skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if it's a game-console that's advertised as being able to play a particular game very well... but it's also the only console capable of playing that particular game... and they're both made by the same company, seems a bit mean.

It's also equivalent to those high-end network switches with 48 ports that have soft-locks to disable ports on the switch until you fork-out $lots to unlock them: it's an artificial limitation.
Glyphosate study showing no harmful effects for glyphosate was ignored by IARC
Most other news/social media sites have a small picture and/or a blurb to set the context beyond the headline. Since this is not possible here, I'd suggest tags like "Astronomy", "Science" etc. to help alleviate the problem of confusing headlines (pretty sure this has been discussed before, but anyway...)
The "crackdown" had precisely zero effect on vpn usage for anyone I know.
> handcrafted pieces of code likely operating on a series of fixed memory locations rather than parameters passed on the stack.

You mean like Fortran?
This is why I never liked the idea of X11-based "secure snaps", and preferred flatpaks over it. And now snaps won't even use Mir anymore, and I don't know if they plan to use Wayland either. Flatpaks is Wayland-only.
> If something planet-scale happens while we wait on a single planet, the entire species would not make it.

I suspect even Musk doesn't believe this. I've never read/heard him talk about our species being wiped out. He usually prefers the much more vague concept of end of our "technological civilization".
"All Tesla vehicles produced in our factory, including Model 3, have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver."
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> It terrifies me to think of relying on image recognition software to correctly determine (... snip)

Do you not drive using only your eyes? If you are not terrified of the sensors, then software? Turing's central belief was that the human brain was 'just' a computer.

Regards doing things like embedding reflectors in roads and other ways to simplify lane holding, completely agree. But we can't forego the cameras etc that deal with situations that don't contain reflectors.
I think that we'll only turn over driving to a computer (for reals) when safety systems are good enough to prevent most accidents. I think we'll keep the safety system separate from the drive system.

Perfecting safety on human drivers first is the way to go and will most of the risk of lettings computers drive.
They _might_ be further along. Everything you've quoted is vapor until it is demonstrated with their current hardware.
It's not going to work, things will change or we will have no self driving cars. There must be someone who's liable, and that person will be the corporation that wrote the software. That in turn will mean restrictions; the software must be updated on a timely basis, and the risk to the company must be controlled in an actuarial sense just like vehicle insurance.

Vehicle insurance like today can't be used because incentives aren't aligned. Fully self-driving cars will come with an insurance package, and the company will need to control its insurable risk, or there will be no self-driving cars at all. If it's against the law, the law will change, not the model.

I'm sorry, but society will demand it. You will not and cannot have full ownership control over a self-driving car.
I think he knows

> It is important to point out that you are extremely unlikely to be penalized for bringing in an encrypted laptop with you to China, as any kind of widespread zealous application of such practice would quickly shut down any business travel to China -- and this is definitely not in the government's interest.
“In particular if you are brown..” [citation needed] – as in actual data and statistics on the alleged difficulties of brown people at the US border. Tens of millions of “brown” people enter the US each year without incident.
I'm not involved in this project but I'll bet you're seeing these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_hyphen
I do see the usefulness of that approach, but I also see an amount of risk. A disaster waiting to happen.

Let's say, for instance childpornhere.eth goes live, someone pays and receives mail with pictures of a kidnapped child. Havethisguykilled.eth. Sponsorkillingblacks.eth. tipISISnottoattackyourkids.eth. And so on and so forth.

The bitcoin "hostage" situations that we see now. Famously the encryption viruses, but the same is happening with cloud credentials (e.g. gmail or hotmail accounts used for businesses. Passwords get changed, last mail is "if you want them back pay $1k to <bitcoin address>")

Second, securities fraud. If anything was learned from bitcoin in finance, it's that we cannot live without exchange laws, which bitcoin exchanges did not have. Tradehill, Mt. Gox, Bitcoin central, Bitstake, BitSpark, all and many have gone bankrupt, stealing large investments in the process through outright fraud (TradeHill, incidentally the guy who committed that fraud has a new bitcoin exchange), or through incompetence and getting hacked (which of course could always be just straight up fraud, I mean does anyone buy the Mt. Gox story, for instance ?)

Second, addendum: outright general securities fraud. E.g. sudden changes in liquidity that I'm sure in most cases are mere accidents (well, 2 years ago in most cases, today, I'm not so sure), but cause short-term very quick value changes that even in the accidental cases most people find themselves victims to. More generally, the sale and trade of bitcoin derivatives and the practice of the issuers of said products to invest heavily for short term price changes. Or, causing an artificial and massive drop in liquidity through ddossing an exchange (hell, I've worked for actual financial exchanges and seen people pull this one off, but in bitcoin it's commonplace and unpunished)

Thirdly, tax evasion. People use bitcoin, and eth, to avoid paying 0.2% or so commission to banks. We are to trust that these same (very rich) people have no issues paying 30% or so in tax. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Do you really want to allow that ? This is (mostly) what is enabled here.
Explorers will recognize the harshness of the universe as a forcing function for bettering ourselves and our species, not a null terminator to sit on Earth and outsource our futures to AI.
That's why password managers exist
I think a big problem with these services is that your rating belongs to Uber instead of the user. It would be nice to put your reputation from all the services you use (Uber, Airbnb, reddit karma, eBay, credit rating, etc) in one central place that is not controlled by a single corporation.
Dangers of DevOps Metrics
There have definitely been many more foolish wastes of time that were laughed at than there have been advancements.
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There are quite a few transforms HSV, HSL etc that you can do on images for doing things like lane detection in different conditions (bright light or darkness). Also typically you take the input from 3 camera sources left, right and center.

To add to it there are techniques like applying shadow to a bright image.

When we combine some of these techniques, the task does become possible, even in in adverse conditions.

Also, various techniques often complement each other. For e.g. We may derive a steering angle out of a Machine learning system, and we can cross check that against the lane detection, vehicle detection (no collision) etc.

To think of it, we when we drive ourselves, we just use the eyes. So there is a view that cameras alone are sufficient. But definitely as Radar and Lidar complement the cameras and make the driving system more robust. As Lidar gets cheaper, we are bound to see it being used more even in camera only approaches.
BTW, Thank you for all these suggestions. Although I am not sure whether they make any difference for a programmer who is not yet fluent in linear algebra, I think they are great for people to explore once they are a bit more confident with the basic stuff.
This is fairly important information. In my experience most people go to bed much later so saying you get up at 3am is, rightly or wrongly, automatically associated with too little sleep. You get around 7 hours of sleep per night which is quite healthy and probably a more meaningful data point.
Curl doesn’t spew binary anymore
In this case the software you're renting is the self driving capability.
If a court rules against the person who has the risk from controlling the risk, they will get themselves out of that situation. That will either mean changing the law, changing to a lease model and ceasing sales, or stop selling self driving at all.
Airplanes generally somewhat safer than driving. By quite a margin.

Without consulting the literature, it just seems easy to believe that machine-like consistency 99.9% of the time is more important to safety than confusion in the 0.1%.
I don't know if there is or not something new with that page, but Elon recently tweeted this

"Radar-only braking on HW1 is getting better with every release. We're hoping to do the demo where it brakes for a UFO in the fog soon."

So maybe that has something to do with it.
The dream it's to then be able to share a portion of your information with another party without revealing everything. For example, you can share "my credit rating is above 750 and I'm 32 years old" and nothing else. This can be accomplished with zero knowledge proofs which are going to be possible on Ethereum later this year.
I live in China, and have many friends who also live in China. ssh -D is not the best way to access things outside China.

There are many other ways. The best current methods I know of are Shadowsocks (what I use), or ShadowsocksR, or Shadowsocks over obfsproxy. Although the Shadowsocks protocol presents as a socks proxy, there are clients for iOS (e.g. Potatso 2), Android and routers (e.g. those available at koolshare's web site) which make it transparent to use (and they deal with your DNS issue as well, by tunneling DNS through the proxy).
I'm in a weird position there. I've recently decided on react for most of our frontend in the future because of all the technical advantages this offers and the productivity benefits I see, but I still harbor reservations against react because in practice I've rarely seen react pages that feel snappy and fast, rather than choppy and slow.
If the brain is just a computer, its machine learning algorithms for image recognition at a busy intersection are believably currently more accurate than any image processing software run on any computer that Tesla puts in its cars.
Well, it's the first result on urban dictionary: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TFA
> if the driver allows themselves to lose focus, they are just bad drivers

This needs empirical support. All of us are human, and are susceptible to false senses of security. Most of us are not good at assessing real-world risks and probabilities. If the autopilot software is good enough to drive the car successfully for months on end, drivers will start to trust it. It will be very hard to stay vigilant and aware, with eyes on the road at all times and an alertness level on par with manual driving.

In other words, an otherwise “good” driver can easily be lulled into complacency by a system that’s really good, but not perfect. It’s an uncanny valley that is worth discussing.
On C-optimizing compilers removing code that has undefined behavior
It is more subtle than this. Actually when having produced useful for business or politics knowledge they are hiding it, while calling others to disclose theirs. This is kind of cheating. Europe is on decline, it produces less intellectual input and so is trying this way to grab the IP of other guys without sharing to much of the little things they still can provide.
> ... but I tend to think it's held back graph drawing all these years.

can you please elaborate a bit more about why you think graphviz has a negative impact?
Well, the hull problem is there at 1% or 15% of c or whatever is reached. You don't get to wave how you get to the 1% of c speed away either, so let's not set double standards; interstellar transport for humans _is_ all scifi-land.

IMO, we simply can't get there with chemical rockets as we know them. Continuous acceleration in space is just any kind of engine that keeps running and provides thrust. We're not talking cars here.

The estimation of the energy needed is easy to make sense of - what does it take to have a rocket (or more likely, some other engine) hover over the ground for 4 years using some kind of thrust?

When we have that capability, we can pretty much do non-suicidal interstellar transport. But it requires new technology and for me, that constitutes sci-fi. Doesn't mean a conversation can't be remotely serious though, IMHO.

But the point I actually wanted to make was, that whenever people talk of cruise-speed in interstellar transport, it seems to me like they haven't grasped the scope of interstellar travel with an intent of conquering it. Rather, they are implying it just can't be done - without arguing for it.

The term 'cruise-speed' itself becomes an annoying passive-aggressive attack on the notion of interstellar transport. That was my original reason for posting.
Indeed, and not only that, Elon Musk's example of Autopilot supposedly saving lives that he famously tweeted a while back was manual driving + active driver assistance in the form of automatic emergency braking (which is supposed to become mandatory on new cars at some point). It happened in conditions far outside what Autopilot was capable of actually driving in.
Bringing crypto currency to the masses?
Funny how there are people with much more money than Musk, who do absolutely nothing useful with it, but Musk draws criticism for details. Oh, why Mars, why not Moon, or Ceres, or O'Neill cylinders, or lets colonize the Sahara desert first, or lets solve world hunger and poverty (which is a 100% political problem, not technological, BTW) blah, blah, blah, blah...

Musk is doing SOMETHING, at least. The technology that SpaceX develops can and will be used for much more than just Elon's particular vision of Mars colony.
This is not a good analogy. Being vaccinated is strictly better than not being vaccinated, even if you don’t get your boosters. It’s not settled yet whether a three-nines level of automation is strictly better than zero automation. It’s entirely possible that this level of automation is good enough to convince most users of its infallibility, but not good enough to reduce the statistical accident or fatality rate.

Perfectly safe 99.9% and highly dangerous the other 0.1% may be overall more hazardous than human-level safe 100% of the time. Or it may not. I’m not making a claim either way. But it’s not a crazy notion that it may not be.

More data is needed. I’m cool with that data being collected in the real world with real drivers. Gotta crack some eggs...
When did all algorithms become AI?
Yes, that was indeed implied for the line "For interstellar travel to make sense..." to make sense :P

I don't mean to be annoying, but I don't think I understand why you ask?
Which Office tier doesn't come with the Power BI tools in Excel?
Australia is even worse than the US when it comes to disgraceful treatment of foreigners by Customs. I was humiliated and interrogated in a similar manner described by Mem Fox in her US trip several times while entering Australia. Several friends from other countries report the same or worse. I've been to the US and China, and without doubt Australia was the worst. China, as others are saying, is actually the easiest one to get in, almost no questions, no intrusion, no laptop/phone raids.

After I became an Australian citizen, I never had problems entering Australia again, interestingly (as everywhere else, they have different Customs areas for citizens).
Girl Scouts can start earning cybersecurity badges in fall 2018
The reddit button for submitting a post still says "save". I brought it up to a reddit designer last year and apparently there's some mountain of technical debt that would make changing the label a week long task so its languished at the bottom of the priority queue for many years now.
Amazon Echo devices can be exploited by hackers to steal your bank account info
ITT : a bunch of neo-red-guard idiots rushing to the defense a draconian surveillance state with every ham fisted argument under the sun, including "works for for me", "we get fast internet so it's K" and "the imperialist west blah blah"

Some of you guys make me sick. there's no excuse for explicitly normalizing a police state - not even the existence of other police states.
"Have the hardware needed". Note: not the capability; just the hardware. It's an unnatural way to write promo copy for a feature, and is written that way for a reason.
That may well not be a decrease in safety, considering how poorly most people drive.
Ummm. What does open access to scientific papers has to do with what you're stating?
>"The chocolate is terrible and often is not even chocolate."

What do you mean by this? What is your definition of chocolate?
Half a trillion dollars is spent every year in advertising to those poor people to buy things. Trillions of dollars were spent on chasing jihadis around the desert for 16 years. There is enough money floating around currently spent on nonsense to achieve both yours and Musk's goals.

And if you do not see the potential for positive externalities created here on Earth by arguably the most ambitious project mankind has ever endeavored to undertake, your aperture on the world is quite narrow.
I gave away my HP 12C when I bought a 19B back in 1990 and regretted it some years later. Recently I've been using a 12C on my phone and am now seriously craving a real HP 12C again. There's something about that calculator.
[Citation needed]

Is this kind of trolling now acceptable on HN?
Depends on what you are writing.

If it's something that has to be maintained for more than a month, use Typescript or Flow. Just do it. Everything else is a PITA.

If it's just something you want to whip up quickly and won't be maintained, jumping through all the hoops of npm, building and bundling is just annoying.
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This is an interesting argument:

> Poitras has also violated her unambiguous promise to the subjects of the film that they would have an opportunity to review the film in advance and request changes, and that they could decline to appear if they or their lawyers felt that the movie put them at risk.

So I'm wondering whether Assange declined to appear, and she refused. That'd be funny, in a sad way.

Still, I've followed Assange's work for decades. Maybe he's been a sexist asshole at times. The flesh is weak, no doubt. But I don't get how that can be a criticism of Wikileaks.

Edit: In the parent article, Poitras says:

> There were individuals who requested from the beginning not to appear in the film, and those requests were respected.

I wonder what the contract actually says about the right of subjects to decline to appear.
Copying and pasting from a comment of mine from another thread:

There's some good reasons try colonizing Mars:

* It would be a significant challenge (like going to the Moon was), and (as there is lots of historical evidence for) innovation comes from people working on hard problems. So it would lead to innovations

* It would inspire a generation to be more interested in areas like science and technology (also like with going to the Moon)

* The fresh start of a new planet would provide the opportunity for people to try out new forms of social structure. The founding of the USA is a historical example of this. Broken systems and structures is a big problem on earth right now.

* Ultimately if humanity only exists on a single planet, then it's at great risk of being wiped out by some catastrophe. Getting off earth is important for our future existence.

(A long time ago, I read Robert Zubrin's "The Case for Mars" and I think a lot of these ideas came from that. https://www.amazon.com/Case-Mars-Plan-Settle-Planet/dp/14516...)
I want to answer to this particular statement about terraforming taking centuries:

>>Even if terraforming ever works, it will take centuries. Dozens of generations.

That's not a stopping criteria, even if it is something to consider. A long trip starts with a single step. If there is no plan to make human interplanetary species, then this safeguard will never ever begin. If there is a plan, sure humans will become interplanetary. Even if that plan is on the scale of decades and centuries.

PS. I do not understand why bots and humans cannot live side by side on Mars. Furthermore, with a huge selections of bots, humans will have access to a lot more space. So they will not be subject to a submarine-like environment.

PSS. It is also a matter of scale. If 100 people move to Mars, their life will be harsh. If 100k people move to Mars, together with selection of bots, their life can be reasonable.
The crackdown only applies to local VPN providers, that is, providers located within the mainland. The majority of VPN providers, which are usually based on Western countries, are not affected, unless added to that blacklist of GFW.

And ssh is not the best way. shadowsocks is.
Does the author unlock all data on his laptop in his hometown? If you're targeted, no matter where you are. I think that's no differences. You just will be another missing people.
Yep, you hit the nail -- it's the casing, indeed. Much like other humans here, I read it 4 times, and still got stumped until I saw the comments section. (While coffee is next to me, and Paris is almost a stone's throw (3 hr train) from where I live.)

As you could imagine, clicked it purely because of my brain going: "What is that non sequitur at the end of the title?"
Thanks for the answer. I'm looking forward to it. Now I wish scala.js would also be able to compile the compiler. Would be a nice benchmark for the language runtimes since the compiler is a non trivial program.