skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This PDF might be news to many; click 'past' to see previous submissions -- last month's got traction:

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16015539 (543 points, 107 comments)

HN user saulrh mentioned that the list of requirements "does not seem incredibly unusual" for enterprise setups with AMT on.

Pre-Meltdown/Spectre this was 2017's "big deal" re:Intel; nearly all of the varying degrees of paranoia in the previous discusson seem a lot more reasonable with the benefit of hindsight. (If any more AMT info has become available thanks to Meltdown/Spectre-enhanced reverse engineering I would appreciate a heads-up; example vs SGX: https://github.com/lsds/spectre-attack-sgx)
> We're seeing people deported for minor crimes committed decades ago, before they were legal adults

[citation needed]

Not that I don't believe you but I honestly haven't heard of this.
It's rather annoying that there's a thought that by random chance something (who knows what that something would be) can come out of people being in the same place at the same time.

I do see value in being at the same place/time when you are working with someone, as it's so much easier and more fluid when collaborating in person.
Oops. I have linked the original here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16239176 .
Apparently I can't delete this post.
I feel the true danger is in the "uncanny valley" of automation - it's good enough that you don't need to pay attention 98% of the time. People underestimate tail risk, ignore the manual etc.

My guess is that you're right: level 5 will take about as long as it takes to get to photorealistic rendering - never quite there.
Comparison to oil makes sense in that they are extracting a resource at a rate it probably shouldn't be extracted at.

In this case the resource is attention.

Let's hope the long-term effects of extracting attention for a couple decades is limited :)
I'm not a fan of him in the least, but I'm still more inclined to believe that George Soros doesn't like enabling populism because he's a Jew who survived a Nazi occupation and has seen up close what populism leads to.

Also, you're contradiction yourself, because if Soros is all about starting populist movements, and Facebook and Google enable that, they would be his closest allies.

> The main narrative that Soros promotes is "nationalism is racism" and the corralary "strong states are fascist".

Did you catch the part about him being a Jew who survived Nazi-occupied Hungary?
Probably since ctrl-a is a well-loved bash shortcut for goto start-of-line.
I believe the suggestion was that NASA could update the main computer with their own 'untrusted' to exploit the flaw in the power system, side stepping their own protections. But as mentioned below in other comments, these vulns are likely not present on this hardware
Perhaps not but you could buy more than drugs on Silk Road - counterfeit currency, fake ids, etc.
What about cars breaking down that stop communicating?
Or the meeting is not following the agenda.

Or people are overlapping discussions without coming to fruition.

Or the current part of the meeting is well known by the person and they are bored.

There are a myriad of reasons why someone check their phones and laptops at meetings. I don't like it, I don't bring my laptop if not strictly needed (I'm presenting something or need to support the presenter), I don't pick my phone up at any time because I feel that is disrespectful.

With that said, I'm dying of boredom in some meetings where the meeting-holder does not have a clue on how to proceed with one, I constantly have to stop people on the third or fourth level deep of an unrelated discussion.

I agree on you having a rule for "no phones, no laptops" but then you have the burden on carrying those meetings optimally, if not you've failed and have no right on asking others to behave if you haven't provided a good environment for that.

Also: I don't like these kind of extreme measures on petty issues, meeting distractions is a solvable problem without the need to shame people, I'd definitely be on the wrong job if that is your stance.
Assuming you've already caught the flu, what are some ways you can reduce the risk to the heart?
Malu Trevejo – Luna Llena – REACTION
I asked you to the meeting cause I wanted your full metal capacity on the issue at hand.

If that's actually the case then great. Most of the time I'm asked to a meeting because it's easier for the manager to invite the whole department to one big meeting rather than setting up 6 smaller meetings with only the people needed for each item on the agenda.
Not for us vi/vim guys.
Imposter Syndrome in Data Science
If only we started valuing free time as a society. If all the automation and productivity gains, you would think we could work less now. What modern comforts necessitate an 8 hour work schedule?

I would rather have more free time and less money.
That's assuming the coins have no ongoing value which may not be the case.
We'll see. I honestly (and regrettably) do not believe we'll see a taxi service without a human driver in 20 years if not significantly longer.
> We identified 364 hospitalizations for acute myocardial infarction that occurred within 1 year before and 1 year after a positive test result for influenza.

Can somebody explain why they looked at hospitalizations for MI before having the flu as well as after? if the theory is that the flu causes heart issues why wouldn't they just look at MIs after hospitalizations?It seems to remove any explanatory ability.
I'm not a software engineer, but isn't the idea that if everyone is sharing their progress and challenges then others who had similar challenges on previous projects can voice their suggestions?

It seems like "mute my mic and keep working until my department comes up" is why the meetings seem so pointless, because you aren't listening to other team's challenges and providing input?

Then again, I could be romanticizing these meetings and maybe at your company unsolicited feedback is discouraged, so I don't want to project that onto you, but I always though that was the _idea_ of the daily/weekly standup?
It is going to work, the problem is that the whole environment is too risky for me... I would not put let's say 200k or 500k into an unregulated crypto exchange, with no government insurance and protection for my assets...

Not to mention they are a huge target for hackers, and the lack of government regulation can hurt a speculator like me, there is nothing to prevent the exchange to do a lot of stuff which are illegal in the regulated stock market(and you can actually go to jail for...)
The Dirty War Over Diversity Inside Google
I'd really love to see some GPU-like capacity integrated into the main CPU ISA so one could be certain to find those instructions and cores as you can be sure you'll find AVX.
This is "kind of good news" in that regard: It's extremely rare for the same failure to occur twice. You can't prove there are no bugs (and Ariane 5 may have been just too lucky), but you can prove to a certain extent past problems are avoided. This is why planes are so safe nowadays.
> Radar knows the speed of any object it sees, and is also simple, cheap, robust, and easy to build into a front bumper. But it also detects lots of things a car rolling down the highway needn't worry about, like overhead highway signs, loose hubcaps, or speed limit signs. So engineers make a choice, telling the car to ignore these things and keep its eyes on the other cars on the road: They program the system to focus on the stuff that's moving.

So these car-mounted radar systems can't detect how large an object is or where it is in relation to the road? I don't get how they can be used at all then. That can't be true, right? Because if you can tell how large something is, then the hubcap is out. And if you can tell where something is in relation to the vehicle and/or road, then the signs are out. I mean, hell, the most maniacal situation of climbing a steep hill with clearance under a sign that you just can't see because the sign happens to be mounted just after the rise, which probably doesn't exist anywhere in the world, would be out by other factors, like knowing that you're going up a steep hill.

So it really sounds like the only thing left is just not being able to tell how large something is, which sounds wild.

> This unsettling compromise may be better than nothing

People frequently find disappointment to be worse than nothing.
Metaprogramming custom control structures in C
Does that really provide a counterweight to his role in Ukraine's recent conflict (which resulted in thousands of deaths)?
That was already acknowledged earlier in the thread.
Honestly I dont see a problem with this statement. People have their own sphere, domain, topic that they are engrossed in and love over everything. He just happened to call it his personal universe (which I think is pretty fitting)
> it doesn't appear he's done much than cut/paste a third eye in.

To be fair, that third eye changes the picture in a very significant way, in artistic terms. Art is not about quantity of effort.
there is un update
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3445
I assume that shortcut predates the existence of the Home key? Maybe we can let it die.
Waymo overestimates their actual capabilities. They have remote drivers in a call center to pilot the car when it gets confused. And it only works in a very tiny geographic area compared to Tesla-style solutions which work nationwide.
Ask HN: What fundamental computer concepts should a beginner programmer know?
Like memory etc?
TBH you probably need a better WiFi router, not some external device that turns it off and on for you... Can you not at least schedule reboots of your current router? That silly plug is $60! You could have bought a mikrotik wifi router for cheaper than that...
This sounds like a rant by someone under influence of Hungary's hate campaign against Soros. The fact is that Hungarian government is dismantling democracy and both EU and Soros are right in pointing that out. And while immigration is a matter of national sovereignty, the attitudes towards Muslim immigrants in eastern Europe are driven by nothing but pure xenophobia.
I guess the output of the radar is basically a list of relative velocities for nearby large objects, paired with distance and rough direction to those objects. There is always a large object essentially all around you moving with the same relative velocity as your speed : the ground. And there are often other large fixed objects (overhead signs, overpasses, etc) which appear roughly dead ahead.

Radar is just a very limited sensor!
We are missing the most important reason:

>I’ve learned a lot by doing this, probably far more than any course would have taught me.

It is quite obvious that the world needs more people with a deep knowledge of how DNS works. Doing something like this is a quick and effective way to make the world a better place.
>These systems are designed to ignore static obstacles because otherwise, they couldn't work at all.

>But it also detects lots of things a car rolling down the highway needn't worry about, like overhead highway signs, loose hubcaps, or speed limit signs. So engineers make a choice, telling the car to ignore these things and keep its eyes on the other cars on the road: They program the system to focus on the stuff that's moving.

I don't know about the sensors on today's semi-autonomous cars but it seems like there's already enough data there to prioritize collision avoidance over forward motion.

It seems like the Wired story is very incomplete about the details. It needs a more "Ars Technica" in depth treatment or more ideally, an actual Tesla engineer to explain the self-driving computer's decision tree.

How do today's sensors that advertise their ability to "maintain distance" between cars work?

What's the difference between the following to scenarios to the front-mounted sensor?

- 60mph Tesla slamming into a slow-moving road cleaning vehicle at 20mph

- 40mph Tesla slamming into a stopped vehicle at 0 mph.

Isn't the ongoing computation of dy/dx to determine a "safe" gap between cars the same?

EDIT to summarize replies with a possible technical explanation...

The resolution of the radar sensor treats overhead signs (like highway signs[1]) as being on the "same 2-dimensional plane" as cars directly in front of you. This would generate false positives. It's not 3D radar which would yield spherical data inputs of impending collisions. Without 3D data, you can't write a rule that ignores objects not 0 degrees in front of the car.

The resolution of radar treats surface level signs (such as the double-arrow[2] at T intersections) as being the same harmless mass as a stationary car. The low resolution cannot distinguish between the shape/footprint of small signs that are supposed to be there vs (large) stationary cars that are not. This object categorization requires LIDAR instead of radar.

Therefore, programming an unambiguous algorithm to prioritize "collision avoidance" is not possible with the current radar sensors. Is that an accurate summary of the technical limitations?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=overhead+green+highway+signs...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=2+direction+traffic+sign+dou...
> Also, you're contradiction yourself, because if Soros is all about starting populist movements, and Facebook and Google enable that, they would be his closest allies.

There's a fallacy here involving your assumption that all populist movement follow the same agenda.

If they don't, they're clearly not allies, but rivals.
Tech guys are not always known for having social contact outside of their precious bubble...
tmux always seems kind of cool but I have a hard time seeing an advantage over just running multiple terminal windows, using mosh if remote.
> "a stationary vehicle or object is in front of you instead"

So it isn't that Tesla and volvo don't see a stationaty vehicle: they might not see objects as well.

Evil plan: you, in the front car, drive against a wall, and turn in the last second to avoid the collision. The autopilot behind you will accelerate against the wall.

Evil plan 2: you, in the front car, see a car/truck stopped in the lane. You waint until the last second to turn and avoid collision, the autopilot behind you will accelerate against it and crash.
And even then it won't all stop. The direct marketers don't care and some financial companies are bound by law to keep sending the letters if they don't have an updated address for the old residents.

After we started doing this we got a couple of letters from the likes of Zurich Ltd addressed "to the householder" explaining that they'd love to stop sending us junk, but they have to, and if we could give them any details about where the old residents might be, that would be great. I wished them luck and told them the best we knew they'd moved abroad, permanently, possibly to Turkey.
Well, obviously the system would have to still use radar, it can't just assume that everything on the road is communicating.

But it would fix the firetruck problem pretty neatly, as professional vehicles will be required to stay maintained.
I think the crux of it is UX and monetization.

Both of those are harder to do with a decentralised system, and it's hard to do proper UX without money to bring engineers and designers together.
I've got a few Amigas and my 6 year old son loves messing about in Deluxe Paint. Some of his creations are starting to approach Warhol's level... I think...
> You basically built in an illegal back door.

Wat? No, we build the system to block group44 access to all our own diagnostic tools for downstream users. I'm just saying we could also get around it because we build it and had direct db access. We didn't though, or at least I didn't.

I did not violate the law at all. We might have had to look at peoples' health claims information to debug issues, and that's fine, so long as we never disclose that data.

That was a decade ago, so they might have tightened things up. Still, at some point, some people are going to have access to all the data (A DBA is not going to be very effective at his/her job if they don't have admin access on production).
On the other hand, it's now easier for astronomers to launch small telescopes out of the atmosphere ...
This has been debated for years.

https://insideevs.com/elon-musk-tesla-doesnt-need-lidar-will...

https://9to5google.com/2015/10/16/elon-musk-says-that-the-li...
As with any infarctions. Take a clotting reducing agent. Non-aspirin anti-inflammatory should do the trick. (Prostaglandin system is fun.)
Aspirin is ok too if you can live with the tiny risk of Reye's syndrome.

Disclaimer: not an MD.
Do we not have a global regulating body for what people can put in LEO? Cause I'm gonna have to say yes on this one.

A 9-month occasional bright light in the sky is a brief annoyance for astronomers, but avoiding the Kessler Syndrome should be a global imperative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
6 Strategies to Build Traction and Validate Your Plan
From the point of view of the employer, it does not matter too much that you personally dislike remote work. Their negotiating position is based on the fact that other people think it is a perk, so because of the tradeoff between fun and wages[1], they can find a replacement just a little bit easier than if the position was not remote.

[1] https://www.mruniversity.com/courses/principles-economics-mi...
Do compilers take inline as a hint?
This a a really useful article for me to read since I have a car with adaptive cruise control and have only slowly learn to trust and rely upon it for my daily commute. Now I will be searching for my owners manual and actually reading the thing.
Of course, this needs to be fixed in one way or the other to achieve fully autonomous cars, as many others like destinguishing red traffic lights from other red lights. But that's why nobody calls it fully autonomous yet.

What always boggles me about such news is that people rely so much on these systems and apparently people drift away that they even don't notice an f*ing big red fire truck standing in their way. I often drive with dynamic cruise control (radar based, only keeping distance, breaking and speeding up, no steering), but I am in many situations in which I think "I need full control here" and temporarily disable it. Also, there are many situations where I don't use it in the first place because I know the way it functions is bringing downsides, such as driving on multi-lane roads (read: german Autobahn) since it will hold exactly that much distance to the car infront of me that every idiot will cut in, causing cruise control to decelerate to leave a bigger gap, rinse, repeat.
The ultimate guide to big numbers:

https://mrob.com/pub/math/largenum.html
So does this mean decoded that everytime when people see blinking stars or flying ufos .. its easy to coverup with "mooh, no alien.. its Facebooks space graffiti" ??
The DACA "Dreamers" are all potentially in this category.

There's also this case: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/01/2...

> According to his “notice to appear” from the Department of Homeland Security, Niec’s detention stems from two misdemeanor convictions from 26 years ago. In January 1992, Niec was convicted of malicious destruction of property under $100. In April of that year, he was convicted of receiving and concealing stolen property over $100 and a financial transaction device... Both of the offenses took place when he was a teenager.
> Great, this is why we have a constitution and bill of rights - he has no legal obligation to speak to them

That's not at all true. Now, it may be true that it is not a crime not to speak to them, it almost certainly is a legal obligation attached to his employment and he quite likely will be fired for cause if he continues to stonewall.
I am sorry, but I cant and you should not look for this either... Here are the 2 major problems with mentorship:

1. Your mentor will never tell you a working trading strategy, instead he is going to use for himself to make money... You are his competitor in the stock market, so he'll feed you BS to get your money one way or another.

2. If you end up discovering a good trading strategy and share with your mentor, he'll steal from you, discourage you to trade it or even trade against you...

Sorry to say, but there are no short cuts and you'll have to put the work to reap the benefits... There are no friends in the stock market..
How medium.com can become better
Taking away people's agency because it's perceived they can't look after themselves is rarely well-received, with good reason.

Shows are for the audience, not the artist, so if 1/4 of the audience are using their phones then perhaps the artist should be less pretentious.
> Also, you're contradiction yourself, because if Soros is all about starting populist movements, and Facebook and Google enable that, they would be his closest allies.

Not that I'm agreeing with the OP, but their point is subtler: Soros has his own tools for enabling whatever populist movements he wants to start. Shutting down Facebook's/Google's ability to empower populist movements denies others that same power, so it's of benefit to him (by letting him alone have that power).
The 9-Year-Old Unknowingly Shared THC Infused Candy with Other Classmates
I'd like to run a mail server on a jailbroken iPhone.

The use case is to transfer arbitrary files over a local hotspot.

I tried installing from the Apple TV tutorial, but it put my iPhone in a boot loop.

http://ios-webstack.tk/imap

Just a chance, but are there any iOS jailbreakers here who could advise?
IIRC Model S only has cameras while Model 3 also has radars (maybe in response to the first death with autopilot, which didn't see a white truck against white sky).
> Every DNS host I've ever used has offered full control of DNS records.

That's not true. Typically most dns hosting solutions offer so little control and it is so primitive, that they only treat records as static values, you can't have something like a view{} in bind letting you serve different people by different servers reducing latency and improving availability, say you have one server in America and one in Europe.

> High latency for people who do not live near one of your servers.

See my point above. Dynamically chosen records are fundamental to cheap good latency. And no, anycast is not a silver bullet, you can do pretty good with just dynamic records, you can use them for nameservers too, you know.
Non-Interactive Proofs of Proof-of-Work [paper] [pdf]
Tesla I'm not so sure. I expect the hype/valuation is based more on EV leadership. But Uber? Probably? Especially with new leadership, I don't really understand the logic of continuing to subsidize rides below cost if you're not trying to maintain the fantasy that some miracle is going to happen that radically alters the cost structure.
The difference is (according to the article) that there is an abundance of objects at 0mph - signs, litter, barriers - so the system filters all of these out to avoid constantly braking. There is no such abundance of ignorable items going at 20mph.
Why not circular causality - the losses made with buying drugs with bitcoins, drove them to take drugs in the first place..
Doh, slide 58.
How we develop software
Wow. I must have really been abused (likely) by other mail servers to consider Postfix easy then.
> Do you want regulations? This is how you get regulations.

A finite resource, great cost necessary to access it, danger of catastrophic failure when things collide. Long-lasting consequences of such failure.

I'd expect regulation in this scenario. It seems inevitable and necessary.
I've run my own DNS servers since the mid 90's.
Anyone doing this should check out the "DNS and BIND" O'Reilly book.