skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, in safety-critical systems redundancy means having a backup system or systems that can support the safety-critical aspects of the system if the main control system fails.
I think the way this problem is framed succumbs to an outdated world view, an image of the samurai computer hackers that put themselves in the service of the corporate lords - but are ultimately responsible for their actions against society and can choose to rebel. They are rare and prized and thus their collaboration is valued by the lords.

This is a romantic vision that the companies themselves like to perpetuate, but it's no longer true for a decade or more. It's irrelevant what the Facebook employees think, just like it's irrelevant what the employees of McDonalds think about the health of their customers. They are not unique, precious snowflakes of rare skill, they are replaceable cogs in a machine that exists for a single purpose, profit. Massive IT education programs now underway everywhere in the world will ensure that the corporations will have vast masses of foot soldiers so they can concentrate on what matters: creating competitive advantage and market dominance using the strong network effects technology affords.

Silicon Valley has bred an ultra-aggressive type of capitalism that will crush and automate the old competitors away but will no longer redistribute the wealth to the workers, as capitalism has done for the last few hundred years, because it no longer needs them. In this economic war, developers are rich mercenaries, not noble freedom fighters. The likes of Facebook and Uber are simply the expression of that social reality, a glimpse into the world of tomorrow.
First I've heard of Maps.Me, did a quick test of the adverts+binaries removed fork on F-Droid ('Maps') and it looks good.

>non-free (as in freedom) map data service

As in, it's all OSM data but not directly from their servers? Or is maps.me adding extra some extra info to the displayed map?
I think it still needs optics so your eyes can focus on it correctly.
To contrast, every Linksys product I have owned it fantastic, so long as you flash DD-WRT/tomato/etc.

My main complaint with Belkin is that you don't have that option.
> I don't see this helping US SaaS companies, because once GDPR is in-place then I'd consider EU SaaS providers to be more attractive. It's a real selling point that your data isn't leaking or being mismanaged.

That doesn't make any sense. If GDPR is in place, then US SaaS firms won't be leaking & mismanaging your data, the whole point is they'll have to start complying or else.

US SaaS firms will still have a vast advantage because: they're radically larger with far greater financial resources, have a drastically larger VC environment of initial funding, and still have the world's largest homogeneous economy as the base hub to initialize out of and get to huge scale to easily afford to spend anything they need to on compliance.

What the EU just did is make the compliance picture far more difficult and complex for small European competitors as a whole. With Brexit, the EU lost 15% of its economic mass, further aggrevating this concept of regulatory & compliance splintering across Europe. The European splintering will only get worse as individual European non-EU nations come up with their own rules on this type of stuff.

Salesforce or Workday can more easily comply with a dozen compliance approaches across the whole of Europe, than a given start-up in Portugal or Greece can.
Ask HN: Starting a Financial Advisory
I've been very impressed with the discussions I've read here and would be grateful for your thoughts...

A friend of mine used to manage money/investments for a billionaire family. And I've a sales background.
We're considering starting an investments firm, but neither of us really have easy access to the sort of money required.
What could be strategies that we could employ to help us bring in our first ultra-high networth client/s?
Thanks!
Wes Bos' "React for Beginners" has been my go to for tutorials using React and Firebase.

This adds Ant so I'll have to check that out. Thanks!
I am not sure how he was getting free space for email warning, but in final state, running df showed plenty of space on disk, although writing to files signals "no disk space" error.
Imagine that software development / engineering was a profession along the lines of law or medicine - no one could "practise software" without belonging.

Now imagine we are drawing up the ethics code for that profession - is what facebook did something that could reasonably be banned? Is there direct harm involved?

In my (very personal) view Facebook is just an example of an externality - this loss of control over data is a form of pollution, and the costs are rarely direct harm to individuals, even though society as a whole seems to be being harmed.

So rather long windedly, i don't think this is something to beat up on individual Facebook employees - this is something for society level regulation - look to the GDPR and its successors

Medical ethics jumping off point: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_ethics
>They would be a list of superior features of, and only of, the product read in clear, plain terms.

And also the inferior features. And those of its competitors.

It's amazingly deluded to even consider that advertising is about informing consumers. It's clearly about disinforming them - clouding their judgement in order to make them buy something they otherwise wouldn't have.
reading w df in my head made me laugh
Express Gateway 1.8.0 is out
Also useful: any time you find yourself wondering what did Magit just do, press $ to display raw output from git commands (lists the commands issued and their return codes, TAB expands them to full output).
> to disable any built-in automated driving features in the car

Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB), which is the system that could have prevented this accident, is not an automated driving function though; it is an active safety function. As such, it is more common to stack such functions. For instance, ABS > AEB > automated driving, with the left most being the function with the highest priority, i.e., it can override the functions to the right. This is how most safety systems in cars work in production.
It's very straight forward to setup. I have used Prometheus for the same and so far the experience has been much better compared to Zabbix.

# node_exporter on the client to get metrics
# prometheus on server to pull the metrics from node_exporter
# alertmanager for raising alerts
# grafana on top of it for pretty graphs(optional)
In engineering we don't rely on our feeling. We have to actually have reason and evidence. You're approaching it as if the car should be moving at all costs, but the responsible engineering task is to keep the car moving unless the automated systems indicate that it's hazardous to others.
There is nothing wrong in telling what do you feel about something when you are asked. And there is no problem in expressing an unpopular opinion on HN as you can sign-up anonymously at any time and just share whatever thoughts you want.
Teams replicates Slack, right down to the ridiculous memory usage.
The only reason I could imagine if the built-in system interferes with the system-under-test. For example, if the built-in LIDAR messes up the LIDAR of the AI.
Actually, yes it does.

For journo stuff, hypothetical deity help me, MS Word is my editor of choice. Mainly for the outliner -- it's the _only_ mainstream wordprocessor that still includes outline mode, which I find indispensable.

I mainly use Word 97 -- not the rest of Office, just a standalone copy of Word. It runs perfectly on WINE under Ubuntu. The service releases installed fine. It runs with full access to the host filesystem, cut-and-paste, file associations, the lot. And run on hardware a decade newer than it was written for, it is blisteringly fast.

For a project last year, I had to temporarily move to a newer version -- Word 2003. That needed Crossover Office to install properly, but it too works perfectly and supports widescreens and 1080P monitors in portrait resolution just fine.
I use the same approach when troubleshooting/getting into hairy code - git blame ("annotate" in IntelliJ) first, gives a lot of useful context!
Part of the cost is relatively excessive safety margins. “Relatively excessive“ because despite the reputation fission is the safest power supply we have now, including solar because installing things on rooftops is not without risk.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-ener...
What is the state of the art in fission that is already available?
I agree that it should be that way.

Price is important to motivate people to develop nuclear fusion technology, and to finally build commercial fusion plants when the time comes.

Nuclear fission is a superior power technology already, but we've largely stopped building new plants because of the exorbitant upstart costs compared to other technologies.
That's the exact opposite of what the grandparent is talking about, though. Cargo was the one saying "this works for now, we'll fix libgit2 later", which is firmly in the practical camp. vgo is the one saying "we can't emulate other package managers because SAT solvers are slow", which ignores that in practice they're not, valuing strictly theoretical considerations instead (and, in practice, Cargo doesn't even use a SAT solver anyway, so they didn't do their homework).
After knowing everything, would you consider it viable to be a specialist? Like I'm sure you could build anything, but what about, say, being able to build the most efficient ecommerce sites or specializing in building apps from scratch in the fastest speed?
Hard to claim complete control if the car is hitting the brakes for you.
But rich people largely advocate against policies that favor poor people, like generous welfare and equitable taxation. Rich people advocate for policies that protect their status and the value of their properties and investments. They advocate against redistributive inheritance taxes, so that their own children continue to have enormous advantages over anyone else. They advocate policies that guarantee they can continue to extract wealth from rents rather than productive avtivities, dragging down the economic well being of all. And the rich are more likely to cheat on their taxes, try to bribe officials, or flat out disregard the law. And the rich have disproportionate power to do so, and work very hard to make it stay that way.
(I'm not looking, but) I would work for you in a flash if that's how you do things. I'm the only Org user in my team, and I wish they'd see the light!
That's PUA, not TRP. TRP is built around helping a man survive and get about in today's world. Sex is one part, often talked about, but one part. One of the differences is that PUA doesn't help men get over the NiceGuy mentality.

But if you want to be pedantic, sure..
I don't believe this because whilst there are costs for the state of allowing self-driving cars, there are also massive upsides. The CompSci jobs that are involved in self-driving cars are highly sought after and by enticing testing of these cars Arizona is also likely bringing in high value tech jobs that would normally go to somewhere like silicon valley. Once they've established a center of excellence for that skill set it becomes self sustaining too. So you'll probably find that years after every state has self-driving cars Arizona still have more of those jobs.
Yes but does it sync with Firefox browser directly on Android? I'm using Keepass2Android which is not that convenient. Direct integration in the browser like what Mozilla is doing would be better.
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It's a masterstroke of reporting ingenuity.

If you're the kind of person who thinks homeless people are useless garbage that deserves to be run over, you'll think the article is pointing this out to inform you that what happened was not a big deal and the person walking out in front of the car was at fault.

If you're the kind of person who considers homelesness an affront to the dignity of human societies that tolerate it, you'll think that the article is pointing out the tragic angle of a woman already suffering from exclusion and poverty being run over by the malfunction of an extremely expensive piece of equipment that should be recalled at once.

If you're somewhere in between, you'll still gravitate towards one of the extremes. In any case, mentioning that Elen Herzberg was homeless is only there as an appeal to emotion.

By the way- Elen Herzberg's friends and family have said she was not homeless. I recall, I think, a stepdaughter, saying that she had "issues with homelessness" but had recently turned her life around and was starting a new job.
Nonsense, at least today.

If 'massive IT education programs' had made engineers disposable, then salaries would be a lot lower.
(If you need 'data' on this, Glassdoor says FB SWE salaries are >120k, total comp will be a lot higher. Compare that to a job with an actual disposable workforce.)

>In this economic war, developers are rich mercenaries, not noble freedom fighters.

If you said developers were poor mercenaries, that'd be one thing. But if you are rich, then you can choose to work somewhere compatible with your morals.

And if you don't make that choice, its on you.
I like LibreOffice too, but it has no outliner mode. That leaves it hopelessly crippled for me, sadly.

I use Calc, Impress and so on, but I write in MS Word 97 under WINE. Faster, industry-standard for right or wrong, and very very quick on 21st century hardware.
Most of the commenters did not study engineering. They studied computer science. So the only exposure they would have had is working with someone like you.
Maybe more like: "If we don't send someone to sneak around our customers' houses looking for clues of what they might buy, one of our competitors would do the same! Besides, it's the customer's fault if they leave the door unlocked."
The turning point for this seems to have been the anti-competitive agreement between Apple, Google and others to avoid poaching of top talent. This new generation of companies seem intent on making all the same mistakes of their predecessors.
> The mesh/decentralized/p2p networking movement is really interesting

There isn't a single lasting mass consumer adoption example of decentralized anything in the modern history of technology (eg post WW2). That's due to a rigid reason: human nature. It's not going to change.

The only thing that will change here, is privacy laws will force behavior changes on centralized platforms.

I can name dozens of massive technology & platform adoptions by consumers, every single one of them is centralized. Now, name the dozens of vast decentralized examples... crickets.

Decentralized as a mass consumer adoption thing will perpetually be fantasy. Only (some) tech people want it.
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Once Again Teamgate Raises the Flag as One of FrontRunners for CRM
> Arizona did something reckless and stupid. Unfortunately, somebody other than the decision maker paid the price.

Well, crossing the street in that manner wasn't the smartest thing to do either. The person shouldn't have been run over, but we accept some risks while walking bicycles across multi-lane highways at night without watching for oncoming traffic.
Google and Its Hyperscale Peers Add Power to the Server Fleet
Because Uber and possibly most other self-driving car makers aren't doing it right.

First off, Waymo, Ford, and even Volvo (whose car was in the accident) have said that they want to skip Level 3 because expecting people to actually watch the road while they're "self-driven" is not reasonable. They saw from initial testing that the drivers were dosing off.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-17/ford-s-do...

And I didn't know this until now, but it looks like Toyota is now thinking the same:

http://www.motortrend.com/news/toyota-might-skip-level-3-aut...

Second, if they were to at least attempt to do it right (like Tesla is doing now, but didn't do in the beginning either) is to force drivers to keep their hands on the wheel at all times.

Also, Uber could have been watching its drivers with the cameras, and fired those that didn't stick with the program.

And all of this doesn't even mention how Uber's self-driving system seems to be terrible. Lidar wasn't working, the car didn't brake, and they've had one intervention per 13 miles while Waymo has one per 5600 miles.

So, my point is, Uber, the company, still seems to share most of the blame here, for all of those different reasons.
I have a small handful of VPSes for personal stuff that, more and more, I'm moving away from manual configuration to using ansible.

The reasons for this are several, but the most pressing are that if one falls over I can spin it up again quickly somewhere else, and I can have a lot of commonality in the configurations between them, so they all have backups configured the same way, or setting up letsencrypt requires editing things in only one place.

It also means I don't have to dig through a bunch of config when I want to work out how stuff is set up three years later, I can just look in one version-controlled directory in a central location.
By definition, if you achieve monopoly lockin you can charge whatever price you like. There are people who can't afford / would rather not pay for Windows but find they have to anyway, due to some business critical app they need. They're locked in. That's the point.
Clearly San Francisco needs an annual Surveillance Capitalism Pride Parade.
iPhone-Maker Foxconn Buys Belkin, Linksys, Phyn and Wemo for $866M
Why exactly? There's different degrees of slavery and independence, it's not black and white. Poor people don't really have a choice with their lives, they do whatever people command to them so they can just to get enough to get food.
Sometimes wealth is the problem.
It's even worse than that, sadly. The tech is called 'driver vigilance devices' and are common on the railways. Although they're better than nothing, it turns out that real drivers end up operating the device automatically, even if they're not alert. It may simply not be possible to engineer your way around.
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This is not really new. Apple's file vault passwords could be greped from the page file for many, many years, for example.

There is just more reporting of security incidents and more customer awareness.
Or how little $1T is now.
Not related to your post, but I just need to tell someone. Literally nobody in my company has managed to understand the threaded messaging in Teams, even after it's pointed out/explained to them.
Mark Zuckerberg refuses request from UK Parliament to speak about data abuse
>> Similar if you drive 1 million km and kill 1 person, if I drive 10 km and kill 1 person is still 1 data point and I can make no conclusion?

Yep. Because I still have another 9 m km to go before I've driven as long as you have and there is no way to know whether I'm going to kill another 9 people, or 0 more, until I've actually driven them all.
Wow... So people who have issues with how facebook handles privacy should dump their data in some other third party service? And probably some people will because well... "dumb f*s".

Well it might actually be all good intentions (probably just read below is all client side readable code) but if non coders use this service it just means they learned nothing.
Well, do these comments sound like "hustling" to you or more like "move fast and kill things"?

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17144090/uber-car-acciden...
The nuance here is there's better individual data collection and targeting on a massive scale than society has ever dealt with before.

Never has a business been able to properly choose the correct advertisement to show an individual at the exact moment they're looking to purchase an item to maximize likelihood of purchase.

It's incredible and we've never dealt with something like this. We'll get better at understanding and education of the issues but not without major setbacks.

So, yes corporations can legally make a profit within rules defined by society. However, whether or not corporations are in a sustainable position is entirely up to how they're able to manage long term viability with profits (short and long term).
I do this daily, mainly because most of our infrastructure isn't immutable yet :(
Legally, in most (if not all) of the US you /can/ be cited for tailgating (the laws require a minimum following distance).

Reality is that the traffic cops seldom ever cite for tailgating in general. If one were to see a citation for such, it is likely after an accident where the officer can deduce that the cause was "following too closely" and so they then issue the citation.
Another anecdotal tale: My dad once didn't bother slowing down for "cardboard tubes" that had fallen off a lorry. It turned out they were ceramic tubes, and caused quite a bit of damage.
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Cloudflare Doesn't Want Daily Stormer Evidence at Piracy Trial
There are tablets in the front and back (https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Front-_-...).

You were taught to drive manually, not in an Uber self-driving car.

If you can find a video of an Uber driving who is driving as they were instructed to do, they would look exactly like her.
V-EZ: AMD Releases New Easy-To-Use Vulkan Middleware, Simplified API
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I don't think it's fair to say that _most_ Windows components are _incredibly_ tightly bound together.
It is a fantasy because the way the real world works means that people operate under constraints such that they do not actually have productive uses of their time, or that their time is already allocated toward necessary obligations, such as caring for children, or for parents.
His point was that machines should be held at much higher standards than humans.

This is a point I'e been making since the beginning myself. If you want self-driving cars to be accepted, they need to be at least 10x better than the best human drivers. Comments such as "self-driving cars only need to be 50% better than humans on average" are absolute nonsense. Humans will never go for that.
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TDB, India Re-Engineers Website and Deploys Project Management and Workflow App
...and then df gets stuck in uninterruptible sleep (due to a file system hang), and ^C and ^Z does nothing.
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Yes, it's redundantly _safe_, which is the thing we actually care about. Safety is job #1. Well, not at Uber apparently.

There are trade-offs here, sometimes we might decide to take a very small risk, after weighing it up. A famous example is ETOPS. Unlike propeller engines, jet engines for airliners are ridiculously reliable once running. ETOPS (jokingly "Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim") is a scheme which over the past few decades has gradually allowed twin engine jets (which obviously just become over-engineered gliders if both their engines fail) to fly over oceans and other large distances with no airports, on the rationale that although total engine failure would probably be deadly without anywhere to put the plane down, two unrelated sequential engine failures are now so unlikely as to be overall negligible risk to the passengers.

But that needs a risk we understand. If you have no idea what the risk is, you can't make that trade, so redundantly safe systems are the obvious choice.