skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it’s really a question of probabilities more than anything. chances that a pedestrian walking into the middle of the road will continue and walk in front of the car differ depending on if you’re in NY or Tempe
> Most people don't really know better.

Well, if this thread is any indication, people seem to always be confusing the roles and actions of lawyers, PR and the police to fit some bizarre conspiracy theory. The fact is that the dashcam video was released by police, and Uber admitted to being at fault with this latest statement. I honestly don't get why you're talking about lawyers now.
Then you didn't read the fine line. He was making a subtle reference to power politics how to abort a process. Properly or abrupt. A certain fraction of the group wanted to forbid this abrupt termination and only go through signals, so that everyone involved can have their say and be informed. This particular function sidestepped it, and as such was politically loaded.
Removing this reference would remove the questioning of proper usage and the politics behind.
But since current glibc maintainers are more worried about their profile than good documentation RMS vetoed.
Poor kid...I imagine how his classmates would react if he offers them to play machine function game
With the rate at which Google deprecates software this seems like a bad idea.
There is no such thing as infinite server resources.
Hello folks, I'm the Co-Founder of Elfbox and I just wanted to share what Elfbox is and the backstory of why we started it.

At Elfbox, we deliver monthly boxes of developmental toys for children at home on a rotational basis. Parents tell us about their child's preferences and developmental requirements and we partner with child development experts and use AI to individually curate toys for each child. Families use the toys for a month and return them when they receive their next box (with the option of purchasing toys at a discounted price that they want to keep longer).

Why did we start Elfbox?
I was looking to buy toys for my nephew for his 1st birthday last year. I went to Toys R Us (before they decided to shut down :P), thinking that this is where people buy toys. After spending several hours walking their aisles, I walked out of the store with a sensory overload of lights and sounds. I realized that I didn't want to get anything for my nephew from there. It took me several days of online research to find appropriate toys for my nephew that I knew were made of safe materials & would aid in skill development.

After speaking to my cousins and friends about this issue, I realized that when it comes to toys, parents struggle with the following issues on a regular basis -

1) It is really difficult to find good quality, engaging toys for children on an ongoing basis. Parents often don't know what the right toy for their child's developmental stage is. Providing kids with the right set of toys for their developmental stage is critical since children learn most of their foundational skills (cognitive, physical, social, emotional) through play.

2) Clutter. Parents have to deal with clutter every day because kids outgrow toys very fast. There is no easy, frictionless way to reuse or recycle toys. Families end up hoarding them for years. This problem is even more acute for millennial parents who live in space constrained urban settings.

This provided us the motivation to start Elfbox. Our aim is to give parents access to a highly personalized selection of high-quality developmental toys for their kids without having to own them.

If there are any parents here, we would love to hear your stories about how you manage your toy collection!
wasn't that law just gutted by SESTA/FOSTA

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/how-congress-censored-...
A big reason I can't take climate conferences seriously: everybody flies to them.
That's exactly what they are doing. It's not even a secret or anything.
I get the sentiment, but believe you’re missing a big part of a user’s draw to blockchain tech: its novelty.

Designers: don’t let a new tech’s unique place in time be lost. Don’t look down on a technology or its fans based on their current manefestations. This technology will only be new once. It’s okay if early adopters are attracted to the risk. Be honest, but let everyone explore and discover along the way. We are figuring this all out as we go along.
I don't see anything problematic in GPLv2 if the software is running on your own machines.
You could pull this off quite easily with your browser's localStorage. Besides a few solvable technical problems, your biggest (most potentially app killing) problem will be at the user level.

This will primarily be a communications problem because very few users will understand localStorage. People will lose data and constantly enter data on the 'wrong' device/browser. They will tell you that your app is broken because they spent three hours entering all this data on their sister's computer and now she's five hours away where the data is of no use to them. At some point, you will receive a technical support request from someone who is reasonably informed that applauds your commitment to security, but asks you to build "some kind of database" so that user can use the data on all their devices.

As far as running algorithms on the client, honestly, modern browsers are pretty safe. If you run something complicated, be sure to test it out on a range of machines with both healthy and badly bogged down browsers.
> This deal is the result of commonly shared desperation.
I get that Walmart is desperate to get into Indian market, but what's the issue with Flipkart. Even though they aren't doing as well as compared to Amazon, from the founder's pov, why would he care if the company goes to Walmart or amazon? After all, he gets the money, and he gets to make a exit(from what I've heard)
EDIT:

IANASL, IANASA, IANA{S,C}*

I’m not a securities lawyer

I’m not a securities attorney

I’m not a securities/crypto anything
Side tangent, but dynamodb encrypts at rest but only with AWS key management (KMS), so they own the decryption keys.
> Simply not having XX nor XY chromosomes happens about in one in every 1666 people. Surely you have met at least two thousand people in your life.

That's a disease, not a gender. What makes people with such a disease think they are special? Moreover, why should I care about this particular disease when there are much worse?

Honestly, everyone has quirks, not everyone makes them the core of their identity.

Edit: apparently someone here is offended by my comments and instantly downvoting them. Pretty sad, and doesn't help your cause. If censorship is the best strategy you can think of, then maybe your cause is total fucking bullshit.
RMS is pro voluntary pedophilia:

https://www.stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05%20Jun...

If you don't know what libertarian means you're going to have a bad time trying to apply liberal labels to people who were around the internet before tumblr.
Basically, he started a political project that produces software furthering his political views. You like the software, but dislike the politics, so you want to take the software and get rid of politics.

The more I read the views like that, the more I understand GNU's insistence on GPL and copyright sign-offs for contributions. For instance, GPL's whole point is to prevent you from taking the software and removing the politics.
The Harmful Consequences of the Robustness Principle
I wish more people knew how to tune their beat by ear.
The baker did not refuse to service the individuals in question. He told them that he's not willing to bake a cake that, in his view, promotes homosexuality because it goes against his religious views, but he would be willing to bake them anything else or sell them anything within the shop. He was not refusing service to them, but refusing to allow that one specific 'topic'. And he also would have refused service if, for instance, a heterosexual couple wanted him to bake a cake that, in his view, promoted homosexuality. This is a regular part of his practice. For instance he also refuses to bake Halloween related goods, again believing that it goes against his faith.

Another issue that's not considered in this case is that another [gay owned] bakery, in extremely close vicinity to the 'no gay cakes' bakery, was asked to bake in the shape of a bible with a quote stating that homosexuality was a sin. They refused to do so, and this decision was upheld [locally]. That is extremely inconsistent and evidence of bias and prejudice in the local enforcement of law.

I think most people don't realize that this case is actually pending judgement from the US Supreme Court. And the implications are enormous. If they judge against him, it's going to open the door to all sorts of things, such as for instance, the behavior of online sites. It would also open the door to trolling in real life like the aforementioned 'bible cake' or even, for instance, going into an Islamic owned shop and forcing them to blaspheme. Of course if the court rules in favor of him then it's also going to open the door to discrimination in the same form as a child might tease another of, 'not touching you, not touching you!' as they hover their finger 1 cm away from a person. I'm actually somewhat surprised they chose to hear it because of this. There is no good judgement, but now they're going to have to decide one way or the other - setting national precedent.
Further advantages of gold over bitcoin:

1) Has been used for millennia. Bitcoin was invented ten years ago.

2) Accepted as valuable by most of human population. Bitcoin mostly as valuable within internet echo bubbles.

3) Although price fluctuates, it's more stable than that of bitcoin, thus better suited as store of value.

4) Has applications for industrial uses or for jewelry, guaranteeing that your gold retains at least a base value. Same cannot be said of prime number data structures.

5) Doesn't corrode and doesn't depend upon hardware or storage media to be working.

I'm not saying that people should hoard gold, just that bitcoin is a pretty poor substitute.

And, BTW:

> No countries win the gold-geography lottery (Your country that has no gold reserves can still accumulate)

Pop quiz: the population of Germany is roughly on par with the population of The Democratic Republic of Congo. Do the citizens of the two countries currently hold the same amount of bitcoin? If not, how come?
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You don't see the point. The point is to write proper loops in C which the compiler can optimize. This the fastest way and benefits all platforms. Special cases which are actually slower should be removed.
Compilers which are not able to optimize proper loop patterns should be fixed and documented as such. Haven't checked gcc-8 yet, but older versions should not be used for such core functions. libc should be compiled with clang.
This is an old interview with GrubHub founder on mixergy but it's right up your alley with OrderHappy. He talks about what he did initially.

Selling to restaurants is super hard.

https://mixergy.com/interviews/grubhub-michael-evans-intervi...

Check out StartUpsForTheRestOfUs.com if you haven't already.

@DHH Startup School Talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY
It's in a separate box at the end of the manual for that function. It's generally like a footnote. It being there shouldn't distract or hurt you in any way.
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Thanks for asking before downloading 30mb on my mobile connection. Seems this site is well thought out
I don't, I stopped about twenty years ago once I became aware of the damage it was causing.
I have a hard time seeing where he did something right here. He is behaving like a petulant child because people didn't find his joke funny two decades later.

He is the "boss". No doubt about it, he is the copyright holder, everyone working on the project has surrendered copyright over to him. I've got my strong reservations on BDFLs and the way their egos get stroked, but it is what it is.

But he is not a "leader". Because a leader does not cut the legs out from under the people he delegates to run things. He has every right to insist that GNU maintains his dumb joke... and everyone who's put in all of the hard work and effort into the project over these more recent years has the absolute right to leave over it.
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Before 90s with all those protections, Indian companies had become sloths. The economy was in bad shape and the govt had no option but to open up for foreign investors/companies.

If anything, foreign investment/companies have brought better days for Indian customers, even though it means more money draining out to US.

Those industries that are still protected(eg. There are no foreign universities) are still in bad shape.
Cord Cutting Is the Obvious Result of a 70% Spike in Cable TV Prices Since 2000
In the new spirit of 'liberalism', or the tumblr version of it, mentioning a traumatic event is as bad as causing the traumatic event. You can't mention rape because it might trigger someone, it doesn't matter if you are excusing it, or demanding harsher punishments for it.

Unless you've been on a collage campus in the last 10 years you don't know how insane the movement is. Calling it 'liberal' is complete wrong because it is illiberal in the extreme and makes people take the side of authoritarians who want to remove all wrong think from the world.

In short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ5YU_spBw0
What airlines often do if they are worried about this is to hedge through oil futures.
You are right, that's a very positive effect. But it was not my main reason.

Also, don't do it for the money. Some people do quite well with books, but for me, at least, it's more of a prestige thing so far.
Yes, very important when working on decades old Japanese motorcycles. Hozan make some nice sets if anybody is looking.
I don't see any other way to interpret their statement:

> Uber, which suspended testing of autonomous vehicles after the accident, on Monday said it was looking at its self-driving program and said it retained Christopher Hart, a former chairman of the NTSB, to advise it on safety.

> “We have initiated a top-to-bottom safety review of our self-driving vehicles program, and we have brought on former NTSB Chair Christopher Hart to advise us on our overall safety culture,” Uber said. “Our review is looking at everything from the safety of our system to our training processes for vehicle operators, and we hope to have more to say soon.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-selfdriving/uber-hir...
"Don't invest in a home security system because your windows should be completely shatterproof"
The Aluminum Wiring Fiasco
"It’s difficult to fathom the logic that would arrive at that statement making sense to someone typing it"

In https://stallman.org/articles/children.html Stallman describes "Why it is important not to have children."

I can easily see "don't have children because it's a traumatic experience" as fitting on the list.

Among other things, btw, he says that his decision to not have children opened up time to work on GNU and free software.
As I’ve mentioned in other posts above, part of my experience is that the homeless are frequently harassing people and businesses on a daily basis to the level that I can believe the arrest rate should / could be higher. Whether it’s the woman who walked up to me, spit in my face, and then started screaming at me, or the countless guys who have followed my wife aggressively while walking home, it’s a major safety issue. I can imagine that in many situations, the police make whatever arrest they can in the moment, but lack the supporting evidence for more major charges, leading to situations where the “fines” look like the “cause” for arrest, but it’s not really.

I say all this, but again reiterate that I hurt every day I have to walk four blocks to get groceries, and pass a dozen people in a remarkable state of sadness and disrepair. I want each and every one of them to get the help they deserve as human beings (regardless of why they got there, what their race or country of origin, just don’t care... they are human beings who deserve our support). But, i know it’s a collective action issue, and potentially a national issue, and so we have to find a way to make elect officials at a local and national level who are capable of addressing this challenge.
Maybe the answer is to travel more?

Travel for a year, and you don't need to use planes at all. You have the time to slowly make you way around a long distance. Hell you could walk.

Inbetween gap years, travel to closer destinations without a plane.

Travel forever, take a tent, and then you don't need a house.
Something like this: https://www.hybridairvehicles.com
> If you try to compete with leading webapps you quickly realize the extent to which collecting all that data actually helps them build better products.

I have an extremely difficult time believing this.

Having worked on platforms that use data from millions of users and probably billions of interactions to create features that no one uses. It would seem that even with all of the data that Amazon has been collecting from all of us, the best they can do is show you ads for the exact thing you just bought.

Windows was running in nearly every home long before they were collecting data about everything you did (some people would probably argue Windows has gotten worse since then). Most of my adult life online has been collected and cataloged and machine learned and statistically regressed by now and wielding all this data ads companies have managed to show me ads I've clicked on almost dozens of times.

Sure having more data can be helpful but I don't think it's a requirement. I also think that people can sometimes fool themselves in to thinking that without collecting every scrap from each user and without millions of users to collect from that we can't build great software.
Are you an engineer or at least familiar with vehicle engineering? Do you know for a fact that Waymo/others don't disable built-in safety mechanisms in similar fashion? If not, perhaps it may be best to not pass armchair judgment...
Definitely. The commenter who can't believe supersonic flight is commercially feasible by the early 2020s thinks it's because we'll fly from London to NYC via space elevator and slow through reentry via "huge magnets." To be honest, I don't know enough about the science and business of flight to know whether this pitch for Boom is feasible, but I'm not as inclined to buy this particular argument against it after this point.

For the record, I hope Boom succeeds. When I was a kid I learned about the Concorde as the future and it's been a real shame to watch it stay in the past.
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Do I leak?
That is quite the clickbaity headline for Nature. I mean, global climate change may destroy human civilization, but it's ridiculous to say that it "spell[s] trouble for the future of life on Earth". Archaea occur km below the surface. I can't imagine that the atmosphere affects them much.
> To suggest that people can't or shouldn't advocate for acceptance of their conceptual identity is pretty misguided.

I'm sorry, but made-up genders simply do not find their way into my model of the world. I never encounter such people in real life (hopefully they've all been siphoned off to Portland by now) and I simply do not have the time or the energy to so much as blink at such whacko ideas, much less accommodate the crazies by building special bathrooms just for them and their delusions. So sorry, but I will never "accept" this into any personal framework and will treat people like normal people with real genders, not made-up ones.
A tad off-topic, but one thing I've enjoyed doing in the past is giving my attackers something to get distracted on, allowing me to observe their behavior.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smvwW3vW5rM
Well, refuse “mass tourism” per se.

Carefully choose a destination, make it the beginning of a thought journey more than a physical one. Spend months, if not years planning and learning about where I’m planning to visit. That’s what travel used to be anyway before it became massified.

If I need to just chill off a beach I’ll choose a destination that’s much closer and at least in the same continent (eg Greece instead of Mexico.)

I can’t stop breathing (well, not without dire consequences) but I can surely take every breath conscientiously.
> After all, most screws will never be unscrewed.

That's because they don't want you to unscrew them. There's a bit of a feedback loop here - the less user-serviceable stuff you make, the less users expect to be able to fix things themselves, so there's less need to make next things user-serviceable.
FYI: http://oneops.com is the tech stack used for "Application Lifecycle Management of Cloud Based Workloads" at Walmart / Sam's Club / Etc. It was aquired in 2013 but remains open source (not sure who else is using it though). At a high level it is built around Chef solo, and allows you to define application "assemblies" that can then be deployed to various clouds (on prem or public PaaS). Being cloud agnostic means it can shift workloads between different cloud providers with only minor tweaks to the applications.

It works well for a large company with many moving parts and a need for Enterprise wide policies/quotas/etc, but has some rough edges and leaky abstractions. Kubernetes is a more mature and widely used system that has many of the same features, just based around containers instead of VMs.

Disclosure: I work for Walmart Labs on our CDN / Edge Platform team.
I found the actual map quality quite lacking, unfortunately. Your mileage may vary by location, of course. I had been testing using OSM for a project to get some data, and MapQuest both had the OSM data and their own proprietary data. I compared the two and it was really painful to try and work with OSM's data.
Where are they gonna launch from, that I can get to in a reasonable amount of time from NYC, Chicago, LA, Hong Kong, London, etc? They can't build another runway at LHR, let alone a BFR launch pad.
Been there, done that. It became less fun as I got older.
License should be for the lifetime of a car?

Fully replaceable industry standard DIN mounts in dashboard is the best we got. Well, had. Car info, rear camera etc could be shown via mirrorlink-like setup inside of a replacable head unit.

Maybe we could have car stereo game going again and it'd start to improve. Today's infotainment suuuuucks. Thank god for steering wheel buttons. Otherwise they wouldn't be safely usable while driving. And yes, skipping songs or adjusting volume must be physical knobs to make it doable without taking eyes off the road.
Basically people using numbers as symbols. Quite annoying.
Hit the nail on the head. Those suites of tools offered for existing vulnerable software is usually written for platforms and configurations that shouldn't be applicable to 99% of companies.

It's like throwing gauze over an open wound. Some companies don't care enough to put thought into healing the wound altogether, whereas some just wrap it in gauze and hope they don't bleed out. And it usually works - at least for a while, until you get big enough/become a lucrative enough target to a persistent hacker.

It isn't a case of "more security tools == better security", it's a case of "why do I need these tools in the first place". If you aren't analyzing attack surfaces and building security into your software development process, I can only hope the code you write isn't accessible externally.

* using 'you' incorrectly here, speaking to those looking to apply these tools to their setup.