skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quick bug report: when accessing the site from Israel, the footer's "Nearby Airports" section includes:

* Ramon Air Base (no civilian flights)

* Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport (Israeli/Lebanese border is closed)

* Damascus International Airport (Israeli/Syrian border is closed)

Simply asking "what's within X radius" is not a sufficiently robust algorithm for this problem.
>it's reminiscent of the kind of incompetence that characterized the Equifax breach

Go to Mike's LinkedIn and he is the former "ISO - Sr. Director of Security Operations" for Equifax.
Well, I think many people don't want to understand that ambitious targets are most likely to be missed. So missing the target is actually what is going to happen and the real question is by how much.

So some might ask, why setting a goal that is unlikely to be reached and not simply set a realistic target?

Changing the automotive world isn't realistic. So if you would go with a realistic target you could have shutdown Tesla years ago. Nevertheless, there is an actual risk involved in setting the targets too high as burning people and investors can cause real problems.

Yet, I think it is best to judge Tesla by their actual performance and not so much by the fact that they missed their ambitious targets.
Will AI invent only more 'Me too' drugs?
OpenBSD?
Even when the whole San Bernardino thing happened, the FBI could already unlock the device. But they kept quiet so they can get their legal precedent.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4424780/Fbi-Iphon...

Also, let's assume this "solution" gets implemented into every smartphone out there. And then we discover that it actually doesn't work as well as theorized, and it can now be abused by hackers.

What then? Will the FBI agree to put that genie back in the bottle and have all OEMs remove support for this solution? Or will they go whine to the media and Congress that this solution can't be removed because "it's been so helpful in catching criminals and that odd kidnapper out of 1,000 cases", as they usually do when defending surveillance powers they've already had for a decade, whether illegally or legally, and then someone tries to rein in on those powers?

Criminals are not "going dark". If anything, there's been an Enlightenment Age of Surveillance over the past two decades. They have more data and more tools than ever (including the recent FISA law that allows the FBI to see all raw data going through ISP cables). And perhaps that's the problem, and why they keep missing so many cases. Too much noise that's captured.

It doesn't look like the FBI and the US government will ever be satisfied with anything other than complete surveillance of everything US citizens are doing - which is exactly what China is implementing right now.

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/surveillance-03302018...

(By the way, in relation to that article, the FBI is already seeking access to whatever Alexa and other such devices are recording, which could be increasingly more data as the tech improves).

Does anyone here actually believe that this is not actually FBI's goal? Or do they think that if this solution will be implemented, they won't find some other thing to complain about? Maybe open source encryption?
You don't need to pre-order if you expect the thing you want to buy to be readily available in enough volume to meet demand. There's millions of fleet trucks out there on a fixed age/mileage replacement schedule. Nobody is rushing to pre-order F150s because they know they'll be available when they want them.
I'm kinda the opposite. I depend on certain people filtering certain subjects and giving me a "best of." I would never go waste time on some sites myself- and now I don't have to. Jackie finds the good stuff and shares.
Facebook should be like paper and pencil.

Let the law enforcement should take paper and pencil away from you when they arrest you or jail you.

Facebook is trying to be a pencil, a tool that anyone can find and use, while having an opinion about who uses it and how they use it, while being in the wild i.e. after the pencil is sold.

You can either be a pencil, or have an opinion. Choose one.

Am I the only one who thinks that Facebook is trying to be two mutually incompatible things at the same time? How can they not see this themselves?
> Somewhere there must be an intelligent balance

In practice though this is mostly biased towards the revenue of the company selling the goods, not towards your health requirements.
You can't walk into/click onto a high-street store and buy that though, and my assumption is that's where most people buy laptops.

£670 is much more than people I know want to spend on a new machine. None of them have ever mentioned screen resolution when i've asked what they want in a laptop.
Lobsters does this well: maintain a tree of invites. If 'bad' (by whatever your definiton is) contributors arrive, don't just block/shadowban them, but consider blocking/shadowbanning whoever invited them.
Can you think of 25 people you would want to invite to your wedding?

Add in significant others, then double again for bride and groom.

That's 100 people. Sure there's lots of overlap, so it wouldn't actually be 100, but I know I personally have more than 25 people I want at my wedding that aren't friends/family of my fiancee.
It really reeks of desperation. They are frantically doing anything they can to keep investor confidence but all of their tricks are so worn out and tired now and their debt load and burn rate is so much higher that it isn't going to change anything.

They will go bankrupt. 100%. Maybe they can arrange some buy out or merger to try and save face, but doubtful.

Given their level of candor I am sure their accounting is an Enron style sh-t-show of epic proportions.

That is almost certainly why they had to buy SolarCity. Other than paying off Musk and SpaceX loans they also couldn't afford to have the books opened in bankruptcy court because it would destroy Musk's reputation.

It is coming though.
This seems like such a losing battle. Payments on public transit could become anonymous, but the video feeds would still be recorded, and facial recognition could be easily performed.

The cat is out of the bag. Information technology makes this data accumulation inevitable. Likely even for those who walk around with a face covering all day, pay only cash, and don't use smartphones. By doing those things you actually make yourself more noticeable, in a lot of ways, and are still trackable.

There are some cryptoanarchist ways to achieve practical privacy, to all but the most dedicated governments. Yet, those technologies have severe downsides for both individuals and society at large.

There's no obvious way out of this conundrum. The concept of the Participatory Panopticon is one proposed solution, and is less top-down, but not necessarily any less capricious than centralized authority.

The best safeguards are to create strong institutions, informed citizens, stable economies, and all the usual boring social reform stuff that tech geeks hate and think is mushy, unchangeable, hard to study, and likely irrelevant.
"Women (or whomever is the primary caregiver in a family or does more domestic labor at home) should be paid more for fewer hours in the workplace."

Why should anyone be compensated anything for routine life-management work? What you're asking is akin to saying everyone should be paid to sleep. Sleeping, bathing, eating, maintaining the home -- these are all parts of functioning as a human. Taking care of children is a function of having chosen to have offspring - I would say it's a voluntary hobby, even.
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The new profile overview is terrible. I always switch it back to legacy since I can't follow the new overview. There is no way to keep it permanent in the legacy site that I know of.

Uneeded changes like this was how Digg failed.
I'm sorry, but you are unfortunately wrong. Some colleagues are involved in the development of a vending machine that does all those nasty things. And I think there are similar products already deployed.
Great idea and definitely a problem to solve, I think karma is probably the way to go.

But then again your probably going to get alot of spam commenters after that.
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I'm bored by roads.
I'm 32. I only see people on a few days of the week, some days I don't leave my house. I'm not axious, but I seem to think, "Why leave? My stuff is here, I can do all my work and socialize from the internet."

Part of the problem is I'm starting a company, and am on low finances until it launches. So, I'm car-less, in a city not really meant to be walked, and it's a small town, so not much happens anyway.

Part of me wants to take a cheap job washing dishes, so at least I see people regularly, but I know it would be a waste of my talent, and I would hate it and quit after a day ( seeing how futile it was ), but seriously.. yea, I get what they mean.

Sorry I'm not being extremely articulate, I'm trying to wrap my head around the utility and role of the internet in my life moving forward.
This is my favorite one:
https://whoishiring.io/
“Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people”
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Ambient temperature and EMF effects on SwiftRNG randomness (a hardware RNG)
There are a lot of things coming together that each individually would have been a serious challenge, to have them all at once and within 6 months of each other is pretty rough. Even so, I would not bet against Musk, he has a habit of making it through somehow. There is a book with a character in it called Reid Malenfant, Musk reminds me of that character.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_(Baxter_novel)

You get to chose: you're part of the bulldozer or you'll end up part of the highway. Even so, it will not be easy to do right by Tesla and not to ignore SpaceX, and that's before going into the fact that Tesla is now effectively subsidizing Solar City.
I'd argue that this is good for the economy. Economies are strong when money is changing hands a lot. If people hoard all their pennies, then money isn't changing hands, business isn't growing, and the economy stagnates.
If Eurostar didn't have the silly security theatre or 30 minute minimum checkin (A BA flight from LCY to Amsterdam has a 20 minute checkin, BA from Heathrow is 35 minutes if you're handluggage only) then you'd be right.

For people traveling from Amsterdam to London. Want to go to Reading or anywhere west of London? Flight, no brainer. Want to go to Birmingham? Fly to Birmingham.

St Pancras is still a tube ride from most places you want to go to even in central London. If you're aiming at Docklands it's a long way. Crossrail will help a fair bit with Heathrow too.

That's not to say that eurostar isn't often the right option -- the wifi and mobile coverage isn't that bad, and most of the trip can be productive - especially if you want to get your head down in some coding, security is marginally less annoying than airports.
I wonder if another dimension is useful.

YouTube's UI prominently features search. So if my interests change and I search for something I've never been interested before, YouTube can show me a pretty good selection of videos and tune its recommendations for future viewing.

I will say, though, that all social networks seem to fail at weighting past behavior too strongly. Whenever I start a new account on a social network, I find it's recommendations are much more tuned to my interests, and those recommendations become less relevant overtime.

Biologically, I'm a new person every seven years. As a collection of varied interests, it seems like I turnover much more often than that - and I suspect the rate of turnover is different for everyone.
I know this very well, but the point is that this is irrelevant anyway, because the relative movement of the carrier matter much less than the difficulty of catching the hook. Whether you match the speed to the carrier deck or to the ground makes (almost) no difference. It's not as if the carrier was suddenly accelerating while a plane lands.

Catching the hook while the plane is in a controlled crash, that's the problem.
Can you "100% prove" that your destop Linux distribution has the same kernel modules and packages, and that none of the versions or patches diverge from the server your project is destined for?
I can’t speak about the entire thread, but I didn’t intend to compare iOS to other operating systems. I just wrote that I can “work normally” on an iPad. The kind of work I do allows that.

If I want to “branch out” I have the Chromebook Pixel, and I can get another laptop if I need to. I can run a Mac or Windows system in the cloud — I’ve done that when I need to use tools not available on iOS, from POEdit to Eclipse. I didn’t mean to imply that I would force myself to use an iPad for everything and just throw up my arms if I couldn’t get something to work on it.
"... losses don't matter" unless perhaps it's directly your own money and if you care or consider the opportunity costs, where else could have that money gone?
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There's been stuff like this going back to the 90s, and nobody actually wants this after they've tried it. You just don't have a lot of density of information, compared to what you can get from text on a screen or even video.

In addition, it's hard to use any current VR headset for more than an hour or so because of eye strain.
I mean maybe it's too much of a reach, and they need to use ATARI or something like ATARI on every landing. In any case, the idea is that maybe your mission operators don't have to be your recovery specialists.

Having options and fallbacks are good. I can't imagine the Navy not looking at all their data in 5 years and figuring out a reasonable plan.

We're all just armchairing it. Engineering data is really all that matters at the end of the day.
Retroshare tries to do many things at the same time with few programmers, so I get a suspicion it is not doing any of them well
I think there is a high probability that some of his risk-taking initiatives backfire at some point in time, but I cannot deny that this guy is moving several industries forward at much faster pace than said industries would move on their own.

This observation is not going to affect my investment decisions though. I will not go as far as shorting TSLA ('the market can stay irrational longer than any investor can stay solvent'), but I would not buy TSLA either.
I think the full amount of money and dark money involved in this will turn out to be staggering. Parscale bragged of spending $90m alone on FB ads. And that is just one highly visible piece of the puzzle.
The data could be stored encrypted on a VM and cycled off after {n} hours. With the right codecs and encryption, you could likely store a couple days of motion on a small amount of storage. If uploaded in chunks, you might miss a couple minutes prior to the unit being destroyed. I suppose protecting your internet uplink becomes important at this point.
Bitmain is producing an Ethereum Miner
It does... Look at the website you're on. Ycombinator is an entrepreneurer's forum
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If you're 100% sure, then you should dump your life savings into shorting Tesla. You'll make a fortune.
Couldnt people still save "cash" electronically in a savings account, say?
Can you talk more about your plans for smart contract support? Will this mean I can paste my ABI in and it will auto generate a UI for it? This could be amazing if so.
So to put it another words, every large automotive conglomerate has multiple brands that are greatly more reliable than Tesla.

Not sure about Kia, but their parents at Hyundai definitely do have better build quality than Tesla. I would imagine that someone buying a new one would complain to the dealership if they tried to shove a car with body gaps as bad as Tesla's ton them... And on a Hyundai less than half the price of Model S you get stuff like cooled seats that Tesla doesn't even offer currently (luxury car, right!) and that didn't work worth crap when they did offer them...
it would be easier for clicking on [+] to expand code section. With proper infrastructure might actually be usable for writing code.
You might be dealing with mathematical informalism, inconsistent and idiosyncratic notation which is never truly explained anywhere.

Having both mathematical notation and prose can help uncover gaps in understanding and works much better as a system of organising human knowledge.
That web site is extremely heavy. I hate to think how much Javascript it's trying to run in the background.
Losing money. Almost out of cash. Model 3 numbers less that predicted. Bonds down. I'm just summarising the issues - they may well do fine.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16612805 for example.
A sudden loss of wealth may be hazardous to health
There's an important lesson for entrepreneurs in the crypto timeline: You can make a lot of money on a bad idea.
How do you do chargebacks with Ethereum?
I don't think it's a good reason to push for cashless, but three seconds on average for both buyers and sellers? Only if Swedes are much faster than citizens across the rest of Europe. Giving the money, inputting the amount into the POS so it can open the register, then choosing the bills and coins - 3s seconds is about the best case scenario, in my experience.
Sure - but from the easy of human pattern matching looking a list of hostnames in a monitoring system without needing to click to a different page I think it is worth it.

If you are in the habit of moving racks, then I would agree keeping it only in an inventory system makes sense, but that also requires the asset system to be updated when a rack moves - at which point changing a hostname (which can be autogenerated by dhcp based on that system) an easy step to add.
It's a reasonable point but perhaps a bit outdated? Containers more or less allow interpreted languages to be "statically linked". In the past you had to care more about whether system X had library Y installed but that seems like an edge case in today's world.
There's support for exporting and importing the people you follow and block lists.

There's also a migration feature that lets you say "I'm at this new handle now" on an old profile. But I don't think it automatically brings your old followers with you.

Note that these are only viable if you know ahead of time that the instance is going away (this is happening right now with witches.town which is closing at the end of April).
yep:

> During testing, the ATARI system operators controlled an F/A-18 aircraft using a joystick, while a safety pilot sat in the cockpit as backup. The technology is capable of taking over an aircraft from up to five miles away.
> Scott Meyers ... promptly exited the C++ community

Huh, TIL
http://scottmeyers.blogspot.fr/2015/12/good-to-go.html
I'm absolutely shocked by this turn of events.
Yes, as vardump says, I was able to download as a guest. I provided an email from https://www.guerrillamail.com/

No payment is required, or even a real email address.
Quote from RFC: "Just because a person is named "Don" doesn't mean he is the ruler of the world (despite what the "Choosing a Name for your Baby" books say)."

If only the RFC knew what we know now.
Maybe. Does it let me host my own worlds, like running my own web-server, or am I locked in to them hosting?

Also, is their file format open source, and is the client open source?
It's not autonomous like a drone, it's controlled by human(s) on the aircraft carrier with a pilot in the cockpit. It's also being billed as a "backup system" for safety (to correct course) and for emergencies.
Absolutely. I deleted facebook and reddit.
I've been bored out of my mind for days.

I'm using it to do machine learning training.
The Google crash course is excellent.
Yes, but the solution would be to do something like Steam, and sell normal Windows software in the store.

Selling only WinRT software made all their efforts worthless.

Forcing developers to provide Win32 and WinRT versions of software alienated software developers.

Some of the calculation was correct. WinRT was not.
Intel is just behind, Cannonlake which supports LPDDR4 is now ~18 months late.

LPDDR4 also uses a different physical signaling scheme than LPDDR3 so it's not a minor change to adapt current processors, if it is even possible without a packaging change.
Ask HN: VPNing to connect to the internet from China?
I am planning to spend this June living in my in-laws' apartment in Anhui province. I would like to work while I'm there. My job requires access to my company's Google GSuite apps, to our VPC in AWS, and to a few American social networks (twitter and instagram).

Has anyone here acheived a similar feat in the recent past? If so I assume you did it by subscribing to a commercial VPN service? Did you have any problems?

Any recommendations? Anything I should watch out for?

Thanks in advance!
I find most people IRL are very boring. Out of all the people surround me there's one guy who I can talk to about life extension, robots, AI, etc. Everyone else is busy with meaningless everyday news and/or sports and/or generic entertainment shows, almost nobody has cool hobbies or even interests.
Clickbait, overclocked Ryzen 7 2700X scores the same as i7 7820X.

It's a bit different story
You’re spot on.

But while Bitcoin almost certainly won’t go poof, it could dry up. ETH and Monero each take a slice of the market away (smart contracts and anonymous, respectively). More will come that take away more niches.

Lots of things can transfer quantity trustlessly now. The question is: in a world with thousands of established way to send quantity, how much is the “plain old ledger” worth?