skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is PBS SpaceTime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5rAGfjPSWE
It's slowly being fixed.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/29/as-congress-stalls...
It's not so much as amount of connections but amount of small packets sent. I can handle 500k connections without problems with enough RAM. You don't need a lot of connections to DDOS someone, you only need a lot of small packets (~84 bytes) or in case of volume attack a lot of 1536 bytes packets.
It does when the employees leaving were high-performance workers saying they're leaving due to management. Those that left for Kroger's competitors say they're not as bad. Quick example from local Kroger:

1. They cut staff to almost nothing. On some holidays, there were 2 stockers visible in a store with 20 isles. Stuff is empty everywhere. Dept heads I interviewed said they get "no hours" and were told it was just "bad productivity."

2. Response from corporate office was to hire more managers to do the stocking. So, they think it's cheaper to have manager's do clerk work. Corporate people even come stock before audits.

3. Corporate office sends 10-20 people af a tine to "fix" stores with "process compliance," "policies," and so on. The workers say they re-explain the basics of their job like they're dumb and nitpick them over side jobs. Those that went to Walmart and Target said the new bosses mainly let them do their job. They also have staff for stocking.

4. Workers constantly generate ideas to improve stores. Customer satisfaction and sales go up. Corporate tells them to knock it off to follow "the Process" since it's what customers "want." Numbers go back down. Managers claim workers were at fault since the Process works. Like a cult.

5. Corporate controls everything remotely with many policies made by people with no experience. They control how things are laid out, what is stocked, in what order, how much, with what on a dolly, and so on. Workers are expected to be robots. If this process fails, it's the workers that failed.

6. Their tech is garbage, too. They buy a lot of overpriced stuff that doesnt work like the AI controlling registers. The supervisors do it better. I think the handhelds run SCO OpenServer for terminal stuff. Remember SCO? ;)

7. Currently, lots of their equipment is breaking at the nearby stores with them not replacing or fixing it. Workers are sharing stuff adding overhead.

None of this happens at Publix or Costco. They invest in workers, treat them well, let them help innovate, reward them for good work, and so on. They've performed better in most metrics with low turnover. Kroger does the opposite. So, even good veterans are leaving since they're set up to fail every day and mistreated. The union benefits are the only reason veterans I interviewed that stayed were staying.
Really curious to see the technology that develops in response to the latency introduced by wireless internet.

I'm not familiar with domains that have a huge dependency on latency other than high frequency trading (who are already next door), but I imagine it's a problem we'll have to solve at some point.
Not sure about Android phones with "Ok Google" but on iOS, all of Siri's voice processing is on the device. As opposed to Amazon Alexa which sends the data to the cloud for processing.
It varies by location, though. If you have a Kroger with a Murray's, the cheese selection will be much better than the average grocer. They're easy to recognize given all the Murray's branding they put up. Kroger with their standard cheese counter is pretty much what you'd expect.
Looks like the "proofof.js" namespace is available if you wanted to create another JS framework.
You would think that. The problem is they still can't find people to fill the jobs. (Or maybe more accurately, people believe they are above doing those types of jobs.) Take for example this Planet Money piece [1]:

>Tom Deardorff has had to compete for workers. He's raised their pay by actually quite a lot. Back in 2006, working the celery field paid about $8.70 an hour. Now it pays more than $21 an hour. [...] Tom says his workers all are documented and that even doubling wages hasn't solved the labor problem.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2018/05/03/607996811/worker-shortage-hur...
"All you have to do is show that it has a lower civilian to target ratio than more conventional forms of warfare."

Well...

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/15/90-of-peopl...

And...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/24/-sp-us-drone...
As a developer it's pretty easy to laugh a little condescendingly at the naivete and the missteps outlined here. However I think it's worth pointing out even skilled developers have their own version of this where they spend months or years churning on code that never produces any value because they are scared to ship and face real user feedback.
There very well could be something I'm not understanding. What you are describing still sounds like standard React.JS behavior. Unless you use a PureComponent, or explicitly implement your own `shouldComponentUpdate` method, then `shouldComponentUpdate` will always resolve `true`.
Agreed. YAML is a much more human-manageable option, while keeping all the benefits of JSON.
...or during production (relatively speaking).
Pretty sure this isn't true. Siri won't work for me if I don't have an Internet connection.
There is no law that says money must be exchanged over credit cards that drain 3% from the merchant. Aside from checks, cash, and money orders, the Alipay example from the article shows that alternatives can and do exist. Europe also has credit cards, yet the government caps the fees far lower. It doesn’t have to be this way.
There is nothing greater. I believe we're just chasing the thrill of learning new things.
There has been real research on this, led by Dr. Peter Rhee [0] the famous trauma surgeon who treated former Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords after she was critically injured.

There are various terms like "protective hypothermia"[2] used or "targeted temperature management"[3] and these methods have been used in brain surgery for decades. [4] Suspended animation [5] is the more publicly known term, although often inaccurate.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_M._Rhee#Research_interes...

[1] https://www.idgconnect.com/abstract/7539/doctors-suspend-tra...

[2] https://www.americannursetoday.com/therapeutic-hypothermia-a...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeted_temperature_managemen...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_hypothermic_circulatory_a...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspended_animation
> I do wonder why the console doesn't use a monospace font

I use Safari dev tools exclusively and can report that the console does indeed use a monospace font. I wonder how you configured your setup to use otherwise.
That's not why people I know say Siri sucks: for us it's because it can't look up as much info as Amazon or Google. It understands the query, it just can't do as much with it.
Yeah, it's an interesting question. I'm sure the lawyer-nerds are really having a great time with it. I've heard it said elsewhere and here on HN that EU courts are mostly concerned about the practical intent of the laws and not the explicit wording of the law like it can be here in the States. I have no idea if that's true, but it does sound reasonable to me, the part about EU courts. That being said, I think personally it's strange to say that the United States isn't also concerned about the practical intent of laws, because anytime I read a ruling or an opinion, it's always trying to drill into the intent behind the law and not picking nits over verbiage. But I'm not a lawyer, so maybe I'm completely wrong. The American system seems to be more about loopholes, though, so perhaps there is a looser interpretation of this comparison that rings true.
What card gives you 4%? And how long will that last? Just wait until interest rates start to climb...

I opened years ago a Schwab checking account with 4% interest. Now it’s something like 0.04%.

Regardless, the merchant never got their 3-4% back! Which means everyone has to pay 3% more for their items, cash or credit card.
>As someone who follows the energy space closely, Lithium ion batteries now have so much momentum and $$$ pumped into them via R&D work, it's going to be hard for competing energy storage technologies to catch up. Flywheel and hydrogen fuel-cell also often come up but I think we're at a point now where batteries are going to take off simply because of their wide area of applicability. With that economy of scale costs will drive down and even more research and $$$ will flow.

I've been surprised by the development honestly. 15 years ago I assumed heavy industry and automotive would make the big decisions about what energy storage tech we go with and the rest of the economy would follow suit and start working with either hydrogen fuels cells, supercapacitors, kinetic storage, or chemical batteries based on the R&D they did.

Instead it's been consumer electronics that led the way and heavy industry is stuck with chemical batteries because that's what worked best on an MP3 player.
For unrestricted language, without training?
Is it pulling a track from their music archives? Maybe it’s just a several hour long loop and the date is when it repeats.
On the topic of cosmic rays... it's more likely than most people think, at least for 2007 hardware.

https://lwn.net/Articles/219983/
> having a accurate real-time mapping functionality when on the go.

To be fair, you can have all the maps without the location tracking; the location tracking just tells you where you are on the map.
The persistent use of "break" instead of "brake" is difficult for me in this specific context.
I think this will end up with an Uber exec facing manslaughter charges for gross negligence.
Those are both helpful suggestions, thanks guys. I've looked at some of those blog posts and github threads before but haven't tried it out.

In the end, however, it's more bolted-on pieces that should be part of the language if you ask me.
But the employer doesn't get to see the VPN traffic.
Well, consider that it's enabling you to watch porn, that has to be worth some of the premium. ;)
How many people were not killed by Uber? That's a terrible way to look at things. It is better to wonder _why_ Uber killed a person. The answer appears to be right in the NTSB report about the brake system.
Google Duplex from a Software Engineer Perspective
It's totally reasonable to chalk it up to cosmic rays (2007)
That ignores community consensus; such activity is easy to monitor and public sentiment about the illegitimacy of that fork can cause people to devalue it. This is essentially what happened with the DAO hack. This likely does create a situation where both forks have a non-zero value, but also dramatically lowers the rewards, and thus incentive, for such an attack.

Security in crypto is a very slippery concept, and many conclusions are non-obvious, if not outright counter-intuitive.
I have this idea of a system I would like to have in my house. It contains cameras in every room that are constantly watching where people are and relaying the coordinates to a central server. That server makes decisions on if lights should be on or if A/C should be running in that room. But I would never buy this system. I would have to make it myself. I am hopeful that open source software and hardware can produce individual components that I can trust to piece together.
You can do twice as many runs with the same number of test drivers.
The Talos blog below goes much further in depth on whats actually happening (ip is extracted from photo location data)

Link to blog: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/05/VPNFilter.html?m=...
So how would this process work in the context of a self-organizing criticality (SOC) [0]? I've long taken that to be one of the more plausible mechanisms for getting to simple automata.

I guess this could work in conjunction with SOC, providing discrete stages for development. Interesting stuff.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organized_criticality
is it even technically json if it has line-comments (like the README example)?
My point is that nothing stops you from modifying the value of an auto increment column, nor from inserting directly with a specific value. Yes, rollbacks don't roll back consumed values, but an auto increment column isn't immutable and the table isn't required to use the next value.

I've seen an application do things like an INSERT ROLLBACK SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID() to "reserve" IDs... or even perfectly acceptable things like reserving IDs out of a SEQUENCE. Those weren't all MySQL systems, but it did lead to confusion sometimes why gaps might appear or why timestamps might be "inconsistent".

The above one was a potential problem through 5.7 though, as it was possible to reuse some values since MySQL kept the auto increment value in memory only. INSERT followed by a ROLLBACK, then restart the server and you could get reused IDs. It's rare, but I've seen it. However, but it looks like they changed it with 8.0 to save the auto increment value to a system table now. That's a good thing.
Aside from cell tower location tracking, you’d know because it would absolutely tank the battery life of your pocket computer.
Yep, this is the thing that worries me the most on some of these systems right now. They are going to get rear-ended a lot for the next few years, IMO.
Can you? I'm not a tinfoil hat, but the echo is only listening when you address it. It also has a physical mic kill switch, but you don't really know that either mic is not live at any time.

My guess is they mostly do work that way but bugs and vulnerabilities don't seem like a stretch. (As is to be expected with all software)
No trashing it at all, just contrasting it. I do see the convenience (luxury) of home automation, but when you compare that against accurate mobile mapping, location finding and navigation, the difference in usefulness is orders of magnitude. One can literally save your life.
A lot of Wikipedia pages are posted to HN. I learned something new today. It's interesting.
Reminds me of one of my favorite memes: [1]

- people in the sixties: "the government will wiretap your home"

- people now: "hey wiretap, can cats eat pancakes?"

[1] https://imgur.com/gallery/QFjXc
Record SSH sessions
One thing to note, whilst article claims that nobody would utilise the substitution clause, this is false. It's unusual, but it does happen. I work for a business with Deliveroo couriers as customers, and it's occasionally asked by some of them whether we support substitute drivers.
The TV channels cost massive amounts to the cable company, too, though. Internet prices wouldn't have to change much. Comcast is a particularly special case because they own a bunch of channels (NBC Universal), though - others have much smaller footprints.

But agreed that the realistic threat isn't Netflix or Youtube or Sling or Hulu, it's wireless broadband. I'm not as optimistic as you, though, based on my experience with cell phone service in my apartments. :|
edit: nevermind, see makomk's response to me.

The NTSB report is pretty unclear, I had to re-read it several times and I think you're correct that the "emergency braking maneuvers" they refer to are the Volvo ones. It's strange though that they word it as

> At 1.3 seconds before impact, the self-driving system determined that an emergency braking maneuver was needed to mitigate a collision

Is the Uber self-driving system able to interact with the Volvo system? Or are they calling the Volvo safety features a second "self-driving system"? And what were the steps, Uber realizes it needs an emergency braking maneuver and sends a signal to the Volvo system which then responds with "I'm disabled" ?

I understand why the Volvo features may be disabled, but it's alarming that the self-driving system made no attempt to brake at all when it was fully "aware" it would hit someone.

The report does mention the Volvo braking features by name a few paragraphs earlier though... So I'm still not entirely sure.
Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan.
People all over USA love to shit on California but one has to recognize their might in higher education. Some of the best universities in the world are in CA. I use Jupyter a lot and congrats to the winning team.
Shopify goes 3D
Yeah, that is kinda my guess, but it doesn't seem to be predictable... sometimes it happens within a few minutes, other times it takes an hour or more.
As a first-world software developer, I definitely do disingenuously accumulate wealth as a side effect of all sorts of world-wide labor exploits, particularly if I work at a large US corp with far-reaching political influence. For example, the value of that equity bonus I think I "earned" might only have been as high as it was because my company found some loophole to avoid taxes that it sincerely should have been paying for the sake of unequivocal civic responsibility.

Just because good-natured "regular" people participate in the broader system of exploitation does not mean that they are earning what they get, not at all, myself included.

I benefit from huge luck. Luck about when and where I was born, luck about education opportunities, luck of genetics. In addition I benefit from direct effects and side effects of government spending, publicly funded university research, basic infrastructure, and all manner of support staff.

The cumulative "product" I make is not my own. It's a function mostly of just how lucky I am, and also significantly a function of the whole Lorentzian field of infrastructure/productivity/opportunity/civility that I'm enveloped in because of a whole bunch of people doing jobs that they are deeply underpaid for.
I've been a very heavy user of React with Flowtype. At some point, one would encounter the limitations of having just a type checker instead of a full-blown statically typed language. Also, the build story of the react ecosystem is not that great, especially with Webpack being so slow. There certainly are more issues that come with JS being JS. ReasonML looks like a good attempt to solve these problems. Certainly work checking out.
CTRL + D is news to me, i’m a \q guy too.
I wonder how similar this is to https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sbhagava/papers/face-rec-ccs16.pdf ?

That's the "Facial recognition fooled by funny-colored glasses" study from Carngie Mellon, where researchers were able to make machine learning algorithms fail disastrously (e.g. mistake a man for Milla Jovovich) with a pair of glasses printed with what looks like a random assortment of colorful pixels, but is in fact a targeted attack specifically designed to trick the algorithm.

This Alexa failure is obviously not a targeted attack; but when your system is exposed to enough data, eventually you will stumble over some input that happens to resemble a targeted attack by pure chance, right? It's equivalent to saying that if you aimed the facial recognition algos in that paper at millions of faces wearing randomly-colored glasses, eventually some of the glasses would be close enough to the targeted-attack glasses to produce the same effect.

Obviously I'm theorizing on almost no data here - I don't know anything about Alexa's voice recognition, maybe it contains no ML at all. But it seems plausible that this might be what happened here - not a bug per se, but the natural and totally expected result of giving an opaque, machine-generated system with a very low failure rate so much input data that the failure rate is significant.
I don't think this is true. I think they upload the audio to the cloud to process, but it's not linked to your user ID, only to the device ID.
With the mod Vox Populli, the Ai is ridiculously good, and most other things like policies have been re balanced.
Sure. Have a look at Snips [0], Mycroft [1], Jasper [2] or Adrian [3] which are all open source home assistant devices with voice activation, although some do use Googles NLP cloud APIs for speech processing. Snips seems the most interesting, but looks terrible - a bare PCB on your wall? Really?

0. https://snips.ai/

1. https://mycroft.ai/

2. http://jasperproject.github.io/

3. http://www.theadrianproject.com/
Yeah, and it is also why they had a driver facing camera to insure that driver's were taking this responsibility seriously.

It seems that Uber wasn't actually verifying that, though.
Even if you build it, knowing guest may never feel completely comfortable visiting your house.
The obvious, predictable and serious screwup occurs and people shrug it off. Engineers from Amazon post how it's all a regrettable mistake and it won't happen again. I am not gonna unload on you specifically here, but if you could maybe pass along to whoever is making business and product decisions over there that yeah, maybe 80% are stupid enough to buy this crap, but there are a huge number of people that are extremely creeped out by this and avoid it like the plague. That deafening silence you here from them should not be interpreted as license to push the boundary even further.

If there was an Alexa in my place of residence, I would rip it out of the wall, smash it to bits with a hammer, and fire it out of a cannon into the sun.

Hell no to this crap from my side. I hope there are more incidents like this until people wake up to the fact they are putting telescreens in their homes. You guys can't be trusted!
What's with using the tickers over just typing Google or Amazon?
>Yes, it's ultimately a convenience, but so is indoor plumbing and store bought bread.

I’m sorry, clean water and food are not conviniences. They are among the most basics of human needs. That’s the kind of thing that scares me. That someone would make such a comparison with a straight face.
We have. I have done tons of work on the AI, but the best AI at this stage is from the mod Vox Populi and it's really good.
active somewhat in quotes...but check
http://pbw.spaceempires.net/

People playing here, can join a game. It makes it easy to play by web with downloading turns and gamefiles.
Bolivar isn't goitto zero.

Bitcoin base value is comedy value .. ok.
If you change ‘website’ to ‘business’ and ‘hosted’ to ‘headquartered’ it’s straightforward and just as accurate.
One thing about Aldi is that it has a lot of seasonal items, and by that i mean items you can only find a specific time of year for a specific period(ex. 2 weeks only for X item).
We shop at Aldi a lot for a long time and in the last year we've seen it starting to get more packed with people.
Yeah, I wonder how long till the backlash on Netflix is going to start. It will happen.
13 things to know about the GDPR
Is that a straight $20 or $20 + Broadcast fee, regulatory fee, cable box rental, "HD Technology Fee"....
How did they receive the conversation? email? was the receiving address similar to some other address (the real recipient)?
Given that this is a scan of a book produced on a phototypesetter (no pixels), you probably want a real copy.
Oh, now that's an interesting proposition! I hadn't considered that, but it seems logically sound. Housing however is still a big issue in Sweden, not only with rent but with waiting lists in metropolitan areas, so it's still not completely safe to throw all caution to the wind.
Deploying Ghost Themes
If this was intentional, then yes they shouldn't be able to deflect responsibility. However, if it was just a bug, I think it is a bit unfair to vilify either the company or the developers. Bugs happen, and hopefully they can learn what caused this and prevent this class of bugs in the future.
Your first source states in the headline that the drone strikes "kill innocents 90% of the time".

Then, in the body, it says the drone strikes "caused the deaths of unintended targets nearly nine out of ten times".

An unintended target is not the same as an innocent, and it's misleading to use them interchangeably.

Your second source is better, but you haven't provided any data on the civilian-to-target ratio of more conventional methods. You can't have a meaningful comparison without that.