skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To my mind, the connotation of factoid is that it's not false, but it's too simplified or stripped of context to be wholly accurate.

Consider, "Did you know that squids have eyes as big as bicycle tires?" That's not completely made up (squid do have the largest eyes of any animal) but to make it strictly accurate you'd need to change "squid" to "giant squid", "have" to "can have", and "bicycle tire" to "child's bicycle tire".
I would love to know about this as well
1. The vast majority of people don't want getting to point A to point B to be an experience, they want it to happen as quickly and conveniently as possible for a good price. This isn't going to be any sort of real barrier to adoption especially when people have the option to pay $15 for a manned car with a driver or $3 for one that is self-driving.

2. Cameras and you sign an agreement on signup that you're liable for the behavior of any passengers on your trip. Hotels are also private spaces, they don't seem to have a problem with graffiti, rooms getting destroyed, etc. To the extent they do it's not an existential problem and is covered by the fact that they have your ID and Credit Card on file.

3. Many hundreds of thousands of people park their cars overnight in parking garages or on streets. Nobody pays people to sit inside inside of their cars overnight as far as I know.
If we ask for 0 margin error , well It won’t happen. If we ask to have less accidents than humans, we are already there.
Seems inevitable. Unfortunately, the content companies have a lot of leverage because they are the ones making the content that you want to see.
There are no customisations as of now, yes you can use your own domain. Thanks for the feedback, reading this in detail :)
VDA framework was made obsolete in OS X.

Equivalent features are provided in the Video Toolbox framework from OS X 10.8 and later.

Firefox only supports 10.9 and later from now on, and no longer uses VDA.

Unlike VDA, when you create a decoder, you just get one. You then query if it's a hardware decoder or not, but the behaviour is fundamentally the same between SW and HW.

For some reasons, the VT frame gives us a software decoder most of the time for some users.

Until now, I had only ever seen Mac Pro (including 2013 trashcan model) to not provide hardware decoding support.

If you attempt to decode a video that is less than 144 pixels high, you always get a software decoder.
We've already seen how #1 goes with ATMs replacing bank tellers. Sure, some folks liked banking with a human, but they're largely replaced.

#2 you deal with by cameras in the car. You know who's in it, and you have a credit card to fine them for any clean-up required. Taxis/Ubers already have to deal with more puke than private cars. I wouldn't want to do a drug deal in a car that could automatically deliver me at a police precinct...

#3 is already the case with the millions of parked cars on city streets. Why would self-driving cars be more of a target than those existing unmanned cars?
Because this stuff is discoverable it's less important than you might think. When you have 10's of millions of archers doing that as a job then curving an arrow is not going to stay secret for that long.

The really major discoveries of our history are things like a positional number system aka zero. That's the kind of thing that's likely to survive because it's both really useful, easy to teach, and really common. Germ theory might not stick around, but it's really widespread and also both useful and the kind of thing we can pick up again.

The jump from an 8080 including an understanding of Quantum Mechanics getting to a modern multi billion transistor i7 is 100's of billions in research. But, going from an 8080's took us less than 100 years and we could do it again assuming a large relatively stable global economy.
I have a co-worker who does this emphatically. He's the type where everything must be lifehacked to death. I get that it's a great way to speed through content quickly, but I've noticed that he has no way to discern quality anymore. In fact, he will avoid well produced, quality podcasts because they move too quickly and include sound effects and music.

So yeah, I get it. But it seems to encourage the wrong sort of content - long, windy, with no effort made into presentation or editing.
WD-40 isn't actually a true lubricant. WD stands for "water displacing" and its main use is as a solvent or rust dissolver.

Use a silicone lubricant.
This will be trying to close off the holes used to get at the ME OS I reckon.
I personally haven't found the same effect in long-form media, such as:

- Non-fiction books

- University-centered online courses

- Documentaries

- Some of Netflix's original programs

- Wikipedia's monthly news summaries

- The "Great Courses" on Audible

These media aren't thoroughly monetized on a pay-per-attention-stolen model. They're more optimized around having good reviews from friends and online.

It makes me wonder if there might be the possibility of a Netflix for news, where a 3rd party curates and allows ratings of lengthier pieces on long-term issues, interviews with important figures, and 20-minute investigative reports (like I remember seeing on 60 minutes). Naturally, this wouldn't work for up-to-the minute news where everyone's attention is driven based on who's got the latest break, but it seems like it would work for these other things. It would still give the "lunch conversation" motivation, where people could talk about whatever was released in the last few days. Certainly it sounds like a less attention-assaulting place than the current state of news.
> 1. Some people like talking to a driver, it's one of those small interactions that make getting from point A to point B an experience. Some people don't and that's fine too, not arguing against that.

Not many are going to care enough to pay a significant premium though.

> 2. People left alone will be much less careful, graffiti, spillage, throwing-up, drug deals, etc. Fully expect these to become little crime bubbles.

Expect self-driving cars to have surveillance systems and to require identification before you can hail one. If you're caught doing a drug deal, don't expect that company to ever let you use their service again.

> 3. Not all cars will be fully utilized all day long, so what is a car sitting around unmanned?

Park itself, probably.

> Will the insurance to cover vandalism and having the vehicle repaired raise higher than the value of paying someone to sit in the car?

No.
Can you tell me more about this device? I'd love a link. I'm writing a story on exactly this issue.
> Compare that to Google where it's almost 20 years old and its major revenue is still AdWords. Diversifying revenue is not easy.

I think that's just that the market has changed. Google has programming languages, operating systems and office suites, and they're all more complicated than the offerings of 30 years ago, but given away for free (with advertising).
It's not just "space", just as sand is not just "sand". It needs good highway access, as attendance is in the thousands every weekend for months. It needs water, power, and some sanitation facilities (the old festival location used porta-potties). It needs a campground. It needs to be within an hour's drive of most of the sprawling Twin Cities metro. It needs to be reasonably dry and safe in the vagaries of Minnesota summer weather. It needs cooperative zoning and regulation from the local government. It needs to be not too expensive to get into shape. It needs to be land that won't suddenly find a "more valuable" purpose anytime soon (like, say, strip mining, or building a new subdivision). Likewise, it can't really have any current residences on it, or those will need to be bought out.

It's really, really complicated and difficult. They can't just plop it down anywhere.
So, will Intel be patching both the vulnerabilities and the kludges people have found to remove ME? Thus making some customers safer while maintaining systemic risk for everyone?

"Asking for a friend"
I'd pay Facebook to be ad free. Why don't they want my money?
I would argue that those things historically have drowned out actual meaning, if by actual meaning you mean factually correct and significant information. Only with the advent of science have we been able to reliably sort the meaningless from the meaningful.

I think the major concern here, aside from the general deleterious effects of addiction of any sort on people, is that the tide of meaningless factoids and useless information is swelling and drowning out substantive, useful information which is generated with greater difficulty and spreads less easily.

A greater ratio of meaninglessness to meaningfulness is part of the problem, compounded by the aggressive way our attention is directed toward it. I think the filter you mention exists but is struggling in this environment more than in the recent past.
I'd prefer they just let you run the hub/central service yourself, with an option to have them run it for a fee, yes.

I think we'll start to see regular consumers harmed by some of these start-ups destroying hardware when they go out of business, and perhaps people will stop buying them unless there's some protection. Then the "free" solutions will be looked at suspiciously and hopefully discounted by the tech press and retailers. Alternately, retailers might be held liable for refunding purchases of products that stop working before the legally mandated warranty date (such as in the EU) or by credit card companies in the US, so they'll stop selling any cloud required garbage.
There are lots of amazing mobile game experiences available that cost under $10 for a one-time purchase. I don't understand why you think they must all necessarily have AAA budgets in the tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. One person or a small team of people can easily make an amazing game.
The Black Hole of Calcutta is a widely known example of what can only be considered a corporate concentration camp of the (at the time privately owned) British East India Company...
Reminds me of parts of photosynth[1], glad to see people are still working on this kind of thing. Was very disappointed that photosynth didn't really pan out with building 3d models off the images, they went with just panoramas.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynth
I believe Car2go had an issue with this. Identity theft is alive and well, and it's hard to know if the person who is in the car is the same who signed up for the account.
Using nmap, and not changing the destination server, I've seen numerous outbound requests in a given hour.
Quite a few companies have gone down the crypto ICO route to raise funds instead of dealing with traditional investors / VCs, which I think is a great (albeit unregulated) way to raise some money without giving out a huge chunk of your company. It's also an easier way to raise money without having an actual product in hand.

It's just unfortunate though that ICOs have a bad rep due to greed and the fact that a lot of the ICOs that happen are scams and will never deliver an actual product.
Not really, unless you can listen to every meeting or conversation and read every document.
The whole vandalism/making a mess thing is entirely possible to solve by holding the passenger accountable. I'd assume the cars would all have camera's inside them. The flow could be as simple as:

1) I use an app to request a ride

2) Car pulls up

3) Car does a facial recognition scan as I approach the car and know's it's me, unlocking the door. It know's it's me because I also had to do a facial recognition scan when I set up the app.

4) Camera's can monitor the cleanlyness of the car. If it detects a mess when I leave the vehicle then the car gets sent to the depot for a cleaning.

4.a) Car doesn't detect it's dirty, but the next passenger to get picked up notices it's a mess and can notify them via the app. This will prompt a new car to come for the passenger and the original vehicle gets sent to the depot for cleaning

5) The vehicle gets inspected and cleaned and whoever was responsible gets notifed of the cleaning fee and their credit card is billed automatically (which would be part of the agreement when using the service)

edit: formatting
"Never" is far too strong a word here. There's more to the startup world than SaaS.

Good luck launching a consumer hardware product without raising money if you're not independently wealthy. Even getting a relatively simple product to mass production is going to take on the order of 12-18 months and 1-2 million: you've got several iterations of prototyping and testing, UL/IEC approvals, set-up at a CM, and the long tail of retail to deal with. If you have something truly innovative, consider adding an order of magnitude to that cost estimate.
Or whatever happened in Russia within the past few weeks: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/10/nuclear-accide...

I kinda agree with your point: terrorists already have considerable access, theoretically, to radioactive materials. In fact, the materials used for medicine and science are in many ways much more dangerous from a public health perspective given their short, energetic half-lives.

The only substantial, long-term danger from terrorists is to the financial viability of nuclear power. Nobody cares about incidents like the above. But if it were tied to terrorism somehow it would be all over the news and nuclear stocks would plummet. Similarly, for a terrorist incident involving medical use even anti-nuclear activists would have more nuanced reactions, whereas if it involved nuclear power such an incident would herald the end of the world.
it won't help on mac...

Firefox doesn't use a blacklist of drivers / GPU like it does on window to enable HW decoding or not.
Typically mac hardware is far more reliable.

the media.hardware-video-decoding.force-enabled is only of use on Windows in the event a card is blacklisted and you want to override the blacklist
One odd thing I found while listening to conversational comedy podcasts at 1.5x was that I found them to be funnier. I believe it's because if the pause before someone says something very clever is short it makes it even more impressive (and funny) that they thought of it.
It's wildly variable what resources someone in that kind of situation might have.

There was a guy living in the storage unit next to the one I have in Austin (for my stuff from when I moved out of a house and back into an RV). The folks who ran the storage facility let him run an extension cord to the nearest power; several people actually were living in that facility, despite it being illegal. So, in his case he did have electricity, and I believe he had a mini-fridge. We talked several times and he seemed to have a pretty reasonable setup. He even had a space heater for when it got cold. I never saw the inside of his house (he'd built a wall and second regular door behind the rolling garage style door), but he seemed to be reasonably comfortable and had regular work really close by (since he only had a bike, proximity was important). The last time I was there, he'd moved out, and the person working didn't know where he'd gone; I'm hoping he was doing well and got an apartment rather than ran into harder times.

Similarly, I've seen people use one of these to get electricity inside a storage unit when they didn't have particularly understanding landlords: http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/04/31/80/63/0004318063152_...

But, people in cars or vans probably don't have power. Some RVers have solar panels, and also RV fridges often also run on propane (though they aren't terribly efficient in the old RVs...I go through about $15/week running mine on propane). Propane fridges are very expensive and very fidgety and prone to breakage over time, however, so it's not uncommon to see the propane/electric dual-mode fridge replaced with an electric-only model in the cheapest old RVs. So, that limits the use of the fridge to times when it's plugged in.

I know someone who lives in a bus that she converted to an RV herself, but she didn't put in a fridge (yet), so while she has a stove, if she's not parked near a grocery, she is very limited in what she can cook. Some things keep well without refrigeration: onions, potatoes, winter squash, etc. She has potted plants for tomatoes and herbs, but she's much more intentional about her situation. She moved out of an apartment and into the bus by choice, not by necessity, and mostly enjoys the off-the-grid lifestyle. She made one of these for when she's in the desert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-in-pot_refrigerator but those only work in very dry climates and aren't cold enough for many foods. Obviously wouldn't work in most places...and if you're in a city, you have to be self-contained and very discreet about where you're living. Can't really spread out and put out pots and stuff when parked on a street.
Then we came to OS/2 and it's demise (Thought it got an update this year. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/half-...

Man OS/2 Warp was going to be AWESOME and than the infighting killed the whole thing. :(

In 1984 we also got IMB PCjr and that was IBM's home push and boy that lasted 13 months. IBM was just horrible in consumer computers.

http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/ibmpcjr/
No, they are generally more concerned with fighting a culture war.

Asking what voters care about is a red herring. Voters care about things that the press talks about, and the press is owned by the two parties.
> Lyft is betting that other companies will figure out how to build self-driving cars but won't have the time, expertise, or capital required to build their own Lyft-style ride-hailing networks. By contrast, Uber seems to fear that a company like Waymo could build both driverless cars and a ride-hailing app, shutting companies like Uber and Lyft out of the marketplace altogether.

Everybody and their cousin is doing on-site delivery and geo tracking type apps these days so I'd say Lyft's bet is much riskier.
3: Those people haven't had their job taken by a self driving car. There is a very real incentive for these cars to be targeted.
I ran some queries and it looks like there are only about 4 weeks a year when asparagus isn't being commercially harvested somewhere in California - the first couple of weeks in December and the last couple of weeks in May (approximately)

Distribution is another matter entirely of course!
Ok, fine, i'll play along. What is a reasonable tip?

Instacart wants me to tip 20%, so that's $40 on a $200 grocery order to carry my groceries 3 miles.

I have no idea what's appropriate, but that seems outrageous.
Has anyone ever been successfully pursued in court over that? You don't own employees when they're off the clock.
Facebook is in somewhat of a special position at this time because it is a really major source for a lot of people to get their news.
Secure Enclaves on AMD and Intel typically refers to SME/SEV and SGX.
The underlying problem is termed "motion matching", "motion tracking" or "camera tracking".

I played around with it around 2009 or so and at that time there was scant open-source libs for bits and nothing to join it together and nothing that worked particularly well; it was the domain of high-quality high-price niche products aimed at Hollywood which you could watch product videos of on YouTube but not actually afford to use.

I don't know how accessible it is now; maybe there are now working quality open-source libs and we can all start putting it into raspberry pi robots? ;)
For audiobooks I tend to start the book off at 1x for the first few hours because it's hard to follow while they are establishing characters and environment when you speed it up. Once I have a feel for those I gradually speed up to 1.4-1.7x (depending on the narrator).
#3 because they have taken someones job.
You could try one of the container management addons that simply spawn new containers as needed, e.g. containers on demand[0]. In principle the underlzing building blocks for containers and private browsing are orthogonal that can be used at the same time, i.e. a container in private browsing mode is yet another context that will have private browsing features (nothing written to disk) but is also separate from other private browsing tabs. But I'm not sure if that this is exposed through UI or APIs.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containers-on...
Ask HN: What made JavaScript so popular?
Compared to other programming languages and frameworks out there (JavaFX, golang, PHP, Ruby on Rails), what made JavaScript so popular?
OpenH264 is only used with WebRTC video call.. And is a software only decoder/encoder...

There shouldn't be much difference for h264 videos between Safari and Firefox, except in Full Screen. For full screen, Safari uses the OS to render the images and can have a very efficient code path. Firefox doesn't support it at all (for now)
I guess it's a matter of taste, but using object shorthand for an API seems like and anti-pattern. APIs are where a rigorous definition is most valuable. Like I said, it works fantastically well once you get the hang of it, but try showing this to a newb and ask them to trace it. Nightmare.

I'm not being a grump either. I coded Perl professionally for over 5 years and am well-versed in terse, functional idioms, but the community rightfully decided that strings of punctuation were too obtuse for practical use.
Giraffe is open source.

The author, Matthew Lai, was not part of the AlphaGo team.

Current chess algorithm to evaluate board position is already very fast. A deep learning version needs to be trained for a long time and might still not be as fast. Maybe one day when training can be done faster and cheaper, there will be more interest in deep learning chess engines.

PS: The estimated hardware cost to train AlphaGo Zero is around $25M (2000 TPU over 40 days, or 1700 GPU years).
What Does It Take for a Startup to Achieve Product-Market Fit
Try Autodesk's Recap

https://www.autodesk.com/products/recap/overview
Yeah. It's reasonable to be skeptical about the timeframe for fully-autonomous general purpose vehicles. IMO, the last 10 percent (or whatever) is tougher than a lot of people are assuming. Some of the assumptions about the economics of the vehicles are also overly optimistic.

That said, if people can get driven around for a reasonable price--either in their own vehicle or one they hail through an app--many people will forgo driving themselves.
Has Microsoft been naming things confusingly forever, then? One recalls the Microsoft Surface from 2008 - A big touchsceen table.
LightStep emerges from stealth with a new APM solution
The social aspects of information propagation are anything but marginalized. The problem, as in the days of yellow journalism, is that sensation is easier to monetize than the truth and this creates opportunities for bad actors to flourish.

Of course there's a possibility for over-reaction and repression, but personally I think that the best solution is more information, in the sense of accessible trackbacks (not unlike country-of-origin food labeling) so people can see where stories originate and learn to be skeptical of stuff that comes from consistently unreliable or bizarre sources. This already happens to some extent, eg if you post content from infowars you'll be rightly mocked for using such a terrible source. The Web Annotations Standard will make this vastly easier as its deployed in browsers (anyone know about progress on that, BTW?).

As for the other problem of people choosing to stay in particular media bubbles where they're only presented with information they already agree with, that's not really going to change, but I think that's OK as long as it's easy to identify which cluster people are choosing to locate in.
I think you have a very valid and important concern for digital literacy among the general population for the purpose of business and opportunity.

However, it happens to lie next to another concern with a much larger scope and severity: the failure of the American educational system in general. Compared to this, a few Luddites and facebook-only websurfers isn't such a big deal.