skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never said there was a Science to it. I said Germany Scientist researched it.

Here are a few links that points to Intelligence agency spending tax payer money in the fringe science.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080513174112/http://anson.ucda...

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983829,...
What about the Note batteries exploding? People seemed to care about that.
Or you could just rent the cheapest cloud server you can find and install a VPN daemon on it. Scaleway is 2€/mo. The smallest AWS spot instances are comparable in price but more of a hassle.
> A while ago I've written a series of articles about the Elm language and they are not that different from each other.

The main difference IMO is that Elm is not really a general purpose language, you must use the Elm architecture to use it. It is only meant for frontend web applications.
-Your explanation makes sense; the principle does not.

Thanks!
Billions of dollars of earnings per quarter is "very little profits" -- okay. If that's too little on account of costs, Comcast can feel free to find ways to reduce costs or innovate, you know, like Netflix.
The biggest problem with Redis compared to MySQL in this use case is persistence. You could technically run Redis using the different persistence options https://redis.io/topics/persistence, but it is not going to be as safe as storing things in a RDBMS.
Article from 1996 about Space Shuttle software: https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

But how much work the software does is not what makes it remarkable. What makes it remarkable is how well the software works. This software never crashes. It never needs to be re-booted. This software is bug-free. It is perfect, as perfect as human beings have achieved. Consider these stats : the last three versions of the program — each 420,000 lines long-had just one error each. The last 11 versions of this software had a total of 17 errors. Commercial programs of equivalent complexity would have 5,000 errors.

Also from the article: “If the software isn’t perfect, some of the people we go to meetings with might die."
Altitude of EML1 is about 320,000 kilometers. An ordinary 320,000 x 300 km earth orbit would be moving 10.81 km/s at perigee.

As an object falls towards earth it will surge ahead of the moon and the moon will be pulling it backwards. This makes effective apogee more in the range of 300,000 km.

A 300,000 x 300 km orbit has velocity of about 10.8 km/s at perigee.

In other words, dropping from the neighborhood of L1 will still give you speed very close to escape velocity by the time it reaches earth.

In the case of orbital tether, an elevator car would have gripping wheels in contact with the tether. If its's descending the wheels can power a generator to charge the elevator car's battery.
In my mind, you’re giving almost nothing if you already have a cell phone.

I made a different choice, but I totally understand why someone would choose not to have a phone or smart speaker due to privacy concerns. What I don’t get is someone who has a phone but sees smart speakers as crazy.
Yeah. The OCaml compiler is just crazy fast. It's like Go, but with a super nice functional language. The compiler seems to be doing a heck of a lot of heavy-lifting in such a small amount of time. I'd be interested in a talk about how it manages that, if anyone knows of one.
You missed the point.

It should have been the battle of Docker to take on incubate VM-based compute providers.
No, but I use it for the sort of DDL that's missing IF [NOT] EXISTS syntax.
I don't think there is much of a difference. People took a while to understand butt-dialing, and not do it as much. It'll take a while for people to get used to voice assistants that trigger seemingly randomly.
Infections are the major issue with TPN (you're basically mainlining glucose). Keeping someone sedated for 2 weeks will significantly increased their risk of thromboembolic disease (cooling them also increases the risk of thrombus). The sedation meds are going to be hard on their livers, kidneys, etc. The antibiotics necessary to prevent infections will also be hard on their livers, possibly kidneys. This would all require management by a critical care intensivist (anasthesiologist, pulmonologist, etc), who would escalate problems too ... where?

You're taking astronauts and turning them into ICU patients. This seems incredibly bad.
Not entirely true, Samsung sales dropped heavily when their batteries exploded and were banned at airports with signs on airports not allowing you to board if you had samsung on you and there is likely some sort of lawsuit against samsung for exploding batteries. Apple sales likely didnt get as fazed.

Theres no real hate, its more because they lied. People reserve a right to sue about a product if there are fraudulent claims.
> If ocaml gets multicore finished before 20XX, do you think that f# developers who came from outside dotnet could be coaxed to ocaml?

Pfft. Run reasonml/ocaml on node, one event loop pr core, and use message passing for synchronisation / distributing work ;-)

I'm only half-joking.
The modern equivalent of getting a 408 area code in order to avoid that recruiting filter.
Although this is changing now, when the iPhone 6 first came out it really was supposed to be miles ahead came to hardware quality. Apple said it, the blogs said it, etc.
Netflix tries to produce shows for every audience segment instead of big mainstream hits. So the overall ratings don't matter as much.
I’ve verified it accidentally by using an intelligent alarm with my phone unplugged. The battery drain for eight hours (which includes analysis that would be unnecessary for just recording) was a few percent.
That's called survival bias.
And, this is just adding new syntactic support for SQL standards compliance, right? I don't think it's really a new control-flow if you ignore syntactic differences.

I think you can get the equivalent behavior out of BEGIN/EXCEPT blocks in plpgsql functions. I think this behaves as if you used SAVEPOINT and ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT which have been directly supported in postgresql but not in functions.
Yet another tutorial on PyTorch
I agree!

"We've omitted everything so we've omitted nothing" - Apple
It’s Time to Finally Admit Professional Sports Are Bad for Society
> You could get this behaviour in PostgreSQL 10 by creating the column and setting its default in separate DDL statements (all in a single transaction).

But that'd mean that the existing columns wouldn't have the DEFAULT value. And thus manually would have to update the whole table. Whereas the facilities in 11 set it on all columns without rewriting the whole table.
Really nice project. Not sure what's the use case but good fun project. Will use someday. :)
Interim: statically-typed, low-level Lisp withcompile-time GC-free memory mgmt
Are you his agent?
> Constantly I walk toward an intersection where, if I kept going for three more seconds, I would be pasted to the street by a passing car.

These autonomous systems are evaluating surrounding vectors every few milliseconds. A timescale of 3 seconds simply isn't important, as they would instantly detect you slowing down and conclude that you wouldn't intersect with their vector.
I remember the first voice command stuff on google. Buddy of mine was trying it out and I couldn't help myself but shout:

"NEW TEXT MESSAGE TO JENNY! FUCK YOU! SEND!"

Fortunately the phone was too slow to take it all (even if it had Jenny would have found it amusing, she was a cube or two away). But yeah first thing I thought of was that if it's listening how easy is it for it to mistake intent or someone else or etc.

Humans talk funny, computers don't get it, they're gonna mistake commands all the time.

As it is I hate how I can't talk ABOUT "ok google" around my phone... because it always goes off.
People make the same jokes about cell phones and location tracking. But it seems like with these invasions of privacy they're always unable to make the leap from joking about it to the reality itself.
I can tell pretty quickly if something is pedestrian or a bicycle and plan accordingly. In addition I can tell where the pedestrian is looking. Sometimes I slow down, sometimes I don't depending on how I assess the situation.

I think it comes down to the fact that the classification algorithms are not ready for primetime.
And the biggest reason ECS lost imo because of the poor load balancing and service discovery options. They just now released Route 53 service discovery via DNS but it might be too little too late.
AFAIK, pocket dials have mainly been reduced by improvements in phones, rather than changes in user behavior; if the camera just sees inside of a pocket, it's unlikely to be an intentional button press.
> You would be collecting data from many sources in order to predict intent. This is why you need a centralized server.

Please explain, exactly, what other sources you would collect data from and how the central server would process it to determine if I want the lights on in the middle of the night.

IMHO, determining intent in this scenario is impossible without...

1. a mind-reading sensor, or...

2. an explicit user signal, such as a button-press or command.

The only realistic option is a user signal, and most of those options obviate a lot of these prediction ideas.

I think there's a lot less practical value to having a "central server" controlling everything than you seem to assume.
Huh? Why would you want one of these to win?
>riddled with vague terms like "reasonable", "legitimate", "proportionate" and "balanced"

You could be describing a very large proportion of laws.

To pick a random example, I'll go with the Road Traffic Act 1991 (England and Wales).

It is an offence under this act to drive a mechanically propelled vehicle dangerously on a public road. The definition of dangerous driving is: a) the way he drives falls far below what would be expected of a competent and careful driver, and b) it would be obvious to a competent and careful driver that driving in that way would be dangerous.

That's it. Are you driving like an absolute dick? Is it obvious that you're driving like an absolute dick? If so, you're committing an offence. We have lots of other, more specific motoring laws, but you can be convicted and sentenced based on those two subjective factors. We have lots of case law and guidelines, but the matter of whether your driving definitively is or isn't dangerous can only be decided in court.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/40/part/I/crosshea...

The broad nature of GDPR is a feature, not a bug. Nothing about the way it is worded is particularly new or unusual. Large sections are cribbed from the Data Protection Directive, which came into force in 1995.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...
Just when I was looking for a new logo, this appeared. :) Great job.
Ah. I guess that my reading was "vulnerable to [bank runs, due to] fractional reserve."
There is no "fight with each other". If any system says "break", the car breaks. If none says that, the Uber system has control.
And wanting to buy something because it might go up in value isn't understandable? But sure. A few random reasons off the top of my head:

Because I want to support a coin that I think has technological advantages over major coins.

Because I want to send $5 to somebody without being gouged by fees.

Because I think cryptos are the future and want to diversify my holdings to minimize uncertainty.

Because I'd rather own 20 tinycoins than 0.0001 bitcoin. Silly reason, but a real one nonetheless.

Because I'd rather see a cryptoconomy with lots of coins of varying size, than one or two behemoth coins.

Because I have no idea what cryptos are and would rather spend $5 to check things out than the relatively large minimum entry price for major coins.

Because I think the thing the crypto represents (in terms of ICO type coins) provides a good value (not necessarily value = $).

Because I prefer the software (mining/wallet/etc) for this coin over the software for majorcoins.

Because I find the coin hilarious. Dogecoin probably no longer counts as a 'small cryptocurrency' but it certainly started as a joke and still is pretty tongue in cheek even with a $400 million market cap. Who can't love a NASCAR dude driving around with Doge imagery, or fundraising for the Jamaican Olympic Bobsled Team? It's just entertaining.
Nice try, but that doesn't apply to this specific case, where the car could and should have stopped but didn't.
Now that is a real problem, and it will not be fixed soon.

It is easy to a single company define how they want their platform to be, like iOS, but browsers are a different beast, as every change need to be agreed between several major companies.
I've had similar experiences, though can't claim whether or not it's a scam or artificially inflated. When we shop and scan our loyalty card I say "we saved X dollars!" and my wife replies, "you mean, we avoided getting overcharged X dollars."

Since we alternate between QFC and Fred Meyer, I have noticed that Fred Meyer doesn't have yellow stickers everywhere, and generally scanning my loyalty card doesn't reduce any prices, just accumulates points. In a trip to QFC around the same time frame, I've definitely seen the same item listed at a higher standard price, and the loyalty card price will be on par with the Fred Meyer "standard" price.
Yep. It was mostly done for fun. I can see it being a tool for wire-framing or interactive mockups.
You should drop what you are doing and go find a way to embarrass yourself properly. I mean no offense but it's just so sad that you've managed to avoid embarrassment to this extent when there is so much to learn from it.
>2) given the circumstances, the same outcome would have occurred with a human driver.

The police are in no position at assert that, nor do they know whether or not Uber is guilty of negligence. Police do not bring charges and they're not running the investigation.
You must be really fun at parties
I feel extremely lucky. I'm a part of gen Z, but I am from a very rural area (town pop 300, county 5000.) One day in 6th grade I was in math club and we needed to get to this fantasy football site that was blocked by our webfilter iPrism. Being curious enough, I just strip off the generated bit at the end to get to the admin sign-in page for the webmin. Being a curious kid, I just type in my network login credentials and boom it logs me right in. Couldn't fuckin' believe it, full admin privileges and all.

I never used it for anything evil per se, but I did unblock the football site we were told would be unblocked, and other sites that teachers were told would be unblocked but weren't. Problem was, when you signed in there was a nice box that said "Users Online" and showed their names. One day the DTC signed in as I was online and promptly the phone rang and I was told to take my hands away from the computer and walk to the office. I had to show her what I had done, and ended up being suspended from school computers for two weeks. I couldn't imagine the things I would be accused of if it happened today. Thank god I was a straight A student and favored by everyone in the community. I also had my Starcraft 2 collectors edition USB confiscated because I had the portable onion browser on it, and my friends called it the 'stick of freedom.' Imagine if the term darkweb was as highly villainized then as it is today.

I was lucky enough to start working with the school when I was 16 (now 20.) I remember the description of the look on the regional contact from the state when the DTC told him that the district had given me a key to the school and the equivalent of domain admin in our environment. Rightfully so, but I proved myself and my worth.

Bit long of a response for something so simple, and full of nostalgia as well. It's just a shame to see that curiosity and investigation is so heavily frowned upon.
"Okay Google" and "Hey Siri" run locally on the device, but all other transcription is done "in the cloud". Try setting your phone on airplane mode and going "Hey Siri, What time is it?"

It will recognize the Hey Siri, but give an error for everything else. Pretty sure "Okay Google" will behave the same way. Also if you turn on battery save on iOS it disables "Hey Siri".
It has been years and they have a ton of money. See no reason why Apple still offers an inferrior UX.

UX is user experience. So me being able to just say a business name and the app tell me if I can get there before close and send me to the actual place is UX.

Versus having to use addresses in Apple Maps to get it to be accurate and even then not so much.
I mean way back in the day when people had candy-bar phones and had to remember to enable the keypad lock :D
With the important distinction that it's not an economically useful commodity. Sure, the CFTC regulated it, because their remit is one of the broadest. So you could call it a commodity by default. But it's not like you could make jewelry or breakfast cereal from Bitcoins in the same way you could use commodities like gold or wheat. So it's arguably more like a gambling instrument than any real commodity.

Really, though, I think the closest financial match is a private currency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_currency

These are illegal in most places because they historically have caused a lot of problems without much in the way of redeeming value: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking_in_the_United_States#1...
I’m always interested in the positive reactions to this story. I think it’s quite good, but it also terrifies me. Living a hundred billion lives, many of them mindbendingly horrible, and getting mind wiped after each one, sounds like Hell.
"Former"?
Adyen files for IPO
> I’d assume that most queries are limited by memory / disk access time

That's not true for all that many analytics statements actually. Good storage systems can deliver data quite fast, and in many cases the buffer cache can hide a lot of the access latency too.

There's obviously issues with memory access latencies, but that's actually something that JIT compilation can hide with, because it increases the amount of work that can be done in the out-of-order window. Without JIT there's just too many instructions for that to hide all that memory access latencies.
Hakka in Chinese really is just an archaic name for migrant, which is why I say they're defined by migration and the conflict with locals really caused them to identify with one another and group together because they originated from different provinces.

"Identification as Haka was largely...self-selection" which again so how most people select their ethnicity as well I guess
the balsamiq wireframing software is stylized like this, and i think it suits the wireframing context very nicely https://balsamiq.com/

that's just one specific use case, but it's one where i think this sketchy style fits really nicely with the context
Growing Your Mailing List After GDPR
There may be a market for something between a standard one-bit low-rez motion sensor and a full color TV camera. Maybe a 16x16 pixel IR sensor with a fisheye lens and a puny CPU that reports an approximate number of people in the area, for HVAC and lighting control, and security.
You’re kidding I hope.

WiFi is always on. WiFi doesn’t disconnect just because you aren’t actively moving data. You’d be pretty annoyed if every time you wanted to send or receive data your device had to reconnect.
We went to the moon because we were afraid of Russian hegemony on Earth. Not sure that's "gee-whiz".
This is fantastic! Very useful to get a concept into the browser and hopefully minimize clients focusing on visual design preferences too early in the process.
Eh, it encourages me to get up and have a stretch periodically.
Nope it's not.
I could imagine retirement homes where the residents sleep all week and just wake up for weekends or holidays, allowing them to extend their lifespan to see their descendants grow up.
If it bothers you enough, take a look at ZigBee switches. Not sure I understand how you operate the blinds (since the current switches are apparently not on powerlines?), but you could still make a centralized solution to control them over ZB. There's https://www.home-assistant.io/ if you don't want to program (much), and probably others. And you will smile every evening and every morning for the next few years, thinking of the time when you had to do it manually... not to mention, it's cool. :) You might need to invest something in these devices and controller though.
I've written this tutorial for people having read enough and wanting to start out writing code. Would love to get some constructive criticism.
Most phone now have some kind of lock screen, which makes it pretty difficult to get to the butt dialing stage. Will speech command recognition get to that stage?

The main reason I won't have any of those products in my house is because of that. I'd much rather have a confirmation of some kind before the system takes action.

"...random talking..."

Assistant "I am recording"

Me: "Stop recording"
It's not that simple. Humans can also predict movement, and that is necessary because cars don't stop instantaneously. So you have a person walking toward the street and your dumb smart car is constantly hitting the brakes.

This tech simply isn't there yet and I doubt it's all that close.
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This is great. Anyone know what Google's plans are when it comes to rolling this out on GKE?
I did not say >"security is always the most important thing". I did not suggest that anyone should develop such that >" the thing you are creating has no features". I certainly never suggested that no one get out of bed because they might slip in the bath. These are strawman arguments.

You do not need to lecture me about risk. I've had a career in international downhill ski racing, have won auto racing championships, and enjoyed lots of technical rock climbing, all of which require a high degree of risk assessment, both in extended preparation phases and at split-second time scales. I've also run risk analysis for UAV flight systems

I understand well the difference between smart-crazy and dumb-crazy, and where the pseudo-mathematical risk models like yours break down.

Your 'analysis' to "...measure risk by factoring the chance..." would have fit right in at the meetings where Ford decided to just go ahead with the design of the Pinto/Bobcat because the lawsuits would cost less than the fix -- they wound up killing dozens of people.

Your 'analysis' would have fit right in where the trading algorithms were being designed, which worked fantastically profitably, until they didn't and ended up crashing the global economy in 2007-8.

You cannot simply multiply the cost of the consequences by the expected probability and get an allocation of resources. That is what you do to see if the lottery jackpot is big enough for you to want to buy a $2 ticket this week.

You must instead 1) fully examine the system for potential critical failure points/modes and then 2) allocate WHATEVER resources are necessary to account for preventing those critical failures, then implement those remedies along with the features.

These preventative measures may involve installing redundant systems around the critical points, redesigning the points so they fail in a safe mode (e.g., fail to send the data vs sending it off, shut down vs, explode, etc.), adding check procedures around the potential critical failure, etc.

Note that NONE of these measures involve not implementing the feature. They involve 1) checking for critical failure modes, 2) allocating R&D to develop preventative & fail-safe measures, 3) implementing the measures, 4) testing, and 5) field monitoring.

This is what you do if you are serious about risk.
There are usually 2 stages, a local processor that can only detect the wake word, and then once that hears the wakeword it begins streaming data to the internet.
That is going to be a very interesting can of worms to open.