skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A middle-class person with a retirement account is not in anywhere near the same league as a superyacht owner. Yes, you can and should achieve financial independence in old age by investing a reasonable percentage of your income over time, but that has nothing to do with the billionaire class.
It's a lot more than a "small review", even for product focused sites not anywhere near the business of selling or monetizing personal data.
Where are you based? In many countries a CS degree is no guarantee of rigor, teamwork or even ability to program. Most universities just focus on the computer science theoreticals (after all, it's not a software engineering degree), while the programming is restricted to artificial toy problems.

If you come from a degree-obsessed country like Germany I would hypothesise that you are confusing correlation with causation - smart, competent individuals with the capacity to work in teams go to university because they understand the importance of the degree to increase their hirability, but a 4 year degree not change a cowboy coder into thr above.
I'm not saying that it is not a viable strategy. But it needs to be taken into account that tech-savvy users will not see it as a fair play, and probably will not think twice before making the most of a cheaper version.
Preventing a Posthuman Law of Freedom of Expression
I worked in a Fortune 50 consumer electronics company, sitting right next to our procurement team. It's not my field and I'm not an expert but I know enough to be wary of a founder who makes such claims, moreover, there's enough data available to piece together what would work and not without having to accept anyone's claims on it.

Most companies and their parts suppliers are in cities, wherein there are any number of efficient modes of transportation - to the point wherein 'a drone' wouldn't even make logical sense, let alone economic.

There's going to be a considerable overhead associated with operating them - control centers, NOCs, etc. etc. so it might very well be that the 'lack of a human' is the real differentiating factor, i.e. safety, risk.

Nobody is going to be flying 'fresh ingredients' anywhere on those drones, there are regular planes for that as well.

So the use case of 'landing on a moving sheep' is probably right up their alley: it's remote, far, and landing on a moving ship is very dangerous. So it might be the killer use case for something like this. Remember the ship would have to be fitted with a permanent lading spot, trained crew etc. etc. so it would have to be used for something needed consistently.
Yes.. Computation is the grand aesthetic.
Ask HN: How to start learning about information security and hacking?
I would like to learn more about information security and hacking in general. Any recommendations to where should I start?

Edit: I would like to know about resources which are generally free. Thanks!
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17075994
You aren't kidding about it being hard to find anything about that paper. I tried finding it a couple of years ago and just spent an hour now and had no luck. Thanks for the link I hadn't seen that before...
Genghis Khan (1206-1368)

Imperial Japan - 14th century

The Soviet Union - They mostly annexed poor territories. I am not sure, how much wealth they extracted but 2 bads don't make 1 good.

In comparison, European Imperialism started at 1400 ended just 70-years ago.

Till then the world had a global currency, industrialization had started. Heck, we even had structures representing modern companies, banks, and the stock market.

So, yea something which ended roughly 70 years ago is too old on nation timescale?

According to your argument, is it ok to rob your grandfather, so that your father and you are born in near poverty and judge you by your success today?

No one can deny, Europe has robbed other nations of their prosperity.
In this case isn't the PAC the group financially responsible? I'm confused here.
Agatha Christie: “As a child I never dreamed that I would be so poor that I could not afford a servant, not so rich as to own a motor car.”

This varies widely around the world. I lived with an international student who was definitely from an upper middle class family but not a billionaire by any means; the family had several household staff, and that was just a normal luxury in the way that an American family might have a dishwasher.
what are the words? I'm curious but not knowing russian I have no idea how to even search for this
I'm no expert but how autonomous works if there's no positioning methods involved? (To avoid GPS/GLONASS,... Jamming)
The Python "cffi" module (one of the many possible ways to do FFI in Python) works in a similar way: https://cffi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview.html#simple-e...
Worse than the slips and falls is the unregulated use of chemicals with the crew not protected by OSHA.
I think this is too black and white of a perspective.

First off, plenty of people buy cars they can't afford out of necessity. Or, rather, they NEED a car for work and buy a cheap used car that inevitably needs repairs and sucks up money they need for food, rent, etc.

I think attending college is a similar type of decision. We're told over and over that college is the only path to decent life, and in many ways it is. There's very little hope of someone without a degree making more than minimum wage and even less hope of doing meaningful work. If they're already poor, getting a job right out of high school won't pay enough to help improve their quality of life.

So they go to college hoping things will be better.
Fused dead reckoning can work, especially if you mix camera and IMU (or more than one IMU!).
In an ideal world regulations would work like technological standards. By following web standards you benefit from a huge body of previous work and effort. You can deploy a website without needing to build a web browser or worry about designing a transfer protocol. You can concentrate on things that have real customer value. The same can apply to regulations. It can reduce competition in areas that damage the consumer and wider society. You don't have to invent your own safety rules (for example), you just have to adopt the existing standard.

The problem of course is that regulators can be heavy handed, sometimes innefficient and make it more difficult for small companies to compete. But that does not mean that regulations are intrinsically bad.
Battleground? Are there many problems with Kalman filtering and preloaded maps of a path?
And according to the article it is not that simple: the forgiven debt amount will be taxed as ordinary income. Which means he'll also need to plan for å substantial tax charge at the point when his debt is discharged.
Revisiting the Marshmallow Test
Not only that, GPS jamming can be overcome with better antennas (phased arrays of such, even retrofitted to existing commodity receivers) to eliminate jammers which are not more-or-less directly above the vehicle.
What does learning to think mean? People who haven't gone to college can't think?
Yes, nothing is more depressing than listening to the a16z podcasts where they're discussing the minutiae of well-established b2b saas strategies for capturing long tail revenue. Shit, let's build some robots instead.
It’s a cost benefit sort of thing, the most expensive mistake i can make is hiring the wrong person. By requiring a degree I minimize the risk and I also save a lot of money by not having to test for technical aptitude.

If you’ve completed a CS candidate degre at a Danish university, it tells me you would be able to write a quick search on our white board if I asked you to. Not because you’ve memorized it but because you’ve been taught problem solving. I’ll sometimes ask what candidates think if test-first or something like SOLID, but I don’t really care about their technical knowledge on it, what I’m evaluating is whether they give me an honest answer or if they’re telling me what they think I want to hear.

Sure I could test people, but that would require 2-4 employees who planned, executed and evaluated the tests, which is expensive, and the university’s or the academy you graduated from has already done that. So what’s the point of it?

A typical Danish job interview is 30 minutes of trying to learn your personality, because you’ve already given us your credentials. For important jobs, we’ll even test your personality and use that as a basis for the interview talks.

I haven’t made a bad hire for more than a decade so I’m really not worried about missing out. Because hiring isn’t really about finding the right match, it’s about finding a good match.
Not to imply that it can just be done easily to every phone, or without preparation or perhaps previous physical access, but this concept has come up more than once in the mainstream news in recent years. So this level of incredulity seems misplaced.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/07/22/nsa_can_r...

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/nsa-remotely-turn-on-phones,new...
Why are publishers buying ads anyway? They should have their own distribution

Or at the very least not have to pay Facebook, or Facebook should make it clear that's not the kind of content they want if it's so off mission that they're charging money to boost it. Facebook is trying to play all sides here, getting between publishers and readers and then charging for the privilege
Apple's Phil Schiller Explains Steam Link App Rejection
A little nuance to your stats: I've spend the majority of my career in startups, mostly my own, many times struggling to survive. Never worked in a comfy big corp. I currently work in a startup and my hours are far from 9-5.

I support GDPR. It's the first reasonable solution to privacy I've seen. And I hated the cookie alerts.
The transition is tough and we're fighting to figure it out at the moment. But the basic principles in GDPR are solid.
Home was worst than in work actually

Yeah, finding that at the moment.
The forums seem simple, pleasant and fairly snappy to navigate.

I've recently been looking at 'head-less' CMSs. Does anyone know of forum software that separates the head from the backend via a well described API? I'd like to be able to embed a forum into a front end application that I already have, so having a 'head-less' forum would be pretty useful.
I'm not sure species identification is the issue here. It doesn't matter if 100 species are at risk or 100,000, I think most people still aren't too concerned about the environment.

Maybe for anything to get done there has to be some immediate economic benefit to the person doing the preservation. But at this point I'm not sure what that would be, or who would fund it.
SugarTeX – more readable LaTeX language extension and transcompiler to LaTeX
SugarTeX is a more readable LaTeX language extension and transcompiler to LaTeX. Designed to be used instead of $formula$ insertions to markdown.

SugarTeX repo with description:
https://github.com/kiwi0fruit/sugartex

Example of input to output conversion is at the end of [this PDF](https://github.com/kiwi0fruit/sugartex/blob/master/sugartex.pdf?raw=true)
Firefox Quantum on macOS is no better than cryptominer
Agreed. Firefly has been superseded by the shows it inspired with its setting. Not to mention that Cowboy Bebop was superior, anyway.
the problem is not really having public data. it is that spammers are still largely unpunished!
I don't get that. Before the sun rises tomorrow, for the US alone, 32 Americans will make a mistake with their car that kills someone (potentially, but unlikely, themselves, 2 will kill themselves, 29 will kill someone else, one will kill 2 others, for a total of 33 deaths). At the same time, a further 2000 Americans will injure someone with a car, and another 3000 will cause severe (I believe > 1000$) property damage, mostly on cars.

That's on 260 million cars, or an accident rate of something like 1.3% on a yearly basis (unfortunately, this masks the fact that ~70% of those accidents are done by < 10% of drivers. So plenty of people are, frankly, just plain insane and have double digit accident rates).

That, we find perfectly acceptable. Drivers that crash cars about once a year are not that rare. And it's not like these people are the ones having minor accidents. Maybe it's just me but ... weird how people's sense of risks work.
Personally, I think it's because people don't really believe the research.

I mean, sure, most people aren't aware of the research at all and just follow the herd, and there's a bunch of incentives problems here with people caring more about specific metrics like time saved, etc. And sure, you can't really say that most people are rational.

But more importantly, I think this is one of those ideas that just doesn't really pass the sniff test. People think back to open plan offices, for various reasons believe that it actually worked well (e.g. most major companies started that way, wall street works that way, etc). And therefore, they treat the research like a curiosity - "oh you have some research? that's nice. But it's probably bullshit since I've seen open plan offices work great". And considering the replication crisis happening, it's not a crazy position, either.
It's even worse. Everyone who you link to has the right to claim damages(in case they are press). So you will have to be careful who you link to since a single link could already fall into the new legislation depending on the member state.
> On the one hand public resources (like domain names - or plots of land) have traditionally always been publicly recorded.

That is bullshit. Land has been publicly recorded because land is expensive. Recording the actual owner publicly makes it much more difficult for a bad actor to sell you land he does not actually own.

A domain is like 15 bucks a year. You can't register a domain name of someone else's brand, if that brand actually cares.

Publicly recording domain names is like publicly recording who has bought milk at the supermarket.
From a death trap to a usable tool – modding a cheap Chinese desoldering iron
Even better is if you register a trademark. Starting a year or two before it expires you start getting at least weekly junk mailings formatted to look like official government letters from entities like the "US Trademark Bureau Ltd." offering to assist you with the process of renewing for a small fee of several hundred to thousand dollars.

Fortunately most of them contain a prepaid envelope, so I get a small amount of enjoyment out of sending those back empty, or with the outer window envelope stuffed inside...
owasp website is the #1 resource for this.
Do you know about the time Bandit “Conflicting Priorities”?
This reminds me of Passerine Aircraft.

I believe they are also attempting to take advantage of runway-less takeoff and fixed-wing flight (more efficient than four fans pressing down).
https://passerineaircraft.com/

Am I correct in understanding that Volans-i has two propulsion systems?
My experience has been the opposite. The only people I've
ever had to fire because they couldn't actually do their job has been people with CS degrees, and overall the people I've hired without degrees have done better than average.

Part of the problem is that most CS degrees are not software engineering degrees. Some will have modules that are relevant, but mostly these are not compulsory. As a result a CS degree is often a poor predictor of whether or not someone knows the processes around it, and even a poor predictor of whether or not someone can program.
The comparison isn't apples to apples though. You'd have to setup bcache or dm-cache with the NVMe drive in front of XFS to compare ZFS with L2ARC on a NVMe drive. This is stated in the article as an exotic technology, but bcache is generally considered stable.

The point still stands, ZFS is fast enough 99.99% of the time (when tuned correctly), and simplifies a lot of administrative tasks.
Should be at least on request only so you have to have a valid reason to request it so spammers can't get it.
Ubuntu had Amazon ads. Google allows manufacturers to install apps that you can't delete. Apple and Google basically strongarm shove their new apps/services to you through apps you can't delete. Aren't those ads too? Maybe not in the most literal sense but it's not too far from it.
Serverless and PHP: Performance
Is there a reason that air drops are unsuitable? The new thing here seems to be VTOL. Fixed-wing UAVs can carry an order of magnitude more cargo the same distance.
The largest extant spider (the Goliath birdeater) is well over 300 times the size of the smallest (contested, but take the Patu digua as a reference) as an adult. With the bee hummingbird at about 2 and a quarter inches (~57mm), that would mean the biggest bird would need to be over 60 feet (18.2m) beak-to-tail by your reckoning. And we know of pre-spider critters (more like modern camel spiders than modern true spiders) that were house cat sized, and eurypterids preceding them that were around 8 feet long. And keep in mind that there are constraints on land-dwelling arthropods both to do with support (what do you do when you moult at that size?) and respiration that animals with skeletons, lungs and pneumatic bones don't have to deal with. What's almost funny, given things like pygmy leaf chameleons and fingernail-sized frogs, is that modern birds don't get much smaller than they do.

It all comes down to some combination of ignorance (and it's hard to know everything even in your own field, so no need for anyone to get superior or defensive where that's concerned at all) and incredulity. A lot of it is hard to imagine until you take the information that is available and spend some time actually imagining it.
This.

Come from country who use Type 0 (i.e. no plural whatsoever), English is already complicated and make no sense at first.
What 20 pound load could have saved the Titanic? Why wouldn't such a miraculous tool or part have been brought aboard already as a precaution?
This person is truly inspirational in reclaiming the freedom that has been taken away from them, despite the odds. Note Nicola lives in Seattle - by American standards, a fairly transit-oriented city - and note how difficult it is for Nicola to reclaim that independence.

Imagine having to constantly rely on friends/family to even be able to go get groceries.
Nicola alludes to this at the end without getting too political:

"We live at the bottom of a steep hill in a neighbourhood without sidewalks and many blocks from a bus stop. The only way for me to leave the house is in a car. Uber and Lyft have no accessible vehicles in Seattle [if they don't have it in Seattle, we can assume this also rings true for most of America]. There are a handful of wheelchair-accessible taxis but you have to book way in advance, they are obscenely expensive, and, worst of all, utterly unreliable."

And: "This van is insured for $91,300."

I'm guessing Nicola spent a long time gathering enough money to be able to gain the "luxury" of being able to move from A to B like a non-disabled person - so I am assuming moving to a highly urban setting (say, San Francisco) is financially out of the question due to the price of housing in such settings.

Conclusion: in our country, if you're disabled, be prepared to fork up an unreasonable amount of money to gain even a modicum of independence. By definition, this means most disabled people in this country cannot (financially) attain independence, and our infrastructure is the reason why.
Yes.

The biggest issue with finding yourself inside one of these in a proper storm is that you’ll get thrown about violently (the lifeboat; you’ll be securely strapped into your seat using a five-point harness, or at least you were in the ones I’ve had evac drills in) for long enough to be as violently ill.

I’ve been told by instructors - no guarantee it’s true, that, but imho sounds plausible - that the #1 cause of death in lifeboats or rafts after successfully abandoning ship is dehydration; you sweat profusely, puke repeatedly until your body can’t take it anymore.
Part of an education is learning theory of science, analytical methods, best practices and scientific reasoning. At least that’s part of a higher education in Denmark.

I’m sure people without degrees can learn in this on their own, but they are much less likely to have done so. So why would I bother taking the risk?

It’s about probability. People with no degrees are a bigger risk than people with degrees. That doesn’t mean there aren’t people without degrees who aren’t better, but it does mean I won’t allocate the resources it takes to find them.

I’m not looking for the best candidate, I’m looking for a good candidate.
> nor does the start of systematic names need to happen on a clean boundary (English starts it at 13, for example)

It'd be hard to make a case for regular number words starting at thirteen. 13, 14, and 15 are all exceptional in that the numbers 3/4/5 are not usually pronounced "thirt", "fort", or "fiff". You could make a case for starting at 16, but even then it isn't normal for the lower place value to precede the higher one. At 21 you see words that are formed in a fully regular way, but the roots for 20, 30, and 50 are still odd, now being "twen", "thir", and "fiff".

From 60 on you can construct number names just by knowing the numbers 1-50 and the place values (hundred / thousand / million / etc.).
Display Resolutions explained
No, nobody finds that acceptable. Until you stop misrepresenting the people on the supposed "other end" of your "discussion," no one is going to engage you in a real discussion about it, which is (unfortunately) probably why you still continue to think and act this way.
It is incredibly naive to think they are apolitical. They are part of executive branch, their actions directly affect state budget.
DENIC (the folks who handle the German .de domain) doesn't expose owner and admin-c via whois anymore. If you want/need that information you have to use their web interface which sends the data over TLS, requires you to solve a captcha and implements rate-limiting.
Self-criticism can take a toll on our minds and bodies
Not sure how well he's thought that one through.
> and I’m now putting thousands onto my net worth every month

Lucky you. A lot of people I know don't even make thousands per month. They make less than $2,000 after taxes. With this, accumulating millions isn't possible, not even slowly. And even these people are way better off than other's who barely make $1,000 or even less.
Well, yes. Maps aren't accurate (when it comes to moving foliage, as in the video, there maps are out of date within seconds, less in strong winds). Maps don't include many things that are moving, and maps just generally don't work very well at small scales (like the scale of an, even a large, UAV landing)
Let’s talk about machine learning
fpga vendors have adapted tcl as build tools for a long time.
This so needs an xkcd Randall
What are bugs, if not negligence?
You can find a way or find an excuse.
What really happened to that melted NASA camera?
And DENIC has protected the OWNER and TECH-C and ZONE-C for a while already.

I own a .de, a .eu and a .info

I get hundreds of spam mails per day for the .info, nothing for the other two.

It works.
See the paper, but TLDR: stereo video depth sensing combined with fading previous measurements (so if you detected an obstacle at 1 o'clock, 2 meters out 1 second ago, it is now very likely at 2 o'clock, 1.3 meters out. This way you can limit yourself to just detecting things 2 meters out)
But why would anyone be on their own in the age of stackoverflow and a thousand other user support avenues.

And there are good books and endless awesome posts/blogs about Linux. The new low level stuff is not covered as well obviously. (And I think it's a shame devs don't communicate well, but they are not perfect, nor they are paid for writing good docs, only for code.)

Furthermore, was the modularity of Unix ever really exercised? Are there success stories replacing dd, cp, ls, or parts of lower level stuff?