skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice work! Your inspired-by-Sims collection is the best I've seen in that genre, I think. I always look when someone links to their genetic images because I once made some too: https://djb.deviantart.com/gallery/ (They were less garish at the original gamma setting, that's how long ago it was.)

It always felt like there's more potential in this direction. Maybe with a magic sprinkling of neural nets?
The definition of a secret society is that it keeps its initiation rites and other activities secret, not that it keeps its list of members secret. Membership in a secret society is often public information, and in this case, as you say, it's the whole point.
> One such option would be a device powered by our Kaspersky OS, which we are developing for car manufacturers. Thanks to our microkernel operating system, such protection can control all interactions between the hardware components inside an information system and prevent any deviations caused by internal errors or unauthorized access attempts. You can learn more about our operating system and its capabilities on the Kaspersky OS Web page.

I get that the whole blog post is an advertisement, but infotainment systems should be physically isolated from control systems.

Furthermore, just using a microkernel doesn't actually provide any guarantees. It's a sound architecture choice, but that's all.

There are advanced control techniques that prevent replay, sensor spoofing, and other attacks specifically for control systems. But it doesn't look like this particular product implements those.

Correctly using a security-oriented microkernel only mitigates certain (really stupid) classes of attacks. These sorts of application domains deserve serious, in-house engineering effort aimed at very well understood risk/attacker models that are specific to the particular control problem.

Control systems need traditional pentesting/security types so that you're not broadcasting root credentials in plain text (...jesus). But a hardened system also needs input from controls/sensing people who understand security problems associated with particular application domains.
Eventually Mr. Always Helpful And Calm is going to get frustrated, too. It's about instilling the right mindset in newbies and not nurturing dependent work relationships. I like being Mr. Helpful, too, but I also like to see new devs persevere through all the frustration and bust through to the other side. Teach a man to fish, and all that.
As a companion read to diving into (or back into) ST:TNG, I have to recommend what is still quite possibly the best pop-culture essay I've ever read: http://grantland.com/features/next-generation-turns-25/
The Function of Discontent
That's what I get for just copy pasting a personal note. Thanks for the fix.
When that happens to me, it's a sign that I'm listening at a rate that's either too slow or too fast.

I highly recommend speeding/slowing your audiobooks to the perfect point where your mind doesn't wander.
> NYPD officers behind a computer screen who could review the footage and issue the ticket

Nobody wants this. The people won't want it. The courts won't want to deal with the all the people fighting the tickets out of spite, the police won't want to be essentially call center jockeys. Also, disconnecting the offense with the punishment is a sure way to make your enforcement system ineffective -- people will just treat it as an occasional NYCFU tax.

> But I also think that the current methods of enforcement...

You do understand that laws which are selectively enforced against the marginalized shouldn't be laws, right? It's terrible how our institutions treat them, and your solution is to treat everyone like them?

> Firstly, the camera systems should blur all faces onboard the camera before transmitting to the internet.

Anything less than 100% accuracy will never work. It's easy to brush off small error rates when you're designing the system. Not so much when every mistake is used against you by groups trying to take the cameras down. Plus people are identifiable by far more than just their face. A project at my alma mater could clock people by just their walking cadence.

> Yes, but these people could already go down and view the street

Not even the courts agree with you on that. Just because a passerby could look through my front windows doesn't mean it's not stalking if you do it 24/7. Just because someone could see me in public doesn't mean the police don't need a warrant if they want to tail me 24/7.

> People who speed and go through red lights hate those cameras.

Everyone hates those cameras. They lasted less than a year in my city.

* They reverse the presumption of innocence since the ticketed person winds up with the burden of proving that state is in error. The obvious situation being that they weren't the one driving the car.

* They were sold to the people as a safety implement and as a cash grab to municipalities.

* They didn't make the roads any safer since almost all instances of running red lights was accidental and people actually went faster on the roads to make up for the slowdown due to the cameras.

* Nobody likes being constantly watched. Especially if it's public you can glean a ton of personal information about people with 24/7 footage like this.

You're trying really hard to make fetch happen. If more than half the time the bike lane is blocked by cars then it would probably be better off as a vehicle stopping lane. It would probably free up the bus stop too. I guarantee that more people are hailing rides than riding bikes.
I do agree with her that some of that stuff did need to see the light of day. But it was foolish to blindly turn everything over to Assange. It would have been better if she'd only released the few worst items.
> If the cure is the usual "bomb them to democracy", I'll take the abuses...

That's a pretty flippant statement to make.

China is an authoritarian country that's moving closer to an autocracy, let's not "cut them any slack" and "take [their human rights] abuses" based on some cartoonish caricature of US actions. China is developing new forms of totalitarian social control may superficially resemble certain western practices (e.g. credit scores and background checks) but there are important differences. If you don't find that troubling, I can't really take your views seriously.

>>> For historical reasons not all countries develop at the same speed or are at the same stage.

This belies some fallacious thinking that countries develop along the same track. This is a common foolish mistake when it comes to thinking about China, which is becoming harder to entertain in light of recent events.
I may not be quoting the lawyer exactly, and there’s probably specialized legal meaning as well. The net result, at least as I understood it, was that they were asking if we would be able to consider the full range of sentences after having seen all the evidence and heard all the testimony. Basically, trying to screen out people who have already made up their minds, like they might try to screen out people who have already decided that the accused is guilty.
It's really hard to escape the cynical conclusion that for years they've been trying to ignore anything which would lower engagement metrics.
It might work for DOIs (I haven't tried that) but when the second part of the url is another url, it doesn't work the way I wish it did.

In particular, this next url redirects to the paywall, whereas I wish it redirected to sci-hub:

https://whereisscihub.herokuapp.com/go/http://ieeexplore.iee...

(The reason for wanting to use a URL instead of a DOI is that some paywalls have stopped publishing the DOI, so if all I start with is a link to a page at a paywall, there's no reliable way I know of to discover the DOI.)
That's wonderful philosophizing, but if you RTFA the entire point is that it affects productivity and so it would be negligent for employers to ignore it.
Sure. I'm saying, SMAC made much more sense to me after playing a Civ game to which I could draw analogies.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4562214/

> A common expression would have us believe that ‘you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar’. But this is not true in the case of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster (xkcd, 2007).

Yes, NIH cited XKCD
https://xkcd.com/357/
1. Yes, Chinese society values different things from Western societies on average, but there is a wide range of values in each society and a great deal of overlap with universal expectations, so don't brush it aside as a difference in culture or political desires.

2. This is going way beyond tradition or culture. Nobody enjoys this.

3. It is being pushed through for the very simple fact that it can be pushed through. Take note: politics is groups of people trying to gain advantage over others and an equilibrium requires a vigorous defense of the smallest things that are yours; without pushback you lose what's yours; nobody will grant to you, only take away.

4. Norms and ideals matter. This is being set as the norm in China, whereas other examples in Western countries are at least considered transgressions against the norm. The delineations are in different places and the outcomes will absolutely not be the same even if they look superficially similar.
If lint is something people are commonly buying, selling, speculating on, sure. Otherwise no.
You've obviously bought into a narrative, and you refuse to even consider opposing viewpoints.

It's a classic case of just world fallacy.
Also brings back memories for me. I was never good at managing many cities, focusing on a few megacities instead and opting for large scale nuclear war :) Kinda reminds me of another game I used to play around that time, Global Effect.

Civ.exe was also the first game I customized. I was entertained to no end when I found out you could use a hex editor to change the strings. I rewrote the introductory text, and gave all the leaders new dialogue. That was also probably around when I started getting more interested in how games worked, rather than just playing them...
I wonder if the problem could be solved if the bus lane or bike lane was in the middle between two general traffic lanes, rather than off to the side (where people tend to idle or park).
Even with a 95% accuracy of detection, a good algorithm can point the "is a bot" finger wrongly at many people. If 10,000 bots are detected and banned, it could upset 500 real people. So, Twitter has to ask if its easier to put up with 9,500 not-so-active bots, or to potentially make 500 people very upset.
People don't look right while making a right turn, they just concentrate on cross traffic and run pedestrians over in the crosswalks all the time. Good luck on a bike.

Where I live there's not a whole lot of bike lanes so you mostly have to ride the sidewalks on the major streets if you don't want to die. I just reach down and thump the side of their car as hard as I can when they do that to me -- probably left some impressive dents.
What a terrifying time to be alive.
This is only useful if the bits are useful independently of the creators. For example, the gaming streamer, hiphop, and Discord tokens would be valueless without the promises of merchandise, giveaways, and upvotes.
in that case wouldnt the bus would necessarily need to cross traffic to get to and from a stop? and traffic would have to cross the bus lane to make turns?
Further suppose that interactions of interest are half the size of main effects.

Why make this assumption? I'm hoping to see more justification as to why the main effect should be assumed to be exactly 2x the interaction effect.

Edit: In comments he wrote - I think it makes sense, where possible, to code variables in a regression so that the larger comparisons appear as main effects and the smaller comparisons appear as interactions.
It is a defect, but you can work around it by using those settings.
Have you mostly used Android/Tablet based readers like the Kindle Fire or similar?

I have similar issues with lots of online services for more than just ebooks, but it seems like the e-ink devices (I use a Kobo) tend to be more minimal and focused on simple functionality.

Nothing will replace the smells and sensations of turning a physical page, but a basic e-ink device has made it much easier for me to read far more than I used to be able to (vastly more portable being the biggest improvement).
Legally speaking , robot-tickets for driver offenses can generally be avoided by simply making an affadavit of non-responsibility, since the robot doesn't have evidence of who is driving the vehicle.

The whole system relies on the honor system, so honest people pay and dishonest scofflaws don't. Yay!
If you watch the movie about his life, "The Theory of Everything", they make it really clear how much she held him together.
I don't understand the point you're trying to make. eddieplan9 didn't claim that the US is a flawless, perfect nation. They're saying that despite the issues with the US (and I do agree that there are a lot), drawing conclusions between the US and China is a false equivalency and that things in China re: social freedom is much worse than here. Pointing out flaws with the US doesn't take away from his point.
Or actually if it was literally pocket lint, y'all could probably get away with having the payer file form 709 and the seller doing nothing, and nobody would owe any tax.
I need this software at home! I have a camera watching parking spots and I'd love to know if a spot is open before heading home from work or even better, if I hit a geo fence just before I got home so I knew which spots were open.
How can someone reach out to you for more info?
True for more reasons than software. The critical control systems (anything that can screw up the driver’s control of the car) should probably run on a CPU that is hardened against single event upsets and similar faults. No amount of microkernel magic can replace that.
Yes! I don't understand the drivers that think "oh I better not block car traffic so I'll just block bus and bike traffic". And cops are complicit, if you block the car lanes you're much more likely to get a ticket than if you block the bike and bus lanes.
Maybe bikes can just ride over cars and the police can decide to not enforce that in addition to not enforcing the lane blockages. People would probably stop parking there pretty quick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Hkyb9c9NQ

Of course if you/the bike can't make such a jump... well I already get annoyed by bikes on the road which can't reach the road's speed limit so I'll shut up here.
Do you know if you need a separate login, say for the situation where you want to use the product at work and as a separate, single user?
> https://mic.com/articles/88461/a-modern-day-slave-plantation...

Mic.com's business model is to deliberately present things in the most inflammatory way possible to make people outraged and profit from the resulting clicks:

https://theoutline.com/post/2156/mic-com-and-the-cynicism-of...:

> During these experiments, Mic continued to bait Facebook readers into getting worked up over everything: Mark Zuckerberg’s hoodie, a high school teacher in Oregon who doesn’t believe in rape culture, people with bad opinions on Thought Catalog, people using bad hashtags, and Zazzle.com. “Mic trafficked in outrage culture,” a former staffer who left in 2017 said. “A lot of the videos that we would publish would be like, ‘Here is this racist person doing a racist thing in this nondescript southern city somewhere.’ There wouldn’t be any reporting or story around it, just, ‘Look at this person being racist, wow what a terrible racist.’” Mic had already exhausted its outrage vocabulary by the time Trump’s election supercharged civil rights violations.
Awesome GSoC project. Well done.
For an example in the opposite direction look at Amazon. Amazon spends practically every penny of excess on expanding. This brings their on-paper earnings down to laughably low levels and nets them a seemingly absurd P/E ratio. Amazon is projected to overtake Apple as biggest tech firm.

Seems to me that sitting on cash is a dumb medium-long term strategy, and companies which do it will eventually be out-competed by those which don't.
>"So the solution is simple: Create a dedicated package delivery/cab pickup/dropoff lane for those vehicle that clearly need to stop frequently but for short times. /s"

The parking lane has already been pushed out to make room for a dedicated biking lane. Proposing another dedicated lane on top of this is not a "simple" solution.
This isn't addressing what was said.

You posted this in response to someone else's comment, and made clear that you are trying to argue with something else.

You were arguing with "rah rah USA," and that just ain't what was said.

Come on, brother, let's grow up for the sake of us all.
I don’t know much of the historical details, but whenever I think of a fork, I think of processes. I think that GitHub’s official definition is just a simplification of what happens as a side effect.
Many questions come from beginners - and they are often trying to do the wrong thing. The developer who is answering you don't know who you are nor what you tried before, it makes sense for them to eliminate most common scenarios first before advising on something complicated.

It is not necessary personal nor lack of good intention, it is that experience with answering questions teaches you that it is overall most effective to check whether the problem can be solved differently as it often can be done.
I remember reading about a proposal for China's social credit system, that it bases your score on the score of your friends (defined based on social media contacts, who you text, email, etc.). To discourage you from becoming friends with or remaining friends with someone who has done something wrong in the eyes of the Party. I have no idea if that was actually implemented, or if it's the same social credit system used here, but that's pretty damn dystopian.
The cycle lane needs to be considered as part of that perpendicular traffic. The fact that so few drivers recognize bike lanes as traffic to be considered when turning is a significant contributor to cycling still being unsafe and mixing zones in particular (where cars turn across bike lanes) prone to cyclist casualties.
I can offer a few reasons, but they might not convince you. Tokens are provably scarce, meaning the supply is limited and can't be changed by the creator of the currency. They're easily exchangeable, which means they can move between platforms and communities. Finally, they can interact with smart contracts, meaning people can enforce the way the token behaves.

I'm actually interested if you can think of a reason too. This is an incredibly difficult brainstorming exercise. So many ICO's have failed to justify their use-cases, but tokens are so interesting that I have to believe there are good reasons to use them. Is there any case that you do find particularly helpful?
Edit: Since we're talking about NYC someone who replied to me has more specific data. Roughly 2.5% of commuters use bikes in the city. Obviously it's going to be much less in suburbs and rural areas that aren't as densely packed.

Some rough napkin calculations:

Number of cyclists [1]: 786,000

Number of vehicles [2]: 263,000,000

Does 99.8% of people not count as everyone in a discussion like this?

If you could make a change that improved the daily lives of 99% of people wouldn't that be the easiest policy decision in your life?

[1] https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2014/cb14-86....

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_Unit...
I'm also doing Scala.js for the quick startup time btw. The JVM isn't usable with AWS Lambda last I tried.

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I think WebAssembly is going to be great, but it's effectively a sandbox for native code, so it targets languages like C++ and Rust, or in other words languages that have a very light runtime and no garbage collector.

I don't know what hooks WebAssembly will be able to provide, but consider that at this point most high level languages would also have to ship at least a garbage collector with the compiled binary, because WebAssembly does not give you one, see open issue: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1079

So you won't be able to run languages like Java, Scala, C#, Go, Clojure, etc any time soon. These languages are better off targeting JavaScript for now.

That said the thought of targeting browsers and Node with binaries built out of Rust fills me with joy.
I know we all have biases, but I reread the comment, and I didn't see any references to race. Is it really fair to apply a blanket percentage generically to any statement and equate it to race?

Bigotry [0], are you sure you are using this word correctly?

[0] http://www.dictionary.com/browse/bigotry
To save the curious reader some Googling since the article doesn't seem to explain beyond "forced labor", one can be compelled to work under threat of solitary confinement at Angola so long as they are deemed medically able. Not quite full-on Chattel Slavery, it still is compensated and there is an "out," but that does seem borderline.
> They can not only cut your off completely from planes and trains, but also your electricity, driver license, internet, telephone, banks, ability to get any travel document, ability to stay at any hotel, etc.

--versus--

Real unabashed slavery on a finding of guilty. And companies can cut off your access to: planes, trains, internet, banking, telephones, ability to stay at any hotel. And the government can put you on a list stopping you from: planes, trains, drivers license, travel document, banking...

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That's a fair comparison to make. And there is a good comparison to be made. Both are nation states. Social freedom is less in China for its citizens, but it's not the abject horrible pit of despair made out to be.
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Inclusiveness is definitely important. I'd be interested about the following trade offs in a more practical, balance sheet, sense:

1. Does providing job security at the expense of pay increase or decrease loneliness? Obviously if the pay is too low there will be turnover, but is there an amount X, where X is not market rate, but still high enough so that if there were security people would just stay? Surely low turn over will result in more relationship formation which can be positively correlated with not feeling lonely.

2. How does a dining area and free food affect loneliness? Will it make it worse by highlighting things, or will it encourage everyone to eat in the [company provided] dining area, sparking new relationships? If both, what's the distribution?

3. If measures to reduce loneliness results in the formation of cliques, is that a positive outcome if those left out feel alienated?

In general, to what extent should employers focus on this? This reminds me of how some employers try to encourage an active lifestyle, which is generally positive, but at what point are things simply intrusive?
Market insurance without government support, and absence of emergency funding after disasters...
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It takes less time to ignore question then to be sarcastic, intentionally misleading or jerk about it.
You're basically asking the drivers to perform a miracle every time they deliver a package. Anybody who lasts more than a week would qualify for Catholic sainthood.

Saint Jim, patron saint of on-street parking.