skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Swarm mode can still happen with clear markings. I assume the vehicles don't have a dedicated swarm mode, more like they try to do lane keeping but the distance and road keeping algorithms override that. If not, a "great" practical joke would be to paint lane markings that run off the side of the road. It's just like any piece of software, you cannot trust any external input, not even road markings.
This is a bad move. More than ever we need Linux standards and this goes in the opposite direction. It would be OK for SUSE to support btrfs as a first class choice of filesystem but the extfs family should be the standard one.

And ZFS works just fine on Linux. If people want to use it, then the distros should not put roadblocks in their way and that means, ZFS should also be supported as a first class choice for servers.

Note that "support" is different from licensing and from "included in our install repo". It is OK to have different licensing for things like this and to install it from a non-distro repo. Look at PostgreSQL for an example of how you can install a mission critical tool from a distro-compatible repo that is run by the upstream project, in this case, PostgreSQL.

But even though it comes from a different repo, it should be "supported" by the distro to the extent that they make a best effort to help people resolve problems. It doesn't mean that you need to be experts in every nuance of the tool and the best way to do that is to maintain a good working relationship with these upstream projects.

Something like ZFS or PostgreSQL are mission critical tools that use Linux as the interface to the hardware, My comments do not apply to any random app or utility that someone wrote for Linux. Perhaps btrfs belongs in this class but I personally don't know since I have not used it.
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Some of us are very concerned about licensing at all times. I'd wager such steadfast concern is ultimately what helped Linux in matters of SCO v. IBM over the matters of IBM's JFS file system.

ZFS is very much in a grey area, and in turn, a huge turn off for many.
James Damore's memo was anti-diversity.
Yes. TAGE still does better than perceptron, but combining the two is likely to give you the best performance currently. Of course, all this is dependent on area allocated to the predictor and the workloads being run.
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On any measure you look at nuclear is superior.

It kills less people, it uses less land, it uses less resources, it uses less mining and so on.

Areas of nuclear fallout and in protection zones are actually reclaimed by nature and animals don't give a shit about living there.

Environmentalist should love nuclear. There is that movement called 'eco-modernist' who subscribe to that.

> nuclear accidents that are devastating to life

Hardly. Most of the people that were evacuated were not in danger, devastating to their live was government action because of fear mongering.

Far more people died of the evacuation then of the radiation.

People are again living in cities near Chernobyl and their cancer rates are not unusual.
Anyone know how much it cost to add a custom domain and SSL to AppEngine(Standard og Flexible)? I have been looking and not able to find out how much it cost.
Supposed to also not have kids then I guess. It's impossible to live without a car in Seattle area if you have kids.

And frugality just drives their best employees to Google, which has a significant presence in the area.
>If you want to nerdsnipe further about the difference between bucket shops, Bitcoin exchanges, and financial institutions

My point is more about ownership (legal vs beneficial). See: https://www.sec.gov/comments/4-537/4537-25.pdf

It would be interesting to seeing a similar legal analysis of ownership applied to bitcoin exchanges (and wallets, bitcoin clients vs mobile).
> I’ve been doing inclusivity work in Node.js for over two years, and I’m finally burned out too. I can no longer keep doing this sort of work in the Node.js project for the sake of my own mental health.

Then, you obviously are not in the best mental condition to judge what is wrong and what is right for the Node community. It's good that you're stepping down for the sake of your mental wellness and for the sake of the Node project itself. Hope you get better soon.
Honestly, as an adjunct professor, you don't make much. Full time faculty are, on average, probably paid at least 3 times what you make (based on numbers from 2013).

That probably doesn't make you feel great, but as a percentage of costs, faculty salaries are still the biggest expense at all schools I know of.

Staff for non-academic activities outside of the VP chain and coaches are also generally much lower than faculty salaries - Student life, activities, diversity, etc are closer to what you make.
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> 1) High end developers get paid a lot. Even in India and Russia.

> 2) As a rule of thumb consulting companies charge out at 3x wages.

This is backwards.

1) Consulting companies charge what they can get, which depends on what markets they've managed to penetrate, reputation, contract flow, etc as some markets are far better lubricated than others.

2) High end developers get paid a function of company budget and supply of talent, so in locations where budgets are more constrained, salaries will also be constrained. Your implication that "paid a lot" is a constant or near-constant is questionable.

There are lots of different datasets on this, no doubt none of them high enough quality, but they all indicate huge discrepancies, both on average and when stratified.

https://www.daxx.com/article/it-salaries-software-developer-...

Is it possible to make a 100:20 saving as the parent comment questioned? I don't know. Perhaps not. On the other hand US average programmer salary is over 4x the average programmer salary in China, so under the right circumstances it's not as ludicrous as perhaps presented.

I guess my point is that your premise that "high-end" developer salaries are near-constant around the globe is likely only true if you constrain yourseld to developers who are employed at agencies that compete globally against companies like Thoughtworks and have employed there long enough to have established seniority (remember experience is not synonymous with quality). That's quite a tight definition of "high end" in my opinion.
At that point, why rely on Linux?
While I take the point cold weather affects range. Norway, Sweden, Finland and many other cold climates have very high electric car usage. Mostly due to the subsidies, but it appears range isn't a major concern there.

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/06/23/tesla-electric-cars-con...
Lab grown meat seems more plausible to me than trying to talk people into become vegetarians. But if you do figure out how to change cultures you could sell that recipe for big money to lots of folks (eg. the U.S. military)
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> So you are suggesting that the right to life has reasonable restrictions

Please read what he said, he is not saying that, the thing he quoted is, and that thing I believe is the constitution as it stands now.
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For someone attempting to learn 6502/10 assembly hows the C64 for this?
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I'm growing increasingly worried about the naming and shaming of people with not a single shred of evidence. What I have to wonder is, these people are speaking up against harassment, but they can't seem to follow their own rules.
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> Netflix wasn’t simply a customer for Disney’s content, the company was also a competitor for Disney’s far more important and lucrative customer — cable TV

Remember when Sony Electronics tried to play the game Sony content companies wanted it to?

Yeah, that worked out just fine. NOT
(I need to do a bit more research when I get home and have access to my account details... this is, of course, the understanding of one, individual, non-American investor.)

No - in my case, Computershare is the transfer agent, not a nominee. Computershare is contracted by IBM to actually administer and maintain IBM's share register, in which Cede & Co is listed as the legal owner of a huge chunk of shares, and I'm directly registered as the legal owner of a couple of thousand dollars of shares. Google "direct registration".

I didn't buy my IBM shares through a broker/DTC participant/any other financial institution. In my case, IBM issued the shares directly to me, instructing Computershare to update the share register accordingly.
Yes, any technology that would change global energy production needs some infrastructure and production. That's not unique to nuclear fission.

Nuclear has the advantage that it needs for less then any other infrastructure.

> When you account for the infrastructure costs, are any of the new alternatives that much better?

Yes, if you calculate it threw based on first principle it is much better.

It will talk 100 gigafactories and possible more just to get the required store to balance out wind and solar. 2-5 gigafactories sized reactors production plants could power most of the world in the next 30 years.

The scale of difference required in infrastructure, resources and investment is simply on another level.

The problem really is that in the west its practically impossible to do privately, and thus most nuclear startups move to the east and the government has no interest in doing it themselves.

China is already selling 4th gen pebble bed reactors, and after that they will probably commercialize different forms of MSR. It will however take another 10 years until you can buy them.
Thought of that paper too but didn't remember the name, thanks for sharing! The new paper also reference 3D-R2N2 several times and seems heavily inspired/adapted from it.
Cool, is that thing made by using React?
This is what Indian government said:

Citizens don't have absolute right on their body, privacy argument bogus, govt tells SC

http://www.firstpost.com/india/aadhaar-mandatory-citizens-do...
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Uh huh, and what if I do not want to depend of the government to provide me with food, clothing and shelter since I am able to earn those for my family and me (reducing the social security burden on the government), should I not have the freedom to excuse myself from these alleged social benefit schemes.

Your argument and many similar ones are now boring and have been countered enough times already.
I've had serious allergies for over 20 years and it had gotten worse over time especially when near an ocean (had to stop diving since it was near impossible to equalize with all the excess mucus).

But I recently became vegan and in about 2 weeks time, the allergies went away. I also have a friend who has asthma and when she went vegan, it all but disappeared. There's a lot of documentation about this but doctors don't give this advice probably because nutrition and prevention aren't a big part of their training.

But for anyone suffering, give it a try for a couple of weeks.
The quality of life gained is awesome.
Well as many people in Germany know, ALDI is a contraction of "Albrecht Discount". Theo Albrecht (who founded Aldi Nord and Trader Joe's) was kidnapped in 1971 for ransom so it's obvious why they'd rather want to keep out of the public eye. Theo Albrecht died in 2010, his brother Karl (who founded Aldi Süd) died in 2014.

Dieter Schwarz (who owns Lidl) is still alive and currently the richest man in Germany. Technically Lidl started out as the Schwarz-Gruppe, founded by his father. Interestingly none of the people involved in Lidl were called Lidl. His father bought the naming rights from a man called Lidl who had no further affiliation with him or his company.

Germany has strict privacy laws so it's not as easy to publish photographs without consent.
Can someone more well-versed in Indian law help me understand : Does this ruling prevent collection of biometrics or restrict it somehow under the Aadhar system?

Also, I recall the Indian Government was pushing Aadhar Pay - a biometric fingerprint scan based PoS payment / verification system (likely it is already deployed, I don't live there so I don't know). What happens to that now?
Thorium is so common that it would be profitable to mine Thorium at nearly any place on earth.
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The possibility to dynamically add and remove discs from the array is a pretty neat feature.
So you're saying the first money was essentially "social credit"? I don't disagree with the spirit of the argument, but your good-will credit in your community doesn't have the properties we associate with currency such as fungibility and divisability.

If they used a formalized series of IOUs that allowed for the long term planning of capital then I'd be more inclined to call it currency. But sounds like an interesting book, may have to give it a read.
Like this one?

http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/05/24/in-two-villages-in-u...
> ZFS is very much in a grey area

Really? How so?

And if so, what about all those proprietary GPU-driver kernel-modules from AMD and Nvidia which definitely are not compatible with the GPL? Are they a gray area too?

And if they're not a gray area... Why is it suddenly a problem that the ZFS kernel-module is not licensed in a GPL-compatible manner?

I'm not trying to sound facetious, but I honestly can't see the distinction here. And Linux distros left and right have been distributing closed-source kernel-modules for GPUs for a long time now. So what's the problem? What am I missing?
> I wish that if a drive fail, the btrfs filesystem still mounts rw and leave the OS running, but warns the user of a failing disk and easily allow the addition of a new drive to reintroduce redundancy.

This might make sense for you, but is insane as a default policy. Manual intervention should be required before the FS will accept writes with less than the configured degree of redundancy. Silently mounting and hoping the user notices something in their logs is too dangerous.

> I created a raid1 btrfs filesystem by converting an existing single btrfs instance into a degraded raid1, then added the other drive

This seems backwards. Why not add the second drive, then convert to RAID1?

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Note that the patch to work around the refusal to mount is extremely simple, and that the patch is quite safe if used properly. But it's not really an acceptable solution for upstreaming, because it will lead to bigger problems if used in more complicated situations. There are several potential solutions that would be safe and widely deployable, but all involve changing far more than two lines of code.
What was your opinion about Aadhaar before 2014? Same as your dear leader?
They developed an app?
While I know you were making fun of the word 'license', what you claim is not true legally in India.
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At current energy consumption, Thorium on earth is so able to power the whole planet for 100'000+ years.

Solar panels do also need resources to produce...
Wow, that's jarring. I thought images as text were a thing of the past. Good thing at least the rest of the page is actual text.
Python (as in the language designers or core people) did not "go after Matlab, Octave and R". Non-affiliated or loosely-affiliated people who wanted to do their data-oriented work in Python wrote a bunch of libraries, and the result after many years was a pretty competitive set of tools.
So yeah, I think that similarly can be done for Julia to improve it for more general purpose tasks.

In educational/academic setting, I think even more importantly for adoption than Python being a general-purpose language is that it is already relatively widely adopted in various industries as a tooling language. For good and bad, universities today are very keen on providing skills with immediate relevance to employeers. The same network effect is kinda what is keeping Matlab alive...
As someone who did the same, I share the grandparent's apprehension. These skills are fantastic to have and very fun to acquire, but shipping products requires more skill than that.

Maybe I'm intimidated by the unknown unknowns (I was intimidated by learning all these skills in the first place, but it was much easier than I thought), but I think shipping a product at scale is rather hard if you haven't done it before.

At least, he'll have to deal with flaky suppliers, parts not fitting properly with each other, unforeseen costs, etc. I would feel much more comfortable if he had used a PCBA service to produce assembled PCBs (pretty cheap even if you don't want to do bulk orders) and a fabrication service for the face (harder to do if not in bulk?).

Best of luck to him, though, it seems like a fun project, and I want to make my own wall clock now.
This is where you should go. https://twitter.com/aparatbar

"Aadhaar hearings were gridlocked, withtout this judgement. Now it's legality will be tested."
This article is confusingly written. Its explanations sound silly to anyone even a little familiar with 3d, since it spends the first half of the article explaining that this "breakthrough" is "computationally clever and forehead-slappingly simple", the breakthrough being that you can represent things as surface-models instead of voxels.

Well, surface rendering is how almost all 3d work is done already, that's definitely not a breakthrough. You can probably spend an entire career never dealing with voxels.

What this article never mentions (surprisingly) is that this paper is about neural networks. I'm not an expert, but as I understand the article, voxel representations have been the standard specifically when building neural networks to turn 2d images into 3d. The main idea is that you can build a network that only renders high-resolution voxels when close to the surface of the model, and renders very low-resolution voxels everywhere else (say, on the inside of the model). This means you can both represent much larger models memory-wise, but also that you're not having to run the NN computations on voxels that are not likely to change, since everything "inside" of the model you probably guessed correctly pretty quickly.

Here's the paper's abstract, much better at explaining itself than the article:

"Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks have shown
promising results for 3D geometry prediction. They can
make predictions from very little input data such as for example
a single color image, depth map or a partial 3D volume.
A major limitation of such approaches is that they only
predict a coarse resolution voxel grid, which does not capture
the surface of the objects well. We propose a general
framework, called hierarchical surface prediction (HSP),
which facilitates prediction of high resolution voxel grids.
The main insight is that it is sufficient to predict high resolution
voxels around the predicted surfaces. The exterior and
interior of the objects can be represented with coarse resolution
voxels. This allows us to predict significantly higher
resolution voxel grids around the surface, from which triangle
meshes can be extracted. Our approach is general
and not dependent on a specific input type. In our experiments
we show results for geometry prediction from color
images, depth images and shape completion from partial
voxel grids. Our analysis shows that the network is able to
predict the surface more accurately than a low resolution
prediction."
> A lot of conversations about expanding rights, end up with a distinction between positive and negative rights.

Correct. Right to a fair trail is also a positive right. To uphold it, the state must pay for a lawyer if you don't have one, the state must pay for enough judges (& associated costs) to ensure your trail isn't delayed ("Justice delayed is justice denied" and all that).

> The right to free speech, conscience, affiliation , assembly and other political freedoms mean we need to tolerate and protect the proverbial nazis’ rights to try and spread their politics.

Plenty of legal systems have those rights, and also ban nazis or similar groups. It's not an either/or.
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I would love to read some "experimentally verified" economics, as it is something that economics seems to be lacking.
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I have always wondered why GCP's Internet egress price is higher than other major cloud players. It is faster alright but not everything needs to be fast. Finally, Google offers a lower cost option here.
(not a lawyer, but have friends who are)

When the Government of India (GoI) mandated Aadhar for provision of many services (subsidies, marriage certificates, death certificates, collect taxes- people without aadhar can no longer pay income tax - etc) it was challenged legally in the courts. One of the main arguments was that Indian citizens had a fundamental right to privacy, and such 'enforced' collection of biometrics violated that right.

The Attorney General (appearing for the government) argued that there was no such fundamental right, and that citizens had no right to privacy.

This (whether or not privacy is a fundamental right) had to be resolved before these cases could move forward.

So the question was 'forwarded' to a 9 judge 'constitutional bench' to rule upon. Today all 9 judges ruled that Indian citizens had a fundamental right to privacy.

so now the Aadhar specific cases can go forward, now that there is a 'constitutional bench' ruling. A 5 judge bench will now consider those cases and rule upon the legality of Aadhar enforcement.

This ruling, that privacy is a fundamental right, will obviously affect the outcome of the Aadhar specific case(s) but how exactly - including what restrictions if any, could be placed on biometric collection via aadhar - is not known (yet).

That is my non lawyerly understanding of where things stand.
Well, at a time of global warming, I like this mentality to use bikes as much as possible
Further price reduction strategy from google. Still going to advise clients to stay with premium tier unless cost is a driving factor.
This is epidemic. SA government is trying this now.

http://www.planetbiometrics.com/article-details/i/6211/desc/...

http://www.planetbiometrics.com/article-details/i/6206/desc/...

http://www.planetbiometrics.com/article-details/i/6219/desc/...
Not sure why others downvoted you. (Maybe because you didn't name the alternative you obviously had in mind.)

But I think you have a fair point: If it is about quality and stability, why not going from Linux+ZFS straight to FreeBSD+ZFS?
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I do ascii diagrams all the time. I use Monodraw for that.
From a design point of view the restrictions it imposes also create a consistent look and feel. Everything is aligned to a grid, boxes arrows, text. I never lose any time trying to make things look good as I would with another tool.
Also there's the added bonus that since I'm the only one using it amongst the people I work with. When anyone sees it they know... it's a technical drawing from that guy.
I really like that you have data (in the unnumbered figure) but shouldn't the y-axis start at 0, not 2.5 kbps?