skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're considering using HEIF, beware. It was developed by the MPEG group and it really just a container around H.265 still image(s). Thus, like everything from MPEG, it is patent encumbered to hell. Want to make a product that comprehends HEIF files? Pay the piper!

This isn't much different from why GIF needed to be abandoned or why people are trying to use alternate video formats: MPEG patent licensing fees are hobbling effect and a determent to open source work.

So now MPEG-LA wants a tax on what used to be free JPEG images? I'm not impressed.
So where did you get the emails?
At the same time, we want whistleblowers, to expose wrongdoing by companies that otherwise would not be caught. And considering that many of them end up blacklisted by their industry, we kinda owe them something, so that they don't end up on the street due to doing the right thing.
Forgive my ignorance, but isn't this not supposed to happen with LIDAR equipped cars?

My understanding is that a LIDAR provides a completely accurate 3D map of the surrounding area around a self driving car. This is in contrast to Tesla's image recognition approach which makes a 3D map from 2D images. So is seems like a pretty giant bug if a self driving car ever crashes into another object with LIDAR, since it should always know the location of external objects.

Please correct me if I am wrong!
Has Octane 4 really been released? I see the demo video, but going to the website, everything is talking about Octane 3, not 4. Even the purchase page says "Octane 4": https://home.otoy.com/render/octane-render/purchase/
> If you've never used it, how do you know it does not make life easier?

I've used Facebook and then quit. Facebook doesn't make life easier. It's a huge time waster, in addition to being dangerous for society. My social life improved a lot since leaving. I did have some interesting meetings with people through Facebook, but the overall effect was detrimental to my life. I've seen many people there whose lives are being damaged by the site due to addiction. They want to quit but can't, because Facebook has locked their social connections within the site.
why is this library always shilled in every JS thread?
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1.75 people die per second. Calling for compassion and mourning of one stranger over the others seems fake. Personally I'm pleased over the circling of wagons, the very real danger is emotional kneejerks to this will set back the entire self-driving industry by at least 5 years. The trend of comments is a helpful loyalty signal even if it's not very substantive.
Sierra Leone government denies the role of blockchain in its recent election
Considering that Trump owes his presidency to the midwest/rust belt, it doesn't take a genius to see that the heartland will see improving conditions going forward. Trump will almost certainly advance policies that will benefit the heartland as that's his only chance of winning in 2020.
Stephen Hawking’s speech system is an open source .NET 4.5 WinForms app
I think that's just a matter of how many subdivisions/polygons they decide to devote for those assets. For example, that bucket is pretty inconsequential in the overall scene so they can save some polygons on it, to give more toward something like a character or weapon model that is more prominent, more of the time, since more polygons means higher storage and computational requirements.

Something like tessellation [1] can be used to dynamically tune how many subdivisions to give a model based on certain parameters, such as camera distance.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessellation_(computer_graphic...
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Why does it bother you? Do you equate it with some sort subset of McCarthyism - i.e. turning the government loose on your neighbor, etc.? To me, it's more of a "see something, say something" deal. But the issue with that is that there is a substantial personal risk to doing so when one works in the industry and usually the employer they are blowing the whistle on. That means they run the risk of destroying their career (because most firms in their field will hot hire them after that)...all for "doing the right thing". That's why I think it's OK to have this incentived. There is substantial personal risk to them. It's not like reporting a suspicious bag at the airport.
This has bigger implications than just data breaches, it goes to campaign finance violations of the Trump campaign. Cambridge Analytica shared an address in Beverley Hills with Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon's political consulting company called Glittering Steel. The implication is that GS used Cambridge's data to target users on Facebook with political ads for Trump all while being paid by a PAC called Make America 1 that was believed to be funded by Robert Mercer and his family.

This Twitter user has numerous posts about this. Not sure exactly who they are, but they have multiple sources of information about this story.
https://twitter.com/emlas/status/975138624911151104
Just noticed that it only works when searching for single words, not for multiple. That might be it.
The research is also funded similarly, way below the level needed to make quick progress.
You can't excuse a bad agreement by just arguing "it's so ridiculously in Magic Leap's favor that it's against their interest to actually enforce it."
As someone who suffers from neck issues, a VR/AR setup that’ll let me code without straining my neck while looking at a monitor would be a godsend.

Is anyone aware of such a setup that exists today?
The goalposts have also moved in terms of quality. Raytracing these days no longer just means point light sources and mirrors, but full global illumination with bidirectional path tracing.

Rasterization has improved a lot over the years, so the meaning of "raytracing" has to improve to be competitive.
If raytracing is practical you don’t need to deal with the limitations imposed by the tricks used by current renderers. All this faking has a price too.
It's "predictable" that jaywalking will lead to death? That a killed/injured pedestrian was jaywalking can be used in defending the motorist in court. But the vehicle code and road infrastructure does not assume that `jaywalking == death sentence`. Drivers deal with jaywalking every single day -- if death was to be expected, driving and jaywalking laws and regulations would be much, much different than they are now.

The fact that a computer was behind the wheel is the most important factor in this discussion, because the argument for self-driving vehicles is that they, unlike humans, can react to abnormal situations such as jaywalking.
Many people meet friends and make deliveries e.g. via bicycle. Those motorized vehicles that are set aside specifically for deliveries often travel more slowly than other motorized vehicles.

But I shouldn't pick nits; you were speaking in generalities! So when I said "any transportation goal" and you disagreed, you hadn't actually thought of a particular exception to my universal statement. And you still haven't thought of one. Are your contributions to this discussion offered in good faith?
No doubt that, just here an HDL engineer can be hired cheaper than web dev monkey in US. If so, why not?

In between 3 to 4 k usd of monthly income here allows a person to live very very well, better than with double of that in SV.
`sudo npm link` will do that
Wow.

If deaths are broken out by pedestrian vs passenger, I wonder how people will respond if safety skews heavily towards one of those groups with self driving cars.
How about a "sharrow", where cyclists drive right-of-center, in hopes of avoiding the "parked car door lane", and encouraging drivers to cross the double-yellow to overtake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_lane_marking
There's already such a thing as a no-fault collision. There's also already such a thing as a collision where the manufacturer is at fault. I feel like this stuff is all covered in driver's ed.
I would think a variety of training courses could benefit from this kind of interactive, almost hands-on, fidelity.
You can't prove a negative and should be careful about promising what may turn out to be false. There is potentially quite a bit of money to be made by people with the auto version of slipping on a pickle jar. When there is money to be made, talented but otherwise misguided people apply their efforts.
Rails definitely do work well for the last mile in very developed cities (i.e. London), but it's probably an unsustainable infrastructure cost for most places. That being said, it's easy to just change where that last mile is in the future (i.e. mixed zoning, flexible working environments, increasing mega-cities etc...).
Same could be said about Saudi Arabia, but that one has been working, in a fashion, for quite a while.
> Why can a private for profit company "test" their systems on the public roads? The public is at serious risk of getting run over by hacked and buggy guidance / decision system.

Interesting way of putting it. Kinda echos the "privatize the profits, socialize the losses" sentiment from the financial crisis.
https://medium.com/waymo/waymos-fleet-reaches-4-million-self...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bizcarson/2017/12/22/ubers-self...

so, 6 million miles driven and one fatality is significantly worse record than human drivers. So far.
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We have now seen three attacks by russia on british soil using rare/obscure/unusual methods.

Yet seemingly none in other nations.

How do we know this attack isn't a false flag attack?
I think it's probably along the lines of: Before your malfeasance is found out and punished, you're a rockstar. Some rockstars are rockstars, and some are yet to be caught criminals. You won't always know beforehand.

And in a story like this that covers years of time it's not that unusual to describe the person as how they're perceived at the time in points of the story. It gives you a sense of the journey and how far they've fallen. "Crook in jail" doesn't carry quite the same gravitas as "wealthy banker on top of the world, definitely one of the 1%, now fucking fucked".

If anything it's clickbait only because it suggests the inevitable consequences will be serious. But who's betting for pretty weak prison sentence and he'll still be a multi-millionaire at the end of it all?
It's interesting, these types of associations based on vague connections have a really truthy feel to them. It's like a form of art that's meant to evoke a sense of truth in something that has little correspondence to the external world. I think there's something to appreciate there, as a type of performance, as long as one doesn't make decisions about the world that way.
Facebook says it’s hired a forensics team to investigate Cambridge Analytica
> the Facebook API worked as expected and gave it to him

"Breach" doesn't have to involve a technical malfunction. An employee handing confidential information to an outsider is a breach. Facebook collected users' information. The information was accessed, stored, and distributed without Facebook's (nor their users') authorization. That's a breach.
> Someone should distill out what his reasoning is.

I'm not huge on Trump (primarily, I find him inefficient at policies, and too prone towards a privacy-second approach, and find most of his social views reprehensible), but I think to some extent it's understandable why some people think he was better than the alternative, especially when taking into consideration media bubbles. I took on an experiment during the elections of exposing myself solely to media supportive of different candidates, and it's quite odd how quickly a person can get into a mindset of comradery with almost all of the non-social conservative candidates.

The media outlets that you're subjected to as a follower of a politician can easily sway you into being absolutely enamoured with a person.

For example, pre-election day, /r/The_Donald was a fairly odd place. Not odd in that it was overly hostile and hypermacho, but in that it was very supportive of almost every type of supporter.

If your main source of news was from that subreddit, for example, Trump was quite heroic sounding - they sliced his speeches to highlight a person of which loved all people, just hated the extent of how extreme the world was getting in regards to social justice.

If your main source of news was from a more liberal outlet, the opposite happens - he's racist, homophobic, vitriolic and evil. Even if he does something they support, like advocating for guns to be taken away, he gets crucified.

The supporters on the conservative side tended to see this, compare it to their own version of things, and consider that there's no winning with the liberal side. The liberal side, again, does the opposite.

* * *

With Hillary in particular, she had far from a clean record, and arguably a less clean one than Trump did at the time, and does currently politically.
Betting now that Peter Thiel's recent "move" is mentioned. Now off to read the article.

EDIT: Well I lost that one. It's about the Midwest. They did mention Thiel though, just not in that way.

EDIT 2: And now the title has been changed (an improvement), making me look like (more of) an EEEDIOT!
Stereotype much? I guess we should all go back to our nerd caves to be forever alone.
It wasn't but it increasingly is getting to that point. You take off (with fly by wire adjustments from the computer) from Airport A and tell it to fly to Airport B and it can even automatically land there.

Some airlines do not allow pilots to manually fly above 3k feet, nor allow first mates to land manually[0].

0: https://www.wired.com/story/boeing-autonomous-plane-autopilo...
> Facebook did not authorize data retention. CA’s actions were therefore unauthorized use of data, which is the textbook definition of a data breach.

But they did authorize data acquisition which means they weren't "breached" but fully consented to handing over the data.

Be like HN saying I can read all the comments I want but can't copy them to my hard drive, if I did copy them and used them for some other purpose would this also be a "textbook definition of a data breach"?
I would love public transportation like I've experienced it in Europe, but train tracks have exceptionally tight tolerances and high costs to build/maintain vs. roads. I hope Musk will fix this, but probably not before "good enough" self-driving cars arrive. Also, trains get into accidents pretty regularly. First Google hit:

According to the US Department of Transportation, there are about 5,800 train-car crashes each year in the United States, most of which occur at railroad crossings. These accidents cause 600 deaths and injure about 2,300.
This service seems to do that.

https://www.moonlightwork.com
Engineering for safety is about testing, not manufacturing quality. Or course you need to build quality in order to pass tests, but perfection is not a goal of any component. Tests measure quality, and failsafes and control layers reduce failure rates.
Cambridge Analytica CEO brags about fake news, bribes, Ukranian hookers
I think the author probably agrees with you. What you pointed out is the exception to the rule though. The percentage of things on a page that are "singletons" is very small compared to reusable widgets.

If you don't have much resuable stuff on your site, that's a code smell in itself
I replied, although I might not be the exact perspective they're looking for.
That could happen during a massive, remotely-triggered software update.
Some discussion here: https://www.quora.com/How-are-the-iPhone-iPad-product-photos...

I know that historically a lot of their photos that look like renders are real photographs, but I thought the general consensus was that they had almost completely shifted to renders.
I wonder if it'd come out nice if you water-jet them in bulk and then glue the halves together.
I still miss my Pre+ every day, the hardware and software worked together like magic - the slide-out portrait keyboard was by far my favorite feature, one that I miss with the current trend of all-screen slates. Ironically the small screen didn't feel super-cramped BECAUSE of the keyboard, I'm really upset that I never got to experience the Pre 3 which should have hit a nice middle-ground.

I don't know if there's room in the market for WebOS to make any kind of significant resurgence, but considering how many people show interest in tools like React Native and Xamarin for mobile apps these days it might stand a better chance than 2-3 years ago.
yes, because in aggregate the deaths are still reduced. we need society to get past individual death stories (which are very sad and we should do everything we can to prevent it) and not let them distract from the overall need for SDCs
For what it's worth, it doesn't really need to.
Feet work well for the last half mile or so, and a well-designed city can get stops this close.
I like going to see small bands, and it's easiest to find them using Facebook.

I "follow" two local promoters and a couple of venues, with the setting to show their events at the top of my timeline.

Friends share events they're going to, and Facebook's algorithm shares them too.

I used to use Last.FM, but stopped checking it once everything seemed to be on Facebook anyway. I still use it if I'm travelling to another city.

I used to get a printed flyer from the promoter when I went to a gig, but they have mostly stopped printing them.

I'd prefer not to have to check 10 promoter/venue websites, magazines or whatever. They probably don't have RSS, and are usually less-complete than Facebook.
Why is this downvoted? Google didn't start out with half a dozen paid search results mimicking the look of native search results at the top of their pages.
“Cat walked over the keyboard sorry guys.”
"the SEC doesn't conduct audits"

Poor terminology on my part I believe. The term used in the report is "examination." SEC staff, including Sollazzo, Lamore, Ostrow, Nee (mentioned in the report you cite) conducted on-site examinations of Madoff's operations. Similar events occurred with Madoff at least four times with over a period of about 20 years.

I'm having trouble locating the actual transcripts now[1]; they appear to have disappeared into the memory hole. At one time the mass of raw PDF files were available from the SEC website. I recall very specific testimony from these examiners including details such as the type and locations of the offices provided for examiners by Madoff, recollections of in person meetings in Madoff's office and details about the physical files involved.

The results of these 'examinations' were cited by Madoff to establish credibility with investors.

[1] Here they are:
https://www.sec.gov/news/studies/2009/oig-509/oig-509_exhibi...

Here is an SEC staff accountant discussing documents received from Madoff:
https://www.sec.gov/news/studies/2009/oig-509/exhibit-0262.p...
A test pseudo-"driver" ought to be doing stuff like orally making notes of the environment and car operation, collecting data the sensors might be missing, and monitoring the car's automated judgement. As a related effect, the human should be ready to emergency brake or swerve.
I don’t oppose public transport at all and the US has a lot to improve in this area. But e.g. East Asia and Europe have plenty of rails, and people still want to drive their own cars, and there are still an unbelievable number of accidents.

We should require that every traffic participant gets a sensor, and connect all in a (local) network, instead of only relying on machine learning and its vulnerability to the unpredictable situations where accidents occur. Pure autonomous self driving won’t be the final answer here.

Please correct me if I’m not up to date here, but to my last knowledge self driving car machine learning lacks the most important data, that of dangerous situations. I’m surprised that Uber considered it ready for roll out.
This happens all the time in aerospace. You need to sign off the software personally and you need to be an accredited engineer to be allowed to do that.
Sounds fantastic.
In the gitlab config file you can disable Mattermost and Prometheus which both use quite a lot of memory.
Cambridge Analytica boasts of dirty tricks to swing elections
the drivers are employed by the company, doing company work. They may (misleadingly) shift the optics away from the automation, but they don't shift the liability.
I have a memory of an article about an early OLED display that was made using an inkjet style printer with special materials. That was at least a decade ago.
No, it's straight up fact. Nationality is in no way, shape, or form probable cause.
It’s predictable that when you (illegally) put yourself in harm’s way, you might be harmed or even killed. This was a terrible outcome, but it’s no more the fault of the computer that was driving the car than it would have been if it were a human driver. If I go walking into traffic, as a logical person, I fully expect to be hit and injured or killed. The most important laws where jaywalking is concerned are not traffic laws, but rather the laws of physics.

Thankfully this is not the outcome of each and every jaywalking incident, but it is a possibility with all of them. That’s the risk you consciously accept when you walk in front of moving vehicles that weigh thousands of pounds.
Have you tried the "smart" remote that works like the Wiimote controller (but noise-filtered)? With that the cursor actually becomes an advantage IMHO.