skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probabilistic 3D Shape Representation for Robots
Crash test results: 0 stars

https://youtu.be/jePu-6TxypI

Reminds me of the Tata Nano (also 0 stars): https://youtu.be/buMXtGoHHIg
Does this effect 2FA auth at all? Will I need to remove all existing authenticators to accounts and then reenable after the factory reset?
We're not talking about achieving on-die chip speeds at the picosecond range here. We're talking about interface specifications between the CPU and the DRAM, USB, etc -- these things can be designed for based on specs, and you don't need a trise/tfall equal to 10% of your FO4 inverter delay to achieve this. These are board level specifications which can be achieved with medium tier off the shelf components. And if they can't be achieved at the latest DDRX specs, then just design for one generation behind to at least get something going in the community.
I think there might even be a chance that there is bias in the die-recognition system, so random.org would be in fact more random.
Let me guess... another hard fork to undo this.
In China, it is almost both. Some of the highest sellers are BWM, Jaguars and Mercedes.
The general audience doesn't even know that its phone has a file system, let alone care whether it's HFS, HPFS, APFS, or CP/M. You're complaining that Apple didn't disclose something that only developers care about to the masses.
DIY solar filter for taking pictures of 2017's total solar eclipse
Ask HN: We oft talk about mental stress in tech, call it PTDS:
(Post Technology Deployment Syndrome): This causes some/many to suffer in daily life. What from your tech career makes you suffer and how?

Some drank

Some thrive

Some recluse

Some BOFH

ETC...

How do you deal with tech stress, where the stress of your career is abstracted away from the physical, but may manifest in the physical.

When sedentary in a seat, where all your activity is mental/cerebreal/emotional stress -- how does that affect you IRL?

Is this already a thing being studied? If so, what is it called? How do I read up on it?

(aside from "depression can be from N sources" type of stuff?) -- Yeah, I identified that N=tech.. how fix?
Then at least allow it for manual update requests. Just like 99MB app installs or updates don't have a problem with 4G :)
Give robots an 'ethical black box' to track and explain decisions
ETAOIN SHRDLU - Last Day of Linotype at New York Times (1978)
Definitely agree with the address bar, I'll add a few:

* Being able to disable unnecessary features and phoning home using about:config is great

* Extensions look and feel more native (this will probably change because Mozilla has decided that cloning Chrome is the way to go)

* Extensions are more capable, still no decent side tabs in Chrome

* They're not an ad agency, so they don't ban extensions they don't like or nag you when you install something unapproved

* Font rendering manages to not look terrible

I'll admit though, Chrome still kills Firefox on UI speed and in many security technology ways. My biggest worry is that Mozilla will fail to achieve Chrome UI speed while ditching the things that make Firefox unique today.
That's like 30 Million USD at current prices? This is close to the DAO hack in USD value, not another fork now surely?
It's the "only" part that keeps tripping me up. Very talented people come out with products that don't fit the market demand properly and therefore don't succeed. That isn't luck. I'm not saying that is the "only" reason for failure but just a quick hole in your logic here so there are probably many more.
When I used to work in a lab, these types of reports were common and delightful to hear, but very few patients were as well informed and granular with their understanding as you are.

Congratulations on your recovery!
I did both in incognito fwiw, it prevent the caching effect. It's not a thorough study, and I'm not concluding that it is, but i'm not doing a study when picking a browser. I just use it and stuff is slow, that's all I have time to try.
I'm not that guy, but I'd like to see a dark chrome in Brave, I dislike bright colors.
Motorcycle Crash Test Results? Yet still a great way for some to commute.
I agree with the other commenter, this really sums it up well.
So is that. I think we both well understand that "want" here means, "and will pay for".
there are a lot of safe cars available in Germany below 10k€
Can someone ELI5?

I use Parity, I have a wallet contract deployed, it's night and I'm wearing sunglasses.
Cocaine tourism is now a thing in Medellin
Might as well just ride a bicycle and put that money into developing good cycling infrastructure.
Can anyone explain? Don't know what I'm looking at.
But that should be up to the users to decide. I'll be much happier to use up 137 MB for a critical security update than 354 MB for the latest Facebook app update (version 132.0).
Amazon has an army of lawyers, a well written TOS, an identifiable customer, and a corporate shield. They also have the ability to take down offending material.
https://unchecky.com/
Then at least we can agree that a fairly major operation such as converting the entire disk between file systems in a "minor" update wasn't disclosed to the masses, and I think that fact (and that it worked out quite well, apparently, besides the normalization shenanigans) is interesting it its own right.
I should've bet on it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14807779
Right yes, this whole article is not good journalism.

It is an interesthing thing to write about, but the voice here is wrong.
A hard fork couldn't undo the damage if everybody wanted to. The exploiter/hacker/scammer, whatever you want to label them, can move ETH into other coins on exchanges immediately. This will cause an innocent party to buy them, removing any chance of reversal affecting the person[s] responsible.

During the DAO hack, the funds were prevented from moving anywhere so a hard fork caused a direct reversal.

That's my understanding, anyway.
The manufacturers represented them as less biases. I do not have any statistics to back it up.

But it does make sense that the removal of any material would effect the rolling unless very sophisticated things were done to offset the remove of material.
The same old tired snark, in every single Ethereum-related story.
Historically, it's always been the cheap cars that win. Honda civics, toyota corolla, dodge k-cars, vw beetles, mk1 golfs.
What an impressive device! Does it retain statistics keyed to a particular die? So that you could possible identify a 'loaded' cube which sneaked in?
Parity shipped with a built-in Solidity contract to implement multi-sig wallets. That contract had a vulnerability that is now being exploited.

Importantly, the contract is not part of the Ethereum protocol, so other implementations and non-multi-sig Parity wallets are safe.
Wow, this falls into the "fucking what?" category of security bugs. It's like walking into the Central New York Gold Depository and declaring yourself king of the world and walking out with everyone's gold with nobody noticing stupid.
https://www.arewestableyet.com/ is for internal tracking and rather hard to make sense of externally. It's cluttered with jargon and abbreviations and raw numbers. (I can tell because I just logged in. I work for Mozilla.) For example, this is how the rows are labeled in one table: usage_khours, Main (M), M + Content (M+C), C - Content Shutdown (C-S), M + C - S, NPAPI + GMP Plugin Crashes (P), GPU.

It's easy to see how exposing this site to the world might not be a good idea, especially when it's referenced from a blog post appearing on the hacker news front page and people start drawing all kinds of uninformed conclusions.
For a moment there, I was wondering what NASA was doing prospecting for gold in Argentina.
Coinbase Will Not Participate in Bitcoin User Activated Hard Fork
Solving the self driving car issue seems possible, and you have a way to make money. I don't think it is possible to end the opium crisis so long as you have areas where there is nothing else to do and these people don't really.have anything else to aspire to. Even if you.solved it how are you going to make money on it? The addicts don't have the money, the local communies are already broke and it will take forever to get a federal grant.
Oh shit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6oalcq/important_...
For some context: http://www.coindesk.com/30-million-ether-reported-stolen-par...
It costs you the bandwidth (it's not a long term cold storage) and extra processing power (so electricity cost) for running filecoin. This may well be lower cost than the gain from hosting, but it's still non-zero.
I've posted this before [0], but it's still apropos regarding the foolishness that is Ethereum.

[Ethereum] only makes sense if all of the following obtain:

(a) the code is 100% bug-free (b/c accidents cannot be rewound)

(b) all code-writers are 100% honest (their code does what they say)

(c) all contract participants are 100% perfect code readers (so as to not enter into fraudulent contracts)

(Strictly speaking, only one of (b) and (c) needs to be true).

None of these conditions will ever obtain.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14471465
Seems the implication is that if UAHF forks Coinbase (potentially) owns your UAHF coin. I wonder if and how the legal waters of this will be tested.
Apparently it's an issue with the initWallet() function which is used to set the owner of the wallet
True, but that difference is insignificant compared to no material at all. Plus if you were REALLY anal, things could be done to exactly match the density.
I don't honestly see how that would help. A rewrite is a lot of work, and it doesn't seem the bottlenecks here are language-specific anyway.
Today I learned the true name of true name.
Or maybe... just maybe, an agency belatedly realised the "Defending Our Nation" part of its motto really means something.
Hard fork can't even undo this, from my understanding.
https://cryptowat.ch/kraken/ethusd
ETH was also worth a lot less at that time. DAO hackers took a lot more than 150k ETC.
This isn't good advice. People shouldn't build their own solar filters unless they have a very good understanding of the risks. The risks are significant, because you've got a lens pointing at either the eye (if you look through the viewfinder) or the CCD, and concentrated sunlight will quickly damage either.

I've purchased the sheet, cut it to size with my laser cutter, and installed in my own optics. The sheets quickly get scratched, and then you end up with intense spots or lines of light falling on the sensor (or your eye!)

Additionally, he suggests a screw-on filter. Don't do that- buy a cap filter with thumbscrews. You'll need to remove the filter quickly, and then put it back on quickly, when transitioning from partial eclipse to total (if you're in an area with only partial eclipses, the screw-on filter is OK because you'll never remove the filter).

I have multiple solar filters and the preferred kind is aluminzed glass, rather than aluminzed sheet plastic. It's pricey, but the safest and most reliable filter I've found is this:
http://thousandoaksoptical.com/shop/solar-filters/full-apert...
But it's true. If "code is law" is your key feature you don't simply undo a "code is law" decision and gain investors trust.
Levels of Safety Online
And when you tell the judge that you don't even have the ability to take down the offending material, what then?
You prefer a hard spoon? ...it'll hurt more
The Mossad can make your cellphone explode from a distance of 500 feet by using two matchsticks, a loop of 18 gauge wire, and an eye of newt.

If your adversary is the Mossad, or some equivalent thereof, they are going to do Mossad things to you, and you're going to die and there's nothing that you can do about it.

Call me a stoic or a fatalist or an idiot, but this is not something I'm concerned about when I'm crossing a border.
> A while back I remember someone tried to write an alternative R implementation.

Renjin? http://www.renjin.org/downloads.html
The point of the article is that disruption depends on market. Infotainment in India might be like the "not-getting-beaten-up-for-overbooking" of United.
Playing the games found behind clickbait adverts
Unchecks unrelated offers when you install software
There was a faulty contract in Parity's multi-sig wallet, which is more like a vault than a typical wallet.

The page linked to here is the blockchain address of whoever exploited that fault and was able to take control of a large number of wallets and forward all of the ETH to their account.

They've sold ~20 ETH so far (~4100 USD), and have ~150,000 sitting at that address still.
thats a lot of "shoulds" for a complicated system.
How do we know this is stolen? The link doesn't provide much detail.
"How are we going to get anyone to read this article we wrote about a boring, shitty car? I know, gratuitous Tesla comparisons!"
Seems some at least disagree but don't mention what parts of suckless are worth mention. Anyone care to elaborate?
There are other ways to satisfy safety requirements; they just result in cars that are unappealing in most markets. Big rubber wrap-around bumpers, for example. Those are cheap!
Indeed. This in particular when launching Firefox in response to opening urls from external sources.

Hit two of those quickly and hello dialog...
Yeah, I've been a big fan of probabilistic programming for a while. The real problem is that getting Monte Carlo methods to converge and produce a large sample from the posterior takes orders of magnitude more time than running an optimizer to descend a gradient. Hey, you can even make it a probabilistic gradient: variational inference! But then you still have a hard time with discrete, nondifferentiable structure.
The casino explains why you should play dice.
The only way to win is not to play
Just to widen the definition of nerd a little: doctors, engineers, artists, scientists, architects... There seems to be alot of deeply intelligent & smart people in Tango.
1. Why can't an American company build a bare boned vechicle?

2. I honestly don't quite get it.

3. Yes there's minimum wage, and safety standards. (I've given up on wage. Let's make things here at mimimum wage. At this point, wage doesn't matter, plus most of the jobs would be just monitoring a robot. The corporate structure would be disruptive. There would be no executives. And managers would have to earn that title.)

4. America needs a 80's Toyota. Four banger. Manual, and automatic. The Powertrain should be guaranteed for 200,000 miles. Use thicker clutch plates. Just do it. The engine should be a reverse engineered 22R. I can guarantee that engine is good for 200,000 easily. It's bullet proof. A bare boned vechicle, with one computer. Maybe a computer that a owner could get into? No electric anything. One cup holder. A USB you plug your phone into. Just a people mover.

5. A under $5 grand vechicle. I've been looking for a new car, and it literally makes me sick. I feel worse just getting closer to the dealerships, which are all owned by one guy. Meaning no real competition.

Besides the game of buying a new/used vechicle; I am not liking what I'm seeing, and the prices are outragious. I will be shocked if any of these new vechicles(under $60 grand) ever become collectable. The exception might be the Ford F-150, but it's still overpriced, and not practical for the person I'm buying for.

6. Rant over.
I'm not sure you are in the right place. Is 4chan down?
For those in that area that can't afford a safe, reliable car, perhaps it's a step up from a motorbike though. Not to mention, it allows for more passengers in the death trap.
Keep in mind that this is an article written by an American seemingly enamored by something in India, and like most write-ups of such kind, it romanticizes whatever happens in India while being over-critical of whatever happens back at home. As an Indian who currently lives in the US and has a much more 'level' view of both places, this fetishization is quite frustrating.

That being said, the ceremony looks a little too elaborate compared to what typically happens—the car is covered in flowers, and the dealership guy ceremoniously hands over a symbolic oversized key to the buyer. Pooja may or may not happen.
Sorry. My Bad. I meant to provide this link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPuvDm8IC-4

I screwed up during copy+paste
Forgive me for being harsh:

Why is there no "pen-test" phase to any crytocurrency which hits the market.

So, let me understand; you're ostensibly smart enough to (perhaps as a body of contributors, even) develop a cryptocurrency offering - yet youre also fucking stupid enough to not have same/wider network of ppl attempt to hack the fuck out of your plan?

Does this already occur? or some savant comes and owns them?

We have fucking HIPPA FFS and the compliance systems for something as trivial as my stupid name.

so; ELI5: WTF are currencies doing/not-doing which allow for such hacks (1) and allow for exploits to go unseen (2)
FYI, rkt was created (and I believe still predominantly maintained) by CoreOS: https://coreos.com/rkt
Bittorrent at least has has much higher latency than a protocol like HTTP with simple auth.

As for price, AWS has some of the cheapest operating costs due to scale, something which smaller players will have trouble competing with. Moving data within AWS is fast and sometimes free.

Smaller players also pay the highest cost for bandwidth. If some plans don't have bandwidth caps yet (many already do), they will get caps as soon as serving bandwidth as an individual becomes profitable.

Pretty much all distributed systems have the following in common: You pay for resilience with overhead. If it wasn't that way, everything would become as distributed as possible over time.
Although if the alternative is to be riding a moped, and in many cases without a helmet, this still represents a step forward in safety.
Not really true. Nothing has to be perfect if there is insurance infrastructure. People should not use contracts they have no reason to trust.

As a contract becomes more important it should be viewed/vetted/trusted by as many entities as possible. Users of the contract should pay an insurance fee that goes to the vetters, who promise to reimburse in case of unpredictable behavior.

Yes, this means applying some meatspace solutions to Ether. However the smart contract infrastructure itself is ideal for implementing this. Ethereum offers immutability, and blockchains can foster new kinds of trust, but trust still has to grow organically in the ecosystem.
This is just throwing around a lot of irrelevant details to obscure the fact that your original statement violates the dimensional analysis smell test -- I could make a shitty prodrug of LSD where the threshold dose is 1g instead of 50ug, but you wouldn't expect the 1g version to be less sensitive to a 25% change because it's "less potent." If you wanted to give examples of a drug where a 25% change is a big concern then warfarin or synthroid are much better examples than LSD. As it turns out, you know your shit, but it is still a sloppy statement.
Please keep in mind India has one of the, if not the, largest middle class population in the world.
> One of the reasons why the Renault Kwid is $4000 is because, well, it uses cheap materials, and with that comes a very bad safety rating.

Still, better safety rating than a scooter, and that's the most important part (next to way better emission control, as scooters generally use nasty 2-stroke engines).
Jesus, the steering wheel in both of the videos comes right at the drivers chest.

Also Volkswagen was selling the Polo in India without airbags??
remain calm and sell sell sell sell!
You sure? Do you actually have experience with such matters?

Try hitting up some music festivals for counterexamples.
But but but, how many individual files ? FS deletion is not the same as erasing all Bytes. I can delete a 128PB file in an instant, by crossing it out of the index.
Ask HN: Folks with RSI, what area did you go into or how did you overcome it?
My RSI(pain in my pectorals and arms) has recently gotten worst, is dragging me into depression and has me fearing for my future.

I'm not sure I can go on like this and have been looking for lifestyle alternatives.

I'd love to hear what those in the community who have had to deal with RSI did to overcome their condition or what others think would be good alternative career paths without much typing. I'm open to _anything_.

My profile in some keywords: web and network security analyst, love to cook, love sport and yoga, python programmer, structured thinker, philosophy geek, love explaining stuff, I like to think I have a way with words(German, Spanish and English). If you have any ideas or remarks I'm pretty interested in reading them :).
That ticker shows the current price as higher than it was 48 hours ago.
> Hardly something to lose sleep over.

Easy to write that now, but let's see how you feel the next time your armies in Kamchatka are being invaded.
I'm serious. It's literally YCombinator's business model. Based on rapid upvotes, quite a few others agree.
You don't always want anonymity, and when you do it still depends on who you want anonymity from.

Sure, state actors will probably still be able to track you. But the weirdos on Craiglist and the spammers that scrape it won't.
A much more useful explanation: https://press.swarm.city/parity-multisig-wallet-exploit-hits...
Thank YOU WhiteHat Token Hacker
Artificial Intelligence vs. Machine Learning: What’s the Difference?
>They can?

Yes.

>How do they do that?

Most people get their news from their Facebook newsfeed or their Google search results. Facebook can analyze and prioritize certain content over another. Google does the same. The best example of this is how uninformed you are about this issue.

>You really believe the is "at best" all they can do... really...

Yes. What else can they do? Most traffic is secure and the internet is moving more and more towards secure traffic everywhere. ISPs can't intercept the content of the traffic. So, they might block the IP of the server but they can't block the information if it is shared in social media for example.

>Example of the disinformation...
>You just keep highlighting how successful the disinformation campaign is...

So, where is this "disinformation" you speak of? Where am I being bombarded by this idea? I haven't heard or read anything about this from any sources. It is based on my own understanding of the issue. You can read more in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14807940 and tell me where I am wrong.

All I see everywhere is disinformation from the other side and they don't even bring up the actual issue anywhere ever. So, I am pretty much certain that they are the ones disinforming people.
Here's the root error I believe: https://github.com/paritytech/parity/blob/master/js/src/cont...

The initWallet function should have been marked internal, but was instead not marked. Unmarked functions default to public in Solidity, so anyone can call that function and reinitialize the wallet to be under their control
Do people really "develop" on a tablet? I cringe when I see people "develop" on a laptop. I can't imagine anyone developing on a tablet.

I need a keyword and two monitors at the very least.
It is all about the relative scale to the current mkt cap