skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The implication could be that democracy is in real danger. Beyond the ease of swaying public opinion and effecting traditional elections, mass "voting" on social media provides an alternative infrastructure for political "consensus" which could replace traditional voting in a worst-case situation.

Just a scenario: Say you want to galvanize an entire population into submitting to autocratic rule. It could be done like so -

1) Grab the attention of the public with a salacious controversy. Bolster widespread memes and juvenile conversation regarding that controversy on social media, engaging a large share of the population.

2) Perform some action which causes street protests (fire a well known investigator, etc.) Use social media to brigade violence on the protestors. "On the street" protesting dwindles as people would rather be safe, causing protest and attention to move online.

4) The online realm would now have high attention, split into a contrived binary contest: protest-related content versus salacious controversy-related content. At this point it is easy to start to drown out protest content by brigading salacious memes and cracking normalizing jokes.

5) As the population watches this happening, start hacking power outages in cities which have the most protest-related content, causing riots and chaos in those regions. Seeing this, hold-out regions will convert for the sake of their own safety. As hold-outs are marginalized, their scale becomes more manageable and it becomes possible to direct energy toward individuals.

6) People begin to understand that the online vote is basically a demand for loyalty at the threat of violence. Videos of Hold-out individuals being attacked begin to surface.

... without going further down a Black Mirror-esque rabbit hole, I just mean to point out the worst-case type danger that the apparatus of social media and internet tracking can present. The scale of social control that could be on the horizon should be quite concerning.
The fact that completely unrelated legislature can make its way into a bill like this is such a clear sign of how broken the US gov't is today. If you want to pass something like this, it should be presented and evaluated on its own or at least bundled with bills that are directly related.
The country is Romania and the law is very precise: if the pedestrian is not on a crosswalkk, any accident is the fault of the pedestrian.
Funny, I lived in Jordan as my parents were expats there. Never heard about a case where a pedestrian hit by a car outside of a city had any consequences for the driver.
I've seen first hand how terrible dev environments such as EA are compared to startups and tech giants in SV. But that said.. in an industry where the barrier of entry for new games companies is so low, why is this even necessary? Any group of disgruntled employees with some ideas for games can say enough is enough and go start their own games company where they treat people better and subsequently attract talent (whilst raising the bar for everyone else).
Quickly: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4846869/

I ended up skimming part of it. Doesn't quite get to what I meant, in terms of a clear explanation.

Chemical reaction rates depend in part upon the structure of the reagents (as well, potentially that of a catalyst).

RF can stimulate, without breaking, the intra-molecular chemical bonds. This in turn can produce alterations in the geometry of the molecule. This can, for example, make the site of a potential bonding (a chemical reaction) more accessible, physically and/or in terms of the field strengths of electromagnetic fields of the bonding point bond and also adjacent bonds capable of influencing the rate of reaction.

I found this harder to (quickly) google up than I expected. I guess my chemistry professors were a bit "ahead of the curve"; the department did have the reputation of being one of the top in the country for its size and the type of institution in which it resided.

Another example of this: Discussing nascent concerns in the biochemical and biology fields that rather than saturated fats, manufactured, partially-hydrogenated fats were starting to look like the real culprits in pathologies such as coronary artery disease. This was in 1985.

About 20 years later, I started reading articles in the popular press about these "bad fats".

Anyway, its been too long for me to remember a specific chemical reaction as an example, but the mechanism and explanation of same seemed pretty clear and evident, way back then.

Not "heat" pushing the whole molecule around. Radiation causing e.g. compressional and flexing vibration in the intra-molecular chemical bonds. Sometimes rotation? Transition between configurations for molecules capable of having more than one; corresponding influence on the time spent in each configuration, as the molecule transitioned between them.

P.S. I'm outside academia, and so I face the ubiquitous "paywall" with respect to most journal content and the like. And I'm NO expert in any of this. But the people who were telling me this, were, to the extent I accurately remember and represent what they said.
Observation: an alternative way to accomplish the same thing (maybe with a slightly different workflow) is to just call tf-serving from go. See e.g. this gist https://gist.github.com/mauri870/1f953a183ee6c186e70a0a72e78...
I just don't fully understand why Uber is attempting to compete at the technology level.

The most important components, like the Lidar systems, are all third party and non-exclusive.

And the likely current market leader in the tech - Waymo - has made many indications that they see their largest opportunity as providing the technology through partnerships.

Heck there's even been noise recently that Uber IS trying to license Waymo's tech (1)

And then you have major auto manufacturers are also pouring BILLIONS into the space because guess what - they still want to sell cars without having to pay a Waymo tax!

Today Uber owns 70 - 80% of the current US ride sharing market and are in ~700 other international cities (2).

And they have thousands of employees that act as local stewards of ride sharing etc, real infrastructure on the ground & politically that should give them some cushion to sort things out.

So yes, maybe Uber's valuation would take a hit if they relied on Waymo, or an auto manufacturer.

But maybe Travis' infamous quote about "I have to be tied for first at the least." needs another look or revision at this point? (3)

Maybe it's ok for Waymo to be first in a field of their own if it means not killing fucking pedestrians?

(1) https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/05/uber-waymo-partnership-f...

(2) http://www.businessofapps.com/data/uber-statistics/

(3) http://www.businessinsider.com/travis-kalanick-interview-on-...
I deleted Facebook before it was cool. They wouldn't stop sending me "Won't you please come back" emails until I made a formal complaint about the spam to the Australian Communications and Media Authority. No more emails.

I was on there just a few days ago to find out what my elderly aunts were up to. Crickets. They hadn't posted anything for three years.
Seems a few years early to me.
TLS 1.3 approved
A "power user" toggle in most apps would be great. PayPal's site kinda does this with a "classic mode" toggle.
Pro tip: If you go to touch.facebook.com and request a desktop site, it will let you access your messages on a mobile web browser without installing messenger. :D
who can explain that?

so the more meaningful and interesting jobs are more people want to do it, so the pay comes down?
Seems like solid state batteries can't come soon enough. That said, on average Teslas and probably other EVs, too, are still much safer than ICE cars due to the engine not being in the front.
Waymo has their own too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3-2XuKdbMI

I do agree that there needs to be a minimum requirement you should reach before being allowed to drive on public roads. Companies should not be alpha testing with human lives.
US invasion of Grenada in 1983?
> Because regardless how some of us might dislike C and its security related issues, the truth is that no one is ever going to rewrite UNIX systems in other language

Now will they in this.
Personally I don't think actual EE's doing firmware care very much for C89/C90. But I've seen CS people totally spaz when confronted by code with variable length arrays. And try to 'fix' code by removing <stdint.h>
> As it turns out, countries with legalized prostitution have higher levels of illegal sex trafficking (the real kind, where people are forced into it as well).

The extremely small numbers of countries involved and the methods that exist of estimating the actual magnitude make it very hard to do any of (1) control for potential confounding factors, (2) be confident in the correlation even assuming no confounding factors and accuracy in the figures, (3) be sure there are not systematic measurement biases (resulting in higher count to actual number ratios with legalized prostitution) distorting the results, or (4) be sure that the measured differences are real even absent systematic bias.

(3) is perhaps especially important because a central thesis of the advocacy of legalization as a means to fight trafficking is that it makes trafficking more detectable by breaking the apparent or actual shared interest of perpetrators and victims in concealing sex trafficking when prostitution is illegal. (One sided decriminalization also aims to do this, but arguably stigmatizes and marginalizes all participants in prostitution of any kind in much the same way as criminalization, even though it only penalizes one side.)
Yes, but mostly due to the alternatives being pretty terrible (or expensive).

Previously I'd use sub-$30 sports earphones for the gym/exercise. These broke with regularity, mostly due to mistreatment, but I was fine with that since I didn't want an expensive accessory which could get lost, stolen, or broken.

Now without a headphone jack my choices are either a dongle which cost almost as much as the headphones and is about as reliable, or cheap Bluetooth headphones which sound terrible, have bad battery life, and are cumbersome. I'm absolutely certain that if you can spend enough quality Bluetooth accessories exist, but that doesn't fit into my use-case.

I wound up grabbing an old Android phone w/headphone jack, installed Spotify, and use it on the Gym's WiFi. Leave my actual phone in the locker, but still wound up with two devices to charge instead of one.
No. If you jump in front of a train, is the train driver's fault? Where is the pedestrian's responsibility?
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Everyone wants to cripple switch by turning it into the structure variously known as cond, when, match, etc. If you can only have one, by all means, take the cond, it will be useful more often, but switch's computed goto is a very useful thing to have in reserve.
Didn't they get a Summer of Code project going this year?
This is like proposing to the maid of honor.
I don't really want to see RSS improved, I just want the world to embrace JSON Feed as its replacement (https://jsonfeed.org/). Probably never gonna happen though -- there's not enough value to incentive any websites to implement it.
I bet night driving compounds with this.

It may be reasonable to ban night-city autonomous near the beginning of the technology's public introduction driving, regardless of how well the car can see at night.
thanks for your link

yes, with partner at high level (competencies) I read that partner requesting to be partner have to be checked by a 3rd party:

"Once your firm’s application has been submitted through the APN (aws,ndr) Portal, the APN Team will review for
compliance, then send to the third party audit firm to coordinate scheduling of the technical review."

so there is somehow a double check on partner competencies.

So, as I see, we made the mistake of choosing a "normal" partner and not one with competencies.
Do you think aws care some how to know our "bad" experience to get a better network of partners? or should be expect them to tell us: get a "competent" partner?
KDE supports them by default, if I'm remembering correctly. If not default it's in settings.
The idea that it’s simple to build, design, audio engineer, graphic design, run a company, market the product, do accounting/taxes, figure out your legal stuff, etc is patently absurd
Of course it's just FUD. Millions of dollars are spent every year to stop people from organizing and to break up existing unions. Finally someone is trying to help tech workers organize, expect more of this.
Also, CA has had days of warning that this search is coming. Plenty of time to clean up.
Hmm, then how are they bypassing the disengagement report?

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/disen...
Deis Workflow [1]

I had really high hopes for this, but the team was acquired by Microsoft and the project was abandoned. I don't think is a job for a single developer, so it probably needs a company to sponsor development. EDIT: They updated the README recently with a link to a fork [2], but there's no new commits for 7 months.

I'm very happy with convox [3] now, and they're mostly open source [4]. Their management console is a freemium SaaS service, which includes GitHub/GitLab/Slack integrations. The console can be self-hosted, but that requires an enterprise license.

[1] https://github.com/deis/workflow

[2] https://github.com/teamhephy/workflow

[3] https://convox.com/

[4] https://github.com/convox/rack
Maybe don’t let the reviewers know there are other reviewers? Like a BCC feature.
Amphetype - https://code.google.com/archive/p/amphetype/

It's an old typing tutor that uses statistics about your typing speed on different character combinations to generate customized lessons... I haven't seen those features in any other tutor. I used it years ago to train myself in a new keyboard layout. I would love to see an updated, maybe web enabled version that replicates the tracking and custom lesson features.
The headline does not match the underlying facts. Clickbait.

The only source for this is a pink-haired, nose pierced, hyper-liberal Canadian who left C.A. in 2014.
You can select a method and see the logs generated for that method. Idea is to have all the information - request parameters, return values, logs, metrics all in one place to make it easier to troubleshoot problems.
Eyebrow semaphore? Hand-to-hand Morse Code?
I hereby point a finger at the people who silently upvoted that comment
Maybe. The L4 people did write one of theirs in C++. L4-style kernrls are among the fastest in existence. Some even fit in the L1 cache of the CPU.

http://www.l4ka.org/projects/pistachio/pistachio-whitepaper....

I can see your point if you're saying compiler use lets them avoid a language they just dont want to use. Which they couldnt if using it for an OS.
Chronicles of Ethereum: Part II: Return to Classic
Also, assumes that it's not a local teacher calling from a cell phone.
Uber’s self-driving cars were struggling before Arizona crash
Disco Distributed Filesystem

Still somewhat active, but I had to tweak a few things to get it running on my Mac a few months ago.
Why should a pedestrian cross the street at nigh on a high speed street (over 30mhp limit) in front of a car? Did she know the car is controlled by a superior machine capable of much quicker reaction times and outfitted with a plenthora of sensors?
Really guys? Blame anyone else except the pedestrian walking in front of a car? What if there was a train instead of a car, plenty of sensors and equipment? You completely lost your moral compass, I think.
Undefined behavior is undefined even using the same version of the same compiler. If it does produce the same repeatable behavior, consider it luck.

Implementation-defined behavior limits portability in the way you describe, but UB's not the same thing. IB should behave the same way in the same implementation. UB doesn't have to.
>While C++ had similar goals, it has the disadvantages of multiple legacy design-choices (e.g., object-oriented)

How many people agree with this statement? OO is a legacy design choice or in other words: a bad design choice.

I agree with the statement, so do most modern languages like rust and golang but I wonder what do non language designers think? This statement was given as if it was obvious but many programmers who I work with still think OO is the greatest invention ever.
Eh they should have stayed private. Private companies have more control over their future. Public companies move to a quarter by quarter cycle and innovation goes at a snail's pace as marketing and bean counters take over.
I believe they got a permit after the last cutoff date, they'll show up in the next one most likely.
If that was true he'd share more of his wealth with others, no?
Is it bad taste to point to the obvious? Really?
You may be superman, your 70 year old grandma is also that fast avoiding ninjas on a highway?
If you have people submitting shitty code for review, you've got bigger problems than needing a better review system.
Looks like! https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5240726938...
He remained there for three years. A founder that didn't agree to stay on for a respectful period would get dinged on the price. He probably didn't want to do that to co-founders.
Tizen, webOS, LineageOS?
How are you planning to achieve this? Connect them by their most relevant interests?
You could use the exactly these arguments for union and against. But in modern justice systems you are innocent until proven guilty, simply so anyone cannot just scream witch and have someone burned.
If such a clean-up leaves even the tiniest trace and the investigators are worth their salt, this will land people in jail for obstruction of justice. Doubt anyone wants to risk jail time in their already pretty screwed situation.
Interesting that your firm only recruits experienced people or do they think that there has been to much grade inflation.

Back in my first job (based on campus at CIT) they did prefer BSC's (with a first from the right uni, I think Harvard might just have made the list) for new recruits with the idea that they would do a masters /phd at the organisation.
Not really. It would be trying to describe the human element of the technology. We'd not be trying to explain the post-scarcity utopia, but -how humans first reacted to it-.

Look at how humans act now. We have more than enough resources for everyone on earth to have sufficient food. And yet some starve. Why? Because of distribution problems, of corruption, etc. We expect people to work if they want to eat. Why? Because we culturally view it a moral failing if someone doesn't work without good reason (and even then we view those who have reason with suspicion). Look at the discussion around automation + UBI. Even if we assume automation can handle all the work that has to be done, people take the stance that it won't/shouldn't work, that it will only destabilize the economy, rather than improving everyone's lives. A replicator is just another form of automation in that regard, and there would be plenty of people who could object to it.

Just because we have the technology doesn't mean it's initially available to everyone. And even when there's enough availability of the tech, some humans will try and regulate it, to protect the existing interests, and other selfish reasons, with various rationales. That would be -interesting-. Moreover, it would, like all good scifi, reflect our current society, by showing the same attitudes and concerns currently at play, but in a different, futuristic context (one that ideally challenges people's perceptions, but without the baggage that causes them to instinctively get defensive).

I think it could make damned good television. Though, I think, it would be a far cry from what we expect from 'Star Trek'.
Must have been using LIDAR.
"Have you ever felt exploited by the game industry? Are you in a precarious situation? No job stability and in desperate need of support? Are you losing hope that you can work in a landscape you love at all?" I'm not sure that your point actually is relevant to what they're hoping to address. Everyone having the opportunity (nevermind the intent or will) to start their own game company does not address exploitation in any way.
I had to check to see that your post wasn't a joke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_34_(novel)

Ha! That really goes to show how important it is to google your prospective name before you decide on anything.
"Or I thought back to just a few years ago, to the wise people who explained that, sure, for the United States to fall under the control of a racist megalomaniac like Trump would be a catastrophe beyond imagining. Were such a comic-book absurdity realized, there’d be no point even discussing “how to get democracy back on track”; it would already have suffered its extinction-level event. But the good news is that it will never happen, because the voters won’t allow it: a white nationalist authoritarian could never even get nominated, and if he did, he’d lose in a landslide."

I'm not exactly a fan of Trump, but the sheer mass of hyperbole in this article is more irritating than the fiery radiation of a thousand giant elliptical galaxies. I get it, Steven Pinker is the smartest being who has ever lived, evah, but he's blinded by his own beatific, deified optimism and cannot see that we are all well and truly fuck'd, and for the good of the general universe (it's far too late for the mere Earth; "...the very thought of the earth gone desolate—its remaining land barely habitable, its oceans a sewer,...") we should all commit hiri-kiri.

But, seriously, if the United States' system of government cannot withstand a single, or even a series, of really poor decision, then it doesn't deserve to survive. (And given what I know about some of the historical presidencies, I hope I can be forgiven for thinking it already has.)

Global climate change is bad. But it's not so bad as do leave nothing behind but cockroaches and algae. It may leave the state of Florida as an archipelago of levy-surrounded cities (and cause massive destruction and death in the rest of the world) and destroy the agriculture of the central United States (but that was going to happen anyway, when the Ogalala aquifer runs out of water and the Great Plains returns to being the Great American Desert). It's going to cause a lot of problems, possibly even including the fall of Western Civilization, or at least those countries that make up Western Civilization. But "barely habitable?" Don't get above your station, Scott.

As for the Nazis? Bah! Sure, they were bad, but the sum of deaths from WWII, the Soviets, Chinese Communists, and a stack of other genocides don't even seem to be noticeable on the graph of population growth in the 20th century. Humanity in general doesn't really seem to have cared and certainly the rest of the universe doesn't. And the Nazis weren't "a desperate, failed attempt to turn back the ratchet of cosmopolitanism and moral progress, by people who viscerally understood that time and history were against them;" they were a follow-on to WWI, which ate the economies and civilian governments of Europe. If not them, Germany could have gone soviet. Or a corporal from France (or England) could have risen to right-wing totalitarian power.
Boodler - a Python based soundscape generation tool. http://boodler.org

https://github.com/erkyrath/boodler
Cool - was not aware of that one. At some point during the qualification process, multiple self driving competing car vendors should be put in the same test bed at the same time for a month of continuous 24/7 driving.

The test bed should have the 'average moving car density' equivalent to that of an SF/NYC neighborhood.

Let the robots test themselves and risk their 'lives' first before putting real human lives in the mix!