skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Yes, absolutely. As a result of Therac machines being put on hold while the flaw was investigated I am sure some people didn't receive life-saving radiation treatment when they were scheduled to - that's preferable to operating unsafe machinery. And you word it in such a way as if its 3000 deaths/day or nothing and there is nothing in between - you must know very well it's not as simple as this. I suspect emergency breaking systems(mandatory soon in US, already mandatory on new cars in EU) will reduce that number close to zero long before anything with an "autonomous" badge will be allowed anywhere near public roads.

2) You can do real-world testing without testing on public roads and endangering everyone around you - which is what Tesla was/is doing - all their cars were gathering data which wasn't actually used for autonomous driving yet, but they were able to see what the car would have done had it been running in autonomous mode.

3) No, I do not believe that. I do believe that a certain category of problems has been completely eliminated by rigorous testing, certification processes and engineering practices that prevent those problems in the first place. That's not the same as saying that there will never ever be an issue with a radiotherapy machine. To bring the topic back to self driving cars - the processes should be developed that will ensure that the car cannot not react(like it did in this case) when there is person in its path - it should be physically impossible from the software point of view. If the hardware cannot provide clear enough data to guarantee that, then it simply shouldn't be allowed on the road.
Unless you’re on a visa, I don’t understand why anyone would tolerate this. Why not leave this company?
Ask HN: Best way to monetize a niche story/info?
I will be starting a recently approved medication that I think others considering taking would be interested in hearing experiences from someone taking it. What would be the best way to get my experiences across to others while at the same time possibly generating a little income? A blog? What services would you recommend? What are their payment models?
BlackBerry reports Q4 2018 earnings; loss narrowed but revenue slid
Here is a followup post to the article.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16696865
The right to bear robot arms with lasers?
To me the one2one situation would feel like I’m surreptitiously getting bollocked for making the mistake, under the guise of humor. In public, on the other hand, I don’t care if someone takes the piss out of my code - I’ll laugh right along with them as long as it’s not overly malicious. IMO it sets a good example not to be precious about your code.
Yes, but a scam is knowingly screwing someone over.

Is it a scam when you invest in promising technology that, yes, could not work out?
>>>(which is and always was against Facebook's Terms of Service)

Nobody reads TOS.

Car analogy: leaving you car in a bad neighborhood, unlocked, key in the ignition, door open, with a "do not steal or we will send you a threatening letter demanding our car back" note.
I'm not OP, but... The fact that it is not consistently connected to other instances of political campaigns previously is a big one. The narrative is that the West is radicalizing to the right because of the evil propaganda, unlike the pure and virtuous honest reporting that brought us "change we can believe in" or "Clinton is 95% sure to win" and so on.

When the good tribe does it, it's "remarkable insight into the political base and clever use of modern technology", when the bad tribe does it, it's "disturbingly sophisticated targeting and an automated violation of consent". Really, go read the write ups about previous democrat campaigns, the narrative was of tech savvy modern progressives leaving the conservative old timers in the dust.

Russel conjugation is the favorite trick or the press today as they hawk their narratives:

"I am trying to get an important message out. You are running a political campaign. They are spreading harmful propaganda."

But 99% of harvested data is gathered with only proxy consent of 1% of the users, and most of either group is unaware of what's happening. Ignoring this ratio in order to haggle about exactly how the 1% was or wasn't tricked is entirely beside the point.

The bigger problem with this whole affair is that people correctly diagnose a breakdown in the mechanisms for forming consensus reality, which makes a lot of information suspect. This should make you question your in-groups' world view as much as the out-group. But instead of going back to primary sources and reevaluating what they know, people only double down on it more, and use it to justify why the out group is even more clueless/insidious than before. But one of the biggest hallmarks of propaganda is that the enemy is both horribly inept and terrifyingly powerful at the same time, swapping between the two seamlessly to serve the current narrative.
I always thought that generating one polymorphic version would be a better fit for Go than generating multiple specialized versions.

It's interesting that Swift adopted this approach and confirms what you said earlier about Swift having essentially the same constraints as Go and being a good source of inspiration of Go.

What's the status of Swift on Linux, to write web services and connect to databases?
When you have a small number of systems, a small team (possibly one person) and a relatively simple configuration it can be hard to justify spending time and money on a lot of deployment and automation. It isn't that deploying systems as you suggest isn't a better way of doing things. It is just the benefits are far greater at scale. At the scale I typically work it would be over-engineering most of the time.
I also like archive to or archive is

You can archive things on demand.

https://archive.fo/PAL3t
Smalltalk does not decompile code (though one can with some limits), but works with an integrated code management.

Interlisp-D also did that.
I would love to see the fax machine to go away. But many government agencies still say that fax is the only secure method to send data. Even though documents travel over VOIP lines and often kept in public areas.
Capacitor: Native Progressive Web Apps for iOS, Android, and the Web
I've been told that the cats of a great-grandparent were only fed pastas...

I've always wondered how they could survive on that! But I suspect that since those cats lived mostly outside, they probably ate many other things, including small animals they caught in gardens, sheds, etc.
It's not clear from the text of the post, but I believe most of these features/redesigns have yet to be released -- that is, they aren't in the most recent iOS update, which was yesterday:

> ...we’re taking additional steps in the coming weeks to put people more in control of their privacy. Most of these updates have been in the works for some time, but the events of the past several days underscore their importance.

I guess it's confusing because these updates/steps are talked about in the present tense, e.g. "Some people want to delete things they’ve shared in the past, while others are just curious about the information Facebook has. So we’re introducing Access Your Information..."

Something like, "Expect to see these updates in the coming weeks" would have made things clearer.
I just think the elephant is just having fun. (i'm not an expert)
> Can you give an example of an industry that began with regulation?

Is version 1.0 of a product technically considered patched? I'm assuming, categorically, no..

That said, despite where we're talking about it, Uber is not primarily in the tech industry - they don't sell you software, they sell you rides - so they are a taxi business, foremost. The taxi business (artificially chauffeured, or, not,) is actually a perfect example of an industry where regulation makes it palatable at all, compared to what v1 taxi cabs were like...

There is also the issue of whether or not we even have the means to regulate (or even come up with a formalization for the axiomatic ethical examination of near-black-box/difficultly analyzable tech).

That's a separate concern from whether or not the consumer will be liable for mistakes made by the provider until regulation is in place.

imo, innovation is pretty unimportant compared to regulation, and far less valuable, too..
I probably expressed that wrong, I was more wondering if the packet sniffing had any beneficial impact on the performance in the sense of QoS or congestion control or something like that. After all, they have to do it for a reason.

But your second points mentions it's for billing and such, so I guess that's my answer.
Ask HN: Anyone using AWS Lambda or Azure functions successfully in production?
Anyone using AWS Lambda or similar serverless offering in production? Asking because we are about to launch a PaaS offering and wondering if users are more keen on a Heroku like offering or the on-demand code execution service like AWS Lambda and Azure functions. I personally feel current serverless offerings are not very suitable for large or complex development use cases. Perhaps it's good as a glue layer where you have to perform some event based actions, but not as your main backend? Any experiences and thoughts from your side?
I do the same, and I run 6 days a week, about 40 km total. Been doing this for 12 years, whatever the weather, cold, heat, rain, snow etc.
FWIW, Internet Archive provides snapshot-on-demand too -- see the "Save Page Now" feature in the bottom-right: http://web.archive.org/

More info: https://blog.archive.org/2017/01/25/see-something-save-somet...
> Even Arizona can see snow.

I’d sure hope so considering there’s ski resorts there (Flagstaff). Summer time highs in Flagstaff peak out in the 80s usually too.
Most of these interactions actually seem rather benign. Politicians routinely attend company events, and I don't think there's a general problem with a photo-op wearing some company gear.

What's really surprising, however, is the sort of decisions a US governor (or maybe just Arizona) is apparently involved in. In my small European country, a license to operate some new and potentially dangerous technology is a matter for some executive agency, which would routinely involve at least one expert on the technology and a lawyer.

Now, obviously, that agency is part of the executive branch and theoretically below the Governor in a hierarchy. But in practice it's very similar to the federal US Government: the US President actually can't directly order some low-level bureaucrats at the FDA/SEC/etc to do anything. Such an order has to go through all the levels of that hierarchy. And if anyone refuses, their firing also has to follow that path.

Individual decisions are almost completely independent from top leadership. A series of questionable decisions will probably get you reassigned to the mail room, but even then past decisions would usually remain in force.

That system does not only strengthen the role of subject matter experts in the process and reduce the appearance of arbitrary favouritism. It's also in the best interest of politicians: to put your signature under an order allowing an individual safety-critical project without following some sort of established process is almost certain to end your career the first time one of those projects goes south.

Less relevant nitpicks:

- What exactly did Arizona stand to gain from a few hundred autonomous cars with minimum-wage drivers behind the wheel? It's not like Uber was going to move their software engineering to Tuscon, was it?

- Getting free use of Uber's offices in San Francisco is obviously bribery if it was for personal or campaign staff. Although I guess it's technically legal in the US if properly reported.
The following continuous blood glucose monitoring system uses interstitium fluid to measure glucose without blood.

https://www.dexcom.com/
I would blow it up today if it wasn’t hot, and there was a way to do it without Seoul getting pummeled and starting a confrontation with China.

Do you see that this is exactly why North Korea would want to have nuclear weapons? Because you would be willing to use force against them to bend them to your will? How would they be sure that you would not consider the same for other issues than the nuclear weapons themselves?

What exactly is the value of consulting Gambia or Bhutan?

The value is not in what any random country has to say about this specific case, the value is in the fact that it provides a legitimization for the actions taken. If you simply blow up a North Korean reactor because you think it is the right thing to do, then that also gives North Korea wide latitude to do things they think are the right thing to do.

If on the other hand most of the world agrees that North Korea should not have nuclear weapons, then we could justify taking actions against North Korea while not at the same time being forced to accept North Korean actions as equally legitimate because they lack this consensus by the world.
What if your car will completely break down? You need to add the cost of the car to your valuations for this to be viable.
Now THAT explains a lot of that "she came from the shadows" and "a human driver could not have prevented this" and "The car didn't do anything wrong" bullcrap we've been reading from the Tempe Police right after the accident, as well as the quick release of the highly misleading (in terms of lighting situation) dashcam video.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you...
I found some websites that do the detective work to find your online traces but don't know if they are that useful. I believe, once the information gone online it's backed up somewhere even if the website deletes your data. For me, that's big data, lol. I learned a new tip today. Thanks.
How Event Apps Help Organizers Overcome Challenges – NVOLV
"There however seems to be a group of people concerned with inclusivity"

this is how we ended up with a problem in the first place.
With all the retro fads going on I wish they would release a basic PDA with the BlackBerry retro style. For $30 it would sell out in a matter of minutes.
Show HN: Semantic release automation for GitLab
Thanks. I've yet to look into the details, but my intuition was that Suspense could be a 'native' solution for synchronous rendering on the server - this is basically the missing feature in React itself that I was talking about needing to polyfill - essentially via a wasteful workaround that requires two server renders to be run instead of one.

The client side thing of implementing async loading with a loading prop and componentDidMount obviously has to be done 'manually', this is straightforward and not something I'd expect React or even a library to solve - what react-frontload does though is gets the same component to also synchronously load that same data (using the same function) on server render. This is much more fiddly and is way too much boilerplate to write manually for each component, not to mention that you need some global context to tie all the promises together. That's the problem that react-frontload solves - the client side loader thing is up to you to implement, even with react-frontload.

What I'm hoping is that it may be possible to go back to writing this stuff manually on certain components, because it'll be simple enough with Suspense - or at least just make the implementation of react-frontload much simpler and carry on using it as syntax sugar (it's quite nice to just define an async data loading function via a HOC, for instance - you obviously wouldn't get that having to hand code lifecycle methods for each component).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this doesn't seem to use Mahoney technique, it's just doing the plain old technique of writing SID volume register at 0xd418:

l: nop
sample: ldx $8400 + i*$100
ldy $8000,x
lda sidtable,y
sta $d418
inc sample +1
bit $ea
ldy $8100,x
lda sidtable,y
sta $d418
inc $d020

...
Of course they did :)
Skool Daze feature (Retrogamer)
Hmm, thanks. Turns out I did not pay a visit in the browser, and did not receive any foreword through the mobile app.
Von Braun wanted to send people to the Moon (and he really wanted to get them to Mars), but I am guessing that if the US had adopted his plan to orbit a satellite with a modified Redstone rocket, and done so before Sputnik, followed by the first human orbital flight, there might not have been the impetus for a Moon race, no Apollo, and no Moon landing in 1969 or any time soon after. This speculation, of course, depends partly on how the USSR would have responded to these developments.
Thanks for the clarification -- I was wondering what iron was using under the covers but didn't care enough to down and look.

With the numbers iron puts up, I would imagine that it's actually doing an event loop somewhere, though, it's way too fast to not be.
Ray Dalio: “Principles: Life and Work” – Talks at Google
Have you ever seen a bat blowing up smoke? You'll find videos on YouTube from people giving bats a smoke, but I once saw a bat smoking for real, he intentionally looked for the cigarette to have another puff, it was hilarious!
Probabilistic Filters By Example
You're completely right in not trusting those agencies, they are generally big pile of shit and egos and little more (to be polite).

The problem is, markets +-trust them, since there isn't anything better (although bringing better than shit shouldn't be impossible).
Is it better than a webcam image piped through sha256?
I still use Yahoo, but Excite and Juno are still around for email. Or you can look into paid solutions.
I agree with also that you don't need to measure responsiveness.

However, one thought I have is if the user doesn't fill out pros and cons, what good is making the match? They either don't need anything or have nothing to offer. Perhaps match with other users that also put nothing?
This is a very US-Centric view. I suppose that's the root of the disagreement here - a misunderstanding of each other's starting points.

The coverage in my country has been more about castigating Facebook et al and both major parties have copped flack for their voter-intelligence operations.
also, unless it is an indoor only cat you cannot determine what it actually eats.
> both of those citations - a right-leaning source[0] and a tabloid, respectively

The Daily Mail is a tabloid, and is so bad that it has been banned from being used as source in Wikipedia.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/08/wikipedia...
“Obama’s resignation”...?
How do you get fired by someone multiple times?
This is so true. I have some friends that are going after the crytpo market and they are indeed losing every penny.
Crowdfunding the Mitogen Ansible accelerator: day 23
> if you fucked up, you should get some shit for it

If you're intending that you (and the rest of your team) should learn from your mistakes, then I fully agree
>My personal stand is to prohibit exposing any metadata on the connection whatsoever

https://grothoff.org/christian/habil.pdf Christian Grothoff - The GNUnet System [October 2017, 181 pages, PDF]
That GUI is more efficient because it limits you to navigation commands. There's no reason why a navigation-specific shell can't let you type "de{Enter}" and automatically change to that directory.
They're deliberate, done by incrementing border color register. One of the only things possible with the available CPU time.
Probably okay for targetted drone assassinations though
They're raster lines. At some point in the code, or multiple points, the program increments the register holding the border color so the video chip starts drawing a different color. This can happen in the middle of a line, which is why you get multiple "columns".

Edit: vardump is right, the screen would be "turned off" in this case so just the border color is used. This gives a slight performance boost.
Do a blood test. All vegetarians should do blood tests every now and then.

As an aside; I ate a vegan diet for 2-3 years and my B12 was fine. That’s not to say it would’ve been fine 2-3 years later, though.
I don't understand why people say Uber is not at fault. 1.) The lidar system should have detected the woman with plenty of time to dodge her. The car could have manoeuvred to the empty lane to avoid the collision.
Google deleted our G Suite
I want one answer here: Have you done this? Did they pay you? Otherwise, why are you trying to shop it around here? This is a nice idea, but until there is proof, it belongs on Medium and other platforms as a theory, not a website purporting to have a solution.
Wow, enough mockery and name-calling?

I am actually with Oracle on this whole thing. Calling Android “fair use” is the insane argument, as legal experts have said. Fair use is a narrow exemption, not meant to apply to huge corporations and commercial products. Android is a commercial product; Google even tried to argue that! Google is not akin to a library performing a public service by making Android. Android is not Java “criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research.” (The fact that senior people at Google seem to honestly believe that Android would have to at least be a little more of a profit center to be impeachable on copyright grounds is straight out of an HBO script.)

Google’s own engineers didn’t think it would be legal to copy Java and “scrub the J word” (actual quote) without licensing from Oracle. The emails are damning. They knew it wouldn’t be a “clean-room reimplementation” of the APIs, and it wasn’t. Also, the Java “API” includes the entire behavior of the standard library. Whether or not APIs are copyrightable (a gray area to be sure), I think it’s misleading to compare the Java APIs to other examples of “interfaces.” In any case, Oracle showed that portions of code were either copy-pasted or heavily “recollected,” so I say they did their job showing they have a real case. They don’t deserve to be mocked.
You get a bit more speed out of the C64 if you disable parts of the video chip. It also avoids cycle inconsistencies every 8 scanlines (where normally, the chip would block the bus for an additional cycle).

To avoid making it a dull monochrome screen, devs tend to push the data that they process into the border color register (acting as background color in this mode). You also see this with decompressors at the beginning of (cracked) games.
So the background color gets updated every few multiple of 8 pixels (1 character), and there's where the patterns come from.
The slow shift of the pattern to the left indicates that the code isn't entirely balanced, but the article states as much (is it moving every 1.28 secs? I can't tell).
I would far rather my udp packet is delayed by a millisecond than dropped.

I have an RTP stream running from India to Europe at the moment, 3000 packets per millisecond, so 0.33ms between pacekts. Typical maximum interpacket delay is under 1.5ms, looking at the last 400,000 seconds of logs, 200k are 1-2ms, 170k are 0-1ms, and about 4-5k on the 2-3ms gap, 3-4ms gape, etc. Less than 1% does interpacket delay increase past 10ms.
If after all the deregulation companies got at the federal level, plus even more deregulation in Arizona, they still had to do this, then something smells very bad here.
>to investigating which metal foils can be made into hats that best resist government mind control rays or whatever.

You joke, but Allan H. Frey already solved that in the 1960s, just add a 2"x2" wire mesh near the temples, over the temporal lobes. Blocks all RF interaction with the brain, no tin foil hat required.

...of course, this doesn't block 'mind control rays', the only thing it actually blocks consists of the Microwave auditory effect, and the only target audience for that consists of Radar techs walking around in front of hugeass antennas. ;)
You lay out your thoughts, but you don't actually produce a license.

I get the feeling that what you want is a 'Free as in beer, not free as in speech' license with user having the ability to suggest changes to source.