skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Animal eyes and brains are wired to control for the amount of ambient light. That’s why an apple looks red whether it is in the sun or the shade, even though the wavelength hitting our eyes is quite different in those scenarios.

It's not obvious to me why the wavelength should be different when an apple is viewed in direct sunlight vs indirect sunlight (shade). Dimmer, lower amplitude, but different wavelength?
> So, motor vehicle driver was at fault in about 40 % of cyclist deaths.

Without any breakdown of who was at fault in the other accidents your stats still indicate that in comparison between bikes and motor vehicles, motor vehicle drivers are still twice as likely to be at fault. Retrain them before you retrain cyclists.
Curious, can you share what your hobbies/projects for this year are?
I know it's a traditionally good brand for compatibility, but for me they sort of dropped quite far from the top of the list since becoming a chinese owned company and for superfish etc. (To clarify my problem with it being chinese is the prevalence of injecting backdoors into absolutely everything from state or otherwise, and these days we have to worry about hardware too)

If I was to buy right now my list is roughly in the order of:

- Dell XPS 13/15
- Razor Blade (It's getting official linux support soon)
- Librem 13/15
- One of the million and one thinkpad models although I have no idea which

I'm most likely to just wait longer though :P the only thing to die on this old thing so far is the keyboard springs out of sheer wear and the battery. I'm gona replace the keyboard soon myself.
Imagine a TCG where you can sell your collection when you want to quit the game. You could buy packs via smart contracts with full transparency wrt. card rarity. The game could add a small fee to pack prices to cover upkeep and creative costs. Some of these fees could be redistributed to players via card/pack rewards. The only requirement (and a strong one) is that the game is actually fun to play, so most of the player base isn't speculating on price.

I think this could give Hearthstone et al. a run for their money.
Is that a distinction with a difference?

What I mean is: unless you have some privileged information about where consciousness and qualia come from, how can you tell whether or not measurement machinery perceive qualia?

(I've thought about this for a long time myself, and I don't know where to draw the line, so I drew it differently: everything is "conscious"; i.e. panpsychism.)
Do all other Industries manage it though? If they did we wouldn't have product recalls or any need for "consumer safety watchdogs". The problem is arguably worse in software but software can also be (relatively) easily patched later so a somewhat more lax attitude to quality on systems that are not safety critical makes some degree of sense.
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I have picture proof this is false
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They are sometimes cuddly. I think that's what it is.
Is it really true that the minimum wage before was JUST at the point where replacing workers wasn't worth the cost, and now it's going just over that threshold?

If they can find a way to replace workers with machines, my guess is they will. My local walmart has one worker managing about ten self-checkout stations now. Panera Bread has stations where you order your food; no cashier needed. And the wage they are paying here is well above minimum wage, anyway.

CEOs will eliminate all the employees they can, because they consider that their job. And then they'll give out executive bonuses as massive as they can get away with.

There is no reason why the minimum wage should be so low that no one could make a living off it.
(Disclaimer: I hold some Enigma).

I'm (self)-interested in learning about Enigma[0]. It's an off-chain solution for scalability & privacy with regards to systems of blockchains (blockchain agnostic).

It also has the capacity for its own dapps. The Enigma product isn't completed, yet there is a working product on top of the protocol called Catalyst[1] (I've not personally tried Catalyst, yet). Catalyst is a trading app for quants.

Enigma is supported by MIT, & has Alex Pentland as an advisor.

There's more to Enigma than what I've just outlined. 1) There's the data marketplace component. 2) It could also conceivably become a secure data processing layer for the Internet. I think it can be used with different protocols. I've yet to figure that out.

[0] https://www.enigma.co
[1] https://enigmampc.github.io/catalyst/
Thanks for your insights.

I had never thought of the big 3 as possible route post-sale.
Sale is not on the radar atm so back to my daily operational duties in my small yet thriving company :-)
You don't have to connect it to the Internet if you don't trust it, it's still going to work as a TV.
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I really love the translation "hack". The 2D plane is mapped onto the z=1 plane, and then we apply an x-y shear in 3D space. This keeps the 3D origin at the origin, but shifts around the z=1 plane without distorting it, so that when we project back to 2D it looks like a translation.
Operating a vehicle requires a licence because it is a lot of responsibility. You can kill people or do serious damage to property if you are unable to operate one safely. Riding a bike is something children can do. Do you suggest a licence to walk as well?

I would like to see a road bicycle test, though. But it would be for potential motorists, not cyclists. I think if you want to operate a motorvehicle on the road you must be able to demonstrate an ability to operate a bicycle on the road.
> Connection is intiated by user. So its user importing/exporting data from/to server jurisdiction

This line of reasoning didn't work for the poker companies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Scheinberg

The US very definitely started the idea that it has global jurisdiction over the internet; why should it be the only such country?
Do you not see a difference between how this guy is playing the game and how most people play games? This is veering into 'strange hobby' territory, that's all.

Yes if you want to be reductionist and just call this 'playing a game' then no, 'playing a game' isn't a strange hobby. But that's like calling BASE jumping, 'just jumping in the air.'
These headlights will seldom require replacement during the life of the vehicle.
That lifestyle sounds amazing coming from a late 20 year old.
Hoping I can achieve that in the next 5 years too :)

What was the company specializing in that you co-founded?
I understand your comment as the details of the usefulness are buried pretty deep. I had to dig down to the 2nd half of sentence #2 to get the answer: "while minimizing the glare to oncoming traffic or reflections from retroreflective traffic signs."
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Torrenting over TOR is not a great idea. The speeds will be abysmal in addition to putting undue strain on the network. This is not what TOR was designed for.
It's not helped by drivers harrassing cyclists who are not in the, empty, left turn lane "because they want to get by".
Right, which makes it a bit of a tricky attack to pull off. But if you know what you're doing you can do some operation that requires memory address x and be reasonably sure it will end up in the CPU cache. If you then do an operation on memory address x, and it happens really quickly, and you do an operation on memory address x+128, and it happens a bit slower, you can assume that x was in the cache and x+128 wasn't.
> They say that anyone who controls WhatsApp's servers could effortlessly insert new people into an otherwise private group, even without the permission of the administrator who ostensibly controls access to that conversation.

Given that WhatsApp isn't open source and so on, controling the WhatsApp server, or controling some part of its code, or controling the signing keys, all can compromise the privacy and encryption.

This study shouldn't cause much surprise.
Yes, but if only all the fast food restaurants automate, only a small part of demand is lost.

Clearly, it is optimal strategy to automate because other industries will take longer to automate.
Ah did not know that. Replace netflix with a company with no EU establishment.
> random brands from China

Those are the best products! :)
> Why shouldn’t cyclists need a license to ride on the road?

Thought experiment: if you didn't have any motorised vehicles on the road, would you still want cyclists to have a licence?

In a general case though, requiring cyclists to have a licence would reduce the number of cyclists, probably significantly. This would correspondingly increase the number of motorists.

This dual effect would have a number of negative impacts. More motorists lead to more congestion, more CO2 emitted and poorer air quality. Poorer air quality leads to health problems, up to and including deaths. CO2 causes climate change, and greater congestion has an economic impact. Fewer people cycling mean fewer people getting exercise, leading to more health problems, up to and including deaths.

I'm confident these problems would overshadow the small improvements in cyclist safety you might gain with a cycling licence requirement. There are better ways to improve cycling safety.
Why on earth does a TV need denoising built-in? I've noticed this trend—when I rarely visit electronic stores—where all the display models have huge vibrant screens, but whatever they show on them is always oversaturated, sharpened, and in general overprocessed. On top of that, when I visit some people's houses, they have everything setup completely wrong: stretching the picture to avoid letterboxing, upscaling from a lower resolution signal (acceptable depending on your distance, but better to have an HD signal for an HD TV), motion interpolation, and so much more. What ever happened to a television naively playing what it was given? Why does everyone want a neon prickly picture and assume they know better than the people who mastered the content? I know some will say "personal preference", but there's no accounting for taste and settings like these can ruin something carefully crafted. Lastly, to get back to denoising, noise is actually detail, stop removing it (and you'll almost never have it in modern stuff, mostly just old films—where it's part of the actual negative). This trend extends to photography as well, with editors not knowing when to ease off the saturation (the greens would hurt your eyes IRL) and contrast sliders, which might explain public perception or expectation.
Apparently it happens quite often, and record low is -10 degrees Celsius

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aïn_Séfra
I'm in the USA, and I definitely think it should be discouraged. I think I'd prefer to see social constructs over laws, but the laws do seem to be more effective.

I live in Ohio, and I'm still unhappy with the fact that we voted to change our state constitution a few years back to allow casinos to be built.
>Think of the pause container image

The pause container is very much an implementation detail. That's sort of my point. Why would you try to test implementation details?

>You could add a test to make sure that the ca.crt file is always packaged

I could, but why? If I wrote a command to put ca.crt there I would expect it to be there unless somebody deliberately took it out.

It would be even better if I wrote a command to put ca.crt in the wrong place and then tested to see that it was in the wrong place. The test would be worse than useless in that case - it would fail on a working container and pass on a broken container.

The ca.crt is there because it triggers desired behavior - e.g. that you can connect to services over SSL without errors. Test that instead.

>The use case is more for infrastructure that explicitly deals with or supports containers.

Personally I'd consider containers themselves an implementation detail most of the time - the exception being when you're building containers for other people to use.

I still think it's the wrong approach for that too.
Well, I did hesitate when I was writing that statement, and technically you are right that microscopic mirrors positioned by electrostatic forces are electromechanical. :)

My original point, and what my complete sentence said, is that the this one large solid state chip is able to serve as in advanced automotive lighting functions without all of the (currently used) electromechanical mechanisms. It really is quite different and has unique advantages. Here's a YouTube video that explains the operation of a DLP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nb8mM3uEIc
DLP projectors have been around for decades and have proven reliable.
One obvious application, you want to poke holes in the image where faces (or other optical sensors) are to avoid reducing the visibility of others. Also communicating pedestrian locations to the driver.
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100% agreed. This is just basic common sense: don't take a junction at a speed greater than 20km/h, no matter what. That's it. I slow down instinctively at junctions. I literally cannot see the other road because of trees/buildings. How can I assume it is clear?

Same is true for bicyclists. Slow. The. Fuck. Down. At. Intersections.
Deploying a Smart Contract on NEO costs 500 gas, which is approx. 28k$ as of today.
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"Some rural areas" is in reality almost every mile of road outside of towns. You've clearly never walked in the countryside.
This is wrong. From the perspective of, say, 200 years ago everything has been automated. But everyone definitely hasn't lost.

It's actually the opposite. Automation makes us all better off.
We had to cat sit a few times over the last six months, and Cat World isn't an easy place to understand.

Cats don't appear to have a good serial memory, so they can remember places and times up to a point, but not quite well enough to integrate them into a conceptual whole.

One cat was cute and sweet tempered, but also timid and really rather slow. We eventually worked out that she couldn't make the connection between the corridor that led to the kitchen in daylight, and the same corridor after dark.

She acted as if they were two completely different and unrelated spaces. So she had to timidly re-explore both every day, which caused non-trivial confusion because some of the things in the corridor already had her scent on them.
When you say it like that, speculating that people will continue to be greedy seems like a smart bet.
Well ackchyually,

While it isn't a week-to-week winter norm, it isn't all that too unusual from a long term perspective. There are snows and frosts every year across the region, with heavy low altitude snows every few years. The area is fairly dry, and low dew points make it pretty easy to keep the place cool and the regions covered in snow are the same latitude as northern Texas and even higher in elevation.
SEAsia have Indonesia and the Philippines as their equivalent. They have tried Philippine nurses, but they tend to complain they don't pick up their culture well enough.
If the content has to be signed by its true origin, does it matter who's technically serving the content?

There could be privacy considerations I suppose, but the standard addresses that already: https://wicg.github.io/webpackage/draft-yasskin-http-origin-...
> We can make software engineering more people-oriented with pair programming and more collaboration

This is different than my point. I'm saying that software engineering IS people-oriented as it exists and that it's simply undervalued.

> Unfortunately, there may be limits to how people-oriented certain roles at Google can be

What roles at Google shouldn't be people-oriented? This just strikes me as an absurd thing to say.
> Cheung notes that children in China consistently score higher on academic tests compared to children in the U.S. and Mexico

But I doubt this is because of books. After all, children of chinese descent consistently score higher on academic tests everywhere in the world, including the U.S.

The elephant in the room is that ethnic chinese children have got more of what it takes, conditio sine qua non, to score high on academic tests.
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It would be nice if the US would update their headlamp beam pattern standards to be in line with the rest of the world. They allow low beams with insufficient beam width (leading people to use their fog lamps to address the issue), to much glare for oncoming traffic (lack of an asymmetric cutoff), and high beams that are limited to half the hotspot intensity. Also the fact that they require a manual switch between low and high beam prevents the introduction of more advanced vehicle lighting systems that are available in the rest of the world.
>Negative trend 3: “Our startup is like a family”

No, just no. I disagree with this. I’m just a lowly employee and I spend 1/3rd of my life with the office.

I want that office to be my family when I’m spending so much of my life there.
Tor is fine for finding content. Dowloading can be done the usual way.
4th time in 37 years for this part of the Sahara according to original article.
You do know that two wrongs do not make a right.
Before clicking I thought the article was going to be about the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
You don't need to go that far from the US. Mexico had the same situation until a couple of years ago. You could buy antibiotics without a prescription, and many US citizens living on border cities made quick trips to Mexico just to do so when sick.
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Not quite free, but not anywhere near cost either. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/25-years-later-remem...
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Doesn't work for me. Can you please suggest any others?
Whereas if you use a bank transfer, a 3% drop is the base cost on every single transfer. Bitcoin is volatile, but you'd very rarely have costs that high, and as I stated before, usually the cost would be negative.
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I just looked it up and according to a nerdwallet survey (highly unscientific) the average debt for new physician is $166,000.
Is this model better? When a company develops technology with the purpose of selling the technology, it’s incentives are predictable. But what are the incentives where technology is bankrolled by companies that don’t make money from the technology, but through something else they sell? Facebook is funding these codecs because it helps their business of data mining your personal information. How is that a better state of affairs?

There is no free lunch. At least when the cost of a patent license gets bundled into your Blu-Ray player, you know what you’re paying.
Well nobody on the other side did anything close to "considering that what they did was wrong".
Microsoft and macs were completely irrelevant.

The main competitor for Apple’s iPods was Sony. And the reason why Apple won is the fact that Sony also includes Sony Music, i.e. insisted on DRM. I think that’s why minidiscs didn’t really took off.
That's such a good idea, and it's just the sort of inventive thinking that I really like hearing: the problem is obvious and anybody that knew anything about DLP's should realize that they can very rapidly control the illumination of any pixel, but who would come up with the idea of controlling light like that!
> Software is crap because humans on the whole have an extremely difficult time reasoning through all the possible logic flows.

But we have tools and techniques that make this easier. Why don't we use them?

Also, I don't think 100% correctness is the ultimate goal of this article. Software is probably nowhere even near that correctness level firstly, and secondly, software is also partly crap because it doesn't run any faster than it did 30 years ago despite tremendous performance advances in our hardware.

> What does that make us? It makes us jerk-offs, that’s what it makes us.

Let's be honest, software as it currently is written is considerably more complex than most other engineered systems that we take for granted.

That said, we've had tools and techniques to mitigate a lot of this complexity, and to have computers double-check our work (eg. type systems and model checking), but we don't really use them as much as we should. What's worse, we even use tools that are intentionally intractable to any kind of work checking/validation (like dynamically typed languages).

There's really no excuse for this.
I'm currently in the annoying situation where I need to replace the "Adaptive" LED headlights on my BMW, these units cost ~£3000 which is significantly more than the alternative (bulbs)....
Whether or not plants feel pain is largely irrelevant. Humans have to eat plants, it’s not possible to make food (yet) without plants being in the chain. Even if plants feel pain, that makes it ok to eat them (unless we’re advocating mass suicide).

Eating animals is trickier. You’re eating processed plants, so you’re still harming plants by eating them, but you’re harming an order of magnitude more plants (due to the inefficient conversion from plant to meat), and you’re harming animals as well. There’s therefore a very strong argument to be made that eating meat is immoral.
Maybe with less direct light, more of the light is made up of light reflected from surroundings, which quite likely has a different spectral power distribution than direct sunlight.
I would say that Redis counts as a counterexample, too :)
Congratulations on your success!. Just wondering - How old were you when you started your company,what would you do differently when starting another company and the market that you were in, was a large one or a niche?
I may be missing the point there as I skimmed the video, but you don't actually end up catching any fish as far as I can see. It looks like you're just tossing food at them.

Feel free to whoosh me if this is satire flying over my head.
Actually, there are perfectly good reasons the minimum wage should be below a "living wage".
An unsound type system doesn't prove anything about type systems. Doubly so if you don't actually use types and you're just exploiting that unsoundness with pervasive casting.
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i love the idea of just finishing - anything - and doing another. this is the only way to go, in any endeavor. try, fail, learn, fix. repeat.
I’m interested in what kind of regulations would be effective in ensuring proper cyber security practices are exercised
Hmm, this is interesting. I would expect that members would at least have some sort of room key (or at least signed assertion) that they would need to send to a new member, to ensure that the server couldn't unilaterally add participants.
Spoken as someone who has not had to use Penn Station!
Yes, most people are on FiOS in my area so comcast tries hard.
Wow... Children can also drive cars, ride motorbikes, fly planes, perform surgery. That doesn't mean it's in society's best interest to let them without some training or examination beforehand.

The difficulty in riding a bike in a city doesn't come from having to control the vehicle. Danger doesn't come from the ability to maim someone with a bike. It comes from hugely complex set of rules, dynamic nature of traffic, high speed high pressure decision making necessary, sensory overload and fatigue, self control, competition on the road etc.

That's what you need to take into account to navigate safely.
If our metric for "good" is based solely on what people choose to use, then one is forced to admit that we also have generally good security and privacy safeguards.

Actually, I kinda agree with that assessment. "Good enough" is never good enough for academics, but practical reality is different.