skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two semi-automated types of cars are out there:

1. Ones where a human pilots them most of the time, but a computer steps in in emergencies.
2. Ones where a computer pilots them most of the time, but a human steps in in emergencies (hopefully).

For some reason I don't understand, people treat (2) as an evolution of (1). But it is the inverse.
I don’t think it’s just a mythical old greybeard thing. I’m 28 and I use vim for exactly this reason: a vi-like editor, not necessarily vim, is guaranteed to be available everywhere. I don’t have any particular reason to like vim over emacs, other than the fact that there is value in using standard tools.

My favorite OS, FreeBSD, comes with neither bash, nor emacs, nor Perl, so I don’t consider them part of the “lowest common denominator” set even in 2018.

(Funnily enough, it does come with a C++ compiler!)
This is just like El Packete, aka a weekly dump of Internet content that's smuggled through to Cuba. Quick calculations:

- a typical flash drive would be 256GiB = 262144MiB = 268435456 kiB

- a week contains 7243600 = 604800s

=> A sustained connection of 450 kiB/s would be able to provide for the same kind of update as what people in Cuba do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9719492
Finnish trains have on-board play-areas for children
On what metrics is it highly successful? By every standard measure its about as unsuccessful as you can get. Financially they are under water. Their CEO refuses to acknowledge valid investor questions and uses his shares as collateral for private ventures. Announcements such as the semi truck are completely forgotten about and pitched to the side once hype dies down... Where is the silver lining?
But, all the official policies and government information are released by proper White House channel and media releases. Trump is not blocking that. Also, tweets are not considered binding legal business until they are officially released by White House. So, why should it violate any law? Or any journalist trying to obtain information. They, like any other citizen, are entitled to the information released by White House.

Consider, it like this. If Trump had a group of friends who he likes to discuss country's policy with. Is it legally binding that, he has to inculde everyone in that group and cannot ban enyone from his friend club? Consider this friend club to be his twitter followers.

P.S. I am not a republican or even an American. I am just trying to create a constructive dialogue about the ruling and what laws come to play to enforce it.
Preliminary NTSB Crash Report of Deadly Arizona Uber Accident [pdf]
Uber disabled emergency braking in self-driving car: U.S. agency (NTSB)
A Gorgeous Guide to the First Wave of Personal Computers
LED and energy waste? Please...
Submitted because people seem to love Finland, and when I posted to twitter about it there a few people messaged me with suprise

https://twitter.com/Stolen_Souls/status/999229475828195329
Let me try it again, I kind of decided to wait it out a little bit until things are better :)

Thanks.
This article does not cite the basis for its claims.
Trying to interface with mainstream Internet, as it exists today, on an interplanetary ship won't work. Services people make these days expect constant bidirectional communication with relatively low latency (timeouting after mere seconds). On a mission like this, my first thought would not be Netflix, but Pirate Bay.
Yes they were. You can not be kind of driving. Google has indicated this several times. Either the car can drive itself or not. This half way is dangerous.
I would be extremely interested in your study. I've long suspected Kroger of inflating prices, especially beef. Most times I've seen them at almost twice the price per lb. than other competing grocery stores in my area.

Also, they seem to lack basic conveniences in stores that others have. One example is hand baskets. They do not place any around the store in case shoppers need to use one. Only at the front.
IBM calls on all companies to adhere to its responsible AI and data principles
How does that speed up testing?
Ask HN: Blogs about engineering team management and technical leadership?
This is how you quit.
Amazon's ticker is AMZN.
The change will probably be really hard on your body so you don't want to do it that often.
This is the most embarrassing moment of your life? You amateur.
Recycling an older HN discussion on Awk vs Perl

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14647022
Direct access to the text only version: https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=613692526

Thanks to GDPR, I can now acess a page with what I want to read way faster than before!
Netflix Is Now Worth More Than Comcast and Is Almost Beating Disney
Average population density is borderline meaningless, it's the distribution that counts. A single cable between long stretches of nothing won't be the deciding cost factor, it's the net that has to be weaved afterwards. (Although - without having hard data - I'd guess that US-style sprawling suburbia is quite expensive to provide for..)
In scenarios #2 and #3 very few people are winning. I think you'd be hard-pressed to get majority support against #1, which would be more generally beneficial for society than the other two.
I think is possible though I am not an electrical engineer, you can have one LED on if the microphone has power(so you can't be tricked is off) you can have an LED for the networking device, but now considering that the microphone is always on it won't be as useful,
I'm still convinced that in the world of frontend development, Ember is the only framework that hasn't screwed over its users.

My guess is that at Facebook there's too many smart people with differing opinions. Hence, we have to do an insane amount of research to construct the grab bag of pulling things together. And once that grab bag is complete, Facebook says "here's the new cool way to do it".

Ember on the other hand has happily given you the grab bag and has helped you support your production happens with the most professional, enterprise release structure.

Disclosure: Used to do only frontend development with Ember but switched jobs and now use React/Ember
I think that, as always, the important is the implementation. People are mentioning Facebook's attempts to check fake news as an example of how this is a bad idea, but Facebook is a system that has trained hundreds of millions to just thing in terms of "thumbs up/ thumbs down".
Wikipedia would be a better example of a collaborative system meant to distill some shared truth out of the work of faceless crowds, and while it has serious issues, it's also been a remarkable success. And Wikipedia basically lacks tools for structured discussion, and the bureaucratic processes in place seem all built on on the most basic hypertext technology. Let's not underestimate Musk's logical thinking and ability in executing.
Presumably, it would mean "when anything other than that secondary processor comes on." I.e., when it stops throwing away the buffer containing your speech at a hardware level, and starts instead feeding it through its local parsers and to the cloud in a way that could result in information from your speech being captured.

That would require, though, that it's not buffering the last N seconds of audio to reprocess once that processor wakes up. Do any/all of the modern smart-speaker devices do that? If so, then you'd have to take into account that when you see the light, you've potentially leaked any secrets you said in the last N seconds as well. Less like a reporter coming in and asking to speak to you; more like an eavesdropper coming in and telling you they heard what you were just saying through the door.
> Now I see people who think 50Gb is “big data” because Pandas on a laptop chokes on it.

IIRC the term "big data" was coined to refer to data volumes that are too large for exiting applications to process without having to rethink how the data and/or the application was deployed and organized. Thus, although the laptop reference is on point, large enough data volumes that make Pandas choke in a desktop environment does fit the definition of big data.
People have been complaining about ad time for years and nothing happens. People from other countries think our ad duration is insane. In the US it's about 9 minutes of commercials for every 30 minute slot, so roughly 1/3rd. Plus, commercials will disrupt a 30 minute show slot 3-4 times.

You can do some analysis on iTunes. When I look up "Leave it to Beaver," which came out in the 50s?, it was 4.2 minutes per 30 minute show, so it has more than doubled. You can tell by the run time of the show: 25:38 for Beaver vs 21:00 for Pawn Stars.

Some syndicated shows have been sped up slightly and edited so stations can add more commercials.
Your fallacy is the idea that you can just turn cash into well-run businesses. You can’t. Cash is (obviously) not Apple’s bottleneck. Cash is not the bottleneck for any well capitalized company, which includes most big public companies.

The bottleneck is coordination.

You start off with a few people reporting to a few bosses... all the signals are strong. Stupidity is minimized.

As a company grows, the distance between top and bottom stretches. It’s like nerves getting stretched thin and unused... eventually the signal is severed.

That’s the bottleneck for pretty much every big company. Apple can’t throw 5 billion at another moon shot because they are barely in control of the 5 billion dollar projects they are already running.

If they had another VP-ready candidate they could throw $5 billion at, they would already be doing that. Between wearables, AR, IOT, and AI they have plenty of well specified goals that are core to their product line.
Nevermind that we are already in a world where you can play any song you like from the wireless computer you carry in your pocket. That's not convenient enough.

/s
"And the market has decided USDT has more value than all other coins combined as it is number two in volume just behind BTC."

No, that just means that there's more of them.
It's almost like a physical representation of how Facebook tries to capture every nuance of your activity online.
I agree that safety aspect in C++ has improved in its modern versions. But, these modern features are best practices as documented in C++ core guidelines. The issue with best practices is that it cannot be enforced. That is, lets say everybody on my team follows the latest guidelines. We even have latest static analysis tools. However, the same cannot be said about the 3rd party libraries that we will use. In this regard, Rust is much better since the every line of code is subjected to the same strict rules.

Offcourse, one can argue that the 3rd party Rust libraries can use a lot of "unsafe" code which we as consumer may not know about. But the situation is still better than C++.
Ask HN: Good tutorial for C++?
Could anyone recommend a good modern C++ tutorial?

For example, both Rust and Golang have excellent online docs/tutorials (https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/second-edition/ and https://golang.org/doc/). Was wondering if there exists similar quality read-through for C++.

Thanks in advance!
Peer-To-peer Non-Consensus Partial Event Ordering Network
Every year I get to teach a handful of people about CTRL-Z. (CTRL-U is my favorite teletype command). We hardly ever get to CTRL-D.
Native support for devices running iOS and MacOS (and others), no need to install a third party client.
Just one example, separate memory for storing said data, which when accessed in write mode (current line or write enable low voltage signal for writing to DRAM) activates LED as well. Or, again if DRAM, DQ pins and monitor for voltage high. I'm sure there are a dozen of ways to do it in hardware like that. Maybe someone with more knowledge can chime in.

Doing it via microphone/amp wouldn't do it, since you'd still want to use it without LED on (and not software controlled).
Do you think Leilani Estates will meet the same fate as Kalapana? Seems like the fissure 20 became a new volcanic vent in the middle of the settlement.

I wish I could be there right now with a filming permit; last time I was filming there the flow was underwhelming, ceasing ocean entry and even Pu`u`o`o's lava lake was not very active.

Does anyone know what is the permit situation regarding drones these days?
Was it the XKCD Ten Thousand comic?
Yeah, I agree, but it seems that they also had no alert and were asking the operator to simultaneously record data, leading to them not even looking at the road at the time the crash happened.
Problems with Social Media
The hacker known as 4chan strikes again??? I thought they've banned him from Facebook...
I think you're misusing the word "producers" when you mean "people who disingenuously accumulated wealth on the backs of the labor product of others they exploited."
b r a k e
4-dimensional Monopoly.

Reminds me of Continuum series. Is getting a seat in the Corporate Congress a victory or defeat condition?
Not to burst your bubble, but I recently ditched Comcast/Xfinity for Internet TV. I tried several providers, and found that Xfinity provided the most permissive interface for skipping commercials on my DVR recorded content.

I settled on YouTube TV, however their policy regarding commercials is even worse than Comcast.

For example, if I record something to my YT DVR, AND the show is also available "on demand" YT will force me to watch the ON Demand version (with unskipable ads), or will block me from skipping commercials on the DVR version.

Whereas Comcast restricted skipping commercials on On Demand content, they did not force me to watch the On Demand version, and did not block my ability to skip commercials.

Hulu Live TV blocks commercial skipping completely on DVR content.
So when will such devices just be made illegal entirely? It doesn't seem they can be made to be safe for average people if stuff like this keeps happening and companies are unwilling to compensate people.

What if this was a lawyer talking about clients or a doctor talking about patients? Is Amazon (or Google, or Microsoft) willing to deal with such legal liabilities? Is this what move fast and break things looks like?

Edit: To those trying to downvote, remember, the Silicon Valley lives in a bubble, and for the safety of people inside and outside of the bubble, the bubble must be poked every so often. This is one of those times.
Make a lot more sense for Uber to just work with Waymo.
Reducers are only one (and IMO the least important) part of using Redux with React; the other part is `connect`, which lets you pass global state directly into a deeply nested component without passing it all the way down the tree via props. Unless I'm mistaken, ReactReason doesn't offer an alternative to that.
Announcing Heroku CLI Autocomplete for Bash and Zsh
AZ decided regulations were unnecessary overhead.
Do you also get mad for the LED in your TV,router and monitor, that shows the device is in stand by or on? I t would be a small one and you should have an hardware slider for brightness , you could also tape it off
Which means the light is always on. The device must be listening or the wake word won't work.
I like the idea, but wonder if the same features are possible on a stand alone tool. For example, the device does the NLP there on the premise. It exposes a plugin API for apps. The app gets the text translation by registering a callback URI. Then it can do want ever it wants with that. Expose a streaming receiver api for music. Essential get rid of the middle man service.

Is this possible of a Pi?
The graph scale needs to be increased an order of magnitude, as $5M in losses is nothing.

Wait until the Big One hits Sanfrancisco; you ain’t seen nuthin.
They shouldn't be testing on public roads and highways then.
I'll be damned, this wasn't a troll. Today I learned...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Goodenough
While I appreciate them being the first site I've seen that's actually trying to be GDPR compliant (not just giving me a "yes I accept tracking" and "no I don't want to see the content" choice), it's a bit annoying that their "decline and visit plain text site" link goes to the homepage, rather than the article.
Disagree. Waymo is a software company and gone more miles than anyone self driving and not killed anyone.
Trump Cancels Singapore Summit in Letter to Kim Jong Un
Hold up, the title is "The Places in the U.S. Where
Disaster Strikes Again and Again" but the first map they show is "Losses in each ZIP code from major natural disasters, 2002-17" in 2017 USD. This is really misleading because the a zip code could have one disaster and show up on the map. It would seem a different type of map that actually shows "again and again" would be much more appropriate.
What package manager are you using, and what version of it?

js packages are encouraged to have loose version numbers to prevent the "multiple of the same version" issue from happening, and for applications newer npm (and all versions of yarn) include lockfiles by default that lock in all dependencies to an exact version that is unchanging until you tell it to upgrade.

While I won't rehash the same "standard library vs widespread packages" debate again, deps only update when you tell them to now, and you are given the tools to overwrite those versions if needed (for example, you could run a command and force all 17 of those point releases of lodash to use exactly 1). It's obviously not ideal that you'd have to do that, but I still prefer it over not having the choice at all and being stuck in "dll hell" which tends to happen with larger projects in other areas.
No one really went to jail because they didn't break any laws. They fucked up, but not in an illegal manner.
It was reported when it happened, but most New Yorkers are unaware that Kroger bought Murray's Cheese last year. They already have 400 or so standalone Murray's shops _inside_ Krogers around the country, selling the best cheese and 'specialty food' items (charcuterie, crackers, dips, etc.) you can get in the US. And every person behind the counter is trained by Murray's to know their stuff and be able to make expert recommendations.

Murray's bake-at-home mac and cheese, only available at Kroger, sounds quite nice.
Due to watchword detection, the microphone amp would always be on.
I would normally have submitted the creator's website[0], but in this case, it is less informative and usable than the Vice writeup.

[0] https://www.docubyte.com/works/i-am-a-computer/
* Less Sugar

* Less refined/junk food

* Limited use of antibiotics

* More greens

* Add curd/yogurt (in not allergic in your diet)

* More dry fruits, nuts
Flexibility: FPGAs and CAD in Deep Learning Acceleration
Only Sling offers a "lightweight" bundle akin to your description. Most start with the same 50-60 base channels (I recently tried most of them). In a few years, "Internet TV" providers will essentially morph into traditional TV providers (jokes on us!)
Awk is named after its authors at Bell Labs: Aho, Williams, and Kernighan.
no they didn't. it was self-reported abuses and no consequences.
Correct, because good luck trying to figure out what the hell someone else's Perl program is doing later.

I used to spend up to 40 hours in a Perl debugger trying to figure out what the program is doing, and after going 25 layers deep into the call stack, I'd come out one week later none the wiser as to what that damn spaghetti code was doing. Tracking down any bug would always turn into debugging of epic proportions. I never had such problems debugging machine code!

That is why Perl gets so much hate.

My favorite construct to hate was going through the logic and just as I was about finished trying to understand the state machine at that point hitting an unless{} clause which instantaneously wipes the slate clean. Oh how I hate Perl.
Amazon could add this to the suite of law enforcement products they've already been selling[1]

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/technology/amazon-facial-...
> It makes perfect sense. If many people are trying to BUY USDT (increasing demand for USDT) the price of USDT will increase.

Why? It's worth exactly one dollar. Which they have in an account. That's the point. The price of the other cryptocurrency will come down, and the value of USDT compared to that cryptocurrency will indeed rise, as it should when people want to sell to a market where there's more demand on dollars than the asset.

> They are not "magicking" Dollars, they are magicking a commodity (USDT) pegged to Dollar.

But it's supposed to be pegged to the dollar by a real dollar backing. In the scenario you're describing, it's a floating asset not backed by anything, with a value maintained purely by supply manipulation, and being issued to prop up an asset price. The opposite of what it's supposed to be.

> However to say that it "doesn't make sense" when they print more Tether during market crashes is false.

It still doesn't. I mean, it makes sense from a "lets conjure up some money to prop up the price of BTC" angle, sure, but that's not the same as it making sense for something that's backed by cash on a 1:1 basis. Tether should only be issued when people give dollars to the tether foundation. That's the claim on their front page, and the basis of their peg.
I observe that cars and other objects often come very close to each other, so it would seem impossible to simply brake based on "converging paths". It's necessary to know what an object is and how it's going to behave. If you don't, I don't see how you can go anywhere.
I loved stumble upon until the pages I was shown veered from my interests and began to feel like either spam or obvious paid content. It was annoying and the issue that eventually pushed me off after 3-4 years of use.

I'm a bit sad to see this news. Maybe my view became jaded, but with this timing I have to wonder if it's related to GDPR. A profile of your interests and favorite sites is the kind of information a company like CA would have been interested in buying.
It is true that there exists an awk most everywhere, but I've been burned a few times by the discovery that nawk (Solaris (dating myself a bit there...)), gawk (many GNU/Linux distros), and mawk (some GNU/Linux distros? Don't know where I ran into it, but I have in the last couple of years) all have subtle incompatibilities around the edges.

As I recall, gawk in particular has some extensions that are explicitly a superset of the standard funcionality. Which is great if you're only targeting gawk and know about it. It's less great if you think you're only targeting gawk, and discover later on that there's a system with a different awk you need to support.

Your project looks neat, by the way. I'm looking forward to taking a closer look.
VIBNN: Hardware Acceleration of Bayesian Neural Networks
do you happen to have code online?
I think from the comments there’s a radically different approach to responsibilities on this over the pond.

Re: correcting their work, ditto. Was fuming a month ago when I discovered two rings connected to the same socket - and managed to fit the two way dimmer (single common on a dual gang) he’d said was impossible. Think he only knew of one by-rote way to do a two-way, and didn’t actually understand what he was doing. Hell, he thought the US uses DC power - I explained that it was just a different voltage, and AC, and the look on his face said “voltage?”, so I left it at that.

He didn’t even notice I’d rewired when he came back to sign off “his” work.

OTOH there are incompetents in all fields - just that electricity is a pretty bad thing to be incompetent at if it’s your job - I learned a healthy respect for the tingly stuff the hard way.

Oh, and I was recently in Uruguay, where nobody seems to understand what the funny green and yellow wire is for, and hook it up to live. Metal skinned laptop. Funky chicken.
Bitmex
Agreed, brain.fm is fantastic. It's so much more pleasing to listen to than white/grey noise, yet it is not distracting.

Where did you find a code for lifetime membership?