skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused by this article. I agree with the author that the flat earth coordinate model as advocated by him can converge with the spherical model if we allow it to account for changes as we move away from the poles.

But I think he misses the point why people hate or discount the flat earthers. I don't think they are advocating for a practical model that works in approximation. Their illustrations literally seem to portray the earth as a flat pan. For our 3D perception that is not true. It's nothing to do with how we measure distances on the ground. That's the image or belief everyone is fighting against, not against a particular coordinate system.

The phrase flat earth is misrepresented in his article when compared to popular parlance (https://video-images.vice.com/articles/596717d19d542017b4db7...). So we aren't even talking about the same thing.
Like everything in work you can't do it if it interferes with your professional relationships. If it's necessary for doing your job that's a different story but that's rarely actually the case.
GM’s latest car gives up steering wheels, pedals – and human control
I think we're on the 5th or 6th one with two more to go in the next ten to twenty years as crypto chews through networks of people at different distances from expertise in bitcoin.

Also follow along with the classic stock bubble:
https://blogs-images.forbes.com/jessecolombo/files/2014/02/s...

These curves remind me of the dopamine response curve to tasks like in a rat running a maze:

https://neurofantastic.com/brain/2017/1/12/dopamine-crescend...

But maybe that's pareidolia.
The more I think about it Starbucks is a weird example for him to have picked. Dunkin Donuts sells coffee, Starbucks absolutely sells Starbucks.
Using Go with a private GitHub and forks
German here, in his 40s, earning quite an above average income in IT as does my partner. Double income no kids as they say.
We travel a lot, just not to the US anymore.
HackerNewsCoin
>In other words, they can see what the drone sees, pulling out their recognizable pattern from the radio signal, even without breaking the drone's encrypted video.

The most interesting part of this is how encrypted traffic leaks enough info to be reliably analyzed. Really cool stuff.
To AT&T fiber, for now, pending a better option.
The only overlap between politics and work is hiring and work-related policies (as far as your viewpoint on, for example, maternity leave is a political). Companies should have a process of developing and refining policies, and certainly politics may come up during the discussion of those policies.. but it should end when the policies are written and management has made a decision. If that policy is illegal, certainly go talk to HR about it or pursue a legal option. But there's no need to have this constant political fight within a company between employees.

Note, this hiring and work-related discussion is very different than what's going on in google. They have mailing lists for everything from conservatives, liberty (liberal), transgenderism, furries, polygamy, etc. I would be very interested in hearing how polygamy is work related.
very cool. how did you come up with idea?
How annoying.
15m seems like too little unless the traveler is a high-priority target. CBP is often crushed.
Having incurred the high karmic cost of breaking Godwin’s Law anyway, I might as well go ahead and quote Hitler: ”I will bring down democracy by democratic means!”. The ultimate, and most despicable, form of diagonalization I can think of.
a couple other silly projects that attempt to store data without using disk space (some cheating required):

πfs (a file system)
https://github.com/philipl/pifs

0byte (a programming language)
https://github.com/MarkDunne/0byte
Yeah, at the right age, a juvenile cat is a pound and a half of death, and it isn't shy about showing you. I think later on in their lives cats are a bit more secretive, especially about prey they want to eat.
cool. so many people talking about spectre and meltdown last few days
There are some experiments with control group. South/North Korea, West/East Germany. Taiwan/Mainland China.
> GM's Cruise AV is equipped with the automaker's fourth-generation self-driving software and hardware, including 21 radars, 16 cameras and five lidars

> The Cruise AV will be able to operate in hands-free mode only in premapped urban areas.

Sounds like there is still a long way to go for this to work everywhere and be affordable.
In China we always write cell numbers. Always. Otherwise stuff goes missing.

Recently a large number of urban single-use electronic lock postbox providers have emerged, which automate away the inevitable phone calls from time-poor couriers and deliverymen by SMS-ing you a code to your local single use postbox. If you go enter the code, you get your mail. Otherwise, after 24 hours or some exceedingly short time they take it away and your parcel enters no mans land, in which case you have to request redelivery.
Literally ”to settle it” once and for all.
I wonder if it has to do with the economics of running a label. When you make a movie people and people watch it, you make money. If you make an album you might get a little bit of money but you have to then sell a concert tour and merch to make it worthwhile.
See some of the other comments on this thread. The algorithm isn't open source, seems to be the main (valid) criticism.
It’s a very normal expectation that unsolicited communication may not be responded too. That non-response is met with indignation and threats only tells me that not responding was the wisest course of action as anything short of complete agreement is likely to result in the same. What I’d like platforms to do is stop normalising this abusive behaviour so that creators can engage with fans who aren’t going to abuse them at the drop of a hat.
Thank you so much for your feedback. I will definitely work on that. This is the first time I'm sharing it outside of friends and family and it's great to get a fresh perspective. Please feel free to give more suggestions.
No such thing.

CBP aren't stupid. If they see you have something like Truecrypt installed, then they will assume you have "deniable" stuff stored and will demand to see it. And if you don't actually have it? Too bad for you.

Cryptography cannot help you defeat a government's rubber host cryptanalysis.
I always thought about this, too!

There's a massive amount of Canadian currency in circulation in the US, and everyone just treats them the same as American currency and doesn't bat an eye. I mean, nobody is going to accept a Loonie or a Toonie, but all other denominations are fair game. The only vocal annoyance anyone has ever expressed to me was about vending machines not taking them. I accepted them when I worked the til because everyone just seemed to be ok with it.

I always wondered if there was a legitimate scam possible here.
I know you're probably pulling my leg, but how many times has a subject ever willfully consented to being brought to consciousness? Answer: {}
It's a fork of edx's platform called "Stanford Online –Lagunita".
I work with about a dozen Cistercian monks at a school run by Our Lady of Dallas Cistercian Abbey[1]. I started here 10 years ago after working 22 years as a software developer, and it's been the best job I've ever had. I manage the IT and I teach computer science and theology.

The things discussed in this article are still a part of the modern Cistercian life. In fact, the crests for the abbey and school feature the word "mors", which is Latin for death. However, there is much more to their lives than these meditations, especially since the monks of this community work as educators either at our prep school or at the University of Dallas.

[1] http://www.cistercian.org/
Can't say I understand what you're suggesting. Even without mailing lists people will talk about what they want to, by whatever means.

Are you saying the workplace should censor and/or prohibit anything not work related? Your opinion of what work should be sounds pretty draconian, and is political, sure enough.
Ask HN: Effect of Educational and NGO discounts
I have seen many websites, especially SaaS, offering discounts for students and NGOs.

Besides the obvious fact that you are helping other people and no doubt that's great, I am wondering how does this impact in the general profits/revenue of the product. I guess a (usually) 25% discount maybe cuts a little bit the margin but increasing the exposure to your product can also attract other customers not eligible for the discount.

Does anyone have experience or do you know of any companies that wrote about this? Thank you!
Thanks - see my reply at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16135718
I strongly recommend that you go AMD. I went all-in on AMD - I agonized over the choice between 8-core Ryzen and 8-core ThreadRipper: ended up with a 12-core TR thanks to steep holiday-season discounts that lowered prices one rung down. TR4-socket motherboards a way more expensive compared to Ryzen ones (same-old AM4 socket).

I know my box is overkill for my needs now, but upgradeability is a big plus for me; I'm only using 16GB of RAM, but could up that to 128GB, and maybe I might swap out the CPU for a 64-core Zen4+ in 2022. For reference, my last dev box is from 2010[1](!) which I upgraded over time and this strategy has served me well. YMMV.

1. Westmere - 1st Gen 'Intel Core'
I hope to do a technical writeup of my process soon. In short, the training images were created from videos of rotating the tube around in hand at various angles and lighting conditions. These images were then annotated to determine the location of several keypoints around the paper. It generalizes pretty well, see here: https://twitter.com/2020cv_inc/status/945502116335906816
Does a "Gegendarstellung" not require a court order?

I would very much love if the media outlets agree on self imposed "best practices for corrections".

Which in the end should be a benefit for those complying because they can advertise it and be more believable
> Other ex-pats would say how bored they were and go to the ex-pat pubs.

This was what I've heard more than few times from people who went to Macau thinking it'd be like Vegas and walking away very disappointed.

I guess when you don't diversify your economy and go all in on one sector like gambling, it tends to neglect other parts of what makes a country and culture interesting.

Sort of like Vancouver, with a huge chunk of it's economy depending on rising housing prices.
Both would be illegal* since your keys are info that could deanonymize patient data. However, you would be allowed to store them on your own PC if you follow proper procedures.

This is more important than it might seem from a purely tech perspective. HIPAA is partly designed to guard against
1) improper use of encryption
2) downstream contractors who are malicious or careless

The one-time pad is probably fine but it's easy to imagine lesser encryption being broken (especially by bugs). This problem gets much worse once PHI is stored on a medium, like a blockchain, where it can never be taken down. After all you probably wouldn't be happy if your health data was on the internet protected only by SHA1.

There are probably better solutions to all of these issues but HIPAA is intentionally conservative. In many respects HIPAA is a financial, not a technical, law.

* HIPAA doesn't make improper storage illegal in the sense that you go to jail if you do it wrong. It exposes people who handle data improperly to massive fines, usually when actual breaches occur. This is part of why BAAs are so important.
That's not entirely fair. There's plenty of reasons why this wouldn't be obvious - if there's limited demand for local broadband because of e.g. bundling agreements (you want TV + internet + phone, but the local broadband can only provide internet), or because the infrastructure costs on the last mile make it impossible for small players to charge low prices (so they operate with premium service as their sell instead).
The key insight is that the drone should store the video to local storage for later (1) recovery or (2) buffered encrypted transmission to the mother ship which would eliminate the leakage of clues about what subject is being spied upon.
nm. I see now that the title of each variant is in the embedded image depicting the tabular results. I was trying to find the explanation via text search.
This is all hyperbole. From the egoistic perspective, live is just a figment of imagination, there is no other, just ego. This might sound like a matter of semantics, but it reminds me of this: Virtue is mainly a question of how to treat oneself.
I don’t know about America, but it’s the childless that subsidise the parents in the UK. Having kids is a massive draw on the state - the vast majority of people go from being net contributors to net drains on the public purse when they have kids.
it'd be certainly nice, but writing a kernel is easy compared to having working device drivers - that's hard enough on windows/linux/macos...
Even people that think they want children are sometimes unprepared. My son is now 17, but when he was in grade school he had a friend that was always in trouble and generally a very unhappy kid. I understood perfectly when I hung out with him and his friend at the park, when his mother was around. She was well meaning, but one of the worst parents I have ever witnessed. She constantly threatened him with punishment, but it was clear she never followed through with it, so the kid basically completely ignore her. At one point, she turned to me and commented how good my son was and how she really just didn't know what to do. I firmed bit my tongue and said nothing. Those conversations never go well.

As a parent, I was appalled how much bad advice there is out there. Some was from books and some from other parents or family. It seems to be that every human (at least here in the US) starts from scratch and uses their gut to guide them in parenting. Most people don't learn much from previous generations, and that seems crazy to me.

If I were to do it over again, I would definitely do better the 2nd time around, but I have no interest. Raising my son (with my wife) was the hardest thing I've ever done, and I'm enjoying life now that he's 17.
Principles, Strategies and Tactics
Perhaps an essay arguing that Twitter flamewars, "...emerged from the fact that we’ve taken a medium, text, which is already bad at conveying emotion and sentiment and high-bandwidth nuance, and [by limiting message length] made it even worse, and the net result is a lot of outrage and indignation" is not the best one to summarize with a tl;dr?
We seem to be making distinctions based on some concept of free will. What happens if we view ill people as having no free will? Is it really any more wrong to deny the alcoholic high priority on the liver transplant list than to deny someone who isn't taking well to established treatments and keeps relapsing further access to treatments?

I feel like bringing up the notion of choice and free will is opening a can of black holes, but when dealing with mental illness you have to.
... but then, there is no place on earth where you couldn't "sign up and recieve service" if you have a few billion to spare.
Twenty Inch BMX, everything happening in the world of BMX
Well this is probably the greatest thing I think I've seen all year so far. The hello world example is priceless and for some reason #consider instead of #include cracked me up. Bahahaha and this:

Constants are not allowed, as the idea of a lack of identity fluidity is problematic. Additionally, if one constant were larger than another, that would privilege the larger one over the smaller one. As such, any numeric value is a variable, and is required to take on at least 2 values over the course of the program, or the interpreter will throw a Trigger Warning.
Shout out to Plan 9 and Inferno. Two operating systems that were decades ahead of their times and who's distributed partitioning architecture and ideas are desperately needed in a networked world of ever increasing complexity, bloat, and protocols.

And I was a BeOS fan back in the day. Just stumbled across my old R5 box after cleaning out the attic. Very clever design for its time but didn't bring anything to the table in terms of networking, multi-user or distribution. It was a multimedia oriented, multi-threading speed demon and not much else.
Just to clarify, are we talking about verification of the block-chain, or mining costs?
It'd be easy enough to prevent this by not compressing the video feed before it's transmitted.

That's not feasible for Netflix to do, of course, but it'd be trivial for the NSA or other spy agencies.
I am not a lawyer but the only advice I have heard from lawyers consistently is, "don't take about the case." Is there anything he has to gain from speaking publicly about his lawsuit?
You should use a laptop only as a thin client -- a really smart dumb terminal. Put nothing of value on it, then nothing of value can be lost when you lose the laptop (or it gets stolen, or whatever).

CBP can probably demand your passwords for your devices. Can they demand your passwords for remote services? Probably not. "Sorry, my employer demands I not reveal my work passwords to anyone, but you can have the password to my laptop, and you can even keep it!"
So in China, lot of people don't have the luxury of travelling to the actual place, so they just build it within China because of the demand.

This is what I've been told but in reality it seems a bit like GDP fudging, with endless construction projects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3XfpYxHKCo
I tried reading the flush+reload paper several times, and watching a couple of the author's talks on it as well. I still haven't come out with a halfway decent understanding of how the timing attack works...which seems to be the most difficult and interesting part to me. It seems like its well understood in the security community, so it gets glossed over when referenced. How they actually manage to read data out of an evicted cache line remains a mystery to me.
That guy sounds like a looney.
That's not very specific. What about your scenario indicates overcrowding?
Current US law about workplace safety proscribes a certain type of professionalism. The kind that says, "We can have a heated discussion on how text based web search works, but not anything else." There are other ways to be professional, but those seem to be difficult to operate usefully in multiperson US companies, and this way isn't bad.

I think it's appropriate to ignore whether a co-worker thinks the moon landing was faked, or what sports team they like, or if those idiots they heard about in the news are a big deal or no deal at all. That's simply not what the workplace is for. To the extent those discussions happen, I view it as a partially-voluntary leaking of their personal lives. Nothing to condemn or engage in, just politely ignore it until your lunch finishes in the microwave. The idea that people would want to express any views in some type of organized way inside their employer's organization makes little sense to me -- I find it unprofessional but not outrageous or anything.

I think it's clear whether something is an on-topic professional comment. All discussion of news stories is a 'no' unless it is e.g. a new regulation on the industry or their customers that was just announced.
Well, the other data they introduced and which isn't disputed supports the idea that broadband penetration is uneven. Just not at the widespread granular and detailed level that the faulty data purported to show.

You do make a reasonable point about usage and access. Which is more relevant depends on what you're trying to show. Access is whether you can get it at all while usage could well bring in economics as well.

It's a fair point about LTE. They don't seem to have included satellite either, which definitely gets used in rural areas where nothing else is available. I suspect though that neither of these would affect overall conclusions that much.
Redox is interesting and shows promise https://github.com/redox-os/redox

...but it’s in no way a departure from the status quo, even referring to itself as kernel + GNU/BSD style ecosystem.

I wonder if we will see a new paradigm anytime soon. The Hurd?
>Feel free to present your argument, which I welcome.

Sure. You could define a liberal in a number of ways. One possible definition is someone who is "center-left", generally votes for democrats, supports public provisioning of education, healthcare, welfare, and so forth.

Pinker posted regularly on Twitter during the elections, generally supporting Hillary Clinton and opposing Trump.

https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/793455008939401216

In a larger context of liberalism, as opposed to fascism or socialism, again he comes out as a liberal with fairly consistent support for individual rights, in both economic and political realms, although regularly modified by a utilitarian cost-benefit analysis... as is typical of liberals going back to Bentham and JS Mill.

None of what you said about human nature is at odds with his political, economic, and social identification as a liberal. It would've been unusual to find anyone of any era, including the present era, who fully denies the concept of a human nature.

Are there any traits that distinguish humans from anything else? If so, there is a human nature.

>I find it amusing that you believe me a liberal ...

I assumed that you were a member of the radical left, and not a liberal. Anthropology, as a discipline, currently has an overwhelming bias towards this leaning, moreso than nearly any other discipline.
OpenStreetMap Receives Large Donation from the Pineapple Fund
As a writer, I disagree with the excuse 'Its an essay it is supposed to prove a point'.

There was no 'Hook' in the first 5-7 paragraphs, heck I couldnt really tell what the point of the article was.

This IMO was a poorly written article. I thought the points that were made were real, but didnt go back to whatever the heck the main point was.

Wonder who's kid the author is.
The increasing trend of startups asking for Github accounts on their job offers.

You just need to search on job boards.
What’s the best way to survive an attack from a Wampa?
Fifo.cloud announces public beta
Open Sourced ARVideoKit – A framework to capture ARKit photos and videos
very carefully
I feel like using 니은 and 기윽 for your quotations limits you in terms of keywords quite a bit. AFAIK, in Korean, they use <텍스트> for their quotations.
Over 5000+ DOS/Windows and Console games preserved for future generations
I don't mean to chastise, but there are definitely better ways of expressing that sentiment than seemingly equating slavery with marijuana legalization.
Can you ask Google to remove your links? It is possible depending on countries. The legal ground is once a person has paid back to society they are just like any other person and they have the right to be forgotten [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
How is bearing children destroying the ecosystem?
The main problem for this is the vast majority of the population is totally okay with these procedures, so one cannot even argue against it nit being representative or it being repressive because if you put it to popular vote, you will not get the result you wish for.
The problem with that is the video feed is being actively used. If you want to know where someone is going, you can't just make your drone fly around randomly for hours recording video of the area you think they're in, you have to visually acquire your target, and then follow them.
Transformative Experience (book)
Is it the writing of device drivers that's the difficult part or just the fact that there's so many devices to write drivers for?
Do you not make decisions based on theories or hypotheses about how the world works or is?
Crows use tools too