skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems like an uncharitable reading. I'd guess they just don't want to express anything that implies some specific interpretation of the law.

I'm not sure there's anything they're doing that's not compliant, but uncertainty about whether that's true might be sufficient for them to consider it too risky to conclude that they are.

I think, if anything, the facts that the law is written is relatively 'simple' language, doesn't specifically mention any technical examples, and is widely expected to be enforced 'spiritually' and not literally, makes it particularly hard for lots of organizations to know with reasonable certainty whether they're in compliance or not.
"According to Uber, emergency braking maneuvers are not enabled while the vehicle is under computer control, to reduce the potential for erratic vehicle behavior."

If you can't give your "self-driving software" full access to the brakes because it becomes an "erratic driver" when you do that, you do not have self-driving software. You just have some software that is controlling a car that you know is an inadequate driver. If the self-driving software is not fully capable of replacing the driver in the car you have placed it in, as shipped except for the modifications necessary to be driven by software, you do not have a safe driving system.
I can also think of many things a bad employee might do that the employer should probably care about.

But if you hired someone you've given them a tremendous amount of responsibility and power, if you can't trust them to do their job without monitoring everything they do then you should just fire them and hire someone more trustworthy.
the good ol' days. I graduated high school in '99. grew up wardialing for BBSes and getting net access any way I could. My parents worked for schools and eventually the San Diego county office of education started an ISP for employees. I still remember when my mom received a letter because some scrub in Canada reported me for port scanning them. Almost lost our precious net access...I wasn't caught again.
Can't see the benefit of creating so many losers. Somebody who owes money gets blocked from having a job? Not smart.
I think that's intentional as it massively increases the risk of doing something negative for the end user and leaves loopholes uncertain and prone to interpretation. It will forces businesses to stay well clear of the line or pack up and go home. And that's not a bad thing.

Also it stops a whole legal and compliance industry appearing in the grey zone as no one wants to abstract liability.
WSJ links also open just fine if you simply right-click them and open them in a private or "incognito" window.
This but missing one of the most important for me: PTO in days. If it's unlimited, that's vague and could mean 10-50 days, but it's better than not knowing
That’s the one. I have no special insight into the legality, but it looks legitimate to me.
Exactly my thought. It seems to me that it's just internal component state.. not application state
Egad Batman! Thanks for the background - how would one change their head geometry? Would a prosthetic nose, or subdermal implants serve this purpose?
Pedantically true, but in this case (and most) the result is more newsworthy than the action. See "person pulls trigger many times in school".
I used to write university assignments under the influence of Rush.
> it's a fairly energetic explosion

So is a lithium battery explosion. So is a gasoline explosion. So is a flour mill explosion. So is a wind turbine explosion.

Energy is energy, and losing control of energy is never great, no matter where it comes from. So while I catch your meaning, it might be better to phrase it with respect to how controllable that energy is.

From what I know of flywheel storage, the problem mostly comes down to keeping the wheel from coming apart, and containing it when it does. The nice thing about using flywheels for grid storage is that you can bury them and make them large. The earth contains your explosion risk and the lack of jostling means that your bearings don't need to take as much stress and limits that failure risk.
tl;dr: Safety wasn't a concern for Uber, and they knowlingly put a vehicle with a broken self-driving system on the road.

I hope this won't stay unpunished (both at corporate and personal level) if confirmed.
I worked for a company that had old underground mines and a power company used them to fill with compressed air when energy was cheap and then release and generate electricity when it is more expensive. My company got a cut.
Which ones? The list looks like a bunch of organizations trying to do a clumsy end-run around the intent of the law instead of refusing service.
The whole idea of "cord cutting" hurting cable is insane. If you don't subscribe to cable and you subscribe to internet based streaming services, you're still getting content delivered to your home via either a cable "cord" or the phone company. Netflix at most gets $12/month per subscriber. Comcast will get $80 - $110/month for internet service. Comcaast also has either no competitors in their market or at most one.

Comcast owns NBC and bunch of cable companies and has an ownership stake in Hulu. Comcast gets your money either way.

Netflix has to spend money on content and only has one way to recoup the cost -- subscriptions. Comcast also produces content via its TV and movie studios but makes money off of content via broadcast networks, cable companies, video on demand, and licensing to streaming companies and pay tv.
>although they were just the ones who were caught, far from the sole offender

Who else made software that runs the engine in cheat-mode when under emission test, which is what VW was caught doing?
This is very well put and the way you describe the intra-company blue-collar / white-collar divide is on the money. You are right, this sucks.

I'm more skeptical about not being in a free labor market. I know many people in London who get by on the minimum wage (~16K). I doubt the cost of living in a small-town factory in the Midwest is comparable to the cost of living in London.

It's a shitty situation, sure, but it sounds like a far cry from not being able to change jobs because a single day without any income would lead to insolvency.
Dragonfly Telephoto Array [pdf]
Christ this hits hard to home. (Note amateur programmer here), I built my software, openers to beta testers and was active in the community. (It's a good deal control software for a popular game - pretty much a copilot who would do things for you).

So many testers said they would try it out, never did and there was an insane amount of actual testers who wanted something slighty different. (Which i couldn't do, as I had spoken to the company, and doing certain automated style actions would have gotten me banned).
So there's a couple things at play.

Lidar range is more than double visual range, in practice.

When figuring out collision avoidance paths for an object you actually end up approximating some np hard problems to find a path that won't have collisions and won't be too "careful".

This ends up being fairly computationally intensive, and adding the extra time significantly improves your planning. Doubling compute time tends to beat doubling your training dataset in terms of system quality, at this scale.

Extra time also turns a number of situations from "guaranteed kill" to "we can avoid the accident", because the car is traveling really fast and those extra seconds can be used to brake, find a new path, etc.

In visibility impaired situations, lidar and vision have different constraints and ways they fail, and the intersection of the two can significantly improve scene understanding ( see waymo's snow demo ).

In a lot of cases, path planning can be dramatically improved by having maps. If you're going into a curve and know the shape of the road, you can preload that and spend your time on more important tasks like object detection and path planning.

Etc etc etc.

This is absolutely not a domain for intuition and thought experiments. The pragmatics of the industry are highly intricate and responsive to constraints that are only visible if you've worked on this stuff.
Others have stated that that's not true for them.
How to Android without Google
If you don't know the salary up front and they won't divulge that info, then why bother interviewing? How often would it be a pleasant surprise?
Methanol is avoided in a lot of non-industrial situations because it's so incredibly toxic. Very dangerous to children and animals and idiots.
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It's a great idea, but probably not practical. Turning over ssh keys, data, and legal ownership would be labor intensive and probably expose the current owners to risk.
People come from all sorts of backgrounds and don't have the same perspective as others. OP is asking a genuine question as they think they might lack a certain perspective (e.g. they are in a location with low wealth inequality, high class mobility, and no gig economy jobs to reference).

Try and communicate to them what your perspective is instead of dismissing someone who is open to learning something new and hearing from others.
ReasonML is a language that transpiles to JS, not a view library so it's not gonna replace React. The more appropriate question is why someone use this for developing React app rather than using plain JS? The answer is IMO because React paradigm lent itself better with functional way of handling state like immutability and persistent data structures that's why ReasonML is more like a perfect match.
To use Tesla FSD (full self driving) with a rideshare network, you will need to hook into the Tesla vehicle onboard software or Tesla’s API. Those actions will require Tesla’s cooperation. Otherwise, feel free to sit in the car while it drives itself on autopilot, Tesla isn’t stopping that, only the use of its full autonomy software (when it arrives) for commercial purposes on rideshare networks other than its own.

Existing law supports this, and I don’t foresee policy changing in this regard.
That's a very useful insight. My "aha" moment came during a lecture given by DARPA at PARC about 5 years ago, outlining how wasteful current battery technology is in terms of density entirely because of safety requirements. They had at the time over a dozen different research projects on ways to improve density by changing how safety is achieved. It is only a matter of time until some of them get to market, and in fact I believe one of them has. They were all 2x-10x improvements.
They are more "TV" because they own NBC. They also make money by licensing content to among other companies - Netflix.
Valuations are based more on predictions of future performance, not based on current already known performance. The market just thinks Comcast is a falling star and Netflix is a rising one.
I can never go back to not having the worlds map/navigation in the palm of my hand. I would love to go back to a dumb phone if not for the very crucial feature for me.
> So it sounds like we are dealing with a rumor here.

Media organizations get pretty good at distinguishing between rumor and leak. Any major one will have all sorts of policies on how a story gets verified, and they tend to work. Mistakes do get made, as with anything involving humans.

> What reason do we have to believe these four people?

The media organization involved deems them credible enough to use as sources. It's left mostly up to you whether you trust that media organization.

> I guess it is the reputation of the journalist on the line if the rumors turn out to be false.

Yes, essentially (and their editors, and the publication, and the media as a whole...). This is why reporters cultivate sources, vet their information, keep track over time of their reliability, and generally require multiple independent sources if those sources are leaking anonymously.
A scheme, where other porn companies can pay them - and if they can't afford it, go out of business.
Wow. Both of those are incredible; the first is unexpected, the fountains in the background of the second are incredible.
And with the "usual" access '[]' std::vector doesn't bound check either, you have to use 'at' for this (except in some library with some flags ), doesn't seem that safe to me!
Not only that, there was significant overlap in the distributions.
I'm glad you commented. My original commented mentioned how I thought the fashion industry might take this on. Both as a way to generate new revenue, but also a way to stay "cutting edge" aka trendy.

It's one thing to wear a "face mod" because you're paranoid - it's quite another to wear one because your favorite celebrity does.
I thought the arxiv paper was fairly convincing. What's wrong with it?
Personally, I wouldn't. Most people don't want digital cash for the same reasons they don't use real cash: your risk of theft is higher, it's not as convenient to use, transactions can't be reversed, and you lose a lot of buyer protections.

I use technology to solve problems for people. The few niches Bitcoin has found (e.g., speculation, money laundering, ransoms, light drug crime) are not really what I would call solving problems for people.
Agreed. These days I'm always sure to communicate very clearly what my salary requirements are, and I haven't had that happen recently.
Early AI adopters may gain “insurmountable advantage”
The downmod makes it seems like I may have been unclear for those who aren't from a sysadmin background:

an unmaintained website is likely already cracked.
Someone should be facing manslaughter charges here.
It's evident that you have no wish to change your mind and honestly, I have no wish to change mine.
2 Heads–and a Brain-Computer Interface–Are Making Waves in the Art World
I'm with you. I don't know what the heck is going on. Someone fill us in!
You have partially described Cook, in the UK https://www.cookfood.net/

They only sell ready meals, aiming to be a higher quality than the slops you can buy in supermarkets. They've won several Great Taste awards here, which is a fairly well-respected stamp of approval. Perhap the main difference from what you're suggesting is that they're not ingredient kits, they're prepared meals or components (e.g. main/side/dessert).

They have high street shops in - let's be honest - rich parts of the country like the South East. Quality seems quite good and the price isn't that bad - at most £5 per person with reasonable break points for couples, families. The store itself is a few rows of freezers.

I've never tried, but people I know say that it's good if you need an emergency meal that actually tastes nice.
Please, keep a away from facebooks any technology.

Sandbox, bad licencing and real bad conditions and terms.

Privacy matters to me. Fact is, facebook do not provide it. They sell my data to most bidder.
Afaik, Tor is not recommended for high bandwidth activities like bittorrent and streaming. I'm sure it works, but probably would break the network if too much of it went on. I'd be happy to know this never was the case or changed. Its the reason I never got on the tor bandwagon.
360Wh of flywheel is tiny. You could easily bury it and never have to worry about the danger of a failure. Grid scale flywheels are the ones that are scary.
Implementing Classes as Scheme Macros
Why on earth would they mention that someone's been on weed and meth when they are the victim of a car not stopping?
> But if you hired someone you've given them a tremendous amount of responsibility and power, if you can't trust them to do their job without monitoring everything they do then you should just fire them and hire someone more trustworthy.

Trust but verify, as Reagan used to say. We give even more power to the presidents and senators, but imagine what would happen in there was not plenty of people around to monitor what they did with that power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify
> So they can mine honestly on Coin 1 for a while, then switch to Coin 2 and do some double-spend attacks, then when Coin 2's price collapses, they switch back to Coin 1 or move on to Coin 3. The miner has no long term incentive to support the value proposition of any one coin, and they can attack coins that use the same PoW algorithm as their "main" coin at will.

On top of that, I think proof of stake will make this sort of attack 10k worse. With proof of stake there is essentially no resource cost for you to mine an additional fork. Proof of Stake is not computationally expensive, so there's no pressure for you to choose the one coin/chain you want to invest your resources in.
Trump Pulls Out of North Korea Summit Meeting with Kim Jong-Un
Om isn't so much a take on React as it is a take on the state management layer and it uses React under the covers. I believe it's been largely superseded by re-frame [1], which follows the Redux / TEA model. There is an Om Next and that's basically a take on Falcor / Relay using the Datomic pull syntax but I haven't heard that much about it outside the talks where he was announcing it.

[1] https://github.com/Day8/re-frame/
I recommend reading the NTSB press release:

https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20180524.as...
Hey! I'm one of the co-maintainers of the project here. I've posted a very similar reply to a very similar comment below at [1], but to replay the main points:

We absolutely agree this tool only solves the easiest part of anonymising data, and internally we rely on our team of data scientists to do the difficult parts. This tool is absolutely not up to the task of anonymising a dataset in such a way as to make it able to be made public. For us, it's about risk management vs effort: from a security perspective there are scenarios where we can use samples of data that have gone through this process and decrease the risk of holding data internally in multiple places substantially without significant effort. If we were to go onto to make any of these datasets ultimately public, we'd be looking for a better suited tool (eg. ARX [2]).

Regarding one part of your comment:

> My concern is that helping the user with the easiest part of anonymizing data stands to encourage the user to go full steam ahead without slowing down to stop and think very carefully about what they're doing.

We're going to try to add something to the README addressing this exact question from both of you as it's one I anticipate we're going to get asked a lot - or one that carries risk if it's not made obvious form the outset - so thanks for the constructive line of questioning as it really will ultimately help us and people who choose to use this tool make a decision that's right for them and their use-cases.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17144702

[2]: https://arx.deidentifier.org
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What the heck is GitLab. All I want to do is download documentation and examples for a book on programming by O'Reilly. All I get is confusion.
It looks like I have to create the files and copy/paste the contents ??? Seems really odd.
I'm puzzled by your comment about 'the point of Netflix.' It seems myopic to think that they should limit themselves to simply serving up others peoples content. I would imaging the point of Netflix is to be the most success company they can be.
It is impossible to run Intel or AMD laptop without using their firmware blobs. Check Libreboot FAQ.

Only free thing at the moment is ARM, like Marvell CPUs.
Do you see any benefits on the hiring side of things when you're more transparent?
Always a good refresher.
One thing that really struck me was this comment:

> Stardom and riches beckoned! I could practically see my face on Wired magazine.

Many years ago I worked with a sports psychologist and one of the things he impressed strongly upon me was that you don't want to get caught up in dreams of the end success. The reason being that your mind can't always clearly tell the difference between the real endpoint where you can kick back and relax and the daydreams of that end point. As a result if you spend too much time dreaming about what it will be like at the end you risk getting disengaged because you've created a situation where your mind might think you have already made it more than you really have.

(Hopefully this paraphrasing gets the idea across)
It sure suggests the possibility of, "that thing keeps braking when we don't want it to, turn it off". When, you know, human drivers manage to do quite fine with it on. If you have to disable the built-in safety features of the Volvo to get your driving software to work, then you're not ready to do a road test.
I found this paper pretty convincing. Any "reactionless" drive more efficient than a photon drive is probably a perpetual motion machine: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.00494

The claimed thrust of the EMDrive was incompatible with photon thrust- it was much too powerful.
I've always wondered this too. Could we use Therapeutic Hypothermia (as it's called in the article) to increase our life spans? At least until more advanced medical procedures can cure aging?
Shouldn't criminals should face punishments that fit their crime? To use an example discussed elsewhere in this thread, is a juvenile with no priors changing their grades worth 14 felony charges?

Plus, negligence can be a crime, too.
I am not trying to appeal to any supernatural explanation. The closest (crude) example I can think of is seeing the effect of a magnet on iron filings for years and then finally determining there's a magnetic field involved. Without study I suppose somebody could conclude that iron filings just really liked magnets and creating interesting formations. I am curious as to the mechanism behind the... subjective experience of being, I guess.

Ultimately, I was simply unsure about the assertion that all parties would naturally agree (without support) to "once you accept that humans are fully physical, embodied minds in a sea of whatever chemicals can cross the blood-brain barrier".

This raises a number of questions, which other people have raised before (Does consciousness require a wet brain or just the information processing that goes on within (or something else)? is a computer that simulates the processes of a brain conscious? Is a computer that simulates 1% of the processes of a brain conscious? I am conscious now, and if my brain were dissolved in acid I would not be, but what structures and processes must be destroyed or interrupted to bring about that end to consciousness, and is it a discrete or continuous phenomenon? Are computers now conscious but only infinitesimally so? Is there a degree of consciousness in any structure that processes information? How would we even know? What is consciousness?)

I would try to elaborate, but really it's better described at the articles (and sources for same) here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

I accept this comment is weak. However, it's not an assertion as to what the nature of consciousness is.
If there was a problem redeeming Tether for USD, you'd expect that the market price distortion of Tether. But it hasn't[1]

https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=POLONIEX:USDTUSD

>they've created 2.8 BILLION USDT

Absolute numbers are meaningless and less eye catching when they're compared to the entire market. 2.8 ~~Billion~~ USDT is only 0.5%-0.8% of the market. Do you really think that a 300-500 billion dollar market is being propped up by less than pennies on the dollar?

What can be said about Tether: it's a trusted third party that's vulnerable to fractional reserve (like all other exchanges). I wouldn't recommend people use it but to point to the tether creation as proof positive of manipulation rather than discussion fractional reserve issues I think is people confusing lurid facts with silent evidence threats.

Other reading: https://medium.com/crypto-punks/tether-misconceptions-298443...
I don't know about other frameworks but there are a ton of options for parsing XML in .Net. Just because there is something included doesn't mean you have to use it.

The most popular ones are written by Microsoft and included with .Net....

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/data/xml/