skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pro athletes ... seem OK with it.

Pro athletes are a terrible example. There has been decades of litigation, lockouts, negotiations, etc. across almost all leagues to get to where we are now and there are many that continue to think the system is too restrictive for the players and too much in a league's favor.
There's a few other good ones too:

https://www.opensource-socialnetwork.org

https://www.humhub.org/en

https://www.oxwall.com

https://elgg.org - site seems to be having issues right now

https://friendi.ca
Ah yah, Thank you.

Even internally I use brew'd, apt-get'd and nuget'd version for build. I want that my plugin compile faster ;)

The v8 build script is kept for advanced user and potential contributors ;)
This thread proves 95% of IT tards have no fucking clue about configuring Mysql.
Niche/industry can have a huge impact on cpms though.
I'm not sure we're disagreeing here. Maybe I read some of the thread wrong - most of them seem to be saying "you have money - you have options. take a break, do something else, etc". Then there are the FIRE people kinda saying 'suck it up and get true independence' and the like.

Maybe I was tired and my comment didn't come across as intended. I was intending to say "I'm much poorer than you and still, due to my personal circumstances - white, American, passport, etc, have options so OP, in seemingly far far better circumstances has far, far more options"
Since person anecdote, I've used Turo in the Seattle area with great success. Rented a small van to move some stuff for work. The van was a $7 lyft ride away from my place, I picked up the keys, took a photo of the odometer. Used the van for 2 days, refilled with gas, street parked it at the owner's place, took another odometer photo and some shots of the exterior on my phone, done.

Way faster than using Enterprise or similar traditional van rental.
First off, Tesla has no business calling it auto-pilot; it's over promising. Call it driver assist to be more clear because if you have to keep your hands on the steering wheel and your eyes on the road, that is not auto pilot:

"... Automatic Pilot: noun: a device for keeping an aircraft on a set course without the intervention of the pilot. ..."
You should look at the assembly to know for sure (after you have profiled and narrowed it down).

With this sort of speed difference my guess is that there is either excess memory allocation going on, pointer hopping when you think you are using something by value on the stack, or both.
> Torn, yes. Lost/destroyed, no

They still will, if there is a way to verify it (e.g. stuff in a bank vault).
"Keanu wonders: is Minecraft chunky purely because everything’s rendered really far from the origin?"

Actually, Minecraft used to have some interesting float-precision-induced artifacts once you got far from the origin:

https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Far_Lands
I thought the meme-ory was on purpose...
Hi all, Peepeth creator here. Would appreciate your thoughts.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/87k9iz/presenting...

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/peepeth
This is quite visible in their demonstration slider-image; the building in the back-right changes from a brick building with glass windows to a stucco-ish building with a bunch of exterior duct-work.
The Xerox PARC Visit
Noticed this also, no need to monitor and adjust the speed which is a mundane task (in cruise control traffic conditions). Eyes can be on the road instead.

This is similar to the problem for pilots, who can be distracted by mundane tasks due the complexity of controls in modern aircraft. If these tasks are removed, the pilot can focus on what's more important.

According to NASA "
For the most part, crews handle concurrent task demands efficiently, yet crew preoccupation with one task to the detriment of other tasks is one of the more common forms of error in the cockpit."

https://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/publications/directline/dl10_distr...
How about they make a law which will have real effects vs. just lip service -- ban unpaid overtime.
When i think about Mass Effect, what comes to mind are these long sequences in the Citadel where you do nothing more than talk, learning about the biology, technology qnd geopolitics of the game's universe. I don't think this kind of content would fit a blockbuster movie, and without it what remains is a bunch of space marines shooting aliens.
I remember I started using Youtube originally because they had pretty much every season of every TV show uploaded there.
I thought the real life Halo short films were pretty incredible. I think the problem is Hollywood insists sex, gory violence, and pretty actors are the only motivators for people to watch movies. Story, character development, convincing dialog, non-cgi graphics all come second to making sure the sequel is setup.
I think we're going to continue to see news like this until there exists parity in capabilities between the competitors (and then it'll be even more abundantly clear how far away we are from full-auto driving).
I thought about doing something similar like this, just seemed to shady for me to actually do. Good job though!
Wow, reading the comments in that post are amazing. The echo-chamber, Stockholm Syndrome is full blown on that subreddit...
> So a fake alert can be sent out nationwide from broadcasting to just one access point??

I believe OP meant "country" as in "countryside", which is feasible when you're up on a hill and your signal can reach a distribution source antenna (which will then distribute your spoofed alert to its attached sirens).
Same here. I was prepared to say "Okay, that's silly, but they still work", but the zip line was a tad too much. Why would you have that in your office?

Edit: They did a follow-up some years later (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v7v51le0lc) and somewhat surprisingly they were still pretty similar! I guess they really know how to balance themselves, since they do seem to be putting out a good product.
I very much agree with your opinion. Systems which take over most but not all responsibility seem to lull us humans into a false sense of security/reliability. The psychological aspect of this is actually quite intriguing, but it's also a very dangerous phenomena.

I don't know anything about your wife, but that does sound perhaps a touch condescending. Besides that I think you make a very good point, one that many people seem to want to wish away.
If I had a nickel for every jackass who thought he understood URL parsing well enough to do it by hand instead of using the goddamned builtin library like a sane person and get all of its sanity checks and corner cases handling for free, I could retire (and would be a lot less bitter).
Have you done the math on estimating returns with things like a gap in tenancy, repairs, etc. factored in?
> took no action for 6 seconds while driving straight to the barrier.

Did it say the 6 seconds was immediately prior to the crash.
Front-ends like peepeth.com are censorable. Illegal content will be removed from the peepeth.com front-end.

I think its criminal appeal is limited compared to alternatives. Use of a known and traceable payment+communications channel reveals more info about the perpetrators and their networks than non-crypto communication channels + crypto payments. Pairing communication and money removes a level of anonymity because of the traceable nature of blockchain transactions.
> to help you deal with a rare occurrence

..I actually use it with almost every commit, so I don't add reminder comments and debugging statements.
(extremely nerds voice) mine peepeth
It make sense, the outback is absolutely vast and not densely populated, and while SA is big, it’s a speck by comparison. The camels must be pretty happy there, for whatever values ofmhappy apply to um, camels.
Sugar causes cardiovascular inflammation and doesn’t satiate you.

A high fat, moderate protein, low carb diet (ie “ketogenic”) will cause weight loss with no exercise while increasing cardiovascular health (stick to plant material if you can versus a meat heavy diet, to keep colorectal cancer at bay).

If you pick one exercise to do, lift weights, either to increase or maintain muscle mass.
Adaptive cruise control is a bit annoying in traffic, as the safety buffer causes cars who don’t care about tailgating to easily move into the gap causing my speed to jolt around a lot (and eventually get stuck behind some slow moving vehicle). It just doesn’t work well in heavy two lane traffic I guess.
4) He's regurgitating verbatim, everything his army of attorneys coached him to say.

At least he's not saying the magic 4 words - I DO NOT RECALL - that every other senator or congressman or CEO says in their hearings, also not smirking or mocking the committee like Pharma Bro did, so I'll give him that.
I don't think what Windows provides is really comparable. By my understanding (and the documentation you linked seems to back this up) WDM is responsible for taking 2D framebuffers from applications, and compositing them into a (possibly 3D) scene. Fuchsia's Scenic operates uses a 3D scene graph as its input.
Ask HN: Facebook censorship?
It seems that HN and YC are censoring Facebook related posts from hitting the leaderboard. Can someone explain this?
>I am not sure why there is so much anti Tesla sentiment here in HackerNews.

I just hope it is not limited to HN, and there is more anti Tesla sentiment out there as well.

They deserve every bit of it.
Los Angeles lawmakers now weighing 120-day cap for Airbnb hosts
Correct. The Mach research project at Carnegie Mellon aimed to build a replacement kernel for BSD that supported distributed and parallel computing.

Next's VP of Software Engineering, Avie Tevanian, was one of the Mach project leads. Richard Rashid, who lead the Mach project ended up running Microsoft Research's worldwide operations.

Their work on a virtual memory subsystem got rolled back into BSD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)

The Computer History Museum has an interesting long form interview with Avie:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwCdKU9uYnE
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtpIFrOGTHk
Would you mind sharing a purchase link?
Look, I'm old and cynical too, but we can't do character assassination in this way. You need to take issue with specific facts or your argument comes across as extremely weak.
Martha Stewart wholesale lied by saying that she and her broker had a pre-set price point of $60 for when to dump ImClone. That part is completely fabricated by Stewart. It's impossible to mess up 'My stock broker told me CEO was dumping his shares' with 'We agreed to sell at $60'
Yes, there are people who are surprised that many have the opinion that SVN is fine for a lot of projects and you don't need to migrate for the sake of it.

That's more or less what I was getting at.
Neither supporting or opposing any side. How is this a threat to HN?
They're all open now, but the spec is monstrously large and difficult to work with. Definitely not easier to do than CSV.
I am not really sure if development of SDVs is really that important, but even if it were, your proposal would only be acceptable if it were you and Mr. Musk racing your Teslas on Tesla's private proving grounds. Somewhere in the Kalahari desert seems to be an acceptable location. The moment people "making a sacrifice" are unsuspecting customers, and eventually innocent bystanders you are veering very much into Dr. Mengele's territory.

Actually, one thing that I was curious about regarding this incident -- they say that authorities had to wait for a team of Tesla's engineers to show up to clean up burning mess of batteries. Luckily for everyone else trying to get somewhere on 101 that day, Tesla's HQ isn't too far away. What if next time one drives into a barrier it happens in a middle of Wyoming? Will the road stay closed until Tesla's engineers can hitch a ride on one of Musk's Falcons?
It's clear that without legislation, GDPR-like for USA - this all is just a talk.
How does RecordIO compare with Parquet and Arrow? Different use cases?
I know of it, and I think it's optimistic. You have to factor in the chance for inflation to go up and general equity returns to go down. I think 7% nominal returns is an outlier in the history of the world.

For example, the 30 year TIPS return at the moment is ~1% - I would consider that a truly "safe, real interest rate" return. By that standard, taking out 4% in real dollars has a significant chance of depleting your principal over time.
Or wear and tear. I doubt car parts are built with sustained speeds of 150 MPH in mind.
I think his point was that there's a bell curve and chasing this idea that there is a load of top talent is absurd. There obviously are really great, amazing developers out there, but there are magnitudes more 'mediocre' developers that can still accomplish some really great, amazing products.
You can use a property manager, they will take 10% of gross rent. If the margins aren't good enough to support that, then the property isn't a good buy.
TLDR: "Pornography with the use of AI techniques is certainly an ethical concern and bringing it to light is important. However, media outlets probably overreach when they suggest that you might be next."
Cambridge Analytica’s acting CEO steps down
I suppose you're talking about OWL. The thing is most programmers look at OWL, see the words class and property and immediately think that it's OOP, that they don't have to look more into it and it has the same problems.

But OWL is not based on OOP, it's based on Description Logic, which is a much more powerful abstraction than OOP and it let's you easily represent things which are very hard with something like Java. OWL includes the concept of complex class, in which you define the logical constraints of the class and then it is inferred automatically by a reasoner. This means that you can build really complex multidimensional hierarchies pretty easily.

For example, you can solve the circle/ellipse this way: the class circle is a complex class which is the intersection of the class ellipse and the class of two dimensional geometric shapes in which both major and minor axis have the same length. Any object that satisfies those constraints is a circle!

About the greek problem: you have to declare that the human class and the complex class which results from the intersection of the class two-legged animal and featherless animal are equivalent. It means that every human is two-legged featherless animal and viceversa.

You can even declare equivalences between ontologies, which lets you build conceptual bridges.

OWL has problems related with the maturity and performance of its implementations, and it remains to be seen if it's possible to treat the web as a gigantic Prolog program, but its conceptual model is powerful and sound.
> When driving, I find that I must be engaged and on long trips I don't even enable cruise control because taking the accelerator input away from me is enough to cause my mind to wander.

Glad I'm not the only doing it. When driving on a highway I increase or decrease my car's speed by 10-15 km every 10 minutes or so, so that this variation can help me keep attentive about my surroundings.
For OS it means that you should pick one abstraction for process state and one abstraction for IO and in fact you can have same abstraction for both. In this view Plan 9 makes sense while modern Unix with files, sockets, AIO, signals, various pthread and IPC primitives and so on does not (not to mention the fact that on every practical POSIX implementation various such mechanisms are emulated in terms of other synchronisation mechanisms)
> So POSIX support is a given on most systems. Why replace it with something that breaks existing code?

POSIX is a lowest common denominator API, its under specified and loosely interpreted. Which follows from its initial goals, which was basically to specify the bits common between various UNIX implementations. Those implementations obviously didn't want to change their implementation to match a rigid standard, so a lot of wiggle room exists in the standard.

The end result is that is pretty much useless for anything beyond "hello world" kinds of applications, both in terms of portability, as well as actual behavior (I could list a lot of cases, but lets leave that to google, with the starting idea to look at a couple posix API's, say close()'s errno's and the differing cases and what causes them on different OS's/filesystems). That is why there isn't a single OS out there that is _ONLY_ POSIX compliant. You need look no further than the 15 year old https://personal.opengroup.org/~ajosey/tr28-07-2003.txt and consider that the gap has widened as more performance or security oriented core API's have been introduced and linux's POSIX layer is further refined upon them.

Plus, the core API's in no way reflect the hard reality of modern hardware, leaving the standard even more under specified in the case of threads and async IO, which have been poorly bolted on.

Then there are all the bits everyone ignores, like the bits about the posix shell (ksh), and how certain utilities behave, while completely ignoring important things like determining metadata about the hardware one is running on.

I leave you with:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2693948/how-do-i-retriev...

and
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/150355/programmatically-...

Which is pretty basic information about a modern machine.
This would have interesting implications if we accidentally trained biased networks (provocative example: improperly changing people's skin-colors in images when decoding them)
Social VR Needs a New Metaphor Utterly Unlike Ready Player One's OASIS
Nothing prevents you from composing an email outside of business hours, but not sending it.

In an actual emergency email is a terrible communication medium, thus no email should ever be of a time critical nature.
I work in Vancouver and have lots of coworkers who have recently bought homes. The more I look into it, the more I think the majority of this problem is related to extremely low interest rates. As rates went down, real estate all over Canada shot up a huge amount. Now that rates are rising, it immediately cooled.
> for some reason we regulate trains to a much higher safety standard than cars

That "some reason" is physics. According to a quick Google search, an average race car needs 400m of track length from 300 km/h to 0 km/h. A train will require something around 2500m, over 5x the distance, to brake from the same speed. Trains top out at -1.1m/s² deceleration, an ordinary car can get -10m/s² deceleration.

Part of the reason why is also that in a car, people are generally using their seatbelts - which means you can safely hit the brakes with full power. In a train, however, people will be walking around, standing, taking a dump on the loo - and no one will be using a belt. Unless you want to send people literally flying through the carriages, you can't go very much over that 1 m/s² barrier.

Because of this, you have the requirement of signalling blocks spaced in a way that a train at full speed can still come to a full stop before the next block signal. Also: a train can carry thousands of people. Have one train derail and crash into e.g. a bridge or crash with another train and you're looking with way, way, way more injuries and dead people than even a megacity could support, much less in a rural area.
Whats funny, is you must also be careful what you document as it becomes discoverable. Even procedures, especially when they are safety sensitive, involve the public, or anything sorbanes.
Shocked you're the first to mention this, I was speechless after reading it.

Whoever was responsible for that line _really_ needs a little bit of empathy, especially when their product is partially at fault for causing this debacle in the first place.
This is the principle of refusing to pay ransom for fear of future kidnappings. It is not unsupported by history.
Movies and games are sufficiently different that the the key to making a good "video game" movie may be to pick a property that gives more options than it takes away.

For example, Tomb Raider has to be based on Lara Croft raiding tombs, or it's not Tomb Raider. You have your main character, type of action, and key plot points determined before you start, and viewers will compare them to the games. This is very limiting.

With Mass Effect, you have a rather well realized universe in which you could set a movie that would be easily recognized as Mass Effect, without necessarily being forced to use the main characters from the Game or plot points from the game trilogy. You are given settings, races, ship designs, factions, conflicts, etc. that can be explored from a different angle.

Create a movie that coexists with game plots rather than trying to sum them up or replace them and you'll have more freedom to make a movie that's actually good.

Of course, 95% of everything is crap. Maybe we just haven't seen a good video game movie yet because there haven't yet been enough made to beat the odds. Probably a quarter of the number that have been made were directed by Uwe Boll, and those probably shouldn't be counted as serious attempts at making a good movie anyways.
>borderline, but you went much further across the nastiness line.

I didn't insinuate that people are worth less than pets that I bought and own (who can't even choose who to be dependent on) because they don't agree with my perspectives over a piece of software. In what context would this be an acceptable statement to make face to face or in a public setting and you go "well, you know, it's kind of okay to say!"

I'm exceedingly interested in where I crossed that line in a considerable manner because that's one distant line to cross. Next time someone says something I perceive to be incorrect, or they get on my nerves for continually disagreeing with me, I'll be sure to tell them my dog is worth more than them since that's actively being allowed and has a precedent of moderator support.

And for the record, my tone is probably "abrasive" in this post because the above actions and outright blind eye towards outright lies and uncalled for statements is aggravating. I have a feeling you're not doing anything just because of who he is, and not because what he is saying is warranted or even accurate (it's definitely not, as I demonstrated across several different posts).

I've archived this thread so people are free to review my actions and moderator actions at a later date: https://web.archive.org/web/20180411062201/https://news.ycom...

I've said my piece.
This post[0] compares pictures of a champion marathoner vs a champion sprinter, and asks which one you would prefer to be. Research shows that steady state activity like running leads to some loss of muscle mass. Why would the body keep any extra weight if the minimal muscle mass wasn't going to failure?

[0] https://thehappybody.com/blog/enduring-vs-charging/
Zuckerberg won’t give a straight answer on data downloads
I thought that subtracting two large numbers to get a small one is one of the things that gives you precision issues in floats?
> Autopilot has never been a term for autonomous, just as its used in aviation.

Autopilots used in modern commercial airplanes are autonomous. You don't have to watch them, they will do their job. The airplane is either controlled by the pilots or the autopilot. There is a protocol to transfer the control between pilots and the autopilot, such that it is clear who is in charge of controlling the plane (there's even a protocol to transfer this between pilots).

The autopilot will signal when it is no longer able to control the plane (because of, e.g., technical faults in the sensors).

Yes, there are also autopilots in smaller airplanes which are more or less just a cruise control. But everything in between, where is it unclear who is doing what are where the limits of the capabilities are, have been scrapped because people died.

> doesn't mean tesla has to have the burden of people misinterpreting what it says.

Because Tesla is so pretty clear in stating what their autopilot is able to do and what not.