skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate this so much. Bike lanes that re-appear on the 'wrong' side of a traffic lane, magically, on the other side of an intersection. Sidewalks that end for no reason and begin in others. It's this terrible patchwork where nobody's responsible for anything to actually HAPPEN and we just hope and occasionally enforce the regulations on NEW construction.

So someone builds a new apartment complex and BAM, they're forced to pay for a sidewalk, which I'd be fine with, except there are no sidewalks anywhere else, so it's just a waste for everyone.
Finally, some hard evidence that BadBIOS was possible.

(BadBIOS was lax on details, but people were remarkably resistant to the idea that it was even possible in theory.)
The world under SOCOM is pretty big, and I've only experienced some of it, second hand via direct family as well as family friends. I may be painting with an overly broad brush, but I'm telling it how I experienced it.

The bankruptcy and credit problem may not be as relevant anymore due to technology, but it was absolutely relevant in the time my father was active. The technology we rely on to maintain our finances (automatic payments, mail, pervasive internet and phone communications) didn't exist, and if it did, it wasn't anywhere near the combat outposts where they would be deployed to for several months to train local militias. It is really hard to pay a bill if you can't be sent a bill, call to ask about a balance, send a check via mail, or have your bank take care of it for you.

I do know at least one former Ranger who was pretty successful in a civilian job (logistics at amazon), but I've known far more that couldn't hack anything out of the military (apart from security contractors that is). Maybe my sample is small and not representative, but that's just the way I've seen it. Sorry if I offended you by the generalization, it wasn't my intent at all.
OT: Sweet Jesus! 1 319 gbp for early registration? It's not exactly accessible to students and amateur Hackers, is it? :-(
Beyond 2012: Why the World Didn't End
Man I've been to Atlanta, and the western suburbs, and it's nothing but dark roads with people forced to walk in the ditch.
In the US we might say "you are not a bull in a china shop," which is in the same spirit.
Appearing on Blue Highway Exit Signs Is Harder Than It Looks
A quick refresher for my liberal friends,

Oil Prices in 2012:
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=9530

Food Shortages in Venezuela in 2012 Source from NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/21/world/americas/venezuela-f...
It is funny that people accuse the Venezuelan regime of being socialist, but then claim that the problem is that they didn't reshape the economy enough. In other words, their failure was in not planning the economy as much as their critics want! No standard capitalist regime would be able to do that anyway so you have here a clearly bogus criticism.
I‘ve seen it the other way around before :)
Right now I think things like the current debt based economy is a bigger problem than campaign donations at this point.
What I don't understand is why AMD doesn't jump into this niche market: just include a switch on their version of the ME (forgot name) that turns it off. Corporate clients still get their ME if they need it and AMD catches the security-focussed market. This would also mean lucrative orders from non-US governments.
You can do this fairly easily with me_cleaner[1] which also does a lot of other disarming of ME.

[1]: https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner
Everything that is old is new again.

AT&T used to claim anyone who attached an unapproved telephone was a criminal: http://bpastudio.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/471/hout/telecomHistor...

"Freed" slaves in the US used to only get to rent land on which to live: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharecropping#United_States

Being in control of your own destiny isn't actually that common, historically.
Where do you live? If they have the drivers license that’s particularly horrible.
Yeah I should have said "product category" and left the word "nearly" out I guess.

Is there another alarm component they didn't mention in the article? It's pretty short, wouldn't be surprised if it was missing details.
Does anyone here happen to have a spare face-palm? I seem to be all out of them at the moment and could really use another here...
Badger vs. LMDB vs. BoltDB: Benchmarking Key-Value Databases in Golang
Indeed. Moore's law is an observation on the transistor size on a die, how they halved in size every x months. This allows one to do either more complex chips (more features etc), cheaper chips (more chips pr die means a higher yeild of functioning chips) or faster chips (lower voltage, less heat, higher clock).

But the clock increase have stopped, and Intel is loath to lower chip prices without some serious competition forcing them, so they keep coming up with new features to justify the price as they shrink the transistors.
Part of me wonders if he wants to be removed in protest, or if he wants to sort of exit with three stars, and not have to deal with being perceived as lower quality by losing a star.

I don’t speak French, but here’s the video announcing it: https://www.facebook.com/BrasOfficiel/videos/vb.190323656659...
Except India already has a culture of (delicious) vegetarian cuisine, so there's no great need for meat substitutes, unlike say America.

The Impossible burger is meant for the future of meat-loving America. At some point, we need to really raise the price of meat to factor in its environmental costs.
Hey - sure thing! If you send us an e-mail at info@scripted.org we can make sure you're on our mailing list. In the meantime, I'd recommend checking out organizations like TEALS ( https://www.tealsk12.org/ ) - I believe they teach python in some of their courses, and they're in many cities.
Take a look at The Guardian newspaper's github repository for some professional Scala. It ain't pretty - implicits all over the place, liberally mixed with Cats and Scalaz. This is Scala's big problem - taken in isolation Scala-isms are comprehensible but it's the way the cleverness composes that leads to a big ball of mud. Add to that the tendency of Scala connoisseurs to throw-in Cats and Scalaz at every turn and you have a recipe for disaster.
The alternative to not “carving up Poland” was to not sign the mutual non-aggression pact and essentially enter into war with Germany before it thoroughly fucks up Britain and France. Britain and France would be quite delighted if Hitler pursued that course of action. I’m pretty sure theyd even withhold any meaningful military assistance to help things along while Hitler makes his run on Russia, for the same reason Stalin did. In fact they sorta had done that already by refusing to enter into a pact against Nazi Germany.

You can’t reason about geostrategic considerations in terms of moral high ground. Those dudes were dealing with a very dangerous and volatile situation, and the decisions they made were literally matters of life and death for their respective peoples.

That’s not to absolve anyone of guilt, but if you’re going to be an armchair quarterback, do yourself a favor and study history a bit more thoroughly. At that negotiating table any of us today would have made the exact same choice.
Assuming that they want to print TPUs:

Optimistically, Tesla could run more elaborate networks. AI being AI means that rarely equates to better decision-making - still, it's an option for the rare cases.

Pragmatically, there may be no benefit to the quality of the decisions that the AI makes. It will simply drain less energy and make those decisions faster. Tesla could use the chip themselves to save time and energy on training the AI.

Both scenarios depend quite strongly on the quality of the CPU/TPU and don't strongly depend on determinism.
This is the kind of thing that will cause Apple to switch to internally designed arm chips for their Mac line with great alacrity.

One could argue that it’s surprising they haven’t already.
Mathematics predicts a sixth mass extinction by 2100
Udemy is also huge for having a "One time $10/$15 coupon!" that "expires in 3 days" and will immediately be replaced by another one. All you really have to do is google "Udemy coupon" to get any class on the site for $10 or $15 depending on what the current coupon is.

This also works for the craft store chain Michael's but to a lesser extent. They almost ALWAYS have a 40-50% off coupon in their weekly ad. So if you find something that you want but it's expensive, you can usually get it for half off. It's pretty awesome!
The majority of internet conversations about monads never get past the most shallow introduction. The most important feature of monads is that they can be composed via monad transformers. A la carte languages and algebraic effects are nice, but monad composition is more powerful.

Also, as someone in the Haskell industry, I think you're wrong about trends. The last 5 or so years have been an accelerating trend of Haskell adoption. Of course it is still dwarfed by most other languages, but the number of multi-million dollar contracts I've seen executed in Haskell has been multiplying.
Is static page generation performance really a thing for you?
viagogo.com is a great example of user manipulation. They take what booking.com has done and 10x it. I've bought tickets on there (and got ripped off because they told me the wrong pickup location), and its a total shit show. They make it seem like there are all these real time updates going on, and really pushing you to BUY NOW, but I'm pretty sure its all a scam to urge you to buy as quickly as possible.
Thanks! I missed that. $5 per chip is really not bad for a higher end microcontroller, especially with the 'low volume' tax.
People have been studying WWII for 70 years without "automatically being branded" Nazi sympathizers. I'm not sure why you think that happens.
Promaudio: Listen to Your Prometheus Metrics
Exactly, he's had the stars long enough that they are a bother instead of a blessing.

Presumably there is also a lot of constraint when making up dishes of the sort of "Would a Michelin reviewer score this well?" which is different from "Is this an excellent dish?"
What is the point of this comment? Nothing is 100% free. What matters is what choices are better.
They don't mention how easy or difficult this exploit is to carry out... so I'm betting that it's extremely difficult and will affect practically no one.

That's not to say that Intel ME isn't an awful idea, just that we shouldn't necessarily panic yet.
Trust me, I'm with you on that on :-) But I think most people who are plonking down $1 million on a house will not notice an extra $20K on the price tag, but will notice solar panels.
If that legitimately violates the FTC's rules then I've seen a lot of sites in worse violation. Because honestly that $99/yr is pretty obvious in that screenshot. It definitely doesn't make it obvious but it is in plain text on that site.
Thanks for clarifying, that makes much more sense. So you're basically asking a chicken-or-egg kind of question. Do candidates succeed because of money or do they get money because they are perceived to be likely to succeed?

Certainly there is evidence suggesting both..
I mean insecure configurations, like turning off automatic updates.
For instance, unconditionally marking current network as private.
> This same thing happened under a more liberal capitalist government before. That's literally how Chavez got into power.

That's not true at all. The previous government was socializing the economy, starting with nationalizing oil in 1976. From Wikipedia: "The election of Carlos Andrés Pérez in 1973 coincided with the 1973 oil crisis, in which Venezuela's income exploded as oil prices soared; oil industries were nationalized in 1976. This led to massive increases in public spending, but also increases in external debts, which continued into the 1980s when the collapse of oil prices during the 1980s crippled the Venezuelan economy. As the government started to devalue the currency in February 1983 to face its financial obligations, Venezuelans' real standards of living fell dramatically. A number of failed economic policies and increasing corruption in government led to rising poverty and crime, worsening social indicators, and increased political instability."
How Scientists Engineered Cassini’s Final Demise
"Frankly, I don’t think I am going to stop using Booking.com. I am not aware of any other service with a comparable number of properties and reviews."

It's hard to quantify negative impact of future dealings, but it's even harder to say Booking.com should change their methods when the people aware enough to be annoyed continue to give them money. It's like complaining about Google following you around the web and using GMail.

Either the alternatives just aren't good enough or the negative externalities not severe enough to change consumer behavior. Either of those considerations could change, but until they do it's hard to argue Booking.com should reduce current earnings. Not when people who book a room above a bar that plays music into the early morning blame themselves for not reading the fine print...
>> As a cs-savvy person, I'd really love to see similar pages but for other fields.<<
That is actually one of the the ideas behind Mindweb. Right now it has mostly boards and content about coding and cs, but it is open for all learning materials. So if you know your ways in other fields too: feel free to make a board on any other subject and share it with the world ;)
As a user, I would find an isochronic map much more useful than the weird radial design they want to provide. To provide the level of precision that the radial map does without destroying our eyes with colors, they could substitute a color gradient with some sort of border around "reference times" such as 5 minutes.

The author thinks that the time-only maps address the root concern, which is "how fast can I get somewhere." But that's not entirely true: there are areas where I live that I would rather go to than others. If I search for sushi and I see one place in a crime-ridden neighborhood, a second place in the middle of nowhere, and a third place in the "trendy" section of my city where most of the rest of the food is good, I'm going to the third place if they're all the same distance (and probably even if the third place is farther than the first two, to an extent).
Well, the take away salads and wraps and other to-go options have become very popular within supermarkets (and have eaten into sales at fast casual type restaurants).
This is IMO a strong indication of "emergent complexity" and that consciousness isn't a thing but rather a whole system with no specific center of origin.

The interesting questions is whether any system can become aware as long as the feedback loop involves some interpretation of a pattern-recognizing feedback loop with memory and as long as it reaches big enough complexity.

I am aware that this isn't proving anything about consciousness but it's in line with some of my one pocket-philosophical thoughts.
This is exactly how the Prius (Gen 1) 'Hybrid Synergy Drive' works.
> Laws don't stop crime (..)

is this statement based on some kind of study?

> Deterrence doesn't work, there are still plenty of crimes (..)

not terribly convincing... 'crimes happen' doesn't seem to sufficiently demonstrate that 'deterrence doesn't work'.

> Humans aren't as bad as you might be tempted to think

some aren't. some are much, much worse.
Can someone repost the content into a comment? I cannot solve cloudflare's captcha.
Hard to tell, but I don't think it would have worked out since Google did not support their services on Windows Phone and, at the time, there were not good alternatives. (Although, personally I actually preferred alternate services such as Here Maps)
I would expect these are broken down by enzymes in the mouth/gut long before they have a shot at entering the bloodstream to bind with any antibodies.
Theoretically I think it's true because there are far too many variables at play in economies of any decent size for a national government to efficiently organize it.

Historically I think it's true because broad central planning has generally led to unstable economies.

I think the Nordic states best figured out how to provide widespread social programs funded by taxation of market economies - with national programs working alongside of self-organizing markets instead of trying to organize production directly.
I think Angular 2+ just misunderstands what most applications need or what most developers want.

Typescript is an amazing tool and will be better once there's even wider support. Observables are interesting and RX.js has been useful to me. Zones are interesting but I've not had a real chance to use them.

But, I think putting these and many more concepts together make Angular even less accessible to a majority of developers. Developers can choose these components individually and mix and match for the project, but Angular has made all of these decisions already. That works for some people, but not enough.

Add to it the extreme confusion over naming and the massive paradigm shift from AngularJS 1.

I agree that Vue, React, and other libraries do a much better job and aren't complete packages, you can put together the foundation you need.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Venezuelan_oil_...

#First_Dutch_Disease
#Second_Dutch_Disease
#Third_Dutch_Disease

But what about free markets? Why don't they just have free markets? This alternative is just pure rhetoric hardly explicated in its material form: Sell the country off to international corporations, saddle your country with unmanageable debt, and beg the international financial system to keep you alive so long as you have resources worth extracting.

Honestly, it would be fine if people were just forthright in proposing those policies. It's always dressed up in the language of freedom and liberty in the most dishonest way. Venezuela is failing now, I can point to several other nations that did exactly what they were supposed to according to the interests of Capital, and they aren't looking so hot either.
This was about a decade ago in Morgantown, West Virginia. Yeah it was pretty terrible. I even went to the station a couple of times and they just totally blew me off. It was a good life lesson at least.
Subaru's market share when it comes to the world is pretty insignificant for it to matter even if it were in the same general business space, which it isn't.
> their failure was in not planning the economy as much as their critics want

The argument for capitalism is that _no single entity can do this_ planning. It's not as if capitalist economies have a 'capitalist planner' who's better at planning that the socialist planner. Capitalist economies don't have one person - or agency - in charge of planning or shaping the economy. Bottom up, not top down.
Probably tired of maintaining the restrooms.
It was diversified ... until they slapped on price controls for everything, with its predictable effects.
on new year's eve, no less. (drunk hour)
I've used a meal kit once or twice. I cook multiple meals for myself a day. But even for me, a person not in a meal kit business' target demographic, I can appreciate the value of not having to spend 10 minutes looking for the butter that was moved to some other location by the elves that run the Supermarkets.
Ask HN: What was the most traffic you've got on shared web hosting?
Serving error pages doesn't count.
I worked in a hostel for years and Europeans often noted how funny it was that people from the states referred to distance in regards to time

ie, an 8 hour drive, or 20 minute walk

It was always fun to sit around and speculate as to why
Here you go:

Intel Management Engine is a proprietary technology that consists of a microcontroller integrated into the Platform Controller Hub (PCH) microchip with a set of built-in peripherals. The PCH carries almost all communication between the processor and external devices; therefore Intel ME has access to almost all data on the computer, and the ability to execute third-party code allows compromising the platform completely. Researchers have been long interested in such "God mode" capabilities, but recently we have seen a surge of interest in Intel ME. One of the reasons is the transition of this subsystem to a new hardware (x86) and software (modified MINIX as an operating system) architecture. The x86 platform allows researchers to bring to bear all the power of binary code analysis tools.

Unfortunately, this changing did not go without errors. In a subsystem change that will be detailed in the talk of Intel ME version 11+, a vulnerability was found. It allows an attacker of the machine to run unsigned code in PCH on any motherboard via Skylake+. The main system can remain functional, so the user may not even suspect that his or her computer now has malware resistant to reinstalling of the OS and updating BIOS. Running your own code on ME gives unlimited possibilities for researchers, because it allows exploring the system in dynamics.

In our presentation, we will tell how we detected and exploited the vulnerability, and bypassed built-in protection mechanisms.
Could you clarify what you mean by defending racial hygiene laws?
>>This same thing happened under a more liberal capitalist government before. That's literally how Chavez got into power. The biggest difference between then and now is the severity of the oil price drop.

There were plenty of petro-states which didn't see the kind of economic devastation Venezuela did when oil prices plummeted. The key difference was that other petro-states had a robust private sector, which not only meant they had more private savings that halped the economy absorb the shock from low oil prices, but also meant they were more diversified.

The drop in oil prices should never have led to mass malnutrition. Venezuela even with low oil prices is a middle income country. It was socialist policies like price controls that led to the long food lines and empty supermarket shelves.

>>An exacerbating factor is that the same forces that tried to coup Chavez in 2002 are of course still politically active and, rationally given their interests, using their economic connections to exacerbate the economic collapse through various means. The United States recently freezed some Venezuelan government finances which is obviously intended to further destabilize the government.

This is what the Venezuelan government is blaming its economic problems on, but there is actually no evidence at all that the intervention of the US government is anywhere near enough to be responsible for any significant portion of the economic decline of Venezuela.

There are no significant sanctions on Venezuela and the US imports much of its oil from the country.
I think long term most of the things will be driven from the webview. Currently we are experimenting with taking existing native apps and replacing entire "tabs" with a RN/WebView experience. So it kind of feels like we are steering from the native/ ReactNative side kind of? Over time I think it will tip the other direction as we replace more and more of our native apps with RN/WebView.

One of the things we swap to react-native was to do a barcode scanner. With WebRTC support in iOS11 we may not even need to do that for long.
As someone who moved from the states to Europe and just had a kid a few weeks ago, I'm really curious what people have to say. The schools where I live (Ireland) are reasonably well-regarded but there's a lot of pressure to baptise your kid to get them preferential placement, and I still find myself looking at Finland with some envy. I _hated_ school when I was young (actually I hated it when I was older too...), and still think homework is completely unnecessary.
>> Why do I need a 'real' map?

Canonical answer: Queensway to Bayswater

Tube route: Queensway → Notting Hill Gate change train Notting Hill Gate → Bayswater The journey time between these two London underground stations is approximately 15 minutes

Or just walk. It takes 2 minutes.