skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am completely failing to see the "security" (as in "security guard").

It seems a clearly smart way to "keep an eye" over an area, but more like in "surveillance" than "security".

I mean - pardon me if I am still skeptical:

1) how would the robot deal with (locked) doors (or even with doors that need to be opened through a pushbar or handle)?

2) What happens in a multi-storey facility? (I mean can it go up and down stairs or use a normal lift)?

3) Is the communication protocol between the robot and the control unjammable and uninterceptable?

4) How - besides sending an alarm to a human-presided control center with an intervention time (I presume) in the order of magnitude of several minutes - can it deal with an intruder?
Stress from bolded lines of unread articles can be overwhelming.

In FeedDemon, a desktop based reader, there is a tool called the Panic button that is triggered when you have a lot of unreads (or that you can trigger manually). It displays the following message:

You have 591 unread articles. This isn't email - you don't have to read everything. Perhaps it's time to hit the panic button and let FeedDemon mark articles as read for you?

Then you can mark all articles older than say 48H or 5 days as read automatically.

As a basic feature you can group feeds and there is a button that let you mark all articles in a group (or a single feed) as read, so for chatty feeds you can just skim the titles and if nothing mandates further reading you can clear it up.

The real trick though for me is to revisit your RSS list regularly, say once a year, and not be afraid to remove or filter feeds that post too many articles. Some big blogs in their niche post several "news" pieces per day.

What was great was Yahoo Pipes, where you could filter, merge and transform feeds into new feeds. So you could grab a feed from a chatty blog and filter it on some keyword for the subniche you are interested in, then do that on several sources and merge all these into one consolidated feed.
I also tried out Feedly and about 5 different readers when I needed to switch. Inoreader had the best UI and was free.
I don't understand. If RSS went away, how did people read webcomics and stuff like that?
It is acceptable though, most people wouldn't even get involuntary manslaughter which still requires criminal negligence. People are really spouting off here and project in their own superiority onto the situation. It's a situation similar to when a child gets left in a car or jumps a zoo fence, "I never take my eye off my kids even for one second even when I'm sleeping. I would never allow that to happen to my kids. Worst parent/person who has ever walked the earth".

Not only did the pedestrian instigate that, the failsafe(which are supposed to be very simple to back up complex and more fallable systems) to not getting hit and killed by a car was entirely in the pedestrians area of responsibility; don't walk into traffic.
So speaking from the Riot/Matrix perspective, this is a really interesting phenomenon which we are painfully aware of. For context: we built centralised comms apps before creating Matrix. So we have a direct side by side comparison, and reckon it’s about 6x more effort to do the decentralised equivalent. On the UX side, our centralised apps were actually pretty polished and lightweight - sadly they are gone now (hence in part Matrix), but you can get an idea from stuff like https://web.archive.org/web/20170102145839/http://blah.com/.

So, how come decentralised apps can end up with worse UX than their centralised equivalents? My theory is:

* Harder tech means that more resources get focused on the decentralisation bit

* Harder to find UI/UX designers who understand the decentralisation requirements (although this is changing thanks to blockchain hype)

* Decentralised early users tend to be geeky and push the product in a geeky direction

But the key thing is that pre-decentralisation we probably had a 1:3 ratio of backend to frontend work. Then in Matrix it’s like 1:1, and the dilution on the frontend notices.

That said, this can be fixed, and obviously it’s critical to Riot to fix it. We’ve contracted a proper UI/UX designer at last a few weeks ago and are hunting for more frontend devs.

And evidence it can work: a good example of a decentralised project with decent UX is Mastodon.
Do you mean loopback mode?
Just because it's a shitty common practice doesn't mean there isn't a proper way to do it (local repo). For example, there are tons of people who check in their secrets into public and private Github repos (including Uber eng), then they get jacked and complain. If they were smarter than that, "it would not have caused a problem for anybody". Doesn't really prove that what a lot of people do must be automatically good.
Using exceptions is totally common, but this seems to raise/catch/log 6 errors each time it tries to parse a `for` statement. I'm a noob when it comes to compilers, but maybe a token -> function dictionary would be a better approach?
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I use my own piece of software as RSS reader - https://github.com/tjadowski/rsspodder.git
how do they know it’s a state organized group?
Any particular reason in 19 years for not buying a machine that comes with Linux pre installed?

I bought a used ThinkPad from Craigslist after googling the model and the word Linux. Worked for me.
Circadian rhythms depend on time since sunrise/sunset.
> In the US, there is one automotive fatality every 86 million miles across all vehicles from all manufacturers. For Tesla, there is one fatality, including known pedestrian fatalities, every 320 million miles in vehicles equipped with Autopilot hardware. If you are driving a Tesla equipped with Autopilot hardware, you are 3.7 times less likely to be involved in a fatal accident.

This is incomplete and therefore, very misleading. One has to compare what's comparable: what is the sample size for each? That is, how many miles are driven by Tesla vehicles per year, versus how many miles total for all US vehicles on US roads?

It seems, Tesla puts up around 3.2 billion miles/year, vs 3.2 trillion miles for all US vehicles; while the numbers are both big, that's a 1000x times difference, or 3 orders of magnitude.

Tesla numbers seem to imply there are around 10 people killed per year using a Tesla or being hit by a Tesla (because 3.2 billion / 320 million = 10). So, if a Tesla with 5 people on board crashes into a wall this year, and kills everyone inside, that will represent a 50% increase in the fatality rate.

And the phrase "3.7 times less likely" is also very misleading. People who drive Teslas usually wouldn't be driving dangerous vehicles (such as small, 4-door cars which are the deadliest), if they didn't have a Tesla. They would probably drive a German car (BMW, Audi, Mercedes) which are the safest cars in the US today.

> There are about 1.25 million automotive deaths worldwide. If the current safety level of a Tesla vehicle were to be applied, it would mean about 900,000 lives saved per year.

This is another level of nonsense entirely. "Worldwide"? A lot of things happen worldwide; in some countries there are more scooters than cars; in others, there are many very unsafe and poorly maintained country/dirt roads. The Tesla numbers are shady enough when limited to the US, but expanding them for a worldwide comparison is ludicrous.
When users discover a bug or issue they tend to work around it. Even as a developer for example you are debugging something and stumbling on another unrelated issue you are likely to ignore it. Users very rarely report issues. Self driving cars testers should be paid per issue found, not per hour.
If Google had just added comments or other social elements to their reader instead of killing it they might not have missed the boat.

Instead they killed their popular Reader and made Orkut and Google Plus.
> Quite. Tesla is deliberately comparing their modern vehicle design & wealthy driver base (statistically one of the safest cohorts) with the entirety of the U.S. driving population. This is bad statistics: We expect Tesla vehicles to have far fewer accidents than the mean US vehicle per mile, because Tesla's are expensive modern vehicles with (relatively) wealthy drivers who can afford to keep them maintained & will themselves be in better health than the mean US driver.

You're going to have to explain to me how the wealth of a driver has any bearing on their ability to pilot a self-driving car.
To me, RSS and Twitter/FB/etc are very different things. With RSS you are „alone“ while reading it. There’s no one to discuss things with you. I‘m not really qualified to make this statement, but I‘d say RSS feeds don’t have a social component, leaving your limbic system (responsible for social interaction) widely out of the process. You process the info and that’s it.

With Twitter, everything is attached to a social context. If a link is posted by your personal idol, you engage in (pseudo?) social behavior if you read it. You may then feel compelled to discuss it, and you will feel rejected if nobody answers, or very good if you get a lot of likes. So, lots of limbic/social interaction.

Both have their merits.. without Twitter, I would have a content discovery problem, and with (only) Twitter I‘ll live in a bubble, plus my IRL social interactions might be somewhat crowded out by the interactions on Twitter, plus Twitter can make me feel socially miserable for very petty reasons.

Personally I would love a system that combines my personal RSS feed with recommendations resulting from mining Twitter and applying ML to generate relevant results.
before the crash, Walter complained "7-10 times the car would swivel toward that same exact barrier during auto-pilot

...and after 7 to 10 times , he still didn't learn his lesson? That's pretty stupid if you ask me. If my car does something weird at a particular stretch of road, especially 7 to 10 times, you can bet your bananas that i'll be paying a lot of attention on that stretch of road. If my "autopilot" (seriously, Tesla should stop using that name) isn't reliable in certain circumstances or places, then - guess what? - I WONT BE USING IT THERE. Why blame Tesla (I'm no Tesla fan), when the operator of the vehicle refused to operate it properly in the face of prior experience? Poor guy, and I feel for his family, but come on, what a dumbass
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I think the ML model has a lot to do with it in this case.
One of the arguments I expect to see is that "Oh, no! We removed all the data. It's gone. I mean, that was only a few hundred megabytes per person anyway, but we just calculate a few thousand numbers from it and save in our system, then delete the data. That's less data per person than is needed to show a short cute cat GIF. What harm could we possibly do with that?"
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It went out of style for the mainstream because they haven't (yet) figured out how to lace it with ads.
Those services used to also carry RSS, but they silently removed them not long after Google Reader shut down. That might be unrelated, but still.
I had to write a Huginn agent that crawls my RSS and creates a private feed that then subsequently downloads the entire article, which I then can pump back into my reader. Sigh.
Before this rumour spreads: the latest Tesla statement [1] is worded in a deliberately misleading fashion and the only thing we can tell from it is that his hands were according to the software not on the wheel for 6s before the impact.

>The driver had received several visual and one audible hands-on warning earlier in the drive and the driver’s hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision

Note the and.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-last-week’s-accident
> Reversing the Unprotect Algorithm

Protected binaries have everything after the first three pages encrypted with 512-bit Blowfish. The key is the “Don’t steal Mac OS X” poem (I believe with spaces removed):

Your karma check for today:
There once was was a user that whined
his existing OS was so blind,
he'd do better to pirate
an OS that ran great
but found his hardware declined.
Please don't steal Mac OS!
Really, that's way uncool.
(C) Apple Computer, Inc.

Fun fact: CommonCrypto doesn’t do Blowfish with a key size this large anymore due to CVE-2016-1802: https://blog.timac.org/2016/0710-blowfish-operations-with-ke...
My theory would be that most of the transfer is about assets and games have more of a memory constraint rather than a bandwidth constraint in that space
Night shift workers die younger than people whose shift rotates die younger than people who work a day shift.

And one way people acclimate to different sleep schedules is by forgetting what not feeling like shit feels like. People do not acclimate to commuting, they forget what not feeling terrible all the time feels like.
(just to be clear: I’m responding to the “UX of decentralised apps is crap” bit of the parent post rather than “build on existing protocols”, given peertube and riot and mastodon etc all build on well defined protocols.)
But its not the job of the software developers to research and plan the wireless coverage of the location, its the job of the team planning the event.

Here in germany for big festivals every carrier places a truck with mounted wireless antenas nearby the event location to ensure a good wireless coverage. I dont know how it is in chicago, but for such an event the planners should have asked the big providers if they can do something to not have wireless outages. But maybe this would have costed them some money they wanted to spare.
We collectively decided that this is less annoying that introducing thousands of difficult error cases to handle in every application.
In fact NC was so ubiquitous that it had jokes about it printed in computer magazines and circulating on the Fido network.
In such a case there needs to be a fail safe that can determine that and disable auto pilot until it is fixed.
dot - "hierarchical" or layered drawings of directed graphs. This is the default tool to use if edges have directionality.

http://www.graphviz.org
Statistically if you're wealthy enough to own a Tesla, you're also way less likely to have to drive when tired/under the influence for example.

All sorts of constraints are correlated with wealth that put you in way more risky situations if you're poorer.
Yes, in Europe. It happened to my brother, but with Asus (so they didn't try to talk him out of it). After third warranty claim, he took the money and got an Thinkpad.
We also see this in unexplainable flash crashes from high speed trading softwares gone bersek. The speed at which they handle data is so immense than going through the logs of a few seconds around the issue could take several years of human time.
Plug: I'm building a successor to Yahoo Pipes on https://www.pipes.digital, and this is a usecase I definitely want to support. Maybe give it a try? I'm always interested in feedback.
An example: My server sends notification emails to the company automatically. Everyone is using gmail to view their emails.

When there is an update about a previous notification, I send an email with the in-reply-to header. Oh wait, gmail doesn't use that.

Alright, I'll just make sure that the subject line is exactly the same as the original notification (as gmail says to do). This works for a bit, but if someone hits reply-all, suddenly the subject line for the thread is now "Re: <the original subject>" and my followups no longer thread.

I'll just make sure that my followups always have "Re: " in them, so they thread whether or not people have been communicating on the thread. This mostly works, but if the update is a week or two later, gmail just decides they shouldn't thread.

This is on top of the fact that emails with similar subject lines occasionally thread together. This gets really annoying when you send automated emails where the subjects are the same except for an identifier of some sort (specifically to prevent threading).

And there's no way to give feedback to gmail about this. No way to forcefully thread or de-thread emails. You are just given the choice of gmail's threading or no threading at all.
Hi Muks! The rest of the content is still appearing, but https://powerdns.org/hello-dns/optional.md.html now talks about EDNS.
That raises a tricky (perhaps philosophical-meta) question: whether deleted questions should keep the username visible.

I can't ask the person who deleted the question, because I don't know who they were.
> It's widely known that RADAR systems are not able to detect stationary objects, only moving ones. Actually, they are are to detect them but just not where they come from

That doesn't make any sense. Radar systems do detect stationary objects just fine. In fact, from the point of view of the moving car, almost nothing is stationary.

I wouldn't be surprised if you're correct about the markings on the road, I almost crashed into a temporary barrier driving at night, because there were two sets of lane markings - the old ones, and the ones going around the barrier. Construction workers simply didn't bother to erase the old ones.
By all means read up about $GENERATE for example, and multi-line statements etc, or all the fields you can omit or reorder. It is no fun.
It’s their bodies’ reaction to sunlight. There are plenty of nocturnal animals and plenty of diurnal ones. They don’t have clocks or screens to know when to wake and when to sleep. Neither did we until very recently.
FYI - Spotify does have a Linux client and it's quite decent https://www.spotify.com/ch-de/download/linux/

Otherwise I agree.

Depending on your needs linux is not on par with Windows/MacOS yet, especially when you need commercial non dev/tech near software, unfortunately.

Whether that is a no go or not is an individual decision.
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Another viewer is https://powerdns.org/dns-camel - where you can select obsoleted, informational, experimental, historic, and standards (track) RFCs. And drafts!
May I suggest FreshRSS, a free and self-hosted RSS reader:
https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS
> It's widely known that RADAR systems are not able to detect stationary objects, only moving ones.

Uh, what?

I think you're thinking of Doppler radar systems. You can do static scene imaging with radar, no problems (I've written the code to do it, even!).

There's no way in hell a car is going to be using a Doppler radar. In all likelyhood, they're using a plain-old FMCW system, and it can absolutely detect stationary stuff.
Well, one reason Google Reader’s closure was such a loss was because it added a social layer to RSS. And it was a completely optional and non-intrusive social layer. I really wish Google had tried to enhance Reader instead of killing it to promote Google+. Allowing the ability to post short messages in your shared feeds would have made it very Twitter like, only nicer.
That post is from "Mar 21, 2017", i.e. last year :)
Firstly, wealthy drivers can afford to keep their cars in better shape and can afford better cars in the first place. Neither of these factors depend on self-driving technology.

Secondly, Tesla themselves makes it clear that their self-driving can't be relied upon to driver the car unsupervised - the driver has to be paying attention at all times in case the Tesla self-driving code decides to do something catastrophically stupid. Hence the same factors that correlate with driver attentiveness in the ordinary population will also affect the Tesla population. Wealth correlates with health correlates with better reaction times & general fitness.

The Tesla autopilot tends to turn itself off precisely in situations where driving is difficult and complex - which in turn implies that these human factors will remain just as important as they are in the general driving population.

(Of course it may simply be that the reason wealthy people have a lower death rate on the roads per mile is that they can afford cars that are safer in crashes; the above is my supposition, not evidentially backed.)
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Hi! Author of that page here. Let me know your thoughts, or express your feelings in a pull request! https://github.com/ahupowerdns/hello-dns/ - you might also appreciate the DNS RFC viewer on https://powerdns.org/dns-camel . Finally, this all started based on this IETF presentation: https://blog.powerdns.com/2018/03/22/the-dns-camel-or-the-ri...
Any alternative wouldn't be that different from today's Facebook because when common users looks for social media platform they will always go to the one with the higher users base, most of them at least will do. Number often win on quality in that context, especially when money can buy well crafted PR campaigns. Pay a thousand handsome guys/girls to appear there, get some popular actors/bands on board, create controversial content and channels where people can fight each other and users will flock in.

We already have the technology and part of the infrastructure to build a decentralized alternative for people wanting more, they're called Usenet and p2p. I believe the NNTP protocol could be extended to exchange data using binary only compressed and encrypted blobs for text and small binaries. Should an user upload a bigger binary, it could be automatically diverted to a p2p trackerless environment (torrent+magnet for example) and its corresponding link (magnet link) added to the post so that followers can download at their will or choose to opt out. This could be either left to the server or the client, which of course need to be modified anyway to reflect the protocol changes. NNTP clients UIs could be updated to become more modern (discussion centered) not that different from the Geary email client (plus some gfx) for example.

I'm not expert in either of these platforms, that's just an idea that came to mind some months ago. Would it be feasible to invest in a NNTP resurrection rather than starting over?
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This article comes just days after DIGG shut down their RSS reader. Sux, I used it every day. Me and my OPML file are looking for a new home...

https://digg.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000678608
Now that we're set on introducing more and more autopilot and autonomous vehicles why dont we add sensors and beacons to our infrastructure to make all these things easier. Nothing really has changed since traffic lights.

It would help if barriers and construction obstacles would have beacons in them. This is not to replace cameras and radars but to help augment data whenever possible.

I think there is an opportunity for governments to help solve autopilot and autonomous vehicle challanges.
Do you have anything to back this claim? It seems to not make sense.
Sorry you didn't have a great experience. I'm working on fman 1.0 with literally 10x better performance.
I agree with those that say RSS never went away, for the last 10 years or so I’ve noticed my dependence on RSS grow and it’s critical to my keeping track of news across a number of blogs and websites. I wrote a shitty little blog post on it last year: https://smcleod.net/thoughts/2017/09/22/return-of-the-rss.ht...
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This is way more than what's required for sentience though. Sentience is having a notion of self, many animals are sentient.

Maybe you meant sapience or intelligence, but I wonder if people think computers won't be sentient (as in self aware) in our lifetime, even if they are still not able to match human cognition.
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It happens naturally as you get older. There’s nothing you can do to hasten the transition. Regular exercise helps with sleep but if you stop the effects on sleep end.
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