a prototype for Hyperloop funding it himself? if that is so, I wouldn't be doubting him now, even if he had failed..But I don't think that to be the case....
A thousand times this. It doesn't even need to be a large city. Large cities tend to be innovators on breaking the mold of what constitutes traditional library services, but I've also seen smaller towns where libraries provide lifeline services.
People have reacted fairly strongly to the threat of defunding organizations like the NEA and the NEH, but haven't really recognized the threat against IMLS, which is the Federal agency in America that funds a lot of this.

Worth a look: https://www.imls.gov/