skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Developers ... [are] given a depth map they can use for applications ... This can also be used in ARKit applications.

This has me very excited. ARKit already does an impressive job of tracking as you move around your environment, and the major thing that seems lacking is being able to map existing objects to know where they are in relation to virtual ones.

If they do this well, especially when it comes to automatically obfuscating virtual objects with real ones, it could allow ARKit to be used for creating much more immersive experiences.
It’s a new feature in iOS 11.
This is a helpful, detailed, comment. Thanks. It contributes much more to the discussion than gp.
People misunderstood what the static face masks were for. The static face masks were not for testing against a face-mask attack. They were for testing FaceID. As far as testing goes, the mask was assumed to be a stand-in for the real person.
But github is very popular in the tech community. You'd think she would have met some infosec people with relevant degrees if they were common.
The thing I've been wondering about is the "invisible dots" that they map to your face, obviously they are visible to something, and if someone wanted your face info could we build something to capture that data either en masse or say with a sensor built into a doorway or such.

edit: or even a fake iphone and I hand you mine and ask you to play a game that I'm building that steals your face data.
"It didn’t cure his depression, any more than you can cure a werewolf by ripping out his fangs."

I don't have the same issues as the author's father, but I've often thought of almost exactly this analogy when treating my own issues. The idea sometimes is to make the condition tolerable, and at least for me, that would be the first order of business upon learning I was a werewolf: to remove my ability to harm others while wolf-ified. This is a tremendous article, I love it and I'm going to save it and maybe read it with my dad - not because my dad is like your dad, OP, but more because a few of your experiences line up really well with a few of ours. I'll read it with my wife too, because the story of how you remember your dad when you were young - I want to be that kind of Dad to my son. So, so, so much. Except without the later issues and whatnot. I do wonder just how possible it is, but I intend to give it a shot! :)
Why would feeding power back to the grid be any different from charging? When the battery gets full you'd plug in and mostly discharge it.
For the record, Firefox does also have profiles like Chrome has them: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

Alternatively type "about:profiles" into the URL-bar, which you can also bookmark.
Google does not use RBLs from other sources. They have their own reputation algorithms, and there is nothing you can do to request that your domain be removed.

However, the algorithms are self-correcting. If the bad behavior has been corrected, you will automatically stop being spammed by Gmail after enough time has passed. As to how much time that takes: Google ain't sayin' and I have never succeeded in getting an answer from them.
Are you implying that Stallman would support the regulation of App Stores? Has he supported similar things in the past?.

He has critiziced what he calls "extreme capitalism" in the past. But I highly doubt that he would support a regulation that could potentialy undermine freedom (not only economic freedom) and harm not only big companies but also small players.
We do pay. We pay taxes when buy cars. We pay taxes when register cars. We pay taxes when buy gas.

Perhaps you can understand why those of us who put liberty above almost everything on the scale of desirables get squeamish when we hear the about more taxes being needed.
They could almost certainly build a conveyor since anywhere they have a road they pretty much have a suitable slope. However depending on how the mine is used the top end might be moving around a lot and need to be rebuilt frequently where a truck can simply go to where it is needed as that changes. It may also make more sense to run the truck all the way down and back then to run the truck over to the head end of a conveyor.

Edit: autocorrect
> Herd immunity. Someone is out there reviewing it.

More likely everyone assumes someone else is reviewing it, and nobody actually does.
That's what the unfollow button/muting 'Thread.' is for.
They mentioned an infrared camera, bet they're checking temperature too.
My understanding is that these devices have ASICs which listen for their names, the actual pattern for the name coded into hardware, meaning that you can't easily select a new name.

Voice recognition takes more CPU power than the devices have, especially if you are trying to prolong battery life, and I think the more complex commands are relayed to a server instead of parsed locally.
I agree to some extent. But I can set my schedule and/or my path such that I avoid most of it.
We don't know that yet. We'll find out more when they release the white paper and people get their hands on them.
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We've unmarked this one as a duplicate (of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15258510). Both stories have received many flags by users, perhaps because the indignation to insight ratio is off.
Well, I imagine people setting up the podium were taking good long looks at the phone, but I see your point.
I thought Peterson was a psych professor who has interesting perspectives on the bible. What are his toxic views on gender? Genuinely curious.
Your arguments and exaggerated claims are silly. I can point to Maven Central all day long. They're doing it right. They don't have these problems.

You know who does this sort of thing? Politicians. They can't just look at a working system, single payer for instance, and copy it. No, they have to make silly arguments about why it will never work, despite a concrete, working example, right in front of their own eyes.
I used Elasticsearch. But I didn't use it as a primary datastore, more just a mirror of the MySQL data.

It comes out of the box with a way to find "More Like This" https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...

For trending topics I believe I used something related to this: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...

An interesting article on using ES: https://auth0.engineering/from-slow-queries-to-over-the-top-...
I was thinking more than the ratings would handle this, rather than having to sign keys. Ratings by well-respected and vetted members would have more weight.
2 years of work experience with Primesense 3d cameras. I'm well aware of what they are capable of.

That said, they could use the color video feed to require subtle eye movements which would make this attack harder.
It depends what you're mining, is the obvious answer.

The example in the article was a cement factory - cement is basically made from limestone, and you can find mountains of the stuff. In general, you're probably looking at sedimentary deposits that have been uplifted - coal was another example someone else gave, you can probably also find mountaintop salt mines.
Mastodon: Twitter, except you regret trying to host it several times per week.

(nb: that was back when that hype wave started, instructions were ok'ish, but after a few weeks of still fiddling with it I just gave up - it was not fit as a single-user instance with those 3-5 docker containers and stuff. Even configuring a mailserver is easier.)
Show HN: Chat game that care about private data
Yes, but keys can also be revoked, providing a way to mitigate this.
I think that machine learning, particularly deep learning, will increasingly be used in combination with some of the older AI techniques to produce hybrid systems, which will solve previously intractable problems.

This is what I believe as well. I've been doing some work lately on some older approaches to automated abductive inference, with an eye towards doing some of this kind of hybridization. No results to report yet, but I do think there's some meat on this bone.
Yeah, that's doesn't seem to jive with how they described it on stage...
It sounds like what you're working on in your day job isn't as appealing as your side projects. You might take some time to reflect on the reasons why - it may or may not be programming-related. It could also be about what value you see in your day job. For me to get out of my struggle, I identified some roadblocks that were preventing me in my day job, which included communication skills. Once I had the realization that communication skills was something I needed to develop in order to be successful in growing my own startup, I took every opportunity in my day job to take it as personal development.
That sounds like you're relying on blacklisting the 'bad guy' key that's uploading all the malicious packages. Any half-way competent bad guy will generate a new key for each package (or try to steal keys with some good reputation), so it won't work.
I said that too. And I'm not a millenial but a 70's kid. And then I had kids of my own and now I can't imagine not having a car to stuff the kids into, or a big backyard so I don't have to walk to the park with them to play. It's not like I wan't to drive everywhere, it's just the tradeoff I'm happy to accept in order to have a house with a big backyard for the kids to play in.

So this is nothing new. People have always preferred one thing, and changed their minds when having kids.

I imagine I'll be going back to my previous lifestyle (Urban instead of suburban) when the kids can take care of themselves.
This was originally discussed some time ago, but all the cache links from there are now dead and the actual article is almost impossible to find in search engines now.

For context, OKCupid removed this story when it went paid after being acquired years ago. You can find the full story here along with their statement about why they did this:

https://www.themarysue.com/okcupid-pulls-why-you-should-neve...

Here's a prior HN discussion thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2170998
Look up Microsoft's Kinect.

The basic idea (as I understand it) it to project a grid of even dots (or some other known pattern). Once they land on a 3D surface you can tell how close the surface is by how close together the dots are and how angled the surface is based on how the dots skew.

It requires the projector, a camera, and the distance between the two. But it's relatively simple (in theory, I imagine it's quite hard in practice).
It's not better (nor worse). For some people it makes it easer to eat less overall, for others it's the opposite.
Is Plano much denser? Or just more paved?

Plano is a city of 71 sq miles and ~3800 people per square mile. Westchester is a _county_ of 500 square miles and 2300 people per square mile. In many regards, Westchester may be denser. It also looks like they haven't chopped down every last tree and laid waste to the land with asphalt.
Its been a week. I had to cancel a vacation because of this. I just cannot believe we live in a world where we can have one incident with an employee that stops many of our students from being able to communicate with their instructors and we cannot talk to a lot of other colleges. Its just a sucky life.
Mine was about NFS.

One or two years ago, I was tasked to solve the following issue:

Installing an obsolete RHEL 4 on a brand new computer, with all the drivers issues that entails. Virtualization was not an option.

The solution I chose was to "backport" the latest RHEL 5 kernel in the RHEL 4. A few weeks of works later repackaging the kernel, adapting the mkinitrd script and a lot of headaches around the install iso (it was actually the hardest part, with a lot of hacks around anaconda), I finally managed to have a working server.

Then a few days latter, I was notified of a regression.

There was a somewhat crazy application that was managing various configuration files on various devices of this particular infrastructure which stopped working.

Digging in this application, I discovered that it was "pushing" the updated conf files through NFS, more exactly, it was notifying a service on the device targeted, and then this device mounted an NFS share on the RHEL 4 server, recovered the conf file, and unmounted the NFS share (I told you, "crazy").

The targeted devices were using RH 7 (RH, not RHEL, I'm talking about the one with a 2.4 kernel).

Strangely enough, mounting the share by hand and doing an ls showed that the files were indeed present, and there was no permission issues.

Reading the source code a little further and looking at quite old QT versions (the service on the device was QT based). I finally managed to find which line of code was not working: it was a simple readdir().

So I created a simple C program that just did the readdir and I finally managed to reproduce the bug, indeed, readdir was not listing the files present in the directory.

But it was not helping me much... So I decided to do some network captures, everything looked OK. I did the same network captures with the old RHEL 4 kernel, and it looked exactly the same.

After hours at steering at my screen with the 2 captures side by side, I finally spotted a subtle difference. The fileids (64 bits) was padded with zeros on the first 32 bits with the old kernel (ex: 0x0000000000000000A489097654456F97), and it was not the case with the new kernel (ex: 0xFC871902B9086456A489097654456F97).

Basically, the old RH 7 was violating the NFS RFC by only handling 32 bits fileids (by the way, the RFC predates the RH 7 by 5 years).

As it was impossible to upgrade the old RH 7, I finally backported the "bug" in my "RHEL 5 kernel on an RHEL 4" by adding a small two lines patch in the
RHEL 5 kernel that ensured 32 bits fileids.
Hasn't that been the case since Google's, aka BackRub's, very birth?
Sure there is! ML helps with medical diagnosis, cures, and treatment, ML helps automate services that are unavailable to third world countries, ML helps catch criminals, money laundering, and fraudsters, ML saves wasteful energy consumption, ML improves customer support, ML helps optimize resources to focus on those in immediate need, ML supports science like high-energy physics, ML creates a new generation of digital artists.

All good uses of ML, but maybe not so sexy.

I bet the majority of ML is used neutrally: to add business value to a company. Depending on your view of capitalism of course.
Not really, they develop it by sucking on their thumbs, drinking amniotic fluid, etc. You can see it develop, and you can see how premature babies have issues with it. Adding "breathe" to sucking and swallowing is even harder for preemies.

Starting to suck when they feel something on their lips _is_ a reflex though, it isn't learnt.
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Which is contradicted by this interview as well as discussions John Gruber has had with some of his sources.
That Tensorflow Magenta looks like a totally unrelated and separated project from the Magenta OS though.
Gross negligence. Might as well hired a janitor to build your infrastructure.
People on the users' forum or on the Rust subreddit might be interested!
Could you please stop flagrantly violating the guidelines?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They do. Echo, Amazon & Computer :p
If this works well enough, is there a point to going through all that trouble and expense?
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The Bingham actually has a conveyor works lower in the pit that goes through the side of the mountain to the processing plant.

At least it did when I was there, this was before the big collapse there a few years ago...
"Once we're all married with school-age kids, we will choose to move out to the plain, boring suburbs just like the generations before us."

Speak for yourself. I could also say the only reason people in the US don't choose to live in the city is because they're not really allowed to, what with it being basically illegal to build nice cities any more (parking minimums, zoning, etc.)

Also, if nobody wants to live in the city it's hard to explain why they're so expensive. Somebody's paying those prices, after all.
This is no different than police thinking you're reaching for a weapon...
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Echo lets you choose from a small list of names. I've got one that responds to "computer" for instance.
Hey! I'm an engineer that has a major in music! I take offense to this headline.

No, I don't think I'm currently qualified to be CSO anywhere - but I don't think it's a stretch that a music major could be.
> If you want or need to continue using status icons, you should feel free to use the TopIcons GNOME Shell extension. This will continue to work and the extension offers a better status icon experience than the current default anyway.

I've just updated to 3.26 and, well, neither of mentioned extensions (TopIcons and TopIcons Plus, referred here and there, incl. this post and GNOME wiki) don't (just have tried it personally) therefore I must call bullshit. Also comments in OP were conveniently disabled. I'm so frustrated and disappointed to even think to start writing the bug report that would be probably closed as "wontfix" or would stay in "new" forever.
Here's an equally important question: where did you land on the court case that ruled a christian cake maker couldn't refuse service to a gay couple based on their faith? The question here extends far beyond the domain of tech. Are people allowed to choose whom they associate and do business with or aren't they? Does having a strong network effect influence that decision? What if that baker colluded with every other bakery in town to make sure nobody would bake that couple a cake? We've seen that behavior recently among web registrars.

In my humble opinion, I don't like the precedent the gab lawsuit is trying to set. I'm for free association, but against active collusion. They're only suing Google and they're not alleging collusion between multiple parties (like Apple).

The registrar thing is a whole other ball of wax. One company has a monopoly on domain registrars. That's going to prove to be a big problem for people who are not on the Right one day very soon.
Very good interview. It shows that this feature is well thought-out and security-wise better than expected.
Criminal negligence if Apple fails to do it.

Par for the course if Samsung doesn't do it.
I was making $145k as a junior rails dev at my last job in Toronto and they're hiring nonstop. Message me on keybase if you want to chat or get an intro.
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So how far is the trip down, 10 miles? The potential energy of moving 65 tons 10 miles down (think of pulling a rope with a 65 ton weight) is a freaking lot of energy.
But it's pretty simple to convert a depth map to a mesh, so I'm not sure how this offers protection. Perhaps the depth maps the developers are given are decently low-res?
came across this on me_irl the other day: https://i.redd.it/1tcktxsxuplz.jpg
I remember this study about the use of final and const keywords in Java/C.

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2884798&CFID=985095807&CFT...

It's a small example, maybe it's a start.
Thank you for the correction; I have never used the platform and misremebered several details from this post: https://steemit.com/steemitabuse/@masteryoda/why-i-removed-a...
> Of course, at some point, when he wanted to do complex stuff, he watched YouTube videos etc. But at this point he had already created many hours of content.

He presumably had previous experience with operating other GUI programs, and experience with standard computer concepts like programs and files. The big benefit here is that a lot of GUI paradigms are shared between very different kinds of programs, so something that would've been explained in text in a bound manual in the past gets covered very early on, either through experimentation, or someone explaining it.

> People learn by watching much better than they do by reading a manual

Depends. Is it something highly visual? Or is there an intuitive visualization of a concept that I need a high-level understand of? Then sure, a video illustration is invaluable.

Video was wonderful for learning to disassemble the trunk of my car to install a backup camera, replace my garbage disposal, and (back in the day) get an intuitive grasp of how sorting operations work.

I hate videos for programming tutorials. They're slow, awkward, difficult to jump around easily, use a boatload of bandwidth, and are a hassle to save for later.
This is my most wanted feature for a browser. Anyone knows if every instance has not just a different cookies set but also different canvas fingerprints?
How Citus works (a look at dynamic executors)
Do they give out your data to other parties who then spam you, or do they just show you offers on their own site?
Those are not the example of suburb that people are referring to when they discuss the sustainability issues.

Usually they are referring to the much sparser developments of often large houses, built between the 1960s up to the early naughts.

What you are describing are more like towns, which usually have more sustainable features (smaller houses and lots, ergo less pipes in the ground, a rail corridor connecting them to a major city) because they were built before the car era.
Biological brains try to predict the immediate future: what they will sense next. That's the ground truth.
That's the part I find so weird about this. Wouldn't Apple have been a better company to sue? Gab would have a stronger case and the benefits of getting on the app store would be larger than the benefits of getting on the Play store.
Snow leopard no longer 'endangered'
Sounds like the making of a really interesting game, at the very least.
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You're currently downvoted, but you're totally correct. The existing ICE companies are currently on a Nokia/Blackberry trajectory. It would appear they spend more time figuring out how to get mileage from weak PR fodder than they do on making better EVs.

As someone else noted, the German post office asked for electric delivery trucks and all the big manufacturers turned them down. Now they make them themselves. A short term victory for the incumbents turned into a long term liability.
Shouldn't we take a moment to consider the irony of monetizing a video promoting anti-capitalist philosophy?
That's fair. I just feel like the cat is out of the bag on gifs. If all browsers rolled out something that blocked autoplay on every mp4 or webm regardless of audio being enabled or present, I imagine a good amount of users would feel like things had "broken even if they'd appreciate that videos on news articles don't autoplay at all (although they'd still be able to follow you around the page).
I re watched the video, and you're right. They said they used the masks to help prevent against mask attacks.

To the extent that it worked, we don't know. Since I am very familiar with the tech, I know that IR light does not have any special properties in detecting a mask vs human skin. But I assume the nueral network they trained looks for movement of some sort.
The problem is definitely not the music degree. As many have said there are many brilliant technical folks who have music degrees.

The problem is the low quality hiring of executives. This seems to plague almost every large company out there. These "executive level" people are just part of some inner circle and know somebody who knows somebody. They might look good on paper. The reality is that boards and CEOs have too little knowledge of the specifics of their business and make chicken-shit hires.