skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you really think anyone wants "a car that will drive itself while you are paying full attention to every detail"? Otherwise, what is a driver really gaining from this? They're still expected to pay just as much attention (if not more) and I'd bet it's even more boring than regular driving (no interaction from the driver means it's like the world's most boring VR movie)

EXACTLY. They're at even more risk for accident due to inattention because it's so hard to focus on doing nothing.
I highly recommend everyone to watch this great documentary.
We all know AI (and robotics) will be revolutionary, as we see it daily in the news and in our social feeds, or we are (enthousiastically) working on AI projects ourselves.
This 1,5hr well-made movie brings it all together, and offers a disturbing glimpse into our near future. The revolution is well underway, and it is mostly unregulated.

Watch and share!

You can watch for free until Sunday night, April 8, according to Elon Musk:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/982119546420002817

If you are (rightfully) worried about where this all leads, come join the non-profit humanetech.com community and provide your insights and solutions for the development of more Humane Technology. We are still small with 1300+ members and need all the help we can get :)
Interestingly, High German also has experienced a pronunciation shift, but it was a consonant shift and came much earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_German_consonant_shift
Jeff Minter posts regularly on Taitter.
Photoshop vs. Sketch
The computer decided that staying in the middle of a wide lane was more important than avoiding a large obstacle where there was sufficient room on either side. That's bog-standard target-fixation fallacy. Is that excelling?
Dude that’s a total overreaction. I was referring to software engineers. Why would a product manager need to know how to use rebase or bisect?
A complete guidance of WhatsApp Business app and how its work
Usenet was lightyears ahead of any web forum I have seen so far! Decentralized, independent, and offering reader software that still has no match in the world of WWW forums.
I have downloaded news batches at 1200 baud and would still want to do this to get those advantages back!

Since the web forums have taken over, I have no place to go any longer, except for HN, but even this feels like a drag compared to the elegance of Usenet.
Fortnite on iOS made $15M in its first three weeks in the App Store – The Verge
https://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636612-t...

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
“Practical electronics for inventors” is a great book for getting started - and most importantly : nobody builds from scratch anymore - it usually a waste if time - there’s bound to be a platform/devkit out there that does more or less what you want it to
I use DigitalOcean as my VPN provider and make my connections to there over IPSEC. I did not set the server up myself alone, but used the Algo VPN [1] script to do it for me. With this setup, I have two things to be concerned about:

1- I did not audit the script myself, and they may have injected various malware to the VPN server it spun up during the setup. I am not concerned enough to not trust them, but I could just read the script thoroughly to eliminate the necessity for trust.

2- DigitalOcean has the access to hardware, so it might be doing whatever while I am not looking, and I just never look. Similarly, I could monitor the activity on the server to assume some control.

I chose DO for being the cheapest ($5/month).

[1] https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
Reviews like this always give me an irrational desire to build a desktop machine again.
For small values of "Reality".

There are many far better multi-user VR experiences. Sansar. SineSpace. High Fidelity. Even Second Life. It's easy to do the simple demo, and really hard to do a full large virtual world.
Why ‘safe spaces’ at universities are a threat to free speech
Thats an awesome attention to detail. It looks like a lot of work on top of writing a book. It feels like a great debt is owed for the amount of work that's gone into something I can essentially enjoy for free.

When it's finished, I'll buy a copy.
I highly recommend everyone to watch this great documentary. We all know AI (and robotics) will be revolutionary, as we see it daily in the news and in our social feeds, or we are (enthousiastically) working on AI projects ourselves. This 1,5hr well-made movie brings it all together, and offers a disturbing glimpse into our near future. The revolution is well underway, and it is mostly unregulated.

Watch and share!

You can watch for free until Sunday night, April 8, according to Elon Musk

If you are (rightfully) worried about where this all leads, come join the non-profit humanetech.com community and provide your insights and solutions for the development of more Humane Technology. We are still small with 1300+ members and need all the help we can get :)
I'm not sure what the problem is here. Your comment is a bit misleading since neither of those first two are expecting a callback. Both keys and values just return arrays so its not that out of place for entries to also return an array.
How does one tap all the reads and writes to a card?
Hello! From any modern browser whether from mobile device or desktop.
In layman's terms: people in England around ~1400/1500 started to change how vowels sounded in almost every word (i.e., /a/ shifted to /ei/, /i/ to /ai/, ..). Given that written languages often evolve much more slowly than their spoken form, people simply kept writing everything with its middle English spelling (which now had lots of wrongly placed vowels and mute consonants, such as [gh] and the [k] in "knight"), giving birth to the messy English spelling we all use and love.

This is also the reason why English speaking kids find spelling so difficult, and spelling bees exist - people are actually writing in an older version of the language they speak.
Yes exactly, I'd normally be a staunch defender of Backpage here, assuming they merely acted as a middle man ala Craigslist or any other listings site. Similar to ISPs with the Safe Harbour Act or Tor.

But Backpage actively helped these guys create ads that won't trigger any red flags. Instead of blocking the posts, warning them, or straight up banning them, the listing wizard directly suggested ways to conceal illegal activity after detecting 'bad' keywords, in order to help allow the user to continue to use the site.

This feature most likely had good intentions for other law abiding users, likely for the largely majority of cases, but it was pretty damn obvious how it also helps some seriously bad guys. You'd just have to look at some of the example keywords which would trigger this automated assistance...

Backpage played an active role not just a reactionary passive one. Which is why I understand and support legal action against them - although I'm not sure seizing is the right approach, but that's another story.
Which is exactly why we need the Second Amendment. Molon Labe. You can either comply or defy.
> If you use Chrome or Firefox, almost all of your data is hidden from the ISP

Can you elaborate on how Chrome and Firefox hide your traffic from your ISP, and what privacy advantages they have over IE, Safari or Opera?
It seems that with current developments, that's a complicated way of saying "turn it off."
No? Facebook and Google also refuse to crack their own encryption, but are still privacy concerns.
I'm almost 40, and I have problems with getting through the recruiters wall. They usually tell me two things: "the company is looking for someone more culturally fit (younger)" or "you are almost 40, and you still are not at manager". The thing is I want to be a programmer :)

So looking for a job is harder, but when I finally get one, it's funny to work with those young people, who usually have no idea of many things. Example from this week: when you connect to 127.0.0.1 from your machine, it's not connecting you to the testing server.

I think that if you are "old" and you are looking for a job, just don't give up, and ignore all those "young" companies.

Btw, I was always wondering what they will do in 10 years, when all those "young" people will be "too old for them to hire". Will they fire them?
Rott's Pendulum
It is very easy to stop data breaches. Make C-Suite executives and the board of directors personally liable for any breaches caused by failing to have appropriate security controls in place. I bet once a few of these executives were bankrupted for failing to implement adequate security controls, things would change pretty quick.

These executives get paid a large sum of money, and then skirt all responsibility when these things happen. They get fired and move onto the next gig like nothing ever happened. There is no accountability for these failings.

In Ancient Rome the builder/designer of an arch was required to stand under it as the wooden scaffolding was removed (the most dangerous time).

It is high time we re-introduced accountability into our governance systems.
It's just PR and advertising for his company's services. What actually swayed the elections was the DNC hack.
He worked for Verizon and he has no technical skills.

What do you expect?
Ask HN: Tech landscape 10 years from now
It occurred to me recently that successful startups are essentially the winners in a predictive wager on our near-term future.

So: where will tech be 10 years from now? What were the prevalent and pervasive technological advances? What substantive problems will we have overcome, and/or still face?

Curious as to the opinions of all here.
Object.entries() doesn't take a function like that; it takes an object instance. It returns an array whose elements are themselves arrays, each one containing a key value pair. You could then call map on that array, which work the same way map always works.

So why use an array of arrays like this? Most likely it's symmetry and composition. The inverse of this operation is to build an object from a list of key+value pairs, and the most natural way to represent that is with an array of two-element arrays. A similar pair of operations that uses an array of objects which carry more information is Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptors()/Object.create().
What "signing off" could MIT do? They weren't the victims of any crime, they were merely the venue. "MIT didn't sign off" was just Ortiz's excuse to not stop pursuing Swartz.
FireLotto Crypto Lottery ICO Successfully Raised Approx. $3M
> Except you can literally draw a poop emoji as the signature and it’ll be happily accepted.

Not in my experience (Europe). Signature must match the one in the card, and cashiers check it most of the times.
Novel experiences slow down time while habitual behaviors speed it up. However, we are almost by definition creatures of habit. They're necessary in order to function efficiently. So you could argue there's a tension between living efficiently and living well.

But most people never get far enough to worry about. Our world has been designed to lure people into poor behavioral loops like watching TV, browsing social media, and otherwise consuming aimlessly and mindlessly. Sadly, there appears to be a strong incentive to induce that kind of adverse behavior in users/customers.
I have been victim of 3 evos myself, i didnt get very far into the configuration process (db, transmission, etc) before them more or less being rendered useless. The ssd evos are great but the sd cards are simply horrible, tragically I saw them locally bundled with pi starter kits. I ended up buying a sandisk which has not had a single hiccup even after a little bit of abuse.
Killing someone is in the same inconcievable category as a procedure that on average helps as much as it harms, by any statistical measure? By that measure, feeding your child meat also fits, as does refusing to feed your child meat.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/circumcision/abo...
Isn't this eerily close to a right to be forgiven, which is not at all a right? If you make a stupid mistake when you're young, then what's wrong with me judging you for the rest of your life? The Government shouldn't hide the knowledge from me because they think I ought to give you another chance, that should be up to me to decide.
I always suspected so :) Really hope that some day it won't be necessary anymore.
When users submitted listings with keywords like "young girls" (and worse) it would automatically detect them and suggest edits to allow the listing to still be posted without triggering any red flags. Among other things (?).

Which is why the feds believe they crossed the line into actively assisting criminal activity when they should have just been dissuading or outright blocking the people creating this type of content on the site.
Thanks, noted!
Things were already moving in that direction though. Many games used Doom / Quake / etc engines in the 90s

I think the turning point came when the work to write a new engine became greater than the work to use an off the shelf and make it your own. And that only came about as people's expectations for physics, lighting, etc got pushed ever more.
yep, we were just thinking about that, thanks :)
Or maybe you should just own it and put those things behind you with a laugh. This gives the government way too much power over who knows what, the ability to erase things as they see fit, and all that so that you can avoid a bit of embarassment, to me, sounds ridiculous.
That's quite a sparse list,

Walnuts have 3mg/100g (33% DV) [1]

Sunflower seeds 5mg/100g (53% DV) [2]

I'm currently holding a 340g bag of raw organic walnuts I opened this morning, and it's nearly empty just from snacking throughout the day. Also snacked on sunflower seeds, but not much.

Dinner was a large bowl of lentils, which have 3.5mg/100g (35%) [3]

Without even optimizing for it I'm over the RDI for Zinc without animal products, this is just what I happen to be stocked up on currently. So clearly it's not much of a challenge for a vegetarian to get sufficient Zinc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut#Nutritional_value

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower_seed#Nutrition

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lentil#Nutritional_value
That's not true, though, because there is a "phone PIN" that you give to an operator when you need their help, and you can get it txted to you using a special SMS command.
PetSmart customers speak out about unusual grooming-related deaths
When I upload files do I have to assist in the P2P transfer of other files or is this supported by your servers? Is there any client side encryption planned ala Mega?
That comment is from the series' author, just doing a bit of his signature trolling for which he is so beloved on Hackaday.

I know he (Brian) has expressed that those articles generated underwhelming metrics for the amount of work they take, but they really are a useful resource for people looking to get an overview of their options. And I'm sure the Whalebait fiasco will blow over soon enough.
U.S. Homeland Security to compile database of journalists
Confessions of an Unreal Engine 4 Engineering Firefighter
Your problem is not about learning, but it is about finding the problems in markets, That can only be done by talking to lot of people in various markets. please check https://www.indiehackers.com/@sarwech/how-to-find-problems-t...
A heating system, thermostat, for my shed.

I hooked up a temperature sensor and relay to control a 500w heater in my shed office. A Python script checks the temperature every five minutes using cron and turns the heater off/on.

I also keep graphs. I only work in the shed on Thursdays/Fridays which are reflected in my graphs.

http://shed.chrismatchett.co.uk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16775166
Initial Coin Offerings Raised a Record Amount in First Quarter of 2018
Stop by and say hi to us sometime:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskElectronics/wiki/beginners

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskElectronics/wiki/education
> at least $10 million a year.

Presumably the tax is on future 2018 earnings, not 2017 earning.s
It's not only women that make their living in sex work.

Are support people necessarily victimizers? Is someones driver automatically their pimp? Is the realtionship better or worse if it was transacted through an app?

If someone hosts child pornography on an AWS hard drive; should Jeff Bezos go to jail for it?

There's a lot of subtlety here.

And a government that is manifestly and overtly corrupt has no business enforcing morality on people.
Thank you! The physical model of the 'hovercrafts' in Battlezone 2 was so satisfying, I just enjoyed piloting over the landscape so much and no game has come this close to that feeling!
I have to agree; I mean, it's a concern, but not a new concern. He's the CEO of Facebook, of course he can potentially read anything stored on their servers. Nothing has changed on that regard. And not just on Facebook - any company. Why would one ever assume otherwise?

Here's cperciva's insightful post on the issue: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-01-19-playing-chicken-w...
First I would ask why you want to learn. Electronics is a broad field. Is there a certain area you have interest in?

Me - grew up with it as a hobby/passion. I just learned what I had to to accomplish my goals. So my advice would be to come up with some projects/goals and figure out what is needed to accomplish those.
I transitioned from technical recruiting to software development at age 40.
In China, safety standards are poor in factories also and often unregulated, so no reliable statistics exist. Factories also have dangerous chemicals.

https://www.wired.com/2015/04/inside-chinese-factories/
> but as a creator of the weapon you can't know that, you have no control on how it's used

That's not entirely true, especially if you are working for a military. You don't have total control over how it's used, but you can decide which government you work for.
You're just begging for a tragedy of the commons, which is a tragedy for a reason.

I am an anarchist (the capitalist sort, not the weird "we're really liberals" socialist one) and I don't want the government to defend my anything. In any case, who defends what was not in question; I was just pointing out that sustainability is not an issue in a (truly) capitalist society, because the owner of a resource can always decide to limit consumption.
Sure. Chrome and Firefox both implement (or are implementing) DNS over HTTPS, which hides what domains you're visiting by passing the request encrypted through a provider such as Google. Chrome also has a "data saver" on mobile that passes your traffic through Google's servers. Opera has had similar functionality for some time. Safari and IE will implement DNS over HTTPS once it's a standard, which should be soon. Don't know if they have plans to support tunneling too.
glTF is already gaining some traction as a model format. But it’s scene support is more what you’d see for modelling software than what you’d have for a game engine where the scene description is more about the game entities and the data glTF provides is usually abstracted out.

glTF is a great idea for providing a sensible interchange format for models though. Even this data usually gets converted into a custom binary format for the runtime engine to consume depending on use. Although as you note glTF has its own binary format and I understand it’s going to be improved with support for compression like Basis so perhaps that will reduce the need for custom formats for all but the most optimised cases.
How China can win a trade war in 1 move
Because after WWII Finland was very influenced by the Soviet Union. Finland tried to avoid enacting or supporting policies that opposed the Soviet Union during the cold war, especially during the first half when the USSR was Finland's largest market.

There's even a word for it, "Finlandization", which means not upsetting the super power right next door even though you secretly really don't like it.

But since Finland wanted to have access to the global, capitalist market English was the way forward. I don't think national pride made them break away from the Soviet sphere of influence it was money, and English is still the language of global business. Until the opportunity cost of learning some other language than English for your field is too big countries will most likely stick with English.
In 2012 Facebook bragged about millions of apps, 3 yrs before it cut off access
I found a specific project that I really wanted to build, and copied online tutorials. After a few cycles of that (involving different sub-systems of the same large project) I developed increasing knowledge as a result of both the process itself and the information I found myself naturally encountering and reading along the way.
Dani, thanks for doing this and I like your idea of building an online community working on interesting side projects in AI. I would apply this batch and recommend it to other researchers who are working on cool stuff to apply now, "only" if you take our feedback, which you asked for, into consideration which are:

1-Delete the personality questionnaire and the brain teaser. Keep it simple as you promised above "in minutes". Seems like everyone here hates it, including me.

2-Either in the application process or on your website, state how would you protect my idea. Ideas become things. In the application, I will give you my full idea that I am working on. You might get inspired by it, and build it your own. If you are really trying to attract top-notch side project, you need to do this.
> It's not possible to engineer an autonomous system that never fails, but it is possible to engineer one in such a way that it never fails to detect that it has failed.

That sounds highly dubious. Here's a hypothetical scenario:
there's a very drunk person on the sidewalk. As a human driver, you know he might act unexpectedly so you slow down and steer to the left. This will help you avoid a deadly collision as the person stumbles into the road.

Now let's take a self driving car in the same scenario, where, since it doesnt have general intelligence, it fails to distinguish the drunk person from a normal pederstrian and keeps going at the same speed and distance from the sidewalk as normally. How, in this scenario, does the vehicle 100% know that it has failed (like you say is always possible)?
So, what you're saying is.

"What kind of persimmon faced killjoy is against a little adult fun?" is a more effective line to use than a dissertation on all the benefits of legal sex work?