skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is truly incredible. I've spent the last 4 years neck deep in live video broadcasting solutions for consumer, commercial, and government use cases, and this just blew my mind.
Hah, in my experience with companies using cheap developers overseas, going back to paper might be better.

Good developers cost a lot no matter where they hang their hat.
Come on, man. No one should need this spelled out for them. Not even a kindergartener would fail to understand bodies positioned in unsurvivable poses. I'd almost surmise this to be a troll post.

Folding the head at the neck, too far in any given direction ruins the spinal cord, with out breaking the skin. If you see a person slumped in such a way that their head has clearly been badly twisted, and flops over, they are most assuredly dead.

This puts us right into breathing airway, if the neck is not supporting the trachea, or indeed folding the trachea shut, it's often apparent from a glance. But folding at the waste is just as bad for the diaphragm. When someone looks like they've been put in a stress position, and demonstrates no distress, it's likely they've expired.

In any event, instinctually, you can look at a person, know how hard it would be for you to hold a crumpled pody position, note the time while while remaining attentive for labored, heavy breathing, and if even 60 seconds pass, they might be dead.

Breathing and airway are primary obvious signs, but limbs sprawling and draped at odd angles can intuitively indicate that internal bleeding would be required for such a pose to be achieved.

There are only about 15 points of articulation on the human body, discounting fingers and toes, if you reduce the spine to the head and neck. Most people aren't escape artists or contortionists, even if they do yoga. And even contortionists, by at least some amount, exert themselves to achieve impressive poses, or fit themselves inside duffel bags and such.

Just surf the internet for pictures of dead bodies, and you'll quickly spot the ones that have mostly impossible body positions. [nsfw]

[nsfw] https://www.albawaba.com/sites/default/files/im/lebanon/Syri...
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I've known about that book but not read it.

I have read the full, final NTSB report on the accident.

I was the on-duty Flight Control Manager at the time of the incident and received the initial contact (via landline) from FAA. (Due to the specifics of the failure mode the crew did not radio their dispatcher.)

Incredibly, within minutes, the accident was already on local broadcast as breaking news while we were still putting together the Go Team.

In my current position (DevOps) people have commented how cool I am when important stuff goes off the rails — I usually just say "compared to my previous career, this is nothing."
My immediate thought is, even easier to install reversing cameras for older cars. Now my second thought is, spying devices, a wholly more troubling prospect.
Visible source proprietary code is not libre and not necessarily free. Potayto potahto.
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Editorialization is far, far different than outside parties or platforms controlling content...

The key difference is that editorializing affects individual outlets, or groups of outlets under one owner. In that case other parties can simply create the own competing outlets to provide a balance, aka a marketplace of ideas. But when it's a top down control from government or mega-corps then the controls applies across the entire marketplace and across all organizations/mediums, and is therefore far more harmful, open to abuse, and ultimately chills speech.

Not to mention in the top-down scenario the source of what's "appropriate content" is usually the most vocal special interest groups, lobbyists, or worse the latest public outrage of the day - not some editor/company trying to deliver what they think consumers want most. But instead other parties trying to control what content other people should and should not be allowed to produce/consume.

The only way to push back is by rallying your own outrage, lobbyists, and special interest groups - a highly unoptimal process, valuing the powerful and entrenched parties, not what is "right" and moral. And if history is any indication, bad laws/regulations rarely get removed anywhere near as quickly as they are added.
> I always found it strange that Sony wasn’t able to do my more to get Vegas established as a leading video editing platform.

Silos. Sony was (is?) a collection of companies that often didn't cooperate well. After the acquisition, SCS was under the heading of Sony Corporation of America. (SCA) They did little to interfere with the company and they had some fun perks, but they didn't seem to be able to do much to support or grow the products either. Want to add support for <$$$$ broadcast hardware>? SCA couldn't arrange a loan, or get you next year’s model before it launched.

Sometime around the economic collapse of '08, SCS was transferred under the heading of Sony Electronics and it felt like there was more support and more of an effort to promote the products of SCS by Sony (and we could finally borrow hardware!), but the market had moved on and SCS never regained its former glory.
An A.I revolution may not be happening but an 'Augmented Intelligence' revolution is
Have you explored the TokuDB storage engine? Or Aria?
One fun fact I have heard is that the Android Messages app did not receive updates through the play store because carriers wanted to retain control.

If you're in the US, you could switch to Project Fi.

I think the crypto thing is less about carriers own opinions and more about the regulation that carrier provided services face. Hopefully it will at least have an encrypted OTT mode the same way that Allo does.

Let's also not forget how carriers have hampered Android updates.
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This problem goes back at least as far as Hugo Gernsback, 'known to men like H. P. Lovecraft for being a crooked publisher who sometimes stiffed his writers when payment was due.' https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/predictions-from-the-...

Once a writer gets well-known ... a track record ... submissions don't go in the slush pile any more. Until then, they're lucky if their stuff gets scanned at all, because everyone wants to be (and thinks they already are) a writer. Even if they're very good, they still have to find an editor with an audience for their writing.
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And your genes are just tools that help the chemical environment they regulate reproduce.
you seem to be quite defensive of your choice to work for a company that builds spy software and sells it to anyone with the money to buy it. are you trying to convince us your employer is good, or yourself? its most certainly an ethical grey area, but you try hard to make it seem benignly white. these engineers know what the software is being used for, they can act innocent all they want, but what happens when this tool is used for bad? can you guarantee that it wont be? seems like your teams are turning a blind eye in exchange for large paychecks and doing some fine mental gymnastics to justify it all.
No. They should stay out of the backend and do something like a more sophisticated notification API that let's you use whatever service from a unified app. They can slip in their own offering but still support others in parallel.
I was talking more about large file storage like HDFS, and the MapReduce model of bringing computation to data. HBase does the latter, and it's strongly consistent like FoundationDB, though FoundationDB provides better guarantees. As a K/V I understand what you and OP say.
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This isn't exactly an answer to the question you asked - but I believe at least India mandates SMS use A5/0 which means SMS cannot legally be encrypted.

(This is half-remembered memory from a DefCon talk I watched on YouTube recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQSu9cBaojc )
Awesome! Thank you! Let me know how I can improve it.
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iMessage is not a carrier protocol, which is because it did not have to thread the needle with carriers the way Google has here with RCS.
That's not whataboutism, that's valid criticism of a flaw in your idea.

>Should we therefore resign and stop trusting each other altogether?

This is a strawman, that was not suggested. What was suggested was to have an interview process which doesn't involve informal/subjective trust. The best programmers don't have huge twitter networks or github stars - some might, but not all. That's no criteria for filtering.
Likewise, most applicants are not interested in what _the company wants_, but in what _the company can provide them_. They are going to be working a minimum of 8 hours a day 5 days a week for your company. This is why the applicant pool is so awful. Companies don't care what candidates want, candidates don't care what companies want.
Im planning to add premium subscription feature soon.
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but I would love it. I absolutely hate the tests they give you on the spot, the last one I did was awful and made me angry!

It’s not “instead of” it’s “in addition to”
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That is like asking everything Oracle or Postgresql knows about you. It doesn't make sense.

Palantir is software deployed for specific customers. The customers then use Palantir against their data and publicly available data.
> We should be reverse engineering intelligence and comparing that to AI so that we can build up the theoretical equivalent of aerodynamics.

Well, with a lot of assumptions, if believe they hold in practice, we have a lot of powerful theory for regression analysis, and we didn't get that theory by "reverse engineering intelligence". We got hypothesis tests, confidence intervals, prediction intervals, etc.

So, more generally, we can proceed mathematically: State some assumptions and then use those to prove some theorems. We want the assumptions to be justified for our practical applications and we want the consequences of the theorems to be powerful for the applications. These steps have been followed often enough in math before, back to Euclid's plane geometry, the Pythagorean theorem, trigonometry, spherical triangles, the area of a circle, the volume of a sphere, the wave equation, ellipses, analytic geometry, calculus, differential equations, the stiffness of space frames, etc. For the current applications with no theory, maybe we need to stir up some more theorems and proofs.
I get that everyone is still mad about Reader, but if all of Allo's features get rolled into Android messages and it retains interop with existing Allo users, does it matter at all? This honestly seems like something pointless to get mad over since every other thread about Google's chat apps was about how they had too many...
Sanders is not out of the picture. Schumer has actually included him in the senior ranks of the party.
This is moving towards A Deepness in the Sky level surveillance tools.
That has FoundationDB dependencies that don’t exist in the apple repo (SQL Parser, JDBC Driver, etc)
Don't remember the specific Asimov but that actually surprises me a bit. Many science fiction writers probably underestimated the difficult of building humanoid robots (for household servants or other purposes). But my impression is that computer speech recognition and speech were preseived as being pretty straightforward. See the original Star Trek for just one example.
It's interesting that there are so many people accuse Benjamin Franklin of being a man who lacked moral values, but the evidence they provide doesn't really seem to support their conclusions about the man.
>Only if you define easier as 'badly designed process'.

I'd be interested to know what a good process is.

>That is unfortunate, but why do you believe this will always be the case?

I don't believe most (if any) online accounts that I have provide enough profit to the service owner to hire and train employees with enough expertise, time, and resources to properly determine a valid recovery attempt from a fake one.

Social engineering employees just seems so easy from what I've seen. It's so reliable it can be done on stage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SstZAIxl8wk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7scxvKQOo

It just takes a single slip up and you lose. Whereas attackers can just keep trying.

>Maybe this can be an opt-in for the more 'security-minded' minority.

Yeah I agree it's a good idea. In fact that's what I've done on my primary google account

https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/

But that implementation isn't perfect, it requires giving up some features and buying U2F keys. Preferably you could opt into exactly the protection you want, so you could get the recovery security without having to buy security keys for example.

I agree there could be better implementations, but they would cost more. I think it's a three way tradeoff between cost, easy recover, and security. When I hear someone advocating for easier recovery without advocating for higher cost, then I immediately think there will be a lowering of security.
It's definitely not what this user wants. This user wants a real ESC key back too
Not really. Stopping MarineKing from sending tons of APM is only part of the challenge. His choices for what to do in any given frame (yes, frame) are also just better than basically every player on the ladder. If you remove his keyboard, you'll find that he still wins most games against folks who don't know the game.
Some call it the Thelonious Monk principle

"Simple ain't easy"
I'm sorry, traces of bacteria in an exhumed body?! This less surprising than find bacteria in shit.
If the problem is "Nations making rules about SMS encryption" (like India does I believe) - then Apple isn't an interested party because that's all on the cellular carrier to implement and comply with.

Telegram is a current example of the different problem of "how can a nation regulate non SMS messaging app encryption" I suspect Apple _is_ wondering just how long iMessage will "get away with" that...
His autobiography.
A friend of mine lives in Venezuela at an area that has no major internet infrastructure save a few long-range wireless gateways affixed to some nearby buildings. Unfortunately, the connection is metered and costs a prohibitive amount of money to use. The only domains that aren't blocked based on configuration are google.com and google.com.mx. We message each other over Tor and meek-google. The removal of domain fronting features may likely mean the removal of his access to the internet, a truly unfortunate effect based on what might be considered a minor change.
That was my experience building a simple morse code decoder. Actually spent more time fighting the spectograph resolution than the ML part.

I also learned real quick that I don't want to do ML. It's all about data generation/sanitation/management which just doesn't click for me.
Probably Cold Calling, since so many of us are afraid to pick up the phone and do the grinding.
Who wants to build an ML cognitive debiasing machine with me? I'm serious!
I'm hesitant to rely any new Google services these days thanks to Google doing this almost all the time.
It's probably similar to GRPC just changing the compiler over to Clang in the Makefile like so: https://github.com/wolfspider/grpc-freebsd-examples/blob/mas...

Maybe these two would go good together? ;)
No majorities, I guess?
Is that where the data sits around waiting, eager, to be queried into action while watching data around them being used over and over again.... But that time never comes, thus leaving them to question their very worth?
It doesn't, but it does tend to mean heavily reduced salary because part of the employees compensation is the warm fuzzies they get.
480p at 10fps at 16ft is really incredible. That's enough distance to put cameras all over cars to sense environments around it. My first immediate thought is to retrofit old cars with lane-changing assist camera with this in traffic.
It's really not. It seems limited because of what people have decided are strategies that win and so the strategies that people try. However, this is not, entirely, what macro refers to. Try playing a game of starcraft. Try to keep up with worker construction, base management, unit construction, and basic map presence. It's harder than you think, even at the top levels of the game.
You don't even need an AI to do this. ByuN micros reapers so well that he was literally the only player at the top echelons of play who revealed they could be OP. Blizzard nerfed the reaper twice specifically due to his play.
The problem with your intuition is that you have to consider those objects travelling about the USA at 10km/s - ie, they can cross the entire country in 7 minutes.

At the time of writing, SOCRATES shows seven approaches closer than 100 metres in the next few days:

https://www.celestrak.com/cgi-bin/searchSOCRATES.pl?IDENT=NA...
It seems transmitting the raw sensor data would make it tricky to do this securely. Would it be possible to encrypt the signal with some sort of hardware cipher?
Technically if you buy the stock based on insider information you're breaking the law. If you get stock and don't sell it I don't see how that can be considered insider trading...
Incredible. Since it is analog and unencrypted, it’s wide open to attacks though, isn’t it?
And that's a good thing - because PWAs are easier to build and maintain
I've done quite a bit of research on who Benjamin Franklin was and whether he was ultimately a moral character. His youth was documented as being tainted by sexual misconduct, but all the evidence I've seen shows that he intentionally matured morally as he aged.

Is there anyone who has more than hearsay regarding Benjamin Franklin being sexually permissive while he served as an ambassador or in other settings? I haven't seen anything more than opinionated reading into his letters and intentional character assassinations.
I grew up hearing "we will eventually get computers that can play chess, but go is exponentially more complicated." People wee talking a century.

I don't know that cars will happen soon(5-10 years), but I wouldn't want to bet one way or the other past that. We don't need perfection, we just need to equal humans, and humans are actually pretty bad, we are just used to it.
I'd suggest that if you are building a product like this, it really needs to work on-prem. Many companies will not host this kind of critical information outside their own network.
Prepaid/GoPhones are what lost of low income people use. Traditionally no data plan. This is even more common abroad in developing nations.
The new batteryless wireless sensors coming out of uw are incredible. Dr. Smith is leading some great work. My interest started when I heard of the WISP [0]. The RF power harvesting design is so simple and elegant. It is amazing what can be done with uW of power!

[0] https://sensor.cs.washington.edu/WISP.html
And I have yet to see any "AI" worth anything. Some image recognition and rudimentary translation engines maybe, but "AI", way overhyped.
BTW they need to bring back the previous generation keyboard with a descent key travel.
Absolutely right - I wrote an object storage backed filesystem for Hadoop and synchronizing was a complete nightmare.

It certainly worked well within our required architecture - but as a general purpose system it would have several issues over typical network topologies.

As active volume size increases and/or changes, the object storage layer latency can bump up to minutes, or even hours. We stopped tested at 100TB volumes, as the object storage layer was backed up to hours.

Object Storage is very convenient, but the lack of good metadata and latencies involved basically means that it's only good as an archival backing store of active data. If your active datasource goes out - you could lose hours of data unless you have local copies.
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Yep that's why I mentioned one vm per service. Is more isolated than Docker.

When you say it's not widespread I am not sure what you mean? There are 1000s of RPM packages available including things like elasticsearch.
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Where’s the money for that?
what is there to attack? if someone is in range to get the backscattered signal they can just see what the camera is looking at...its 16ft LOS, for privacy concerns at such low powers any walls would attenuate the backscatter.
These questions don’t work.

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Ben Franklin was a notorious ladies man who couldn't keep his pants zipped, even as an old codger.

https://www.biography.com/news/benjamin-franklin-ladies-man-...
The problem here is the conflation of "macro" with "strategy". If the parent comment had defined the terms properly, there'd be less disagreement here. They rightly define micromanagement as the control and use of small numbers of units, whereas macromanagement refers to the management of the non-fighting, production related activities like producing workers constantly until saturated, producing supply depots on time, producing units constantly from the correct number of facilities, and so forth. Strategy itself refers to a broad game plan which may incorporate unit composition, large-scale plans for army movements, plans to limit the economy of the opponent, and so on.

Thus, strategy is the widest tent, and someone like sOs shows the truly massive number of strategies that can be employed. In contrast, macromanagement does indeed have a smaller decision space, since really the "decision" with macro is pre-defined. Make your economy and production as efficient as possible. There may be slight variations in how its done, especially in Brood War where the economics are much more nuanced than SC2. Nevertheless, if you watch a variety of pros macro out mass marine-marauder-medivac, they will usually have very very similar expansion timings, identical numbers of barracks, and any changes in the timings/build orders is strategic, not macro-related. There may be "on the fly" macro adjustments due to harassment damage, however strategy is far far more fluid of a category than macro.

When it comes to micro and decision space, however, I believe that it is mostly a matter of execution and not decision. We've seen perfect blink micro stalkers, dragoon AI bots, and I think it'd be far easier to take down top players in a 1v1 micro fight since computers are not limited by mouse accuracy, emotional concerns, stress, fatigue, and a number of other factors which affect your hands' abilities. In contrast, a top player should have a much better edge over a computer in strategic realms, since strategies must be tailored to the expected opponent's strategy and mind games heavily factor into this equation.

God, what a beautiful game.
Thanks for the feedback! We're definitely trying to keep our focus primarily on the core functionality right now so your advice does jibe with our current strategy!
A 'perfectly' micro-ing AI is both boring to implement and boring to play against. Somebody made one for SC2 back when that was popular, take a look at these videos to see how uninteresting it would become after the first attempt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EYH-csTttw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKVFZ28ybQs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXUOWXidcY0
> Why are the NPS and BLM under the DOI but USFS is under the USDA?

Because forestry is agriculture with trees as the crop. While USFS lands are often used by the public recreationally in the same way as parks, they have a fundamentally different purpose that aligns exactly with the different government departments they are part of.