skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice one. However - chicken eggs is ... ... ... are they better? ... ... ...

The olives are probably unperturbed.
"Delaying the roll-out of partially-autonomous vehicles costs lives. This conclusion assumes that (1) automakers make steady progress in improving the safety and reliability of their partially autonomous vehicles and (2) drivers are comfortable enough with monitoring the partially-autonomous vehicles so that new sources of error associated with the transition to and from manual and autonomous control do not increase fatality rates."

In other words, if you assume (1) something which we can't actually know unless we have the ability to predict the future, and (2) something we already have strong reason to believe isn't true, then we must roll out partially autonomous vehicles as soon as possible and anyone who questions this is basically killing people.
The mathematical part was not obvious to me, so:

The derivative with respect to a is: b(a^(b-1)).

The derivative with respect to b is: log(a)(a^b) or (a log(a))(a^(b-1)).

So it's better to increase b when alog(a) > b. Which is typically the case where a is 26 for lowercased letters and b is like 10 for password length.

This analysis might not be totally correct since the cost of adding one extra allowed character vs increasing password length by one is not the same but w/e.
It was not "NASA" who indicated something, but a couple of guys working for NASA. Also, the "pilot wave theory" stuff is just idle speculation on topics of which the authors did not appear to understand much.
Nice.
that platform's just wasting primates' time.
> getting spy updates you did not ask for, your OS showing ads and tracking your every step and then calling home to send data about you

Yeah, that’s a big reason holding me back.

And registry, drive letters, etc.
> would do something similar by making all of their corps 'offshore' in some zero tax jurisdiction and pay 0 tax locally except for business done actually in the territory itself

It's not 0, but large corps already do this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
I made this software program that listens on a port on my computer, located in Springfield, IL, USA. I allow other people to connect to this program over the internet, which terminates at a connection I pay Comcast to provide me. I log their IP addresses (on my server that I own which resides in the United States) because I'm curious where my users are coming from. Someone from Europe is claiming that I owe them some of "their" data (which they seem to think is stored on my storage that they never bothered renting from me) or I might have to pay 20 million euros. I tell those users and their government, neither of whom I owe anything, to kindly piss off and then ban all ip addresses from the EU.

To put it another way, I go to Central Park and start to juggle. I don't charge people, I just juggle because I like to juggle. Some people watch; others simply ignore me. I write observations about a couple of the people who watched me perform in my journal. One of those guys was from France. He later looks me up in a phone book and calls me to demand I give him any observations I wrote in my journal. I tell this fellow to piss off. A few months later I get a letter saying I need to pay 20 million euros because I wouldn't give away my personal observations stemming from something I did publicly and for free.
I don't know about the one in the article, but the front page story had almost 300 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17064129
Why not just replace the magnetron with a resistor. That keeps the DC effects while removing the RF.

Nevermind, they are not using a magnetron like the original concept.
At a certain point, even if you are a single person, if you are processing and tracking enough data then you still shouldn't be allowed to do what you want. Company's could just outsource all liability to single person consultancies then like they outsource a lot of none core jobs to consultancies to get around employment law now
Even from a practical perspective, how it works is infinitely, infinitely more important, because learning this is the only way we can make dramatic improvements in our ability to use it.
I stopped using it when I noticed most of the stuff showing up was pointless political shit and less and less about the people I know.
Being practical hardly constitutes a "trust issue". It's as if none of the people criticizing me have a concept of relationships grounded in reality. It wasn't the topic and I shouldn't have to defend my relationship here.
The fact that it is open source does not mean it isn't a business.

And yes, he has saved himself the time and the effort of dealing with the GDPR, has also managed to position himself as someone who pays lipservice to privacy but who does not care to actually be compliant with privacy legislation when it matters. I wouldn't want my data in his hands after that anyway (not that that would ever happen because I don't have a smartphone in the first place).
They're hiring Go programmers...
> NASA indicated

Last time I looked it, this EM Drive research was not NASA project. They just gave a NASA engineer a warehouse to pursue his ideas on his own time like good research organization does.

The "Eagleworks Laboratories" or "Advanced Propulsion Physics Laboratory" is just what Harold G. White calls the warehouse. It has no website or staff from NASA.
I just wrote to my senators and representative in congress, and I urge everyone else to do the same. It is unacceptable that our personal information is so easily sold to 3rd parties by our cell phone carriers, with no way to opt-out.
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Sure, he's entitled to take his ball and go home if he really wants to. That doesn't put him in the right, and it doesn't make his move anything more than whining.
I believe parent was asking for secure software written in JS. I'm curious, too. (And examples of insecure software written in C suprise no one, do they?)
Not a surprise and not a disappointment either, when it was clear from the start that all results are within measurement error bars, so that there was neither experimental nor theoretical reason to expect to see something.
> currently doing more ops than dev

I'm not sure you're even half disagreeing with me here, especially as you just admitted you may have the same bias as I do :)

> All of these cases have happened in recent memory, and it's never been a matter of "this is boring and/or beneath me", it's been a matter of "HALP! I HAVE NO IDEA WTF IS HAPPENING"

These two cases strike me as actually one case, with the former being the cause and the latter being the effect. At least that's my contention: they had no idea wtf is happening in those lower layers because learning them was beneath them (no pun intended). Nothing was really stopping them from learning about heap size versus process/cgroup limits.

On the other hand, you do bring up an important point about (mis)behavior of network infrastructure. That's not something the average programmer would necessarily encounter or have access to, especially at scale, and therefore wouldn't be expected to know. Still, my point still stands: there's nothing stopping programmers from gaining that knowledge if/when it becomes necessary, should they want to.

Now, I'm not trying to play dumb. I mostly don't want to read too much between the lines. Are you, in essence, saying that your half-disagreement is that sysadmins are needed, not because (average) programmers don't want to learn all those layers, but, instead, are incapable of learning them?
Yup, good point.

We also have no idea how many more there are, certainly FB wasn't warning anyone that their numbers might have been incorrect because of bots any time before getting rid of them..?
> I never tried to constrain "freedom" in research. Freedom in research is crucial

Well then, I think we're violently agreeing. However, a couple of observations.

> e.g., maybe get to upgrade their 20 year old used Mazda to a 10 year old used Toyota and celebrate with a toast of tap water!!!

Here is CMU's dean on what happens to faculty with successful AI/ML research agendas: "How to retain people who are worth tens of millions of dollars to other organizations is causing my few remaining hairs to fall out".

I didn't realize how expensive used Toyotas have gotten...

>...applied math

I'll again reiterate that CS and especially AI have a completely different culture.

Also, this sentence seems to somehow undermine your entire thesis:

> If current academic AI research is too close to non-academic problems, okay, I can believe that but see little downside since I have no respect for 90+% of current AI work anyway.
> you look up local variables in hash tables every time they are referenced. This is not what Python does: It maps variable names to integer indices during compilation to bytecode, and the bytecode just takes those embedded constant indices and indexes into an array to obtain a local variable's value.

This is only true for function arguments right? Module level bindings and class and object attributes are looked up in dictionaries. I think the same for variables used in closures too?
Because this will be enforced by the same people who enforce the existing regulations. We've had twenty years experience. We know how they operate.
I'm sorry, but that's simply not reflective of reality. There's a reason Yahoo wrote yslow.

20 bytes times billions of requests is absolutely an optimization target; in fact, this is a really easy and low-hanging one at that.

Sure, there's also a ton of garbage sites shoving piles of garbage around, but the existence of fast food doesn't mean nice restaurants don't exist.
Having not fully woken up this morning, I read & assumed the title as "LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for All Major U.S. [Aircraft] Carriers in Real Time" and freaked out a bit :)

Anyone else?
> I'm having to close my small construction company because the FDA passed harsher food safety requirements.

Is your creative reuse scheme for sawdust and broken drywall bits no longer allowed?
It wasn't clear from the start or there never would have been follow-ups.

There seemed to be a measurable effect going on, so they tested it.
Echo chambers are dangerously wrong in many ways but today anybody that can use a browser should be able to verify the information for themselves with a little bit of work if it really mattered to them.
The parent comment itself describes dissatisfaction while using Google products. Perhaps this use, or at least the dissatisfaction it inspires, began then? Regardless, this sort of questioning seems unfair.
Required resolution depends on field of view, which tends to be well under 40 degrees required for "movie" style experience for most people even now

However 4K isn't worth it until you get over 30 degrees, and any higher isnt worth it unless your tv is too large, at least with modern cinematic techniques.
The photons come from the decay heat of the plutonium in the radioisotope thermoelectric generator, so that is a finite propellant being consumed.
Do you have a website with more information?

On your blockchain, if a new consensus rule is being disputed or if a bug in the consensus rules causes a fork, who has the final say, the developers or the miners?
I'm pretty sure that many ordinary European (and US!) citizen are pretty happy about the GDPR as well. If clicking an extra button is really all it takes.

But despite the assurances of many here that it's not hard to comply, I'd probably have shut down the servers of my own hobby non-profitable location data gathering website as well, simply because even reading the GDPR document would be too much effort.
> Well, a professional software developer should be at least on the same level

You can become a "professional software developer" in less time than it takes to settle the subject of your thesis - generally two years.
Yes, I can improve this but there are some restrictions (they are not too strict but they are): 500 characters per post, 2 posts each time, 8 suggestions...

Having these in mind, in which way would you improve it?

Thank you for your feedback.
However, at least some states (probably most) require a minimum level of insurance from a carrier licensed in the state. There's nothing that requires those carriers to provide insurance to vehicles that don't meet their minimum requirements.
A bot cannot enter into a contract.
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They're compelled to give out the source code, but apart from that they can do pretty much anything else they want with GNU's blessing.
Schufa (the biggest consumer credit reporting agency in Germany) and article 35 can certainly co-exist. In fact you can write to Schufa and request that they delete all your data.

However, if you do that, good luck ever getting a mortgage, credit card or other post-paid services ever again if all credit report requests come back with the reponse "no data available". So I wouldn't recommend that.
Perhaps those were data devices like Hotspots, tablets and the like that can't make calls, thus there is no E911 mandate for said device? IIRC some newer LTE Data devices don't even have GPS, which would make locating a device harder if your a cellular carrier.
Because they're more fuckable, thus someone is more likely to take a risk to fuck them.
reverse DNS for everything in public IP space uses the in-addr.arpa extension.

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=rev...
So, let me get this straight.

Is this saying that, on the one hand,

> [A]s far as I can tell x86 and ARM never generate sNaNs, ...

but the CPU can still generate the other kind?

> There we go, that’s a quiet NaN.

It's proving a little hard for me to follow along. My understanding is that this is happening from a floating point number being converted to an integer, back to floating point, then back to an integer again? I think I'm wrong.
> That would still be an extremely useful invention.

already invented, already in use, not as great as you'd hope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetorquer

> I guess if it based on magnetic fields, then it wouldn't be useful for long range space travel but it would still be extremely useful for planet scale space travel!

turns out it isn't that effective. which can be determined with a sophomore-level understanding of physics and magnetic fields.
At first I thought he was joking about putting me to work at NeXT then I realized he might not be. When I said I still wanted to go to college he gave me a look for just a moment like I was an idiot. He never bothered to notice me again.

Not like I had a choice. Holy crap what would my dad have even done to me if I had decided not to go to college...
Care to explain? I mean, in principle. I distrust Signal Desktop, whether it's built on Chrome or on Electron, because either of those "platforms" are more complex than my OS (Debian GNU/Linux). But you seem to be making a more general point... what's the reasoning?
I think it's obvious to anyone who ever did AI/ML demo. Let him/her who never picked the best example out of 20 for their demo cast the first stone.
> almost no one I know from that "war" has PTSD

Just because someone doesn't freely offer up that information or says they don't have something, doesn't mean they actually don't have it.
Another comment in this thread indicated that "large scale" was any business in which 5 employees or more had access to the data in the course of normal business operations.

Not exactly an ironclad source, but better than nothing, hopefully.
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No, that's why it's a fact and not an opinion poll that was cited. If people were thinking that, maybe they wouldn't be talking about shooting illegal immigrants [0].

[0] http://www.newsweek.com/ann-coulter-shooting-immigrants-ille...
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Exactly, you have to tease out seasonality and the impact of special events like elections on user behavior. For example, is the percentage drop any greater than after previous elections?

I think people underestimate the truly global scale of Facebook. Even then, the US is a fraction of FB's user-base.
Holy shit man, did you come right out of "Atlas Shrugged"?

This isnt even users feelings, this is data that can a:have monetary value and b:can be plain wrong and damage a user.

Do you think that merely by observing data you have right to it? Do you not believe in any IP law? If you agree with any type of IP law then you are just being hypocritical by insisting that webmasters get to take and use whatever data they come across
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A smoother fake would have bleeped over the supposed restaurant name. Something to look forward to next time!
I don't really like putting my safety in the hands of malicious actors.
This is a prototype, I was just testing that technology. Using dataflow you can be present in a lot of channels, but all of them are managed by a big company collecting data.
We can already propel things in a magnetic field. If that's all the EM drive is doing, then who cares?
They down-vote you, but you are 100% right. Using a mobile phone is intrinsically more insecure because they can track you much more easily, and you have much less control over the OS.
This may or may not be true, but in a lot of cases where you need encryption, you also need not to have a GPS tracker on you while you're using it. You have (at least slightly) more chance of being anonymous with a dedicated laptop computer than you have with any smartphone.
I think the vast majority would take the term "waterfall" to mean "specifying software upfront before starting the build".

I don't think it really has anything to do with gravity.
> I think everyone already knows that more regulations hurt businesses.

That's not a given. Further, it's more important to look at what's better for society as a whole. Further, less regulation within banking caused some big profits.. but also some hefty problems.
> The statute does not provide for differences in force between these two;

It authorized for one what it does not authorize for the other. That's how a law provided for a difference.

> it requires that peace officers use only "reasonable" force.

It authorizes police officers to “use reasonable force to effect the arrest, to prevent escape or to overcome resistance.” There is no “only” there, the reason you can add “only” and not be wrong is that use of force is otherwise prohibited by law.

It also specifically states that, for peace officers, certain actions in the course of arrest will not be held to make the aggressors or outside the bounds of self-defense, overriding general principles of criminal law regarding assault and homicide.

> Are you suggesting that the absence of similar language in 837 (I assume this is what you meant, not 836.5) means that other people can't use reasonable force?

First, the reference to 836.5(a) was to the presence (not absence) of similar language for arrest by public employees who are not peace officers.

Second, the absence of similar language means that citizens arrest does not benefit from the additional authorizations granted police or public employee arrests.

It does benefit from a narrower grant of reasonable restraint that applies to all arrests in Section 835: “The person arrested may be subjected to such restraint as is reasonable for his arrest and detention.”
From what I understand of the bot deletion in question, these were newer accounts and are not counted in the official monthly active user figures (the 2.2 billion number). That is, Facebook's monthly active count isn't going to suddenly show 1.7 billion now instead.
No worries. I'm as interested in the history as much as any particular recipe. :)
On their Android app, first thing it makes you do is give them permission to read your SMSs. It wont let you vefiry by entering a code. I immediately uninstalled - doesn't seem like a privacy focussed organisation to me.
mDNS is cool and all, but I wish they would've picked a slightly-more-specific TLD. ".local" is the natural suffix for LANs, and making computers confused about whether they should resolve that via multicast or standard DNS techniques wasn't very nice. Something like ".mdns" or ".zeroconf" would've been a lot better.
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Unfortunately every single one of these stories has turned into a long form ad-hominem attack against the site owner and their supposed alterior motives.
Yep. I've complained about this so much.
> 95% Such as?

Everything. Even if you process just an IP you need to document your procedures, change privacy policies. If at any point you ask for anything you need to implement opt ins, a way for (unauthenticated) users to request their data (even if it's just 1 IP) etc. My point is that having negligible private data is not less of a compliance burden than having a lot of private data.

> You've had two full years

You mean i ve had 2 years to attempt to interpret a vaguely written law. Actionable information is just now coming out, and even that is contradictory (cue this topic). Even the EU parliament's website does not comply yet.

> you likely were already riding a very fine line with respect to the DPD

First, that is a directive, not a law and compliance can vary widely. Second, gdpr requires new procedures which means it requires amendments anyway

> Such as?

I have posted another comment
There are lots of laws against following someone and observing/recording every move they make.

Making some observations out your window of cars passing by is something no one ever had a problem with. Taking down every single identifier you could and coordinating with others to track that person, for a profit, is something that would not be kosher in meat space.

Why this different just because it's on a computer?
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When I see a bad movie, it makes me realize what makes a good movie.

Recognizing imperfection can be more helpful than consuming perfection.
We are aware of the price volatility issue, this problem is widespread in all of crypto. There are ways around this issue this issue.

We are currently only doing fixed price contracts. However, it is possible to create other types of contracts like a Fixed Price + Variable contract. The variable can be the USD/BTC exchange rate and Stochastic can act as an Oracle to the smart contract.

I agree escrow and contracting application aren't anything new in Bitcoin but so far no one has been able to make it work.

As for Jury.online, I wish them success, but I don't think we are in the same space.
I see Stochastic closer to traditional contract management software like Conga and GateKeeper
I don't see the problem here (for small companies). If you have a database with user data, and a user deletes his account, you delete the data from production. At this moment, you have a live system without this users data, and some backups with the data. The moment you make a new backup, you have a dataset to restore from that does not include the user data.

You keep daily backups for 1 week, and after one week the users data is gone from all backups.

The only possible window for restoring deleted user data is the time window from deletion to backup. To "solve" this you need to make more backups, ideally live backup and replication with really frequent snapshotting. And this is something you would want even without the new law, because you don't want to lose user data in case of a server failure. Why would you restore from an old backup? (And if you really need to restore from an old backup you most likely want to merge this backup with the newest one to reduce data loss. In this case you can reapply all deletes.)

The new laws don't change anything. For me at least. Also my lawyer is totally fine with "only" minimizing the problematic time window. We both know that it will never be zero.